It was believable up until the point where you decided to wear head to toe thrift stores clothes without washing them first. 

I don’t super agree with your tone but I do agree that each year this contest runs, the stories get more & more clearly made up. This isn’t a short story fiction contest, this is for people who have actually experienced scary/creepy/paranormal shit. That’s why I read. 

This story isn’t scary, and there are so many other stories on here that I doubt anyone will read it...but it IS true, I wanted to share it somewhere, and folks in my normal life would probably roll their eyes, so...

I totally understand. I share an old house with roommates and up until recently, I felt like I was being watched in my bedroom but it also comes in phases. Talking to it is usually best and letting it know you aren’t there to cause harm. At the same time, it’s an old house. I get it! Thank you for sharing. I love…

To the best of my knowledge, no, the house has never been cleansed, blessed or anything like that. I know my mother-in-law has had some friends over in the past that have mentioned to her about how they feel that “something is here,” but never anything more than that. I guess the fact that we’re a non-religious…

Ok, this one is going to be presented differently.
Step-Daughter (SD): Mom are you awake?
My Wife (MW): Yes
SD: Are you going for a smoke?
MW: No.
MW: Why?
SD: Because I’ve heard someone going up and down the stairs for the last 10 minutes. I thought it was you.

This happened during the summer in the middle of the night…

I thought about suicide every day. My ex told me it was probably the best thing for the children.

Like everything in this house, they come and go. Sometimes it is more active than others. At least to me, they seem less menacing here than what most people experience. I would assume that they’re ghosts (they resemble humans - I know some stories have them seeming demonic or taking on non-human characteristics), but…

No, that story, to the best of my knowledge, hasn’t been shared outside of the family before. I most definitely didn’t post it on reddit - would love to see it. Everything I post will be exclusive to this thread/contest

When I was about 22 one of my close friends, T, completed suicide. His housemate found him. None of us knew what he’d been going through. He was the life and soul. It was hard.

I hope you get out of the greys so you can tell that story.

Also, I hope you write an amazing series about a kid who somehow befriends an annoying brat of a demon who tells him important information, and when he grows up they solve crimes together and stuff, because I would absolutely read/watch that.

This one is the one that has confused me the most (I alluded to it earlier).
Summer of 2012, 3:00 or so on a Saturday morning. I’m asleep when I roll over and hear the shower going. I know it is the shower because the shower head makes a certain noise when the water drops into the shower. I don’t think much about it…

These next stories are all about my step-daughter, who has lived in the house almost her entire life.

YES SHARE MORE

I currently live in a haunted home. We live in a 150+ year old farmhouse outside of Toronto, Canada. My wife’s family has lived here for 40 years and in that time they’ve seen and heard lots of different things.

This was me, but, instead of a large dish, I ordered like a dozen samosas (I forgot one order came with multiples).

I once placed a Grubhub order only to find out that I accidentally ordered 3 of one large dish instead of just 1. I tried to use the chat function, but was told I had to call the restaurant **lightning strike sound**.

There should also be a rule to not make the same stupid Trump jokes like the last 2 years. They have been a stain on the scary stories post.