The Shadowlands: Ghosts and Hauntings

My Next Story

By: Butterflylynn72@aol.com

my name is loretta,, i am here to tell you about my home.this house was built in 1930..and when we moved here we had some freaky night's here..seeing things and hearing things...the second week we were here our breaker box caught on fire..but before that the lights would flicker alot doors will open....the back of the house we have seen a person.. my brother has never been scared of nothing i did not bother to tell him about these things..but he came to stay with us right before the box caught on fire..any when he came here one night to get some things he called me he was histarical he did not want to be here ...he heard errie noises and seen somone..and then i had told him about the house..we now have our power back and we still live here and no one will go to the back of the house alone especially not my husband and he has never been scared or never believed in ghost...until now.. i can say a lot more if you would like to know more please e,ail me back thank you

My Experiences

By: stephaniejulcar@yahoo.com

HI MY NAME IS STEPHANIE CARRASQUILLO AND I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS. I GREW UP IN A HOUSING PROJECT THERE AND HAD MANY MANY EXPERIENCES HAPPEN IN THE 1ST AND 2ND APARTMENT THAT WE LIVED IN. IN THE FIRST APARTMENT I WAS LIVED THERE FROM BIRTH TO ABOUT THE AGE OF TEN. WELL EVERY NIGHT I WOULD BE AWAKENED BY SOMEONE SQUEEZING MY TOES. I WOULD LOOK AND NOONE WAS THERE BUT I WOULD HERE LAUGHING AND I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ONE OF MY 4 SISTERS TRYING TO SCARE ME. SOME TIMES I WOULD FEEL SOMEONE RUBBING BACK MY HAIR BEHIND MY EAR AGAIN WHILE I WAS SLEEPING AND ONCE AGAIN I THOUGHT IT WAS EITHER MY SISTERS OR MY MOM CHECKING IN ON ME BUT I WOULS WAKE UP AND NOONE WAS THERE. WELL THAT WAS ALL THAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THAT APARTMENT BUT ONCE WE MOVED NEXT DOOR INTO THE OTHER BUILDING,THE FIRST APARTMENT AND THE NEW ONE WE MOVED TWO ACTUALLY WERE ONLY SEPERATED BY A WALL, THINGS REALLY STARTED TO SCARE ME. ONE TIME WHILE SITTING ON MY BEDROOM FLOOR READING A BOOK TO MY YOUNGEST SISTER I REMEMBER IT GOT REALLY CHILLY IN THERE AND THEN MY SISTER WHO WAS ONLY 5 AT THE TIME TOLD ME TO LOOK. SHE WAS POINTING TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE WALL THAT I WAS LEANING AGAINST AND WHEN I LOOKED I SAW A LEG, BLACK DRESS PANTS BLACK DRESS SHOE, COMING THROUGH THE WALL AND IT CONTINUED TO WALK RIGHT THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM AND THROUGH THE NEXT WALL THAT LED TO OUR BATHROOM. LET ME TELL YOU I WAS RUNNING SCARED. ANOTHER TIME WHILE WE WERE ALL SITTING IN THE LIVING ROOM MY MOM WAS IRONING OUR CLOTHES AND ASKED ME TO GO HANG THEM UP IN MY CLOSET. WELL ALL OF THE LIGHTS WERE OFF AND I WAS ALREADY SCARED OF MY BEDROOM, I STARED DOWN THE HALL. WHEN I REACHED MY BEDROOM DOOR AND WENT TO OPEN IT I HEARD SOME ONE TALKING IN MY ROOM, I OPENED THE DOOR AND HIT THE LIGHT SWITCH AND MY BED COVERS WERE ALL MESSED UP TORN OFF OF MY BED AND MY PILLOW WAS BROKEN OPEN. WELL I KNOW THAT NONE OF MY SISTERS DID THIS BECAUSE RIGHT BEFORE WE WENT TO THE LIVING ROOM TO SIT DOWN AND WATCH TV MY MOM WAS INSPECTING OUR ROOMS TO MAKE SURE WE HAD STRAIGHTENED UP, THAT WAS A DAILY THING WITH HER OUR HOUSE AND ROOMS HAD TO BE SPOTLESS. NONE THE LESS I WAS IN ALOT OF TROUBLE, SHE THOUGHT I HAD DONE IT.AND ONE OF THE LAST MOST MEMORABLE ONES WAS ME AND MY LITTLE SISTER WERE GOING TO BED AND ONCE AGAIN THE LIGHTS WERE OFF IN THE BEDROOMS. I WAS WALKING HER TO THE BATHROOM SO WE COULD WASH UP AND BEFORE I COULD FLICK THE LIGHT SWITCH ON IT DID IT BY ITSELF. WELL I GAVE IT NO SECOND THOUGHT WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT JUST KEPT GOING UP AND DOWN ON AND OFF AND IT WOULDNT STOP. I SCREAMED AND THEN RAN BACK TO MY MOM. SHE ONCE AGAIN THOUGHT I WAS MAKING IT UP BUT BELIEVE ME MY LITTLE SISTER WASN A TRUE BELIEVER ESPECIALLY WHEN WE LAID DOWN TO SLEEP. OUR DOOR HAD TO STAY OPEN BECAUSE WE WERE BOTH AFRAID OF THE DARK AND EVERYONE ELSE WAS ALREADY IN BED. THE BATHROOM LIGHT STARTED GOING ON AND OFF AGIAN AND THEN WE HEARD LAUGHTER........ABOUT A YEAR LATER ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAD TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS SURPRISED WE LASTED SO LONG IN THAT APARTMENT BECAUSE HER GRANDMAOTHER HAD DIED IN THERE ABOUT TWO YEARS BEFORE WE HAD MOVED IN. I ASKED HER IF ANY KIDS EVER LIVED THERE AND SHE SAID TWO OF HER COUSINS,WHO WERE SMALL AT THE TIME, HAD DIED WITH HER GRANDMOTHER.......THEY DIED IN A FIRE IN THE APARTMENT.......I REMEMBER THE FIRE BUT NEVER KNEW WHO LIVED THERE AND NOW I DO ..I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS HAPPEN TO ME BY SOMEONE OR SOMETHING UNSEEN BUT I JUST THINK OH WELL THERE EVERYWHERE

I Have Had Some Strange Things Happen

By: Butterflylynn72@aol.com

hi my name is loretta, in 2005 of august and september me an my family lived in a condo in florida....three days after being there i felt the presents of someone a little girl...first i thought it was my husband breathing on me and in my ear..i went to turn over and noone was there..so i sat up on my bed and looked around the room in my mirror i seen a little girl...she must have been 12 yrs old..and i was startled by her..then the next day when noone was home ..well i thought my niece was there but she was not i found that out after looking around after hearing this girl talk to me..she ask me how i like the view of the lake my son liked to fish there..then she she ask why i moved there and i said it was nice and big..the next words were what about the girl she was talking about my daughter..and when she said that i turned to look at my niece and she was not there...thats because it was not her it was the girl..she never tried to her no one but...but i did find out the girl was eaten by a gator...and the only thing i could think of why she was there was to warn me about my son being at the lake alone....i have a nother story too..i will tell you about it on the next email...thank you loretta

Grayson Manor,Sequatchie County

By: dumptheidiot@yahoo.com

Me and my son went to Grayson Manor today.It is very hard to find and you have to go down a couple of roads that two cars can't pass on.We had searched for two weeks and we finally found it.You have to cross a cattle gate and then a creek.The whole time you are walking up the dirt road you hear something walking beside you. You finally come to a cute little building and then the creek is right behind it about two yards.As you come to the creek you see the house and I am here to tell you even in the daytime it is scary as heck. Walk across the creek and in the high grass,walk around to the front of the house,you can't go in because it is all to heck but you can see in the rooms from the outside.We walk beside the left side of the house and I step on a nail and it goes through my foot,Well I holler for my son Joey and he tells me he can't help because something is pushing him against the front of the house. I finally get my foot free and then we go to the backside of the house so you can see the stairs that General Grayson walked up to hang himself. We stood there and looked up the stairs and me being the idiot I am asked him to show us a sign, a thump or creaking sound and we got what we asked for it was a small creak and we wasn't touching nothing so we would know that it came from him.I asked him to please do it again.And again it was a small creak.Then I said thank you and a cold spot came over where we were standing I asked my son to put his hand out and feel.I didn't tell him what I was feeling and he said he felt really cold in that spot.Then we heard a sound of someone walking towards us.Sorry but we got the heck out of there. As we crossed the creek we could hear something behind us.Will we go back?Yesss! We want to go back at night and ake a tape recorder and more film.It is haunted and I would like for anyone with more info to please contact me and let me know because it just makes me want to know who he was and what made him kill his family and himself.


Ghost

By: fairyjester@cfl.rr.com

This is something that happened to me over Christmas.
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My family and I were over at my grandmother's house for Christmas, my sister had her son with us and everything was going great. butmore people showed up than we thought so my sister and I went out back to the shed to get more chairs, its a long walk to the shed. well I walked in and was pulling some chairs out when my sister asked why Aj (my Nephew) was outside. I turned around and saw him too, I started to tell him to go back inside when he turned and walked back towards the house.
Well when we got back inside I asked my Mom how Aj got outside, my mom looked at me funny and said that my Sister and Aj had left after we went outside. I still dont know what to think about seeing the little boy out there because my grandma lives in the middle of nowhere, and no one other than my sister had a child with them.

True Happenings

By: missydavis@chiwest.com

Hi, I just wanted to submit my story of some experiences we had in house the my daughter and I Lived in from August 2001 to February of 2002.
This house is located in Pendleton, OR.   In July of 2001 we lived in a small duplex that burned down. So my daughter and I lived with my Mom for a short while then the Hospital I work for had a house that no one was living in so we were able to rent it. This house had a complete upstairs then another apartment downstairs.
When we first moved in we didn’t notice anything at all then my Dad moved in with us and lived in the downstairs apartment.   The first thing that happened was in very early am’s like 4 a.m. we could hear a baby crying from somewhere in the house but the exact location could never be found.   Then my Dad who was a true skeptic of the supernatural actually admitted that he had seen a young woman in a large brimmed red hat in the downstairs.
Both my daughter and I could here people walking up and down the concrete steps that lead to the downstairs apartment.   Short before Christmas that year I was laying in bed mostly asleep but aware of the house and I heard very distinct footstep coming up the back steps, walk through the kitchen, dining room, living room and into my bed room (I even heard the bags rustle at the end of my bed as they walked by.   I say straight up thinking it was my Dad coming upstairs to tell me something and when I looked there was no one there. I laid back down and heard the footsteps walk back out of my room through the other two rooms and back down the stairs.
One of the most interesting things that happened was that my daughter loved to sing and she was recording herself sing on a very simple old fashioned tape recorder. She sang three songs on the first one everything was fine then on the second one it started out in her voice then all of a sudden it was a man’s voice singing the song then that song got over then it went back into her voice.   This was so scary we couldn’t believe it!
Then right after the new year my Dad became very ill and was admitted to the hospital for over a month. While he was gone the haunting became even more noticeable.   We would hear very loud voices coming from downstairs and the TV turn and and just blair.   So I completely locked up the downstairs so no one could come or go from the any of the entrances.   One night my daughter and I were watching TV and all of a sudden the TV downstairs came on so loud it was shaking the the upstairs.   You could hear people walking around in circles in the kitchen and you could voices of two mean argue/talking coming from the downstairs.
We ended up having to move so I don’t know if any haunting continues there or not the house has since been sold and new people live there now and I’ve always wanted to ask them!

The Thing in My House

By: laura@titleamerica.us

Hello, my name is Laura. I have had a lot of experiences in my life, a lot of people say ghost follow me, and especially my sister-in-law ho has been around me when things seem to happen. But I would like to share two incidents in particular that scared my family and also myself. The first story starts when we moved into my grandmother’s house. Everybody in my family said it was haunted, but I did not believe it, I have visited there and spent the night there a lot and nothing to strange has happened that could not be explained. It was the second night in the house and I was giving my daughter a bath. She was taking her bath and I was sitting on the sink plucking my eyebrows, when all of a sudden she turned to my and said, mommy there are red eyes in here. I said what, where honey. She turned to show me and the look on her face was that of sheer terror, I would never forget the fear in her face. She let out a piercing scream and I was afraid, she was acting like someone was coming after her. I ran, grabbed her out of the tub we slipped to the door and I dove out of the room. My husband was dead asleep on the couch, but he flew up and went into the bathroom swinging his arms, he thought someone had broken in or something. She really was freaking out. We were in the living room trying to calm her down, she was hysterical. All she kept saying was, He's gonna get me, don't let him get me. And we said who, and she said the man with the eyes. We let her know she was okay and no body was coming for her. We almost calmed her down and as soon as we said we wouldn't let anyone get her and that she was safe, the garbage flung across the room and it was loud. That started her back up again. That was the last incident that night. My cousin was sleeping over one night and went home crying cause I told her about the incident that happened and she got a little to vocal to the ghost and a screwdriver flew off the fridge and hit her in the stomach. There were happenings like doors opening, water turning off, scratching at the doors, and on, and toys going off by themselves.
Second story.
We recently moved from FT. Lauderdale to S. Augustine. We actually moved to Lake Butler. We lived out in the middle of nowhere. One day I was up watching TV. I had nothing to drink and I do not do anything else. Anyway I was watching TV and got distracted by something out the window. It looked like a green glowing circle. It was about the size of a golf ball and the light was gleaming off this thing. I was wondering to myself what in the world. All of a sudden came another one, and then another. In like two seconds time there seemed to be at least 10 and it looked like they were trying to come through the window. I got scared and turned my head, thinking it would go away. as I turned my head I looked at the door window, and a flash of heat lightning or some kind of flash lit up the window, and it looked like a man, almost transparent, but not quite. He seemed dark, I don't know, anyway it hard to explain, but it scared me so bad my body hurt.
I ran to the window, closed the blinds, and ran to bed and forced myself to sleep. Things still happen a lot, my family and I just choose to ignore it.
I hope you all don't think I am crazy. Thank you for listening

Savannah GA Haunting

By: Rebecca.Ivins@cox.com

I saw this site and decided to finally tell what happened to me a few years ago in Savannah, GA. I have been very hesitant to repeat this to anyone as I was afraid I’d be met with skepticism and ridicule at best. I’ve told a few close friends but since I can repeat it here without fear of being harassed, then maybe I’ll get some answers or find someone else who has experienced something similar.
In the year 2001, I was working down on the historic river front of Savannah, GA, a long strip of tourist shops right up against the Savannah river that sees a large number of people each year. All of the shops were built into pre-existing buildings that have been around since the river front was being used as a shipping port back during the colonization of Savannah. The walls of all the stores are the original stonework and the ramps leading down to River Street are all paved with the original ballast stones used by incoming ships. The buildings are all separated into three floors; the bottom holds the store, the middle is a sort of floating floor that you can only access up a steep flight of steps and the third floor was all offices. There were two ways to reach our third floor office, one was by walking outside and up one of the ramps to a big glass door (which was usually sealed behind thick wooden shutters, the other was to go up a cramped spiral, iron stairwell hidden inside a closet in the truffle room. I tell you all this so you can understand the history of the place and what it looked like. Now, Savannah is supposedly very haunted but I had never put much stock in any of that while I was living there. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe ghosts couldn’t exist, it’s just I had never had any encounter so it was never on my mind while I worked down there.
The store I worked in was (and still is) called Savannah’s Candy Kitchen. It’s four rooms of bright paint, old candy machines, and more sugar than ANYONE should be around for long. I had been working there for about two years already doing everything from making pralines to dipping out ice cream on hot southern days. I’m a hard worker and fairly practical so I quickly became an assistant manager of sorts and was often assigned odd additional jobs around the store when the management needed help. One April day, when things were slow, my manager Tabitha sent me upstairs to the second floor to take inventory of our chocolate truffles. One of my co-workers Shawn, was standing just outside the doorway taking a smoke break while I counted. I heard him head back down to the main store and then realized I had to use the bathroom. (This is how you know I’m not lying, as this is utterly UN-romantic) I didn’t want to wander all the way back down the narrow staircase to the downstairs bathroom and remembered that the upstairs floor had one too. No one was up on the third floor and I knew the big wood doors covering the outside entrance were solidly chained shut; that left the stairs behind the closet door of the room I was in.
Not really thinking much of it, I headed up the stairs and reached the door to the third floor. I remember it was very dark up there since no light could get in through the closed main door. I walked in, closed the door behind me so I wouldn’t get in trouble for being up there, and then headed for where I knew the bathroom was. As I was sitting there….doing my business (like I said, VERY bad time for a haunting), I hear the door to the downstairs open and VERY distinctive footfalls coming into the hallway right outside the bathroom. Now I know I wasn’t imagining them or exaggerating what I heard because I very clearly remember thinking “Oh no, I didn’t lock the bathroom door and now Tabitha is going to walk right in on me while I’m up here.” I wasn’t scared at all, just embarrassed and worried she’d walk in on me. The footsteps stopped right outside the door and I kept thinking “Please don’t come in.” Then they moved on and headed for a back room that had always sort of given me the creeps. We stored our newly dry-cleaned uniforms back there. Once I was finished, I headed for the door, expecting to see the hall light on or at least one of the lights in the back room, when I opened the door, however, I found the whole upstairs was just as dark as I’d left it. I KNOW I didn’t hear the footsteps come back by and anyone leaving would have to have walked back past me.
I headed towards the back room slowly, calling Tabitha’s name but got no answer. As I got within five feet of the dark doorway to the back room, all the hair on my arms stood on end and my little internal monkey ran up the nearest tree and started screaming. Every instinct I had was yelling “RUN” so, suddenly terrified, I turned and raced for the door that led back downstairs. I felt like something was chasing me and still get chills thinking about it. When I reached the door, I found that, despite the fact that I had closed it behind me coming up, it was now wide open. I flew out the door onto the stairway landing and wrenched the door shut behind me. I caught just before closing as if it couldn’t slip the rest of the way shut, though I had never had problems closing it before. Finally after a few moments of tugging, it was as if someone let go of the other side and the door slammed home. I stood back panting and trembling and as I stared at the door, I got a terrible feeling of menace from the other side of it.
I raced down the stairwell and out of the truffle room. I tore all the way back down to the main store and then stood trembling in the sunlight just outside the entrance. In the sun, things are always less scary so the more practical part of my mind began coming up with possible reasons for what happened. The first being that maybe Shawn or Tabitha DID come up and I simply didn’t hear them leave. When I confronted them both about it, however, Tabitha and Shawn assured me that Shawn had been down in the praline window the whole time and Tabitha had not left the store. I had about 6 other employee witnesses who verified that fact. Everyone had been accounted for downstairs.
I have spent a long time trying to tell myself it wasn’t a ghostly encounter but everything I can come up with to debunk it has always failed. I thought maybe that some tourist had come up by mistake but then I remember that no one knows about the stairs behind the closet door but the employees. I thought about the noise just being reflected somehow from somewhere else but then I remember how convinced I was that my manager had been standing right outside the bathroom door. I can’t explain it and have finally stopped trying.
I quit my job shortly thereafter and haven’t been back since.

Playful Ghost

By: orderdesk@pecdigital.com

LAST AUGUST 2005 I WAS HOUSE SITTING FOR MY BOYFRIEND. IT HAD JUST GOT DARK AND I WAS OUTSIDE CLEANING MY WINDOWS OF MY CAR. MY DAUGHTER WAS ALSO WITH ME BUT SHE WAS INSIDE IN MY BOYFRIENDS ROOM WHICH WAS TOWARDS THE BACK. I WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE PASSENGER CLEANING THE WINDOW AND HEARING MUSIC WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN FROM THE FRONT DOOR OF THE HOUSE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE SIDE OF THE DRIVER SIDE TO THE BACK END OF THE CAR I SEE A WHITE STREAK.
WELL OF COURSE I WAS CLEANING THE WINDOWS AND NOT LOOKING THAT WAY BUT I COULD SEE IT IN THE CORNER OF MY EYE. WELL I STARTED LAUGHING AND STARTED TO WALK TOWARDS THE BACK OF THE CAR TO TELL MY DAUGHTER HA,HA YOUR FUNNY TRYING TO SCARE ME, WELL TO MY SURPRISE THERE WAS NO ONE THERE. IT JUST STOPPED ME IN MY TRACKS. WELL MY DAUGHTER WALKED OUT OF THE HOUSE AND TOLD HER WHAT HAPPENED AND SHE SAID IT WAS NOT HER. BECAUSE SHE WAS WEARING A WHITE SHIRT.
BUT THERE WAS NO NOISE, NO FOOT STEPS. I FORGOT TO MENTION, AS THE WHITE SHADOW WAS GOING BY THE SIDE OF THE CAR THE DRIVER SIDE DOOR WAS OPEN ALL THE WAY HE CLOSED IT WHEN HE WENT BY. THAT'S WHY I THOUGHT IT WAS MY DAUGHTER BUT IT WAS NOT. IT DID NOT SCARE ME, I GUESS BECAUSE MY BOYFRIEND HAD MENTIONED TO ME ABOUT THE GHOST AND THAT HE LIKES TO PLAY AROUND. HE SEEMED TO LIKE ME AND LIKED TO PLAY AROUND WITH ME BECAUSE I STOOD THERE FOR A WHOLE WEEK BY MYSELF AND I FELT COMFORTABLE AND NOT SCARED AND HE DID NOT BOTHER ME WHEN I SLEPT OR ANY OTHER TIME THAN THAT, WELL UNTIL HE DECIDED TO PLAY WITH ME. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

Gadsden Experience

By: k.cranford@comcast.net

One night me and a few of my friends decided to ride out to hinds road in Gadsden to see if the stories we heard were true, only it was a different story, not the one of the witch. It was something along the lines of a girl on prom night got murdered on the bridge and supposably has been seen along the bridge, but her face is now all twisted up. We went out there and waited outside the car for about an hour. Right as we got in the car to leave, we caught a glimpse of a girl in a dress run in front of the car. The next day we went back out there in the daylight and the same big rock I was sitting on the night before, had a pair of white, formal dress shoes sitting on it.




My Life

By: lisa_russo79@yahoo.com

Let me start from the first time i saw something I was about sixteen i was sleeping and as i awoke i saw a strang man in my househe had a old western hat and blue suit
no i could of been dreaming people say but i was just had awakend if it was not realy there why did i se him in the reflection in the glass first then saw him again when i turned my head he was there then he slowly disapeared I dint fill like there was any harm I wasnt scared peole say i was just seeing thing but I could think of better thing to see then a stranger if it wasent realy there.The second time I felt something pusing on my back.I felt something bump into me that wasent there.Sometimes at night when I would sleep at friens houses i was about 17 years old I would see blak shadows floating on I never said anything cause i realy didnt understand.When I was 21 my friend passed away I was realy upset when I heard the news I was alone in my room crying then I felta cold chill I new I had companey I felt as though he was right there the tears just stoped i didnt fill sad anymore I dont know how i knew he was there but I knew it. i have heard people talking to my baby why I was in the bedroom her room is right conected to mine she is 2.and again I didnt fill any harm she was crying and somelady said shh its ok,and no one else was in the house. sometimes i smell perfume just come and it goes but its not my perfume.What is realy weird is i smell a bakery sometimes there is no bakery around us so I dont get that one.I have heard footsteps.I have seen door nobs move doors were slamed in my face that did scare me it felt very wrong.Then I started having sleep disturbence Im going to see a docter for it it is sleep praylisisI have t all the time 4 times aweek for months then it goes away then it comes back after a couple months I was told there is a medicle explanation but It dosent fill that way I fill something pushing on my back on my legs or on my chest what I read people fill pressur on there chest when they lay on there back not laying on there side and they have just pressure on there chest.and how can they explain the smell when im able to move again.If it is just a sleep disorder it is scary.One time I heard footsteps thought I was awake well preaty shure I was awake n-e-ways I heard the footsteps come to the bed then boom i was out of it i felt pressure on my back like something was pushing me down and I couldnt move.Who realy knows the truth about what I realy is I would be able to sleep better if I knew but I dont there is just somany reasons to not beleave is a sleep disorder.maybe when i talk to the docter he can give me some answers.The other night I was at my moms and the screen door from her deck opened and then i saw a man and it dissapeared.It didnt look like anyone in my family and how did someone get upthere and it was 0 degrees and the deck was covered in snow and plus my mom dosent let anyone on the deck cause she dosent fill like its safe and i know it wasent someone I knew.Well thats my story.I think I just see more clear then others what do you think?

Sharing My Story

By: mjgarcia@wiu.mailcruiser.com

I just came across your website after having a ghost experience, not quite encounter.
I moved into a new townhome about 3 months ago. Everything was fairly normal except that it seems as though someone was walking on the roof. The townhome was only one story high, with vaulted ceilings. The townhome is more spanish style so it has a flat roof. My parents said it was just birds or animals on top, and nothing to worry about. So about two weeks before christmas (after about 2 months of living there) I woke up in the middle of the night to see a girl in my closet. the girl was glowing and was white, though I could see her figure very well. She had longer brown hair, a sailor type of dress & a very large wide brimmed white hat. Though all of it was white, I could still see her color. She was just looking through my closet and seemed to pull off the clothes and hold the clothes with her arms up as though she were looking at the entire piece and then put it up to her as though to see if it fit her. It was very strange, I didn't have a bad feeling, but rather a nervous or anxious feeling with butterflies in my stomach. After that I got a roommate who says she has thought the same thing, only that her radio's tapeplayer would be playing and sounding as the tape were stuck, but there was no tape and she didn't press the play button. She also said she saw a figure under the blanket on the couch, but there was no person there, just a figure. This past week I could here someone in the bathroom jiggling the toilet handle. When I looked into the bathroom, I didn't see anything. I just received a new bathrobe and I have my bathrobe hanging on the door and I saw it trying to come off the hook, but it couldn't get off. I think that she was trying to get it off the hook to put it on. Also, alot of my underwear has been coming out of my underwear drawer and on the floor when I get home. I believe it is a younger girl (as my roommate is about 8 years older than I and said she hasn't noticed the girl trying or looking in her closet). I think that she must be lost and she feels at home with us girls and has just stayed there. It is kind of a creepy yet ok feeling with me.
Just thought I would share that story.

Living at Home

By: admin.desk@darlingtoncab.co.uk

First time I have been to your site.
I was living at home with my parents 1991 I was troubled by vivid dreams. I would dream that I was in a terrace house that was brightly lit and with a front parlour. There was an elderly lady with a me and a man that was dressed smart suit with a high collar, the Elderly lady was dressed in dark clothing with a white shawl on her shoulders I noticed red roses in the shawl. This lady would smile and talk to me and tell me not to be afraid. I would stand behind a sofa that faced a fireplace with a black stove in. The elderly lady was the only who would talk to me. The lady asked me about my family and I would talk about my family for a while. The man in the suit stood in front of the fireplace and never moved our spoke to me.
This dream would occur on regular basis nothing changed the elderly lady would talk to me about my family.
I never told anyone about the dream until one day I was talking to my mother and I mentioned the dream with the elderly lady and the man in the suit. My mother asked me to describe the room and what the elderly lady looked like. When I described the shawl she told me that it was her grandmother's favourite shawl and that as a little girl she use to wear it.   My mother never mentioned her Grandmother to me and has no pictures of the Grandmother. But I described the house and the Grandmother to a tee.
That same year my father passed away suddenly. I do not know if this is a ghost story however, it has stayed with me and I think they must of known that my father was to suddenly pass on.
The man in suite according to my mother was a brother of her Grandmother who was killed in the first world war. My mother only ever saw pictures of the man in the suite.
I have not been back to the dream since that time.

Man in my Room?

By: acostam@gmail.com

I've been a little addicted to reading the stories on this site and finally decided to send in my own experience. I'm not sure if what I experienced was my imagination, but maybe it would help if someone could confirm it for me.
I lived in the same house and in the same room from 3 age of 3 to 18. It was in Miami, FL so it was a relatively new house (built in the 1950s or 60s). My mother was always the type to experience strange things and even see spirits walking across our backyard. Anyway, as I go older (around 13 or 14) strange things happened in my room. I almost always felt like I was being watched. And I felt that whatever presence in my room was a male. I felt so uneasy that most nights I slept with the light on (even until i was 17). Often, I would feel a thump on my pillow that would wake me all of a sudden and i would shoot up in bed. Once, I had to call my dad to stay in my room with me until I fell asleep. Another night I was so frightened I went to his room. As I was starting to calm anddrift back to sleep I heard a voice say clearly in my ear " I love you." I shut my eyes and pretended not to hear it.
Little things would happen over the years like the inside of a thermos I was holding exploding and shooting shards all over my floor or a sheet of paper lift up off my dresser and fly behind it. I angrily told "it" that this was MY room and it had to leave, but that didn't change anything. Even once when I was half asleep, I felt lips kissing mine and i kissed back before i realized what was going on and sat up. The thing that convinced me though, was the time when I was 16 or so and i was talking on the phone in the dark to my boyfriend. I felt a towel slid off the headboard (I had a metal daybed). I ignored thinking that maybe i hadn't place it right. I think "he/it" didn't like that I didn't pay attention because a minute later as I was sitting up, a hair clip thudded against my pillow. I had no idea where it came from but it startled me and I left the room.
At 19 I went away to college, but came back to visit during break. The pillow thudding happened again, but this time I completely ignored it and it didn't happen again, although I still felt a presence. The next time I came home, my brother (who I told all of this to) told me that my mom had the room cleansed. Although I wasn't sure if she had, I never did feel a presence there again. whatever it was, left.

Children and Ghosts

By: kimberlylakes@bellsouth.net

My name is Diana and I wrote into your website last night as my husband had just finished explaining to me an experience he had while spending the night in our home which is under reconstruction due to hurricane damage. We have lived in that house for 4 1/2 years and have dealt with alot of ghost activity since we moved in. I am sure having 2 teenagers in the home ( 1 being a girl) did not help matters. I wanted to share another incident which I remember while reading you section on children and ghosts. About 2 years ago, when my youngest son was between 6 & 7 yrs old, he came screaming into our room one night. He shared a bedroom across the hall with his older brother who had spent the night elsewhere. They had bunk beds and my little man slept on the lower bunk that night since his brother was not home.
What he described was an old lady that looked like a witch. He swears she woke him up by pullling his feet. He was very adament when telling us this and kept saying over and over again that he was awake while this happened, I believed him by the look in his eyes. Pure fear! The witch he described had evil eyes and rotten sharp teeth, was dressed in black and had sharp nails, he said her skin was rotten too. She pulled at his legs waking him up, he said he looked down at his feet and saw her fly up to the upper bunk, that's when she leaned over the end of the top bunk and hung upside down at the foot of the lower bunk, reaching for him and laughing. That was when he came running into our room. He would not go into that room alone for a few months, let alone sleep in there if his brother was gone. He started sleeping with a big plastic TREX dinosaur that he had in his toy box, which actually looks pretty real. When I asked why he picked that toy to sleep with, he explained that the dinosaur had teeth, and if the witch came back, the dinosaur would protect him against her.
I tried to chalk it up to a childs nightmare or maybe something he had seen on tv recently, but his belief in what he saw was very convincing. He was and still is very adamant that this really happened. He is an extremely bright child. Anyway, I just wanted to share this story in relation to children who experience ghost sightings. And just for the record, to date, the witch has not returned.

Cemetery Visit

By: beautifulgoodbye2@yahoo.com

This is my third story I am sending to you. This one takes place at Spook Hallow in St.James Missouri. The very first time we visited the graveyard at the end of the road, well we didn't make it there. About two or three miles before the cemetery as we were driving around a curve, there was a woman walking the road. As we passed her we noticed she was covered in blood. We turned around and she came up to the window, she kept saying "let me in". She told us she had wrecked her car. We called for help.
The next time we went out there. My friend Noel and my boyfriend Mike had just stepped out of the car to go into the graveyard when what sounded like a rock hit the metal barrel used as a trash can not far from the car. Well they both jumped back in and we started to take off. Mike was watching out the back window when he starting saying GO!!! There was a black "figure" not chasing us but "floating" after us. As we went around a curve it dissappeared. We stopped at a gas station in town. As we got out of the car I walked around the back of it and noticed hand prints on the tailgate that hadn't been there before we went out there.   And there was a face on the passenger side mirror. Like someone had pressed they're face against it and it was small like a childs. Our third trip was the scariest of all. We made it the cemetery. Well there was no way I was getting out of the car. Ashley and Betty wouldn't get out either. So Mike, Noel, and Joanna got out and went into the emetery to look at the grave stones. While they were out there freaky things were happening in the vehicle. The electric locks where going up and down nonstop. We were trying to hold them down and keep a look out for "other" things. Well the locks stopped and that's when I heard heavy breathing from beside me. I thought it was Ash or Betty but I looked at both of them (Ash was sitting in front, me in the middle seat of the durango, and betty in the very back) and neither one of them was breathing heavy. Ashley heard it two because she looked at me and said I coming back by you. All of us were almost in tears when we see the others running back to the car. They got in and Nikki (Noel) took off. They said the first tombstone they looked at had 666 on it and then they heard strange noises from the woods.
Needless to say I won't be going back there any time soon. We were not wanted their.

"Seeing Ghosts"

By: Tiakh@aol.com

My name is Rebecca, I started to "see" ghosts when I was 8yrs old....... My then best friend Carrie had gone to her Grandpa's funeral the week before and it was her first day back. While we were waiting for the traffic to slow down so we could cross the street, we sat on the grass by the sidewalk. She was telling me about the necklace that he had given her when she was 5. She told me that when he gave it to her, He said "As long as you have this necklace, I will always be with you", as she said those words the hair on the left side of my body just seemed to stand up and I got a cold chill on that side, I turned to look and there beside me in the grass were 2 man sized footprints. I reached over and said "Carrie Look!!!" and the grass started to stand up as if someone had stepped away....   that was the first of many, many encounters. I live in a haunted house and I wouldn't have it anyother way. They have their ways of letting me know if somone doesnt belong in my house, They alert me to danger..(they woke me up out of a dead sleep and made me go check on the kids, seconds before a tree came down on the house. I had fallen asleep on my balcony..... the tree landed on my balcony) Now I have countless others that I could tell.... most good, some bad... some just eerie... but I wont bore you.

Attending his Own Funeral

By: vadmike@hotmail.com

This is a story from my grandfathers’ funeral.
You must understand that my grandfather was a very spiritual man and as far
as I know he had done right by everyone that knew him. Perhaps this is why
he, in my opinion, was allowed to attend his own funeral.
I, myself never saw him but before the funeral began my younger sister,
still not quite sure of what was going on asked why we were at the church?
My mother told her that we were there for Grandpa Reed’s funeral.
My sister looked at my mother puzzled and my mother asked what the matter
was?
My sister replied “if it is Grandpa Reed’s funeral, why is he standing over
at the door greeting people?”
Both myself and my mother looked we could see nothing but my sister age 5
was insistent that it was grandpa. I have no reason to doubt my sister’s
knowledge of her grandpa; he held her and played with her just as a
grandfather should.
Of note, when my sister was younger she had a disease which required several
operations. A couple of weeks after her operation, we took her to church
and she saw a picture of Christ and she acted as she recognized the picture.
My mother asked her about Christ and my sister said that he is very nice
and has the prettiest eyes and that he played with her while she was in the
hospital.
I do believe my sister, she was only a small child at the time which makes
all the more sense to believe her.
Thanks again for the wonderful site

Adding my Story

By: r.wakelin1@ntlworld.com

Hi i have always loved reading the ghost stories on this page and now ive decided to put in my own story. I am 18 years old and live in the midlands, UK. When i was around 4, 5 years old i would often tell me Aunty that people would speak to me in the night and can only vagily remember hearing a women who would tell me to be quiet and she would often make a hushing sound my sister who a shared a room with would also hear these nosies. We would also hear the sound of someone walking up the satirs and onto the landing .However when i was 8 years old and moved into my own room the voice were no more. Howevre the walking sound continued and i often felt as though whatever it was would stand firstly by my room snd then my younger sister. This experience seemed to lessen and by the time i was 14 years old this hardly ever happened. I then moved rooms again to my parents room as we were having an extension built on the house. Well things strted to happen again, long bangs could be heard downstairs it seemed to be as if someone was picking things up and then throwing them to the ground , my mum and dad were kept up all night at one point by theses banigng. I would also often hear someone walking around downsatirs and opening doors when everyone was asleep. Then soemhting else happend my dad had his bag stolen at work so we had to chnage the keys to our house, after thsi me and my sister would often hear the sound of someone trying desperatly to open the door, we thoutht we were being broekn into so we asked my dad to investigate, howver nothing was there. One night me my sister and a friend were sitting in my room which is at the front of the house at about 11:00pm suddenly we heard the sound of someone tryingt ot get in we looked outside and could hear no one but could still hear the sound of soemone trying to get in , we went in to tell my dad for a moment before doing this we stood at the top of the stirs staring at the door no one was there but the noise could still be heard my father went to investagate, nothing. This continued happen for about a week until one night the front door actually sounded like it had been opened someone walked into the corider into the living room and then nothing?weird! me and my sister had also heard someone coming into both and rooms and on two nights at the same time heard a women singing an old folk song, i and a friend had also seen a women dresses in old clothing at the top of our stairs i had alwyas believed thus to be my great grandmother as the spirit looked like her. However my theory is that the perosn trying to get into the house was my grandmother she had died a year before the extension and before this she was alwys let herself in with her own key, it was as if she could not get in any more because of the new lock of the door. After this nothing at all happend!

Guardian Ghost

By: tequilla_to_kill@yahoo.com

It all started when i moved my second time in flagstaff.. i moved to cheshire right across from where i boarded my horse.. when we moved there i was about 6 or 7 when strange things started happening. The first ocurance was when i was sleeping in my room with my dog shadow.. i was watching tv and slowly drifting to sleep.. as i heard my dog start to growl.. so i just reached down and assured her that no one was there.. as i turned to look at my tv i noticed it was fuzzy .. i thought it might have just been bad weather or something so i turned and tried to sleep again.. i now started to feel very cold.. so i looked down at my heating blanket switch to see if it was on.. as i looked the cords started to shake violently but no one was there to move it.. my dog continued to growl .. so i just burried under the blankets and tried to sleep.. i finally did .. nothing seemed to happen the next few days until i tried telling my mom about it she assured me i had an overactive imagination so i ignored it.. that night i heard scratching on my walls .. it seemed to be all around me .. i told my mothr but she said the same things.. so i moved again my mom and my dad (divorced) so my dad moved again in flagstaff and my mother moved to doney park.. my first strange incodent at my fathers new house was when i had a sleepover with my best friend i was around 11 or so and we went back to my room right as we did the tv turned static.. we ignored it and shut it off right as we were about to go to sleep it turned back on we then changed it to a working channel and left it on.. form then on i have left it on every night .. but now sometimes a feel cold around me when i sleep like someone is holding me.. also when i take a shower sometimes the curtain blows in for no reason no windows will be open or anything and the shower head will move by itself.. also there will be steam in the bathroom i will start to feel a very strange chill and when i get out there was no sign of it being there. . no for my moms house its different .. my sister and i were in the bunk bed she got top and i got bottom.. i awoke around 3 or so in the morning and saw red and silver baloons filling the room.. the were beautiful as the moonlight gleamed off of them.. my sister awoke and we had a small converasation of them and wondered why they were here.. we came to the conclusion that my 15th b-day was coming up soon and it was an early surprise.. my sister than got up and went to turn on the lights and she stepped on one i told her to be careful and she turned on the lights .. nothing was there.. then my sisters and i got curious one night and tape recorded sounds in the room.. we heard a lot of starnge breathing noises and mumbles we couldnt make out .. but we were all silent when we did this,,, everything has kind of cooled down since untill last week when my step dad and i were standing by the door his back was turned and i was talking to him.. all of a sudden we both jumped to the sound of the door slamming behind him and the cat jumping threw it as if the cat had gotten out and someone threw her back in.. we turned around only to find the door was locked.. these are a few of the strange things that have happened there are more i am willing to share to anyone who is willing to listen.. my e-mail is listed at the top.. please i would like to know what is going on my step dad and i both believe it is something to do with ghosts and he has had some strange experiences himself.. i still feel occasional cool sensations in the bed or shower at both houses mainly fathers..

I have seen a Ghost

By: ryan_keffer04@yahoo.com

My name is Ryan and im only 14 years old, yet i have seen a ghost. It happened when i was 12 years old. I used to sleep on bunk beds with my brother. he had the bottom bunk and i had the top bunk. at the time my brother was only 9 years old and he really didn't know much about ghosts and the supernatural, but i did. Well I was in my bunk bed and I was sleeping until i woke up to use the restroom. I went to the restroom and when i was going back up my bed i felt really weird like somthing was watching me. I went back to sleep and I woke up but didnt open my eyes yet (I was trying to go back to sleep) but i got that feeling again. I opened my eyes and i saw the figure of a man looking straight at me and I was scared out of my mind......Then the figure reach out its arm over the bunk and it touch my elbow. Right when it did that i jump to the other end of of my bed and turned on thye lights. I still dont know what the figure was but i think it was my dad. My Dad had died when i was only 3 years old. I think he came that night to remind me that he is always going to be there no matter what.

Some Bad Some Not

By: bizzaro_68@hotmail.com

My name is Josh, I'm 23 and I've seen quite a few let's say other worldly things. I like to look for them, if someone tells me a place is haunted I want to investigate. It started with a house I used to live in in Oklahoma. I remember you could always hear if someone was coming down the hall or something because the thick carpet would make a brushing sound. One night when I was 8 or 9 I woke up to that noise thinking my dad had gone down the hall then I realized it was in my room. The room had enough light to see due to a streetlight filtering through a window. I saw a very tall.... something....... walking through the room, it stopped at the foot of my bed and turned it's head towards me. At this point I'm scared stiff, hoping beyond hope that it doesn't see me. I noticed it's arms and legs were too long and skinny. It curled it's arm and hand closest to me up and the fingers were abnormally long and pointy looking and in the sillouette of it's head I could see ears sticking out that also almost seemd pointy, it went on it's way and just kind of faded out. I've seen shadows of this thing since then as we still own the house and go and check on it from time to time. and once I think I got shoved by it I wen into a room and felt someone shove me hard enough to knock me down. This is not an easy thing to do as I am not a small guy. I've many more stories but for now I'll share one more. Between here a burkburnett theres a ghost town called Clara. I think y'all have something about it on your site. I've been at the cemetary at all times of the night and I've never seen, heard or felt anything out of the ordinary there, but I was coming back from burk one night on my bike, i like the back road due to the twists, moving about 80 or so when I saw some deer just before the old clara church. I slowed down to about 30, hitting a deer at 80 on a motorcycle would probably land me in that cemetary. Well I got past the church and cemetary when way up in my head light I see something that looks like a small child walking towards me in the ditch. Thinking there was maybe a wreck I slowed down. As I got closer I noticed this kid was all white, like an albino or something, but not only that his clothes were white too. when I got close enough to make out his features he raised his arms as if trying to flag me down, then I saw his eyes....or lack thereof. his eye sockets were empty holes, he opened his mouth as if to say something and I could see right through his mouth to the grass behind him. Now that I think about it, I should've stopped at the time it took me so off guard that I slammed the throttle back and went triple digits all the way home. I've been back but never seen this aparition again, it scared me due to the lack of eyes. Eyes are a big thing to me and odd eyes offten unnerve me the lack of them when I could tell this child was looking at me chilled me deeply.

Wandering Souls

By: Songstress1310@aol.com

Hello, my name is Meghan and the following little stories I am about to tell are kinda creepy. My fiance and his family live in Indiana in a little area known as Bright, which is by Lawrenceburg. The road that my fiance's family home is off of is called Mt. Pleasant Road. It's a rather long and winding road that was the site of Capt. Morgan's Raid, which happened during the Civil War and the unrest that occurred. When Capt. Morgan blazed down that narrow country road, he burned all the houses and pillaged and plundered. My fiance's house is a relatively new one situated on 17 acres of land. Now, these first occurances were told to me by my fiance.
My fiance, Jeff, believes that his house is haunted. When I first started going out with him, I thought he was just joking with me b/c he knows that I scare easy and I have an over-active imagination. The first story he told me went like this: He was coming home from hanging out with his family and it was late at night. The driveway to his house is a quarter of a mile long and as it nears the house, has a slight grade to it. As his mother was pulling up to the house and was getting ready to go into the garage, he said her headlights flashed in the living room and he saw a dark figure standing in the living room and peering out the window. When his mother cut off her headlights, the figure disappeared. Also, Jeff says there are cold spots in the house and that his bedroom door opens by itself and the door to the basement opens and closes by itself and the lights down there turn on and off.
Recently, I was over his parents house with him and I got to experience some of the creepy stuff that goes on there. His parents had just finished the basement and we decided to spend the night there at the house in the new bedroom in the basement. It was about 2 am and we had been watching TV and we decided to go to sleep. We went into the bedroom and laid down on the bed, but instead of falling asleep, we started to argue. He finally said to me, "i don't want to talk to you for the rest of the night." I didn't answer him but we both heard a voice, quite female in timbre, and it sounded like it had a crackle of electricity behind it. We both sat up and asked each other is we had heard it. We both did. Jeff got up and grabbed the camcorder that was downstairs and turned it on. I think he was hoping to find some actauly footage that proved we weren't crazy. He also went upstairs to see if anyone was awake. No one was and no one had a TV on.
Could my fiance's house be haunted? The history to the area would surely say so. He and his father and brother found what was called a "slave wall" that borders their property and they found belongings strewn around the wall. Also, his brother and he have seen odd lights late at night floating by their lake. And after my experience, I believe.

Strange Happenings in my Family

By: dblack@prpi.com

We have had many strange happenings in our family since I was about 5 years old. I am now 39.
The first event I recall hearing my parents talking about was my father seeing the devil at the end of his bed when he was a teenager. He apparently had the flu with a high fever. He called his my mother (my grandmother) into the room and she swore it was her dead mother!!! I always had a hard time believing that because of his fever and thought he must have imagined it but then so many other things happened in our family after that.
I think I was about 5 and remember my mother and grandmother (father's mother) talking through the years about my mother waking in the middle of the night because she felt something poking her. She got up and turned on the light, and their laid my father with all of the artificial roses from the nightstand surrounding his body and he had a crown of roses around his head. My grandparents (father's parents) lived with us at the time and when my mother screamed they came running. My grandmother swore it was her mother again. I don’t know what made her say that but she always said she knew it was.
I think the third thing I remember happening is my parents were watching television one night when I was about nine or ten years old and my mother said "Dawn, get in bed." I heard her say this and was confused because I was laying in my bed reading the story, Black Beauty. When I shouted "I am in bed." My father said "stop lying, we can see you standing right there in the hallway." I again said "I am in bed." My mother came in and said "Stop lying, we just saw you and heard you get a drink of water in the kitchen." She then looked at me and asked me why I had changed my pajamas. Apparently, her and my father saw me standing in the hallway with a pair of white pajamas with red anchors and when my mother came into the room, I had green and white striped pajamas on. My mother was obviously upset with me and opened up my bureau drawer and there were my red anchor pajamas folded. She couldn’t believe it. That same night I was still reading and heard a tapping on my window and I said "Mom, somebody is outside!!" Her and my dad went out and didn’t see anything but I saw a grayish cloud at the end of my bed floating and started to feel it coming over me. I could hardly move but managed to scream and my parents came running and it went out the window like a puff of smoke. I swore after that night I was never wearing those pajamas or reading Black Beauty ever again!!!
There was another time around the same age that we were all having dinner. Again, my grandparents lived with us. As we all were sitting there eating, we heard footsteps go down the basement stairs as if they were in a hurry. We all just looked at each other and said "What was that?" This was strange because the kitchen door was in view and the downstairs steps were right across from the door and no one had come in nor had anyone come up and into the kitchen. My father and grandfather went down into the basement and searched every nook and cranny there was and found nothing.
In this same neighborhood I just spoke of, our next door neighbor was coming home about 3 a.m. and as he got out of his car and as he was walking up his drive he said he could feel someone behind me. He said he started running for his front door and just as he stepped in something swatted at him. When he looked out later, the screen was torn. I often wondered if the neighborhood was haunted but then was confused because of the story my father had told from his youth about seeing the devil and then my mother seeing those roses on my father in another house when I was smaller. Plus this was a time when everyone was talking about Big Foot so I never really believed it.
I don’t think it was till I was about 20 when the next experience happened. My younger brother had been a troubled youth with drugs and alcohol and my parent's were at their rope's end so I said he could come stay with my husband and I for the weekend in Philadelphia. When my brother came, we were sitting there having coffee and a saw a blackish figure out of the corner of my eye, looked over at my brother and he had this strange look on his face. He asked me "Do you see that?" I said "Yes I do!!!" I was trembling but at this point I was so sick of all this happening that I was determined it wasn’t going to anymore and I said to my brother "just ignore it!" We did and it disappeared. For the next several hours my brother told me stories of how we saw demons all the time and it scared him so much. I didn’t know if it really was demons he was seeing or if it were his drugs so I just blew it off and didn’t really let it bother me.
I moved to Virginia Beach probably in my mid 20's and the day we moved into our new house, I don’t know what it was that made me do it, but I went over to the fireplace and prayed and asked God not to let anything happen in this house. It never did.
After all these years, I finally thought it was over until last week when my father called and said he had another experience. He said he was laying on the bottom of the bed watching poker, when he thought he heard the bathroom fan come on downstairs. He said then all of a sudden, he saw my mother come around the bed, and she bent down and put her ear to the floor. He said "Hun, what are you doing?" and started to get up. As he reached back on the bed to help push himself up, he felt my mother's body and there she was asleep. He looked at her and she had on a red robe. The woman he saw had on a blue and white flowered house dress. He woke my mother up and told her and she said "That had to be your mother (my now dead grandmother of 10 years) because she had a house dress just like that and I don’t own one.

Uncles Home

By: AlliedNelson@aol.com

I always knew there was something different about my uncles house.
many things have happened there, many stories. It all started about sixteen years ago when my aunt would wake up to find her husband{my uncle} chasing somebody down the hallway with a gun. He always told us that he would wake up and find a man standing in the hallway staring at him laying in bed, but every time he gets up there would be no one there and all the doors would be bolted shut from the inside. There was also one night he was down in the basement watching a football game about nine O clock at nighttime when all the sudden he said he felt somebody massage his shoulders. My aunt would later tell me that he come running up those stairs like all hell broke loose shaking and with third degree goose bumps. now keep in mind my uncle is a two hundred and forty something man,whom stands at six feet seven inches. what could scare a man like that, I don't know but I never want to live to see it. there have been many more incidents such as him being down in the basement and him hearing some woman call his name from the eerie weight room. Also if you go down in the basement you will begin to smell fresh smoke coming from the bar in which nobody smokes in that house.It was always rumored that my late great grandma Elsie is doing the haunting.
Its calmed down over the years or so I heard.

Germany Barracks

By: joshua.k.crawford@balad.iraq.centcom.mil

My name is Specialist Crawford. I am in the 181st Transportation Battalion. I lived for a year in Room 303 of Turley Barracks. I’m now currently deployed to Iraq. When I return I will be going to Babenhausen. I was online looking for some information on my new duty station in Babenhausen when I came across your site. I was shocked to see that you went into that much detail… I mean down to the room that I lived in. I both wanted to confirm some of what was said and perhaps add some new information.
As far as a little girl in my room, I’ve never seen one. I have however experienced the cold. I will have the two heaters in the room turned full blast and the room will still freeze during certain hours of the night. I would have to say that the hallway of the 3rd floor is more haunted than any particular room. Myself and other soldiers have all experienced some of the same things there. The hallway is very long and old. On the inner part of the hallway there are several WWI gunracks embedded into the walls on the other side of the hallway there are large 8 foot windows that line the hallway. At around 2 or 3 at night I have experienced some very strange things. In the 3rd floor latrine, after using the bathroom proceeded to wash my hands. As I looked in the mirror I saw a person standing in the door to the hallway. It was a man with brown hair and an unkept beard… like someone who had not shaven in about a week. It was only a glance but he appeared to be wearing a brown t shirt like most military guys but it didn’t seem like the one we normally wear. This man was staring at me. I know everyone in my building so this face was new… as I turned around there was nobody there. I looked out into the hallway and there was noone there… the hallway is long so you can hear people walking. This disturbed me… as I walked back I felt as if someone was following me down the hall. I turned back several times but nothing was there. As I said I live in room 303. It is the last room on the corner. There are about 4 more rooms beyond mine but nobody lived there. The stairwell on that side of the building is nolonger in use either.
We deployed to Iraq in October of 05. About a month before that we moved from our building into a newly renovated building. They hadn’t hooked up the phones in the new building yet so late at night I would sneak over to the old barracks and make phone calls. I did this on 5 instances. The building was locked up but there was a window on the backside that I knew was unlocked. I was the only one in the building. I would walk up to the 2nd floor which is where the payphone is and call home. I could hear footsteps on the 3rd floor when I knew for a fact that I was the only one in the building. I would call out “who’s there?” Nobody would answer and the footsteps would continue sporatically from above on the 3rd floor. This happened each time I was there.
A few other soldiers have seen the guy in the mirror… and just about everyone has heard the footsteps when they were the only one in the hallway. I hope what I said is useful. I was never a supersticious person but after living at Turley with it’s Nazi past… I don’t doubt anymore. And after looking at your site… I have a feeling that Babenhausen should be an experience.

No One Else Home

By: mrestain@suffolk.lib.ny.us

Hi. I enjoy reading all the ghost stories and thought I would tell mine. I am a mother of three and live on Long Island. My father passed away 15 years ago. Shortly after, I moved in with my boyfriend and got married.
Less than two years later we had a baby boy. He is thirteen now.
We moved to a new house, a small bungalow by the water with two bedrooms that are next to each other and share one wall. One morning, my husband left for work about 5:30 in the morning. I was still in bed trying to sleep. There was no one else home except for me and the baby. All of a sudden I heard a pounding on the wall, like someone was taking their fist and pounding on it. There were three knocks on the wall. I rolled over and didn’t get up. Almost instantly, the knocks were repeated, three one right after the other. I got up and went into the other bedroom and the baby was sleeping, with a blanket over his face. I looked at him and pulled the cover down off of his face. His feet were not near the wall and I believe he was too young, only a few months old, to make loud noises like that. I went back to bed and didn’t hear the pounding on the wall again. I have no explanation for what happened but I often wonder if it was my father coming to visit his grandson. I don't know if ghosts can make noises like that but that is what happened.
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Neon Green Glow

By: scojowoods@comcast.net

I was shocked to read the story of a neon green glow on a cross.....In 1993 I went to a cemetary here in Walpole, Mass, to visit my friend Billy Seymour who passed away in a violent car accident. It was late at night, and I was walking back towards my car when I saw a neon "thing" in the woods next to the cemetary. For every step forward I took, it took two. When I stopped it stopped. I just ran for my life, locked myself in my car and closed my eyes and blocked my ears. My ex-husband was standing next to the grave seeing all this but he spoke in slow motion "I cant move".......I swear to god that had to have been the scariest night of my life. Ive given birth twice and I would do it a zillion times more before I would ever go back to that graveyard......Joanne Woods

Takes Place in England

By: largelyhappy@hotmail.com

This experience took place in England, though I now live in New Zealand.
Before I married, my husband-to-be moved into a small apartment near mine and asked me to come over one evening to help him unpack. In those days, over 50 years ago, young people didn't automatically sleep with one another, so the invitation was innocent :-)
He was at work for the first hour I was there (I had a key) but I began to unpack some things and put them in drawers and cupboards; in between I went from that room (which was both livingroom and bedroom) across a hall into the kitchen to make sure potatoes and other vegetables were cooking on the gas stove in the kitchen.
Nothing happened until my fiance arrived home, then the first little strangeness was that as I was hanging his coat in the wardrobe, the shoes on the floor shifted an inch or so. As you do, I thought I was mistaken, the shoes could not have moved, I said nothing.
We chatted a while and I went back into the kitchen only to find all four rings of the gas cooker were off. There was no one else in this place and to turn the gas off you had to physically turn a butterfly-key tap. I turned them on again, lit the gas and went back to tell Tim. Neither of us could understand this but then I told him about the shoes moving. He said the day before, he had been sure a chair moved too.
Tim was a Catholic and very superstitious and this began to freak him out.
I've never been in the slightest bit scared of ghosts, although I was brought up in a family who denied they existed.
Once more that cooker was turned off but by this time the meal was cooked so I served it up and took the plates into the main room. Tim said the place had begun to 'feel funny' though I didn't detect anything but he asked if I would stay over that night and I agreed.
About 10pm we settled down, me in the bed and Tim in a chair next to me, with his feet up on another and packed with quilts. We kept the light on. In those innocent days, personal honour was more important than fleeting sensation so I had nothing to fear as Tim was an honourable man.
About 2am I woke with this very strange feeling in my throat, not as if someone was strangling me, more as if my throat was closing from the inside.
Tim was dozing so I said nothing until this feeling became quite severe, then I reached out and woke him, telling him in a croaky voice what was happening. He started reciting prayers, with no noticable difference in my situation; I was saying, 'Pick on someone your own size, get off me you lout!' and stuff like that, to whatever entity had decided to play a trick on me.
The feeling subsided slightly and Tim decided to go make a cup of tea (I had to go with him as he was too scared to go to the kitchen alone - this is a big guy of 6ft 4ins who played rugby too!)
We had our tea (the English cure-all) and my neck was feeling much better; I got back into bed (it was till only 3am) and Tim settled down as well. I was just dropping off to sleep when Tim nudged me and said, 'There's a man sitting in that chair' - pointing to a big old easy chair across the room. I couldn't see thing but as Tim began to describe him (elderly, bald) I leapt out of bed, went to sit in the chair and said to my fiance "Is he still there now?"
I tell you, this nearly drove poor Tim right out of his tree, he began his prayers again and told me not to mess with the spirits but he had to admit that I wasn't sitting on any old man's knee and I didn't have a ghost on mine.
I don't think Tim slept at all after that but I did and when I woke about 6.30 there was a angry red weal around my neck, like a rope burn (though it hadn't felt like hanging or strangling at all). That mark stayed for 3 days and caused a few tricky questions.
The following day Tim moved out of the apartment, losing his deposit - and went to another, more peaceful place.
Our second son Joe (an Aquarian son of an Aquarian mother) has, from birth, been able to see spirits and when he could articulate, described them to me (though I could never see anything). Many of them were in old fashioned dress but many were not. He has also seen me and a neighbours dog (neither of us were dead at the time, or anywhere near him) so I can't explain that bit.
My mother did not believe in ghosts but when my father died very suddenly at the age of 54, one of the things he left behind was the key to working the complicated central heating system in their house. Mum told me a long time afterwards that every night, that system was re-programmed until she was well enough to find the instructions and work it out for herself. Only Dad could have done that.

Real Story

By: channel5_lotr@hotmail.com

hi im channel, this is a real story that happend 2 me about 4 years ago (i was 10)
me, my family and two other families (our friends) had gone out 4 supper one day at a restaurant close by (Co Co Mo Joes) i had 2 go 2 the washroom, my friend Tor came with me. in this restaurant (its gone now) there were only two stales, (one weelchair and one normal) i looked under the stall door (like i always do) 2 see if there was anyone in there. I saw two cowboy boots with blue jeans over top of them, so i stood up. just 2 make sure, i looked again and no boots. it really freaked me out. thats not the scary part. i wen t 2 the washroom, (in the other stall) and had dinner etc. etc., not telling anyone about what i had seen. when i got home i asked my brother if he had ever seen a ghost. he said, "ya, i did, at the bar at Co Co Mos, it was a guy with long hair, no shirt on, cowboy boots and jeans on, he was holding a beer. but i could see right though thim" that freaked me out, me and my brother had seen the same ghost in the same day. ive told alot of people my story, but everyone thinks that we made it up together. we did not. please right back, if u are interested, ill give you more detales. thanks 4 reading this    ~channel      (channel5_lotr@hotmail.com)      i still get freaked out when i think about it, please right to say what u think, thanks

My Mom's House and Her more Recent Happenings

By: Anonymous

Hi its me again.I was very dilighted to finally see my story on your sight.I am still living at my moms house and strange noises and footsteps are still going on.I thought I would update you on a few things that have happened recently.My uncle was staying with us for a while.He has since moved out because my mom and I have become forster parents to my cousin Misty and her son.My uncle had the creepy room which is now Misty and her sons room.I told her that the house is haunted and we believe centerd in her room.She has yet to have an encounter but im sure her day is coming.Although she has not seen or herd anything as of yet she to has a strange feeling when it comes to that closet but she is the oppasit of me when it comes to the door.She can,t sleep with it shut!!Anyways before she moved in my uncle lived here.Now we have never told him the things that have happened cause he can be very dramatic.When he was married to his first wife my aunt Shirly they had an encounter at a farmhouse they were renting in Washington in the late 1970s that he believes to this day was the devil or something out of hell.He is some what of a story teller but my aunt who dose not like to talk about it has comfirmed that this did happen.Anyways back to my story.I moved back here in mid July of 05 and my uncle was here intill beginning of Sept.05.So one night I was here alone with my two daughters and we were in the basement.My mom had went out with a friend of hers to go dancing and my uncle works intill 11 at night and useually gets home around 11:30 inless he stops off to have a few beers after work.So im sitting downstairs and we have hardwood floors so you hear if someone is on the main floor.It was about 11:40 or so and I herd movement upstairs.Thinking it was my mom home early I went up to see how her night went but when I got upstairs her car was not home yet so I assumed it was my uncle because when I got on the main floor I could hear someone going up the stairs to the third floor and moving around in my uncles room.So I decide to play a game on the computer since my girls were down for the night.I kept hearing banging up there and more then once wonderd what the hell he was doing up there.So as im sitting hear on the computer about an hour or so latter my uncle comes walking threw the front door.Now I did go downstairs a few times to check on my girls so I figured he must have came down and left when I was down there but I was,nt down there long and the noises contiued up intill he walk in the door.I was very suprized and a little freeked out when he said he had worked overtime and had just got home.There had been nobody in the house but me and my girls!Now to hear footsteps upstairs is not unuseual but this thing was stomping and what sounded like jumping around up there.I thought well that’s a new one but im not frightend by this ghost.I don,t believe he means us any harm.I think he was tring to tell me that he was still here.Although I do have to admit there are times it dose creep me out,espacially when I feel like hes watchen me when im on the computer late at night.I have never seen him since that one time in 2001.Now this has happened on many accations since then.Just a few nights ago I was on the computer and Misty was gone for the night it happened again.You see since she has moved in I have,nt herd anything,but while my uncle was here I herd things upstairs almost on a nightly basis before he would get home.The watching thing is happening right now as I write this.My daughter Allie has told me that the same man she saw when she was 3 was standing in her doorway a few nights ago.At first she was very scard but then she rememberd me telling her to tell him to go away and he would.So she told him go away and leave me alone and she said he stood there for a few more seconds before turning and going into the livingroom area.She got up to see where he went and when she steped into her doorway he was standing in the kitchen area where the bar once was.This scared the crap out of her cause she really did,nt espect him to still be there.She said I want you to go away and he looked at her then just disappeared right before her eyes.She had a hard time sleeping alone in her room so she slept with me for a few nights but she in her room again and has not seen him since but she says at times she feels like she is being watched but she to scard to look and see what it is that’s watching her.She pulls her comforter over her head and tells it to leave and after a few minites it dose.This man has never tried to touch her or anything like that but I have to admit it dose scare me when this thing comes to my daughters room and watches her.He has never harmed anyone but I don,t like its fasanation with my child and I have said many times outloud for it to stay away from my child and it has,nt happened for a few days now.My doughter told me its happened like 4 times in the last month.Weve been here 7months now and this just started about a month ago.Im not sure why he shows himself to her but I wish he would stop doing this because even though she knows he wont hurt her its still a very scary thing for her.With me besides the footsteps on the main floor which is something weve never herd before (only upstairs) I have seen shadows out of the corner of my eye in the basement when I turn and look theres no one there but the feeling of being watched was there.I don,t mind him being around but I wish he would go back upstairs on the top floor where hes always been and stay out of my basement.I just wanted to let you know that this house is still very much haunted.I don,t feel him watching me now but I hear him moving around upstairs now.So I hope you will add this to your sight.

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