Ghost stories from United States: Page 45

Shadow Of A Little Kid by victoria0820

One summer I went up to Georgia to stay with some family and babysit. One night my cousin, Aiden, and I were getting ready for bed in his room. We had to fix the sheet because he had spilled crumbs all over the bed. He got on one side of the bed and I was on the other side of the bed, we both tucked...

Shadow Stranger by StarGazer22

There is something in my room that likes to wake me up at night and mess with me. I fear that it may be some sort of entity that likes to take the form of my deceased mom. About six years ago I moved from the city of Marysville, Washington to the small town of Stanwood about 30 minutes away. My dad...

Spanish Governors Palace Anomalies by Sistermidnight

I recently took a ghost tour of San Antonio Texas. We visited The old govenor's palace and we were told that about one hundred years ago a woman that lived in the home was murdered in the front room of this home as she knelt at her alter. The woman was home with her children when burglers broke into...

Strange Figure In The Picture by nicktheman

My girlfriend recently moved in with me into my house. I bought this house back in 2009. I never really noticed anything out of the ordinary, but then again I'm not the most observant guy in the world. Well recently some strange things have been happening. We were hearing big bangs, we'd go to inves...

Samantha's House by JustanotherTori

First of all I will apologize for the length of this story, but there is a lot to tell. These events take place in Harrison, Arkansas. It's a small town in Northern Arkansas. I currently live in Missouri but my best friend Samantha lives in Harrison. This is her story: Samantha is a single mother of...

Mother's Final Goodbye? by TheWhisperSilence

This all started when I was 10-yearsold. We had just had a power outage, so the only electrical thing we had were some flashlights so we could see. My father suddenly yelled for me to come into the room. It was pitch black. "Hayleigh, this flashlight just flickered on and off by itself!" At first I ...

Navy Ship Haunted by Swordsaint101

I am a former Sailor. My ship was decommissioned back in 2007. The Navy gave her crew an option to transfer to another ship, or to go ahead and get out of the military. Fed up with the treatment, I opted for the latter. The USS Saipan, LHA-2, had been in service since Vietnam. It was 40 years ...

A Night Time Visitor by Swordsaint101

My incident took place in Athens, Alabama in a quiet rural home, on an otherwise normal street. I lived there with my ex, her mother, her sister, and her stepfather, as well as our collection of dogs. This house, though old, did not have any history of death or violence. Several times, earlier in...

My Experiences In The Childhood Home by Horun

I present to you my very first publish of one of the few occurrences that I've bared witness to. A little about myself, I'm 23 and a native of California. I am a practicing Wiccan, and also dabble a bit in the Druid teachings of my motherland. I've been serving in the Navy, and have not had the chan...

Intruder In My Dream And The Weird Occurrences by Sakura22

This happened last week. I think it was either Monday night or Tuesday night, I don't really remember. All I know is that whatever it was scared me to the core and I have been thinking about it since. Now I must tell you this ahead. I am used to seeing some strange things since I have possibly inh...

Whispers And Breathing In My Ear by HeavenlyGlory

Since the time I turned 13-years-old, I hear voices in my ear at night. They seem to be whispering into my ear. There was this one night where I was sleeping or, more exactly, falling asleep. This was before I played music when I am going to sleep. Everyone in my family was asleep and the house ...

Visit From The Past by ancestor5234

When I was little I used to stay with my grandma in the house that she grew up in. This house had been in the family for nearly 100 years at the time. My grandma's bedroom was right next to what she used to call the Parlor and it had huge double doors that opened up to that room. One night when ...

The Dark Man Who Followed Me To The Bathroom by kestralflightwarriors

In approximately 2009-2010, I lived in a small 1-story house in Sylmar, CA. This was all before we moved into a bigger, two-story house again in CA. The house in Sylmar was horrible. I would always have bad dreams; the drawers in my room would open and clothes would be scattered onto the floor; my c...

Scarf Noose by NyghtOwl

I am new to this but I felt I should submit my experience. I just graduated high school in a little neighborhood right on the city outskirts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the year, my cousin committed suicide by tying a slip-knot noose, attaching one end to the door-knob of his closet an...

The Child In The Window by Carolann1015

My story takes place in Virginia, at Christmas time. My sisters, my parents, and I were outside decorating the house, and my brothers were inside. What happened was actually very suprising to me, because I haven't seen anything like it before. While hanging up a string of Christmas lights, I heard...

My Daughter by Billie03

When my daughter was five my aunt sent a book with family photos and history. When I got it I had my son on one side and my daughter on the other looking through the book. I knew my grandparents had nine children, but didn't know they had ten as one died (my aunt) at seventeen months old. When we go...

The Man That Disappeared by HeavenlyGlory

This happened a few years back. It was a Sunday and it was around 9:15. My family and I were heading towards Sunday school since we go to church every Sunday. My father was a Sunday school teacher and my mother a teacher's helper. My brother, sister, and I were of course students. The school and the...

Strange Woman On A Lonely Road by mmblack663

Before I get into details of my experience, I might as well give the required background information. The location is Hampton, GA, close to the NASCAR racetrack, commonly referred to as AMS by the locals. The date was just three short days ago, June 22nd, 2012. The time, around late afternoon, maybe...

My Creepy Encounters by GhostSeeker14

Let me start off my saying my name is Tina and I am 16. I strongly believe in the paranormal but I am a bit skeptic I want to relay a couple of my encounters and see what you all think. My first encounters with the paranormal were when I was young, however it was more my moms expierence then min...

Grandfather Visits His Wife And Grandaughter by kestralflightwarriors

In 2010, my grandfather died of respiratory cancer about a day or two before my birthday. He always had said I was the light of his life. We had lived in Sylmar, but when he got ill we moved to a new house. The new house has brought many experiences to my life. I am not completely sure my grandfathe...

Soldier Ghost? by Sailors_Sweetheart0413

I've never really posted a story like this before but I've had some weird experiences since I moved into my home. I moved to my new house six years ago. For about two years nothing really weird happened. Then I had a conversation with my mother about ghosts. I had always believed that ghosts weren't...

A Girl Was Standing There Watching Me by toriT22

It all started when my family and I first moved into the house. We got settled and enjoyed being near the mountains. I loved the house, it was big. It had a basement but it was very old and not in good shape. The walls were torn down and you could see the pipe lines and it was nothing new. The main ...

Curiosity Killed The Cat by Nightshade029

This is a short but true story. Last year when I had just gotten home from school, I went up to my room and threw my bag on the bed. My room was pretty small, there was only the bed, the narrow closet and a small desk up against the window. I turned my back to the door and felt a chill run down my s...

Strange Hotel Room 2 by k416jp

I told him the truth that I didn't do it. I'm sure he realized this as well when he heard me answering from the other room as it was happening. So we are both scared at this point. It's around 2:30 am and I really wanted to just get my stuff and leave. I didn't do it because my grandma told me befor...

Priest by JTM1218

When I was a child, maybe at the age of 9 or 10, me and my cousins visited my grandparents house regularly. There was nothing creepy about the house, as we loved going there to see each other, as well as our grandparents themselves. One night, we decided to play a game with our grandmother in wh...

Turning Corners by Victorianicole95

This event took place back in my old house in Colorado about 8 years ago. I live in Texas now but I still remember the day veeeery clearly. The house we were living in had 4 floors, including a basement. Me and my sisters, I have 3, had always seen things out of the corners of our eye. I specificall...

Ghosts On The Farm 2 by Mountaineer

It's been a long time since I've gotten on YGS and it's good to be back! A lot has happened in that time. The Clock While digging around in my house's attic for interesting old things (we've got 1500-year-old Indian pottery up there), I found a nice wooden mantle clock. After a short period o...

Is It An Incubus? by emily_rose_1

Before I began with the main part of the story, I would like to state a few other things that happened. Things like; objects flying across the room, having odd and frightening dreams about me having a beautiful baby girl, then handing her over to the Devil, hearing breathing when I go to sleep at ni...

It's Not A School Day by vernonwolfe

In 1969 I was 11-years-old. Our family was pretty normal. I had two brothers and two sisters still living at home, as well as mom and dad. My parents bought this two-story farmhouse in Pettis County located north of Smithton, MO. We had lived in the old house about two years when my 17-year-old ...

Still Afraid Of The Dark by hhall7

I was lying in my bed half asleep, and my room was dark, but not pitch black. There was a blueness in the room to where I could still see objects and where they were in my room. I turned over and by my bookshelf that's in the wall, right smack dab in the middle of it, was a dark hooded figure. It st...

The Old Woman In My Room by kaykay27

Recently, I was woken up by a feeling that someone or something was walking next to my bed. I woke up around 3am to find that an old woman was walking towards my dressing, then standing next to my dresser, looking up at the ceiling, or at least it appeared she was looking at the ceiling. I recently ...

A Shady Character by alandhopewell

August, 1991. I'm staying with Dave, Buddi, and Dave's mother at their home in Avon Lake, a little town about twelve miles east of Lorain. I'd been evicted from 1444 Broadway for nonpayment, which I didn't pay because the new owner wanted to (A) raise the rent, (B) tack on utilities, but (C) didn't ...

My Sister's Experience by destineelynne

I am just going to jump right into this story. My little sister had an experience the other day. But, Before I tell you her experience. I want to say that I can see spirits. I just started seeing them regularly. And it has been very hard for me to adapt with by myself. So, to start off with about...

The Dark Man Figure by XxmusicluvxX

When I was little, like 2-5 range, I would always see a dark shadowy looking figure come out of my closet and stand over me, and would talk to me. So here's the story of how I remember. My mom had just finished putting me to bed and our rooms were really close. So I fell asleep, but woke up in th...

Being Watched And Flying Things by GhostlyKitty

Alright, this is my second story. If you want a little more information, go read my first one. Recently, and more frequently, I have been experiencing small but curious things. For instance, I constantly feel like I am being followed or watched. I turn around a lot in my room which I am in now to...

What Was In The Garage? by coolkatg

Just let me start off by saying this is 100% true. When I tell this story to my family, I am sure to tell them to ask my dad if it's true after I tell them the story. And my dad always agrees with me. Anyways, my parents are divorced. In the school year, I live with my mother and stepdad in King...

Invisible Thing by markjosephwoodcock

This happened when I was in the 6th grade and earlier. I was always feeling things that were not from this world. I was sitting on my couch one night with my brother's wife at the time and I felt like something was there. I looked to see what it was. What I saw was a form of different lights all in ...

Something Wanted To Play by Blueberry

Let me start off with a simple statement. Whether you believe me or not, that's fine. This was an experience that left my friend and I startled, but happy. If you choose to think we're simply pulling your leg, that's okay with me but this really did happen to us. Last summer, my friend wanted to ...

My Mom's House 2 by zzsgranny

As most of you know by now, I and my son JR recently went on vacation to Ohio. Per usual, we stayed with my Mom. Normally when I visit her by myself I sleep in the spare room downstairs; however, due to my step-dad's recent chemo treatments, she thought it was better that we stayed upstairs in the a...

Demonic Ouija Board by azlady82

First off let me just say that this story is not really about ghosts. Rather it's more about my experiences with the Ouija board, and my communications with those on the other side. I don't believe that I spoke to a ghost, as much as that I spoke to demons who enjoyed toying with my mentality and pe...

Ghost Hunting With Loonies 3 by cosmogal926

On March 24th, 2012, I went on an overnight ghost hunt with zzsgranny, miracle51031, stephyw2001, and clever210. My 2 brave adventure buddies; Chrissy and Esther and myself drove 9 ½ hours all the way from New York to Mansfield, OH. When the opportunity to do this came up there was no way I was let...

Mississippi's Secrets by ada

There are things in this world you can see and touch. But in my world they follow me and try to communicate. Strange ways, I might add. I have been seeing a shadow. I know it's a small boy. I have said once before I have done a history check on this house and it's property. Not good enough histo...

Is This The Angel Of Death And His Friends? by thisisntajoke

I am currently in college. This started when I was in middle school. I had to get surgery when I was in middle school. It was the night before and the lights were off in my room. The next thing I know is I see a body come out of my wall across from me. It looked at me and I could see two red eyes an...

Bathroom Door Apparition by Sparky2000

One day this year in May or April I was sitting on my bed watching TV. My dad had just gotten home from work. As I watched TV, I saw a skinny white figure in front of the bathroom door. There was nobody else in the room with me. The figure quickly disappeared, almost like it walked down the hallway....

Small College Town by Kid_sensation

I go to college in a small Louisiana town. It's a black college that used to be nothing but sharecropper fields. My freshman year, me and my boyfriend walked up to the gas station to get some snacks for a movie night. Being that it was spring break, we had no car, and little money. We just hung ...

Don't Hide In The Woods by Blackstone

Sorry if this gets long (I figure I'd tell the WHOLE story because this is a really fun game and I would recommend it to anyone) but where to begin... Ok, This happened when I was 15 or so and as stereotypical as it is just a day or two from Halloween. I have a relative who had recently bought a bun...

Still Being Haunted by MexicasianDoll

My name is Jayde and I'm honestly not sure how to start these so I will tell you about how I had my first paranormal encounter and how I feel I'm still being haunted. A few years back, it was about 3 and I was still wide awake. The lights were off but the T.V was on. I was laying down and turned m...

Lucky Crying For His Ghostly Owner by Nicole85

This incident happened to me 12 years ago, when I was a teenager living in the Bronx NY. I was taking a walk on a Saturday with my father. My dad made it a habit to walk through areas that seemed deserted and lonely. I'm sure it was not safe but I never gave it a second thought because I always felt...

Comforting Last Words by SarasSister25

My sister Sara and I were always very close. Our relationship was in no way perfect, but still it was a closeness that I will never have with another living person. She was 3 years older than I, that's probably why we occasionally had our tifts. I was a pesky younger sister, and I can totally admit ...

A Reasonable Explanation by BlueTurtle

Just to start with, I'm fully aware of the things our minds make us think we're seeing or hearing or feeling which is why I'm cautiously skeptical in most things revolving around the paranormal; I'm more inclined to seek the most obvious explanation first. Still, it doesn't make the experience any l...