" When I was in high school , my family had to move from central Texas back to West Texas for my dad 's job . We were under a lot of stress and other family issues at the time as well , but that is besides the point . My sister and my mom were painting the upstairs walls as we got the house to get ready . My mom was on the wall to the far right , there was a blank wall in the middle , and my sister was on the far left . I was downstairs packing up things into boxes . Anyway , suddenly , my sister comes downstairs ( she is older than me ) looking scared out of her mind . She asks me to come upstairs . On the wall in between them , for no apparent reason , this ' writing ' appeared . Looking closely enough , you can see it was not written by accident , but rather by broad strokes made by a human hand . Problem is , the handprint is too big for any of us three to make it . The longer we stayed in the room , the more freaked out we got as we realized that nobody was playing a prank on anyone else . I still have no explanation to this day of what it means . " - CorpsKitty Once there , nothing exciting happened for the first 10 minutes or so , and they had tried everything the website or wherever they heard the story told them to do , with nothing resulting . They got bored , and being typical , inebriated college kids , started taunting the supposed ghost of the mother . This continued for a few minutes before they tired , and decided to go back to the car as one of the girls had to go to the bathroom . Once they got back to the car , my friend , the sober driver , tried opening the handle without unlocking the car because he hadn 't locked it in the first place , but found it locked . He attributed this to bad memory at the time . The group drove home , laughing and talking like normal . After he had dropped all the others off at their homes , he went back to his own house . He got in at the same time as one of his roommates , who stopped and waited for him to pull in . The roommate had his phone out , and shined the light in the window when his friend pulled in as a joke . What he saw was tiny , baby sized handprints all over the windows . As soon as my friend got out , he went into the house without saying a word to the roommate . The roommate , confused , went back to the car and tried to rub one of the handprints . They were on the inside of the window . " True story . My best friend died of cancer back in 2002 - we were incredibly close in every way and we spent the majority of our free time together . Almost a year after she died , I was in my apartment sleeping and my phone rang around 3 am - I had one of those sony erricson t610 . I was very groggy and picked up the phone from my nightstand and looked at it - I saw it was my friend 's number . I immediately became alert and awake and answered the phone very curious . I said hello a few times but all I could hear was very loud static for about 30 seconds . Eventually the call ended . At this point I was freaking out and called the number back only to get an automated recoding that this number was out of service . I then called her mother 's house to see if possibly her older sister may have had my friends old phone and might have called me by accident , but there was no answer at my friends mother 's home . Come to find out the remaining family was away in Miami . After they came home a few days later , I took the phone to them and showed them the call log and they were in disbelief . They went to my friend 's room and got the phone out of the drawer where it had been sitting for months . . battery stone cold dead . " - chrismarshall " A man goes to a bed and breakfast . While checking in , the owner tells him that the room next to his is undergoing some repairs , so don 't open the door or anything . The man goes to his room , drops off his things , but then is bored . He pokes around the house a little , and with nothing else to do , decides to see the room that needs repairing . He tries the door and it 's locked . He wonders why the owner would even bother warning him about this room since it 's locked anyway . Whatever . He peeks through the keyhole , and the room beyond isn 't actually being repaired . It 's completely empty , except for a figure in the far side if the room sitting in a chair facing the wall . The man stands up again , creeped out . Just to make sure he wasn 't imagining things , he bends down and looks through the keyhole again . This time he doesn 't see the figure , or the room at all , just the color red , like someone was blocking the keyhole with construction paper . Weirded out , the man goes to bed . When he 's at breakfast with the owner the next morning , the man asks him casually about the repairs in the next room . The owner sighs and says , ' Truthfully ? I don 't rent out that room because so many people have told me it 's haunted by a ghost with red eyes . ' " - meowmeowbuttz " There was a hunter in the woods , who , after a long day hunting , was in the middle of an immense forest . It was getting dark , and having lost his bearings , he decided to head in one direction until he was clear of the increasingly oppressive foliage . After a what seemed like hours , he came across a cabin in a small clearing . Realizing how dark it had grown , he decided to see if he could stay there for the night . He approached , and found the door ajar . Nobody was inside . The hunter flopped down on the single bed , deciding to explain himself to the owner in the morning . As he looked around , he was surprised to see the walls adorned by many portraits , all painted in incredible detail . Without exception , they appeared to be staring down at him , their features twisted into looks of hatred . Staring back , he grew increasingly uncomfortable . Making a concerted effort to ignore the many hateful faces , he turned to face the wall , and exhausted , he fell into a restless sleep . Face down in an unfamiliar bed , he turned blinking in unexpected sunlight . Looking up , he discovered that the cabin had no portraits , only windows . " - DroogyParade " My house was built in 1904 . It is a single family home , wood frame setting on a concrete block foundation . I have been living here for about 12 years . Of all the weird things that my siblings and me have seen or heard in this house this one event is my favorite . This happened to my brother . About ten years ago my brother and his best friends had started a garage band playing mostly ' Spanish rock , ' alternative music but in Spanish . His friends could only get together on Sunday afternoons . They would practice into the early evening , they would usually call it quits by 8 pm , this was the time I usually showed up and went to bed , cause I worked the graveyard shift . This happened in late fall , so the days were getting shorter , they had just finished a long session when the decision to head to someone else house came about . My brother handed his car keys to his buddy so they could load up the equipment , every one had filed out of the basement , the tricky part was that they needed to walk all the way to the back of the basement , up the back stairs , through the kitchen doorway down the hall into the living room and out into the front porch . Everyone was outside sitting in my brothers truck waiting for him . My brother was walking up the back stairs when he remembered that he had left his pancakes in a to go container sitting on a speaker in the basement . He made the decision to go back . Now the basement is not clean , with full sight lines , there had been partitions made , and the boiler and main heating unit are right smack in the middle . So after my brother walks back , he is about to retrieve his food container , when out of the corner of his eye he sees it . It is a shadowy figure , right at his peripheral vision , this feeling of dread and uneasiness washed over my brother . We had been taught that if you are in the presence of a spirit or ghost and you felt a bad vibe , to say quick prayer or to cuss at it . My brother chose the latter , he basically just told it , ' Hey fuck you , I don 't have time for this shit . ' My brother started to walk to the back of the basement and briskly up the stairs , closing doors and turning off lights as he was walking out , the last light switch is on the opposite side of the front door … Luckily the door was open and the light from the street lamp was flooding the living room with its amber light . My brother said he felt something at his back , but at no point did he turn around , as he flicked the last switch the living room went dark , as the rest of the house . As he stepped out he pulled on the door closing it behind him , still holding his food container in one hand he jogged down the few porch steps , he walked towards the front gate … our house resides far from the main street , essentially having a large front yard but no rear garage . As he closed the gap between himself and his friend laden truck he kinda smiled and thought things over in his head , mad at himself for spooking out when there was no reason . " In my old house , I would be sitting on my computer , listening to music on my Ipod while playing WoW . Periodically , at random times . The screen would flicker and my Ipod 's volume would adjust either up or down . I never thought anything of this , until it continued to do so only in that house . Eventually I just said ' whatever , if it likes the song it likes the song . ' However , inside this house I had constant issues . One of which , would be my sleeping in bed / living room depending on the night and waking up to a low grumbling sound … Feeling fear strike my heart and listening to the beat of my now panicked state … I would try and move , to wake up and see what is happening . I couldn 't . Not even my finger tips would move … Completely conscious and able to see silhouettes … I hear / see my cat hiss and I can feel myself being moved as light shines over my eyes and I fall asleep again . This particular case , I remember waking up and seeing a man standing on this 100 ft tree in my back yard . Real tall and slender this guy . I muster up as much strength as I can , raise my hand up and give this guy the finger . After which , I immediately fall back asleep with a ' thud ' . I hear my back door open ( on the second floor ) and my dogs start barking / whining from the down stairs … ( I was 16 and 250 lbs , no one was moving me anywhere … realistically speaking of course ) . Anyways , to this day . I swear that thing was an ET . Because I saw it multiple times throughout my life . Once standing in the kitchen window , which was 8 ft off the ground . That particular night , and in the first house I ever lived . I used to see him in my bedroom window and he would talk to me . Scariest shit I have experience . Ended when I moved out of the last house . I am now 21 . " - DestroDub One night during the storm , my friend and I made a trip to the bathroom . The lights had since gone out ( middle of a hurricane and all ) . The church had a musty , eerie feel to it . Kind of like when you turn out the ac in a house for a few days . The area surrounding the church was also dead quiet , since there was no electricity in the area . The bathroom was several halls over from our room . So , we grabbed our flashlights and set out . While walking down one long hall , we shined our flashlights ahead , and there , at the end of the hall , sat an old man in a wheelchair ( in the middle of the night with no one around ) . Now , this hall was incredibly long . So we could make him out , but we couldn 't really see all his facial features , etc . Once we grasped what we saw , we turned and looked at each other , semi - freaked out . Then , we shined our flashlights back to where he was , and there was nothing there . It was as if he vanished . No signs , no sound … . nothing . Needless to say , we hauled ass back to the room . " - [ deleted ] 9 . I heard phantom footsteps running toward me " Okay . This happened to me when I was a junior in high school . It was December and it had just started snowing , that evening . My best friend and I were in debate and getting ready for our state qualifiers , that were the next day . We were writing our cases and as usual , at each others throats over the details of the cases . It was a stressful , tense evening . We finally finished our cases at about 3am . Then , we went to my room for the night . Almost as soon as we get into my room , we hear what sounds like the water turning on in the other end of the house . No big deal , probably my parents , I think . Then , we hear the front door open . I told her , " I bet mom woke up and wanted some fresh air . " It made sense . I really thought thats what it was . Until we heard incredibly heavy foot steps in my living room , headed for my room . They were NOT anyone in my family 's foot steps . Then they stoppedn . My friend and I looked at each other and were both freaked out , just standing , frozen in my room . We walked closer to each other and the foot steps started again , but this time they were running toward us . We both flipped . We grabbed each others hands , out of fear , and my bedroom door flew open . We both looked at the door . Nobody was there . We ran to the bathroom that 's connected to my room . I closed / locked the door and stood against it . When we finally got the balls to do it , we sprinted to my parents ' room , crying and hysterical . We obviously startled my parents awake . They said neither of them had gotten up . My dad grabbed his gun and looked outside . No tracks in the snow , anywhere around our house . " - MariaLeah1 ' Because in my dream , when I told you about the dream , the thing wearing Mommy 's skin sat up . " ' For a moment , you feel paralyzed ; you can 't take your eyes off of your daughter . The covers behind you begin to shift . " - [ deleted ] " My brother once lived in a flat in down town Mt . Clemens , MI . The Clem was known to be a hot spot for " baths " back in the depression era and was booming with activity . Nowadays it has some run - down parts , this is where my brother rented his flat . It was a giant old raggety house which was now separated into multiple odd apartments . Anyways , long story short , he always admitted to odd experiences , cupboard doors opening up , things missing , but one peculiar oddity was that he was always missing boxers / underwear from his drawer . He admitted that he thought his house was haunted and that the ghost had a crush on him . Never anything violent or disturbing , just odd things . Later on he starts dating his future ex - wife . She starts coming around and he notices that the oddities begin to increase . New oddities began to occur , his girlfriend would always find her shoes ( which were left on a mat inside the apartment ) outside the door on the patio in the morning . She 'd always comment to my brother to stop putting her shoes outside , he had an idea of why but didn 't want to frighten her … besides , it wasn 't hurting anyone right ? Well , things started getting worse , he comes home from work and his girlfriend was staying there while he was gone , claims that the stove burner kept lighting itself , she 'd walk into the kitchen and it would be lit , she 'd turn it off and shortly later it 'd be lit again . Then , one night my brother wakes up in the middle of the night and sees his girlfriend sitting at the end of the bed , not just sees but feels her near his feet , staring at him . He calls out for her to come back to bed , she doesn 't respond so he calls out louder telling her to come to bed and asking what 's wrong ? His girlfriend then asks what he 's doing , he turns and shes sleeping next to him , he turns back , no one is at the end of the bed . Now , he 's freaked out but doesn 't want to scare his girlfriend from coming over his place . A few nights later , they 're both sleeping and he wakes up to his girlfriend screaming . He looks over and she 's sleeping but thrashing around holding onto her neck . He doesn 't see anything so he starts yelling and shaking her to wake her up , after a few shakes she wakes up crying and terrified . She starts telling my brother about how real her dream felt that a woman was strangling her telling her to get out , that she doesn 't belong there and to leave her man alone . Her neck had red marks on it , possibly from herself trying to ' defend herself ' but they believed it to be from something else . My brother then comes clean with her , the decide to do some research and find out that the address that they live in was an old brothel back in the day that the rich bathers used to stay in . My brother lived in that house for a few more weeks before he could locate a new place , she never came back to stay the night though , and he never experienced anything aggressive while there . Still , kinda fucked up though . I know my brother and I can tell when he 's lying , this shit was legit and when she talked about it , you could see how shaken up she was . " - riverine17 " My daughter was born with mild tracheomalacia ( soft wind pipe ) . The only ' trouble ' it ever caused was that she would make a whistling sound sometimes when she was breathing , especially when she was excited or upset . Fast forward to when she was about 4 months old and fast asleep in her crib one evening . Her older brother had the stomach flu that day and had been throwing up . We thought the baby hadn 't caught it . But , a little while after we put her to bed , we suddenly heard her softly sputtering on the monitor , then silence for a few seconds , then a HUGE loud wail , which made both my husband and I run even faster to her room . By the time we got to her , she had fallen earily quiet again . We saw she was gasping for air , choking , unable to clear the vomit from her throat or get a clean breath . Even after we picked her up and cleared her mouth , she continued to gasp . She turned blue , then grey as I drove with her quickly to the ER . She had partially recovered by the time we got there . They gave her o2 , chest xray , then a clean bill and we left . Fast forward about two hours later when I 'm back in my bedroom with her sleeping upright in a baby seat next to me on the bed . My husband and I talked briefly about what would have happened had the baby not cried out so loudly . Would we have reacted so quickly ? Would she have recovered ? I 'm in and out of sleep myself because I kept checking her . One of the times , just before I had fully awoken , I looked out in the hallway and saw my grandfather , who had passed away a few years prior . When he was alive , he was not the most involved grand dad . But , when he met my husband ( my boyfriend at the time ) they had an instant connection . When he passed away , his last coherent words were , " I 'm not going to make it to altruitis and Mr altruitis 's wedding , am I … " He loved my husband dearly . Anyway , I see him out in the hall this night . He is just standing there in khakis and a polo with his hands in his pockets . In my dream state , I see all my children , except the baby , pulling at his arms and playing with him . He has a simple smile on his face , he looks over toward the baby 's room and back at me and says , ' I 'm sorry I made her cry , but I 'm glad she 's okay . ' " - altruitis Every day he would come home from school and he would be the first one there for at least an hour or 2 . One day he walked in the front door and the TV was on and instantly turned off . He stood in the doorway for a second , turned around and walked away . He didn 't go back into the house until his parents came home . When I was a child , I was scared of the dark . I swore to my mother I heard voices in it . They were not evil , but they were not familiar and so they scared me . It was not uncommon in the middle of the night for me to wake up and hear ' whispers ' as I would call them when asking my mom . She figured they were just ' bumps in the night ' and typical kids nightmare material . I tried often to explain to her that it was more than that , that they sounded different from one another the way people 's voices do . On one such night , around Christmas , I awoke and felt the need to relieve myself . I walked out from the door and distinctly heard the phrase ' Look ! " ' and to my astonishment , a red light , almost like a spotlight , was cast upon the wall at the very bottom of the stairs . The light had no other source , it was by itself , and I was transfixed by it . Being a little kid , and it only being a few days from Christmas , I KNEW what this light was . IT WAS SANTA ! ! ! How else could he get into my house to know I was being a good boy . I was so excited I began walking down the stairs to greet him , picking up my pace after the second step as it began to creep off the wall and fade into the darkness in my living room . That 's when I heard him . A very strong , masculine voice . Different from the first . Not at all like my father 's ( not to say he isn 't masculine , it was just distinctly different ) . It said " Stop ! Right now . Go back up those stairs . " When we awoke the next morning , the poinsettia lights ( little Christmas flower lights that glowed red ) my mother had put on the railing down the stairs were pulled straight down to the bottom of the stairs , some broken from what seemed like a forceful tear , laying in a single pile . The dry sink in my living room had fallen from the wall . My mother could not explain it ! My father was worried we had been the victims of a home invasion . My sister was crying . There , on the edge of the wooden dry sink which had been facing up , were three indentations where the finish on the wood had been worn , almost as if in a forceful grip . Something down there had GRABBED IT AND THREW IT DOWN . That was what the bang was . I was mortified . After that day I never heard a single voice again . I do not like to imagine what was waiting downstairs for me that night , if it was anything at all , but I can tell you that the reality was that something had physically acted upon two things in my house near the bottom of that stairwell . After this , I had never heard another whisper again . Which is sad , because in some ways I would have liked to thank the man ( masculine energy ? ) that had stopped me from going down those stairs . This happened when I was 7 ( or 7 and a half ! as I liked to say at the time ) . I have a really good one that is actually true ; it happened to me . This could have been a dream , but I testify to this day that what I saw was a ghost . So here I am , a young buy who awoke in the middle of the night . I am currently sharing a bunk bed with my brother , and I am on the top bunk . I look out into my living room and notice everything is dark , however there is a person in an evening gown dusting my fireplace mantle . The woman was slender , which threw me off guard because my mom is obese . I yelled out ' mom ? ' To the person dusting the counter , and the person turned around . It was not my mom , but some older woman . Suddenly , she shrieks and her face becomes severely deformed . It was like that shit you see in horror movies , like ridiculously scary especially for a young kid I blink my eyes and she was gone . I somehow went back to bed , and the next morning I went to my living room and noticed that even though the tv was off , there was something ' written ' on the screen . It said : ' Do not be afraid . ' The text slowly faded , and no one else saw it . As a young boy , this was , and still is , extremely terrifying to me . " - Nardwuarr " I don 't remember all of the details because my dad told me this story several years ago , but here it goes . When my dad was younger and still living in Poland , he and a few friends took a trip and one night decided to stay at a bed and breakfast type place . Everything seemed normal until he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night . He told me he felt some sort of presence behind him , so he slowly turned around but there was no one there . He swears he could feel someone there on the bed with him though , along with a slight shift in pressure on the bed . It went away after a few minutes and my dad went back to sleep . The next morning he found out that a man had died in that bed about a week or so prior . " - wewereonabreak " I was a junior in college and was living in a dorm which had a reputation for being haunted . Of course the RAs spread this around and we had a fun time scaring ourselves for the first month or so of school . The floors which had the greatest reputation for being haunted were the 2nd and 5th floors . My room was on the 5th . I lived on the " International " floor , even though I myself was not international , so my roommate was from Tokyo . In this dorm , each floor alternated a single , a bathroom and a double , so three people would share a bathroom . This setup was called a " suite " and the person who lived in the single ( or the double , if you were in the single ) was your " suitemate " . My suitemate was from Cairo . Really fun ladies , it was a great year . So I come home at about midnight after a long night of chatting online , and my roommate has the curtain shut between our halves of the room . She hears me walk in and says , " Oh , $ MYNAME , I 'm so glad you 're here ! While I was in the bathroom , the door opened by itself ! " Now , I enjoy a mystery as much as anyone , but I like to be practical about things so naturally I think there 's a rational explanation . I walk into the bathroom . The curtain over the bathroom is drawn closed , so I peek under it . Sure enough , the window is open about an inch . I figure it must 've been a draft . I walk back out into the room and tell my roommate , " Well , the Windows 's open about an inch , so it probably just blew the door open . " My roommate is greatly relieved and says something to the effect of , " Whew ! I 'm so glad to hear that ! " I turn around and go back into the bathroom so I can take out my contacts and brush my teeth … and stop dead in my tracks . The curtain , which had previously been closed , was now open . But it wasn 't drawn open , like someone would do to see out the window , but rolled to each side , like one would roll up a newspaper . Just as if someone had been sitting in the window . The next morning , it took me a few minutes to unroll each curtain and flatten it out so it would lay flat again . " - [ deleted ] 19 . I saw a black shadow from my car " I was on a college ghost hunt with a guy name Chris Fleming . Cool dude , we did all the normal college ghost hunt stuff walking to supposedly haunted dorms and experiencing some cool stuff , but nothing crazy . The city we where in had this special place called the Ghost Trestle . It was basically a Railroad bridge in the middle of a corn field that had a dirt road underneath it . Anyways during the ghost hunt with this guy who was actually featured on Ghost Adventures , we told him about this place . He was pumped and rushed through the rest of the college ghost hunt . Him and his assistant and a few of my friends took two cars with all his equipment to this ghost trestle . When we got there a train was coming so he interviewed us on camera to tell the story about this place . Back a long time ago there was a farm house ( still there but rebuilt ) and a farmer , his wife , and son escaped a fire in the house . Also on fire was the horse stables . The farmer ran in to try and rescue the horsed before they succumbed to the fire while the wife and son went to wave down a train that was passing by . The story ends with the farmer dying in the stable fire and as the wife and child were waving down the train they were struck and killed . To this day if you park your car under the bridge while a train crossed you above its suppose to open up another dimensional world to be able to communicate . Well we show up and of course to our luck there is a train coming . We all freaked out and got pumped while the Medium Chris Fleming attempted to communicate . We were all taking pictures and began to experience weird technological failures . My camera which was my own began flashing and taking multiple pictures . same thing was occurring with our disposable camera Chris Flemings assistant had . At one point we began to see stuff mostly out of the corner of our eyes , and Chris Attempted to communicate , but what ever spirit was there seemed more intimidated . He ( Chris ) believed it to be the spirit of the little boy . We would every now and then see a figure poking its head out from behind a concrete wall under the tracks . It seemed like it was playing hide and seek . Fast forward to a year or two after this event . I came to this same place for the first time since the night we went with Chris Flemming . This time it was just me and my then GF . I parked under the bridge turned off the car and lights and took the key out of the ignition . We were joking together about how we were getting to old for this stuff . And when I looked in the rear view mirror I saw a black shadow flash by the rear window of my car follow by some noises that sounds like someone running towards my car . My heart never raced so fast to put my key into the ignition and peel out and get out of there . Whatever , it was didn 't seem like it wanted us there and I have yet to drive under or by the bridge since . " - crazymayze " A few years back I was camping in Lake Havasu with my brother and a few friends ; my brother and I were working on building a fire while the other guys were on the boat mooring it to the shore . We had a hole we dug where we had our previous fires that trip , so my brother and got the fire going and sat down around the pit . The fire was burning for a good 10 minutes and was at a decent size before the most bizarre thing happened . The fire just went out , completely extinguished , as in no more flame . The embers were still there emitting heat , but the flame was gone . My brother and I looked at each other then back at the fire pit . A few seconds go by then the fire re - ignites to level it was at before it ' went out . ' We are totally confused and we just start screaming for the guys to come check out what happened . " - surf _ shark " I heard this when I was in Korea . One day a girl was walking home late night after work or something . It was dark and around midnight . She lived an apartment where they had elevator . She got in the elevator and when the door was about to close , a strange man with very red hoodie entered the elevator . He apologized for scaring her and asked which floor she is heading to , without making an eye contact . She told him out of fear and the man casually press the button and the one below . As they were on the way , he asked her for her cell phone if he could use it but she declined out of suspicious and isolated herself in the corner . After seconds of silence , elevator arrived to the floor below the one girl was heading to and the door opened . The guy slowly walked out of the door and turned around facing toward the elevator and the girl , and just stared at her without any movement . Slowly the door started to close and from the gap , she could see him turning around heading for up - stairs … pulling a knife out of his pocket . " - edwarlkd814 " Two days after my grandfather died , the neighborhood security guard knocks on our door on a Sunday morning . He told us : ' An old man came to your house earlier , knocked on your door for half an hour , and finally left . When I asked him what he wanted , he told me he needed to say goodbye to someone he had never had the chance to meet . ' We were all stunned , had no idea who this old man was , or who was he looking for . When the guard came in , he shouted : ' That 's the old man ! ! ' pointing at a picture of my grandfather . My entire family froze for a minute . I 'm not 100 % sure if the guard was telling the truth , but I almost like believing that my grandad wanted to say goodbye to my newborn sister , before resting in peace . " - CrisThompson7 Read This Aspiring science fiction author . Dog owner . Neil Patrick Harris fangirl . Follow Holly on Twitter Facebook Instagram Quote Catalog Cataloged in Ask Reddit , Creepy , Creepy Catalog , Ghosts , Paranormal , Reddit , reddit compilation , Supernatural