Objects moved or thrown
Items move, fall, are thrown, vanish and reappear.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gray-eyed man on a friend’s couch after a Ouija session
A caller from Colorado says a high school friend, with whom they had once used a Ouija board, phoned them at about 3:30 a.m. in December. The friend was crying and standing outside their own house in the snow. The friend said they had come home to a smell of sulfur and found a well-kept man sitting on their couch with entirely gray eyes. The friend had broken their bedroom window to escape. The caller and their mother later entered the wrecked house and had priests bless it.
Boulders thrown around a camper on the Queets River
Caller [name withheld], from Graham, Washington, describes four men playing poker in a camper beside the Queets River. Around 1:30 a.m., rocks began landing around the vehicle for about three hours, along with grunts that he and Art Bell compared with a recorded “Sasquatch” sound. In the morning, [name withheld] says, large boulders lay in a circle around the camper, and it took two trucks to move them. He dates the event to 1975, says he has never returned to the spot, and offers no cause beyond “something awfully big.”
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.
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.
Wood-chopping sound and floating shadow at a ranch house
A caller from Kelso, Montana, tells Art Bell about a night several years earlier when the caller and a girlfriend were alone in a large old ranch house. The caller reports hearing a wood-chopping sound outside, then seeing a tall dark shadow float across a propane tank toward them. The next day they found chopped wood scattered around the yard. The caller also reports hearing their mother's voice call them inside the house when no one was there. They say they think the home's earlier large family “were still there.”
Waking paralysis, chest pressure, and moving curtains in upstate New York
A letter read on air by Art Bell describes a listener's experience of waking in an old upstate New York home, unable to move or speak. The writer felt as though a person were kneeling on their chest while their husky-Shepherd dog barked and growled. They say the pressure eased when they concentrated on the dog. The room's curtains were then shoved aside although the window was closed. They stayed with friends for several nights afterward.
Tucson house after a 1977 murder-suicide: Alarm, child voices, cold room
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], of Rochester, New York, describes living in a Tucson, Arizona, house connected to their husband’s first wife. The caller says the woman killed her two children and herself in 1977. [name withheld] reports a burglar alarm sounding at exactly 2 a.m. on nights their husband was away, children’s whispering, moved objects, and a living room that stayed cold in summer. The caller says a responding policeman advised them to leave, and they did. The caller says they later concluded the dead woman had been trying to drive them and their children away from their husband.
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- Gateway Gazette article read on air: The lady in red at the Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah9 min
- Reported poltergeist activity at the Provincetown Inn, Cape Cod4 min
- Intruder-shaped silhouette ascends and vanishes after a Ouija session3 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
- Metallic sounds, a figure by the partition, and a moving bed in a Taiwan apartment2 min
- Caller says devil poster in mother's room tore itself apart after prayer35 s
- 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
- Childhood home in Granite City, Illinois, with flying plates and slamming doors4 min
- Caller reports thirty-six years of shadows, moving doors, and lamps in a house tied to fires3 min
- A brush slides off a roof at the time their father's wife dies4 min
- Basement door latch flips open on its own in a Missouri lake house2 min
- Mobile home on the Barlow Trail: missing objects, faint figures, and a door that flew open5 min
- Flickering lights, a name called, and faint music at a movie theater after a projectionist's death3 min
- Rocking chair and voices in an 1880s Ashland rental house5 min
- A painting of an 18th-century lady, called Henrietta, that moves and cracks1 min
- A child's voice and figure in a Las Vegas family home4 min
- Light bulb found behind a radiator after a lightning strike2 min
- Strangling dream and a hag mask found at the basement stairs3 min
- Vibrating vase and mirror, and a shattering glass in a mid-1970s house5 min
- Fax confirming a San Antonio “school-bus ghost tracks” story1 min
- Ouija board session in a box canyon and a spirit speaking through a participant4 min
- Letter about Scrabble tiles rearranged overnight and a stereo changing channels2 min
- Dolls moved overnight in an antique shop in a former Kansas City orphanage4 min
- Falling darts and indoor thunder in a Hanford, California house3 min
- Santa head toy activates and phone rings in a closed San Diego restaurant2 min
- Lights, ringing phones, and footsteps at a southern Idaho radio station3 min
- Letter: Anvil moves in basement after teenagers’ pentagram ritual1 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
- Blue streak through a closed window and a light bulb behind a radiator4 min
- Previous owner’s presence, baked smell and rearranged dishes in an estate-sale house4 min
- Picture of Jesus falls off a bedroom wall and strikes a girlfriend2 min
- Footsteps from the basement, a shotgun and knives moved in a childhood home4 min
- Duplex poltergeist, a figure at the wall, and a hidden room of the former police chief4 min
- Caller senses their late father, phone problems, photo found in hallway6 min
- Letter: Discarded stuffed Ewok and scratching sounds from a bedroom closet1 min
- A small limping figure, a 1932 diary, and a drowned boy identified6 min
- A wedding ring removed before death and a ring found in a dead aunt's hands4 min
- Fax: Root beer carried down stairs by itself at a 40-day memorial gathering1 min
- Vancouver house with reported voodoo history and a priest who would not enter6 min
- Moved tables and wheelchairs in an American Legion hall in Bremerton3 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
- Voice in the kitchen, a loosened bulb, and a face in a burnt furnace3 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 San Antonio railroad crossing where cars are reportedly pushed off the tracks2 min
- Knocking, pulled covers, and a figure in 1920s dress on a hotel's fifth floor3 min
- Father hears lamp pull-chains jingle and a moan in his ear, 19614 min
- Flying boxes, voices behind a bolted hatch, and a spinning compass at sea6 min
- Nightly 12:26 wakings, cool fingers, and a child’s invisible playmate5 min
- Ouija board session with an 89-year-old landlady2 min
- 1840 Underground Railroad house: a ball slides to a child and a door latch moves5 min
- Letter: A smoky kneeling figure at a student’s bedside and a presence across the hall2 min
- A floating translucent man and a flying shed roof at a Fig Springs, Arizona, trailer5 min
- Caller says rocks rained on them for three days in California, Missouri35 s
- Child’s night visitor “[name withheld]” matched to a gravestone and a photograph5 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
- Attic noises and a presence in a family’s Victorian house4 min
- Knocking doors and a shadow figure in an Alaska church residence6 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
- An oval clock found across the room in a Chicago apartment4 min
- A sliding couch and a giant hand reported in a childhood home in Oregon4 min
- Two figures seen through sheer curtains at an old roadhouse near Prescott, Arizona3 min
- Stove glass bursts after a request for a sign; a toddler waves at an empty room5 min
- Séance in a Knoxville apartment and a swollen window that fell5 min
- Computer typed overnight messages about “Vernon”; objects thrown in a house5 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
- Percolator parts found reassembled on a windowsill3 min
- Noises of a file cabinet being ransacked below a Plymouth, New Hampshire apartment2 min
- Banging, moved objects, and a statue’s eyes at an abandoned courthouse10 min
- Nightly object movement and a brother’s singed hair in a modern home4 min
- Investigator reports tripod pulled by nothing and shadow silhouette on a stairway wall2 min
- Ouija board spells “Clock” and a Panama-shaped clock turns in Gamboa3 min
- Fireplace doors, an orb, and moaning in a Branson-area bed and breakfast4 min
- Pitchfork reportedly pushes open a closet door in an abandoned house2 min
- Poltergeist activity in a shared Fargo house and a butcher knife in bed4 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
- Yellow eyes and an unseen figure at the top of the stairs on a 13th birthday5 min
- Basement clip lamp shakes, emits flame, and a dark object flies at a girl3 min
- Figure on all fours between twin beds and ski poles strewn in a Billings basement2 min
- Moving curtains and deceased relatives appearing in dreams2 min
- Papers swirl after a caller mocks a house ghost named [name withheld]2 min
- A promised sign and a floral clock that fell at a neighbor’s wake4 min
- Broken sink handle and a matching handle found in a Hawaii hallway1 min
- Painting of a chained figure and disturbances in an 1800s San Francisco house3 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
- A truck pushed at San Antonio train tracks and children’s crying3 min
- Sensed presence and French windows opening by themselves in a rented Portland duplex, 19774 min
- Archaeology crew's equipment failures and scattered camp at a burial site3 min
- Doll moves its arm; a dark figure at the mother's bedside5 min
- Door held shut by something with dog-like feet; Cracker Jacks toy taken1 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
- Bright light, chimes, and a floating paper in their late uncle’s handwriting3 min
- Callback: A dead uncle’s footsteps and a father seen in a shared dream2 min
- Action figure falls from shelf into an open drawer while reading The Exorcist2 min
- A nine-drawer dresser blocking a bedroom door in an Eldridge, Iowa, house6 min
- Tall shadow figure in a bowler hat gliding through a grandmother’s basement4 min
- Electrical faults and a voice in TV static in a Tucson college house3 min
- Whistling, flying knives and a figure in a TV reflection in an 1860s Stillwater house4 min
- Haunted house bought in Ohio: closet racket, knocks on a bedroom door, a bouncing cat cage, and growling6 min
- A radio station at 666 Main Street, Deadwood, and a ghost called Doc Smiley4 min
- Weights restacked in a lighthouse exercise room5 min