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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 . [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mohonk Mountain House – New Paltz, NY- For five years I worked part time in the gift shop at Mohonk Mountain House. Anyone who had worked there long enough had some kind of personal ghost story to tell, but I was always skeptical. But one early morning in the dead of winter changed my mind.
The [...]
I met the hottest boy that I had ever seen. I was 18 and working my first full-time job here in the Hudson Valley. John was different from any boy I had ever met, he was kind and considerate. He was tall, blond, tan and had the best personality I have ever encountered in a [...]
