I’ve got a scary story. About 4 times I’ve come back to this tab that I have kept open the whole time and the most dreaded thing has happened. The page has been reloaded and sent me back to the top.

When I was 10 my mom and I had to drive through the Colorado Rockies in the middle of the night. We were going home from a family reunion and on the last leg home crossing six states, she said we had enough money left for gas or to stay overnight in a hotel room, but not both. Everything on the trip had cost more than…

The Red House

Back in high school, my parents were strict about my curfew and driving long distances. I thought it was lame then, but I would not drive 2 hours with a 17 year old behind the wheel now.

I wrote this up last year, intending to share it on here, and then I never did for some reason. A year later and I’ve decided it’s time.

Years ago, I housesat for my sister and her husband when they went off on their honeymoon. My boyfriend at the time was out of town, so it was just me and my sister’s two large boxers. It was in a suburban neighborhood, but their house sat at the edge of the neighborhood, next to a grove of hazelnut trees that then…

This story is 100% true... to the point that I have written about it twice and been published in my local newspaper. There are credible witnesses to whom I have personally spoken and from what I hear, even recorded evidence on a cell phone.

Not paranormal or supernatural at all, and in the end more funny than scary, but it was extremely scary at the moment it happened...

The summer of 2014, I got a sublet in a Midwest college town to escape my family drama and to live with my partner Alex. We took over the rent for the college student who was living at home during the summer, and she told us that her current roommate would be returning to the apartment in a month. Alex and I spent the…

A couple of years ago my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer. At first, I took time off of work to take her to appointments and my dad did the best he could when I couldn’t be around. Unfortunately my dad had Parkinson’s and his condition was deteriorating under the stress and he became less able to help. So toward…

I live in a small, very haunted city on the gulf. So I don’t have one specific, huge spooky story, but just several spooky moments. When I first moved here several years ago, my bf (at the time, now husband) helped me move in, but then had to go back to our last home for a couple months to wrap up things at work. It…

Mine’s short and sweet. Not so much a ghost, as a visitation.

Mom was always a birdwatcher and particularly loved cardinals. She would repeat as often as she could that they mated for life. We had a series of them nest in the forsythia bush outside our porch and watched several generations of babies raised while I was…

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…

My mother would have vivid dreams about me being raped and murdered when I was a teenager and for some reason she saw fit to share that information with me at the time instead of just saying, “Be careful out there!” As far as I know, I never came close to being raped and murdered as a teenager, but there was one night…

Okay so I talked about my creepy haunted childhood house for the home improvement Pissing Contest and was advised to post it in the Spooky Story contest. I have already read way scarier stories but I’ll just cut and paste with a few edits:

This happened pretty recently. I found an old neighbor on the street one day with a bloody face. He had fallen over while walking his dog and couldn’t get up. I called 911 and hung around to see if he got admitted to the hospital, offering to keep his dog if so. He didn’t but I checked on him a few days later, worried…

I am the spooky friend. Like, I’m the friend people call when they have questions about the ghost in their attic or how to stop a streak of nightmares. So when my job booked our massive yearly work training at a notoriously haunted hotel, a few close work friends asked if we could hold a seance. After some thinking…

I grew up in a small town in North Florida. It is small with a picture perfect Main Street, beautiful beaches untouched by tourism, everyone knows each other kind of town. When my parents moved to town, we would drive by this Victorian style house (it wasn’t new built in the early 1990s) that we loved. It has a what I…

Not my story - I ‘witnessed’ it, but was a baby at the time.

Hooray! Mine’s not-so-scary, so you can read it while your underwear is in the wash: