it's Halloween so tell me your stories

[LuvOrlando]

I'll go first.

The house I grew up in had weird stuff happen all the time to both me & people who came to visit during my brother and my late teen years. Some of the most bizzarre happened when I made my Grandfathers old Surgeons office my first apartment. Once as I was sitting on the bed with my back to the TV which was about 6 inches behind me (small room). My TVwas off and all of a sudden it started to make loud static noise. I thought I was imagining things but my dog & 2 cats all jumped on the bed with me and were sniffing & staring at the TV. I tried hitting buttons but nothing happened, the remote was across the room and suddenly it went quiet. Another time a close friend took my dog out for a quick walk one night and started calling from the porch in front of the door. when I got to the door he was staining out there with this stunned look on his face and he told me that when he tried to get back into the house a bright ball of blue light suddenly appeared in front of him which followed him as he moved towards the house hovering at eye level. it was blocking the entrance and suddenly disappeared when I showed up, I never saw it but the person this happened to has never been anything other than stable.

There are other stories of things that happened to other people in the house,and in the neighborhood to be honest. My BFF growing up in her Grandparents house a few doors down had weird stuff happen over there too. Apparently, when our families bought the land there was a empty lot.

When my Grandmother was alone as a widow and needed money a family approached her for the garden next to the house. To be honest, they took advantage of her and paid her below what it was worth. Once they built the house a beautiful mini custom mansion, within 3 years the father was dead, the adult son was diagnosed with a horrible illness and the adult daughter was divorced. The mother sold her dream house and as we said our goodbyes she said she wished she never moved there and that she thought it cursed her family.

Nothing weird has ever happened to any of the same people away from that area,everyone is perfectly sane and healthy. I don't know what was going on but I would never ever consider trying to find out.

Anyone else?

 

[qtwns]

Every year on Halloween, all the candy that I buy disappears before the Trick-or Treating starts. Very spooky!

 

[Topper]

Anyone else?

I'll pass

 

[Acklander]

years and years ago, I used to work as the night auditor at an old country inn. When I was training for the job, the woman training me explained that occasionally you'll get someone calling down in the middle of the night complaining about a woman crying hysterically in the next room, and that if that happened to just offer to move them to another room if one is available. She explained that always around 1AM it sounded like crying coming from where the old maid's quarters used to be in the old days, and that some people were sensitive to the "spirits" and were able to hear her distress. She said that the crying usually stopped after about 20 minutes.

Sure enough, every now and then I'd get a call from someone complaining about the crying, even if no one was staying in the other room. The people who actually stayed in the old maid quarters never called and complained, just the people in the room next to it. Also in that wing of the building you'd get the elevator going up and down by it self without anyone in it, pushing the buttons, and many times walking through the hallway you'd all the sudden run into a cold patch of air.
I never was able to hear the woman crying (even when I went up right after someone complained about it), but I was able to feel the cold patches, and always heard the elevator running.

 

[Dax]

In one of my past homes I lived in, we were told that the woman who was in it before us had a son, who used to do all the handy things around the house for her, and also visited all the time. He tragically was hit and killed by a car when he was walking along the side of the road at night.

Well in the 5yrs we lived there, I hated taking showers in the house alone. I would be in the shower, the dogs would be locked up for the night, or in the bathroom with me, and I would hear footsteps walking through the house. At first I thought nothing of it. Later, I would get out and look, but find nothing. For the longest time I never said anything to DH, then one day we were discussing something and I mentioned it to him. He told me he hears the same thing! It was the creepiest thing..Our cats and dogs were also known to stop, stare, and randomly growl at "nothing"...We were so glad to move, but sometimes I think the ghosts have followed us, I still hear footsteps sometimes, and not even the same house.

 

[Teresa Pitman]

Well, I don't have a scary story, but I do have a funny Halloween story.

When my youngest son was three, I took him trick or treating for the first time. He thought it was great! We got to one house, and the man who answered the door invited us in, and then held out a big bowl of candy and said to my son "Take whatever you want." My son looked around, picked up the man's cat (which had come over to investigate us) and tried to stuff the cat into his trick-or-treat bag! The man and I both cracked up laughing! I had to explain to my son that "take whatever you want" referred only to the candy, not household pets....

Teresa

 

[charming23]

Mine was a few days before Halloween when I was a sophmore in high school. My two best friends M and J and I had rented the movie "Scream" to watch at M's house. We were so excited because no one was going to be home. We had just settled in for the movie when it started to rain making it even spookier out. About halfway through the movie the phone rings and it is the voice from the movie on the other line. We laughed it off at first until a few minutes later when I looked toward their by window and saw the mask from the movie there holding a knife. The three of us girls freaked out and ran to make sure the doors were locked all while being chased. We hid out in M's basement until her parents got home and found out that the culprits were M and J's brothers. I did not speak to the boys for a good month after that.

 

[lisajl]

Well, I don't have a scary story, but I do have a funny Halloween story.

When my youngest son was three, I took him trick or treating for the first time. He thought it was great! We got to one house, and the man who answered the door invited us in, and then held out a big bowl of candy and said to my son "Take whatever you want." My son looked around, picked up the man's cat (which had come over to investigate us) and tried to stuff the cat into his trick-or-treat bag! The man and I both cracked up laughing! I had to explain to my son that "take whatever you want" referred only to the candy, not household pets....

Teresa

That is the cutest story ever!
When my boys were younger we were walking in the neighborhood. We came to our neighbors house and looked down, a cat had followed us to his door.
I said, pointing at the cat, "This kid wins for his costume!"

 

[lisajl]

My scary stories consist of an old house near an Indian burial ground.
The house I grew up in was that house.
My oldest sister was reliving the story with me a few weeks ago.
I told her to stop, I knew what she was talking about.

We three girls were home alone. Our brothers were at a basketball game, my dad had gone to pick up our mom. She was a waitress and worked the night shift.

All three of us, at the same time heard someone shuffling up the steps.
We all froze. Things like this happened at this house.
We got up from our beds, looked around the corner at the stairs.
We still heard the shuffling, but no one was coming up the stairs.
The three of us took off out of that house like a bullet out of a gun!

My brother in law was trying to tell me it was just someone in our basement.
I had to remind him it was an old wet basement, no concrete or wood stairs.
He said he still did not believe, I told him I did not care, he did not live through it like we did.

 

[jsmith]

My office used to be located in the building that had been the Ft Carson post Hospital from the mid 1930s until 1983. All kinds of weird things went on in there ( do a google for the 10 most haunted places in Colorado).
I have been working late at night-leaving the building i turned and looked down the hall-and saw someone watching me.

I have come in early in the morning-1st to arrive-and smelled cigar smoke in the hall(smoking has been banned in goverment buildings for nearly 20 years) and heard someone walking-but if you looked for them there was no one.

the best one-three of us were working late one night-we all three heard footsteps coming across the ceiling and down the stairs-a door at the end of the bay were were working in opened-then closed-the footsteps came across the room-and something cold stopped behind us-as if someone were looking over our shoulders. After a couple of minutes my co-worker says" Look we have to get this finished before we can leave, so dont bother us". The cold went away-the footsteps went back across the floor, the door opened, the closed, the steps went back up the stairs and back across the ceiling. All of the 15 of us who worked there had several odd experiences-and we generally refered the the "presences" as Bubba and Charlie. The never felt malovent they were just there. We kind of figured that there were more than two of them since that kind of place would be full of people with unfinished business. We moved out of the building in January of 07 and the odd experiences stopped.

 

[Magpie]

My mother still talks about the time she was driving late at night. I was about 5, and fast asleep in the back of the car. Suddenly, just as we were passing my friend "Johnny"'s house, I sat up and exclaimed, "Johnny's sick!" Then I fell asleep again.

My mother thought that was strange, so the next day she called up Johnny's mom to ask how they were, and sure enough... Johnny'd been up the previous night with a fever and sweats.

Now, I wouldn't believe her, but I had a similar incident with one of my children. I went out to see a movie with friends one night when my son was just about 2, and hardly talking yet. We didn't know what movie we'd see, until we got to the theatre. It ended up being the Sixth Sense. When I got home, everyone was asleep. I found my son curled up in bed with my husband. When I went to move him, he blinked and said sleepily, "I fee dead people." I almost dropped the kid!

I thought maybe my husband had said something to him, but he says he had no idea what movie we'd gone to see until I told him the next day.

Kids can be freaky sometimes.

 

[monkeyboy]

only give candy to moms in costume

 

[LuvOrlando]

Thanks, some made me smile and some gave me the heebie-jeebies.

I love a good scary story on Halloween. BOO!