Here’s a guide to the true ghost stories on ghostsnghouls.com. All of the stories came from readers of the site. Have a tale you’d like to share? Submit it here or email ghostsghoul@gmail.com.
Man on the Water – While camping near a lake, a boy sees a man in old-fashioned clothing standing on the water.
Man Down – A paramedic’s patient is dead on arrival. However, the deceased isn’t ready to move on.
The Falling Saw - A giant antique saw falls from a display, narrowly missing two women. Was it an accident or something more?
Disappearing Family - A family of five seemingly disappears on the beach. Were they ever really there?
Visit from a Ghost Cat? - A reader experiences strange pressure on the bed and tugs in the night. Is a ghost cat to blame?
Terror in the Night - Paranormal events plague a young boy after his father’s brutal murder.
The Noise in the Woods - A woman hears a chilling sound in the woods near her home.
Blasts from the Past - Rifts in time? A boy stumbles across a prehistoric beast in the forest and dreams about death in a past life.
Something Evil Came - A dying patient begs nurses to protect her from an evil entity. The nurses thought she was hallucinating. She wasn’t.
A Haunted House Turned Haunted Hotel – A reader shares his experience with disembodied footsteps and hooded monks at a haunted property later transformed into a haunted hotel.
A Penny a Day – A man finds a penny every day for years. Is it luck or divine intervention?
Ghosts in the Night – A kiss, a scream, and knocks on the door.
Cemetery Fright - A woman poses for a photo in a haunted cemetery. Is she alone?
The Possession - An American man in Thailand looks in on an exorcism and piques the interest of an evil spirit.
Smoke and Shadows - Strange shadows and smoke plague a woman at her boyfriend’s house. Is the paranormal to blame?
Voices in the Woods - A pleasant hike in the woods turns to one of fright and confusion when a woman hears a voice whispering in her ear.
Footsteps on the Stairs - A woman home alone hears heavy footsteps on the stairs. Is it an intruder…or something less easy to explain?
The Red Guy - One woman’s encounter with a sinister entity who seems drawn to the color red.
Camp Terror – Two counselors and a group of campers have a terrifying encounter while staying near the site of a recent drowning.
The Ouija Board – One reader’s frightening encounter with a Ouija board.
The Man in Black – A man in black stalks a family and creates chaos in the household.
The Haunted Dolls – Two true tales of dolls that walk and talk.
Ghosts at the Group Home – Strange activity at a group home for developmentally-disabled adults.
A Paranormal Life - Moving candles, a ghostly woman, and voices from beyond.
Visit from an Angel – A child receives a visit from a celestial being.
The Thing with an Erased Face – A soldier’s encounter with a terrifying figure deep in the jungle.
A Hamburglar Phantom – A paranormal investigation team encounters spirit orbs and a strange figure.
The Man in the Shack - An evil spirit from a shack in the woods haunts a vulnerable child.
From One Soldier to Another - Two veterans – one dead and one living – an old graveyard, and a mysterious wind.
A House Possessed – A haunted home complete with disembodied screams, possessed furniture, and a gray figure in the garden.
A Visit from Anne – A gamer’s experience with a gorgeous ghost girl.
The Loyal Ghost Dog - A man’s dead dog continues to provide comfort.
A Telekinetic Dream – A woman’s nightmare affects her reality.
The Angel Statue - A statue in a cemetery changes form. What’s behind the creepy transformation?
The Haunted Mansion - A true ghost story about a haunted mansion that once belonged to a toy maker.
The House on the Hill – One pool man’s experiences with a haunted mansion in rural Oklahoma.
The Blue Man Group – A woman awakes to see a woman and three men, all blue, gazing at her sleeping boyfriend.
Darth Vader – A woman sees a strange shadow in her son’s room.
The Woman in the Hall – One woman’s encounter with a ghost in her.boyfriend’s home.
The Cold Spot – Plane passengers who sit in one particular seat can’t seem to stay warm.
Rockabye Baby - A invisible entity soothes a crying child.
Visitors in the Night – Three creepy tales of visitors in the night.
The Thing in the Fog – Did something in the fog follow a man home?
Deadly Rival Roller Derby Ghost - A Florida roller derby team is convinced something haunts their home rink.
The Presence – Unnerving activity at a seemingly-normal home.
The Neighbor at the Gate – A boy sees his bed-ridden neighbor out and about. Or does he?
5 True Tales of Ghosts and Ghouls – Disembodied voices, psychic predictions, a heartwarming message from beyond, and more.
A Plea for Help – A child, a ghost, and a mystery.
The Man in the Dunes – An apparition appears on the beach during a lightning storm.
The Boy Who Wanted Hair – A mysterious child appears in the night and demands a lock of hair. But why?
The Shadow Warriors – Indian shadows fight along the wall of one woman’s childhood home.
The Couple Trapped in Time – A family moves into an old home, but two previous residents remain.
The Girl in the Bathtub – A freaky bathtub and the woman behind it.
5 Real Ghost Stories – A ghost ball, a foreboding dream, an out of body experience, and more.
A Ghostly Lick – What licked this woman’s hand in the middle of the night?
The Woman in the Rain – Did this reader encounter a woman from another dimension?
The Procession – A mysterious funeral procession marches by a woman’s home in the middle of the night.
Making Amends from Beyond – Terrifying activity in a summer vacation house.
Guantanamo Bay Ghost – A Marine shares an odd experience during his time at Guantanamo Bay.
4 True Ghost Stories to Keep You Up at Night – A haunted water tower, a haunted duplex, and two spirits that wander quiet homes in the dead of night.
The Man with the Pearl Buttons – A teen encounters a man from the past.
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hen I was about fourteen I started doing Ouija boards with my friends. I didn’t really believe that anything would happen, but it did. The glass always moved really strongly and whatever we had brought through knew things about individuals in the group that nobody else could have known. Before the glass started moving there was always a feeling of pressure, and a kind of wrongness, like someone dragging nails down a blackboard, but nobody could see or hear it.When it was going on, I would find that my eyes would start streaming, but I wasn’t crying and didn’t feel sad or anything, just kind of excited and scared. The thing that came through fixated on me… It claimed to be my twin. (my mother miscarried a twin when she was pregnant with me)Over the next two years, we did lots of Ouija boards and would always get this same entity. Although I first believed that it was the ghost of my twin, I slowly came to realise that it was something else. It began telling me that it wanted to hurt my friends, and that it wanted me to die so that we could be together. I started feeling like I wanted to hurt people. I started feeling that even when I wasn’t doing the Ouija board, it was still with me. Sometimes I would feel the bed move like someone was sitting on the end of it, and then I would feel the covers being pulled down off the bed. I would grab hold of them and try and keep them on, but it was too strong. Then when my covers were completely off me I would be able to pull them back on. This would happen so many times during the night that I was constantly exhausted.Eventually I went to a medium and told him everything. He took me to another medium, and they told me that there was something that had attached itself to me. They told me that this thing is very negative, and feeds off fear, and that I would have to learn to put up a barrier in my mind against it, and I would have to keep this barrier up constantly.Over the years the “visits” got less frequent, although if I think about them, or anything occult I feel it’s attention. Sometimes when I am really exhausted it can still get through. The most memorable occasions are these;I was in the house alone, my friend had left because she had seen a distorted version of my face reflected in the window, though I had just left the room to get us a drink. As I got ready for bed I could feel something horrible and malevolent hanging just behind me, a few inches from my neck. I was trying to ignore it, and was desperately trying to maintain the barrier in my mind, but I was too scared and I could tell that cracks were appearing. I got into bed and immediately there started scratching and scraping noises in each corner of my room. This went on for about an hour and then stopped. The horrible feeling that I had didn’t leave though; I knew it hadn’t gone. Then after about half an hour a loud banging noise started in the bottom corner of my room to the left. I realised that on the other side of the wall, the staircase started. The banging was so incredibly loud and purposeful, and carried on in the corner for about fifteen minutes. Then it slowly started moving closer to where my bed was. I did not have a headboard, my pillows were piled up against the wall. Eventually the booming was directly behind my head, so hard that I could see the pillows shaking with each bang. I was still trying so desperately to get a hold on my fear and telling this thing to leave, and go from me, but it continued for what felt like two hours. Eventually I must have fainted or just fallen asleep out of sheer exhaustion, because the next day I woke up and it was gone. It came back a few times after that, but never as strong as that time until maybe fifteen years later.This time I was living in a house with my two daughters. I felt the familiar oppressive feeling and then the door to my room opened. There was no breeze, the windows were all shut, and my girls were in bed. I got up and closed the door, and climbed back into bed. Two minutes later the door opened again. I again closed it and got into bed. As soon as I was in bed it opened again. I closed it and put a chair behind it. It opened and pushed the chair with it. I closed it and whilst I was still holding the handle it started to open again. I started to push back against it but it still carried on opening. Eventually I had my entire body weight against it but it was still being forced open, I wasn’t strong enough to stop it. I got back into bed and started picturing the wall in my head, and trying to read my book. Eventually the horrible, scraping feeling left, and eventually calmed down enough to go to sleep.The last severe one was about five years ago. (I am 42 now) I woke up knowing that whatever it is was in my room. I was lying on my side, and as my eyes grew accustomed to the light I realised that I could see the back of a pair of sneaker type trainers standing on my pillow about ten inches from my face. I turned my face so that I could follow the trainers up, to a pair of jeans and a hooded sweatshirt, on what looked like a little boy, of about eight, standing with his back to me. My heart was beating so hard, I knew it wasn’t even the spirit of a little boy; I recognised the presence of the thing that had been with me before. As I was looking up, the figure started to turn around so very slowly, until I could see it’s face. It had a little boy’s face, but even in the darkness I could see that there was nothing where it’s eyes should have been. Just black, but not the black of shadow, just…nothing. I knew that that nothing could see me, and wanted me to look at it. I turned over so that my back was to it, and imagined my wall again. I wouldn’t look, and I wouldn’t think about what was there, I blanked it out of my mind completely. I started thinking about good things and kindness and all the wonderful things about the world and about people. Eventually the presence got weaker and then was gone.I believe that when I did the Ouija board I attracted the attention of something evil. I don’t know what it is, I have never tried to find out, I very rarely talk about what has happened, and only do so when I hear people suggesting that they do a Ouija board or have a séance. My daughters still don’t know about what happens.
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I started to feel an intense feeling of being watched; an uncomfortable feeling my siblings and I got in most rooms. Then, out of nowhere, a white floating figure emerged through the wall in front of me. I was paralyzed on the spot, my eyes stuck on the figure.
I recall that it was a girl, a little older than myself with long blonde plaits and Victorian clothing, an apron over a dress. She flew toward me and was over me within seconds, but as she and I were almost face to face, I felt knuckles hit my left shoulder and then a hit to my right arm so hard that I instinctual reached for my shoulder.
I sat there, hand on my shoulder, for hours after the figure vanished. Until the dog ran downstairs, I didn’t have the courage to move. I think the hard hit to my shoulder was her way of proof that I had in fact seen her and she wasn’t a part of my imagination. I so vividly remember the room, the look of her face, her clothing, and everything about that moment magnified. She has never shown up again. ..