Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 4

Have you read the previous parts of this story? Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 1

While we had many little anecdotes and stories growing up in a haunted house in Liverpool, Australia – we knew it was my grandfather and while it was a little odd we had become used to him being around.

There was only one time we truly felt terrorized and to the best of our knowledge what ever happened, was nothing to do with my grandfather.

The late 70′s were busy – I was now a teenager, my older married sisters had ‘ run home to mother ‘ fleeing bad marriages bringing grand children and pets with them. We suddenly had a full house….again.

The night it started I had a fight with my mother and stormed down the back yard to hide in the dark. I picked up dirt from my step-father’s garden beds and threw it at the fence in the typical rage …

Gifted Sister and a Terrifying Experience

This story is about my younger sister, I don’t know that it’s actually considered a ghost story but it is a scary one at that. Now my sister is about 8 – 9 years younger then me and most of these things took place in Hawaii. As far as I can remember when my sister was a lot younger she use to see things and hear things, kind of communicate with the other side, if she sensed something was bad she would let you know. The family often dismissed what she said because she was just a kid.

When she was about 9 our aunt was going to buy this piece of land and have a house build on it, and the second my sister saw the land she was very scared and kept telling my aunt that it wasn’t the right place to build a house and that something horrible had happened there before and it was surrounded by …

Animals Ghosts and Strange Behavior

Apparently I come from a long line of mediums (my gran tells me), but I haven’t experienced any feelings or sensations, so I don’t really look into it. I do however love a good ghost story! I guess I believe in ghosts, but I’m not the type to assume that strange occurrences are ghosts, I firstly try to explain them away. Some however cannot be explained away such as the few small experiences I’ve had with animals.

First: When I was younger, about 8 I guess, I lived on a small holding (small farm) with my parents and grandparents. My grandparents had a few Yorkshire terriers and I remember one day going downstairs to see them and one of the dogs, named Netty, was staring at something in the middle of the room just to the side of me. She stared and I called her name over and over and started to wave my hand in front of her face. …

Paranormal Experiences in Vietnam

My parents are originally from Vietnam (I was born in Australia) and our family often make trips over there, this experience happened in the village of Can To where my great aunty lives. Her house was situated beside the riverbank and can get very cold at night.

The living room where we spend most of our time, is situated at the back of the house but you could still see the front door. Now, in Vietnam like I’m sure in most developing countries the front door is left open all day during daylight ours and is only closed during the night.

In our culture we usually pray and burn incense on the day that a family member has passed. On that day my parents and siblings (older sis younger bro) went to my great uncles grave to pray because it was his anniversary. I chose to stay at home because I was sick and it was 42C outside. My great …

Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 3

Have you read the first part of this story? Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 1

My family had long accepted we had the ghost of my grandfather wandering around… literally. My older sisters recounted the sounds of my grandfather going down the hallway to prepare a pre-dawn breakfast many years after he died.

As the youngest I was mostly shielded from these events as they happened but as I got older I became aware of the ” stories “.

I can remember being 17 and waking with the same pre-dawn alertness I recognized from an experience when I was almost 5. I lay there and there was no mistaking the screaming of my senses – something was about to happen.

With my older sisters moved away – there was only my mother and myself in the house. But I heard the door of pop’s room open and close with its distinct “click” and the sound of heavy male footfalls …

Ghosts in Clops Woods Long Island

When I was in my late teens I used to hang out with three people; Christine, Rob, and this guy Frank… we were at the time the four amigos back in those days in Center Moriches.

I cant remember the name of the road but there was this huge patch of woods (we called it Clops) and in those woods was an old abandoned foundation of where a house once stood. Supposedly this man, back in the 1800′s, used to live there (bare in mind this is just word of mouth and I myself have found no solid evidence that man did or did not exist let alone live there or not). He was killed and buried there for some reason without his head and next his horse.

We had gone in there for ritual and before we even got there we stood on the path with our mouths agape because there a few feet away was a man dressed …

Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 2

Have you read the first part of this story? Growing up Haunted in Sydney Part 1

Growing up in a haunted house where I had seen my grandfather as a young child and my sisters had sensed things and one of their boyfriends had actually seen him as well, made me think as a child seeing dead people was normal.

When I went to school at 5 and started telling other children about my dead grandfather – I was given grief counseling. It took my mum to explain I couldn’t just tell people our ‘little secret’ and I learnt to keep it to myself. Irrespective if our ‘little secret’ was a 6′ 4″, barrel chested man with massive shoulders from years working manually in the mines who just happened to be a ghost.

My middle sister was rebellious and had decided to date a bikie! Mum wasn’t impressed but knew the more she would say NOT to go out the …

Toddler Haunting Continued

Hello again, As I mentioned in my other story, Toddler Haunting, there is a spirit of a young boy in my house. Its been two months since we have been living here, and now my son talks about the “boy” every day. The boy follows him, he talks to the boy, he sees him.

About a month ago, my son told my mother that there was a girl in the restroom, and his babysitter told me that he said the girl likes to shower with my sister. Ever since I found out about the girl, my son has been horrified of her. He can no longer be alone in a room ever since he first saw her, he started being so afraid and I can tell the difference between the boy and the girl.

Once I woke up at around 5 am to find that my son was on the edge of the bed talking (I couldn’t understand) and …

My Cousin RuthAnne

My cousin RuthAnne was killed by a drunk driver just outside Pinkneyville, Illinois in 1969. She and her brother Frank were returning from town that day when the drunk driver hit RuthAnne, throwing her from the bike. They say she died instantly. She was only 11.

We moved to the Chicago area in 1971 and since we lived about 8 hours away from my Dad’s family in Southern Illinois, we used to spend a lot of weekends there. This story happened during two consecutive visits to my grandparents’ house.

RuthAnne and Frank used to stay at the grandparents house and the accident happened right down the street from it. One night my Mom heard a child asking for it’s “Mommy”. Thinking it was one of her 5 children, she got out of bed to check on us. We were all asleep.  She went back to bed.

The next time we visited my Mom woke up in the middle of the …

Ghostly Experiences

This story happened to my mum when she was a teenager, around 20 years ago. My mum and a group of her friends all told their parents that they were sleeping round each others houses. But they never did, they went and slept in a newly built house (they never broke into it, the doors weren’t even fitted, hence it being a new building).

As they walked towards the house they had decided to sleep in, one of my mum’s friends said suddenly ‘I’m not sleeping in that house.’ When they all asked why she said ‘There’s a man in the window upstairs- look!’ But when everyone looked no-one could see him. But Tina (mum’s friend) was really freaking out she was saying ‘He’s still there, look, look!’ But no-one could see him apart from her. mum said although no-one else could see this man she believes Tina because she was really hysterical. They ended up having to stay there …

Firehouse Basement Ghost

My dad was, and still is, a volunteer fireman in our town. The basement of his firehouse was converted into a relaxing area, with a pool table, TVs, and an electronic game system (with games like virtual air hockey or Conquest). Being a kid, I enjoyed going down there whenever my dad brought me along to the firehouse. I had been going there since I was 4 years old, and nothing remotely strange had ever happened. So when I went down there one day when I was about 9 or 10, I expected nothing. I walked down the stairs slowly, since the light switch was at the bottom of the stairs (why, I’ll never know…). The layout worked as such:

The stairs led down, but you had to turn through a door on the left to get into the room. Sorry, had to put that in there, it’s somewhat important. Anyway, when I got to the bottom I began feeling …

My Nanny Died And I Saw Her In My Dreams Part 3

I’ve written previous to this story ( My Nanny Died And I Saw Her In My Dreams and My Nanny Died And I Saw Her In My Dreams Part 2 ) I’ve had a lot of experiences since I wrote.

My baby boy was born 5 weeks early, weighing 5 pounds and 2 ounces, I was too little to carry him to his due date (Sept 26th). Nothing happened while I was pregnant but when I had Elijah, I had some weird things happen.

Elijah was born on August 21st, the birthday of a man my Nanny use to always pick on. She loved him like her son. A few weeks after he was born, I’d feel strange and it wasn’t a bad strange feeling. I had Elijah’s birth photo lying down on next to my TV where a picture of my Nanny was hanging and when I went to the room, her picture was lying right on top of …