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Roommates

True Scary Story

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4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A group of young roommates excitedly move into a house near campus, but their time there is cut short by a series of unsettling events. At first, it’s just strange noises—humming, footsteps, doors moving on their own. Then things turn physical: lights flickering, unexplained scratches, and eerie dreams with disturbing imagery. One by one, the roommates realize they are being watched, touched, and manipulated in their sleep. The energy in the house becomes so oppressive that they have no choice but to break their lease early. But what was really in that house… and did it follow them?
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0:00.0

In a small college town in the Midwest, a group of roommates moves in expecting a fun summer

0:07.0

until something unseen makes its presence known.

0:12.0

My name is Edwin, and here is Brin's true, scary story.

0:26.5

This took place in 2020.

0:31.8

It was in a little Riverside College town in the Midwest.

0:38.3

It was five of us girls who were just moving into a new college style house. Some of us had already graduated from school, so we were going to just all be there for an extra year,

0:43.3

whether that be working or just finishing up school.

0:48.3

One of the girls of the house that we were moving into had already lived there for a few years,

0:53.3

and we were all friends with her. Four of us moving into the house were brand new. We moved in though mid-May of

1:02.2

2020. Unfortunately we had left by the beginning of August of 2020 so it was short-lived.

1:13.9

Just to understand the story, I will have to lay out what the house looked like.

1:21.1

It's very important to know what levels, what brooms, everything makes the story easier to follow.

1:26.9

It was a two-story house.

1:30.3

When you walk into the front door, though, it was a stairwell that separated the levels.

1:36.7

So if you went down the hallway straight through the stairwell, it was a little hallway that led to the basement.

1:45.0

The basement was just storage, nothing really that important.

1:51.0

When you walk into the stairwell directly off to the right,

1:55.0

there's another door that leads to the main level.

1:59.0

And then obviously when you walk in, there's a stairwell as well that goes up to the main level. And then obviously when you walk in, there's a stairwell as well that goes up to

2:03.6

the upper level that also has a door that leads into that top. On the main level, there are two

2:12.1

bedrooms with its own bathroom and its own kitchen. And that's also where the main living space is with the living room that we all share.

2:19.3

Upstairs, there is also three bedrooms, and it does also have its own bathroom and its own kitchen.

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