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Yacolt Washington Lady in White
I know its a town that you have never heard of before but I have a bunch of ghost stories to tell that I experienced from a young age to now. The first ghost I ever saw is when I was about 8 or 9. Me and my older sister shared a room we slept in the same bed for some reason. It was about five in the morning. I don’t know why but I opened my eyes and there was this man standing right in front of the bed! Staring at me he did not even blink. He was right next to my sister and seem to come closer to me the more I stared at him freaked out. I hid under my blanket and when I peeked out he was gone. It was the same guy who appeared to my other sister when she was about 3 she was playing with her toy car by a window and …
Read Complete Story Here...Red Eyed Creature in Ohio Woods
My best friend, Rachel, and I have been friends almost our entire lives. Since 2nd grade, and we are now graduated out of school. The first time I ever spent the night at her house, which was probably around the 6th grade, we saw something.
We both woke up out of a dead sleep and looked at the window. What we saw changed our lives forever. It looked similar to a man, but with red eyes. I thought I was dreaming at first, but the next morning Rachel asked me if I had seen it. That’s when she told me that wasn’t her first encounter with it. She had seen it outside her house, which is up on a big hill surrounded by woods, several times since she was around 6 years old. We have both seen this creature several times since then, both together and separately. It’s taller than the average man around 6 to 7 feet, it’s arms …
Read Complete Story Here...Haunted Bedroom
This story is about my son. He is now thirteen years old and has been seeing spirits as long as he can remember. The first time he called my attention to his gift he was about a year and a half old. I had gone in to lay down with him until he fell asleep as usual. He was looking up into the top corner of the room with a amazed expression. When I asked him what he was looking at he said “Don’t you see her? the mommy? She’s so beautiful”. I asked him who he was talking about but he was so young that I didn’t understand his reply. It sounded like he was saying” the bird” but he said “no” and said the same thing again. Whatever it was sure had his attention.
I need to tell you that we live in a old farm house in Pennsylvania. Lots of people have seen and heard things that …
Read Complete Story Here...First Experience with a Ghost and the Occult
So my story begins in the spring of 2000 I was 9 years old when it began and started me into this path of the occult and paranormal. My parent’s had just purchased their first house and for the next 7 year’s this house would be our home. Before this we had lived in a 3 bedroom apartment me my 2 brother’s my sister and my mother and father. So needless to say to finally move to a 2 story 4 bedroom house minute’s from downtown Omaha well we were excited.
At first we didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary the house itself was almost 100 year’s old so all the noises were passed off as just the house settling. Now a year or so had gone by and as you could imagine 3 growing boy’s living together we played rough and we had put some damage into the this house (which my dad was always furious about) And …
Read Complete Story Here...The Boy who was Stuck in the Woods
I never really believed in hauntings and spirits when I was younger. My mother always told me that things like that didn’t exist. I believed her until I stayed a week with my aunt in her house in West Point, Georgia. I don’t remember the address but I remember the house clearly. It was a large two story house.It was very, very old too. The downstairs consisted of a rather large living room, a dining room, old kitchen, a large bathroom and two bedrooms. The upper level had a furnace room, bathroom, and three other bedrooms. I stayed in the guest bedroom upstairs which had a large window that gave a view of the backyard.
The night I went down to stay with her is still imprinted in my mind. I was eight years old (I’m seventeen now) and excited to be staying a week away from home. I had pulled my duffle bag from the car and ran upstairs …
Read Complete Story Here...Clambering Chains
Years ago I heard chains banging after my brother Sean died in 1984. I also encountered a full scale haunting after my parents did a séance in the house we were living in.
But I forgot about the haunting until 2004 when my Gem Mobile home became haunted. A old woman had died in the mobile home and I bought it out of desperation.
I was a single mother looking for a place to live. A man across the street killed himself because he became ill. At first my daughter Christina would see the devil on a frequent basis. He would walk over from the yellow mobile home where the man killed himself. The devil would come in through a crack in the mobile home. The crack was in the front living room.
Christina would run to me terrifying on a daily basis. Christina would see demons flying around with red eyes, no eyes or yellow eyes.
I would daily …
Read Complete Story Here...Dream Illusion or Reality
I assure my story is 100% true. I have been debating a long time whether or not to share this story because I kept going over in my mind whether or not what happened was real or illusion, but it most definitely seemed real and as a result of what happened I now sleep with a bible under my pillow.
One night I went to sleep just like any other night but had an extremely terrifying dream. In the dream a couple of my friends. We will call them Eric and Doug as well as myself were staying in a shack in the woods across from a department store. We had no food or supplies so we decided to go to the store and stock up on things for the weekend. While at the department store we ran into a multitude of other people I know, whom weren’t close friends just kinda random people I knew. I don’t like big …
Read Complete Story Here...Was it a Visit From My Dad?
This will be my first post here though I’ve been reading stories here for a while. I’m kind of on the fence about ghosts and such… part of me wants to believe in the paranormal because of things I’ve experienced but part of me doesn’t. Anyway… I’m rambling pointlessly.
I’ll start with a little back ground. I never knew my biological father. He left before I was even one because he thought I would be better off without him. He was very wrong about that, don’t get me wrong, my life was great after my grandparents adopted me. But the first three years of my life was filled with neglect and abuse both physically and sexually. My biological father passed away at the age of 33 while I was in sixth grade.
No fast forward. I’m all grown up and finally move out of my grandparents house. My grandparents, who were mom and dad for as long as I can …
Read Complete Story Here...Series of Hauntings by Granddad
A series hauntings by Granddad? A back-story to my own hauntings.
Right so for the first time I am actually going to share some of my weird tales (all true mind you) with people other than friends or family.
As background ghosts and the supernatural is a vein in our family, I grew up listening to my mum tell me of stories her paternal grandmother wrote about walking through walls to go shopping and appearing back. And tales she wrote of witch craft tin the new forest (where she was from) and then all about my granddad, which aside from creepy abilities to walk on gravel with no noise and to undo doors with out touching them, was a very weird character indeed.
I will mention him a fair bit as we believe he is responsible for some of our latter day haunting. (Which will follow in another article)
It all started with him, he claimed to be able to …
Read Complete Story Here...Monster Under the Bed
Can anyone help me or advise me as to what I should do?
I have two little boys aged 3 and 4 years, we live in South Africa. In 2009 February, I lived in a cottage on a small holding, when my children started screaming at night and refused to sleep. I tried everything, even got numerous pastors out to bless my cottage and my kids. This didn’t help, eventually I got frustrated as my eldest son kept talking of a person called Hank, now we don’t know any Hank, I finally found a group of people who call themselves SPITSA.
They came to my house and did a paranormal investigation, the out come was a picture of a man’s face in the window and a child’s voice saying I have made contact. After this I moved.
Things settled down and there was no longer any talk of Hank, however over the last few months, my two sons have become …
Read Complete Story Here...The Demon that Follows
My first true encounter with the demon that has haunted me for nearly all of my life, didn’t occur till August of 2009. I was under a lot of stress with recently joining the military and at that point in time, living in the barracks. I had been dealing with a sexual assault, as well as my father getting cancer and being unable to talk to him about it because I wasn’t supposed to know, on top of trying to complete my flying training.
With all this stress pent up and no way to appropriately release it, I felt myself starting to feel as if only one thing would satisfy this anger, depression, and hatred I had developed for life and for myself. I began to deliver bodily harm to myself. I told my mental health doctor about it, and he did his best to find the cause and reasoning, but the solutions he presented to me didn’t seem to …
Read Complete Story Here...Psychic Abilities
Well let me start this off by telling you that I have no one to turn to right now, and I’ve been a dedicated visitor and member of this site for years, and the community here is very helpful and kind. So I have decided to come here for help. You see, I believe I have psychic abilities. I see spirits, and I can communicate with them, I can read people’s thoughts, feel people’s energies and emotions, I can travel mentally to people’s houses, as well as I can communicate with animals, but mostly dogs.
Most people, if I choose to tell them, they either stare at me, horrified, or they just laugh at me and tell me I am just wanting attention or that I’m lying or that I’m a fake, which I’m not. I have had these abilities, for about four-five years, but they’ve only gotten stronger, and harder for me to ignore. I have only one friend …
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