Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

House Guest with an Occult Past

I know its going to sound weird but I believe that someone’s curse has manifested itself upon me. I have always been in tune and open minded both from a religious and scientific aspect in spirits. I am no where close to frightened by paranormal happenings. I have many but I would give one for now I feel I should tell as an introductory one.

At the age of 17 a friend of my brother moved in with us and she was living with us for a while. She told us she messed with a Ouija board with friends and her life was not the same. She said they all claimed to be haunted by a witch who wanted to kill them I thought to myself. that’s weird but didn’t pay it any mind.

After I graduated from high school I spent most of my time with friends or sleeping but when I use to be alone a lot happened. …

Terrified Email Ramblings to My Husband

My husband and I moved into a 100+ year old home a few months ago and have been experiencing what he has researched to be “sleep paralysis” along with terrifying dreams – most recently which have become impossible to distinguish between a nightmare and something experienced while fully awake (for example, I’ve gotten up, went to the bathroom and “experienced”/saw something while I was fully awake).

My husband was at a friend’s a few hours away for a bachelor party and we’ve been having “issues” so I’ve been under a lot of stress; so factor that in if you feel you must. I feel confident that I did wake from my dream when I fell to the floor and actually saw/experienced what happened afterwards.

While I’m sure that if I were to take the time to fine tune this into a “story” quite frankly I want to try to not give any more “energy” into this whole thing so I’ll …

Strange Things are Happening to Me

I don’t know if these can be called ghost stories. I don’t believe in ghosts but I 110% believe in demons because those I have seen with my own two eyes. It started when I was young. I think it moved in when I was in middle school. I say move in because I remember the day that I started to feel it watching me/us. I still don’t know if my family was aware of it at all. I guess I was too chicken to ask, that’s when things become real, but anyway I started to feel the strongest feeling of being watched (I feel it now).

It began to consume my thoughts. I would fear just sitting at home and doing my everyday things. It was watching me/us through the vents in the ceiling. When I took naps at home I’d have outer body experiences where I’d float up to the vent, and I would be watching my family …

Ghost of Logan Square

It was September of 1990 and some friends of mine were taking weekend holiday and asked me to house sit for them. Their apartment was a gorgeous grey stone building on Sacramento Boulevard in the Logan Square Neighborhood in Chicago.

I’d been there many times before, but this particular time something felt different from the moment I stepped into the foyer. I was with another person, a friend of mine at the time, and as we got ourselves situated we decided to order pizza. Before the pizza arrived I decided to take a shower in the master bathroom. While I was showering it felt like someone was in the shower stall with me… watching me. I couldn’t see them but I knew someone was there! A feeling of uneasiness came over me and my heart started pounded in my chest. I hurried as fast as I could to dry off. I put on my sweet pants and t-shirt and ran …

Evil Black Shadow Over My Bed

This has been happening to me since I was 4 years old or at least that’s how far back I can remember it happening. I have always been plagued by horrific evil nightmares, but they seem so real I really do not believe that they are nightmares at all especially when I am still awake when it happens.

This only happens when I am alone. I’ll be in bed ready to go to sleep and then all of a sudden I’m in this “state.” I don’t remember falling asleep and when in this state I am in bed in the same pj’s, thinking about the same things I was when I was awake. I’m completely consciously aware. I start to feel this evil presence in my room and the feeling of evil is so overwhelming that I can’t move. It is positively horrifying and terrifying.

Sometimes I see a dark murky cloud or shape hovering above me or my bed …

The Tall Shadow Figure and Footsteps on the Stairs

So my husband is an atheist and had absolutely no belief or interest in paranormal… until about 2 weeks ago. He states he woke up in the middle of the night because I was breathing “weird, as if blowing out b-day candles.” He said this happened twice so he knew he was awake. He went to wake me up and then out of the corner of his eye he suddenly saw a ceiling-tall shadow figure lurking in the corner of the room by the mirror. What really freaked him was that it responded like a person would and when it realized it had been spotted it took off super fast out of the room into the hall. He said he could see it’s elongated arms swinging as it walked out. He also could see something resembling a hood. He drew me a picture of “it” which creeped me to the bone! I have researched the topic and was shocked at …

Shadow Man With a Top Hat

This is an experience that happened 6 or 7 times, in fact so many that instead of terror I would feel anger when I saw him and eventually I refused to sleep in the basement. Even in college. It started when I was 14. I woke up for some reason and I couldn’t move. I was absolutely paralyzed but I could look around, think, blink, just not move my body. I looked towards my feet and at the foot of my bed was a shadow man, all black, with a black top hat on. I couldn’t see any details because he was completely dark. Like the absence of light since it was 2 a.m. and he was darker than the surrounding room. He just stood there not moving at all. I don’t know how long I stared at him, but I finally was able to move. I bolted up and he was gone.

There were other experiences too, and my …

Waking Nightmare

Well, where do I begin? I have been searching for an answer to what happened to me for over a year, and I cannot find anyone who had this type of experience.

I woke up from a sound sleep at exactly 3:00 AM. It was strange because I looked at the clock exactly as it changed from 2:59. I heard what sounded like someone coming up the stairs and down the hall toward our bedroom. Mind you, my wife was asleep all this time. I was alarmed to say the least. I thought someone had broken in.

I reached over to the night stand and tried to turn on the lamp. It’s one of those that you have to turn till it clicks on and off. I turned it, click, and nothing. I began to think, “come on, is this really happening right now?” I tried two or three more times and as much as it clicked, the light still …

Waking Up Scared

Growing up, I experienced many instances of sleep paralysis. I guess I thought it was normal, because I haven’t thought about it in a very long time. After reading about the instances here, I realized that I’ve definitely experienced sleep paralysis.

From the time I was very young, I would wake up at least once or twice a month in a state of extreme fear, unable to move. Most of the time I would wake up and even though I couldn’t open my eyes, I knew that I wasn’t alone in my room. I could feel the presence of something so evil and THERE that it’s presence was a physical thing. My heart would be beating fast and my eyes would be trying to open, but I couldn’t open them no matter how hard I tried.

Somehow, even though I couldn’t see, I could still “see” my room and the shadows that surrounded my bed. I could see something that …

Black Demon?

I come from a family of 8 and I’m the only one who has experienced these type of things.. I’ve had weird things happen to me starting from when I was about 8 years old. I’d wake up in the middle of night with this dark cloudy thing hovering over me, I can remember feeling very uncomfortable and it’d be hard to breathe. I’d always try to get up but couldn’t cause I felt like I was being forced down and I couldn’t move at all, it was like this really heavy pressure on top of me. And for some reason I couldn’t speak either cause I’d always try to yell to my sister across my bedroom for help, but nothing would come out. It would eventually leave me.

I’m now 17 and this has happened about 6 – 8 times, but one of my last attacks happened about a year and a half ago. It was definitely the most …

Old Hag My Story

About two years ago I was pregnant with my first baby. And of course I was excited about my pregnancy me and my husband had tried for awhile and I was so ready to become a mommy! But anyways, it had been a really long night for me I was tired like most pregnant women are so I thought I would call it a night.

Later on I remember having a dream I was running and something was trying to take my baby! I was screaming and kicking and saying I’m her mommy I’m her mommy! Then all of the sudden my eyes shot open and I couldn’t move and I could feel my heart beat like I had just ran a mile.
I couldn’t keep my eyes off of my bathroom door which was on my side of the bed I had an awful feeling about it I felt something was in there and I didn’t want to know …

Shadows and Sleep Paralysis

Okay, so I have a story and its been a very long time since I’ve told anybody about this story, and I still remember it as if it happened last month, but I thought I’d submit it to this website because a lot of these stories seems sincere.

I don’t remember how this all quite started all I know is that I had been seeing a shadow when I was living with my dad and step mother at the time. It begins when I was living with my dad, brother, step sister, and step mother at the time in one of our apartments, it all began with little things like, stuff moving from one place to another without any recollection of us moving it,to finding our stuff in odd places where they were usually never placed, then it went on to things moving in the night like plates and bowls sounding as if they were being shifted inside the cabinets.…