Haunted homes
Houses, apartments, family property.
Dark woman from the attic and phantom table-setting in a childhood home
A caller tells Art Bell about a childhood haunting in their family home. The caller says they and their brother were visited at night by a dark female figure they called the doll stall woman, who came down from the attic through a closet. They later heard table-setting sounds and saw white legs in old-fashioned pajamas moving around the dining table. Then a spirit entered their room and grabbed their legs. The caller says this is the first time they have told anyone about it.
San Jose apartment with occult remains and blue light pillars
A letter read on air, with the writer’s name withheld, describes working for an apartment-management company in East San Jose, California, in 1971. The writer reports being sent to clean a second-floor unit after an eviction. They say they found black walls, red bulbs, a pentagram, altars, and animal remains. After warnings from two strangers, they say they saw two pillars of blue light at the foot of their bed at about 2 a.m. The letter ends with the writer saying they never returned to the address.
Family haunting in Louisiana tied to an uncle who kept his wife's corpse
A caller from Austin, Texas, tells a family story they say took place in Louisiana about a hundred years before the broadcast and is still going on. An uncle, said to be devastated by his young wife's death, kept her corpse in an upstairs bedroom for six months while he waited for a glass coffin ordered from New Orleans. He reportedly kissed it nightly and talked to it over a Ouija board. The caller passes on servants' reports of candles that would not light, cold air, whispers, falling objects, and nighttime conversations with another voice. The caller says relatives kept avoiding the room and feeling a cold presence into the 1970s. The caller says the woman is still buried in Metairie Cemetery, that a family member holds the key to the crypt, and that they themselves would go in out of curiosity.
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.
Childhood events in an Oregon City rental house: a hand in the bath and a laugh
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about events in an old rented house in Oregon City, Oregon, where their family lived from about the time the caller was six until they were eleven. They describe lights switching on and off, strange sounds, chairs sliding, footsteps, and a feeling of being watched in the basement. Their parents dismissed all of it. The climax they describe is in the bathroom at about age eleven. They say they felt a hand stroking their neck and then felt snakes falling from the ceiling onto them, followed by a cackling laugh they call the most evil they have ever heard. They say they spoke to a priest about it. Art Bell ends the call because the show was short on time.
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.
Letter on deaths and reported hauntings at the Penfield Place in Illinois
The host reads a letter attributed to [name withheld] in Rockford, Illinois. It recounts the history of a house in north-central Illinois that locals call the Penfield Place. The letter tells of a series of deaths, a bride's disappearance and the later discovery of her dismembered remains, and strange events reported by later tenants. It ends by describing the house as still standing, decaying and in ruins. No document or second witness is presented on air.
Six nights in an abandoned rural house: Odors, Ouija board, and footsteps
A caller who says they are a county fraud investigator tells Art Bell they spent six nights with their girlfriend and her daughter in an unoccupied house about 25 miles up a dirt road in Northern California. Local people had told them it was haunted. They report a rotting-flesh smell, cold spots, a chair that flew back and injured the girlfriend’s knee, a door handle turning, footsteps and a slammed door upstairs, a child’s “help me” captured on a tape recorder, and orbs in several hundred photographs. The call ends with the host asking for the caller’s e-mail and website link.
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.
Rented split-entry house: orbs, mist, whispers and a white figure on the stairs
[name withheld], a caller from New Hampshire, tells Art Bell about strange events the caller says began on the first night their family moved into a rented split-entry house about twenty-three years earlier, when they were sixteen. The caller reports a dream of an old man with hollowed-out eyes, then waking to balls of light zigzagging through their room. Later came a mist and cold in the hallway, whispering and footsteps at night, a face staring over their shoulder at the computer, and a white figure with bulging eyes on the stairs. The caller says their brother [name withheld] reported the same experiences. The host ends this part of the broadcast by telling the caller they are haunted.
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.
210 more stories
- Storage-room door opens in an old Pittsburgh house, 19563 min
- Electrical outlets burning out and a sticking door in a Marinwood house3 min
- Uneasy feeling and a pull to leave an empty Victorian house in San Francisco4 min
- Caller describes a shrine room at home where a presence is felt1 min
- Two reported sightings of a small boy in a boarded-up farmhouse south of Denver6 min
- Bathroom mirror found raised and refastened in mother's trailer4 min
- Felt presence in the downstairs of a Santa Barbara church building4 min
- Feeling of a presence while camping in the ruins of the old Rainbow Lodge2 min
- Figure resembling the writer's wife in a bathroom doorway, Northridge, California1 min
- A former priest blesses the house of a dead radio singer3 min
- Sensed presence of previous owner “[name withheld]” in a purchased house3 min
- Teen dream of a house and pasture, later found ruined near St. Louis airport5 min
- A silver figure, footprints on a sleeping mother's arm, and a “vortex” in Long Beach2 min
- Caller reports sister's sightings of a child and a bearded man in her duplex3 min
- Disturbances in a rented upstairs apartment above an old store5 min
- Wife describes two weeks of episodes and a moving kitchen cabinet door2 min
- Childhood home in Granite City, Illinois, with flying plates and slamming doors4 min
- A girl's laughter and a slamming door in a rented trailer in Cookville, Tennessee2 min
- Caller reports thirty-six years of shadows, moving doors, and lamps in a house tied to fires3 min
- Letter about a stone mason's photograph in an old L.A. home's wine cellar2 min
- Voices upstairs in a new Missouri house, linked by the caller to an unearthed teacup4 min
- A sister reports a face at her second-floor window34 s
- House spirit, a child's great-grandfather, and keys turning in the lock3 min
- Figure resembling roommate walks past door in Lawrence, Kansas, house1 min
- Basement door latch flips open on its own in a Missouri lake house2 min
- Stereo switching on by itself during a movie at a Chalmette home2 min
- Mobile home on the Barlow Trail: missing objects, faint figures, and a door that flew open5 min
- Letter describing a haunted house where unseen presences are treated as roommates1 min
- Letter about footsteps and knocking after a grandmother's funeral2 min
- Unseen running and a fall heard in an Illinois apartment hallway2 min
- A reported ghost dog in an old Bothell, Washington, apartment1 min
- Footsteps on the roof while the caller's husband was at his shop3 min
- Skeleton faces at a window and a skeleton figure in the hallway, New Orleans44 s
- Smiling face appears in cigarette smoke in a Newport basement2 min
- Caller describes a man convulsing and speaking in multiple voices in an apartment5 min
- Letter: Thrashing in bed each September in a Phoenix apartment3 min
- Door slams and deadbolt locks out caller; bottles found in a circle in a shop3 min
- Rocking chair and voices in an 1880s Ashland rental house5 min
- Light bulb found behind a radiator after a lightning strike2 min
- Teenager reports a boy on their bed and a rusted pistol in a Midvale, Idaho, farmhouse4 min
- Rented Ohio mining-town house: footsteps, greyhounds, and a man at the door3 min
- Figure at foot of bed, then a man in the laundry room five months later3 min
- Wood-chopping sound and floating shadow at a ranch house5 min
- Caller relays aunt’s story of a goat-like figure and hoof prints in an Ohio cellar4 min
- Vibrating vase and mirror, and a shattering glass in a mid-1970s house5 min
- Daughter’s invisible friend Daggett and a cold chair in a Kansas City-area house3 min
- A voice named Harry and charred lumber in a Washington cabin5 min
- Dolls moved overnight in an antique shop in a former Kansas City orphanage4 min
- Presence in a new Escondido house, 1971; home blessed by a priest3 min
- Falling darts and indoor thunder in a Hanford, California house3 min
- Annual funeral reported in the living room of a former funeral home1 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
- [name withheld]’s secondhand story of a babysitter, a changing house, and a Ouija board4 min
- Black figure at foot of bed in a Redlands home3 min
- Loud crash on the host’s radio room door during a broadcast break4 min
- Cold spots, footsteps, and a bang in an attic at a friend’s house in Oswego2 min
- Furnished apartment of a deceased tenant and a door held shut7 min
- An 1880 house with chairs moving, a door opening, and rose and tobacco scents3 min
- A 1964 television that kept playing after being unplugged4 min
- Previous owner’s presence, baked smell and rearranged dishes in an estate-sale house4 min
- Footsteps from the basement, a shotgun and knives moved in a childhood home4 min
- Letter: A figure in white and a toddler’s “lady in the white dress”2 min
- Duplex poltergeist, a figure at the wall, and a hidden room of the former police chief4 min
- Letter: Discarded stuffed Ewok and scratching sounds from a bedroom closet1 min
- Revolving sound, buckling walls, and oozing moisture in a Clayton, Victoria, home3 min
- A small limping figure, a 1932 diary, and a drowned boy identified6 min
- Letter: Transparent old man and smell of dirt, rot, and alcohol in a Missouri house3 min
- Host reports loud pounding on his studio door during a broadcast3 min
- Letter read on air: Red stain and handprint in a Santa Barbara shower2 min
- A woman’s head and shoulders emerging from an attic closet in an old converted home3 min
- Vancouver house with reported voodoo history and a priest who would not enter6 min
- Rented Memphis house: light switch, waterbed displacement, ankle grab5 min
- A child sees a man in a recliner, and the recliner's footrest moves by itself3 min
- Voice in the kitchen, a loosened bulb, and a face in a burnt furnace3 min
- A woman steps from a curtained closet and removes a crying child's skates4 min
- Children startle a transparent figure in an unfinished basement4 min
- Transparent figure rocking upstairs in an old Hawaiian plantation home4 min
- Tugging during naps and a waterbed that seemed to leak in a San Rafael apartment3 min
- Missing items and a refilled coffee cup in a former funeral home in Providence3 min
- A foggy light aura in a hallway of a late mother-in-law’s house4 min
- Late mother-in-law appears in her former bedroom; a footprint in the carpet8 min
- Voice in a bathroom attributed to Russ Colombo at Rosemary Clooney's house1 min
- Humming voice and a namesake tombstone in Covington, Georgia3 min
- Natchez burial lore and reported noises in a New Orleans East subdivision3 min
- Sage burning by [name withheld]’s uncle and “evil spirits” in a house (continuation of an earlier call)2 min
- 1840 Underground Railroad house: a ball slides to a child and a door latch moves5 min
- Host retells a listener’s account of voices audible only at one moving spot3 min
- Man’s ghost in a basement and a cat-sized figure in a new house2 min
- Shadowy figure at the door of a Nebraska church parsonage bedroom3 min
- Lights, a door, and voices in a boarded-up plantation house outside New Orleans6 min
- Footsteps on the stairs and a cold, angry presence in a Colorado Springs house2 min
- Windows, doors, lights, and pounding in a previous house15 s
- Locked bedroom door found ripped from its hinges in an old Detroit house1 min
- Childhood “imaginary friend” Sam reported seen by family in mother’s house4 min
- Caller reports kitchen doorbell ringing after its wires were removed4 min
- Grandparents' handbuilt Sacramento house: light switches, toilet, cigar smoke (part 1)2 min
- Cigar smoke, a cement mixer, and moved chairs in a grandfather’s house4 min
- Two red eyes seen briefly in a dark bedroom3 min
- Light switches moving by themselves and an exercise bike pedaling in a basement4 min
- Drumming heard for weeks in an old Kansas house said to stand on a burial ground2 min
- Woman in a rocking chair beside an infant’s crib in a rented farmhouse2 min
- Cold bedroom, tall figures, and cigarette smoke in a moved mobile home4 min
- Child reports a man drinking in the window of an empty neighboring house3 min
- Attic noises and a presence in a family’s Victorian house4 min
- Man in a hat seen at window and bedside in a Nebraska rental house7 min
- Disappearing objects and a front door that opened by itself in an old house6 min
- Successive owners report a tall figure and a rocking-chair woman in a Victoria house5 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
- An oval clock found across the room in a Chicago apartment4 min
- Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death6 min
- A voice singing along with Beatles records in an empty living room2 min
- Two figures seen through sheer curtains at an old roadhouse near Prescott, Arizona3 min
- Attic thumps and old glass negatives in a Hyde Park house4 min
- Spirit called Henry: pinches, a boy’s ghost, and a fallen picture3 min
- Letter: A girl named [name withheld] in a Trenton attic and a found ring3 min
- Caller reports a felt presence in their house, later confirmed by a neighbor2 min
- Percolator parts found reassembled on a windowsill3 min
- Chain-dragging clanks overhead in the attic of the caller's parents' house1 min
- Figures in a lakeside park and the same tall man in a kitchen4 min
- Child shoved from bed in a reportedly haunted guest room, Chinese Camp2 min
- Woman in one color seen at a childhood bedroom window on Long Island3 min
- Noises of a file cabinet being ransacked below a Plymouth, New Hampshire apartment2 min
- Deputy draws his pistol on a translucent elderly woman in his kitchen4 min
- Laughing in the basement, a woman in white, and shadow figures in a family home6 min
- Vanishing shack and field of Corvairs near a suspected haunted house8 min
- Nightly object movement and a brother’s singed hair in a modern home4 min
- Footsteps and wet footprints in a Route 66 service station2 min
- Orbs, a freight-train rumble, and a shadow orb in a former chicken coop5 min
- Feeling a cat walk on the bed when the cat was elsewhere3 min
- Gray figure and male scream in a rented Union, Missouri house4 min
- Handcuff marks, “help” in frost, and a light orb at a Phantom Lake house3 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
- Fax reporting a man in lumberjack dress at a ninth-floor window42 s
- Haunted family house in Lorain, Ohio: Slapping, shadows, and something on the bed4 min
- A door, a figure on a cross, and footsteps in a rented 110-year-old house in Paw Paw, Michigan6 min
- Screaming, shaking, and red eyes at an Alabama plantation slave cabin4 min
- Figure in an old Portland house points to the door and says “get out of my house”3 min
- Red eyes at 3:15 a.m. emerging from a bedroom closet3 min
- Music box sounds at close range and a smashed attic door in a house-sitting stay2 min
- Voices, a child's closet figure, and shadows seen in a Pahrump single-wide2 min
- Voices in the basement and a touch in the shower of a rental home3 min
- Friend hears crying through a bathroom wall; neighbor found dead3 min
- Atlanta house, dog avoiding the bedroom, and a black dog seen during an out-of-body experience5 min
- Poltergeist activity in a shared Fargo house and a butcher knife in bed4 min
- Pounding on doors and a cold sensation at a friend’s new Houston house7 min
- Guests report an unknown boy helping a toddler on a Cleveland staircase3 min
- A rented house on the Outer Banks and lights on a nearby dune5 min
- Pool cues, an eight ball, and a front door that opened and slammed4 min
- Deceased neighbor [name withheld] materializes in a rocking chair and shakes hands3 min
- Basement clip lamp shakes, emits flame, and a dark object flies at a girl3 min
- Elderly woman figure reported by eight people in a Cape Cod summer house2 min
- Figure on all fours between twin beds and ski poles strewn in a Billings basement2 min
- Childhood unease and a ceramic sailor’s face in a family house29 s
- Brother falls ill and says beings are coming through the walls after mocking noises2 min
- Hot water turning on by itself in a Sedalia, Missouri, home after the father’s death4 min
- Erotic dreams and a doorway figure in a former SS barracks apartment4 min
- Legless woman saying “I can't sleep” in a rented house where a woman was shot3 min
- Painting of a chained figure and disturbances in an 1800s San Francisco house3 min
- Tucson house after a 1977 murder-suicide: Alarm, child voices, cold room8 min
- Dress pulled on the bedroom door and fern stems in the washing machine2 min
- Moving ladder, a fall, and a psychic’s identification of a brother-in-law2 min
- Talking toys with no batteries in a cousin’s nursery; an unpopular upstairs room5 min
- Deceased mother appears healthy in the kitchen and says not to worry5 min
- Sensed presence and French windows opening by themselves in a rented Portland duplex, 19774 min
- Email: Sister reports Confederate soldiers in a Gettysburg basement2 min
- Army recovery hospital house, a watched feeling, and a nurse figure at a kitchen window3 min
- Felt presences and an unseen couch sitter in a Mackinac Island house3 min
- Letter: Ceiling noises, a weeping ghost, and bones found in an attic5 min
- Nebraska farmhouse room and an aunt’s story of a barrier in the doorway2 min
- Closet doors roll open in a grandparents' bedroom after a silent challenge3 min
- A key in the door and a solid figure in a Reno apartment5 min
- Circuit breakers flipped off in a farmhouse basement5 min
- Paramedic’s 1981 suicide call and a later claim that the house was haunted5 min
- Woman in black knocking on a window from inside a Chicago house, 19824 min
- Old man walks through a cabin door and makes tea while a witness cannot get up9 min
- Rake-like scratches on the caller’s body in a duplex, ending after they moved out3 min
- Footsteps of “Footie Pajamas” and a depressed bed at a Mayport military home3 min
- Civil War figures reenact a bayonet killing in an aunt's basement3 min
- Dark figure beckoning from under a kitchen table in Bishop, California2 min
- Child figure in the Harnden house and a newspaper article of a 1958 murder-suicide5 min
- A toilet torn from the floor and thrown down the stairs of a vacant farmhouse3 min
- Noose reported suspended from nothing in a rented former church rectory2 min
- Voices from the basement and footsteps on the stairs in a rented Atlanta room3 min
- Radio switches itself back on and retunes to Ghost to Ghost1 min
- A room in a Waterbury grandmother’s house said to bring nightmares and illness2 min
- Bearded figure with a funny hat seen through a bedroom door5 min
- Bed covers held up by an unseen helper after a child’s request4 min
- Girl in white dress at the foot of the bed in a Sacramento house2 min
- An image on a rice-field bridge and at a bathroom window4 min
- Girl in a raincoat with a flashlight reported in a basement and a cul-de-sac5 min
- Noises and cold chills in an old house in Chattanooga (part 1)1 min
- Shadow figure in a bathroom doorway, Chattanooga3 min
- A girl figure seen twice in a sister’s house; a later vision of a murder-suicide4 min
- Paralysis in bed and a house beside a cemetery in LaGrange, Georgia4 min
- A nine-drawer dresser blocking a bedroom door in an Eldridge, Iowa, house6 min
- A colonial-dressed luminous figure in a Boston apartment doorway3 min
- Tall shadow figure in a bowler hat gliding through a grandmother’s basement4 min
- Whistling, flying knives and a figure in a TV reflection in an 1860s Stillwater house4 min
- Backyard bone find at a rented house and blessed herbs to clear it4 min
- Haunted house bought in Ohio: closet racket, knocks on a bedroom door, a bouncing cat cage, and growling6 min
- Secondhand story: Security guard hears a child laughing at a mansion alarm panel4 min
- Recurring evening thump at the door and a cat watching something in the room2 min
- Toddler asks to give a french fry to a man on the staircase in Guam2 min
- Dreams, levitation and handprint marks on a Clarksburg property7 min
- Slow, heavy footsteps in a dark Phoenix hallway, heard by two people4 min
- An old man in coveralls pointing at a light switch in a Western Washington cabin2 min
- Childhood sighting of a man over the bed in an old Annapolis Royal house3 min