Creepy!

I had a paper route. This was in the mid 1980’s. At the time I was a typical ten year old boy living in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. We lived in a two story house near the end of a cul-de-sac. My mom and dad and me. I’d taken over the paper route from a friend at the beginning of summer, thinking of earning some…

I’m not sure I’ll make it out of the grays, and if I do this post will get buried, but I still want to share. This isn’t my own story. It’s my late grandmother’s, and I remember her telling it to me only once when I was a kid. It scared the hell out of me then and it scares me even more as an adult.

I wake up to the sound of the toddler babbling in his bed in the next room over. My phone informs me it’s 7:15 AM. Saturday. A sliver of sunlight creeps around the window curtain’s edge. A slight turn of my head to see my husband snoring softly in the warm space next to me. A little flutter in my heart, love,…

My wife and I bought a house on see Lake Michigan just north of Chicago. Beautiful views of the water, the city, and the home is spectacular for raising kids. It was built in the 80s, so we didn’t think anything weird would come up. For the first 1.5 years in the house, nothing. The occasional creaky floorboard but…

Absolutely no part of this story is exaggerated, and I still don’t know what to make of it. Until I was five, I was raised in a teeny tiny town. My small neighborhood was more like a compound, where all of the people who worked in the clinic next door lived. There was a big garden in the middle of the neighborhood…

Possible Shapeshifter

Oooh, I’ve had the same kind of thing happen! In college I was driving home very late at night from a friend’s house, along really twisty back country roads. As I was coming around a bend, I saw a car at the side of the road, parked; as I approached, it turned on its hazard lights. I kept going, because I was a fairly…

When I was 20, I was home on summer break from college. It was a really nice day and I was by myself in my parents’ little Toyota Yaris on the 15 minute drive home from the gym around 1 pm. There’s this stretch of highway that is straight-as-can-be, and I remembered something that I just HAD to tell my friend, and…

This is a story that doesn’t involve me, but it really does freak me out.

My mother told me last night that I need to tell you a “sweet” ghost story to counter the one above. I don’t think it’s particularly malevolent, but, hey ho. She’s the spiritual one in my family and she thinks I should cleanse the air. So, I’m going to tell you all a wee tale that her mother told her, many many years…

The scariest part of the story is definitely the aunt...

THIS! Those assholes straight up broke the number one public transit code, if a lone traveller is being harassed you bring them into your travel fold! 

So well written. As much as I want this to be true, I really don't want it to be.

I grew up in a small town and as a teenager around the age of 16. I used to do a lot of housesitting and petsitting for people at the small neighborhood church I attended. It was an easy way to get money AND get out of the house for a bit. The couple I was housesitting for this night, was a bit odd but nice enough;…

Shadow

A little background before I get started…

A few years ago, I had a great job: It was my first office job, and it was in my field of study. I got along great with all my colleagues, we had a lot of fun together, and I learned so much working there.

Mine’s short and sweet. Not so much a ghost, as a visitation.

Mom was always a birdwatcher and particularly loved cardinals. She would repeat as often as she could that they mated for life. We had a series of them nest in the forsythia bush outside our porch and watched several generations of babies raised while I was…

Ahhhhh so freaking excited! I really need this, people.