I look forward to this all year! Nothing brings the spooks quite like this community. I’ve thought about writing up my story for years now, but I always put it off. The first part is mine, and the second part happened to my best friend, who I can vouch for - she doesn’t really believe in the paranormal, but can’t…

What if…

Oh hell no. Big Haunting of Hill House "whose hand was I holding" vibes. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

Oh I was very excited to see a ghost story from The Queen Mary! For some reason I was so interested in the ghosts and history of her this past year. Maybe one day I’ll be able to visit (I’m up in Canada LOL). I don’t understand the girl ghost though, there is no record of any child drowning. To be brutally honest, I…

I don’t think you’re alone in that sentiment. I didn’t see any notifications for it and I wait for it every year too. I was a few days late after it had been posted, and there were only about 170 posts! I went through them in a matter of a couple days and I was a bit disappointed (normally I take all month to read…

Ah, another day of fine police work I see. 🙄

Do you belong to some sort of neighborhood board? I would alert others in your ‘hood to watch out, and to also report if they see or experience anything similar. Cops can ignore one complaint, but they can’t ignore a stack of them.

I started Googling “Jezebel scary stories 2022" every day the last week of September so I didn’t miss it.

I can't stop laughing about this.

I am not sure why. I can only speculate. All the children that drowned in the daycare center were infants or toddlers...so pretty young. Dorian’s baby brother fits that “preferred” demographic. I am sure things in the house were depressing for all after the baby died. I am sure the mom felt guilty...her baby drowned…

We moved into a new to us house 6 months ago. There are 2 large bedrooms upstairs, and 2 small bedrooms on the main floor. My husband and I take one of the upstairs bedrooms and our 2 year old daughter is in the other. Since moving in, she’s been a bad sleeper - up several times during the night, sometimes crying,…

This was start-to-finish fantastic, thank you so much for sharing with us. I imagine how scared you were about getting caught for hiding that notebook but truly, thank goodness you did or perhaps this story could have been so much worse. I’m also so sorry about what happened to Sharon.

Your bitterness saved lives!

This isn’t scary in the slightest but thought I’d share anyway. My Mum died 12 years ago following a short but very vicious fight with cancer. On the morning she passed (she insisted on being at home the whole time during her illness) we were able to be there when she took her last breath. A few hours later, after the…

Girl code extends beyond the grave :)

A few evenings ago, my three-year old son was staring past me with a furrowed brow and asked who was the scary lady with black hair who lived in the bookcase? I damn near pissed myself. I looked and nothing was there, fortunately. He asked again last night who was the dark lady in the bookshelf, and my blood ran cold.…

When I was in high school, I worked at an event space that was part of my town’s park district. It was a 12,000 square foot mansion built in the early 1910s, which was owned for many years by a Chicago industrialist who left the property to his orphaned, penniless niece. She eventually deeded it to the town in…

This is beautifully told, chilling and heartbreaking. . . even before the tragic ending, my heart ached for little smoochiebear and how girls are still routinely expected to sacrifice their own childhoods to raise little brothers and and to diminish their own light. . .

My god. SO well written...the foreshadowing with the addresses in the notebook, and then the awful twist! Truly scary (and sad).

It’s the 80s it’s Halloween on a weekday and I, being the oldest and a girl, am responsible for taking 2 younger brothers trick or treating, along with 2 young sons of my parents’ friends. My parents and the kids’ parents are at our house playing cards and and smoking cigarettes.