Ghost stories from California, United States: Page 1

Doorbell Camera by unknown_

When I was younger, my cousin and I were really into the paranormal. One day, we went over to our grandma's house while all of the adults talked in the backyard. Considering we were really into the paranormal, we decided to look at my grandma's doorbell camera to catch 'scary' stuff. After a few m...

Timothy's Story by xxANARCHISTSxx

Ever since I was about four years old, I have believed that there is a little boy named Timothy that lives in my house. At first it was just an excuse I used whenever things went missing, but as I got older, I realized it was much more than that. I started to become more and more interested in the 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...

Night Gown by Stardar77

In 1992, at the age of 16 I had moved in with my Aunt for a short while. It was during that stay, that I experienced my second paranormal encounter. The first time I saw the little girl, I was not alone. My aunt was also witness. While talking amongst ourselves, we happen to notice a young girl st...

Warn Bobby by Wyvernshade

When I was about 10 years old, my mother and a next-door neighbor named Margaret Lowery, in Palo Alto (alleged to be a medium) were on the Ouija together one night. We'd often go over to our neighbor Margaret's house to do this, and my older brother would also attend, and several of his friends as w...

Spirits Are Very Real by scott4402

My name is Randall, It was the spring or early summer of 1973. I was fifteen years old at the time, living in the coastal town of Pacifica in central California, with my three siblings, my father and his new Hawaiian girlfriend that also had several children. The three youngest lived with us. ...

Spirit Voice On The Beach 2 by Berggraf38

This is a short, but very interesting update to my previous experience at Arroyo Burro Beach in Santa Barbara California 'Spirit voice on the beach'. Please read that experience if you haven't yet. I have researched known ghosts of Santa Barbara several times over the years to try to find the gho...

The House On The Corner by Rosama45

My sister and I went to walk our little dog around the block. There are 6 houses on our side of the street, ours being the second one from the corner of Maclay and Gladstone. We exited our home and as we walked up the driveway (there is an incline out our front door to the sidewalk), I turned to my ...

Menacing Entity by Mimi30

My husband and I moved every 4 years with our children due to our military duties. The last 3 assignments were Los Angeles to Cape Canaveral, Florida then back to LA. We found a newly built 2-story back unit suitable for us and quickly moved in. About a month and a half there, at 7 months pregnant...

My Husband And The Ghost? by BrendaDances

I am not sure how to explain this experience, or what do to about it all, but I really need help in stopping what ever is happening from destroying my marriage. I have gone over this story a couple of times and tried my best to remove anything that was too graphic because I want to be taken seriousl...

A Surprise Call by ccmerlin

I got a call from my dad telling me my grandfather was in the hospital up north and was not doing well. They were going to cut off his leg to try to save him, but it did not look hopeful. They didn't want me to come see him, and I couldn't talk to him so I sadly expected a call soon informing me tha...

The Beautiful Lady In White by Cappy

I had been visiting the Queen Mary in long beach frequently. My girlfriend at the time was an entertainer and we use to go to their cocktail lodge after her performances. This was back in 1984/85. I've wanted to share this story for many many years. It wasn't until years later when I was watching a ...

Things I Can't Seem To Explain 2 -it Hasn't Stopped by lookin4answers

It has officially been 12 years since I posted last. Since then I have moved a handful of times, 4 additional cities, and even became a mother... And like the title says, it hasn't stopped. The last 4 years have probably been the most active. I became a single mother of a 1 year old and moved in...

It Comes At Night by Haven

For as long as I can remember, I have been bothered by something at night time. Nothing sexual, just my bed moving, my sheets pulled off, my hair being touched, breathing and hearing whispering next to me. I even got hit with a water bottle cap once as I was trying to sleep. It stops for a while and...

Were These Demonic Signs In My Life? by Santino

It all started when I was 11, me and my family were in the front yard no one was in the house. We were playing basketball and I suddenly stared at my sister's window and suddenly I saw a fist from inside the house behind my sister's window smash her window. Then suddenly everyone stopped playing bas...

I Believe Her by Haven

My good friend Gloria takes care of her 93 year old mother who has Alzheimer's and dementia. I have met Carmen (her mom) and have witnessed some of her "episodes", they seem to be getting worse. Lately, Carmen's health has been failing due to her not wanting to eat or spitting out her medicine. ...

Rattles & Drums by LottiTheSeer

At the end of October 2018 I began having some bizarre experiences at night. As I lay in bed my feet would get grabbed, shaken or slapped. I would also be touched on other areas of my body including being shaken by the shoulder and groped sexually. This activity occurred for about two weeks and then...

Voices At A School Playground by Lalaland

I remember this experience like it was yesterday. About 25 years ago when I was only 7, my family and I visited my cousin and her family in Sacramento on a Saturday. They lived in an apartment right next to a cemetery with an elementary school right behind the apartment complex. This was definitely ...

'my House Is Haunted' by Kiddino

My Name is Larry Cedeno and I live in South San Francisco California. I live 3.1 miles from the town of Colma, known worldwide as the "City Of Souls," it's the smallest city in San Mateo County with over 1,509 residents and 1.5 million "souls." At this time, there are sixteen cemeteries in colma, in...

A Haunting by Surferwoman

One day I bought a 3 bedroom house for my son and myself to live in. I was divorced and raising my son alone. At the time my son was about 8 years old. The house was nice with a pool. I used one bedroom for my office. It had a hall and 2 bathrooms. After about a month or so, I started hearing the to...

My California Ghost Stories by HawaiiFemme

Story 1 When my sister was about 9 years old, she was alone in my room praying her rosary. Suddenly, she heard the sound of books from my bookcase falling to the floor although none actually did and the room turned red. She ran out of my room and unfortunately, that was the last time she ever pra...

The Lady At The Santa Barbara Mission by Bigwilly

I grew up in California, and as a young child I was told by my Grandmother I had the gift. I was not quite sure what she meant being about 7 years old at the time. Some background on my grandmother she was 50% Cherokee and into what we would call white magic. We might also say a medicine woman. She ...

The Skeleton In The Purple Car by triplevirgo

When I was maybe four years old, I was staring out of my family's living room window that led to the street. I don't really know why I was looking out the window but I remember it feeling like I was staring for quite some time. Out of nowhere a skeleton (no not someone dressed as a skeleton) pulled ...

Jealous Ghost by Rozita000

This is about my brother, he is 34, good looking, athletic and very kind but he has been having a ghost problem for the past 4 years. We are not sure how it started or why! There are things that get misplaced and he was grabbed by his feet and shaken at midnight, one night. It shook him so hard tha...

I Bought A Haunted House by trentinray

We just bought a house at the end of March and we have been having some odd things happening. A couple days after we moved in my kids windows were open the next morning after we know we shut them before bed. The screens were still in place and the back gate leading to their windows was still latched...

Tore Us Apart by Haven

A few years ago, my oldest daughter was preparing to take her First Communion. The church required that parents and godparents attend a two day retreat. It was during this retreat that my children's father reconnected with God. He was touched by everything he lived that day. I remember seeing him l...

A Spirit Led Me To New York, To His Old Apartment by Nylaca

I visited New York for the first time in January, while on tour (I'm a musician). On the third night I had a dream about someone who was well known in entertainment, who had long been crossed over... (no they weren't a musician) The dream: I was standing in Times Square by myself, in the snow ...

Delightful Experience by chuckz_21

This happened to me about 6 years ago, me and few friends were hanging out and decided to go to a ditch (just plain land that had a few tracks). To get there we had to go under the street through I guess a tunnel or so (I don't know what they are actually called). There is a ramp you have to go up t...

The Back Room by Fairyhead

When I was a preschooler, we moved to a shadowy house surrounded by a creek. Bay trees grew close, hugging the house and making the rooms darker. The front of the house contained a main living room with a wood stove and two bedrooms that were very small. Down a small step was the kitchen. Off of tha...

Paranormal Experiences At My Grandma's House by kittenglasses

When I was born, I lived with my dad, mom and grandma in my grandma's house in Chowchilla, CA. This town is notorious for gangs, shootings, and plenty of "crazies" as the locals called them. This story is not about them, but I figured I should establish that first. I will be writing in this account ...

Money Mysteriously Disappears by SweetEmma

For the last 2 years something has been happening to me that I can not seem to quite understand. I get scared every time it happens because I do not know why it has continuously happen to me. Lately my money has been disappearing so mysteriously and it is not someone taking it it's more of a somethi...

Random Happenings by Haven

I have a few experiences that happened to me that I would like to share here and see what you guys think. I lived in Seattle for a few years when I was a teenager, my dad moved us to Seattle after his brother died in a car accident. My uncle left behind his widow, 6 kids and his business that co...

The Voices That I Thought Was Thiers by KankokuMochi

I remember when I was in my first year of college, I woke up around 3 AM in the morning. Let me give you an idea of the placement of the master bedroom to my room. My room was just perpendicular to the Master bedroom and parallel to the bathroom. But the main focus was the master bedroom and my ...

Something Cold by Haven

I have mentioned in other stories, or maybe in comments, that lately I've been feeling my bed move when I'm trying to fall asleep. I have even seen my sheets move when I am completely frozen still. I have done some research on the internet to see if this is probably some kind of medical condition. I...

Interference On Camera by KankokuMochi

Note this will be very short. So this just happened recently and as I am typing this, I feel like something is outside my house. Not only that, the cameras in the house keep rebooting and the displays keep going to black. So a little backstory, I'm a 20 years old and while I may be a person w...

Grandma Visiting Me In My Dreams by pbandj

This is my first time publishing one of my stories on here although I've always been a fan of reading stories on this website for years. I'm going to try to explain everything as much as possible. So back in 2006 my family and I lost our grandma. It was extremely difficult for me because I had gro...

Is It Following? by Haven

This just happened to me last night: I was lying in bed with the lights off going through some emails on my phone when I hear a loud popping noise followed by something hard hitting the ceiling and then hitting me in the forehead. I sat up really fast and turned on the lamp, I sat there looking aro...

Paranormal Experiences Related To Mind-altering Drug Usage? by alexandrapr369

I stayed living in Puerto Rico for maybe 5 more years after my experiences from my last post stopped. And even the first 3 years that I moved here to San Francisco, CA I did not experience anything paranormal. Until I noticed that, after I started having a regular meditation practice and also got a ...

The Fan by bearyscary

So roommate A and I entered our dorm room around 9:15 PM right, the lights were off, the room was cold, you know, how it usually is. Except something was different. There was a faint whirring near roommate A's bed. Upon walking over, we realized the fan was on and my mind immediately went to roommat...

Ghost App by trinity98

I know what you're thinking! "Ghost app? Bunch of baloney!" I thought the same when I first heard of it and even more when I first used it (I started using this app about 2 years ago so around the end of 2015 or begging 2016) but the more I used it the more the responses became more relevant to my q...

Santa Barbara Trip by alisaprune

I worked in Santa Monica at a salon on Wilshire Blvd. While I was there a manager from a different location was getting married. The stylists from the salon wanted to go to their boss' wedding. The salon was in Santa Barbara, about 1 hour and 45 minutes away. The owner of both salons decided to pu...

Spirit In My Bedroom? Somebody Help Me? by hellokitty123

I'll make this as short as possible. The signs: * Whenever I go to sleep I feel that something is poking me? Poking my whole body? It's very softly. Something also touches my hair too. This has been happening for maybe 2 years. I get really scared sometimes so I go sleep in the living room somet...

Spirit Voice On Beach by Berggraf38

This is my first time writing on this site. I've been reading for almost a year since I had a few paranormal experiences after my dad passed away almost a year ago. I'll save those for later though. I'm going to start with an earlier experience, one that happened 20 years ago when I was was 22. I've...

Random Sounds by svvar

I was inspired and brought to nostalgia by a comment I read on a story by another member. It made me reflect and rethink on the house that I lived in growing up with my parents... I thought, hey maybe all these little things are something? Maybe not. I mentioned before that I have heard experien...

My Uncle's Mean Friend by MaggieMay_Not

I hadn't intended to share another story right now, as I have 'Window View' waiting for approval. Two coming out at once seemed excessive, but for some odd reason I'm feeling a nudge. First a bit of history. My father's family were caretakers of a very old cemetery in Kentucky for all of his grow...

The Queen Mary Kids? by SucculentMania

I am curious skeptic, it has always been a source of entertainment to watch paranormal shows like "Ghost Hunters" and the Saginaw, Michigan films made by "Prozak" (although I find Prozak's films to be a bit more difficult to debunk in certain cases). A California native, I have heard many times that...

Crazy Encounters by meghanh14

My name is Meghan and I am from a small town in Southern, California known as Moorpark. Now, I have had a few encounters with I guess would be considered the paranormal. Two of which will stay with me forever. The first one occured in my childhood home. I was sleeping on the couch with my brothe...

My Origin Of The Paranormal by ethereal_friend

I wasn't sure where to begin and because I will be posting all my experiences on this website I wanted to make sort of like a "background" post explaining my most earliest experience so those that may have more insight can see what could be called the start of my paranormal experiences and those who...

I Thought They Were Just Trying To Scare Me by Girlfriend85

Back in 2005 I had rented out a room in a 2 story home. My 2 roommates were cousins from Palm Springs and they were often gone during the weekends because they would be in PS with their family. (The house was in San Diego). The night I moved in they came to my room to introduce themselves and we got...

A Poltergeist That Hated Blondes by EmmalineTexas

My story started in 1982. My Dad had been in the military for 32 years and then had worked for NASA before he retired. Because of his military service, he and my Mom were eligible to travel anywhere in the world by military transport if there was available room and pay a nominal fee for any meals wh...