Children who see presences
A child, not the storyteller, sees or talks to a presence, including 'imaginary friends.'
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.
Basement door, a shared dream, and a slow-burning teddy bear in a country home
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Dayton, Ohio, describes several “spooky moments” in a country home that the caller and their husband bought in the mid-1970s. A basement door opened by itself each evening at supper time. Their son said something was coming into his room. One night the caller and their husband reportedly shared the same vision of their daughter being raised out of bed and slammed to the floor. They found the daughter asleep and unharmed on the floor. They concluded there was an entity in the home. They blessed the rooms with holy water and burned a handmade teddy bear the caller distrusted, which, the caller says, took hours to burn. The caller says they left the house with their children a few months later.
Footsteps, a shadow at noon, and a voice saying “your brother” in an Alameda house
A caller from Alameda, California, tells Art Bell that she and her five children were hearing slamming doors, footsteps, and other disturbances in a large old house. She says each of them had kept it from the others. She reports a shadow that appeared in daylight, an unsuccessful first appeal to a priest, and a house blessing. Finally, she says, a voice said “your brother.” She then learned her brother had died about two months earlier.
Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death
A caller phoning from Wabash, Indiana, describes events they say began about 1989. Their then-wife’s grandmother was found dead in her garage in East Tennessee, and the family’s suspicions fell on the wife’s father, [name withheld]. The caller says that in their Middle Tennessee home, the children saw something in their bedroom and their wife saw shadows. The caller felt their bed shake, felt someone move their hair and sit on the bed, and heard a whisper of the name “[name withheld].” They say the activity stopped the day [name withheld] died in a car accident. The caller says they believe the grandmother was telling them [name withheld] killed her.
Daughters’ dreams of a “red lady” in a sublet house where a suicide occurred
A caller who gives their name as Nathan, from Sacramento, tells Art Bell that about fifteen years earlier, while their family sublet a house for a summer, both of their four-year-old daughters reported dreaming of a “red lady” in their room. Before moving out, the caller says, neighbors told the family that the previous owner’s wife had killed herself in that same children’s room. The caller explains the dreams as leftover energy from the death. The host adds his own view that suicides tend to remain behind, and the call ends with the host thanking the caller.
Granddaughter reports two black figures at a friend's house
A caller the host identifies as [quote withheld] says her adopted 10-year-old granddaughter went to a friend's house for a sleepover. The next morning the girl called, demanding to be picked up. She later described two black figures in that house, something breathing in her ear, being pulled by the ankle, and a presence behind the shower curtain. The grandmother says she herself saw nothing. She telephoned the friend, who “completely fell apart,” and the girl stayed frightened for months. The story ends with the girl sleeping beside the grandmother's bed and a change of shower curtain.
Noose reported suspended from nothing in a rented former church rectory
A letter read on air, credited by the host to [name withheld] in Alberta, Canada, describes a family that rented a small-town house beside a church and graveyard in the mid-1990s. They decorated it for Halloween with headstones and a hangman's noose. The writer says a scream from downstairs woke them after midnight, and that the writer and their 11-year-old daughter saw a hangman's noose suspended from seemingly nothing on the stairs, which then fell. The writer says they learned the next day that the house had been the old church rectory and that a former pastor of the neighboring church had hanged himself there.
Mobile home on the Barlow Trail: missing objects, faint figures, and a door that flew open
A first-time caller to a Ghost to Ghost broadcast says she is in Red Desert, Wyoming, with a residence in Oregon. She tells one of two incidents: a mobile home she moved into about thirteen years earlier, where objects went missing, faint figures were seen in the living room, and doors and appliances were found open. She reports that a neighbor said the site was on the old Barlow Trail, where a party of settlers was said to have been massacred. She says the activity ended after a night when the back door flew open and nothing was found outside.
Child says dead brother is present at a Guam rosary; a stuck cupboard opens
A caller reachable through Reno recounts an event they say happened to them in 1991 or 1992 while living in Guam. At a rosary for a friend's former schoolmate, the dead man's four- or five-year-old sister repeatedly said her brother was present. She finally led the household to his room. There, a sliding cupboard door that two adult men could not move slid open effortlessly for her, revealing a letter the man had written to her. The story ends there. The host thanks the caller and offers his own comments about messages from the dead and children's perception.
Ghost called Charlie reported to follow a family through moves
A caller who says they are a truck driver in Denham Springs, Louisiana, tells Art Bell that a presence the caller named “Charlie” has followed them across several homes. The caller says it began when they were about fifteen and first dating their future wife. The caller reports repeated leg-bumping and objects moved and hidden. More recently, the caller says, their wife saw a figure in a doorway, and something grabbed their 11-year-old daughter in the bath and left a mark on her shoulder. The caller says the presence does not really bother them. The caller ends by saying they are only worried it might become more physical. Art says that when a presence leaves marks, it is time to consider professional (religious) help.
Child’s night visitor “[name withheld]” matched to a gravestone and a photograph
A caller who identifies herself only as a woman in Texas, who previously lived on Long Island, tells Art Bell that a “resident ghost” shared her home when her son was about three. She reports that the boy spoke of a night visitor named [name withheld] who took him through the ceiling into the attic. He later pointed out a gravestone reading “[name withheld].” Years later, she says, a coworker with the maiden name [name withheld] confirmed an ancestor named [name withheld], and a photograph of him turned up in a dead aunt’s attic. Her teenage son recognized the face. The story ends with minor household disturbances still blamed on [name withheld].
Man in a hat seen at window and bedside in a Nebraska rental house
Caller [name withheld], calling from Bellevue, Nebraska, describes roughly fifteen years of activity at a rental property they and their wife bought about twenty-two years before the broadcast. They report their two young sons describing an old man with a hat looking through their window, and their wife seeing a silhouette over her bed. Doors and electronics operated by themselves. Eventually the caller saw a man in a hat walk past them in the basement bedroom. They say a deputy sheriff’s inquiry and a client’s photograph linked the figure to a man killed by a semi in the abandoned house across the street. They say the disturbances ended after the city demolished that house.
31 more stories
- Previous owner’s presence, baked smell and rearranged dishes in an estate-sale house4 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
- A child sees a man in a recliner, and the recliner's footrest moves by itself3 min
- Letter: A 12-year-old in Denver, a red-outlined being, and a bed impression1 min
- A daughter reports talking with her deceased grandmother4 min
- Stove glass bursts after a request for a sign; a toddler waves at an empty room5 min
- Boy with leukemia said his hospital visitor was his deceased great-grandmother1 min
- A deadbolted fire door opening repeatedly, and a child seen in a window at a state institution10 min
- Daughter’s imaginary friend “Roger” and the cigarette butts in the garden3 min
- Toddler asks to give a french fry to a man on the staircase in Guam2 min
- An old man in coveralls pointing at a light switch in a Western Washington cabin2 min