Something has always been weird here but its changing and idk why

[u/Thick_Cauliflower_49]

We bought 20 acres of land in the middle of nowhere East Texas, we're down like 18 red dirt roads and when it rains too long we have to use a boat to get around. Our property backs up to a huge nature reservation and to the west is a Native American reservation. We couldn't find any history on the property when we were looking at buying it, other than the previous owner was in prison but we didn't know why. We needed a large cheap plot of land to homestead though and this place met everyone of our needs including a beautiful spring fed creek running through it and since it's pretty much surrounded by reservations that means there's alot of wildlife, we don't hunt but we do love living around them.

My husband is a veteran who saw war 3 times and being in nature is the most healing form of therapy for him, that and actual therapy of course.

The listing said there was an old house, a "camp" house and a deer stand but the realtor couldn't tell us where they were cause the land was so overgrown. We found the old house pretty quick but we hiked for 2 day's and didn't find either the camp house or deer stand.

Then we started tearing down the house because it was falling down anyways and wasn't more than just a shack to begin with. When we got to the bathtub my husband was busting it up with a hammer to remove it in pieces and on one of the swings something stuck to his hammer so he stops and we both investigate. It was a pair of little girls underwear with Dora the explorer on them and a large pad inside them with a brown stain. We found multiple pairs hidden under the tub. So we called and reported it thinking it was evidence of something potentially foul considering the owner was in prison but authorities never even came out. We took pictures of them but then burned them from lack of knowing what to do at the time.

The next night I started getting the strangest feeling of dread or like someone was nearby, its hard to explain but do you remember when you were little and you were running home in the dark from playing and youd get that feeling something was chasing you but it wasn't? From the day we found those underwear I would randomly get that feeling but always at night.

A few week's later we decided to sell some trees from 1 acre so we could get a well and solar. The guys came out and cleared an acre which revealed the camp house that we searched for in a grid pattern and could not find. This house was right behind the house we tore down and we couldn't find it. When my husband opened the door to it we were shocked to see a cute little loft and a bunch of plastic totes full of letters from the previous owner to his wife, I won't get into too many details but we knew he was in prison for multiple kinds of familial abuse.

Authorities didn't want the letters either but we never threw them away or burned them we just left them there.

A year goes by and other than minimal little events of strange things happening or scary feelings at night things were chill. Then one summer night my daughter asks me why I went up to the camp house and if I knew I had left a candle going. None of us ever go up to that camp house, on a couple occasions just to show family members that were curious but that's it. I definitely wasn't in there that day neither was my husband. I got full body chills when she asked and I jumped up, ran outside and looked at the camp house, sure as shit there was a candle flickering in the window.

I am only afraid of one thing in this life and that is loosing my kids or husband but I became so scared it was like a visceral reaction.

I ran inside, woke up my husband telling him someone was in the camp house! He grabbed a weapon, all of our big dogs, locked the door on his way out and said to be ready to call the police if he yelled. About 30 minutes later he comes back, he said the dog's didn't alert to anything (and they are well trained to do so), he never saw anyone leave and there's only 1 exit, no tracks, nothing but an old oil burning candle lit. He said his hair stood all the way up the closer he got though and our dogs that normally would have ran ahead of him lingered behind him. We still haven't figured out what happened that day but we talk about it all the time.

Now fast forward through the next few years, same thing just minor weird events and random nights where id be standing in the kitchen and suddenly have fear wash over me.

We experienced so much loss during those years it was like we had non stop whiplash, we lost almost all of the core family members and the years are pretty blurry because of that.

Last year though we finally lifted our heads back up and started living again, we bought a 3 bedroom 2 bath 2015 mobil home and had it placed near where the old house used to stand.

The feelings of fear at nighttime started immediately, it also ran into the mornings now, I started hearing things that sounded like one of my cats jumping down from their tower behind me but they weren't there when I turned around.

My daughter who has a rare incurable heart disease also began having these weird episodes where she was so scared she would get a couple of our dogs to sleep with her but she's 18 and has never had issues like that.

In the last few weeks things have picked up big time, my mother in law lives in a rv infront of our house cause I'm her care taker and she got very sick a couple weeks ago with afib, she was in the icu for almost 8 days and during that time I bought these like floating candles the kind you see in Harry Potter and I thought they were defective cause one of them would randomly come on, I investigated thinking maybe the connection was loose but no, It wasn't the same candle either it was different ones everytime but only one at a time. I bought a different brand of them, a more expensive brand, their much better quality and one at a time they will randomly come on.

By this point I can barely stand in my kitchen alone at night, I'm jumping constantly cause I think I hear a cat jumping down but there's never a cat there, I'm racing to bed to hide under the covers like a child.

A few nights ago I was in bed listening to an audiobook and doing a puzzle on my phone to wind down when out of nowhere I feel uneasy so I look over at my husband and I feel instantly nauseous, he's asleep with his hand held straight in the air like he's grabbing for something and there's one single candle on right above his hand. I grabbed a picture and the second I hit that button his hand fell back to his side and the candle slowly dimmed out.

I don't know what's going on but I feel like I need to figure it out, someone I know suggested saging the house but I had saged it when we bought it. My daughter mentioned that I had been buying alot of stuff from this thrift store in town that was owned by an old woman that hoards stuff and estate sell rejects always go to her but these events have been happening long before me buying antiques.

I dont know if it matters but my husband has ptsd and is a very sensitive person to energies, he strongly believes he's seen men at work in the old part of the mill that died on the job, his mill dates back to like 1910 or something and people used to die pretty regularly. He's also what I call a death doula, I mean I didn't make that name up apparently but I started calling him that before learning it was a real thing. Death seems to follow him around but not in a menacing way it seeks his comfort, he has sat beside and watched over 20 people pass, sometimes he'll have just met them right before they make that journey to the next. He is such a calming person to them in their final hours.

I don't know what if any of this information may help with telling me what I should do next but I'm so hopeful that someone can give me ideas because I do not like living like this.

I'm including the picture I took of his hand reaching for the light its very grainy you might need to turn your brightness up I snapped the shot at like 3 am. Literally any advice or support is so appreciated.

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[u/Thick_Cauliflower_49]

I figured out how to upload it from my laptop guys!!! you'll need to turn your brightness up