The Suicidal Man For a few years, I lived in a building in New Jersey. It’s an old building, built in the late 1800s, so it was always creaky and slightly unsettling. I never thought anything of it until one day my mother and I were sitting outside when an elderly man approached us. He … Read more
Within an hour of my arrival at Fort Union, my new post, my best friend Johnny came to the barracks with a broad grin and a friendly clout on the shoulder. He’d hurried over as soon as he heard I had come, and we talked ’til sunset and beyond. As soon as Johnny mentioned Celia’s … Read more
My dad works at the Kentucky State Office building in Frankfort. That building is known as one of the most haunted places in Kentucky. It’s been reported that employees have been touched by something that is not there. Some even here voices and saw shadows. The reason most people say its haunted is the fact … Read more
Lost in time, this story is told, about a woman, dark and bold. She walks the streets on a foggy night, with a hood on her head to hide from sight. Her story starts one summer’s eve, beside the lake an evil deed. A thief stole her daughter’s life, and filled her soul with pain … Read more
Bullies Butcher Boy in the Bathroom Down here in Jamestown there are a bunch of stories about the old Pine Haven school. One story I heard creeps me out and makes me glad I’m a girl. They say one day a geeky boy went into the boy’s bathroom alone. While he was washing his hands … Read more
I grew up in a large town in Lincolnshire, England. As kids, we used to play in a large wooded area on the outskirts of town called Bradley Woods. In the woods is an ancient looking abandoned cottage by a pond and we told a story about it which went like this: Hundreds of years … Read more
There’s a legend surrounding the old Farmer John’s meat packing plant, just a few blocks away from my home. It’s said that the old factory is haunted by several ghosts. The story I was told went like this: In 1964, the owner’s two young children were reported missing. The kids had last been seen in … Read more
A woman was getting ready for bed and she saw a white light outside her bedroom. When she looked outside she saw a man dressed in pure white with a glow coming from him. He stared at her as she stared back. She got into bed and the glow slowing faded away as if the … Read more
In 1954, A Maximum Security cell house, the Old Idaho Penitentiary, was constructed complete with a gallows room on the second floor. Raymond Allen Snowden was executed for the murder of Cora Dean, which occurred in Garden City on September 23, 1956. Snowden was nicked named "Idaho’s Jack the Ripper". Dean’s body was found with … Read more
Hanako, the ghost in the toilet, almost achieved the status of a national phenomena in Japanese legend 20 years ago, when a wave of stories of ghost-sightings swept through the nation’s school yards. Every child had a “Hanako” story to tell. The stories, of course, are many and varied but every schoolchild in Japan, at … Read more