Someone Kept Returning Things I Didn’t Know I’d Lost

Plastic sandwich bag with reading glasses and a printed label inside a mailbox, creepy stalker story

This creepy stalker story starts with a guitar pick in a sandwich bag. Someone left it in my mailbox with a label on it saying exactly when and where I’d dropped it. I hadn’t even noticed it was gone. My students like the best spooky stories at band camp. I’ve never told them this one. … Read more

My Dog Wouldn’t Go in the Laundry Room, and the Dryer Was Always Warm

Dark laundry room with a louvered water heater cabinet slightly open, a scene of someone hiding in my house

My dog figured out there was someone hiding in my house about three weeks before I did. I just kept explaining her away, along with the socks, the towel, and the dryer that was warm every time I opened it. I’m a high school band director, which means from August to November I basically live … Read more

Somebody Kept Refilling My Halloween Candy Bowl From Inside My House

Orange candy bowl full of peppermints on a dark porch beside a front door, from a home intruder story

This home intruder story starts with a bowl of candy I left on my porch on Halloween night. By morning somebody had filled it back up, and my doorbell camera swore nobody had walked up to my door. I work twelve-hour nights as a respiratory therapist, which means I miss most holidays, and Halloween is … Read more