They had grown up hearing the legend of the old bridge outside town. Stop your car nearby, turn off the engine, put it in neutral…and supposedly something would make it move. So one Friday night, three teenage friends decided to find out for themselves. At first, everything seemed easy enough Read more…
She had grown up in a family where stories about spirits weren’t considered particularly unusual, but living in her first apartment brought experiences of her own. It began with sounds coming from the kitchen. She would hear cabinets opening and closing even when no one appeared to be using them. Read more…
She was only a teenager when she began having dreams that felt unusually vivid, although at first she had no reason to believe they meant anything. Then something happened involving someone close to her, and parts of it seemed disturbingly familiar. Not long afterward, she experienced another moment that stopped Read more…
After her parents divorced, moving into her grandmother’s old house was supposed to be a fresh start. For a while, life settled into a new routine. Then her mother remarried, and everything inside the house seemed to change. Shadows darted into empty bedrooms. An unfamiliar man dressed completely in white Read more…
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO In her new book, Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting and Why We Keep Looking, Alice Vernon sets out to chase the one thing she isn’t even sure exists—and discovers that the search for ghosts says more about the living than Read more…
The house was brand new, so strange noises were easy to dismiss at first. But one night, after waking to the sound of loud, steady breathing, a young boy assumed it was his little brother sleeping nearby. When he looked, the crib was empty. The breathing continued anyway. He searched Read more…
She began walking around the lake because she needed somewhere quiet to escape the stress of everyday life. Then one evening, an overwhelming sadness came over her without warning. Moments later, a woman in a long pale dress stepped from the trees and began walking toward the water. She never Read more…
When her family moved into the house, they had already heard that previous residents never seemed to stay very long. Someone even joked that the place might be haunted. Before long, the joke became harder to laugh off. Footsteps traveled through empty hallways. Faucets turned on in the middle of Read more…
Her husband had picked up a secondhand decorative holder from Goodwill, thinking it was something she would like. It sat in their home for weeks without much thought. Then strange things began happening. One night, while she was alone in the bathroom brushing her teeth, she suddenly heard a woman’s Read more…
Some houses are easy to forget. Others stay with you long after you’ve moved away. When one family rented an older home in western North Carolina, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at first. There were no terrifying encounters or constant paranormal activity—just an uneasy feeling that seemed to follow Read more…
A late-night drive home took a terrifying turn when a car with no headlights came over a hill and slammed into her mother’s vehicle, sending it spinning into a ditch. Shaken, alone, and without a cell phone, she had no idea how she was going to get help. Then an Read more…
The plantation had been restored as a historical museum, but one part of the house remained off-limits. The former owner’s study sat behind the dining room at the end of a narrow service passage. Officially, it was closed because of damage and ongoing restoration. But employees seemed uneasy whenever anyone Read more…