Ghost stories from Virginia, United States: Page 1

I Think I Saw My Father's Doppelgänger by theyluvdea

My name is Deasia, I'm 15 but I was 14 when this happened in January or February of 2023. I know I wasn't hallucinating or having delusions, I was sitting on the couch it was around 10 or 11 pm. All my family members have gone to sleep and I'm always the last one to fall asleep in the house. I remem...

Dog Doesn't Believe That There's Nothing There by RussLesco

We moved into a historic home in Diamond Hill neighborhood of Lynchburg, VA in 2019 With us were our 2 dogs, one large bouvier with arthritis and the other an active, but older hound dog. The bouvier couldn't make up the stairs, so he slept downstairs whereas the hound dog followed us up every ...

Shadow Dog With Red Eyes by ketchup65625

My whole life I've loved scary movies and I have a brother a few years older than me, so its safe to say I was watching them at WAY too young an age. Combined with the fact that I had a very over active imagination, I was scared of everything. The grudge was hiding in my closet, the clown from IT wa...

The Red Crayon Followed Me? by DarkDaisy_13

Alright hear me out. Everyone here is probably going to think this is fiction. But I want to share this with all the YGS readers. So I'll just start at the beginning. (This was a period of 5 days) November 22, 2021 At around 12 pm my mom and Alexa left the house to get stuff for Thanksgiving. W...

Did A Ghost Follow Me Home!? by DarkDaisy_13

Two weeks ago I and my sister were exploring the woods behind our new house. It was pretty boring but breath taking in a way. There was a little creek that ran from the front of the woods to the rest of the houses and beautiful Willow trees. Me and my sister dipped our feet into the cold water and h...

The Key To A Better Day by dlerium81

I have had many unexplainable phenomena happen to and around me over the years. This particular extraordinary event occurred in November of 2007, Norfolk, VA, USA. My husband and I were living in a small 1950's home that we were in the process of renovating until the day we sold it and I was around ...

Disturbed While Sleeping by SpookyTrinidy

A few weeks ago I had gone to sleep with my led light on a bright setting. My mom decided that they were too bright and came in my room and changed them without me waking up. I usually sleep with my covers on top of me since I feel uneasy at the closet in my room. I opened my eyes to something layin...

The Spirits Of Cold Harbor by Wil1974

Virginia is full of history, especially that of the civil war. One of the most bloody called Cold Harbor. Located in Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor Battlefield is where "one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles" occurred. It was a part of Union General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Camp...

Repossessed Living Room Set Or Possessed? by CHRISTOPHERMOLTISANTI

My name is Christopher and my story takes place between the Virginia and North Carolina line, back in 2012. I worked for a furniture store delivering merchandise to our customers (living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, washers/dryers etc.) On this day at work, our morning load consisted of two de...

A Haunting In Fredericksburg by Quirky

My son (Cooper) and I enjoy visiting Civil War battle sites. We just returned from Fredericksburg, Manassas and Antietam. This represents our third year of visiting such sites. In the past, we visited Gettysburg, Cold Harbour, Sailor's Creek, Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Petersburg, etc. The term...

Strange Things Are Happening by MikeChandlerOfficial

I live in a house that was built in 1938. Eighty year old houses aren't exactly my thing. So when we moved to an actual house for the first time after living in a trailer park for three years, I wasn't exactly looking forward to it. About five years ago my dad put an old mattress in the attic an...

What's Haunts Our Bathtub? by Ghostofme

We moved into our house in 2001. It was a nice little house with two bedrooms, a kitchen, laundry room and pantry, two bathrooms and a living room. It wasn't fancy just ordinary and had four and a half acres of land that went with it which we rented to a local man to plant his corn on for his cows a...

Something Didn't Want Us There by DestinyGirl

Some years ago (maybe 12-15?), one of my best friends from high school was looking to buy her first house. She had been living with her parents since we graduated from college, and she was finally ready to be out and on her own. She was a single woman at the time, so she would usually take her mom o...

The Only Haunted House I Lived In by Gigakhan

Like I wrote before, my family is not religious but superstitious. This happened in the early 90's, we lived in a house in Williamsburg, I was 7 I think. The house seemed like any other nothing out of the norm. My mom was a single parent and was getting assistance with her rent. (that played a big...

Visitors Beware by Itscareyy

2015 - May - Colonial Williamsburg I've always been interested in the paranormal so when I was looking up things to do in Williamsburg the Colonial Ghost Tour immediately caught my eye. I was thrilled! Instead of listening or reading ghost tales I would finally be apart of a real one. Typing that...

Peanut And Pa by AugustaM

Animals have always been a big deal to my family - we grow up with them as brothers and sisters, when we are grown they are our kids, they are family. I grew up with Annie, a nine pound white pound rescue miniature poodle that my mother and grandmother brought home when I was eighteen months old to ...

Abandoned House by Aaron94

It all started on a dark and dreary night when two friends and I decided to venture into this old abandoned house. As soon as we arrived at the house, we immediately noticed a difference in the energy being emitted from the house (as we have been there many times before). The energy was a much more ...

The Time I Got Stuck In The Closet by Hazibby

When I was about 8yrs old, my parents move me, and my 3 sisters, to a big farm house in rural Virginia. The house itself was built in the early 1900s, but was built on Green Hill Plantation. You may recognize the name if you frequent this site, as my older sister has written her experiences here. ...

Weird by Sanchez_92

This story happened when I was in high school 10th grade to be sure, back in 2012. There was this one girl who didn't like me at all. Reason for that I don't know, but I was really good friends with one of her friends. That friend and I no longer speak, her name is Veronica. Veronica and I decide...

Granny Visiting For My Daughter's Birthday by kirovmom

My mother's mother had been living with my parents for almost three years before she passed away in March 2016. She was suffering from Alzheimer's for the past several years and often had strange stories to share with us. While at my parents' house, she swore there was a little boy who kept eating f...

Was I Awake? by Sanchez_92

About 4 months ago I experienced something really unexplained. I was talking through text messages with my boyfriend at like around 1am. I could not sleep so I decided stayed up talking to him until late. Later that night, when it was about around 3:30am, I told him I was getting sleepy but wasn't g...

Hiccups by Sanchez_92

When I was about 9 years of age my mom would take care of two little girls of around the age of 4 and the other about the age of 8. My mom was not working at the time that's why she was babysitting these little girls and many other kids. One day when I got back from school, the 4 year old always...

Saved By A Premonition Just In Time by chel

This experience was one of my first and most memorable experiences with the unknown. For a little back story on me, I have a family history of "psychics." My maternal grandmother was a fortune teller and tarot card reader, and my paternal grandmother came from a family of Irish gypsies. Despite that...

It Wasn't My Cousin by zinia

I have several experience of paranormal stuff, this is one of them. This happened in the townhouse that I used to live before with my family. It was a duplex townhouse. One night I was in my master bedroom, doing something on my laptop. In another room my Aunt was sleeping with my two little cous...

Sleep Paralysis, I Don't Know, I Am Looking For Answers by SleepyBoy

Ok well, let me start this by saying I have no prior experience with this website and I am seriously just looking for answers or at the very least some insight into what exactly has been happening to me. For starters I am 18 years old and live in Virginia, I have been here my whole life and I lo...

Blur by outofboxthinker

I am an atheist and skeptic but I have seen something that might interest people. I do have a possible explanation but I'm not sure if it fits exactly because it happened a long time ago. When I was five my cat died and about three weeks after she died I was walking down a small staircase and a ...

People Just Don't Believe Me by Haunta

Unlike most people on this website having extreme experiences with the paranormal, I've just started seeing a few things that really scares me. Every now and then I'll try to fall asleep, and I'm talking about once every month, I just can't fall asleep. I've noticed that these certain nights have in...

The One And Only Time I Tried An Ouija Board by YouAreMySunshine

My brother went to Toys "R" Us and bought a Ouija board. At first I thought we shouldn't bother it because it may be evil, but they talked me into it. That night it was me, my brother and 3 other people. We set up the board, placed a coin on it and said a prayer before we started. These are the q...

Being Followed by moonwolf91

This is my first story but I actually have a lot and I'm happy I've found the site to explain my phenomena and hopefully get some answers. Since I was a child, maybe starting at the age of 8 or 9, I've always felt like something was going on with me, like someone always been with me, but I reall...

Visit From Grandparents by Curious61

I've always believed that deceased family will come and visit and also escort you when it's your time. I also believe that the young have a strong propensity to enjoy these visits and are more open and accepting to them. My daughter is a case in point. Her fraternal grandparents died when she was ve...

Basement Haunting by sharingiscaring

Before I begin, I would like to apologize for my terrible grammar, the length of this story and whatever else. Here goes... I use to stay in a rent out basement (with my older sister who comes and goes very often, so that means I'm mostly alone) in Annandale, VA. The basement has all utilities pr...

Was This House Haunted, Or Am I Just Crazy? by Lani12

So there are a few things that happened, all in the couple of years I was living in Virginia. We were living on base- my dad was in the military at the time. I loved it there, it was a big, two story house with three bedrooms and a downstairs that was huge. It was all well and good before some diffe...

Something Was Following Me by Single_Mom26

It was a dark, cold but not too cold night. Me and my best friend Shaunda was sitting outside at my house in the backyard in my driveway in my car when all of the sudden I saw a white "thing" run really fast in my yard. I didn't catch a glance of what it was because it was pitch black dark outside s...

Life Of The Party by LarryWilliams

My parents have lived in a rather large old farm house in Hamilton, Virginia for many years. The first section of the house was built in the 1960s and is where the modern kitchen and living area is. The second part of the house is the original farm house that was built around 1800. This section of t...

Betty's Ghost by LarryWilliams

When my wife and I were first married, we lived in a small house in Fairfax, Virginia with our 2-month-old Labrador puppy, Ben. The house was a modest 1950's era, Cape Cod with a finished attic that we used as an office and spare bedroom. One of the things that attracted us to the house was the larg...

Full Apparition In My Bedroom by shhh_im_sleeping

Lately I have noticed that my bedroom has gotten colder. It stays chillier than the other rooms. My husband says it's no big deal and I thought so too until January 30, 2014. I was sitting on my bed with the lights off late in the evening. The only light in the room was from my laptop and the te...

I Think Activity Is Starting Again In My Home by shhh_im_sleeping

Last night, January 16, 2014, I went into the bathroom to get ready to shower. I turned on the light and air vent and, of course, the door was shut. As I was turning around in the shower the shower curtain was clinging to me a little bit. I didn't think much of it but as I turned my back towards the...

I Got It by shhh_im_sleeping

Since my Mom's passing in January of 2011, I spend most nights with my 79 year old Dad in his home because he doesn't like to stay alone. During the early morning hours on January 15, 2014 something creepy and disturbing happened in my Dad's home. I sleep on the couch in the living room. I awoke...

Whispers That Wake Me Up by Satistraption

This happened when I was around 8 years old. I am now 15 but I haven't had any paranormal instances since then except for a few "I'm being watched" kind of feeling. I used to live with my dad in a two story house that was pretty old. We lived in Manassas, VA which is right where most of the civi...

My Father's Home by shhh_im_sleeping

My Mom passed away in January 2011. I stay with my Dad just about every night. He's afraid to stay in the house alone (he worries about burglars). I sleep in the living room on the couch. One evening about a week after my Mom passed away I was pulling into the driveway with my car, stopped at th...

Haunted Plantation by girlie

This happened to me about a year ago, and I will do my very best to get all the fact straight for you guys, so you can understand it all. My parents and I took a trip to Virginia and went along route 5 (between Williamsburg and Richmond) to take tours of all the old Plantation Homes. It was amaz...

The Haunting: Part 4 by shhh_im_sleeping

It's Saturday, August 28, 2010. My husband and son decided to go to MD and spend the night working on his parents' home with his brother. I worked from 9-5 that day and my husband's aunt was baby-sitting my daughter. I went to her house after work and picked up my daughter. She fell asleep on the...

The Haunting: Part 2 by shhh_im_sleeping

After hearing footsteps and seeing that black shadow in early March 2010 it got quiet around my home. Everything seemed normal again and felt normal too. I convinced myself that my eyes and ears were playing tricks on me and that I wasn't being logical. I continued to sleep in my son's room with no ...

The Lake House by shhh_im_sleeping

My mother-in-law passed around 5 pm in May of 2009. She died in the kitchen of her home. Her home is called "The Lake House". The Lake House is a late 1800's Victorian home in College Park, MD. My husband Steve and I received the news of her passing that night from his brother Donald and we went...

What Did I See In My House? by destiinyy

A few years ago when I first moved to my current city, something really weird happened. My parents were at work, and I was walking around outside, trying to get used to the new neighborhood. I was making my way back home and my house came into view. The front door was wide open, and I know for a...

Hunted By A Demon From A Ouija Board by superstroop53

My girlfriend and her friends played with an Ouija board a couple years ago. My girlfriend told me the Ouija board told her it was her grand father that died years back from a freak accident. She began asking it questions that only he would know and the spirit answered them all correctly. Ever since...

Everything Is Going To Be Alright by CuriousKitten

For years I've grown used to hearing voices either talking to each other or acknowledging me when I'm about to fall asleep or just waking up. When it happens I can hear the voices clearly, but never really tell what they were saying and I always could get this feeling of how many people were there a...

Is My Family Speaking To Me? by DestinyGirl

Although I have viewed this site numerous times as a guest, I have finally gotten up enough courage to share my story. As a bit of background, my mother's family is completely Hungarian, and it has been a longstanding "joke" that we have "gypsy blood" in our veins and have some type of paranormal...

A Nonbeliever Now Believes by whrtnkvn

Let me start off by telling you that I have always been a skeptic. Even when I lived in Charleston, SC (one of the most haunted cities in America) I have always found a logical explanation for weird occurrences. Just a few weeks ago I had an experience that not only terrified me, but changed my view...

Spirits Playing With My Grandson? by happygrammy3612

It all started a couple of months ago. I was awoken by the sound of my grandsons' music box playing rather loudly. Of course, being the light sleeper in my old age, I sprang to my feet and rushed to his room. He was fast asleep and no where near his music box. I thought it was odd since he was at on...