Thanks for that, Archer.

Me too :)

I've read all the way through, then refreshed and scrolled all the way through again several times now. What is wrong with me indeed.

I scare so damned easily yet I have been checking and checking for this thread all week. WTF is wrong with us?!

Thanks! Been waiting years to share this but I had to get the OK in case it was still "classified" somehow. Honestly the most terrifying part was hearing this story told in-person, because my husband is the world's worst storyteller and it takes an hour for him to relay anything so I was sure it was going to end with…

OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD. I asked him why he didn't tell me that before and he said that he didn't want to scare me.
NOPE.

I have a close girlfriend - well, we've waned a bit in the past 6 years, but we love each other - whose brother and nephew have a similar story.

How do you type out a spontaneous, huge intake of breath???

Never seen one myself but I have a story from someone I trust. A few years ago, I asked my SO if he had ever seen a ghost. He got really uncomfortable and squirrelly, lots of hemming and hawing. Annoyed, I said "Just say yes or no! I won't judge if you think you have seen a ghost." (I'm a skeptic and figured he didn't…

This is the closest thing I have to a ghost story. It isn't scary, but it is haunting.

Ohhhhh. That is truly scary. When I was in my teens I was friends with two sisters who had two older brothers. One of the brothers had killed himself, and the family was struggling to deal. The older brother, over the time I knew him, became progressively stranger and had really weird experiences and thoughts that, it…

Holy crap this reminds me. My wife used to travel for work and was working in New Orleans for a couple of weeks so I decided to go and spend the night with her over the weekend. We stayed at the Omni hotel downtown, which is pretty nice.

Something like this happened to my best friend in college. She was in her bedroom in her hour sleeping. She starts to hear rustling around in her roommate's room, like someone is trying to open the window. It's an older house, so the windows are the kind that push up. Said roommate was staying at her boyfriend's…

When I was a kid I used to go to church with my aunt and uncle every Sunday, and after church, my aunt would go up in her painting studio and paint and I would mess around and play pretend or whatever in the living room. One weekend in November when I was 9, my uncle went out of town to go hunting, so my aunt and I…

We live in a hundred-year old brownstone. When we moved in, my second child was just starting to talk, and he would often talk to the wall, it seemed, and he would laugh and laugh. Once he started talking better I asked him who he was talking to and he answered, "The man." When I pressed him, he said, "The man who…

This isn't a ghost story, but it does still scare the shit out of me nearly 15 years later….

This happened when I lived in San Francisco. My husband and I lived in a really old but beautiful building. Bay windows, hardwood floors, etc., but it was very old and hadn't really had any updates made to it. Before we got it we were having a hard time finding a place in our budget and we desperately had to get out…

Ok, I'm gray, so perhaps nobody will see this, but I hope a few people do, because it's a true story and just about the scariest thing that has ever happened to me.

that makes it worse, because SHIT, CUDDLING WON'T PROTECT ME????

My childhood home had a lot of little weird unexplained happenings over the years, but this is the major event for me. I was seven years old when this happened.