Ghost stories from Illinois, United States: Page 3

Grandpa's Still Here by caitlynann4

I have written a story here before. I do not believe it was published though, but anyway I am writing this story to tell all of my 26 year old step brother's ghost experiences. His name is Brandon. He currently lives in Frankfort, Illinois. My step brother and I have seen many things in my grandma's...

It Followed Me Home by quartertwo3

I've always loved a good ghost story. Unfortunately (or fortunately, perhaps, depending upon your perspective), I don't have many of my own to tell. There is one, however, that happened when I was 16 and living in a northwest suburb of Chicago. Since I have read the stories of so many on this site, ...

Grandma? by twisted_individual

In the year of 2000 my grandma (my dad's mom) passed away in the Philippines. I remember that night when it happened too. My father received a phone call from his brother, Steve. A few moments later my dad called all of us down stairs. He said, "Your grandma, Conception passed away last night. I'm g...

Family Photos by always-up

One of my friends ("Jane") recently lost a child (lets call him lee) in a car crash. He was killed by a drunk driver. It was a horrible thing. Two kids killed, one scarred for life in many ways, and another was sent to prison. My friend was having a very hard time dealing with the loss of the son. A...

Bells At Night by Northernlights

To start of, I'm a 16 year old girl, and what I'm about to write "Did" happen. Not just me but my mom and aunt too. It all started off in the afternoon, my mom and I got in a fight with my aunt about something stupid. When we finished fighting we didn't really talked to each other, so I just went ...

My Grandparent's House 3 by guy48

Since I've only posted stories that happened in the seventies and eighties I figured I should share more recent experiences. One of the stories also marks my first experience. About seventeen years ago my mom was babysitting my older cousin who was just a baby at the time. My uncle was downstai...

Exploding Head Syndrome by 30stones

This is my first story. There will be more to come. I have rented as well as owned several homes in the historic district of the town I live in, over the past twenty years since I finished college and got out on my own. I initially never used to believe in ghosts or hauntings, as my back ground ...

The Haunting At Ruby's House by kelliecrazy

One time I was at my friend's house, Ruby, and I swear there was someone, or something living in her house. It was about a year ago, and I was going to her house for the first time. We were playing around with her camera, and we heard the door shut loudly. I turned around to see who had shut the doo...

A Ghost Cat by norwegiancat

I used to live next door to my neighbor who had a black/white cat. I just adored this cat, and he just loved when I would come over for a visit. My neighbor told me that her cat had a malignant tumor. The cat was still fine the last time I saw him. We got a two-bedroom apartment in the next build...

The Little Lost Girl by Dezzie

I remember once as a little girl my grandmother would tell me lots of stories and all were true. More than anything they would fascinate me instead of scare me. I would go into her room and sit in a chair as she would tell me things from her bed. One story in particular was the one about the little ...

Hinthorn Chapel Chaos by Benji

My friends "Nathan," "Kayla" and I discussed going to a reportedly haunted graveyard close to my hometown of Hudson, Illinois one August night. When we finally decided to go for it, we met up at my house that evening, gathered everything we thought we needed and headed out in Nathan's car. On the wa...

I Don't Know What To Make Of This by keekee

I really don't know how to explain this but I'll try my best. I always wondered why these strange things happen to me and I'm trying to remember when it first happened. I was pretty young and I had got hold of a Ouija board. I was playing with it in my room. I remember turning the lights off and...

Voices From Beyond by GhostCrowParanormalSociety

My name is Joshua Tinkham and I'm a paranormal investigator and recently went to sugar tree grove cemetery in Monmouth Illinois, there is a a local legend of a haunt about a native American who was buried there with no name on his grave stone. The settlers of Monmouth killed the native American a...

My Grandparent's House by guy48

Ever since my dad was a child unexplained things have happened at my grandparent's house. Unexplained footsteps, talking, music, are just a few of many paranormal activity that has gone on there. Since there are too many stories I will share only a few for now. Once my aunt was sleeping in what ...

My Future Children by Trudy82

This is a story I've debated posting a few times because it is very dear to me and I didn't really want to hear any negative comments about it. But I've decided to post it now... This happened to me about five or six years ago, in 2004 or 2005 while I was in college. At that time I was dating a ...

It's Getting Worse Update by mark

I previously submitted some stories about my new house, and the things going on over there. I took the advice of many and did some investigating into the history of the house. It seems that the first owner was the developer of the subdivision, and built all of the houses in the subdivision. Guess he...

Woman In A Blue Dress by Erich

I lived in an upstairs apartment back in 1990. It was mid August and sweltering heat. I didn't have an air conditioner at the time and the heat made it hard to sleep. I always slept with the windows open to catch any breeze that I could. One particular night, well after night, I was rattled out ...

Shadows In The Rearview by Giovanna425

A close friend, Bob and I found ourselves parked a few blocks away from my home last Friday evening. It was around 10 or so and we had decided to park in front of the house of an old friend. However, our motives were to be near the house because it was where our friend's father, Mr. R., had passed a...

Odds And Ends by Ibelieveinghosts

I have several more paranormal experiences I'd like to tell all of you about so I decided to combine them into one story since each incident doesn't take much explaining. First I'll tell you about the EVP I recorded back in April of 2008. I was living in an apartment building at that time that was b...

Helpful Spirit by iveseenthem

I moved into a duplex about 7 months ago. Since then a number of odd things have happened to me and some of my friends. Some were common to me because I've lived in other places that seem haunted or they seemed explainable, but also things that have frightened my parents have happened. The firs...

Growing Up With Ghosts 3 by Ibelieveinghosts

As I've stated before, I grew up in a house where very strange things happened. If you've read the first 2 parts of this story then you've gotten an idea of what I went through. But what I'm going to tell you now is by far the scariest and strangest of all. I was about 7 or 8 when this took place an...

Sleep Paralysis Or Something Else: I Just Don't Know by fruity-funk16

This 'supposed' paralysis that happens within my sleep has been continuing on for years. My first encounter began when I was about the age of thirteen; however, I was very awake, bored, and staring at the ceiling. All of a sudden I figured out that I was unable to do any movements with my body and h...

White Lights And Green Orbs by LenaLolita

It was a sunny day, around 5 or 6pm. I was in my room, relaxed and writing. My cat, which is very playful, began to jump around and stare at the ceiling. I didn't think anything of it. I then began to observe what my cat was staring at and seemingly playing with. I happened to look up to see if I co...

Communication With A Poltergeist by Desertfox

I was 18 years old at the time of this event and I currently lived With guardians at the time. All of the family members there have had Some dealings with paranormal or unexplainable events happen to them Inside of that house. I can't remember the exact time but I know it was dark outside, if I ...

Growing Up With Ghosts 2 by Ibelieveinghosts

Hopefully you have read part 1 of this story because it explains about the house I grew up in. Many weird things happened in that house while we lived there, such as footsteps up in our attic late at night, whispering, disembodied voices, doors closing on their own. We never found out why all of the...

Using A Ouija At My Friend's 4 by seb94

I can't take this much longer. I'm going to talk to the minister tomorrow, but I just thought I'd update beforehand. Things are getting too strange, and now I'm being physically hurt. Whatever is in my house has also been bothering my sister. But my mother remains clueless, or she hasn't said anythi...

Can It Be A Ghost? by Ibelieveinghosts

I had published this story before on my old account and am resubmitting it. I recently moved into an upstairs apartment over a store. There is one other apartment along side mine but it's empty and has been for months. Shortly after my son and I moved here, I started hearing what sounded exactly lik...

Shadow People Or Demon, Can I Defend Against Them? by Allemande

The following experience isn't the first paranormal one I've had in my life, but it is the first one that I am at a loss when trying to rationalize it. It happened after the holiday party at my company, I was exhausted and decided to take a nap on my couch for a while, it was 3:30 PM. When I woke...

Using A Ouija At My Friend's 2 by seb94

I think that I'm being followed. I don't know if it's by a spirit or what, but I can never see who it is and whenever they sound closer the hairs on the back of my neck and my arms stand up. I'm severely regretting using the Ouija at my friend's house (last weekend). She says everything is normal fo...

Full Bodied Apparition Sighting by Ibelieveinghosts

This is a true story that happened on May 15th, 2006 in a small Illinois town where I grew up. I have always believed in ghosts ever since I was a little girl because for the first 10 years of my life, my family and I lived in an old spooky house where many strange things happened that were unexplai...

A Seance And A Warning by Jake_Da_Snake

A couple months back, I had my first experience with the paranormal. My roommate Jordan and I were bored one night, and decided to have a séance in my room. I thought it would be cool since I had never taken part in such things, but had always been interested. We arranged lit candles in a circle ar...

Lustful Ghost Or Demon by Trudy82

This is my first shared experience on this site. I suppose I'll start with a more recent encounter. This happened a couple years ago... I was on a date with my boyfriend at the time. Let's call him Eric. We only dated for about six months, and he was very into the spiritual world and energy work, a...

Fifteen Years In A Haunted House by KimCan

I grew up in a haunted house. It was an old brick house in a historic neighbourhood nestled in the Fox River Valley, about 45 miles outside of Chicago. We moved there when I was just 5, and it wasn't until I moved out as a young woman that I realized just how unusual our experiences in that house re...

An Odd Encounter With Coyotes by oceanborn

Me and my friends have been into ghost hunting and investigating for quite a while now. While doing this I've experienced some strange things before, taken some interesting pictures etc. But within just a few days it seemed like something odd was happening. I will start with the night when me, my...

Phantom Footsteps, Dark Orbs And A White Flying Specter by Watersprite

On October 6, 2006, my husband and I took a short but much needed vacation to the wonderful old spa hotel in Okawville, the Original Mineral Springs Hotel. When making arrangements for our "spa weekend," which would include a couple of massages, a steam bath, and trips to their Jacuzzi hot tubs in t...

Snow by NecroCarnival

Though this isn't the first experience I've ever had, this is the one that spooked me the most. I was home alone (which totally figures). Parents were both at work and my younger brother was out and about with some neighborhood kids. I suppose I wasn't completely alone seeing as my blonde and wh...

Basement Encounter by EnergyTwinkles

It was October in the mid 1980s and I was still living in a very old (built in 1889) home in Chicago. The neighborhood kids volunteered to help me put together a yard sale so we were all in my basement rummaging through old stuff to sell. As I was standing at the laundry sink washing some old dishes...

Sounds Of The Past by BleachFreak01

My family had the computer in the living room but due to remodeling, we moved the computer to the back of the house. We have a room, it's called the family room, and it faces the backyard. One night, I was on the computer doing my homework. It was around 11 to 12 midnight because those are the hours...

My Son May Be Seeing Spirits by khaunani

I'm not sure this is a story so much as it is asking as to what others think might be going on. The house we live in was bought by my husband about 4 years before we met and married. Upon moving in, he said he had odd things happening, like the radio or lights coming on during the night. He got r...

Indian Burial Ground Haunted House by CorradoGuy21

The story starts out like this, I was a small child at the time, only about 5, and the other person in this event is my brother, he was about 16 at the time. My family had bought our first house in Bartlett Illinois, and we were vey excited to move in. The previous owner had all of the windows cover...

Was That You, Hannah? by MediumColette

On my sister's 16th birthday we threw her a big surprise birthday that lasted the weekend. The last night of the party, me, my friend Hannah, my sister who is also called Hannah, and my sister's friend Ryan went up to a park down the street from my house. Me and my friend Hannah were sitting at the ...

Could It Really Be Possible? by ahhitscaty

I suppose this story started the night me and my best friend since the forth grade decided it would be a great idea to watch as many ghost stories as we could in one night. Since a long time ago when we had been only 10 we decided my house had to be haunted. There was no wind in the house how co...

Unusual Incident by Imageofadarkself

This unusual incident occured about a year back. The incident wasn't intense, but it was enough to make me want to stop investigating haunting incidents for a long time. I have only recently taken it back up due to the fact that incidents such as these I will be using as a research paper to pass Eng...

Basement Fright by lovedaniel

My name is Ligia and I had quite a fright tonight! I was having a normal evening of movies and dinner in bed, is there anything better! I have to say I love the paranormal, I always have. But I have never seen anything until tonight! I often read the stories on here and I always wondered what i...

Hot Breath, And Growl by kittythatsme

I never heard of sleep paralysis until I experienced it one night. I thought I was crazy and that it was a horrid dream, until I read up on what had happened to me and found out that it happens commonly to a lot of people. And after that experience it has happened a lot more frequently then I would ...

Feathers From Heaven by phunkyd

In the beginning months of my freshman year in high school (I'm 27 now), a good friend committed suicide. Leah was always a bit depressed and had a history of mental illness, but she was a good person with a compassionate heart. Leah was a poet and wrote rather morbid poems. One was found very s...

Ouija Board And Guardian Angel by jdt102000

Just recently me, my fiancee and our friend were using a ouija board to talk to our guardian angels and I found out that mine is my Uncle David. To make sure it was him I asked what struck him before he passed and I wasn't holding on to the plachette. It went to a 'B' and he was struck by a boat and...

The Ambassador East Hotel by hobbyholly

In honor of my friend's 25th birthday, I thought I'd share a quick story. My friend Sean and I are originally from Chicago. However I currently live in the suburbs and he in New York. About every 2 months he comes home for a long weekend. Normally he'll rent a hotel room in the city for a Saturda...

As I Grew, So Did They by KittyChymira

Most of my experiences (but not all) have mainly occurred in my family's first home. This first handful of experiences did occur in that house. When I was about 6 or 7 years old, my playroom was our basement, as was most children's that I've talked to. This was little to no problem, really. I co...

Being Held Down And Choked by Scarredsomtimes

I am in my 30's and have had experiences in the past and always believed that it just wasn't MY imagination even though I had been told I have an overactive imagination. This recent experience happened to me about two months ago. I was sleeping or so I think. I woke up suddenly to a heaviness on...