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    • I did not see it but I would hear it and smell it. The first place I worked at as a nurse was haunted. In the middle of the night when everyone was in bed, the sound of a wheeled walker would go past the nursing station.
    • Back in 1999 I was staying in a friend’s house for the night with a few other girls, we were standing by her bedroom window smoking, must have been around 11pm, across the road we saw two lads we had been in school with walking towards town (my friend lived in a house about a mile and a half from town).
    • My aunt’s Yorkshire Terrier was put to sleep at 13 years old because she was riddled with cancer. I was at her house about six months later, and we were all hanging out on the back porch one night, just chatting and enjoying the evening.
    • I swear there were ghosts following me for a few years. In college I started to notice that when I was alone, I’d hear little shifting sounds. Just the sound of something moving slightly.
  1. Explore classic and modern short stories featuring ghosts, magic, and other supernatural elements. From Hoffmann to Saki, discover the best tales of the macabre, the uncanny, and the fantastic.

    • The ‘Grandmas’ in The Cemetery
    • The Ghost of The Stanley Hotel
    • The Ghost Truck Stop
    • The Hauntings at The Lizzie Borden House
    • The Ghost of Captain Joseph White
    • The Haunted Ventriloquist Doll
    • The Imaginary 'Friend'
    • The Kidnapping Ghost
    • The Ghosts of Stone’s Public House
    • The Unexpected Passenger
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    Jeff, a resident of Dayton, Ohio, was driving with his 3-year-old son, Miles, in the back seat, when they passed by a cemetery. It was a modest cemetery with only flowers and small plaques. “It basically looks like a giant garden,” Jeff explains on “Monsters Among Us.” According to Jeff, as they drove by, his toddler, who’d been happily singing, ab...

    The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, has been around for more than 100 years and was built as a posh getaway for the wealthy seeking solitude in the mountains. As the years passed, however, occupancy declined and by the 1970s, the grand hotel had fallen into disrepair. It was around that time that famed author Stephen King spent the night the...

    On his way to get married, a military man and his best man set off on an 800-mile road trip from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to Lafayette, Indiana. It's 1 a.m. on a cold January night in 2014 and the man tells "Monsters Among Us" that the weather is bad and temperatures are in "the negative double digits." As the pair close in on Indianapolis, t...

    On August 4, 1892, Andrew and his wife, Abby Borden, were found brutally murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home. Though murder wasn’t uncommon in the late 1800s, the fact that they were bludgeoned to death with an ax and the main suspect was their 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, certainly was. The crime and trial that followed made ...

    Though Salem, Massachusetts is best known for its infamous witch trials, there have been plenty of other chilling stories throughout its 400-year history. One of them is the tale of Captain Joseph White, a wealthy merchant who was found bludgeoned to death in his bed. It was a crime motivated by money, according to Giovanni Alabiso, owner and tour ...

    When Marty was a child back in the '90s, she tells "Monsters Among Us" that she was a fan of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekick, Charlie McCarthy. She says that when her father came across a ventriloquist doll as he wandered through a small magic shop located outside of Santa Rosa, California, he decided to buy it for her birthday. W...

    Jacqueline from Oklahoma says that while her memories have faded over the years, she recalls having an imaginary friend when she was young. Her grandparents, "Granny Junie" and "Pa Hank," lived in a small home with a quiet backyard. Jacqueline recalls visiting them as a child. "I have very good memories of my Pa Hank," Jacqueline says on the podcas...

    On "Monsters Among Us," a caller named Joe tells of moving to Georgia from California in the late 1990s. Soon after, he says his brother followed him to the Peach State and rented an old house built in the 1800s. "It looked nice from the outside ... it did not feel good from the inside," Joe says during the podcast. According to Joe, things seemed ...

    Considered one of the most haunted restaurants in America, Stone’s Public House in Ashland, Massachusetts, doesn’t have a ghost problem — it has a ghostsproblem. Janet Morazzini, a longtime resident of Ashland, is the bartender and manager of Stone's Public House, which was built by John Stone back in 1832. According to Morazzini, even before she b...

    In the 1990s, Julie, a resident of Portland, Oregon, was driving out the city to meet with friends when she found herself in traffic. The 18-year-old soon discovered that the cause of the slowdown was due to a dreadful car crash and to her horror, as she passed the scene, she realized that someone had died. A moment later, “there was a woman sittin...

    Read scary tales of unexplained incidents and paranormal encounters from real people who experienced things they can't explain. From a haunted hotel to a mysterious truck stop, these stories will make you sleep with the lights on.

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  2. Oct 31, 2014 · Did you know about the bat-demon of Tanzania? Or the Japanese girl who haunts school bathrooms? We've rounded up some spooky stories that come from different cultural contexts. The chills...

  3. Jan 3, 2022 · Read spooky accounts of people who claim to have seen or heard their deceased loved ones or other spirits. From a crying cat to a green pasture, these stories will make you question the existence of the afterlife.

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