I was thrilled when my story about growing up in an apparently haunted Victorian was selected as a republished finalist in 2013 (‘The Sibling,’ here). Then a few years ago I also shared how something bizarre I’d been experiencing for years finally got a scientific explanation.

Way, way back in the 1980’s, when all phone lines were ‘landlines’, answering machines were rare, and caller ID was not available, I was in Grade 11, home alone, and at the mercy of a persistent prank caller.

SCARY STORY TIME!

Most people don’t believe in ghosts. I didn’t, but after I had my baby, everything changed. I now know for sure there are things we cannot see that exist. My paranormal sensitivity intensified...something wanted my attention. It started when my partner (“M”) woke up in the middle of the night and yelled. He said he…

Our pet dog passed away unexpectedly late last year. We grieved and were despondent for months. It literally felt like there was a gray pall over us.

Years ago, when I was a young adult, I lived in a rural area outside of a small town. To get to my house, I had to drive through a section of a wooded area. Not quite big enough to be a forest, and if you walked enough in one direction or another, you’d hit cattle pastures and farmland.

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…

So this story is not really scary but it was creepy when it happened and I hope it never happens again.

A lot of weird stuff has happened to me over the years, and I consider myself “sensitive,” despite also being an atheist. I tend to think that there are explanations for the supernatural but that we just don’t have the answers yet. It’s all energy, right? Anyway, here is one of the creepiest things that happened to me…

Not scary but paranormal and lots of witnesses. So in Foster, Rhode Island, there’s an area deep in the woods that is considered to be “legally haunted”. It’s the site of an old factory/mill in the early 1800s, and apparently way back in the day paranormal activity was so high in the area that they counted the ghost…

I grew up in a house surrounded by trees, so at the time I was accustomed to hearing branches scrape or fall on roofs or walls. I’ve moved into an apartment this year that doesn’t have any trees touching the building, so no weird noises from trees, but then there’s a whole slew of new noises to get accustomed to from…

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…

“You know this whole neighborhood is built over old Indian burial grounds, right?” is something you might hear growing up from someone who’s just trying to scare you, but in my case it’s not that much of a stretch from what the reality is. Not too far away from where I live is a place called Cahokia Mounds, which are…

It’s weird because I absolutely hate scary movies I hate being scared but I LIVE for these. Maybe its just because they're written and I like reading. I was just checking yesterday and was worried they weren’t doing it this year!! Woo something fun! 

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

I was recently driving home from work on a nice sunny evening. The stretch of road this happened on is a slightly uphill, very long block of a parkway, with a very wide (maybe 40 yards wide), sparsely treed median to my right. Since then I’ve tried to count about how long this entire event took and it was probably…

My stepmum is pretty sensitive to the other side, she’ll get a look on her face in the middle of a conversation and eerily look past you, and you’ll know that she is seeing a ghostie. She’s never scared and will often just tell them to move along. This spookiness was seemingly inherited by my oldest niece, who is now…

I just hope the Midwest doesn’t expect the entire nation to stop what it is doing and hold their hands so they don’t throw this election like they did last time. Dems only come to my state to raise money, but that doesn’t mean I don’t vote for them, the midwest has to grow the fuck up and stop expecting special…

I have been refreshing Jezebel since 10/1 for this!! Much excite! Truly the only thing keeping me going during this dumpster fire that is October 2020

I’ve been there when I got nerve damage. The roids make you very positive and confident. Its no joke or exaggeration.