Family member confirms or reports the same
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.
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.
Knocking doors and a bony-handed presence in a relative’s house near Sparta
[name withheld], calling from New York, New York, tells Art Bell about a night in the mid-1980s at their uncle’s and grandmother’s house in southern Greece, near Sparta. They report knocking and violently shaking doors. They then woke to what they call an entity on their back and bony hands holding them face-down. It ended when they screamed and pushed up. A cousin later implied he had a similar experience.
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: Transparent figure of a deceased grandfather in a spare bedroom
A letter from a writer the host identifies as “[name withheld]” from Springfield, Illinois, read aloud on air, describes seeing a transparent figure resembling their grandfather coming out of a wall in a spare bedroom about three weeks after his death in February 1978. They say they told no one at the time. They say that twenty years ago they learned their son had seen the same ghost roughly three months later in a front bedroom. They also report other family members seeing dark forms and lights and doors behaving oddly. The letter ends with the writer saying they will never know whether it was a ghost or a demon, but that they believe they saw it.
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.
99 more stories
- 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
- Felt presence in the downstairs of a Santa Barbara church building4 min
- Teenage dream of a casket foretelling an uncle's death two days later46 s
- Feeling of a presence while camping in the ruins of the old Rainbow Lodge2 min
- Mother's reported visit from the caller's deceased grandfather2 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
- Disturbances in a rented upstairs apartment above an old store5 min
- Wife describes two weeks of episodes and a moving kitchen cabinet door2 min
- Fax about a translucent figure in cowboy clothes reported in a Phoenix-area home2 min
- Blind caller reports a warm presence guiding their dog around a country road corner2 min
- House spirit, a child's great-grandfather, and keys turning in the lock3 min
- Windstorm stops after prayer to angels; daughter reports sudden calm2 min
- Caller's employee dreams of three dead relatives; a grandmother dies two days later2 min
- Mobile home on the Barlow Trail: missing objects, faint figures, and a door that flew open5 min
- Letter about footsteps and knocking after a grandmother's funeral2 min
- Shadowy figure bows silently, then a phone call confirms a grandfather’s death4 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
- Scent of carnations in a van on Highway 99 after a grandmother's death4 min
- Phantom hoofbeats on a gravel driveway at 10 p.m.1 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
- Deceased sister appears and grows up by a lake after an all-night ceremony3 min
- Labored breathing, darkness, and pressure in a master bedroom in McKeesport4 min
- A child sees a man in a recliner, and the recliner's footrest moves by itself3 min
- Ghost called Charlie reported to follow a family through moves4 min
- A woman steps from a curtained closet and removes a crying child's skates4 min
- Transparent figure rocking upstairs in an old Hawaiian plantation home4 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
- Shadowy figure at the door of a Nebraska church parsonage bedroom3 min
- Police officer describes a dog-like creature; their brother later described the same3 min
- A floating translucent man and a flying shed roof at a Fig Springs, Arizona, trailer5 min
- Childhood “imaginary friend” Sam reported seen by family in mother’s house4 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
- 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
- Dream of a grandmother at the door saying “There is no heaven,” and a father’s parallel dream7 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
- A child's late-night phone call reporting their father's death6 min
- A daughter reports talking with her deceased grandmother4 min
- Letter: A girl named [name withheld] in a Trenton attic and a found ring3 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
- 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
- Nightly object movement and a brother’s singed hair in a modern home4 min
- Flickering lights, a truck radio, and birthday phone calls after a brother’s death3 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
- 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
- Grandmother sits up in her casket and later appears in the caller’s bed3 min
- Post-funeral Wienermobile coincidences read as a message from a deceased father6 min
- Caller reports kitchen door and brother’s voice four hours after his death5 min
- A watchmaker’s death and a new Concord watch that stopped3 min
- Pool cues, an eight ball, and a front door that opened and slammed4 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 [name withheld] says he and his twin saw their mother’s head float down the hallway2 min
- Paralysis, a shaking bed, and a smiling girl with empty eyes2 min
- Painting of a chained figure and disturbances in an 1800s San Francisco house3 min
- Police officers report a child's laughter from the woods of a private estate5 min
- A felt hug from a presence, and a relative's death the same night3 min
- Smoke-like ghosts and an aggressive figure in a Fulton, Missouri, home8 min
- A voice calling a child's name in her bedroom, c. 19595 min
- Invisible force pulls caller by the arm at their grandmother's doorway5 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
- 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
- Footsteps of “Footie Pajamas” and a depressed bed at a Mayport military home3 min
- Dream of father-in-law searching for his body and wife hearing the caller's voice2 min
- Bright light, chimes, and a floating paper in their late uncle’s handwriting3 min
- Staged Ouija board prank and an improvised number reported correct3 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
- Bearded figure with a funny hat seen through a bedroom door5 min
- An image on a rice-field bridge and at a bathroom window4 min
- Toaster oven glass shatters at the reported hour of a cremation2 min
- A Santa-suited figure, a fallen well, and three extra presents at Christmas3 min
- Family account of shut cemetery gates and robed figures at Saint James2 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