Any Scary Spooky Ghost Stories for Halloween 2019?

[INeedanInterestingUsername]

As Halloween is fast approaching, does anyone have a scary spooky ghost story they'd like to share?

I'll start.

Years ago, my friend moved into her first house. It was a 4 bedroom that she was sharing with 3 other girls. I helped her move in and that evening we all ordered pizza and stayed up chatting late into the night. I ended up staying over as was too late for me to get home. I stayed on the sofa, but couldn't sleep. I had this very uncomfortable feeling and felt I was being watched or at least that I was not alone. The feeling was overwhelming and I started to feel unsafe or that I was in danger but I couldn't say why, it was just a feeling of being unsafe. I noticed the lights flicker a few times.

The next morning, as everyone was getting up my friend asked me how I slept. I said I hadn't slept and told her how weird I felt and I didn't like the house. She said she felt the same and the other girls said they didn't like the house but it was so cheap compared to other places and they all got on well so they didn't feel they could move out. Everyone had noticed problems with the electricity at one point or another.

As I was leaving, we all walked to the front garden and I started walking to my car in the drive when a neighbour came out and waved hello. I don't know what came over me, but I approached him and asked if he knew the history of the house as we were all feeling a bit strange staying there. He laughed, said he wasn't suprised as the family who previously lived there had been murdered in the house as they slept. Apparently a man had come in through an open window, killed the family and stayed in the house for a few days before the bodies were discovered.

We looked up the information he gave us about the family and what had happened, and the story was true. Two of the girls moved out that week. I never went back to that house again. I still get shivers thinking about having slept there that night. I don't know if I was feeling the presence of the family or the killer?

Anyone else want to share their experience?

[whatiswrongwithpeople]

My grandparent's house was a bungalow with a large cellar underneath. There was a long dark hallway that led to the door that had steps down to the cellar. There was no light or windows in that hallway for some reason so even in the daytime it was very dark. I remember being scared of that hallway. Very scared. It seemed unaturally dark and if felt like there was something evil living there like a very dark menacing presence or something. I always avoided it and refused to ever go into the cellar. No matter what mood I was in when I arrived at the house I always felt drained and anxious to leave after a few minutes and I hated staying overnight there as a child.
When I was in my teens my grandfather died from alcoholism and about a year later my grandmother committed suicide. They had been unhappy for a very long time. I always wondered if it was the dark presence that killed them or if they somehow created the dark presence in that house.

[LarkLaneLove]

I posted this on the "have you ever felt the presence of evil" thread but thought I'd re-share here:

When I was a student shared a flat with my best friend, it was a big 2 bed on the ground floor of a Victorian house, really nice flat. My friend is very non-woo but from the minute we moved in we both felt really uneasy, neither of us felt comfortable being alone there and we used to meet up after lectures so we could go home together to avoid being alone. There was a really heavy oppressive atmosphere and it was always freezing (we also got broken into twice and when the police came they commented on how cold it was - warm sunny day outside). Lights used to be switched on when we'd left them turned off, things fell off the walls, footsteps in the corridor. Constantly had the sense of being watched and if I ever slept alone there I was terrified, couldn't turn the lights off. My flatmate told me after we'd moved out she'd felt someone touch her shoulder several times when she was in bed.
The atmosphere was really weird - never have felt like that anywhere else - kind of electric and like there was something there, all the hairs on my neck used to stand on end all the time. Never felt alone there but not in a good way. Another of our friends had had lots of woo experiences and she came round to visit - we hadn't said anything to her as we didn't really talk about it as we didn't want to acknowledge it was real - and as soon as she came in she commented on the atmosphere and said, something bad has happened here.
There was also a cellar which was as big as the actual flat - there was a door off the kitchen with stairs down and looking down the steps into the dark was so horrible that we kept the door locked at all times.
One day we came back from lectures together and both went to our rooms and my friend came rushing to get me and her room was covered in blue ink splodges - the ink was still wet, it was on her records, curtains, the walls - like someone had shaken a fountain pen all over but we didn't have a blue fountain pen in the house.
We moved out after about a year but have never experienced anything like the feeling in that flat - even typing this now 25 years later is giving me chills!

[Nearlyshitmypantsthere]

Oooh spooky 👻 @catpyjamas. I loved this thread, hope more stories are posted , although thankfully I have none of my own!!!

[catpyjamas]

A few years ago I bought a house. I knew very little about the history only that the person selling was the child of the previous owners. The house is quite old so I thought perhaps the previous owner went into a care home or something and the children were selling up. I moved in and haven't had any problems but every now and then I would swear that I saw 'something' a shape maybe moving past out of the corner of my eye. I always ignored it and put it down to me being tired. Eventually a neighbour a few doors down approached me one day when I was outside. She asked if I was settling in ok and if I'd had any problems. Problems? No why do you ask? She then told me that the previous owners and one of their children had died in my home. She wouldn't say what happened. When I looked into it a bit further it seems the child died many years ago (I don't know why) and the couple died at seperate times. They were elderly so I presume it was natural deaths.
Now every time I'm in my house and I think I see something going past me I wonder if I'm just tired or if it could be something else. Otherwise I haven't had any other problems here.

The house I lived in before I bought this one was lovely. It had a huge back garden that ended into a large woodland. I never felt fear in the house but I would frequently hear a sort of knocking sound at night that came from the back glass doors. It utterly terrified me. I absolutely would not go into my back garden at night. I'm not aware of anything that happened there but I felt this intense fear in the back garden that I can't even explain.

[CountArthursgroupie]

I'm sorry this thread seems to have fizzled out, are there any more experiences? I find them strangely comforting.

[INeedanInterestingUsername]

For some reason 'after my nan died I would quite often smell her very distinctive freesia talcum powder when feeling down or stressed' and I think 'How lovely'.
But 'I heard a voice' 'I heard an unexplained noise' 'I saw something' and I think 'How spooky'
I wonder why the smell stopped after 4 years Graymare?

xTinkerbell Did your gran notice the knocking or the lights?

[xTinkerbell]

sorry, not spooky posted in the wrong thread meant to post in the strangest thing that had happened one!

[xTinkerbell]

My gran died a year ago. When she was in hospital we were all there for the few days before she passed. The day she passed a few strange things happened. At one point my aunt said something to her about my granda waiting for her. Then we heard a knock on the room door (bearing in mind there were at least 10 of us in the room at the time), my brother opened the door and no one there. We brushed it off and put it down to someone knocking and realising it was the wrong room.

A few hours later there were about 6 of us in the room with her and my mum was talking to my gran. She said to her 'You just haven't found the light yet' literally when she finished speaking all the lights in the room came on (we had been keeping it pretty dark) no one was near the light switch and despite how hard we tried we couldn't get the lights back to how they had been before.

[Graymare]

Would probably class this as comforting and not scary but for about four years after my nan died I would quite often smell her very distinctive freesia talcum powder, (probably last widely available in 1970) when feeling down or stressed.
Have also had what I would call visits from just deceased relatives/friends. For example baby gate collapsing (without baby), waking to door opening and shutting, waking up inexplicably in a cold sweat at what were later confirmed to be times of death.

[angstinabaggyjumper]

INeedanInterestingUsername
Wasn't much she could do she just looked thoughtful about it and yes it was just the once. She did have some strange activity in the house a little later and wondered if it was my dad but I don't think he would have done anything malicious to her.

[INeedanInterestingUsername]

angstinabaggyjumper That gave me the shivers! What did your DM do? Did she only hear that the once?

[angstinabaggyjumper]

Just after my DF died my DM said she was in bed one morning and heard him say in her ear "I'm alive."

[INeedanInterestingUsername]

That's interesting MsPavlichenko. You're probably right, the name possibly pops up frequently but you only notice it when you're thinking about that counsin which would make the coincidence significant at that time. It makes me wonder about all the coincidences and signs we miss or are not aware of at all the other times they happen.

YouJustDoYou That is so sad. "my son. He's come to take me home" I have tears at that!

On the last weekend I saw her, I just knew that I wouldn't be seeing her again. Have you ever had that feeling before or was it just that weekend? (if you don't mind me asking) So far we've mentioned being in a place that we knew something had happened or seeing someone that has passed (past events), but you've experienced a future event. It's so interesting to me how the mind works and how we can have a 'knowing' feeling.
The knowing without knowing. This.

[YouJustDoYou]

My dad died when I was a teenager, and my nan developed severe Alzheimers shortly after. She forgot my dad had died, and would repeatedly ask every 5 minutes where he was, and why wasn't he coming to see her? I was eventually able to get her into care, where she spent the last few years of her life. I would drive up to see her every week. On the last weekend I saw her, I just knew that I wouldn't be seeing her again. I don't know how. It takes an hour and a half to drive home, and about 2 hours later I got a call from the home to say she had passed. When I went up to see her/sign the forms, the owner told me that as they had been helping her up the stairs, she had turned to the front door, and said "oh, there you are! Where have you been?" and when they asked her who she was talking to, she replied "my son. He's come to take me home". Cried my eyes out at that.

[MsPavlichenko]

As I typed that the spelling predictor thing gave me an option of my lovely late cousin's name. I had of course been thinking of her as I wrote the last posts. That's an example. It will have been suggested before I'm sure but I wasn't paying attention/thinking of her then.

[MsPavlichenko]

My feeling is that we see significance in things that are probably random or coincidence. Stuff we wouldn't even notice other times. But we are consumed (maybe unconsciously) with our loss and that influences everything. I also think we can be exhausted if we are not sleeping/resting properly. And of course most importantly we want the person to still be there and not dead.

[INeedanInterestingUsername]

I can see where a sudden death might possibly play tricks on the mind MsPavlichenko. I think all of the deaths I've experienced were very elderly relatives mostly with ill health and one relative who had a terminal illness died after about 3 years or so from diagnosis. So none unexpected as such.

[MsPavlichenko]

I think there is a difference. Sudden deaths leave us feeling both raw and shocked even before the grief.

I probably did have more "experiences" in those circumstances as opposed to the more expected deaths of my grandparents for example.

[INeedanInterestingUsername]

Sorry for your loss MsPavlichenko. Have you noticed a difference in any experiences you may have had and whether the person died suddenly or not? (If you don't mind me asking)

I'm not sure what I think tbh. I agree some places have an eery unexplained 'feeling' hallohallohallo but I've never seen or heard a ghost either. I guess it's the mystery that makes it all so interesting.

[hallohallohallo]

I've never seen a ghost nor have I ever met anyone who has seen a ghost so I am a skeptic. but I've been places before where I felt strange then go look up the history and it's an old battle field or something with lots of death and gore. I'm not sure how you can explain that. The knowing without knowing.

[hallohallohallo]

I have lost too many family and friends prematurely sadly.

So sorry to hear this.

[MsPavlichenko]

Still enjoy a good scary story though!

[MsPavlichenko]

It is fairly common in my experience to hear and see loved ones who have died. Especially if it was either unexpected or sudden.

It's not real. I expect it's a way of processing loss and grief. I have lost too many family and friends prematurely sadly. I remain convinced death is the end.

[INeedanInterestingUsername]

I hear it’s fairly common immediately after a loved one has died.

I've heard this as well. I'm fascinated by this, but also I know I too would be terrified if it ever happened to me!!

[OutOntheTilez]

Thank you, INeedanInterestingUsername. My dad and his mom were never extremely close, and toward the end they argued a lot as they were both very strong-willed. So it freaked him out to hear his mother’s voice. I hear it’s fairly common immediately after a loved one has died. Same thing happened to my FIL – he heard my MIL’s voice every morning around 5:30 for a week after she died. Same thing, just calling his name.

If that happened to me, I'd flip out; I know I would. After hearing my dad's story, I became scared that my grandma would decide to pay me a visit