Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Papaws Ghost

I have read so many of the stories on this site and it has made me think I am not alone. So maybe you people wont think I am crazy. I am in my 30s and have a family of my own now but when this story starts I am 10 years old.

As a child my family was and still is very close.I spent a lot of time with my papaw spending nights for days at a time. he lived in a small cabin next to a creek with wood land all around his home. a few hundred yards away my aunt lived in a trailer so I got to spend time there as well. I believe some of the back ground I have just given will help you understand my story.

As I have stated this started when I was 10. my papaw got very ill with lung cancer. He was a very large robust man about 6’4″ …

Old Haunted House In Pocatello Idaho

All of this happened when I was 6 – 8.  When my parents bought this house that was built in the early 1800′s.  It was a two-story. They were told it wasn’t haunted.  However, it was.  It was haunted by three and possibly four spirits.  One of them was an old cowboy. Two of them my parents and I believe were lovers.  The girl’s name was Elle May, we’re still unsure about the boy’s name.  The possible fourth one, we’re not sure if it was the girl’s lover, or a second lover of hers, or if it was somebody else entirely.

The first time anybody saw anything was my step-father.  He was going to bed when he thought he heard somebody running through the living room.  So he grabbed his flashlight and half-expected to have to attack somebody.  He then saw somebody run up the stairs.  He followed them and he thought he saw somebody run into the bathroom, but …

I Had To Be A Grown Up When I Was 4

From the time I was about 4 or 5 yrs old, I’d had some sort of experience that children just shouldn’t have to live through alone. Unfortunately, grown ups usually don’t believe any of it, or just say that we are mistaken.

I remember at a very young age, I woke from a sound sleep.. when my eyes opened, I saw an imaginary fire on my wall. For years I feared a house fire and felt drawn to watching anything with fire on T.V. or on the news. I prayed every night to God.. “please don’t let my house burn down”.

At the age of 8, on the only night I didn’t pray, an arsonist poured kerosene in the front hallway in an attempt to hurt the people that lived upstairs. The house was burnt to a crisp and a woman and her six month old baby were killed. During the fire, you would think that I would’ve had a …

Casper My Imaginary Friend

When I was 3 years old by aunt bought a grandfather clock and the day she bought it my “imaginary” friend Casper showed up. He was 7 years old, had straw blonde hair, wore denim overalls, a white tee-shirt and red converse shoes. He changed the channels from court TV to cartoons for me and banged the cupboard doors when the cats were hungry, He scared my aunt, grandma, dad, and mother – all except me.

I giggled at his antics and loved to play with him. Then one day my aunt brought in a median. Without telling the woman that I saw him and what he looked like she described him perfectly.

Then a month later my aunt’s girlfriend moved out she took the clock with her. Casper left with the clock.

Still 10 years later, I’ll be out with my friends out walking around and then I’ll see an old lady or a little kid and stop to …

Waking Dream Or Spirit Encounter?

I wrote last week about experiencing a possible waking dream wherein my body remains at rest but I’m awake and unable to move. (Waking dream Or Ghostly Chemist?)

This was an odd moment.  I was home after work and my roommate wasn’t home.  I left my bedroom door open and I took a nap.  It was a nice day and my room was filled with the light that spilled in through the vertical blinds.  My fan was on as usual for a little white noise.

During the day, across the street there are a few soccer matches, so voices typically can be heard coming in through the bathroom window, so hearing voices isn’t that uncommon.

What is uncommon however, is what happened next.  I woke from sleeping, only to realize I couldn’t move.  My eyes were open, and I could clearly see everything in my room.  Now we all know, that sleep paralysis can cause hallucinations, but this …

Haunted House Diary

I live in a haunted house – So I decided to make a “diary” of things that happen here. Before anyone reads this, you might think you don’t have to believe me just because I’m young. But Everything in this story is true. You might not want to read this because it’s too long. But I find Myself reading the whole story over again.

Okay, I live in a Big house. Probably the biggest house I’ve ever been in. Its over 100 years old and it holds tons of memories of people who lived here before me. I moved here about 2 or 3 years ago. There was a man who lived here that died.

When we first moved in, My mom was here alone opening boxes. She heard footsteps, and thought it was my dad, but nobody was home. That was the first thing that happened. About 5 – 6 months ago, my parents were home alone and they …

Ghosts And Telephones

My husband and I went to visit my brother and his girlfriend on New Year’s Day in a town three hours away. We were sitting on his front porch late that afternoon and he asked his girlfriend to call the theater to see what time a movie started. When it answered, she walked to the other end of the porch to listen to the recording. Then he told her to hang up, it was the wrong theater.

She sat next to me and I watched her dial as he called out the number. Then all of a sudden my cell phone rang. I looked to see who was calling and it was my brother’s phone. I answered it and it was her. If she would have accidentally hit redial it would have been the other theater. I never called him from my cell phone that day and she didn’t even know my cell phone number. Not only that, but we …

I Predicted My Aunt Linda’s Death

My aunt Linda was born in 1940 in Hamilton County Tennessee in a grey shack house. Linda was born into a southern family with two other sisters and later two brothers.  The Williams family had land up on the mountain.  But the family was land rich and nothing more.

During this postwar period there was no electricity.  Evelyn Linda’s mother would light a lantern at night in the home so the children could see in the darkness. They had a small fire place to keep the house warm.  There was a out house in the back yard.  But it was hard to see in the dark. Claurence their father would hang a black pot by the fire place in case any of the children had to go to the bathroom in the dark.  In the morning the girls would get up and do their house hold chores.  This included  churning butter, plucking the chickens or picking cotton to help Evelyn …

Brianna’s Sightings

First I must admit that I’m aware kids like to pretend and imagine their own stories and can come up with little stories after seeing movies or shows. However I am convinced this is no imagination and a three year old child is incapable of pretending what she sees. Who is she you might ask? Brianna, Stephanie’s (my best friend since the fourth grade), little sister.

Before I continue into the story of what has been happening to the girl since she was two (she’s now almost four) I have to add that the family has been very supportive of her (however scared they were) and have tried to move to get away from these “occurrences” several times. They’ve even moved almost an hour away and ended up coming back thinking maybe it was the area that was haunted and not the places. This was not the case. I’m beginning to realize that not only can houses be doomed with …

Junk Yard Entity

On my last letter here (Overnight terror) I wrote of my own experience with the unknown. I mentioned that some of my friends also had experiences with the paranormal and I’m gonna share with you guys their story. Here is one of them.

This story belongs to my stepfather, whom I also consider a friend. The first time he told me his experience was about 6 years ago. I called him about a week ago and asked his permission to write his story, and I thanked him for saying yes. Let me give you a little back round on my stepfather, he’s BRITISH, doesn’t believe in GOD, much more in GHOSTS. So imagine the horror he suffered when he was faced by something he doesn’t believe in. This happened somewhere in England.

It was 1982, my step dad was working for a construction company. Having just graduated from college he was butt broke. This was his first job …

Seeing Double

I was born and raised on a small Caribbean twin-islands called Trinidad and Tobago. The Caribbean is full of its own strange tales about the supernatural and paranormal, it being a part of the world heavily influenced by the voodoo practices of ex-slaves.

As a child, I spent most of my time at home in my grandparents’ house, situated on a hill called St.Barbs, in Laventille, P.O.S. I always heard stories from the neighbors, and even my mother, that my grandparents practiced witchcraft. It was not until I was about five years old, however, that I began to believe this after having some strange encounters myself.

One morning, when I was six years old, I was away from school, recovering from an asthma attack. My grandmother, who was retired, was the only one at home with me. At one point, while I lay in my room, she came in and informed me that she was going out, and that I …

Ectoplasm?

My family has an interesting history. We have had so many strange occurrences that, starting in the mid 80′s, we have been documenting them and putting them in filing cabinets. I might add some more of those stories on here and I’ll start with this one since it’s the latest one but by far not the strangest.

My uncle and his family moved into a new home roughly 6 months ago. Almost immediately, within a couple days, they started noticing a thick liquid dripping down the walls. It was semi clear with a white tint and very thick like corn syrup or shampoo. It wouldn’t seep out of every crack and crevice like the blood in the Amityville Horror but it would appear here and there occasionally like in a patch in the middle of the wall or drip down from above the suspended ceiling in the cellar which they have converted into a living room.

It would also appear …