Ghost stories from Illinois, United States: Page 4

The Children Wanted Comfort by kittythatsme

This is an experience I will never forget. My friend Matt had just bought a house on the other side of town from where I had lived; a few weeks of living there he called me and asked if I would come a visit him at his house. Hearing him say it that way certainly got my attention. Of course I went...

I Swear Boo, Dad's Not Home Yet by snowflake

This isn't my personal experience. It's one from my 12 year old son. Before I share it, I'd like you all to know that this experience took place before McKinley Park, but after my friend's passing. I'm not sure if any of my experiences are directly involved with my son's story. One night about 10...

My Haunted School by taurusgirl10

This is Taurusgirl10 right here. And this is my very first story I've submitted here! "Congratulations " I told myself. Unfortunately, my first story is very, very scary. At least it was to me. I attended an elementary school a couple of years ago. I won't say the name, for privacy reasons. The...

Never Met Him But Had Some Sort Of Bond 2 by snowflake

Shortly after my friend Joey passed away, my youngest son started acting a little strange. He kept pointing up to my ceiling, and since he wasn't talking yet, it made it hard to understand what he was trying to say. I decided to try something, and asked him "where's Joey?" He pointed to the ceil...

Easter Visit by hobbyholly

I think this will be one of my last stories on here. Things on this site don't seem the same. Maybe I need a break for a while. Plus I miss some old posters that I don't see anymore. With that said, this isn't a gloom and doom scary story. It is not grand. I didn't play with an Ouija board or see...

The Knock On My Forehead by kittythatsme

My name is Katie and I am new to this site. I am 29 years old. I have been reading stories for a while tonight and decided to start posting some of my own... Enjoy This is the first experience I have had- At the age of 6, I was spending the night at my grandparent's home; something my brothe...

I Was Only Talking To Her by wolfpaw999

When I was young maybe around 6 years old and my sister was 3, my grandma and I had a very odd experience which I don't remember because I was so young but my grandma remembers it clearly. It was a day that she came over to take care of us. I'm guessing that our parents were out at the time. She...

Brianna's Ghost Sightings by ahhitscaty

I am very much aware of the fact that children have active imaginations. However I'm also under the impression that my best friends sister Brianna is only two and while she is a very smart child I believe there is no way possibly she could have made up the things we have witnessed her seeing. Th...

Signs From The After Life by ebeth89

After much mental convincing, I have decided to finally tell a story that I have experienced. Now, this story is not about seeing any apparitions or hearing any voices, but I certainly felt the presence. I'll give a little background to my story before I progress. My grandmother died when I was ...

The Boy And My Glow In The Dark Muppet T-shirt by ghostchaser489

When I was seven years old, my mother, my brother, and I lived in a small three bedroom house in a nondescript little town in west-central Illinois. I'd been 'aware' of the paranormal for quite some time, as we'd lived in a house that in the 1800's had been something like an abortion center. The...

The Unknown Growl by Tre

I have been trying to astral project and so far succeeded twice. But this time I was interrupted by some type of animals noise and it ruined my focus. It was 2:30p.m just the Thursday before Christmas break I decided to try to project again. I lay down, focused my mind and cleared it only to hear t...

Victorian Flat 2 by hobbyholly

Some background info: My fiancée and I have moved out of a complex and now into an old Victorian home. In a previous post I wrote about seeing a "boy in a cape". The last few weeks of living there I didn't see him. With the stress of moving and the rental company being jerks, I didn't see him or I...

Scary Bedroom by haunted2death

I am not one to be attacked by the paranormal. So you can guess I was on the verge of peeing myself. As I was about to go to sleep, I thought there's no such thing as demons. Then there was deep breathing at the foot of my bed, and then it felt like some one stuck a vacuum in my mouth and was su...

My First Astral Projection And Haunting Followers by Tre

Just so you know this is a continuation to my first story. I astral projected and did atlot of things and have proof that it wasn't a dream, but somethings started happening after I projected and this is how it went. It was three days ago when I woke up that saturday morning around 8:00a.m. I wa...

Playing A Game by Jfreekao

Before I begin, I don't want to hear any comments telling me I did something stupid or that I SHOULD NEVER EVER DO THIS. It's just spamming and a waste of time and space. Secondly, my name seems to be a relatively important part of this story, so for anyone who hasn't seen my profile, it's Robby Har...

Soul Detachment And The Distorted Yell by Tre

I heard of ghosts, spirits, and other paranormal activities before. I even went through hauntings as well in my life, nothing was like this. I was at home on a Sunday afternoon about 2:30 pm. I was in my house because I decided to take a short rest. I slept for two and half-hours making it five o'cl...

The Music Box by sardogtrainer

Two years ago on January 31, my mother passed away unexpectedly. She went to bed and when my father came in he realized that she was not breathing. We called an ambulance and spent two days in the hospital with her on life support before her body stopped working. There was no warning that anything w...

Our Ouija Board Experience by curiousgal99

I'm a cradle catholic and I'm rather stupid most of the time... So bear with me. This happened almost a year ago so I will try to be as honest and specific as possible. I never really believed in things like an Ouija boards and ghost hunting. I always saw it as fake stuff on TV. I had a friend th...

Green Mist In My Closet by Tydin

When I was about four or five, I can vividly remember what happened. I was living in the US at the time, at an Air Force base called Elmendorf. I was lying in my bed at night, and then I got up to look in my closet. What compelled me to do so, I do not remember. Upon opening the doors, I saw what ...

Living On A Possible Indian Burial Ground by adelvita

My family and I live in an apartment, but every family has their own front and back doors, and everyone pretty much stays to themselves. Everyone has two floors. We have lived in this neighborhood since 1999, but only three years in this particular apartment. The other apartment we lived in is right...

Ghost Farmer 2 by hobbyholly

I have posted before about the "farmer" I often saw in my backyard. I just thought I'd mention a few more things that took place while growing up. 1. Most fathers have their "favorite chair." My dad was no exception. It was this old chair from the 70's. It rocked back and forth. It also swiveled....

Haunted New Home? by Jimna

When we first moved into the home I currently live in, my friend had to leave right afterward to go out of town for her job. I had never lived in a detached home before and never in one so far away from other people. The house was the first one completed on this block of the subdivision and there ...

Unexplainable Things by shelbister

At just the age of 14 I've seen so many unexplainable things I will be writing down all of my experiences. My first that I can remember was when I was about five I was sleeping with my parents in their bed when I woke. I looked to see a man in this black hooded cape who had red eyes he looked at...

Who's In There? by LordRhodium

Like I say in my profile I am in my early 30's and I am a single dad trying to raise my son Cameron. We used to live in an apartment in a sleazy section of town, until we found a great deal on a rental property in an old residential neighborhood. It was actually less expensive for this 3 bedroom ...

Antique Store by Melianna75

I have always been skeptical. I am someone who believes that YOU believe what happened to you but I need to experience things myself to truly be convinced. Growing up in an old farmhouse (it is one of the oldest in my town) there were always the usual creaking sounds of the floors and stairs, do...

Ghost Farmer by hobbyholly

I grew up in Lisle, IL. It is a smaller suburb compared to Naperville and other surrounding burbs. In the 30s it was a farming community. My grandparents, like most of the growing community members, had a house built during the 50s. My parents and I moved in with them around 1984, when I was an infa...

Stories from my Fiance by MOTHERPANN

This story was told to me by my fiance, I have known him for 15 years and I know he is not teasing me because he is a serious person who is not known to tell tales just to be noticed or to be self-important. When he was in his late 20's early 30's (he is now late 60's) he was working part-time a...

My Best Friend and His Ghosts by phunkyd

I have always had an interest in the paranormal, as a child, I found reading ghost stories was more fun than playing with Barbie's. I am 26 now, but at the time of meeting my friend's ghost, I was just 16. My best friend Michael had always claimed his house was haunted, but like a good 'ghost tr...

Flashing Light by JodiMCHS2008

My sister just moved into a new home, and I keep seeing this bright light. More of like a flashing star like object. I awoke and it was outside my niece's room in the middle of the hall way close to the ceiling, I figured maybe it's the smoke alarm, so I just watched and watched. For a while nothing...

Attacked by a Ghost by freakedout

It was the middle of the night, 3am and I'm not sure why I awoke. I turned the TV on to pass some time and suddenly got a headache and felt sick to my stomach. I ran to the bathroom to get sick. I just wanted to lay down and sleep at that point so I turned off the TV and went back to bed. As I wa...

Ghost in the Cabin at Phantom Ranch by ghostlovr

I know this story may sound weird to you. About two years ago, I went to my second year of church winter camp. We get there and settle into are cabin. Then the heat brakes. We had to repack everything. We moved into a cabin right next to the woods! It was really dark out and looked scary at the c...

Ghost in my House by ghostlovr

This story started a long time ago when we bought this house. My brother Keith was in his room sleeping when he woke up to a loud BANG. The closet door flew open and a heavy metal iron flew across the room. I didn't find out until I switched rooms with him about three years ago. Ever since then, ...

Being Touched by luvparanormal

This one happened to my Mom and Aunt when I was a little girl. I read a story that someone put in the web site and after I read it, it reminded me of this one. Only difference is that this one would be more in the lines of being believable. I was about 6 or 7 years old and we live in an apartment...

Heat Wave Victim by JessicaDanger

This is actually a story that happened to my uncle Jim, not me quite some time ago. I just discovered this site recently and I just wanted to see someone else's opinion on the matter. When I would visit my uncle as a child, something about his apartment made me feel uneasy. It wasn't until I was a l...

My Son Sees a Ghost by Chris Garlington

June. It's like 3 in the morning. It's ink dark in the house. I'm knocked out of a deep sleep by a scream. This isn't the normal screaming I'm used to. This isn't "oh dear, I've stabbed myself with this kitchen implement!," Nor was it "Good Lord, that fecal expurgation was distressingly large and...

Little Scary Girl by samantha

This story is very creepy and it still freaks me out until this day. When I was around 17 years old me and my boyfriend would sit in front of my house until wee hours of the night, it was summer time so it's not like we had school. My boyfriend Nicky only lived about four blocks down from me, I live...

My Life with Spirits by thelmafountain

I had always felt that something was always around me. I could not see it but I knew it was there. I have always been afraid. Sometimes I would enter someone home and feel the presence or sometimes the hairs on the back of my neck would stand completely up. I never wanted to see or feel anything, bu...

One Night in Bachelor's Grove by sunshine

A couple of years ago me and some friends decided to visit the most haunted cemetery in the Chicagoland area, Bachelor's Grove. It is, indeed, a very haunted place. We brought a camera with us to take some pictures with the hope of capturing a few spooky things. The five of us wondered around for an...

Friendly Ghosts in my Home by Christi

I moved into this house not long after my husband died. It was formerly inhabited by a very negative woman who was also very promiscuous in allowing her boyfriends to move into this home along with her 4 children, her sister, her sisters husband and their 4 children, another "guest" who wasn't relat...

Leave Me Alone Rosa by Alejandra

This happened to one of my friends. She has told me many stories about spirits roaming her house but this one sounded very interesting for me. One night she told me that she was by herself in the apartment and was using the computer. Later that night she got tired and went to bed. And turned off the...

Ghosts at my Husband's Parents House by phishin2hoist

Hi its me again! Today I am writing of a very recent event that has happened to me. My husband and I were visiting his parents for the weekend up in Northern Illinois. We usually stay on their couch in the living room, but since I'm very pregnant now, it's hard for us both to fit. So the last time w...

Great Grandma Felt Much Better After Death by Zelora

This is really my mother's story, but she's told it to me over and over, so I know it well. This took place in Mulberry Grove, Illinois. My mother was named after her own grandma and loved her very much (she was my great-grandma, obviously, though I never knew her. This happened before I was born). ...

My Friend Amy by HermioneMorris

This is true, think what you want, but it is. When I was 2, I lived in this old house from the 1900's, a married couple used to live there, but the husband killed his wife in the kitchen, I'm not getting into details, they were too gruesome. He then went into the garage and killed himself. When I...

Spirits Use Computers? by Eric H

This is getting worse by the day. This all started about two weeks ago when my oldest daughter and her friend decided that they wanted to use a Ouija Board at my house, and my girlfriend gave them her board. They were playing with it and giggling and having some fun with it, but then I got on it. No...

Marry and the Rose Scent by Roberta

Once, I went to my grandmother's house when I was in third grade. My Grandfather had just died a little while ago. Since the grave yard he was buried in was rather close to my grandma's house (only about 5 minutes away), we decided we would go take a visit to his grave. We found his grave. My Grandm...

The Glass of Water by Frenchie

This happened to my family when I was about 1 or 2 years old; I am now 15. My mother and I were living with her mother who lived in an old house with a troubling history. Around the late 1950's a man went insane and murdered his family which consisted of a wife, 2 sons and and a young daughter. Thei...

Hanging Barn by atownactor

This happened to me about 3 to 4 years ago. My friend Andy and I were at an old abandoned barn taking pictures and video of the place, just because we were bored. It was probably 2 to 3 in the afternoon when we were there. Andy had decided to go into the barn to check it out and see what kind of pic...

The Floating Lady with no Legs by lovely

One day, as I was sitting inside of my room, I heard a sound and I didn't pay any mind to it. Seconds later, someone knocked at the door and I got up to see who it was. As I got up, I open the door and there was nobody there. We lived in the basement so there were stairs and a wall in my way. As I w...

Succubus by SonofaRV108

I have been going through these sleep paralysis states lately. I will start off with the first one I had, as embarrassing it is to me. I'm almost 100% sure I had an out of body experience. I got up from my bed. Everything had this light bluish color. I didn't recognize anything wrong, it was aro...

Demons Among Us by chicano457

When I was 17 years old, I was attacked by an evil spirit, or, as some call them, demons. Me and my family lived in a three bedroom home, in Danville Ill. One day, when I got home around 5:30 pm from work, my mom was still cooking dinner and I walked up to her saying Hi and looked at what she was co...