I'm not exactly new to the tribe. Been kinda lurking around in the background, reading the topics and replies. I decided now would be a good time to pop up. SO HI! (wave)
I have an interesting story about some experiences I've been having. I don't really know what to make of it all.
A year ago my girlfriend and I moved into a house in historic downtown Richmond Va, the Byrd Park area if anyone knows it. Our house is the only house on the block that is one story and looks to have been built much more recently then all the other homes. Shortly after moving in I began having trouble sleeping in the bedroom. Anywhere else in the house I was fine. But back there....... uncomfortable, oppressive, sometimes just down right depressing feelings. I spent 3 months sleeping on the couch in my own home. Finally I got some good medication and started sleeping in the bed. I figured, if I was taking tranquilizers and sleep aides then I wouldn't notice the feelings. Shortly after my move back into the bedroom I began to notice noises in our attic right above the bed. There isn't any room to move around up there, especially not that far back in the attic. I compare the sounds to that of a 5 or 6 year old running and bouncing around and jumping up down. Just to note, there is no "flooring" in the attic, just exposed beams. I wrote it off as squirrels until I was told by my girlfriend that the noise escalates in strength and frequency when I spend the night out of the house. She made it sound like "it" was mad that I wasn't there.
A few months after that, after having gotten at least used to the noises, my girlfriend woke up one morning and said the skin on her sternum hurt. I looked and there were 5 vertical scratches about an inch long each in her flesh. Not like finger nail scratches or light welts as if you scratched an inch, but as if someone had dragged a needle across her skin. No blood, no puffiness, just the red scratches. I was a little concerned but still being half asleep I didn't think about it much. It wasn't until a few days later that I realized that the same thing had happened before with other significant others I had had. Strange, unexplained, random thin scratches showing up on people I had been sleeping next to in houses that were not this one. It's happened to at least three of my ex's in three different houses. It's never happened to me though. Now things have started to escalate a bit more. In my previous house I had a cat, Mr. Zigalicious. I couldn't bring him here with me. Two nights ago I saw a shadow in my kitchen that was very cat like and as my attention was else where I thought to myself "It's just Ziggy". Ziggy's not here. Never has been. There have been other shadows. Day or night. The noise in the attic only seems to be over wherever I am. Feelings that someone is in the room with me. I was sitting in the passenger seat of my girlfriends car, alone, and was looking out my window at the house and it felt AND sounded as if someone had sat in the driver seat. No one had gotten into the car. Aside from the scratches, none of these other things have ever happened in any other house before.

I hate to feel conceited and think that this "something" is only specifically "mine". But I'm at a loss as to what I SHOULD think.
Any ideas or comments or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time, Razor