Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Shadow Person and House Cleansing

Recently some weird occurrences have been taking place in my house. I just moved in not long ago (about a month) and a little over two weeks living there I saw the first sighting of the shadow person.

I was walking down the stairs to join my boyfriend in the kitchen for breakfast. As I turned around the spiral of the staircase I saw a dark mass walk down the hall through the living room doorway. I thought it was my boyfriend and went to follow him. I walked into the room finding no one and then a moment later hearing my boyfriend in the kitchen.

At first I didn’t think much of the incident. I had seen these dark shadows before in previous homes I’ve lived in. Nothing bad had ever happened before, nothing really spooky.

However, a week or so later I had just come back home from an early morning art history class. I was still very …

The Ghost Runner

I have always believed in paranormal and the supernatural. My first incident with something paranormal was when I was 6 or 7. I am 14 now.

When I was about 6 or 7 I was home alone with my brother. I was in the hallway standing outside of my brother’s room and at the other end of the hallway was my room and adjacent to it was my parent’s room. The hallway light, my room’s light, and my parents room’s light were all off except for my brother’s. I was going to go to my room but I have always been extremely afraid of the dark so I just stood there trying to build the courage to. For awhile I was just staring into my room. Well when I was I saw this gray/black-ish figure (darker than the darkness) run out of my parent’s room and through the wall. I got really scared and ran to the computer room (where …

Hell is Actually Real

This story will start off when I was a little kid. I always believed in God. But what happened would change my life for ever. I’ve been visited by demons for two years! Shadow figures, what I called them, would surround me when I’m in bed. I couldn’t move, their eyes glowed white, I felt fear like I never felt before! I couldn’t say a word, and when I made the tiniest noise, they stared at me, and sent fear to me.

Now believe me or not, the shadow figures lifted me up from my bed, silently, they were cold, and when they walked, they were fast. When we got to the door to outside, I would pass out, and I would wake up in the morning, nothing in sight, but I felt them. Same thing happened almost every night!

Oh yeah, they would be thin, tall, but it was dark. It was hard to see. The weird thing, they …

The Hat Man

I first saw the Hat Man when I was in my early twenties. I had just moved into my first apartment in New York City. I had only been there for a week or two when I started hearing noises like rats running within the walls at night when I went to bed. Shortly after that I started seeing the Hat Man, standing in a far corner at the foot of the bed.

At first I tried to ignore the sight because he was  almost invisible, but, soon he became my most terrifying nightmare. He began to become more visible as the nights passed and along with the clarity came a dark, chilling fear.

One night when my infant nephew stayed over, I saw the Hat Man standing in the corner watching me. The light switch was across the room and I had no way to get to it without passing him. I watched until I started to fall asleep. …

Trouble with Shadow People

Towards the end of last summer me and my best friend were walking home from our friend’s house. He only lives about a block from my house so I am allowed to walk there and back at any time. We just turned off his street and on to mine when we got this uneasy feeling. I knew something was wrong and so did she. It felt as if someone was following and watching us as we took every step. There was no street lights for a 30′ radius but the  moon was bright and we could see no one was there. But we could feel them around us, and then we saw shadows dart from one side of the street to the other. I am a strong believer in the paranormal and such, and she was some what into it. It takes a lot to scare me usually and all the hair on the back of my neck were up …

Encounter with the Shadowman

I was all of four years old when I saw him the first time. I was staying over at my grandparents. It was the middle of the night and I had gotten up to go to the bathroom. As I came down the wooden staircase I held on to the railing with the front door before me. As I descended, I thought I had seen someone outside through the small window on the front door.

I had to know if he was really there. I hit the landing, ran, ducked and impaled myself to the door. Slowly I stretched upward tiptoe until I could see outside through the little diamond shaped window. There he was, blacker than night standing on the sidewalk in front of the house. I could tell he was a man, wearing a raincoat and hat but void of features and standing very still facing the doorway. He watched me watching him.

My heart pounded in my …

Caroline Beth and the Shadowman

Before I begin, I must tell you that this story is 100% true, and many of my friends have seen similar things in the same place.

My boyfriend, Nick Lee, is a person of many talents. One of those is attracting spirits. He and I had just gotten together at the time, and he had never taken me “ghost hunting” and I thought it would be fun, since I’ve never had a supernatural experience. Since we were low on gas and time (curfew, hah!), we decided that local graveyards were our best bet. So armed with a digital camera, we set out.

That night, we visited three graveyards. I will never forget the third cemetery.

The first graveyard Nick Lee and I went to was off a well lit, main road, and nothing really happened (but of course he wouldn’t let me go deep into the cemetery because he thought it was disrespectful to the spirits, so not much would …

Shadow Figure Attacking While Sleeping

I just recently turned 29 however when I was 15 I was attacked by a shadow figure while sleeping.  I remember it like it was last night. I just read somebody else’s article about a similar attack and still have chills on the back of my head. Here is what happened to me that night;

I was sleeping upstairs in my parents house sometime in November or December and often slept with the window opened because it was always hot in my room. I heard voices, more like whispers, coming from outside my window. I woke up thinking it was some of my friends wanting me to sneak out. I soon realized that it wasn’t quite human voices talking to me. It almost sounded like voices do when you talk in a fan and there were faces, several of them, but I could only see their heads out of the corner of my eyes. When I tried to look at …

Shadow Man in the Top Hat

I haven’t seen him since I was a little kid, but the shadow man in the top hat used to visit me in the curtains of my bedroom. I thought he was the Boogeyman, but wasn’t especially afraid. I thought he’d come to carry me off, but he never did any harm, and wasn’t very menacing. A few years after that, I told my best friend about him, and he said that the same thing used to happen to him. As Nic Kelly says, there is something going on here. I’m nearly 36 now. It’s interesting to me that so many that experienced the man in the top hat are about my age.

Over the years, I’ve read various stories involving a similar figure, both fiction and non-fiction, and have noticed this particular archetype, if that’s what it is, showing up in movies and on TV, in variations. In the Ghostbusters cartoon from the 80’s, the Boogeyman character wears a …

Encounters With the Dark Man

I just wanted to share a bit of a story with you. The reason I was touched off tonight is because I saw “Paranormal Activity” the movie. I wont spoil the film but it had something to do with this forum.

I never saw the darkman as a child. However my sister Elaine has. She has seen a dark figure several times in life. Mostly when we were children. I was seven and younger. She is two years younger then me. She would see a tall dark man standing at the foot of the bed or in the corner of the room, and it would just stare at her. She never claimed to have seen eyes but she did see a hat. She says it looked like a golf hat. She had a couple of years of seeing this thing. She saw it mostly during the two years that my Grandpa was battling cancer. My mother lived with our grandparents, …

Shadow Man in the Green Room

I am the oldest child and when we were growing up I got the downstairs bedroom which was on the first floor of our two story house and we called it the green room. My two sisters and one brother slept upstairs in the redone attic.

When I was about 11 years old I woke up in the middle of the night for some unknown reason to me. My bed was against the wall in the corner and I slept with the door almost all the way open. Upon awakening I saw a man almost as tall as the top of the door. He wasn’t in color but in shadow’s. Dark and grey. He had on a black old hat that reminded me of Abe Lincoln’s hat and a long black trench coat. He was moving very very slowly towards the edge of the door and behind the door. I was paralyzed with fear and after a while I thought …

The Unknown Shadow

I’ve read many ghost stories on this website already and most of them talk about shadows. Well my story too talks about shadows. It was in my old villa, which me and my family had just moved out a couple of months ago. We’ve lived there for more than four years and three members of my family out of four have seen a shadow passing. (The only person who didn’t see the shadow was my dad who was most of the time working oversees.)

The first time it was seen by me. It was already dark outside and I was in my room playing on my computer. I was about to go to the toilet and when I got up a shadow suddenly ran across the corridor passing in front of my door, and it seemed as if it came from my sister’s room which was just next to my room, but I knew that that shadow wasn’t her since …