Some of them were (evil cackle) BURIED.

Wait until tomorrow. There are 5 there that genuinely gave me heart palpitations.

Horror story week is the BEST. (Also, horror fans, check out the movie Kwaidan that I was watching last night; it's on the Watch TCM app and it's fantastic.)

eh, not as scary as werewolf bar mitzvah - spooky, scary

Or a man saying, "I was curious if I could care about access to contraceptives on some fundamental level, and I couldn't."

Some guy did this to me in costume at a haunted farm thing i went to once, and i couldn't explain to my husband how awful it felt, just to be a woman alone with someone staring at you and not saying anything. something about the not talking was just really upsetting, and we ended up leaving. thanks for posting, i feel…

So many shivers. That's the weird thing about it all. The entire time I lived in that house I felt something ever so slightly off. Once we moved into the attic the presence always felt like a woman to me for no reason I could explain. I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and force myself to stare out…

I had a somewhat similar experience that I posted the year that Hurricane Sandy took down the Gawker servers and I felt like a jerk for being sad about the loss of my ghost stories.

Mine is basically the watered down versions of three separate stories rolled into one. When I was in middle school, they did this thing where all the 6th graders got to go on this three day trip to the mountains. Teachers went, parents went, there were all sorts of outdoorsy activities, and a good time was generally…

Ohhhhh. That is truly scary. When I was in my teens I was friends with two sisters who had two older brothers. One of the brothers had killed himself, and the family was struggling to deal. The older brother, over the time I knew him, became progressively stranger and had really weird experiences and thoughts that, it…

When I was a kid I used to go to church with my aunt and uncle every Sunday, and after church, my aunt would go up in her painting studio and paint and I would mess around and play pretend or whatever in the living room. One weekend in November when I was 9, my uncle went out of town to go hunting, so my aunt and I…

We live in a hundred-year old brownstone. When we moved in, my second child was just starting to talk, and he would often talk to the wall, it seemed, and he would laugh and laugh. Once he started talking better I asked him who he was talking to and he answered, "The man." When I pressed him, he said, "The man who…

My parents' house has a ghost. The house is relatively new, actually, and so there's no actual excuse for a ghost to be there. My father claims there was an old road that ran past the place my parents, and that's the reason for the ghost to be there. Who knows?

So this really surreal story comes from a combination of having a great memory and a lot of lucid dreams. Several years ago, I had a dream where I was walking down a generic town block and I got this crazy sense of deja vu. I realize that I've seen this block before, in a dream I had when I was 12. I look to my…

I have about five true "ghost" stories, and all of them suck. No flaming eyeballs, no rolling heads, no faceless children jumping out from the storage closet under the stairs. This one is a two-parter, and the parts are probably only as related as mud and water:

A friend of mine had a story growing up about a fairy thorn in a field. The farmer wanted rid of it but everytime he tried to dig it up, something would happen. The shovel would snap, he'd fall in some mud - just narky little things that irritated and embarrassed him. 'It's because you're irritating the fey,' he was…

Okay, not sure if this counts because it was a dream that I had. *everyone immediately stops reading* Wait, come back! It's a short tale and genuinely terrifying.

So I'm currently pregnant and I have these very very vivid dreams, doctor says hormones. So one of these nights I dreamt I was wondering about my house and in come my husband, his mother and sister, and this little old lady. They all look a bit strange, younger (and thiner, which was what struck me). As I look around,…

I have been re-reading all the old stories today in anticipation of this thread! This year I actually have one to contribute.

Not a ghost, but this happened to me a few weeks ago and I am still upset and scared. I work in a pretty busy building but everyone comes and goes around the same time. My hours are a little later so I leave about an hour after everyone else when there are only a few other people in the building. I grabbed the…