A few months after the 2011 tsunami devastated Ishinomaki, a taxi driver waiting near the station picked up a young woman dressed strangely for the season. It was early summer, yet she wore a heavy coat and calmly asked to be taken to Minamihama, a…
Allen and Deborah Tallman were raising three children in a modest ranch house in Horicon, Wisconsin. The home sat in a relatively new subdivision, with none of the crumbling staircases, forgotten attics or century-old legends usually attached to a haunting.
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.
Mandy arrived at the Quesnel & District Museum in British Columbia in 1991 without a dramatic curse, a police report or a warning taped to her box.
In December 1716, the Wesley family’s rectory in Epworth began making sounds that did not belong to the house. A maid first heard deep groans outside the dining-room door, followed by knocks that seemed to travel from room to room.
Late in 2005, a young couple living in South Shields, England, began noticing small things around their home that made no sense. Objects appeared where nobody remembered leaving them, noises came from empty rooms, and household items seemed to shift without explanation.
The first sign was not a shadow standing at the end of a hallway or a mysterious voice calling from an empty room. It was an invasion of large black flies gathering around the screened porch of a small rental house in Gary, Indiana, during…
For years, Gerard and Laura Goodin had heard unexplained pounding around their small house on Lindley Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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,…
For generations, a human skull has remained inside Bettiscombe Manor in the quiet Dorset countryside of southern England. It has no lower jaw, no name anyone can prove and no certain explanation for how it entered the house. What generations of residents did inherit was…