Scattering

Cottage Visit

My bf and i had just moved in together he had a nice apartment, his aunt owns the complex. One day this older couple decided to just pack their stuff and leave, my bf’s aunt told us we could move into their apartment. Since i was 2 months pregnant with twins and they had carpet, we decided to move in. As soon as i…

I’ve lurked, like many, for so many years of this contest! Every year I think about telling this story but chicken out. I even contacted the person involved with me (even though we hadn’t spoken in YEARS), to attempt to get him to tell it, but alas. I’ve only retold this aloud to a few folks, so hopefully my retelling…

My dad committed suicide ten years ago now. Just over a year ago, I was running errands near where he used to work - I spent a lot of time there as a kid, he and my mum job shared and it was a notforprofit and very social and family oriented. The organisation isn’t in the main part of the building but there’s still a…

Give Us A Sign

I just remembered this one, I hope I’ve made the deadline!

Growing up I had been extremely close to my grandma. She lived only 5 minutes away from my family for most of my life, so we saw her all the time and for EVERY special event in my childhood. I had a bit of a strained relationship with my mom when I was younger, so my grandma was the person I would go-to for all the…

Condolences on the loss of home. Paradise/Magalia?

So apparently I have seen a ghost but I was too young to remember.

Okay so I don’t even know how objectively scary this is, but it is very true. Growing up my parents lived in a rural and fairly isolated area. I slept in the basement with my sister, and quickly learned after a couple times yelling for my parents about giant spiders that no one would ever hear me if I screamed. So...…

I just posted my own UFO story but it’s still in the greys. Directly after I got into my house after seeing it, I turned on my tv and Coming to America with Eddie Murphy was on. It’s like a cornerstone of my most terrifying memory. Not gonna lie...I kind of think Eddie Murphy is working with the aliens now.

I was working in a northernish reserve school in Alberta back in the late nineties. Everything in this world is political, and first nation reserves are no exception, so when the gym teacher (whose real name is actually the name I use to give anything a fake name so we’ll call him Jorge instead) came to us on a cold…

For background, I’ve always believed in ghosts but I didn’t have an experience with them until I lived in a house that was haunted a few years ago. Nothing big ever happened there, I was just always scared to be alone there, I sometimes heard running up the front stairs, I saw a lady dressed in white outside my room,…

Yikes! The clicking on the glass gave me the willies!

Also, it reminded me of the only evidence of ghostly phenomena that I’ve personally experienced at my presumably-haunted workplace (a 400+ year old building where others have definitely reported creepy happenings): A couple of times, when I’ve been working in one of…

So this is second-hand but I 100% believe it because I’ve been to the space many times and ~felt things~. My friend’s son goes to a daycare in the basement of an old church in the PNW that has been converted into a community space (they still use the sanctuary for services but the rest of the buildings are leased to…

I always want to share this story here, but I get so caught up trying to read everyone else’s that I never get around to actually writing it up.

So back in 2012 I was seeing someone who was going to Northern Arizona University. I was living in Tucson at the time, and on this particularly late September weekend, I was gearing up for a 4 day trip to spend her birthday weekend with her in Flagstaff. The night before I left, I had this nightmare that sticks with…

The cavernous, silent hotel lobby stretched out before me. I sat behind the front desk, quietly reading. I wasn’t sleeping but still felt jolted awake by the ringer. Room 212.

This story is kind of “Look at Me” Light, but I’ve debated sharing it here enough times that I guess it’s worth a go.