The New House Came with an Old Presence | After Midnight
Most ghost stories begin after someone moves into a house. This one started while the walls were still fresh, the tools hadn't been packed away, and the neighborhood was little more than a construction site. Working alone in an unfinished home, a veteran carpenter repeatedly heard someone walking the upstairs hallway. Every time he searched, the house was empty. He dismissed it as one of thos...
17m Jul 11
17m
Every Time He Took It Off, It Came Back | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
As a child, he began seeing someone no one else could see—a man in traditional religious clothing who appeared when he was alone. At first, his family dismissed it as imagination. But when he began saying things he shouldn't have known, they turned to an imam for answers. What they were told would stay with him for the rest of his life. According to the imam, something had attached itself to ...
18m Jul 11
18m
The Feeling She Couldn't Ignore | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Can two people remain connected even after life takes them in completely different directions? As children, they were inseparable. As teenagers, their lives went in opposite directions, yet one thing never changed. Every so often, an overwhelming feeling would tell her she needed to check on her best friend. It wasn't something she could explain, and it wasn't a feeling she could ignore. More ...
18m Jul 10
18m
She Smiled...Then Walked Away | Real Ghost Stories
Some childhood memories fade with time. Others stay crystal clear. She was only four years old when someone she loved suddenly disappeared from her daily life. Too young to understand death, she accepted her mother's explanation that the visits had simply come to an end. Then one night she woke to find the woman standing peacefully at the foot of her bed, smiling at her before quietly walking...
26m Jul 10
26m
The Spirits of Rolling Hills | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! For generations, Rolling Hills Asylum served as a home for society's forgotten—the ill, the disabled, the poor, and those with nowhere else to go. Its history is filled with hardship, loss, and stories that have helped make it one of America's most recognized haunted locations. The paranormal activity hasn't disappeared. Visitors and investigators conti...
50m Jul 10
50m
Did She Change? Or Did Her House Change? | Real Ghost Stories
For more than twenty years, she never gave the stories much thought. A son who refused to sleep in one room. A daughter who heard something moving in the night. A guest who swore someone was standing in the hallway. Then the kids grew up and moved away. For the first time, the house became truly quiet. That's when she started hearing the footsteps. Now, after years of dismissing other people...
20m Jul 10
20m
The Ghost Who Kept the Café Running | After Midnight
For nearly forty years, Maggie's Café was the kind of place every small town hopes for. The food was good, the coffee was always hot, and the woman behind the counter somehow remembered every face, every favorite order, and every little detail that made people feel at home. When Maggie's health began to fail, she made one request that would change someone else's life forever. Taking over the ...
18m Jul 10
18m
The Children Everyone Forgot to Mention | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Some haunted houses announce themselves immediately. Others wait until everyone else is asleep. The very first time she spent the night at her boyfriend's home deep in the Colorado woods, something about the house felt wrong. She couldn't explain it, and no one had given her any reason to think the place was unusual. As far as she knew, it was just another family home. By morning, that assump...
19m Jul 10
19m
What Was Already Waiting in That House? | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Some people believe a Ouija board invites spirits into a home. Others believe it simply reveals what's already there. Years later, she still isn't sure which explanation fits what happened inside an old Amish house with a history no one bothered to tell the children about. What began as innocent curiosity quickly became something no one in the family expected. The experiences grew more unsettl...
14m Jul 09
14m
The Thing Pretending To Be Grandpa | Real Ghost Stories
Strange things began almost as soon as Kenny's grandparents moved into their new home. Shadow figures darted between rooms. Doors rattled. Heavy knocks echoed through the walls. As a child, he tried to ignore it, even after one terrifying encounter left him convinced someone—or something—was trying to get into the bathroom while he was inside. But the activity changed after his grandfather pas...
19m Jul 09
19m
Nightmares at the House on Watervliet, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO What was meant to be a fresh start quickly became something else entirely. When Jill Marie Morris moved into a duplex in Watervliet, New York, she began experiencing things she couldn’t explain—subtle at first, then increasingly difficult to ignore. What followed was a progression of events that affected not only the environment around her, but ...
32m Jul 09
32m
The Goodbye He Was Too Scared to Hear | Real Ghost Stories
Most people would give anything for one more conversation with someone they've lost. For one man, that opportunity may have come just days after burying one of his closest friends. The two had spent years building a friendship through family gatherings, shared work, and countless jokes. When cancer claimed his friend at the same age it had claimed other men in his family, the loss was devastat...
28m Jul 09
28m
The Soldiers Were Still on Duty | After Midnight
When he accepted a job at a historic frontier fort, he expected to spend his days teaching visitors about the soldiers who once lived there. Instead, he found himself surrounded by stories the staff had long since stopped questioning. Guests occasionally mentioned meeting friendly soldiers who had answered questions, pointed them in the right direction, or taken time to explain the fort's hist...
19m Jul 09
19m
The Dresser That Brought the Nightmares | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Can something paranormal become attached to an object... and follow it from one home to the next? It's a question most people dismiss until a series of strange events refuses to be ignored. What began as recurring nightmares eventually became sleepless nights for a young child, followed by a chilling revelation that seemed to connect years of unexplained experiences to a single piece of antiqu...
14m Jul 09
14m
What Was Knocking on the Window? | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
What starts as a teenager's attempt to help a friend get rid of a spirit quickly turns into something neither of them expected. At first, it's easy to dismiss the candles, the ritual, and the old spell book as nothing more than kids experimenting with things they don't fully understand. Then something happens that refuses to fit that explanation. Years later, he still can't say for certain wh...
11m Jul 08
11m
Here (Ghost) Kitty Kitty | Real Ghost Stories
When they moved into their new home, nothing about it seemed unusual—except for one small detail. The previous owners apparently had a cat that spent a lot of time in the master bedroom, and even their own cats seemed reluctant to spend much time there after moving in. Then the nighttime visits began. It always started the same way: the unmistakable feeling of a cat jumping onto the bed, walk...
24m Jul 08
24m
Nightmares at the House on Watervliet, Part One | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! What was meant to be a fresh start quickly became something else entirely. When Jill Marie Morris moved into a duplex in Watervliet, New York, she began experiencing things she couldn’t explain—subtle at first, then increasingly difficult to ignore. What followed was a progression of events that affected not only the environment around her, but also her ...
50m Jul 08
50m
There Was a Reason It Had Been Vacant for So Long | Real Ghost Stories
The apartment seemed almost too good to be true. Four college roommates moved into a beautiful two-story apartment in Chicago that had been sitting vacant for years. At first, the strange noises were easy to dismiss. A door found standing open. Footsteps overhead. Unexplained bangs coming from upstairs. Then the activity began escalating. As more people experienced it, the roommates found th...
30m Jul 08
30m
Living With His First Wife's Ghost | After Midnight
She knew her husband's first wife had loved the house. After years of living there, raising a family, and making every room her own, the home naturally carried memories of the life she'd left behind. The new wife never wanted to erase any of that. She simply hoped to add a few touches that reflected the life she and her husband were beginning together. But the house seemed to have other ideas...
16m Jul 08
16m
The House That Didn't Want Visitors | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
For three years, an abandoned farmhouse just down the road captured her imagination. Everyone seemed to have a story about the place. A man had taken his own life there. His wife disappeared without a trace. Teenagers who snuck inside claimed objects flew across the rooms, and eventually no one wanted to go near it anymore. Finally, on the day before moving away, she decided it was now or neve...
25m Jul 08
25m
Did The Darkness Feed on Their Misfortune? | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Moving from house to house had become a normal part of life, but one home stood apart from all the others. Almost immediately, she began feeling an overwhelming sense of dread in her bedroom, as though someone was watching her every night. Before long, that uneasy feeling gave way to something far more difficult to ignore. A strange shadow appeared in the house, footsteps echoed through empty ...
21m Jul 07
21m
What Was Trying to Get Their Attention? | Real Ghost Stories
Old courthouses collect stories the same way they collect records—quietly and over time. For years, one deputy listened to coworkers talk about strange voices and unexplained experiences in a forgotten section of the courthouse basement. He never paid much attention to any of it. Then, during a routine security check after hours, something happened that caught him completely off guard. The e...
25m Jul 07
25m
Wisconsin’s Restless Spirits, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO Is Wisconsin one of the most haunted states in the country? Paranormal investigator Michael Brown has spent decades exploring locations across the state, documenting activity in places ranging from rural schoolhouses to radio stations, taverns, and private homes. Over time, a pattern has emerged—one that suggests the unexplained may not be limit...
30m Jul 07
30m
Looking Back, That Was Just the Beginning | Real Ghost Stories
When he was eleven years old, he stayed up late playing video games in a house his family had built from the ground up. There was no dark history. No local legends. No reason to think anything paranormal might be lurking there. Then a bathroom light began turning itself off on its own. What happened next scared him badly enough to abandon the game, run downstairs, and hide in his parents' roo...
30m Jul 07
30m
She Lived Alone... So Who Kept Moving Things? | After Midnight
Living alone had its advantages. She always knew where she left her keys, whether she'd closed a cabinet door, or if a chair had been pushed in before leaving for work. That certainty was part of what made her apartment feel like home. Then little things started changing. A chair would be sitting in a different place. A blanket she'd folded neatly would somehow be draped across the couch. Cab...
18m Jul 07
18m
The Hauntings of Stimson Hospital | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Long before it became known as one of Michigan's most active paranormal locations, Stimson Hospital began life as a stately mansion before being transformed into a community hospital in the early 1900s. Over the decades it witnessed births, deaths, tragedy, and eventually decades of reported paranormal activity that continue to attract investigators from across the country. Today, visitors rep...
25m Jul 07
25m
How Many Spirits Were in That House? | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Some haunted houses seem to revolve around a single unexplained presence. This one never did. Growing up, she experienced footsteps echoing through empty rooms, doors opening on their own, unsettling images appearing in mirrors, and a home that never quite felt empty. But the longer her family lived there, the more she became convinced they weren't dealing with one spirit at all. Each unexplai...
23m Jul 06
23m
Three Years Later, It Was Still There | Real Ghost Stories
A tropical storm forced a Louisiana wedding into a rustic cabin tucked away inside a state park. Years later, that wedding wasn't what one family remembered most. After the celebration ended and everyone went home, one guest had an experience she couldn't explain. The memory stayed with her long enough that she eventually returned to the same cabin, hoping to finally put it behind her. Instea...
24m Jul 06
24m
Wisconsin’s Restless Spirits, Part One | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! Is Wisconsin one of the most haunted states in the country? Paranormal investigator Michael Brown has spent decades exploring locations across the state, documenting activity in places ranging from rural schoolhouses to radio stations, taverns, and private homes. Over time, a pattern has emerged—one that suggests the unexplained may not be limited to a s...
39m Jul 06
39m
What Happened Inside the Old School? | Real Ghost Stories
The old elementary school had been sitting empty for years before crews arrived to transform it into apartments. Like any old building, it came with rumors. Strange noises. Missing tools. Stories passed from one worker to another. Most people dismissed them. Construction sites are full of odd sounds and easy explanations. The problem was that the stories kept growing. As the months passed, w...
32m Jul 06
32m
Who Was Comforting the Residents After Midnight? | After Midnight
Working the overnight shift in a nursing home meant hearing stories that were easy to dismiss. Residents sometimes talked about visitors no one else could see, especially during long, sleepless nights. Most of the staff chalked it up to age, medication, or vivid dreams. But over the years, one nurse began noticing something she couldn't explain. Different residents—many who had never met—kept...
16m Jul 06
16m
Not Every Voice Should Be Answered | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
For years, unusual experiences seemed to follow him, but one encounter in college stood apart from all the rest. Late at night, he began hearing a voice calling his name and urging him to follow. The voice led him across campus and toward an empty football field, where something appeared waiting near the tree line. The experience was unsettling enough on its own. What happened when he returned...
24m Jul 06
24m
Forty Years Later, They Still Can't Explain It | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Military flight training left little time for anything besides studying, flying, and grabbing whatever sleep was available. So when two exhausted roommates were awakened early on a rare Saturday morning by the unmistakable sound of dishes being washed in their kitchen, both assumed the other had decided to tackle the chore. Neither wanted to get out of bed. Hours later, they discovered somethi...
21m Jul 05
21m
The Lizzie Borden House: Murder, Mystery, and Hauntings, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is Part Two of our conversation. Few places in America sit at the crossroads of true crime and the paranormal quite like the Lizzie Borden House. On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered inside their Fall River, Massachusetts home. The shocking crime captivated the nation, led to one of America's most famous murder trials, and created a mystery that remains unsolv...
24m Jul 05
24m
The Lizzie Borden House: Murder, Mystery, and Hauntings, Part One | The Grave Talks
Few places in America sit at the crossroads of true crime and the paranormal quite like the Lizzie Borden House. On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered inside their Fall River, Massachusetts home. The shocking crime captivated the nation, led to one of America's most famous murder trials, and created a mystery that remains unsolved more than 130 years later. To this d...
30m Jul 05
30m
The Employee Who Never Clocked Out | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Working nights in a large New York hospital meant spending plenty of time in places most people never see. Deep in the basement, surrounded by boilers, pumps, and long industrial catwalks, one facility technician kept encountering the same man in a blue uniform. At first, it seemed like an ordinary coworker. Then came the day the figure knocked a clipboard from his hands and walked straight t...
27m Jul 05
27m
Remembering A Place She'd Never Been | After Midnight
Some dreams disappear before breakfast. Others stay with you for a lifetime. As a little girl, she kept returning to the same quiet farmhouse night after night. Nothing frightening ever happened there. She never met anyone. She simply stood at the end of a gravel driveway, looking toward a house she somehow couldn't forget. As she grew older, the dreams slowly stopped, eventually becoming not...
20m Jul 05
20m
The Fourth of July Ghost | After Midnight
Every Fourth of July, people in one small town tell the same story. Somewhere along the parade route, an unfamiliar woman quietly watches the celebration before disappearing into the crowd. No one seems to know who she is, yet the legend has been passed from one generation to the next for decades. Most people dismiss it as harmless hometown folklore. One longtime parade volunteer did too... ...
22m Jul 05
22m
Living With Thirty Spirits | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Dan and Connie had spent years investigating haunted locations. Owning one was never part of the plan. That changed when an old Texas hotel with a reputation for paranormal activity unexpectedly found its way back into their lives. After purchasing the building, they arrived to assess repairs, make renovation plans, and begin figuring out what came next. Instead, something else greeted them f...
29m Jul 05
29m
Who Was the Woman in Red? | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
As a child, she thought the woman was imaginary. The same face appeared throughout her life during some of her darkest moments—after nightmares, during heartbreak, and even during a medical emergency. Years later, complete strangers began describing the very same woman without being told anything about her. Was it a guardian spirit? A long-lost relative? Or something else entirely? Whatever ...
20m Jul 04
20m
On Location: The Historic Wolf Hotel, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO Beneath the streets of Ellinwood, Kansas, sits a hidden piece of history—an underground network of tunnels that once served as the center of daily life in the late 1800s. Connected to businesses above, the tunnels were home to saloons, shops, and other parts of the town’s early activity. Today, while much of that underground city is closed off, ...
35m Jul 04
35m
On Location: The Historic Wolf Hotel, Part One | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! Beneath the streets of Ellinwood, Kansas, sits a hidden piece of history—an underground network of tunnels that once served as the center of daily life in the late 1800s. Connected to businesses above, the tunnels were home to saloons, shops, and other parts of the town’s early activity. Today, while much of that underground city is closed off, parts rem...
47m Jul 04
47m
The Dime in The Empty Room | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
On the anniversary of her father's birthday, she found herself surrounded by reminders of him. She was wearing a necklace made from one of his old coins and preparing an art exhibition inspired by the collection he had left behind when a sharp metallic sound echoed through an otherwise empty gallery. Moments later, she discovered a single dime lying in the center of a concrete floor. The exp...
29m Jul 04
29m
The Night Death Waited in the Hallway | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
When her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she already knew their time together was running short. What she didn't expect was the visitor she encountered one night standing quietly outside his bedroom door. It wasn't frightening. It wasn't threatening. In fact, what she felt most was sadness—and the unmistakable sense that whoever, or whatever, was standing in the hallway had arrived ...
22m Jul 04
22m
What Was Coming Down the Stairs? | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
His friend's mother always insisted there was something unusual about the house. As teenagers, they didn't take those stories very seriously. They spent their time playing video games, hanging out in the basement, and laughing off anything that sounded paranormal. Then the strange things started happening. What began as unexplained footsteps soon turned into experiences neither of them could...
10m Jul 03
10m
The Night Someone Else Spoke Through Her | Real Ghost Stories
Years after serving together in the military, the loss of a close friend to suicide remained one of the most painful chapters of his life. Time moved on. He got married, started a new chapter, and tried to leave some of those difficult memories in the past. Then one night, something happened that brought them rushing back. As he walked into his bedroom, his sleeping wife suddenly sat upright ...
32m Jul 03
32m
The Ghosts of Charleston’s Old City Jail, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Graves Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO Charleston’s Old City Jail stands as a reminder of a darker chapter in the city’s history—one marked by violence, confinement, and harsh conditions that spanned more than a century. Operating from 1802 to 1939, the jail housed a wide range of prisoners, from criminals to Civil War captives, each leaving behind a piece of the building’s legacy. ...
34m Jul 03
34m
The Weight of Something Terrible | Real Ghost Stories
It started as an ordinary morning run on a foggy Missouri road. Then she passed an old tree and was suddenly overwhelmed by a crushing grief that seemed to come from nowhere. The emotion was so powerful that it stopped her in her tracks, leaving her sitting beneath the tree in tears and unable to understand why. The explanation came later. When she told her grandparents what had happened, th...
28m Jul 03
28m
The Quiet Warning | After Midnight
For nearly a week, Reece couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. Nothing unusual had happened. There were no nightmares, no strange visions, and no reason to believe her older brother was in danger. Yet every morning she woke up thinking about him, and every day the feeling became a little harder to ignore. She tried convincing herself it was coincidence. She tried talking hersel...
21m Jul 03
21m
The House That Wanted Them Gone | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
At first, it was easy to dismiss. Strange scratching sounds came from inside the walls, but no animals were ever found. Guests reported seeing people wandering through the house who simply weren't there. The family dog refused to go upstairs, often stopping at the bottom of the staircase and barking into empty space. Then the atmosphere changed. The feeling of being watched became impossible...
10m Jul 03
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