From Matt in Illinois:

I live in a small suburb of Chicago called Glen Ellyn.  This town has been around since around 1850.  I had a friend named Jeff who moved into a house at around age 8. He moved in with his mom, sister, step dad, and step brothers.  I was friends with Jeff and my older brother was friends with the step brothers.  I had an encounter at this house, but members of his family have had more than one. 

Jeff''s mom was down in the basement, which consisted of a laundry room, computer room, and a rec room.  The door of the computer room was the only one that you could see the basement stairs from.

She was in the computer room and heard the sound of marbles rolling down the stairs, which were made of wood.  She looked and saw a black cloud that went to the bottom of the stairs and into the rec room.  Another time she had been doing laundry and left the room.  When she came back the clothes from the washer and dryer had been thrown on the floor.  She had been alone during both these occurrences. 

I slept over at that house once and once was enough. 

The door to the rec room was closed. There had been a total of 5 kids sleeping over, all in the same room.  We all heard scratching on the door and the sound of people going up and down the stairs.  We got enough courage to open the door and checked every room in the basement to find nothing. 

On another sleep-over (I wasn't present), one of my close friends saw a young male, about 17 years old, in the corridor of the basement and he disappeared.  That all happened about four years ago.

I am now 16 and so is Jeff. He and his sister and mom have moved out of the house because of a divorce.  People from Sightings  have come to the house and have recorded on video tape signs of a presence. A priest blessed the house once a month because they found out there was an evil presence.  Many people won't believe me because I'm a teenager, but what I have typed here is true.