Lexi’s family had been living in their old house for some time when they discovered something unusual in the basement. Tombstones. They weren’t Halloween decorations or imitation grave markers. According to Lexi, they were genuine old headstones, the kind you’d expect to find in a cemetery. Nobody in the family knew why they were there … Read more
A boy stood at the bottom of the staircase in his family’s old house in New Sweden, Maine, when he heard something speaking from upstairs. The voice was low and rough, unlike anyone he recognized. It gave him a simple instruction. “Come here.” He remembered hearing those words clearly. But the next thing he could … Read more
Vanessa Mitchell had barely moved into her new house when she saw a tall, dark figure standing inside. She didn’t recognize the man, and she was certain he wasn’t supposed to be there. It was an unsettling welcome to a home she had been excited about buying. But the strange visitor was only the beginning. … Read more
Rosina Despard heard someone outside her bedroom door and went to see who it was. She thought it might be her mother, but when she opened the door, nobody was there. A few steps down the passage, she spotted a tall woman dressed entirely in black, standing at the top of the stairs. The stranger … Read more
The first rocks came flying out of the darkness while everyone was sitting outside. Someone was obviously throwing them, so the people at the house shouted into the yard and told whoever was doing it to come out. Nobody answered. They searched around the property but couldn’t find anyone, so they finally went back inside. … Read more
Bob Cranmer had wanted the enormous house at 3406 Brownsville Road since he was a boy. In December 1988, he finally moved into the Brentwood home outside Pittsburgh with his wife, Lesa, and their four young children.
Joseph and Elizabeth Procter were not searching for a haunted house when they moved their family beside Willington Mill in northern England in 1835. Joseph was a Quaker businessman, and the property near the River Tyne was where the family expected to live while he…
Sam and Judith Haney thought they were buying a new home in Crosby, Texas. In 1981, they moved into the Newport subdivision northeast of Houston, surrounded by new streets, fresh lawns and houses that looked like the beginning of an ordinary suburban life.
When Mary and William Ricketts moved their family into Hinton Ampner in Hampshire in 1765, Mary had little reason to believe the old stories surrounding the property.
In 1989, Bill and Liz Rich traded town life for an isolated farmhouse beneath the mountains of the Brecon Beacons in Wales. Bill was an artist, Liz was pregnant, and Heol Fanog seemed almost designed for the life they wanted: open countryside, room for animals,…