Bedroom visitors
A presence or figure in the bedroom, beside the bed, or at its foot.
A deceased man at the foot of the bed in a family funeral home
The host reads a letter from [name withheld] in Morris Plains, New Jersey, describing the writer's childhood in a family funeral home during World War II. The writer says they felt watched by an older man's body in the casket showroom, and later woke to see him standing at the foot of their bed. The letter ends with the writer's theory that the man was a child molester who could not adjust to death and their hope that he stays buried.
Hooded faceless figure in the bedroom and a return during a cardiac arrest
A caller identified on air as [name withheld] of Sacramento describes himself as a 6'9", 370-pound pastor. He says a faceless, handless, hooded figure came through his bedroom door in March of that year and threatened him. It then threw his wife off the bed by the ankles and left what he describes as bleeding hand imprints. He says the same figure appeared beside him a month later when his heart stopped during a hospital stay in San Francisco. It told him it was time to come with it. He says he refused and was revived. He ends by telling the host he believes the figure was probably following him after he once helped a Catholic pastor with an exorcism.
Reported red-eyed funnel-shaped figure at the foot of a bed
[name withheld] from Florence, Alabama, tells Art Bell that when they were about 15 or 16 they woke around 3 a.m., felt watched, and saw a pair of red eyes attached to a black, spinning, funnel-like form at the foot of their bed. They report being unable to scream or move. When the form moved around the bed, they fled to their mother’s room. With the light on, nothing was there. Their mother called it a nightmare. [name withheld] says they still believe it was real and are still scared by the memory.
A black form, the family cats, and a brother’s hypothermia in an Edison, New Jersey, farmhouse
A caller who says they are calling from Fairborn, Ohio, tells Art Bell that around 1970, when they were nine or ten, their family lived in an old farmhouse on 12 acres in Edison, New Jersey. They report waking at 3 or 4 a.m. and seeing a black, indistinct oval form in the hallway that “slammed into” them and told them “don’t go in.” They then found their younger brother being enveloped by it in their shared bedroom while the family’s cats attacked it. The story ends with their father, described as a police officer, running in with a gun as the thing slid through a window. The brother was reportedly kept overnight in the hospital for hypothermia the next morning.
Entity attacks on a child in a late-1800s house in Needles, California
A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about what they call an “entity attack” that began when they were about four years old, in a family house in Needles, California. He reports a presence coming through the wall at night, grabbing and dragging them, and family-wide problems with furniture moving. In a final incident, their father was trapped in the basement under a chest freezer. They say the family moved out about two weeks after that, and that they still sleep with their head under the covers.
Evil presence, a figure saying “I want you,” and strange events ending after a house fire
[name withheld] from Harrisburg, Oregon, calls to describe a series of experiences in their house. They include a feeling of evil in the bedroom, a touch across their feet, and a hiss around 3 a.m. The caller also reports that their husband saw a figure in the doorway and later heard it say “I want you.” The caller links the activity to witchcraft books found upstairs. After an upstairs house fire and a remodel, the caller says, nothing has happened since.
Black dog rising out of a sleeping wife in a bedroom lit by a store sign
In a letter read on air by Art Bell and credited to [quote withheld] the writer says that several years earlier they were lying in bed beside their then-wife when they saw something black rise up out of her body. The writer says it formed into a black dog with glowing yellow eyes, which took its time to fade away after they screamed. The writer says the dog never reappeared. The writer adds that sad events followed, most notably learning that their wife [name withheld] had been cheating on them.
A black shape in the bedroom closet after a childhood church prank
A caller who says they are phoning from Austin, Texas, tells Art Bell about a night when they were about seven years old and staying with their Aunt [name withheld] in the country. They woke and saw a pitch-black, nonhuman “thing” sitting in their bedroom closet. They say they could not scream and prayed silently to God in their head. In the morning they found their normally neat toys jumbled in the closet. The caller offers the jumbled toys as the reason they do not accept the experience as a nightmare.
Bull-headed figure over a bed, a voice from a sleeping husband, and a trailer fire
The caller, [name withheld], from Cooley, Arizona, relays a story they say a friend told them about seven years earlier. The friend woke in bed beside their Native American husband and saw a bull's-head or demon-like form hanging over the bed. The friend heard a voice they could not understand coming from their husband's mouth. The story ends with the friend's trailer burning to the ground the next day. [name withheld] mentions a newspaper report of an electrical fire, a replacement trailer, and a witch doctor being brought to the property.
Dog growls and dark figure at foot of bed after wife's ex-husband dies
A caller who gives no name, from west of the Rockies, asks Art Bell whether dogs can see ghosts. The caller then says that since their wife's ex-husband was killed in a car wreck last December, their little dog has barked and growled at the air. The caller reports that the other night, lying upstairs next to their wife, they felt a tap on their shoulder. They saw a big dark figure at the end of the bed that seemed to be trying to pull their soul out. The host interrupts for a break before the story is resolved.
Woman in black, locked doors, and a priest's blessing in a Dodge City rental
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sumner, Washington, describes a house their family moved into in Dodge City, Kansas, about fifteen years earlier. The caller reports flooding, a woman in a black dress seen by their daughter, doors that shut and locked family members in, whispering, a fetal-position stain on the carpet, and footsteps on the stairs. After researching records, the caller and their sister concluded that an elderly former resident was earthbound. A priest blessed the house and fell ill. The caller says they later blessed it themselves and believes the woman went to the light.
Paralysis and a presence lying on the caller in a former mortician’s house
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Atlanta, tells Art Bell that they live in what they call a haunted house, previously owned by someone they describe as a mortician. They report moving objects, noises, and mocking voices. They describe going to bed and feeling something creep up the bed and lie on them while they were unable to move or scream. Later they describe a sensation they call an attempt at sexual contact. They say the experience changed their life and that they now stay up at night until sunrise.
115 more stories
- Gateway Gazette article read on air: The lady in red at the Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah9 min
- Transparent child figure at the bedside during inner-child therapy4 min
- Figures at a guest-room door and a blonde man who vanished, St. George2 min
- Faces floating through a bedroom seen with eyes closed, gone after a command1 min
- Pink and blue human-shaped figure beside a bed in a mobile home3 min
- A silver figure, footprints on a sleeping mother's arm, and a “vortex” in Long Beach2 min
- Figure in hallway and crying girl in 1800s dress2 min
- Weight, spinning sensation, and a barking dog behind a closed door2 min
- Grandmother seen descending from the ceiling at the hour of her death2 min
- A floating female figure, immobility, and being carried out a bedroom window3 min
- Clawed touching in bed and being pushed into a closet53 s
- A figure at the foot of the bed on the night the caller's grandfather died3 min
- Figure at foot of bed, then a man in the laundry room five months later3 min
- Strangling dream and a hag mask found at the basement stairs3 min
- A voice named Harry and charred lumber in a Washington cabin5 min
- Foster home in a dead boy’s bedroom: Bed pressed down at night2 min
- Ouija board channeling and a father’s figure in an Ohio farmhouse4 min
- Childhood sounds and a cold presence in a Pomona house; a white figure in Ontario6 min
- A caller sees an occult-minded acquaintance appear in their locked bedroom and vanish at the kitchen light2 min
- A Waikiki dancer and a figure reported over a wife’s bed2 min
- Black figure at foot of bed in a Redlands home3 min
- A sister’s illness, angel sightings, and a post-death garden vision4 min
- Furnished apartment of a deceased tenant and a door held shut7 min
- Voice and sudden cold in a bedroom after a caller asked for a devil's deal3 min
- Green gaseous presence over the bed in a Sedona home3 min
- A felt presence at night and creased pants on a bedroom chair2 min
- Nighttime evil presence and a geometric screen vision in an apartment4 min
- Letter: Face with electrical sound in a darkened Miami bedroom2 min
- Letter: A figure in white and a toddler’s “lady in the white dress”2 min
- Figure at foot of bed walks through bedroom wall, father’s childhood story2 min
- Letter: Transparent old man and smell of dirt, rot, and alcohol in a Missouri house3 min
- Gray mist at the foot of the bed before a woman’s illness3 min
- Childhood waking, a hooded figure, and floating to the living room4 min
- A woman’s head and shoulders emerging from an attic closet in an old converted home3 min
- Deceased father appears at the foot of the bed and speaks to his son2 min
- Daytime sleep paralysis, a woman speaking in a man's voice, and nails in the head5 min
- Vision of a little girl kissing the caller’s cheek during an adoption decision3 min
- Host rejects bedside-ghost stories and recalls a loud bang on his door1 min
- Late mother-in-law appears in her former bedroom; a footprint in the carpet8 min
- Glowing human-shaped figure at the foot of a bed in a Kauai resort3 min
- Fire dispatch dormitory and a dream of an 1864 village by the Santa Ana River9 min
- Waking paralysis, chest pressure, and moving curtains in upstate New York2 min
- Nightly 12:26 wakings, cool fingers, and a child’s invisible playmate5 min
- Silhouette with red eyes in a South Dakota basement5 min
- Letter: A smoky kneeling figure at a student’s bedside and a presence across the hall2 min
- Police officer recalls a dog-headed figure entering their childhood bedroom3 min
- Caller describes a black void figure entering a childhood bedroom6 min
- Shadowy figure with red eyes beneath a son’s bed1 min
- Caller relays sister’s report of a Native American woman at foot of her bed1 min
- Two red eyes seen briefly in a dark bedroom3 min
- Woman in a rocking chair beside an infant’s crib in a rented farmhouse2 min
- Attic noises and a presence in a family’s Victorian house4 min
- Airman reports a translucent figure at the foot of his bed at Kunsan Air Force Base8 min
- Family house in Syracuse: man on the telephone, bed presence, and deceased parents10 min
- Boy’s ghost in the attic said to climb into bed with previous owner’s son2 min
- Letter: A 12-year-old in Denver, a red-outlined being, and a bed impression1 min
- Letter: White mist in the shape of a dog appears the night the dog dies2 min
- Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death6 min
- Letter: Man reports wife’s double at bathroom door while she lies in bed1 min
- Caller reports a felt presence in their house, later confirmed by a neighbor2 min
- Deceased father appears beside the bed and tucks the caller in5 min
- Aunt’s magician dream and the coworker’s husband’s matching dream5 min
- Glowing faceless figure at the foot of the bed and a golf ball next morning4 min
- A horned, red-eyed figure at the foot of the bed and a friend’s matching story5 min
- Shadow figures running past a bed and blinking clock radios in an Atlanta apartment6 min
- Laughing in the basement, a woman in white, and shadow figures in a family home6 min
- Sister’s feet grabbed and a breathing presence at Fort Meade, Maryland2 min
- Vision of hellfire, a figure in the doorway, and a child-sized shape in the hallway5 min
- A figure watching from a child’s bedroom window in a rented house2 min
- Daughters’ dreams of a “red lady” in a sublet house where a suicide occurred3 min
- Haunted family house in Lorain, Ohio: Slapping, shadows, and something on the bed4 min
- Red eyes at 3:15 a.m. emerging from a bedroom closet3 min
- Grandmother sits up in her casket and later appears in the caller’s bed3 min
- Figure in a black hat standing over a bed and walking through a window2 min
- A kick to the side and spit landing on a pillow in a locked bedroom2 min
- A sensed presence with a tail and blunted nails during an out-of-body experience5 min
- Caller reports fingers closing on their wrists and ankles after mocking a friend2 min
- Moving curtains and deceased relatives appearing in dreams2 min
- Bedroom attack by a creature “astride” the caller, later called a succubus3 min
- Erotic dreams and a doorway figure in a former SS barracks apartment4 min
- Laughing woman on the bed and a head that comes off in the caller’s hand4 min
- Ghost boy and dog from a bedroom wall; caller falls after mocking2 min
- Paralysis, a shaking bed, and a smiling girl with empty eyes2 min
- Burning smell, figure at corner of bed, and a toy from the other side3 min
- [name withheld]’s sleep-related entities, a lattice-like figure, and a claimed photograph3 min
- Shadow figures and white figures in a rented room at the Gable House6 min
- Glowing green clothed skeleton in Navy housing and a stepfather’s change6 min
- Late wife’s three-part contact: Blown bulbs, a bluebird, and a bedroom vision5 min
- A boy, a woman's hope chest, and a furious figure above the bed4 min
- Figure leaning over a bed in a Calgary apartment; activity ends after a note3 min
- Truck driver and their wife report the same presence in a one-bedroom apartment3 min
- Footsteps of “Footie Pajamas” and a depressed bed at a Mayport military home3 min
- Letter on deaths and reported hauntings at the Penfield Place in Illinois3 min
- Chest pressure and a scream saying “save me” in bed after moving to Washington State3 min
- Basement door, a shared dream, and a slow-burning teddy bear in a country home4 min
- Voices from the basement and footsteps on the stairs in a rented Atlanta room3 min
- A floating translucent man at the caller's bedside at seventeen, and a warning five years later5 min
- Callback: A dead uncle’s footsteps and a father seen in a shared dream2 min
- Caller reports a lady appearing in bed after they lay in an open grave2 min
- Girl in white dress at the foot of the bed in a Sacramento house2 min
- Ghost with a bone knife in a father-in-law’s Florida house5 min
- Soldier ghost at a child’s bed and a later Air Force echo1 min
- Tall hooded figure with a black face reported at age ten2 min
- Deceased mother and two aunts appear in a motel room; hairstyle later matches funeral home styling4 min
- A hooded figure at a California motel, later described by the writer’s son2 min