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(NAME) Bratmobile

(EMAIL) anonymous

(Location) Rogers Park, Chicago, Il

(Story)Jock House & Apartment on Arthur

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All of these events happened in Rogers Park about 3 or 4 years ago and as far as I know are still happening. Please note: these stories are entirely true and were either witnessed by me or friends of mine. I hope you like them.

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Apartment on Arthur

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Two friends of mine were renting an apt. on Arthur and had a lot of weird things happen to them. Outside of the usual " I could swear I left those lights on/off" or " Why is the psych. paper I just finished in the freezer?" my friends would hear the sounds of people moving around, talking and even doing dishes when they were the only ones there.Their back door saw action as well. You could only lock the door with a key so the key ring was always left in the lock when anyone was home. Once when my friend was home doing dishes she heard the keys jingling in the lock as if someone was trying to get in. She looked up and out the window set into the door. There was no one there. Yet the keys continued to turn in the lock. She ran to get her roommate but when they got back the keys were swinging as if they had just stopped.They also used to have a ceiling fan in the living room that had never worked and that the landlord was always promising to fix but never did. One day as I was visiting I noticed that the fan was not only working but was spinning so fast that it was rocking back and forth in its base. I tried pulling the chain to slow it down but it didn't work. I yelled to my friend (who was in another room at the time) " Hey,------! You better call your landlord to fix this fan again, it won't slow down!" My friend came into the room and said " The landlord never touched the thing. We just came home one day and it was on. We called the landlord to thank him but he said he had never been over.The fan has a mind of its' own. It turs itself off and on all the time. We never touch it." Needless to say, I never touched it again either.

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Jock House

Another group of friends had managed to rent an entire house( unheard of in Rogers Park when it comes to students) that turned out to be haunted. Two of them "shared" the room where the activity occured. The bedroom was really two rooms, a large room with a smaller room attached. There was no door dividing the two rooms so you would have a fairly unobstructed view of one room when you were in the other. It was a really weird set-up. My friends came to the conclusion that the smaller room was at one time a nursery because of what would happen in the room at night. The guy who slept in the larger room often woke up in the middle of the night to see a misty figure leave his room and go into the "nursery", bend over his friend's bed then disappear. I guess he just thought it was the effects of too much cheap beer too late at night until his roommate told him about the recurring dream he had. In this dream he would be lying on his bed asleep then out of nowhere a "smiling lady" would bend over him, look into his face, then disappear. I thought it was B.S. too until I realized that

A:Their respective girlfriends NEVER stayed overnight. I mean they wouldn't even go upstairs

B: These guys, due to the long term effects of beer, contact sports and college life in general, were not the most imaginative fellows you could ever meet. So I don't think they made it up. They seemed too genuinely freaked out by the whole thing.

C: Their girlfriends weren't any more imaginative than they were. Thanks for taking time out to read this REALLY long post.

Bratmobile

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NAME) Michelle

(EMAIL) anonymous (Location) Northwest Indiana

(Story)Grandma? Is that you?

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I woke up during the night to use the restroom. While coming back to my bedroom I saw a person in my brother's room. I thought that it was my mother checking on my brother, as if he had fallen ill. I noticed that the figure was not my mother but a white figure of a woman very thin, like a person who was starving to death and had dark hair. The figure looked me in the eye and raised her finger to her lips as to say "Shh". I nodded and the figure smiled at me. I ran back to bed, very fightened. The figure looked similar to pictures of my grandmother who died before I was born. However, I am not positive that it was her.

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(NAME) Daisy

(Story) Palmar House

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You ever hear any stories about the Palmer House Hilton downtown being haunted??? My wife had an experience there a few weeks ago when we spent the night there.

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NAME) anonymous

(EMAIL) anonymous

(Location) undisclosed

(Story) I told you not to hit the horse.

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I have a friend who had this rocking horse that he said was haunted. One night I went to his house and I wanted to take a look at the supposed haunted horse. He just turned to me and said ok, just don't hit the horse. I took a stick from outside and I hit the horse. Immediately the lights went out and the horse's eyes started glowing blood-red. My friends mother came downstairs and then the lights came back on and the horse's eyes quickly faded from red to diamondy-black again. He decided to then burn the horse because it was an effigy of pure evil. The week after I went back to his place and I accidentally stepped in the spot where the horse stood and my foot went through the floor where I happened to sprain it. I never went near that spot again and I've had nightmares ever since.

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(NAME) kendrick

(Location) quebec,Quebec

(Story) Ghostly Child

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It all started at 2:00 a.m I woke up and while walking into the t.v room.

I saw a tall transparent child I would describe the person to be around 4ft, 4in tall, but i'm 4ft7" tall

It seemed to not worry about me stairing at it. I followed it till I lost him while entering the kitchen. He just disapeared.

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(NAME) louis garcia

(EMAIL) anonymous

(Location) murray utah

(Story) 2 much

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I've seen too much .and there is alot going to happen this month if you want to know more get a hold of me.

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(NAME) undisclosed

(EMAIL) ld_lioncourt@hotmail.com

(Location) Dubrave, Bosnia

(Story)

Shaken but not stirred

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Mr. Ghost,

I'm not one to really believe in things of the strange and unexplained, but I had an experience that scared me in more than one way. Call me crazy, but here it goes. I'm a Sergeant in the U.S. Army serving in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I had arrived to my base camp at 11 p.m. and bedded down for the night. There were about 9 other soldiers and myself in the tent that night. There was light coming through the side of the tent since the sides were rolled up. I was just getting comfortable and sleepy when I saw a shadowy figure, without sound, came accross the tent and shake me. I sat up and thought that someone had shaken me because I tend to snore. I dismissed it and tried to go back to sleep. I was getting sleepy again and this figure came from across the tent and shook me again. I really cannot explain it. The tent had a wood floor that creaked at the slightest movement and everyone else was knockedout. I talked to my mother same time later and mentioned it to her. She told me that my father had the same thing happen to him when they were on vacation in England, well before I was born. Do you think i'm crazy?

**NOTE (I don't think your crazy I have seen similar things.)

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(NAME) grace

(EMAIL) demon1100@yahoo.com

(Location) new york city

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I was born on Cape Cod, and after I was born, my parents bought a a house. The house was just recently sold to people who I don't know, but anyway, I was eight when it happened. My god mother Heather or Big R as we called her would come vist us from Boston and one day she told me a story it was about a family of six who had died in a fire. The house they lived in was our house, and the fire had destroied half of the house. The fire had been started by a little girl who instead of her older sister had been trying to light the fire. The house caught fire and burned. The little girl had run through the house trying to save her little brother her favorite sibling. She dident save him, so she runs through the house looking for him forever. If you ever see the girl you feel the room get very hot like you were in a fire and here her calling to her brother, anyway, so I was walking to the kitchen, and the old living room was where she had been killed, and the little girl suddenly apeared she was calling, "Jacob! Jacob!" and crying so hard it was painful to hear. She ran through the room and suddenly the room arupted into flames, and I saw the boy run to the girls arms, and then climb out a window I had just opened. later that day, I got my father to take me to the public libary, and I looked up the family of 152 New Boston Road, and it turns out I wasn't the only person to see that image and they had survived. The only other ghost I ever saw was an older girl in a long white skirt in my bedroom, but thats another story. I beleve that that house is a very strong window to the other side and it also has many many bad lucks attached to it.

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(NAME) Mai

(EMAIL) Anonymous

(Location) Flint Michigan

(Story)I lied there her head popped off

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Ok here it goes, My best friend and I (We will call her Libby) were walking down the street over to the movie store because we were having a sleepover and getting scary movies. Then we went back to Libby's and her parents are divorced and she lives with her mom and 4 brothers. But her brothers are all older and moved out and one had fell down some stairs and her mom had to drive him to the hospital and didn't know when she would be back. So we decided to go in the Den and get popcorn and watch the movies. So we put one in and then the power went out , but there was no storm so we light candles and decided to play Ouija and summon some spirits. Well we started to play Ouija and asked it what happened to the power. It said a evil spirit was among us and we should go to Mai's. (My house) Well we didn't care and then the candles all blew out then we heard noises so we tried to light the candles again and they wouldn't light so we went to get flashlights from the basement and I fell down the staris and Libby was screaming something had her so I tried with all my strenght to get up but my leg was broken. So I lied there and winced in pain and when I came to the lights were on and Libby was hung by her long red hair and her head popped off. And the next time I came to I was in the hospital. And my leg was broken and Libby was dead. . I have never been so scared in my life!

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Subject: La LLorna of Calumet

Please ad to your story that this woman drowned her three young childern and this is the reason for her showing up by the little cal river. She is often spotted when a child is deathly ill and it is said that she comes to take the souls of children.

Meow

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(NAME) cindy

(EMAIL) juliete21@hotmail.com

(Location) mo

(Story) long white dress

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Several times I have felt the presence of people. Once, was shortly after my grandfather died. I was in my kitchen late at night drawing ,and felt some one touch my shoulder, and just thought it was him. We were not close, but my thoughts just went to him. Another time me and my sister were at a party in the country at the same time we saw this figure floating across the field she had on a long white dress, long hair, and she started to come closer to where we were. It seemed like no one else saw this lady, and if they did they did not say anything. it was not scary, but just unbelievable. We had a friend drive us home I guess we did not want to see what she was doing. She did not look unhappy, just floating maybe looking for some where to go!!!!!!! Please do not think that i am making this up. No-way,,,,,,,, It really happened to me and to us she too remembers well.........

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NAME) Anon

(EMAIL) Anon

(Location) London, England

(Story)'whooshing' white glowing mist

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My cousin and his girfriend live in a house in London, England. The house, is a very old, large Victorian house, and has been converted many times, over many years. One evening while watching TV, My cousin and his girlfriend heard a 'whooshing' sound. As they looked up, they saw a white misty haze float over their heads, and up into the ceiling which in effect, went straight into their bedroom. The puzzling thing was, one of them heard it, and the other saw it. After discussing this matter, and trying to convince one another that it was just their imaginations, the decided to go to the bedroom, and investigate. Of course, nothing to be seen. The next evening, one of their two dogs, started jumping up and down and barking at a wall. Again, after checking it out, and calming the dog down, nothing was there. After a period of two weeks, with the dogs going mad at one particular wall, the thought they must be infested with rats. After calling out a guy to check this out! , and after a few days of ripping up floor boards, and checking inside walls, they were told that there wasn't a trace of mice, rats or any kind of unwanted pest. But still, the dogs were going mad at this one particular wall. The dogs stopped this after about one week. One morning, my cousin's girlfriend was running late for work, and asked my cousin, to leave the car key's on the living room table. He did this, told her they were there, then left for work himself. She walked out from the kitchen to get the key's from the table, but they were no where to be seen. After cursing a little, and running around frantically trying to find them, she heard a rattle of keys, and then saw them right on the table where her boyfriend said he had left them. Putting all of these experiences together, she grabbed the dogs, and left the house and wouldn't go back in until her boyfriend was back from work. That night, just before walking up the stairs to the bedroom, My cousin heard the same 'wooshing' sound he had heard before. At the top of the stairs appeared a bright white glowing mist that just floated there for 2 minutes or so, then just disapeared. Obviously, they couldn't believe their eyes! They discussed it and realised that there really wasn't much they could do. The spirit wasn't trying to hurt them, just wanted to make itself known, and after a few strong drinks, they decided instead of moving out, they would just have to deal with it! 5 years on from the first sighting, they are still living in the same house, with the same ghost, who still appears as a white misty haze in almost every room (obviously not at the same time!). They are not bothered about it at all, and have infact gotten used to it. Even the dogs don't go mad when it appears. Maybe the occasional bark, but that just gives the couple a good warning that their new house guest is just paying them another visit.

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