[BER]

I can't say we live in a haunted house. We have lived here for over 11 years now. The house was built in 1912. I do not know of any deaths in the house or why we sometimes hear or see unexplained things...but here is just one incident:

My husband, I and our two daughters live here in this Cape Cod Colonial style home in California. One evening, my older daughter was going out to a party or something. She and her friend left around 7:30. (her friend lives here too) and said they wouldn't be late. Around 2-2:30 AM I hear the usual rangling of keys in the side door, the squeek (I've been after my husband to WD-40 it for awhile!) of the door opening, closing, foot steps going down the hall and up the stairs to the loft room where my daughter and her friend stay. My husband rolls over and says, "what's that?" Just the girls coming in, I replied.

Later that morning, I am cooking breakfast. It's about 8:30. I happen to look out the window and notice my daughters car pull up. Both she and her friend come in. I told her I am suprised she was able to get up before me this morning since your father and I heard you girls come in after 2AM.

My daughter and her friend looked puzzled, first at me then at each other. :?:

"Mom, we haven't been home all night. We had too many cocktails and decided to stay over our friends house for the evening".........

My husband and I just look at each other and he leaves to work quick style before I can make a comment.

If it was just myself hearing all this the night before, then I would probably discard it thinking I've imagined it. But we both heard he same thing - keys in the door unlocking, opening, closing, foot steps down the hall and up the stairs......I told my girls later about the event and my husband confirmed it with them.

After 11 years in this house, we are used to the "unexplained" things that go on. We tell each other of this and that and warn house guests only after they mention something unusual after spending the night, usually a noise or saw something that wasn't there. I rather enjoy them, my husband doesn't like it much though. I found him in the middle of the lawn one evening on my way back from picking my daughter up from water polo. Something spooked him so bad he didn't want to go back into the house until we returned...teehee he's such a fraidy-cat!

[angelcarrie]

When i was 9 we moved into our new home in bucks, couple of years later i was in the house alone while my mum and brother were in the garden i went to my bedroom door and saw a large black shadow coming towards me being young and not really understanding what it could be i ran to window calling my mum it was like a movie they could not hear me but when i looked back to the door the black shadow had gone, then when i was about 15 i used to wake up in the night and see someone standing in the corner of my room tall, but was all black and whom ever it was wore a large hat it used to scare me, me and my mum see shadows around our kitchen area, also once when my sister in law was having a argument something slapped my sister in law hard round the face whilst in the kitchen, till this day we still wonder what it was.
Also now my brother hears things like we all do in the house now but it only ever happens when there is one of us in the house, like our front door opening and shutting then someone heavy footed going up or down the stairs and the voices too, last 10 years things do seem to have been getting more active..

[Promecus]

I normally don't tell others about this story, for most people don't believe me.
But one post in this thread tells me that someone else may have encountered the same thing/entity that I once encountered.

I believe the year was 1994, July 4th. I was staying with a friend and his grandmother in Medical Lake Washington. We watched his neighbor's set off their fireworks. It was a grand spectacle. After such my friend eventually decided he was tired and went to his bedroom for the night, I camped out on the sofa.

As I fell asleep ( I was in the half-way point between being awake and being asleep ) I remember looking across his living room and seeing a figure. This figure appeared to be wearing a trench coat and a large brim hat. Sadly, I didn't react the way I should have, as I continued to fall asleep. When I re-opened my eyes, the figure was no longer standing across the living room, but instead it was standing directly over the sofa I was resting on. Again, I began to drift into slumber.

I was then awakened by not just one, but two hits to my gut. This, of course, woke me up. I sat straight up and looked around to find no one in the living room.

The next morning I noticed that I had a small bruise on my stomach.

From what I can recall....
The figure wore a thick trench coat.
Had pail eyes.
Wore a large brim hat.
And had a sinister yellowish smile.
The home was located a few yards from the lake.

Every sense then I've been periodically looking for answers. From what I can tell, few know of this spirit and it is not bound to any physical location.

[believer]

Hi

I have had wierd experinces ever since I was little, seeing black shadows and very bad nightmares but these have gotten worse as I was growing up.
There are somany incidences that I can bearly remember half of them.

I had this major fight with my mom and I was sitting on a sofa directly across her and she was busy yelling at me. I couldn't pay attention to any thing she was saying cose all of a suuden there was this heavy weight on me as if someone was sitting on my lap so I kept on moving from one end of the sofa to the other and my mom was looking at me but she was too upset to bother or notice. I couldn't take this weight or the feeling of this thing on me any more so I reached out and grabed the bible that was on the shelve next to me and the strangest thing happened I shouted out something and through the bible on the floor and that very instance I'm not sure why but i started screaming my guts out. My neighbours came running in and I dont remember any thing after that, but my mom told me that my eyes rolled up.

I remember that I could not fall off to sleep that night and my mom and sister slept by me. I was between the both of them and refused to sleep I was wide awake and my mom kept on insisting that I sleep and I kept on saying that they must sleep but I can't cose I need to keep guard. Thats so silly I know but thats the way I felt at the time. After a liitle while I said a little prayer and fell asleep and one more thing my sister had a little meltise poodle name Doodle and he never selpt the whole night every time my sleep broke i saw him sitting in the same position staring at me, he never left my sight for that whole week.

Every single person in my house had atleast one experience of something attacking them even guest. My house has a dark shadow above it and is not welcoming at all. If ever i go out i dread coming back home.

[peaceseeker]

Hi

I am new to this site and I came here to find some answers to some strange things that were happening around my house. I found this piece about haunted house stories, so I thought that I would share my story with you. Now, before I begin, I didnt share it with anybody as I thought that they might think I was crazy, until a friend of mine had a similar experience, so I began to share what happened to me.

I had found this cool old house to rent in our town. It was very old and had a lot of history. When the landlord rented it to me, he said that there was an elderly woman who lived upstairs. I laughed as I thought that he was joking. Well, not long after we moved in, my daughter then two years old, used to come running down the stairs early hours of the morning saying that the old lady was in her room. I took no notice of it and put her back to bed. She kept doing this over and over so I asked her what she looked like. She told me and said that this woman was holding out her bony hand to her. I didnt feel any bad vibes back then, so I let it go. I thought that maybe she would protect the kids upstairs.

Anyways, my partner started drinking a lot there and began to get violent. When he would begin these moods, he would stare at me first and honestly, his eyes were black and it looked like nobody was home. He would stare blankly before he let this anger out onto me.

Not long after, I was on the phone to one of my cousins and out of the blue, I was knocked over from God knows what. I woke up on the floor with the phone in my hand. She asked what was wrong and I said I didnt know. Then it happened again. I told her that I had to go as I didnt know what was happening. I felt dazed, so I went into my bedroom. I had my knees on the floor and was laying the rest of my body on my bed. Then, my body was thrown across the bed. It was so unreal that I laughed, and instantly, it stopped.

My partner ended up leaving for a while and I continued to stay. One night, I woke up in my bed and the lights were out, but here was this thing standing at the end of my bed, which was blacker than the dark room. I had high ceilings and this thing was huge. It had no face but a big outline of a well built man, just standing there. I was so afraid, as I couldnt move, or talk. I could only think thoughts and move my eyes. I said the name of Jesus over and over in my mind and fell asleep. I woke up remembering this, but it was so unreal that I thought that I imagined it. Just to be safe, I went to see a priest and got some holy water. I sat in my bed that night and threw it all around the outside of my bed while praying. I turned my light off and tried to go to sleep. Then all of a sudden I heard these footsteps around my bed that sounded like a mans boots. I thought right, if I am imagining this, I will go get my cat to see if he can hear it. I put him in bed with me and turned off the light. The footsteps began again and my cat jumped up and turned his head to one side. I knew then, that this was real and my cat slept on my back all night.

I had a spiritualist come to my house to see what was going on. I hadnt told him what I saw, I was just curious. When he pulled up to the house and got out of his car, he said that he could see a big man standing on our doorstep with his arms folded. I was amazed. The only other thing that happened out of the blue, was that my friend was leaving my house in her car, then all of a sudden her side window smashed in her car for no reason. The only way that I dealt with it was ignorance

I finally ended up leaving this house and I was sad, as I just love big old houses. I seem to be drawn to them. The next tenants were pretty hard people but they soon left as they said this house had a bad feeling in it. I hadnt told them what happened to me. Not long after, it was pulled down.

I have never had any experiences like that since then. Just lately, some funny little things have been happening, like I plug things into the walls and turn them on, then they are turned off again at the wall, or Im hearing weird noises. I am not worried at all as this is nothing like my past. I think that I found the explanation for these funny little occurrences here tonight. My daughter is coming into her teens and annoying the hell out of us, maybe her energy is making funny things happen, who knows.

Anyways, its great to be able to share my previous experience with you all. It is something that I will never forget and it helped me to really know that ghosts do exist. I had previously wondered but didnt know, now I do know

[Promecus]

I'd like to make a few comments about your story...

First, about when you laughed..
"It was so unreal that I laughed, and instantly, it stopped."

This is consistent with what I've found to be true about the 'Shadow people'. They feed off of fear. And when you stop being afraid of them, they typically give up or lose all power over the situation.

But what really concerns me the most, is that they are not corporeal, yet they can affect the physical world.
It's too bad that house was pulled down. I wouldn't mind taking a look around.

-G-

[peaceseeker]

Thanks for your reply You know, its so nice to know that there are people like yourself who do believe in the same stuff. Its a shame that I didnt have someone like you around to go through this house with me. Even though the situation was so unreal and unfamiliar to me, I still loved the house. Thanks again, this site is so interesting.

[mazmc]

My Story is a little long winded as it's been going on for such a long time.....
When my first daughter Rebecca born she would fix her eyes on ther corner of the lounge and laugh. At first I didn't find it strange I thought she may of just been in a giggly mood. I realised she must of seen something because if you stood in her way she would strain her neck to see past you to look in the corner again.
Also at that time baby musical toys would go off on there own.. ( maybe not too strange they may of been knocked)... but no they hadn't what is the spooky bit was there were no batteries in one of them and it still went off.
We moved and the activity got more intense.....
The day we moved my husband and his friend were moving us . I was in the kitchen putting things away from the corner of my eye i saw my husband standing next to the door so whilst i was working away i was talking to him and when he didn't reply I turned to look at him but ther was no one there. But i had seen some one i saw some one in a T-shirt and tracksuit bottoms on similar to my husbands . I ran in to the dinning room out on to the patioo and ther was no one in site.... from then on ... Doors would bang ... it sounded as though some one would jump out of the loft on to the landing and run down stairs.
By this point I had 3 children, My children would wake in the night shouting at some one to get out of there room when I went to see what the fuss was about there would be no one there but the little one would shout out and point as though there was someone else there.
My husband and I didn't go out much but on occassions we did we would ask close family members to baby sit. Ater baby sitting once they would say they wouldn't do it again as they were frightened to stay at my house with out me being there.
We stayed in that house for about 2 years and the activity was bad so we decided to move thinking we would leave it behind but no such luck.
My youngest daughter from when she could first speak, would tell me about fairies as she called them in her bedroom and bright sparkley lights (i can only asume are orbs). Four or five years passed and we had activity on a daily basis and we got used to it.
We moved again to our current house and this one where we have had the most. Things go missing all the time, lots of noises and smells. We have got used to our house guests now, one of the things that anoys the children is they can tidy there rooms and go back a few minutes later and there would be things shot all over.
Recent things to go missing are 2 phone charges. One mine and one my husbands. The dogs medical card for the vets. receipts. kids toys. Clothes.

I would love to know if it is the same spirts following us around and who it is ... I have suspions on who it could be but not sure....

[BillysGal]

Our Casita in No. NM. is Haunted.
Voices, Cold Breezes or Cold Spots, Heavy Boot Steps, things breaking for no reason, Apparitions, etc.
We have Several Entities here.
A Medicine Elder, a Miner, a couple of Native Gents, a couple of Old Ranch Hands, a Stable Hand, there was a little Boy, but he is gone. There was also a little girl.
She is now gone as well.
There have been as many as 2 dozen Entities at any one point, or so I had been told.

[Jesso]

I find it interesting to discover abandoned houses that have a history! This happened around 7 years ago. My friend and I were sitting around having coffee, talking about haunted places and she said "If you really want to get creeped out, there is this place on Dawson Road that is haunted. A family died in a house fire a long time ago and no one has lived in the house ever since." Another friend of mine, her boyfriend and I decided to pay a visit to this place one day after school--it was totally last minute so I had no camera But we went and to get in the house we had to sneak in the window so we wouldn't get busted tresspassing. It was located in a field with trees surrounding it. Now this house was creeeeeeeepy! It still had old appliances from decades ago, 50s style furniture, and old wallpaper. Some of the house was burned down and some of it was still standing. We managed to get up the stairs (without falling through the holes) and to the upstairs floor. Suddenly I had this bad feeling like we shouldn't be up there. My friend and her boyfriend went to explore the other rooms. There were stairs leading to the attic but I was more intrigued by the bathroom. I saw no handprints on the wall though. The only thing unusual that I witnessed was a huge pile of stones in this really old bathtub. I yelled to my buddies "Hey guys-see anything?" No answer. I walked down the hall. Then I turned around and looked at the doorframe of the bathroom. All of a sudden a handprint just APPEARED on it! At the same time I heard a child scream (from inside the house ) I thought I was hearing things but then my friend and her BF came running out of a room, "Did you hear that???" We never ran so fast in our lives and never stopped till we were halfway across the field. Creepy huh?