Congratulations to our Winners! If I Only Knew Then… by Hope Thorpe – First Place Winner An Unearthly Voice by Melissa Mezzo – Second Place Winner Ouija Board Incident by Cliff Zier – Third Place Winner The Entries Pipa at the Door Ouija Board Incident The Pumpkin and the Chapstick Wake Up! An Unearthly Voice Something That Did More Than Go Bump in the Night The Ghost... [Read more]
FIRST PLACE WINNER! My family and I moved from Florida back to New York when I was 15 years old. We rented a home in the Town of Montgomery. It was a beautiful country home with a large back yard. The home was a Colonial style, with original hardwood floors and a fire place. My favorite room in the house was the bathroom. There was on old fashion tub with claw feet. Perfect for long... [Read more]
It was over twenty years ago now. My husband and I lived in a tiny house in Beacon, NY. It was a converted summer cabin in an area of the city known as Groveville Park. When we first moved into the house it had a feel to it, sort of like someone was standing next to you, staring intently at you all the time. As time went on things began to change and the house began to grow very creepy. Over the... [Read more]
“What are you so happy about?” snapped Nancy as I met her and the other neighborhood girls on the sidewalk. Nancy, Vicki, Denise and I were on our twice-weekly walk to spend the afternoon at the “Y”. “What are you so happy about? Don’t you know the President is dead?” What? The President is dead? President Kennedy? No, I didn’t know. That afternoon? No, no one had told me.... [Read more]
It was in November of last year (2009), My husband and I went to Ireland for our honeymoon. When we arrived we drove to our first hotel, which was the Clontarf Castle Hotel in Ireland, which is 2 miles from Dublin City Center. The Clontarf Castle was built in 1172, and in 1997 it was open to the public as a 4 star hotel. There is remnants of the old castle inside the Hotel itself in the main lobby... [Read more]
For nearly 20 years, my in-laws ran a bed-and breakfast in Upper Red Hook, NY. The house was a 1752 Dutch colonial built up high on a hill. The ground floor housed a half-basement, and the original kitchen; a massive stone fireplace for cooking worthy of a Hollywood movie. The first floor housed two large living rooms and the added-on kitchen. The second floor featured two large bedrooms, which were... [Read more]
My ghost story begins in my childhood home in Yonkers, NY. The paranormal occurrences began before I was born in the form of voices and shadows, but picked up once I was born, and manifested a lot stronger than it had in previous years. I have always had an interest in the paranormal, which is why I believe the entity usually took on my voice and did things when I was in the house to get my... [Read more]
SECOND PLACE WINNER! It was 1973 , I was six years old when my family moved into an apartment in a two-family home on Lee Avenue in Yonkers, NY. My mom decided she wanted to clean and paint the apartment before we moved in so it would ready for us . That very first night as she began painting the dining room the door that lead to the kitchen started opening and closing all by it’s self . She... [Read more]
This is my true ghost story, it’s not really that scary but it is true and it happened to me and some of my family. My father Eugene died of cancer on October 20, three days before his birthday. The night that he died my cousin Audrey was at my brother’s house in Blooming Grove, New York. She was helping my sister-in-law with the kids. While she was cleaning, she heard my nephew Timothy say,... [Read more]
THIRD PLACE WINNER! OSWEGO COLLEGE, Lake Ontario, 1985 I was in the TV lounge on our dorm floor when somebody came in yelling, “Guys, you gotta see this!” I ignored him. He came back again yelling, “This is amazing! They’re using a Ouija board and contacting a spirit!” I chuckled and thought ‘yea right’. He came in 2 more times and on the 5th I got annoyed... [Read more]