Ghost Stories: 2019 Edition
“One time I was sleeping at my aunt's house and I woke up in the middle of the night to what I thought was my aunt's silhouette in the dark. I was trying to talk to her but no answer. Went back to bed and asked her the next morning if she had come to the room during the night and she said no! I was terrified.” - Chris
“When I was pregnant with my firstborn the doctors told me that he had an abnormality and might require surgery after his birth. Obviously this was devastating news and I spent a lot of time praying.
One night I woke up in the middle of the night and in the door to my sons bedroom, which was back-lit by his blue night light. Was the unmistakable shadow of my grandpa who had passed. I turned to wake my husband but when I looked back at the door. The figure was gone.
I called my grandmother the next morning and she told me that very night she had prayed to my grandfather to watch over my baby.
Also, the doctors made a mistake and my son was born happy and healthy!”
- Lindsay
“When I was 6 until I was 8 we lived in a house in Toronto. At night, the hinge pins behind the door would move up. My mom said I was making it up to scare my brother but what kid is THAT imaginative?! To this day, I maintain it was unexplained ghost behaviour.”
“One night my husband and I were sitting on the couch watching television. Both of our children were in bed sleeping and I heard two little feet hit the floor fairly hard and run across the floor which sounded like they were going to the washroom. I went upstairs to see if they were OK and when I got there they were both in bed sleeping… I cannot explain the sound or what that was. Creepy.” - Cindy
“A week or two after my Nanny had passed away when I was younger I had just gotten home from a birthday party. I was in bed and felt this weird pull to just sit up and look at the end of my bed. I saw my nanny sitting there smiling and she said I love you. I didn't know what to do so I laid down and went back to bed. But it gave me the closure I so desperately needed.” - Amanda
“I always have the feeling someone is getting into bed with me. Like the literal "movement" of the person laying down. It only happens when my husband is not there. Its gotten so bad that i now sleep with a light on so i can see if there is someone there!” - Linda
“My husband and I purchased a 2009 Ford Mustang and had it brought to Canada from California. Long story short, my husband has this gift that he can see spirits and stuff, and one time he was driving home with the mustang and saw a shadow figure of a woman in the back seat. She was trying to speak to him and he had asked her to basically ‘leave’ and ‘be at peace’ and that ‘you are free now.’
After she finally left, he noticed what look like a blood stain on the back seat of the car and called me to tell me this. When we both got home he showed me the stain and my heart just about jump out of my body because we had just purchased that car like 3 weeks prior, brand new, and there were NO stains. My husband figures that the girl and the car are connected somehow.”
“One morning I was in my kitchen and saw my daughter walk by and go in the living room. I said, “Good morning honey”. I got no response. I looked in the living room. No daughter. Looked in her bedroom, she was still sound asleep. Still gives me chills thinking of it.”
“A classmate of one of my distant cousins is supposed to be a Medium. And my cousin didn't quite believe her and told her to summon our great grandmother and to ask a bunch of questions…
At one point she asked who was her favourite great grand child, believing herself to be the one. The answer came and it was a name she did not recognize. Later that night she told the story at home and got her parents and grandparents mad at her for disturbing great grandma. Of course the name of the favourite great grandchild is “Flora” (aka me!), the cousin who left the country many years ago so my cousin didn't recognize my name at all.”
“Not scary just supernatural… I was in Afghanistan, can’t get into what I was doing, but it was a small group... Unfortunately, I was severely injured. As I regained my senses, [I experienced] the most quiet I have ever heard. Then as I focused, there was this man kneeling next to me. He kept saying, “you're okay... Not your time... Think of your wife and children, again, not your time!” As I faded [out] and slept.
I woke up in Germany asking who the gentlemen was. Nobody knew what I was talking about. I put it aside in my mind. My grandmother passed a few years later and as we are cleaning, I noticed a picture… I yelled, “That was the man!” My mother said, “No way. That's your grandfather and he passed away during WW2...”
Was it my injuries or did he actually come?
I responded: Oh wow, that was absolutely him.
Positive with no doubt. Down to the small birthmark on his left cheek.”
“My daughter had a full on conversation with my brother in law who died when she was three. She was just talking up a storm sitting in a corner and when I asked her [who she was talking to] she said, “Momma, it’s uncle Mikey!””
“I use to live in a high rise apartment building and, every once and a while, would hear a hard ball drop and roll (and nothing else; no running paws, no children laughing, just the ball drop and roll). Living in an apartment, I thought nothing of it... Until I made some friends in the building and we got to talking and it turns out we all heard the same ball drop and roll... At random times and from different floors and different sides... To this day no one knows what it really was or why it kept happening.
That building was haunted (100%) for the 6 years I was there, there were 2 deaths... Plus, it at one time was a hotel.” - Sarah
“About five years ago my grandmother was in the ICU. That weekend we had family and guests come into town to stay with us. That night in the middle of the night I woke up to see my grandmother on my bed… She passed away the next day.”
“Once, when I was younger, I was in my room doing my homework. My parents were in the basement, two floors down, and all of a sudden my dresser drawers started opening and closing behind me and my window, which was closed, the curtains started flowing and I heard them call my name over and over again. I froze solid.
Then I got the courage to run downstairs screaming and yelling to where my mom was. I hugged her so tight and I had to sleep with her for a week after that!” - Lori
“When I was in my 20’s, i got onto the city bus in Hull to go to work. I saw my grandmother sitting on the front seat. She scooted over and tapped the seat so I could sit next to her. She had died when I was 13.”
“My cousins and I were all sitting in my bedroom hanging out one night and we are all the biggest chickens. After a while of chatting, my radio randomly turned on and was on full blast. We all just screamed and ran out of the room and left my youngest cousin behind by himself!” - Courtney
“My parents live in a 200 year old (plus) farm house. When we all lived in the house many years ago, weird things would happen to all of us around 2 or 3 am almost every night.
From weird sounds, to spooky dreams.
One time I was fast asleep in my bed, around 2 or 3, a big picture that was nailed to my wall (like that sucker was stuck on there) just fell off the wall, BIG loud crash! And I jumped ... like jumped out of bed . I didn’t believe that people could jump like that when they were scared, but one second I was in my bed, the next I was out my door.
Needless to say I slept on the couch downstairs that night...”
“I got in a car accident a couple of years ago. My car was totaled as I landed on it’s roof. Luckily, thanks to the seat-belt, I came out with not a single scratch! I had my entire collection of Nickelback CDs in my car (yes I love that band, haha) and all of the CDs and their cases were broken except for 2 that were perfectly intact… Their titles, "The Long Road" and "Curb". My accident took place in a curb on that super long road you gotta take to go to the cottage (what I would tell people to give them directions). All of this a coincidence? I think not.
- Maya
“When I was young, I was having a sleepover at my grandparents house. I woke up in the middle of the night and felt like someone was watching me, so I happened to looked up, and there was a window there. I swear to you, there was a lady with long wavy hair staring at me. I naturally ran into my grandparents room freaking out and crying. My grandpa (such a hero) went out in his pjs, circled the house like 5 times to make sure no one was there. My siblings make fun of me for it, but I swear I saw someone!!”
“For the past two weeks, I have felt someone with me. I sensed it was a young guy. I saw him for a second the other day, in the doorway. But not the actual doorway, the reflection in the mirror. It scared me, but I am used to sensing spirits around me.”
- Annie
“My daughter (more so when she was younger) would call out from wherever she was in the house and say, "Yes?" And I'd say, "Yes, what?" She'd reply that someone had called her name. But no one had.”
- Kim
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“When [my daughter ] was about 18 months old she had a very bad seizure and had clinically died when the doctors and nurses brought her back. She was able to see things that no one could.
She even was able to meet her great grandfather who had passed away 20 years prior to her being born and she gave a message to my father in law that his dad was very happy and loved and missed him everyday and that he was proud of family that my father in law created.
She would also look at pictures of Jesus and reply back with, “Yes, I will give them the message.”
Totally freaked me out but I let it be as she was just a child. To this day my daughter is 25 and she still see things that are unexplainable. She even witnessed my mom who passed away 5 years ago leave her body and then had encounter with her. I believe that she has this gift because she herself had died when she was younger and was meant for her to be a messenger for the unknown.” - Tania
“You might think I'm just crazy but all too often when I'm putting laundry away putting dishes away groceries even sometimes I will often be so sure that I already put something away and it'll reappear! The creepiest is laundry when I know, absolutely, that I've hung a certain shirt and put it in the closet and I'll get to the bottom of the pile and it's there again. I've never had anybody else witness this with me but I wish someone would!” - Kylie in Aylmer
“My daughter, when she was a bit younger, would go into the basement and she would always point at nothing and sometimes say, “The little boy wants to play”, and sometimes she would hide behind me cause the ‘man’ was scary… Obviously, I see nothing and I'm freaking out a bit cause we live in a house that has had a death in it before. I admit, sometimes you get an eerie feeling and we can hear footsteps on the floor above [when no one’s there]… Sometimes, it gets me but I just try not to think of it. Thankfully she has stopped seeing the little boy and man.”
“My father passed away suddenly almost 5 years ago. A few years before, I bought him a necklace (a fireman's cross with his nickname on it). Well, he passed in his sleep and when everything happened, my mom made sure to tell them she wanted the necklace back, to pass it back to me.
Well they couldn't find his necklace. We thought it was lost. Turns out the clasp had broken so it was on the nightstand. Only… he had been wearing it that morning and it was in perfect condition. I just found that really spooky. To this day, I always have this necklace on. It rarely comes off.” - Sarah
“We live in a 150 yr old house and I can often hear kids playing upstairs in my son’s room when no one is home but me. Other times, our front door slams shut and it freaks the kids out but I told the ghosts, “You’re welcome to stay here just don't scare or hurt my family.”. The door slamming has stopped but the kids still play every now and again. I could tell you lots more we lived here 30 years now.” - Karen
“I am a nurse, and on one night shift we had an unexpected code, of a 50-year-old woman. With all our efforts she unfortunately passed away. When her husband came to the hospital he couldn’t bring himself to go into the room so he just sat in a chair in the hallway. And I’m not kidding, her call bell kept going off. It got to the point where we had to pull the wire from the wall. We ended up just telling the husband I don’t know what’s going on but maybe she sending some sort of message that she wants you by her side.”
“My old farm house had a ghost and we believe it was my ex husband's uncle who passed away there. He would switch the rotation to the ceiling fan and also make the TV flicker on and off. We just had to tell him to stop and he would.
At 2 years old, my daughter Savana was down for her nap in her crib, wakes up and I go up to get her and she's standing in her crib pointing at a specific spot on the wall saying, "Bonhomme! Bonhomme!" (there's a man, there's a man)!”
“My mom was able to communicate with spirits and after we lost our cat she would feel her walking on the bed. My brother also felt her once and freaked out! But all my mom's stories of her encounters gave me goosebumps.” - Malissa
“My grandfather died suddenly, 10 days before my 13th bday. As a kid, you don't really think things through, I got mad at him for being there when my sister turned 13 but not me! I didn't tell anyone in my family this. The day of my birthday, I woke up and there was 13 red roses on the end of my bed. My mom, dad and sister all swear they did not put them there.
They have either kept the lie going for 23 years or they truly didn't do it.” - Jessica