My grandma, who grew up super Mormon in Utah, said she played with a Ouija board at a birthday party ONCE when she was 13. They all thought it was silly, until all the lights went out, the doors slammed shut, and the table they were playing on lifted up in the air and slammed down.

whoa

WHOA, it was YOU? That's the first time I've heard that about a dark figure watching you sleep!

Ugh. Laundry rooms are so creepy!

Didn't the Zodiac killer do this too? <shivers>

It's so fascinating the reports of people feeling depressed and leaving jobs during a haunting. It makes me wonder if any of my episodes of depression were due to my sensitivity to spirits...

I am so sorry this happened to you. Hugs to you.

The teacher voice is the best! Not saying it works every time, but it has saved my ass more than once!

Terrifying!

If you read the whole thread, you'll see that sleep paralysis can happen multiple times over someone's life, not just once.

That's so interesting! I dated an asshat once, and when we started dating, things would start moving. I'd do the dishes, and put them all in the drying basket, and then watch TV in the other room. I'd hear something in the kitchen, and find Tupperware in the middle of the floor. After we moved in together, I'd…

Also, my brother has a pretty creepy story. Last year he got really sick and had to have surgery, so I went to help him and his wife out. I stayed in the spare room, which faces woods at the back. There were no blinds on the windows, and I hated sleeping under them, certain that one night I would wake up and see a…

I always think I'll see someone/something looking in! I was catsitting in upstate New York recently, and the woman who owned the place had giant glass windows and skylights all over the house, and no curtains! The TV room was in the finished basement — more windows everywhere! The back of the house faces woods — I…

That's so effed up! Ahhhhh!

OMG scary! These haunted apartment stories remind me of an apartment that I looked at with an old roommate of mine. We were thinking of moving into an attic apartment, and when we arrived, the landlady wasn't there to show us in. So we waited for her in the driveway, and a woman rode in on a bike. She gave us a…

I wonder if this is why I only sleep on my stomach now. I used to always sleep on my back, with my arms stretched out overhead, and now I can't sleep unless I'm on my stomach. I've tried to sleep on my back again, because it's better for your skin (I'm vain), but I can't relax unless I'm sleeping on my stomach.

This has happened to me. Not a goblin man, but sometimes I have small, hideous creatures sitting on my chest, and I can't move. I once dreamed that my cat attacked one and scare it away. I was so proud of him! When I woke up, heart pounding, I found him in the living room, sleepy and calm. I also once dreamt that…

Oh man, so creepy.

What do you mean when you say the latch was set? Was this a latch that could not be opened by keys? Because often building managers have keys to all the units...

There's a ghost kitty at my friend Christine's. I stayed at her place during Hurricane Sandy. We were watching movies and we were sitting on her pull-out couch, and I felt a cat jump on the end of the bed and turn around a few times, curl up and get settled. That night when we went to sleep, it jumped back onto the…