Ghost stories from New York, United States: Page 6

The Chain Letter by themexican

I'm back, I got a "Chain Letter" and if you don't know what that is, then a 'chain letter' is when you get a text message or mail or email and it says you will die tomorrow at 12:00 or when you go to sleep or any time unless you don't send this to any number, that's on the paper and some are the typ...

Monster In The Laundry Room by jnan75

In September 2005, my husband, myself, our 3 children (and dog) moved into our house. It is a renovated lakefront cottage built in the 1930's in a rural town of upstate New York. We were drawn to the house for its charm and the peaceful lake, but I must say that I did feel a bit uneasy when we first...

Grandpa Is Watching by DaveH300

So it all happened one day (not exactly so sure of the exact date) but we just picked up some new furniture that a friend of our families was giving away. Later that day we put all of our old furniture down stairs, this furniture consisting of a couch and chair belonged to my grandmother and gran...

Scratches of an Angry Spirit by themexican

Most of you readers were shocked with the cuts in my first story so I'm going to tell you some new things and more. First let's talk about the new stuff that's happened. One day I was wide awake staring at my wall all alone because my mom was out but all the sudden I hear lots of snapping so I...

Dad, What Are You Doing In My Room? by Moosejuice16

Some strange things have been going on in my house. It all started one day, about a year ago. This was back when both me and my sister were still in high school. My mom usually gets home from work at about eight thirty in the morning. On this particular day she was late, so my sister and I were ...

I Mentally Called Out this Entity by Ohiowatha

So I was lying in bed the other night at about midnight. All my windows were closed and my door was shut. There are no drafts in my apartment. So when I heard the fluttering of papers on my desk and in the area of my cork board, my ears perked up a little bit. For some reason, this faint paper-shuff...

The Cross and the Car by GhostBreakers

During my younger days in NY during the 60's. My friends and I used to take turns borrowing our fathers cars on a rotating basis (without their knowledge) but, not unlike many other guys. We would all get together and one guy would sneak his dads keys. Then the guys would push it out of the driveway...

The Old Lady by Astral184

This story takes place many years ago, where I was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, in New York City. I was a child of about 4-5 when before me, I saw an old lady or hag, she never said say anything to me, she stared at me in a creepy kind of way. According to an older sister who is now deceased, ...

Spirit World Makes Contact by ljsco

When I was sixteen my parents were friends with a married couple about their own age, late forties. They were childless, so when the husband passed away suddenly from a heart attack, my mom invited the wife to stay at our house. Her name was Elaine. I grew up the youngest in a large dysfunctional fa...

The Hands by denalix3

This story is taking place in the apartment, in my room in which I still live in today. This was the second house I moved in since I was four. I was sitting on my queen sized bed that me and my mom sleep in. I just finished drawing a broken heart and I was about to put it away... When I suddenly fel...

Seeing Family Relatives by Penny

As we sometimes set in my parent's living room we will see a figure of a person go by the living room window. My dad he also experience this in his living room. I have actually seen a women with a red turban on her head run by. My other aunt who is still alive says my aunt who passed away wore this ...

Strange Vision of a Demon or Incubus by marcink125

I am a 19 year old man from NYC, Brooklyn. I have always been into the paranormal and the occult. One day when I was 14 years old I just learned about Ouija boards and I found out that parker brothers makes them and that I can buy the ouija boards at my local toy store. Well, I eventually saved enou...

Cellar Creeps by Lindsay

I live with my boyfriend at his parents house in new york. About a month ago a couple days before christmas my boyfriend and I were in our room watching t.v. His parents were asleep and his uncle who lives with us has his room down in the cellar. It was about two in the morning and my boyfriends unc...

Girls Bathroom by xxnennaxx221

One day, me and all my friends went to my friends house. And we were all in the bathroom getting ready for the prom, and as soon as everybody left, except me, I started hearing weird noises. My friend had told me her house was haunted, but I never believed that because I thought ghosts weren't real....

Small Boy Walking Back and Forth by AzureLycan

Hello people, I read a couple of other people's stories and felt that I HAD to tell of my experiences. Ever since I was younger, all I ever heard of is spiritual happenings and what not, I guess it helps to tell you that my parents and grandparents are from the Caribbean. My mom, my brothers, and...

My Brother's Death by Dannyhott

My brother's name is Jay. He died when he was 14 years old. He died of bone cancer. I have seen and heard his spirit many times. When I was about 2 years old, I heard a voice say "Watch Out" in a spooky voice. The next second, I was flying through the air. I got hit by a car. There was no one around...

I Hated that House by WinterG

I've long given up on trying to deny the fact that my family seems to be haunted. Not our houses, not the cities in which we live, us. But this was the worst thing I had ever encountered. Back in fall 2001, my sister, mother, father, and I had just moved to Cumberland Gap in Tennessee. We lived in t...

Some Ghost Keep Taking my Jewelry by actionaction

I basically think I have either a ghost or a poltergeist residing in my home. Certain little things have tipped me off to thinking that, like my jewelry disappearing from time to time. The strange thing is, it's only certain things that are taken. Like necklaces for instance, and heart shaped ones a...

The Black Man in Little Falls and Old Lady in Ilion, NY by youmaysayimadreamer

When I was little (around 2 or so and still small enough to be in a crib) my mother and I lived in an apartment in a house that had been converted to a four family home. This house was on Church Street in the small "city" of Little Falls. I used to tell my mother "the black man" was there to see me....

Figure of a Wolf by TryToFigureItAllOut

I'm finally telling this story. This story is how I believed in ghosts and understand that after you die, you can still be here. I was in 3rd grade, around 9 years old, and it was the summer that mostly all of Long Island, New York, was in a black out. My family slept in the basement. It's a cold ba...

I Saw a Ghost by april

It's Christmas, 1991, in Buffalo NY. Family from all different states are celebrating the holiday at my parents' house, which I will mention is the same house my mother grew up in. I go upstairs to get my pajamas on and something catches the corner of my eye. I look in front of my bathroom door and ...

The Halloween Cat by TryToFigureItAllOut

Today, as I'm typing this up, is October 3. This is twenty eight days before Halloween, which many of you ghost hunters are waiting for. Now... some of you, who believe in ghosts, but are not scared by Halloween, should listen to what I am about to say. There is a ghost flying around my elementar...

You're Not Crazy! by aknobel

I am pleased to hear that others are experiencing the same thing. My mother and I can see them very well. We have too many stories to possibly post, but the ones we see are in great numbers and everywhere. I would like to say that the story about the 7yr old boy in the new house with the antiques - ...

Have You Ever Seen a Ghost Sitting in a Restaurant? by TryToFigureItAllOut

I went to my friend's house over the weekend to sleep over. My other friend was invited so we all went out to Ruby Tuesday's. We talked, ordered our food, went to the salad bar, and sat right back down. But in those five minutes when all of that happened, I could have sworn I saw someone that I saw ...

Ghost Soldier by Josh

Every since I was a little kid in california, I've always seen, heard, or felt weird things. When I got older I looked back into my past as a child and decided that everything I had seen, was just my overactive imagination. But I was wrong, I started to discover a whole other realm to all these happ...

La Llorona by shelly

Hi, my name is Michelle, I'm a mother of four children but when this happened, I only had two, my oldest was five and my youngest was just a baby. When my second child was about four months old, we lived in a trailer park across the street from an open field in Sodus Point, NY. It was supposedly a b...

Haunted Field by ewash

When I was about 10 years old, a house set deep within a 25 acre field about a quarter mile from my childhood home caught fire and a father and son were killed while asleep. Fast-forward 20 years... the house that was located at the bottom of the hill that made up the vast hayfield has become overgr...

Not Scared, Just Interested by wolfgirl12

Hi I'm 13 years old and I have always been amazed with ghosts and spirits, I have always wanted to visit a haunted house. I finally got what I wanted when we moved into a new house. We moved into the house a about week before halloween, everything was fine for the first 2 months. It was close to mid...

Tucked in by a Dead, Blind Grandma by Raven_CT

I have had paranormal experiences since I was a very small child. When I was 17, my family moved from TX to NY. As it was still school time, my parents decided that I would stay with my elder sister to complete my school year before I moved with them into our new house. At nearly 30 years later, I c...

My First New York Encounters by biggame88

This encounter happened when I was very young, probably under 4-5. I don't remember, but my parents have told me about it more than once. When I was young, my family (parents and me) lived in an old house in central New York. When I was young, I claimed to be talking to a friend, but my parents just...

Mother Like Daugter by ciaravzqz22

This is a story about when I was only about 8 and my cousin was about 9. She lived in N.Y at this moment in a visible but low key neighborhood. It all took place in a two story condominium (small), I was taken to her house one morning to spend the night with her, but our parents had to leave us soon...

The Ghost in the Backseat by Trogdor

This story isn't about me, it's about my friend's encounter. My friend Matt was talking to his girlfriend outside of his house at night. Because it was cold out, he decided to sit in his car in the driveway. So he went and sat in the passengers seat. As he was talking to his girlfriend, he glanced i...

Shadow by YoMotherWhatIsUp

A few years ago, my friend was sleeping over. My mom took us and our brothers to Friendly's to get ice cream cones. On the way home, we were pulling into my driveway when we saw a dark shadow jump my fence and run from my house. We went to find it, but it was nowhere to be seen. Another time, wit...

Curiousity Killed the Lightbulb by Scary101

I was trying to fall asleep in my room, but the TV was too loud. I was way to lazy to get up and get the remote to lower the volume. But I finally got it somehow. When I lowered the volume and turned over on my side, the strangest thing happened. The volume went right back up again. I turned over an...

The Victorian House by Mackenzie

It was April 18, 2003. It was a decent day outside. I had been visiting my Grandma that weekend for an early Easter gathering with the family. My Grandma had 7 kids including my mom. They lived in a big victorian house on 97. My mom was the last one born but they had been living in that house for a ...

Portal to Hell by reynaldideleon1980

Log line: When a flaming demon steps through a portal in the teenage Reynaldo Reyes's living room in Brooklyn, N.Y. It's just the first of a series of frightening encounters and unexplained deaths, including that of the well-known rapper Jam Master Jay of Run DMC. This is the bizarre true story of a...

The Chimney Ghost by Kimberly Nichols

About 15 years ago, the guy living in my current house died. After 12 years, we moved in. People say he died from a heart attack but others say his wife killed him. But I ended up getting the room he died in. Every night I could hear beating in the chimney in the room and it would slowly move its wa...

Doggy Ghosts by Daisy_Pink13

My nanny (who is really my grandma, but we call her Nanny!) had an adorable, fat, black small poodle named, Mikey. Me, my cousins, and my sister and brother, all grew up with Mikey. When I was around 7 or 8, and Mikey was at the ripe old age of 15, he got very sick, and we made the (hard!) decision ...

The Radio Turns On by Itself! by Daisy_Pink13

First things first, I entered a story back in March called "My Haunted Home", but it was before I got a username on the web site, under the name of Ally, if you would like to check it out. I said in it that I had more ghost stories to tell about my home, because I think that it may be haunted by my ...

Grandmother's Message from Beyond by Andy

This is a true story which happened fifteen years ago. One day I came home and found paramedics on the living room floor trying to revive my grandmother. Twenty minutes before, my mother had entered her room and found her with her mouth wide open and a "strange" look on her face. After trying to rou...

A Warning and the Baby's Ghost by Daisy_Pink13

This story has two parts, and I have to tell both, or the second wouldn't make sense. They involve my adult cousins. My cousin, Jen, is married and has two kids. Her husband's name is Tom and her kids' names are Tommy, 6, and Diana, 4. My first story takes place about a year ago. One night, Tom a...

A Real Nightmare 2 by HELENA2006

Please read the first part of this story A Real Nightmare before you read this one. It's a while after my first incident, and before I got a visit from the gray figure in the shower and the woman in the nightgown, we had been planning to move my room to the front of the house (my old room is in the ...

Wake Up Call by ittybit95

This incident took place a couple years ago, on the first day back to school for the kids, in September. I work nights and as I usually do, after I get the kids off to school in the morning, I go back to bed. My husband and I only have one vehicle, so I have to get up and go get him at lunchtime at ...

Message From Beyond by head4irst4hal0s

I had gone on vacation the summer of 2004 and my dad passed away in August of that 2004. I never got to say my last goodbyes. Time passed and strange things had been happening to my siblings in regards to my father. I, however, never encountered anything until late October of 2005. My mother wen...

While I Was About to Go to Sleep by The_Bijoux

At around 2:00 this morning (3/22/07) I turned off my lights and I had laid down to go to sleep. I had one arm above my head on the pillow and the other was down at my side. Both of my palms facing upwards. After about a minute I had started to feel a tickle, almost an itch. I decided I would move m...

My Haunted Home by Daisy_Pink13

My house is probably haunted. I have a LOT of stories for it! It's only around 50-55 years old, but we have some old furniture in my room (which is what we presume haunted) that belonged to my great-grandma. Only a few months ago, my friend slept over and, around 1:30am, I had fallen asleep. She cou...

A Cat's Protection by TKO

This may be nothing, but almost every night for the past two weeks (12-1 am) my cat acts very strangely. He likes to sleep next to my leg usually but lately the minute I get into bed and lean over to call him to me, he sits at the end of my bed staring at an area above my head/past my shoulder. Ther...

Strange And Unexplainable Occurences In My Home by Adhelia1116

Hi, this is the first time I've ever asked for advice or comments on what I have experienced. Until now, I have just prayed and tried to move on with my life thinking that these incidents have some sort of rational explanation. I never sought other people's comments since I thought that I was the on...

Encounter With my Uncle's Ghost by Heather

I have a couple stories, I know it's long, but trust me, they're worth reading. When I lived at my dad's house, I could never sleep in my own room because I was scared, I knew that his house was haunted so I would sleep with him in his bed. When I was about 10, I think, I started to actually see gho...

Amazing Flaming Light by Elizabeth Romero

It's so difficult to tell this story to people you just meet because you never know what their reaction will be, "oh she's insane". I love this web site, where I know I'm not the only one that experienced something supernatural. This is real... it's so real. I was about 15 years old (I'm now 30 ...