Category Archives: Readers’ True Ghost Stories

Reader Submission: A Penny a Day

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“I have been finding a penny a day for years and years! I have found pennies in the strangest places and at the strangest moments.

When it first started, I was working at the railroad and I had gone about 45 days of finding a penny every day until one day I got sick at work and had to go home with the flu. I walked in my front door thinking ‘I haven’t found my penny today,’ and I knew I was going to bed because I felt awful! However, because I got too dirty working at the railroad, I had to take a shower before I got in bed, even though I was sick. So I took off my clothes and got in the shower, all the while thinking ‘I haven’t found my penny for today!’ Suddenly, I heard a coin drop behind me in the shower. I turned around, and there in the bathtub with me was a shiny penny!

My wife’s explanation was that there was a penny on the bed and when I sat on the bed, the penny stuck to my naked butt and when I got in the shower I washed it off. I told her that may be so, but all I know is when I asked for my daily penny it fell into the bathtub with me! I have been finding pennies every day since then, and I take it as God’s notice to me that I should trust in him every day because it says on the penny ‘In God we Trust.’ The penny is God’s way of reminding me every day to trust in Him!”

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Reader Submission: Ghosts in the Night

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Many people believe that ghosts are most active at night, and the stories below certainly support that theory. Here are three creepy tales from the same reader who submitted “The Possession.” Enjoy!

A Cousin’s Goodbye

“When I was 11 years old, I had a cousin named Patricia who was my best friend. We played together, and my sister played with her younger sister Betty. Patricia got sick and went to Grady hospital.

One night my mom and dad went to visit Patricia in the hospital, and my sister and I stayed home. I was asleep in my bed and in a waking dream when Patricia came and kissed me on my right cheek and told me she loved me but had to go. I remember wondering how she did that when my bed was up against the wall, but she kissed me on my cheek with a cold kiss.

When my parents came home, my dad stood in the doorway of my bedroom and said ‘Son wake up, I have to tell you that Patricia died tonight!’ And I said, ‘No she didn’t daddy, cause she was just here and kissed me!’ My dad said ‘You were just dreaming son’ and turned out the light. I’m 63 now, but I remember this like it was yesterday, and I believe I will see her again someday!”

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Reader Submission: Cemetery Fright (Pics)

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“Two friends and I went on a ghost tour to the West Wallsend Cemetery in Newcastle. We took a lot of photos and on getting home and checking them, we saw that we had captured all sorts of orbs of different shapes and sizes.

The most disturbing photo was of my girl friend Mel. I took a photo of her sitting in the far rear corner of the cemetery, but I couldn’t see anything because it was pitch black. When the flash went on and lit her up, I could see the bench she was sitting on and the surrounding bush land. We heard twigs snapping in the bush behind her, but assumed it was possums or some other wild life and thought nothing of it.

After a few days, I put the memory card into my computer to check the photos, and I was gob smacked. It was creepy and awful. Mel appeared to have a slit throat with blood gushing from the wound down her top. Her hands were bloodied as well, and her face was a little distorted. There were a few orbs above her, and high in the trees was a ghostly figure with an evil face peering down at my camera lens. It was the freakiest thing I have ever seen. We have been told that in the late 1800′s there was a man murdered in or near the cemetery.”

Here are the photos mentioned in the account. What do you make of them?

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Reader Submission: The Possession

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“When I was serving in Thailand during the Vietnam War, I was stationed in a little town on the Thai-Laos-Cambodian border. I was living with my soon to be wife in a bungalow in town when our neighbor, a Laotian girl, became possessed by an evil spirit, or so I was told. She was so bad they had to call in special monks in white robes to pray over her. My girlfriend/wife wanted to go over there and see the exorcism, but before she went she told me ‘don’t come over for any reason.’

Instead, since I was on a day off, I sat on my porch drinking whisky and getting drunk as I used to do in those days, as there wasn’t much else to do. Later, one of my girlfriend’s friends came by and asked for her, and forgetting what I was told, I went over to the house where the exorcism was going on.

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Reader Submission: Smoke and Shadows

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“I’ll start with a little about myself. My name is Emma, and I’m 19 years old. I currently live in Canada, in a town outside of Toronto. I had one or two small experiences when I was about 8 or 9 in my old house in Toronto. It was nothing scary. I just heard walking around and thought I saw my old pet cat a few days after she died.

About seven years later, I was at my ex-boyfriend’s house. Let’s just call him Jim. One day he was telling me how his house was haunted. I thought he was just messing with me so I didn’t really take him seriously. It was about three months into our relationship when strange things started to happen.

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Reader Submission: Voices in the Woods

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Here’s another creepy tale from the same person who shared “Footsteps on the Stairs“…

“This next one happened last summer with my brother, his wife, my daughter, and I. It was around June or July, and it gets so hot and humid in this part of Georgia. We drove to the Crockford/Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Preserve here in Walker County to try and get in some swimming at what is called ‘The Blue Hole’ by locals. However, the swimming hole was too crowded, so we decided to go up the mountain and explore while waiting for people to leave.

The whole area is deep woods, broken only by dirt roads. People camp at the bottom near the swimming hole. The part we went to was a few miles away from everyone, and we left the pickup truck since the roads were too narrow for it.

The four of us were walking up this gravel road for a good half hour to 45 minutes and for some reason I can’t recall, my brother walked on ahead because he wanted to check something out. He was supposed to come right back, but he didn’t. After nearly an hour, my sister-in-law and I started to worry about him.

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Reader Submission: Footsteps on the Stairs

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“This story took place three years ago at my dad’s house. My husband and I had lost our home to foreclosure and good soul that he is, my dad offered to let us stay with him for a while till we got back on our feet financially. So he gave us the upstairs quarters of his house while he slept on a bed downstairs.

The house used to be a tractor shed, and when my family moved to Georgia from California 29 years ago they converted the tractor shed into a two-story house. My grandma lived in it until my dad took her to a nursing home in 2007. She passed away later that same year and he moved into her house where he still is now. Anyway, that’s the history of the place.

On the day in question, when I had my experience, my dad and husband were both at work and my daughter was at school. It was around eleven in the morning and too early for all three to be home yet. I was alone there since I was out of work at the time and was upstairs in the bathroom.

There’s a door that opens into the upstairs quarters and I had it closed as well as the bathroom door. As I was sitting in the bathroom, I heard these heavy, slow footsteps coming up the stairs. My grandma used to walk like that before she died. I got nervous and called out ‘Who’s there?’ and no one answered.  Yes, I was scared! I had locked both doors downstairs, front and back, before going up to the bathroom.

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Reader Submission: The Red Guy

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“There’s this entity that’s been following me, and I haven’t the slightest clue why or what he wants. I guess it would make sense to start from the very beginning.

The Beginning
When I was around 5 or 6, two friends and I were sitting in my room, talking and playing. I looked up out the window which overlooked my grandmother’s backyard, some trees, and a few houses. I went back to playing, but something made me look out the window again. A man was walking through the yard. This wasn’t odd because my grandmother’s backyard is part of a short cut to a park. What was odd was the man himself.

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Reader Submission: Camp Terror

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“This happened when I was a camp counselor and canoe instructor at a kids’ camp in central Ontario, Canada in the late 80′s. A couple of things to know about me: I am a very experienced outdoorsman, and I don’t scare easily. Even at the time that this story took place, although I was only 17, I’d already spent many nights alone in the wilderness. I know what sounds the woods make and what animals do what. What we experienced was none of the above.

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Reader Submission: The Ouija Board

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“In reference to my Shadow Man story, I have another unique story I’d like to share, as one of my many paranormal encounters. After several years of living with the man in black and finally being relieved of him, I encountered something that I brought upon myself. Luckily, it wasn’t harmful, but it was very noisy. Why? Because in my day, Ouija boards were considered a fun thing to do at sleep overs.

I went to live with my dad after my parents divorced and the man in black disappeared. It happened when I was 17 years old. My friend and I were playing with a Ouija board in my room one night as we thought it was harmless, teenage fun. Nothing happened during the Ouija session. Later that night when we were in bed, we heard something running at full force up the stairs where we were. We heard what sounded like a cabinet door open, then creak…then slam shut. All of these noises were taking place in my room.

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