Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Haunted Land

When I was about five years old, my mother remarried the father of my elder sister, and we moved into the house that his parents had given us after they had built their new home across the street. Even from that early age, I can remember thinking that the land that we lived on was strange and haunted.

Our house was considered a “shotgun house”; that is, from my parents’ room at the one end of the structure, it was a straight shot all the way to the other end of the home, where my bedroom was. There was a long narrow hallway that led to both my room and that of my sister, as well as the old bathroom that we no longer used. The hallway was tiny and seemed to stretch on forever, and there was only one light there to drive away the shadows; it was a dim, dingy yellow that did little to abate the darkness, …

Haunted State Route 343

I work a night-time job, and I also live about thirty minutes away from my place of employment in the town of Clifton Ohio. Between Clifton and Yellow Springs, there’s a four-mile stretch of road, called State Route 343, which is the route I take on the way to work. I’ve only had three minor experiences on this stretch of road, which creepily enough, each occurred at about the same spot.

Story number one: It was around Christmas time about two years ago (I don’t remember exactly when, but the Clifton Mill’s lights were open to the public so that gives me about a month’s stretch of time) and a co-worker was driving me to work that night. We were driving down the road as usual, talking about whatever, when a car came down the road the other way with its brights on. Shelley flashed her lights and then dimmed them as the car approached. When the car was about …

Clown Dolls

Clown dolls aren’t supposed to move themselves…

When I was twelve, my family and I stayed with my grandparents while my father was training on the east coast with the military. Having spent my entire life in the Midwest, living in New Mexico was very strange for me, but I knew it’d be temporary: as soon as Dad got orders, we’d be moving. We had been there several months when my mother’s little brother and his wife popped in to visit. Auntie D loved dolls so Uncle M bought her a little clown doll as a surprise while they were visiting.

We got home from school one day to see this little doll sitting on the sofa; Auntie had placed it there before they went out for the day. He was 6 inches tall, positioned to be sitting with his hands out, holding a “jack-in-the-box” that didn’t open. He had porcelain hands, feet and face, those horrifically realistic blue glass …

Phantom of the Flats

When I lived in Washington, DC, I lived in this swanky apartment building right in the middle of Dupont Circle, The Flats at Dupont Circle.

The building was full of college students, so noise was a constant you put up with if you wanted to stay sane.  I would hear all sorts of yelling, screaming and general drunkenness on a regular basis, but something else was occurring that wasn’t normal.

I had troubles sleeping, so I would stay up late at night to watch TV, read, even go down to the gym to try to wear myself out enough to catch a few winks.

One night, I was sitting in my apartment watching TV, when I started to hear someone running in the hallway outside my door. Like I said, the building was full of stupid college students, so I didn’t think much of it. The next night, the same thing happened. Then, it happened a third night in a …

Followed by Demons Spirits and Angels

I have been followed by demons and spirits and angels ever since the age of 5

My family never believed in anything paranormal, apart from my auntie who is a psychic white witch, which makes me nervous and embarrassed to share these things with me family. I am 16 now, and ever since I can remember, I have lived in London, U.K. Everything I will tell you is true, in some cases I have had witnesses to the events.

The first encounter I ever had was with an angel, even though I was very young, I remember it as though it was yesterday. I woke up, as the sun was rising and I looked at my window sill. A tiny, plump angel was standing on my window sill, facing outside and doing something to the corner of the window, I couldn’t see. I walked up to it, frightened and unable to talk from the shock I had, and reached my …

Invisible Hero Angel or Devil?

Ok, I’m 13 years old, and I had my share of seeing spirits and such. This story I am typing right now is true, and it is still happening to me. It goes like this.

Two years ago we moved into this house (I’m still living in) and everything was ok. Everything started about two weeks after we have moved in. I was in my bedroom, watching TV when suddenly the house phone started to ring. I was by myself, so of course, I went up to answer it. I checked the caller ID, and to my surprise, it was coming from my house. Thinking it was a prank my family was pulling, I ignored it. About five minutes later, it rang again. This time I answered it.

“Hello?” I said. “Call your aunt and tell her not to go to the hospital. There’s going to be a tragic accident, and she will die if she goes. Call her now.” …

My Experiences with the Paranormal

Like many of you I have had experiences all my life from time to time seeing or hearing or feeling paranormal things.

First encounter summer 1973 – I was 9 and just put to bed and I heard my dog (a poodle) scurry from the bathroom across the hall to under my bed which was kinda odd since he usually always slept on my bed with me! So I called for him and he wouldn’t come. I started to drift off and then I heard the front door open and close and my dog cam running in from outside onto my bed! I though “what crawled under my bed?!” and screamed for my Mom who came running in. I told her something crawled under my bed and she said I was just 1/2 asleep but she did look and nothing was there. I know I heard something and it did go under my bed.

Maybe a few odd things happened …

A Man That Shouldn’t be There

First a little history… I am 34 years old and the proud mother of 4 wonderful boys. I now reside in Pennsylvania, as I have for the past 11 years. However, my story, encounter, tale, or what ever you choose to name the experience took place some 27 years ago in the family home that I lived and grew up for the first 22 years of my existence, located in New Jersey. The house that I now speak of is quite old; at least 150 years old (it probably is even older than that). It has been in my family since the early 1950′s and is still owned and lived in by my father. And at the age of 7 is where I will begin my story.

As I said I was around 7 years old at the time. I shared a bedroom at the top of the stairs with my older sister. The room is very small so my …

Creepy Ontario Cottage

During the summer of 2009, five friends and I rented out a cottage for one week in Ontario, on the Bruce Peninsula to be specific. Small, old, rustic, yet very cozy and homely this cottage was.

Something about sleeping in the bedroom had put me off. I wasn’t entirely comfortable with it; Almost as if something was pulling me to the main living room to sleep on the couch.

On my first night, I was having a hard time getting comfortable and falling asleep. When I finally drifted into a light sleep I was stunned with a growling noise sounding as if it were right by my ear. I turned my body up and twisted my head around to see on the couch behind me was a creature of some sort, something you would only see in a movie. It was frail, sort of had the stature of an old man, almost looked as if ‘it’ were drenched in swamp …

Saint Mary’s College Tagum Room 316

Let me tell you another story, one I didn’t experience at home and definitely one I didn’t experience alone. I attended college at a catholic institution where I met most of my true friends. In our 1st 2 semesters we had block sections and I had all the same faces for classmates but it wasn’t then that I met my best friends. The Next 2 semesters,I met new people, met some of my good friends but I somehow lost contact of them since most of them failed in class. Only Jessie and I were left in the gang and she unfortunately fell to a different class every subject we had. It was summer that I met my best friends as we had all the same classes. We hung out together, and went out together even after our classes. It was block sectioning once again so I saw the same faces every subject.

Saint Mary’s College of Tagum, Philippines – just …

Abominable Snowman?

Well it all started when I was about 12. I was happily watching TV until I went to the bathroom to blow my nose because it was around December and I had a cold.

After I blew my nose I decided to look out the window to see how hard it was snowing, hoping school would be closed. I lifted the blinds and looked but it wasn’t snowing hardly at all about a half an inch. So I was getting ready to turn around and go back to the living room to watch TV when I noticed something standing in the snow about halfway down our hill. It was white, had a blue face and blue hands, about 7 or 8 feet tall and was looking straight at me. I began shaking uncontrollably. I was so scared I couldn’t move. I was getting hot flashes all over and felt sick.

I watched it walk towards the small woods next to …

Ghosts at Springfield High School

Hi. My name is Caroline and I go to Springfield High school in Ohio. I am going into my Sophomore year and the past year I have heard stories about the Central Building being haunted. The Central Building has been there since my Grandma went to high school and even before that. There are a lot of different stories about the first and second floors.

On the first floor there are only a few classrooms still opened, the rest are locked or barred up. Most of the students and even the teachers say that the locked doors rattle and screaming is heard. Most people didn’t believe it because there were only four classrooms opened down there and so most students were never down there.

On the second floor, there are about two or three classrooms closed. I’m not sure because I didn’t have any classes on that floor and the only time I did go on that floor was when …