Bedroom
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.
Ghost of a murdered upstairs neighbor in a rented downstairs house
A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] says they rented the downstairs of an older house, where a door resisted closing in a way they read as a warning. They report that they later heard, from below, a man beat the upstairs woman to death. They then saw her ghost in their bedroom telling them not to come up to help. Police came the next day. The caller ends by saying she gave them strength and that they are ready if evil comes again.
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.
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.
207 more stories
- Biological father emerges from a bedroom mirror (1970)2 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
- A brother's dream phone call from his deceased father, who spent his prayers on the call4 min
- Faces floating through a bedroom seen with eyes closed, gone after a command1 min
- Metallic sounds, a figure by the partition, and a moving bed in a Taiwan apartment2 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
- Pink and blue human-shaped figure beside a bed in a mobile home3 min
- A bull-shaped figure at the bedroom door and a sensation of being smothered3 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
- Figure in hallway and crying girl in 1800s dress2 min
- Weight, spinning sensation, and a barking dog behind a closed door2 min
- Girlfriend reports sleeping caller conversing with a woman and boy3 min
- Fax about a translucent figure in cowboy clothes reported in a Phoenix-area home2 min
- Two brothers swatted by nothing at a second-floor windowsill2 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
- Grandmother seen descending from the ceiling at the hour of her death2 min
- Letter about footsteps and knocking after a grandmother's funeral2 min
- Footsteps on the roof while the caller's husband was at his shop3 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
- Skeleton faces at a window and a skeleton figure in the hallway, New Orleans44 s
- Caller reports their mother saw a boyfriend in her bedroom the night he died1 min
- Child says dead brother is present at a Guam rosary; a stuck cupboard opens6 min
- Waking vision of four masked, robed figures in blue light, Fresno (1988)3 min
- Letter: Thrashing in bed each September in a Phoenix apartment3 min
- Attempted “astral projection” and seeing his own body in bed2 min
- Roommate's night vision of her dead father warns of her sister's car accident4 min
- Ouija board played twice; antique mirror moved and later broke2 min
- Covers that would not come off and a scream in the ear at 3:30 a.m.3 min
- Letter claims mother and son had matching dreams of a shooting and met on the stairs2 min
- 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
- 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
- Foster home in a dead boy’s bedroom: Bed pressed down at night2 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
- An 1880 house with chairs moving, a door opening, and rose and tobacco scents3 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
- Picture of Jesus falls off a bedroom wall and strikes a girlfriend2 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
- 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
- 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 photograph, a lamp, and a grinning reflection on a dark TV screen4 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
- Labored breathing, darkness, and pressure in a master bedroom in McKeesport4 min
- Deceased father appears at the foot of the bed and speaks to his son2 min
- A child sees a man in a recliner, and the recliner's footrest moves by itself3 min
- Daytime sleep paralysis, a woman speaking in a man's voice, and nails in the head5 min
- Ham operator's recurring dream of their reissued call sign4 min
- Tugging during naps and a waterbed that seemed to leak in a San Rafael apartment3 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
- 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
- Paw-print indentations appear on a bed after a dog's euthanasia4 min
- Waking paralysis, chest pressure, and moving curtains in upstate New York2 min
- Father hears lamp pull-chains jingle and a moan in his ear, 19614 min
- Nightly 12:26 wakings, cool fingers, and a child’s invisible playmate5 min
- Host retells a listener’s account of voices audible only at one moving spot3 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
- Shadowy figure at the door of a Nebraska church parsonage bedroom3 min
- Retired fire lieutenant relays bunk-room pressure story from Rescue 16 min
- Police officer recalls a dog-headed figure entering their childhood bedroom3 min
- Locked bedroom door found ripped from its hinges in an old Detroit house1 min
- Caller describes a black void figure entering a childhood bedroom6 min
- A push on the top bunk and handprints on a boy's chest5 min
- Weight pressing a sleeper onto the mattress, Houston, c. 19791 min
- Shadowy figure with red eyes beneath a son’s bed1 min
- A Confederate figure in a log hospital on the Pleasant Hill battleground2 min
- Child’s night visitor “[name withheld]” matched to a gravestone and a photograph5 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
- Cold bedroom, tall figures, and cigarette smoke in a moved mobile home4 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
- A sliding couch and a giant hand reported in a childhood home in Oregon4 min
- Woman in black, locked doors, and a priest's blessing in a Dodge City rental9 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
- Child shoved from bed in a reportedly haunted guest room, Chinese Camp2 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
- Woman in one color seen at a childhood bedroom window on Long Island3 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
- Near-death experience in sleep ended by a neighbor's barking dog2 min
- Sister’s feet grabbed and a breathing presence at Fort Meade, Maryland2 min
- Childhood closet and bedroom doors, a green light, and paralysis3 min
- Orbs, a freight-train rumble, and a shadow orb in a former chicken coop5 min
- Invisible animal’s paw prints cross a bed in an apartment41 s
- 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
- Shadow figure at a bedroom window and a child found on the roof3 min
- Woman in white in their daughter's doorway who moved with the family4 min
- A voice calling the caller’s name and a mismatched phone alarm3 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
- Fireplace doors, an orb, and moaning in a Branson-area bed and breakfast4 min
- Figure in a black hat standing over a bed and walking through a window2 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
- Caller reports kitchen door and brother’s voice four hours after his death5 min
- A woman’s figure in the bedroom corner and a simultaneous pain in the eye3 min
- Caller reports seeing a smoke-like form leave their father’s body at death4 min
- A ghost, eye pain, and a triangle mark in the caller’s pupil2 min
- Deceased grandfather appears to mother; dream of a full lake3 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
- Paralysis and a presence lying on the caller in a former mortician’s house3 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Recurring episodes of waking unable to move1 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
- Shadow figures and white figures in a rented room at the Gable House6 min
- Letter: Ceiling noises, a weeping ghost, and bones found in an attic5 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
- 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
- Paramedic’s 1981 suicide call and a later claim that the house was haunted5 min
- A boy, a woman's hope chest, and a furious figure above the bed4 min
- A pale woman in period dress, a ringing phone, and a heater in an apartment3 min
- Figure leaning over a bed in a Calgary apartment; activity ends after a note3 min
- Old man walks through a cabin door and makes tea while a witness cannot get up9 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
- Letter on deaths and reported hauntings at the Penfield Place in Illinois3 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
- 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
- Bright light, chimes, and a floating paper in their late uncle’s handwriting3 min
- A floating translucent man at the caller's bedside at seventeen, and a warning five years later5 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
- Trailer door found open and cat found in sealed cavity3 min
- Caller reports a lady appearing in bed after they lay in an open grave2 min
- Bed covers held up by an unseen helper after a child’s request4 min
- Ghost with a bone knife in a father-in-law’s Florida house5 min
- Child reports transparent man in buckle shoes in grandmother’s hallway3 min
- Black butterflies and a face image in a bedroom window after a husband’s death1 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
- Hooded shadow figure during an episode of sleep paralysis2 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
- A Santa-suited figure, a fallen well, and three extra presents at Christmas3 min
- A lost ringtone plays, then a dark figure leaves the bedroom3 min
- A voice tells a woman to play a record after her sister’s fatal car crash4 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 colonial-dressed luminous figure in a Boston apartment doorway3 min
- Tall shadow figure in a bowler hat gliding through a grandmother’s basement4 min
- Haunted house bought in Ohio: closet racket, knocks on a bedroom door, a bouncing cat cage, and growling6 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
- Granddaughter reports two black figures at a friend's house5 min
- Foot tug and a friend’s death reported on the radio3 min
- Childhood sighting of a man over the bed in an old Annapolis Royal house3 min