I once stayed in a supposedly haunted hotel room. In the middle of the night, the TV turned on by itself, showing static. Then the lights started to flicker. I could feel an unseen presence in the room. I pulled the covers over my head and prayed until morning. It was the scariest night of my life. There were also strange noises coming from the corner of the room, like something was dragging across the floor.
One time I was in an old, abandoned house. As I walked through the dimly lit hallway, I suddenly felt a cold breeze pass right through me. I heard a faint whisper but couldn't make out the words. It was really creepy.
Once, I took a photo with my digital camera in an old, abandoned house. When I looked at the picture later, there was a strange figure in the corner that I didn't see when I took the shot. It was really scary.
One of the scariest ghost encounter stories I've heard was from a friend who stayed in an old, abandoned mansion for a dare. He said he saw a figure of a woman in a white dress just floating in the hallway at midnight. It was so real that he froze in fear and couldn't move until the figure disappeared. He was so terrified that he ran out of the mansion immediately and never went back.
Well, on my gay vacation in Paris, I had an amazing encounter at a local gay bar. I met this really friendly guy from Italy. We just started chatting about art and culture, and it turned out we had so much in common. It was one of those encounters that made the vacation truly special.
Well, there was this family. On Christmas, they invited a distant relative to stay with them. The relative seemed a bit off from the start. During the Christmas dinner, he started telling really dark and disturbing stories about the family's past that no one knew. It made everyone so uncomfortable, and it was like a horror story was unfolding right at the dinner table. He had done some research on the family's history and was using it to spook them. It completely ruined their Christmas spirit that year.
Sure. A PI was on a stakeout at an abandoned building. He saw a figure in the window that looked like a ghostly apparition. When he went to check it out, the figure disappeared. Another time, a private investigator was looking into a cheating spouse case. But when he got to the location, he felt an overwhelming sense of dread and the hairs on his neck stood up. He quickly left the place as it felt so eerie.
I was driving at night through a forested area. My radio started making strange static noises and then went completely dead. At the same time, I noticed a pair of glowing eyes in the woods beside the road. As I drove on, they seemed to keep up with me. I sped up but they were still there. Eventually, I got out of that stretch of road and the eyes disappeared. It was so terrifying that I could barely focus on driving.
I heard a story about a girl who was an online gamer. There was a guy in her guild who started to stalk her across different platforms. He found her Instagram from her gamer profile and began to leave disturbing comments on her pictures, saying things like he was watching her all the time. She had to change all her usernames and make her accounts private to get away from him. It's terrifying how easy it is for someone to cross boundaries on the internet.
One scary story I heard was about a retail worker who was closing up the store alone at night. As she was turning off the lights in the back room, she heard strange noises coming from the front of the store. When she went to check, she saw a figure moving near the display cases. She quickly ran out of the store and called the police. Turned out it was just a homeless person who had found a way in, but it was terrifying at the time.
A friend of mine told me a story about a traveling circus. There was a clown in the circus who was known to be a bit off. One night, he chased a group of kids who were trying to peek into the circus tents after hours. The kids ran for their lives and said the clown had a wild look in his eyes and was laughing maniacally as he chased them.