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Alright, consider the legend of Inez Clarke all but debunked.

But that doesn't mean you haven't been haunted by ghosts.

Tell us your encounters with the paranormal.

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I work for the Union League Boys & Girls Club in the Pilsen area, the building is over 100 years old, in the past years years our staff & members have expierenced some ghostly feelings, hearing voices, seeing shadow people, and a little boy who runs around with the children, a personal expierence last Sunday I'll was doing an EVP and asked if anybody was with me after several questions i went home and replayed the recordings and picked up a little girls voice saying help me, several weeks before a couple of other ghost hunters were doing an EVP, and picked up a little girl crying, the Chicago Ghost Hunters Society have been very active with us. The founder Henry Pena is always looking for new ghost. The Boys & Girls Club is located at 2157 W. 19th Street, Chicago, IL. 60608. 312-829-6840, if you feel like visiting contact me either through my email windtalker2@netzero.com or call the club 312-829-6840 after 4:00 PM. Thank you.

Carlos Gallardo
Program Coordinator
Union League Boys & Girls Club One
2157 W. 19th Street
Chicago, IL. 60608

Eternal Silence

The answer is Eternal Silence

The Reaper

Eternal Silence

Sorry , I need to shoot down some of the bits in the Inez Clarke ghost story, JUNK! Having worked at Graceland for many years, the only stories I can agree with is the tears,though never seen. I have never have seen thousands of people visiting or toys, coins ,or flowers. Most visitors do not come anywhere near little Ms. Clarke's resting place, interesting reading anyway.

Sorry , I need to shoot down some of the bits in the Inez Clarke ghost story, JUNK! Having worked at Graceland for many years, the only stories I can agree with is the tears,though never seen. I have never have seen thousands of people visiting or toys, coins ,or flowers. Most visitors do not come anywhere near little Ms. Clarke's resting place, interesting reading anyway.

Dear Mark,

I'm disappointed in the slant of your "Ghostbusted" story today that seems to suggest that our author, historian and local folklore/ghostlore expert Ursula Bielski is somehow passing off legend as fact.

It may seem like a small point, but there is a difference between those who study and document the phenomenon of ghost stories and the belief in the supernatural, and those who, convinced ghosts exist, try to capture evidence of them with infrared equipment, etc.

For the record, Ursula Bielski's book, "Chicago Haunts," hardly embellishes the story of Inez Clarke and in no way tries to pass it off as history. In fact, she devotes only 2 short paragraphs to the legend, introducing it with the line: "...there is one Graceland ghost that has won the loyalty of a surprising number of local believers: that of little Inez Clarke." Reporting on the belief in a legend is very different than claiming it is true.

Finally, when the subject comes up at Ursula's talks (and apparently it came up in her interview with you, too), she shares the information that Inez Clarke apparently did not exist. There is a distinct theme that runs through Bielski's books and lectures: Who knows whether or not ghost stories are true? What's true is the belief in them, and that is an interesting thing to study.

You may have been simply writing a fun, seasonal piece; it just seems unfair that it happened at the expense of Bielski's credibility.

Sharon Woodhouse
Publisher, Lake Claremont Press

My grandparents house was built on top of an old farmhouse. One day, when I was cleaning out the attic (which, by the way, is a crawlspace)I got the strange feeling that someone was watching me. My mother, grandmother, and younger brother were all downstairs and when I turned around, no one was there. If it had been any of them, I would have heard them coming up the stairs (the stairs are very creaky, it's impossible for them not to creak when someone is walking up or down them). When I turned around to see if something was there, I didn't see anything. I just thought my mind was playing tricks on me or my slight paranoia was getting the better of me, so I ignored it and went on with my work. I bent over to pick something up that had fallen out of one of the boxes, and as I did, I felt something whizz over my head. I looked in front of me and saw a mouse trap. If I hadn't bent over, the mouse trap would have hit me in the neck. I quickly got out of the crawlspace and shut the door, locking it. It scared me out of my wits. I went downstairs, but I never told my mother, grandmother, or brother what had happened. It happened when I was 14 (I'm now 15)and I'll never forget it. I would prefer (as I mentioned) to remain anonymous and I would appreciate if no one e-mailed me. Thank you.

i was playing hide and seek with my little sisters and then we were looking around the garden and we saw this shadow like figue running away from us, so we followed it, then we turned around again and we saw it. So we shined our flash lights to it, we saw nothing but in the trees we saw the figure running away from us. So we went to go find the person that was hiding, but she was in the house the all that time, cause she got scared and saw the same thing

Another story that i also wanna tell it that i was sleeping in bed and my sister went to the bathroom. The house that we stayed in was known to be haunted. So i got scared and hi under my covers and all i heard was footsteps and voices that i heard. The most creepy thing is that is cant be my sister cause the bathroom was downstairs, she also had to be quiet cause every one else was sleeping.


i want to keep this anonymous

well, when i was 7, my aunt dyed, and she used to always tell me "Nicole, promise me that you'll never lie, just please..." and when i was about 8 and a half, she dyed, she killed herself, and i was one nasty liar when i was a kid, so once last year, i told my friends i already saw someone get killed, i dont know why i forget and well then that night, i was sitting on my bed and i remembered what she said and i clearly heard her say "Nicole, you lyed, you promised me." and then i heard a bang comming from the hallway, so i got scared and went to check and i found, my dog, lying there on the ground, he was dead. i said "HEIDI!" and i heard "I told you not to lie..." so i sweared to god from that day i would never lie again. im 12 now and when i go to lie i always here my aunt say "Nicole, dont do it." and i know its her warning me.

I have had many stange experienes in my life but these two are the ones that i remember the most.
About a year ago on a hot summers night, i was asleep in my bed when suddenly i woke up, i could here someone walked around at the end of my bed, i could also feel something there, i was praying to god to protect me, then i began to get the feeling that my soul was being taken from me then it would pull back into my body this carried on for about 10 minutes until i got the guts to turn my light on, i have never felt so strange or scared in my lfe. The next morning i went down stairs to tell my dad before i got the chance he said to me are you ok? "Yes" i answered then he went onto tell me that he had woken in the night only to find a ghost verison on me sitting on the end of his bed talking to him, at this point io was in utter shock, i went onto tell him about what happen but we could not come to any conclusion, no-one has ever been able to tell me what it could have been?
Not long ago i fainted and hit my head and i was quite ill for awhile afterwoods, the morning after it happened i woke to the feeling of someone stroking my hair i sat up and there was no-one there, about 4 days after that it was late and i couldnt sleep due to the pain, i then felt someone strocking my hair again i turned over to face out of the bed, i opened my eyes and saw a ball of multi coloured light it began to fade, i closed my eyes again and opened them to find it happen again, i kept doing this and everytime it would do it, i then decided to try and sleep.
I wonder what it was?

before we ever actually moved into our house i had this strange feeling. When we arrived at our house to paint and decorate it it was a real mess. Especially one of the bathrooms. I could feel shivers go up my spine when i saw how dark and creepy it looked.
In the beginning everything was peaceful and everything, but then on elena awoke. She awoke me when i heard a muffled cry for help. She said she couldn't move and that she felt something or someone was on thop of her, but eventually she feel back asleep and so did i. Then a few days later i awoke when i felt an unusual presense. I tried to get up, but nothing happend. i was paralyzed from my waist and down. I managed to move my head, but not my body. What i saw shocked me. Nobody was there or ontop of me! Who had it been?Or what?
Then a year or two something else happened. I was awake and so were all of my sisters. It was 12'o clock or something like that.Well anyways one by one my sisters started to fall asleep and then that's when it happend... Sorry ppz, but i gotta log off! Leave me acomment if you wanna now the rest.SORRY!!!

When i first moved to my house i knew something just wasnt right. Strange things happened, unexplainable things and it wasn't till the night i was home alone i figured out that a spirit was in my house!

I locked all the doors and was sat in my room quietly but then my bedroom door swung open. I never been in that room since and something is deffinatly in there x

this story has two parts but is prety interesting.

whene i was very young like 4 or 5 I lived in a hunted home in
duluth, gorga. many things happened there things i dont want to talk about but i will.one day my family moved to are new house we loved it for the first few days,butsoon it would get crazy.
after the first few days my mom and dad hered fot steeps running up and down the hall even on the roof!!
in a month or two i started talking to an imaganery friend,but this was no ordanery imaginary friend. infact i'd stay up all night talking to him. my mom asked me how he looked like but all i sead was that he was an old man that night my mom was tuking us in and turnd classical music on like she did every night but when she cam back down to chek on us befor she went to bed the radio was playing death metal!!!! she was about to turn it to clasical music when suddenly a deep angerd demonic voice sead DONT TOUCH THE RADIO!!!! my mom freked out and ran back to dad crying that night dad priyed intensly to god.that day my mom was cooking diner wene she herd my little brother josh crying she went to josh and there were hundreds of bees now my mom was and still is allergic to bees.but she ran and got me and my brother out of there my dad pulled in from work to see my mom,my brother, and me sitting on the frount deck.whene we went back in all the bees were dead.we called a bug expert but there were no bee settalments,hives or even familys in or near the home we called a prist to or house and he saed to move and that the house was hounted so we moved into a small house in knoxvill but we would soon dicover that we had not escaped.
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knoxvill tennese
my age 6-9
we had moved to knoxvill after the demon infested house in gorga
things went well for the first year but soon after things started happining to me.
no mater were i go the demons and ghost ar atracted to me maby its becase i might be phicic maby its becas i know were they are or maybe its becas they need help that is what i want to do help them.anyway one night i had a terribal dream a demmon was chasing my family but no matter were we whent it was there.i wook up to see a demmon on my bed.it was only a small one but it hadd enogh power to invade my life every morning it stared into my eyes and i remember exacly what it looks likeit was a skelliton with a torn robe over it soon we started praying for no demmon to enter our home so it stoped after that somthing amazing happend
i acully saw a gardian angel standing infrount of my parents room he was all whit with long white hair
about a year later we moved when my dad was picking up the last of the boxes he herd a big group of people talking whene he went in all the doors in the house slamed shut.
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gray tennese current location
current age
after moving to three othere homes we finally bought a home here in gray tennese.whene we first moved here i saw a littel girl with a white dress and holding a doll i soon learnd that it was what ghost call a costume and i would soon learn almost learn almost every thing about ghost by some very special freinds
about a year ago i moved to this house it was a grate little area i had alote of freainds and i had or have 3 best freinds macko for short,deetermy best freinde in school,and casy whos been my best freinde the longest.me and my freind macko investagat for ghost in my house and his bassment all the time but thats anothere story we cannot investigat hisbassment any more we still ivestigat my house behind my mothers back
one day not to long ago we of did 2 the most importent investagation of our lives.after chrismas we got new ds's me, my brother,and my sisterwe played animal crossing wiled world togethre and went to my sisters town.but somthing wired happened every time we played a persson named amy would popup in her town at first we thoght it was a normal persone but we found out that it wasn't in fact she was one of a family of ghost unknowing about the ghost me my brother and macko only new that we were not alone in the house we didn't know that there were 9 at the most.
one night we were trying to talk to and help the spirets so we used macko as a translaterand thats wene we meet amy a young girl from the 60's we also meet a young man frome the civle war the fathere of amy a ghost condemed to the closet a ghost from mackos basment anda gardian angle
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now i will tell you the differences between ghost and demons and the ghost ruls
the differenses between ghost and demons are
ghost can not touch nor lift any thing only demons can do that to test there power ghost cannotbe seen unless thay are whereing what they call a costum ghost can open doors or accidentaly brake things only with there items ghost can talk or comunicat with you throgh electronical divises such as ds's or cell phones
there is a riddal that you can completto unlock somthing ask a ghost if they know for the questions.
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thats all for my story for know but tell your freinds and talk to me on runescape my chareter is king sharp92
i wish you a good life for me and my hidden ghost freinds are still here whating for a visit.

IAM INTRESTED IN THE WEB SITE I HAVE HAD MANY EXPERIENCES . I LIVED IN A HAUNTED HOUSE FOR 20 YEARS AND WOULD LOVE TO COMPARE WITH OTHERES WHO HAVE HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCES .

Ok knowing that every1 probably comes on this page thinking they had an expirence with ghosts. I've always beleived in them since ever. I have many expirences so here is one. It was a summer day my family was outside while i went in to get cards that were in my room. I heard my fridge door open. I went to the top of the stairs and tried to to see what it was. I called mom? dad? Then I felt a push and i tumbled down the stairs and my arms went strait up and caught onto the railing. I ended up spraining my leg. I didnt tell my mom about hearing someone in the kitchen. The only time i told her about a ghost expirence was when i saw a guy in my parent's room....

Hi my name is Mrs.Ritzel
long ago when i moved in to my new house with my friends when we got there we had to rest for minutes or hours but when i woke up there wan a cut carpet when i tolg my friend she said she had to cut it beacause there was blood on it.and when my friend went out of the room my little kids were laughing at me they told me there was a ghost in this house.when i went down stair i saw crayon marking on the wall,then i didn't know it was the little kid

Hi well it all started on Saturday 10th it was so scary cause my friend and I were playing pool and we dropped the number 8 ball on the ground. Then we started to see that it was moving all by its self and we got so scared we ran up stairs and told my friends Sam's grandmother but she didn't believe us. We went down Stairs and a ribbon was on the ground and it was scary. Then my friends ring fell off her hand and she screamed. Then I asked the ghost to move another ball and it did and it was the number 11 and we all know that its a very Spirtcale number. We all freaked. All of us went to a old mirror and told it to write Rhea on the mirror and the next thing it apeared. Ever since that day the ghost has been putting clues for us to find out who the ghost was and it was a girl and her name was Sarah. We really saw it when scraches appeared on Sam's arm and she showed us how she died and how she was murdered by a guy that lives next to my friend Sam.

my grandmother was at a hotel at the edge of town in phillidelphia, she had heard stories about this hotel being haunted, but she wasn't scared of these tall tales. when she got to her room there was an imprint on her pillow yet she had not laid down yet. she fluffed the pillow out and went to the lobby to get a snack, when she went back up to her room the imprint was there again. she fluffed it out and went down to the front office and asked if anyone else was staying in the hotel, the clerk checked his computer but nobody else was checked in. when she went back up to her room the door was open the bed was turned down and the glass next to her bed was spilled. a little freaked she went to the front office and asked if the maids had been in her room, but the clerk said that the maids dont come around till 3 o'clock as the elavater door opened to let her out on her floor her door was open at the end of the hall and a womanly white figure was standing in the doorway she ran down to the front office and checked out as quickly as possible and left. later in the month the hotel was closed down due to suspicious actions in the rooms and because of lack of workers and customers.

we live in Ephrata in WA one day i had to go get my shose form the back yard i was scard to go out in the back yard by my self so i was running i truned and i saw a man that was in a civel war suite with a cowboy hat on but it was tiled to one side it was all gary and u can see throw it . but that was a long time a go like 5 years ago so yeah .

we live in Ephrata in WA one day i had to go get my shose form the back yard i was scard to go out in the back yard by my self so i was running i truned and i saw a man that was in a civel war suite with a cowboy hat on but it was tiled to one side it was all gary and u can see throw it . but that was a long time a go like 5 years ago so yeah .

There is a web site where you can post actual stories and you can read other peoples. There is like 2000 stories. It's www.yourghoststories.com

Hello Everyone. I am Macko. You may remember me from Hollie Washington's Story up about 8 stories. It is true. Everyting he said. I had been through it all with him and have interviewed his parents about further ghost, demon, and other paranormal activities.

1. First. It all began in my friends house. As he said in his story, he had moved in for a bout a year now and we started to ghost hunt in his house. We only had a couple of weird happenings. The only one i remember was one when we darkened the room completely and removed all animals and little kids from the room. We then tryed to contact ghosts through many different ways. All i can say is that one method must have worked. We began to hear a rustle of toys that had been layed out. We waited and asked what it was doing and it did it again. It was legos being moved around. Soon after a old gaming system of his (Sega Dreamcast), cut on and was making noises as if it were switched on and off. Whe cut on the TV te see if it were trying to tell us something, but it said nothing was plugged in, so we checked the outlet when it came on again, and sure enough it was not even plugged up.

2. We started to think not only should we try his house, but also my house. So i went to the most frightening place in my house. A empty room of dirt was built in the wall of my basement. It is about 3 feet off the ground and contains only dirt. It is always completely dark and strange moans come from it all the time. So we investigated at night. We didn't get much, but what we did get was a red faint face would come on the wall.

3. Our final hunting we have been doing is inside and outside my basement. We see white figures hide behind our Christmas Tree down there. We see a clear ooze fall from the windows and doors. We here taping on the windows and on some metal. All of these accounts are still happening today, and we will continue to listen to what they have to say.

If you have any questions, answers, comparisons, or need help, or if you would like to give me tips; add me to your friends list if you play runescape. My characters are Little Macko, Falminimus, or Cow Man 5000. Thanks for Reading!!!

I have not encoutered with a ghosts, but i know plenty of people who did by this same ghost at this daycare i used to go to, but first i have to tell you the story.

The ghost of Jeremiah:
There once was a young man who went to ----- ---- ---------- school in "the days" and a bully, whos name goes unknown, shoved him in the basement and locked him in there. a few days later one of the staff members found him in there... dead. He is now known to wander around the halls asking, "do you have the key?" If he is to ask you this, you are to say, "No, I do not." and walk away.

These are only few of the encouters with jerimiah.

My friend ---- went to the bathroom one day and heard,"Do you have the key _____?" (unfortunaly she could not remember the name. A sharp, girly voice answered, "No Jerimiah, but I've seen many a women with plenty of keys!" ---- then scuffled out and we are now afraid of those bathrooms.

Another person, this one being a guy named ------, had walked through what jerimiah did. we were having recess and ------ was sent back in to get the balls, and bats, and toys, and walked in to find all the chairs pushed down, and he had to search for the toys because jerimiah had hidden them.

another one was by this women I absoulutly HATED! her name was Mrs. -------. she turnes the light off every night, and every night she feels someone tapping on her shouder and whispering, "Do you have the key?"

the last one i know of is by Mrs. -----. At least once a week she will hear footsteps in the hallway and someone trying to open her door, but she will look outside and see noone, even when the sound is going on.


Those are the only four stories that I know of Jerimaiah.

The Teen Brother Haunting in Woodstock Illinois

On August 1983 my 17 year old brother Sean Thompson was brutally assaulted by a J. Greenham who was 19 from woodstock Illinois. he was mad at my brother over a pretty girl named Connie. my brother was found lying at the LakeWood Apartments in Woodstock Illinois on the groung unconsious. a woman found him and called an abulance. my brother was taken to Woodstock Hospital with head trauman. I went to see my brother in intensive care, his head was the size of a large watermellon. he was embarased. his eyes were bloody red. it was a horrible assalt. my brothers face was all beaten in. J. Greenham never served any time for this beating. Sean was too afraid to press charges. Sean was in the hospital for 2 months. he was released. Sean had a 69 blue dodge charger and started his senior year of high school at Woodstock. my brother was never the same after the beating. one day a Illinois State Trooper came to my parent's house and said Sean had passed a semi and barely made it. I told my brother to stop the dangerous driving, he told me to shut up. I was staying at the Woodstock Motel with my boyfriend K. Thomas. I went to sleep and was stuck in a semi sleep state. my soul started to float above the room. I did not know what was happening. I screamed and yelled for my boyfriend but he did not hear me. This levitation went on for several hours. I never had anything like this happen before. my soul finally went back into my body. It was a very scarey experience. This timeline was about January 7, 1984. I walked looking for work but could not find any. I was 19 and had just graduated from Woodstock High School. It was a bitter cold winter. I was going hungry. I walked to the train stop to get food. a relative there fed us 2 times a day. I went back to the Motel by the next morning it was January 14, 1984. I awoke to the motel clerk handing me the phone. My dad was on the phone. Richard told me Sean just was killed in a car accident. I just started screaming and crying. I went back to my room then then Marene Lanz the Mchenry County Coronor came to my room and picked me up and drove me to my parents house. we lived on Jankowski road. there the family was in deep mouring. The local church came and brought us meals. we were too devestated to cook. I couldnt sleep. Richard My stepfather took Sean's death real hard. he went driving and picked up a hitchhiker with psychic ability to our house. The hitchhiker did a seance. I was sleeping when this was going on. but the very next day a haunting started. I heard banging, footsteps outside my window. I heard load moans and crying for many nights. The door would open and shut. orbs would fly around the room. my sister slept in the same room as me and did not see anything. My mother smelled toast being made in the morning like Sean used to do. This haunting went on for about over 6 months I kept hearing banging coming from his room next to mine and my sister's. I finally gathered the courage to go into his room. when I opened the room it appeared like he had never left. the room was bright and sunny with a desk in it where he used to do his homework. but I noticed garbage bags in the room with a bad odor. I opened the bags. I was mortified to realize that my parents put my brother's clothes he had died in, in those bags. They smelled like blood. The parts to his car was in his room. the parts were all mangeled from the accident. I ran out screaming get this stuff out of the house. That is why I am being haunted. Richard finally agreed. That night Sean came to me in a dream. He was lying in a coffin. He opened the coffin and sat up. He said Ann am I dead. I told him yes. He said are you sure. I said Sean you died in a car accident. I started to cry. He cried I'm only 17, I can't be dead. I'm too young to die. He shut the coffin closed. I then woke up and was shaken, but after the dream the haunting stopped.

you guys scare me.... j/p

Well...im a kid that lives in ****Ohio...you can not contact me by e-mail but i thought i should just post this...at my house in ohio i have been hearing very strange noises
in my house and sometimes i see shadows at night for example: my dog NEVER barks unless theres someone at the door...and my parents were sleeping and i heard something and my dog was on the floor barking at absolutley nothing in the hallway so i fell asleep but he kept doing it so i finally looked and all i saw was a shadow so it creeped me out so i went to sleep but when i woke up in the morning...i had scratches on my arms and i have no clue why. Nobody believes me but i know that its not normal..the things i see and hear are real.

I had just come back from a movie theater, and was getting ready for bed. My house is known for "paranormal" activity, but i've never really experienced anything like this.
it was around three in the morning, and i wasnt really tired, but i lay down in bed anyway with hopes of falling asleep.
i lay there thinking for a while, wondering what my class schedule would be like, and blah blah...you know highschool. all of a sudden i blacked out,
and i could feel someone squeezing my throat, as if trying to choke me. i was paralyzed, i literally could not move or scream, or anything. it was like i blacked out, but still knew something was wrong. there was a buzzing noise that kept getting louder and louder, and accompanying it was a frantic, loud voice yelling at me. "Nicki!!! Nicki!!! NICKI!!!!!" i finally opened my eyes, i could not move still, but i watched someone standing in the middle of the room watching me. it was a dark figure, and i could just feel the malice oozing out of it. my lips were numb, when i could finally open them, and i looked away whispering "go away. please please go away. in the name of god, just get the bloody hell away from me." when i looked back, it was gone. i lay in my bed for what seemed like forever, then jumped across the room to my light switch.
i finally went upstairs, and slept in my sisters room.
the next morning, i woke up and my throat was sore, as if someone had been trying to choke me. i went to the mirror, and i could see clearly, fading red hand/finger marks about the same size as ne teenage boy.
I HAVE NOT SPENT MORE THAN TWO MINUTES IN MY ROOM SINCE THEN, AND I HAVE NOT SLEPT FOR MORE THAN 2 HOURS FOR ABOUT 3 WEEKS.
I BELIEVE I HAVE A GUARDIAN ANGEL. I'VE SEEN HIM. I'VE HEARD HIM YELLING AT ME, WHENEVER I DO SOMETHING DANGEROUS TO MYSELF, OR WHEN SOMETHING REALLY BAD IS GONNA HAPPEN.

I was spending the night at my friend's house. I got up about 1:00am to get a drink. I was in the kithen I dident turn on the lights. I thout I would wake his parentes up. so I was walking to the cudord and I herd somthing. I thougt I was hilusinating. Then a pan fell to the flor. I turnd the lights on. The pan was still on the self. at this time i thout "what the hell, am I going crazy!" I waset thirsty eny more. I desided to leave but I heard that noise again in the botom cubord. I was stupid and turnd the lights off and went to the cubord befor I got there I SLIPPED AND FELL! I fellt around and the pan was on the flor. and whatever was in it was on the foor. I ran and turnd on the lights on. THE PAN WAS ON THE SELF! I left it on and bookeed it to my friend woke him up and was at the kithen in seconds I was freeked. I told him what hapend we looked in the cobord and a little boy was sitting there we wher speach less. HE LEFFT ME HE TURND AROUND AND LEFT ME! the kid looked up and then only did I relise HE WAS A GHOST I COULD SEE THROUGH HIM. I yeld at the top of my loungs. the cobord went black pitch black then my friend came back with his parents and his brother his dad had a bat. the black went away he was gone

i live with my mom dad sister and brother and i'm only ten yaers old i'v seen faces in my house befor and it freaks me out i wan't out of this house but no mom and dad say no and i think it's my great grand ma becouse she died befor i was born and well i get scared when i'm home alone and this one time i was play my video games when i heard a ball bounceing in my parents when i came in there was nobody there and my mom see's face's to and so do my freinds and they get realy freaked out when they see the faces this one time my little sister hade freinds over and they were playing a board game one came done and said were's the other little girl she said but my mom said were the only one's here and she said but i say a nother little girl up on the syep whenn i came in THE END

OMG! That is very scary!

Once when i was 11 at a sleepover me and my friends decided to call the spirit world and bring bloody mary out to us. My sister was there and she was 15 then, and she was the one who called "Bloody Mary" three times. When bloody mary didn't come out we just laughed and went to sleep. When we woke up we saw blood slashed over the mirror and as i screamed to my sister my friends looked at me and then ran out crying. I looked at my sister and saw a ghostly expression on her face and realised she wasn't breathing. Then i heard a voice rasp, "she thought i wasn't a ghost, well little Lionel, look who's wrong. don't make the same mistake or soon you'll be next!" I lied to my parents and said that she got run over but everyday i remembered those horrible words - you'll be next!

some how i aways new i was diffrent and i wonder if emma my amaginary friend was ghost i dont neeed her anymore and i think that i have helped her get to heven she has finished her unfinished bisness when i was born i saw my dads face my dad has been died for 15 years i am now 14 i told my mum i new my dad at the age of 3 before she even told me died before i was born.
i know i can see ghost and i think i can talk to them aswell i see my granmar and i see everyone else ghosts i helped my friend get in contact with her mum...

god made me the way i am and i thank him for it...

My sister is 20,i am 12, I am telling her story for her.She has had some weird dreams that she floats alot very often.She has had a dream once that she heard a evil witch laugh because she floated from her room to our hallway in our house.Another time,she closed her eyes and she saw these evil green eyes looking directly at her.She saw this like ghostly gastly circle thing like in ''The Prince Of Egypt''then you will know what im talking about when you see it in the movie.last nite on june 21 she went 2 bed in long pj pants and a tank top.Something woke her up and she saw herself in my other sisters mirror and the mirror was hanging up on the wall and when something woke her up it was standing straight ur so she could see her self and she was dressed diffrently in a red shirt and black shorts.those r the devil colors.she also saw a white fence.she also saw something that had squiggly lines and a thick dot in the middle.I told her to draw me a picture of it.She did and i was thinking for a while and started to realize something.I connneted the ends of the squiggly lines and it made an eye!I was like what what the heck!? Also,her legs were going up and down on difrent times.The "thing" whatever it was,grabbed her by her ankles and her ankles were going up and down.Then when she woke up in the morning for breakfast,she kept saying painfully that her ankles were sore.She doesnt know whats wrong with her,but sh's scared.I told her that there was nothing to be scared about.She said that when she had to go to the bathroom(in a dream),she opened the bathroom door and the broom flew right at her and just fell to the ground.She got scared and picked it up to put it away,then this witch appeared outr of nowhere and flew off with her right on it and she jumped off and landed in someones back yard bloody and bruised,but she wasnt like that when she got floated away.She doesnt know why.Someone please tell me what is wrong with her!You guys are smart! Please tell me,give me an answer, something to help her weird dreams. Thank you.

My sister is 20,i am 12, I am telling her story for her.She has had some weird dreams that she floats alot very often.She has had a dream once that she heard a evil witch laugh because she floated from her room to our hallway in our house.Another time,she closed her eyes and she saw these evil green eyes looking directly at her.She saw this like ghostly gastly circle thing like in ''The Prince Of Egypt''then you will know what im talking about when you see it in the movie.last nite on june 21 she went 2 bed in long pj pants and a tank top.Something woke her up and she saw herself in my other sisters mirror and the mirror was hanging up on the wall and when something woke her up it was standing straight ur so she could see her self and she was dressed diffrently in a red shirt and black shorts.those r the devil colors.she also saw a white fence.she also saw something that had squiggly lines and a thick dot in the middle.I told her to draw me a picture of it.She did and i was thinking for a while and started to realize something.I connneted the ends of the squiggly lines and it made an eye!I was like what what the heck!? Also,her legs were going up and down on difrent times.The "thing" whatever it was,grabbed her by her ankles and her ankles were going up and down.Then when she woke up in the morning for breakfast,she kept saying painfully that her ankles were sore.She doesnt know whats wrong with her,but sh's scared.I told her that there was nothing to be scared about.She said that when she had to go to the bathroom(in a dream),she opened the bathroom door and the broom flew right at her and just fell to the ground.She got scared and picked it up to put it away,then this witch appeared outr of nowhere and flew off with her right on it and she jumped off and landed in someones back yard bloody and bruised,but she wasnt like that when she got floated away.She doesnt know why.Someone please tell me what is wrong with her!You guys are smart! Please tell me,give me an answer, something to help her weird dreams. Thank you.

My sister is 20,i am 12, I am telling her story for her.She has had some weird dreams that she floats alot very often.She has had a dream once that she heard a evil witch laugh because she floated from her room to our hallway in our house.Another time,she closed her eyes and she saw these evil green eyes looking directly at her.She saw this like ghostly gastly circle thing like in ''The Prince Of Egypt''then you will know what im talking about when you see it in the movie.last nite on june 21 she went 2 bed in long pj pants and a tank top.Something woke her up and she saw herself in my other sisters mirror and the mirror was hanging up on the wall and when something woke her up it was standing straight ur so she could see her self and she was dressed diffrently in a red shirt and black shorts.those r the devil colors.she also saw a white fence.she also saw something that had squiggly lines and a thick dot in the middle.I told her to draw me a picture of it.She did and i was thinking for a while and started to realize something.I connneted the ends of the squiggly lines and it made an eye!I was like what what the heck!? Also,her legs were going up and down on difrent times.The "thing" whatever it was,grabbed her by her ankles and her ankles were going up and down.Then when she woke up in the morning for breakfast,she kept saying painfully that her ankles were sore.She doesnt know whats wrong with her,but sh's scared.I told her that there was nothing to be scared about.She said that when she had to go to the bathroom(in a dream),she opened the bathroom door and the broom flew right at her and just fell to the ground.She got scared and picked it up to put it away,then this witch appeared outr of nowhere and flew off with her right on it and she jumped off and landed in someones back yard bloody and bruised,but she wasnt like that when she got floated away.She doesnt know why.Someone please tell me what is wrong with her!You guys are smart! Please tell me,give me an answer, something to answer her weird dreams. Thank you.

I have a very comforting entity in my home. I was up and out of bed around 3a.m., I was standing in the middle of my room. Out of the corner I hear "get back [to bed]" so I did as it asked. Two days later I was very upset. I stayed up late and I started to cry. I hear "don't cry" and it felt like the ghost had tried to hold my hand. I lifted my hand up and spread apart my fingers, I could feel another pair of fingers slip through mine. I smiled.

Well this happend yesterday at shcool my shcool is hounted i am only 10 so me and my friend were in the bathroom and in the second stal thare was too highheal shose with red tonailes. we were in thare about five minuts the purson did not move. In the after noon i had to go to the bathroom i went in the stal besid the one we saw erelyer and i saw the same pair of shoes with red nails. it took a long time for me becuze i had to go realy bad. then when i flushed i hurd another flush than i did not here anything else. when i came out of the stal the stal door nexed to my was haing open. I was pritty scared1 I ran out of thear like a dog. And i never want to go in thare alon agein!!!!

hey I some what believe in spirits and stuff I also heard about the ouija board is that true and is it safe to try it at home or any other place. can we do it alone or we need a group.

I was at a cristingle wen i was 15 and got bored. i decided to go searching for things like hidden doors for fun. i went into a side room and found an old rotting coffin with a plaq underneath. as i was reading the door slammed. i thout it was just my boyfriend jason playing around and being cute but when i went to openit, the nod wudnt buj. i shoutd but it was no use. the wierd thing was that you couldnt loc th door from the outside. the nod got realy hot all of a sudn. so hot bi cudnt hold on. i got out eventualy, but it really freaked me, im 16 now!

Hi Back in 2004, I was living in Hawaii, I believe I was experiences a haunting or entity of some sort.
It start by my candles falling of the walls and a feeling as thou I was being watched. One night I was lying down with my son in my bedroom when I felt someone breathe in my face I woke up and looked around but didn't see any one. The next day which was a Friday night my son came running into my room yelling someone touched me and I couldn't calm him down so, after 45 min he calmed down and returned to his room after that I fell off to sleep to glance over my shoulder and see a dark figure disappear. I thought it was just because I open my eyes and the TV was on maybe it was a shadow from that, this happened two more time during the week. Four days later I was watching TV alone when I fell to sleep and when I open my eyes the TV had froze on someone face which was looking at me. I never been so scared in my life I turned off the TV and ran up stairs. The very next day I was lying down with my husband and son when I felt someone behind me, I said out loud if there is someone in here with us give me a sign at that moment my son hand went up in the air and he raised his body and laid back down "he was asleep. About a week later I was watch Sylvia Brown on the Montel Williams show and she said tell the spirit to go to the light go home and rest their soul.
The next day I got some holy water and sprinkled some in every room staying to the spirit to go on and leave this house, so I was headed downstairs when I sprinkled some holy water in the air I heard a sizzle oh my goodness I paused for a min and proceeded down the stairs.
It was a 5 week ordeal that I went through and I've not felt that way again since that day blessing the house with holy water

Lisa

this happened when my mom was about 8 months pregnant with me they lived in an upstairs apartment on west 101st off western ave in cleveland ohio my aunt loretta who we call aunt rah who was also 8 months pregnant lived in the downstairs apartment and to let you know now being 8 months pregnant these two women are not going to be climbing or running up or down stairs like the following story goes just little things happened they would hear someone running up and down the stairs late at night and the bottom door would be closed and locked for the night and a couple times when they would hear the running they would both look out the door and see each other looking at each other and they was a straight flight of 30 stairs then at night as everyone was sleeping mom and dad would hear knocking at the door and dad would make mom answer it but nobody was there and the door at the bottom would still be locked after that they ignored the knocking because it didnt really bother them but then things started coming up missing like dads car keys or cigarettes,wallet, etc from the living room in the ceiling there was board you had to slide over to get into the attic craw space there was no ladder because nobody went up there well every morning when dad would be missing these things that board would be open so he would get a chair and there was his missing things now my dad is 6 ft and even standing on a chair just his head would reach the ceiling my mom is 4ft 10in and pregnant so she didnt put the things up there so he called and got permission from the landlord to nail that board shut well after he did that things stopped for a while until one day mom and dad got a new puppy from the animal shelter and my grandma through a baby shower for my mom so they dropped the puppy off at home and went to the shower and was only gone for a couple hours when they returned home they smelled something really bad the checked everywhere they traced the smell to behind the couch and thats where they found the puppy it was dead and stiff as a board they took the puppy back to the shelter and the vet said that the pup had been dead for a week or more and mom showed the papers from where they had bought it earlier that day after that mom and dad moved right out of that house and in with my grandma and pap because mom was pregnant with me and they felt i might be next and a week after mom n dad moved so did aunt rah

when me and my husband met we would talk all the time about haunted houses because he grew up in alot of them and i always joked around and said when we get married dont you dare move me in a haunted house me and my husband got married at an earlie age he was 18 i was 17 this was in 1992 and we moved into a builing called the bosworth manor on bosworth ave in cleveland ohio and when he was at work that first day i just felt so uncomfortable being there by myself i felt like i was being watched so i was going to go to the store and walk around the block till my husband charlie got home but i couldnt find my key i always hung it on the wall next to the stove it had one of those prayer crosses on the ring my aunt ret gave it to me i just kept having an erie feeling so on days that my husband woked i had him drop me off at mom and dads i chucked it up as me being yound and alone in my first apartment until one night in july we was sleeping we had the bedroom door closed and one of those big old noisy metal fans on and charlie woke up and heard water going so he got up and checked it out and the spicket to the tub was turned on full force nobody was in the house just the 2 of us and a kitten we got but she wasnt able to turn it on so we turned it off and this happened almost every other night we didnt know what to think then it got worse charlie always got out of bed before me to get ready for work and he called out to me so i got up and he took me to the kithen and asked what i was doing, and was i up late last night i said no he told me to go look in the living room so from the kitchen i walked down the long hallway past our bedroom to the living room and it looked like there was a party there the night before there was 4 cups that was clean from my kitchen cupboard in there on the floor open wine coolers that was in the fridge sitting on the floor empty my grandma had given me an old 13in black and white tv i kept in the closet because i had a color tv it was plugged in and set to a channel so it was snowwy and volume turned up all the way all the pictures that i had on the wall was turned upside down the tub was again turned on full force the balcony door was wide open the medicine cabinet was open in the bathroom all my kitchen cupboards were opened all 3 doors to the hall closet was open (which the closet had 2 entrences 2 doors in the living room then you can walk right through the closet and go through the door out to the hallway) we didnt know what to think we snuck friends over to sit with us with baseball bats thinking if someone trys to get in were going to get them we stayed up all night till the next day nothing happened so they helped us move out when i went back to clean the place i went to hang my husbands key on the nail where i always hung mine and it was an empty nail when i was done and on my way out there hung my key with my cross on it under my husbands keys

I really don't know if this is the place to find an answer or not, but here goes. Everynight, and I do mean everynight for about a year I look at the clock at at exactly 11:49 pm, rather Im on the computer, on the phone watching tv, or anything. Even if Im in bed I will either look at the clock and its 11:49, or I'll wake up an its 11:49. Im no saying I think its something paranormal or anything, I honestly do think it could just be a phycological thing, like a natural alarm clock maybe. But still, I find it odd, and I just wanted to see if anyone could share with me their opinion on the matter. Oh and also this number has no important meaning to me, I've never had anything occur at this time.

I can feel shadows every day and every night and I dont know why I just can feel that something is touching me "like a fly"or some thing els and I cant feel the cold weather
my skin always hot and I dont know why and by the way I sing at night while listening to my I-pod . and I can see that shadows moving and moving and making pictures that i cant understand it , and some times I dream an Unknown dream cuz while I am sleeping and dreaming i hear "boom" in my ear my left one to wake me up after that i want to remember what I was dreaming I cant do it " I think that I was dreaming something that he doesnt wants me to know " and some times I dream that I am screaming but i cant hear my voice
then I fly and die
it is strange I know but I just cant handle it and now I think we are just friends cuz some times I hear the T.V making some noise "not turned on " so I just say I got rid of this joke bring me some thing new ;)
but actually he didnt

Ok, well to begin, there has been two people who has died in my house. There was a baby girl who died in my room and then there was my grandfather who died in the den. My grandfather died of lung cancer a month after I was born so I don't really remember him. Well, anyways im 14 now and I just got my braces off. So, unfortunatly, I have to wear a retainer all the time except when i eat. So one morning I woke up to get me some breakfast. I sat my retainer on my dresser in this little blue dish that holds my jewelry and things. So I ate my breakfast and my mom told me to go put my retainer back on. Well, I forgot where I sat it. So i spent the whole day trying to find it. It wasn't on my dresser so i thought that I moved it somewhere else, but i totally forgot. So at about 1:00 (jokingly) I asked " ok grandpa, if you have it, please put it back where it was, i'll give you ten mins." So, we waited and exactly when it was ten minutes, we heard a thump in my bedroom. I ran in there and there was my retainer on my little blue dish...

I have many accounts of paranormal experiences that I have experienced. All of which have taken place in my old house I grew up in since I was born till I was 11. Its was an old victorian manor house, in Birmingham.
For some time when i was young, I had told my mom of my new friend. She was a blonde girl named Emily who always wore the same grey pinafore and her hair was a very light blonde, very long and plaited in ponytails. I would plaay with her everyday but there was no kids in the actual area. So my family figured it was my imaginary friend. However once, I had a talkboy, like the one off homealone. And I was recording a Safari adventure in my backgarden. When my mother replayed the tape. She could here another voice, very slight, in conversation with me. Which I reassured her was emily. To this day, we don't know who it was. As I remember one day she dissapeared.
Another being that I would always sleep with my head under the blanket, but one night I seen a pale hand with long red nails creep into my bed. I never slept like it again. There was always feelings of fear when I was in the corridors and I would run through them.
The bathroom I used to always feel watched.
In the kitchen, where someone had hung themself. My mother was constantly tapped on the soldier and once saw a small child.
Our old ex - police dog was once found shaking in the corner one night, after coming in from a family event and all of our cushions had been lined up neatly in a row. This is just a briefing of my events at Priory road.

Recently I took a day trip up to the Iikley Moors on my own. I now know there allot of activity up there and just by things that are still alive. I was walking up a track, I turned around to see a figure of a lone man walking up behind me some distance back down the track. I thought it was just another walker, but I turned around again and the figure was gone. Was it a ghost? Nothing bad happened, but I can tell u I was freaked out walking back toward town. I will not be going back up onto the moors by myself again.

hey i am Cody i 11 years old and i love to look at ghost. me and my friend were on a web site called ustream.com well we both were trying to find ghost and someone knocked on the door behind us me opened the door know one was there

Over the years many families have moved into the old victorian style mansion in the 300 block of Elm Street in Ludlow Kentucky, just across the street from a funeral parlor. Stories of the place being haunted have been passed on since the early 1900's. Prior Residents there say they have heard footsteps on the stairs and hallways and seen doors and cabinets open and close on their own. Some people say they have seen the ghostly figures of an old man and woman, along with a young boy and girl in the corner inside the second floor master bedroom. Some residents of this sleepy river town say they can see ghostly figures looking out from the 2nd and 3rd floor windows. This usually occurs between 2am and 4 am. If you are ever in Ludlow Kentucky stop in front of the Funeral Parlor across the street from this home and stare up at the windows to see if you see the ghostly inhabitants there.

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