I’ve written about the house I live in before  (https://jezebel.com/1849648358). It’s the family home, built just after WWII. It’s been haunted and had weird things happen in and around it my whole life.

When I was 5 or 6, back in the early 80s, I lived in a small, relatively rural mill town. My cousins lived a block down from me and there was a neighborhood corner store at the end of their block called Cricket’s Corner.

Long ago, before everyone had dating apps on their phone, us gay boys would sit at our desktop computers and try and meet guys for sex on sites like Manhunt and DudesNude.

I’ve written about the haunted house that I live in a few times over the years (https://jezebel.com/1838851052) and (https://jezebel.com/1849658024). Last night, my wife and I were out at her sisters and my stepdaughter was home alone with the dogs. We left around 4:00 and around an hour later, both my wife and I…

One night my mom curled up on the couch with a book to wait for my dad to come home from a late shift at work. The book was The Exorcist. She hated scary movies but loved reading scary books.

There is a real dearth of maritime-related scary stories on here over the years, thanks for this!

Ok, so this story definitely falls into the “kids say the creepiest things” catagory, but there’s a helluva coda at the end of it, so stay with me. I promise every word of this true. This is what took me from ghost agnostic to believer.

The Little Boy with the Brown Coat

Not necessarily super spooky, but it really scared me at the time!

My story is more unnerving than scary, but it is true, DOES involve a ghost, and has totally changed my understanding of spirits and what the hell they’re up to.

About five years ago I lived in a neighborhood called Hillcrest, right above downtown San Diego. My wife, daughter and I were living in a tiny one bedroom apartment that looked like it had once been part of a larger house that got subdivided. We liked that apartment a lot. We had a little L shaped garden out of our…

My sophomore year of college I moved out of an awkward rooming situation and was set up in a temporary “emergency single” that the university kept open. After the ordeal I had with my former roommates, I was excited to have a room all to myself.

Very short story, but a few years ago, I was reading the exorcist for the first time. I am not a scary movie person, but I can handle a scary book (usually). I had gotten to a particularly spooky part and decided to put the book down and go chat with my husband. I told him I was reading the exorcist, and he said,…

Hunter or Hunted?

Aunt Mary Doesn’t Believe!

This is a story where I have to admit my own very poor decisions and completely trusting nature led me to the outcome.

Not me, but a friend from school— we were all attending school in a small Canadian city where there are quite a lot of colleges and universities for its size, so lots of young people and parties/ bars, etc. My friend lived alone in a one bedroom ground floor apartment with a patio with a door that locked and a front…

A few years ago, my wife and I went to spend time trick or treating with our goddaughter and her siblings in Jersey City. Rather than fight the subway system and subsequent debauchery during the Village Halloween Parade, we decided to take a Lyft home to our south Brooklyn apartment - about 45 minutes in a car. We got…

Long time reader, first time posting a story. This happened when I was around 6-7 years old. My older sister (we’ll call her Marie) had a lot of behavioral problems that, maybe in a different family, would have been recognized for what they were and treated with compassion and real resources. But instead it was our…

I attended a small college on the East Coast in the late 2000s. The college has always had, and still has to this day, quite a reputation for being haunted; the campus would hold ghost tours in the fall, and as an eighteen-year-old, this was a selling point for me. While some of the older buildings on campus were old…