Five or so years ago, my partner and I were eating breakfast at our favorite diner in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset neighborhood. This diner was small and had tables and booths strewn throughout, and a u-shaped bar in the middle with a big mirror behind the open end of the “u” (imagine classic 1950's diner). We were…

Random Handsome Ceramic Loving Man

New account, old story.

Well, I thought I had no stories to contribute this year until I took my dog for a walk in the woods behind our house yesterday. So I made a whole new burner account to tell this maybe not *scary* but definitely unsettling story. We've got a few miles of conservation land with trails that are well-used but generally…

I think something in my house is trying to get my attention.

I have a few stories about my mom in this thread, so I waited a bit to write my own. A simple but powerful occurrence.

This story is stellar. I hope it gets more love this year. I loved it then but had forgotten exactly what was so scary about the man. BACKWARDS FEET. YES. but actually NO. NO THANK YOU. This should be an anti-smoking psa. 

“The Beedi Man”

This has been happening occasionally for the last 5 or 6 years and I can’t really find a reason for it. Sometimes when I dream there is a reoccurring character in my dream. No matter what the dream is about, every month or two this young woman appears in my dream and the encounter with her is always the same. In the…

The Servant

Not a scary story but it happened this week and feels like someone was looking out for me.

“The Lady in the Attic”

When my boyfriend and I moved in together in San Francisco, we rented an apartment which was basically half the upstairs of an older home converted into apartments. The other half of the upstairs was another apartment where our landlord, Sue, lived. Sue was an interesting character who at first came off as an angry…

The machete gang

I also have a ghost cat! It’s very comforting to see her. 

I posted this a few years ago, but with all the scary stories involving children, I thought I’d throw this out again as well. My update is that (as we thought) our old neighborhood has sustained a substantial re-haul. The row house is still modest in size, but the amount of time, effort and money thrown into making…

The Window

Midnight Movers

The house I lived in from age 8-18 was 100% haunted.
The house was two stories – built into the side of a hill. My room was upstairs in the old part of the house (it was about 50 years old when we moved in) and my parents were downstairs in the added-on part of the house – the add-on jutted out over the hill incline…

I posted this in years past and got stuck in the grays, but here goes: