My Haunted Life Too

Balan-Balan

19 March 2020 | Haunted locations, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

‘Balan-balan’ as it is known in Sabah (North Borneo) but also known by different names in Southeast Asian countries. It is a nocturnal vampire-like entity that feeds on new mothers’ blood, their babies or someone who is gravely ill. One must remember that most folklore or legends in these countries are handed down by word of mouth from way back when so the stories about how balan-balan feeds on its victims and how it came to exist vary from country to country in Southeast Asia. What I was told, the evil entity came to exist because of a woman who dabbled in black magic. So the story goes, she was startled by someone who walked into her house and saw her perform the ritual by submerging her body in water.

Bobohizan (Priestess)

17 March 2020 | Haunted locations, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

(Bobohizan is a female spiritual leader, mediator, medium, advisor and a doctor to cure illnesses in the Kadazan community). My late maternal grand dad had a relative who was a bobohizan (unfortunately I don’t remember her name or her age); we used to call her nenek bobohizan (nenek means grandma). As a spiritual leader, she held a very important role in the village. Often people would come to her house seeking help to cure illness, to seek advise or as a medium between the living and the dead. She lived in a small house surrounded by thick bushes and the only way to get to her house was through the cemetery. She walked with a walking stick and her dog accompanied her wherever she went. Nenek bobohizan came to visit

The Haunted Students Union

09 March 2020 | Haunted houses, Haunted locations, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

When I was in college, I had got a job working as an administrator of the Student Union at my school. Being that I am an administrator I would have to close the building. This building is on a campus of the oldest school in the state. It was used to draft soldiers for the Union army back in the Civil War. There were stories about people seeing ghostly figures walking up and down the hallway of the rooms on the top floor of the building. And, some other eerie things that would occur. It came down to the point that my boss would use the budget for our division to replace all of the locks. One day I was in the office on my laptop when a man and

Calling a Ghost

04 March 2020 | Haunted houses, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

As a child, I lived in an historical neighborhood that was built in the early 1900s for employees working for a nitrogen company about 15-20 miles away. Nothing particularly scary or ominous about the house, never had strange experiences except for one night. We were in the process of painting my room, so my bed was in the middle and no other furniture save my nightstand. It’s the middle of summer, I live in southern Arizona and it’s very hot and most homes have swamp coolers (evaporative cooling), so I only have a sheet for covering. I’m lying on my back, arms outside of the sheet by my sides. I suffer from insomnia, so I was still wide awake and suddenly feel a warmth grow by my shoulder. I can

You call them Vampires, I call them Pontianaks

02 March 2020 | Haunted locations, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

If you ask anyone what a vampire looks like, I’m pretty sure they will tell you. They probably saw one in a movie, stories they heard as a child or they have seen it for themselves. As far as I know, vampires only exist in the western world because I’ve heard about them and watched movies about vampires. I’ve always wondered if vampires and ‘pontianak’ are the same. All I know is they’re blood sucking, evil ghosts! In some parts of South East Asia, people believe that a woman who dies whilst giving birth will come back as a pontianak (perempuan mati beranak in Malay language meaning a woman who died giving birth) and a pontianak isn’t any ghost you would like to mess with. Some people say if you

My Drunken Ghost

28 February 2020 | Haunted houses, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

This happened in the late 80s. I was sharing an old house in CT with a couple of friends. The House was 2 floors with a walk-in, unfinished attic and full basement. There were 3 separate incidents, all occurring when I was home alone with my roommate’s German Shepard. The first time I experienced something unusual was one evening when I decided to go up to the attic to look for something I had packed away. To get to the attic, I had to go through an unused bedroom where there was a doorway and a set of stairs going up to the attic. The attic was lit by a single bulb with a switch at the bottom of the stairs. My buddy’s Shepard followed me upstairs, but he stopped

The Ghostly Warning

27 February 2020 | Precognition, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

My story begins in 1983 at the age of 8 years old. When I saw my first ghost. From that point on, I was hooked and wanted answers. Fast forward to 2015. I am with my team – arrowhead paranormal out of Uncasville Connecticut. My grandfather and hero had just passed. I had woke at 2 am to use the bathroom only to see my daughter sitting in the living room. I asked her what she was doing. She said that she had seen a black shadow with a white mist walking in the hall way. I thought nothing of it because she has the fife and can see and talk to spirits. I went back to bed. At 6 am, my phone rings on the other end is my

What Did I See?

24 February 2020 | Your Stories, Your True Encounters

A little while ago, I was walking my daughter’s dog in my neighborhood here in Brno. I live under the Castle and there are lots of well lit nice walks around the Castle. Some of them have areas to rest and look at the views with seating. I was approaching such an area when I saw a bag on the gravel floor of the path. As I got closer, I saw that it was a backpack. Steering the dog away from it, my first thought was someone had left their bag so naturally, I walked towards it and peered in. It was full of stones, rocks and wood. It was then that I noticed the skeleton laid out next to the bag. It too was made of rocks, pebbles, wood,

The Water Witch

21 February 2020 | Haunted locations, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

This happened when I was nine years old. I’m now 28. Me and my friends Bill, Mark, Ben, were planning a sleepover before school started back up. So we decided it would be Ben’s house. We did what all boys do – watch movies, play video games and pranks. We decided to tell scary stories too. We all told ours except for Ben he started telling his about a woman who lived here like 70 years ago. She was a witch. She had killed her 9 boys in the lake behind their house. She brings them to the lake and drowns them. After that we went to bed about four hours. Later, I heard a sound like snag, drag, snag, drag as if someone was dragging wet clothing. I hit

The Devil in Disguise

19 February 2020 | Haunted locations, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

(Sumansaa is the evil entity known by many in the Kadazan community in the West Coast Division in Sabah – North Borneo). The story about Sumansaa was told by my grand dad. He said the thing looked like a goat but it is actually a devil that only appears on rainy nights. The body is long; I remember grand dad said it was almost three feet long with its head and eyes tilted towards the sky. It doesn’t have any sense of direction at all instead a black bird sits on its head and help the goat find its way in the dark. Grand dad told me how he came face-to-face with the Sumansaa when he was in his 20’s. Not only that, he even chased the thing with his

Evil InTow

17 February 2020 | Demons, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

Back in the mid 90s, I use to hangout at a corner bar being depressed and drinking alone. I met a really nice man (I thought) and we started playing pool and having a good time. I decided to ask him if he want a bump of coke. He was much too happy to accept. We drank till we shut the place down. At closing time, he need a ride to his home. I thought little about it as we drove to his house. He told me to pull over by an empty field. At first, I assumed we needed to turn around. I knew something was wrong as he started asking me if I believe in Christ. I told him I did. I dare not to look at him

Gaining Time

11 February 2020 | Alien Abduction, Time warp, UFOs, Your True Encounters

My story starts in December, 1997. It was already dark so I decided to put my bike away because leaving it in the front yard, was an invitation to allow some one to steal it! According to the clock hanging in the dining room, it was 9:25 and the street was quiet. While I was outside grabbing my bike I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked up and saw it. It was a big silent UFO and it was low – I mean a block away right above the trees. It had real crazy blue and red lights that were bluer than blue and redder then red, and the white was so damn bright. There was also a smaller green light. I couldn’t see around

Texan Doppelganger

10 February 2020 | Doppelgangers, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

Ever since I was about 11 or 12 years old, people have often told me that I looked identical to someone else. I am a short, dark-skinned hispanic girl. Where I am from, my looks are not uncommon, but people swear I look just like her. Oddly enough, they never state her name. My sister once chased a girl believing it was me until she turned around and looked closely. The weirdest instance was when I went on a work trip to San Francisco for a conference. Outside of the conference, a woman stopped me and said “I can’t believe you made it to the conference.” I had never met her in my life. She stated “we are quite a distance from San Antonio”, which is where I am from.

Someone was Watching Me….

06 February 2020 | Haunted houses, Your Stories, Your True Encounters

I am 14 and when I was 11, my mom had just got a new job, so we moved to a new house. The house was not the best but had the room for my mom, two sisters, brother in law, step mom, and me. Shortly after we moved in, I was having trouble sleeping at night. It was like someone was always watching me. It was middle of the summer and we didn’t have the best air conditioning so my mom always kept my window open. I hated that window. It was right by some vines that crawled up the house and I was on the second story. I always felt like something was going to come up and crawl through my window. I hated being alone in that

The Horrible Stench

04 February 2020 | Your Stories, Your True Encounters

For the sake of privacy, all characters in this story will be given a fictitious name. One day, N and his wife noticed a horrible and ubiquitous stench. They thought a mouse must have died somewhere. Sniffing around everywhere he thought could be the location of the carcass, but could find a thing. He then plugged in air fresheners on every floor of the house, but he could not mask the odor. A few days past, the odor remained just as strong. His wife would call her mother in-law every week to check on her health. She noticed that her mother in-law did not answer her call nor her son’s call. She and N wondered, but thought that perhaps the 80-year-old lady had gone to church, but even on weekdays,