My father hated me.

The summer before moving away to college my best friend and I decided to take fun day trips around the state to spend time together, as we would be attending different universities. We’d been hiking at different state parks for most of the day and decided to stop at one last place for a quick hike. This park is well…

Now THAT is truly a harrowing tale. You are alive because there is nothing else in this world that can harm you after you shotgunned an entire. can. of. snuff. juice.

Growing up my family moved a lot. All within the same town. My parents had their own business building custom homes and for our family they would build a nice house and we would live in it until it sold. By the time I was 18 I had moved 30 times, mostly in the same town. Just from house to house. I mention this because…

In 1986, my friend “Dan” and I were hiking in the Rampart Range area west of the Air Force Academy reservation just north of Colorado Springs, CO (we were senior cadets) and found a very large, fresh, human looking footprint. The print was about 16”- 18” long, and was in a soft damp patch of soil under some brush that…

This is the most British spooky story ever but I hope it translates for you guys. I’m a freelance journalist and lived in London for ten years, and around three years ago, my then-boyfriend Sean got a job at a fancy botanical garden way out in the burbs, a really dreary finance sector commuter belt county called…

that’s a creepy story within itself! ack! :)

My Uncle Billy was the black sheep of the family. He was my mother’s older brother, who joined the military in the early 1990s and saw combat in the first Gulf War, but he didn’t come entirely back. My mom said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and something called gulf war syndrome. My father said he…

This is an experience my mother had, long before I was born.

In high school, I lived in a farm house built in the early 1700s. The farm had been out of use for a long time but the house was original. We had fallen on some tough times financially and living there seemed like a dream come true, even though the place was in pretty rough shape.

I submitted this last year but it was way too late... so here goes again

I have one this year!! This really isn’t even all that scary, but it was weird, and it happened at the start of Shelter in Place this April.

I’ve got one I call “Old Gray Thing” that I always forget to post. It was a paranormal encounter but I’m still not sure what exactly it was, and I’ve always been curious if anyone else has seen one too. I’m doxxing myself if anyone I know reads this, but here goes nothing...

Full disclosure / Trigger Warning: This post could be triggering for people who have experienced abuse.

This happened to me 15 years ago while backpacking in Peru with a friend. There were a lot of backpackers in the region, and we quickly discovered a lot of them came with the sole intention of doing lots of drugs. We were both straight edge at the time so we generally avoided befriending these types. I think they…

I’m sure this doesn’t count but:

“Without a Whisper”

I had to make a burner for this so it’ll prob stay in the greys.

When I was a kid, like under 3, so this would have been in the 1960s-my parents lived in a small jersey shore town. There were six houses, all connected by paths into a central courtyard. A few houses down was a house the neighborhood kids had determined was a scary house. There wasn’t anything outwardly scary, it was…

I wish I had a ghost story because I love them (although I’m too much of a scaredy cat to seek anything like that out). But this is the most terrifying thing that ever happened to me.