Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Guardian Angel or Dad?

First, I’d like to let everyone know that I’m a believer, but also a skeptic of most things dubbed ‘Paranormal’. What I mean by this is, I do not immediately believe everything I see (in pictures as well or video) or hear (on T.V. or other people’s stories). I even second guess myself and try to find rational explanations before even considering the paranormal.

My life has not been an easy one by anyone’s definition. I have made many bad choices and decisions. I put myself in numerous dangerous situations, but somehow I always managed to come out fairly unscathed. A little battered mentally and a few times physically, but otherwise in one piece.

This always had me wondering how I survived when I’d lost friends who had not been in the predicaments I found (or placed) myself in. Why did these friends pass on from car accidents when I’d been in much worse situations (and 2 car accidents that …

The Dorm Room Spirit

My college is rather old. It was founded in 1722 in historical Leicester, Mass. This area is known for it’s hauntings as well as its historical legacy. The minutemen originated from this town; George Washington lead his troops across our very campus. There’s a graveyard up the street dedicated to civil war heroes. The list goes on.

My college’s history is a little more vague. The house next to mine was once used as a morgue; three children died in that building and are said to haunt it to this day. The morgue is still intact downstairs, though closed off. Every now and then, maintenance will leave the door unlocked and curious students steal a peek at the body freezer, a look at the autopsy tables. The whole nine yards. Of course, the stories are always exaggerated. You never do know what to believe in college. Except that dorm is open for paranormal investigations once requested. But I don’t live …

Hearing Voices at Night

It was 1:15am Sunday night in Rockford Illinois. I was putting my little 9 year old Christina to bed. She kept on insisting that she was hearing tapping on her bedroom window. Every time she goes to the bathroom she hears tapping on the window and communicates with a spirit.

I told her some ghost stories because she likes to hear them to fall asleep. I turned out the light and set the alarm for school the next day. I sat next to her bed for about 15 minutes and shut her bedroom door. The German Sheppard was resting outside the bedroom door.

All of the sudden I heard a distinctive man’s voice outside Christina’s door. He was having a conversation but I could not make out what he was saying. The voice was so close to me that I was terrified. I feel asleep on the floor in her room. I remembered that the voice was either coming from …

A Haunting in the Valley

This is a account of the current hauntings in the Home I live in in the City of Chatsworth California. I moved into this house as a guest of some friends of mine and have been here for about 15 or so years.

Soon after I moved into the house I would hear footsteps at night when no one was awake or walking around. Having experienced this before I simply listened to see if it was one of the children or the Man whose home I was living in who at that time was a High School Math teacher. When I opened the door to my room I would see nothing. The footsteps always sounded as if they were walking on a linoleum or tiled floor but the floor in the hallway has a rug on it.

After hearing this for weeks I told my roommates what I was hearing at night. The Wife of my host told me that …

Attacked By a Violent Spirit

I was attacked in my sleep by a violent (and rightfully, ticked off spirit)

This is my ghost story. Let me start out by saying, this is my first real interaction with the undead, and honestly, I’m not sure I EVER want it to happen again. (and yes i realize this is a long one, but worth the read, promise)

Mid- October 2011 two of my co works/model friends and I braced the 5 hour drive from our week long stint in Las Vegas and ventured to Nikki’s mother’s home in Phoenix, AZ. I sat in backseat, playing DJ and occasionally piping in on Nikki and Annie’s conversation. They are long time friends; and I am just the lucky bystander that will be joining them in a cross-country trip back to Colorado. Ok, what I am getting at is, I really don’t know these girls that well. Other then a few nights spent causing havoc on the strip and the …

Chased by Old Lady With a Hunchback

This story is near about 40 years old, told to me by my mother. This incident happened when she was 14. Her school was at walking distance from home. It took her 20 minutes to return home from school. Once there was annual function at her school. While returning home it got dark but as she knew the path very well therefore it was not a problem. But that day she felt as if some unusual thing was happening with her, as she felt she was walking for more than an hour. Then suddenly she felt as if somebody was walking towards her. Being tired she sat down on a stone and started staring towards the direction from where she was getting the footsteps. After sometime she found a figure resembling like a woman heading towards her.

The figure was of an old lady with a hunchback. The figure was at a distance when suddenly my mother lost that figure …

Things That Happened After Graddads Death

First of all, I would like everyone to know that even when I was younger, I have never had any experiences with ghosts… the paranormal or anything weird in that matter! It was only a couple of years ago that I have experienced strange things happening around me and in my dreams so here are a few.

A couple of years ago when I 15 or 16, me and my family went to visit my granddad (he sadly passed away 5 – 6 months after we visited) anyway, my granddad collected clocks of all types. He liked to fix them and every time me and my sisters came to visit we would count all the clocks he had (well over 400). I pointed out a clock which I really liked, it was beautiful and shone better than all the rest! However, we left my granddads house and a few weeks later I found the same clock I pointed out on …

Ghostly Activities in a Gated Community

In 2004, we moved from a small town in the western cape to a massive house in a gated community in Benoni, a gated community is sort of like a security complex but the houses has their own identity and no two houses looked the same, the houses were no older than 20 years, it was a field before being developed apparently.The house was an four bedroomed house, two bedrooms were very small, a master bedroom and a very large guest bedroom.

The first evening we moved we all slept in the guest bedroom as we had not yet had time to unpack the boxes. The first few weeks were very quiet, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, there were few weird happenings but nothing to write home about, misplaced items that type of thing. I took the large guest room as my bedroom much to the anger of my younger brother. He had to take the small bedroom. I …

The Figure as Cold as the Air Itself

This is a story I wasn’t sure I wanted to tell. I was afraid that if I told it, it might make it more real. God knows I didn’t want it to be real.

I was over at my Erikas (my cousin) house for the weekend. She was telling me of how her and a few of her friends decided to make their own Ouija board (now personally I didn’t believe in the power of the game, and maybe still don’t) Anyway, she told me how nothing really happened, but the thrill of the game was fun. I had been taught to never play with witchcraft and the Ouija board, despite what I believed myself.

She continued with her story, telling me that Kayti (my other cousin and erikas sister) had been having strange nightmares lately that consisted of a man, a very tall man. She couldn’t see his facial features, for that he was covered in a cloak of …

Strange Experiences in Apartment in China

Moving dice, doors locking themselves, rattling doors, bulbs blowing and scratches…

This all started about 2 years ago in a small apartment I lived in in China. I don’t live there now, I moved out a few months ago. I never really felt that scared as I’m quite interested in the paranormal. Aside from the balcony doors, the strange things that happened occurred about once every month or two. It wasn’t day in day out stuff.

The first bizarre thing to happen was while me and my wife were watching a movie (a horror movie funnily enough). I had a beer can on the coffee table in front of us and we were watching the movie when my wife suddenly shouted ‘look!’ I thought she was referring to something happening in the movie, which I thought was strange, as nothing of note was happening in the movie at that time. She then said ‘The beer can’. My wife said the …

Ghost Children

When I was a teenager I was friends with a drummer in a local band. He and the other members of the band had rented a house in the older part of town.

One day my friend told me that the band had an out of town gig and asked me to house sit as there was some very expensive musical/sound equipment. I agreed to do so and stayed to watch the house. Before I went to sleep I checked every window and door to make sure everything was locked.

I went to sleep and was awakened by the sound of children running and playing through the house, I could hear their laughter. I got out of bed instantly, I was worried that some neighborhood children had somehow gotten into the house. I was angry that their parents would allow them to run wild at 6:00a.m. I searched the house calling out to let them know I was there. I …

Haunted Darwin 8

Further to my previous submissions that are my own on this site ( see previous stories here ) I am also privy to the ghost stories of others ; this was told to me by a customer last week.

My middle aged friend and her 2 daughters in their early 20′s live in a house I guess you could describe as on stilts, in an outer rural area of Darwin called Humpty Doo.

These open air planned homes are best suited for the tropics, high off the ground to catch the cooler air and large verandahs all the way around.

They moved there about 5 years ago and the girls always felt creepy, particularly on the side of the house where the elder girl has her bedroom.

The mother initially dismissed the girl’s complaints as being upset after a new move.

The daughters found when they were in the bathroom at the end of the house they could hear people …