I have a lovely ghost in my attic, who just asks that I be non-intrusive roommate.

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.

Years ago, I housesat for my sister and her husband when they went off on their honeymoon. My boyfriend at the time was out of town, so it was just me and my sister’s two large boxers. It was in a suburban neighborhood, but their house sat at the edge of the neighborhood, next to a grove of hazelnut trees that then…

We always travel for our birthdays, and we like to do driving vacations so our two dogs can come along. We had just recently moved to LA and wanted to explore south of us, since we’d only ever driven north. For my 33rd we decided to drive down through Temecula and stay in the mountains. I ended up finding an…

I look forward to this every October! So here’s my contribution...

I have a treasure trove of weird stories. I’m “that friend” for ghost problems, bad ju-ju in your house, all that stuff. I did college ghost hunting (which went well in hand with being a reinactor — you get a good sense for the historical and the legendary, and you learn what stuff could be plausible in old houses as…

At the end of this summer, I had quite a decent Facebook Marketplace addiction, and I was sporadically zipping out to drop off or pick up random items.

In high school, I lived in a farm house built in the early 1700s. The farm had been out of use for a long time but the house was original. We had fallen on some tough times financially and living there seemed like a dream come true, even though the place was in pretty rough shape.

When In New Orleans

I have one this year!! This really isn’t even all that scary, but it was weird, and it happened at the start of Shelter in Place this April.

Shadow

A couple of years ago my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer. At first, I took time off of work to take her to appointments and my dad did the best he could when I couldn’t be around. Unfortunately my dad had Parkinson’s and his condition was deteriorating under the stress and he became less able to help. So toward…

I’ve been waiting for this!!! I created an account just to type up my story. It’s the only thing that ever serioualy scared me.

Tacking on another for fun because this one makes me laugh:

My grandmother died when I was about 15 (which would make my younger brothers 7 and 5). She basically raised me, but by the time my brothers were born, she was a lot older and a lot of the physical/interactive child stuff fell to me: getting them up in the morning for school, dressing them, playing, changing…

This is the scariest story I know.

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.

I’m not a believer in ghosts or the afterlife or the supernatural, but horror comes in many forms. I used to take my toddler to and from daycare on the train. I always enjoyed those trips, but one evening something happened on our return trip that had me so frightened I was almost in tears. My daughter was a very…

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…