This happened in November last year. The only positive I have been able to take away from it is that I finally have something for this story contest, because I definitely cannot afford to move!

So this is going to sound like nothing. At the time it FELT like nothing. It was only the next morning that I realized how fucked up it was. After the story last year about the yoga retreat (submitted by annclayborn) I figured I’d share.

Hi friends. In years past, I have always submitted (late, sorry!) my story about getting lost in middle school, getting lost in the woods and accidentally finding myself in a Haunt, where Jason leaned, smoking, against a tree and helped my poor, young teacher find her way out of the (fake) haunt and back to our camp.

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This isn’t really scary and I’m certain there’s an explanation but it threw me for a loop at the time. It certainly isn’t going to be in the running for a prize, I just felt like sharing it as a supernatural-adjacent story.

When I was a kid, my parents were thinking about moving us from a big city to a nearby more rural state, to save money, be near better schools, and be closer to my mom’s brother. So one day, we made the few hour drive north as a family to look at a house my mom had found in a small town near my uncle. It was a…

Since a lot of these stories have a title I guess mine would be “Whispering behind the door.”

I had an odd experience the year after our Golden Retriever Lucy died.

I say ‘our’ because we originally got Lucy as a puppy for our kids, but she was really ‘my’ dog - I named her, and when I would get home from work I would call out, “Lucy I’m home!” in my best Ricky Ricardo voice, and she would come running to greet…

Our pet dog passed away unexpectedly late last year. We grieved and were despondent for months. It literally felt like there was a gray pall over us.

I must confess up front this is not particularly scary - but it is definitely ghostly. It just involves my father - the sweetest man ever - so how scary is that?! Lol. I grew up in the country on a farm with horses. Since we were so remote, and the driveway to my childhood home so long, my parents had installed a…

I’m watching it 🖐🏼. This has actually been my favorite ongoing tv show, though that’s only out of 3 shows I watch weekly. (the others being DEVS and Westworld) There’s just a certain nervous tension in the show that draws me in.

I can confirm not only the translation, but that this was a commonly used Yiddish phrase. My gramma taught it to me when I was a kid, and I was delighted to see it in this episode.