The Poltergeist

 This is happening in my boyfriend's house, and since we've been living together, it's also happening in my house.

Lyosha's parents bought the apartment before he was born, and the kitchen has not been renovated so far, despite the fact that more than twenty years have passed. And the reason for everything is that a "brownie" lives there, although I'm more inclined to believe that it's a poltergeist.

One has only to try to at least repaint the pipes or paste wallpaper, as an unimaginable horror begins in the house: water pours down the walls, although the pipes do not leak, at night the whole family wakes up to the sound of broken glass or sounds similar to the demolition of walls, but there are no fragments or dust anywhere.

Lyosha's mother says that at first it looked like "innocent pranks" — the brownie braided Lyosha's pigtails in childhood, hid his toys. Later, everything took on a more terrifying scale.

When I started staying with their family at night, I was often woken up by a voice that sounded like it was in my ear, but no one else heard it. Later, it got used to me and stopped annoying me.

And recently we made a terrible mistake. I've read that some entities can be captured with a regular camera. I really thought it was fiction, a joke, and I persuaded my boyfriend to try it. Since it mostly lives in the kitchen, we went there, and I just started taking pictures of what I could find: cabinets, stove, ceiling, pipes.…

Lyosha didn't let me look at the pictures for a long time, but when I finally persuaded him, I saw a distorted reddish face against the white background of the pipe — like a defect in the photo. But I'm sure it lives next to us, and I'm just humanly afraid.