There was a story from a sailor. He was on a ship in the middle of the ocean. One night, he saw a figure walking on the water towards the ship. As it got closer, he could see it was a man with a pale face. The figure seemed to pass through the side of the ship and then disappeared. The sailor was so scared that he refused to go on any more long - distance voyages. This story gives me chills every time I think about it, especially the idea of something so strange happening in the middle of the vast ocean.
There's a story about a bridge. People said that if you drove across it at midnight, you would see a figure in white standing in the middle of the road. One driver didn't believe it and tried it. As he got closer to the middle of the bridge, his car suddenly stalled. And there, right in front of his windshield, was a pale figure in a white dress. He managed to restart the car and sped away.
The scariest one I've heard was about a couple on a road trip. They stopped at an old motel for the night. In the middle of the night, the woman woke up to see a face staring at her through the window. When she screamed, it disappeared. But then they heard scratching on the door. They quickly packed and left, and later found out that there had been several unexplained deaths in that motel.
A friend of mine told me about an apartment where the doorknob would turn on its own at night. She was so scared that she would barricade the door every night. She thought it might be a ghost or something. Later, she found out that there was a problem with the lock mechanism that made it seem like the doorknob was turning by itself.
A really scary story I know is about a haunted theater. Actors would often see a man in old - fashioned clothes sitting in the audience during rehearsals. But when they stopped and looked again, he was gone. One time, an actress felt someone touch her shoulder during a performance and there was no one there. It's a very spooky place.
The story of the cursed painting is quite terrifying. People who owned this painting claimed that they could see the figure in the painting moving at night, and it seemed to have an evil look in its eyes. They started having nightmares and bad luck after getting the painting.
I once heard a story about a summer camp where every night, a strange music would play in the forest. A brave camper decided to follow the sound. He walked deeper and deeper into the woods until he came to a clearing. There was an old tree stump with a flute on it. As soon as he picked up the flute, the music stopped. But then he heard whispers all around him. He dropped the flute and ran back to camp as fast as he could. He never told anyone exactly what the whispers said, but his face was pale every time someone mentioned that night.
There was a story of a girl who always saw a figure in her mirror at night. At first, she thought it was just her imagination. But then it started to get closer and closer. She learned later that the house she lived in was built on an old cemetery. The figure was probably one of the spirits from there. It gives me chills just thinking about it.
The connection to death. Most paranormal stories are related to the afterlife or the dead. The thought that there are beings from the other side that can interact with us is terrifying. It makes you wonder about what lies beyond death. And when these dead entities seem to have some sort of grudge or unfinished business, it amps up the scariness even more.
There's a story where a group of friends used a Ouija board in an old abandoned house. They asked if there was a spirit present and the planchette spelled 'GET OUT'. That's pretty scary right there.
The scariest one I heard was about a group of friends who used a Ouija board in an old abandoned house. They asked if there were any spirits present and the planchette started moving really fast to 'yes'. Then, they heard strange noises all around them and one of them felt like something was touching their hair. They ran out of the house and some of them said they had nightmares for weeks after that.