Ghost stories from Ohio, United States: Page 2

Lafayette Hotel Ghost by TimB60

I was traveling on business and made a reservation at the Lafayette Hotel in Marietta Ohio. I knew nothing of the hotel or its stories and past. Only that it was old and kind of cool. My room was on the 3rd floor and I had to go through a winding hallway to get there. I'm a light sleeper and wok...

I Think She Finally Believes Me by zzsgranny

The 30th of March will be the first anniversary of my Step-father's passing. He was a genuinely wonderful and deeply religious man. On two occasions I was able to go "Ghost Hunting With Loonies" during a vacation to visit my Mom. Of course I stayed at their home. He joked that he was worried I'd bri...

My House Lorain, Ohio by monica74

I thought I'd stop working on the story I was working on and start this one and I can add things as they happen, seeing as things happen when I'm working on my book. As I'm sitting here working on a story, I hear a piece of silverware fall in my kitchen. My husband is upstairs playing the game s...

Full Moon Or Thinning Veil? by Miracles51031

Things have been pretty quiet in my home since the beginning of September. This all changed last week. Does it have something to do with the full moon, or maybe the thinning of the veil between the worlds? Or is it just coincidence? I've been having a hard time sleeping the night through for a lo...

After Hours In The Library by RCRuskin

I've been fascinated by ghostly things for most of my life, but I've only personally experienced one event which, to me, only allows a ghostly explanation. At the time, I was working as a part time librarian at a community college. Part of the campus had been built over an old Roman Catholic ceme...

Night Runner by Elrond

I lived with my parents while attending college and was anxious to move into my own place after graduation. A friend accompanied me on an initial apartment search in an historic district in town, where I had always wanted to live. This area has brick streets and sidewalks overhung by ancient trees a...

Grandpa? by ilight

Only a few times have I seen this figure. It doesn't feel evil, though strange. One night I was sleeping on my top bunk and I heard a noise and woke up. I couldn't move and everything was shaking and blurry. Then I saw a unidentifiable figure walk across the room. After that, everything went bla...

A Friendly Knock by WillowWaly

We live in a house built in 1907, an early American Foursquare with late Victorian details, 2 1/2 stories, made of wood and brick. It was turned into a 2-family home sometime in the 1950s, I think. We have the 2nd-and-3rd floor apartment, and have lived here about 4 years. Two family members live in...

The Ghost I Still Can Not See by lawluck1

As I told y'all in my past story I seem to have a ghost type thing that has followed me since my childhood. My friends and family have seen what they describe as a older man, dark suit, grey hair walking a large dog. From what I am told neither the man or dog are especially scary, unnerving maybe. ...

At The Local Cinema by MichelleBrandy

My sensitivity to the spiritual realm began as early as nine years old, so I could sit and tell story after story. One of the places that I experienced quite a bit of activity was at the local cinema, which I cleaned on the graveyard shift in my late twenties. The woman who hired me on was an ol...

Evp? Can A Piano Hold Residual Energy Or Be Haunted? by Whiplash00

My family and I recently bought a home that was built 10 years ago. We moved in 1 month ago today and we've never had any paranormal or strange things happen. The house itself feels fresh and positive so I don't think it's the house. The sellers asked if we wanted an old piano they had so we sai...

Shadow In The Apartment Complex by Des_b_97

In November of 2011, Me and my dad moved into an apartment complex called Candlelight, It's in Mt. Orab. Well, all the way from the time we moved in there until the day we moved out, Weird stuff happened. It wasn't really scary, just creepy. A month after we moved in, my aunt died. I am not sure if ...

Spirits Passing By by DragonLuvrD

I moved to my third (that I remember) home back in the seventh grade, so about the spring of 2003. Our neighbors (and landlords) had said I could cut through their backyard to get home faster. The bus stop was at the end of a alley which we had to walk up to get to our street and respective homes. S...

Wolf-human Hybrid Creature by TheCynic

For all my life, I've lived in this average-size house out in the countryside. It's one of those places where nothing bad seems to happen, and the people all seem pretty normal. So, you can understand I don't share my story often. It started when I was young, around five to nine years old, and conti...

Strange Goings On In Our Home by Miracles51031

It's been awhile since I've submitted anything about the activity in our home. There have been things on and off but nothing major until this week. Wednesday night, 5/06/15, I had the beginnings of a migraine so I went to my room to lay down from 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm. From my bed I could see stra...

Nightmare by Korius4295

One weekend I had gone to my Grandparent's house for the weekend due to my Mom and Dad wanting a "Mommy and Daddy only weekend". Well, as most of our family knows their house is haunted, but the problem was I was very young probably 7 or 8 years old, and nobody wanted me to know. That night I had be...

Getting Over My Fears by ChrissyMoon

I'm new here and really nervous about posting but I figured I would post anyways. Just to be fair I honestly don't think I can upload the picture and video that goes with these experiences I'm truely sorry but my computer broke and I can't upload with my phone. If you want to see them ask and I'll m...

Grandma's Visitor by DragonLuvrD

A few years after the house hunting incident, we were settled in a nice place. The house has felt nice compared to the farmhouse we looked at, and nothing unusual had happened. My grandfather had unfortunately passed away a couple years ago when this happened. My grandmother is one to go to bed a...

Chased By Something by DragonLuvrD

Back when I was in high school, my grandparents and I had to move from the home we had been renting for several years. Now, my grandparents are religious but not devout Christians. They didn't go to church but they prayed every night. I, on the other hand, hadn't been comfortable with my faith since...

Experiencing My Bestfriends Death At Eleven Years Old by Aries30

My best friend was everything to me she gave me the strength to ignore bullies. She was having liver failure and she was deaf too. So we had a different bond no other kids could break. I didn't know she was going to die if she didn't get a transplant in time. Then death happened. It was a unforg...

The Shawl And Lantern by Elrond

The first glimpse of my grandparents' property during my childhood visits was of two massive and craggy old Osage-orange trees that once stood at the corner of the large yard, nearest the approach from the street. They are gone now, but I still sometimes see the old house beyond the dark, spooky tre...

The Porcelain Doll by kellyann87

This story takes place in Cincinnati Ohio. In the same house as my last story (Haunted by a demonic Doberman). If you read that story, then you know the house that was across the street from mine had a lot of strange activity. First with the Father that hanged himself and supposedly his own Doberman...

The Former Owner Of My House? by NorthCoastie

It has been a while since I have posted on this site. Since then, I purchased and moved into a new house. My wife and I bought a 1970's Ryan Home (if you're from PA or Ohio, you should know the type of house) from the original owners, as the husband had become very ill and was no longer able to do s...

Debby by Perfecttime687

When I was a small child I had many imaginary friends. One was named morrow another was named Friday. But they were not weird at all because I knew that they were not real. There was one named Debby that scared me to death and I thought she was as real as the day is blue. During my younger child...

Scariest Thing That Happened To Me by Ihavemanystories

Many things have happened to me through my life dealing with paranormal activities, but the two things that I'm about to share were the scariest. First let me explain where I lived. I lived with my grandparents and the house is right in front of a huge, old graveyard. When I was 8 years old (pos...

One Autumn Night by Caesar_Augustus

During my freshman year of high school my oldest brother told me a story of how he and his friends visited an old run down farmhouse in a small clearing in the woods not far from where we lived. He had heard that the place was haunted, and he and his friends were always into that sort of thing so th...

My Experiences Ever Since My Childhood by ChewyFudgeBrownie

The house on Broadview: When I was five years old I had my first experience (that I can remember anyway). When I was about three years old we moved into the house on Broadview. My Great-Grandmother Kyle passed away and my dad inherited the house. One night I was wide awake just laying in bed....

Life As A Sensitive by Micsoccer14

My story starts when I was young, probably about four or five years old. My grandmother was taking me to a local chili restaurant that is very popular where I live. I remember walking in and sitting down at a booth. My grandmother sat across from me, and to the left of her sat another woman with bla...

Are You My Mother? by Anabelle

Until I was about 10 years old, my family lived in an old farmhouse that was built in the 1920's. There were some minor updates made by the previous owners, but it was mostly original when we moved in. My dad did some work on the house here and there, and we had one major remodeling project done whi...

Big Blue by Miracles51031

On February 26 and 29, 2012, I dreamed my daughter had a baby boy. In one of the dreams, I saw her sitting in her floor, leaning up against her bed, giving him a bottle. All I could see of him was his black hair and a blue outfit. Well, as life happens, she and her boyfriend at the time parted ways ...

The Whispers by OhioGurl12

It was just a normal day for me when I went to my cousin's house to stay for the weekend. I've always known her big house next to the forest was haunted but nothing ever happened to me, so I wasn't bothered by it. That night when Ashley and I were going to bed, I had to sleep on a mattress on th...

Two Boys by Amp21190

This happened when I was a teenager and lived in Ohio. I am currently in Texas and am now 24. I used to live in these apartments that were supposedly built on top of an Indian burial ground. I never found facts behind this but several freaky things happened to me during the three years I resided...

An Infernal Machine by alandhopewell

Again, memory veiled this until recently. This shoud be the last of my recountings. It was nineteen eighty-six, and I was spending the night at Dave's home in Avon Lake. He'd grown up there, living with his parents, presently just his mother, as his father had passed away about four years previou...

The Last Strange Trip by alandhopewell

Memory being what it is, I'd remembered the events of the Labor Day weekend of 1992, but it didn't occur to me to relate them here until now... A conversation with my sister-in-law about odd happenings brought them to mind. As I said, it was the Friday starting the Labor Day weekend. At that poi...

The Bellevue Haunt by Krom1987

Recently I posted my first paranormal experience that affected my life ever since, and it's posted on here titled "Playing With Fire". I'm explaining that to you if you want to know where my paranormal experiences started, and that this is a different experience altogether, hopefully unrelated to th...

Playing With Fire by Krom1987

The story I'm about to unfold is one that has haunted me for slightly over a decade now, but is just one (technically my first) of the many stories I have to tell of my, and my fiancé's, paranormal experiences. I live in a small town, south of Sandusky, Ohio, in one of the flattest topographica...

My Grandmother's Hands by bhambrick

The year was mid 2009 and I received a phone call from my grandmother, and she told me that she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and that she was given 18 months to live. This was her second time having it. She tried the chemotherapy and it just made her so sick. She was 81 years old. She s...

Confined In A Mirror by Amanda32

When I was in the third grade, my parents packed my 2 younger brothers and myself and moved to a house on the outskirts of a small Ohio town. The house was at the end of a dead end street, few houses, no railroad tracks, but surrounded by woods. The house had been built, lived in for two years, ...

The Big Man by Kayla_Lynn

In a previous submission, Held Down By Unknown Force, I mentioned an encounter in a comment about seeing a man in my grandmother's living room. I said that I would share it, so here we go. This took place perhaps about a year ago, give or take. My ex-boyfriend and I had just returned to my grandm...

Ghost In The High School At Night by WildStallionDHSGahanna

I first want to let people know that I will not list actual names or reveal the name of my high school or where I live. Also, it is quite obvious that I am a teenager, but that is no reason to judge or deem my experience as untrue. I must begin by telling you what my English teacher saw, because my ...

My Friend Carly by sassygrl84

I was about 5 years old when I had my first experience. I lived in a two story house with my mom, dad and older sister. (We lived in southwest Ohio.) One night I could not sleep so I sneaked downstairs and turned on the tv. I made sure the volume was turned down. (Did not want to get busted. Lol) I ...

Lady In White And Burnt Face Man by TheBadSeed

This isn't a long story or really scary as it is unsettling. This... Phenomenon took place in Delphos, Ohio around 3 am (can't remember exact date, but I know it was at least a year ago). I was walking around with my 2 friends and my friends mom. We were helping her deliver newspapers for some qui...

My First Ghostly Experience by DestinyGirl

I recently posted about some more recent experiences I've had dealing with my grandfather and mother who passed away, so I thought I would share the first experience I had with something that didn't seem quite right. We lived in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio when I was between 2 and 10 years old. I...

Those Eyes by alandhopewell

This story is not mine; it was related to me by Mark, a friend, just after it happened. Mark was the keyboard player in a local band... Still plays professionally, in fact, these days with his own group. This was nineteen seventy-five, when Mark, all of us, were still young men, energetic, looki...

The Dark Shadow Watching Me Sleep by EdenMarie

A few weeks ago my day had gone as normally as possible. Nothing extraordinary or unexplained, just the normal humdrum of daily family life. We went to bed just after midnight that night completely relaxed and in good spirits. If I recall correctly, I even fell asleep quite quickly compared to the u...

Something Is Under The Bed by MAL0645

When I was thirteen years old, I had an experience that I can't explain which gave me a horrible scare. Shortly after my grandpa passed away, I lay awake in bed one summer night thinking of him as I listened to my sister snoring across from me. My dad had left for work and my mother was in her room ...

Long Experiences by NeverBroken

My name is Lena. For as long as my best friend and I can remember, we've always seen and felt unexplainable things. When Maci and I first started hanging out, about three years ago, weird things began to happen. It all seemed to revolve around us two. Anyways, it all started one spring, Maci and I...

Little Girl In White Night Gown by dwright0508

In October of 2011 I woke up one morning at around 3am. I could not move or talk. I was able to move my eyeballs. I could see in the doorway of my bedroom a little girl that looked to be about 7 years of age, with long dark brown or maybe black hair, wearing a white night gown (almost looked like an...

From Skeptic To A Firm Believer by NoRegret

Let me begin by saying that for the first 20 out of my 22 years of being alive, I was a total skeptic and disbeliever in the paranormal. I never experienced anything and had no reason to believe in ghosts, spirits, or anything paranormal. I dismissed every story that anyone had ever told me and I al...

Creepy Experiences? by Biggs0341

My name is Tony and I live in Sylvania, Ohio within Toledo. Just to start I've always been a believer in ghosts, spirits, demons, etc. But just last night I think my question to them existing has been answered. Last night or early this morning I got poked relatively hard on my forehead. I live w...