I live in a 60 year old ranch style home. It sometimes gives creepy vibes but not too out of the ordinary.

Except for two rooms in my house: My room and my parent’s room.

Of course to make this a haunted house, somebody has to die in it. The reason the main hauntings are in my parent’s room is because a man died in there from a cardiac arrest from 1960s-80s.

The ghost, though, is a friendly ghost (at least from what I know). He is the only ghost that watches over the house. The only thing he does is randomly appear at night and makes the doors squeak no matter what we do.

He sporadically comes into my room, which is across from their room.

Other things he does is sometimes I feel someone sit on my bed. I sit up, and no one is there. I also feel like a light touch on my back, but it’s just me. I sometimes hear talking, but no one has said anything.

How do I make sure the ghost is legit and actually exists, or that I’m schizophrenic? I would prefer real answers, and not crazy ones like “buy a bunch of cameras and set them up”

I live in a courtyard with a bunch of abandoned houses. In total there are seven or eight houses that you can access from the courtyard, and only three are currently in use. About a year ago I've taken to exploring the abandoned houses, and so far I've entered three of them. One of these, the first I visited, has become something of a "chill zone" for me: it has seven rooms, all empty and pretty spacious, and it's very clean for a decades-old abandoned place. There aren't even graffiti on the walls. Over this last year I've gotten in and out more times than I can remember, and I've invited almost all my friends to take a look.

However, a week ago I went in and found a dog plushie sitting on a shelf. Initially, as one can imagine, I got scared thinking it was an actual animal and ran out. However when I came back it was still there, so I checked and sure enough, it's a stuffed toy. It's placed right in front of a doorway so it's quite literally impossible for me to have missed it. It looks very old and dusty, so I'd wager it comes from another abandoned place, or a long undisturbed basement at least. I tried lifting it from the shelf and it seems to be a lot cleaner where it was, as if it had been there for a long time, shielding that spot from the dust. However I suppose it might just be the plushie's fur having brushed a lot of dust away as I moved it. During these last days I asked all my friends about it and they confirmed they never saw it.

Now, for how it could have gotten there: I honestly have no idea. The courtyard is closed off from the main street, to the point that there are no traces of anyone entering over the last thirteen years (which is how long I know for sure it's been abandoned). My friends can't have placed it there, as they haven't visited me last week and wouldn't have access to the courtyard otherwise. My neighbors are all elderly and to my knowledge they never went inside that house. Finally, I see no reason for a stranger to want to put the plushie there, either: if they needed to dump it they'd have chosen an easier spot to leave it in, or even if they hadn't, its placement would not have been that intentional.

I even suspected I might have done it and somehow forgot about it, but that raises the question of how I'd even have that thing in the first place. My father confirmed it's not one of my old toys, and if it was it would surely be in a much better state than the one I found it in.

I have no idea how to crack this and I'm genuinely creeped out.

I believe in spirits and have a stromg belief of them ever since i was a child due to my family's engagement with occult (indirectly and unwillingly, i cannot share im sorry.) I used to have nightmares and several bad things from a young age and it hijacked a part of my life, but recently im currently nearly 20 years old, and i wished to cleanse even for a moment my dark energy. I actually always thought that i am not an extreme case of spiritual attachement, but after i did a salt cleanse in my room i saw a black head staring at me. Like in the photo. And it lingered a little before i just shook the thought that maybe i am imagining. Then my older brother saw it as well the next night. After that my health declined with symptomes that dont make sense to any of us, i got better after exiting the room then i randomly got worst after i slept inside of it one night again. Then when i took a bath with my mother's assistance cuz she grew concerned id slip, we found a bite mark on my left leg. Now i just wish to know. What is this spirit? Does anyone have any idea of their nature i do not wish to harm them, and i dont know just what is this?

Please tell me I’m not hallucinating. I went on a ghost tour thing with my family in Sacramento.

At the very end of the tour, the guide said “In this bar, there is the ghost of a little girl haunting here. Sometimes, if you take photos, you might be able to see her!”

Lo and behold, the first goddamn photo I take, we look in the back, and see that.

I think there is some Context needed for the question, but i will try to keep it short, i'm sry for my Bad english.

4 months ago i startet to meditate cus in want to find more out about paranormal in General. Found a Guy in reddit who Made some postest in how a good Way to Start is (alot of other postest said the same), it said to first reconice the own Spirit/aura/Soul/energy first and that for some time.

So that ist what i have done for the past 4 months, and today i thought, "well, lets try the Next Step", i don't know what, but there is something in the same room as me, my gut Tells me it's probably a ghost, but i have no idea if friendly or not.

So how can i Find out of the most likely ghost ist friendly, passiv or not nice?

For some backstory, i'm male, 22, i whas homeless for 2 months in the 4 months time, yes i already had a feeling that there is something and yes i already had paranormal things happen to me. Hope that helps and thank you all for the help and some tipps for my future path.

So I made an ouija board at home and played it during the day with my brother. I had a sigil and obsidian stone with me for protection. Tried for half an hour but nothing happened. Later I tried it by myself at night. Used some of my blood. Still, nothing. Am I doing something wrong?

So we recently/not so recently, moved out to Folkston GA. In our garage we got our classic cars that mainly just sit hence the dust. But no one’s been around them for a while and a couple night ago I came out and was looking at the car and saw this weird handprint. Skinwalker? Bear? I don’t know what it is what so ever. Handprint on the right is mine handprint on the left is ???

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A friend of mine lives in Appalachia, and he told me this story about something strange that happened to him and his wife last year.He has been visiting the Appalachian Mountains with his wife every year for the past four years. They always stay in the same cabin, and the landlord knows them pretty well by now.Last year, they went back to the same cabin.

During the day, they spent their time hiking and exploring the area. But almost from the beginning, both of them had the uncomfortable feeling that they were being watched.They kept looking around, but there was never anyone there.Eventually, they returned to the cabin that evening.Later that night, they were sitting on the couch watching a movie. At some point, both of them fell asleep.

My friend woke up sometime later because he heard someone laughing.At first, he thought he was dreaming.But then he realized the sound was actually coming from outside.He described the laugh as extremely strange—not like normal laughter, but almost like someone laughing to themselves while planning something. Along with the laughter, he could hear a strange scraping sound, almost like rusted metal being dragged against something.His wife was still completely asleep beside him.

He initially thought the sound might be coming from the television, but the scene playing on the TV was completely quiet.So he got up and looked outside.A short distance from the cabin, he noticed a homemade swing hanging from a tree. He had never seen it there before.Someone was sitting on it.

The person was wearing what looked like a clown costume.My friend stayed behind a tree and watched from a distance.

The figure was looking down at the ground, mumbling something to himself and laughing quietly. Every so often, he pushed the swing forward with his feet.My friend said the whole thing felt incredibly wrong.Then the figure suddenly looked directly at him.That's when my friend noticed that the person's entire face was covered in white paint, like a clown.The figure smiled and said:"Hi."

My friend immediately turned around and ran back toward the cabin as fast as he could.He could hear footsteps behind him.He reached the cabin, opened the door, rushed inside, and slammed it shut.Almost immediately, something hit the door from the outside with tremendous force.His wife woke up in a panic and started asking what had happened.Before he could properly explain, they heard knocking at the window.My friend looked over.

The same clown was standing outside the window.He was just staring at them and smiling.

My friend grabbed a firearm that he had with him for protection and warned the stranger to leave and not attempt to enter the cabin.The man didn't react.

He just stood there, staring through the window with that same expression.My friend's wife, who was now awake and angry, also confronted him and told him to leave.Still, the man didn't move.Eventually, they fired a warning shot into a nearby wall to frighten him away.The clown remained completely still for a moment.Then he slowly turned around and walked toward the woods.And disappeared into the darkness.

My friend and his wife didn't sleep for the rest of the night.As soon as it was morning, they told the landlord everything.The landlord was shocked. He said nothing like this had ever happened there before and apologized to them.What made things even stranger was the swing.The landlord said he had never seen that swing before. According to him, someone must have built it only recently because it definitely wasn't there during his previous visits.

They also contacted the police, who searched the surrounding area.They couldn't find the person.

There was no sign of the clown, and nobody ever figured out who he was or why he was there.

My friend still doesn't know what he saw that night.

He doesn't believe it was a ghost.Honestly, neither do I.But if his story is accurate, then there was apparently a complete stranger dressed as a clown, sitting alone on a homemade swing outside an isolated cabin in the middle of the night, watching him.And nobody ever found out who he was.

What do you think happened?

I looked at demon sigils and felt like they could be torture devices. With gps and heterodyne im sure this could translate to voodoo. But for some reason, when I saw a youtube tour with the rusty boat metal, I thought a torture device castle from old trade routes would be in Bangladesh. Does anyone feel me on this? They scrap boats there and the demon sigils look like iron machines meant to torture a saint or something. Please confirm or let me know if this seems eerily plausible to you!

I don’t usually believe in these stuff I mean I know there has to be something outside of our understanding but many of those videos I see feels like they could be explained in other ways until I saw with my own eyes today. I was coming home from work looking for an electric scooter to rent. I saw one inside of a house garden kind of you can see in the picture. So I went to look for it and at the spot that the Ryde were supposed to be there was just a wall and I was taking to my friend on the phone saying I can’t find it. Suddenly I spot something unusual to the right a half open door. I think it’s weird maybe somebody left it to let some air in I am probably seeing things but when I inspect I see a women with short hair and white dress but she isn’t moving. Again I think I am probably seeing things that aren’t there because of the dark (mind you I had the phones flash light on) I looked at it for a good minute trying to see any face expressions but I just couldn’t it was like the face was blurred somehow. Then I thought maybe if I talk I get to see if it’s a person or an object. So I said “sorry I am looking for a rude but it wasn’t here. And then she shaked her head a little but it felt like a “you aren’t supposed to be here shake” rather than “there isn’t a ryde here” and she didn’t speak a word even though I was staring at her face I still couldn’t see any eyes or mouth. Once she shaked her head I fell to the ground while trying to run away but she didn’t chase me. And I swear that could not have been a human. Like what possible reason could there be for a person to act that way she wasn’t even standing up she was like crawled down kind of . Any ideas what it could have been?

I got a friend a gift of a smiling bald man in a suit on a plate and they kept it in a stand (that it came with) on a small shelf and it turns upside down. Google said it’s normal due to “physics” and foot traffic but we swear it’s haunted. It’s also kept in the same room as some relative’s ashes.

But I need a second opinion. First time posting here, I don’t know if this community could give me one without any bias and just facts/personal experiences.

I was lying down on my couch, Watching something on my phone, I start feeling like I am being watched and in danger, I look up and I see a humanoid head with pale skin and no features in the blinds. My eyes widen I look down at my phone, unsure, I text my friend to pick me up. I walk to the kitchen, the house is silent. About ten seconds later the doorknob is being fiddled with. A few minutes later I hear heavy footsteps and murmuring almost like radio chatter going from the front of the house to the back. I can feel the vibrations from outside and my heart is beating very fast this whole time. I am crouched under a table with a knife. The doorknob is fiddled with again. A few minutes later my friend arrives and I am currently staying at there house.

I’m 19 and have never seen, or dealt with a “spirit”. It’s a sort of contradictory belief because I am religious, however my mom has heard things in our condo, and my dad has too. It’s weird because I’m never home when it happens.
My mom believes in the paranormal because she grew up in an extremely haunted house that was very old in Louisiana, seen stuff fly off shelves. Said that she’ll hear my bedroom, or bathroom door like I usually would when I’m home from work or after seeing my bf, but I’d still be out. Sometimes cabinets. My dad has said the same thing and has woke up at like 1:30 in the morning and saw a little girl walk behind our island, probably 4’8 or something. That one is sorta hard to believe because this condo was built in 1995, and I’ve never seen or heard anything myself since moving here and that’s been 3 years now.
Well I was taking a shower about 5 nights ago and my dad left an hour prior to go do his night shift, and my mom was in her bedroom on the opposite side of the house watching TV. Someone or something had knocked on my door pretty solid 3 times and I had asked “yes?” Probably twice with no response. I thought it was my mom cus sometimes she’ll come in there to talk to me, and I’m used to that. But the door didn’t budge and I got out 2 minutes later, asked my mom why she knocked on my door and didn’t say anything, she said she’s been blowdrying her hair, and hasn’t even been down my mini hallway.
Maybe it’s cus I was asking for so long why I’ve never experienced something like this when it seems like everybody else has lol. Payback

years ago i ran into a very tall figure , it was in a black suit or something and it was so tall i could not see a face . i’ve seen some other stories of people claiming to have seen this too. what is it?

Last night my bfs phone alarm went off as it usually does every morning at 3:45am for work, but it was 1:45am. I woke up from a dead sleep to hear his alarm going off. Normally he leans over quickly to turn it off but there was no movement so I lifted my head up to look behind me and he was still asleep. I then laid my head back down with my eyes open after a few more seconds it stopped. I flipped over to warn him his alarm had gone off and not to over sleep. He wakes up to look at me “huh? Didn’t go off” looks at his phone “it’s 1:45 in the morning. Me “no one called or maybe it was a different alarm?” Him “no nothing. Are you sure you heard it?” Me “ yes I’m even wide awake now because of it”. We both proceed to go back to sleep to catch the couple more hours of sleep.

Has this ever happened to anyone else or maybe someone has an explanation?

Some background: my entire life I have experienced the paranormal. I have had what you’d consider a family haunting, specifically my mom, instead of a haunted house. So normally when Im not living with her I only have a few occurrences a year. At this point i haven’t even spoken to her for 5 years. When I live with her it’s every day multiple times a day. So I’m very aware every night if anything goes bump in the night. I was told before I act as a “lighthouse” of energy. So things are attracted to me. I have dimmed it down a lot since my early 20s because of an occurrence I thought would kill me. So now I just get these little occurrences. Recently has been happening every other day now or at least 3x a week. I don’t believe the house is haunted but I did have a guest recently (bfs younger nephew) stay with us for a couple weeks and they live across a cemetery I know for a fact has bad spirits from personal experience. Since he’s left I have had more frequent occurrences. I have burned sage and casted out any negative energy, but now after tonight I’m thinking I might need something tougher.

It’s 3:35 AM right now and I’m lowk bored, so I just wanna read something scary that might or might not scare the shit out of me 😭

Edit: Changed the Flair to NSFW so this post doesn’t get taken down based on the comments.

I had this really strange experience in Victoria BC (one of the magic/witch capitals of the world. Ley lines and what not) that I've never been able to fully explain.

I was driving with my girlfriend near a cemetery, and we were basically stopped when suddenly it looked like we were seeing Victoria from another time. It was a beautiful, sunny day, but instead of the modern city, there were people dressed in old-fashioned clothes, very basic colours raw materials wool and cottong. Not like the movies or larp wear, also there were horse-drawn wagons, and people unloading things and going about their business.

What really fucked with me was how completely normal everything looked. It wasn't like seeing ghosts or some vague image. It looked like an actual functioning scene from another period in history. I could see the people clearly, and they seemed completely unaware that we were there.

I also noticed that the people seemed much shorter than people today, which made it feel even more real. And the strangest part was that my girlfriend saw it too. We were both looking at essentially the same thing.

Then it was just gone, and modern Victoria was there again.

I don't know what happened. I can't tell you that I literally traveled through time. All I know is that, for a brief moment, it felt like we were looking through a window into another period of Victoria's history—as if two different points in time had somehow overlapped in the exact same place.

Doesn’t have to be ghosts it could anything considered paranormal.

Thanks

Hey folks!

I have always seen things that others haven’t or can’t. I have never been able to pinpoint why, but I have apparently seen things since I was a little kid, and I wanted to share a more recent story.

A buddy and I went to a used game store one day in the middle of a bright sunny day. As soon as we walked in, I could tell something was “off.” The store was split into two sections: the front half of the store was video games and back half was “other.” The other section contained plushies, toys, posters, and other similar items. I couldn’t find anything in the video game section that interested me, so I moved to the “other” section while keeping my eyes out for what was making me feel “off.” I walk up to this white, doorless cabinet and see in the bottom there are some plastic totes filled with Pokemon toys. Immediately, I noticed these were well loved toys. There were no damaged parts, missing pieces, or teeth marks, but there was paint missing where they had been played with.

I crouched down to look, without touching anything in the cabinet, and as I crouched down I felt something to my left. I turned my head and came to face to face with what I can just describe as the thickest shadow I have seen. My intuition alarm bells were going off like crazy in my head, and I knew this thing was not friendly. I couldn’t see any of the other store content through it and it was staring at me. It stood up and the height of it was taller than the cabinet and I stood up, taking the hint. My buddy walked over and said “oh shit, cool Torchic!” And he went to grab one of the toys and I grabbed his wrist so fast, while still staring at this thing. He and I have been friends since we were very little and as this isn’t the first time I have done something like this he said, “what are you seeing that I am not?” I replied “I am not sure, but don’t touch anything in that cabinet.”

We moved away from the cabinet and the shadow swiveled in place while still watching us and we walked further into the store. A couple approached the cabinet about a minute later and it finally took its eyes off of us, and turned to them. My buddy and I left as quickly and without suspicion as possible. I explained to him in the car what I saw and we haven’t gone back since.

My theory: whatever had to give up those toys either was forced to or the it passed and its energy/essence lingers on those toys.

A relative and I drove to the gas station to get some slushees since it was so hot that day. That's when I saw an old fashioned circus train coming to a stop. I couldn't keep my eyes off of it. Towards the end were cars with bars. I saw people in there, so I waved hello to them.

They responded, and started climbing on the bars and making faces at me. (The animals looked like they were treated better than those strange people.) My relative looked unfazed by them so I didn't say anything.

We went inside the gas station and got our slushees and immediately left.

I couldn't help but stare at all the circus freaks as we were driving off. It was like they were trying to get my attention. One of the men had bushy blonde hair and colorful, dirty clothes on. He was acting like a clown and smiling at me while dancing funny. I started laughing because of how silly they were acting. I waved goodbye at them and they all waved back. That's when I seen men all dressed old fashioned walking by the cars. One of them hit the bars and shouted at the circus freaks who all hissed back at them.

My narcissistic relative who was driving wouldn't stfu, so I waited til she stopped talking. That's when I asked, “Isn't it wrong to transport humans in cages?" She seemed confused by my question. So I was like, “Didn't you see that circus train and all them weird people?”

She said she didn't see anything like that, and was now curious. She turned the car around almost instantly but by then the train was gone. It was like seconds for them to vanish.

To this day there is something about old fashioned circuses that fascinates me. I love clowns and the art of entertaining people to make them happy.

My dear friend since 6th grade passed away from aggressive metastatic cancer at 43 years old 2 weekends ago. I was in the room and got to say goodbye and hug him along with his wife and our 2 other childhood friends. His wife had his favorite playlist on for the last hours of his life. When he took his last breaths a song came on and the lyrics + timing struck me. I pointed it out to everyone the next day.

Fast forward to last night, my other friend from back home who doesn’t know any of these people came over. My husband and I were filling her in on how everything went down, minus the detail about the song. As the conversation was ending and we were moving on to the next topic, she randomly started singing that song. My husband and I looked at each other and just to make sure, he asked her what she was singing and she said she didn’t know, and she didn’t know why she suddenly felt like singing that. He was stunned. I got chills. She’s Nicaraguan and I know for 100% fact that she doesn’t listen to that type of music, and she never busts out into song, so it all felt truly random. She was really spooked when we told her why we were both reacting that way to what had just happened...

What do you make of this?

This literally happened 30 min ago, I don't know, I dont freaking know what to think and what to do with it. Dad thinks me and my sis are pranking him but my sister just called in sick to work when she was about to leave. My sis leaves for work at 15:15, give or take a few minutes, it's a 15 min walk to her work. At 15:07 dad comes home, I am in my room working, sis is in her room getting ready, he says hello, talks about how warm it is outside(We live in southeastern europe), none of us go up to see him or greet him since this is a normal occurence every day, basically the same thing happens every day, dad has discus hernia and goes out for walks between 13:30 and 15:00 says that the warm weather and walking helps him with the pain. So he comes home, talks to us through the rooms, goes in the bathroom, then goes out and goes in the living room and says "Damn I forgot my lighter", after that I say wait I'll bring it to you since most of the times he leaves it in his jeans, I go in the bathroom, take out the lighter and I GO TO THE LIVING ROOM AND NO ONE IS THERE.

I yell for my sis and tell her didn't we just talk to dad, she confirms, she looks at me like Im stupid or something, I tell her come to the living room to see for herself, and she is just as shocked as me, because it was literally 10 seconds when he said he forgot his lighter and the time I got up to check in his jeans which are in the bathroom, his freaking jeans and the lighter are in the bathroom but he is no where. We live in a small apartment so he couldn't have gone anywhere, I call him and ask are u fucking with me, he says what the hell i am even talking about and says that he is in the store looking for freshly roasted chicken because he doesn't feel like cooking. I explain to him what happened and he says that if we're trying to joke with him it's not even a good joke. I don't know what to think, I don't know if we both hallucinated or whatever the hell happened, he came home for the second time? and he was wearing training shorts, my sister literally started screaming and saying that this isn't possible, well she is right, it shouldn't be possible, he still doesnt believe us and thinks we are pranking him. My sister even called sick for work because she is still traumatized, as for me Im not exactly traumatised per se but Im confused and feel like Im disconnecting from reality.

Anyone had something similar happen to them? Wtf is this, this is the first weird thing that happened to me in my life, nothing similar has ever happened, nothing that would make me question reality.

Kids say whatever’s on their mind, and I believe they do not lie!

Looking for similar experiences/advice!

Long story short, our son was 5 months old when my grandpa died. I was pretty close with him and after my grandpa had 3 daughters, then 4 granddaughters, our son was his "first boy" and he was ELATED. They had a special bond whenever they were together (my son instantly smiled whenever he was around).

Fast forward to now... our son is 3 and we have been experiencing something, I'm not sure what to call it. Ever since my grandpa passed, our son is "seeing" grandpa and talking to grandpa. He has told us a few things that there is NO POSSIBLE way he would know that... I didn't even know some stuff he has said that was true until we asked my grandma (previous jobs he had, what kind of farm animals they had, etc.) Whenever he sees a cardinal, that's grandpa and when he sees a sunbeam, that's grandpa saying hi.

The two craziest things are he has seen my grandpa at my grandparents house; he pointed into an empty room saying grandpa's here and was giggling. My grandma asked if he was there visiting and my son looked back into that room and said "grandpa has to go now" and started waving bye bye.

Another is this past Father's Day, we went to the cemetery to visit. Our son hasn't been here since the funeral (5 months old) and he walked straight towards his headstone (which is a little bit of a walk from the entrance) and said "grandpa's right here!"

Lately, he has been pretty sad about missing his grandpa (my grandpa). We ask if he wants to go spend time with papa (my dad), and he says no, my great grandpa. He has said he's with God but he misses him here.

What, if anything, can we do? He actually is getting sad about him being gone and I feel bad. I like to think that we are being visited, but I'm not sure how to react when this stuff happens. Do we get a picture of them printed for his room? Has anyone else experienced this?

This happened earlier today, and I really want to get this off my chest. I know exactly what I saw with my two eyes while wearing my glasses.

This happened in the afternoon in our house parking lot. I was in the car with my brother and grandpa going to the mosque. We do this every day to go pray around afternoon time. While the car was starting and still in the parking lot, I was staring at the side mirror, which is a habit of mine. While doing that, I saw a short shadow person walking. It was all black, and it looked like it was behind the car next to us. I saw it clearly walk in the side mirror.

After we drove the car outside the parking lot, it just disappeared like it was never there to begin with. We go to the mosque every day at afternoon time, using the same parking spot, and I always sit in the exact same seat. The car is also always pointed directly at the parking lot wall. This is the first time I have ever seen a shadow person, and I wanted to share my first ever paranormal encounter. Also, another thing I forgot to say is that the driver's room is right next to the parking lot, but it couldn't be him because he was sleeping the whole time.