Ghost Stories in Category: Family / Friends Visits: Page 4

Granny Mimi's Final Goodbye by river_song25

This story is a personal one that goes all the way back to when I was still in elementary school, 30 years ago. My family is huge, with lots of aunts and uncles on both of my parents' sides of our family. Back in elementary school, on my mom's side we had a great aunt who the adults called Mama H...

Incident On A Dirt Road by JerryB

Cornfields, pumpkin pie, trick or treat, ghosts, witches, etc., all come to mind this time of year, it's unavoidable, it's in the air. And that said, let me ask you, ever have one of those moments when you're just sure as hell it was a deceased loved one that intervened in your behalf? I had one ...

The Old Lady Was My Great Grand Mother by Psychicsenses

This is my fist submission although I have been an avid reader of this site. Am from Hyderabad,India. Am a Tamil Brahmin whose day starts with puja and we are all very specific about every single ritual. Am the only child to my parents. This incident that am going to share happened to me when I was ...

That Lady With No Face by Line03

This happened when I was around 8ish or 9? I have 3 sisters and 2 brothers. We had just moved into this big apartment in a small suburb in Auckland it was so old, every wallpaper was mouldy and hanging off the walls and the ceiling was full of brown stains. We ignored all of those and just admired h...

That'll Do Pig. That'll Do by Agua

I'm not going to disclose several specific things in this submission because it would make me immediately identifiable to anyone who knew me that read this. I've lived in a region of Mississippi for 20 years now and I'm a lawyer. I've been with the same firm the entire time. As I've stated and / ...

Reassurance From My Sister by PoliexterLy

I had a sister named Johanna who died in 2010. I have written a story about her awhile ago talking about my last encounter with her (or so I thought). I had been dating this guy since the beginning of last year. I thought he was so sweet and amazing. Really what every girl thinks about a serious...

Very Special Forces by JerryB

In 1965 I was eighteen years old, and a Private in the U.S. Army away from home for the first real time, and on reassignment orders to an overseas facility located at Kaiserslautern, Germany. Being new to the army I had never heard of the place. I was aware of Germany, of course, but never had a...

Grunkle John by carcinoGeneticist

My parents were divorced when I was three months old. My dad was utterly insane and was a raging alcoholic with psych problems on top of that already. My father lived in Kentucky while my mother lived in Pennsylvania where nearly all of her family was. Dad, on the other hand, only had a few peopl...

Encounter With Grandma by lbs2011

My beloved father died in 1987 of cancer. On 5 Oct 1989 Daddy's mother (the best Grandmother ever) died in her home. I was stationed in Homestead, Florida working as a Government employee/Air Force Reservist and got the phone call of her death from my Mom. That Christmas I flew home to California to...

The Ski Mask by dsilcox

When I was 9 years old, my grandmother passed away after fighting cancer. We were very close, and I took her passing very hard. A couple of moths after the funeral, I was home sick from school and went out with my mother running errands. Nothing new with that. It was around February so it was still ...

Beyond The Veil by valkricry

About two months ago, I started a thread about visions/sensations during meditation on my story The Cat and the Angel (http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=20577). In a nutshell, I was looking for confirmation/reassurance and guidance on some twists that meditation had taken fo...

The Weird Mango Tree! by tilott

I am tiloo. 24 years old and practicing as a lawyer. I live in kalyan in a 4bhk flat. Earlier we stayed at dadar. My old house and the location was a beautiful, peaceful place. There was a huge garden outside that old cottage. It had many huge green trees with their branches spread wide. Once, w...

The Twin Girl by Loganuser31

I'm going to start this story by saying there is a genetic thing that runs in my family where there is a twin is carried during the first stages of pregnancy but never lived long enough to be born. When I was born I had a twin that never lived outside of the womb, but we never figured out if it w...

My Maternal Great-grandmother by Kcury

I am originally from The Dominican Republic. When I was 10 years old, I was spending the night at my grandmother's place. My cousin and I were each sleeping on a couch in the living room. I woke up in the middle of the night, it must have been around 2-3 am in the morning, feeling that somebody w...

Graduation by ashlcoopa

My grandma is my biggest hero, not just the outlook she had with life but even with having over 20 grandkids, she still made time to go to games, birthday parties, house visits etc. She always taught us to work hard, trust in faith, and to always help others. On 12-12-12 (dramatic right?) she ha...

A Loss And A Ghostly Comfort by Silentwings

I was pregnant with my first child, my former husband and I had just discovered that we were having a girl and had agreed on the name Abigail Rose. I remember picking the name Abigail because it meant a father's pride and joy. A few nights later I had a dream of a large white room with an old fas...

Grandpa's Goodbye by DragonLuvrD

Growing was extremely close to my step-grandfather. He was like the dad I never knew. However, this also meant I had him wrapped around my finger, I admit. I was a spoilt child. As long as I behaved, I'd get what I wanted, and if I teased him all day about it, I would get it even faster. (I said I w...

Basil Brush, Is That You? by nosidaM

This experience involved a number of people, but I will share my experience and my parents also. Roughly five years ago my dad and his best friend of 25+ years were out in the bay doing what they love, fishing. My dad's best friend was Basil, a practical joker with a love for rum! Whilst fishing ...

My Friends New House by Maris

My friend and I first became friends back in year 2. Ever since then we have been the best of friends. When he was moving house I came along for the fun of it and helped him and his family out. At one point I was carrying a box downstairs to living room, now what you have to know is that there we...

A Reassuring Visit by omggraceyloves01

This is not my story, but my great grandmother's. She is now 98 years old and asked if I could share it for her. My great grandmother has 9 children, 8 of who are still living today. Her oldest child died at the age of 4, when he fell into a canal. She and her husband were devastated, and spent ...

Turn It Off by iambec

Among my circle of friends and family, July has got to be the month with the most birthdays (I am a July baby myself). Last July 21st something odd happened. It was late morning and everyone was gone except my niece and I. My niece was upstairs, while I was downstairs making sure my nephew turne...

Farewell From Dad by annie16

Just a bit of background. My dad was a wonderful person. While growing up my dad worked in construction so was away from home on many occasions but when home, he always made time for his children. Dad and I were very close and I was considered the "apple of his eye". My parents lived in Delmas an...

My Family Makes A Sick Call: Part I by Seraphina

I've hesitated to offer these experiences on YGS because some readers would probably classify them as dreams or hallucinations. Although I understand why someone might come to that conclusion, I personally can't think of my experiences as anything but interactions with some of my deceased family mem...

He's At The Door by valkricry

It was after midnight when I went to bed last night (7/22/2015), not long after I heard a rapping on my apartment door. I got up and called through the locked door, "Who is it?" Silence. Another knock. "Who is it?" I called out louder. No way am I just opening the door, so I drag over the stepstool ...

Something's Up by LBReyes

In the last few weeks I have had odd things happening to me around my home. They have been enough to get my attention and creep me out and now one of my coworkers came to inform me weird things are happening at my cubicle. This morning I come in to work, set my things down and got my computer on...

Goodnight Gramma by ahuff6513

In my great gramma's old age she didn't like kids very much. She wasn't always nice to the grandkids or the great-grandkids. Except me. I looked exactly like her and her daughter, so from what my mom tells me I was always her favorite. I don't remember much of her she passed in her sleep when I was ...

My Father After His Death by Hsilva

All of this started with my father's death. My father was 71 year old when he left us and he was a heart patient for few years. My father was a very calm and quiet gentlemen and he had nothing against the world and had zero enemies. No matter how good he was to the world, my mother was never in ...

The Woman In The Kitchen Doorway by Marypatricia_Elizabeth

The last time I wrote I was 19 years old. I wrote about a little girl who we felt was present in our home. Giggling Little Girl (editor provided links: http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=16011) and Giggling Little Girl, Not So Giggly Anymore (http://www.yourghoststories.com/r...

Visiting Relatives by RedWolf

The past couple of weeks I felt one spirit, which I quickly identified as my father in-law. One day my mother in-law came over in a tizzy because she got one of her renewed credit card with a rather self-explanatory letter about a "chip" being in it. I tried to explain to her the chip is for places ...

She Came Back For One Last Look. by Kathakali

I am Kathakali Mandal and I am from the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Before I begin the story, I should like to inform that I was born and raised in Hindu faith and I have an open mind towards supernatural happenings. My grandmother passed away three years ago from renal failure. She was 7...

A Mother's Last Visit by liza25

I'm Liza. I'm 21 years old and I'm new to YGS. This is my first story. Although this is not my personal experience, this is my mami's story (wife of my maternal uncle). My mom belongs to a village in west Bengal, the landlord's family who are known for their huge wealth and property. Anyway, fir...

Family Light by Vonboeckmann

Dead is dead and you can only improve on it! Well that's the motto in this business and it has been improved on professionally myself for the past 37 years. Last year it was personal about as personal as it can get. Being the last 2 remaining of generation 7 you would think that one would get us...

Strange Dream Or Did My Grandfather Visit Me? by Featherkat

This is my first story on here. About a year ago my grandfather died and about a week later I had a weird dream. In the dream I was in our kitchen getting something to eat. We have a window above our sink and suddenly I had the urge to look at it. As soon as I did a young man, about 25-30, popped up...

Moving Curtain by lovebite23

First time I'm writing my story here. So my brother passed away 21 may 2015 at the age of 18. I'm still mourning him and missing him a lot. Last week the 17 june 2015 around 9 o'clock I was sitting with my family in the living room they were talking about my brother now whenever they talk bout...

I Befriended A Spirit by AnonChap

This story (not a story but a real incident that happened) dates back to the year 2004. It was my summer vacation (I don't remember if it happened in May or June), so my family (including my father, my mother and my 2 siblings) went to visit my paternal grandfather & grandma. We get less chances of ...

Outter Heaven by RedWolf

As I told yo in my last story I have had quite a few neck and back surgeries. This event happened after my last back surgery in 2011 shortly after I came home from the hospital. Sometimes I have dreams so real I actually feel awake, like an out of body experience. When it is time for me to get out o...

Ghostly Fingerprints On Shoulders by Omen666

This incident did not happened with me, but my husband - Rajat, some 5 years before. We were at our ancestral house, in Jodhpur, India. We stay in Bangalore for our work purpose, but since my husband's eldest maternal uncle passed away, so visited them. Things were passing in a slow sad manner. ...

Visit From A Ghost Cat And My Great Grandmother by LittleWriter

A few months ago I had two different experiences within 24 hours. The first one on a Saturday evening, the second one on a Sunday morning. I must say that I haven't had many ghostly encounters yet, but I'm pretty sure that what I experienced must have been related to paranormal activity. The firs...

My Aunt Still With Me? by saher

I live in a small town in Karnataka. I was very close to an aunt of mine who lived not far than 35kms from my place. As a child I was either living with my mom if not her then my aunt. I loved her a lot. But on one unfortunate day as she was putting some kerosene in the stove her dress caught fir...

Grandfather Still With Me? by rolltide8925

IN 2008 my grandfather was diagnosed with brain cancer. Of course it devastated the whole family. Unfortunately due to him also being a diabetic and 73 years old, his body could not handle the chemo and radiation treatments. That being said, no one else has had any experiences since his death except...

The Final Goodbye by skepticsu

This was my father's experience. I have no personal experience in paranormal sightings and am more of a skeptic (hence the username). But, even though I have studied science and work in Information Technology, and somehow come up with explanations for most things, I kind of want to believe in the ex...

Guardian Granddad by ambo137

My mum loved her dad very much and she was absolutely devastated when he passed away. So this is why she believes in good spirits, because he seems to always be watching over her and she often dreams about him around the time of his birthday or death anniversary. (She tells me about her dreams and h...

The Brotherly Love by batchiebones

Before I recount this experience of mine, Let me say thanks to Mitotakatori for appreciating the stories that I post here and for the moderators in YSG who never get tired choosing my tales of horror amidst the fact that a lot of contributors are sending their write-ups. Anyways, this story that...

Grandad Or Something Else? by PerfectInsanity

My grandad isn't really my grandad, he's my mum's boyfriend's dad, but to avoid confusion and because he's the closest I've ever had to a grandad I call him that. In the same way I'll call my mum's boyfriend my dad because he's been in my life since I was four and has been more of a father to me tha...

Grandfather's Shadow by ghostgurlie15

I haven't posted an experience since last year, so I decided to post one of my mum's experiences today. I will post more of my own soon. I promise! Anyway, my mother doesn't believe in the paranormal; however, what she saw, she can't explain. At the age of 46, she's still trying to come up with a lo...

Long Lost Relative by Cbear100888

I have a few... Experiences (if I get time) I'd like to share. Sorry if it's a bit long winded. But first off I'd like to just say I'm not a firm believer in paranormal, it interests me a lot but I've always been one of those "I'll believe it when I see it". First experience happened back in 2008...

Haunted By Grandpa by tuckandroll

First off I've never really been one to believe in the supernatural or even the paranormal. All of it seemed a little immature to me. My experience happened a few years back right after my grandfather passed away. It was around 4:30 in the morning and I was asleep in my mom and step-dad's fifth ...

The House On The Reservation by jamesking

I have always experienced acts of the paranormal since I was a young boy. It started when my grandfather committed suicide when I was young. My mother always claimed to be to able read people and sense ghosts, but I never bought into it to much. She was usually right when reading people and my frien...

Can A Spirit Can Communicate Through Technology? by abhijit66

This is my second encounter with the paranormal in my 22 years of life. I Am 22 years old and live Near Guwahati City in India. After my first experience, I totally became active about the supernatural happenings around me but did not notice anything because there are a few paranormal incidents that...

Figures In The Bedroom by taylorpaige420

This may not be the longest story on here but this is my experience with what could be a ghost or spirit so here it goes. Okay, so when I was a little girl maybe around the age of 5 or 6, I used to still sleep in the bed with my dad because I was scared to sleep in my original bedroom right next to ...