My best friend Kevin, his girlfriend Sarah, and I were driving through a small, sparsely populated village in upstate New York, circa 1999. Often, as we’d see something from the window that caught our eye, we’d pull over and get out and explore. In this instance, we pulled over at the bottom of a hill around dusk to…

I’ve only told this story to my closest friends. I haven’t even confided in my sister (for fear of the obvious shame). Please buckle in because this tale needs to be told in length.

The Man in the Corner

One experience that has haunted me for years: When I was 19, I had a one-bedroom apt in NY with a roommate. I had the bedroom, she had the living room, and there was a long narrow hall between the two rooms. A few months after we moved in, this woman upstairs who was 26 and very dramatic, started asking to borrow our…

I can't win this contest obviously but wanted to throw in my scary story, for your amusement and holy shit pleasure:

As some of you know, I grew up in a very rural part of northern Utah. My family were transplants from California, and because we weren't mormon, we never really fit in. I spent a lot of time alone as a child and had a reputation for being a bit strange. We had started out in a cabin in the woods, far from everyone…

I grew up in the mid west my whole life, jumping around from house to house in the same state. For the majority of my childhood, I lived in a small, white house with a green roof. It was old and not in the best condition, but it was the best my parents could do at the time.

Never seen one myself but I have a story from someone I trust. A few years ago, I asked my SO if he had ever seen a ghost. He got really uncomfortable and squirrelly, lots of hemming and hawing. Annoyed, I said "Just say yes or no! I won't judge if you think you have seen a ghost." (I'm a skeptic and figured he didn't…

Back in 2007, my husband and I were newly-married and moved to the mountains in Southern California. I was pregnant at the time. We found this house that had two levels: we would rent the first floor, and another couple with a baby were already living on the second. The place was in one of the less-sunny areas of…

I was home alone one night while both of my roommates were out. We lived in an old house a few blocks off campus that looked like any one of us could have built with no formal carpentry training. It was a tiny house that looked like it could fall apart at any moment. That night, my doorbell rang and I hesitantly…

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…

The upper back half of my parents house is haunted. Or posessed. I don't know, but it's wrong up there. When you go upstairs and open the door, there's a large room with a walk in closet, about 700sf. There's a hallway to the right with a little bathroom, and then a door that leads to the other half of the upstairs,…