When you come back you should check out the cemetery tours by Save Our Cemeteries (particularly the St. Louis I Cemetery tour) and Friends of the Cabildo tours. I’ve found them to be the most reliable tours since they’re both run by historical societies. You should also go to Islands of Salvation Botanica Vodou, which…

Whyyyyy did I read this?! Your story reminds me way too much of my current living situation and now I’m honestly going to sleep with the lights on :(

Let me preface this by saying, this isn’t so much a ghost story as it is just something scary and weird that I don’t know how to explain.

And Mtn. Brook. But Mtn. Brook may as well have a direct pipeline into UA.

Bama’s school colors are crimson and white. And Harvard’s student newspaper is called The Crimson.

*goosebumps* (also, the fear of being sealed up in a cast...)

Thanks!

Okay, so this year I can participate since the main player who would be scandalized by airing the laundry has passed. As background, my mother had me in her late thirties and her mother in turn had her in her late thirties. My mother was the youngest of eight children and had brothers much older than she, which is how…

This truly happened to me, and maybe I should have contacted the police about it but I didn’t. I try not to think about it.

I'm happy that she quit and also glad she exposed this insanity. It's one thing to resign and keep the oath of silence, it's another to speak out knowing she will be shunned for it. Brave woman.

Jackson

Oh jeez, “don’t wake up” like “stay asleep to avoid danger,” or “don’t wake up” like “die now!” AHHHHHH!!!

When I was sixteen I would sneak out of the house at night get high and read a book (Such a rebel, I know). There was an empty forclosed home next door, and I would get inside via a basement window well and smoke in the basement’s bar area. One night it was raining pretty heavy, and I forgot to bring my lighter. I…

My junior year in college my roommate and I had a fascination with Ouija boards. We would pull it out for every little decision and for every one of life’s great mysteries (Will I get a good job? Will I get married? Where does the other sock go? Is the coke really pure?). Every once in awhile we would get a response…

I got nothin’, but IT’S HERE, IT’S HERE! This is my favorite thing.

Yay - I love this thread! I know three true ghost stories; here’s one:

I wait all year for this!

Also the folks who have to live in crumbling, non-’applianced’ or COMPLIANCED motel rooms, because no landlord will have them. They just tore one down last month. I couldn’t sort it out: Yes, that (believe it - Expensive!) rat-infested place had to go. But where did the residents go?

You have Sunday off? You don’t have a physical job either. I’m an attorney and have one LeCreuset dutch oven to use to braise my short ribs.

My husband and I saw a Revolutionary War soldier once. We were driving near our home in NJ, in an area that has a big Revolutionary War history. We were across from an old farmstead, which was one of the oldest farmsteads in NJ settled by one of the first families to the area in the 1600s. There had also been a…