r/Ghoststories

I feel like i’m my house i’m being watched. but it’s interesting it very hard to explain but Im going to try my hardest. I feel like sometimes i’ll be doing something such as watching a youtube video or just laying down chilling and I’ll feel like i’m being watched or seeing something in the corner of my eye. I’ll look over to what it almost feels like i’m seeing a very very quick flash of someone or something moving away. It’s very hard to explain now for some reason I don’t get creeped out by it or paranoid this something has no negative energy but just is there and watching. no one in my family has passed recently or anything. Does anyone have any explanation or any idea to what this could be?Thanks!
Just added an extra edit when I started seeing this thing I would also hear my name somtimes being called at different times. Thought I add that on thanks!

I never thought I would post here but I desperately need answers.

My friends and I moved into a new apartment about a year ago. Everything was fine at first, nothing weird or paranormal, until we got a cat. When we first got her she was great and acted relatively normal. After a couple of weeks she became very skittish for the longest time and would meow in our dark hallway constantly. Obviously this could just be normal cat behaviors but I find it odd that she was chill at first and then started freaking out on us after we had her for a few weeks already.

Around the time our cat started acting off was when I started hearing things at night. For the most part they were just little noises that I couldn't really pinpoint so I wasn't too worried. That was until I heard what sounded like one of our dining chairs getting scooted across the floor. I did not sleep good that night at all and continued having trouble sleeping afterwards.

At this point we weren't scared, we were curious. So we did the dumbest thing possible and tried communicating with it. We used a flashlight and asked a bunch of questions (respectfully) and it didn't seem to be working until we asked "do you want us to leave you alone" and the flashlight immediately turned on. Now this could just be a coincidence, but it was one of the freakiest things I had seen at the time. Unfortunately we kept contacting it after this, daily almost, and would bring it offerings. We also think we got touched a couple times by the ghost. I can't make this up I genuinely felt my shirt get pulled from my back. My shoulder had also been touched at some point later on, both happened in my bathroom. Eventually we stopped experiencing the weird things we had been experiencing for weeks and decided to stop contacting the ghost as we thought it was gone.

Months went by and everything was normal, we actually debunked the whole idea of having a ghost at all and decided we were just freaked out. That was until we got another cat..

We brought another cat home (a black cat of all cats) and it all started happening again but it was a lot worse. This cat was acting super weird and mean like growling and hissing at nothing. This was also my sister's cat, he's very familiar with me and loves me so I was confused why he was acting this way, but he could've just been uncomfortable in a new home.

We've had this cat for a couple months now and the ghost won't leave us alone. my cat still acts a little weird, especially in my room. He never wants to stay in there and scratches at the door to be let out. We also believe that it's moving things in our apartment. For example, a bowl moved on its own right in front of all of us. One of the cats saw it too and freaked out. I also saw my friends lunchbox fall completely off the table, it was full and it wasn't even near the edge of the table. One of our closet doors had also been opening on it's own. I heard it creek open while I was in the kitchen and when I went to go look it was open (we always keep the closets closed so the cats don't get in them). The scariest thing that we've seen move is our kitchenaid mixer. We have this big kitchenaid mixer that we sit on our kitchen bar and it fell right off and onto the ground. Those things are almost like 20 pounds, they don't just fall over. It also wasn't on the edge of the counter, we always make sure to set it where it doesn't fall off because it's expensive and we don't want it to break.

I do feel like it's following me around sometimes when I leave town to visit others. Not too long ago I went to visit my grandma and stayed over and I swear I heard knocking on my door multiple times, my grandma said it was not her.

It might also help to mention that my family has had a lot of experiences like these. Seeing ghosts, feeling ghosts, etc.

Anyways, if you read this and have any advice PLEASE help some girls out we are this close to saying screw it and calling a professional as we are getting to the point of being terrified of staying at our own place. thank you!

I had been working for the summer in Door County Wisconsin. 2,003 ish, I was in my early 40's. After work I would walk on a rocky wooded hillside trail I found along Lake Michigan. It goes along for about a 1/2 mile or so and then I would turn around and head back. I did this almost everyday. It was a beautiful area. You could see 50 yards or more through the woods and up the hillside. To the right a few steps was about a 20 foot drop to the lake shore. One day after I had turned around and was heading back I had this feeling like I was being watched. I turned slightly and looked up the hillside. There were dozens of men. All slightly spread out in different places standing solitary. They were all dressed as Frontiersman. White men and Native American men. Different ages. Some had walking sticks, some had guns. All stoic and just looking at me.

After a few short seconds I ran. I didn't feel haunted, just startled. This happened after 7 weeks of walking the trail. I had one more week of work before heading home and I decided to go back there and see if it happened again. I went everyday for 6 more days but didn't see anything again.

I have been holding onto this for 23 years. It feels good to share it. Thank you

Okay so I’ve never shared this until now, a few years back. The first covid lockdown to be precise. I was living in a rented house which was a fairly new build but was built land that was previously a very old pub. With lots of weird and wonderful stories attached to it including hidden tunnels that connect it to a Manor House nearby. Now I am not a paranormal believer as such as I’m one of those types who need solid concrete evidence but this one still plays on my mind. So the road the house was on is a very old Roman road which is typically very busy. Like I said it was Covid lockdown and roughly about 10:30-11:00pm I was stood outside the front door smoking a cigarette there’s a small path to the gate and then the road. But a large hedge blocks seeing the road. There is no traffic whatsoever it’s eerily quiet. That the first thing I noticed. A couple of moments into smoking my cigarette I notice a complete drop in temperature and this horrible sickness/dread feeling.. like I just been given the worse news in the world type of feeling and then a fog. Literal instance fog. I couldn’t see anything other than the lit end of my cigarette. And then I heard it. As real as anything I’ve ever experienced before I could hear a horse and carriage.. it started of faint I could hear the laboured breath of the horses I could hear the hooves hitting the ground I could hear the wheels of the carriage and the rattling of metal chains. It was getting closer and closer until it was right there passing me by. I was frozen I couldn’t move, speak or even begin to understand what is happening. As it passed it all just disappeared the noise the fog the sickness all gone in an instance. I returned into the house laughed at myself and buried it deep in my thoughts. But it still bothers me years later. Another short anecdote from this house is my dad was ill just before Covid in the December time (definitely had Covid pre Covid) and he was in a really bad way with it. He slept on the sofa downstairs one night and in the morning he said he had the scariest hallucination the night before of a woman walking through the wall dressed in Victorian era clothing with her head missing. Now two things to that my old man does hallucinate when he’s sick but second thing the pub was called the headless woman (some of you will know where I am talking about now) just strange as he is still adamant he knows what he saw.

OK, something really weird happened to me just now. I got home from work today and I was looking for a pair of scissors that I keep in my upstairs bathroom. They weren’t anywhere in my bathroom. I literally looked through all of my cabinets in the bathroom, all of my makeup bags, my hallway closet. I searched my bedroom. I opened up the drawer of my nightstand to look for these scissors, and they were nowhere to be found. I needed the scissors to cut off the tag from a bathing suit that I’m wearing today. I eventually gave up and got a pair of scissors from downstairs. I go back up and just do what I need to do then I go downstairs to kill a couple hours before I have to get ready for my Fourth of July party. I go back upstairs to the bathroom and the scissors are sitting right on the bathroom sink. the original scissors I was looking for.

It’s a 900sq ft condo, the two entrances are on my downstairs floor, no one could come in while I was downstairs. This is literally so fucking weird.

It was back in the late 80's when me and my boyfriend took a trip to France. We had a book at the time that listed all the castles that were now hotels that we could stay in. And it was sort of our thing to stay in them, when we would holiday in France

We spent the first night at the Savoy in Paris, where we learned our car had been impounded. So we left it and spent the next day touring the Cathedral's and Versailles and then dining at the top of the Eifel tower. Next day it took my boyfriend ages to find out where the car had been taken, but eventually we got it and decided to get out of Paris.

So with the book in hand we searched for castles on the outskirts of Paris. We drove about an hour and a half to get to the one we chose. As we drove through the gates, it looked regal, like a castle should. All that changed when we entered the reception and got a creepy feeling, we were there only guests. We were. Now this castle is huge. So I'm not sure why we got the suite we got, but what happend had definitely something to do with the room.

So you come in the room on the upper level and the bathroom is to your left. Then there is a short stairway down to the bedroom on the right. The windows, no light, are fake because I think the bedroom is half under the earth.

We go to dine and we are the only guests other than the kitchen crew who are eating at a distant table. They are whispering about us and looking over, but we're not bothered and enjoy our dinner.

Both in bed, we fall asleep immediately until I am accosted by a man in an 18th century wig and clothing trying to force himself on me, I am fighting him off, and refusing. I am thinking about my boyfriend next to me.

If it was a dream, and not a ghost, it wasn't my dream. I could describe exactly his face the clothes the colour, the wig.

In the morning I tell my boyfriend about it. He tells me he was awakened and saw me floating above the bed.

Well that just sealed it for me. It's haunted by an 18th century rapist ghost

Both of us are pretty stable people, but we were both just freaked out. My boyfriend immediately went to reception and checked out skipping breakfast, and asked why, he stated haunting. They knew.

We couldn't get out of there fast enough, but we never discussed it again.

This happened 2 years ago I live in turkey and this kind of ghost stories doesn’t happen that much I’m 17 years old this happened when I was 15 we had a home that had 2 small bedrooms one kitchen one dining room and one small bathroom this happened so suddenly I was in shock I was going to the kitchen to drink some water I already had my glass in my hand i was walking through the hallway and when I turned to go to the kitchen I saw a completely full black figure staring at me for like a few seconds and when I blinked he just vanished right before my eyes I was so scared that I dropped the glass and run back to the dining room to tell my mother about this she laughed at me said that I was crazy but I am 100 percent sure that there was a black figure that was like 2 meters tall staring right through me I am still trying to understand what or who that was that could not be hallucination because that looked way to real for it to be a hallucination please tell me if I have problems or there was genuinely someone watching me

Has anyone ever been driving on a road that just never feels wrong while driving on it? Mine was highway 93 in Vermont. I called it deaths highway because I saw so many fatal accidents on it. The weird thing was that it was always single vehicles and they were always really bad.

If spirits are real, shouldn't they be targeting the people who actually deserve it? Do you think murderers ever feel genuine supernatural fear right after a crime, or are they too narcissistic and focused on avoiding the police? Why do you think the "innocent victim" trope is so common in hauntings, while the actual bad guys get a free pass from the paranormal?

First part: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/s/MSYJOqPJgO

I haven't stopped seeing them since then, I still see all the original beings none of them touch me I do not give them permission, they can look, talk whatever but they dont have permission to touch me, family and pets and they can also not follow me into the bathroom because one of them tried before and i immediately put a stop to that and I've realized at night when I tell them its bedtime goodnight they stop appearing and if they really want me to acknowledge them they'll appear every second and then once I give attention they'll usually stop or just observe the house or strictly me rarely doing anything idm it anymore honestly they don't scare me as often anymore if anything it's comforting to feel there presence

Anyway onto the new things I've been seeing because now there's a minimum of three more! (Edited with time I've seen them)

One male (A) a female (B) and one I can't tell but for the sake of this post it's another female (C)

C is commonly sighted at my closet either by corner of the eye tricks or image flashing typa thing where you basically just get a flash of an image in your head that's detailed and makes a print in your brain at least for me she doesn't bother me that much she's just a little off putting at first especially at night when she's just staring at you while it's dim not dark because I sleep with my light on due to trauma with them scaring me when I was younger, she has short brown black hair big big eyes and they are black brown as well she's always sitting down or on her knees just staring at you smiling or has her hand at her mouth that's covered by a gray sweater and black pants of some kind she's usually not bothering and normally now staring rather then everyone else or with everyone else just being quiet idk if I've heard her before and just never realized (edit) the first time I've seen her was on the 19th the June and she was in the corner very visible with my eye and my cat could see her too and then on and off after that same place B mostly appears in the mirror at my door which is oddly enough faced right over my bed she has long black hair she has a wide smile normally appears with or without big eyes and her neck tilted and she's wearing a all black lounge gown she's always behind me and only appears when I'm in the door way or just as check ups almost she appears for five minutes or seconds then disappears still in the same position just now facing me or in the mirror looking right at me never talking just staring she's never tried to touch me from my knowledge (Edit) First time I've seen her on 06/26 I believe? I saw her while talking to my mother about said beings and then that night and on and off after that

A... This being is a little joker tbh he doesn't scare me anymore but definitely at first, short fade type of hairstyle sometimes curly sometimes pin straight he appears at my doorway and everything else disappears and he gives off a really upset stomach feeling and high anxiety if you ignore him or don't give/ feed him the reaction he wants (fear and anxiety) he'll run into the hall back and forth knock stuff down run at the end of your bed give you nightmares of him climbing onto the bed and you while you cant move, speak to you saying pretty normal things like hi hello hey or screams that are low and distant just enough to make you appear insane he's super tall just barely touched the roof of my house and he just stares and smiles a different smile then normal not big but small and human like when he climbs on you he has the same expression just a little bit longer hair and in a form of a snake with only his face being white and his body being black but weirdly enough whenever I'm feeling lonely or sad in anyway I feel his presence without the fear and anxiety its comforting and he sits right by me and only touches me when I say you can hug me or sometimes sits at my bed and gives off that feeling of comfort it's always when I just cried or have heavy feelings that I'm going to sleep with that he does that and I know its him by his appearance and the vibe because even beside the usual fear and anxiety and sometimes comfort he has another vibe comfort it kind of feels like a close friend or a sibling type of feeling that's the main way I identify him when he doesn't give off fear or anxiety (Edit) First time Ive seen him was two months ago and since then I've seen him on and off every other day he was doing what I had said in the upper half of the original message

And honestly even with all of these maybe spirits I honestly feel less lonely with them all being constantly around even without the appearance or corner of the eye tricks they make me feel like I have something to be completely honest even with B or the forest beings it feels less lonely even if I'm the only one able to see them idm that they chose me I'm glad they chose me to be trickers with it's makes life a little more interesting even in the most boring moments and they attend to help with other personal issues I struggle with when they appear because all my focus goes to them win win for both of us they get attention and I get a distraction from issues definitely being delusional with that but wtv

Anyway that's my part 2 if I get more beings appearing I'll make a pt 3

Tell me if you think I'm insane for this one or not and my house is haunted or ask any questions and I'll answer truthfully!

Hi guys I’m new to Reddit and I want to ask for opinions if I started a horror tales podcast tgat includes real life stories from you guys and crime stories would you guys listen? Please let me know
honestly :)

So my house has a spirit named elise, from what I know she is positive

Though she has knocked down one of those brush things for vacuums

And recently she knocked down the TV remote

She hasn't done any harm...I think

Though I need help, I just wanna know what to do

For reference I live in the Appalachian mountains

Specifically in west virginia

Just tell me what to do, btw she has done ghost orbs and can put Thoughts in my head (As communication) and tap and knock (Obviously)

I will post updates

A few days ago I bought a small acrylic figure in the shape of an anime character. I put it directly on the shelf I have, which has manga and books. The next day I noticed it was on the shelf below where I had put it. I thought it was strange and put it back in the same place. (I live alone and work all day) I ignored it and continued with my life when the next day I noticed it was on the floor, again I picked it up and put it back in its place and ignored it. After two days I thought it had stopped, but when I woke up to go to work, this appeared next to my pillow without any explanation, which started to really scare me. So I took it and gave it to a friend of mine to leave at his house (he lives on the same street as me). After 4 days there, I thought it had stopped, but one night when I woke up to get ready, I saw that it was there again next to my pillow. I got scared, picked it up, took it to work that same day, and threw it in the trash can there. When night came and I went home, I noticed the bathroom light was on (I had turned everything off before leaving) When I went to the kitchen, I saw all the spoons I own scattered on the floor, and it really scared me. Has anyone experienced this before or know what it could be? I've never believed in these things, but I'm getting scared.

Of all the ghost stories my dad ever told, this is the most terrifying and vivid.

Back when he was young and just starting his business — in the early '80s, maybe — his factory was up in the hills, and our home was down at the foot of the mountain.

He'd often work until midnight, then drive home through the mountain road. Most nights, just his car. No one else.

On that road, the streetlights were spaced far apart.

One night, late as usual, he was driving home, he looked far ahead at the next streetlight, standing right beside it was a figure, a figure all in deathly white, wearing s very tall hat, its tongue hung all the way down to its belly and the figure was as tall as the streetlight.

My dad was terrified. But he was also furious — he'd worked himself to the bone, it was this late, he was exhausted, and now this!

He just kept driving.... cursing, and drove right past that white figure!

Encountering a dark sinister figure is terrifying and extremely surreal to process. But what if it was a stunning, naked apparition beside your bed instead. In my case, a gorgeous female spirit. This kind of haunting I could happily live with, however, I envisioned my wife’s reaction, which was frightening.

The following story dates back several decades ago in Bardon, Brisbane, Australia.

A young Brisbane woman claimed that the ghost of a tall, young man with shoulder-length blond hair (a ‘surfie’ type, she called him) had appeared one night beside her bed, stark naked. 

Friends and neighbours told her it must have been a prowler, a burglar or wishful dreaming, but she was convinced she had been visited by a ghost.

Two other young women appeared on television shortly after to tell a similar story, of a blond-haired young man, completely naked, sitting in a tree outside their house in the leafy suburb of Bardon staring in through their window. 

A television crew set up their cameras and waited in vain to catch the saucy spirit on film, but he was too shy to appear. A few days after they departed, however, locals reported catching fleeting glimpses of him back in his favourite spot among the foliage.

Local opinion maintained that it was the ghost of a young man whose girlfriend had once lived in the house.

As I’ve investigated for many years, I’ve always asked if the entities can see us. Do we look like shadows, lights, or people? What do you think?

This is a story my grandfather told me from when he was young. It happened in Poland, sometime in the 1960s or 1970s.

His family lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere. To get there, you had to leave the main road, drive a few kilometers on a smaller road, then turn again and continue for several more kilometers on a dirt road through fields. For that time, especially under communism, his family had quite a lot of land to work.

About 200 meters away from their house was the farm of their closest neighbors. Because the area was so remote, the two families had a very warm and friendly relationship. Everyone knew each other, people visited often, and they would regularly meet while working in the fields.

I do not know the exact time of year, but it was during harvest season, because my grandfather was working a lot on the fields back then. At that time, hardly anyone had a tractor or proper means of transport, but somewhere in the village there was a Soviet van, a “Bukhanka”. Sometimes the driver would give my grandfather a ride to the village or back from the fields.

One evening, my grandfather was dropped off near the farms. I do not know if he had been in the village or if someone had picked him up from the fields. When he got out of the van, he saw his neighbor standing by the gate, waving at him.

It was already evening, and my grandfather thought the neighbor wanted him to come over for a drink, a cigarette, or just to talk for a while. That was not unusual between the two households.

So my grandfather started walking toward the gate.

But when he got closer, he could not see anyone there anymore. He thought maybe the neighbor had gone into the garden or was waiting for him in the courtyard. When he arrived, he looked around, but there was nobody.

Then he noticed a body lying near the gate.

It was his neighbor.

At first, my grandfather thought maybe he had collapsed or suddenly felt ill. After all, he had just seen him standing there and waving only moments before.

But when he tried to move the body, he immediately felt how cold it was. He realized the man had already been dead for some time.

There was nobody in the house, and there was no phone nearby, so my grandfather had to call for help. Eventually, when medical help arrived, they confirmed that the neighbor was dead. As far as I know, they assumed it had been a heart attack.

The strangest part is that my grandfather was absolutely sure he had seen the neighbor standing at the gate, waving at him.

But by the time he reached him, the man was already dead and cold.

My grandad died in 1999, so unfortunately I can’t ask him for the details anymore.

He had some interesting stories that I remember well, so if anyone's interested, I can share them here.

Shadow figures faces in the trees tall creatures skin walkers ( ive been to the Appalachian Mountains ik what they look like) ghosts and other creatures dm for video amd picture proof

About ten years ago, I had a really unsettling experience that has stayed with me ever since.

It was somewhere between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. when I suddenly woke up because I felt a cold breath on the back of my neck. Right after that, I heard what sounded like a woman whispering directly into my ear:

"Go check the courtyard"

I was absolutely terrified. I was still half asleep, half awake, and there was no way I was going outside especially not to this mysterious “courtyard.”
The strange thing is that my house didn’t actually have what you would normally call a courtyard. Beyond the gate was a paved driveway, and beyond that, the garden.

What has always bothered me the most is the wording. The voice was unmistakably female, and the word "courtyard" felt oddly old-fashioned. In French, she used the word *cour*, which isn’t a term people commonly use anymore, and it’s definitely not a word I ever use myself. If someone had asked me to go outside, I would have expected to hear “garden” or “yard,” not “courtyard.”
That’s the part I can’t explain. It felt like someone speaking in a way that wasn’t my own.

Has anyone here experienced anything similar hearing a voice while waking up that seemed completely external, or using words you’d never normally use? I’m open to both paranormal and psychological explanations, and I’d be interested to hear your thoughts.

Thanks