We took our kids to Costa Rica, and stayed at an eco-resort in Arenal, in the jungle. We had a lovely deck looking toward the volcano, over the jungle and once you got used to the ungodly noise howler monkeys make, it was quite peaceful.

Not me, but a friend from school— we were all attending school in a small Canadian city where there are quite a lot of colleges and universities for its size, so lots of young people and parties/ bars, etc. My friend lived alone in a one bedroom ground floor apartment with a patio with a door that locked and a front…

“The sleep watcher” from this article targeted a house I shared with six other girls in Halifax. At least we think it was the same guy, this happened about 8 years before this guy was caught. It was truly terrifying. One night we found a ladder he left outside my friend’s window… she heard a noise at the window and…

I love a sweet ghost so much...the fact that she helped your 5-year-old get to sleep is so beautiful to me, especially since rest is something she doesn’t have. :(

I’m so sorry about your son. You sound like an incredible and protective parent <3

I get the tactile hallucinations with sleep paralysis, too...always feels like someone sitting behind me on my bed, and it sagging and depressing. At this point I know to just ignore it, but the first few times was a TRIP.

It would have been 2005 and 2006. I didn't have a video camera and smart phones were just coming out.  

This reads like a very earnest student in a creative writing programme, who’s trying their best to write in dialect

Carved pumpkins start rotting real fast, no way you could have the same carved pumpkins the entire month of October.

First of all- Squeeeeeeeeee! My favorite article/comments section of the year! Now, on to the story...

From 2014 up until the pandemic, I worked at a small hotel in New Orleans. There are two wings to the hotel.

The Watcher

I always love staying at historic hotels, which usually come with at least one ghost story. I was psyched when my spouse’s friend had a wedding in Lewisburg, WV and booked a block of rooms for guests at the historic General Lewis Inn. Of course I googled around for ghost stories in advance - the hotel is known to have…

This is my favorite thing on the internet! This contest is my Christmas!

I moved into a new apartment in Manhattan’s East Village in 2018. It was a huge upgrade for me, and it really is special. It’s kind of a carriage house building with only five apartments and you have to walk through another building to get to it. There is an adorable little courtyard with trees and flowers, and I even…

This story belongs to my dad, but I was present for it- albeit in my mom’s belly. My dad worked transporting buses across the country and taking odd jobs for a big part of his twenties, and by the time he married my mom, he’d experienced more strange happenings than the average person. But this story happened in his…

Suspenseful, but this reads like fiction.

When I was 10 years old, I had an old black and white tv, that had a dial for the volume; you rolled it up to make it louder, you rolled it down to lower it and turn it off. One particular night, I was watching That’s Incredible in my room. One of the segments was about hauntings and it creeped me out. About halfway…

In 2005 I spent the majority of the summer hitchhiking. I had just graduated from college and wanted to try something completely unfamiliar to me, and I insisted on making it a challenge. I lugged everything I had in two large backpacks, one carried on my back and the other on my front, filled with…

When my children were small, they used to tell me about the “gnome” or little man that would stick to the shadows of their bedroom. They would see it in the far corner at night, crouched, or moving at the end of the hallway into another room, but always in the peripheral. This is the only house they ever remember…