I have TONS of these...
When I was younger, about 5 or 6, I was playing a game in my room when I looked over to see the door cracked open, and what looked like a person peeking through and a finger wiggling, beckoning me to come to the door. I didn't think anything of it, in fact I assumed it was my mom wanting me to take a bath since it was around that time. I hold up a finger as if to say "One minute." and went back to my game...
A few minutes go by, I turn my game off and head out to the kitchen, and found no one, I then went downstairs and saw my mom. I asked her what she wanted and she looked at me weird... I then explained to her what I saw and she raised her eyebrow at me and blinked a few times... I blink a few times in return.
No one else was home at this time.
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Jump several years and a move later... We had moved from our house to my sister's house she used to live in. The family had shared several ghost stories about this house for some time now, yet I had yet to experience one till one summer.
I usually stayed up extremely late into the morning or woke up early. For several days... I would hear AND feel knocking underneath my computer chair coming from the basement... It freaked me out, but I ignored it for a while... One day.. I heard a knock, being annoyed by it now I decide to open up the basement door. I didn't go downstairs... I called out with a "Hello?" and looked around with the lights on. I saw nothing. So I decided to be a smart-ass and knock on the side of the door in return.
I waited a few moments.. Nothing happened... So I shut the light off, and went back into my room... Not even 5 seconds went by since I sat back down on my chair did I hear and feel a loud BANG from underneath my chair! It actually shook things in the room it was that violent... I damn near wet myself... I immediately grabbed a baseball bat and the phone and ran out of the house.
I call my friend, told him to get his ass over to the house because of how terrified I was. I explained to him what had happened, and so he brings his camera and his girlfriend. We decide to head into the basement, he turns the night vision on for his camera and we film with the lights off for several minutes... Seeing nothing, I get a grand idea in my head.
I tell him and his girlfriend to wait in the basement, so I could go into my room and knock where my chair was, and that he or she should stand underneath where I was knocking. I run up, do just that, go back down to find where he was standing.
I look around, and eventually looked up, to find my grandmothers walking stick hanging from a few boards right underneath where he was standing... I quickly move the cane from that part of the basement over to a different part underneath the staircase. I haven't heard that noise since...
My grandmother has been dead for many years before that happened.
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This one is related to the last one. After some time had passed, and the creepy noises stopped from the basement. I got pretty psyched at the belief that there might have actually been a ghost in my basement. I had a girlfriend of my own at this point, and she was over to visit.
I like telling these stories, they are so messed up NOT to tell... So that previous story had just been told to this GF at this point. I decide to take her down into the basement. With the lights on. We look around and I ask her if she had a creepy feeling or anything of that sort. She responds with a "Pft... No." So feeling smug I said "Ok.. You wait here and I'll go upstairs." Which she quickly grabs my arm and yells "NO WAIT!!"
Hah! Caught you! Well I laugh and we head upstairs... She closes the door behind her and we have idle conversation for roughly 2 minutes when all the sudden something smacks against the door and starts shaking it.
We both screamed like little girls... Remember how I mentioned that I moved my grandmothers cane to the staircase? Yeah...
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You know how, whenever there's a spiritual presence, batteries supposedly drain very quickly?
Jump ahead a few months, same girlfriend, same age all that fun stuff. We weren't old enough to drive yet, so in order for me to get home, her brother had agreed to drive me down. She decided to come with.
Half way down the house, her brother asks me if I had ever heard of "Witches Road." I said no of course.
He explains to me that witches road is a haunted area where a house used to be that a lady lived in back in the good ol' days of witch hunts and all that. Long story short, yeah she was burned alive at that area for being a witch.
Fun little story. I gave him that... He asked if we wanted to go, the gf said no, I said fuck that let's GO! So off to witches road we went.
He turns onto this dirt road. That leads back into a forest where there are homes. On the left side was the embankment and on the right was a drop off in the road. Of course to make things more fun, the warning sign that stated that had been smacked to shit. Way to be creepy wood-dwelling families!
So we're driving, no radio, the windows DOWN! "Stupid ex-girlfriends brother and his creepiness." We were having fun. The feeling of being scared was deep in the pit of all our stomaches.
we eventually get closer to witches road, her brother tells us that the closer you get, the more dead the trees looked... Previously the trees were full of life, had leaves, needles, all that fun stuff. When we got closer, EVERY last tree we could see for miles was dead, no leaves, no needles, looked ready to fall over and were extremely tall.
Eventually the dead trees end and we find ourselves on a tiny dirt road with corn stalks on BOTH sides of the car. This left me very unsettled. I rolled my window up and her brother laughed at me.
As we're driving through, we enter the woods again, and he stops in the middle of a small natural intersection in the road and points to the right. The road was filled with bushes and shrubbery and there was a sign that said "Do not enter." Idling the car, he explains that that is witches road.
I was slightly disappointed that we couldn't venture up it, though that disappointment vanished rather quickly when something made a loud thump on the back of the car. GF screams, I look behind me and saw nothing. Her bother looks down at the dashboard to see that his battery light is on. He freaks out, and turns left and heads down the hill and out of the woods...
We make it all but 3 miles to my house before his car finally died. I had to call my sister in law to jump start it so they can get home.
Other happenings in that area
I was still with the same girl, her brother drove, her cousin in the passenger seat, me in the back left seat, girlfriend in the middle back, and her best friend on her right. we make it all the way to the corn field when a frog jumps up and smacks against the windshield and jumps off, I've never heard her brother or cousin scream in such a high pitch before.
Going down the road through the corn field, with the windows open, something moves the corn stalks on the right side of the car right next to the best friend. She shrieks... Gf's brother and I were being dicks and calling out into the field.
We make it to the witches road, and of course we stop the car. Cousin and I hear a low moaning sound and perk up immediately closing our windows and insisting others do the same. We make that same left, and head down the hill a little bit, witches road now behind us. Her cousin hears another low moan, but this time I do not.
Girlfriend was looking behind us at the time, and nudges me instantly. I see what looked like a floating dim light in the shape of the person coming towards the car on MY side. We all gather our attention on it, it was traveling rather slow, when all the sudden out of the opposite side of the road from the woods comes another dimly-lit glowing, hovering figure who also approached the car.
we stare in awe as they come towards us, then all the sudden cousin yells out "GET US THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!" Her brother starts the car *We had turned it off so we could hear noises better, forgot to mention that part* and drives full speed down the hill. The faster we went, the faster the two figures approached... It was surely not a vehicle because we would have seen it at this point.
He makes a quick right and we get the hell out of there. The 2 figures didn't follow.
I Went there with a few college friends a few years later. We went during the day so they can see the road. Since the road was in such crappy shape and they were driving. I figured it would help them to see it in the daylight... We make it all the way through and down where my ex-girlfriends brother had turned out of the woods, and stopped and looked up the road. There was a small shack at the bottom of the hill that had a bunch of white birds flying over it.
That night, nothing interesting had happened with the witches road, though we stopped at the bottom of the hill and instead of white birds, I noticed a huge family of white mice scurrying around that same location.
A few months ago, my new girlfriend of about 2 years and I decided to go with one of my good friends. While nothing spectacular happened at that area... On the way there, after telling some ghost stories and some one mentioning food, the entire car suddenly stinks of bbq sauce... We all could smell it. It was just, completely random and weird.
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Several years ago, different girlfriend. I was taking her down to the house for the first time. Telling her about all the creepy things I've gone through and how I noticed some chain reactions in some of the stories I have yet to write down in this post.
We get to the house, and we stay in the car for a few moments because after talking her ear off, she wanted to tell me a few of her stories. Fun enough, we eventually get out, and make our way to the door.
I happen to look out of the corner of my eye and see some kind of 4 legged creature walking across the driveway a further ways back. I whisper to the gf, asking "Wtf? Do you see that?" She responds with. "Unlock the door, NOW!"
I laugh and went inside. It was common for animals to be out and about at my house. So I didn't think anything of it.
We get settled in and go to bed and talk for a little bit, then out of no where several large thuds and growls happen upon and outside of my window. She freaks, I run over to the kitchen back door, grabbing a knife along the way.
While doing that, I heard another familiar growl followed by a chain of barks and yips.. My dog was outside... I quickly open the door and look to my right (my room is to the right when looking out the door, from which I heard the noise from) and call out my dogs name.
To my surprise, the dog didn't come from that direction, infact it came from the left, which was the direction I had originally spotted that 4 legged creature. She pushes me to the side with her head and forces herself into the house. She is an outside dog, and knew that she wasn't allowed in... She didn't care this time... Her ass was getting in the house.
I immediately close the door and guide her into the garage. Several growling sounds came from outside the door... A glass door mind you, though we didn't see anything. The growling didn't sound like anything either of us could possibly recognize.. It was a mixture of low based human growling mixed with cat and bear... The best I could describe it.
After getting her in the garage. I immediately check her for injuries, though she was fine, but she was scared shitless. I tell her to lay down and I close the garage door. The growling continues from outside the kitchen.
I had argued with the gf about turning off the inside lights so that way i can see better outside, since when you have a light on while inside the house, it reflects off of glass thus making it harder to see outside. I convince her that as long as I was there, she would be safe and she gives me the ok.
We do that... and I could see NOTHING! There was NOTHING there!!!!! Yet we could still hear the noise... The girlfriend was literally hiding under the table at this point. I turn the light on, and get a stupid idea to open up the kitchen window so I could either hear or see it better... The growling had stopped at this point.
I lean against the kitchen sink as I looked out the window, then out of no where a loud and sharp growl came from what sounded like just outside of the window itself... Scared me so bad that I hop backwards before instantly hopping forward again and slamming the window shut.
Eventually we gave up and went to see if my good buddy was online, the same buddy that helped me with the other ghost story about my basement. He wasn't on, but the growling had stopped at this point. I tell her to go in the room and lay in bed while I put the knife away and go to the bathroom before I end up pissing myself.
After doing all that, I go into the room and find her with the blanket up over her head... She tells me that the creature growled and smacked against the side of the house one last time before stopping completely.
It was as if it was mocking me because I was in a different room than her. "As long as I'm here I will protect you."
Haven't heard it since then.
I have TONS more of these, though I tire of writing... Enjoy!
Edit: All but 10 minutes after writing this, a thunder storm breaks out over the town... WTF!?
