Yvonne Croke was on her way to feed her horse at an Irish Army camp when she noticed a young woman standing near an old house. It was February 1999, and Yvonne was passing Coolmoney House in County Wicklow. The building was empty, falling apart, and due to be demolished within weeks. The girl looked … 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
Alvin Laubheim had finally had enough of the broken glasses. On January 12, 1967, he took his two shipping clerks into the warehouse and carefully showed them how to stack the merchandise. He placed drinking glasses at least eight inches from the edge of a shelf, far enough back that they couldn’t simply slide off. … Read more
The fire doors were standing wide open, but nobody was there. Security staff at Hampton Court Palace had hurried to a restricted part of the building after an alarm went off. There was no sign of anyone entering or leaving. It was October 6, 2003, and the officers decided to check the security cameras. What … Read more
In February 2000, an eBay listing appeared for a painting unlike almost anything else on the site. It showed a young boy standing beside a doll-like girl in front of a glass-paneled door, while pale hands pressed against the darkness behind them.
In the autumn of 1864, two brothers in the small Alsatian village of Illfurth became sick at almost the same time. Théobald Burner was nine years old and Joseph was seven, sons of a poor family in a village of roughly 1,200 people south of…
On February 2, 1834, Major Edward Moor returned from church to his home in Great Bealings, Suffolk, and heard an odd report from his servants.
Long after dark, travelers in southern Pembrokeshire were warned about a road leading away from Tenby toward a lonely place called Sampson Cross.
More than twenty years before Salem became synonymous with witchcraft, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Knapp began behaving strangely inside a minister’s house in Groton, Massachusetts.
Frank Wood and his 15-year-old brother were delivering chaff near Harewood, outside Christchurch, New Zealand, when curiosity pulled them into a deserted house. It was around ten o’clock, the building was empty, and almost immediately they heard something that did not sound empty at all.