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
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
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
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.
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…
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.