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The House That Would Not Stay Empty

13 min readLast updated September 2026Beginner levelOfficial-source checked

Sleep paralysis and the evidence behind haunted rooms.

Fuseli’s painting The Nightmare: a woman in white lies sprawled backwards across a bed, a squat dark creature crouched on her chest, and a pale horse’s head with blank eyes pushing through the curtains behind.
Figure 1. Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781. Detroit Institute of Arts, accession 55.5.A. An artistic depiction of nocturnal terror, not a clinical record.3

Sleep paralysis and the evidence behind haunted rooms.

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