Recent Haunting in Liguria Italy

 

 

By: biancoid@aol.com

 

 

 

I recently spent the night in a renovated 16th century villa, the Villanova, in Levanto Italy--just a few kilometers north of Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast of Italy. There is a culinary program there that a friend of mine from New York was signed up for, and I agreed to drive her down from my home in Lugano Switzerland.  We arrived in a heavy storm at night, and as we pulled into the Villanova I got an immediate sense that there was some serious history there.  We were shown to our apartment on the grounds, which was attached to the church, and had historically been the priest's apartment. It had been renovated with modern amenities, and was quite beautiful. We were then invited to join everyone for dinner in the cantina, which still had the feel of a 16th century cantina. At dinner, the couple from Dallas who runs the culinary program brought up the fact that the apartment we were staying in was apparently the 'haunted one,' but they were laughing at that idea, obviously because they don't believe in such things. They also mentioned that the Massola family who built the villa in the 1500's were buried under the church, which was were we were sleeping. To them, it was a joke. 

My friend and I looked at each other, not laughing at all, aware that there must've been some truth to this if many people had brought it 

up to the owners before.   After dinner, we relaxed in the courtyard 

and laughed and tried to ignore what we had been told at dinner. We went to sleep, each of us in adjoining rooms with the door open between them, and the thunderstorm picked up again and became very heavy.  A couple hours later, I woke up to the sound of someone running through the apartment. At first, it sounded like it ran through my room. Then a minute later i heard something very heavy with 2 feet running across the roof. It was NOT a cat or a dog, as i've heard that sound many times--this was something as heavy as a human and with 2 feet. My friend yelled for me from the next room asking me if that was me up and running around---of course, i told her i was awake, but that i was laying in bed. She sounded quite scared, as i was, and asked me what the hell that was---i told her that we should just pretend it's a big animal so we can go back to sleep. As i said this to her, I saw a shadow of a very human-shaped figure walk through the door from her room and past the foot of my bed. I immediately closed my eyes, well aware of what i saw, and i didn't say anything to her as I didn't want to scare her any further. 

For the rest of the night, i kept my eyes shut, but did not sleep much--and if i did manage to sleep, it would be for a few minutes and i was having incredibly twisted dreams that were NOT from my head. 

The noises continued, and I had an overwhelming feeling of a presence (or a few) in the apartment. In the morning, my friend asked me not to say a word about the night before, as she was spending the next 6 nights there by herself. I kept my mouth shut.  But it was the most intense haunting i have ever experienced--i have had feelings of people being in the same room before, or heard things, but i've never seen an actual spirit until this experience.  I thought i would share this with you!

 

 

 

 

 

SHAFTSBURG, MICHIGAN

 

By: LKGEORGEMI@aol.com

 

 

About 6 miles southwest of this small Michigan village, at the corners of Lovejoy, Zimmer and Barry roads, is a large tract of farmland that while now broken up was for years owned by a single family. The family has been plagued by tragedy, suicides, mental illnesses and deaths.

The original home is still occupied by members of this family.

For years strange, unexplained happenings have been witnessed by area residents. Strange lights in the fields where a grandfather shot himself, a general feeling of unease when simply driving past.

Visitors in the house have seen dishes move across tables on their own, doors that refused to stay closed. Even a hangman's noose appearing  in an upstairs hall. Pounding on interior walls and wails from the attic.

The family is large but none will often speak of the goings on in their home. Older members won't talk of it at all!

My husband grew up nearby and was a close friend of one of the sons (who committed suicide in the 1970's) My husband spent a few nights as a visitor in the house and still breaks out in sweats and chills when talking about the being in that place.

On the same farm there are the remnants of an old still where many local people claim to have seen apparitions and heard weird sounds around. It's said you will never seen any of the abundant native wildlife in the vicinity of the still.

 

 

St. Patricks Cemetary-Oakdale, Pennsylvania

 

By: musolino21@hotmail.com

 

 

In early October 2005, a group of 4 of my friends and I walked through St.

Patricks Cemetary after reading about it on The Shadowlands website.  We conducted our short journey about 1 o'clock in the morning, walking up the hill.  About halfway up the hill I was the only one that heard the sound of feet shuffling on the grass about 8-10 yards to my right.  There is a light that was on, on the side of the church, and with that shine I did not notice anything moving in the grass (like an animal and such).  Shortly after mentioning what I heard to the others, the sound was heard again by three of us, once again not noticing moving. We regained our composure and continued up the hill where nothing out of the ordinary occured.  We all felt very nervous and uncomfortable and refused to continue deeper in the cemetary. 

On the way down the hill towards the parking lot, we came upon the same spot where the shuffling of feet on the grass was heard.  Yet again it happened a third time.  I did not hear it, though two others heard it at the same time.

We discussed what we all heard, and could not come up with a logic explanation.  We did not have proof of an animal, cause we did not see it run or anything move around. It remains a mystery, though we do believe there is something unexplainable at St. Patricks Cemetary in Oakdale, Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

True Ghost Story

 

By: aleaird@totalnet.us

 

I am not one of those who's beliefs are for or against the supernatural. During the time of the event I will tell you about, I was your normal Freshman in college in Oklahoma. Anyway, my self and 3 other fraternity brothers were looking for a house to rent in Ada Oklahoma when we found this great house not far from the college but still pretty isolated. It was a two story brick house with 4 large bedrooms. It had been empty for several years which should have been our first clue that something is wrong, but we were young and cash is cash. We asked the realtor if there was something wrong with the property and why was the rent so cheap in a college town but got no straight answer. Regardless we took the deal and moved in. I and Skip took the rooms upstairs wile Randy and Alvin moved downstairs. Nothing much happened at first. Nothing that we took as remarkable. For one thing the front door, made of heavy wood and very difficult to open or close would sometimes just open, stand open for a moment then close. We would laugh it off even though one of our roommates worked as a carpenter and would examine the door and say that it was not possible to do that on it's own. After one of these incidents he went over to the door and tried to open it and had a difficult time opening it (like always). He looked it over very close as said it had warped with time and would always be hard to open and close without planing the ends off.

Soon after so other things began to occur. All of us, at one time or another had seen a small ball of light go from the bottom of the stairs to the second floor. Still we thought this was odd but not something to be concerned about. Being in college we figured it was a reflection from some source causing this and that was kinda cool. This is when things started getting very strange. One night we were all in the living room watching a football game on TV when a loud noise started coming from the wall separating the living room from the kitchen. It was a banging noise like someone hitting the wall. The strikes were so strong that our Frat. crest hanging on that wall was bouncing off the wall. We all got up and ran to the kitchen figuring we would find someone playing a trick on us but when we got there found no one. The banging continued for only a few more minutes then stopped. Alvin (the carpenter) said it was from some pipes in the wall causing it and we had better tell the land lord. The next day we called them and were told that there were no pipes in the walls.

This still was nothing more than a strange event to us, but we did start to compare notes about things that had happened in the house. One thing was in my room (upstairs) you could not keep the window closed. These were old wooden windows. Hard to open or close. My window was opened about an inch the day I moved in and with great effort I closed it only to find the next morning it would be back open to the same place. This got a bit uncomfortable because it was winter. Each night I would close the window and the next morning it would be open. I got very angry with my room mates about this and asked them to stay out of my room, but they each denied opening the window or even being in my room. Finally I figured the window was warping during the night that is why it opens so I put a cut off broom handle wedged at the top. The next morning the window was open again and the broom handle was sitting propped up near the door (12 feet away). It gave me chills but decided to just leave it be. As I told my story, my upstairs room mate reminded me about his room. Although exactly the same as mine, his room was always dark. No mater how many lights or stronger watt bulbs we put in there, it would never lose the darkness. Not enough to not be able to see, but not enough to read.

Our other room mates told some other stories but you get the gist. As things progressed we noticed some other changes in the house. For one thing some girls would not go into our house. I know what your thinking, no we were popular and had girlfriends and such (plus had some great parties). Yet some girls would not go into the house. As soon as they got to the door they just said they could not go in. A couple even broke into tears at the thought of entering the house. When asked why they could not give any answer. All they could say was they were not going into that house ever.

This is getting a bit longer than I expected so I guess I'll cut to the chase. Have not thought about this in 30 years and it's still giving me the creeps.

Anyway, things were happening and Alvin and Randy was ready to move out (Randy's girlfriend was one of those that could not come into the house). It was Christmas time and our house was pretty dressed up for a bunch of guys. Big Tree with too much decorations and the Xmas presents we would be taking home to our families in a few days under the tree. Nothing remarkable happened this night, as a matter of fact it was particularly quiet. We had all went to bed about 2 am and nothing woke us till morning, when I heard Randy yelling from downstairs. It was about 7 am. We thought maybe the house was on fire or worse, but when we got down stairs the look on his face was scary. There in the middle of our large living room was our Tree with all the tinsel and trimming stripped off of it. All the presents, all the furniture, all the dishware, every stitch of clothing we all owned everything piled in a heap that reached the ceiling (16 feel ceiling I might add). In the haste to get down stairs none of us had noticed that everything in our rooms had been removed as we slept.

After a few minutes of just staring at the site in our living room we checked the house from top to bottom. Everything we had brought into the house was there, everything.

This was it for a couple of the guys. We all said it was a trick another Frat. had played on us, or some of our friends that had heard some of the stories that had started to get around about our house. Still, Alvin was done. He moved his stuff out that day and the rest of us said we would do the same when we got back from Xmas break. That night my girlfriend and I was laying on the couch that faced the stairs (she was one of the girls that was not afraid to come over) when suddenly the door did it's trick by opening and closing but this time it was followed by the dim light darting up the stairs. I could feel her body tense and she was trembling and I told her not to be scared she knows that happens all the time when she let our a scream I'll never forget. She pointed to the top of the stairs where steps join with the ceiling and there in plane site was a face looking straight at us. No body, no expression, just a face between the top rung, stair and ceiling. No one could have contorted themselves to a point to get in that position but there it was. I remember my are muscle tensed so much I had a black bruise for weeks. Just as soon as we had both got a good look at it, it moved from site upstairs (no it did not vanish). I have never wanted to run more in my life, but being a young man at that time, I grabbed a baseball bat and ran upstairs ready to kill someone. I tore the house apart looking everywhere to find no one. Jane was still in tears about to have a complete break down. I grabbed all my clothing and everything I knew I could live without and left (I knew I would not go back there again).

Not sure I want anyone to belive me or not. I guess if I had choice I would choose not. Never had any experiences like that before or after and I guess it just does not matter. I just thought you might get a kick out of a story by someone with no reason to tell it.

Also, postscript to the house. They were never able to sell it or rent it. It was finally tore down and now is just an empty lot.

The Follow-up to Allen Leaird's True Ghost Story:

Several years ago, our Frat. had a reunion and I and a couple of the guys from the story where having a few when Skip brought up the house. We had never talked about it afterwards, as if it never happened (way too proud to admit we were scared you know). Funny how difficult the conversation was. Maybe not difficult but guarded. Anyway, after a few more drinks we opened up a bit and Alvin told a few events that he had never reveled before. Said he though we would think him nuts. He said that one night he was in bed asleep (this guy sleeps like a rock) when suddenly he woke up. Did not know why but he felt like something was in the room with him. He said he was so scared he could not move (by the way, this guy was not afraid of anything. Big, strong and never told a lie in his life). His room was just off the living room closest to the front door and stairs.

He noticed his bedroom door was open and from his room he could also see the front door was wide open. He figured that was what woke him up. One of us had come in late from a party and had left the door open. He said he got up and went to the door and yelled "Who the hell left this door open?" To this day I think he spoke the truth when he said he heard a voice that seemed to be right behind him say "We did". He said he spun around and there was no one there. As a mater of fact, he checked the rest of the house and we were all asleep. You'll remember Alvin was the first one to say he was leaving but he never said why until that day of the reunion 20 years later.

 

 

Unlucky House

 

By: keh1954@cox.net

 

Hi my name is Kathy i use to live in Chesapeake, Virginia years back. I grew up in a House on 1313 Hull Street that was haunted. For 18 years i lived there with my family at night you could hear footsteps going up an down the stairs. Everynight i would close my closet doors in my bedroom and every morning they would be open. One night I floated down the stairs and woke up on the couch, like something was carring me. There was something dark in that House and one Sunday morning i was downstairs all alone in the Living room watching TV  an i heard a   boom  boom  like loud foot steps comming down them stairs, I jumped up and ran out the back door  outside to the picnic table an waited for someone to come home. I always believed something Evil lived in the wall upstairs to the left of my bedroom. A few years back a woman called me from the House on 1313 Hull Street and asked me if i new the house was haunted i told her yes and she said just then the water from the kitchen sink came on by itself and that her husband tried to stab her with a kitchen knife in that House. She also felt she was loosing her mind in the House. My heart races when i talk about the House on 1313 Hull Street  Chesapeake, Virginia. Its a place i will never forget . I now live in Arkansas Thank you ,

 

 

 

"Dog Spirit"

 

By: lilcutie01_spoiledtodeath@hotmail.com

 

It started at 12:00 pm in my room,I was sleeping and I got an unweary wake up call,something was licking my hand.So I woke up and looked around but I couldn't see anything ,so I just went back to sleep and kept telling myself that my mind was just playing tricks on me.

I woke up again,but instead of my hand feeling like it was being licked to death ,I heard noises and scratches on the floor. Again, I got up and looked around,but I still couldn't see anything,so I tried to go back to sleep,but this time I couldn't because at that moment I felt something jump on my bed and stat licking my hand again.

This time I knew my mind wasn't playing tricks on me,and this wasn't a dream,it was real life.I looked around for a third time,I still saw nothing,so I got up,went to the washroom and splashed water on my face.On the way to my bedroom I caught something at the corner of my eye.I quickly went on my bed and put the covers over my head.

I took the covers off of my head after about 15 minutes and looked around,in the darkest corner of my room I saw A shadowy figure of a dog.

I screamed and froze in spot because I was soooo........ scared. The dark figure of the dog kept coming closer and closer until it was at my feet.It kind of looked at me wierdly and then jumped on my bed.

At that moment I knew that this "dog spirit" was in fact my dog named Buttons that died in February 2004. Now every night at 12:00 pm my "dog spirit",Buttons comes and joins me to go to sleep.

                                                                            

         

 

Haunted Place in Washington

 

By: frogaboo@gmail.com

 

 

About two years ago my husband and I went to Ocean Shore and staid at the Sands Resort Inn. We staid in the only room with the Jacuzzi tub in it. As soon as we walked into the room I felt like someone was watch us through the mirror. It was so bad that I covered the mirror with towels. After we got home and got the pictures developed there were orbs of different sizes all over the room!

 

     

 

 

Strange Occurances

 

By: twister1227@aol.com

 

When I was six years old, I went to a family reunion in Oklahoma. After everyone had eaten, I went outside to play with my cousins in the woods(at the time i didn't think this was a bad idea).We were playing hide and seek in an old abondend construction site. I was it. I was looking for them and I ran in to a tall dark figure.It was a man about 6'4. I ran the other way, and there it was again. I yelled for my family and they came running. Immediatley I opened up my eyes, it was gone.

I've never gone in the woods since.

 

 

Voices

 

By: smiliekylie2003@yahoo.com

 

 

I can't really say if this is much of a ghost story, more of a chain of events that I can't explain. I had just moved out of home into my own place. I had unpacked everything and was sitting on my new bed cutting my toenails of all things, when I suddenly felt the presence of something unseen in my room, then I heard a voice whispering, "Stop it, stop it, stop it." I'm pretty sure that the words were only repeated 3 or 4 times. I looked around the room with wide eyes, still not seeing anything. For some reason I then stood up and walked to the front door where I saw the door open al by it self. i ran out the door to see if I could see anything around the house. There was nothing. I was a little shaken, but tried to forget it. That night I went to sleep no trouble, but in the middle of the night I awoke to find that there was somthing heavy on my back, I always sleep on my stomach, the weight was incredible and I could feel arms wrapped tightly around my chest, I could not breath and I could not move. In my mind I said these words, "Jesus please help me!" And the weight was gone immediatly. I grew up i a christian home and I am a christian myself, so to call out to God for help was natural. I told my parents the next day. Dad said that he had had similar experiences when he first moved out of home. He went on to explain that I had moved out of my safe christian surrounds and I was vonerable. My mother then told me that if I pray in every room of the house as she did at her house for protection, God would protect me. So that is what I did and to this day evil forces have stayed away.

 

 

 

13th and Liberty Street

 

 

By: redauntqueen1@msn.com

 

I grew up in a house in Allentown, PA that, to me unknowlingly for the greater part of my life, was haunted.

Larue F. and her family lived in our house before we bought it in the late 1960's. One morning, before school, Larue's son shot and killed his sleeping mother in the back right corner of the living room, from what I understand, as she slept.

As I understand it, Larue was a difficult woman to get along with. My parents and my sister lived up the street from them and Larue used to babysit my sister. My mother was pregnant with me at the time and Larue was very excited at the my upcoming birth. My sister has told me stories of how Larue's son was cruel to her when she was at the house. He would lock in rooms, hang her up the back collar of her shirt on a coat hook and leave her hanging while laughing at her cries. One theory to the motive of the murder was that he was having an affair with the married woman next door and Larue found out and threatened to tell the husband, but no one really knows why he did it except the son himself.

After I was born and the the son was found guilty of the murder and sent to the state mental hospital, we acquired the house and moved in. It was the first house my parents ever owned. I had to been about two years old at the time, no one in my family is exactly sure of the dates.

Larue was still there. Toilets would flush. The refrigerator would become unplugged repeatedly and if you are old enough to remember the models from the 60's they were mammoth appliances that could not be moved and this one was jammed up against the the wall where the receptical was. Pots and pans would come out of their cupboards and land on the floor. A crucifix on the wall in parents bedroom would move from side to side creating scratch marks in the paint.

My mother had knick-knacks on tables in the living room that would move from their positions and end up on the floor. She originally thought she kicked the tables in her sleep  , so she moved them all to the center of the tables instead of placing them close to the edges. It still would happen, but not as frequently. She still does this to this day although they live 3,000 miles away from PA.

Then Larue began to appear as herself. First to the family, then to friends of the family. I have to stop at this point and tell you that no one was ever frightend of her. They all knew Larue and were (fascinated?) that this was happening. They knew she meant us no harm because she loved my family and was so excited at the upcoming baby (me). Unfortunately she never lived to see the birth.

When she would appear, most times it seemed to be in the living room where she died. A friend of my mother's saw her at the big bay window facing the street. Other times as my mother and her friends were having tea in the kitchen , they  would see her walk, always to the front window. This happened countless times that it became to almost a joke. "She's here".

One frightening thing did happen to my mother. One night as she slept, she had a nightmare of finding Larue the morning she was murdered, and ran to her to help her as she lay bleeding. My mother touched her in her dream , looked at her hands and they were covered in blood . She woke up at that moment and looked at her hands  and they were truly covered in blood. My father immdiately took her to the emergency room and they found no cause for the blood to be there. Not a nosebleed, no cuts, no explanation. Of course my parents kept this to themselves. The way I found out about this story was that one day I was leafng throught the bible and found a bookmark in a page that was titled "To stop bleeding" and questioned my father. He didn't give a real good reason but I was young and shrugged it off. Only later after my insistence after my own experience did he finally tell me the truth.

During the years I was growing up I never saw nor felt her. My parents had a psychic cleanser come to the house and he confirmed that she was there, but she meant us no harm. She was there to watch and wanted to see the baby (me). He didn't suceed in releasing her from the house but the occurences did lessen in frequency.

When I was about 20 yrs old, one early morning at dawn, I finally had my own encounter with Larue. I was in bed, asleep, and awoke suddenly-wide awake and alert. Down at the foot of my bed stood Larue. She was white, solid, not misty but like solid smoke. She didn't move as she faced the window. I wasn't afraid in the slightest. I sat up in bed and still she did not move. It seemed like a long time that I stared at her but it was only about a minute or less that she was there. In the blink of an eye she was gone. She didn't slowly fade or drift away. She just wasn't there anymore. Like, snap! I lay back down and thought to myself, Holy cow, I just saw Larue! and promptly went back to a peaceful sleep.

When I went downstairs in the morning for breakfast I told my mom. She thought to herself a moment then went to the calendar and chuckled and said "yes, this is the day she died".

The second encounter I had with Larue I shared with my husband at the time. My parents where on vacation and we were watching the house. It was a Saturday morning and he and I were watching tv in my old bedroom. All at once, simutanlesly, the tv and the stereo switched. The tv went off and the stereo went on. Twice. The was a pause between each switch. I remember looking at one as turned off, then to the other as it went on and again it repeated. My husband was scared to death. I just laughed and tried to calm him down.

We as a family don't really talk much about Larue anymore, she was like a childhood friend you grew away from. I think the last encounter that my dad can remember is waking up in the night and he said it was like someone was in the bed with him swishing the sheets around his body. He told her to stop and she did.

For those that don't believe in ghosts, I wish they would have the experiences our family did. We are all believers since we saw it all first hand and feel lucky to have done so.

Sometimes still, when I can’t sleep, I think of Larue and she comforts me. I hope she has found her peace.

 

 

 

A Few Ghost Stories

 

By: matsuki_ryu2004@msn.com

 

I am not a ghost hunter or anything, but I am very knowledged in many things, paranormal is one of them.

Queen Mary-Luxury Cruiser(retired) it was used as a hospital ship during world war 2, after that it was back as a luxury liner, it is now located in Long Beach, CA.

This happend to me when I was 8 or 9 years old (19 years old now) so my memory about it is a little vague during the tour Ii noticed a young girl with strange clothes on for that time, I also noticed that when i tried talking to her she wouldn't respond, she was alone so I wondered where her parents were.  During that time i was unusually cold, it was during fall, but if you live in Southern California you know that the weather is usually pretty decent all year round, but i could of sworn it was at least 60 degrees the whole time the girl was there, after a while I took notice that she was gone, but only after I had one last glance at her, I know she couldn't of gone far without me seeing her.  I now wonder if that's the same little girl from the pool area or that pulls pranks.

This next one happend to me in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.  My family and I went to Fort Sill to see my sister graduate from Army Basic Training.  We learned that the native american Geronimo was buried there, also most of his family, when we went to see his graveyard all of us except my dad (he is a little

deaf) heard drums coming from the forested area.  For you that aren't aware, Geronimo's Graveyard is inside an Army Base, so the graves are dug up periodically in order to see that the bones are in tact and not missing. The drums sounded like native american war drums, my dad told me a few years after (this happend in 2000) that navajo and mexicans were enemies, and we are mexican, so I'm guessing that those were drums of were, we also took pictures, but no paranormal appearences came in the pictures.

I have a few more experiences, but I'm only going to mention this last one. 

This was in Delano, CA I was visiting my girlfriend (friend friend no relationship just a girl friend I'm a guy so that's ok to have a girl girl

friend) ok so i went because she invited me to Filipino Weekend, but a few days before I was searching the Haunted Places in this site, and I learned about the ghost of Browning Road.  She was well aware of the stories about the "hitchhiker ghost" so i told her i was going to go investigate, she just laughed at me and said whatever.  I began driving back and forth on Browning Road, but I didn't see the "lady of the rear view mirror" I was growing more and more frustrated, so I got off my car and began mocking the ghost to show itself, then I saw a figure in the backseat of my car (I'm not afraid of anything supernatural) so I approached it, then it disappeared, I quickly jumped in my backseat of my car and felt a very cold spot almost freezing cold, it was at least 102 degrees outside, and I didn't have my AC on that day because I like breezing feeling of the wind.  I assume that it was at least 65 degrees in that spot of the car, ONLY that spot.  Well that was my most recent one (July 2005).

 

 

Buford, Ga

 

By: nquattlebaum@yahoo.com

 

When we first moved into the house, after cleaning throughly, I found an old fashioned hair pin in the master bedroom. During the 10 years of living there, many other unexplained things happened.

We found that previous owner's son was murdered by the neighbor's son over a girl,and buried in the woods behind the house. The neighbor hid her son in the attic for 2 weeks before authorities found him.  She was a strange case herself, as she is a fotune-teller known throughout the county.

One year I took her pies and cakes for Thanksgiving and she gave me some air freshner called " More Money". The next thing I knew, everything was breaking, the fuse box started shooting sparks, the plumbing was leaking, both cars broke down and you better believe I threw that stuff out. It didn't bring more money, it spent more money.

The scariest things to happen in that house were the kids waking at night saying someone was pulling on their feet, especially the ones who slept on the top bunks. I was awakened several times by what felt like slaps on the face and once I woke when I felt like someone was smothering me.

Anytime walking through the woods, was unsettling, even on the warmest, summer day.  The kids tended to play in to woods across the street rather than behind the house.  I had found myself lost a few times,even in just a few acres, at night, totally disoriented. 

Several times, we would see an unexplained mist-weather was not a factor- floating up from the old shed behind the house.

 

 

 

Martinez Georgia

 

By: martysmart01@knology.net

 

 

A house down the road from Ashton Woods is a place a truly ghost that was just discovered today… a little messed up house with the side blown off ant there roof torn off. A girl and a young boy were exploring and found a fan lying on the ground and when they were about to leave the found the fan moving very fast. There were voices whispering and mumbling they had know Idea what they were whispering.

 

 

    

 

 

Haunting of an old Edwardsville Funeral Home

 

By: ann_gee129@hotmail.com

 

 

While in college, I decided to move out on my own away from my roommate.  I found a very reasonable one-bedroom apartment on Main St.  When I did my walk through of it, I immediately loved it even though it needed some cleaning up.  I moved in the next day and cleaned and cleaned to my preference.  After getting everything cleaned up and my stuff all put away, I took a breather in the living room and admired the curved arches in the doorways.  I loved the old feel there.  It didn't take long for me to notice something strange there.  My old roommate would come over during the day to use my apartment as a study place while I was at work because she was in transit and finding it hard to study in our friends' place.  After a few days, she informed me that she would no longer be using my apartment because she couldn't get any studying done.  She said that she would always fall asleep just minutes after settling down to study.  I also noticed that I would fall asleep anytime that I sat down for more than 15 minutes.  And my husband, who was my boyfriend at the time, also mentioned that he slept the deepest he had ever slept in his life whenever he was at my aprartment.  I found it strange, but thought nothing of it.  As the days went by, a few other things seemed to happen.  I noticed that my tv would come on by itself in the middle of the night.  There would also be soft voices heard from my living room and nobody there.  I believe that the most significant thing happened about 4 weeks after I had moved in.  My husband used to spend the night frequently at my apartment on days when he had to work because I lived closer to his workplace.  One night, I vaguely remember feeling him get up from my bed and shuffle into the kitchen on his way to the bathroom.  I simply rolled over and drifted back to sleep.  When I awoke in the morning, I remembered that incident and then realized that he didn't spend the night that night.  So, whatever I felt get out of my bed and go into the kitchen wasn't him!  I moved out of that apartment shortly afterwards because of a job transfer, but later found out that that old place used to be a funeral home many years before!!

 

 

 

 

 

Old Man in Bed

 

By: daisymae5@alltel.net

Hello there, I have three tales to tell, one of mine and the others from people I have met.

When I was 6 years old, my family moved to California because of my Dad's work. We came from Miami and were renting a house. Being so young, I never thought of ghosts except at halloween. Here is what happened to me. Even though I was 6, I remember it as it was yesterday!

One night I awoke to find the house shaking and creaking, thats right, an earthquake. Being from Florida, you can imagine my terror.

Jumping from my bed, I ran to my door to go to my parents room which was down the hall to the left. I know I was awake for I remember looking down by the door and my pet hermit crab was literally bouncing up and down in his box. Well, once at the door, I looked to my right, and down the hall, coming out of the kitchen was a bed enveloped in green light. I watched as this brass bed came bouncing down the hall and I saw an old man lying in the bed. It bounced down the hall, into my parents room, and out through the wall. Needless to say, I was scared out of my mind, I jumped back in my bed and somehow went to sleep. I told my mother about it the next day and of course she told me it was a nightmare. I know the earthquake was real for we drove the neighborhood and looked at all the damage.

Another thing that happened was: One morning I woke up and was laying there. (this is kinda gross but hey, we all do it) I was picking my nose when I looked at my brothers bed. The head of my bed was in the corner and the foot of his bed was what I could see. There was a body in the bed for the sheets were going over it. As I looked, I saw my brother (who was 12) squating on the side of his bed with his back against the wall, in his underwear, with his hands pointing to the sides of his head. His fingers were streched out pointing toward each side of his head. He had a goofy smile on his face and his tongue was sticking out. He was looking out across the room, not at me. I thought, If he is against the wall, who is in the bed? Again, scared as can be, I turned my face away and went back to sleep. Later and the breakfast table I asked him about and he said I was crazy.

Another time I was watching cartoons in the morning and through the floor it felt as if someone punched it. It was so hard, I remember coming off the floor.

One more thing, Years later my mother told me this,

One day after her chores, she was taking a nap on her bed. She was in that half awake half asleep mode and heard foot steps coming down the hall. She thought it was my oldest brother (15) home from school. She was thinking of what kind of snack to fix him as she heard the foot steps enter the room and someone sat on the bed. When she looked up, there was no one there. She was so alarmed, she got up got my little sister (2) and called my Father at work and said that she would be on the front steps till he got home.

It was then that I found out that an old man had died in that house. I guess I was about 16 when she told me. We moved from that house and went back to Miami.

Another story I have heard was from a man that used to hang out at the Kangaroo where I worked once. I was 18 at the time. The mans name was Jimmy and has past on since.

Jimmy told me about Butler bridge. Back in the 50's, people used to go there and picnic and couples went there too, you get the picture.

He told me that Butler bridge was built in the 1800s and back in the civil war, the confederates hung many slaves there in the trees as the union army aproched. He said that if you look close, you can still see the ringlets which held the ropes. Well one night, he and a buddy took there dates down there. It was getting dark. As they were getting comfortable under the bridge, they heard foot steps going across the bridge toward them. The women were frightned so the men went up the hill to investigate. They crept up there and as soon as they popped there heads over the sides to see who it was, the foot steps stopped and there was no one there.

They were gone within the minuite.

I have visited this place during the day, but not at night. Many of the locals say it is haunted.

The last tale came from a man I met at a Halloween party. There were not many people there and we were talking about this and that when the conversation eventually led to ghosts.

I told him that I had seen a ghost ( my story above) and he said "You too! Ive seen a ghost but I dont tell many about it for they always think I'm crazy." Ill tell his story as he told me, in first person.

"When I was 12 we lived in Chicago. One night I awoke to see a blue light going down the hall. I thought it was my older brother with a flashlight. I walked out my bedroom and down the hall to the right. There was a corner there to the left where the light was. As I rounded the corner, there stood a Paul Revear type dude bathed in this light. He had on revolutionary clothes and a three pointed hat. I stood there trying to compehend what I was seeing. He looked at me, tiped his hat and went thru the door there that led down to the basement. As I stood in a daze, my brother came out of the bathroom which was on the other side of the hall. He said "What are you doing?" I said "Nothing". He told me to go back to bed."

That is what I have had happen to me and what I have heard. Thank you for your time.                               

            

    

 

 

 

THE GHOST TAPE

 

By: rachel.panter1@ntlworld.com

 

ONE DAY ME AND MY FAMILY WENT OUT TO MY GRANDMAS,NO-ONE WAS GOING TO BE IN THE HOUSE SO BECAUSE ME AND MY SISTER BELIVE IN GHOSTS WE LEFT A TAPE RECORDER RUNNING IN OUR BEDROOM.

WHEN WE GOT BACK WE STOPPED THE TAPE AND REWOUND IT.FIRST OF ALL YOU COULD HERE US ALL SHUFFLING AROUND DOWN STAIRS BUT THEN IT WENT SILENT.

AFTER A WHILE WE STARTED TO HEAR NOISES LIKE A MAN WHISPERING JIBBERISH THEN IT IT SOUNDED CLEAR IT WAS SAYING NO,NO STOP!ME AND MY SISTER WERE GOBSMAKED.

THIS CARRIED ON FOR QUIT A WHILE,WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN A HIGH PITCHED SCREAM ECOED AROUND THE BEDROOM,IT WAS OFF THE TAPE!

IT WENT SILENT AGAIN,WHEN WE HEARD SOME0NE WHISTLING WHICH REALLY FREAKED US OUT SO WE TURNED OF THE TAPE.

BUT NO MATTER WHAT I STILL WOUNDER WHAT WAS ON THE REST OF THAT TAPE,AND SOME DAY ILL GET THE COURAGE TO FIND OUT.

 

 

 

A Collection of Experiences

 

 

By: keycheck@cqservices.com

 

Since I was a little girl, (I am now 31 years old) I have always felt as though someone was watching me.  I haven't ever wanted to call it a guardian angel, for it has never helped me in any way.  I don't think it is a malicious presence either.  It has remained with me through childhood and into adulthood, through various moves to different houses and such. 

It may sound crazy to some of you, but I wish I would have had more of a concrete experience with "the after life".  Several of my relatives on my father's side have claimed to have had premonitions and other such things happen to them.  I attribute that to where my third daughter picked it up.  She seems to know things that she wouldn't know unless she were "special".  When she was eighteen months old and barely talking, she would look to the corner of our living room and point to a "being" she called "Ryan".  Ryan was described the exact same way each time he was spotted.  Black hair, green eyes and big like Daddy but he acted like a baby, almost always crying or sad looking.  She would have actual conversations with this "being".  One night I was typing an e-mail to family and she was on my lap.  She pointed to the corner and said, "Mommy, he's here."  I looked over and the corner was only illuminated by the light from the computer screen.  I did feel the room to get cold, so we went out into the living room where it was warmer.  She had been tired and kept turning away from "Ryan" as if his being there was upsetting her. 

When she was almost three years old, she started saying that this bald man, who frightened her was showing up.  She described him as wearing dark clothing and he was pale, bald and had black eyes.  Black eyes that were hard to see or weren't there.  She only saw Ryan at our home, but first saw this bald man at our friends house.  The first time she saw him her eyes were transfixed to their white wall near their hallway.  We all thought it was cool and tried to keep quiet, so we wouldn't affect her in any way as she watched him.  But this entity scared her.  She didn't like him and while "Ryan" sightings were getting fewer, "bald man" sightings were becoming more frequent.  I didn't like it at all.  That is when my Mother in law began to tell her that these were imaginary friends that she thought she needed and she really didn't need them.  Soon after she began believing that, my Mother in law gave her a "dream catcher".  She touches this each night before bed and each day when she wakes.  Since then she hasn't seen the bald man or Ryan.  She speaks of Ryan now as if he were a dear friend of hers from long ago.  She remembers him, but will not say he was a ghost.  She sticks to what her Grandma told her about him being an imaginary friend. 

The only personal experience I can jot down happened when I was 12 years old.  I used to hang out with the girls next door till they became teenagers.  They were about 5 and 6 years older than I.  The elder of the girls was killed on her 18th birthday in horrible car accident that killed 4 other teens in our area.  It was my first experience with someone close to me dying.  I handled it strangely.  Drawing pictures of her in her casket, writing about the night she died, the time, the date.  A year from the date she passed, I was laying in my bed.  There were no storms in the area that night.  At 12:05 a.m.  I looked at the clock and said, "Well Cindy, it's been a year.  Please show me that you are still with us."  That instant the lights went out in my room.  We had a power outage, but it was confined to just our house.  Was it Cindy giving me a sign? 

 

 

A Wierd Experience

 

By: lil_meki_chick@yahoo.com

 

It was 3:00am, I remember hearing a  whispering in my left ear.. I looked over to find nothing to my left.. I began to feel a cold breeze, but no windows were open. I got up holding the covers around my waist. I quickly went to the bathroom to find my medication. I heard the shower curtain rattle.. I looked up and my tinted windows were open in the bathroom. I closed them and heard the rattle again. I walked away slowly but the door was locked from the outside. I started to walk toward the shower when I heard it again.. I opened the shower curtain and a flash of cold air rushed through my veins. I finally decided to listen to the whispering, And I heard a voice say "the shadow with a flash will cremate close." Out of nothing, I woke up on the couch to a phone ring.. My great Uncle George was electrocuted by lightning that night and was going to be cremated..

 

 

 

 

Dad & Brother Who Passed

 

By: firstfinancialresources@mycomcast.com

 

I cannot say that I have any physic abilities or anything like that or had a lot of paranormal experiences, but I know that I had one just recently.  A little background first....

My brother passed away in August of 2000 and my dad in January of 2002.  My brother visited me shortly after his death.  I was in bed and I felt something go over my head and then my mattress moved (like someone ran across the bed).  That was the only time I think he has come to say hi.

My mom and dad have a park model trailer down the Jersey shore.  My dad loved to be there and spent as much time there as possible.  In the summer my son, my niece, my mom, my brother (I had 3) and his girlfriend and I went down for a weekend.  They all decided to go to the boardwalk, but I was bushed from the busy day and decided to stay at the trailer.

It was around 11:00 pm and they still were not home.  I made the coach bed up for the kids and was sitting on it watching tv.  The sliding door and the backdoor was shut and locked.  All of a sudden there was a loud bang noise that came from the bathroom.  Of course I was freaked out.  I was all alone and the doors were locked.  So I did what all the stupid females do in the movies and went to see what the noise was.  I tiptoed to the bathroom and slowly opened the door.  Laying on the floor was my brothers traveling kit (toothbrush, deodorant that kind of thing).  It had been hanging on a hook on the door the entire day and night.  The bag was on the floor; however, the hook was still on the door.

Freaked out a little, I went back to sitting on the bed and watching tv.  Not 2 seconds go by and the key hook holding a small set of keys went flying across the room.  That is when I knew that my dad was trying to say hi.  I said "Ok dad, your freaking me out so knock it off"  and that was that.  I don't know who it was or if it was just coincidences that happened, but I was happy to think it was my dad saying hi.

 

 

Gettysburg-The Triangular Field

 

By: Damzel67@msn.com

 

My family and I visit Gettysburg every year for our family vacation. We have ever since I was 15 and I am now 37. In 1998 my mother and I after searching for the Triangular Field finally found it and decided to take a walk down to the bottom of the field. My grandmother was with us and decided to wait in the car while mom and I ventured down the somewhat rough terrain of the field. The further we went we felt a heaviness in the air, like we werent supposed to be there. This was the area of the Confederate soldiers and since we are from Pennsylvania I guess we were considered the enemy, Union side. Then as we reached the bottom and just stood there looking around and discussing the battle, off in the distance we heard drums, ever so faintly.We both looked at each other and asked one another "Did you hear that?" We both agreed that we heard drums beating. We started to walk back up the incline and the drums were silenced. I asked my mom if she would turn and walk back down with me to see if we could hear the drums again. We did walk back down and when we got to the same spot we were at before, we again heard the drums. There was wooded areas on both sides and we knew no-one was down there playing any kind of drums. Feeling uncomfortable, we both walked back up the hill and through the gate. We stopped to listen to see if we could hear the drums again, but we heard nothing. We both asked my grandmother if she had heard any drums and she told us no. But my mother and I both know what we heard that day.

 

 

Habbersett House Knowlton & Middletwon Road, Media, PA

 

 

By: BVogtengr@aol.com

 

 

 

 

Just wanted to add some experiences on two house(s) we owned in Media, PA. It was originally a schoolhouse (School #1) dated back in 1862. It was closed down in 1920 with kids damaging the property and went to auction in 1922. I've had strangers ask me about ghosts in the house or sightings (out of the blue i.e.).

Sightings:

Strange sounds from the living room usually at night-lights turning off & on TV turned off for no reason. When I was renovating the attached garage (was originally a horse stall) at two separate occasions - apparition sightings of young children with dark knickers (short pance) running in front of the garage door and giggling/talking. No "live" human beings were around I checked it out.

Had taken pictures of the inside of the house and have pictures with ghost mists & orbs (one time some mist was draped above the healthy animal (rabbit). The animal died the next day for no apparent reason (wasn't real old - about 3 yrs.).

I don't no more history except I believe Habersett's wife died there, again it was a schoolhouse for 50+ years and the living room was the original schoolhouse (one story at that time).

Another house in Malvern, PA

Many sightings (sounds, things moving by itself etc.) with separate witnessest.

We called the ghost "Ester".  Foorsteps & taping doors in the upstairs hallway late at night, typing (old typewriter) keys (no one had a typewriter at the time). One morning when going to work, at the top of the stairs I heard a faint old "ragtime" music coming from downstairs. I said to myself that is strange someone left the stereo on. I came down the stairs and saw a flash of light and the music stopped. (the stereo was off). One time a TV came on and it was unplugged! (That one freaked me out a little)

One Party we had at least (twice) doors opened by itself (heavy wood doors) at least one foot+. Witnesses saw that and some were scared-I shrugged it off and blamed Ester. Attic had cold spots. Always flys and or wasps even in the middle of winter (even when windows were sealed and even when I sprayed up there they always seem to come back)

 

 

 

Haunting in Meriden CT on Sylvan Avenue

 

By:bk2me@bellsouth.net

 

 

I just found your web site.  I used to live in Meriden, on Sylvan Avenue.  The house is haunted.  My son (only 12 at the time) was choked by an entity when I was at work. He called me hysterical and when I got home, there were bruses on his neck and arms, where the entity held him down.  From then on we slept in the same bed and kept lights on at night.  That was to no avail.

We had a little boy who was pretty much harmless, just a real prankster However there was a very dark and evil presence.  He was a dark tall Man entity.  We contacted the Warrens who sent two people to our home.  They too experienced an evil presence in the house.  An exorcisim was done in the house, however the evil presence never left.  I moved out of state. To this date, the house has been sold a couple of times. I believe that it is still haunted.

 

 

 

I can see Them

 

By: STEPHANI40272@peoplepc.com

 

Since I was a child, I could see and hear things that others could not. I still can. I know without a doubt they are not just dreams, or fantasies, they are without a doubt real.

I have many stories in which I could share, but for now, I will give you the story of my house.

I do not call myself a psychic, but I do believe such people are real, but they are few and far between. I think, in some since, perhaps I posses a small amount of psychic influence.

My house, for example, has an interesting story.

A split-level house built in the early '70's, having only one preveous own before my family.

This owner was known as a robber, a cheat, a drunkard, and an abusive father and husband.

While now they are replaced, when I was a child, I remembered the gaping holes in the doors and walls from where he had tired to get to his wife and son when he was in a drunken rage. I even remember my Dad filling the holes with plaster when we couldn't afford to replace the doors completely. Of course, by some odd cause, the plaster would chip and fall from the hole as soon a sit dried.

I suppose this story never fully sunk in until recently.

The downstairs area is a family room, and then a second room split into two with a small bathroom having only a shower in it. I stay in the family room.

This shower, installed almost 10 years ago, is what I use even today. Every time I shower, I hear something rather freitening (sp?).

I hear a man, yelling. While usually it is muffled by the running water, I sometimes hear loud profanity and loud pounding noises. Behind this, there is a woman who screams wildly, frantically. Often times it's "Stop it!" And.. the most devestating noise behind this is th crying of a small child. Not a baby or toddler, but maybe one of 6 to 8 years of age.

The first time I heard this I was devestated. I thought something had gone horribly wrong in my house, but upon going upstairs, I found out everything was normal and that I was the only one who heard it.

To this day, I am still the only one who hears it. I've grown rather accostumed to singing in the shower at the top of my lungs to block out the noise.

Thanks for reading, I hope this or any other stories I could offer you will be of interest. 

 

 

My Absent Minded Grandmother

 

By: Belowrey@aol.com

 

 

My grandparents passed away and I moved into their house, where they lived for over 35 years. I always felt safe and happy there. My grandfather died first, in 1996, and my grandmother passed in late 2003. She had a brain tumor removed several years before her death, and was very forgetful and confused much of the time.

After I moved in, strange things started happening. Things would disappear and then reappear a few weeks later, in a prominent place. I couldn't find a favorite ring and tore my room apart searching for it for three weeks. I went through my jewelry box piece by piece five times, looking for it. One day I was dressing for work and opened the jewelry box, and there it was, sitting right on top of everything, right where it should have been.  I misplaced a favorite skirt for a over three months, and then walked in from work one night and it was laying in the middle of my bed. I don't know if my Grandmother was trying to make me crazy, playing games with me, or was borrowing my stuff and returning it...........Then there was the electronic equipment. It started with the CD player in the den. To turn it on, you have to hit the power button and then the play button. Somehow, it would come on all by itself. Scared me to death the first few times that happened. The TV was in my bedroom, and it would come on and go off by itself. I managed a nightclub, so I would leave in the late afternoon for work, and the light in my bedroom would not need to be turned on while I was getting dressed. However, there were several nights I came in and the bedroom light, ceiling fan, and TV would be turned on, and the TV would be blaring, louder than I would have had it. I might understand forgetting to turn off the ceiling fan and the TV, but I never had the light on in the first place before leaving the house. And I swear the rocker recliner was barely rocking one of those nights when I walked in. It never really scared me, cause I felt that my grandparents were looking out for me. I sold the house and moved out several months ago.

And on the subject of taking care of me, my parents were killed in a car accident, and we were very close. I feel they watch out for me, especially my daddy. My bartender and I joke about it, and she made the comment one night that if my business partner didn't stop dissing me that daddy was going to take care of him and hit him up side the head. The very next evening we were in the middle of staff meeting and my business partner made a smart remark to me, and his bottle of water shot off the table and across the floor. No one had touched it! The bartender and I looked at each other and tried not to laugh, and as soon as the meeting was over, she came running over to me and said, "Were you thinking what I was thinking? He ticked your daddy off!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

"A Little Girl Ghost"

 

By: nikitajd@bigpond.net.au

 

 

 

 I had seen ghosts before but only very briefly. None have ever identified themselves to me, or spoken to me, nor had I had an experience so personal!

In the middle of the night I 'woke up' and noticed a dull, white blob floating on my ceiling. I immediately recognised it as a spirit. It began moving accross the ceiling and down onto the wall beside me, so I sat up and tried to 'pull' it into focus, almost as if I knew I would not be able to see it with just my eyes.

As I did this it began morphing into a bright white, glowing little girl! She was about 5 years old and so bright and beautiful that it literally hurt my eyes to look at her, so I closed them.

Not wanting to appear rude or as shaken as I really was, I said 'hello' and she said 'hello' back!

I have to say, when she spoke these words to me, I had to really focus on hearing her voice... not with my ears, but with some other part of me. I managed to open my eyes then, and the glare had eased off. I asked her what her name was and she replied softly, "Mary Hoskie". Her voice was very beautiful, very angelic.

It was then that I asked her how she had died. I dont really remember if she had told me what happened to her aswell, but she certainly 'showed' me!

She had been playing on some old floor boards when she fell through them, landing on some wires that electrocuted her to death.

After the vision she gave me, I immediately felt the need to comfort her as I would my own child. I grabbed her and held her in my arms for a minute or so, not so forgeting what she was, but understanding that she needed comfort and I became comfortable with her!

I then made room for her on my bed and prompted her to lay beside me. I held her hand all night and I noticed that her hand was very warm... not cold like I would've expected. I did not notice any change in temperature in my room either.

I kept 'waking' throughout the night (atleast 3 times), to see if she was still there and she was!

The last part of my experience was that I 'woke up' again, and went out to show my mother a picture of her and I together in a family photo, with two or three other young children (whome I don't recognise). My mother told me she thought it was Maddison (my real life daughter), and even though she did look alot like Maddison, the only way I could prove to her that it was infact 'Mary Hoskie', I smudged my thumb accross the photo, and the image changed. I did this several times until finally, she believed me.

From my experience, I got the distinct impression that I may have been Mary's mother in a past life. It felt almost as if she was coming to me for comfort and to be held by me again. The photo that I showed my mother was a family portrait with other children there also, and her initials, M.H are the initials of my real like daughter, Maddison Hinde!

I'd be very interested to hear your comments, please feel free to email me.

 

 

 

 

Port Townsend, Washington Manresa Castle

 

 

By: Wilk2Jo@aol.com

 

I know this is not a private residence, nor is it a new listing for you.  In fact, I have never been to your  website before this evening.

I can attest to strange things happening at the Manresa Castle.  I had first hand experiences about 3 years ago on October 29th.  I stayed there for one evening.  Having read a little about it, and having seen it at a distance or passing in my prior five or six visits to Port Townsend, I decided to stay there out of curiousity.  I figured I was safe enough to request the Jacuzzi Suite as they called it then.  I knew I did not want to stay in the Tower Room since it was supposed to be the room with most activity.  Lucky me-- the Jacuzzi Room was directly next to the Tower Room, not down the hall as I had hoped.

Yes, the television did switch on and off in the evening.  But stranger yet was the shower in the bathroom.  I had been soaking in the jacuzzi tub, and decided to rinse off.  At first the showerhead was flowing straight on.  Then it seemed to turn towards the bathroom floor, making a puddle on the floor before I shut it off.  I would turn the showerhead back, and it would once again turn the outside of the tub.  I thought it had  become loose, so I shut the water off, and tried to tighten it up.  Then I stood outside of the tub, and turned the shower back on and let it run for  at least a couple minutes.  During that time, the shower acted normal, running straight into the drain as it should.  Then I stepped back into the shower and once again the shower head turned outside of the tub.  I have no explanation for this.

I was concerned about being the only one on the third floor at this time since it was a mid-week, and I left the blinds up, and the lights on until nearly midnight.  I was relieved when I heard a young family with children arrive and move into the Tower Room earlier in the evening (9PM or so).

The following morning I heard a clock chiming.  It sounded like an old style grandfather clock or school clock.  I checked my watch beside the nightstand, and saw that it was about 5:50 AM or abouts.  I thought it was odd that a hotel clock would chime before most people would be ready to get up.  The next morning I walked down the stairs and passed a clock that was not working near the kitchen or lobby area.  I cannot remember now exactly where it was, but I think it was near the restaurant.  To this day I do not know if there might have been another working clock in the hotel on the second or third floor.

Although I sometimes have a little imagination, these things I could not rationalize away.  A couple of other things during that visit I could so I will not include those.

This was the second time in my life that I felt the presence of somebody else.  The other time was working late at a private university in Seattle probably 10-13 years ago.  But that will leave alone.

 

 

Similar to One Already

 

By: gridley@wowway.com

 

 

 

My Husband is the one who experienced this, and it was before we even met.

Anyway, he owned a house in Odin MI, Emmett County in the Upper Lower Peninsula. He didn't see it every night but it followed the same pattern at what I have copied and pasted below:

Grand Rapids - The Black Hills - A house Norwich St hosts a ghost. On the second story and in the far room at the right-hand side there is a ghost of a man that sometimes appears to be dressed in clothing from the 30's or 40's. Sometimes he appears to be an elderly man. At approximately 10:00 to 11:30 the specter wanders from the hallway and then hesitates at the doorway and then look like it is about to turn around. But then he walks into the room. The former residence to that place reported that the ghost walked to the middle of his room and stood there for minutes and then goes out into the hallway and stands. It is not known when he vanishes. He was last seen in 1996.

My Husband moved out of the house in 1993. But the fact that the house he lived in was the towns old train depot and boarding house. The pattern and the description on the ghosts walk at the same time of night. it 2 separate houses 200-300 miles apart. The railroad started in Grand Rapids and ended in Alanson which is the neighboring town to Odin.

We don't know if the Spirit is still in the Odin house, but what makes me think this one shared an area is that in 1995-1999 the railway was torn up and the rails used for scrap metal, around the time the Grand Rapids Spirit was last seen.

 

 

 

A Black Cloaked Figure wakes Me up

 

By: jroyston@charter.net

 

 

about 15 years ago, when i was in my mid 20s, i was living in a religious commune with about 15-20 other people.  we didnt have a whole lot of room and so most of the time we shared rooms with other people (all female rooms, all male rooms) and at the time i was sharing a bedroom with 2 other women.  we all had single beds in different areas so we sort of had our own spaces.

one night i had the room to myself (a rare occurrence!) as the other 2 women were out and i had the chance to get to bed early.  i prepared for bed around maybe 10 pm and once i turned my light off, there was no light in the room except from a window that had no draperies across the room.  the bedroom door was closed. 

i was lying on my back and had fallen into a heavy sleep when i suddenly woke up to see a figure floating directly above my face.  it was completely black but i could see details of a cloak surrounding its head (i didn't see a face).  in fact, instead of a face, there was just deeper blackness.  the figure appeared to have its own light source, since i could make out details sort of, but there was actually no light involved here....it was just a streaming black cloak, a deeper black featureless face, and it appeared to be floating above my face looking at me.  i felt frozen. 

i don't know how long this went on but i became aware of the sounds of one of my roommates coming up the stairs and headed into the bedroom.  it seemed that the figure heard my roommate also, because it suddenly stopped looking at me, jerked its head up to look at the bedroom door, and then streaked off to my left, into what was a closet area that had behind it an attic crawlspace for storage.

when my roommate walked into the room, i was gasping for breath and crying.  she turned on the light and she said that she had heard me scream. 

the next day the story had made its way around the commune.  this was a religious community and so the figure was explained away as being a demon of some sort, or perhaps a spirit of death.  i was never sure what it was but the explanation of "demon" seemed too easy to me.  it didn't seem so much evil as curious; i figure if it had wanted to harm me, it could have very easily. 

 

 

 

Haunted Shiloh Battlefield

 

 

By: jroyston@charter.net

 

a few years ago my husband & i went to shiloh battlefield in tennessee.  i went there with no idea of what was going to happen there.  it was a sunny afternoon in may and everything was green and bright - not the time you'd expect to see anything weird.

before we took the tour of the battlefield, we went to the guide center and saw a film explaining the battle and what action happened where. 

after the film you had the option of going with a group on a tour with a guide or taking a tape recorder and a tape to play and going by yourself.  neither my husband nor i are really "joiners" so we opted for the tape player. 

it was a sunday afternoon and really REALLY quiet.  we turned the tape player on and listened as the guide's voice told us where to stop on the tour, told about the spot, and then you could get out and look around.

this was going pretty well until we got to the part of the tour that was called "the bloody pond."  apparently, during the battle of shiloh, men and horses were dying all over and about the only place they could get a drink before they died was "the bloody pond."  the tape said during the battle, the water in the pond was as red as blood. 

we listened to the tape and then we got out and approached the pond.  we sort of seperated...we were maybe 15 feet from each other, sort of in our own thoughts and looking into the water. 

it was just this very ordinary pond, not as big as a lake, and adjacent to a big field where part of the battle happened.

as i stood looking into the water, i felt sort of like i was going into a different level of consciousness, sort of like how you get when your eyes are out of focus.  when that happened, i started hearing sounds, like horses neighing and then i heard gunshots.  i looked up and i could see dead and dying men and horses, i could hear their voices, i could see fighting going on.  the figures were sort of transparent but i could see them very clearly.  i sort of shook my head to shake it off and when i did that, the scene disappeared and there was just the water and the green may afternoon quiet again.  i felt like i was being given a choice; if i wanted to, i could walk away and pretend it never happened, or i could watch the scene if i wanted to.  i opted to watch the scene.  i stood there for a few minutes watching the men and the animals and the battle going on.  the water in the pond was red.  it was amazing.  i started crying and i felt like my energy was draining out of my body.  i was still aware of my husband walking around the pond to my left. 

finally my husband came over closer to me, and i asked him if he was experiencing anything.  he said, yes, let's get the hell out of here!  so we left. 

that weird, otherworldly feeling lasted the rest of the afternoon.  i was pretty shaken by what i'd seen and i told my husband about it.  he said he hadn't seen what i did, but he did feel a very heavy presence of "something."  after that, during the rest of the tour, i didn't have as intense an experience anywhere else at shiloh, though the sense of oppressiveness and overwhelming sadness lasted until we left.  i had a feeling that the battle was still going on, all around us, just under the surface. 

a while later i wrote to the people at shiloh and asked them if anyone else had ever reported anything similar happening to them.  they never wrote me back. 

 

 

 

He Followed Us

 

By: ctx53369@centurytel.net

 

It all started when my husband and I moved into our new home in Riverton, UT.  At first all was quiet and we were very happy to finally be homeowners.  I was pregnant during our move and delivered my son soon after moving in.  Well, as anyone who has been a new mother can confirm, the night became my "familiar".  Well, as I found myself up at all hours I realized just how noisy my home was becoming.  We have all heard of a new house settling, and, at first, this is exactly what I thought it was.  But as I listened over time I realized that these sounds happened only at night and were eminating from the basement.  And even though I could identify some of them, there were many that had no logical explanation.  I plainly heard heavy footfalls and the sounds of heavy objects being slid across the concrete floor.  We only had boxes in the basement as it was unfinished.  I even went so far as to have my husband slide a couple of them across the floor himself to see if I could identify the sounds I was hearing.  It wasn't what I heard.  Needless to say, my husband thought that perhaps I was just delerious with fatigue and started taking on a few of the nightly feedings for me.  He claimed he never heard a thing out of the ordinary.  So, I was inclined to believe him and tried to just forget it.  And it worked for awhile.

But not for long.  As my son grew and started sleeping through the night, I became much more rested.  But having grown accustomed to being up in the wee hours, I would oftentimes stay up for 3-4 hours after my family had retired.  My normal bedtime was between 1 and 2 AM.  I'd like to impress upon those reading this account that all was quiet until about 11 PM each night.  And right about 11 PM my basement became a suddenly noisy place.  I can remember hearing the footsteps and hoping against hope they wouldn't start up the stairs.  I got the impression that whoever it was down there was not in a good mood.  The footstep sounds were pacing and aggravated.  On several occassions there would be a loud crashing sound like someone dropped something heavy onto the floor.  This my husband heard.  He is a light sleeper and the sound would wake him.  He would come running out of the bedroom asking me if I was alright and what just happened!?!  I would tell him it came from downstairs and he would swear that it sounded to him like it came from the kitchen.  Everytime.

About a year went by and I began hearing the sounds in the daytime.  I would also catch my son, (who became mobile at about 8 months and was crawling around everywhere) peaking around the bannister and staring down the steps leading to the basement.  He was engaged in this activity so often that whenever I couldn't find him, I would go look there before anywhere else.  9 out of 10 times I wouldn't have to look any further.  We had considered putting up a gate, but he never even acted like he wanted to go downstairs.  In fact, when we would go down for whatever reason (as I said, we used the area for storage) and would pick him up to go with, he would cry and not want to go down with us.  Then one day, just after Christmas and a month before his 2nd birthday he was playing on the couch with his dad.  When suddenly he snapped his head toward the landing at the top of the basement stairs, screamed with fright, jumped off the couch and literally climbed me saying, "oh no, oh no, oh no".  My husband went to the landing and walked onto it in an attempt to make him feel better, but to no avail.  He was afraid of something that he saw there.  And then, when he was in his third year he started telling me about "the bad man who watches you."  How he knew he was bad I don't know.  When I pressed him for more information he would say,  "He's just bad.  He's mean."  I put a lock on the basement door.  In hindsight that seems stupid, but at the time I couldn't think of anything else to do to feel safer.  I also took to having my son sleep in our bed with us as his bedroom was before ours when coming down the hallway and the footsteps had taken to pacing up and down it all night long.  He had come upstairs.  I began going to bed with my family and I always closed and locked the bedroom door now.  I would turn on the t.v. and leave the volume at such a level as to drown out the sound of the pacing just outside the door.  Apparently that annoyed our "roommate".  Because after about a month of ignoring the pacing noises, at about 2 AM one night someone banged loudly on our bedroom door.  FROM INSIDE OUR HOUSE!  We all jumped up terrified.  My husband ordered me and my son to go into the bathroom and lock the door while he went and investigated.  He came back saying that there was nothing out of order and the exterior doors were all locked.  Nobody slept again on that night.  We sat up all night waiting for something else to happen.  Nothing did.  Until the following night when the garage door leading into the house, which had a bolt lock on it and sqeaky hinge, opened and slammed shut twice within 20 minutes time.  Both times when my husband ran out of our bedroom to catch the intruder, he came back saying the door was not only closed, but also deadbolted.  We were all afraid of our house now.  Luckily my husband got a job transfer a few months after these incidences and we moved.  But up until the day we did, we both had the experiences of being watched.  And we both heard the heavy footfalls in the hallway at night.  Needless to say, we moved to Montana with a big collective sigh of relief.

Upon arrival we moved into a brand new duplex apartment.  It was lovely and, for a few months...quiet.  But about 3 months after we moved in we were all lying on our master bed, which gave us a direct view of the pass-though kitchen, when my now 4 year old son sat straight up, gasped and pointed at the kitchen saying, "It's the mean man!"  I couldn't believe it.  But I believed him.  When we pressed him for more he simply said, "He was looking at you, mommy.  Like he always does.  He's gone now." 

My husband had been helping out on another construction job that took him away from Montana for weeks at a time.  He left us the next day to return to it.  Well, about a week after he was gone, I was in the kitchen making my son's breakfast as he sat on the master bed watching cartoons.  I heard him say, "Someone's looking at you."  I was like, "What?"  And he repeated, "Someone's looking at you."  His eyes were the size of dinner plates when I looked over to talk to him.  I asked, "Is it the man?"  And he nodded "yes".  "Where is he", I asked.  "Right there", he replied.  And pointed to the area right next to me.  Had it been a real person standing there I would've been touching them!  I tried to stay calm and brought my son's waffles into him.  Sitting on the bed, I asked him if he was still there.  My son actually leaned around me to get a better look and said, "Yes.  He's right there.  See?"  No, I didn't see and I didn't want to.  I grabbed him up and we were out the door in less than five minutes.  When we returned that evening, nothing else happened. 

But 2 or 3 days later I was in the garage when I clearly saw the shadow of a man wearing a hat (like a soft leather cowboy hat with the saucer brim) on the garage wall.  I was transfixed by it and walked up to it for a closer inspection.  As I reached out my hand to touch it, it MOVED away from me!  I was paralyzed with fear for about 10 seconds or so.  But when I did get my wits about me again, I backed away from it, like along the wall leading to the door into the house.  And it moved again.  This time it came toward me!!!  I stubbled backward up the couple of stairs to the door, and grabbing the knob I opened it and literally fell through the doorway into the house, slammed the door closed and locked it tight.  Once inside the house I put furniture up against it in an effort to keep whatever was in there IN there.  I called my husband begging him to come home.  I was terrified.  My son was terrified.  We were alone with this thing and didn't know what to do to make it stop. 

Later that same night my son and I were sitting at the dining room table eating when we both heard the sound of voices.  Like almost party chatter.  But it sounded like it was coming from a tiny speaker.  It started in the living room and came towards us, getting louder as it drew nearer.  My boy actually looked behind him as it approached us, and slowly turned his head watching the sound as it passed by within 2 feet of us.  I turned my head as it passed by and watched the sound go into the kitchen and fade away as it turned the corner.  We looked at each other like "Oh no!"  And for the second time that week we were driven from our home.  Only to return to silence.  Everything was as it should be. 

We didn't sleep alot in Montana.  Finally I convinced my husband to allow us to travel with him to his jobs, claiming that we needed the adventure.  It would be fun, I assured him.  So we went with him to Arkansas, where we are still.  We didn't even get a rest brake this time.  The disturbances and my son's sightings started almost immediately.  The "mean man" was always looking at me.  Always me.  I knew I had to do something, but what?  I had contacted psycics about this a few times and they always confirmed it was a male presence, but some of them said he was just curious, while others told me they had unsettling feelings about his intentions.  No one helped me to get rid of it!  It was always the same.  "Just ask it to go away", they'd say.  Oh yeah, like that worked.  This thing knew we were afraid of him and he liked it.  It seemed hopeless. 

Until one day my son and I had just returned home from the laundrymat and I was running in and out the front door bringing in clothes.  I just happened to glance out the living room window and there he was!  Sitting in the backseat of my Durango!  Watching me.  He didn't smile.  He didn't frown.  He just stared at me.  I was frozen for a second.  This was the first time I had actually seen him.  And from the look of him (weathered, rail-thin, like, haggard looking) I could certainly understand why my son feared him.  He looked like something out of the old west.  And for some reason, I wasn't afraid anymore.  I was good and mad at him!  So I ran out the front door to do I don't know what.  But I was hell-bent to deal with this thing once and for all.  Of course, when I got out there he was gone. 

At the end of my rope, I called my uncle and told him the whole story I just told you.  He seemed to think it was a "spirit guide" and I should send it love.  Uh, ok.  But, let me tell you.  At this point I was willing to try anything.  So I sent it love.  I sat in my dining room and sent this thing as much love and compassionate understanding as I could muster.  I told it I would help it if it needed something, please just let me know what it needed.  And on and on...

There hasn't been a single disturbance for us ever since.

 

 

Lake Charles: Common Street Home

 

By: lericistre2005@yahoo.com

 

When i was about 10 or so, my mother and father decided to rent this home on Common Street in Lake Charles. The house was right by Bob's Gags Shop. I don't remember the specific address but i remember everything that i saw. I came home from school one and my dad picked me up on the corner of our old house. he told me that we are moving but i will still go to the same school. i was excited cause the house we lived in was not that nice. He explained to me about the house we were going to be renting.. when we got tot he house i loved it. Big yellow house with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathroom..very nice. Well the first time i entered the house, i had the biggest chill i ever had. my mom asked me what was wrong i told her that something was funny. i felt really weird. Well minor repairs were needed to the house, so i helped me dad with them. i kept feeling weird every minute i was in the house. Around 4 or so my dad went pick up my sister from her friends house and brought her to the house. she asked me what i done to my hair and i told her nothing. she said that it was turning blonde. i looked in the mirror and i told her it is not.my mom did not understand why i was acting so werid and always around her.She said tht my hair was changing and the my eyes were changing also... I felt werid all the time and i could not stay away from her. Well later that night my dad was building a wall for the utility room. he nailed the wood to the floor which was very sturdy from his foundation. he shook it to make sure that it was nice and solid in which it was. when we turned to nail the paneling on he saw a nail come right out of the floor. and flew into the wall. my mom ran  to go see. he was white as a ghost. well after that nothing else happened. About week or two later...we finally got in touch with the land lord of the property. We asked him about he room inthe back that was dead-bolted and why we can't enter there. He gave us the key and told us about the man who lived ther before. He was Satanist and he sacrificed he son to the devil,and that his son's soul remains in the house. His son loved his mother and was always there to protect her. He was always around his mother and never left her side. his son was about 10 years of age and had blue eyes and blond hair. When we opened the room a gush a cold air came out and the stinch of rotten meat filled the air, but the room was clean and empty and the windows were shut. the land lord said that before us nobody has lived ther for 2 years since that accident. i don't know that happened to the man nor the mother.

 

 

 

 

Larnach Castle - Dunedin, New Zealand

 

By: hildur@charter.net

 

I just have to share this little story with all you ghost lovers out there. In February of 1998 me and a friend of mine went on a once in a life time trip to Australia and New Zealand just for the experience of it. (I highly recommend mortgaging the house, or getting a credit card and just going on your fantasy vacation, I have never regretted it.)

One day we visited Larnach Castle in Dunedin, a wonderful little manor home that entertains guests and is open to the public for tours. The house has a long rich history. The day we went I would say there were about five tour groups in the house at one time and each group had enough people in it that if you were all in one room at the same time, it would be hard to see much of the room. Because of this my friend and I decided to stay close enough to our tour to hear what our guide was saying, but we would go into the near rooms that no one was in so we could really get a good look around.

We walked into one of the bedrooms while our group was in the next room. I instantly felt like I had intruded on someone, but there was no one there. I even went as far as to say, "Hello." to announce our entry so I didn't feel like we had intruded quite as rudely. I felt that I should behave very respectfully in this room, as if the owners eyes were on us.

Our group was coming into that room next, so my friend and I left. We were standing in the hallway when we heard our guide say, "This room is supposedly still haunted by the original owners first wife." Me and my friend just looked at each other with our jaws dropped. We had definitely sensed her presence. We were thrilled and honored that she would be so willing to let us sense her.

It was such a neat experience, I will never forget the Lady of Larnach, I just had to share it with all of you ghost junkies.

As a side note, there was another room in this house where the staff gave up making one of the beds because it is always rumpled when they come back. They suspect another ghost is at work, (or napping - tee hee).

Happy Haunting Everybody, be nice to your ghost! You may be their only friend! Help them cross over!

            

    

 

 

The Goodbye Message

 

By: a_snow_capped_romance@hotmail.com

 

Hey. I don't really know if you would call this a ghostly encounter, but I think it's kinda strange. When I was 14, i had a dog called Odie, a little mini foxy. He was like my best friend, even though I only had him for about

2 or 3 years. My parents and brother went on a holiday one day, leaving me at my friends house, and Odie tied up by a chain out the front of our house.

On the 2nd last day that I was staying at my friends house, we went into town, and I insisted on going to visit Odie. I got there, and found him hanging off the verandah by his chain, dead. My friend comforted me all night, and for some reason, we were so terrified all night, so much that we pushed our beds together and never let each other out of sight. I had a restless sleep, but then I woke up in the morning and then fell into a deep sleep. I had a strange dream. I dreamt that Odie was still alive, runnig around. But then when I picked him up, his eyes kept turning into white. I was scared and crying, and my mother said "He's passing over, say goodbye to him now" I told Odie that I loved him so much and I would miss him. Then all of a sudden, his eyes went normal brown again, and he licked me, jumped around and ran around the house. There was a hole in our fence next to a tree, that he would always use to get out of the yard. i ran outside and i could see Odie look at me, then run through the hole, not looking back. I believe that, because i didnt have the chance to say goodbye to my beloved dog, his spirit stayed behind until he could say a proper goodbye to me. Has anyone else ever had this kind of experience?

 

 

First and Only

 

By: Lindajgwalker@aol.com

 

 

My first and only experience with a ghost was when I was 4, I and my family went on a holiday trip to Whitby, we stayed in this gourgeous house that a man owned. Because I cannot remember as such the full story of my haunting my mum had told me when I was old enough to understand. The man who owned the house had told us that the house was alive, ofcoarse we thought he was just trying to scare us.

 But that night, my dad had to go downstairs, complaining that the bed was uncomfortable, I was woken up by the bed moving and was curious where my dad was going. Being me, I went to follow. My first thought was that he had gone to the toilet, so I went into the bathroom.

 The only thing I can remember is walking into the bathroom and seeing a figure, from then my mind is blank, but my mum said that when my dad had found me, the figure had gone, and I had told my dad what he had looked like. He had a wooly jumper, a beard and a warm smile. I must have been talking to the man for taleast 10 minutes.

 Although it might not sound like a massive, ultra cool experience but to me it is the best experience ever!!!!

 

    

 

A Haunting in Iceland

 

By: einar214@hotmail.com

 

I recently checked your website for haunted places in Iceland, being that I am from Iceland myself. I saw that you had 2 places registered. I can tell you about one other house that is haunted and has been conformed by a news team investigaton from Denmar. It's the place where Ronald Regan (US former

president) and Gorbachev (former president of the Soviet Repuplic) met to discuss a peacetreaty. It's referd to by Icelandes as "Hofdi" and is located near the shore in Reykjavik. People have been seen walking past the windows often stopping to glance out while there is no one in the house. This is usually around midnight. I believe I have some psychic ability since I can almost always sense someone else in the room and see people around me as though they are walking through a mist or fog. I have been into the house just after it got dark and I sensed something was following me and then later on urging me on to go deeper into the house, specifically the addict.

I went there but nothing was out of the ordenary in there.

Also regarding the viking longship that has been seen by the American couple

and the phrase that they   thought they heard, Icelanders have also seen

something that might be taken as a  longship sailing along the coast, but never to my knowledge have I heard anybody say anything about the vikings yelling something out. The translation for that phrase is very hard to come by. During the Viking ear, Iceland was controlled by both the Danes and the Norwegans. The dialect they used ath that time  is quite different from what they use today. Your best chance of getting it translated would be to get someone from Norway