This happened to me, once, only a little bit different - I lived in a winterized cottage with a twin cottage attached to it, and one night while reading in bed, I heard the sounds of someone cleaning the space next door - vacuuming, running the water, what sounded like someone hammering nails into the wall, etc. I…

One of the neighbors when I was a kid did something like this. Light was on at the door, wife was handing out candy. Giant scarecrow sitting on a lawn chair in the garage and every 5 or so minutes, the scarecrow would lunge from the chair and scare the trick or treaters. Not everyone, but waiting enough time that the…

I commented last year in the top 10 Scary Stories about the very old, very famous, and very famously haunted (it’s been on celebrity Ghost Stories, and I think all of those true ghost shows) place I work at. I’ve seen some things (like several times the swinging doors into the main room blow open so hard it’s as if…

In 2016, I worked in a Dermatologist’s office with this girl we’ll call Rosa. Rosa was in her early-mid 20's and a single mother to a seven year-old girl we’ll call Anna.

The Downstairs Tenants

One year, a week before Halloween, a family friend (Tom) set out a perfectly autumnal scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern head on his front porch swing. Cute, huh?

What the neighbors didn’t know was that Tom had made the scarecrow himself after buying two identical pairs of overalls and red flannel shirts. One outfit was…

I’ve never had a paranormal experience of my own (probably for the best — it’s like they know I’d freak out and thus have gone easy on me), but I collect other people’s; my favorite icebreaker is to ask whether someone’s had a run-in with the paranormal. The all-time creepiest response (with photo evidence) came from…

Burning Holes from Beyond

A lot of bad stuff happens in hotels and motels that leaves remnants and echoes. Unlike the historic hotels who play up their ghosts, most places don’t say a thing because “hooker who was brutally murdered by a random john” just doesn’t have the same cache as “forlorn Victorian lady pining for her lost love.” I used…

TW for mention of suicide.

In the mid 90's I worked as part of an engineering team for one of the major telecoms that bid on state-sponsored Relay Service for Hearing Impaired customers. If we won a state, we built a call center there with the necessary technology. It meant living in a hotel for a couple of weeks, for my team. One member of my…

It’s a wonderful name ;) . I love animal ghosts! We actually get some transient spirits in our home (I’m going to probably share some things from that in another post this season) and a recent one was a little dog! We have 3 dachshunds: 2 sleep in the bed and 1 is in a crate at the foot of the bed because he’s a sweet…

This happened to the ex-boyfriend of my cousin Alex. His family had just purchased a home in San Angel, a neighborhood in Mexico City filled with history and old houses. Among other things, it was site to the mass hanging of men belonging to Saint Patrick’s Battalion.

My husband, at-the-time-6 month old son (Forrest), and I were visiting his family at a small lake in Missouri for the 4^th of July this year. I’m not going to give the name because it was pretty small and I’m not trying to blow anyone up with unwanted attention. We rented an Airbnb with my MIL and FIL to have a place…

I enjoy this feature every year and I always think I should share my story but never do...this year, I am going to tell it!

Warring Metaphysical Shops

When my dad was a teenager in the late 1950s, he used to work as a dishwasher at a Mexican restaurant that was near the local cemetery. To get to work, he could either walk the long way around the cemetery, which was twice as far, or cut straight through it. More often than not, he’d opt to go through the cemetery.

Campground Creeper

When I was 16, I moved from the LA area to NorCal to live with my Dad and Stepmom way off in the woods about 50 miles northeast of Sacramento. We all lived in a trailer, a large one that you could hitch onto the back of a truck to go camping in. Only we lived in it. It was located in a decent, but…

I’ve shared this before, but it was lost in the grays and/or posted too late, so I’ll give it another shot.

I’ve worked in one place that’s supposedly got multiple ghosts and I have a story about one of them. This place was a restored Carnegie library that’s probably the 3rd building at that address. Its foundation sits on top of the 2 previous buildings which date back to the 1860s, before the original street level was…