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1. "I was 14, and we had moved into a caller townhouse. It was an older 1 with an attic, and I thought I would beryllium the chill kid whose country was up there. Now, the attic had a triangular extortion and, astatine the center, it was conscionable an inch supra my head, truthful generally, you had to crouch up there. I had my mattress connected the floor, and 1 night, I woke up to a fig lasting astatine the ft of my bed. I got aggravated due to the fact that I thought it was my stepdad. I said, 'John, what are you doing?' No response. 'John, sound it off, this isn't funny.' There was inactive nary response, truthful I flicked connected the light, and thing was there. I realized that determination was nary mode my stepdad could person stood up consecutive successful that attic. I don't judge successful ghosts, but I did astatine the time, and instantly moved my things to the different bedroom, and ne'er went backmost up to the attic. Now, I chalk it up to paranoia and an overactive imagination."
8. "When I was astatine assemblage successful my 2nd year; we lived successful a terraced house. I person a past of vivid/lucid dreams and had conscionable precocious astatine this clip experienced a mates episodes of slumber paralysis. One night, I woke up (I think, anyway), and I retrieve staring astatine the doorway wholly frozen and seeing the shadows of 2 men there. They were whispering astir taking maine and discussing whether I was asleep. I retrieve hearing, 'Shh, spell backmost to sleep.'"
"It was wholly fuzzy and dark, and I was successful that precise overmuch blurred world signifier of not being capable to archer if I was awake decently oregon not. I couldn't determination astatine each and chalked it up to slumber paralysis and went backmost to sleep. I wouldn't person thought doubly astir it, but the constabulary knocked connected our doorway that day (I wasn't in, my housemates told me) and said our neighbour had had their location breached into that aforesaid night. The existent kicker is that astatine the time, our beforehand doorway fastener was breached — anyone could person travel successful and near without america knowing. To this day, I volition genuinely ne'er cognize if it was a coincidentally atrocious time to person a nightmare oregon a fortunate escape. 🤷♀️"
10. "I worked arsenic an under-butler successful a ample Scottish castle successful the aboriginal 2000s. One night, I was the lone idiosyncratic successful the location and decided to propulsion a load of laundry successful earlier bed. I walked down the work hallway, into the ironing room, and from determination to the washing instrumentality room. I got my laundry successful and past started to leave. I turned the lights disconnected successful the washing instrumentality room, and abruptly everything was black. The lights weren’t connected successful the ironing room. My archetypal thought was, 'It’s weird that I didn’t crook the lights connected successful present erstwhile I came in, but they aren’t on, truthful evidently I didn’t.' The ironing country had immense ironing tables the size of snooker tables, and arsenic I started to locomotion through, I kept bumping into them. After a mates of times of bumping into them, I was abruptly filled with a terrible, spine-tingling feeling that thing was there, and not to look toward the sewing country (another country that came disconnected the ironing room)."
I fumbled my mode done the ironing room, backmost to the work hallway successful a panic. The hallway lights were on, and everything was fine. That is the full story. I didn’t spot anything. However, determination are immoderate problems. To this day, I americium assured that I turned the lights connected successful the ironing country erstwhile I went in. It wasn’t imaginable to determination done the country without bumping into things a clump of times, arsenic my exit demonstrated. The airy successful the ironing country was controlled by a precise ample power that made a large clicking noise. I didn’t perceive it click disconnected erstwhile I was successful the washing room. In the days that followed, the household and the butler returned home, and I had forgotten astir the full incident. A week oregon truthful later, I abruptly remembered it happening and said to the butler, 'I’ve ne'er heard of immoderate shade stories astir the castle. Are determination any?' He benignant of dismissively said, 'Oh, they accidental determination is simply a achromatic woman successful the ballroom, and [room sanction redacted] is seemingly haunted, but that’s it. Oh, and they accidental the sewing country is haunted.' I benignant of gasped and told the butler the story. He seemed fascinated. He told the family, and a mates of them agreed that the laundry country was unsettling."
14. "This has happened galore times successful my life, but usually years apart. People sometimes spot a 'ghost' of me. I don’t cognize what other to telephone it. I’ve ne'er seen it. This archetypal happened erstwhile I was a kid. My stepdad saw maine successful the room — I was conscionable lasting still. He approached and called astatine maine somewhat angrily, arsenic it was precocious and I should person been successful bed. As helium got adjacent me, I vanished. He freaked retired and told my mom, but erstwhile they came to my room, I was accelerated dormant successful bed. They told maine the adjacent day, and helium was inactive shaken up by it."
"Many years later, an aged woman would participate my country and find maine kneeling down down the bed, conscionable staring blankly. She started talking to me, and I didn’t answer. She asked maine if I was okay, and erstwhile I didn’t respond, she walked implicit and astir the bed, but I abruptly wasn’t kneeling. I was lasting straight, sticking retired of the floor, and past I disappeared. She mislaid her crap — ran retired of the room, down the stairs, retired of the kitchen, and into the garden, which is wherever I really was, conscionable relaxing successful a chair. She was terrified. I calmed her down, but she wouldn’t spell wrong that location by herself for ages, particularly not into our room. We are inactive friends, and she inactive brings this up each present and then, inactive truly unsettled by it."
19. "When I was a kid, astir 4, I utilized to aftermath up each nighttime with the feeling that I was being tickled. It wasn't a amusive benignant of being tickled, but the benignant that's gone connected for excessively agelong and starts to hurt. I would tally from my furniture into my parents' room, and past it would instantly stop. In the house, this occurred wherever the level was carpeted, and successful the doorway frames, determination were tiny bars that kept the carpet down betwixt the rooms. Every clip I crossed the bars to get to my parents, the tickling would stop. One night, the tickling started again, and I ran to my parents' room. But conscionable earlier crossing the bars, I stopped, turned, and yelled, 'Go away!' It ne'er happened again."
20. "One night, years aft precocious schoolhouse ended and I'd already gotten married, I had a vivid and precise bittersweet imagination astir the archetypal fellow I ever truly loved. We were 15 and 16, and had breached up astir 3 years aboriginal due to the fact that helium got truly into drugs. I had this imagination possibly 9 years aft that. I dreamed I was walking down a crowded sidewalk successful immoderate large city, and I bumped into him. He was crying, and helium asked maine for help. I can't retrieve if the imagination changed past oregon if I woke up, but it was conscionable that small snippet of seeing his face. It was truthful clear. I inactive retrieve however his beauteous bluish eyes looked."
"I don't cognize wherefore I waited a mates much years to telephone his parent and inquire astir him, but I did telephone her. It turns retired helium had died successful a freak mishap astir the clip I had that dream. He had a car successful his store that helium was moving on. He had climbed connected the hood for immoderate reason, and helium fell. He broke his neck, and it was fatal. Now, I'm ever bittersweet and a small creeped retired each clip I deliberation of that dream. Probably ever volition be."
28. "My ma passed distant successful February 2021 successful Missouri. I unrecorded successful Florida. I flew up determination for the ceremonial with my hubby and daughter, stayed for a mates of days to grip her belongings, and past came home. Life goes on. I grieved. About a period oregon 2 later, I'm lying successful my furniture successful the morning, but I'm wide awake. My telephone rings, and I reply it. It says 'mom' connected the caller ID. When I click it on, I tin clear-as-day perceive her voice: 'Well, hiii there! [chuckle] Did I aftermath you up?' Now, I'm conscionable sitting there, upright connected my bed. All I tin deliberation to accidental is, 'Mom?' And arsenic soon arsenic I said that, the telephone clicked a mates of times and past went dead. It did amusement connected the caller past that her telephone had called mine. Either her fellow oregon my member kept her telephone for immoderate reason, but they wouldn't person done a prank similar that. I did effort to telephone the telephone back, but it went consecutive to her voicemail."
30. "Shortly aft my parent passed away, I was going done and organizing her belongings successful her room. I was talking retired large arsenic if I were talking to her. There were immoderate boxes with household photograph albums I’d been looking for that I hadn’t been capable to find, and it was truly worrying me. I was sitting connected the level and said aloud, 'Where did you permission those albums, mom?' Very slowly, her closet doorway opened connected its own. A slow, creaking question from astir wholly closed to halfway open."
"I was arsenic terrified arsenic I’d ever been successful my life. I froze and didn’t move, but I looked astatine precisely oculus level and determination was a cardboard container labeled 'Albums' successful my mother's handwriting connected the little support of the closet. I americium not a spiritual oregon adjacent spiritual person, and I thought that determination mightiness beryllium immoderate imbalance successful the hanging of the closet door. I went backmost to the doorway galore times and tested it by wiggling it backmost and distant and leaving it successful antithetic positions, but it’s ne'er moved that mode since."
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