6 Scary Ghost Stories

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Are you tucked up in bed ready for a good creepy tale or two? Well say goodbye to a good night’s sleep because these scary ghost stories shared by the good people of Reddit are guaranteed to haunt you long after you turn the lights out. Wait. Did you hear that noise? It sounded like it was coming from under the bed … Just setting the mood for you folks. Enjoy.

1. “You Need To Go Outside”

I used to live in a house that backs up to a big public open space where there are hiking trails. Lots of joggers and people walking their dogs.

Anyway, one night I had a kinda creepy dream that an old lady came into my room and was trying to get me to come outside. The dream woke me up so I got some water and turned off my fan because it was cold and then I fell asleep again.

I went right back into the same dream with this old lady coming in my room and calmly saying “You have to go outside now.” I kept telling her no it was too cold. I woke up again and my fan was on. I figured I must have just thought I turned it off or the button got stuck so I got up, turned the fan off and went back to sleep.

This time, I had the same exact dream except she was much older looking in this one and was really agitated. She was yelling “Go outside! You MUST go outside!!” I got up in the dream and followed her to the hallway. When I got to the hallway, she wasn’t there and then I woke up and I was actually standing in the fucking hallway. I have never ever walked around in my sleep before or after this. Also, my fan was on when I went back to my room…

At this point, I was freaked out so I got something to eat and watched TV for a couple hours. I went back to bed around 5 or 6 and the dream didn’t come back.

The fucked up part is a couple of days later, I saw that there were police cars in the open space and when I asked my mom what happened she said they had found an older woman who was reported missing a few days before. She must have had a heart attack or a stroke or something on the trail by my house and they had found the body. – RawrDub

2. The Little Girl On The Tricycle

I was driving home from work one night when I see a little girl on a tricycle riding across the street and into some woods that drop off into a creek. I brake and skid to avoid her and walk to where I thought she fell.

I see no one and a cop pulls up to ask me what I am doing. I tell him he was the person I needed (I was still in my security uniform) and tell him that I saw a little girl riding her tricycle across the street heading into that area where it dropped off.

He then tells me right away that I see what some other drivers here see. It was more than 40 years ago a child was killed riding her tricycle across that section of road. Others have seen her multiple times. Sometimes walking other times on her tricycle.

After some construction brought change to that section of road with expansions and barriers the sightings all ceased.

3. Two Large Knocks

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When I was young I used to stay at my grandparents house, they had a walk-in attic which I was absolutely petrified of … and of course I had to sleep in the room just past the walk-in attic. The house was out in the countryside, it was so quiet you could always hear if anyone else was still up.

I used to have real trouble getting to sleep and would often wake up in the middle of the night afraid to move so I would just lie still. Anyway one night about 3:00-4:00 A.M. I woke up and I was feeling brave, I was going to get over this stupid fear of the dark… so I whispered under my breath “If anything is there please tell me” almost instantly there was two large knocks on my bedroom door. I never asked again. – Sonneti

4. No One Wants To Live Upstairs

This happened when I stopped by a friend’s house for dinner. They lived in a 3-story house, but their landlord rented out the third floor. I had to use the bathroom upstairs because the downstairs one was being used, and while I was in there I heard footsteps upstairs. It sounded more like a little kid running. I shrugged it off and figured it was just the upstairs neighbors.

After dinner I asked about them, (if they have kids, how long have they lived there, etc.) and she looked at me kinda weird and said they haven’t had neighbors upstairs for a really long time. So I kinda freaked out and told her I heard something running and she was like, “Oh yeah, our house is haunted. The previous guy that lived here hung himself in the backyard and killed his family on the third floor. Now no one wants to live upstairs.”

After that I was like, “OK THANKS FOR DINNER BYE.” – ddun

5. The Truck Stop

This is an experience my sister, her husband, and I had about 20 years ago. We were driving back to her house one night, going just past a truck stop when an old man stepped out in front of us. Her husband who was driving slammed on the brakes, and we all started freaking out because the old man had disappeared. My sister and her husband jump out, thinking they’d just killed the man, but there’s nothing there. Cop comes along and a few truckers wander over and tell us that it’s an almost weekly occurrence.

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Apparently there’d been an old man who’d lived and later died in the house across the road who used to go over to check his chickens every night before bed. (The chicken coop had been torn down years before when they’d built the truck stop.) When they tore down the house a few years after that to make way for a heavy equipment dealership, the sightings stopped. – ThanatosX23

6. The Old Plantation House

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My boyfriend lives in civil war era plantation home on a huge farm. The place has a weird vibe to it. None of the animals will come upstairs (if you bring them up, they start shaking and dart back downstairs). My boyfriend won’t even go in one of the bedrooms. Slave shackles are still hanging up in the basement.

The place has apparently been pretty dormant as far as paranormal activity goes for the past year. I’ve had a couple odd experiences. My boyfriend says that it always gets more active around the holidays though.

In November, right before thanksgiving I was staying the night with him. I was about to fall asleep and I heard something outside. At first I thought it was the pack of coyotes that roam around the back of the farm but I heard it again a few seconds after the first time and it was definitely not a coyote. I immediately woke up and was aware of my surroundings and I heard it again. It was a woman outside calling for John. She sounded so panicked and distressed. I heard her call a few more times and I could hear the voice moving around the yard. I was creeped out but I cuddled up to my boyfriend and went back to bed and told my boyfriend about it in the morning. He said that was a new one.

Fast forward to exactly a month from my experience, I wake up and the first thing out of my boyfriend’s mouth is “Remember a couple weeks ago, you heard a woman outside calling for someone? What name was it?”

“John.”

“I heard it last night.”

I set a reminder of my phone for the next month but nothing happened. Really eerie. I’ve been trying to find out the history of the house to find out if a John lived there. – CaptnCheerio

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