This story happened to my parents in 1939. My father worked in the city of Soltsy - now Novgorod, and at that time - in the Leningrad region, in a linear technical communications office.
Not long before the events described, the parents received a room right in the building where the office was located.
They were, of course, very pleased. The room is great and the father works practically behind the wall, no need to waste time on the road.
It was winter. I, still a toddler, slept quietly in my crib. The night light was on. Mother, sitting on the couch, was waiting for her late father from work. Her eyes were drooping, she really wanted to sleep. But as soon as the mother put her head on the pillow and doze off, someone fell on her and began to choke her.
The mother was a believer and, as she later said, mentally began to pray to God to save her life. She was already beginning to gasp when suddenly the door opened - it was her father who had returned. The mother felt that the strangler had released her. She opened her eyes. There was nobody in the room!
Soon my father did return. His mother, who was no longer up to sleep, immediately asked him if he had met anyone at the door. Like, someone had just entered the room and strangled her.
“No,” he replied. - And who could be there? Apparently, she fell asleep, so you dreamed.
The mother claimed that she was awake and that someone was strangling her. Her father only laughed, assuring that she was all dreaming. Indeed, where could this strangler go? And in the room there were no signs of a struggle or a stampede of the criminal frightened by the return of his father.
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They argued for a while, but the father managed to convince the mother that it was only a bad dream. And yet she felt uneasy, and she decided to go outside to get some air. I was still sleeping quietly in my crib. The father lay down on the couch with a newspaper. Sleep began to overwhelm him, the newspaper fell to the floor, his eyes closed …
Suddenly he felt that someone was leaning on him, grabbed him tightly by the neck and began to choke. There was no way to resist - the attacker turned out to be very strong, and the father seemed to be paralyzed. He couldn't even open his eyes.
The father was already beginning to gasp when suddenly he was released. There was a noise like the howling of the wind. Father barely opened his eyes. Mother entered the room.
The author of the story with his father
This incident frightened my father so much that he immediately went to the boss. Although, of course, he was tormented by strong doubts whether he would believe in the devilry that he would have to talk about. The boss listened carefully to him and asked how he had ended up in this room. The father said that he and his family were moved here by the decision of the personnel department, as soon as he arrived in Soltsy.
- Strange, - the chief was surprised, - In general, as far as I know, it was decided not to put anyone else in this room. Because not only you and your wife were strangled, but everyone who entered there in recent years, after her former tenant hanged himself several years ago. And not a month passed when the new tenants faced an invisible strangler. In general, this is some kind of error, I'll figure it out!
Literally a couple of days later, my father received a new home. And the room where the ghost-strangler lived was taken as a storage room.
Valentin BARANOV, Cherepovets