More than one witness
More than one person is said to have experienced it.
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.
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.
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.
Lifelong bedroom attacks and a black figure with red eyes
A caller who gives their name as Mary, in Hickson, Tennessee, tells Art Bell that they and their family have been attacked “all my life,” mostly in the bed or bedroom. The caller reports a night when something grabbed their hand as if to pull them out of bed. On other nights they woke unable to breathe, scream, or move, while seeing two red eyes and a black figure. They say it also happened to their husband and brothers. The call ends with the caller saying they sense things about people, believe their father was possessed, and know when people are going to die.
Hawaiian cemetery prank, a shaking car, and bite marks
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Northern California, relays a story they say their former Boy Scout leader told them about ten years earlier. The leader was a Hawaiian man named [name withheld]. As a teenager in Hawaii, [name withheld] and a friend took two girls to a cemetery as a prank. The parked car they returned to was shaking violently, with the girls screaming and “red eyes” at the windows. [name withheld] is said to have found a bite mark on his ankle that night. His older brother mocked the family’s warning, and the two returned to run over graves and kick over food. The brother is said to have had more than 200 bites counted on his body and to have needed hospital stitches. The caller ends by saying they were shown [name withheld]’s lasting bite marks years later and by discussing Hawaiian cemetery customs.
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.
Dreams of a missing friend asking to be buried, later found in a car
A caller who gives the name [name withheld] and says the call is from [quote withheld] passes on a secondhand story from a friend named [name withheld]. According to the caller, [name withheld], [name withheld], and [name withheld] all dreamed of their missing friend [name withheld] appearing in a window and saying “bury me.” The dream image reportedly began to look like a decomposing body. Then [name withheld] was found dead by suicide in a car with a hose from the exhaust. The host sums it up as a decomposing man entering his friends’ dreams and begging to be buried.
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.
Ghost drums at a reenactor rendezvous at Fort Ouachita
[name withheld], calling from the Springfield, Missouri Ozarks, says they are a Cherokee historic reenactor. They describe an eleven-day rendezvous in 1994 at Fort Ouachita, Oklahoma, an old Confederate fort and cemetery. After most camps left on Sunday, the caller and their husband stayed overnight. The caller reports fear, birds screaming at midnight, ghost drums, waves of ghosts, dress jingles, a moved teepee door, and a fire that went out cold. The host closes with comments, and the story ends without resolution.
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.
A figure dancing on a fence post on a country road in northern Alberta
Art Bell reads a letter from a listener named [name withheld]. It describes a walk home along a country road in northern Alberta about fifteen years earlier. [name withheld] writes that they and their friend [name withheld] saw a thin, emaciated human form standing on a roadside post, slowly dancing. Months later, [name withheld] was diagnosed with cancer and died. [name withheld] concluded that the figure had been [name withheld] himself.
214 more stories
- AP item on reported spirits and a bread smell at the US Capitol1 min
- Footsteps, a shadow at noon, and a voice saying “your brother” in an Alameda house6 min
- Deceased great-aunt seen at cemetery and in hospital room4 min
- Wounded Marine sniper reports ancestor in Civil War uniform freezing his wound3 min
- Sudden pain coinciding with a young friend’s fatal truck accident4 min
- Toddler’s insistence on visiting an uncle weeks before the uncle’s death2 min
- A brother's dream phone call from his deceased father, who spent his prayers on the call4 min
- Red eyes in a tree, a transforming figure, and a drive-by rescue4 min
- Two reported sightings of a small boy in a boarded-up farmhouse south of Denver6 min
- Deceased girlfriend reported in a mirror and a window at a Halloween party3 min
- Recurring footsteps on a deck and a hammer thrown in a workshop1 min
- Bathroom mirror found raised and refastened in mother's trailer4 min
- Felt presence in the downstairs of a Santa Barbara church building4 min
- Armed party walks through a sprung ambush near the Cambodian border, 19683 min
- A barefoot footprint at an Arctic creek and a legend of an immortal shaman4 min
- A small terrier greets family members outside a house after an uncle's death2 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
- A cloud at a mother-in-law's death and ongoing house disturbances4 min
- Chains, a plea for peace, and grave markers in a Logan County field2 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
- Two pilots seen in an airliner cabin, linked to an Everglades crash2 min
- A girl's laughter and a slamming door in a rented trailer in Cookville, Tennessee2 min
- Fax about a translucent figure in cowboy clothes reported in a Phoenix-area home2 min
- Ouija board session said to contact a grandfather in a coma4 min
- Two brothers swatted by nothing at a second-floor windowsill2 min
- House spirit, a child's great-grandfather, and keys turning in the lock3 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
- Unseen running and a fall heard in an Illinois apartment hallway2 min
- Flickering lights, a name called, and faint music at a movie theater after a projectionist's death3 min
- A reported ghost dog in an old Bothell, Washington, apartment1 min
- Red eyes in the woods across from a rural Louisiana house3 min
- College radio expedition to a reservoir reports a woman in white on the road3 min
- Smiling face appears in cigarette smoke in a Newport basement2 min
- Ghost sailor reported aboard the icebreaker Glacier2 min
- A flame lighting underfoot at a creek in the Virginia hills1 min
- Classical music in a 1949 Ford that had no radio2 min
- Coast Guard member reports glowing three-masted ships in the Gulf of Mexico4 min
- A repaired semi truck, a recurring cold feeling, and a buried trailer2 min
- Letter claims mother and son had matching dreams of a shooting and met on the stairs2 min
- Man in blue coveralls vanishes from a catwalk above the Queen Mary pool4 min
- Horses, war cries, and an arrowhead in a tree near Pipestone, Minnesota3 min
- Vanishing woman in a long gingham dress on a Georgia country road3 min
- A child's voice and figure in a Las Vegas family home4 min
- Wood-chopping sound and floating shadow at a ranch house5 min
- Unexplained knocking on a signal-shack hatch aboard a Navy oiler4 min
- Ghost tracks and a truck pushed over a San Antonio rail crossing5 min
- A Denver officer’s letter: A woman in a red dress at a courthouse and the elevator5 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
- Presences and voices reported at World War II monuments in southern Okinawa2 min
- A friend is watched by a man who vanishes from a Connecticut kitchen3 min
- Woman in a green glow at a bridge near a lynching site in Claxton, Georgia4 min
- Hooded figure with sickle in Golden Gate Park before a friend’s motorcycle death3 min
- Gray figures circling and red eyes in Genesee Park at the summer solstice4 min
- Shadowy figure bows silently, then a phone call confirms a grandfather’s death4 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
- Childhood sighting of a semi-transparent cocktail party in a Minneapolis apartment6 min
- A bell heard in the car and a puff of air in the shower after a boyfriend's death4 min
- Floating light over a hill during a night hike in Babler State Park3 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
- Figure at foot of bed walks through bedroom wall, father’s childhood story2 min
- Fax: Root beer carried down stairs by itself at a 40-day memorial gathering1 min
- Respiratory therapist reports seeing a newly dead patient among his family in an ER lobby3 min
- Gray mist at the foot of the bed before a woman’s illness3 min
- Stolen skull, flames, and a smoke image in a mirror in a Fort Lauderdale apartment6 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
- Featureless black figure reported at a roller hockey rink2 min
- White-haired woman with a white dog beside a desert road4 min
- Rented Memphis house: light switch, waterbed displacement, ankle grab5 min
- Ghost called Charlie reported to follow a family through moves4 min
- Children startle a transparent figure in an unfinished basement4 min
- Transparent figure rocking upstairs in an old Hawaiian plantation home4 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
- 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
- Hands pressing him down in bed; uncle later recalls a murder in the flat4 min
- Bleeding man on a San Diego corner who vanished when officers turned back3 min
- Séance contact with a presence claiming to be John Dillinger7 min
- Sage burning by [name withheld]’s uncle and “evil spirits” in a house (continuation of an earlier call)2 min
- Nightly 12:26 wakings, cool fingers, and a child’s invisible playmate5 min
- Six nights in an abandoned rural house: Odors, Ouija board, and footsteps4 min
- Man’s ghost in a basement and a cat-sized figure in a new house2 min
- Police officer describes a dog-like creature; their brother later described the same3 min
- Two officers chase a fast-moving shadow through a closed area2 min
- Retired sheriff's captain reports a ghost cat and a figure in an old courthouse2 min
- Circle of watching angels seen with a Job Corps friend1 min
- Caller says rocks rained on them for three days in California, Missouri35 s
- Shadowy figure with red eyes beneath a son’s bed1 min
- Ghost of a woman passing through a university sleep laboratory5 min
- Man in trench coat and stovepipe hat with bicycle on Phoenix street4 min
- Childhood “imaginary friend” Sam reported seen by family in mother’s house4 min
- Armored figures lacking feet reported near a Japanese women’s college7 min
- A caped figure, a skeleton, and two strangers at Redondo Beach4 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
- Church windows close one by one during a funeral in Montreal4 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
- Walking boots without a body on a logging road near Knoxville3 min
- A child's late-night phone call reporting their father's death6 min
- Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death6 min
- Faceless woman in period clothing walking on a snowy road near Yellowstone3 min
- A voice singing along with Beatles records in an empty living room2 min
- A sliding couch and a giant hand reported in a childhood home in Oregon4 min
- A healing workshop at a retreat convent: Shared dreams and popping light bulbs7 min
- Ouija board and a Portuguese message for an arriving friend3 min
- Spirit called Henry: pinches, a boy’s ghost, and a fallen picture3 min
- Figures in a lakeside park and the same tall man in a kitchen4 min
- Reported music, elevator doors, and a rooftop push in a Saskatoon hotel building6 min
- Aunt’s magician dream and the coworker’s husband’s matching dream5 min
- Woman in one color seen at a childhood bedroom window on Long Island3 min
- Caller reports seeing their living father walk through the family house6 min
- A horned, red-eyed figure at the foot of the bed and a friend’s matching story5 min
- A campfire cat that a camper’s hand reportedly passed through3 min
- Vanishing shack and field of Corvairs near a suspected haunted house8 min
- Sister’s feet grabbed and a breathing presence at Fort Meade, Maryland2 min
- Ouija board contact with two drowned boys at a Hollywood Hills pool6 min
- Nightly object movement and a brother’s singed hair in a modern home4 min
- A police officer’s question about a man walking through a house2 min
- Unseen runner and a struck fence at an abandoned slaughterhouse4 min
- Car reportedly pushed off railroad tracks at a Clarksville, Tennessee, crossing2 min
- Glowing figure and face in a photograph at Santa Barbara mission graveyard2 min
- Driver reports hitting an elderly man and dog on a road outside Chicago5 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
- 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
- Screaming, shaking, and red eyes at an Alabama plantation slave cabin4 min
- Shadow figure at a bedroom window and a child found on the roof3 min
- Deceased truck driver reportedly visits a Colorado ranch and leaves Pepsi cans4 min
- Woman in white in their daughter's doorway who moved with the family4 min
- Figure in an old Portland house points to the door and says “get out of my house”3 min
- Twin's grandfather reportedly announces brother alive and trapped in Vietnam6 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
- A young boy reported by residents at a Maryland assisted living facility4 min
- Pounding on doors and a cold sensation at a friend’s new Houston house7 min
- Injured, one-legged figure with a lantern on Roberts Road2 min
- Caller reports kitchen door and brother’s voice four hours after his death5 min
- Bat on the host’s porch on the day his father died53 s
- 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
- A paper Ouija board, a spirit called Tommy, and wall scratches6 min
- Teen and mother reportedly held down at the same moment in a Missouri home3 min
- Caller reports fingers closing on their wrists and ankles after mocking a friend2 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
- Caller [name withheld] says he and his twin saw their mother’s head float down the hallway2 min
- Brother falls ill and says beings are coming through the walls after mocking noises2 min
- Erotic dreams and a doorway figure in a former SS barracks apartment4 min
- A hearse, a voice, and white figures on a winter road in northern Canada4 min
- Paralysis, a shaking bed, and a smiling girl with empty eyes2 min
- Police officers report a child's laughter from the woods of a private estate5 min
- Tucson house after a 1977 murder-suicide: Alarm, child voices, cold room8 min
- Doors slamming in an abandoned Minnesota tuberculosis sanitarium5 min
- A cabin in the woods near Cloudcroft furnished only from the 1940s4 min
- Hunters report formally dressed couple who vanish and leave no tracks in snow3 min
- Sleep paralysis, a dream of a grandfather, and a voice heard through the caller3 min
- A woman walking up an off-ramp, later listed in the obituaries of a fatal crash1 min
- E-mail: Floating woman in nightgown crossing road by old church, 19783 min
- Army recovery hospital house, a watched feeling, and a nurse figure at a kitchen window3 min
- Circuit breakers flipped off in a farmhouse basement5 min
- Out-of-body story from a father during a stroke in a Brampton house3 min
- Late-night phone call from an aunt later found dead in the snow3 min
- Woman in black knocking on a window from inside a Chicago house, 19824 min
- Truck driver and their wife report the same presence in a one-bedroom apartment3 min
- Letter: Transparent figure of a deceased grandfather in a spare bedroom2 min
- Footsteps of “Footie Pajamas” and a depressed bed at a Mayport military home3 min
- Cemetery legend: a grave said to answer “nothing at all” at midnight2 min
- Doll moves its arm; a dark figure at the mother's bedside5 min
- Child figure in the Harnden house and a newspaper article of a 1958 murder-suicide5 min
- Basement door, a shared dream, and a slow-burning teddy bear in a country home4 min
- Noose reported suspended from nothing in a rented former church rectory2 min
- Dream of father-in-law searching for his body and wife hearing the caller's voice2 min
- Letter: Crying child and a locked room in a Victorian university office3 min
- 1965: A ten-second TV lag and a shadow man in a hat seen by children2 min
- Dead uncle seen in boys’ bedroom on the day he had promised to visit4 min
- Palm reader relays a family’s story of a dead mother’s warning to rescue [name withheld]3 min
- Callback: A dead uncle’s footsteps and a father seen in a shared dream2 min
- A room in a Waterbury grandmother’s house said to bring nightmares and illness2 min
- Retired guard’s story of Ted Bundy’s ghost in the Florida electric chair2 min
- Tall shadow figure in woods linked by caller to neighbors’ candles4 min
- A locked basement safe found open with its bolts still extended5 min
- A hooded figure at a California motel, later described by the writer’s son2 min
- Door closes and room turns cold as a child greets his late mother3 min
- Girl in a raincoat with a flashlight reported in a basement and a cul-de-sac5 min
- A faceless girl on a rural road near Cabot, Arkansas4 min
- Teenage boy on a headstone identified from a photo as the caller’s uncle3 min
- A girl figure seen twice in a sister’s house; a later vision of a murder-suicide4 min
- Military trucks starting and a horn sounding by itself at Camp Stanley, Korea10 min
- Border Patrol trainees and a robed group around a bonfire near the Rio Grande7 min
- A colonial-dressed luminous figure in a Boston apartment doorway3 min
- Daughter’s imaginary friend “Roger” and the cigarette butts in the garden3 min
- Electrical faults and a voice in TV static in a Tucson college house3 min
- Haunted house bought in Ohio: closet racket, knocks on a bedroom door, a bouncing cat cage, and growling6 min
- A shove on a dark street and a figure in a photograph, Louisville7 min
- A radio station at 666 Main Street, Deadwood, and a ghost called Doc Smiley4 min
- Rented split-entry house: orbs, mist, whispers and a white figure on the stairs5 min
- Dreams, levitation and handprint marks on a Clarksburg property7 min
- Footsteps and grunting in an abandoned 1920s building in Lake Elsinore6 min
- Slow, heavy footsteps in a dark Phoenix hallway, heard by two people4 min
- Weights restacked in a lighthouse exercise room5 min
- An old man in coveralls pointing at a light switch in a Western Washington cabin2 min