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Levi by BewitchedKitti

I give this spirit a name because we maintain it's Levi. A few things had happened. The basement door opened... The smell of a man's cologne... The sight of a man out of the corner of your eye... Lights flickering... One day I turned my head and watched a man in a tweed jacket walk into the spare...

Grandmother's Message from Beyond by Andy

This is a true story which happened fifteen years ago. One day I came home and found paramedics on the living room floor trying to revive my grandmother. Twenty minutes before, my mother had entered her room and found her with her mouth wide open and a "strange" look on her face. After trying to rou...

The Vanishing Coffee Mug by GeeBee

After many years of being bed ridden because of a massive stroke that she suffered early in her life, my grandmother had mercifully passed on. Not long after, my grandfather gave me some items belonging to my grandmother, some of which were family heirlooms. The most valued item (because of its sent...

Just Before His Passing by bleck

My Father passed away on 4/29/06. He was 77 and was suffering from COPD; that day his heart heart finally gave out. A few days after his death, I was talking to my sister-in-law and she told me that a few weeks before my Dad passed, the last time she had seen him, Dad called and asked how my niece w...

A Visit from Uncle Gary by Melanie Haddon

When I was seven, my father's older brother, Gary, came to live with us after he got divorced. He was planning to stay with us a while, so my parents began fixing up a bedroom in our unfinished basement. The first night he was there, he was going to sleep with my 3 year old brother, as he had a full...

Great Grandma Felt Much Better After Death by Zelora

This is really my mother's story, but she's told it to me over and over, so I know it well. This took place in Mulberry Grove, Illinois. My mother was named after her own grandma and loved her very much (she was my great-grandma, obviously, though I never knew her. This happened before I was born). ...

A Warning and the Baby's Ghost by Daisy_Pink13

This story has two parts, and I have to tell both, or the second wouldn't make sense. They involve my adult cousins. My cousin, Jen, is married and has two kids. Her husband's name is Tom and her kids' names are Tommy, 6, and Diana, 4. My first story takes place about a year ago. One night, Tom a...

Phone Call From Beyond by Zelora

I had a friend, Carol, who was dying of cancer. Her husband called to tell me she was in hospice - meaning the end was very close. I couldn't go to visit her because my car was out of commission, and also because I knew that I'd cry and Carol wouldn't like that. So I just stayed home and cried off a...

Pap Gives Me a Sign by Papsangel

I recently wrote a story about my grandfather's ghost that my mother had told me. Now I believe I had my own experience. On Monday 4/16/07 at about 4 am I was standing in my kitchen. It was a week and one day before my step father Carl died. He had something on tv but I wasn't sure what though. I wa...

Uncle Tom by Elizabeth Marie Jackson

My family has this old farm, about 20 miles outside Mauston, Wisconsin. My family used to visit every Sunday and play in the bluffs around the farm. The farm house was built in the early 1900's by my great-great grandparents. Today, my great aunt and uncle live there. So on one visit, I was washing ...

Preparing Our Way by Shane

This story was told to me by my best friend's wife upon his passing several years ago. First, let me give you a little background about my friend. He was in a wheel chair and had been ever since an accident with a train as a teenager. He had lost both of his legs up to his hips and was told almost e...

Pap Pays a Visit by Papsangel

This story is about my grandfather's ghost. A week ago, on Easter after dinner, my mother, myself, and her friend Lisa began discussing ghosts. My mother said that about four years ago, around the anniversary of my grandfather's death, she began to see things. She saw a figure with no face, wearing ...

Cigarette Fumble by QueenTas

During the time between my grandmother's passing and my grandfather's passing, whenever I would smoke a cigarette, the cigarette would start to shake as if someone were trying to push it out of my hand, my grandmother never liked the fact that my dad smoked, and I think it may have been her way of t...

Grandma Appearing as a Comforting Glowing Face by QueenTas

About a month or so after my grandmother passed away, and about 4 or 5 months before my grandfather passed, everyone was going through my grandma's stuff, and giving it to each person in the family. I got her old bed to put in my bedroom as a guest bed. One night, my friend was staying the night, an...

Two Chances by Kelsey

When my brother was around the age of 6, he was afraid of nothing. One night, my uncle Jack had died. He never had the chance to say goodbye since he was in a car accident. One night, 2 weeks after my uncle jack's death, my brother was getting ready to bed with no worry. Finally, it was around 2:00 ...

A Memoir of my True Love by Kathleen Werstein

Since age three, I have been hearing voices in my mind; have dreams of personal, future events and had a Near Death Experience. Through these experiences, I have had my life saved numerous times, and had been guided through hints, to meet and marry my true love; soul mate, Rob. As wonderful as all t...

Grandpa by Holly

I was sitting in my grandma's bed. My grandpa had died 4 months before this. I switched my TV to another channel, and watched TV for a couple of minutes. After that, I looked at my bathroom door, and a grayish figure floated out of the bathroom, and into his room. I wasn't sure it was him. Later tha...

Rush of Air in my Ear by EarthboundAngel

This is a really short story, but it's something I have never forgotten. My grandfather (on my father's side) passed away in 1999, during my first week in high school. I was very close with him and his death was definitely a blow. Sometimes it's still hard for me to believe he's really gone. And may...

Knock on Bedroom Door by lovable_outcast

This is half my story, half my own. My mom told me multiple times that she's heard things and even seen things in our house that my dad built himself, it used to be just a corn field. This is the few stories my mom shared with me... Many mornings as she is getting ready for work, she'll hear a kn...

Missing Cell Phone by Johnnyboy

Have any of you ever heard noises like banging of pans, hitting the counter, or any other creepy noise like whispering in your ear? All of those happened to me. This isn't that big of a deal, but I just thought I'd share it. So, here's the real story. I heard noises like that, and I would say stuff ...

The Alumnus Teacher in Quesci by Recham

Ms. Nenita Cudal was our batch adviser for our graduating batch 2005. She has no husband and she dedicated her whole life in making Quezon City Science's student's life better. She is the last surviving teacher from the establishment of the school 40 years ago. Since it was almost March at that time...

One Last Goodbye by serenity14

I've heard this story all my life growing up and it continues to send shivers up my spine. It happened to my grandmother years ago. My mother was a teenager and she had gone out with her sister. My grandmother was at home doing chores. Suddenly, the door bell rings and it's my grandmothers' cousin. ...

My Uncle in the Army by Anthony Terry

My story starts two years ago, on december 31, 2004. My uncle was in a car crash and hit a truck and died instantly. Three days before, he got in a fight with my brother and my brother said he wished he died. So three days past and my uncle died. I say about a week later, my brother woke up in a col...

Message From Beyond by head4irst4hal0s

I had gone on vacation the summer of 2004 and my dad passed away in August of that 2004. I never got to say my last goodbyes. Time passed and strange things had been happening to my siblings in regards to my father. I, however, never encountered anything until late October of 2005. My mother wen...

The Little Boy in my Closet by Rosie

A few years ago in the month of May, before I got married, I was about 14 years old, one night that I was trying to go to sleep, my bed was close to the wall and when I would be side ways I could see the closet which had no door, just a curtain, and the door to the hallway. That night, around 11:00 ...

Footsteps of my Grandpa by odesey

I was not born yet when my grandfather died. His death anniversary is always celebrated and all of us gather at my grandmother's house to have a small party and sleep overnight there together with my cousins, uncles and aunties. My grandmother died year 1998. But on his death anniversary, last 20...

My Daughter's Crib by magicwhisper

I was getting ready to settle down in my bed after putting my first born daughter in her crib in the next room... A few moments later I heard "Oh look, a baby" in a male's voice, coming from my infant's room over the baby monitor. But my husband was laying next to me, my father and mother were alrea...

Nanny's Visit by Tara

In 1976, my grandparents and two of their daughters bought a house in Nova Scotia (they had just moved from Newfoundland). The house was about 20-25 years old when it was bought, and is still standing today. I don't know any history of the house before my grandparents bought it. In July of 1991,...

Ghost Manifesting as Fruit Flies? by Amy

I've never seen anything like this mentioned and hope someone can give me some insight. My ex husband wound up being a really angry, hateful, mentally ill man towards the end of his life. Even after 5 years and several girlfriends, one of them serious, he never got over me leaving him. He always ...

The Spoon Collection by annmuma

Have you been contacted by someone who crossed, someone on the other side? I have and I believe all of us have. Some simply recognize the contact, some choose to rationalize the contact and some do not even notice the contact. Read my story; it is not easy to rationalize it or ignore it! Indeed, for...

Two Ghosts in my Room by laurajane_01

This is really weird for me to tell, as everything happened so fast. All this is true, and it means a lot to me that I think I should share it with people. When I first moved into this house I was fully aware the last owners were an old couple who lived here and both died. I have the master bedroom ...

Apparitions of my Grandfather by Rebecca S

My grandpa died right before I was born and he couldn't wait until I was born, he died 3 days before. Way back when my mom had a room mate, she was at work one day and her roommate julie was on the couch watching T.V. She heard noises in my mom's bathroom and thought my mom was home so julie yelled ...

A Grandmother's Promise and the Ghost Girl by Tara07D

When I was 16, my grandmother took really ill, she was 95, so I quit my studies to look after her. My parents died when I was very young, I don't remember them, it was always me, my brother and my grandmother. Sitting up late in hospital one night talking, I told her I was afraid if she died because...

Friends Visiting in Dream by Carla

About a month ago, my baby daughter was in hospital with bronchitis and I stayed over in hospital with her. I was very distressed about her situation and I cried constantly in hospital. That evening, I fell asleep and I saw in my dream an old friend of mine that had died ten years ago. Her head was...

A Message to my Mother by Buttons4me

One night, me and my mom were talking about ghosts, and whether or not she believes in them. She told me this story. Years and years ago, when I was very little, my mom and dad didn't get on very well, mostly because his mother didn't approve of her. One day, my mom couldn't find my father anywhere,...

The Car Accident by Kodak

My cousin, his best friend and their girlfriends were taking a road trip from California to Wisconsin several years ago. My cousin and his girlfriend sat in the back of the small Honda Hatchback. The next thing he remembered was waking up in a hospital room. His friend and his girlfriend were sta...

I Saw my Dead Grandpa! by treanibean

It was late at night February 4th, 2001. My grandpa had been very sick lately, so we put him in the hospital. That night, I could not fall asleep, for I was worried for my poor grandpa. But then, I heard a loud banging coming from under my bed. Like any kid, I just laid in bed with the blankets ove...

Friend Not Moving On by SUNisRISINGforACE

When I was younger, my cousin Felix was killed while serving in Iraq. Ever since then, strange things have happened at his mother's house... The first events started one night at a get together. All of Felix's friends, my aunt, and my sister were sharing stories of him when he was little. A beer ...

Encounter With my Uncle's Ghost by Heather

I have a couple stories, I know it's long, but trust me, they're worth reading. When I lived at my dad's house, I could never sleep in my own room because I was scared, I knew that his house was haunted so I would sleep with him in his bed. When I was about 10, I think, I started to actually see gho...

Friend Saying Goodbye by Darlene

My boyfriend Eddie had a best friend named Jeffrey. They had been friends for over 20 years. I met Jeffrey about 6 months after Eddie and I got together. They were nearly inseparable. Jeffrey was always at our house, spending the night and helping Eddie around the house with repairs and such. Jeffre...

My Grandma Comes to Visit by Jess

My grandmother died about 3 or 4 years ago. But I believe that she is still here, in my house, because we have her earn. My friends always come over to my house, and they each say that they feel like they're being watched. One time, one of my friends came over to watch a movie, and during it, I woul...

Was George Really My Father? by Ann

After 25 plus years of not seeing my father (his choice, my parents divorced), I was notified of his passing. Myself and 3 of my 4 siblings attended his funeral. While there, we were upset and talking the funeral director and the lights started flickering. We were mad at our Father and felt he was t...

Footsteps by HannahE

About a month ago, I was home alone. My brother and dad were out buying a guitar, and my mom was at work. I was working on an essay when I heard somebody calling my name. I was scared, I looked outside of my door and walked around the house with a knife. Every creek of the wooden floors made me scre...

Father's Day by HannahE

About 2 years ago, the day before Father's Day, I picked up a picture of my grandfather, who I have not met before. And I said to the picture, "I wish I could have met you." That night I was sleeping next to my grandmother. I woke up around 3:00 in the mooring to get a glass of water. When I turned ...

Grandmother's Prediction by itssusanna

My grandmother passed away 12 years ago and I think she predicted her own death. Here's the story: My grandmother's health was deteriorating and she was bed ridden for about 2 years. I was sleeping over that night and she kept a mattress in her closet which I went to get. When I entered her room, I ...

An Imaginary Friend by treanibean

When I was a little girl, I had an imaginary friend, like most little kids do. I called her Gena. We would play together and such. My mother never thought anything about it, as her friends children had them too. But as I got into kindergarten and started getting more friends, I decided I didn't need...

Haunting from a Stranger or Family Member? by Chelsea

I have so many stories to tell in here. Let's start with when it first happened. Me and my family have this clock, it's not a grandfather clock, but it has a pendulum and it hangs up on the wall and for years the pendulum didn't move, however the clock part of it worked. One day the batteries died, ...

Dream of my Great Great Grandfather by cphares

When I was a young child, my mother hung a couple of really old pictures in my room. They were of my great great grandparents (in the Civil War era). My great great grandfather was in his Civil War garb. Later that night, I "dreamed", or so I THINK it was a dream, that I encountered the ghost of ...

Grandfather's Ghost by Nikki

3 years ago, I was in school at our annual school picnic and my grandpa had been sick with cancer for about 2 years. He's been in 4 different hospitals and wasn't getting any better. The doctors finally told him that they couldn't do anything, so they just sent him home. He lived in my aunt's house ...

Grandfather Returns by JimmyO

This is a story that my mom had told me when I was little, and still tells today. She was only 5 years old at the time, so some might find it hard to believe the mind of a 5 year old. But anyway, it starts off after my mother's grandfather had died a week beforehand. My mom said that she had alwa...

Electric or Ghost? by xchristine99x

This is actually an event that happened to my father. When he was a youngster, probably around ten or twelve, his cousin and him were sleeping on a fold-out couch downstairs in the living room. While everyone else was sleeping, my father happened to see the medal bars in the window pane light up wit...

Great Grandmother by Lilboyalwaysfearless

I was in my bedroom "studying" when I accidentally fell asleep. I awoke 2 and a half hours later to see my Great Grandmother standing in front of me. The problem was... She died 2 weeks earlier. I asked her what she was doing here, she told me that she had to tell me something... but she could not t...

Diana by Catherine

I was packing my things when my room mate Diana went in. We are studying on different school but we are room mates for 3 years. She was jolly and nice. But that afternoon she looked sad. I asked her what was wrong with her but she assured me she's ok. She's just tired so I didn't bother her. She lie...

Touched by a Ghost by Shane

First I would like to say thank you to the unbelievers out there for helping to keep the discussions lively. My story begins back in the early 80's my father had become severely ill and was going into the hospital. I didn't want him to go but I knew that he needed to be there. I asked him if we coul...

A Grandfather's Experience by Janice

Actually, this story wasn't exactly my experience, but I thought I'd post it up and share it with people. This is my grandfather's experience and he told me all about it. When he was younger, he and my grandmother lived in Nava, Coahuila, Mexico, and he always loved to be around his father or my g...

My Grandfather by miiish

I just turned 19 when we heard that back home in India my grandfather had passed away. His death was unexpected, he was healthy even at 71 and did a lot of household chores by himself. My grandma had nothing to complain about. I was shattered, I loved him very much and he was my mentor and idol. Dad...

Coffee-holic Grandmother's Ghost by Sally

My grandmother had to wear special shoes because of surgery on her leg that made one leg a couple of inches shorter than the other. This resulted in a shuffle-thump noise that was very distinctive when she walked anywhere in our house (my mother and I lived with her) as we had hardwood floors throug...

Ellie's Visitation by krONik

Ellie is my other-half's favourite Auntie. She's in her mid-to-late 60's. Ellie's husband, Terry, died four years ago and she has lived alone ever since. Recently, Ellie has been in hospital with an e-Coli infection and as part of her treatment, the doctor's put her into an induced coma for a week. ...

My Mother Saw Ghosts by Stuart

When I was an infant my family and I lived overseas. I think we were in Bulgaria at the time... My parents were out for the night while my brother and I were being babysat. Long story short, my mother woke up in the middle of the night to see relatives of hers -who were deceased- telling her to call...

Dream Ghost by Donna

My father passed away in 1988. In 1990 I had a very vivid dream about him. In the dream he was talking about my brother. The scene changed to a different location with my father on a hill holding my brother, crying and telling me that "they shot him real bad"! He kept crying and saying this over and...

My Aunt by Lucy

About 5 years ago my aunt moved in with me and my family because she was really sick and her kids lived out of state. I was always real close with my aunt and looked forward to her living with us. I was closer to her than I was with my mom. Anyway, she stayed with us for about 5 months, then deci...

Sierra by hannahbmarie101

One day my Aunt Sierra went with me to the beach and said she was tired. "I cant wait to sleep on my pillow!" she said. My aunt was killed a week later. One morning, at 1:30, my cousin and I were talking about her passing away, then a folded, secure pillow case fell off a shelf. My cousin and I hid ...

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