I think you are right! Train station is a good way to put it! The house we were in right before this was a new build (no house had been on the lot before so it was new new). There were no ghosts when we moved in. I remember going down to turn off some lights in the finished basement level before bed shortly after we…

This happened to me, once, only a little bit different - I lived in a winterized cottage with a twin cottage attached to it, and one night while reading in bed, I heard the sounds of someone cleaning the space next door - vacuuming, running the water, what sounded like someone hammering nails into the wall, etc. I…

The Plantation Workers

A Woman Scorned Will Haunt You

In 2016, I worked in a Dermatologist’s office with this girl we’ll call Rosa. Rosa was in her early-mid 20's and a single mother to a seven year-old girl we’ll call Anna.

The Downstairs Tenants

One year, a week before Halloween, a family friend (Tom) set out a perfectly autumnal scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern head on his front porch swing. Cute, huh?

What the neighbors didn’t know was that Tom had made the scarecrow himself after buying two identical pairs of overalls and red flannel shirts. One outfit was…

I’ve never had a paranormal experience of my own (probably for the best — it’s like they know I’d freak out and thus have gone easy on me), but I collect other people’s; my favorite icebreaker is to ask whether someone’s had a run-in with the paranormal. The all-time creepiest response (with photo evidence) came from…

Burning Holes from Beyond

A lot of bad stuff happens in hotels and motels that leaves remnants and echoes. Unlike the historic hotels who play up their ghosts, most places don’t say a thing because “hooker who was brutally murdered by a random john” just doesn’t have the same cache as “forlorn Victorian lady pining for her lost love.” I used…

TW for mention of suicide.

In the mid 90's I worked as part of an engineering team for one of the major telecoms that bid on state-sponsored Relay Service for Hearing Impaired customers. If we won a state, we built a call center there with the necessary technology. It meant living in a hotel for a couple of weeks, for my team. One member of my…

This happened to the ex-boyfriend of my cousin Alex. His family had just purchased a home in San Angel, a neighborhood in Mexico City filled with history and old houses. Among other things, it was site to the mass hanging of men belonging to Saint Patrick’s Battalion.

My husband, at-the-time-6 month old son (Forrest), and I were visiting his family at a small lake in Missouri for the 4^th of July this year. I’m not going to give the name because it was pretty small and I’m not trying to blow anyone up with unwanted attention. We rented an Airbnb with my MIL and FIL to have a place…

I enjoy this feature every year and I always think I should share my story but never do...this year, I am going to tell it!

Warring Metaphysical Shops

An absolutely fair correction!  If it is published I will make the edit. Thank you :)

Three things to know about my dad:

The Watcher

I submitted this last year, but it got buried.