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Recent Paranormal Experiences
Death Comes In Three Knocks And The Curse Of Our Family by Manila78
My Grand Father comes from a poor big family, but through diligence, their Children have become successful in life. Several strange stories are attached to our family. Here I narrate two which I have experienced several times. Death Comes in Three Knocks Whenever a family member or persons con...
Pets Seeing Ghosts Part 2 by JoJorocks
This is the continuation to my previous story "pets seeing ghosts". As I stated, these are compilations of experiences where our pets sense paranormal stuff. Sorry for my very long inactivity due to my busy schedule. Here are the stories; Third experience. This happened last 2021. Christmas seaso...
Weird Experience by MidnightRain
This incident took place when I was in my school hostel as I was a SEE student. SEE is a very important part of every teenager's school life as it determines which subject are we going to take in +2. In the school where I was studying a senior jumped from the school building when I was in Ukg. Fro...
A Hair-raising Office Encounter by mighty_light
This story is about two of my encounters in my previous company's office. The area, where I worked, used to be the runway of an old airport that predated WW2 - built in the '30s. By the '60s it was decommissioned as another airport was built on an adjacent island. The land sat mostly empty until ...
My Friend's House by Kest
A couple of years ago a coworker/friend was stressing out. Her husband and son wanted to go on a hunting/camping trip and she had no one to watch her cat. I told her I love kitties and I would be very happy to watch the kitty! The night before she left I went to her house to see where the cat food w...
Ghosts After School by boris_stoynov
One day when I was 15, around 2002 - 2003 I came back from school like any normal day. I live in Sofia, so McDonalds was the easiest and great of lunches and I brought some lunch home and I sit to watch a show called Ghost Hunters. Since I was 3rd grade I started to get interest in the paranormal,...
Grandma Came To Visit Me by Kest
Grandma came to visit me one last time. This story is very personal for me. It occurred a little over a year today but I still remember it so clearly. I feel as if I took a little paranormal break for a little while. I worked through some personal things. Some job things that led to depression. Then...
A Wail Out In The Mountains by mighty_light
My story involves a close friend from the office whom I shall refer to as Edna. Edna is what one would consider very sensitive to the otherworldly. From the stories that she's shared to me and our friends, she could see ghosts and spirits since she was a child. I think she inherited it from her mot...
Quaint Wasn't So Quaint by Desdemona
Many years ago, my husband and I moved to southern Colorado for his job. We settled into this quaint little two-bedroom apartment in a 75-year-old house in an old mining town. At first everything seemed so nice. It was small but quaint, lots of windows, a nice little fenced in yard for our dogs to p...
Grandma's Creepy Closet by Mikey85
Growing up, my Grandma lived in the apartment upstairs in the same complex where my family and I lived. It was an old building with only twelve apartments in total. She resided in apartment 2874, while we lived in 2868. Since before I was born, Grandma had been living alone. However, she had thi...
Spooky Elevator Voice by UnknownSoul
When people ask me about spooky experiences, I always think of one unforgettable event from my childhood. It happened 20 years ago when my grandma passed away. In our culture, we gather as a family for three days after someone's death to remember and pray for them. My grandma (maternal side) pass...
T-hill Light by Weirdchick_97
This story took place in Thermopolis, Wyoming. At the beginning of June '23, my girlfriend and I were staying there on a week-long vacation. One night after dinner, we went on a walk by the river in Hot Springs State Park. Across the river and up the bank, a road goes past T-Hill. It is named for th...
A Haunted Afternoon by Troja68
This happened about three years ago at my parent's rented home; an older one story with a basement that sits on the edge of a small town. There's not much to the main floor- two bedrooms, a bathroom, a living room, the kitchen, and a utility room in the back. The basement consists of an entertai...
The Last Visitor by BiancaB
I have been lucky in my life to have met a number of my great grandparents. This story is from 2011, when my great nana passed away. When Nana passed her funeral was held at a funeral home not far from where I lived in the city. My mum, dad and sister drove up for the funeral from the small town...
Jinn's Block by BhootHunter
Hey guys Here's another experience of ours that shook us to the core. This is a case of a locale on the outskirts of Pune that we investigated in January 2023. We were contacted by the owner of land, where he tried to construct a guesthouse, but couldn't owing to the presence of a maleficent j...
A Slap From The Unseen by BhootHunter
Hey guys I am a paranormal explorer having numerous experiences. I have explored different locations and here's an experience that remains fresh to the bones. This incident dates back to 18 October 2021, Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh, India). We received a case of a haunted property in a secluded ...
The Never Forgettable Night by Amchi1986
Friends, today the story I am going to tell you is about a very scary incident that took place with me, my mother and my maternal aunt (my uncle's wife) way back in 2002, approximately about twenty one years back. My father, mother, sister, and I had visited my mother's house in the village for Ga...
How Do I Get My Normal Life Back? by MPS
This happened to me when I used to live in Varanasi. As I had mentioned in my previous posts I live with my husband and son. My husband is in a transferable job so every 2-5 years we shift to a new city. We came to Varanasi in 2017 and were living in a government allotted bungalow. Everything was fi...
Nagging Old Lady by Monty_Singh
This is my first paranormal experience and it happened in March 2019, I still can't believe this happened and spooks me out thinking about it. I never had any interest in paranormal science and didn't give it much thought as neither me, my family, or friends circle experienced any. I worked in an ...
Native Spirits? by blosomes
Thus is not a scary or spooky story, but I thought maybe I can share this here to let you all think what this could be. It was a rainy afternoon, I was riding from the city part of Sapporo to the countryside part of Tomakomai back to my old antique house. I lost Aleshanee, my cat last month and I ...
High Vibration Spiritual Energy Portal by The_Lost_Voyage_11
This is something I'm still trying to make sense of and like a huge jigsaw puzzle, I continue to get more and more pieces to help me form a bigger picture. To give some background it involves an abandoned building near the small town I live near. The building is part of a sprawling complex that c...
Ironing Board & Drowning by valkricry
I'm going to tell of two separate recent incidents that I don't believe to be related. The first is the case of the disappearing ironing board. The board itself is rather unremarkable; an old table top version, roughly 3 feet long and 1.5 feet wide, constructed of metal. I've had it roughly 18 ye...
Ghost Disappears Thru Closet Door by pastryguy
At the time, I was 14, and did a great amount of babysitting. One of the families I babysat for were very close neighbors that lived diagonally across the street from my house; Edith and Frank. They were foster parents of 4 children at the time. It was Monday, June 17, 1968, again, I was 14 at th...
Māori Tapu In The Far North by MichaelMorris771
I first met Milan as a shy thirteen year old. Milan was a lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. He was one of my father's drinking mates at the Senior Common Room Club, the drinking hole at the Old Government House that was set aside for academic staff. My father had introduced Milan...
Bad Dream Or Sleep Paralysis? by Rattler27
I recently stumbled on this website and I'd like to get your take on an experience I had two years ago. First a little back ground. I'm a twenty-seven year old construction worker. I've never done drugs and at the time of the story I had and still have stopped drinking alcohol. I'm what my mot...
Meditation Encounter by Spirit2022
I'm not sure how to start this really. But here goes... A little back history for this experience. My mother's upbringing was quite tumultuous. Very chaotic, abusive etc. She brought that with her as she lived. She always had a dark cloud just lingering above her, and she never knew quite how...
My Baby Son And The Open Closet Doors by TranscendingTales
May 9, 2023, at 12:40 a.m. In the dead of night, I retreated into my quarters after securing the doors. As I was updating one of my ongoing stories on my Kindle, I left my wife to tend to our baby boy, who is not even three months old; he will be three months old on May 22, 2023. My wife put my so...
Pearl Mystery by Tweed
After almost thirty years today I just might have worked something out. When I was about ten my aunty F (maternal uncle's wife) gave me some knickknacks for Christmas. Aunty F is into drama and theatre. When I was growing up she would often give me her old costume jewelry, which I loved. That ye...
Stayed In Haunted Apartment! by guy123
This was my second experience, staying in a haunted house. It was back in 2005 when my friend and I rented an apartment in Nashik, Maharashtra, India. As we were bachelors during that time, we did not care to enquire about the apartment. We felt lucky to get a fully furnished apartment even though t...
Love You Boy by Tweed
My cat and best bud Leo passed away on the 1st of May. Leo's history is a bit sketchy. He came to us as an older stray in about 2018. Had signs of abuse, both behaviourally and physically. He'd been neutered but no microchip, which is very odd in these modern times especially for a purebred. Long...
Arm Around My Neck And Bed Sheets Pulled by amirstrange
I need some answers as I am very confused and drained. Around four nights ago I was sleeping when I felt this pressure upon my body. I awoke and I could literally hear the bed springs creak from something pushing down on me. I fought it off but I felt it again and I was not scared as I have ex...
A Nightmare And A Farewell by lady-glow
SV became part of my extended family after marrying my second cousin RM. I was in my awkward early teenage years and didn't care for him, specially since my relatives closer to him described SV as a snobbish and uppish person. For these reasons, my interactions with him were reduced to the most basi...
Chapel (tuklong) by XKY_LARQ
I'm finishing up my senior year. It was January 11, 2009. My high school pals and I are attending a dance party (in the Philippines when we celebrate a festival in a small portion of a state which is called "barangay". It usually has a dance party. Where all the teens and feeling teens can dance to ...
The Day My Father Died by phear_xiong
I don't know if this story falls under ghost stories or paranormal experiences, but I am sharing a very personal experience for me. As the title states it is a day I will never forget! My father was in hospice care at home. He laid motionless on his deathbed struggling and gasping for every brea...
The Priest by AussieRedDog
This isn't my story but my recently deceased uncle, whom I'll call "Sean". "Sean" is my late mother's younger brother and when I was in Eire back in '94 my uncle "Sean" told me this story. "Sean" was born in Northern Ireland, Ulster as it's also known, or in in Irish, Uliad. Uncle "Sean" was a ver...
Small Room by XKY_LARQ
From 2017 to early 2018, I was living at my aunt's house. Before I begin, they've been living in that house for 10 years, if I'm not mistaken. And my grandma told us before that something was living in that very house before my aunt's family. She said that after the blessing of the house, she used t...
The Strange Events In My Aunt's House by Amchi1986
Friends, the story today I am going to tell you is about some strange supernatural events that took place in my Aunt's (mother's sister's) house. My uncle had purchased a new house after many years of struggle. Everything was going fine when suddenly everything changed. There was a very strange at...
A Premonition And His Voice by DreamBird
Almost a year ago I woke from a strange dream. I dreamt that my partner's dresser was missing from our bedroom and I was staring at an empty space. I awoke with a very uncomfortable feeling and tried my best to rationalize the dream as being more related to the fact we had new bedroom furniture on l...
The Passerby Ghost by Amchi1986
Friends, today the story I am going to tell you people is a story that took place with my grandfather (now dead) when he was a youngster. My grandfather (my father's father) was going by his way from Thane (a small city in Mumbai), when suddenly he came along a passerby, who started talking with h...
The Friendly One by ravenn
I have always encountered things that are out of this world. From black silhouettes lurking in the dark to clear apparitions and sleep paralysis,I've encountered a lot of things. I always try to find logical explanations before believing that what I encounter is paranormal, but there are some th...
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