The Visitor to our Home
By: StevieLeeL@aol.com
I'm probably like most people, I didn't believe in ghosts
until I encountered one. My wife and I used to live in
The Weekend of
By: blanketal@yahoo.com
Before I attempt to recall this quick moment over a weekend meant for fun and enjoying tranquility, I'll need to tell you first that:
1. My parents own a cabin in
2. There aren't many residents that actually live in the houses around our cabin, besides one family, so many different people are up there at all times.
Now, the night before this completely dumbfounding experience was one of some slight alcohol comsumption.
I had a decent 7 hour sleep from
Throughout the day we asked several others around and received no confirmation. A two hour drive back home is what I wanted more than sleeping there another night. This was all definitely a confusing, jumbled mess of events, yet, I will return another day, hoping to find out more. Thank YOU for reading THIS.
The Day I saw my Dead Grandfather
By: cstewart@IowaTelecom.net
a few years ago i had a run in with my grandfather who died
my mother was 15 years old. That night for no apparent reason i woke up at
about
The Bed
By: Stimpykate638@wmconnect.com
during the summer of 2004 i spent 4 and a half months in switzerland, working as a nanny/farmhand/waitress/dishwasher/janitor for a family who ran a little cafe and crappy hotel for hikers way up in the alps. my room had two twin beds which were designed so you could push them together to make one big bed or pull them apart to make smaller ones. i started out with my beds pushed together, as i wasn't sharing a room at first. a few weeks later, they told me some other girl was coming up to help out and she'd be sleeping in my room so i pulled the beds apart. they stayed apart, and the second one was mostly unoccupied (my roomie slept elsewhere most of the time). as this girl left, a second one came to stay and help out- she didn't like our room much either, apparently, she didn't sleep there anymore than the previous girl. now that we've got through the boring setup crap...
one night about halfway through girl #2's time with us, surprise- her bed was empty. i was lying in bed attempting to sleep, and i was almost there, just at the point your brain starts to shut off, you know? and i heard breathing from her bed, literally two and a half feet away from me. i looked over, thinking maybe i had drifted off and she'd come back, but there was nothing. bed empty, unmade, and breathing heavily as if in a deep sleep. so i did what anyone else would do- i buried my head in my blankets and went to sleep. this happened a few times after that, maybe five times during my stay. after the first time i began paying attention to the clock and realized when this breathing thing did happen, it was always around the same time.
so this girl leaves, and number three shows up, sleeping in
the breathing bed (hell if I was going near that thing). she ended up leaving
us early for reasons i won't go into becuase it doesn't matter. the cook had
the room next to me, and her husband was coming to visit overnight. the last
place i wanted to be was aginst their wall, cause i'd been there before,
and...yeah. nothing i cared to hear, hehe! the second bed having been moved to
the other side of the room, i slept in it that night to give cook and hubby
their privacy. i woke up at about
My True Ghost Story
By: kornlvr2007@yahoo.com
Not too long ago I visited the Lost Sea Cave-Well me and my neice were just standing around and all of a sudden we felt a cold chill and something that felt like it was hairy brush against our legs. We didn't pay any attention to it but later on the woman that shows us around told us about a jaguar that fell down there and died and as it turns out we weren't the only ones that felt it...Also one time when I looked over from one side of the cave I saw a figure that looked tranparent almost at the time she was tellin us about a union soldier that got shot by a confedarate soldier.
My Father
By:vikinggirl@mn.rr.com
In 1957 my Father and his best friend were killed in a hunting accident. I was only 7yrs old. I remember his funeral and the many people who came to pay their respects. That night I went to bed at the usual time and was awakened by something. I glanced at the foot of my bed where a large chair was and saw a ghostly figure of a man sitting in this chair. At first I was afraid but the longer I stared at this figure I realized it was my Father. He made no movement but merely sat in this chair. After a couple of minutes I decided to communicate with my Father so I sat up in bed and proceeded to crawl down toward the foot of the bed. Before I could reach the foot of the bed my Father's image faded away. It was then that I felt afraid and climbed in bed with my Mother. However, I didn't tell her about seeing my Father until several days later. All I know is that this wasn't a dream and I was very thankful to have had the opportunity to have experienced this. I don't think my Mother ever believed me about this but it doesn't matter because the memory of it has stayed firmly in my mind. Thank you for letting me tell you my story.
By: stareout2thesea@yahoo.com
Many sightings of a little boy wandering in the recreation area at night is seen, hes usually seen walking around the area where the old fire house burnt down around the late 1800's. Also, numerous times, an old man that looks poor is seen wandering.
Being that we live on long island and pride ourselves on
ghost hunting, myself and a group of my friends decided to visit the so called
haunted elementary school. After getting lost on our way there, we found the
school at about
Memorial Park Cemetary
By: dodge34@webtv.net
When I was about ten years old my dad used to take me to Memorial Park
Cemetary on
said if you want to learn to drive this is the best place. So when I got
to be a teenager it was a good place to take girlfriends and park. Well
one night while I was parked I thought I heard a something so as I
started to look out of the window there was a man with a suit on and I
thought o no it's a person who works here. As I opened my car door to
try to explain he disapered before my eyes. Needless to say my
girlfriend was freakin out because she also so it. I never went back
there again.
Haunted
By: dleftault@msn.com
So, my hauntings started when I was about 13. I had this strange dream one
night. It started with a lady walking around or cultasac. She was wearing
all black and it looked like she sick because she was blowing her nose. Now
that I look back, I wonder if maybe she was crying? Anyway, I panicked and
went to my mom in the dream and she said, "Don't worry she's supposed to be
here." The dreamed continued with me just standing staring out my window
watching the lady, then another lady dressed in all white with brown hair
walked by. It looked like she was wearing a nightgown. I woke up right
after that. Now, everytime I'm on my computer, which is located just across
from that same window, I can see that same lady in the white walk by. For a
while it frightened me because I didn't know if it was actaully the lady or
just my imagination. I'm used to it now. Lately, if I'm up too late, I'll
be playing on the computer and I'll hear a bang. Now, my family is always
asleep by
best memory of the bangs I have is actuall during the day. It was summer,
so my parents weren't home and me and my sister were cleaning for company
coming in. I was walking past that same window and I heard a bump coming
from a bookshelf. The bookshelf is in a corner and it is pushed completely
against the wall, so it couldn't have been my sister trying to scare me. I
ignored it and went on with my life. I have tried to research my house and
what it was built on (maybe a grave yard or an old indian preserve) but I've
had no luck yet. I haven't heard from "her" for a while, but sometimes at
night I still hear bangs and I get weird feelings, and that makes me run to
my room...
ESP
By: jbrown@dap.com
, this happened to me when I was in my late teens, I think.
I was helping a friend move into her dormitory. We were outside when I locked
eyes, with a very handsome blue eyed guy
also helping a friend move in. We were unable to stop looking at each other
throughout the entire move. We were both very instantly attracted to each other
and we both knew it although neither of us approached the other. Later in the
day as i was sitting alone in my girlfriends room, i got the sudden urge to get
up and open the door. I did and directly
across the door in the next room was
Nick, just standing there looking at me. He hadnt knocked on the door or anything, Our meeting each other was incredible.
Anyway, we of course became a couple very quickly. We had so much in common,
and I was very head over heels over him and I felt that the feeling was mutual.
About 2 months later, Nick told me that he would be going to
Demon at Doublechurch
By: darkwolf79@adelphia.net
Before I was invited to join my friend's ghost hunting group they had told me about a house on Doublechurch road. It got it's name from the fact that there are only two churches along that road. They didn't tell me much, because they wanted to see if I'd experience what they had. However, a week before I went there with them I was having dreams of the house. I had never seen it before. Something would give me a sense of being lured there in my dreams. It bothered me so bad that I spoke to my church minister about it. He told me simply not to go there. I didn't listen. We went to the house which was abandoned. Somebody owned it but never fixed it up. What frightened me was the fact that it was exactly as I had seen it in my dream. Many things happened over the course of several visits. My friends recounted stories of seeing a glowing white panther like creature near the frontporch steps. There was an old windmill there that would actually answer yes or no questions! It would creak once for yes and twice for no. We don't understand how it happened, but there was no wind or outside factors that we could percieve that would cause this. A friend of mine went there one night on halloween with the group. He put his left foot on the porch and suddenly couldn't move. The most horrible thing there is what I percieve to be a demon. I have seen a hulking creature about 6-7' tall hunched over that looked kind of like a gargoyle with horns coming out of its head. I am not the only one to have seen it either. Two of my friends have seen it without any of us ever saying anything about it before. The describiton is always the same too. I've experienced other things there as well. I was there one night with my ghost hunting group when I foolishly tried to challenge whatever it was that was there. Two of my friends had gone inside the house, I stayed outside with 3 of my other friends because I'm a big guy and it was an old house and I figured there may be some real physical dangers inside. So I stayed outside challenging the ghosts. My friends kept yelling at to stop when I heard footsteps on the porch. I turned around and there was nothing on the porch! I felt something go by me and I looked down and I could see footprints being made in the grass beside me as if something was walking past me! Then I heard a noise coming from the barn. My friend came out of the house , and like me he's sensitive to spirits, and he looked around as if trying to sense something. He then looked at the barn and said, "It's in the barn." The rest of my friends looked at me and said, "We know". We then headed down to the barn. As we were walking to the barn we heard what sounded like two horses and a carrage actually go through us on the small road to the barn. There was a lot of activity that night. So we get to the barn and two of my friends go around the other side and go in, because that's where the only door was. My one friend who is sensitive too was one of them. We stood there for a while. I was getting chills and goose bumps. All of a sudden one my friends that was with me got wide eyed and said, "They're messing with stuff they shouldn't be!". When my two friends came out later they were carrying some old books they found inside the barn. I don't what they were, i never looked. While they were in there we also kept hearing a screen door slamming shut. We asked them about it and they said there was no screen door! I've also seen black shapes the size of midgets running around in the yard, I've heard footsteps going up and down the stairs from inside the house. The stories behind all of this is that one night the farmer killed his family in their sleep and hung himself in the basement. There has also been records of satanistic rituals in the basement and whatnot. A lot of people who go there do get a strange urge to go into the cellar/basement. I've experienced that myself, but I've never gone in. One more thing, The house is in the middle of a field and even on a night of a full moon the house is dark and shadowy and you can barely make it out without getting right inside the road to the house.
By: TheSpookieSeraph@aol.com
Well i have a few storys for you. the first ghostly thing i've ever seen was one day with my friends we were hanging out in the cemetery after dark, just trying to have a good time and see if we can find anything weird. well we were sitting on the far right side of the cemetery facing south from d street. we notice that this tree we were sitting by had a strange looking face on it. it was weird but the light of the moon on the tree showed a old looking face it was large and look undeniabley like a face. it freaked us out a bit and i've never seen anything that looked so much like a face show up like that did that night.( note it was on a full moon when that happened) Another thing that happened to me and another friend late one night. we were walking down the cemetery through the loop. as we were coming up on the corner. i recalled a time when my wicken friend requested some dirt from a grave for her spells and stuff. well a few months back i had kicked some dirt up from the grave for her and bottled it up. (not much of course but enough to make a 3 inch groove in the dirt right next to the tomb stone.) well i was telling my friend about it and i showed him the groove that was next to the stone. i put my foot into the groove first to find it to show my friend, then my friend put his foot into the groove to see what i was talking about. well we began to walk some more then i heard this noise. i stopped and told him to listen. it was like a howling noise almost. it was really hollow but high at the same time. sorta like when you blow into a glass bottle but different. a noise i've never heard before. there was no way it could have been anything in the surrounding area because it was 3 in the morning and no one was out. then i got this cold chill running through my body. it was a warm night since it was august and it was near 94 degrees that day. and out of no where it got cold. i felt goose bumps run through my body. my friend had felt it too. the noise was getting louder and the chill was just so strange. we began to freak out and after a few minutes we decided to take a run for it. i think i may have disturbed something with the dirt i removed. but it happened shortly after i showed my friend the groove. it was the most realistic ghost experience i have ever encountered. i have been in there numerous of times and there is always a feeling of presence when you enter. but yeah thats the two most promanant encounters i've had and i thought that it may be of interest to you. Thank you
Ghostly Payback
By: darkwolf79@adelphia.net
A couple years ago I went ghost hunting on a regular
basis.
Haunted Apartment Bldg.San
By: bonnie@westcalinc.com
I lived in this building for many years. Three different tenants lived in unit # 19. Often times, a cold presence is felt and an image appears in the bathroom mirror, of someone possibly a woman, Native American with long hair.
Unit # 6 , in which I lived in, on a number of occasions, I had felt someone sit on the bed during the night. You could see a depression on the bed where the spirit had been sitting. In addition, on numerous occasions in all three units there were happenings of cabinets opening and drawers being left open. This usually happened when we left the unit to take out the trash, or change laundry. You would come back to your apartment and ALL the drawers in the bedrooms and ALL kitchen cupboards and drawers were left open. Nothing was ever disturbed or missing, just a mischievous ghost messing around.
Thanks for letting me share my story with you
By: downshel@yahoo.com
Although my experiences are small, they have all added up to wonderful experiences. It all began when my fiance and I moved into my grandparents old two family house. I was a bit hesitant at first, but after the wall were painted and the floors recarpeted - it was easier to move in. Within three months of moving in I had many interesting moments, I would smell scents that would bring me right back to being a toddler in that house, when I went to take a deeper inhale the scent was gone, walking past the cellar I would smell fresh cut wood (my grandfather was a woodworker) and every so often the air in the room would get "heavy." My dog would often stare off into another room, enter that room and just stand there.
Then one night I saw them.
It was
The next day I went into the attic to "look around" I had my grandparents in my thoughts and I asked out loud "where is Roger?" he was my fathers brother who died a tragic death before I was born, a voice in my head quickly answered "well...he's in the attic." When I was in the attic I found a drawing from Roger and hung it on the wall, I'm sure he would have liked that.
My fiance had not experienced anything directly, he would however ask my grandfather for permission before using any tools. However, one September day he was cleaning out a cabinet in the cellar and came across a wooden perpetual calendar (the kind where you change the wooden blocks day by day). It was in his hand before he looked down at it, October 17 it said, the date of our upcoming wedding day. I took this as their rsvp to our wedding, and they are in a few of our wedding pictures!
Now that my sister and her husband have moved upstairs the house has been quite for a few months. Though they do visit me in my dreams now and again, I think they are glad to see their house being used by their only two grandchildren and their husbands.
The Myrtles
By: celiam601@yahoo.com
I have been wanting to spend the night at "The Myrtles
Plantation" in
The Girl
By: cbdrunner@yahoo.com
It stared out as a nice warm sunny day.(I was about 9 or 10) It seemed like nothing could go wrong.... But that night when I went to bed I went to sleep with the TV and the light off.(which is very unusual for me!) Then in the middle of the night I woke up and my room was freezing cold! Then at the bottom of my bed I saw this girl. She was wearing a yellow dress, and she had a cord attached to her face,and the end of the cord was cut,and some of her hair had fallen out like she had cancer. She was just sitting there looking at me straight in the eye for the longest time. Then I hit myself in the head to make sure I was awake. When I noticed that nothing had changed i threw myself from the bed to the floor and ran to my moms room. I wanted to wake my mom up and tell her what I saw, but I couldn't do anything. I couldn't talk,I couldn't move, I just sat in my moms rocking chair for a long time.
Then my mom woke up and tried to talk to me, and right when I told her what happened i busted into tears. For the next two weeks or so i slept on the couch. I got over it eventually and went to sleep in my room. But i still keep the TV on just in case.
Ghost on the Porch
By: Narnadu@aol.com
A couple things should be mentioned before I begin my story. First, on the front poarch, there are motion detection lights. These lights turn on when any person/animal moves wth fifteen feet of them. Second, my doorbell has a tendency to stick when it is pushed in and it makes an obnoxius buzzing sound. This can only happen when someone pushes it, it then must be pushed in again so it will stop.
I'm seventeen now, but this story takes place when I was ten. One fall night, around nine, my two uncles, my aunt, my grandma and I were sitting in the living room watching t.v. when we heard the doorbell ring. My uncle Jonathon gets up and looks out the peephole. He doesn't see anything and the lights arn't on. My uncle sits down and none of us think of anything that just happened.
About five minutes later we hear the doorbell ring again, but this time it has gotten stuck. My uncle once again gets up, looks out the peephole and, again, see nothing. He opens the, so he can push the doorbell in, and it is then, only at that moment when the lights turn on.
Outof the five peole that were in the living rom that night, none of us can explain what happened that night. Since the living room is five feet away from the door and the lights sty on for five minutes, if not for longer, there is absolutely no way a person could have rung the doorbell and ran.
As I said, this event took place when I was ten. It has been seven years and it stil sticks with me. Nothing like this has happened again. Every once and awhile I get a feeing of dread while i'm in the house an my step-dad swears there's ghosts in he house, nothing has been as shocking as that night.
Happened Many Years Ago
By: C.M.
This happened many years ago. I was around the age of 20 and was living in (what was at the time) my family's home.
A few bits of information first. Since early childhood I have always been scared of ghost/spirits/entities whatever you want to call them. When going to bed I always insisted on having my bedroom door open with the hall light on. Always, prior to sleep I had a litany of prayers, e.g. "thank you for this" and "GOD bless my family" etc. The last of my prayers every night was for God to "not let anything scary happen to me, not let me see anything scary, and to not let me think or dream of anything scary."
Back to what happened to me that night. I had my own
bedroom. It was late around
My Cousins
By: Ralphvguerra@aol.com
Dave and Tina, I 'd like to share my ghostly experience with
you. About a year ago my two cousins heard that there was a haunted road in
P.S. This past January my grandparents were looking into
buying another home. They showed me and my cousins the pictures of the two
homes they had narrowed it down to. One of them was on
I was Possessed???
By: clrmihappybunny@cableone.net
I pride myself on being an open minded person. I don't have a particualar faith and will listen to other's views. Sometimes I sense a presence around me, and often I'll have the classic, "see something out of the corner of your eye, turn and nothing's there" happen, and I generally believe in the paranormal. My story doesn't compare in the terror department like some others, but it does occasionally give me a dark feeling in the pit of my stomach.
It started when we first moved into out house. I was in second grade, so about 7 years old. I have a memory of seeing blood in the bathtub and sink in my bathroom, however as I told this story later everyone insisted I made it up, so I dismissed it. Then as the years progressed I would hear a woman's voice every single night. She sounded like an older woman, and not a happy one. I would hear a low moaning, and every single time I would check on my mother because I thought it was her- it never was and of course I was the only one who could hear it. It eventually stopped, until a few months ago I heard it again for a short period of time. These have all been relatively dismissive and I'm fine with them. However one night I got a full on, face to face, body in body experience from something that sure wasn't alive, and sure wasn't something a kid's imagination made up.
I was falling asleep, and for some reason I felt something say, "open your mind." So I did. Then bam! In my mind I'm jogging down this hallway, make a few turns. Then suddenly, I get to a doorway. It's dark, and there's a man inside. I tried to turn around and run but it was too late. The next thing I know I'm in my bed again, but I can't move. (This part I was awake) I was floating up, did a full rotation, still couldn't move, couldn't speak, nothing. I descended down onto my matress, and within about 5 seconds I felt a huge weight rise off of me. I was so relieved, and began to breathe normally again. Then in front of my eyes flashes a man's face. I saw a lot of red and he was yelling something. The face flashed twice and then was gone. I tried to pass it off as a dream, but I've had plenty of weird ones and nothing compares to this. The rest of the night I watched TV with an unusual amount of concentration.
Nothing has happened since then. But hey, you never know.
Haunted Farm House
By: Kanawhahaha@aol.com
Haunted Farm House
My uncle who is in the miliatary at the time bought a farm house in Braxton County West Virginia. About 3 months after he bought it My sisters, mom, and dad. Went out there and decided to stay for a week. the first day there I woke up just at daylight and saw a white s-10 truck sitting in the feild below the house the person sitting in it had a rifile poked out the window of the house. It scared me so I walked out on the porch when I did the truck pulled into the creek and vanished. Then about 2 months later no one had been to the farm in a while. The farm got broken into almost everthing had been stolen. And my uncle is a very wealthy person. His great great granfathers world War 2 flag was even stolen. Eversince the break in i'm afraid to stay up there and when I do (the house is 2 stories w/basement and attic) I hear noises like chains dragging the steps and someone crawling in the attic. This isn't all one day I decided to take a walk in the woods with my sisters. We came to a very old graveyard that you could tell no one had been to in many years. The strangest tomb was one that was about 7 foot tall and 4 foot wide. There was a very old rusty chair sitting right beside it. There was the same old man that was sitting in the S-10 parked in the feild. He looked so old that I don't know how he could even walk. So me and my two sisters ran all the way back to the farm. (By the way i'm 13 and my parents wern't at the farm they were at the store 10 miles away.) There the same old man was sitting in the swing on the back porch. So my sisters and I ran into the house and locked all the doors and windows. And that night the noises and sounds got so bad we left. The farm has now got burned down. But sometimes my dad and my mom and us kids all go up there to hunt and still sometimes I see that old man sitting in that same seat with that same rifile. Thank you for your intresest!
Grandfather
By: MARINESWIFE020@aol.com
My sister just recently had an experience a few days after our grandfather passed away. She was walking down the hallway to go to her room and the door to my grandfathers old room was slightly open, She looked to the side noticing the door was ajar and seen a outline of a long manly arm reaching out. She looked forward and continued walking. Our grandma was resting in her room so she told her crying. Later that night she was trying to go to sleep, she turned to face the wall and something started tugging on her hair violently,but nothing was there. Once again she started screaming .It's little things like this that happen ever now and then
Ghosts
By: gahaylock@hotmail.com
My events were not as scary as some others, but they were quite spooky at the time. We hat to have my cat Tuppy put down when i was about 12. She was 16 yrs old and quite grumpy, and not very affectionate. I was one of the few people she really liked. Anyway, a couple of times, once at my grandparents house which we stayed in while our new house was being built, i was lying in bed and felt a cat walking over me. There were no animals at my grandparents. I knew It was Tuppy beacuse it was heavy (she was a very big cat). It padded all over me and i think may have layed down. I was so scared, even though, if it was my cat, she was friendly. I felt her again in our new house. We had 2 new cats by then, but I had my bedroom door shut and they were not in my room. Again, it was heavy and padded me out before lying down.
The other vent which happeded was at the housewarming we threw. No one can recall the TV being on, but when we had the photos from that night developed, there is a picture of my parents cutting their hosewarming cake. In the background, the TV has the words - like the title of a TV show - "The House of the Dead"! Like I said, none remebers the TV being on, andI doubt it would have been in the middle of a party. This was a brand new house in a relativly new subdivision. Since then, both Mums parents have died and my Dad's adopted Aunt. None of them died in the house, but they all spent a lot of time there and my Great Aunt was at our house with Pnemonia when she got sick enough to go to the emergency doctors b4 going to the ICU.
Ghost Story
By: beanos@hotmail.co.uk
i have seen to ghosts in different places before and are all true. the first happened at my dads shop i was in the back looking around and i saw this old man but i looked away and then looked back and he was gone, i told my mum and some old guy died there years ago by being run over. the second happend in my house when i saw my mum walk past and some man folled her but i got up looked outside my door and just my mum was there.
By: Dindiosk@aol.com
i lived for 3 years on
My Friends Haunted Closet
By: MINNIEMAXX@aol.com
Hello, this is my third story that I have submitted to the
Shadowlands. The first two were my experiences but this actually is my best
friend, Jennie's story. She just recently moved to her new house in a modern
neighborhood in Apex, NC. She and her Mom and sister all have different rooms,
and she has the haunted room. Every morning at about
Now I have seen this closet and I have spent nights over at her house, heard and seen this. But even when both of our supernatural minds are put together we can't find any explanation, logical or not to explain this. The history of the house doesn't explain anything either.
A Ghost Locomotive
By: windstar421@prtcnet.com
my name is michael carlisle this is a true story. on august
24 1994 we went to aiken
Real Life Trasylvanian Ghost
By: XvLilithHartvX@aol.com
Here is a story that happened to me in 1999 while I was
visiting a farm in
On the property, there is a large castle that dates back a few centuries, as well as farm lands that were developed after the home wa built.
According to the current owner of the house, a man and wife
built the castle before the Communist regime came into
The wife found out her husband was having an affair with her own sister and consequently hung herself in an upstairs bathroom.
She was buried near the back of the property in a marked grave, that was later desecrated by Communists that used the castle as a meeting place/headquarters.
You can see this grave if you walk an overgrown trail. There is a large monument and a large, gaping hole in the grave itself.
Her grave was robbed and the marker was used for weapons shooting practice during the Communist era.
During our stay on the farm in summer 1999, we felt virtually nothing while sleeping in the castle, albeit we did hear some creaks from the upstairs rooms, despite the floors being unsafe for visitors, my friend and I did venture out to the bath house, which sits opposite the castle on the property. It is an isolated building with few windows, poor lighting and five or six bathtubs that fill up with mineral water from a nearby well/spring.
The light switch is on the other side of the room and as we crossed in darkness to flip it, we both felt very uncomfortable and wary.
It's a place that leaves you with a feeling of uneasiness and the feeling of being watched.
At one point, while the tubs were filling, I had forgotten my towel back in our room in the castle and decided to jog back and get it. This was around 11-12 at night.
As I was heading back, i got a very bad feeling and, for reasons unknown to me, bolted back to the bath house as quickly as I could.
When I arrived and burst through the door, the room was freezing cold. As soon as I stepped in, it warmed again and the lights became brighter.
My friend was huddled in a corner, with her knees drawn up to her chest, breathing heavily, very pale and quite frightened.
She told me as soon as I had left and the door had shut behind me, the room had become extremely cold, the lights had flickered and dimmed and she had seen the shadow on the wall of a woman walking through the room.
She had severe goosebumps when I found her.
Crazy, huh?
The woman that lives there now is an ordained minister and when we told her the story, insisted on doing an exorcism in the castle the next morning. We didn't hear or feel much after that, but I still got the impression that it hadn't cleansed the area.
If you have any questions about this story, feel free to email at XvLilithHartvX@aol.com
Acacia Townhomes in
By: abooth@hyatt.com
We owned a town home in Indian Head Park in a sub division known at Acacia, was once a cemetery and church in the late 1800's early 1900,s where they hide slave in the under ground railroad. Some had died due to illness and buried in unmarked graves where now the town homes stand.
We experienced someone touching your back and towels flying off the racks in bathrooms. Things falling in the night mostly in the bathrooms and bedrooms. Once I walked in the bathroom and a washcloth fell two feet off of the shower rack and hit me face, (so it flew horitzalital quite hard).
We grew to love our ghost, he seamed to only be mad at us when we left the house and came back late at night.
My Grandmother's Guardian Angel
By: asyesha@ele-tel.com
This is not my personal experience, this was told to me by my mother. I've never seen a ghost or had any experiences so I was not much of a believer in the supernatural, that was until my mother told me what my elder sister had seen.
My mother is from
When my sister was about 5 years old my grandmother took her
to
There is a portrait of my grandfather in the living room at my grandmothers house, it hangs directly opposite the door as you enter the house and it is the first thing you see when you enter.
So when my sister stepped into my grandmothers house for the first time, the first thing she saw was the picture of my grandfather. When she saw the picture she pointed towards it and said,
"Grandma, that man in the picture he was with us on the train the whole time."
Since my sister was only 5 at the time she probably could see my grandfather since children can normally see ghosts, she never saw my grandfather before and did not recognize him when she saw him in the train with them. I think my grandfather was watching over my grandmother like a guardian angel and that's why my sister was not afraid or did not feel threatened by him, because he was watching over them. This is a true storie and it sure made me a believer.
"It happened to me"
By: h2ogirlie@aol.com
I have been an avid reader of your site for as long as I can remember. I have also been a firm believer in ghosts since child hood, although I had never seen or experienced anything particularly "ghostly" until about a year ago. I was living with my boyfriend at the time and we had a HUGE blow out argument in the wee hours of the morning (around 3 if my memory serves). I was so angry my teeth were chattering and I had the jitters, so I decided to leash up my dog and go out on a run and burn off some of the steam.
After running for about 3 miles, I was totally exhausted but
still didn't feel much better, so I decided to take a nice walk for the rest of
the way home. We lived across the street
from my college (
I don't know what to make of this strange event, but I haven't forgotten the sweet guy, the silent car, or the strange look on the cop's face.
Was it a demon?
By: Lostntontitown@aol.com
I would first like to say I really love your website.My experience happened in a small town in Alabama.I was a young mother of 17 and woke up at about 2:30 in the morning.My baby was crying and I got up ,layed him on the couch and was warming up his bottle.As I was standing at the stove I heard the most terrifing sound I had ever heard.It was like a growl and a roar together.Like in the movie the exorcist.It was so loud I felt it,like loud music.I felt very weak and almost passed out.You know how when you hear a strange noise and you think "what was that?"?I immediately thought the devil.I was so freaked out I left the baby on the couch and ran to the bedroom and woke up my husband.He was very angry as he had to get up in a few hours and go to work.He said it was the pulp mill down the road.He didn't believe me.So I got the baby and went back to bed while he searched the house to calm me down.He ran into the bedroom and his legs gave out from underneath him.He said "I heard it too,we have to get out of here".We ran out of the house and almost wreaked getting out of the driveway,saying the Lords prayer over and over.I got all my family and friends to help us pack up the next day and got the hell out of there.(rental)The pastor of my mother-in-laws church said he got really bad vibes when he went by that house.Never went back needless to say.
The Mysterious Lady Presence
By: Anonymous
I would like to write about a true experience I've had.
I would appreciate it if my details are unknown.
Living in
With my focus on the landscape's surroundings towards the right at the certain time of nightfall, my eyes made out a presence of a woman standing further back in the landscape. Her description were of black dressing I would recall in consideration to the type of a nun's, where the head is covered by a shawl or hooded type feature though it was all black throughout consisting into a long type of dress. The facial features were uncertain, at the time I would probably have been verifying white like stranded hair showing under her shawl though it was kind of unclear in views of actual facial presence. Not knowing what a lady was doing around that area at this certain time of night I called out to her most probably through paranoia on being judgemental whether my mind was playing ticks on me or not. The lady seemed to make her way to me from further back to where she was first situated. Then with more concentration on her overall feauture I noticed the lower portion of her body wasn't there. I had just practically called out to a lady I could see gliding over the glass like surface with no legs. Knowing this was no human type form I kept god in my mind and made my way away from the situated place this encounter was happening upwards to where there were other people to my relief with the first light I saw in the street being of some person's ciggarette which they were holding. I made my way to where I lived and at times would have certain paranoid thoughts interfering my conscience as to whether that presence was on my back situated there when I wasn't in full control to see if anyone was standing there if I turned around. Eventually through time that type of thinking managed to clear itself though the memory remains.
Thanks for letting me mention this experience.
The Haunted Flat
By: Manda4eva1023@aol.com
this story is about the flat that my parents used to live in many years ago it was in croxteth in liverpool. many starange things used to happen there and my mum always used to have a feel about the place as though something wasnt right.
odd things used to happen like they could never hang a picture or mirror on the walls cause as soon as they did the picture or mirrir would just fall straight off.
another time was that my mum was in bed once and my dad was out and she was lying there and the door (which had been firmly closed) opened. my mum thinking it was my dad coming in said hello, nut there was no one there and then it closed tightly with a click. it then opened again and then closed with a click.
little things like this led my mum to believe that the flat was haunted but her nor my dad ever saw a ghost or apparition.
the most scary and weird of all the incidents was: one morning my mum and dad went to the kitchen of the flat and there sitting on the kitchen table was a large black crow. there was absolutely no way that it could have got in as the kistchen door was locked, the windows were locked and there was no evidence that it had come down the chimney eg. soot.
i believe that my mum has a sixth sense for this sort of thing as one time when she and my dad were house-hunting they came across a house which my mum and a very strange feel about she stepped in the house nut immeadiatley had to come go back out as she had a very strange feeling about the place. my dad didnt sense anything. they didnt move there they moved to our current house which so far (touch wood) has remained ghost free. i swear this story is 100% true and all these events did take place.
The Ghost we now call Bobette
By: eleni2424@aol.com
It was a foggy friday night at about
My Other Stories
By:clare11@adelphia.net
I've always been fascinated by people who have managed never
to experience ghosts. I know that the
area around
There is a privately owned, quite expensively restored free-standing townhouse in Old Towne Alexandria. It has no house attached on either side, and is apparently quite large for the area. The couple who own it are married -- he's on his second family and has grown children from his first marriage. The house was built by a free black architect and occupied by the man and his family. Apparently the current residents are so used to the ghosts they forgot to tell the children from the current owner's first family about them. One son was staying for an extended visit and came down to breakfast one morning. He wanted to know who the black family in the room upstairs was. "Was" was the appropriate word. They'd all been dead for several hundred years. Other than occasional appearances, I never heard of any other behavior. They seemed to be happy to have the house restored to its original beauty.
When my sister and I were little, she was capable of poltergeist-like activity. We're less than a year apart, and I remember one display she did for me -- I must have been about 10 months old, if that much. (I'm one of those people who remember some events that happened before my first birthday, but they're random.) We lived in a tiny row-house in DC. The house was about 15 feet wide; the living room narrower because the stairs took up 30-36". There was a knick-knack shelf that I remember looking almost like a mantle hanging on the side of the stairs. The shelf had a pink, art deco-ish shell vase on it. My sister, who still has a tendency to be manic, said "watch this," and pointed at the vase. It popped up in the air and landed on the floor, breaking into three or four pieces. It was impressive. She never did the kind of stuff you see on TV, just weird little stunts like million other kids, until they found out it wasn't possible to move things with their minds.
Keep up the good work. The listings of hauntings are fun to read.
My current haunted house is in a development near
Dranesville and
Old
By: clare11@adelphia.net
Up the hill from "old town" (you take a curvy road that's perpendicular to the old "market" part of town), there's a "castle" on a large piece of land. A friend of mine owned the house some years ago; I think it sat on a ten-acre lot. The inside (the last time I was inside) was interesting, to say the least. There had apparently been a fire, and the repairs were bizarre. There was a flight of stairs that went up, and stopped, going nowhere. Across the room below, they continued. In one bedroom, used as a guest room, if you tried to sleep in that room you could hear a baby cry all night. (I never tried that and we knew nothing about the baby, but suspected the baby was killed in the fire.) We were in the yard one summer, and near the house there was a three-story stable. You could enter it on the same level as the house or on the lowest level; I expect that the middle level was used to store hay for the horses. The house's owner and I went in the top level with a visitor who "didn't believe in ghosts." In the center of the top floor, there was a definite cold spot. Mr "didn't believe in ghosts" was suddenly covered in goose bumps. The owner and I had found a "new" ghost, so we went around to the lowest level, and the cold spot was directly below the cold spot on the third level. We had no information on the stable ghost, but he was definitely there. There was no hostility that we could feel.
There was a third ghost, who was the most active. She was (is?) a treat. The house's outside walls are solid, thick stone, and even the strange fire repairs are sturdy. One New Year's Eve, a chandelier is one of the countless parlors fell on a room full of people, but hit no one. It livened up the party a bit. The dining room is splendid, with a dining table that must have been built in the room. The table easily seats 30 people, and has a chandelier above it. The maid who worked at, but would not stay in, the house would get up on the table and grab the chandelier to stop it from swinging. She'd get back on the floor, and the chandelier would swing again. The story is that the active ghost lived in the house and one of her children married, and the young couple, not wanting to wait to inherit the house, locked the older woman in one of the attics, where she went "mad" and died. Apparently, she's unsure about the dead part. There was a night when I was at a small party there, and we were in a large parlor that had classic, dark green velvet "Gone With The Wind" draperies. It was a bit strange as we'd decided to play charades, men vs. women. All the women looked at the curtains at the far end of the room at the same time (there was no sound) and saw one of these heavy draperies with lead in the hem (this is done in many custom-made draperies, even today) lift as if someone wanted to peek outside. None of the men saw it. At another party, in the dining room, there was a dumbwaiter to the basement, where the kitchen had been at one time. I saw the old woman at the door of the dumbwaiter, turned to tell someone, and she was gone. (I was quite sober.) No one else ever admitted to seeing the old woman, although a couple of people said they'd heard her speak, which I never did.
The old woman's favorite games were in the "tower." On one side of the house, there was a three- or four-story square tower with windows on the three exposed sides (the fourth side abutted the house, but only opened into the main house on the ground floor. It was a challenge to keep the windows closed as the old woman apparently preferred them open. My friend, who owned the house, had her son (an adolescent), her husband, and the long-suffering maid stand outside at the bottom of the tower. She started on the top floor of the tower and tied each of the three windows (one of each side) closed with cord, then went down one floor and repeated the process until she got to ground level. She went outside where her witnesses were, and all the windows were open. The witnesses only saw that the windows opened. My friend went back inside, and in the center of each floor of the tower, she found a small pile of cord from the three windows. She was finally able to find some latches that either pleased or stumped the senior ghost.
Several years later, the ceiling of the tower developed a leak, so the electricity to the tower was disconnected until repairs could be made. It was at one of the parties, and I offered to take anyone who was interested upstairs in the tower (with the hostess's blessing). I had a cigarette lighter, not a flashlight, and on the way to the top floor, the flame grew to a foot high and would not go out. I asked the ghost to cut it out, and the flame went out. I relit the lighter, and finished the tour, although I'd lost several folks who decided they weren't up for a REAL ghost! I knew the ghost was just playing, but some folks were apparently frightened enough to give up on the tour.
The basement was a rough, old-fashioned dirt cellar. It had boarded up tunnels that had been part of the Underground Railroad in the days when the Underground Railroad saved many lives. As the tunnels were very old, and there had been development and over a century of weather and wear and tear, a previous owner had felt they were unsafe. Several years after my friend sold her house, I met a man who was familiar with the house and the fact that it was haunted. He had maps of where the Underground Railroad tunnels went.
No one was every hurt by the ghosts, although many people were frightened, which was unnecessary. One night, three men had escaped from the state penitentiary, and had been traced to the area around this house. Given that my friend's son was away at school, and she and her husband had divorced, she called the State Police to find out if she should worry about the escaped convicts. The State Police declined to enter the house -- they knew its history. They advised her to get a 12-gauge, cause they weren't going to be looking in the basement and attics of that house under any circumstances. So she got a 12-gauge, which won't hurt ghosts, and remained there several more years.
My Real Ghost Story
By: jenny_gbadik@yahoo.com
I just want to share my own experience...
It happened in our house..
When were finish eating our supper, my mom and dad go out and have a chat. I was the only one left in the house and my brother who is inside his room. While I'm cleaning the table I started to be curious on what is in the living room and too bad that you can see the living room from the dining. And then when Iooked at the living room i saw a tall man, dress in white barong and black pants walking. And I stared at it for 2 to 3 seconds and then it was gone.
The second time I experienced it is when I'm fixing the clothes then I got shocked that somebody is running in the stairs but nobody is there and it seems like that the ghost is mad.
It happened in our school..
At first I don't believe my classmates that there is something special in our "comfort room" at the 8th floor of our school. I experienced it when I'm going to change my PE uniform to school uniform. At first there were three of us in the comfort room then afterwards my classmates are already finished changing their clothes and faces. They already left and I'm alone in the comfort room in the last cubicle the largest one, while i'm dressing up my uniform I got curious because there is something ticking then i looked for it and I got shocked when I see that the light is moving against the wall. I got scared that time so I run away.
Then I go back to the comfort room with my friends because I want to try if the light is east to move and to my surprise it is very hard to move you need a lot of streght to move it against the wall. After I experienced that I never go to that comfort room alone
My Little Ghost Story
By: charmed825@yahoo.com
It happened just the other night.I was lying awake and watching tv on one of my couches and my older cousin was asleep on the other. Suddenly I began to feel very hot. Then I began to hear footsteps coming down the stairs. Thinking it was my father who would surely be angry that I was still up watching tv, I began to pretend I was asleep.Next the sound of footsteps went into my older sister, Liz's room. So now thinking it was nothing I began to watch the tv again. Then I started to hear what sounded like a doorknob turning from that direction so I began to fake sleep again.When the sound stopped I decided to start watching tv again. But after a minute or two of watching tv I saw that the light I had turned off just before bed was on again. I then decided to fake sleep again just in case. So while I faked sleep the sound a footsteps reatreated once more up the stairway.So when the sound of footsteps stopped upstairs I began to watch tv again. Then during my veiwing of the tv the sound returned. I was now tired of faking and wanted to see who this person was. As I looked over toward the stairs I saw a very tall and mysterious white glowing figure at the bottom. The figure was definatly not someone I knew. It was tall muscular and frizzy looking. It then walked toward my fishbowl and started to stare within it. Suddenly the "thing' disapeared behind the fireplace. Now thinking the whole ordeal was nothing and still being very hot I got off my couch and went to sit in my green recliner. After sitting down I put the footrest up, took off my shirt and put a thin blakent over myself. Now I was finally able to relax and watch tv again. But sadly I dont think my new "friend" wanted me to do so. It began to walk through the living room and went into my and mylittle brother's room. I s now terrified. So rememberinh something I heard Peter on "Family Guy" say: "I chose not to believe it" I began to say the sentace over and over again I began to watch tv again and sat up the rest of the night.
My Grandfather and Dad
By: nchrck@direcway.com
Back in March, I went on an investigation with a group that
I'm in. The medium that heads the group kept telling me all weekend that I had
a very nice gentleman with me. Turns out, she got the feeling that it was a
grandfather. She described him to me and I later asked my aunt and my Mom about
him. They both said that it sounded like their grandfather, whom died when my
Mom was little. She was his favorite. Fast forward to the next weekend-I got
the call that my Dad was dying in
We made the trek from TN to OH. About an hour from my Dad's house we stopped at my aunts to drop off my kids(Mom said she didn't think that they needed to see him going). We weren't there three minutes when we got the call that he had passed. I fully believe that he waited until we had stopped so we weren't on the interstate when we got the call. So of course, I broke down, told the kids, and left, heading to their house. After a few minutes, I kind of, as my husband says, went behind my brick wall, and just stared out the window. I got the strong tingling on my shoulder again, and also one on my shoulder blades. That tingling on my shoulder blades stayed even after we got there. It didn't leave until about 45 minutes after they had come and got Dad's body, which was an hour after I got there. A couple of nights later, as I was going to sleep, I heard him saying my name. Before he died, Dad slept upright in a chair in the living room and Mom slept in their bed. They had a baby mnonitor so if he needed Mom, he could call for her on it. During that week, and evidently afterwards, she would hear him calling for her on it.
I believe it is my Dad when I get that tingling on my shoulder blades, just because it is usually when I am thinking about him very strongly. Like he's telling me he's okay, and I'm going to be okay.Kind of a comforting. It's not there all the time, just every once in awhile.
My First and Last Visit with Grandpa
By: mattg8370@earthlink.net
I would like to preface this story by saying that most of the information within is according to my mother because most of the events that took place i only have a vague recollection.
When i was between four and five years old my mother and i
lived alone in a 2 story house in
Fast forward 4 years. when i was eight years old my mother and i moved back to her place of upbringing and while our new house was being built we stayed with her mother, my grandmother. During this time she came to me and presented me with a fox horn made of a rams horn and told me that it was left to me by my grandfather (he was an avid fox hunter). She also added that he left one to all of the male grandchildren and that i was the last to recieve mine. This of coarse brought back the memory of that long ago morning of my youth, and spooked my mother a bit since she had assumed that my little story back then must have been a dream.
I don't know whether or not i really visited with my grandfather that night, and if i did i am even more unsure if i was speaking to an angel, an apparition, or the over active imagination of a child. What i do know is that i had no knowledge of my inheritance, and although my memory of early events is fuzzy my mother has never lied to me that i know of, and it would be very strange to think that one of the few lies she has told me was about this. I also have faith that this event really happened, and it has been a great comfort over the years (especially during the rough times), to think that my grandpa is watching over me somewhere in the hereafter.
Thanks for taking the time to read this story. My experiences have served to make me a believer in the supernatural, and i can only hope that it might help others in deciding whether or not their experiences are real.
Lady in Red
By: Buzznutx@aol.com
I'd like to share my experience of seeing a lady in a Red Dress at Cranbrook
Educational Community. Located in
Ghostly Encounter
By: aymeaponte@sbcglobal.net
I've had many
encounters of the ghostly kind and after reading some of the stories, I decided
to share one. I was 15 years old and lived in
Experience
By: jdm@greenhills.net
I was doing a engine search and came upon your website. I had no idea about