13 True Scary Paranormal Stories You’ll Never Forget

I used to be a police officer in a city in Virginia there is one upscale neighborhood in our city with very nice homes and when I was a new officer I was often told stories about a doctor who used to live in one of those homes The Story Goes that the doctor attempted to perform some type of operation on himself he numbed his stomach area to make an incision but since he couldn't feel it he accidentally cut too deep and wide ultimately disemboweling himself when officers and paramedics arrived they found him barely alive holding his

own intestines and he eventually died fast forward to when I was assigned to a call about a young woman found dead by her older sister when I arrived on the scene it was in the aformentioned nice neighborhood as soon as I exited my vehicle I had an uneasy feeling about the house while it looked nice on the outside there was just a bad energy surrounding it as I approached the front porch I noticed countless empty energy drink cans and a Ouija board on the front patio table everything about this house just felt wrong and once

inside the family was obviously very distraught I was told the deceased whom we'll call Emily was in the basement and by that time another officer had arrived so he stayed upstairs with the family while I went down to the basement the basement was unfinished and fairly dark with only two pole string light bulbs one on each side the scene in the basement was similar to the front porch energy drink cans were scattered everywhere and there was another Ouija board on a small coffee table Emily who was 19 if I remember correctly was hanging by her

neck from a basement rafter she had used an exercise band and her body was swinging slightly her face was blue bloated and contorted into a horrible expression another officer helped me take her down Emily's Family consisted of her mother father and older sister her parents said that they had been trying to help her because all she ever did was stay up all night drinking energy drinks and playing with the Ouija board her sister provided more detail she said that she and Emily were very close and told each other everything and according to her Emily had

become obsessed with the Ouija board staying up all night to talk to what she believed was her boyfriend who was dead Emily had been telling her sister that her boyfriend was begging her to join him in the afterlife which is why her sister believe she did what she did now let me reiterate this house felt wrong there was an overwhelming sense of unease and sickness in the basement and it wasn't because of the body this wasn't my first death scene this call really messed with me for a while we never got much more explanation and

as cops you just have to move on to the next call not 2 weeks later to the day I responded to a call about a car accident with ejection and I head to the scene with lights and sirens and arrived to find a convertible BMW that had clearly experienced a horrific crash and rollover it was sitting on its wheels and in the driver's seat was a woman with a broken neck her head twisted almost completely around about 25 ft away from the car was a man who had been ejected since it was a convertible he

must have been thrown from the top the top half of his head was missing and pieces of his brain matter was scattered everywhere as I walked 75 yd away from the accident to close off the scene with yellow tape I found yet another large chunk of his brain now I'm not trying to be intentionally graphic or gross but I want to paint a clear picture of just how violent this car accident was when I obtained the man's ID and radioed it in to dispatch another officer and I realized the same thing at the same time

these two people were Emily's parents who had died in a terrible accident exactly 2 weeks after her death breaking the news to the older sister was heartbreaking and I kept in touch with her for a while she had inherited her parents' estate and life insurance money and she ended up selling everything and buying a new house to try and start over and build her life however the story doesn't end there you see about a month later another officer was called to the scene after a pedestrian was struck by a car while jogging in her neighborhood

and yes you guessed it it was the sister she survived several weeks in a coma but ultimately did not make it if you're wondering why the story about the doctor is relevant it's because the house where Emily took her own life was the same house that that doctor had lived in I don't know what to think but to me it seems like either the house is cursed or Emily opened up something very dark that was a few years ago and I'm no longer a police officer as that's a story for a different time and I've

since moved a couple of states away all I know is that I'm just glad to be as far away from that cursed situation as [Music] possible when I was 10 my life changed in ways I could never have imagined my father inherited an old house in remote New South Wales from a distant relative we barely knew he thought it would be an IDE idealic place to raise a family away from the hustle and bustle of City Life little did he know what awaited us the house was nestled in the middle of nowhere surrounded by dense

bushin it was the perfect picture of Tranquility at least during the day the house itself had an eerie Antiquated charm with creaking floorboards and dimly lit hallways that seemed to stretch on forever my family consisted of my father my mother my older sister Lucy and me we moved in with excitement and a sense of adventure unaware of the horrors that would soon unfold the first few nights were pretty uneventful my father busied himself with repairs my mother unpacked and Lucy and I explored the property on the fourth night I had my first encounter I was

in my room reading a book when I felt a sudden chill the room seemed darker than usual and I had the unmistakable feeling of being watched I looked up and there peering around the corner of the door frame was a figure it was barely visible like a shadow but I could make out the shape of a head and shoulders I froze my heart pounding in my chest and the figure remained there for a few agonizing moments before disappearing I convinced myself that it was just my imagination despite the creeping fear that settled in my bones

weeks passed and odd things continued to happen happen mostly to me my toys would be moved around and my bed would occasionally Shake in the middle of the night I told my parents but they dismissed it as nightmares or childish imagination one night I woke up to a whispering voice hissing my name I sat up drenched in sweat and saw the same figure from before now at the foot of my bed it was closer and clearer it had no features just an Inky blackness I screamed and my mother rushed in and the figure vanished the

moment she opened the door leaving her to comfort me and dismiss it as a bad dream it wasn't until Lucy had her own experience that my parents began to take things seriously she came to me one morning pale and shaken saying that she'd seen a woman in old-fashioned clothes standing at the foot of her bed staring at her with Hollow eyes my parents started to believe something was off but didn't want to admit that something Supernatural might be happening our situation escalated over the 5 years that we lived there it started out small lights flickering

strange noises and cold drafts but grew increasingly malicious two experiences Stand Out vividly in my memory from what I recall the first happened during our second year my father had gone into town leaving the rest of us alone and it was a stormy night and the house seemed alive with almost its own energy Lucy and I were in the living room trying to watch TV despite the frequent power flickers and suddenly the room went ice cold and the TV turned off entirely in the next moment the corner of the room darkened and we both saw

it an unmistakable figure peering out from the Shadows its eyes reflecting the dim light it slowly moved closer and we could make out the shape of its mouth Twisted into a very cruel smile Lucy grabbed my hand and we bolted upstairs to my parents' room locking the door behind us my mother tried to calm us down but she too felt the coldness and unease that permeated the house another terrifying event occurred in our fourth year my father had become more open to the idea that something was clearly wrong he brought in a local priest the

bless the house after numerous pleas from my mother and that night after the blessing I was in the kitchen getting a drink of water when I felt a present behind me I turned and saw the same figure that had haunted me for years now clearer than ever it was a man gaunt and hollow-eyed with one side of his face hideously scarred he stood at the entrance of the kitchen blocking my exit and I was paralyzed with fear he began to move towards me slowly deliberately and every step he took seemed to drain the warmth from

the room I fell to the floor unable to move only managing to scream when he was inches away my father burst in and the figure vanished leaving the air thick with Dread the priest's blessing had stirred whatever malevolence resided there in our final year things became unbearable the entire family started hearing voices footsteps and seeing the figure now Bolder and more frequent in its appearances it seemed to thrive on our fear growing strong longer and more aggressive doors would slam objects would fly across the room and we all felt watched all the time and we

decided enough was enough one evening as we packed our things to leave the activity reached a fever pitch the house shook the temperature dropped to freezing and all of us saw Shadows darting around it seemed The Entity didn't want us to go but we were very Resolute in our decision we moved out the next day leaving behind that cursed house and never looking back later on we learned that the house had a very dark history the man who built it in the 1800s was rumored to have gone mad and taken the lives of his family

his Spirit along with others was said to haunt the property reliving their final moments in a Twisted Loop of Torment living in that house changed us all we never spoke of it much after we left but the memories lingered and even now years later sometimes I wake up in the dead of night half expecting to see a face peering around the corner watching and [Music] waiting in October 2017 I lost my husband while I was 7 weeks pregnant and the day he died I left for work in a hurry we exchanged some texts after he

woke up discussing a phone interview that he had later that day and the pain that he was experiencing in his leg we had a quick phone call a couple of hours later where he mentioned that he was running to the pharmacy for pain meds about an hour after that I tried calling him several times to make sure that he got home safely but there was no answer which was very unlike him I kept calling him for hours until finally a woman answered his phone and she told me that she was with the sheriff's department and

asked me to come home at the time I worked in a prison in fearing that he might have gotten into some sort of trouble I left my post got to my car and sped through the 30-minute drive back to town as I turned into a parking garage I saw a large white van that read coroner when I approached her home I was greeted by the same woman who had spoken to me on the phone blocking my view into the house she informed me that my husband had had suffered a heart attack later confirmed as a

pulmonary embolism which explained the leg pain that he had mentioned earlier that morning apparently my husband made it home locked the security door and then collapsed he screamed for help our neighbor and her son had heard him and rushed over but they couldn't get inside because all the doors and windows were locked the son later apologized for not breaking a window saying that in his shock and panic he lost all sense of reason they spoke to my husband through the door while they called 911 but he stopped responding just moments before help arrived and he

was pronounced Dead on Arrival a week or so after his service his best friend's wife offered me a cleansing and a card reading by her mother and although I was skeptical I was desperate for any kind of communication with him or closure and during the reading she mentioned many interesting things but what stood out the most was that my husband was in a stage after death where the soul relives its entire life similar to when people say that their life flashes before their eyes she explained that this is a place every soul visits after death

as a way to reflect on the life they lived she also said his death was so sudden that he hadn't yet realized that he had died and that I would need to help him cross over she felt strongly that I was the one who could help him and instructed me to light what white candles and place a jar of water to guide him to peace now a few months later I moved into my parents house one day while lying on the couch I suddenly felt a heavy sensation almost as if I had been administered anesthesia

it felt like sleep paralysis when I could finally open my eyes I was still on the couch in my parents living room but my husband was sitting on a chair right in front of me as clear and as real as he had been before he died before I could even speak he started talking he told me that he was nervous about his upcoming phone interview the one that he had the day he passed he said he was excited and hopeful about getting the job and asked for help preparing I looked at him with tears in

my eyes feeling the weight of what I had to say I told him baby I'm so sorry do you remember the pain in your leg you had blood clots one of them made its way to your heart you weren't going to make it to the interview baby you died I'll never forget the look on his face first confusion then the slow realization of what I had just told him I apologized again told him I loved him and begged him to respond but he just sat there with that strange expression and suddenly I woke up the

chair from my parents kitchen table was now sitting directly in front of me empty I never dreamed of him again after that and I pray it's because I gave him the closure that he needed to cross over we now have a 5-year-old son who often dreams very specific dreams about his father he talks about things that he couldn't possibly know unless it came directly from him losing my husband was my first real experience with death but it brought me peace to have my own confirmation that there is something more after this [Music] life this experience

I'm going to describe has taken a while for me to get together and actually write down it takes place in Yos National Park in August of 2017 with my two best friends Zach and Andrew Zach had worked that summer as a parking agent at Glacier Point and was pretty familiar with the area his employee housing he was given a house in weona with two other guys Andrew and I were visiting for the week and had each been to yosan before one of the nights there we decided to watch the sun set of her chill newana

Falls it was a great hike that Zach had done before the trail was about 4 miles to the top with about a 2,000t elevation gain we brought food and decided to hike up and take a swim and eat the pools on top of the falls we set out on a couple of hours before Sunset as we approached the top portion we were about half a mile to the top of the falls where a guy about our age early 20s ran up to us from bushes frantically asking for help his friend had fallen 50 ft off

of a cliff and had shattered his femur Zach was used to this and after working in the park all summer he had seen many injuries and was used to it the man didn't have cell reception but I did so I called 911 and reported the accident requesting search and rescue after a few minutes we decided that we wanted to continue the hike after search and rescue assured us that they would be there soon with a helicopter we told the guy that help was on its way and we continued the next half mile up to the

top of the falls when we got up there it was a picture perfect scene a beautiful sunset as we swam and ate we then got into amazing shows we saw the helicopter land to pick up the injured guy that we had just encountered right below us I'm A Private Pilot in Air Force Aviator so I loved every second of watching the helicopter land on the mountain side after the sunset we began the hike down and passed the spot with the injured guy and search and rescue was taking care of him we had a brief encounter

with them they thanked us for calling it in and it was now dark out and we continued the hike down there wasn't much Moonlight and it was pretty dark dark so we used our phones as flashlights to see the trail and this is where the story gets interesting the top of the hike was switchbacks with a steep incline on the right and a steep decline on the left with shrubs and trees it was definitely too steep to hike down hence the switchbacks and about one mile into the hike Zach was in front with a light

and I was second also shining my light and Andrew was in the back Zach was shining his light ahead and saw something sticking out from from behind a tree that was about 15 ft ahead just off to the right of the path and instinctively shine his light on it that's when whatever it was revealed itself from behind the tree and ran across the path down to the left and down the steep grade it ran on two feet and resembled some sort of humanoid figure it was a little shorter than us and clearly had two arms

and two legs but a moved in an inhuman way it vaguely resem a person with a head and limbs but appeared to be just skin no clothes at all all three of us saw it and we froze in our tracks we continued shining the light where it had run down the left side of the mountain but we didn't see anything after it disappeared we were absolutely terrified none of us really knowing what to say because we had no idea what we had just witnessed the worst part was that we still had another 3em hike ahead

of us Plus another mile and a half from the trail head to Zach's house all while knowing that this creature could be stalking us close by luckily we made it to his house terrified and exhausted but unharmed whatever it was must have been just as scared of us as we were of it my question is has anyone else had a similar experience in that area I've done some research and my best guess would be a skin walker but it didn't try to lure us into the forest with we had another strange experience a couple of

years later in tooga pass right outside the tooga Gate of the park we were camping in a closed Campground in that area and in the middle of the night I woke up to go to the bathroom and before exiting the tent I saw an orb about 5 ft away floating by with a bright light I don't think it was a person because Zach Andrew and I all saw the orb and there wasn't anyone around us our friend Jackson who was also in the tent told us that the next morning that he had felt rocks being

thrown at the tent all night along with hearing footsteps nearby has anyone else ever had these similar strange experiences I'd love to hear them we all know what we saw and we know that it wasn't [Music] human I was confined to a hospital in Manila for severe pneumonia back in 2021 during the pandemic lockdown when masks were mandatory I was about to be assigned a room when I saw a toddler in a red polka dot dress Galloping around the emergency room and then leaving through the glass entrance she wasn't wearing a mask so I asked

security if children were allowed and the guard replied in Filipino no children allowed and I was confused wasn't he seeing this Rowdy kid after after I was confined to the fifth floor I fell asleep and had a really weird dream I went down and saw the young girl outside the emergency room only this time she was weeping in anger and holding a hammer when she looked up she screamed paw why did you leave me afraid of being hit with the hammer I ran up the dim stairwell back to the fifth floor all I remember was

that I was slowly losing my breath and when I looked back I saw her chasing after me only now as she was floating up the staircase it felt like I ascended over 20 floors because the chase seemed never ending the stairwell echoed with a pleading voice screaming paw by the time I reached my bed I was physically at a breath and that's when I woke up with dangerously low oxygen levels gasping for air already surrounded by two attending nurses I was intiated for a few days after that when I regained consciousness I recounted my dream

to my attending nurse she froze in shock before asking did she have a polka dot dress on and I asked her how she knew apparently my dream was eerily similar to over 10 anecdotes from different patients over the decades each one involving a girl in a polka dot dress who first appeared in the emergency area and then later in their dreams chasing them until they woke up the existence of this girl is has been an Open Secret among the hospital staff passed down from worker to worker since the 1970s and I guess the backstory goes

more than 40 years ago a small Deni infected child was brought to the hospital by a young Chinese father in his 20s and for reasons unknown perhaps because she was an illegitimate child not recognized by the father's family the dad abandoned her at the hospital never to return and the hospital recorded no proper identity for the little girl and she eventually died alone she was buried in the cemetery right across from the hospital and a group of nurses helped bury the girl they named her sha a Chinese Filipino term for youngest daughter she wore a

polka dot dress the nurse told me that while they have never actually seen the ghost they all know of her existence they also know that the ghost only reveals herself to certain people strangely all the patients who reported seeing her shared similar physical attributes East Asian looking I.E Chinese in their 20s of average build around 5'8 and on the brink of death perhaps patients who resembled her father did I remind her of him I've come to believe the ghost of this girl is still searching for her father I won't deny it it felt like I

was running from Death itself but in hindsight I wonder if the girl simply wanted a father maybe she wanted to bring one with her to the Afterlife by some miracle I survived the whole ordeal and I returned to that hospital last year for a routine checkup but I never saw that girl again call it a blessing or a curse but for what it's worth that dream woke me up to a second chance at life and I hope you find peace wherever you are little girl [Music] finding a rental in Suburban Victoria that was actually affordable

seemed like a miracle my two housemates and I all in our early 20s and juggling part-time jobs with University couldn't believe our luck when we found a Charming house at the end of a quiet culdesac it was suspiciously cheap for the area but we chocked it up to our good fortune and a landlord eager to fill the place quickly we moved in during an unusually warm summer the house had a dated but cozy feel with worn carpets and faintly creaking floorboards that we rode off as part of its charm it wasn't long before we started

to notice some Oddities the first night while we were unpacking in the living room we heard footsteps running up and down the hallway we dismissed it as the house settling maybe some old pipes but the footsteps continued every night always around the same time 2: a.m. my room was at the end of the hallway so I was often the last to hear the footsteps before they faded away one night I asend to stay up and see if I could catch whatever or whoever was causing the noise I sat in the living room lights off with

only the glow from my laptop for company and right on Q the footsteps started light rapid steps unmistakably human yet not matching anyone's presence as they approached the living room I felt a chill run down my spine the air grew cold and the footsteps stopped just short of the doorway where I was sitting I looked up but there was nothing there just darkness and the overwhelming feeling of being watched now we laughed it off the next day but a sense of unease definitely lingered and then came the touches it started with Claire one of my

housemates she'd been studying in at the kitchen table and would suddenly feel a light brush against her shoulder like someone lightly running their fingers over her to get her attention she'd whip around expecting to see one of us but the room would be empty and over time Sam and I experienced the same cold fleeting touches ever so gentle but profoundly unsettling the real terror though began with the sightings one evening while we were all relaxing in the living room I noticed a shadowy figure peering in through the window I jumped up thinking someone was trying

to break in but as I moved closer the figure seemed to melt away into the night Sam saw it too confirming I wasn't just seeing things and from that point on the figure haunted us watching us from the windows always just set the edge of our vision disappearing whenever we tried to confront it the worst night of our lives in that house started just like any other we had gathered in the kitchen for a late dinner plates and Cutlery clattered as we joked about the house being haunted nervously laughing off our fear it was around

midnight when things started to take a turn as we sat eating the temperature in the room plummeted our breath became visible hanging in the air like smoke the kitchen light flickered casting erratic Shadows all around us and then without warning the cupboard doors flew open open and plates began to hurl themselves off the shelves we stared in shock as they shattered against the walls and floors and amid the chaos a high-pitched blood curdling shriek filled the air echoing throughout the house it wasn't just a noise it was a tormenting sound like something from the depths

of a nightmare we bolted from the kitchen only to find the hallway blocked by that same shadowy figure it loomed larger than ever a dark Mass with indistinct features but a very real presence and the air fell thick almost tangible with hatred and Malice radiating from it like a feeling we hesitated for what felt like an eternity then bolted for the back door leaving behind everything but our Need to Escape we never spent another night in that house we call the landlord the next morning demanding an immediate termination of our lease and surprisingly or perhaps

not they didn't argue with us we managed to find temporary accommodation with friends and eventually secured a new place far away from that cesac and any lingering Spirits only later did we find out that that house had a very dark history to it previous tenants had left suddenly some claiming that the place was haunted others describing experiences similar to ours it wasn't something the landlord ever mentioned and perhaps it wasn't something they believed or even wanted to believe but living there changed us we grew quieter more introspective and I find myself glancing over my shoulder

a lot more half expecting to see a shadow peering back at me even in the safety of my new home some nights especially when it's quiet and the house is settling I swear I can still hear those footsteps [Music] my girlfriend and I moved into a new apartment roughly 3 years ago since then she has been suffering from weekly episodes of sleep paralysis her brother used to have them when they were children so she recognized what it was right away she is described it as being completely paralyzed except for being able to breathe and move

her eyes most of the time she sees a dark tall figure moving around our apartment during these episodes sometimes she just hears it walking other times it's standing in the doorway staring at her and occasionally it presses down on her chest making it hard for her to breathe she's a skeptic when it comes to the Paranormal yet these sleep paralysis episodes terrify her and now here's the really scary part she usually manages to wake me up during these episodes by breathing quickly and loudly I can then wake her from it which allows her to move

again and the figure disappears what I haven't told her is that for the past two months I've seen this figure too right after I'm woken up by her breathing I can see it bent over her pressing down on her chest it always disappears the moment I acknowledge it or try to wake her I've also seen it standing in the hallway staring at me one night while I was home alone watching a movie I pretended not to see it and when I looked again it was gone now comes the Dilemma do I tell my girlfriend that

her sleep paralysis demon might not just be a product of her mind since I've seen it too and at the same time as her when I wake her up from paralysis at night I don't want to scare her she's already terrified by the sleep paralysis but at least she believes it's all in her head and we can't afford to move I think we can both live with this as long as I never tell her the truth but I need your advice [Music] I was at a family Friend's Wedding today which took place in the middle

of a forest it was a beautiful setting but after a while I needed to break from the crowd so I walked toward a small stream nearby and that's when I saw someone now a little background last year one of my closest friends passed away in a car crash we were both into paranormal stuff and they promised that they'd come to find me after they died since they're passing I haven't noticed anything unusual aside from occasionally seeing a shadow figure until today the person standing by the stream had a birth mark on their face and my

friend had the exact same birth mark they were wearing a limited edition shirt from a band that we both loved the same shirt my friend wore the day they crashed even their hair color was identical to my friends I stared at this person for a while and they smiled back back saying hello and they said my name and I blinked and they were gone and I'm still just so confused and even terrified at what happened it does give me a sense of Peace but I just need some reassurance that I'm not losing my mind [Music]

a few years ago my mother passed away after a long battle with cancer in her final weeks she was bedridden at home and at one point on some heavy pain medication the whole family took turns helping and spending time with her and what she told us towards the end gave us all a shock she kept reacting as though something had scared her and she would jump and say oh God or she'd swear as if something startled her at first she didn't say anything but then after a week or two she blurted out something one day

that gave us all the creeps I wish he'd Stop scaring me tell him to go away she was irritated by something or more precisely someone confused we asked what the problem was and she told us apparently during her final weeks she kept seeing her deceased partner walking around the house he'd walked down the hallway past her bedroom door or sometimes sit in her room and every time it happened it would make her jump with fright as she obviously wasn't expecting to see him there she seemed more annoyed than scared and she saw him several times

a day just going about his business as if he had never left usually her reaction was oh for God's sake go away not because she didn't want to see him but because he kept startling her and our first thought was that it was related to the pain medication that she was on but the nurse assured us that it wouldn't cause hallucinations or visions I know it scared the life out of us and she entered a hospice a few weeks later and the vision stopped weird right we still don't talk about it that's just how unsettled

we all really [Music] were I moved into a rental house last year with my wife built in the' 40s I think it's an okay rental but I'd never buy this place it's a modge podge of half-ass DIYs including a house extension the church across the road owns it and the two of the people there have managed it for a while and I don't know much of the history of it otherwise even since the first time I toured it the basement has creeped me out there's this weird yellow half finished bathroom downstairs in the laundry room

that is at least a few decades old a telephone down there and the rest is unfinished there's a creepy chair in the corner that I swear I moved a few months ago on a desk that I swear another chair used to be stacked on top of but regardless that's not why I'm making this post since we moved in every once in a while a light is randomly on down there sometimes it's one of the draw cord lights and I assume I forgot and left it on although I'm pretty good about that kind of thing and

I doubt it and for the past few months more often the main light switch to the top of the stairs and there's no way that I'd forget that lately with us moving out in less than a week it's been turning on every couple of days which is more often than usual I often notice it when I'm outside looking in which is even creepier it's worth noting that the switch will physically be up too when it wasn't before but today when it happened again I had a creepy realization it happens when we're sleeping I know this

because every night I go to my office down the hall from my bedroom and play games or do work in the dark when I go into the hallway it's always pitch black and I have to turn on my phone flashlight there are a decent Siz gaps under the doors and I noticed if the lights were on the night before yesterday I caught it again so yesterday when we did the laundry I made a mental note that I turned it off in the late afternoon so it turned on after I went to bed but before we

went down there again I also just generally get a bad Vibe when I'm down there and when the door is open a few weeks ago I left the door open a little because my cat wandered down there while I did laundry and I was waiting for him to come up and I swear when I was in my office I heard the door moving back and forth slightly and creaking which it normally doesn't do nothing else weird has happened in the house on that living floor but it generally can be very creepy the hallway where the

door to the basement is in general is the absolute creepiest spot but I really want to know what are your [Music] thoughts I just woke up from a nap and I've been silently lurking and reading other people's posts which are Super interesting and I don't necessarily think anything too much about my experience since the answer is right there a ghost was talking to me from the basement my parents commuted to work at the time which required them to get up at 3:00 in the morning get ready for an hour and then leave the house at

around 4 in the morning since the northern part of my state where they work we live in the central part is very heavy with traffic my parents built their house in 2013 and we moved in around that time too my sister and I would sleep upstairs and my grandma who was alive at the time slept in the master bedroom on the ground floor Flor I was in college at the time it was about 5:00 in the morning and grandma and my sister were sleeping I was drinking my morning coffee in the dark looking over my

student email when I heard a very clear woman's voice say hello is anyone there I need help from the basement at first I thought that I was developing psychosis since my sister a skitso effective mood disorder but I immediately noticed my dogs were staring right at the basement door they heard it too and so I barricaded the basement and went up to my room with coffee and locked the door and now I'm perusing Reddit trying to find [Music] answers for some context this was at the first house that I lived in and I was around

four or five keep in mind I have a pretty overactive imagination as a kid but this encounter felt so real and unlike anything I've experienced before I woke up in the middle of the night in my mother's room I forgot why I was in my mom's room but I remembered that she was sleeping and her room was lighted enough that I was able to look around the room but when I looked towards her bedroom door I saw two white figures seemingly playing they appeared to be young as they seemed smaller than my father and seemed

around a little older than people my age I knew they also weren't transparent these figures had actual mass to them like shadow people and the best way to describe it but instead of black they were completely white now anyway when I saw them they stopped playing and stared right at me and my whole body froze and I was unable to say anything I didn't even want to wake up my mother I was that frightened to move then the two figur started to walk to me as excruciatingly slow as possible as they crossed to my side

of the bed one of the boys had reached his hand out to touch me and then faded away just as he reached me it wasn't until a few years later when I brought this up with my dad and he told me that he used to see a bunch of ghosts when he was a kid at our house he grew up in my first house but he never saw a ghosts of two children he did say that he heard a story growing up that there were two boys that actually died on that street that we lived

in one died falling down the stairs and the other died in some way I forgot but he didn't know the boys personally and that's all I got I've told a few people this and they brought up sleep paralysis and I felt like I could move I was just afraid to move in that moment I did say that I had an overactive imagination back then so it is entirely possible that I imagined it all but it felt so real and unlike any night terror that I had brought up by my imagination if you have any explanations

that would be awesome but for now I'll just sign off on that [Music] note let's get one thing straight I've hiked the Blue Mountains before but nothing I mean nothing could have prepared me for what I experienced during what was supposed to be a routine Trek through its Canyons it began as a clear morning the kind Aussie's brag about the eucalypt haze that gives the Blue Mountains their name wrapped around the cliffs in a dreamy shroud I set off from katumba pumped for a day of solitude and The Haunting beauty of the gro Valley honestly

I should have turned back when I first felt that tingle on my neck the one you get when you think someone's watching you being The Dauntless bloke that I tend to be I chocked it up to the chill of the Mountain Air bad call I missed the trail marker My Mind Set On The shifting Shadows between the gum trees and that's when I got lost the paths here wind around and double back like a snake I've trekked them plenty but today today they had teeth and they bit me hard hours passed and I realized that

I was properly stuffed night fell like a curtain fast and unforgiving and I've never known dark like that not the city kind this was a velvety pressing darkness that oozed into your bones and stayed there my phone's flashlight cut through it like a weak whisper against a thunderstorm every tree looked like a gnarled hand and every Bush russle felt like a warning and here's the Goosebump bit I wasn't alone not once did I see it clearly but by the twitch of Twilight there was something behind me a presence that hummed with malice you know those

stories of Aussie Spirits the ones oldtimers talk about in hush tones by the fire I'd laugh them off but out there laughter was about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike it felt like a hunt and I was the Quarry stumbling over roots and my breath a ragged prayer my phone beeped a low battery warning seriously now I pushed through the bush gripping the phone like a Talisman but even Tech's cold comfort was slipping away the hours to Dawn stretched Eternal and my world shrunk to the feeble circle of my Dying Light when the

brush gave way to an open dirt road it felt like a mirage I was giddy with relief like this was some Twisted Outback Wizard of Oz junk there wasn't a yellow brick road but I'd have kissed that dirt if I hadn't been so parched I followed it boots crunching every Echo a question when the ranger station silhouetted against the night I could have wept the ranger a bloke named Daryl had the look of a man who'd seen it all and then some he listened to my tale with a grave nod and gave me a lift

back to my you throwing glances to the rear view like he expected my ghostly mate to be thumbing a ride don't hike alone he said his voice almost lost in the engine's growl especially not when the Mountain's Restless I haven't been back since people say it was all in my head dehydration Panic the bush playing tricks and maybe they're right but sometimes when the city's asleep and my flats quiet I swear I hear that Whisper of a presence feel that shiver down my spine Sydney's got enough to explore without looking for trouble and if you

ever find yourself up in the Blue Mountains stick to the beaten path and for the the Love of All That's holy respect the signs both the ones in the ground and the ones in your gut and bring a bloody [Music] flashlight it was a Friday night and my cousin along with her brother was staying over at our house in baist New South Wales my cousin was about 15 years old we lived in a two-story home so my parents and her brother were downstairs in the den my younger sister and I were in the living room

while my older cousin was in a spared bedroom getting ready for bed I was curled up on the couch watching TV when suddenly a loud scream pierced the air I jumped up and ran to the spare room to see what had happened my cousin was sitting upright her face pale she told me the bed had been shaking and thinking she was joking I told her to stop messing around and went back to the couch 15 minutes later another scream rang out even louder than before and I rushed back to the spare room yelling what's wrong

now and with wide eyes she said the bed was shaking just as I was about to walk away the bed started moving wildly in front of us it shook back and forth as if someone or something was gripping it my cousin burst into tears and jumped off the bed and the shaking stopped instantly I checked under the the bed convinced her brother was pranking us but it was empty was it a poltergeist and to this day I don't know if we imagined it or if it was something real neither my cousin nor I have talked

about it since a week later another strange thing happened it was a quiet Wednesday evening and I was alone in the house reading a book my family had gone out for dinner and I wanted some peace and quiet I was deeply engrossed in a suspenseful chapter when I heard faint Whispers coming from the hallway I thought that it was just the house settling or the wind outside but the Whispers grew louder and seemed to move closer my heart pounded as I put my book down and listened more carefully it wasn't my imagination there were real

murmuring voices in the hallway summoning all my courage I walked toward the sound the whisperers stopped the moment that I stepped into the hallway the hairs on my neck stood up and a chill ran through me over the next few days strange things happened more frequently lights flickered for no reason doors creaked open by themselves and some rooms had inexplicable cold spots we tried to convince ourselves that it was faulty wiring or drafts but it happened so often that it became hard to ignore one night while brushing my teeth I saw a shadowy figure in

the bathroom mirror behind me my blood ran cold and I quickly turned around but the room was empty I splashed water on my face hoping that I was just tired but the image of that shadow haunted me these events terrified us my cousin and I were too frightened to sleep alone so we started sharing a room and our nights were filled with uneasy sleep and whispered questions like did you hear that during the dark quiet hours we didn't tell our parents afraid that they wouldn't believe us or would think that we were just causing trouble

and one night the strange activities escalated to a peak my family and I were in the living room trying to watch a movie and halfway through the lights flickered and the room became freezing we huddled together our breath visible in the cold air suddenly the TV turned static and Whispers filled the room The Whispers grew louder almost deafening and objects began moving by themselves books flew off the shelves picture frames shattered and an Old Clock chimed radically in a panic we ran to the den for safety and that Eerie activity followed us as if something

unseen wanted us gone in the chaos we decided that we couldn't stay any longer and we packed our things and left the house that night staying at a friend's place and leaving was hard but it was necessary for our Peace of Mind weeks later when we returned to collect our belongings the house felt different the unsettling presence seemed to have vanished leaving a very eerie silence and we moved out soon after leaving behind what had once been our home but it turned into a place of unexplained Terror and that's our story we don't really talk

about it much but to this day we have no idea what was really going on and sometimes I think it's just better to let these things be [Music] when I was a teenager like around 13 or 14 one of my mates from school lived in a kind of Countryside area it's hard to describe we lived in the suburbs but his area was a little further out and less Suburban looking at the time this was 25 years ago I have no idea what it looks like now by the way I went to his place to stay

from time to time because there was always Adventures to be had around his place one day he mentions that there are caves near his house old M shafts to be more precise they were in a kind of National Park I was super interested to go check them out with him so we planned to go the following weekend and I'd stay over the night before and we'd set out early the next morning the weekend came around and we set out around 8:00 a.m. we went to the supermarket on the way to stock up on drinks and

snacks and made our way to the caves the national park was huge and beautiful it was a great morning for a hike too not too hot and not too cold with a nice blue skyed sunny day we came to our first cave in the first 20 minutes of hiking we grabbed our torches or flashlights and went in it was only short ending in a small chamber at the far end of the chamber was a sturdy locked cage typee gate my friend told me that some were locked off due to the very real chance of cave-ins

or flooding since it wasn't too long and it wasn't too dark with a small amount of sunlight coming in from the entryway we took a break and ate some snacks it was good being out and about I was never a fan of early mornings but this was an exception we resumed our trip after that short break and came across several more similar CES there were a few longer ones with evidence of people using them for underage drinking candles and beer cans coupled with shitty teenage graffiti but these were an exception and not too bad for

the most part people seem to respect the caves to an extent and cleaned up after themselves after about an hour and a half we came across one that was a bit different from the others it was a longer one but evidence of people using it for anything was minimal I was too embarrassed to say so at the time but I got a really weird feeling when we entered it it was weird because we had been in so many and I felt nothing but this one just made me feel uneasy I looked at my mate and

he seemed fine so I didn't say anything not wanting to appear soft when we got to the end where the metal gate was we found that it was unlocked and open in fact when we got closer the wind seemed to blow it open slightly although I didn't feel any wind I got a chill at my spine and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up it was like it was inviting us in without hesitating my mate was like let's go and I was a little taken aback how could he not be picking up

with the bad vibes here but I ended up not saying anything thinking maybe I was just being paranoid and didn't want him hassling me later about it I regret this now so we went in it was so dark in there our flashlights barely lit a couple of meters ahead of us the tunnels seemed to go on and on there was Zero evidence of anyone having been there recently what do you think we'll find my friend whispered to me don't know I managed to mumble out une was really starting to hit me now to the point

that I was beginning to feel nauseous and then it got worse I felt wind start to blow around my ankles at first I paid it no mind but then I thought where is this sudden wind coming from the temperature seemed to get colder at each step too then I felt the wind brush past my shoulder and face my heart was beating so hard that I imagined it was echoing in the tunnel then I started hearing Whispering all around me it was faint and hard to work out the words I stopped dead in my tracks and

listened when I stopped it too seemed to stop and then the most bone chilling sound I'd ever heard could be heard in the distance in front of us low at first but definitely loud in no time it was the bellowing scream of a man one at first but then I could make out multiple voices I felt hands start to grab at me and I could take it no more I took off in a Sprint back towards the exit I could only half see the way because the hand that I was holding my flashlight with was

pumping up and down as it does when you sprint I scraped my arms legs and shoulders against the rough rock walls several times but I didn't care it felt like I was running endlessly but eventually I reached the gate which I collided into I thought it would be open still but for some reason it was shut in my panic I couldn't seem to work out how to open it eventually I managed and it Swang towards me and I left my mate not far behind me we finally got out and just kept running until we finally

realized that we were out out of that tunnel upon realizing this we collapsed in an exhausted Heap struggling to regain our breath I'm not proud of this but I also vomited on myself due to the overexertion it was my only shirt for that weekend too and I had to borrow one of my mates while we cleaned mine up in secret because for some reason we thought we'd be in trouble just before we got up and left the area where we collapsed I took one look back at the cave it was kind of involuntary I wasn't

even thinking when my eyes landed on that cave entrance I swear I could see a shadowy figure standing in the darkness staring at us I shot a look at my friend and he saw it too I was this close to puking again but I held it down we got up and hurriedly left the area that was enough adventure for one day we went back there a year or so later for nostalgia's sake also we felt bigger and tougher that particular cave was heavily locked off with no trespassing signs on it threatening Hefty fines probably for

the best thinking back teenage bravado makes young boys do stupid things sometimes and we may not have escaped so easily a second time [Music] this happened about 4 years ago when I was 17 living with my aunt for some background my aunt my friend and I are all very spiritual and believe in ghosts so anyway I can't recall why but I was grounded my friend let's call her see wanted to come hang out around 6:00 p.m. she came by and we practically begged my aunt to let go to McDonald's with C to get a drink

after a lot of bribing with promises to clean the house she said yes but told us to be home in 15 minutes so C and I hopped in her car and went to McDonald's but of course being 17 we took a detour on the way home and stopped in a nature strip basically a dirt strip with some houses that led out to well nature anyway we pulled up opened our car doors and turned the car off to chill and just talk we started saying how we both felt weird like there was a presence in the

car with us but we kind of brushed it off at some point my car door slammed shut and I mean slammed not like wind C laughed and thought it was me until she looked at me and I was still facing her with a shocked look on my face C immediately freaked out slammed her door shut turned the car on and booked it out of there while we were driving out I said that it still felt like something was with us in the car immediately as I said that I screamed and said I felt a cold

hand on my thigh and as soon as I said that the light above us on the road went out as it about five more perfectly timed as we drove under each at this point we were zooming home to tell my aunt we got home and practically fell out of the car running upstairs but my aunt wasn't home we sat on the balcony collecting ourselves and decided to go to our aunt's friend's house who I forgot to mention was also spiritual we'll call her s we got back in the car and immediately we could feel that

we weren't alone again but we decided to continue to essa's house we are arrived and I knocked on isa's door and she immediately said what's wrong you look like you've seen a ghost I awkwardly laughed and said something like that and asked if she had seen my aunt she told me that she had gone home so I sighed thanked her and got back in the car C and I looked at each other and simultaneously said it feels like it's gone we finally calmed down and headed back to my aunts she basically laughed at us and

told us not to be so scared because they feed off of fear she saged us and we went on with our night fast forward to the next morning I overheard my aunt on the phone with S and S said I think there's something in my house so I'm sorry S I may have dropped it off hey friends thanks for listening click that notification Bell to be alerted of all future narrations I release new videos every Monday and Thursday at 9:00 p.m. EST and there are super fun live streams on Sundays and Wednesday nights if you

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