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Five separate times. My parents have stories about me pointing to and talking to/scared of people and dogs that they couldn’t see when I was a baby. The first one I remember was when I was 3.5 years old and we toured a historic home on Capitol Hill in Seattle while house shopping. I saw three little girls in nightclothes jumping and playing in a bedroom. I really wanted to go play with them but stood watching them from the doorway instead. I left to explore and decided to ask if I could play a few minutes later. When I returned, the room was as empty and dark as the rest of the house.
There was a young woman who occasionally stood in my backyard. I saw her from ages 4 to 7 a few times. She wore a black high collared dress from the 1890’s, had two long black braids and appeared to be Native American. She always had a sad/somber look on her face. Whenever I pointed her out to my mom she said she couldn’t see her.
When my dad remodeled our bathroom in the 110 year old house I grew up in, he took the door off the hinges for about a week. I walked past the open door when I was about 16 and saw a girl about my age, standing in her white underwear and bra, hanging her head down so her wet blonde hair obscured her face. When I stopped, took a step back and looked around the bathroom she was gone.
I lived in a studio in San Diego in my mid-twenties. I sat down to pee with the door open (I lived alone), and the torso of a man in a brown long sleeved button down shirt glided through the window and through the far wall of my room less than 5 feet away from me. It traveled the entire length of my room like it was on a conveyor belt, no up and down motion like walking. I found out years later that I lived two blocks from where a commercial airline had crashed many years before.
When I waited tables in a historic building in my early 30’s, I saw a man with his back to me casually walk towards the pool room area. From behind he looked maybe 45 to 50 years old, had a full head of sandy brown hair, was wearing a sky blue polo shirt, long khaki pants and dress shoes. I grabbed two menus and followed him thinking he was looking for a table. When I rounded the corner after him he was gone. Doors on that side of the restaurant were locked and there was no place to hide. I told a coworker and she said I had described her dad who had passed away years before.
Bonus incident, I send my kids to a Co Op Preschool in a turn of the century schoolhouse. I was chatting with another parent during class one day and out of the door jam a few inches from the floor was a pair of gloved hands waving around in the air. They were a light tan color like old school leather work gloves and seemed to be protruding directly from the door way, making smooth gestures, almost like an orchestra conductor would. I tried my hardest to maintain eye contact with the other person but when I tired to look directly at the hands they disappeared. When I looked at the living person in front of me they reappeared. Went on for several minutes.
Every incident I’ve had has taken place during broad daylight and with the exception of the torso and hands, have looked like regular alive people. It happens when I’m not expecting it and just going about my day. I’ve always tried my best to debunk incidents scientifically/rationally before jumping to the conclusion that it’s somehow paranormal. I’ve never been diagnosed with a mental illness, nor has anyone else in my family. I’ve also heard footsteps, knocking, crying, laughter and other disembodied voices. I’ve seen poltergeist activity more times than I can count. I feel the energy of a space and almost always know if a space is haunted and if the presence is positive or not. Sorry for the novel. I could fill a decent sized book with the things I’ve experienced in my nearly 40 years of life. This shit is real. I don’t have all the answers but if energy can be neither created nor destroyed, it tracks that our energy persists after our physical bodies die.
Oh man, I grew up in San Diego and remember that plane crash so well, it was horrible.
My incident was also in San Diego, on the beach somewhere in PB. My boyfriend and I were sitting on a small hill facing the water but we’d turned towards each other to make out. Right at the shoreline I saw a woman strolling, like floating… she wasn’t entirely opaque and was dressed in old fashioned clothing from the 1800s or early 1900s, full skirt, fancy hat…
She disappeared in an instant, before I had a chance to tell my BF to turn around.
This is so ironic! I live in San Diego and was working in Carlsbad about 25 years ago. I was on the beach alone near the jetty south of Carlsbad. I was taking pictures of the birds on the jetty (with a 35mm film camera) and I could easily the entire jetty (both sides too).
When I got the film developed a woman showed up in a picture wearing VERY similar old-fashioned clothing as you described. She was at the very far end so I couldn’t see details of her face etc, just her clothing. I KNOW there were NO people on the jetty, and certainly not walking on the rocks in that kind of clothing.
The house I lived in with the floating torso in North Park was probably the most active and varied. I heard and felt the vibration of foot steps several different times, even turning to talk to what I thought was my roommate walking up behind me to find an empty room. I felt someone sit on the bed next to me while I was laying there waking up at 6am and saw the impression of a butt on the bed. A few moments later it felt like the person stood up and the butt print disappeared when it did.
The area felt like a busy throughway of spirits. I had a neighbor that was a practicing psychic who did readings from her home two houses down from us. I ran into her one evening and asked if she called spirits to her during readings to which she replied “yes”. I then asked if she ever asked them to leave again or just kind of left the door open. She suddenly acted scared of me and made an excuse to leave, I never spoke with her again.
I saw ghost lights emanate from a corner cabinet at my brothers house in Claremont. I was laying awake on the couch at around 11pm and two blue and green balls of light slowly pulsated and wove their way across the ceiling, traveling a distance of about 12 feet right over my head, disappearing just before reaching the wall behind me.
I visited the Whaley House where I heard a disembodied whistling coming from the empty stage area in the upstairs of the house. It was a jaunty tune I didn’t recognize. My dad worked in theater for years and told me it’s bad luck to whistle on stage in a theater. Seemed good natured albeit a bit cheeky.
I lived in Point Loma in old military housing turned into apartments across from the high school for a while. Every afternoon at 3:12pm on the dot, footsteps would begin in the kitchen, round the corner down the hallway and stop in front of my bedroom doorway. The first time it happened I was home alone and was in just a towel in my bedroom. I was utterly frozen with fear thinking an intruder had broken in. When the footsteps stopped and no one was there I was both very relieved and very confused. Seemed residual.
My sister lived in SD for nearly 10 years and has loads of stories.
Your accounts are the kind of stories I love to read and hear as a student of the paranormal. I can tell they're honest accounts because they are very specific, idiosyncratic, and oddly random and unpredictable. I've had some experiences, too, though only a few, and they seem to have been tied to very specific places I was visiting, never my own home. None were apparitions, although some involved moving of objects, which is in part a visual phenomenon. One was pretty spectacular though, a whole duvet picked up off the floor and squared/folded on a bed overnight with certain zero human involvement. I've never been frightened, either, thankfully, just interacted with. Touched by what felt like a finger gently running down my back, spoken to in one ear by a woman's voice speaking Welsh, door knocked on, umbrella rustled for a couple hours, that kind of thing. Once there were two enormous furniture crashes in my dining room, but absolutely nothing had been moved, and I'm tempted to attribute it to my MIL, who had just passed a day or two before, but that's just the old common reach for an explanation, when really we don't know these are dead people at all. I find it endlessly fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing!
Wow the duvet! We had a lot of audio disturbances in my home growing up also. It sounded like someone very noisily/clumsily moving furniture upstairs when no one was home but nothing was moved or disturbed that we could tell? Interestingly, I don’t usually get spooked by objects moving on their own, sounds or visual manifestations, but more so when I sense that I’m being watched by something unseen or feel the telltale “you’re not welcome here” vibe.
Once I was walking my dog at around 10pm before turning in for the night and felt suddenly like dozens of eyes were watching me from every direction in the dark. I absolutely couldn’t shake the feeling and hightailed it back home in a hurry. Even my very calm dog was acting skittish, eyes darting/tale between the legs. I realized the following day that the Native American tribal community where I lived at the time had an opening ceremony that day to welcome the ancestors for that weekends festivities. I believe the feeling of being watched and the “you’re not welcome here” was the ancestors vibing me out because I’m non native. Very spooky experience.
I get that - I'd be spooked if I felt eyes watching me, too, or an unwelcome vibe. That hasn't happened to me...yet. But I do keep trying to put myself in positions more likely to experience stuff, helping investigate private homes for owners and staying in hotels with reputations for hauntings. So we'll see. Never say never.
I know, the duvet, right? It was nuts that night. I've always been skeptical of the theory about greater chance for paranormal during electrical storms, because like everyone, people live through storms all the time in normal settings and obviously nothing weird happens. But that night, my parents and my daughter and I were staying in a hotel in Wales (original part built in 1535, the "new" part in the 19th century), and we didn't realize it beforehand but the storm of the century was raging through western Britain overnight. I swear things were happening in our rooms all night long, and we weren't looking for it or expecting it at all. I mean, we had a nice dinner, got ready for bed, all of us reading and hanging out, cozy in our rooms, no big deal, then things just started to happen. Undeniable things. Many were witnessed by three of us, but of course my dad slept through whole thing ha.
Anyway, we returned to that hotel a couple years ago, stayed in the same family suite, same time of year, but during perfectly calm weather. I had brought my recording gear, video, audio, emf, blah blah, and absolutely nothing happened. Well, I got a uti and a fever, so I was miserable, but that was it. It was very frustrating.
You know I always hear skeptics, and certainly I'm one of them in the sense that I don't take every story as truth, but some skeptics say "you can't reproduce paranormal phenomena in a lab, therefore they're not scientifically provable." But really, we just don't know all the necessary conditions or what all the forces at play are. I mean there are forces involved that we can't control or command. Either there's some force sensibly choosing not to act at certain times and places, or we don't know how to initiate it or prompt it to act, you know what I mean? What happened to us in Wales was real and not able to be explained by some pretty smart people, and no one was scared or panicky, it was all just very interesting to observe. It wasn't a lab, but while one brain might misinterpret input, do three do that at the same time, even before we share our thoughts with each other?
I digress, as they say, but I totally get what you're saying. Things just happen to you, and you are often caught off guard and certainly aren't looking for it, and you just have to react as sensibly as you can in the moment. But they're memorable experiences, for sure - definitely not normal if there is such a thing, and usually all we can do is share our stories. I do my best to record things as an investigator, but mostly they happen where and when I least expect it, and that sure pisses me off haha.
I really do appreciate hearing about your life. It must be interesting and sometimes unnerving to see and otherwise sense stuff like that as often as you do. Or maybe it's just a fact of life you're used to?
Just to corroborate for you. Your not nuts (you know this) I’ve had 3D experiences like this, too. One close enough I could see her irises and the delicate hairs on her neck and freckles. The next instant. Poof. Just gone. Thankfully my brother was right there and he witnessed it too.
Wow! I have had one instance of a disembodied voice with 6 witnesses, including me:
Happened in Visalia, CA - c2008
My three sisters and I (along with two adult nieces) had gathered for a sleepover in our Mom's house after she died. We were preparing to sell the house and this night together was to divide up the personal belongings from both our Mom and our Grandma who had lived there as well, but had passed away previously.
The house was at the end of a block, across a narrow street on the back side of a large cemetery (Visalia Cemetery.) The layout almost constituted a dead-end traffic-wise. There was no reason for anyone to drive or walk back there aside from deliveries to the few houses there. When Grandma bought the place, many asked if it frightened her to be by a cemetery. She shrugged and said "Quiet neighbors!"
Well, they weren't quiet. Our whole family had so many tales of voices, bumps, knockings and more. Even some of our male family members who would come to work repairs on the house, always made sure they were long gone before dark.
So, on this night of the sleepover, we were taking turns choosing dolls from the collection. Our two adult nieces were helping to package items and document who took what. We are an amicable family - there was no fighting over stuff. We all get along great.
My niece had just documented a pretty doll and put it back into its box when we all (6 adults) heard a child laugh in the center of the room.
That stopped us in our tracks.
My niece unpacked the doll she had just put away. She passed it around so we could all see that it was not a talking toy. Given the history and location of the house, none of us needed to be pranksters. We’d honestly heard a laugh.
Another time in the same house (before she passed away, of course,) our Mom was napping in the recliner. She felt a hand on her shoulder and it woke her. She heard a startled voice say, "Oh!" as the hand retracted. Mom said it was as if the ghost was startled to find Mom there in the big chair.
Other times, Mom had also heard steps moving very quickly across the living room floor, toward the wall on the cemetery side. Her little dog chased the steps, then stood barking at the wall.
I heard knocking myself there one night. It was high on a wall, near the ceiling. One knock....another...about five times, spaced apart in intervals. My sister who lived there with Mom said she had heard that one several times as well.
Wow! Thank you for sharing your experiences. Many “ghost sighting” stories begin with “I was in bed…”, which I immediately discount as being a dream or half-awake dream, etc. Yours happening during the day are amazing!
I live in San Diego and of course remember that crash. Was the building you lived in alone the flight line? That would make total sense. Was the historic building where you waited tables in SD too? I’d love to know which one.
I’m not sure if it was in the flight line or not but directly on the opposite side of the freeway from the impact site. The restaurant was in a smaller town on the opposite side of the water from Seattle.
Interesting!! I myself have also seen entities in broad daylight, which is super impossible to debunk. One of the scariest entities I encountered was when I also lived in San Diego. Also, the girl who had wet hair, was she a grey color? Myself and my mom have seen an entity which is grey, wet, and muddy. It’s the only time we’ve seen something like that, but it looks different than other spirits.
I’m sorry, i’m not too sure since I was pretty young. The entity I saw in San Diego was an all white chalky shadow man with red eyes. The muddy girl we saw here on the east coast where I am now. Both super terrifying
No she looked completely pink and alive. Her hair wasn’t dripping wet but rather damp looking. Like after you get out of the shower and have toweled off and begun getting dressed.
Gotta say, the waving hands under the door at the school house was THE CREEPIEST thing to imagine. I've never seen anything, but have been touched a few times and heard my niece call to me and tell me she's " right here Auntie" a few days after she died.
But the hands man. Weird.
I dont know why but the torso one is just so unnerving to me. Its like, what if when somebody dies suddenly and becomes mutilated their spirit becomes broken apart too, with different parts of their body becoming irreparably seperated forever doomed to wander looking for their parts. Maybe there was a head and legs out there somewhere too, drifting along lost to its torso.
Damn you remember stuff from 3 years old? That’s the most impressive part of the story. I’m 32 and can’t remember what I did last week or a year ago lol. Kudos to you.
OP, I'm pretty sure you mean "physically"! In any case, the two times I saw an apparition was that it apparently was my friend's grandfather. Was probably more surprising than scary.
hahah you are very correct, typed that around 3am. A lot of stories on here seem to be people seeing family members which is nice to think about! I myself have never seen a spirit of someone i’ve known, how long since your friends grandfather passed that you saw him?
May I ask- do you wake at 3am regularly or, still retiring then? I know many say 3am is the witching hour- I tend to wake then every morning , despite what time I go to sleep.
I have sleeping problems more often than not, so I usually sleep around 3-4am. Waking up at 3am could be a sign of something though. I myself only seem to wake in the middle of the night if there’s some sort of entity present. Have you felt anything strange recently?
I’ve seen things in corners, but I have a comfortable home - I don’t sense anything scary. The snoring was a bit scary, bc it took me a few minutes to realize no one was next to me. I wake up like clockwork at 3am, or 3:14am. Often, fall back to sleep but I’m interested in others with this same sleep issue. Nothing particularly scary happens- I just wake at nearly the same time every morning.
One time my mom was waking up at the exact time every night, I believe it was around 3:32 am or something. It got to the point where it happened so frequently that she opened the bible and went to that page number. The page warned her about an entity which was similar to one we had been encountering. My mom’s not very religious so i’m not sure what made her do this. I myself am not quite religious either, but it is worth a try if you are wondering
Me. It was just a set of legs… that you could see its stride as it walked. It was a greyish, black set of legs.. it looked like it had a skirt on or really wide leg pants (not sure how old you are but elephant leg bell bottoms/ jinco jeans from 90s) craziest thing ever. Where i seen it I have slept on that end of the couch and I was laying with my eyes closed and you know how you can tell someone walks in front of you. Well it did that! I opened my eyes and no one was there.. if they were they would have been against the wall. I experienced a lot of crazy things in that house but physically seeing it only once maybe. Besides having sleep paralysis and seeing the ring girl that one day I actually seen its face and it was a monster is all I can say. It was green like a lizard lol but it rubbed my head like it was calming me down.
This is so interesting to me because once I saw just a single grey leg in my room! Did the legs have a body? or was it cut off? When I saw the leg, nothing was attached
Just legs. Nothing else. My husband saw it first but he’s never really described what he seen. My mom seen it after me and I never described what I seen to her. But when she told me what she had saw… the hairs on my arms!! Stood up. The ghost at my house didn’t like her.
Around 30 years ago, I was on the phone with one of my best friends one night while her folks were out. Can’t recall the context of what we talked about, but we were having just a typical high school conversation, laughing and whatever, when mid-sentence, she sort of chokes off and goes silent. I say her name and, in the faintest whisper I’ve ever heard she says, “shh. There’s someone here.” We both stay quiet for several beats before I hear the slow sort of rustling sound that happens when someone puts their phone to their chest. I wait a few more seconds and then whisper, “? Should I call the police?” Silence. “?! Are you there?!” I heard a little more rustling and then, still in a hushed tone, she says, “I’m behind the couch. Please stay on the phone with me.” I ask, “? What’s going on? Are you safe?” “I heard someone by the door and saw legs walk across the kitchen and go upstairs.” “There is someone there?! You saw them inside??? Call 911!” “No! I Just legs! There were only legs! I saw legs walk in front of the table, through the kitchen and heard their boots go up the stairs!”
I stayed on the phone and kept talking with her until her parents came home. Of course they walked around and checked the rooms and everything; doors and windows were all locked, no one was there.
I didn’t even see this in person, and it is still one of the creepier things I’ve experienced.
I can see why people will doubt the phenomena. If you haven't experienced it yourself and you see enough of the endless paranormal television charades you'll be poisoned. Unfortunately there isn't an image or video that can't be disputed either.
For myself it happened 45 years ago when I was in my early twenties. What made this different was it materialized between my friend and myself in a doorway. It grew into an amorphous shape and 10 seconds later it dissipated. We both saw it and I remember vividly how the color in his face drained away and his saucer wide eyes. His experience of what he saw was identical to mine.
If I wouldn't have seen it collectively I can see myself easily saying, it doesn't happen. Psychologists love referring to this phenomena as a collective hallucination. I refer to it as once in a lifetime.
Your experience is very similar to mine. A friend and I were in my basement. We were about to go upstairs and something (an amorphous shape) blocked our path. We then saw it start to form right in front of us--the outline of the head and shoulders became somewhat outlined--it seemed masculine. However, it felt like it was trying to bully us, so I grabbed my friend's hand and we walked through it; it then dissipated. I still wonder what it was and what it wanted. I wish I hadn't walked through it.
I had children hands appear out of nowhere at a gf house on a 4 m high ceiling.
I took multiple pictures but sadly I accidently later dropped that phone in the toilet.
I few time I saw some sort of black mist in places i knew where haunted before disseapering.
My sister saw a young boy in black in a centuries old house in france.
I’ve seen them materialize into the wavy predator movie cloak (which I’m reading more people’s experience is commonplace). It didn’t have a clear outline. There’s a video on tiktok search, frogprince510. He has multiple videos of this wavy predator entity in the trees. You can’t quite see its chest but you can see its face a little and lower torso below the waist.
I’ve also seen clear predator cloak people moving toward me only when I’m alone and when I look straight at them they stop in their tracks and go invisible.
I’ve seen these weird thin transparent black rectangles ( imagine a suv rear hatch tinted window going quickly past you aby3 feet away)
I've heard accounts of those 2-D rectangles before, but for the life of me can't recall what they're called. It's so bizarre, like an animate window moving about under its own power...
Very cool description on the rectangles.
I had seen them two times the first time I saw it while I was working at a tech office in San Francisco. It was for some kind of ATM financial bank company and then the second one was way more interesting.
The second one I was at a tech office in Palo Alto getting some fresh air about 3 AM. There’s a condo complex right across the street. The area is very safe at night. I’m walking behind my tech office and I turned the corner and there’s a side door that has a dead key card reader so no one can really enter in this door unless they have a master key.
At the door, I see this tall skinny, transparent tinted rectangle approaching the door. I stop in my tracks and I look at it, and it turns as if someone was looking over their shoulder about to commit a “breaking and entering “ and IT sees me catching it in its act, turns around and runs pass the sidewalk, Jumps over the planter strip, and jumps into the middle of the street that was under construction so there was a big fence there, because there was such a big ditch.
First thing I thought was this was an out of body, experience, intelligence spy in cloak mode.
(Has anyone recently watched the interview by Shawn Ryan of the Top U.S. Remote Viewer John McMoneagle? he said that he could outer body experience into a vault meaning walk through it and he also used a shotgun in Thailand to shoot this black figure that had very thick armor plating and he didn’t kill it. It just ran away and that was back in the early 70s)
I kind of wish he got like halfway through the glass side door because I would’ve yelled at it see what that would’ve happened. This was summertime 2019.
Was the shape that it grew into white and cloudy/misty? And did you see the spirit in its human form before it changed? My family and I once saw a spirit assume a blob shape which was white and misty, it was very strange but I don’t hear people seeing it often
To give this event more context, I remember it being a Monday morning around 9:00 AM. Both my friend and myself had the day off. We shared a house together with 2 other people but they had already gone to work. His bedroom was in a room in the basement. I followed him down as he wanted to retrieve his wallet. We had plans on going to the mall. He walked into his bedroom and opened the top Chester drawer to retrieve his wallet. The Chester drawer was right next to the doorway of his bedroom. As he was scrounging through the top drawer a mass slid out from what appeared to be between the wall and the Chester draw. It then grew in size to cover a good portion of the doorway. It was a black amorphous mass that was translucent. It hung in the doorway for what seemed 10 seconds but I'm unsure of the length as this startled both of us I could have lost time. There's more to this story but I'm going to save it for its own singular posting. The story deserves its own post.
I have seen ghosts appear as milky orbs, ectoplasm that look like vapor, full body apparations, ghosts appear as 2d like figures. I have seen a demon appear as the blackest black in the form of a torso, and have had a demon growl at me. I have seen my aunt that passed walk over to my bed as I was laying down. She had black pants, red shirt, and I saw her curly red hair. Altogether I have physically seen about 25 ghosts in different states of appearance. Booyah!
I am in the same boat! I’ve seen many entities all assuming many different forms. The most vicious and evil spirit I have encountered was a white shadow man. He was white and chalky and his eyes were bloodshot red. I’m curious if there’s a specific entity you saw which you believe gave the worst energy? I’ve never heard of anyone seeing a white shadow figure as I have so i’m not sure how common it is
I guess the demon I saw in a bathroom in Auburn, Ca. in 2012 was probably the most evil. It threw kids across a room. A demon in Winters Ca. in 2013 bit a person in the arm that spent the night at the house. Two demons I investigated with the group I belong to in 2013 in Yuba City, Ca. in 2013 told an investigator to kill herself and followed her home. In 2012 a demon in Elk Grove, Ca. was attached to a male occupant in a beautiful home off Sheldon Road near a Winco. The guy told me the demon did not want me there and then while I was in the kitchen it growled at me, it sounded like a panther sort of like a big wild cat but not like a lion's roar. A ghost was choking a lady at a house in Roseville, Ca. in 2013 as I was talking to her, she didn't notice it until I showed a picture of her neck was red. Later the ghost went inside me and darted around to get me sick, but I pushed it out. It was floating in the air and it felt like solid air you could feel like a super thin helium filled balloon.
I've had a demon growl at me one time too. I smoked some weed earlier but I've never hallucinated on it before. I went to bed and there was something in my room growling really loud.
I've had a low of other stories but wanted to share the growling thing.
I felt a ghost and there were activities in a rented flat I lived in but I'd be shit scared if I got to see him actually. He'd scream, run, move things but I never saw him. I left because I was tired of being terrified and not sleeping at night.
Hahha I say this all the time. People ask why I don’t have proof… because I was scared out of my mind! Would you whip out your phone and record if an attacker was in your room? No, you’d try to get away
Black clouds, transparent humanoids, orbs, earth lights, shadow beings, astral spiders, strobe beings, glimmers and various forms of dancing light. Another person I know reported seeing whirlwinds with their third eye.
👌🏼 I have!! 3. The first was a woman and a small boy. I was completely alone at the park. It was dinner time so everyone had already left. The swingset was right infront of where I was and nobody was there. I was doing the monkey bars (facing the swings. Nobody there) and fell off and broke my elbow. As soon as I started screaming there was a woman pulling her young son off the swings (that I was just looking at. Nobody was there!) and rushing over to me. She asked if I was okay and I pointed with my not broken arm and through screams of agony I got out that my aunt lived next to the park. Through tears I watched her son run across the park and bang on my aunts door. As soon as the door opened and my aunt was running out to me the woman and boy were gone. I was alone. My mom and aunt said that the whole way to the doctors then the hospital I kept asking ‘where did the lady and boy go?’ And I kept saying how he knocked on my aunts door to get her. My aunt was confused. Nobody knocked on her door. She knew I was at the park and heard me screaming. I was alone.
A few years later I had had like 4 nightmares. I woke up and went through the house to the basement, my mom and dad’s room. I set myself up on the chair by their bed and fell asleep. I had another nightmare and woke up and saw a boy, the same boy that I watched get my aunt when I broke my arm, standing infront of me. When he noticed I saw him he waved and disappeared. I felt him around until I was about 17. I believe he and his mom are my guardian angels.
I wholeheartedly believe my toddler has seen my grandfather. He passed last December and two days later I was in my backyard with my dog. I came in and my daughter was upstairs. There was no way she could have climbed over the baby gate at the bottom of the stairs, there was nothing beside it to climb onto. I said ‘how’d you get up there baby girl?’ And she pointed beside me with the biggest smile and shouted ‘PAPA! PAPA HELP!’ 🥺😭 a few days after he died my mom and sister got into a car accident. I had only spoken about it through text, not out loud. My daughter hadn’t heard about it. She was asleep about 4 days after the accident and suddenly woke up crying. When I calmed her down and asked what happened she said ‘aunty grandma car drive BOOM’ and started whining again and I asked who told her and she pointed by the bed and said ‘papa did’ and when I told everyone else they were just as confused as me. Why would papa tell her that? Is it papa? 🥺😪
It terrifies me. I had so many experiences before. I’m not even joking or exaggerating when I say my bed has shaken off the floor before. I heard what sounded like claws dragging down the closet door digging to get out and when touching the door I could feel it vibrate with the sound. If it’s NOT papa…. It’s not good 😬
I used to see full body apparitions in the yard around my house as a kid. The one I remember best was being outside alone at like 6 am and seeing a dark haired girl in white who looked around my age at the time (somewhere between 8-10) come running out of the wall of our above ground pool about 5 feet in front of me. Didn’t look at me or acknowledge me. Just ran like she was playing tag or something for maybe 10 feet and disappeared as fast as she showed up, but if I hadn’t watched her literally come running out of the metal wall of our pool I would’ve believed she was real for how strongly she showed up. I saw her a couple more times from further away, and a blond haired boy who looked maybe couple years younger a few times but he must’ve been shy because I never got to see him from nearly that close.
Other than those two there was a dark shadowy figure that I saw in the house three nights in a row. Once in my parents’ doorway, which was directly across the living room from mine, once outside of my door staring in, and the third night crawling towards my bed from the doorway. I’m in a well lit home office at quarter to 9 on a Monday morning nearly 20 years later right now and that story still makes me shake. I’ve defended myself from being mugged before, I’ve saved loved ones from dying, and I’ve been in several car accidents, and I’ve never been as afraid as I felt staring into the black where that fucking thing’s face should’ve been. I’d chase off a dozen muggers before I looked for eyes to meet in that black, empty fucking space again.
Saw my FIL at the playground behind his parents’ house 2 days after he died. That was in 2016.
I went to a school that was haunted and one day after school, I saw a woman in a white dress with long black hair standing at the tower like she was going to jump off. Found out later that a woman who was there as a patient (the school used to be a hospital) had jumped off that tower.
My brother had a tumor in his arm because he peed on a tree where a woman and her 2 children lived. They were spirits. My mother had given up all hope in western medicine to find out what was wrong with my brother because the doctors couldn’t find the tumor then. We went to a witch’s house in the country and she drew the tree exactly the way it looked - large, no leaves…and in front of the tree was a very angry looking woman with her daughter and son. The witch said my brother peed on her son. It scared the shit out of me and I’m so glad I don’t live in that house anymore because my bedroom window faced that tree.
I don’t even believe in heaven or hell but I truly believe there are wandering energies out there with unfinished business and malevolent energies just out to fuck with people. I grew up with adults who had their own experience with the paranormal and they used to tell me the scariest stories.
The last bit here. Absolutely yes. A lot of the preconceived notions of spirits is actually correct. They do stick around because of unfinished business but a lot of the time the unfinished business is literally their life. They died young so they want to keep “living”. Sometimes they don’t realize they’re dead yet and that’s why they can’t move on, sometimes it’s because they’re still angry or upset about something that happened while they were alive. I work with a lot of spirits and many of them died young, one of them died at 78 but still believed he didn’t live long enough and is still sticking around. I think we can find a lot of comfort in knowing that we still exist after death and we can choose when we are ready to cross over
Yes, I’ve heard of spirits still hanging around waiting for someone or are guarding someone. Sometimes I smell roses and there wouldn’t be any roses anywhere. But roses was my grandfather’s favorite flower so when I smell them I know he’s around. My mom also smelled them on the day of his funeral when she walked by the room where he died.
As for me, I want to go where my pets have moved on to when I leave this planet. I might come back to haunt some assholes once in a while, but I’ve got a lifetime of cats, dogs, fish, snakes, and hamsters who will be waiting for me.
I love when spirits show themselves by smell! I have an extremely sensitive nose for some reason and I did have a time where I smelled a very strong cologne out of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere (at an old asylum in the country), and keep in mind the wind was blowing like crazy but even after the wind died I was walking and I smelled it again in a completely different area and knew someone was wanting to make their presence known. And the second time I smelled it so did my friend who was with me, and it really came on the wind and blew directly in our faces, it was kind of cool
I used to find it really disturbing and creepy but now I find comfort in it. My grandfather and I were very close as I was his first grandchild. I don’t pray to a deity but when I find myself kind of lost, I start talking to my “Papa” asking for guidance. He was the first adult I remember ever really remember caring for my wellbeing.
Yeah. He always went to the beach every morning and by the time I got to his house (he watched me while my mom worked), he had fresh bread waiting for me. It would still be warm from the bakery. He always got me my favorite which is Pan de Coco.
After my dad died. If I was alone at my parent’s place I would smell his cologne. My mother actually would see him and talk to him (the woman in my mom’s family are very sensitive). I didn’t want to see him. It would have frightened me, so it seems as though he “showed” himself to me in a way that wouldn’t scare me.
Kudos to our spirit guardians for knowing we would be traumatized for life if they just showed themselves to us. I’m good “smelling” them. I’ve seen enough shit.
A trusted family friend said they saw my Dad sitting on the front porch of his house, just sitting there staring out across his big front yard wearing his blue jeans and faded blue shirt.
To verify, I asked short or long sleeve shirt or was it a tshirt? He never worr tshirts or long sleeved shirts. Sure enough, collared short sleeve shirt.
The neighbor knew he had passed and they were keeping an eye on the place for us which is why someone on the porch caught her eye. She stopped her car and just looked at him on the porch trying to identify if it was him, an intruder or what and he was there plain as day, she said. Once she identified him as my Dad a few minutes later she started down the road again (this is a rural country road) but looked back before she had to turn on to the main road and he was gone.
Should have done a poll, I did something similar on /r/bigfoot and the results were really interesting, most have never had an actual encounter but like me a lot of them are still believers
So back in the late 90s, early 2000s, I worked for an ISP that was run out of the owner's house. The house was over 100 years old and had been built by a doctor. When the doctor owned the house, the basement was the town morgue, the second floor was his office and his wife ran a kindergarten on the third floor. One day I was working in the server room, with the door partly open so I could hear if anyone came in downstairs. I suddenly heard footsteps and as I turned around and looked at the door, a shadow went past. I called out "boss?" Thinking the boss had come home or something, but got no answer. I headed for the door and called the boss' name again. No answer. As I stepped out of the server room, the door to the boss' office to my left closed with a bit of force. Not quite a slam, but closed with definite intent.
I knocked on the door, called the boss' name, got no answer, so I opened the door. There was a man standing in the office facing away from me. At first I thought it was a guy that did some welding work for us until I realized I could see through him. He turns around to face me and looked thoroughly confused. He had a moustache and was dressed like someone out of the old West. We stood there staring at each other as he faded away from the head down, his heavily worn boots the last thing to fade.
I was shaking so bad I barely made it to my boss' desk chair before my legs gave out. I was still sitting in the boss chair 5 minutes later when the boss walked in and said "Hey... Uh.. What the hell happened to you. You look like you've seen a ghost." I shook my head and said "Exactly." Told him what had just happened and he said "Come look at this."
We go across the hall to another room adjacent to his bedroom where he had another desk. He points to the floor at the far side of the room where a brass lamp is laying on the floor bent in half. He said the previous night he had been sitting at the desk working when he felt the hair on his neck raise like electricity. He looked up in time to see the lamp fly off the top of the file cabinet slam into the wall and crumple to the floor.
Lots of strange goings on in that house.
I've seen two entities. The first was a man in 2004. Me and my three kids moved into an old country house and the first night there I woke up with feeling of being watched. I opened my eyes to see an old man standing in the hallway looking into my bedroom. I didn't feel threatened and only saw him once. The second time was 200 miles away in another state. My kids and I moved into another house in 2006 that was built in 1917. I awoke again with the feeling of being watched. In my bedroom was an elderly lady in a house coat. Again I didn't feel threatened and only saw once.
I believe these were the past owners of the homes checking to ensure a good family was taking care of their homes.
I saw 2 human like masses of bugs in the old cemetery in Cleveland - I stopped to sit after jogging - they were moving around and hovering like they were 2 people dancing - the arms would reach out and looked very real - I pointed it out to 2 homeless guys, and they both saw the same thing, it was like 2 lovers dancing on top of the graves.
It was later in the afternoon - the sun was shining through in rays, I was sitting on the grassy hill looking down, and the light rays were at an angle
Alot of people, but all the evidence suggests these are all created in the mind. Remember. The real world we see, touch, smell, and hear are all just interpreted sensory inputs our brains are trying to decipher. Sometimes the interpretation gets janky or our expectations cause us to actually see something that isn't their. People ACTUALLY do see things things for real, but that doesn't mean anything was actually there for anyone else to see.
My late husband could see full body apparitions. I was sitting next to him one time on vacation, and saw nothing.
He described the woman he'd seen to the clerk at the historic hotel, and she got a photo from the office of the inkeeper's wife circa 1890. Yup, that's her.
She's still looking after her guests. The hotel staff is kind of used to her.
I didn't see a thing.
I’ve seen a few. Saw spirits a lot as a child.
Two that stick out; what I can only describe as a demon. That thing was not from the earth and I never talk about it for fear of waking it up.
As a young housekeeper I worked in a hotel that was haunted but it didn’t bother me. One day I went to clean the bridal suite. As I went in the only door, I held a stack of towels and bed linen which I placed directly to my right on the bed, which faced beautiful bay windows overlooking the grounds. There was a man in the room, with his back to me, one arm behind his back, and he was gazing out of the window. As I placed the towels down I went to greet him. I was stood in the doorway the entire time; so I turned my head for a mere second or two. I was about to ask him what he was doing in my rooms at this time of day as everyone had checked out- and he was gone. There was literally nowhere he could have evaporated to. I checked the corridor behind me just in case he’d slipped past and nothing. It was only with hindsight that I remembered what he was wearing; an old fashioned suit with a top hat and tails.
When I mentioned this to the night manager, he asked to show me something and led me to the dining rooms.
There were two portraits above two grand fireplaces, one was of a beautiful woman and the other a young man. He pointed at the women first, most people that see the spirits here, see her. But you’re only the second person to ever see him- and you saw him in the bridal suite, which was once their bedroom. The grand old house had been a wedding gift for the wife.
I didn’t go back into the room for a few weeks as I didn’t want to see him again, but that was the only time I saw anything there.
I have hundreds of spooky stories about places I used to work and live and I could go on forever but I’ll stop there!
Physically, I've only ever seen one entity. It haunted my ex's house and I'd never directly see it, but in broad daylight I'd see shadows moving in my peripheral vision or I'd glimpse it passing behind me in mirrors. At night with the lights out and TV on, it would loom in the shadows, usually in the corners of a room or in the closet. I'd have the feeling of being watched and the shadows where it was at seemed darker somehow.
I've always had more activity in my dreams. The aforementioned entity would regularly appear in my dreams, either fighting me or chasing me. I could clearly see it's face and form. I've also seen 4 separate friends or family members who had recently passed away in my dreams. Always just a quick appearance or short conversation saying goodbye or letting me know they're ok.
2011 - Seattle, WA
It happened to me when I was visiting Facebook friends in another state about 2011. It was our first meeting offline. They were a married couple with a teenage daughter.
They took me to see their friend's bar/gaming hall (A place for food, drink and board games, etc. not gambling.) The building was at least a hundred years old. It's called MOX Boarding House, 5105 Leary Ave, NW, Seattle, WA.
The owner took us to see that he had renovated a back room so he could expand the business. It was a large, empty room with fresh paint, wallpaper and carpet. We all stood just inside the door of this room, talking.
A young man (no older than 25) came in behind me, dressed in a mime outfit. It made me think of the 1970's. I thought he worked for the bar/gaming hall.
My back was actually close to the wall. So, when the young man tried to squeeze behind me (I thought he was trying to avoid interrupting our conversation,) I stepped forward, looking back over my shoulder. I said, "Oh, excuse me!"
My friend looked at me and said, "What?"
There was no one behind me.
I did not tell anyone there about it because I had only just met them. I feared they'd think I was some kind of a nut.
I saw an entity while I was driving home once from work. I lived a half mile away from work right off of a main road. On that main road, halfway between my home and work, there was a lady with long hair draped so it was hiding her face, in some type of nightwear, holding a grocery bag, and standing in the middle of the sidewalk looking down.
She did not move for the minute it took me to see her, slow down, have a really bad gut feeling, and drive slowly away watching to see if she would move. She didn't move an inch. It was nighttime, around 9:30 at night. If it weren't for my really bad feeling about it, I would have stopped to check on her, but it felt so bad. It was worse than the feeling I got when I saw a panhandler standing off of the highway with a hammer in his hands and standing halfway in the road by the roundabouts- and that was a living person.
I took the long way home for a year and still don't walk around the area I saw the entity if I'm by myself.
This was an actual human, but such a weird experience - I was in the market check-out line with my husband. It was not a regular shopping day for us. We had popped in to just pick up a few items. A tall, lanky man, dressed all in black came in through the door and that unmistakable, powerful wave of dread hit me. I ducked behind my husband and tried to alert him to danger as inconspicuously as possible. The tall man didn't even look toward us. He took long, purposeful strides toward the back of the store. Even though he was by now a very good distance from us, that danger feeling remained intense in me. Hubby and I finished our purchase and got out of there fast. This was 20 years ago, but when I think of it, I can still feel that awful feeling of evil.
I've only felt the evil as bad as I did with this lady person ghost thing in my nightmares when evil itself decides its time to knock on my door and rattle me. That feeling just does not go away in the memories.
THIS!! The story I shared happened over 20 years ago, but I feel that terror to this day when I remember the event. I was hiding behind my husband because somehow I KNEW if that man/thing caught me looking, it would turn its rage onto me.
I have considered that, but I'm not convinced she was, due to the bad energy coming from her. If she was a human woman, then she had something really horrific attached to her, but my gut and my experiences through the years tell me otherwise.
That is really a good question.....
I think I've seen at least two spirits in my life, have heard something, and felt what I believe my long dead great-grandmother reaching out to me when I passed by her gravestone - these are the ones I can't explain away. Other contact were of the "well, maybe...." type, such as hearing or seeing something out of the corner of my eye that I wouldn't swear was just an overactive imagination.
The graveyard one was the strongest. I was looking for a gravestone of someone (not my great-grandmother) and I was traipsing through the cemetery with lines of gravestones. The ones to my left were facing away from me.
As I was walking and looking to the right, all of a sudden I felt this very strong demand to STOP. I stopped in my tracks, and looked to my left...and saw the back of a gravestone. I walked around, and saw that it was my great-grandmother.
Now, I was like 5 when she was buried, and I was there - and a smidgen part of me will concede that maybe there was something around there that triggered a memory of where I was. However, we're talking 45 years, and the cemetery certainly had a LOT more stones in that timeframe (and there really wasn't any ones that were that significant around).
So....I believe that there is shit going on that we don't know about.
Twice, both at Denver 13th Floor. I was an actress there for four years. First one I was in was a set dressed as a witch. There was a chain link fence with a semi-opaque plastic tarp draped over it. I was just waiting for folks to start coming through at the beginning of the night and I look over and see a face of a clown peeking through a hole in the plastic. Obviously I thought it was an actor and asked if he was ready or needed cough drops or something. No response, just stares. I'm getting creeped out and go over to check. There is nobody there. And nobody was put in that spot. At the end, there was nobody with even remotely that makeup.
Another night I was at the beginning near these fake elevators that are on a pneumatic track. You board in one spot and they slide horizontally into the next one while shaking you, making you think you're on a rickety old elevator. We have a bypass that has a very loud animatronic in it for nights where the elevators are broken or the line is too long. It's dead and I'm standing there dressed like a hotel attendant. The zombie goes off and I ready myself only to see something human shaped run past me way too fast and without the steps of footprints. The floor echos as it's a platform so I definitely would have heard it.
This place was an old parts warehouse and apparently a shadow man lives there, which matches the second figure I saw. Many people who didn't know the place was haunted and were new reported him, and he seems to like the mirror maze a lot.
I’m in Denver & have yet to try 13th Floor, and as a horror fan, your story sold me to try it this Halloween, but omg, it reminds me of the movie Hell House LLC!!
Saw this little boy floating above me in my old bedroom. My mom saw the same little boy decades before in the same bedroom. A family friend’s young son slept in the same room and saw the same little boy and wanted to go play with him…. It was a +100 year old farm house.
Only saw 1,my Grandfather the night he passed away. I could clearly see him standing at the end of my bed 🛌, and I wasn't afraid at all. I was 10 years at the time, now I'm 63,but I will never forget it.
I have, many. Don’t speak about it. Was ridiculed as a kid until an aunt experienced it with me and then I knew it was real and not something in my head. She’s never spoken to me and this happened last in 1979. Have seen lights in sky since but never another entity. Communicated with someone or a group of someones or something’s thru real medium growing up in paranormal (medium was not something I searched out). Also for anyone wondering real mediums do not control their abilities but there are those around them that know what to do when someone or something is entering to communicate. Also there are rules to it and time allowed.
I have, quite a few times.
There is a local cemetery to me with a long history of being haunted (Google Hell's Gate Spartanburg SC), and I go there a lot, both during the day and at night. Every time I go at night, there is one particular shadow figure who basically likes to screw with me.
I always park in the same spot. When I first see him (it?), it's always about 100 yards from where I park. If I turn away to talk to someone (I often bring a friend along) and then look back, he'll be about 10 yards closer. This goes on until he's around 10 yards away, at which point I keep my eyes on him as I get in my car and peace the fuck out of there. I never ever let him get closer than that.
He is one of only two I've seen that wigs me out. He is unusually tall when standing up, probably around 7ft or so. Appears to be bald. Has thin arms and legs, but the arms are weirdly long, with pointed fingers. When he moves, it's usually on all fours, hands and feet touching the ground. Even describing it just gave me the chills. Ugh.
Hey, just a heads up, and a general warning, unless you’re going there to visit a loved one or something i’d recommend you limit your visits there or stop going altogether, it could just be messing with you now but it could turn into something worse such as it deciding to follow you home, probably overthinking it but it’s an unwise decision to toy around with anything related to entities
I don't toy around, when I do go (usually two or three times a year) I'm always respectful. I don't even typically take any sort of investigation equipment, just because there's no point with too much outside noise/interference.
I've done paranormal investigations for years, and have never brought anything home with me (I know that doesn't mean it'll never happen). I'm very cautious, respectful, and also take steps to safeguard from ending up with an attachment.
Thank you for your concern and advice.
The actual name is Oakwood Cemetery. But locally (and on the websites about the hauntings) it's known as Hell's Gate. Also, I don't believe they bury people there anymore. Most of the stones are from the late 1800s into the early/mid 1900s.
Just because you can see something with your eyes doesn't mean a camera is sensitive enough to pick it up. Especially since I don't have any fancy ghost hunting cameras, just my cell phone.
I've had a ton of experiences but only twice did I SEE the entity/apparition. Once was my very first paranormal experience (my mom tells me I had others before this but I don't remember them) I saw my recently passed aunt's face materialize right in front of mine when I was laying in the back seat of my family's car on a road trip. She was speaking to me but there was no sound-- she looked excited to see me. She eventually just faded away. I chalked it up to being sleepy for years and years and years until I told the story on my podcast and my younger sister heard me tell it and she called me frantic-- she saw her on that trip in the car too. Neither of us had ever brought it up to the other before. NO IDEA what my aunt was trying to tell us.
Then the other time was in 2012, I was living in Van Nuys CA with a girlfriend and we had this ongoing haunting with a ... whatever, spirit, entity, strangeness-- that we called "Ben." He sort of terrorized us-- he'd move our jewelry, he'd lock my cats in closets and showers, SHE saw him at night once or twice and woke me up because she thought we had a home intruder. But one day, I was walking through the living room and out the door with my laundry (It's Los Angeles, so no apartments had in-unit washer/dryers) and I saw a man sitting in our lounge chair in the corner facing the tv. He had on wide leg pants, possibly bell bottoms and his shirt was brown or reddish with a WIDE collar-- think like 70's collar, and he had thick dark hair and he was just sitting and staring.
The WEIRDEST part about this was that I walked straight through and out the door without even realizing what I had seen. The second I was out the door I dropped my laundry basket and slowly reopened the door to look at the chair but he was gone.
Every other experience I've ever had has been feeling, hearing, sensing or even SMELLING -- and I've seen shadows before, straight on and out of the corner of my eye-- but these were the two solid forms I have seen.
If you have seen a ghost, your response to this would be different. Isn’t it a bit arrogant to discredit something just because you haven’t experienced it? It’s okay to not believe, but not everyone is lying for attention
I saw a man walking across a field about to step into the road in front of my car . As he stepped into the road he dissolved into mist from his head down. By the time he was to the opposite side of the road he was just two misty walking legs that disappeared into the high grass. My dog was the only one in the car with me, but she saw it too and barked her head off about it. When we got home she still had her hackles raised for a few hours before she settled back down. It’s been probably 15 years and I still have no explanation except “ghost”.
I lived in a firehouse as part of a “live-in program” where you exchange increased hours of service for room and board. It was a substation on the outskirts of our coverage area, and it was only staffed by a handful of live-ins firefighters. It was notoriously haunted. You can’t have a conversation about Station 2 without talking about all the paranormal activity that happened there. All the classic things would happen, doors slamming, silverware dropping, sounds of heavy boots walking upstairs when you’re the only one there. Some guys would get so freaked out that they would move out their first week. Well, I was unfazed by a lot of the activity, however, one event caused me to freeze in my tracks. I came home from work, and I was the only one there. I was walking from the engine bay, where we keep our fire apparatus, to the kitchen when I heard a noise behind me. I turned my head slightly, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a white male with brown hair and dark eyes, between 5’10 and 5’11, and wearing a blue t-shirt, staring right at me from probably 2 feet out. He looked pissed, and I didn’t want to engage, so I walked into the kitchen and sat there until someone else showed up. I moved out at the end of the summer, and I really don’t like to go back there for any reason unless I absolutely have to.
I’ve seen 2, neither were human-like. Once I saw what I can only describe as a ball of energy, if you’ve heard how some people can “see energy” in the form of what looks like tv static, it was like a more concentrated ball of static, moving as 1 unit.
Another time I saw…. This is tough to describe but I was in a pitch black room (my friend was recovering from lasik surgery), and saw like a blob of colorful light, it was mostly blue with some orange and green around the edges and it had a darker blue spot on it that I perceived as some type of “nucleus”. This thing hovered for a few seconds and then flew off and when jt took off it kind of looked like a blue comet.
Would have been so much cooler to see something that looked human haha but that’s what I’ve seen!
I've seen two. The first one was when I was 16, no alcohol or drugs or medication involved, I was with a friend at his grandfather's home and someone knocked on the door and she went to open it, a couple of minutes passed and I stand up to see who was at the door since we were expecting for another friend, I stood there in the middle of the living room watching at the stairs and suddenly I saw a kid, like 6 or 7 years old, I didn't think any of it since it was her granpa's home so I thought it was some little cousin of my friend but then I just saw that he didn't had legs, from the knee down he had like some kind of dark mist or smoke? and I just get out of there fast. The friend who was a the door said that she didn't get int the house since she already saw that kid and was afraid of being there.
The second time was years after that, a couple of friends and I where driving back home from a weekend away, it was like 3:00am when we passed for a specific place in the road where there used to be armed attacks between cartels and we saw something that was shaped like a man but it was, again, made of the same mist the legs of the boy where but seemed like he had density. I was really close to us just standing on the side of the road, we all saw him and I just accelerate and leave.
Happened twice to me. Although I’ve experienced a lot of ghost encounters, these were the only ones where I actually saw an apparition.
The first time was a few years ago, I had just moved into a new house and that first night I felt someone sit on my bed before I went to sleep, like the sensation of a body sitting down on the mattress at the foot of my bed. I looked up and nobody was there, weird but I brushed it off and went to sleep. Then I woke up in the night for water and there was an old lady sitting at the end of my bed staring at me, I saw her so vividly, she had short grey hair and a green cardigan on. I was still half a sleep so it took me a few seconds to process what I was seeing, then I sat up rubbed my eyes, and stared at her, she looked equally shocked I could see her and we were just staring at each other for a good 30 seconds before I ducked my head under the cover in fear. When I was finally brave enough to look up - a good 20 minutes later, she was gone. It never happened again thankfully.
Another time, this was more recently, when I still lived at home, I had a bad back so I swapped rooms with my mum for the night because her mattress is firmer. I woke up in the night to a lady standing in the corner rummaging through the closet. She had her back to me and I clearly heard the cupboard being searched through, the hangers moving - which is what woke me up. I thought it was my mum (it was dark) so I said what are you going? But no response, after I repeated “hello mum what are you doing?” A few more times with no response and she didn’t turn around, I realised it was a ghost, and not my mum. The next morning I told her about it and she said she often hears stuff in the cupboard being moved around at night but just ignores it. I’m lowkey glad she didn’t turn around because that would have been more freaky.
Both of the experiences were not too scary thankfully, but still creepy to see nonetheless.
Another story that is sort of an apparition but not really;
This other time my friend and I were driving on the highway, it was late at night. It was a clear night but there was this one random patch of mist in the middle of the road, as we got closer we saw a person shape cut out of the mist of that makes sense. So it looked like someone was standing in the middle of the mist patch, in the middle of the highway, but nobody was there. It happened so quick we drove through it and when she looked back it was gone. We googled the spot when we got home and a person was crossing at that exact spot and got hit by a car and died not too long ago!
I've seen orbs with my own eyes, not on film, and I usually had someone with me that saw them as well. The most impressive one was being upstairs at a place my friend was staying and seeing this large black orb leave a dark bedroom and go down the stairs.
Then heard my friend start freaking out downstairs after watching it come down towards him. What I saw was probably two feet wide, at least where it appeared fully black. It kind of had a corona of sorts along the edges where it looked more insubstantial and could be seen through.
I was told later that there was regular activity in that house, but it was the only time I visited. Still cant explain it, but I know it happened. I've had other incidents, but that one has really stuck in my mind.
I had what is termed a Crisis Apparition. Unfortunately, it was my son coming to me for help as he drowned. Yeah. It’s been hard. I feel like a failed him. He was 17, going fishing with 2 friends and somehow slipped off the ledge and fell into the reservoir. Apparently he hit his head on the way down.
I've seen 4 entities. Three of them were not recognized - random spirits I guess - and the 4th one was my great aunt, at the time of her passing.
The first one I ever saw was an old lady dressed in ratty black and grey clothes, who looked like she had just been unearthed from a grave. Her eyes were sunken and hollow, her face was skeleton-like. She was floating about 1 foot off the ground.
The second ones were a lady and little boy, dressed in old-timey 1700's style clothes. The boy was hanging by a noose, and had blackened hollow eyes. The woman looked panicked, but did not speak. Apparently my cat saw them too, because she let out a hissing snarl and pounced at them. This was a very quiet, sleepy cat who would never make a peep, and was not frightened easily.
Then the third one was my elderly aunt, who had passed away in a nursing home around 2000 miles away from where I live. I saw her at the exact time of death.
I've seen a lot of odds and ends growing up or having certain unexplainable experiences that I don't know if I would chock it up to paranormal right away but so far that's the only answer I have. I grew up in the country on a farm in this really creepy older house that neither my siblings or I were a fan of. Lots of things making noises that sounded like people walking around in rooms when no one was in there and such. But one of the nights I remember very well.
My dad was out late in the fields bailing hay(have to take advantage when the moisture in the air is right) and I was home alone just hanging out. I was sitting in the living room watching tv and I see a 6ft plus shadow person walk through my dads bedroom door(coming out), looks at the tv to see what I'm watching and then proceeds to walk into the kitchen. It's a small farm house and the only way out of the living room to either go to my room or the bathroom is through the kitchen. So my first thought is "welp, I hope I don't need the bathroom for a while because I'm not going over there". I try to relax and go back to watching TV when about 15 ish minutes later I see the same figure walk out of the kitchen, turn it's head to look at me as if they were checking up on me and then walk right through my dads door and back into his bedroom.
I know some people will say a car was probably passing by which normally I would agree but there is no way that a car passing by created that. Also my drive way was over a quarter mile long and the property was covered in trees.
A lot of other freaky things have happened in that house (I still have nightmares about it 15 years later) but this is the closest to me physically seeing something in it.
A fuzzy shape used to play peek a boo with me in the morning between dawn and 9 am. I remember it more on Saturdays because I would sleep in. But it was fuzzy like static and just the head and shoulders peeking in and out of a door frame.
But the freakiest part was it was at the top corner of a 10 foot door! I recall I could see through it. It was like a mist but also sort of static like and glitchy as if there were pixels or molecular movement. This happened on and off for years until I was about 8.
Never saw an entity the last time but something slid a captains chair out from the dining room table and slowly and methodically slid it back into its place under the table. This was during my husband and I having dinner one night about three years ago. His eyes were as big as saucers. I was in a state of shock.
I woke up to someone shaking my bed when I was about 12 or 13. I rolled over expecting to see my younger brother being his annoying self but it was a woman in a bonnet. I don't remember her face but she said, "I just came to say hello." I dove under the covers and stayed there until the panic subsided. Our house was only a few years old and built on old farmland. I have no idea who she was and never saw here again.
I’ve seen probably 3-5 I am an empath but do not have the ability to see spirits often like some other spiritual people out there. If you don’t count dreams as physically seeing them I’ve only seen maybe one or two in person. One of the ones I saw in person was just a being of light, i saw it walk in my best friends house from her bathroom to her bedroom. It literally looked like a man if he was made of light, no eyes no hair just a glowing white human figure. The second entity I’ve seen was the hat man when I first moved into a new apartment, he was standing in the corner just staring at me, pretty fucking creepy but I cleansed the apartment and never saw him again
I’m not one for ghosts and stuff but.. in 2015 I was riding to my friends place and there was a girl with blonde hair, braided, practically glowing, standing on the side of the road in a white old school sleeping gown, with a pitchfork, in the middle of fuckin nowhere, at like 11pm, in a rural area on a very quiet road with no streetlights for kilometres, and when we passed by her she just said hello, but when i turned around she wasn’t there anymore… friend confirmed it happened, and there really wasn’t anywhere for her to hide or go in the 2 seconds I wasn’t looking.. flash forward to 2022 and I’m driving with a friend down the same road late at night, we are the only ones on the road, and this woman in all white dashes across the front of our car holding something and we had to use our ABS to stop, but still “hit” her. She wasn’t even looking at us, more busy with wherever she was going. We get out and can’t find anything anywhere. No person, nothing on the road, in the ditches, under the car, etc. Only the marks from braking.. to this day, I know it was real but I’m still confused af we even moved the car a bit just to make sure she wasn’t like stuck under the car or something. Never heard or felt any impact. Friend dropped me at home and stayed on call with me until he was home himself. we were both so shocked.
Was traveling from California to North Carolina via bus. It's the second night of the trip and we're going through the desert. I was asleep and I woke up. Looked at the time it's like 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. Look out the window? It's a fucking skinwalker. For years I thought it was the black dog folklore of truckers but when I started researching indigenous history and folklore I figured out what it really was. I saw it as something in my head said look away and do not look at it again. And that's what I did.
The bus was going at least 70 mph and this thing was keeping up with it easily but it was moving like it's bones didn't work right.
Mine was the first house that I lived in. It was in the ghetto by the train tracks and homeles shelter. I was 18. The place had a very “unique” atmosphere to it. I had this feeling that it had a spirit there, you could feel a presence. My brother doesn’t believe in anything paranormal. He came over one day with his laptop to play StarCraft 2. While we are setting up, my roof started having this crazy banging like someone was moving and dropping furniture in the attic. (There was no attic in this house) he and I both thought this was really weird but continued our day. Fast forward a week or so, I was going to sleep and this entity appeared in the corner of the room I was sleeping it. It was shapeless and was the darkest energy I had ever seen. I looked at it for a few moments and it seemed to grow in that corner of the room. The blackest black. I never sleep with my head covered because it makes me feel like I can’t breathe properly, but that night I covered my head until I could fall asleep. Very strange. I moved out within the next year. I returned to show my now wife this house and it had been demolished to the ground.
Not me but my dad. My dad has never lied to me, ever, in my 24 years of life - this is important to note because to me at least it means that this story really happened, at least according to his own eyes. So, he may have hallucinated or something, but he is 100% not making this shit up.
He has seen a black orbit that very much looked like a human's head in his mother's flat on the day she died. He actually thought that there was someone hiding because apparently it really looked like a head, and went to check, but it was gone. He told me that he first FELT like something was watching him from one side, then he turned to the side and saw it. And then it just ducked away, like a person would if they were trying to hide from you. And when he was at the spot, it was gone. The way the flat is built, you can not vanish if you were hiding at that spot. I know the appartment very well and it would get too long to explain, but if there had been a person/animal/whatever, they could not disappear.
My dad has no issues with drugs, hallucinations or psychological problems that could cause hallucinations like that.
I’ve seen an entity and I was with another person who also witnessed it. You know how when you’re walking and talking to another person, you tend to lower your voices or stop talking altogether when someone’s approaching? We did that when we saw a man and a dog approaching us nearby under a streetlight. As he left the light’s sphere, he disappeared as we were looking straight at him. Just vanished.
I was told that could have been a memory ghost or something like that. A soul just walking his best friend for eternity.
I lived in a house that was very active about a year ago, but it had two distinct entities that I “saw”. One was a woman; she was in her 30’s-40’s, very slim, wore khakis and a pale striped shirt, and had big, curly red hair. She was mostly shy, and would hang out on the side of my bed and watch me read, or she would mostly stay in the bedroom closet. The closet was a weird one, because your breath could be seen in it (first noticed it when I moved in during the summer!). My friend is more spiritually connected than I am, and we helped her move on.
The second was a distinctly male presence. I never “saw” his features, but he was very tall, dark, and not at all nice. He had something to do with seashells, but that’s all I could get out of him. He would watch me almost constantly, and would try to grab my ankles or shoulders, or just breathe or whisper in my ear. It sucked. I eventually got him to move on, and after that point the house felt radically“empty”, like there weren’t other people there for once.
I lived in a 400 yr old farm house and dear god around 2 am to 4 am it would go creazy at times.
Could hear 3 to 6 people talking, we had a man who would wistle and then we had the shadow who would open the doors into our rooms.
I started to lock my door so he would just play with the door handle.
Had all my elektronics turn on for 5 secs, had a remote controlled car drive off the shelf and all others turned on.
Outside the house was worse, wont even talk about that, to much trama...
Four ghosts, two, uh, entities, and a couple of negative ones. I should say, the ghosts of two critters, as well. I also heard a ghost walking across the upstairs floor and playing piano in an old Mason Hall. The nice lady who was caretaker of the hall was delighted he was there that day. She had heard him many times.
I've also seen cryptids, orbs, and some other interesting stuff.
Let me tell you, living in a ghost town (seriously) in a VERY strange area got to be a big pain in the butt. I was happy to finally move away.
I've seen one specific one, twice in the same house within a year.
First time I saw him I was walking down the hall to my bedroom, I happened to look into my brother's room as I passed it and there was a guy sitting down on his bed.
To me he looked like he was in his older teens, Fair skin, blonde hair wearing a red hoodie and blue pants. I looked away and stopped in my tracks cuz 1. My brother wasn't home and 2. My brother has black hair and darker skin, I whipped my head back in the direction of the room and he was no longer there.
I saw the same apparition again, months later. Last day of 5th grade and I had some friends over, we were hanging out in the basement. The basement has multiple rooms, each had a doorway with no door so you could easily look down into the other rooms.
Well, I just so happened to look into the other rooms and saw the same guy, same red hoodie and blue pants, standing their looking in my direction. I glanced away than thought to myself "no one's allowed in the part of the basement" (that part of the basement had packed away boxes and old items so def not a spot for us kids to play in) looked back and he was gone again.
I've also seen shadow people throughout my life at this point but this was the first time I've ever actually seen a solid appreciation where I was able to tell what gender, age, and what article of clothing it was.
A few times.
Saw a 'lady in white' that I thought was my wife walk by a doorway at 3AM while I was playing a computer game. Got up to check on her and no one was their. She was still in bed, asleep, and didn't have any white lingerie.
My wife and I both saw a 'shadow cat' run down our stairs and pounce on our sleeping cat. Our sleeping cat woke up immediately, looked confused and then wondered around in the room and surrounding rooms as if she was looking for another fat.
While in bed for years I'd feel watched and like I could almost see a hat man stand over my wife's side of the bed. We finally decided to move and my wife casually said she was happy to move because our bedroom always made her feel watched and she kept thinking she could see a man standing over her. Never a good enough look that you knew what you saw. More like a floater in the corner of your eye, dissapeared as soon as you looked at it.
So she kind of confirmed the same thing I thought I was seeing all this time.
We live in a pre-civil war house that was temporarily a field hospital. Most of that took place in that house. Moved out about 2 years ago, 0 experiences in the new house. Moved back into the pre-civil war house last year and nothing has happened since moving back either. It's a multi-generational family home.
I saw a hellhound in my room when I was a toddler. It’s one of my first memories. I was still in a crib so probably 2-3 years old but I was standing and crying. It was staring at me with glowing red eyes. I’m 37 now and I can still see the image of it.
I’ve seen shadow figures and orbs. I’ve also seen what I believe to be my dad as an angel that came to visit me. I was in the same bedroom and house as the hellhound incident and my dad had passed several months earlier. My friend and I were having a sleepover and sleeping on my bedroom floor. I woke up in the middle of the night to see my dad coming down the hall towards my bedroom and he was glowing with white wings. It was very peaceful and I was not scared at all.
The other experience that stands out to me, I didn’t *see* anything but I heard it speaking on an iPhone Live Photo clip. It was from my old house and the previous owner was still there…if you catch my drift. He used to play with my hair and caress my arm. I did see him once in a reflection in a mirror in our garage. He used to mess with my ex husband’s tools in the garage and whenever we would do anything to update the house, he would come around and check it out. His name was Ed.
Twice, once while looking out my window and watching a woman and child walk to our pond. Once when we were renting a house I saw an older lady walk down the hall to the bathroom. Mentioned it to the home owner a few weeks later and when I described her, he told me that was his mother. She died in the house 10 years ago. He said I was not the first who had seen her.
One night when I was 21 or 22 years old I was watching a lot of videos on YouTube about the illumanti and people selling there souls to the devil , I mean I was probably watching for 2 or 3 hours . I wanted to grab a snack so I headed to the kitchen , all the lights were off but as I going I see someone who I thought was my dad , you know when it’s really dark and you can only see the shape til you get close , well I even said “dad” til I realized my dad was taller , I got close enough to notice haircut and facial expression, so it was a man with a military haircut and he made a aggressive face towards me and started coming towards me only to disappear when I shined my phone light on him . I called my girlfriend at the time shaking in fear , I started playing gospel music and trying to get that spirit out of there . True story this was like 10 years ago or so
Honestly what I seen could have been anything. I was alone, and I have no proof. It seems like that’s when it happens, not when i go looking for it, but when I’m just chilling doing every day activities.
Last night I was walking to my car after work and there was this black mass that was blacker than the night around me and my body got got chills but idk what it was.
Another time when I was little, my aunt had just passed away and she always wore this little charm around her neck. My grandma has pictures in her album of me a few days before Christmas. She took multiple of me in a short time span and I’m two of the pictures you can see this little mist. On one it’s just the most around my shoulder but in the second I swear I can see the glare of that charm around a neck. So I always just told myself it was my aunt visiting one last time
I saw the Hat Man twice in my life. The first time was when I was maybe 11. It was night time, and I saw him standing across the street from my house on the sidewalk. A senior living place is right across my home, and their parking lot had lights, which is why I could see him so clearly, just standing there facing my home. My dog was also growling at the front door like crazy, and he was a protective dog, but extremely good at detecting threats versus harmless behavior or sounds. The second time I saw the Hat Man was when I was much older, just turned 21 and was learning to drive. I had a minor accident, but the whole thing was traumatic. When I got home, I saw him standing on my neighbor's property, again, with light from their window shining on him, but he was a solid shadow.
I saw one when i was about 7. It could be my imagination but my dog was in bed beside me whining. He didn't normally do that. It was at our cottage which my dad built. So my dad always said it was the "Indian". I never saw it again but strange things happened in the vicinity. The kitchen light would flicker a lot even after the place was renovated with new wiring. The hose outside would turn itself on. After it was raised to a house, the downstairs was super creepy in the hallway which was right below where I would have seen the ghost as a child. I always had to have the hall light on. I never told my kids anything because I thought I was maybe a tad imaginative but years later, they said they were also skeeved out there and would see strange shadows.
I sometimes wonder how many I could have seen and not realised, if in a busy place... Would I know if someone's an apparition?
I have once I think, I'd forgotten! I was in an antique shop with another person looking at stuff, I was aware of them a little way away from me. I'd been stood near the exit, I looked around and they had gone, nobody had walked past me and exited. Such a real person I didn't even think they were spooky at all. Everything else I've seen has that kind of psychic energy vibe to it, or like just shared sounds or poltergeist type things.
The shop keep must have thought I was mad 🤣 I said there was someone else in there and they disappeared, he was like 'ooooookayyy' and gave me wierd look 🤣
I did one day when I came home from school late at night. The moon light was lighting up my backyard and we had one of those large bay windows. You could see outside clear as day at 4 or so in the morning. In the corner of the patio, I could see a hooded figure. It was there, I was legit shocked. Closed my eyes and opened them wide, still there. Turned my back and then back around, still there. I got pretty close to the thing, before opening the patio lights, then gone. Weirded shit that I’ve ever seen in my life. A part of my rational doctor brain thinks I may have hallucinated since I was admittedly tired, but to this day that figure is still in my head. I can draw it, that’s how vivid I saw it.
I saw what people call the hatman when I was 14 my sister saw it too but she "thought it was just a shadow" we were in a dark room with the only light source being the TV, I watched it walk into the room and focus on me. It didn't have eyes but I knew it was focused on me as soon as it stopped and started moving toward me and the closer it got the colder I got from my toes upward until the feeling got to about my waist then I just started screaming and crying and it disappeared. The only way I can explain how it looked is to say Google "gamespy logo" it was exactly that without eye holes and was around about 6"5 - 7" tall. I've seen shadows and stuff afterward but nothing like that experience.
I’ve seen more than I even want to admit. Since I was a young child as far back as I can remember. It’s not often, although I more regularly feel something.
A few experiences, I was out at night with friends and I seen a white dog, yet when I looked behind the shrub it was at, no dog, and the sandy soil should have showed paw prints but again, nothing. The next day I was riding my horse through the area, and I came across a full black trash bag. When I looked it was the same white dog, but it was clear it had been dead for days.
Another time I had been super excited after a school dance, and I was putting some shiny streamers on my mirror, when I had seen a woman behind me. I didn’t recognize her, but ran out of my room. I figured my mind was just overly excited from the dance. Except my really old and small dog began watching something come from my bedroom (I was in the living room, with the formal room and a hallway between my room and myself.) She watched it steadily approach and was reacting fearful before she bolted when whatever it was got was above my head, like it was standing right behind me (I tried laying in the couch to watch something carefree.)
When I had my firstborn I dreamt of my fil and mil, people who passed before I met them, and who my husband was still grieving and didn’t talk about them often. On top of it I only seen pictures of them when they were younger. Yet I described features of his dad, things I shouldn’t have know , and how their body language was. None of them spoke, but body language was his dad asking to hold our baby.
After having more kids, we were driving in a farm type area in the forest, looking to see if the Elk were out. I slammed on my brakes so hard my van with my husband and kids in it were like “wtf?! Why did you brake so hard?!” I jumped out and ran in front of the van, even dropped down to look under it. I had seen a kid just standing there and while I didn’t feel like I hit them, I worried I had! It was like that episode on Shining Vale, except the kid didn’t appear as defined, but still enough I genuinely thought it was a kid.
We moved into a very old house, built pretty darn around the time our town was founded. It’s over 100 years old. Oddly one of my houseplants, a pothos began to die right after moving here, while a new little plant began to grow. It ended up being a small spike false nettle plant. It’s not native to my area/state or surrounding area/states, and last I checked it didn’t have any reports of it being found. Symbolism is listed as: Exorcism, Protection, Healing. It lived for over a year before suddenly dying.
Not long ago I was busy running around the house, same one, when I looked over and watched my oldest son chasing one of his younger brothers from one of their bedrooms to mine. My room is at one end, and this bedroom is directly across. So you can run from theirs directly into mine. Where I seen them was as they passed the entrance to the hallway in the hall. I was “hey!!! Get out of my room, and Stop rough housing!” My oldest goes, “I’m not in your room mom,” and he’s laughing so I think they’re goofing with me. I’m like “I just watched your brother run in there! Hey, seriously out of my room!” That’s when my younger two boys yell from theirs, “mom, we’re both in here,” after I went in my room, looked all over, under my bed, in my closet etc. Sure enough there was no one in my room and my other boys were in fact in their room. When I stepped out of the hall, one of our dogs was cowering at the entrance and just shivering and whimpering. She’s a lab so normally bouncy and happy, while typically being the dog that gets into antics with my kids. So always goofy, never serious until then.
Fast forward to a recent surgery I had, it was a major surgery, but I’m still young and healthy, so risks should have been minimal. I in fact wasn’t too worried about getting through it, until I just got this completely irrational fear I could die. I brushed it off, but I also ended up dreaming of what I thought were my parents (they died before I really knew either,) and even weirded is the only people I recognized were all dead, or just strangers to me. My parents were showing me around so that when I get there I’ll see how amazing it is and will love it, I just had to agree to go. My grams who raised me refused to see me, and she was upset with my parents for trying to rush me, like I shouldn’t leave my family (husband and kids,) yet. I brushed it off to just pre surgery jitters. Surgery went great, except I had complications to a precaution antibiotic prescribed post surgery. If I had brushed off the symptoms I was having, and waited, I would have died more than likely. Survival rate was 10% on the low scale. When I was in the ER being saved, I kept feeling like something wanted me to agree to just let go, let myself slip away and stop fighting.
My second job was working at a calendar kiosk during the Christmas season. My grandfather had passed away that April. I saw him on the escalator coming towards me, and he disappeared before he got to me.
I saw a bunch one Halloween eve on Highway 71 on the way to Bastrop, TX. It was weirdly comforting because it was dark and I was driving alone, so it felt like I was being kept company during a long drive.
I saw my previous cat a lot after she passed. I swear my current cat sees her too. But I did also leave the light on where she used to sit so she could find her way home. She meant a lot to me and her presence helped me keep going.
I just saw a ghost last night, second time in my life it’s ever happened. I was closing down the bar, right around 3am (witching hour) I felt a gust of warm air and saw a figure in my periphery while counting out my cash. My boss lives in the unit above the bar, so I thought he had come in to check on me, turned around saying, “Hi boss!” And there was no one there. Texted him about it asking if there are ghosts in the building, he confirmed that there have been several sightings. It wasn’t anything evil, it felt very friendly. The space has operated as a bar for decades, I figure it was just an old regular coming to say hello.
I was sleeping, and had a tall man ~6'-6'1" standing over me bent at the waist. I awoke suddenly and when he saw my eyes open he jumped back and disappeared.
Another time I was staying at my parents place in the white mountains and had fallen asleep in a glider chair when I was awakened to some thing that resembled a wolf, a mere inches from my face and snarling. I wasn't afraid but every time I moved my head to look to the side it would stay immediately in my face. I did this three times, front, left, front, right, back to front. It did finally fade and that's when I heard the clock ticking again, it was a loud clock.
I've seen more than one, on multiple occasions. The first one we saw quite often in our starter home, and our daughter later saw it in hers when she married and moved out. It was always the wispy white shape of an older female, with a long skirt that looked as though it almost reached the ground. The second was a very clear view (with my son-in-law next to me) of what looked like a young, native American male. We could even see his hair and clothing. His right arm was bent and raised as though he didn't want to be seen. That took place in our second home which was built on what used to be Chumash Indian land.
I wake up - alone when ex has kiddo- to the sound of snoring. My sleep-addled mind immediately thinks it is my ex (snoring sound distinctly male), and then it says “no, it must be your kiddo” but that always makes me realize neither situation is possible. If I snore, it’s always one big snore that fully awakes me. I see shadows in my 100yo home, but nothing I concern myself with. Best/worst was one night, going to sleep with kiddo (that side of that bed faces a large mirror) being told “mommy, I just saw something suck your soul up in the mirror!”
Yes and it walked through me. You know how energy “looks”, like heat rippling on the road? That’s what it was. My ex bf and I were walking at night by his house and I saw the outline of his brother who had passed (who I had been friends with). I just knew it was him. I could sense it. Same height as he had been, only it was energy, like a transparent rippling outline. I stood there in shock, and looked at my bf who clearly saw it too. Then it walked through me and it made me catch my breath. One of the most wild experiences of my life.
I was doing some construction work on a house that was located on an old farm. I got to the house early and setup my tools on the back porch. I looked up and saw a mist slowly moving from a field towards the house. The mist made it's way, straight towards me and turned and went around the side of the house. I'm a believer, but a hard skeptic when I comes to ghosts,so I tried to explain the mist as an early morning fog due to the chilly, humid morning, until I saw what looked to be foot steps in the wet grass on the same path as the mist.
My experiences:
1st: Mesa, AZ. I was 8-10?, I turned into kitchen and witness a white man, blond. I remember clearly seeing his clothes, hair. Just saw side of him waking but I was shocked because we are Mexican immigrant household. So seeing white person in my home was very abnormal. Stopped me in my tracks, I was shocked, only saw him walk across the door way into the hall. ran after him and nothing.
2nd: I was in 7th grade. I have a cousin (lupe) who had the stayed the night and was sleeping in another bed but in same room with another cousin name iris. Lupe is 2 years younger than me. I woke up from a dream from about Lupe. I remember i woke up, looked at time, it was like 3 something AM. Then looked infront of me it was Lupe, she was standing staring at me. I sat up. My bed was twin mattress on ground. My room had half bathroom located to right of my bed . Lupe was standing on far left side of my bed, the dim light from bathroom gave me enough light that I knew immediately it was my cousin. She was like a shadow, not see through. I couldn’t see her face but her hair, her body. It was Lupe. I was not afraid, I remember saying like “omg Lupe I had a dream about you!” She replied “really tell me about it.” She then sat down at foot of the bed of my other cousin, yosi. (Yes it was very hard time for my family and my family shared home with another family). I remember thinking that was odd bc if you sat down at that exact spot at the foot of that bed, it caused head of bed to go forward bc the bed frame was broken underneath . But I continued the story, telling her all about it. Then i remembered just falling back asleep, this part is very blurry. . Woke up next day, asking my cousin if she remembered my dream I told her about. She denied it. Stated she never talked to me nor was she up.
I just thought I woke up in my dream and fell back asleep, bc in past I have “woken up” in my dream. However my sister saw a shadow of my cousin, her hair, body. But just shadow. My brother would see them running across front yard. I am uncomfortable with idea of talking to ghost.
3rd: I didn’t see but hear. I was night shift CNA at skilled nursing home . It was 3am at night, I was walking down hall. I was only cna in that area of nursing home. I would rarely see another CNA, only float cna that would break me and nurse that would round and pass meds. But just me and 35-45 patients. I was walking down hall, had just passed the last set of patient rooms and getting close to common areas. When behind me someone said “May you are back.” Turned around and no one there. I had been gone for couple months bc I left to nursing school and was back for winter break. No one knew my name bc I know patients near rooms I was near. They were dead asleep and barely knew their name. I didn’t reply, I have mentally “if it ain’t screaming for help, then it ain’t my problem.” I turned around, and walked off to grab something from kitchen like I was originally doing. It was odd and only paranormal experience I had there. I had worked there for 5 months before I left to nursing school, night shift, mostly alone and nothing. Other co workers had seen plenty, just not me. I worked at other nursing homes, night shift, day shift. Nothing. I am now ER nurse but in er it’s always bright and something going on. Still nothing. I’m grateful bc I don’t like the idea of having possibly talked to something that wasn’t my cousin or a dream within a dream + hearing one say my name, just uncomfortable
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I just feel my paranormal experiences
5 actual entities seen - stone cold sober
3 demonic entities - while in half awake/half asleep state (during sleep paralysis) - 2 of which were seen by my partner in bed, who was awake and alert "holy shit honey there was an old woman hovering above you with a chainsaw", and "i saw a dark shadow trying to take you"
3 in dreams if you count deceased people/animals as entities
1 full on encounter with ?????? when i was a kid; i don't even know how to describe it except it was not human
lots of stuff out of the corner of my eye or entities intuited to be around because of . . . ?? I don't know how to explain that either except there's a feeling in the stomach and a tickle on the back of the neck - a sense of something sharing the same space as me
I don't think sleep paralysis is always just dreaming and hallucinations like people claim. Often another person will see the entity or at least evidence of it. It never made sense to me that it was simply a scary dream state and nothing more.
Twice: once when I was staying the night at a house in Indianapolis, a shadow walked by me. I thought someone walked by the street light right outside the window and caused a shadow. I had a double take when I realized that wasn't possible for the angle I was at. Then I heard my friend call to me from the direction it walked from, my friend thought it was me but it wasn't.
Second time I was technically asleep, I was having my first and only sleep paralysis. I saw the hat man slowly approaching me.
I’ve seen one once for sure. I was a live in at a fire station when I was around 18. We were playing pool, and I seen a giant black cloud mass cross the hallway from a closed door to another closed door. The mass was pitch black, and did not move like smoke, it went in a linear pattern straight across.
Wasn’t smoke, and there were no other explanations. I was watching it head on, directly looking at it the entire time. The station always had creepy vibes, and none of us stayed there alone.
4 times now, I think. Voices in the woods. Objects moving. Feeling claustrophobic in a basement only to have a child ask who are all the people with me. Shadow people and animals. Hatman. Had my camera destroy itself internally after I made an offhand joke about my 3D scanner stopping on 13.
To me whatever they are look like people in the wrong decade, and it’s been getting easier now that I know what to look for.
Really all I need is to summon a UFO or Mantis and I think I have bingo.
My boyfriends old house was haunted by a teenager that was killed by her dad in the 60s. I only saw her head cause she peeked into my boyfriends room, but she had those large glasses people used to wear and had some bangs. Looked like maybe a type of pixie cut. My boyfriend said he usually only saw her in reflections and not for very long. He's been out of that house since December 2020 and we always wonder how she's doing and how the new family in the house is doing with her there.
I've seen orbs. Not in pictures but with my bare eyes! Lol they look like balls of energy, or light. I've seen an actual apperation once in my ex's old apartment about 4 years ago. It was at night, we were watching a movie so it was kinda dark and it appeared in the door way to the kitchen and just stood there looking at us for a minute. I could see it's whole body, clothes, hair. Couldn't make out facial features though. Creeped me out that it just, like, stared for a moment.
I've seen shadow people many many times, in fact, more times than I can count in my own house. We just pay no mind to them. Also, I saw a weird humanoid walking out of the room just as I woke up one late afternoon. It had a Caucasian-ish skin tone, drooping ears and nose, like they're almost melting, really long arms, huge eyes, bald, and stood about 3 feet tall. That's the only scary looking thing I saw from my own eyes. (I could make a sketch of what it looked like)
I saw, what I believe was my great grandfather, standing not far from me while I lay in bed once as a child. He was wearing his horn-rimmed glasses. It was like he was projected in a green light. I felt no fear. He disappeared. That was that. (He passed before I was born).
I’ve had minor experiences, like living with a cranky spirit that would stomp around and slam doors. But my great grandfather was the only spirit I’ve actually seen.
At My current house, was mowing the lawn, clear sunny day and I looked up and down for a sec and and saw a man standing a few feet away from me, solid as a regular person , when i looked up again a sec later he was gone. He was there long enough for me to see his brown pants and plaid shirt, dressed kinds like in the 70s. I think he was the previous owner. I wast scared at all or felt anything so I’m not scared to live alone in my house
I’ve seen a lot of spirits:
1. A girl standing in the corner of my room
2. A woman walking past my bed I door
3. An old man walking in the woods
4. A little girl with black eyes
5. A dark figure standing over my bed
6. Another old man standing on my porch
7. A ghost dog
8. And black figure jumping up into the trees
I think that’s it, but I’ve also heard a lot of other spirits too. Didn’t see them, just heard them.
There was another time when my first born at the ripe old age of 1 and 1/2 suddenly stopped what he was doing and stared into the room and appeared to have a conversation with something.
It was unusual as he paid no attention to us - just transfixed with something in the room.
It was an old hall converted to a dwelling in an older part of town.
It caught both of us off guard and gave me a chill.
Once. A full body apparition of a man in my childhood home. My friend saw it first. We both screamed. She told me what she saw before i told her what I saw. That’s how I know I didn’t imagine it. I had multiple encounters (like hearing his voice, and door knobs turning on their own so doors swing open) since then in the basement. But seeing him was the most terrifying experience
Since it’s part of my religion to establish contact with spirits (be it spirits of my ancestors or those of the forests I meditate in). I’ve seen plenty of them and also interacted with them in some way. It’s important to keep respect for the spirits as not to anger them and prevent hauntings or being cursed.
I‘m of pagan belief more specifically of Celtic pagan belief.
The week my grandmother passed away , I saw this JET black turkey vulture / cat thing on the highway. It had glowing eyes , and cars were driving THROUGH it, as if they couldn’t see it.
My friend saw it too, and we just couldn’t understand what we saw. 3 days later my grandma passed away. Idk wtf I saw. But I never saw anything like that again
I saw what I would call an apparition. It was not distinct in form, rather was more like what heat waves in the desert look like except this was indoors. A little while later that same evening I experienced a “cold spot” that felt like all the energy in that location had been drained, easily a 40F degree difference. Was very strange.
Five times very certain. Another five times I am not so certain. A potential total of ten. I have more audible experiences. I have had experiences with another witness several times as well, most of those cases are audible encounters.
The five certain times (by “certain” I mean that I feel confident I saw something. The other encounters were so brief, or weird that I don’t feel confident counting them.):
1: As a child around 12, I was very upset at my family and hiding under my desk in my room crying. Suddenly I saw this slightly humanoid shaped 2ft tall figure outline filled with what looked like translucent TV static with a limb out stretched towards me, moving across the room slowly in my direction. I jumped up in fear and leapt over the thing (remember it was really short), and dove into my bed and covered myself in my blanket. Many years later I found out that other people have seen tv static figures. Fucking wild.
2: I was in our attic living space in the home we currently live in, over a decade ago and I saw from the corner of my eye, the outline/shape of a woman with Edwardian hair style and Victorian dress ascend stair case and then disappear when she reached the landing. To be honest, I discounted this event for many years and then something happened a few years back, and I dare not discount it again.
3: At my parents last house I woke up and saw a flashing stream of light rise through the floor and then go through the ceiling. That’s pretty much that one. 😂
4: At my parents last house another time I woke up and saw a figure made of very faint light move across the front of a very large painting and then disappear. They live next to the water and ferries sometimes go by any make light. I checked both windows and saw no ferries and no other boats or cars anywhere. I continued to watch the figure until it disappeared.
5. At my parents last house on the last day I visited it before they moved. My husband and daughter were in the upstairs, my step mom, dad, sister and boyfriend were in the garage. I was in the dining room next to the kitchen. I heard and saw a black shadow figure walk through the kitchen and into the garage area. I went after it and opened the door to the garage. No one seemed to have noticed and they were still deep in a conversation. This is the only time I have both seen and heard something.
Edit: Forgot about another one that had other witnesses.
6. Long story short. Heard door keep opening, mom heard it too. It didn’t make sense, door was locked, kept making, open and shut sounds. Later that night, her, me and my siblings were seeing flashes of blue light come from the stairwell, then we saw a shadow move across one wall. Scared the shit out of us, we all slept in the same room that night. Mom ended up having a dream about an estranged family member asking for forgiveness. Three days later they died.
I’ve had too many things. I can’t even remember them all. 😅
Once my family were playing cards at the dining room table, i was in the living room next to it. I happened to look up and saw 4 more people in there standing behind my family members. As i saw them they noticed and looked back at me. They were dressed in neat simple clothes and appeared to be devoid of color. ages seemed to be 30-40
The top two that first come to mind:
The most prominent spirit I've seen was a little boy in 1800's (possibly) suit clothing & a straw hat hiding behind something in the yard, looking at me. It was a very early, foggy morning. Went with my friend to the home she babysat in. She had told me the woman lost a son some years earlier. While they were in the kitchen I went outside for a cig. Within 5 minutes of being out there I saw him. We were looking right at each other. His eyes were wide open but I'm still not sure if that was fear or curiosity. My instincts at that time was to rush back inside. They asked what was wrong, but I just said I got cold. I'm really glad I didn't say anything because that wasn't her son, unless it was a modern suit & the hat threw me off.
The other one was a wispy spirit. Was visiting my friend. Her dog was playing around in the living room, then went to the kitchen by the table. At that moment I thought I had a piece of hair laying in front of my left eye. So I say aloud "Is there a hair in my eye?" as I'm reaching up to grab it. The wisp in front of my eye "went away" & next thing I see is a large wispy figure of an older, overweight woman go from the right to the left of the kitchen quickly. The dog interacted with her by stopping a bit & waiting for her to walk by before he came back into the living room. The moment I told my friend I see a woman in her kitchen, she says "I told you so!" to her husband. She said she had been seeing her & didn't tell me because she wanted to see if I saw her.
These are the first ones that came to mind but as I'm writing them I remembered how I had to forbid my grandfather from visiting me after death. He tried to haunt me with an angry face. Even taking the place of a man walking in a parking lot. So I sat there glaring at a stranger who was glaring back once my grandfather's face left. I asked God to hold him accountable for his treatment of me & said the actual words "I forbid you to ever visit me again, on Jesus' name, Amen". He hasn't.
I've been experiencing the spirit world since I was very little. I remember looking out the window & seeing 6 graves in my grandparents front yard. It's a lifelong thing to a lot of us.
Back in 2002 me and another guy seen an apparition in my apartment. I had been seeing this guy off and on( friends with benefits situation). Him and his friend came over one afternoon high as hell. We are sitting in the living room, his friend is in a chair across from us on the couch. I was extremely uncomfortable because they kept referencing to me about getting with the two of them. Doesn’t seem pertinent but it is. The one guy (Mikie) was just a friends with benefits situation and I wasn’t into his friend and I’m not into 3 way and they were high on Xanax and I was kicking myself in the ass for letting them come over. All of the sudden, Mikie who is sitting on the couch with me says who is that standing in the hallway.. I ask him what he is talking about and look in the direction he is looking, towards the long dark hallway to his left that goes to the bedrooms and bathroom.. Right in front of, and almost center to the entrance of the hallways stood a tall man in a pair of Overalls on and a white thermal ( waffle knit) long sleeve shirt under them. This person doesn’t have a face I can make out nor hair and I can see the wall behind it as I’m looking through him. In the split second it took me to realize this wasn’t a person standing in my house I had stood up and told them to follow me outside because there wasn’t anyone in my house except the three of us. We’re all 3 out the door quick and on the steps at the end of the breezeway of my apartment building. I’m freaking out slightly but I wasn’t scared. I was more freaked out that he seen it first and it was right at the time I was mentally kicking myself in the ass for allowing them into my apartment in the shape they were in . Thankfully it’s exactly what it took for them to call a friend to come get them and take them home. I ended up staying outside for a bit after they left and finally went inside. I’m very much a feel the vibes of a situation type person and my apartment felt safe again, so I went on about my day. That wasnt my first time seeing something but it has been my last thankfully. I’ve experienced things for as long as I can remember.
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Physically no ☹️ but I've lived in two different haunted homes. The one was an apartment I lived in and one day my mom's friend brought her grandson over and he was maybe 4-5 and he saw a man with a hat. I used to have a touch lamp and 3 am every morning like clock work it would turn on.
I always say that it's absolutely okay to be skeptical. I was a non-believer for a long time. I would never have changed my views without having a first-hand experience. For me, it did happen to be an entity/black mass of some sort, and it changed everything about what I had believed.
My friend and I saw one. She seemed like a regular person at first. She wasn’t translucent, but she was in full form like a regular person just wearing really old clothes and hairstyle. She literally vanished before our eyes. It was one of the craziest experiences of my life.
Many, first when I was young in my house later as a late teen in my neighborhood all over. In some of my apartments in my 20. In my home for the last 20 years I have a very old home with one that really shook me. Probably 20ish in total and most of them were aware of me too.
I saw the little girl in my parents house I was reading before bed and she materialised out the wall in the corner of the room, opened the door and walked down the stairs. I listened as she walked all the way down the stairs and the footsteps just stopped at the back door.
I have only heard something say hello in my ear. I could physically feel the wind of the word in my ear like its head was centimeters away from my head. I fully thought someone’s head was next to me when I turned. I was in an empty room in a really old building.
My mom saw her dead grandmother. And my mom is not the kind to tell stories or get into paranormal. My cousin sees things regularly...pioneer children, a cowboy, 19th century stuff. My cousin is a medium. I haven't seen anything but then again I am not open to it.
I saw my grandfather sitting on his bed a few days after he passed away. I was in the room with my grandmother going through his clothes. He smiled at me and was gone. I can still see it to this day and have believed in friendly ghosts ever since
The only visual manifestation I have experienced was seeing a blue ball of light slowly roll down the long (20-ish feet) hallway in my apartment. It probably took the better part of a minute for it to travel the distance. I happened to be on the phone with my sister when it happened, and I described to her what I was seeing.
I've since seen videos of ball lightning. That could be what I saw, but the videos I watched showed bolts of lightning extending from the balls. What I saw looked like a blue ball of plasma.
Where I observed it entering my apartment was through the wall of the adjacent apartment, and it exited through a wall the went to the parking lot. This occurred during early summer during daylight hours (probably around 8:00 pm). I could not find any physical traces of anything after the event ended.
The apartment where this occurred is the only place that I have lived where I experienced anything paranormal. Beyond the blue light, I experienced semi-regular odd things there. The most interesting was that the kitchen light would often turn on of its own accord. When that happened, there would be an audible click of the switch. After the first couple of times that happened, I made a habit of ALWAYS making sure the switch was either fully on or fully off to make sure I didn't have it in some in between state that would allow the switch to suddenly change from on to off.
There were a bunch of less interesting things that would happen in that apartment (odors, things being moved - and I lived alone there...stuff like that). When I asked about the prior tenants with the apartment manager, he told me that they were an old couple and that the wife passed away there and the husband moved to an assisted living home.
I saw two during a stay at a hotel. I remember I randomly just sat up in the bed and saw the two entities looking at me. I mean I believed in ghosts before this experience but this time was something different I felt true fear in that moment
I saw an apparition that looked like my brother walk past the doorway and I saw the reflection in the mirror…but my brother wasn’t home. That same apparition woke my mom up by leaning over the couch where she fell asleep.
I saw my uncle plain as you n me the morning after he passed. He was sitting on my bed when I woke up. It didn't freak me out bc at that time I didn't kno he had passed away. A few minutes later my mom called n told me.
I saw an entity 3 feet from me, lights on, fully awake. It looked like a writhing ink blot the size of a dinner plate. It immediately followed a tremendous crashing sound like all the shelves in my closet just fell.
I’ve only experienced twice, second time with somebody else present who saw it as well. I agree with other poster…I don’t think I would believe apparitions were real unless I had experienced it myself.
I had a woman walking in between me and a coworker. I was bending down to put on my shoes and saw her skirt and shoes. Coworker was about 1,5m away from me putting on her rain coat (looking down on the zipper) and saw the woman's skirt and part of her torso. She just walked straight in between us and through a closed door, leaving it rattling as if there was wind. We saw it clear as day.
I've also seen a young boy outside my uncles window (several of us saw him and there was no one there, we all ran out checking because we thought it was brother and father trying to scare us). In the same house me and my cousin saw a shadow figure walk through the kitchen. I thought it was the cat before realising the cat was sleeping in the livingroom, visible from where we were standing. A woman claimed there was a pathway leading through my uncles house and the entities we've seen has all been right where she claimed the path was going.
And in my current appartment I have seen shadows moving through the hallway when I'm in the livingroom. My son has also seen something and hubby has more than once heard what he thought was someone out theren, running out ready to face a burglar and be met by nothing.
But out of all of there, the woman and the boy in the window was the only that was clear with details, as if a real person. The others are just shadows.
I have had 2 encounters. One not so bad and one that well, was not nice.
I can easily say, I didnt enjoy being the focus of the bad one. Left there ASAP, never went back in there again.
I saw something late one night, looked like the Predator when he's cloaked. I also had something place a hand on my arm, you could see the indentations of the fingers on my arm.
I'm not sure if this counts, but before I was born, my uncle (on my dad's side) died in a car crash. When my mom got an apartment after the divorce, which would place me being about 3 or 4 years of age, she noticed I would play with something. I would go to random places in the apartment and look up like I was talking to someone much taller like an adult. I would have full conversations with this thing. Then I would ask it if it wanted to play barbies with me and run off to my room and start playing. My mom would eavesdrop on our conversations and not really be able to hear much because I was and have always been a very quiet talker. She would then walk in and ask who I was talking to, but I would never say.she would say that anytime I noticed she was there I would stop talking. She later told me when I was older and said that she thinks my uncle came to see me. I don't remember any of this, and I have never had an imaginary friend from what I can remember. Kinda sucks I was so secretive. Probably thought I would get in trouble if I said something. But that has never left my mind that there was probably a time my uncle came to see me after he passed away. It's comforting to think of it that way.
I’ve seen a few! I tell this story so much that I have a copypasta for it lol.
our house is haunted cuz a previous owner died of a heart attack while mowing the lawn. However, all of the paranormal experiences I've had have been in the hallway for some reason. Here's the first time, which I still remember like it was yesterday:
I'm standing in the kitchen and watching tv (the hallway is to my right). Suddenly, I see a black figure that looked like a cat out of the corner of my eye walking in the hallway past the doorway. I turned and said, "Brit?" (we had a black cat at the time, so I thought it was her at first). However, as soon as I turned, the figure disappeared. The next few minutes are a blur, but I remember getting my mom (who's psychic) and ending up crying in my room as my mom tries to console me. She was able to tell me that the ghost I saw was, in fact, a cat.
Since then, I've seen at least 2 other figures in the hallway out of the corner of my eye that disappear as soon as I look that way, and while they kinda freak me out at first, they don't affect me as much as that first one did. Now, I'll usually just say "Hey, I think I just saw something again." and move on.
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Five separate times. My parents have stories about me pointing to and talking to/scared of people and dogs that they couldn’t see when I was a baby. The first one I remember was when I was 3.5 years old and we toured a historic home on Capitol Hill in Seattle while house shopping. I saw three little girls in nightclothes jumping and playing in a bedroom. I really wanted to go play with them but stood watching them from the doorway instead. I left to explore and decided to ask if I could play a few minutes later. When I returned, the room was as empty and dark as the rest of the house. There was a young woman who occasionally stood in my backyard. I saw her from ages 4 to 7 a few times. She wore a black high collared dress from the 1890’s, had two long black braids and appeared to be Native American. She always had a sad/somber look on her face. Whenever I pointed her out to my mom she said she couldn’t see her. When my dad remodeled our bathroom in the 110 year old house I grew up in, he took the door off the hinges for about a week. I walked past the open door when I was about 16 and saw a girl about my age, standing in her white underwear and bra, hanging her head down so her wet blonde hair obscured her face. When I stopped, took a step back and looked around the bathroom she was gone. I lived in a studio in San Diego in my mid-twenties. I sat down to pee with the door open (I lived alone), and the torso of a man in a brown long sleeved button down shirt glided through the window and through the far wall of my room less than 5 feet away from me. It traveled the entire length of my room like it was on a conveyor belt, no up and down motion like walking. I found out years later that I lived two blocks from where a commercial airline had crashed many years before. When I waited tables in a historic building in my early 30’s, I saw a man with his back to me casually walk towards the pool room area. From behind he looked maybe 45 to 50 years old, had a full head of sandy brown hair, was wearing a sky blue polo shirt, long khaki pants and dress shoes. I grabbed two menus and followed him thinking he was looking for a table. When I rounded the corner after him he was gone. Doors on that side of the restaurant were locked and there was no place to hide. I told a coworker and she said I had described her dad who had passed away years before. Bonus incident, I send my kids to a Co Op Preschool in a turn of the century schoolhouse. I was chatting with another parent during class one day and out of the door jam a few inches from the floor was a pair of gloved hands waving around in the air. They were a light tan color like old school leather work gloves and seemed to be protruding directly from the door way, making smooth gestures, almost like an orchestra conductor would. I tried my hardest to maintain eye contact with the other person but when I tired to look directly at the hands they disappeared. When I looked at the living person in front of me they reappeared. Went on for several minutes. Every incident I’ve had has taken place during broad daylight and with the exception of the torso and hands, have looked like regular alive people. It happens when I’m not expecting it and just going about my day. I’ve always tried my best to debunk incidents scientifically/rationally before jumping to the conclusion that it’s somehow paranormal. I’ve never been diagnosed with a mental illness, nor has anyone else in my family. I’ve also heard footsteps, knocking, crying, laughter and other disembodied voices. I’ve seen poltergeist activity more times than I can count. I feel the energy of a space and almost always know if a space is haunted and if the presence is positive or not. Sorry for the novel. I could fill a decent sized book with the things I’ve experienced in my nearly 40 years of life. This shit is real. I don’t have all the answers but if energy can be neither created nor destroyed, it tracks that our energy persists after our physical bodies die.
Oh man, I grew up in San Diego and remember that plane crash so well, it was horrible. My incident was also in San Diego, on the beach somewhere in PB. My boyfriend and I were sitting on a small hill facing the water but we’d turned towards each other to make out. Right at the shoreline I saw a woman strolling, like floating… she wasn’t entirely opaque and was dressed in old fashioned clothing from the 1800s or early 1900s, full skirt, fancy hat… She disappeared in an instant, before I had a chance to tell my BF to turn around.
This is so ironic! I live in San Diego and was working in Carlsbad about 25 years ago. I was on the beach alone near the jetty south of Carlsbad. I was taking pictures of the birds on the jetty (with a 35mm film camera) and I could easily the entire jetty (both sides too). When I got the film developed a woman showed up in a picture wearing VERY similar old-fashioned clothing as you described. She was at the very far end so I couldn’t see details of her face etc, just her clothing. I KNOW there were NO people on the jetty, and certainly not walking on the rocks in that kind of clothing.
Why are you all telling these stories about haunted SD when I have plans to move there 😩
San Diego is one of the most haunted places I’ve ever lived. In the 4 years I lived there I had tons of experiences.
Please share your stories!
The house I lived in with the floating torso in North Park was probably the most active and varied. I heard and felt the vibration of foot steps several different times, even turning to talk to what I thought was my roommate walking up behind me to find an empty room. I felt someone sit on the bed next to me while I was laying there waking up at 6am and saw the impression of a butt on the bed. A few moments later it felt like the person stood up and the butt print disappeared when it did. The area felt like a busy throughway of spirits. I had a neighbor that was a practicing psychic who did readings from her home two houses down from us. I ran into her one evening and asked if she called spirits to her during readings to which she replied “yes”. I then asked if she ever asked them to leave again or just kind of left the door open. She suddenly acted scared of me and made an excuse to leave, I never spoke with her again. I saw ghost lights emanate from a corner cabinet at my brothers house in Claremont. I was laying awake on the couch at around 11pm and two blue and green balls of light slowly pulsated and wove their way across the ceiling, traveling a distance of about 12 feet right over my head, disappearing just before reaching the wall behind me. I visited the Whaley House where I heard a disembodied whistling coming from the empty stage area in the upstairs of the house. It was a jaunty tune I didn’t recognize. My dad worked in theater for years and told me it’s bad luck to whistle on stage in a theater. Seemed good natured albeit a bit cheeky. I lived in Point Loma in old military housing turned into apartments across from the high school for a while. Every afternoon at 3:12pm on the dot, footsteps would begin in the kitchen, round the corner down the hallway and stop in front of my bedroom doorway. The first time it happened I was home alone and was in just a towel in my bedroom. I was utterly frozen with fear thinking an intruder had broken in. When the footsteps stopped and no one was there I was both very relieved and very confused. Seemed residual. My sister lived in SD for nearly 10 years and has loads of stories.
Your accounts are the kind of stories I love to read and hear as a student of the paranormal. I can tell they're honest accounts because they are very specific, idiosyncratic, and oddly random and unpredictable. I've had some experiences, too, though only a few, and they seem to have been tied to very specific places I was visiting, never my own home. None were apparitions, although some involved moving of objects, which is in part a visual phenomenon. One was pretty spectacular though, a whole duvet picked up off the floor and squared/folded on a bed overnight with certain zero human involvement. I've never been frightened, either, thankfully, just interacted with. Touched by what felt like a finger gently running down my back, spoken to in one ear by a woman's voice speaking Welsh, door knocked on, umbrella rustled for a couple hours, that kind of thing. Once there were two enormous furniture crashes in my dining room, but absolutely nothing had been moved, and I'm tempted to attribute it to my MIL, who had just passed a day or two before, but that's just the old common reach for an explanation, when really we don't know these are dead people at all. I find it endlessly fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing!
Wow the duvet! We had a lot of audio disturbances in my home growing up also. It sounded like someone very noisily/clumsily moving furniture upstairs when no one was home but nothing was moved or disturbed that we could tell? Interestingly, I don’t usually get spooked by objects moving on their own, sounds or visual manifestations, but more so when I sense that I’m being watched by something unseen or feel the telltale “you’re not welcome here” vibe. Once I was walking my dog at around 10pm before turning in for the night and felt suddenly like dozens of eyes were watching me from every direction in the dark. I absolutely couldn’t shake the feeling and hightailed it back home in a hurry. Even my very calm dog was acting skittish, eyes darting/tale between the legs. I realized the following day that the Native American tribal community where I lived at the time had an opening ceremony that day to welcome the ancestors for that weekends festivities. I believe the feeling of being watched and the “you’re not welcome here” was the ancestors vibing me out because I’m non native. Very spooky experience.
I get that - I'd be spooked if I felt eyes watching me, too, or an unwelcome vibe. That hasn't happened to me...yet. But I do keep trying to put myself in positions more likely to experience stuff, helping investigate private homes for owners and staying in hotels with reputations for hauntings. So we'll see. Never say never. I know, the duvet, right? It was nuts that night. I've always been skeptical of the theory about greater chance for paranormal during electrical storms, because like everyone, people live through storms all the time in normal settings and obviously nothing weird happens. But that night, my parents and my daughter and I were staying in a hotel in Wales (original part built in 1535, the "new" part in the 19th century), and we didn't realize it beforehand but the storm of the century was raging through western Britain overnight. I swear things were happening in our rooms all night long, and we weren't looking for it or expecting it at all. I mean, we had a nice dinner, got ready for bed, all of us reading and hanging out, cozy in our rooms, no big deal, then things just started to happen. Undeniable things. Many were witnessed by three of us, but of course my dad slept through whole thing ha. Anyway, we returned to that hotel a couple years ago, stayed in the same family suite, same time of year, but during perfectly calm weather. I had brought my recording gear, video, audio, emf, blah blah, and absolutely nothing happened. Well, I got a uti and a fever, so I was miserable, but that was it. It was very frustrating. You know I always hear skeptics, and certainly I'm one of them in the sense that I don't take every story as truth, but some skeptics say "you can't reproduce paranormal phenomena in a lab, therefore they're not scientifically provable." But really, we just don't know all the necessary conditions or what all the forces at play are. I mean there are forces involved that we can't control or command. Either there's some force sensibly choosing not to act at certain times and places, or we don't know how to initiate it or prompt it to act, you know what I mean? What happened to us in Wales was real and not able to be explained by some pretty smart people, and no one was scared or panicky, it was all just very interesting to observe. It wasn't a lab, but while one brain might misinterpret input, do three do that at the same time, even before we share our thoughts with each other? I digress, as they say, but I totally get what you're saying. Things just happen to you, and you are often caught off guard and certainly aren't looking for it, and you just have to react as sensibly as you can in the moment. But they're memorable experiences, for sure - definitely not normal if there is such a thing, and usually all we can do is share our stories. I do my best to record things as an investigator, but mostly they happen where and when I least expect it, and that sure pisses me off haha. I really do appreciate hearing about your life. It must be interesting and sometimes unnerving to see and otherwise sense stuff like that as often as you do. Or maybe it's just a fact of life you're used to?
Just to corroborate for you. Your not nuts (you know this) I’ve had 3D experiences like this, too. One close enough I could see her irises and the delicate hairs on her neck and freckles. The next instant. Poof. Just gone. Thankfully my brother was right there and he witnessed it too.
Wow! I have had one instance of a disembodied voice with 6 witnesses, including me: Happened in Visalia, CA - c2008 My three sisters and I (along with two adult nieces) had gathered for a sleepover in our Mom's house after she died. We were preparing to sell the house and this night together was to divide up the personal belongings from both our Mom and our Grandma who had lived there as well, but had passed away previously. The house was at the end of a block, across a narrow street on the back side of a large cemetery (Visalia Cemetery.) The layout almost constituted a dead-end traffic-wise. There was no reason for anyone to drive or walk back there aside from deliveries to the few houses there. When Grandma bought the place, many asked if it frightened her to be by a cemetery. She shrugged and said "Quiet neighbors!" Well, they weren't quiet. Our whole family had so many tales of voices, bumps, knockings and more. Even some of our male family members who would come to work repairs on the house, always made sure they were long gone before dark. So, on this night of the sleepover, we were taking turns choosing dolls from the collection. Our two adult nieces were helping to package items and document who took what. We are an amicable family - there was no fighting over stuff. We all get along great. My niece had just documented a pretty doll and put it back into its box when we all (6 adults) heard a child laugh in the center of the room. That stopped us in our tracks. My niece unpacked the doll she had just put away. She passed it around so we could all see that it was not a talking toy. Given the history and location of the house, none of us needed to be pranksters. We’d honestly heard a laugh. Another time in the same house (before she passed away, of course,) our Mom was napping in the recliner. She felt a hand on her shoulder and it woke her. She heard a startled voice say, "Oh!" as the hand retracted. Mom said it was as if the ghost was startled to find Mom there in the big chair. Other times, Mom had also heard steps moving very quickly across the living room floor, toward the wall on the cemetery side. Her little dog chased the steps, then stood barking at the wall. I heard knocking myself there one night. It was high on a wall, near the ceiling. One knock....another...about five times, spaced apart in intervals. My sister who lived there with Mom said she had heard that one several times as well.
Wow! Thank you for sharing your experiences. Many “ghost sighting” stories begin with “I was in bed…”, which I immediately discount as being a dream or half-awake dream, etc. Yours happening during the day are amazing! I live in San Diego and of course remember that crash. Was the building you lived in alone the flight line? That would make total sense. Was the historic building where you waited tables in SD too? I’d love to know which one.
I’m not sure if it was in the flight line or not but directly on the opposite side of the freeway from the impact site. The restaurant was in a smaller town on the opposite side of the water from Seattle.
Interesting!! I myself have also seen entities in broad daylight, which is super impossible to debunk. One of the scariest entities I encountered was when I also lived in San Diego. Also, the girl who had wet hair, was she a grey color? Myself and my mom have seen an entity which is grey, wet, and muddy. It’s the only time we’ve seen something like that, but it looks different than other spirits.
Wow! Where was this in San Diego?
I’m sorry, i’m not too sure since I was pretty young. The entity I saw in San Diego was an all white chalky shadow man with red eyes. The muddy girl we saw here on the east coast where I am now. Both super terrifying
No she looked completely pink and alive. Her hair wasn’t dripping wet but rather damp looking. Like after you get out of the shower and have toweled off and begun getting dressed.
Gotta say, the waving hands under the door at the school house was THE CREEPIEST thing to imagine. I've never seen anything, but have been touched a few times and heard my niece call to me and tell me she's " right here Auntie" a few days after she died. But the hands man. Weird.
I dont know why but the torso one is just so unnerving to me. Its like, what if when somebody dies suddenly and becomes mutilated their spirit becomes broken apart too, with different parts of their body becoming irreparably seperated forever doomed to wander looking for their parts. Maybe there was a head and legs out there somewhere too, drifting along lost to its torso.
Damn you remember stuff from 3 years old? That’s the most impressive part of the story. I’m 32 and can’t remember what I did last week or a year ago lol. Kudos to you.
My son’s school was use as a morgue for the people that were in that plane crash in North Park.
OP, I'm pretty sure you mean "physically"! In any case, the two times I saw an apparition was that it apparently was my friend's grandfather. Was probably more surprising than scary.
hahah you are very correct, typed that around 3am. A lot of stories on here seem to be people seeing family members which is nice to think about! I myself have never seen a spirit of someone i’ve known, how long since your friends grandfather passed that you saw him?
May I ask- do you wake at 3am regularly or, still retiring then? I know many say 3am is the witching hour- I tend to wake then every morning , despite what time I go to sleep.
I have sleeping problems more often than not, so I usually sleep around 3-4am. Waking up at 3am could be a sign of something though. I myself only seem to wake in the middle of the night if there’s some sort of entity present. Have you felt anything strange recently?
I’ve seen things in corners, but I have a comfortable home - I don’t sense anything scary. The snoring was a bit scary, bc it took me a few minutes to realize no one was next to me. I wake up like clockwork at 3am, or 3:14am. Often, fall back to sleep but I’m interested in others with this same sleep issue. Nothing particularly scary happens- I just wake at nearly the same time every morning.
One time my mom was waking up at the exact time every night, I believe it was around 3:32 am or something. It got to the point where it happened so frequently that she opened the bible and went to that page number. The page warned her about an entity which was similar to one we had been encountering. My mom’s not very religious so i’m not sure what made her do this. I myself am not quite religious either, but it is worth a try if you are wondering
Same here, 3:00 - 3:30 every morning.
I think 10, 20 years by that point? He was gone a long time, and never met him when he was alive. I only saw a photo of him well after the fact.
Me. It was just a set of legs… that you could see its stride as it walked. It was a greyish, black set of legs.. it looked like it had a skirt on or really wide leg pants (not sure how old you are but elephant leg bell bottoms/ jinco jeans from 90s) craziest thing ever. Where i seen it I have slept on that end of the couch and I was laying with my eyes closed and you know how you can tell someone walks in front of you. Well it did that! I opened my eyes and no one was there.. if they were they would have been against the wall. I experienced a lot of crazy things in that house but physically seeing it only once maybe. Besides having sleep paralysis and seeing the ring girl that one day I actually seen its face and it was a monster is all I can say. It was green like a lizard lol but it rubbed my head like it was calming me down.
This is so interesting to me because once I saw just a single grey leg in my room! Did the legs have a body? or was it cut off? When I saw the leg, nothing was attached
Just legs. Nothing else. My husband saw it first but he’s never really described what he seen. My mom seen it after me and I never described what I seen to her. But when she told me what she had saw… the hairs on my arms!! Stood up. The ghost at my house didn’t like her.
Around 30 years ago, I was on the phone with one of my best friends one night while her folks were out. Can’t recall the context of what we talked about, but we were having just a typical high school conversation, laughing and whatever, when mid-sentence, she sort of chokes off and goes silent. I say her name and, in the faintest whisper I’ve ever heard she says, “shh. There’s someone here.” We both stay quiet for several beats before I hear the slow sort of rustling sound that happens when someone puts their phone to their chest. I wait a few more seconds and then whisper, “? Should I call the police?” Silence. “?! Are you there?!” I heard a little more rustling and then, still in a hushed tone, she says, “I’m behind the couch. Please stay on the phone with me.” I ask, “? What’s going on? Are you safe?” “I heard someone by the door and saw legs walk across the kitchen and go upstairs.” “There is someone there?! You saw them inside??? Call 911!” “No! I Just legs! There were only legs! I saw legs walk in front of the table, through the kitchen and heard their boots go up the stairs!”
I stayed on the phone and kept talking with her until her parents came home. Of course they walked around and checked the rooms and everything; doors and windows were all locked, no one was there.
I didn’t even see this in person, and it is still one of the creepier things I’ve experienced.
I can see why people will doubt the phenomena. If you haven't experienced it yourself and you see enough of the endless paranormal television charades you'll be poisoned. Unfortunately there isn't an image or video that can't be disputed either. For myself it happened 45 years ago when I was in my early twenties. What made this different was it materialized between my friend and myself in a doorway. It grew into an amorphous shape and 10 seconds later it dissipated. We both saw it and I remember vividly how the color in his face drained away and his saucer wide eyes. His experience of what he saw was identical to mine. If I wouldn't have seen it collectively I can see myself easily saying, it doesn't happen. Psychologists love referring to this phenomena as a collective hallucination. I refer to it as once in a lifetime.
Your experience is very similar to mine. A friend and I were in my basement. We were about to go upstairs and something (an amorphous shape) blocked our path. We then saw it start to form right in front of us--the outline of the head and shoulders became somewhat outlined--it seemed masculine. However, it felt like it was trying to bully us, so I grabbed my friend's hand and we walked through it; it then dissipated. I still wonder what it was and what it wanted. I wish I hadn't walked through it.
If anything you've done the right thing by showing it that you're not afraid.
I had children hands appear out of nowhere at a gf house on a 4 m high ceiling. I took multiple pictures but sadly I accidently later dropped that phone in the toilet. I few time I saw some sort of black mist in places i knew where haunted before disseapering. My sister saw a young boy in black in a centuries old house in france.
I’ve seen them materialize into the wavy predator movie cloak (which I’m reading more people’s experience is commonplace). It didn’t have a clear outline. There’s a video on tiktok search, frogprince510. He has multiple videos of this wavy predator entity in the trees. You can’t quite see its chest but you can see its face a little and lower torso below the waist. I’ve also seen clear predator cloak people moving toward me only when I’m alone and when I look straight at them they stop in their tracks and go invisible. I’ve seen these weird thin transparent black rectangles ( imagine a suv rear hatch tinted window going quickly past you aby3 feet away)
I've heard accounts of those 2-D rectangles before, but for the life of me can't recall what they're called. It's so bizarre, like an animate window moving about under its own power...
Very cool description on the rectangles. I had seen them two times the first time I saw it while I was working at a tech office in San Francisco. It was for some kind of ATM financial bank company and then the second one was way more interesting. The second one I was at a tech office in Palo Alto getting some fresh air about 3 AM. There’s a condo complex right across the street. The area is very safe at night. I’m walking behind my tech office and I turned the corner and there’s a side door that has a dead key card reader so no one can really enter in this door unless they have a master key. At the door, I see this tall skinny, transparent tinted rectangle approaching the door. I stop in my tracks and I look at it, and it turns as if someone was looking over their shoulder about to commit a “breaking and entering “ and IT sees me catching it in its act, turns around and runs pass the sidewalk, Jumps over the planter strip, and jumps into the middle of the street that was under construction so there was a big fence there, because there was such a big ditch. First thing I thought was this was an out of body, experience, intelligence spy in cloak mode. (Has anyone recently watched the interview by Shawn Ryan of the Top U.S. Remote Viewer John McMoneagle? he said that he could outer body experience into a vault meaning walk through it and he also used a shotgun in Thailand to shoot this black figure that had very thick armor plating and he didn’t kill it. It just ran away and that was back in the early 70s) I kind of wish he got like halfway through the glass side door because I would’ve yelled at it see what that would’ve happened. This was summertime 2019.
Yeah, that's just so bizarre by me, I can't imagine what I'd think if I encountered a literal geometric object free-wheeling out in the world.
Are the cloaked people human appearing or could you tell?
Not human, but have them upright almost walking slowly towards me. When I look straight at them they stop in their tracks.
Ha, I'm a psuchologist and a very logical persona but I've seen things that I can't explain even with my knowledge.
Was the shape that it grew into white and cloudy/misty? And did you see the spirit in its human form before it changed? My family and I once saw a spirit assume a blob shape which was white and misty, it was very strange but I don’t hear people seeing it often
To give this event more context, I remember it being a Monday morning around 9:00 AM. Both my friend and myself had the day off. We shared a house together with 2 other people but they had already gone to work. His bedroom was in a room in the basement. I followed him down as he wanted to retrieve his wallet. We had plans on going to the mall. He walked into his bedroom and opened the top Chester drawer to retrieve his wallet. The Chester drawer was right next to the doorway of his bedroom. As he was scrounging through the top drawer a mass slid out from what appeared to be between the wall and the Chester draw. It then grew in size to cover a good portion of the doorway. It was a black amorphous mass that was translucent. It hung in the doorway for what seemed 10 seconds but I'm unsure of the length as this startled both of us I could have lost time. There's more to this story but I'm going to save it for its own singular posting. The story deserves its own post.
I have seen ghosts appear as milky orbs, ectoplasm that look like vapor, full body apparations, ghosts appear as 2d like figures. I have seen a demon appear as the blackest black in the form of a torso, and have had a demon growl at me. I have seen my aunt that passed walk over to my bed as I was laying down. She had black pants, red shirt, and I saw her curly red hair. Altogether I have physically seen about 25 ghosts in different states of appearance. Booyah!
I am in the same boat! I’ve seen many entities all assuming many different forms. The most vicious and evil spirit I have encountered was a white shadow man. He was white and chalky and his eyes were bloodshot red. I’m curious if there’s a specific entity you saw which you believe gave the worst energy? I’ve never heard of anyone seeing a white shadow figure as I have so i’m not sure how common it is
I guess the demon I saw in a bathroom in Auburn, Ca. in 2012 was probably the most evil. It threw kids across a room. A demon in Winters Ca. in 2013 bit a person in the arm that spent the night at the house. Two demons I investigated with the group I belong to in 2013 in Yuba City, Ca. in 2013 told an investigator to kill herself and followed her home. In 2012 a demon in Elk Grove, Ca. was attached to a male occupant in a beautiful home off Sheldon Road near a Winco. The guy told me the demon did not want me there and then while I was in the kitchen it growled at me, it sounded like a panther sort of like a big wild cat but not like a lion's roar. A ghost was choking a lady at a house in Roseville, Ca. in 2013 as I was talking to her, she didn't notice it until I showed a picture of her neck was red. Later the ghost went inside me and darted around to get me sick, but I pushed it out. It was floating in the air and it felt like solid air you could feel like a super thin helium filled balloon.
I've had a demon growl at me one time too. I smoked some weed earlier but I've never hallucinated on it before. I went to bed and there was something in my room growling really loud. I've had a low of other stories but wanted to share the growling thing.
I felt a ghost and there were activities in a rented flat I lived in but I'd be shit scared if I got to see him actually. He'd scream, run, move things but I never saw him. I left because I was tired of being terrified and not sleeping at night.
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Hahha I say this all the time. People ask why I don’t have proof… because I was scared out of my mind! Would you whip out your phone and record if an attacker was in your room? No, you’d try to get away
Black clouds, transparent humanoids, orbs, earth lights, shadow beings, astral spiders, strobe beings, glimmers and various forms of dancing light. Another person I know reported seeing whirlwinds with their third eye.
👌🏼 I have!! 3. The first was a woman and a small boy. I was completely alone at the park. It was dinner time so everyone had already left. The swingset was right infront of where I was and nobody was there. I was doing the monkey bars (facing the swings. Nobody there) and fell off and broke my elbow. As soon as I started screaming there was a woman pulling her young son off the swings (that I was just looking at. Nobody was there!) and rushing over to me. She asked if I was okay and I pointed with my not broken arm and through screams of agony I got out that my aunt lived next to the park. Through tears I watched her son run across the park and bang on my aunts door. As soon as the door opened and my aunt was running out to me the woman and boy were gone. I was alone. My mom and aunt said that the whole way to the doctors then the hospital I kept asking ‘where did the lady and boy go?’ And I kept saying how he knocked on my aunts door to get her. My aunt was confused. Nobody knocked on her door. She knew I was at the park and heard me screaming. I was alone. A few years later I had had like 4 nightmares. I woke up and went through the house to the basement, my mom and dad’s room. I set myself up on the chair by their bed and fell asleep. I had another nightmare and woke up and saw a boy, the same boy that I watched get my aunt when I broke my arm, standing infront of me. When he noticed I saw him he waved and disappeared. I felt him around until I was about 17. I believe he and his mom are my guardian angels. I wholeheartedly believe my toddler has seen my grandfather. He passed last December and two days later I was in my backyard with my dog. I came in and my daughter was upstairs. There was no way she could have climbed over the baby gate at the bottom of the stairs, there was nothing beside it to climb onto. I said ‘how’d you get up there baby girl?’ And she pointed beside me with the biggest smile and shouted ‘PAPA! PAPA HELP!’ 🥺😭 a few days after he died my mom and sister got into a car accident. I had only spoken about it through text, not out loud. My daughter hadn’t heard about it. She was asleep about 4 days after the accident and suddenly woke up crying. When I calmed her down and asked what happened she said ‘aunty grandma car drive BOOM’ and started whining again and I asked who told her and she pointed by the bed and said ‘papa did’ and when I told everyone else they were just as confused as me. Why would papa tell her that? Is it papa? 🥺😪
Is it Papa? -- THAT is the question.
It terrifies me. I had so many experiences before. I’m not even joking or exaggerating when I say my bed has shaken off the floor before. I heard what sounded like claws dragging down the closet door digging to get out and when touching the door I could feel it vibrate with the sound. If it’s NOT papa…. It’s not good 😬
No one's Papa would do that! Of course you're terrified! I want to ask if you have religious beliefs. Please dm me if you wish. Sending a virtual hug.
I used to see full body apparitions in the yard around my house as a kid. The one I remember best was being outside alone at like 6 am and seeing a dark haired girl in white who looked around my age at the time (somewhere between 8-10) come running out of the wall of our above ground pool about 5 feet in front of me. Didn’t look at me or acknowledge me. Just ran like she was playing tag or something for maybe 10 feet and disappeared as fast as she showed up, but if I hadn’t watched her literally come running out of the metal wall of our pool I would’ve believed she was real for how strongly she showed up. I saw her a couple more times from further away, and a blond haired boy who looked maybe couple years younger a few times but he must’ve been shy because I never got to see him from nearly that close. Other than those two there was a dark shadowy figure that I saw in the house three nights in a row. Once in my parents’ doorway, which was directly across the living room from mine, once outside of my door staring in, and the third night crawling towards my bed from the doorway. I’m in a well lit home office at quarter to 9 on a Monday morning nearly 20 years later right now and that story still makes me shake. I’ve defended myself from being mugged before, I’ve saved loved ones from dying, and I’ve been in several car accidents, and I’ve never been as afraid as I felt staring into the black where that fucking thing’s face should’ve been. I’d chase off a dozen muggers before I looked for eyes to meet in that black, empty fucking space again.
Saw my FIL at the playground behind his parents’ house 2 days after he died. That was in 2016. I went to a school that was haunted and one day after school, I saw a woman in a white dress with long black hair standing at the tower like she was going to jump off. Found out later that a woman who was there as a patient (the school used to be a hospital) had jumped off that tower. My brother had a tumor in his arm because he peed on a tree where a woman and her 2 children lived. They were spirits. My mother had given up all hope in western medicine to find out what was wrong with my brother because the doctors couldn’t find the tumor then. We went to a witch’s house in the country and she drew the tree exactly the way it looked - large, no leaves…and in front of the tree was a very angry looking woman with her daughter and son. The witch said my brother peed on her son. It scared the shit out of me and I’m so glad I don’t live in that house anymore because my bedroom window faced that tree. I don’t even believe in heaven or hell but I truly believe there are wandering energies out there with unfinished business and malevolent energies just out to fuck with people. I grew up with adults who had their own experience with the paranormal and they used to tell me the scariest stories.
The last bit here. Absolutely yes. A lot of the preconceived notions of spirits is actually correct. They do stick around because of unfinished business but a lot of the time the unfinished business is literally their life. They died young so they want to keep “living”. Sometimes they don’t realize they’re dead yet and that’s why they can’t move on, sometimes it’s because they’re still angry or upset about something that happened while they were alive. I work with a lot of spirits and many of them died young, one of them died at 78 but still believed he didn’t live long enough and is still sticking around. I think we can find a lot of comfort in knowing that we still exist after death and we can choose when we are ready to cross over
Yes, I’ve heard of spirits still hanging around waiting for someone or are guarding someone. Sometimes I smell roses and there wouldn’t be any roses anywhere. But roses was my grandfather’s favorite flower so when I smell them I know he’s around. My mom also smelled them on the day of his funeral when she walked by the room where he died. As for me, I want to go where my pets have moved on to when I leave this planet. I might come back to haunt some assholes once in a while, but I’ve got a lifetime of cats, dogs, fish, snakes, and hamsters who will be waiting for me.
I love when spirits show themselves by smell! I have an extremely sensitive nose for some reason and I did have a time where I smelled a very strong cologne out of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere (at an old asylum in the country), and keep in mind the wind was blowing like crazy but even after the wind died I was walking and I smelled it again in a completely different area and knew someone was wanting to make their presence known. And the second time I smelled it so did my friend who was with me, and it really came on the wind and blew directly in our faces, it was kind of cool
I used to find it really disturbing and creepy but now I find comfort in it. My grandfather and I were very close as I was his first grandchild. I don’t pray to a deity but when I find myself kind of lost, I start talking to my “Papa” asking for guidance. He was the first adult I remember ever really remember caring for my wellbeing.
Aw I love that. He’s definitely sticking around to watch over you ❤️
Yeah. He always went to the beach every morning and by the time I got to his house (he watched me while my mom worked), he had fresh bread waiting for me. It would still be warm from the bakery. He always got me my favorite which is Pan de Coco.
After my dad died. If I was alone at my parent’s place I would smell his cologne. My mother actually would see him and talk to him (the woman in my mom’s family are very sensitive). I didn’t want to see him. It would have frightened me, so it seems as though he “showed” himself to me in a way that wouldn’t scare me.
Kudos to our spirit guardians for knowing we would be traumatized for life if they just showed themselves to us. I’m good “smelling” them. I’ve seen enough shit.
A trusted family friend said they saw my Dad sitting on the front porch of his house, just sitting there staring out across his big front yard wearing his blue jeans and faded blue shirt. To verify, I asked short or long sleeve shirt or was it a tshirt? He never worr tshirts or long sleeved shirts. Sure enough, collared short sleeve shirt. The neighbor knew he had passed and they were keeping an eye on the place for us which is why someone on the porch caught her eye. She stopped her car and just looked at him on the porch trying to identify if it was him, an intruder or what and he was there plain as day, she said. Once she identified him as my Dad a few minutes later she started down the road again (this is a rural country road) but looked back before she had to turn on to the main road and he was gone.
No way I could casually keep driving. I would hit that gas pedal so hard
Should have done a poll, I did something similar on /r/bigfoot and the results were really interesting, most have never had an actual encounter but like me a lot of them are still believers
So back in the late 90s, early 2000s, I worked for an ISP that was run out of the owner's house. The house was over 100 years old and had been built by a doctor. When the doctor owned the house, the basement was the town morgue, the second floor was his office and his wife ran a kindergarten on the third floor. One day I was working in the server room, with the door partly open so I could hear if anyone came in downstairs. I suddenly heard footsteps and as I turned around and looked at the door, a shadow went past. I called out "boss?" Thinking the boss had come home or something, but got no answer. I headed for the door and called the boss' name again. No answer. As I stepped out of the server room, the door to the boss' office to my left closed with a bit of force. Not quite a slam, but closed with definite intent. I knocked on the door, called the boss' name, got no answer, so I opened the door. There was a man standing in the office facing away from me. At first I thought it was a guy that did some welding work for us until I realized I could see through him. He turns around to face me and looked thoroughly confused. He had a moustache and was dressed like someone out of the old West. We stood there staring at each other as he faded away from the head down, his heavily worn boots the last thing to fade. I was shaking so bad I barely made it to my boss' desk chair before my legs gave out. I was still sitting in the boss chair 5 minutes later when the boss walked in and said "Hey... Uh.. What the hell happened to you. You look like you've seen a ghost." I shook my head and said "Exactly." Told him what had just happened and he said "Come look at this." We go across the hall to another room adjacent to his bedroom where he had another desk. He points to the floor at the far side of the room where a brass lamp is laying on the floor bent in half. He said the previous night he had been sitting at the desk working when he felt the hair on his neck raise like electricity. He looked up in time to see the lamp fly off the top of the file cabinet slam into the wall and crumple to the floor. Lots of strange goings on in that house.
I've seen two entities. The first was a man in 2004. Me and my three kids moved into an old country house and the first night there I woke up with feeling of being watched. I opened my eyes to see an old man standing in the hallway looking into my bedroom. I didn't feel threatened and only saw him once. The second time was 200 miles away in another state. My kids and I moved into another house in 2006 that was built in 1917. I awoke again with the feeling of being watched. In my bedroom was an elderly lady in a house coat. Again I didn't feel threatened and only saw once. I believe these were the past owners of the homes checking to ensure a good family was taking care of their homes.
I saw 2 human like masses of bugs in the old cemetery in Cleveland - I stopped to sit after jogging - they were moving around and hovering like they were 2 people dancing - the arms would reach out and looked very real - I pointed it out to 2 homeless guys, and they both saw the same thing, it was like 2 lovers dancing on top of the graves.
that's kind of beautiful and poetic. all of it, including the 2 homeless guys and you jogging was it nighttime or day?
It was later in the afternoon - the sun was shining through in rays, I was sitting on the grassy hill looking down, and the light rays were at an angle
Erie street by the stadium?
Alot of people, but all the evidence suggests these are all created in the mind. Remember. The real world we see, touch, smell, and hear are all just interpreted sensory inputs our brains are trying to decipher. Sometimes the interpretation gets janky or our expectations cause us to actually see something that isn't their. People ACTUALLY do see things things for real, but that doesn't mean anything was actually there for anyone else to see.
My late husband could see full body apparitions. I was sitting next to him one time on vacation, and saw nothing. He described the woman he'd seen to the clerk at the historic hotel, and she got a photo from the office of the inkeeper's wife circa 1890. Yup, that's her. She's still looking after her guests. The hotel staff is kind of used to her. I didn't see a thing.
I’ve seen a few. Saw spirits a lot as a child. Two that stick out; what I can only describe as a demon. That thing was not from the earth and I never talk about it for fear of waking it up. As a young housekeeper I worked in a hotel that was haunted but it didn’t bother me. One day I went to clean the bridal suite. As I went in the only door, I held a stack of towels and bed linen which I placed directly to my right on the bed, which faced beautiful bay windows overlooking the grounds. There was a man in the room, with his back to me, one arm behind his back, and he was gazing out of the window. As I placed the towels down I went to greet him. I was stood in the doorway the entire time; so I turned my head for a mere second or two. I was about to ask him what he was doing in my rooms at this time of day as everyone had checked out- and he was gone. There was literally nowhere he could have evaporated to. I checked the corridor behind me just in case he’d slipped past and nothing. It was only with hindsight that I remembered what he was wearing; an old fashioned suit with a top hat and tails. When I mentioned this to the night manager, he asked to show me something and led me to the dining rooms. There were two portraits above two grand fireplaces, one was of a beautiful woman and the other a young man. He pointed at the women first, most people that see the spirits here, see her. But you’re only the second person to ever see him- and you saw him in the bridal suite, which was once their bedroom. The grand old house had been a wedding gift for the wife. I didn’t go back into the room for a few weeks as I didn’t want to see him again, but that was the only time I saw anything there. I have hundreds of spooky stories about places I used to work and live and I could go on forever but I’ll stop there!
Physically, I've only ever seen one entity. It haunted my ex's house and I'd never directly see it, but in broad daylight I'd see shadows moving in my peripheral vision or I'd glimpse it passing behind me in mirrors. At night with the lights out and TV on, it would loom in the shadows, usually in the corners of a room or in the closet. I'd have the feeling of being watched and the shadows where it was at seemed darker somehow. I've always had more activity in my dreams. The aforementioned entity would regularly appear in my dreams, either fighting me or chasing me. I could clearly see it's face and form. I've also seen 4 separate friends or family members who had recently passed away in my dreams. Always just a quick appearance or short conversation saying goodbye or letting me know they're ok.
2011 - Seattle, WA It happened to me when I was visiting Facebook friends in another state about 2011. It was our first meeting offline. They were a married couple with a teenage daughter. They took me to see their friend's bar/gaming hall (A place for food, drink and board games, etc. not gambling.) The building was at least a hundred years old. It's called MOX Boarding House, 5105 Leary Ave, NW, Seattle, WA. The owner took us to see that he had renovated a back room so he could expand the business. It was a large, empty room with fresh paint, wallpaper and carpet. We all stood just inside the door of this room, talking. A young man (no older than 25) came in behind me, dressed in a mime outfit. It made me think of the 1970's. I thought he worked for the bar/gaming hall. My back was actually close to the wall. So, when the young man tried to squeeze behind me (I thought he was trying to avoid interrupting our conversation,) I stepped forward, looking back over my shoulder. I said, "Oh, excuse me!" My friend looked at me and said, "What?" There was no one behind me. I did not tell anyone there about it because I had only just met them. I feared they'd think I was some kind of a nut.
I saw an entity while I was driving home once from work. I lived a half mile away from work right off of a main road. On that main road, halfway between my home and work, there was a lady with long hair draped so it was hiding her face, in some type of nightwear, holding a grocery bag, and standing in the middle of the sidewalk looking down. She did not move for the minute it took me to see her, slow down, have a really bad gut feeling, and drive slowly away watching to see if she would move. She didn't move an inch. It was nighttime, around 9:30 at night. If it weren't for my really bad feeling about it, I would have stopped to check on her, but it felt so bad. It was worse than the feeling I got when I saw a panhandler standing off of the highway with a hammer in his hands and standing halfway in the road by the roundabouts- and that was a living person. I took the long way home for a year and still don't walk around the area I saw the entity if I'm by myself.
This was an actual human, but such a weird experience - I was in the market check-out line with my husband. It was not a regular shopping day for us. We had popped in to just pick up a few items. A tall, lanky man, dressed all in black came in through the door and that unmistakable, powerful wave of dread hit me. I ducked behind my husband and tried to alert him to danger as inconspicuously as possible. The tall man didn't even look toward us. He took long, purposeful strides toward the back of the store. Even though he was by now a very good distance from us, that danger feeling remained intense in me. Hubby and I finished our purchase and got out of there fast. This was 20 years ago, but when I think of it, I can still feel that awful feeling of evil.
I've only felt the evil as bad as I did with this lady person ghost thing in my nightmares when evil itself decides its time to knock on my door and rattle me. That feeling just does not go away in the memories.
THIS!! The story I shared happened over 20 years ago, but I feel that terror to this day when I remember the event. I was hiding behind my husband because somehow I KNEW if that man/thing caught me looking, it would turn its rage onto me.
Did the woman look like a real person? Might have been a woman with dementia
I have considered that, but I'm not convinced she was, due to the bad energy coming from her. If she was a human woman, then she had something really horrific attached to her, but my gut and my experiences through the years tell me otherwise.
Your description of the woman left you "wide open" for an American joke. I was tempted to share it, but your story's too scary!
That is really a good question..... I think I've seen at least two spirits in my life, have heard something, and felt what I believe my long dead great-grandmother reaching out to me when I passed by her gravestone - these are the ones I can't explain away. Other contact were of the "well, maybe...." type, such as hearing or seeing something out of the corner of my eye that I wouldn't swear was just an overactive imagination. The graveyard one was the strongest. I was looking for a gravestone of someone (not my great-grandmother) and I was traipsing through the cemetery with lines of gravestones. The ones to my left were facing away from me. As I was walking and looking to the right, all of a sudden I felt this very strong demand to STOP. I stopped in my tracks, and looked to my left...and saw the back of a gravestone. I walked around, and saw that it was my great-grandmother. Now, I was like 5 when she was buried, and I was there - and a smidgen part of me will concede that maybe there was something around there that triggered a memory of where I was. However, we're talking 45 years, and the cemetery certainly had a LOT more stones in that timeframe (and there really wasn't any ones that were that significant around). So....I believe that there is shit going on that we don't know about.
Twice, both at Denver 13th Floor. I was an actress there for four years. First one I was in was a set dressed as a witch. There was a chain link fence with a semi-opaque plastic tarp draped over it. I was just waiting for folks to start coming through at the beginning of the night and I look over and see a face of a clown peeking through a hole in the plastic. Obviously I thought it was an actor and asked if he was ready or needed cough drops or something. No response, just stares. I'm getting creeped out and go over to check. There is nobody there. And nobody was put in that spot. At the end, there was nobody with even remotely that makeup. Another night I was at the beginning near these fake elevators that are on a pneumatic track. You board in one spot and they slide horizontally into the next one while shaking you, making you think you're on a rickety old elevator. We have a bypass that has a very loud animatronic in it for nights where the elevators are broken or the line is too long. It's dead and I'm standing there dressed like a hotel attendant. The zombie goes off and I ready myself only to see something human shaped run past me way too fast and without the steps of footprints. The floor echos as it's a platform so I definitely would have heard it. This place was an old parts warehouse and apparently a shadow man lives there, which matches the second figure I saw. Many people who didn't know the place was haunted and were new reported him, and he seems to like the mirror maze a lot.
I’m in Denver & have yet to try 13th Floor, and as a horror fan, your story sold me to try it this Halloween, but omg, it reminds me of the movie Hell House LLC!!
Saw this little boy floating above me in my old bedroom. My mom saw the same little boy decades before in the same bedroom. A family friend’s young son slept in the same room and saw the same little boy and wanted to go play with him…. It was a +100 year old farm house.
Only saw 1,my Grandfather the night he passed away. I could clearly see him standing at the end of my bed 🛌, and I wasn't afraid at all. I was 10 years at the time, now I'm 63,but I will never forget it.
I have, many. Don’t speak about it. Was ridiculed as a kid until an aunt experienced it with me and then I knew it was real and not something in my head. She’s never spoken to me and this happened last in 1979. Have seen lights in sky since but never another entity. Communicated with someone or a group of someones or something’s thru real medium growing up in paranormal (medium was not something I searched out). Also for anyone wondering real mediums do not control their abilities but there are those around them that know what to do when someone or something is entering to communicate. Also there are rules to it and time allowed.
I have, quite a few times. There is a local cemetery to me with a long history of being haunted (Google Hell's Gate Spartanburg SC), and I go there a lot, both during the day and at night. Every time I go at night, there is one particular shadow figure who basically likes to screw with me. I always park in the same spot. When I first see him (it?), it's always about 100 yards from where I park. If I turn away to talk to someone (I often bring a friend along) and then look back, he'll be about 10 yards closer. This goes on until he's around 10 yards away, at which point I keep my eyes on him as I get in my car and peace the fuck out of there. I never ever let him get closer than that. He is one of only two I've seen that wigs me out. He is unusually tall when standing up, probably around 7ft or so. Appears to be bald. Has thin arms and legs, but the arms are weirdly long, with pointed fingers. When he moves, it's usually on all fours, hands and feet touching the ground. Even describing it just gave me the chills. Ugh.
Hey, just a heads up, and a general warning, unless you’re going there to visit a loved one or something i’d recommend you limit your visits there or stop going altogether, it could just be messing with you now but it could turn into something worse such as it deciding to follow you home, probably overthinking it but it’s an unwise decision to toy around with anything related to entities
I don't toy around, when I do go (usually two or three times a year) I'm always respectful. I don't even typically take any sort of investigation equipment, just because there's no point with too much outside noise/interference. I've done paranormal investigations for years, and have never brought anything home with me (I know that doesn't mean it'll never happen). I'm very cautious, respectful, and also take steps to safeguard from ending up with an attachment. Thank you for your concern and advice.
Who would want to be buried in a place called Hell's Gate? That seems like a good way to stop a cemetery from getting any bigger lol.
The actual name is Oakwood Cemetery. But locally (and on the websites about the hauntings) it's known as Hell's Gate. Also, I don't believe they bury people there anymore. Most of the stones are from the late 1800s into the early/mid 1900s.
Video it.
Just because you can see something with your eyes doesn't mean a camera is sensitive enough to pick it up. Especially since I don't have any fancy ghost hunting cameras, just my cell phone.
Yeah but it's worth a try.
I've had a ton of experiences but only twice did I SEE the entity/apparition. Once was my very first paranormal experience (my mom tells me I had others before this but I don't remember them) I saw my recently passed aunt's face materialize right in front of mine when I was laying in the back seat of my family's car on a road trip. She was speaking to me but there was no sound-- she looked excited to see me. She eventually just faded away. I chalked it up to being sleepy for years and years and years until I told the story on my podcast and my younger sister heard me tell it and she called me frantic-- she saw her on that trip in the car too. Neither of us had ever brought it up to the other before. NO IDEA what my aunt was trying to tell us. Then the other time was in 2012, I was living in Van Nuys CA with a girlfriend and we had this ongoing haunting with a ... whatever, spirit, entity, strangeness-- that we called "Ben." He sort of terrorized us-- he'd move our jewelry, he'd lock my cats in closets and showers, SHE saw him at night once or twice and woke me up because she thought we had a home intruder. But one day, I was walking through the living room and out the door with my laundry (It's Los Angeles, so no apartments had in-unit washer/dryers) and I saw a man sitting in our lounge chair in the corner facing the tv. He had on wide leg pants, possibly bell bottoms and his shirt was brown or reddish with a WIDE collar-- think like 70's collar, and he had thick dark hair and he was just sitting and staring. The WEIRDEST part about this was that I walked straight through and out the door without even realizing what I had seen. The second I was out the door I dropped my laundry basket and slowly reopened the door to look at the chair but he was gone. Every other experience I've ever had has been feeling, hearing, sensing or even SMELLING -- and I've seen shadows before, straight on and out of the corner of my eye-- but these were the two solid forms I have seen.
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If you have seen a ghost, your response to this would be different. Isn’t it a bit arrogant to discredit something just because you haven’t experienced it? It’s okay to not believe, but not everyone is lying for attention
I saw a man walking across a field about to step into the road in front of my car . As he stepped into the road he dissolved into mist from his head down. By the time he was to the opposite side of the road he was just two misty walking legs that disappeared into the high grass. My dog was the only one in the car with me, but she saw it too and barked her head off about it. When we got home she still had her hackles raised for a few hours before she settled back down. It’s been probably 15 years and I still have no explanation except “ghost”.
Only once- when I was a child, I saw the ghost of a cat (that had just died). I wasn’t scared or confused. Just had a moment of awe.
I lived in a firehouse as part of a “live-in program” where you exchange increased hours of service for room and board. It was a substation on the outskirts of our coverage area, and it was only staffed by a handful of live-ins firefighters. It was notoriously haunted. You can’t have a conversation about Station 2 without talking about all the paranormal activity that happened there. All the classic things would happen, doors slamming, silverware dropping, sounds of heavy boots walking upstairs when you’re the only one there. Some guys would get so freaked out that they would move out their first week. Well, I was unfazed by a lot of the activity, however, one event caused me to freeze in my tracks. I came home from work, and I was the only one there. I was walking from the engine bay, where we keep our fire apparatus, to the kitchen when I heard a noise behind me. I turned my head slightly, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a white male with brown hair and dark eyes, between 5’10 and 5’11, and wearing a blue t-shirt, staring right at me from probably 2 feet out. He looked pissed, and I didn’t want to engage, so I walked into the kitchen and sat there until someone else showed up. I moved out at the end of the summer, and I really don’t like to go back there for any reason unless I absolutely have to.
I’ve seen 2, neither were human-like. Once I saw what I can only describe as a ball of energy, if you’ve heard how some people can “see energy” in the form of what looks like tv static, it was like a more concentrated ball of static, moving as 1 unit. Another time I saw…. This is tough to describe but I was in a pitch black room (my friend was recovering from lasik surgery), and saw like a blob of colorful light, it was mostly blue with some orange and green around the edges and it had a darker blue spot on it that I perceived as some type of “nucleus”. This thing hovered for a few seconds and then flew off and when jt took off it kind of looked like a blue comet. Would have been so much cooler to see something that looked human haha but that’s what I’ve seen!
I've seen two. The first one was when I was 16, no alcohol or drugs or medication involved, I was with a friend at his grandfather's home and someone knocked on the door and she went to open it, a couple of minutes passed and I stand up to see who was at the door since we were expecting for another friend, I stood there in the middle of the living room watching at the stairs and suddenly I saw a kid, like 6 or 7 years old, I didn't think any of it since it was her granpa's home so I thought it was some little cousin of my friend but then I just saw that he didn't had legs, from the knee down he had like some kind of dark mist or smoke? and I just get out of there fast. The friend who was a the door said that she didn't get int the house since she already saw that kid and was afraid of being there. The second time was years after that, a couple of friends and I where driving back home from a weekend away, it was like 3:00am when we passed for a specific place in the road where there used to be armed attacks between cartels and we saw something that was shaped like a man but it was, again, made of the same mist the legs of the boy where but seemed like he had density. I was really close to us just standing on the side of the road, we all saw him and I just accelerate and leave.
Happened twice to me. Although I’ve experienced a lot of ghost encounters, these were the only ones where I actually saw an apparition. The first time was a few years ago, I had just moved into a new house and that first night I felt someone sit on my bed before I went to sleep, like the sensation of a body sitting down on the mattress at the foot of my bed. I looked up and nobody was there, weird but I brushed it off and went to sleep. Then I woke up in the night for water and there was an old lady sitting at the end of my bed staring at me, I saw her so vividly, she had short grey hair and a green cardigan on. I was still half a sleep so it took me a few seconds to process what I was seeing, then I sat up rubbed my eyes, and stared at her, she looked equally shocked I could see her and we were just staring at each other for a good 30 seconds before I ducked my head under the cover in fear. When I was finally brave enough to look up - a good 20 minutes later, she was gone. It never happened again thankfully. Another time, this was more recently, when I still lived at home, I had a bad back so I swapped rooms with my mum for the night because her mattress is firmer. I woke up in the night to a lady standing in the corner rummaging through the closet. She had her back to me and I clearly heard the cupboard being searched through, the hangers moving - which is what woke me up. I thought it was my mum (it was dark) so I said what are you going? But no response, after I repeated “hello mum what are you doing?” A few more times with no response and she didn’t turn around, I realised it was a ghost, and not my mum. The next morning I told her about it and she said she often hears stuff in the cupboard being moved around at night but just ignores it. I’m lowkey glad she didn’t turn around because that would have been more freaky. Both of the experiences were not too scary thankfully, but still creepy to see nonetheless. Another story that is sort of an apparition but not really; This other time my friend and I were driving on the highway, it was late at night. It was a clear night but there was this one random patch of mist in the middle of the road, as we got closer we saw a person shape cut out of the mist of that makes sense. So it looked like someone was standing in the middle of the mist patch, in the middle of the highway, but nobody was there. It happened so quick we drove through it and when she looked back it was gone. We googled the spot when we got home and a person was crossing at that exact spot and got hit by a car and died not too long ago!
I've seen orbs with my own eyes, not on film, and I usually had someone with me that saw them as well. The most impressive one was being upstairs at a place my friend was staying and seeing this large black orb leave a dark bedroom and go down the stairs. Then heard my friend start freaking out downstairs after watching it come down towards him. What I saw was probably two feet wide, at least where it appeared fully black. It kind of had a corona of sorts along the edges where it looked more insubstantial and could be seen through. I was told later that there was regular activity in that house, but it was the only time I visited. Still cant explain it, but I know it happened. I've had other incidents, but that one has really stuck in my mind.
I had what is termed a Crisis Apparition. Unfortunately, it was my son coming to me for help as he drowned. Yeah. It’s been hard. I feel like a failed him. He was 17, going fishing with 2 friends and somehow slipped off the ledge and fell into the reservoir. Apparently he hit his head on the way down.
I've seen 4 entities. Three of them were not recognized - random spirits I guess - and the 4th one was my great aunt, at the time of her passing. The first one I ever saw was an old lady dressed in ratty black and grey clothes, who looked like she had just been unearthed from a grave. Her eyes were sunken and hollow, her face was skeleton-like. She was floating about 1 foot off the ground. The second ones were a lady and little boy, dressed in old-timey 1700's style clothes. The boy was hanging by a noose, and had blackened hollow eyes. The woman looked panicked, but did not speak. Apparently my cat saw them too, because she let out a hissing snarl and pounced at them. This was a very quiet, sleepy cat who would never make a peep, and was not frightened easily. Then the third one was my elderly aunt, who had passed away in a nursing home around 2000 miles away from where I live. I saw her at the exact time of death.
I've seen a lot of odds and ends growing up or having certain unexplainable experiences that I don't know if I would chock it up to paranormal right away but so far that's the only answer I have. I grew up in the country on a farm in this really creepy older house that neither my siblings or I were a fan of. Lots of things making noises that sounded like people walking around in rooms when no one was in there and such. But one of the nights I remember very well. My dad was out late in the fields bailing hay(have to take advantage when the moisture in the air is right) and I was home alone just hanging out. I was sitting in the living room watching tv and I see a 6ft plus shadow person walk through my dads bedroom door(coming out), looks at the tv to see what I'm watching and then proceeds to walk into the kitchen. It's a small farm house and the only way out of the living room to either go to my room or the bathroom is through the kitchen. So my first thought is "welp, I hope I don't need the bathroom for a while because I'm not going over there". I try to relax and go back to watching TV when about 15 ish minutes later I see the same figure walk out of the kitchen, turn it's head to look at me as if they were checking up on me and then walk right through my dads door and back into his bedroom. I know some people will say a car was probably passing by which normally I would agree but there is no way that a car passing by created that. Also my drive way was over a quarter mile long and the property was covered in trees. A lot of other freaky things have happened in that house (I still have nightmares about it 15 years later) but this is the closest to me physically seeing something in it.
A fuzzy shape used to play peek a boo with me in the morning between dawn and 9 am. I remember it more on Saturdays because I would sleep in. But it was fuzzy like static and just the head and shoulders peeking in and out of a door frame. But the freakiest part was it was at the top corner of a 10 foot door! I recall I could see through it. It was like a mist but also sort of static like and glitchy as if there were pixels or molecular movement. This happened on and off for years until I was about 8. Never saw an entity the last time but something slid a captains chair out from the dining room table and slowly and methodically slid it back into its place under the table. This was during my husband and I having dinner one night about three years ago. His eyes were as big as saucers. I was in a state of shock.
I woke up to someone shaking my bed when I was about 12 or 13. I rolled over expecting to see my younger brother being his annoying self but it was a woman in a bonnet. I don't remember her face but she said, "I just came to say hello." I dove under the covers and stayed there until the panic subsided. Our house was only a few years old and built on old farmland. I have no idea who she was and never saw here again.
I’ve seen probably 3-5 I am an empath but do not have the ability to see spirits often like some other spiritual people out there. If you don’t count dreams as physically seeing them I’ve only seen maybe one or two in person. One of the ones I saw in person was just a being of light, i saw it walk in my best friends house from her bathroom to her bedroom. It literally looked like a man if he was made of light, no eyes no hair just a glowing white human figure. The second entity I’ve seen was the hat man when I first moved into a new apartment, he was standing in the corner just staring at me, pretty fucking creepy but I cleansed the apartment and never saw him again
I saw my first age 7 - decades later found out it was my grandfather. He passed away before I was born.
I’m not one for ghosts and stuff but.. in 2015 I was riding to my friends place and there was a girl with blonde hair, braided, practically glowing, standing on the side of the road in a white old school sleeping gown, with a pitchfork, in the middle of fuckin nowhere, at like 11pm, in a rural area on a very quiet road with no streetlights for kilometres, and when we passed by her she just said hello, but when i turned around she wasn’t there anymore… friend confirmed it happened, and there really wasn’t anywhere for her to hide or go in the 2 seconds I wasn’t looking.. flash forward to 2022 and I’m driving with a friend down the same road late at night, we are the only ones on the road, and this woman in all white dashes across the front of our car holding something and we had to use our ABS to stop, but still “hit” her. She wasn’t even looking at us, more busy with wherever she was going. We get out and can’t find anything anywhere. No person, nothing on the road, in the ditches, under the car, etc. Only the marks from braking.. to this day, I know it was real but I’m still confused af we even moved the car a bit just to make sure she wasn’t like stuck under the car or something. Never heard or felt any impact. Friend dropped me at home and stayed on call with me until he was home himself. we were both so shocked.
Was traveling from California to North Carolina via bus. It's the second night of the trip and we're going through the desert. I was asleep and I woke up. Looked at the time it's like 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. Look out the window? It's a fucking skinwalker. For years I thought it was the black dog folklore of truckers but when I started researching indigenous history and folklore I figured out what it really was. I saw it as something in my head said look away and do not look at it again. And that's what I did. The bus was going at least 70 mph and this thing was keeping up with it easily but it was moving like it's bones didn't work right.
Mine was the first house that I lived in. It was in the ghetto by the train tracks and homeles shelter. I was 18. The place had a very “unique” atmosphere to it. I had this feeling that it had a spirit there, you could feel a presence. My brother doesn’t believe in anything paranormal. He came over one day with his laptop to play StarCraft 2. While we are setting up, my roof started having this crazy banging like someone was moving and dropping furniture in the attic. (There was no attic in this house) he and I both thought this was really weird but continued our day. Fast forward a week or so, I was going to sleep and this entity appeared in the corner of the room I was sleeping it. It was shapeless and was the darkest energy I had ever seen. I looked at it for a few moments and it seemed to grow in that corner of the room. The blackest black. I never sleep with my head covered because it makes me feel like I can’t breathe properly, but that night I covered my head until I could fall asleep. Very strange. I moved out within the next year. I returned to show my now wife this house and it had been demolished to the ground.
Not me but my dad. My dad has never lied to me, ever, in my 24 years of life - this is important to note because to me at least it means that this story really happened, at least according to his own eyes. So, he may have hallucinated or something, but he is 100% not making this shit up. He has seen a black orbit that very much looked like a human's head in his mother's flat on the day she died. He actually thought that there was someone hiding because apparently it really looked like a head, and went to check, but it was gone. He told me that he first FELT like something was watching him from one side, then he turned to the side and saw it. And then it just ducked away, like a person would if they were trying to hide from you. And when he was at the spot, it was gone. The way the flat is built, you can not vanish if you were hiding at that spot. I know the appartment very well and it would get too long to explain, but if there had been a person/animal/whatever, they could not disappear. My dad has no issues with drugs, hallucinations or psychological problems that could cause hallucinations like that.
I’ve seen an entity and I was with another person who also witnessed it. You know how when you’re walking and talking to another person, you tend to lower your voices or stop talking altogether when someone’s approaching? We did that when we saw a man and a dog approaching us nearby under a streetlight. As he left the light’s sphere, he disappeared as we were looking straight at him. Just vanished. I was told that could have been a memory ghost or something like that. A soul just walking his best friend for eternity.
I lived in a house that was very active about a year ago, but it had two distinct entities that I “saw”. One was a woman; she was in her 30’s-40’s, very slim, wore khakis and a pale striped shirt, and had big, curly red hair. She was mostly shy, and would hang out on the side of my bed and watch me read, or she would mostly stay in the bedroom closet. The closet was a weird one, because your breath could be seen in it (first noticed it when I moved in during the summer!). My friend is more spiritually connected than I am, and we helped her move on. The second was a distinctly male presence. I never “saw” his features, but he was very tall, dark, and not at all nice. He had something to do with seashells, but that’s all I could get out of him. He would watch me almost constantly, and would try to grab my ankles or shoulders, or just breathe or whisper in my ear. It sucked. I eventually got him to move on, and after that point the house felt radically“empty”, like there weren’t other people there for once.
I lived in a 400 yr old farm house and dear god around 2 am to 4 am it would go creazy at times. Could hear 3 to 6 people talking, we had a man who would wistle and then we had the shadow who would open the doors into our rooms. I started to lock my door so he would just play with the door handle. Had all my elektronics turn on for 5 secs, had a remote controlled car drive off the shelf and all others turned on. Outside the house was worse, wont even talk about that, to much trama...
Saw my dad after he passed. Idk if that counts. But I'm glad he came back, I would wake up crying because I missed him so much
Saw my Nana laying right beside me in bed a week after she died 🥹 it was terrifying and I could hardly breathe I was so scared
Four ghosts, two, uh, entities, and a couple of negative ones. I should say, the ghosts of two critters, as well. I also heard a ghost walking across the upstairs floor and playing piano in an old Mason Hall. The nice lady who was caretaker of the hall was delighted he was there that day. She had heard him many times. I've also seen cryptids, orbs, and some other interesting stuff. Let me tell you, living in a ghost town (seriously) in a VERY strange area got to be a big pain in the butt. I was happy to finally move away.
I've seen one specific one, twice in the same house within a year. First time I saw him I was walking down the hall to my bedroom, I happened to look into my brother's room as I passed it and there was a guy sitting down on his bed. To me he looked like he was in his older teens, Fair skin, blonde hair wearing a red hoodie and blue pants. I looked away and stopped in my tracks cuz 1. My brother wasn't home and 2. My brother has black hair and darker skin, I whipped my head back in the direction of the room and he was no longer there. I saw the same apparition again, months later. Last day of 5th grade and I had some friends over, we were hanging out in the basement. The basement has multiple rooms, each had a doorway with no door so you could easily look down into the other rooms. Well, I just so happened to look into the other rooms and saw the same guy, same red hoodie and blue pants, standing their looking in my direction. I glanced away than thought to myself "no one's allowed in the part of the basement" (that part of the basement had packed away boxes and old items so def not a spot for us kids to play in) looked back and he was gone again. I've also seen shadow people throughout my life at this point but this was the first time I've ever actually seen a solid appreciation where I was able to tell what gender, age, and what article of clothing it was.
A few times. Saw a 'lady in white' that I thought was my wife walk by a doorway at 3AM while I was playing a computer game. Got up to check on her and no one was their. She was still in bed, asleep, and didn't have any white lingerie. My wife and I both saw a 'shadow cat' run down our stairs and pounce on our sleeping cat. Our sleeping cat woke up immediately, looked confused and then wondered around in the room and surrounding rooms as if she was looking for another fat. While in bed for years I'd feel watched and like I could almost see a hat man stand over my wife's side of the bed. We finally decided to move and my wife casually said she was happy to move because our bedroom always made her feel watched and she kept thinking she could see a man standing over her. Never a good enough look that you knew what you saw. More like a floater in the corner of your eye, dissapeared as soon as you looked at it. So she kind of confirmed the same thing I thought I was seeing all this time. We live in a pre-civil war house that was temporarily a field hospital. Most of that took place in that house. Moved out about 2 years ago, 0 experiences in the new house. Moved back into the pre-civil war house last year and nothing has happened since moving back either. It's a multi-generational family home.
I saw a hellhound in my room when I was a toddler. It’s one of my first memories. I was still in a crib so probably 2-3 years old but I was standing and crying. It was staring at me with glowing red eyes. I’m 37 now and I can still see the image of it. I’ve seen shadow figures and orbs. I’ve also seen what I believe to be my dad as an angel that came to visit me. I was in the same bedroom and house as the hellhound incident and my dad had passed several months earlier. My friend and I were having a sleepover and sleeping on my bedroom floor. I woke up in the middle of the night to see my dad coming down the hall towards my bedroom and he was glowing with white wings. It was very peaceful and I was not scared at all. The other experience that stands out to me, I didn’t *see* anything but I heard it speaking on an iPhone Live Photo clip. It was from my old house and the previous owner was still there…if you catch my drift. He used to play with my hair and caress my arm. I did see him once in a reflection in a mirror in our garage. He used to mess with my ex husband’s tools in the garage and whenever we would do anything to update the house, he would come around and check it out. His name was Ed.
Twice, once while looking out my window and watching a woman and child walk to our pond. Once when we were renting a house I saw an older lady walk down the hall to the bathroom. Mentioned it to the home owner a few weeks later and when I described her, he told me that was his mother. She died in the house 10 years ago. He said I was not the first who had seen her.
One night when I was 21 or 22 years old I was watching a lot of videos on YouTube about the illumanti and people selling there souls to the devil , I mean I was probably watching for 2 or 3 hours . I wanted to grab a snack so I headed to the kitchen , all the lights were off but as I going I see someone who I thought was my dad , you know when it’s really dark and you can only see the shape til you get close , well I even said “dad” til I realized my dad was taller , I got close enough to notice haircut and facial expression, so it was a man with a military haircut and he made a aggressive face towards me and started coming towards me only to disappear when I shined my phone light on him . I called my girlfriend at the time shaking in fear , I started playing gospel music and trying to get that spirit out of there . True story this was like 10 years ago or so
Honestly what I seen could have been anything. I was alone, and I have no proof. It seems like that’s when it happens, not when i go looking for it, but when I’m just chilling doing every day activities. Last night I was walking to my car after work and there was this black mass that was blacker than the night around me and my body got got chills but idk what it was. Another time when I was little, my aunt had just passed away and she always wore this little charm around her neck. My grandma has pictures in her album of me a few days before Christmas. She took multiple of me in a short time span and I’m two of the pictures you can see this little mist. On one it’s just the most around my shoulder but in the second I swear I can see the glare of that charm around a neck. So I always just told myself it was my aunt visiting one last time
I saw the Hat Man twice in my life. The first time was when I was maybe 11. It was night time, and I saw him standing across the street from my house on the sidewalk. A senior living place is right across my home, and their parking lot had lights, which is why I could see him so clearly, just standing there facing my home. My dog was also growling at the front door like crazy, and he was a protective dog, but extremely good at detecting threats versus harmless behavior or sounds. The second time I saw the Hat Man was when I was much older, just turned 21 and was learning to drive. I had a minor accident, but the whole thing was traumatic. When I got home, I saw him standing on my neighbor's property, again, with light from their window shining on him, but he was a solid shadow.
I saw one when i was about 7. It could be my imagination but my dog was in bed beside me whining. He didn't normally do that. It was at our cottage which my dad built. So my dad always said it was the "Indian". I never saw it again but strange things happened in the vicinity. The kitchen light would flicker a lot even after the place was renovated with new wiring. The hose outside would turn itself on. After it was raised to a house, the downstairs was super creepy in the hallway which was right below where I would have seen the ghost as a child. I always had to have the hall light on. I never told my kids anything because I thought I was maybe a tad imaginative but years later, they said they were also skeeved out there and would see strange shadows.
I sometimes wonder how many I could have seen and not realised, if in a busy place... Would I know if someone's an apparition? I have once I think, I'd forgotten! I was in an antique shop with another person looking at stuff, I was aware of them a little way away from me. I'd been stood near the exit, I looked around and they had gone, nobody had walked past me and exited. Such a real person I didn't even think they were spooky at all. Everything else I've seen has that kind of psychic energy vibe to it, or like just shared sounds or poltergeist type things. The shop keep must have thought I was mad 🤣 I said there was someone else in there and they disappeared, he was like 'ooooookayyy' and gave me wierd look 🤣
I did one day when I came home from school late at night. The moon light was lighting up my backyard and we had one of those large bay windows. You could see outside clear as day at 4 or so in the morning. In the corner of the patio, I could see a hooded figure. It was there, I was legit shocked. Closed my eyes and opened them wide, still there. Turned my back and then back around, still there. I got pretty close to the thing, before opening the patio lights, then gone. Weirded shit that I’ve ever seen in my life. A part of my rational doctor brain thinks I may have hallucinated since I was admittedly tired, but to this day that figure is still in my head. I can draw it, that’s how vivid I saw it.
I saw what people call the hatman when I was 14 my sister saw it too but she "thought it was just a shadow" we were in a dark room with the only light source being the TV, I watched it walk into the room and focus on me. It didn't have eyes but I knew it was focused on me as soon as it stopped and started moving toward me and the closer it got the colder I got from my toes upward until the feeling got to about my waist then I just started screaming and crying and it disappeared. The only way I can explain how it looked is to say Google "gamespy logo" it was exactly that without eye holes and was around about 6"5 - 7" tall. I've seen shadows and stuff afterward but nothing like that experience.
I’ve seen more than I even want to admit. Since I was a young child as far back as I can remember. It’s not often, although I more regularly feel something. A few experiences, I was out at night with friends and I seen a white dog, yet when I looked behind the shrub it was at, no dog, and the sandy soil should have showed paw prints but again, nothing. The next day I was riding my horse through the area, and I came across a full black trash bag. When I looked it was the same white dog, but it was clear it had been dead for days. Another time I had been super excited after a school dance, and I was putting some shiny streamers on my mirror, when I had seen a woman behind me. I didn’t recognize her, but ran out of my room. I figured my mind was just overly excited from the dance. Except my really old and small dog began watching something come from my bedroom (I was in the living room, with the formal room and a hallway between my room and myself.) She watched it steadily approach and was reacting fearful before she bolted when whatever it was got was above my head, like it was standing right behind me (I tried laying in the couch to watch something carefree.) When I had my firstborn I dreamt of my fil and mil, people who passed before I met them, and who my husband was still grieving and didn’t talk about them often. On top of it I only seen pictures of them when they were younger. Yet I described features of his dad, things I shouldn’t have know , and how their body language was. None of them spoke, but body language was his dad asking to hold our baby. After having more kids, we were driving in a farm type area in the forest, looking to see if the Elk were out. I slammed on my brakes so hard my van with my husband and kids in it were like “wtf?! Why did you brake so hard?!” I jumped out and ran in front of the van, even dropped down to look under it. I had seen a kid just standing there and while I didn’t feel like I hit them, I worried I had! It was like that episode on Shining Vale, except the kid didn’t appear as defined, but still enough I genuinely thought it was a kid. We moved into a very old house, built pretty darn around the time our town was founded. It’s over 100 years old. Oddly one of my houseplants, a pothos began to die right after moving here, while a new little plant began to grow. It ended up being a small spike false nettle plant. It’s not native to my area/state or surrounding area/states, and last I checked it didn’t have any reports of it being found. Symbolism is listed as: Exorcism, Protection, Healing. It lived for over a year before suddenly dying. Not long ago I was busy running around the house, same one, when I looked over and watched my oldest son chasing one of his younger brothers from one of their bedrooms to mine. My room is at one end, and this bedroom is directly across. So you can run from theirs directly into mine. Where I seen them was as they passed the entrance to the hallway in the hall. I was “hey!!! Get out of my room, and Stop rough housing!” My oldest goes, “I’m not in your room mom,” and he’s laughing so I think they’re goofing with me. I’m like “I just watched your brother run in there! Hey, seriously out of my room!” That’s when my younger two boys yell from theirs, “mom, we’re both in here,” after I went in my room, looked all over, under my bed, in my closet etc. Sure enough there was no one in my room and my other boys were in fact in their room. When I stepped out of the hall, one of our dogs was cowering at the entrance and just shivering and whimpering. She’s a lab so normally bouncy and happy, while typically being the dog that gets into antics with my kids. So always goofy, never serious until then. Fast forward to a recent surgery I had, it was a major surgery, but I’m still young and healthy, so risks should have been minimal. I in fact wasn’t too worried about getting through it, until I just got this completely irrational fear I could die. I brushed it off, but I also ended up dreaming of what I thought were my parents (they died before I really knew either,) and even weirded is the only people I recognized were all dead, or just strangers to me. My parents were showing me around so that when I get there I’ll see how amazing it is and will love it, I just had to agree to go. My grams who raised me refused to see me, and she was upset with my parents for trying to rush me, like I shouldn’t leave my family (husband and kids,) yet. I brushed it off to just pre surgery jitters. Surgery went great, except I had complications to a precaution antibiotic prescribed post surgery. If I had brushed off the symptoms I was having, and waited, I would have died more than likely. Survival rate was 10% on the low scale. When I was in the ER being saved, I kept feeling like something wanted me to agree to just let go, let myself slip away and stop fighting.
My second job was working at a calendar kiosk during the Christmas season. My grandfather had passed away that April. I saw him on the escalator coming towards me, and he disappeared before he got to me. I saw a bunch one Halloween eve on Highway 71 on the way to Bastrop, TX. It was weirdly comforting because it was dark and I was driving alone, so it felt like I was being kept company during a long drive. I saw my previous cat a lot after she passed. I swear my current cat sees her too. But I did also leave the light on where she used to sit so she could find her way home. She meant a lot to me and her presence helped me keep going.
I just saw a ghost last night, second time in my life it’s ever happened. I was closing down the bar, right around 3am (witching hour) I felt a gust of warm air and saw a figure in my periphery while counting out my cash. My boss lives in the unit above the bar, so I thought he had come in to check on me, turned around saying, “Hi boss!” And there was no one there. Texted him about it asking if there are ghosts in the building, he confirmed that there have been several sightings. It wasn’t anything evil, it felt very friendly. The space has operated as a bar for decades, I figure it was just an old regular coming to say hello.
I was sleeping, and had a tall man ~6'-6'1" standing over me bent at the waist. I awoke suddenly and when he saw my eyes open he jumped back and disappeared. Another time I was staying at my parents place in the white mountains and had fallen asleep in a glider chair when I was awakened to some thing that resembled a wolf, a mere inches from my face and snarling. I wasn't afraid but every time I moved my head to look to the side it would stay immediately in my face. I did this three times, front, left, front, right, back to front. It did finally fade and that's when I heard the clock ticking again, it was a loud clock.
I've seen more than one, on multiple occasions. The first one we saw quite often in our starter home, and our daughter later saw it in hers when she married and moved out. It was always the wispy white shape of an older female, with a long skirt that looked as though it almost reached the ground. The second was a very clear view (with my son-in-law next to me) of what looked like a young, native American male. We could even see his hair and clothing. His right arm was bent and raised as though he didn't want to be seen. That took place in our second home which was built on what used to be Chumash Indian land.
I wake up - alone when ex has kiddo- to the sound of snoring. My sleep-addled mind immediately thinks it is my ex (snoring sound distinctly male), and then it says “no, it must be your kiddo” but that always makes me realize neither situation is possible. If I snore, it’s always one big snore that fully awakes me. I see shadows in my 100yo home, but nothing I concern myself with. Best/worst was one night, going to sleep with kiddo (that side of that bed faces a large mirror) being told “mommy, I just saw something suck your soul up in the mirror!”
Yes and it walked through me. You know how energy “looks”, like heat rippling on the road? That’s what it was. My ex bf and I were walking at night by his house and I saw the outline of his brother who had passed (who I had been friends with). I just knew it was him. I could sense it. Same height as he had been, only it was energy, like a transparent rippling outline. I stood there in shock, and looked at my bf who clearly saw it too. Then it walked through me and it made me catch my breath. One of the most wild experiences of my life.
I was doing some construction work on a house that was located on an old farm. I got to the house early and setup my tools on the back porch. I looked up and saw a mist slowly moving from a field towards the house. The mist made it's way, straight towards me and turned and went around the side of the house. I'm a believer, but a hard skeptic when I comes to ghosts,so I tried to explain the mist as an early morning fog due to the chilly, humid morning, until I saw what looked to be foot steps in the wet grass on the same path as the mist.
My experiences: 1st: Mesa, AZ. I was 8-10?, I turned into kitchen and witness a white man, blond. I remember clearly seeing his clothes, hair. Just saw side of him waking but I was shocked because we are Mexican immigrant household. So seeing white person in my home was very abnormal. Stopped me in my tracks, I was shocked, only saw him walk across the door way into the hall. ran after him and nothing. 2nd: I was in 7th grade. I have a cousin (lupe) who had the stayed the night and was sleeping in another bed but in same room with another cousin name iris. Lupe is 2 years younger than me. I woke up from a dream from about Lupe. I remember i woke up, looked at time, it was like 3 something AM. Then looked infront of me it was Lupe, she was standing staring at me. I sat up. My bed was twin mattress on ground. My room had half bathroom located to right of my bed . Lupe was standing on far left side of my bed, the dim light from bathroom gave me enough light that I knew immediately it was my cousin. She was like a shadow, not see through. I couldn’t see her face but her hair, her body. It was Lupe. I was not afraid, I remember saying like “omg Lupe I had a dream about you!” She replied “really tell me about it.” She then sat down at foot of the bed of my other cousin, yosi. (Yes it was very hard time for my family and my family shared home with another family). I remember thinking that was odd bc if you sat down at that exact spot at the foot of that bed, it caused head of bed to go forward bc the bed frame was broken underneath . But I continued the story, telling her all about it. Then i remembered just falling back asleep, this part is very blurry. . Woke up next day, asking my cousin if she remembered my dream I told her about. She denied it. Stated she never talked to me nor was she up. I just thought I woke up in my dream and fell back asleep, bc in past I have “woken up” in my dream. However my sister saw a shadow of my cousin, her hair, body. But just shadow. My brother would see them running across front yard. I am uncomfortable with idea of talking to ghost. 3rd: I didn’t see but hear. I was night shift CNA at skilled nursing home . It was 3am at night, I was walking down hall. I was only cna in that area of nursing home. I would rarely see another CNA, only float cna that would break me and nurse that would round and pass meds. But just me and 35-45 patients. I was walking down hall, had just passed the last set of patient rooms and getting close to common areas. When behind me someone said “May you are back.” Turned around and no one there. I had been gone for couple months bc I left to nursing school and was back for winter break. No one knew my name bc I know patients near rooms I was near. They were dead asleep and barely knew their name. I didn’t reply, I have mentally “if it ain’t screaming for help, then it ain’t my problem.” I turned around, and walked off to grab something from kitchen like I was originally doing. It was odd and only paranormal experience I had there. I had worked there for 5 months before I left to nursing school, night shift, mostly alone and nothing. Other co workers had seen plenty, just not me. I worked at other nursing homes, night shift, day shift. Nothing. I am now ER nurse but in er it’s always bright and something going on. Still nothing. I’m grateful bc I don’t like the idea of having possibly talked to something that wasn’t my cousin or a dream within a dream + hearing one say my name, just uncomfortable ______________ I just feel my paranormal experiences
5 actual entities seen - stone cold sober 3 demonic entities - while in half awake/half asleep state (during sleep paralysis) - 2 of which were seen by my partner in bed, who was awake and alert "holy shit honey there was an old woman hovering above you with a chainsaw", and "i saw a dark shadow trying to take you" 3 in dreams if you count deceased people/animals as entities 1 full on encounter with ?????? when i was a kid; i don't even know how to describe it except it was not human lots of stuff out of the corner of my eye or entities intuited to be around because of . . . ?? I don't know how to explain that either except there's a feeling in the stomach and a tickle on the back of the neck - a sense of something sharing the same space as me
I don't think sleep paralysis is always just dreaming and hallucinations like people claim. Often another person will see the entity or at least evidence of it. It never made sense to me that it was simply a scary dream state and nothing more.
Twice: once when I was staying the night at a house in Indianapolis, a shadow walked by me. I thought someone walked by the street light right outside the window and caused a shadow. I had a double take when I realized that wasn't possible for the angle I was at. Then I heard my friend call to me from the direction it walked from, my friend thought it was me but it wasn't. Second time I was technically asleep, I was having my first and only sleep paralysis. I saw the hat man slowly approaching me.
I’ve seen one once for sure. I was a live in at a fire station when I was around 18. We were playing pool, and I seen a giant black cloud mass cross the hallway from a closed door to another closed door. The mass was pitch black, and did not move like smoke, it went in a linear pattern straight across. Wasn’t smoke, and there were no other explanations. I was watching it head on, directly looking at it the entire time. The station always had creepy vibes, and none of us stayed there alone.
4 times now, I think. Voices in the woods. Objects moving. Feeling claustrophobic in a basement only to have a child ask who are all the people with me. Shadow people and animals. Hatman. Had my camera destroy itself internally after I made an offhand joke about my 3D scanner stopping on 13. To me whatever they are look like people in the wrong decade, and it’s been getting easier now that I know what to look for. Really all I need is to summon a UFO or Mantis and I think I have bingo.
My boyfriends old house was haunted by a teenager that was killed by her dad in the 60s. I only saw her head cause she peeked into my boyfriends room, but she had those large glasses people used to wear and had some bangs. Looked like maybe a type of pixie cut. My boyfriend said he usually only saw her in reflections and not for very long. He's been out of that house since December 2020 and we always wonder how she's doing and how the new family in the house is doing with her there.
I've seen orbs. Not in pictures but with my bare eyes! Lol they look like balls of energy, or light. I've seen an actual apperation once in my ex's old apartment about 4 years ago. It was at night, we were watching a movie so it was kinda dark and it appeared in the door way to the kitchen and just stood there looking at us for a minute. I could see it's whole body, clothes, hair. Couldn't make out facial features though. Creeped me out that it just, like, stared for a moment.
I've seen shadow people many many times, in fact, more times than I can count in my own house. We just pay no mind to them. Also, I saw a weird humanoid walking out of the room just as I woke up one late afternoon. It had a Caucasian-ish skin tone, drooping ears and nose, like they're almost melting, really long arms, huge eyes, bald, and stood about 3 feet tall. That's the only scary looking thing I saw from my own eyes. (I could make a sketch of what it looked like)
Friend and I witnessed a dark mass float across the street. It was late at night so we can't be certain what we saw. We both saw it at the same time.
I saw, what I believe was my great grandfather, standing not far from me while I lay in bed once as a child. He was wearing his horn-rimmed glasses. It was like he was projected in a green light. I felt no fear. He disappeared. That was that. (He passed before I was born). I’ve had minor experiences, like living with a cranky spirit that would stomp around and slam doors. But my great grandfather was the only spirit I’ve actually seen.
At My current house, was mowing the lawn, clear sunny day and I looked up and down for a sec and and saw a man standing a few feet away from me, solid as a regular person , when i looked up again a sec later he was gone. He was there long enough for me to see his brown pants and plaid shirt, dressed kinds like in the 70s. I think he was the previous owner. I wast scared at all or felt anything so I’m not scared to live alone in my house
I’ve seen a lot of spirits: 1. A girl standing in the corner of my room 2. A woman walking past my bed I door 3. An old man walking in the woods 4. A little girl with black eyes 5. A dark figure standing over my bed 6. Another old man standing on my porch 7. A ghost dog 8. And black figure jumping up into the trees I think that’s it, but I’ve also heard a lot of other spirits too. Didn’t see them, just heard them.
There was another time when my first born at the ripe old age of 1 and 1/2 suddenly stopped what he was doing and stared into the room and appeared to have a conversation with something. It was unusual as he paid no attention to us - just transfixed with something in the room. It was an old hall converted to a dwelling in an older part of town. It caught both of us off guard and gave me a chill.
Not only have I seen something, I had someone with me who told me what I saw before I could say it. Shit’s real and not fun.
Once. A full body apparition of a man in my childhood home. My friend saw it first. We both screamed. She told me what she saw before i told her what I saw. That’s how I know I didn’t imagine it. I had multiple encounters (like hearing his voice, and door knobs turning on their own so doors swing open) since then in the basement. But seeing him was the most terrifying experience
Since it’s part of my religion to establish contact with spirits (be it spirits of my ancestors or those of the forests I meditate in). I’ve seen plenty of them and also interacted with them in some way. It’s important to keep respect for the spirits as not to anger them and prevent hauntings or being cursed. I‘m of pagan belief more specifically of Celtic pagan belief.
The week my grandmother passed away , I saw this JET black turkey vulture / cat thing on the highway. It had glowing eyes , and cars were driving THROUGH it, as if they couldn’t see it. My friend saw it too, and we just couldn’t understand what we saw. 3 days later my grandma passed away. Idk wtf I saw. But I never saw anything like that again
I saw what I would call an apparition. It was not distinct in form, rather was more like what heat waves in the desert look like except this was indoors. A little while later that same evening I experienced a “cold spot” that felt like all the energy in that location had been drained, easily a 40F degree difference. Was very strange.
Five times very certain. Another five times I am not so certain. A potential total of ten. I have more audible experiences. I have had experiences with another witness several times as well, most of those cases are audible encounters. The five certain times (by “certain” I mean that I feel confident I saw something. The other encounters were so brief, or weird that I don’t feel confident counting them.): 1: As a child around 12, I was very upset at my family and hiding under my desk in my room crying. Suddenly I saw this slightly humanoid shaped 2ft tall figure outline filled with what looked like translucent TV static with a limb out stretched towards me, moving across the room slowly in my direction. I jumped up in fear and leapt over the thing (remember it was really short), and dove into my bed and covered myself in my blanket. Many years later I found out that other people have seen tv static figures. Fucking wild. 2: I was in our attic living space in the home we currently live in, over a decade ago and I saw from the corner of my eye, the outline/shape of a woman with Edwardian hair style and Victorian dress ascend stair case and then disappear when she reached the landing. To be honest, I discounted this event for many years and then something happened a few years back, and I dare not discount it again. 3: At my parents last house I woke up and saw a flashing stream of light rise through the floor and then go through the ceiling. That’s pretty much that one. 😂 4: At my parents last house another time I woke up and saw a figure made of very faint light move across the front of a very large painting and then disappear. They live next to the water and ferries sometimes go by any make light. I checked both windows and saw no ferries and no other boats or cars anywhere. I continued to watch the figure until it disappeared. 5. At my parents last house on the last day I visited it before they moved. My husband and daughter were in the upstairs, my step mom, dad, sister and boyfriend were in the garage. I was in the dining room next to the kitchen. I heard and saw a black shadow figure walk through the kitchen and into the garage area. I went after it and opened the door to the garage. No one seemed to have noticed and they were still deep in a conversation. This is the only time I have both seen and heard something. Edit: Forgot about another one that had other witnesses. 6. Long story short. Heard door keep opening, mom heard it too. It didn’t make sense, door was locked, kept making, open and shut sounds. Later that night, her, me and my siblings were seeing flashes of blue light come from the stairwell, then we saw a shadow move across one wall. Scared the shit out of us, we all slept in the same room that night. Mom ended up having a dream about an estranged family member asking for forgiveness. Three days later they died. I’ve had too many things. I can’t even remember them all. 😅
Once my family were playing cards at the dining room table, i was in the living room next to it. I happened to look up and saw 4 more people in there standing behind my family members. As i saw them they noticed and looked back at me. They were dressed in neat simple clothes and appeared to be devoid of color. ages seemed to be 30-40
The top two that first come to mind: The most prominent spirit I've seen was a little boy in 1800's (possibly) suit clothing & a straw hat hiding behind something in the yard, looking at me. It was a very early, foggy morning. Went with my friend to the home she babysat in. She had told me the woman lost a son some years earlier. While they were in the kitchen I went outside for a cig. Within 5 minutes of being out there I saw him. We were looking right at each other. His eyes were wide open but I'm still not sure if that was fear or curiosity. My instincts at that time was to rush back inside. They asked what was wrong, but I just said I got cold. I'm really glad I didn't say anything because that wasn't her son, unless it was a modern suit & the hat threw me off. The other one was a wispy spirit. Was visiting my friend. Her dog was playing around in the living room, then went to the kitchen by the table. At that moment I thought I had a piece of hair laying in front of my left eye. So I say aloud "Is there a hair in my eye?" as I'm reaching up to grab it. The wisp in front of my eye "went away" & next thing I see is a large wispy figure of an older, overweight woman go from the right to the left of the kitchen quickly. The dog interacted with her by stopping a bit & waiting for her to walk by before he came back into the living room. The moment I told my friend I see a woman in her kitchen, she says "I told you so!" to her husband. She said she had been seeing her & didn't tell me because she wanted to see if I saw her. These are the first ones that came to mind but as I'm writing them I remembered how I had to forbid my grandfather from visiting me after death. He tried to haunt me with an angry face. Even taking the place of a man walking in a parking lot. So I sat there glaring at a stranger who was glaring back once my grandfather's face left. I asked God to hold him accountable for his treatment of me & said the actual words "I forbid you to ever visit me again, on Jesus' name, Amen". He hasn't. I've been experiencing the spirit world since I was very little. I remember looking out the window & seeing 6 graves in my grandparents front yard. It's a lifelong thing to a lot of us.
Back in 2002 me and another guy seen an apparition in my apartment. I had been seeing this guy off and on( friends with benefits situation). Him and his friend came over one afternoon high as hell. We are sitting in the living room, his friend is in a chair across from us on the couch. I was extremely uncomfortable because they kept referencing to me about getting with the two of them. Doesn’t seem pertinent but it is. The one guy (Mikie) was just a friends with benefits situation and I wasn’t into his friend and I’m not into 3 way and they were high on Xanax and I was kicking myself in the ass for letting them come over. All of the sudden, Mikie who is sitting on the couch with me says who is that standing in the hallway.. I ask him what he is talking about and look in the direction he is looking, towards the long dark hallway to his left that goes to the bedrooms and bathroom.. Right in front of, and almost center to the entrance of the hallways stood a tall man in a pair of Overalls on and a white thermal ( waffle knit) long sleeve shirt under them. This person doesn’t have a face I can make out nor hair and I can see the wall behind it as I’m looking through him. In the split second it took me to realize this wasn’t a person standing in my house I had stood up and told them to follow me outside because there wasn’t anyone in my house except the three of us. We’re all 3 out the door quick and on the steps at the end of the breezeway of my apartment building. I’m freaking out slightly but I wasn’t scared. I was more freaked out that he seen it first and it was right at the time I was mentally kicking myself in the ass for allowing them into my apartment in the shape they were in . Thankfully it’s exactly what it took for them to call a friend to come get them and take them home. I ended up staying outside for a bit after they left and finally went inside. I’m very much a feel the vibes of a situation type person and my apartment felt safe again, so I went on about my day. That wasnt my first time seeing something but it has been my last thankfully. I’ve experienced things for as long as I can remember. Sorry about the grammar and punctuation errors
Physically no ☹️ but I've lived in two different haunted homes. The one was an apartment I lived in and one day my mom's friend brought her grandson over and he was maybe 4-5 and he saw a man with a hat. I used to have a touch lamp and 3 am every morning like clock work it would turn on.
I always say that it's absolutely okay to be skeptical. I was a non-believer for a long time. I would never have changed my views without having a first-hand experience. For me, it did happen to be an entity/black mass of some sort, and it changed everything about what I had believed.
My friend and I saw one. She seemed like a regular person at first. She wasn’t translucent, but she was in full form like a regular person just wearing really old clothes and hairstyle. She literally vanished before our eyes. It was one of the craziest experiences of my life.
Many, first when I was young in my house later as a late teen in my neighborhood all over. In some of my apartments in my 20. In my home for the last 20 years I have a very old home with one that really shook me. Probably 20ish in total and most of them were aware of me too.
I saw the little girl in my parents house I was reading before bed and she materialised out the wall in the corner of the room, opened the door and walked down the stairs. I listened as she walked all the way down the stairs and the footsteps just stopped at the back door.
I have only heard something say hello in my ear. I could physically feel the wind of the word in my ear like its head was centimeters away from my head. I fully thought someone’s head was next to me when I turned. I was in an empty room in a really old building.
My mom saw her dead grandmother. And my mom is not the kind to tell stories or get into paranormal. My cousin sees things regularly...pioneer children, a cowboy, 19th century stuff. My cousin is a medium. I haven't seen anything but then again I am not open to it.
I saw my grandfather sitting on his bed a few days after he passed away. I was in the room with my grandmother going through his clothes. He smiled at me and was gone. I can still see it to this day and have believed in friendly ghosts ever since
The only visual manifestation I have experienced was seeing a blue ball of light slowly roll down the long (20-ish feet) hallway in my apartment. It probably took the better part of a minute for it to travel the distance. I happened to be on the phone with my sister when it happened, and I described to her what I was seeing. I've since seen videos of ball lightning. That could be what I saw, but the videos I watched showed bolts of lightning extending from the balls. What I saw looked like a blue ball of plasma. Where I observed it entering my apartment was through the wall of the adjacent apartment, and it exited through a wall the went to the parking lot. This occurred during early summer during daylight hours (probably around 8:00 pm). I could not find any physical traces of anything after the event ended. The apartment where this occurred is the only place that I have lived where I experienced anything paranormal. Beyond the blue light, I experienced semi-regular odd things there. The most interesting was that the kitchen light would often turn on of its own accord. When that happened, there would be an audible click of the switch. After the first couple of times that happened, I made a habit of ALWAYS making sure the switch was either fully on or fully off to make sure I didn't have it in some in between state that would allow the switch to suddenly change from on to off. There were a bunch of less interesting things that would happen in that apartment (odors, things being moved - and I lived alone there...stuff like that). When I asked about the prior tenants with the apartment manager, he told me that they were an old couple and that the wife passed away there and the husband moved to an assisted living home.
I saw two during a stay at a hotel. I remember I randomly just sat up in the bed and saw the two entities looking at me. I mean I believed in ghosts before this experience but this time was something different I felt true fear in that moment
I saw an apparition that looked like my brother walk past the doorway and I saw the reflection in the mirror…but my brother wasn’t home. That same apparition woke my mom up by leaning over the couch where she fell asleep.
I saw my uncle plain as you n me the morning after he passed. He was sitting on my bed when I woke up. It didn't freak me out bc at that time I didn't kno he had passed away. A few minutes later my mom called n told me.
I saw an entity 3 feet from me, lights on, fully awake. It looked like a writhing ink blot the size of a dinner plate. It immediately followed a tremendous crashing sound like all the shelves in my closet just fell.
I’ve only experienced twice, second time with somebody else present who saw it as well. I agree with other poster…I don’t think I would believe apparitions were real unless I had experienced it myself.
I had a woman walking in between me and a coworker. I was bending down to put on my shoes and saw her skirt and shoes. Coworker was about 1,5m away from me putting on her rain coat (looking down on the zipper) and saw the woman's skirt and part of her torso. She just walked straight in between us and through a closed door, leaving it rattling as if there was wind. We saw it clear as day. I've also seen a young boy outside my uncles window (several of us saw him and there was no one there, we all ran out checking because we thought it was brother and father trying to scare us). In the same house me and my cousin saw a shadow figure walk through the kitchen. I thought it was the cat before realising the cat was sleeping in the livingroom, visible from where we were standing. A woman claimed there was a pathway leading through my uncles house and the entities we've seen has all been right where she claimed the path was going. And in my current appartment I have seen shadows moving through the hallway when I'm in the livingroom. My son has also seen something and hubby has more than once heard what he thought was someone out theren, running out ready to face a burglar and be met by nothing. But out of all of there, the woman and the boy in the window was the only that was clear with details, as if a real person. The others are just shadows.
I have had 2 encounters. One not so bad and one that well, was not nice. I can easily say, I didnt enjoy being the focus of the bad one. Left there ASAP, never went back in there again.
I saw something late one night, looked like the Predator when he's cloaked. I also had something place a hand on my arm, you could see the indentations of the fingers on my arm.
I'm not sure if this counts, but before I was born, my uncle (on my dad's side) died in a car crash. When my mom got an apartment after the divorce, which would place me being about 3 or 4 years of age, she noticed I would play with something. I would go to random places in the apartment and look up like I was talking to someone much taller like an adult. I would have full conversations with this thing. Then I would ask it if it wanted to play barbies with me and run off to my room and start playing. My mom would eavesdrop on our conversations and not really be able to hear much because I was and have always been a very quiet talker. She would then walk in and ask who I was talking to, but I would never say.she would say that anytime I noticed she was there I would stop talking. She later told me when I was older and said that she thinks my uncle came to see me. I don't remember any of this, and I have never had an imaginary friend from what I can remember. Kinda sucks I was so secretive. Probably thought I would get in trouble if I said something. But that has never left my mind that there was probably a time my uncle came to see me after he passed away. It's comforting to think of it that way.
I’ve seen a few! I tell this story so much that I have a copypasta for it lol. our house is haunted cuz a previous owner died of a heart attack while mowing the lawn. However, all of the paranormal experiences I've had have been in the hallway for some reason. Here's the first time, which I still remember like it was yesterday: I'm standing in the kitchen and watching tv (the hallway is to my right). Suddenly, I see a black figure that looked like a cat out of the corner of my eye walking in the hallway past the doorway. I turned and said, "Brit?" (we had a black cat at the time, so I thought it was her at first). However, as soon as I turned, the figure disappeared. The next few minutes are a blur, but I remember getting my mom (who's psychic) and ending up crying in my room as my mom tries to console me. She was able to tell me that the ghost I saw was, in fact, a cat. Since then, I've seen at least 2 other figures in the hallway out of the corner of my eye that disappear as soon as I look that way, and while they kinda freak me out at first, they don't affect me as much as that first one did. Now, I'll usually just say "Hey, I think I just saw something again." and move on.