My wife and I bought a house on see Lake Michigan just north of Chicago. Beautiful views of the water, the city, and the home is spectacular for raising kids. It was built in the 80s, so we didn’t think anything weird would come up. For the first 1.5 years in the house, nothing. The occasional creaky floorboard but…

Imiñauraḳ

Absolutely no part of this story is exaggerated, and I still don’t know what to make of it. Until I was five, I was raised in a teeny tiny town. My small neighborhood was more like a compound, where all of the people who worked in the clinic next door lived. There was a big garden in the middle of the neighborhood…

We live on a short, dead-end street and we got to know many of our neighbours through our foster dogs that we had to walk from the far end of the street to the corner every time we’d take the dogs for walks.

Hi friends. In years past, I have always submitted (late, sorry!) my story about getting lost in middle school, getting lost in the woods and accidentally finding myself in a Haunt, where Jason leaned, smoking, against a tree and helped my poor, young teacher find her way out of the (fake) haunt and back to our camp.

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No Running (in the Hall)

Hmmm... my sister once told us that she went into my parent’s guesthouse, where she was living at the time, middle of the day and there, floating near the ceiling was a *person made only of white light.*

My father hated me.

Since a lot of these stories have a title I guess mine would be “Whispering behind the door.”

“That Time I Took a Spirit on a Trip to Michaels”

When I came home for the summer after my freshman year of college, I got a summer job organizing the new home of an elderly woman who was a friend of the family. She was very wealthy, and had downsized from a large house to an...honestly still pretty big house, but there was an enormous basement full of old gowns,…

With my first, my son, it was seriously basic stuff. Literally ‘hello’ a couple times, and ‘how are you’. It was strange. It happened when I was in my bedroom, and it was right there in the room with me, it wasn’t from outside.

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.

Ill add another one just because it’s fun!

My encounters with ghosties:

When I was little, we used to vacation a lot with my mother’s brother and his family. His girls and I were about the same age, my eldest cousin ‘Jane’ being 2 years older than me. One holiday weekend, the grown-ups rented a house near the beach called Christopher’s. It was a beautiful two-story house with a pool off…

I’ve definitely had battery-operated toys start making noise in the middle of the night. Recently a two year old Fisher Price airplane that had been in the rainy garden for weeks blared WELCOME ABOARD! into the dark night. These things are all operated by dark magic.

This happened in 1999 in my Chicago suburb. I was 17 (guy) home alone on a week night - maybe 8pm or so - it was dark out. My dog was in the backyard barking and growling, which was not usual, but happened from time to if there was a squirrel or rabbit in the yard. I opened the door to my dog intently staring out to…

“Te quiere dar dinero”/”He wants to give you money”

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.