13 True Scary Ghost Stories From Reddit.

so in high school I worked kids birthday parties the place was basically a giant gym and gymnastics slash dance classes were also held there one day I came in and one of the girls I worked with who was very spiritual and very religious was totally freaked out during the gymnastics class she taught that morning one of the kids was staring up at the ceiling when she asked the kid what he was doing he said there's a little boy up there and pointed at the ceiling strange enough but whatever kids are

weird later two girls who were working a birthday party before mine came out of the gym and were visibly shaken a pair of five year old twins went down a slide and then stared at the ceiling they both said that there was a little boy up there in the same spot on the ceiling that the kid from the morning gymnastics class we all went in and inspected the ceiling of course it was just a regular grey warehouse wise ceiling but we were all super freaked out at that point during my party I was pushin

g a little boy on the giant swing we had in the gym he too began to stare at the ceiling he said directly to my face hey there's a little boy up there we told all of our coworkers and managers about the three separate experiences we had today with children from different parties and classes seeing a little boy on the ceiling the next day we had downtime between parties nobody was in the gym there are cameras in the gym that allow parents to see their children playing from the lobby my manager ca

lled us out of the break room guys check this out we come out and see the screen which is streaming from the gym showing that giant swing going back and forth nobody's in there it's just the swing going I like to think that the ghost was truly a little boy who just wanted to play and he finally got to go on the swing could be worse when I was in my late 20s I was dating my girlfriend soon to be wife we had been together for a while one summer July 3rd her sister was abducted and killed by a grou

p of six men all the men were eventually caught and tried the trials in the aftermath for the family were devastating and debilitating for them for many many years fast forward three months after the funeral I arrived at my girlfriend's house to wait for her to get off from her job as a nurse at a local hospital neither of her parents were home just me alone in the house so I went into the family room turned on the TV sat down in the couch got comfortable and began to watch clear as a bell I hea

rd my girlfriend sister's voice in my right ear just off my shoulder call my name I turned to look at the seat next to me and of course there was nobody there I stared at the spot in the couch next to me for a long while feeling a bit uneasy I turned off the TV and went outside to wait on the porch my uncle's house out on a very eastern part of New York was said to be haunted due to the family that used to own it in the 1800s decided not to give it to the stableman and sold it instead he and the

maid were said to have haunted the place we always used to joke that you would hear people or things moving at night but since the house is so old we used to just laugh it off my uncle's friend had her and her sister stay over the house one night and the friend noticed a maid bringing towels down the stairs when she woke she saw the maid again bringing what looked like a percolator down the stairs she was so impressed by my uncle hiring staff he is a neurologist in NYC so he had a habit of spen

ding a little bit extra she went back to bed and woke up later downstairs to see my uncle and his friend just chatting she asked where the maid went and she thought that the maid was cooking breakfast my uncle had no idea what she was talking about and asked what she looked like the sister explained and he laughed walked her to the living room and pointed to an old picture she said that was the woman my uncle replied yeah she has been dead for about 100 years I lived in an old haunted house in c

ollege except for me and one roommate here's a few I woke up at 3:00am because my roommate's door kept opening and slamming shut from bed I yelled for him to stop only to realize I was the only one home that weekend as soon as I yelled the slamming stopped but the hippie beads I had hanging outside my closed door began to sway perfectly yet violently against the door frame for a half hour while I debated if I should pop out my air condition unit and jump out of the window I laid in the fetal pos

ition in bed till it stopped I woke up at 3:00am alone again hearing the Nintendo in the back porch playing loudly I figured a drunk kid came in and started playing I grabbed a bat and walked towards the back of the house as the music got louder and louder as soon as I opened the door was completely quiet mind you it was loud enough to wake me up I had friends over and told them the house was haunted no one believed me so I asked the ghost to do anything to prove it was there as soon as I asked

all the lights in the house began flickering for about a minute straight this was the middle of the day everyone witnessed it almost everyone who stayed at my house had sleep paralysis at least once in the house every time something spooky happened the house would smell like Old Lady Flowery Strong perfume this house had a door built into the flooring that LED to the basement we always had a rug covering it up so no one knew it was there things would constantly go missing in the house and turnin

g up in the basement this house had a coal chute from when it was heated by coal back in the day missing stuff would always be placed on the chute for us to come and get roommate had some issues once while playing video games late at night he saw a mist kind of hovering from the kitchen then move into the bathroom the bathroom had a trap door that LED to the attic that's where we figured the old lady ghost used to like to hang out roommate was up late he went to go lock the doors and turn off li

ghts when he turned his back on the room and walked to the door someone breathed into his ear H a a he thought it was me I was sleeping he turned around pissed himself and ran to his room he was too afraid to come out and turn off lights and TV loud thumps in attic at all hours for peace of mind we told ourselves squirrels must have gotten in there voices would wake us up in the middle of the night I spent many mornings on the front porch waiting for the sun to come up before I went back in the

house coincidentally I had a friend years later that rented from the same landlord same town different house where he and all of his roommates moved out because that house was also haunted I didn't think it was too weird until he was telling me that when all of the weird stuff happened it was accompanied by Old Lady flowery stinky perfume also a lot of people had sleep paralysis in that house as well when I was younger I used to take naps upstairs but by the time I was 8 years old I absolutely r

efused to go upstairs the upstairs had two large closets x they ran from one side of the upstairs all the way to the other side on both sides it was essentially a crawl space that was maybe 30 feet long it started one day when a friend and I went crawling from one side to the other with flashlights like kids normally do then I saw a girl sitting there in the corner acting like she wanted to play with us I know a lot of people say when they see a ghost they aren't scared just interested nope I wa

s beyond terrified this girl looked normal had blonde hair a nice dress and seemed friendly I stayed silent kept crawling behind my friend and got out of the closet told him what I saw in there he said he didn't see it but felt like he didn't want to go back in then my parents would occasionally send me upstairs to get something and when I would get up there I would see the door swing open as if they were trying to get me to come inside I would lose toys and wouldn't be able to find them anywher

e suddenly my parents would be fishing out Christmas presents out of the attic and we would find some of my toys in there I remember being 8 years old my parents are asleep still in the morning and I leashed up my dog to go take on the monster in the attic my dog usually up for anything refused to go off the top step into the attic my parents never believe me with all the weird things that happened in that house I would get blamed for things that happened all over the house leaving lights on toy

s all over things I knew I didn't do well anyway we move out of there when I am 10 not a week passes before the new owners call us up and ask if the house is haunted their daughter sleeps upstairs she says that she has been playing with a blonde haired girl at night my parents laughed at how crazy these new homeowners must be to make an already long story short the girl started appearing in other parts of the house for them they kept in contact with us they would look over while watching TV and

see the girl sitting on their daughter's lap etc they looked up on the computer the past owners of the house found an old dressmaker that lived there and yep a picture of the little girl wearing one of the ladies dresses the family that moved in there were absolutely torn apart by the events got divorced dad stayed living in the house and ended up taking his own life in that house I lived in one when I was a teen along with my parents several instances come to mind we were remodeling an old farm

house and had been there a couple of months before witnessing anything one day I was underneath my truck which was supported by only a Jack stupid I know I was in the middle of working on it with no good reason to get out at that moment suddenly the overwhelming urge to get out from underneath overwhelmed me no sooner than I got out the truck fell to the ground the Jack had slipped freaked dad out he thought I was under it when mom got home we mentioned it and she started crying sobbing pretty h

ard it turns out the previous owner died in the driveway under a vehicle in that spot I would often see moving shadows and strangely hear music from the upstairs area the windows of the old house were cocked shut and blackbirds would often get caught between the panes we ended up replacing all the windows but we had to break three inside panes to get them out one of the more disturbing things happened when my mother was cooking breakfast she turned away to get something out of the cabinet and wh

en she turned back around all the forks set out were bent straight up so two weeks before we moved my dad and I toured our house and I noticed this guy was painting the water heater which I thought was weird AF but I was like 10 so whatever anyway we moved in on a Wednesday and my parents let me stay home from school until the following Monday and preoccupied me with coloring books and a new dollhouse in my brand new crayons pack there literally wasn't a blue crayon like it was a 64 pack but the

re were only 63 crayons in it one day I went downstairs into the basement and my blue crayon was next to the hot water heater and scribbled on there it said Hi Fitness 6 Kevin I was so confused I started school and my new classmates were like Omg do you live in Kevin's house your house is gonna be haunted it turned out that Kevin was a little 8 year old boy that lived in our house prior to us and he got hit by a car in the front yard he would write notes if you left out a pen and paper open and

closed doors adjust the thermostat kind where you had to turn a knob and always turn on Christmas music when it was that time of year smiley face we had a swing set in the backyard and even on the hottest calmest days of summer only the left swing would be moving back and forth we had this dumb cat that I would lock in my bedroom at night and every morning my parents would open the door and let him out then close it back one night I woke up and the cat was meowing at the door and it woke me up b

ut the door opened and the cat hissed and ran out really fast I asked my mom the next morning why they didn't close my door and they said they didn't open it the last story is when I was very upset and nearly suicidal one year during Christmas break the police just randomly showed up at my house the policeman said he was patrolling our neighborhood and felt like something was wrong at our house I'm absolutely certain Kevin had something to do with it I grew up with a cat boots who was just a yea

r my junior boots was motivated only by food and spent his later years sleeping on my parents bed until someone came home then he jumped off the bed with a funk thunk of his front and back paws hitting the ground and run to his food bowl to beg he had to be put down when I was 18 my parents moved out of my childhood home during my first year of college I went back a few times before it sold every time I was certain I felt a cat's presence like I'd hesitate my step because I was sure a cat just w

alked under my legs kinda thing also upon walking in I'd always hear a thunk thunk like boots jumping down to beg for food my mom and I went back for the last day my family would ever be in that home and I told her on the way what I'd experienced to my surprise she had the exact same feeling when we walked into the house funk funk we exchanged shocked glances and confirmed we both heard it I went and sat in my empty room while my mom got the final things together and while my eyes were closed I

had to force myself to not pet a cat that I felt walk up to me because I knew logically he wasn't there before leaving we stood in the hallway outside my parents bedroom hugged each other and cried saying bye to my first home I said I thought boots was still around and suggested we take his spirit to the new house she agreed so she called out Bootsy from my parents Room Funk funk we both heard it I don't think he came with us he never liked car rides but I hope the owners since us have enjoyed t

heir ghost kitty he was a good boy for context I believe to this day that the vast not all paranormal videos and photos have a plausible explanation outside of the paranormal this means that these videos and photos can be easily explained away as either CG poor quality cameras paradilia or as outright fakes needless to say I do believe that there still can be paranormal shit that happens however at the time when this happened about 8 years ago and when I didn't believe in ghosts as much my famil

y and I were staying at the Fort Gary Hotel in Winnipeg Manitoba I had a few spare moments and decided to explore the hotel because it is absolutely beautiful I got lost as I usually do in buildings since I get directionally challenged the moment I step into one anyways I happened to run into someone that looked like they worked for the hotel but weren't house cleaning or a clerk so I was unsure of their position or job I asked for directions back to the lobby since I had to meet my family in a

few minutes the moment I arrived in the lobby and walked past the front desk a clerk and a security guard were staring at me in shock and pale faces the security guard asked me who I was talking with earlier for the directions back to the lobby I told him I thought it was someone who worked at the hotel well wouldn't you know it turns out that floor I was on I can't remember it for the life of me has a bunch of paranormal shit that goes on regularly I don't know if he was supposed to but the sec

urity guard showed me the footage he had just seen the person I was talking with never appeared on the security feed even though they should have been in Plain View was super creepy because I had shaken this person's hand for some reason and the footage just should be shaking hands with the air the person appeared in front of me as any other person would have when I touch their hand it felt like any squishy person would normally and yet they never showed up on the footage there was no way I coul

d have blocked out the person from view of the camera either as I'm only 5 feet 6 inches the security guard even pulled up a second angle for further proof no one else believes me despite the footage to this day I still don't know how to explain it a couple years ago I was 23 at the time I was still living with my parents I was up upstairs in my bedroom hanging out in my room and watching TV I was on the phone with my friend at the time and while I was on the phone I exited my room and went down

stairs to have a cigarette the only other person in my parents house that day was my dad who later I found out was asleep in his room on the main level anyway I was gone for about seven minutes and I walked back upstairs and entered my bedroom I was still on the phone at the time and I walked towards my bed and sat down eventually after 20 seconds or so I glanced back up to play my TV and there at the end of my bed was a piece of paper sticking up from the base I just remember not understanding

what I was seeing and never in my life have I so quickly dropped dead silent say drop dead silent in a way to try and explain what it feels like when you're coming to terms with something your brain isn't ready or fully capable of understanding I just remember going Nate and he kept saying what what and I could hardly speak I quickly said I'll call him back and immediately took out my phone and took a picture I took a picture before doing anything else before I even studied what the piece of pap

er was before I did anything at all I took a picture I took a picture because I couldn't believe my eyes I don't know how it got there why it was placed the way it was and why it looked the way it did I'm getting goosebumps right now anyway it was an old economics paper of mine talking about the government and the divide our two party system creates in America I wrote this Econ paper three years prior in a college intro to Econ course there was originally two pages to it but it was missing its s

econd page the edges of the page were burnt and there was a big yellow triangle that almost looked like it was highlighted on smack dab in the middle of the page it almost looked luminescent or like a dollar Bill does anyhow it absolutely scared the fuck out of me that paper had to have been in my closet stacked away with all my other schoolwork and now it was ripped from the other page and was placed at the edge of my bed sticking upright for me to see I was gone for only 7 minutes nobody could

have done that it was absolutely impossible shortly after that bizarre situation occurred I dodged the hell out of my parents house and went to a hotel with a friend of mine the second part of the story is just as scary but I don't even want to get into that right now anyway I still wish I knew what it meant I can't tell if it was good or bad I don't know what the symbolism was why the paper had weird burns around the edges the large luminescent triangle meant I still don't know why or how but

my concept and understanding of the world has changed ever since I was only gone for 7 minutes this probably under extremely distressing but I'll put my story down the earliest memory I have is of an experience with an apparition based on what I know I was no more than 3 years old when I saw it parents didn't believe me always had some explanation for me we moved houses and tiny things would happen here and there but once again my parents always chalked it up to an overactive imagination there w

as a full body apparition that both my brother and I saw as it walked past a doorway while we were home alone fast forward to getting married and moving into an old apartment things start to heat up a little bit bins would get flipped over and the contents dumped on the floor things would slide off of the back of our vanity about 18 inches deep and fly 3 feet to hit the footboard of our bed not gently more activity than I had experienced before but still not a lot we moved into an almost brand n

ew apartment and while one or two things happened things calmed down significantly then we moved in with my in laws while my husband went to school cue the real events the house would go through periods of high activity particularly centered around me my husband would hear me calling him from another room I wouldn't be calling him he would see me pass by the bottom of the stairs as he was coming down and would follow me all the way around the corner into the far room only to dead end with the ro

om empty I came in from the chicken coop to him upset because I'd been calling him from all over the house I'd been outside the whole time it would make one of the dogs go absolutely feral barking and snarling at nothing I would have small soft items thrown at me I would hear clapping and walking around the house and the dogs would go looking for what made the noise here's the main story my husband was working nights and I was home alone on the farm while the in laws were out of state on a trip

one of the dogs goes into an episode staring at nothing in the middle of the living room absolutely losing it rabid dog I can't get her to calm down usually a light touch on the back will snap her out of it but I could not call her off this time I finally go to my room to take a breather and I hear her stop maybe 15 minutes later she's at it again I can't describe how terrifying it is to see her like this like I said absolutely feral I go halfway up the stairs and I'm talking to her through the

banister finally get her to come over to me and stop barking she keeps looking next to me at the top of the stairs then a huge slam on the baby gate there happens rattling the gate and the banister I ignore it cause I've heard that's the best thing to do when something's right next to you the dog barks but I get her stopped again then right in my line of sight I see a pen slid forcefully off the table flying multiple feet before hitting the ground the dog immediately runs to attack and goes into

another fit looking at something next to the table I start to lose it immediately go back downstairs to my bedroom I sit on my bed next to my cat napping there he stands up and comes to me since I'm upset and crying I hear the dog move back to barking in the living room closer to my room a minute later my cat turns to look at the doorway his back raises up ears pinned back and his hair stands on and looking straight at the doorway I ran out of the house at that point that was the worst it ever

got I have lots of other little stories though I just moved into a brand new house and knock on wood nothing yet I refuse to talk about paranormal activity allowed in any home I stay in and I think subconsciously I pushed myself to only move into a new construction for fear of stirring anything in an existing house up with what I know about the experiences through my life compared with where I was staying I've kind of begun to think I might be a poltergeist a new construction home was the only p

lace I felt safe moving into so while my story isn't to the level of a horror movie I'm happy to be out of old houses and apartments in 2,011 I was studying abroad in Morocco we were staying in a Riyadh in the Medina of Marrakesh with tall ornate windows I had one roommate who was already asleep this night I thought I saw her sitting up in the bed next to me wearing all white suddenly I saw a white easy thing vaguely shaped like a person floating above me next to the big windows I was so scared

I went in the bathroom turn the light on and stayed in the bathtub all night my roommate didn't see anything I lived in a house to be haunted by doppelgangers every event that happened never involved some mysterious figure but a known person being in a place where they should not have been here are a few examples I was a teenager at the time and I was instant messaging my GF at the time with my webcam turned on I had the viewer up so that I could see myself in the webcam behind me there was the

stairs leading up left of camera view and the entrance to the living room right of camera view my younger sister would typically fall asleep every night on the couch in front of the TV and make her way up to bed in the middle of the night at one point in my webcam view I saw my sister leave the living room and go up the stairs the thing that struck me as odd was that I didn't hear anything it was an older Victorian house so the wooden floor and stairs were loud AF without saying anything to my G

F I got up and looked into the living room and there was my sister passed out on the couch I sat back down and asked my GF if she had seen anything in my camera she said yeah I just saw your sister go upstairs my family was all getting ready to go somewhere I was sitting in the car with my mom and we were waiting on my sister who was still in the house after a bitch she comes out and gets in the car and just looks at me like wtf I ask her what's wrong and she says that just before she walked out

of the house she thought I was still inside so she yelled up the stairs 1 l t underscore 0 bias we're leaving and apparently I yelled back okay I'll be down in a minute edit some more examples since many people have asked I did put some of these in a response lower but I'll add them here for visibility my mom woke up to someone tapping her foot and she said someone was standing at the end of her bed who faded out after a couple seconds he said it looked like me I had an encounter where I woke u

p and felt like someone was under my covers laying up against me when I said something my blanket visibly deflated and I no longer felt anything I include this with doppelgangers because though I didn't see what I felt under the blanket it laid like my GF would have laid against me when I was 22 I was in the military and I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes it still took like a year after the diagnosis to separate from the military but I went home on leave for the holidays about a month after th

e diagnosis anyone that has insulin dependent diabetes typically carries around some sort of kit mine is black zip up pouch and it has a gluometer insulin pen needles and alcohol pads right after I left home to head back from leave my mom text me to ask if I'm missing my diabetic kit I look and I'm not she sends me a picture of a diabetic kit and asks if I know it I've never seen this kit before in my life apparently my sister went into her bedroom and discovered it outside of her window propped

up like someone had set it there oh also her bedroom is on the second floor nobody else we know has diabetes things got so weird that everyone moved out majority of doesn't fall that seemed