A woman got the shock of her life after uncovering a that someone was tragically murdered in her house.

She explained how she rented a house built in the 1870s with some friends when she was in her 20s - and came across newspapers hidden away underneath the floorboards one day.

Taking to , she said: "I rented a super haunted house and found a newspaper from 1890 underneath a floorboard. The front page had an article about a murderer being hanged. That house was terrifying."

But this wasn't the only creepy clue she discovered when living in the house as she was constantly disrupted by 'strange and unexplained noises' too.

She added: "We all would hear noises when no one else was in the house. Footsteps running up and down the stairs, back and forth in the hall. We would see shadow figures sometimes too. On the first night there, I was home alone and the old cellar door slammed closed by itself. It was enclosed in a covered porch, so I don't think it could have been the wind."

To make matters worse, her friend swears she saw a standing in her bedroom doorway one night, prompting them to move out as soon as possible. She said: "My bedroom was in the attic across a short hall from my housemate's room. Our rooms didn't have doors. One morning in the kitchen my housemate asked if I had someone over last night. I said no - I was alone. She told me she saw a tall figure of a man standing in my doorway the whole night.

It got remodelled a few years ago and the neighbourhood is heavily gentrified now - I wonder if the new owners experience the same things. We now own an 1891 folk Victorian and have found nothing except a kids Spiderman glove and some old bobby pins inside a vent. At least one person died in this house but I still haven't come across anything spooky!"

Commenting on her post, one user said: "I have a similar story, not a house I owned, but in the early 2000s the construction company I worked for was doing a septic job on an old farmhouse and found the original news articles from this case [Commonwealth v Belenski] that were neatly cut and mounted on boards that we're tucked away in one corner of the basement.

"Turns out the owners of that house at the time were murdered and buried out back. They eventually caught the guy (their farm hand) who was ultimately convicted and sent to the chair. As you can imagine, it turned out to be a very interesting dig for our crew."