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First-hand encounters, strange experiences, and stories from every corner of the unexplained.

A very true regretful event.

I had this upstairs apartment neighbor who was an elderly grandfather type of man. He would drop by once or twice a week to just sit with me in my livingroom and chat. He would tell me things about his life, I shared too...

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The Creepy Hotel

I was staying at a pretty old hotel room in Yellowstone. We were supposed to be renting a cabin, but they screwed up on or reservation, and we ended up here. So we had to deal with the room they suited us with. We were r...

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Icy Mist

A few nights ago I was playing on the computer when I suddenly felt cold all over. At first I thought that the air had kicked on, so I reached my hand out towards were I thought it was coming from. When I reached out, I...

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The Ghost I Met When I was 12

I was 12 years old and I was staying at my mums for the weekend. My mum had only just moved in, so it was the first night in the house. Me and my mum liked to stay up late together so we were watching a horror movie beca...

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Tom our Friendly Ghost

My boyfriend and I moved into our first home together about 3 months ago. We have always been into talking with Ouija boards, so we tried to contact somebody as soon as we were settled in. We discovered that we have one...

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Playing Chicken

It was about 8:15pm when I decided to go out into my backyard to do some stargazing. When I was looking west, I saw a military jet coming in fast from Tempe. The first two thoughts going through my mind at the time were...

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The Grim Reaper

Well, as it does, it started while I was asleep. I was at my father's, I knew that for sure, but the inside of his house looked sort of like a university. Each door lead to a room where four people at most shared. I was...

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Under Pressure

Have any of you ever experienced what is called sleep paralysis? Well this happened recently, and I had my eyes open, but I couldn't move. I don't know if I was dreaming or something, but all of a sudden I had a heavy fe...

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The Flying Painting

ok, so I live in a very old house. it was built in the 20's. A person who lived here once used to rob women. Now back to present times... My mother was on the phone with my grandmother. There used to be a painting that h...

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Sweet and Sour Sauce Moves

We were at a Chinese place, we all ordered sweet and sour chicken. As we were sitting there talking the bowl of sauce in front of me moved. I kept looking at it, then it moved again. It then flew across the table towards...

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Wraiths' Touch

If you have read some of my other stories you will see that I have some very odd things going on around me. For example, I have dreams that come true. I have had a dream and I truly do NOT want it to come true. I was lay...

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Sometimes Dreams Are Real

I was 13 when this happened and I'm still 13 but maybe forever. the story goes like this I was at a friends house partying and my friend had invited over a dude he met in Chattanooga where I was born. The dude he met was...

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Was it really a warning or childs vivid imaganation?

I am not exactly sure of the date but it was starting to get cool and I was around 8 yrs.old. My Aunt and Uncle lived in a hollow or rather holler like we called it back in Alabama. The place in general is over run with...

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Dreaming

My senior year in high school was rough. The summer before, a boy from who graduated a year ahead of me was killed in a car accident and it hocked the entire school. It definitely set the tone for that year. Later, one o...

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Creating Philip : tulpas and ouija boards

The story below is from an experiment performed back in the 70s. It became controversial because some people seized on it as proof as ghosts don't exist without considering that it does validate certain paranormal experi...

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