These are our scary ghost stories and paranormal stories: haunted houses, haunted objects, and the dead who never quite left. An ornament on the family tree that nobody hung. A baby monitor that picks up a lullaby from an empty room. A mirror from an estate sale that shows the room a few seconds late.Not every haunting is loud. Many of the creepy ghost stories here are quiet, patient, and sad, the kind you keep thinking about the next day. Others are not quiet at all. If you want the scariest ones first, start with our best horror stories, or let the random story button choose a haunting for you.
Every old house has its quirks, but the locked room in ours was something else entirely. When we bought the house — a big, beautiful, century-old place we could never have afforded if it hadn’t been priced so strangely low — the previous owners mentioned one thing almost in passing. There was a room at … Read more
The little girl my daughter talked about started as nothing more than an imaginary friend. Or at least, that’s what my husband and I told ourselves for the first few months. Our daughter Lily was four, and four-year-olds have imaginary friends. It’s normal. It’s healthy. There was nothing to worry about. Lily called her “the … Read more
Most of us go our whole lives without ever seeing something we can’t explain. But almost everyone knows one person with a story — a night, a house, a moment where the rules seemed to bend. These three true paranormal encounters come from ordinary people who swear every word is real. Paranormal Encounter One — … Read more