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Mother’s Voice?

07 May 2025 | June 2016

I was about ten years old at the time back in 1983, at my grandma’s house. We all lived with my grandma at the time, my uncle, my sister, my mother, and I. It was a weekend evening, and everyone in the house went to a party a family friend was throwing. I was pretty sick, so my mother stayed home that weekend with me. We were staying up really late watching TV. We were getting really into this film when all the lights in the entire house went off. The house was pitch black; we couldn’t even see our hands in front of our faces. My mom stood up and said, “I’ll go check the breaker in the kitchen. I’ll be right back.” She was gone for about ten

Dream Stalkers

06 May 2025 | June 2016

Since I was twelve, I have had dreams with unseen entities in them. My dreams are so real, taking place in houses I lived or live in, or rooms I’ve slept in. I can never see these “things” but know exactly where they are in my dreams and can hear them. Sometimes they talk, though I can never remember what they say. I try to scream and cry out for them to leave me alone. Sometimes I try to call out for god to help me, but he never does. I am paralyzed and can’t speak. It’s as if they take away my ability to make a sound. One time, one of the things got into my mind from my ear. I woke up in a cold sweat. I have

Bedroom Ghost?

05 May 2025 | June 2016

This short story happened to me last year. My wife had not been feeling too well, so I decided to sleep in one of the other bedrooms. I had gone to bed at approximately 12:30 am. I dosed off pretty quickly. I don’t know what time it was, or even how long I had been asleep, but I was woken up by the feeling of the opposite side of the bed, to where I lay, suddenly dip as if someone had sat on the bed. As this happened at winter time during the dark nights the room was very dark. I was lying on my left side facing the window, I thought that my wife had decided to come into the room where I was. I felt the bed sheets

Ghostly Footsteps

04 May 2025 | June 2016

I recently posted a story called the grey lady and this is another story that happened to me while working at the same NHS hospital as an engineer. The job that I did required me to work overnight once a year with a private company engineer whose job was to sterilize pure water equipment. This work could not begin until the department closed at 7:30 pm and since it took nearly seven hours to complete, it was 02:30 am in the morning before the engineer finally left, leaving me on my own. It was my responsibility to ensure everything was operational for the shift in the morning, which started at 07:30am. The department that I was working in was in the basement of the hospital. At that time it in

The Grey Lady

03 May 2025 | June 2016

Some four years ago, before I retired, I was employed as an engineer in the NHS, in the UK. One day, while I was at work, I was requested to attend a noise that had been reported by nursing staff which appeared to be coming from the tunnel. The tunnel ran the length of the hospital, below the ground floor. It was used to take bodies from the main hospital block to a lift which entered the mortuary. This tunnel consists of two parts a new part and an old disused part, empty but for the steam, air and electrical services, which still ran its length. The top of the tunnel was sealed off, meaning that the entrance and exit where the same. The old part of the tunnel is

The Ghost That Followed Me Home – Update

02 May 2025 | June 2016

I posted a story couple of months back about a child spirit that followed me home from a business trip. I stayed in a bed and breakfast that was an orphanage before that….. Well to continue my story, I moved to a new apartment and hoped the ghost was out of my life for good. But I was wrong. It started on the first night when I could feel someone watching me while I was trying to sleep and I had nightmares for a week. After that strange things started to happen such as when I stood up to finish up some work I found that someone had opped all my cupboard and drawers and stacked all the knives and forks on the floor neatly. I know its my little

A Dark, Cold shadow

01 May 2025 | June 2016

I went to a small fair in Steubenville, Ohio. The main street into town has an underpass that goes underneath train tracks. There are a number of stores located in the underpass. The fair was located directly beside the underpass. We had walked about a half mile to the fair and were returning to our cars. It was about 11pm. When we reached the underpass heading away from town, my friend J asked me and his girlfriend to wait for him while he went up the hill to the tracks to relieve himself. The other people in our party had kept on walking and were almost out of sight. As J’s girlfriend and I waited on the sidewalk for him, we heard him actually scream. He came running down the

Camping Out

30 April 2025 | June 2016

Many years ago, I was hitch hiking with my best friend at the time through northern France and Belgium. We were traveling light with just a small tent and sleeping bags and so in back packs. As often happens when hitch hiking, sometimes lifts were plentiful and then other times none existent meaning that you had to trudge along the road side until late into the night to reach your planned destination. Sometimes, you simply didn’t make it at all and had to find a place to camp in a field by the side of the road. One evening, that was entirely the case. Despite it having been a nice sunny day, we had no luck obtaining a ride and by about 7pm it was becoming obvious that we wouldn’t

Come Fishing?

29 April 2025 | June 2016

It started in 1986 when we moved to Texas. Rather than flying, my husband thought it would be nice to drive since I had never seen that part of the country. My husband had made this trip several times to see family in Gainvesville. He always went the same route when he visited but this time he decided to try something new. It was, apparently, a more scenic way to get to our destination. We were just on the Texan border when my husband realized that we were running low on gas and we had not seen a gas station for some time. The road we were traveling was deserted with not even a house in sight. I remember that there was a deep curve in the road, and that

Second Sight?

28 April 2025 | June 2016

About fifteen years ago, when my grandson was three years old, he, my daughter, and I were looking for my father’s grave marker in the cemetery. The grave was just a marker without a headstone. My grandson ran over to one side of the graveyard and said, “This is it” as he was brushing grass and dirt away from the marker. It was not my father’s marker, but that of a person who had died in the late 1800’s. As my grandson was pointing at the area he said, “Those people died… got their head broke.” Later, I received a letter telling me that a close friend had died. Our little grandson came over and put his hand on my leg, “Grammy, she died.” I said yes, but did not

Cracked

27 April 2025 | May 2016

Reflections of past events in life, which were experienced in childhood flow through my mind like the earliest picture machines in a penny arcade. I see myself so young. around four and my hair is wound tight in pigtails. I come from a large family and I see my older brother, my mother, and two sisters climbing into the car. It is so hot and the air is thick with humidity, I remember the burning from the vinyl seats in the car. We are on our way to visit our great grandmother and her sisters, our great aunts. Great grandmother lived in a nice home and I do not know how old it was, but to us children it seemed big. We loved going there to see them, but hated

Little Girl Ghost

26 April 2025 | May 2016

When my wife and I bought our first house, an old style built in the 50’s, almost every night we heard what sounded like light footsteps running down the upstairs hallway. My wife mentioned it to one of the neighbors and they said it was probably just birds on the roof. We live in a rural area so for a time that answer made sense so we basically got used to it and eventually ignored it. Later our first son was born, and when he was just a toddler he would balance all of his toys on top of other toys and could make them spin without them falling over. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. When he was two-to-three we would hear him talking

The Lost Ring and Ghostly Pranks

25 April 2025 | May 2016

My tour group trailed behind me as we navigated the crowded streets of the French Quarter, New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood. Night had since fallen and the city had come alive: the haunting sounds of a harpsichord sliced through the booming laughter of tourists and the seductive notes of jazz. I picked my way through the groups of people loitering on the street, listening as one my group members regaled me with a paranormal experience. “What’s one of the weirdest ghost stories you’ve heard?” she asked. “There’s this one particular story that’s spine-tingling,” I said, gathering the group as we neared our next location. “I can take you there at the end of the tour.” “Oh, great!” she said, nodding enthusiastically. A few other guests heard my offer and asked to

The Lady in the Cemetery

24 April 2025 | May 2016

I have been in the funeral business for over forty years. I’ve seen, heard and experienced all kinds of things in funeral homes. Cemeteries are filled with stories of the supernatural. But one event really stands out to me. There are many country, as well as church cemeteries. One such cemetery in particular is Old Macedonia Church cemetery. The cemetery is rather small and surrounded by a chain fence with entrance gates on only one side, located about a football field length behind the church. Most of the markers are uprights and too small for anyone to hide behind. I had a funeral there in the adjoining church with the committal to follow immediately afterward. This was in the early 80’s. I had asked the family to return to the

The Fisherman’s Cottage

23 April 2025 | May 2016

It’s actually my mum’s story though she didn’t tell my sister and I until years later . When I was 12 and my sister was 15, we went to Whitby in north Yorkshire on holiday with mum and dad. We stayed in an old fisherman’s cottage. It was several hundred years old and it had 3 floors. My sister and I had the attic bedroom which had three single beds in it. In between our beds there was a big old dressing table with a large mirror. It was a lovely old cottage and I used to play in the tiny box room on the second floor as there were old bits of toys In there. Yes, I was 12, but back then kids of that age still played with