Ghost stories from Illinois, United States: Page 1

Unexplained Pillow Tapping by Manafon1

I haven't posted in quite a while, but I am hoping for some help from the great YGS community. In the past week, I have begun hearing a very odd tapping sound coming from under my pillow, something like a finger tapping but with a "popping" quality. At first, I assumed it was an inner ear muscular s...

Ironing Board & Drowning by valkricry

I'm going to tell of two separate recent incidents that I don't believe to be related. The first is the case of the disappearing ironing board. The board itself is rather unremarkable; an old table top version, roughly 3 feet long and 1.5 feet wide, constructed of metal. I've had it roughly 18 ye...

The Ghost In Chicago by worthise

In the summer of 2009, I was visiting Chicago for a work trip and stayed at the historic Hilton Chicago across from Grant Park. My sister also lives in Chicago and my trip coincided with her bachelorette party. After work on a Friday evening, I had dinner with my sister and two of her friends. I dis...

Two Episodes Of Curious Nature by believe_sceptic

I have been a long time reader on this site, but have never taken the time to set and write up my experiences. Both these incidents have been years apart and no way connected, but they are pretty fresh in my mind. Hope they are a good read for all! 1. It was in 2010. My husband and I lived in a ...

Ghost Mimic Voices by Vewilliams

Early in the year I woke to my son saying MOM in a urgent tone. His room is far enough away so I can only hear if he is inside or by my door. When I got up to see what was wrong, he wasn't there. Checked his room and he was asleep. Mentioned this to my boyfriend ans he just laughed about it and thou...

When Evil Is Your Salvation by valkricry

I'm going to start this back in January 2019. That isn't the true beginning of it, but when it became very apparent that something was not right with me, and I was becoming more depressed. Normally, I can pinpoint a reason for any down mood and work my way back from it, but this time was different. ...

Weird Encounters? by Yd1000

I have had many of weird encounters and experiences. Story #1 Recently my family moved out of a townhouse we lived in for a few years, partly because of the experiences we had. I want to know what you can understand from these experiences we had. 1) This is a funny one. I have a great-gra...

Odd Gifts And Vanishing Items by valkricry

Like many of you, I'm the victim of the "ok where did it go?" and "Where did that come from?" syndrom. This seems to be a favorite game of ghosties world wide. Of course sometimes you can find a mundane reason something has wandered off; forgetfulness, pets, another human agent, but now and then you...

Handprint Of A Ghost? by valkricry

This happened on September 23, 2018, around 10 A.M. Or so. It was a Sunday morning, and my roommate was at Service, so my cat and I were enjoying some uninterrupted TV time. I was enjoying a scary movie (my 'guilty' pleasure) with the drapes drawn and lights off for atmosphere. When out of nowhere...

Big Brother Is Watching by valkricry

It was January 2, 2018 and it was really cold out, like 6 degrees, but I really had to go to the store. My roommate was sick so, I bundled up good, and began the 3 block trek to the nearest Mom and Pop, hoping they'd have what we desperately needed. About a block into my walk, a car started cree...

Windows And Doors Opening by ItalianGuy

In the year 2013 we lived in a small quiet town of Roselle a town 25 miles outside of Chicago. At first when we moved in, we loved it. It was almost like a new chapter in our lives. Not long after we moved in things started to change. I was sitting in my dining room eating dinner, it was about 8:30 ...

Self Writing Code by valkricry

From my journal: 2/9/2018 I'm not saying this is paranormal, because I've been sick and we know how that can be, but sick or not it's platypus odd. Since the doctor won't let me go back to work until Monday, I decided to work on Trespauze Manor, my online haunted house. I wanted to make it respon...

My Brand New Haunted House by overrated_07

My father was in the Navy until I was 18 years old. Spooky things have happened in many of the places my family has lived, but our home in O'Fallon, Illinois was the worst. My parents planned on retiring from the military so they bought a brand new house. We lived here 2006-2010, my 8th grade to jun...

She Always Did Like To Annoy Him by The8Ms

I've been reading here for awhile and have really enjoyed reading everyone's experiences. My youngest child is a bit of a night owl and this site has made the time sitting up with her much more enjoyable. Thanks! I thought I'd make my first entry one of the short and warm fuzzy variety... My m...

She Hates Men by valkricry

In 1992, I had the happy fortune to reconnect with my best friend from high school. We shared the type of friendship, that though 16 years had passed by without communicating we picked up right where we left off. Bonus points: our then husbands got along and our kids all adored each other. It wasn't...

Old Copley, Abandoned Hospital by valkricry

Old Copley use to be City Hospital back in 1886, and boasted 25 beds. Of course, by the time they closed in 1996 to move to a much larger facility, it had grown considerably, almost swallowing up the original Queen Anne 3 story structure. Despite the original part being declared a historic site, the...

A House On Hails Lane by almaburwell

First allow me to introduce myself. My Name is Alma. I am a mother of two sons John and Zack. At the time of this haunted happening, I was married to Paul. My story begins with a run of rather bad luck. My family and I were living in our cabin home, thinking that life was grand. That is until a...

A Parting Gift by valkricry

My parents had the habit of moving every few years. Us kids were never privy as to why, for us it was just a fact of life. As a result we were rather use to being the 'new' kids, and in the interim of making friends, despite the difference in ages we were friends. Depending on where my parents had d...

Was It My Best Friend? by Sarah1882

I have been a little apprehensive as to if I should share my stories or not, as they aren't anything too serious, but I have decided to anyways. This happened to me in April of 2007, I can not remember the exact date, but remember it was 8 months after one of my best friends had passed away. I l...

Prairie House In Rockford, Il by CCKitty

I first moved to Rockford in 1973, and I shared a house called 'Prairie House' with friends. Built in 1853, it was a family home and it still stands at 1st & Prairie Streets. It had a kitchen, bathroom and root cellar on the basement level, a living room, den and library on the 1st level with a beau...

Mirror, Mirror by valkricry

Back in the early 1980's, my now ex husband (we'll call him Ed), my then 3 year old son, and I moved into our first house. It had started out as a one room school house (I discovered proof when the removal of layers of wallpaper revealed old slate chalk boards) and had grown into a monstrously large...

Childhood Paranormal Odds And Sods Part 1 by Manafon1

The following incidents are what initially sparked my fascination in the paranormal and occurred when I was between the ages of four and fifteen. I have broken this account into two parts. In my latter teens I wrote down what I could remember of these events and these notes have been extremely h...

The Hooded Man by EosTarronson

It starts when I was about 8 years old my dad and his ex wife at the time are members of the sca (society of creative ancrism) well we had an event at camp kankakee a boy scout camp in Illinois well rumor is that it was originally a burial ground for a native tribe that was in Illinois. Now the...

Spirit Coming Into You/being Born And The Black Figure by themurph

It's been awhile since I posted anything and this one event puzzles me. What's the first thing you remember being alive or earliest memory? I remember this well as my spirit was coming down high from the sky. Looking straight down I had no control to move just along for the ride type thing. Once my ...

Revolutionary War Soldier by Ash7

This story is so strange that my own mom has a hard time believing it. I was about 14, and lived on the second floor of an apartment building. One night my mom, my friend and I were sitting on the couch watching tv. What looked like a red laser light started moving around on our wall, my mom freaked...

A Woman Behind The Door by girleye888

This isn't a one time story, this is a reoccurring story. When I was younger my mother and I were looking through her old high school year books, well as I'm looking through them this one girl stood out to me... And every page I looked at she was the first thing drawn to me. Well anyway, I asked my ...

The Blonde Girl by Junebug01

I'm Riley. This is the only time I think I've experienced anything paranormal. I can't remember a lot of the details because this didn't happen recently. Anyway, one day I was at my friend's house. Her bedroom is in a hallway with a bathroom and her sister's room, so if you walk by you can't see...

My Ghost Experiences In My House by ShadowCat1988

The first time happened to me when I was about ten. I was with my sister and our friend from next door, they were the same age as me. I remember we were all playing a board game in our basement when my dad - the only grown up in the house - told us he was going to leave but wouldn't be gone long. We...

My Experiences Over The Years by jazzy981

I'm not sure if I'll get a response on this story but I just wanted to share some of my paranormal experiences and how they have evolved over the years. Some quite terrifying and scary the rest happen while I'm in the in-between stages of astral travel and dozing off to sleep. My very first experien...

Something Wicked Always Came! by pheonix1895

My name is Imani and I have had so many paranormal experiences it's not even funny. First off, let me start by giving you some of my history! When I was a little girl I would have dreams that were visions but they were a sign of things to come. I remember when I was six years old I kept having a...

The Open Door Of A Ouija Board by Manafon1

There are several cautionary accounts here on YGS of bad experiences people have had using a Ouija board. My experience isn't necessarily bad but a bit on the freaky side. Around thirty years ago, when I was between the ages of eighteen and twenty one, I experimented actively with a Ouija board....

A Hand Haunting by NinjaPirateAssasin

There's one spirit in my house that always seems to enjoy making noise and scaring me. I can't help but feel that he is a bad spirit. I still remember the first (and only) time I physically saw him. Our family used to have two guinea pigs and a rabbit in our basement (all three have since passed ...

The Man In The Door by NinjaPirateAssasin

I think my earliest ghost experience occurred when I was about four or five. My dad was out on a business trip, so I spent the night on his side of the bed. I really liked to sleep in my parents' room, so I would take any opportunity I could to stay in there, usually sleeping on the floor in a sleep...

The Strange Object In The Woods by JerryB

I'm sure you will agree that encountering a ghost ranks right up there on the Richter scale of scary as one of the most bizarre, metaphysical stories we might come to share huddled around our campfires on a chilly night. With your permission, I have another story to tell, arguably not the same as a ...

Knocking At Night by NinjaPirateAssasin

I don't really know if the rest of my family believes in ghosts. Years ago, my sister and I did have a talk and were convinced that something was up with our bedroom. At the time, I was in early elementary school and my sister was either in late elementary school or early middle school. We shared...

Mischievous Ghost Haunting My Bedroom by StephenL

I, at the moment of writing this, am sixteen years old and have lived in the same house with my parents my entire life. We live in the house my father grew up in, a house of at least seventy years old in the suburbs surrounding Chicago. I know for a fact that my grandfather on my dad's side of the f...

The Watching Little Girl by NinjaPirateAssasin

To this day, I don't know how I feel about ghosts. I know what I've seen over the years, and what I've felt. But I still don't want to believe. Maybe because I feel safer if I don't. This story happened when I was in (late) elementary school. This story has multiple parts, so bear with me. I kno...

Cold Air And Feeling Watched by MusicLover28

I'm a seventeen-year-old and I want first to say that I enjoy this site. When I was younger, my family went through some hard times and I always heard voices calling me, and from seventh grade to last year I experienced a series of strange events, but those are stories for later. The first sto...

A Ghost Asking Help Me by gstories

So there is this video I have that I recorded back in 2013 on my iPod. I was recording a scene from a TV show. I did not notice anything until about a month ago because it is one of those videos I have but never watch. It is hard to hear anything that is quiet on my iPod with or without headphones, ...

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 ...

Demonic Voices In The Night by Manafon

My Wife and I have run a pet care business for fifteen years. One of the many services we provide is caring for customers' pets in their homes while they are away. On average we spend half of each month at various houses, often together, sometimes apart if there are multiple house sittings. Through ...

Our Dog by andytesa

Me and my girlfriend brought a rescue Rottweiler (which was used for dog fighting) from an Animal Shelter. With its pesky grey eyes, we instantly loved it. Although distant and distrusting at first, the relationship soon warmed up and we felt we had completed a family. Besides his general distru...

The Messenger Of Death by AnswerzInTheDark

As this is my first experience I am sharing on the website - or any in that case - and I plan on sharing all of them as my time allows, I would like to preface my story with a bit of background regarding my experiences. In the past 10 years, ever since I was about 15 years old, I have had some profo...

Recent Activities by valkricry

My apartment is the second story of an old Victorian home, built in the mid to late 1800s. Those of you who have read my other submissions know that I experience bouts of activity. Nothing that I deem scary or harmful, just, well not 'normal'. Things like objects moving or 'transporting' to another ...

Looping Astral Projection by cashm0ney360

I was staying at my friend's house somewhere in the middle of farm/mountain South California, really close to the Mexican Border. Me and a few of my Naval buddies (I was in the Navy at the time) spent the night partying at his farm/house. When everyone decided to go to bed, I managed to grab a sp...

Girl At The Top Of The Stairs by KimmieWebb

I live in Florida now, but at the time of this story I lived in a small farmhouse in a small town called Farmington in Illinois. This was my first experience with ANYTHING ghostly, and didn't believe in things like that... Until this. One night in early December of 1995, my husband and I had been...

Standing Right Next To Me by SegaGK

Ever since I was really young, I would have Sleep Paralysis. It would scare me so much that I would be afraid to fall asleep again the next night. It felt like someone was choking me or someone sitting on my chest without being able to breathe. It was an unbearable feeling. It would only last a coup...

Incidents At South York Street by Manafon

I have been meaning to share the following incidents on this site for some time. These paranormal occurrences happened between mid 1991 and early 1993 at an apartment that was located on York Street in Elmhurst, Illinois. The apartments are now gone and the upstairs and downstairs have been complete...

I'm Going To Kill You by valkricry

Thirty odd years ago, I was friends with a man called Hank. That's not his real name, but it will do for the rehashing of a mystery that has plagued me over the years. There are a few things you need to know about him - at six foot six and close to 400 pounds, Hank was a mighty big man, and could be...

Childhood Haunted Home In Stc by NewAuthor

Ghost stories - here are a few of my remembrances... My parents built our house and we moved in a year after I was born in 1970 on Ron Sue Lane in St. Charles (STC), IL USA. So there were no previous owners. Nor was there any death on the property that I am aware of. The land was a wooded area i...