Ghost stories from North Carolina, United States: Page 3

The Mystery Woman by paranormaltaskforce

My business partner and I own PARANORMAL TASK FORCE a paranormal investigation team we have a large storage building which is 35 feet long by 20 feet wide it is in my back yard. My yard is a known marching ground and small battlefield of the civil war. We know that there were 100 deaths on this loca...

Aunt's Ghost? by pharmgirl

In 2005, our family moved into a new house. My husband and I were excited about the move since we lived in an apartment with our 2 year old son. We were looking forward to having more space and a big yard to play in. A few months after we moved in, we started having strange occurrences around th...

The Ghost Knife by Grolarg

A few days ago I was lying in my bed and was almost asleep when I heard a strange noise in my kitchen. I ignored it at first because I thought it may have been my dog. I closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep but I couldn't so I got up and went into the kitchen to get a drink. When I got into the k...

Dark Spirit Always Near by apierce18

My first encounter was when a child living in Jacksonville, NC and felt a strong presence each time I entered the house. There was one room particularly strong where the spirit would pull you out of the bed or shake you violently at night and the spirit was often visible in the hallway at night. Doo...

New House New Encounters by BriFischer05

I just recently went through a pretty nasty divorce. My ex wife and two children have moved back to my ex wife's home town in PA. Since they left, I have started renting an older home (built in 1925) in a historic district of town here in Winston-Salem, NC (West End District). It's a lovely house wi...

White-robed Figures by Oli

Wow, it's been over a year since I last posted a story. Anyways, I had to come back because my friend Grace (name changed) just told me about an experience she had the other day. Just to let you know, she's very religious (her father's a pastor). Grace said that the other night she had just gott...

The Sad Little Boy by Skitterbug

About a year ago, I was babysitting my 1 year old nephew. I wasn't feeling so great so I decided to bring him to my parent's house so they could watch him for a few hours while I got some rest. My parents lived right behind me down a little path, so I could see their house from mine. I checked to ma...

The Girl With The Short Black Hair by braxtoncw

My name is Chris and I am 16. About 5 months ago me and my family moved in to a house into the middle of the woods. The house we moved from was haunted by a little girl's ghost, when we moved we thought we got rid of it. But after about 4 months in our new house my Dad started seeing things. I didn'...

My Ghost Experience At L.b.j Job Corps Center by loving_babylbj

I have had plenty of Paranormal Experiences. But the one that shocked me the most is when I was living in-house on LBJ (girls Dormitory) I was leaving out of the bathroom, and the door shut behind me... I heard a man's voice and a lot of my other roommates heard it also... When I turned around facin...

The Campus Ghosts by shy_n_kind

I'm eighteen and right now I'm attending a campus in Franklin, North Carolina. I have been here for three months and have had many paranormal experiences. On the first night that I was on campus, I couldn't sleep. It was about four in the morning, and I was surprised to hear footsteps upstairs. ...

Paranormal Or Not? by skeptical78

This is my first story on this site. I have just recently become a member here so here goes. Let me tell you a little history first. I have always had a fascination with the paranormal, but have not had any experiences of my own. And to tell you all the truth, I would love to have an experience, ...

Ghosts At My Aunt's House by princess2

My friend and I went to visit my aunt. She lives alone in and old 1800's house. As we sat in the sitting room visiting with her, she started talking about strange noises. She said there had been some apparitions also. We really didn't know what to think of this conversation we were having with her...

Creepy Houses Are Creepy For A Reason by evolet

At the time this occurred, the three of us were 10 and living in Western North Carolina. My friends Alyssa, Sarah and I were in the woods around Alyssa's house looking for an old dilapidated house. Alyssa and Sarah showed me pictures they'd taken of the inside and there were people in them. They wer...

Do I Have A Succubus Or An Average Spirit? by ChrisK

I've always wondered if I had some sort of spirit or succubus around me. My experiences started when I was really young, about 7 I believe. For some reason, on random occasions, I would have this feeling in my chest that would feel as though my heart was being squeezed, and it caused me to breathe h...

The Road To Nowhere by gummybearlover85

There is a national landmark about half an hour from my home called The Road to Nowhere. A little history so you know why I think this stuff happened to me. The road was started in 1945 out in Bryson City, NC. The road would've gone directly through a burial mound, so the Cherokee Chief along with t...

Peculiar Dreams And Creepy Feelings by libertybelle

I suppose, one could say, that I've had my share of odd experiences, some of which are chronicled on this site. What I haven't shared, until now, is just how far back it goes. I suppose I first noticed it when I would, on rare occasions, watch my oldest sister's three children; this would have...

A Few Experiences In My Bedroom 2 by AnnaRuss

I've been mentioning how nothing has happened lately with my bedroom ghosts. Kind of jokingly saying they were getting lazy and I guess they took it as a challenge last night. I believe in what I saw 100% last night and there is no way it was a dream and there are several reasons why I know it h...

The Ghost Of Lillian's By The Lake by gummybearlover85

It was in the summer of 2006. I was working as a housekeeper at an old house that had been turned into an inn. We were told about some of the history of the house, why it was built and who it was built for. We were told about the tragic death of the man's wife, you know, the typical stuff that an em...

The Way I Seek'em by Ramzey

This unknown quest I'm on, it's a mission of stepping into a world of belief, do you agree? I hunt the paranormal as if it were a special part of me being alive. I find a purpose in seeking into the realm we can't understand. It's not just a thrill, oh no, not even close. It's a journey into history...

Leave My Son Alone by BriFischer05

I haven't posted on here for awhile because things had somewhat died down. Of course that quiet time must have just been the eye of the storm. Happenings at my home have been picking up tremendously and it is starting to concern me ALOT. Not because I fear for my well being per say but more for the ...

Short And Squatty Like An Old Frog Man by MunstersBabe

When I was married to my now ex-husband, we wanted to buy a house. We had two small children and needed the room. We found a doublewide that was only a few years old and in pristine shape. I wasn't too keen on it, but my ex loved it. When I stepped inside of the house, the atmosphere in it was so th...

Ghostly Gatherings At The Inn by MunstersBabe

First, about the inn itself: A couple of years ago, I worked at the 1927 Lake Lure Inn and Spa, in beautiful Lake Lure, NC. The façade of the inn is pale yellow stucco with hunter green shutters. Inside, the lobby is very spacious and filled with the current owner's antiques and memorabilia from da...

Her Last Christmas by MunstersBabe

My ex-husband and I spent the night with my MawMaw on Christmas 1997. I was "bigger than a house" pregnant and was munching on some left over Christmas dinner. We all were sitting in the dark while watching a movie. I was feeling fine and my baby was kicking about. I moved closer to my MawMaw so she...

I'm Always Here For You by MunstersBabe

I was very close to my PawPaw. I thought of him as God-like and there was no one on this earth I loved more than him when I was a little girl. Whenever you saw him, you saw me. He passed away when I was 13. I was to the point where I denied that he was gone, and I even refused to go to the funeral...

The Tv People by MunstersBabe

I still remember this as if it happened yesterday. When I was four years old, I lived with my grandparents (and they eventually adopted me). My grandparents and I always went to garage sales every Saturday morning, without fail. It was about 6:30 am and my PawPaw was out getting gas for the car and ...

Therra's Stories by faerielike

My sister Therra (pronounced Terra) has always been a bit of a skeptic when it comes to ghosts, (mainly she says because there are enough people around to not have to worry about invisible ones watching us too!) but there are two experiences she believes there is no other explanation. She has given ...

Visit From My Grandfather by Calypso

I grew up living with my dad and my grandparents, so my grandmother and grandfather were always more like parents to me than grandparents. I was very close to both of them. My grandfather passed away when I was 21, and it was a really tough experience for me. I was living with my grandparents at the...

An Unusual Experience by Spockie

I have always been very sensitive to spirits. In fact, you might say if there is a spirit or anything strange in the vicinity, it usually manages to find me. I have many sightings and encounters in my lifetime, mostly when I was a child and then as a young woman. This one time in particular, I w...

Anrew Sparks Murders by graydimensions

The early evening was grey and misty when Andrew decided to murder his whole family. Andrew Sparks was once a successful and enthusiastic watch maker and a hard working farmer in the small town of Newland, NC. He had a loving wife and two young daughters who all seemed proud of their father and the ...

Train Brakeman Still Looking by norman

Around ten years ago, I resided at Fayetteville North Carolina; which is approximately fifteen to twenty miles from the town of Vander N.C. This story actually begins around nineteen seventy eight, or around about this time. At the time I was around twenty three years old, and as of course most ...

Shadow Cats by Spockie

So far, the stories I have posted have been about things that happened to me in my childhood. This story however takes place only about 7-8 years ago, shortly after we moved into our present home and is the only paranormal type event I have experienced in our present house. It was an autumn eveni...

The Haunted House I've Never Been To by tmari76

A co-worker who knows about my fascination with the paranormal, was telling me about her boyfriend's strange experiences in his home. Not wanting to get in trouble for "chit-chatting" while we were supposed to be working, she promised to finish telling me what all he had seen and heard at a later ti...

Accident And White Mist by BriFischer05

This is an account from when I was roughly 14 or 15. My mom was driving me to an evening youth group / bible study at our church's youth house. On our way to my youth group we were stopped at a stoplight when out of nowhere the loudest screeching of tires I had ever heard shattered the silence. We i...

Possible Ghosts Or Imagination? by Ishima

I haven't had anything happen recently but I will give you an explanation of the layout of the area that I had this encounter at. There is a hallway on the ground floor of my house, it has my bedroom and next to it is my parent's bedroom. Then the wall cuts at a weird angle and there is a door to th...

Ghosts, Dreams, And People's Attitudes by Lady_Luck_7

I'm 19 years old and ever since I was little I've been having dreams that come true, see people that are not there, and know just by looking at someone who they truly were and behaved. As I got older I began seeing people. Back then I called them angles, now I know they're ghosts. Recently this ...

They're Back by BriFischer05

It's been a while since my last story on this wonderful site. Happenings at my house subsided quite a bit there for a while... Until recently... My wife is quite the skeptic when it comes to the paranormal or at least she likes to portray that. I think it's mostly because of her upbringing. She cann...

Feeling Too Much by tmari76

When I was younger, my cousin and I would spend every weekend at our grandparents house. From about the time we were 5 years old, we knew that there were spirits in their home. We've had many experiences in that house which I will have to post later; since that time, we have both been very sensitive...

Strange Happenings by Grox6

I have had many encounters with spirits and I am making this story for me and my friends at my school. Well, my friend and I have suspected our school is haunted. I will tell some of the stories. I'll stop rambling on now and start. I found this website one time and a few weeks later the haunting...

The Furnace Room by Karyn

I would like to start off by saying I have been visiting this site for awhile now but have held off on submitting my stories because of the fear I still feel in some parts of the house I used to live in, which my parents still live in. I am a 35 year old mother of 3 great kids between the ages of...

The Uptown Rose by faerielike

I don't know why on the last story submission I made I was thinking I had no more tales to share. Lack of sleep and new motherhood I suppose. I was rummaging through my desk drawers and found a picture that reminded me of all the things that happened when I worked at "The Uptown Rose..." It was by f...

Spooky Neighborhood: The Bad Luck Token by libertybelle

As I said in my previous story (Spooky Neighborhood), for a number of years I lived in an area that was once part of the grounds attached to the old Fayetteville Arsenal. The very first place I lived in that neighborhood was in a house dating back to the 1920's, which my first husband and I purch...

She's Come Home by juno

This sighting happened in Charlotte, NC on Ellington St. in an old duplex that my some friends rented. It wasn't on the best side of the town, but it was safe and everyone within range knew each other and took care of one another. The place wasn't much to look at. At the last minute, my ex and I ...

Our First Place Together by faerielike

As soon as I graduated from high school, my sweetie Jeff and I were hell bent to move out on our own ASAP. So we decided to move out that summer with a mutual friend of ours, we'll call him Rob. It was the summer of 1999, and the house Rob and Jeff found was an adorable two bedroom with a large kit...

More College Street Occurances by faerielike

In my last story, Shadow People and Webby encounter I touched base with things that happened in the past. I did have doubts about the Old Hag in that story, and it has come back recently, but never in my own bed. Now I am able to wake myself and make it stop, it just doesn't have the same hold over ...

Kimberly Street by bette31

For those of you who read my first story about the house on Kimberly Street, that was only about my house. I posted a comment that stated it was not just the house, but my street as a whole that had activity. My friend that lived across the street, Amy, she also had things happen in her house as ...

Hallway Haunts by faerielike

According to my landlord, the house I live in was constructed around the time of the Civil War. At the time it served as barracks, and later as a hotel, and today it is split into four separate apartments. We live in the top left one, if you are facing the house. I have tried researching this ho...

Angry Grandmother? by Harperllen82

Hi. This is my first story and I'm going to try and be as detailed as possible so forgive me if I go overboard. My family is from a small mill town just outside Charlotte NC. Both my parents were born and raised there, but when I was five my dad got transferred and we moved to SC. The house that thi...

So Many Weird Things Happened in that House by faerielike

Since I am new to this site, and have never published a story here before, I figured I would start with my very first ghost encounters, some are as related to me by my mother. When I was about three or four years old, we lived in Washington, PA. I suddenly came up with a friend named Jodi. My mom ju...

Coldness at Buttermilk by Ramzey

I want to share with everyone about the experience that changed my life. I had been a ghost hunter for 7 months and was getting a team together. My team was called G.A.P.S. This stands for Ghostly Appalachian Paranormal Society. I've studied the paranormal for a couple years and thought I could hand...

Earthbound in my Home by BriFischer05

This experience happened while I was still living at home with my father. We were in this house from 1997 - 2001. Things started off fine, we were both comfortable in the house. Things started happening very slowly but picked up a very fast pace. It all started when I would be home alone, downstairs...