A model has opened up about her terrifying paranormal encounter when she claimed to have been haunted by the “outline of a man” who taunted her by smashing objects and scratching her apartment door.
Charli Howard is a successful model and author, and has also launched a vegan skincare range.
The model’s success has been recognised by a feature in the Forbes 30 under 30 list. But before she found fame, Charli has admitted that she found herself the victim of a supposed poltergeist haunting.
Sharing her story on the BBC’s Uncanny podcast, Charli described how she had been starting out in the modelling industry when she had found a cheap apartment, which she shared with another couple, Matt and Amy in Brooklyn, New York.
It wasn’t long before Charli found herself having supposedly supernatural experiences. One day, while unpacking her shopping, she remembered noticing the “outline of a male figure”, standing at about 6 feet tall and blocking out the light.
Then, Charli recalled, she would begin to hear banging on the walls at a regular schedule at the dead of night
“At two o’clock there was a banging on the wall, and it was quite clearly going across the wall, it wasn’t just one space. But there was nothing on the other side of the wall so it wasn’t a person,” she suggested.
And, it transpired that Charli wasn’t the only person to experience strange happenings in the flat. A former flatmate reported seeing a handprint on the mirror while in the shower, and Matt and Amy had their own eerie encounter.
The couple had been messing around on Siri when they claimed to have heard a voice come through the phone and yell, “get out”.
Events soon took an even darker turn, when Charli recalled one moment when the poltergeist appeared to turn violent.
“I was having dinner on my bed, and all of a sudden there was this bang, and I thought ‘what the hell was that?’ I ran out of my room and Matt ran out of his room, and the two antique mirrors had both fallen down at exactly the same time and smashed everywhere,” she said.
Increasingly on edge, Charli would find cupboard doors flung open in the kitchen, and claimed to have witnessed one ominous sign.
“I started to notice, every time when I would come home, on our apartment door, it appeared that there were scratch marks on it and these were like claw marks,” she suggested.
“Maybe every two days there would be more scratch marks on this wooden door, just lines and lines where it’s gone through to the wood, that’s how deep these lines were.
The final straw came one night when Charli found a huge antique china model of the virgin Mary “completely obliterated” on the staircase outside the flat.
This prompted the model to turn her hand to exorcism, and she ventured to a “witch shop” where she was given candles and equipment to hopefully exorcise the “demon” from her apartment.
Examining Charli’s case on the podcast, paranormal experts were keen to stress that the scratches Charli encountered may have been the result of a neighbour’s dog.
Deborah Hyde, former editor of the Sceptic magazine, noted: “We could come up with all sorts of explanations. The point is, we don’t know and neither does Charli, but she integrates it into her narrative.”
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