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Recent Paranormal Experiences

Fort Henry by GingerRead

Proudly standing upon a majestic hilltop overlooking the renowned city of Kingston, Ontario, Fort Henry remains an unquestionably iconic symbol of historic identity and resilience. Originally constructed in 1836 for the purpose of defending the shores from threats of an American invasion, Fort Henry...

A Guardian, Possibly? by jun_XD

Though I haven't lived as long to have experiences of myself, the generations before me have passed down some wild tales to me. Most have taken place in villages, countrysides and Mymensingh District specifically. This one has been told to me by my maternal Grandmother, about my late Grandfather....

Tumbok My Daughter's Playmate by Jynxer

I will tell you a story about an apartment we rented in Napindan Taguig. There were multiple hair raising incidents. This started way back 2016 when a lot of killings happened because of Tokhang. We were forced to Move to Napindan Taguig because my father was a well known pusher and drug addict a...

Shining White Silhouette by Jivaashm

A couple of days ago, I was with my cousin squad and we were discussing some spooky experiences when I recalled one. So here's a haunting that remains unexplained to me and my uncle. This incident happened in 2009 in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Allow me to give a quick backstory. The Backsto...

Oklahoma City Ghosts Part 2 by Shortynat1984

My husband had to be at work at 5:30 in the morning and there were times I stayed up and there was times I went back to sleep. The nights I would go back to sleep were the creepiest because I would lay in bed tossing and turning for awhile and there was one time I heard our front door open and close...

Oklahoma City Ghosts Part 1 by Shortynat1984

I started to ask my daughter about Robert because after that dream of mine I started to think that this Robert business was something more frightening. I asked who Robert was and she told me that he sometimes comes out of their closet at night. She told me that Robert was nice and that he is always ...

Oklahoma City Ghosts by Shortynat1984

I've seen spirits everywhere I've lived, but I've never ever seen spirits like these. It took place around 2016 in Oklahoma City. I'm originally from California and I packed mine and my children's bags and moved out to Oklahoma City to live with their dad who moved out there with his mom. I had no...

A Strange Encounter At Majorda by sanjubhat

This incident happened in 2015. We have a house in South Goa which is not too far from Majorda beach at a place called Nuvem. South Goa as you know is less touristy than its northern counterpart and still retains its old world charm to some extent. Our house is 3 kms away from the beach and we ha...

Core Of A S Ranked Haunted Spot by blosomes

First let me explain why I have gone to such place. You all know that I have been here quite long, well you can almost guess how old I am, maybe?（What am I even trying to say?） I mean age does not matter whether or not you visit haunted places, some go to have some chilling experience, have ...

Living Spirit Or A Doppelgänger by blosomes

My friend's father is a very emotional person. When he is angry, he becomes red, very loud, short temper (emotional?)... But never will he rise a hand to hit his family. I was once with my friend and her family in the middle of a conversation. Her father was asking her mother if she can hand him ...

Baby Girl Gone Too Soon - Ciara by SashB

It is with a heavy heart that I type this today. The last month was traumatic for us as a family, we had to lay our beautiful fur baby Ciara to rest, after her heart failed her. She had been a bit bloated for a week and assuming she ingested something, we gave her laxatives and dewormed her. Not...

Tapping Noise by Ashleypo

Hey everyone, it's been a while since I've submitted my first story. But I'm back with another spooky experience. I will keep it as short and simple as possible. My mom and aunt live with me. I stay over at my boyfriend's house a lot so I'm rarely here. The current time right now is 3:51am. Yest...

Did I See A Cat Crying? by blosomes

This is a sad story, so get some tissue while reading. It took me awhile to have permission from Aya's uncle, to put this story up. So, here we go. Buchi and my friend's aunt, Emiko, met around 2007. For almost 18 years, Emiko was so in love with Buchi, and I guess Buchi also loved his only hum...

Beyond The Known: Things Unseen, Things Unknown by Mark0477

Introduction: Since I was a kid, I was well aware of the existence of angels and guardian angels alike. It was something I accepted without question, though I never spent much time wondering who my guardian angel might be. But as the years passed, I had experiences-moments that made me question w...

Murdered In Life, Haunting In Dreams by bread-butter-sammy

Continuing the previous story, Not All Roads Are Empty Most of the houses on that lane were very old. Many were kept locked - some due to family disputes, others because their owners had passed away. The ones who were still alive didn't live there anymore; they had rented their homes out and move...

What Was This Creature? by SashB

YGS family, today I am going to share an experience which took place in July 2002. I had just given birth to my eldest son. He was only a month old. It was icy cold winter. My baby had been awake and crying since about 9pm that night, nothing seemed to help him. No massage or pacifier or milk. ...

What Was Walking? by Moth_Nerd

This story comes from my dad, who told me this when I was 12, I was highly interested in anything paranormal and although this probably pales in comparison to other stories on here, I think it's still interesting considering it happened after a funeral. This takes place before I or my brother w...

Was Aleshanee Talking To Something That We Can't See? by blosomes

Aleshanee is a grey talkative cat with beautiful green eyes. Unlike the previous cat in Brazil, Henrique, she is very active while Henrique was quite "cool". To make this story easier to understand I will be a little detailed, I had another cat previously and had the same name (Yes, Aleshanee. Yo...

Not All Roads Are Empty by bread-butter-sammy

This happened when I was a teenager, on a cold November night. We had guests over for dinner, and after dessert, they left. A few minutes later, my mom noticed my father's friend had forgotten his phone and power bank. She called his wife, and they said they weren't far and would return soon. But my...

My Creepy Doll by SashB

My really scary doll I certainly have missed my YGS family, as I have not posted in a while. Today I am sharing a story of the only doll I had since I was a child. I was a year old when my aunt bought me the doll for my birthday. It was 1-meter tall, short curly golden hair and had a red dress a...

Shadow Person Messing With My Wife by CantunSEEit74

Laying awake this morning around 2 am my alarm clock straight out in front of me. I am laying on my left side, and the dog is laying at my butt and knee area. The wife is behind me and my back is to her I had already talked to the wife between 12. 30 and 2 am this morning. When I wake early, I will ...

Something Was There by Jivaashm

This incident happened 29 years ago in New Delhi with my uncle. He was working at Safdarjung Airport in those days as a senior cargo inspector. He usually managed cargo for international flights during the night. He's fond of wearing strong perfumes and still owns a vast collection. The Incident:...

The Statue Is Watching Me by radiophobia_7

Just over a month ago, my friend nearly died and I was fully convinced they were dead until they were confirmed living a few days later, so you can imagine just how bad my mental state was at the time this happened. I was an absolute wreck. I usually go to the graveyard to walk around, calm my thoug...

Old Farm House Experience by robmkivseries70

My "10 Years Old and New House" story reminds of some experiences I had going out to a friend's uncle's farm house. I don't remember how old the house might have been but it could have been built in the late 1930s-1940s, it was very nice old farm house, very well kept inside and out. I first starte...

He Misses Us Too by Jivaashm

This happened two years ago. The year 2023 etched a considerable mark on my family and me forever. 18th December 2023 was the day my grandpa ascended to the heavens. Let me give a background. He was 81, had a sturdy demeanor, was religious, and was an astrologer (a real one). On the evening of Dec 1...

The Whistle by TheTruthIsOutThere133

One night I was putting my chickens away, locking them up so they would not get attacked. I was alone, waiting for my other sibling to get out there with a flashlight so we could look for eggs together. I was locking all the little doors on the coop when I heard a soft whistle to the left. This wasn...

"we Don't Need You." by TheTruthIsOutThere133

So, for the past couple months I have been hearing voices. But, it's not what you think. I am not schizophrenic, and I don't have hallucinations or anything like that. There are sounds in my family's voices. It'll just quickly start up, and after a moment of terrorizing me, it will end. The first co...

The Knocks On The Wall by TheTruthIsOutThere133

I had been sleeping in my siblings' bedroom because we had been partying all night and were sharing childhood stories. There were 3 people there, including myself. We probably had went to bed around 1:00 and were exhausted. Suddenly, in the middle of the night, I woke up. I couldn't go back to sle...

A Monster From A Kid's Show Or Was It A Specter Of Some Sort by blosomes

It was a Sunday morning late morning around 9-ish. I was looking for the remote control to switch on the television. My friend was there too and she was hugging our house cat, Aleshanee. When I was ducking down to see it (our cat had hidden the remote control under the table) in the corner of my eye...

My Sleep Paralysis Episode by TheTruthIsOutThere133

I was sleeping in my bedroom on my back, and the room was bright white. I could only see the blanket that was on top of me, which was a pink comforter with white outlines of flowers on it. There was a slight black outline of a figure standing at the end of my bed. He asked me a question, " Do you wa...

Smells Like Soap by jun_XD

This story, which I've come to learn from my Ma, happened to my Baba a while back. Possibly when I was still a baby. We live in the outskirts of Dhaka city, and this was during the time my parents and my grandparents first moved here. The place was mostly a dark forest with tall trees and very few b...

Do Anything To Get A Hug by blosomes

"Caramba! Cobra com corpo de fogo!" (Wow! Snake with a body of fire) My grandmother shouted from far away. I was on my way back from my grandfather's place, I just ran as quickly as I can to my grandmother and hugged her tight. I had phobias of both snakes and fire and ghostly stuff... My grandmot...

The Jinn's Property by Jivaashm

This incident dates back 18 years ago in Ludhiana. I was pursuing my bachelors degree and went to attend a wedding in winters of India. The Indian winters in the rural edge are pretty alluring by the day and haunting by night. As the suns melts, darkness creeps in and brings an eerie silence. My u...

The Lady By The Well by Samuel_12344

A few years back when I was around 9 years old or so, I had this cousin who heavily battled with drug abuse. He was a really great guy and everybody in the family loved him and he just got into the wrong crowd when he was in college. My cousin was sent to the Welikanda Military Rehabilitation (Kanda...

Might Be An Ainu Ghost? by blosomes

This is rather a very short not too scary and kind of funny event that I have experienced. I was spring hiking with my friend, his family were said to be related to Ainu and they knew the culture quite well. We went to the Shikotsu Lake it was still kind of breezy but there were already lots o...

The Nightmare That Only Gets Worse by conquinn93

I feel like I need to start this off with a warning that this story does contain explicit content, and I share it hoping that it helps me maybe identify what is afflicting me through the help of anyone else that has experienced something similar, so I can then get rid of it, and then hopefully if so...

Echoes From Victims Of The Sankebetsu Seki Incident? by blosomes

The Sankebetsu Seki Incident was a bear attack that happened during the period of December 9 to December 14, 1915 in Rokusenzawa, Sankebetsu, Tomamae Village, Hokkaido (now Sankei, Tomamae Town) The brown bear attacked this farm village twice before being shot dead by a hunter. It is said to be the ...

Cursed Bike by Anand78

The events in this story happened with my uncle but almost every time I hear it, it makes me dwell into a state of paranoia since I happened to feel a part of it. In 2012, shortly after his marriage my uncle was gifted a fabulous PULSAR 200NS by one of his friend. He was an avid biker who always t...

Reflection Of The Unknown: A Glass Door Incident by pxixadgaf

" HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE? SOMETHING SO REAL, SO TANGILBLE, YET IMPOSSIBLE? I HAVE. AND IT HAPPEND AT THE GLASS DOOR." It was a usual day in college, I had my exam which was over by 11am. I just wanted to go home quickly and sleep. I looked at my friend she was still wr...

"simon Says" I'm Here by KT432177

It's been ten years since I posted a story on here but I'm back with a recent experience! I still live in the same 100+ year old house that was in my last story, only difference now is that I'm an adult and not a teenager! Me and my mother are still very much interested in the paranormal, which lead...

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