Fast forward to the next spring. I was teaching at the local middle school. I was in the break room with a number of people. All of them filtered out, except one older lady who was a teacher’s aid at the school. She had been close friends with the previous owners of the home, another family with young kids who had moved away for job opportunities. She asked me how I liked the house, I said it was great to have room for the kids. Then she looked around to make sure we were alone, and asked, “Have you seen the woman in yellow yet?” I nearly crapped my pants on the spot, and by the look on my face she knew I had. I told her my story, and she said one of the little girls who had lived there before talked about the yellow lady keeping her from getting hurt.

25. “The Second I Noticed It, It Moved”

Creepiest thing I’ve experienced was when I “saw” a ghost. I put it in quotations because there very well could be a rational explanation for what I thought I experienced, but nevertheless it was still really creepy. About two years ago, my friends and I visited Letchworth Village, in Rockland County, NY. It was a psychiatric hospital for the mentally and physically disabled opened in 1911 and was the site of the first polio vaccine trials in the United States. Letchworth was finally shut down in the 90’s because of the rampant abuse and mistreatment of the live-in patients there but many of the hospital’s abandoned buildings are still standing on the campus, and most are decayed enough, or already broken into, to be able to easily climb in.

The final building we explored was once the main hospital, I believe. My friend mentioned that this place was apparently featured on some Ghost Hunters type show as “one of the most haunted places in America” or something and so we were pretty excited when we saw someone had graffittied on the wall THE GHOSTS ARE HERE.

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The first room had rusted metal bars suspended by wires hanging from the ceiling. This in itself was not out of the ordinary, but as we entered, a gust of wind shook the bars which began to swing and clank eerily against each other. Needless to say, it was a nice spooky entrance.

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Upon exiting that tetanus trap, we entered a long hallway with a big staircase leading to the basement and the second floor. Ignoring every single horror-film infused instinct to not go down the flight of foreboding stairs into what could be the very gates of hell, we climbed down to the basement which was of course, extremely dark, save for a welcoming burst of light streaming in from a broken window near the stairs.

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With our flashlights on we made our way slowly through the basement hall and at about halfway we found the old morgue. One of my photographer friends setup his tripod and began taking a long exposure of the morgue as the rest of us waited and jokingly tried to convince him to climb inside of it.

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As this was taking place, I happened to look back down the hall from where we came. I couldn’t make out any details of the hallway, except for the beam of light, at the other end. It looked as if there was something partially blocking the beam of light coming in from the broken window. Kind of like a shadow but more like a silhouette– where a person’s upper torso and head would have be illuminated by the light, instead of just darkness. However the second I noticed it– it FUCKING MOVED and the beam of light was undisturbed once again. Right around that time my fight or flight instinct kicked in, and my bowels went a little loose as the SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS came clearly from behind the doors of the unexplored room ahead of us.

I can’t remember if I screamed or cried, probably a little of both, but we left pretty quickly after that.

26. Saved From Beyond

When I was 9 my sister was hit and killed by a car. This happened right up the road from where we lived– two houses up, to be exact. About a year after her death I was walking across the street, two houses up, when I heard my name yelled, very loudly. I stopped and looked behind me. No one was there. When I turned around there was a car in front of me. It was passing me and the woman driving clearly did not see me. She was looking at the radio. She drove past me and I finished crossing the street. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that if I hadn’t stopped I would’ve been hit by her. I looked and never saw anyone outside or at a window. Never figured out who it was who yelled my name.

27. The Pregnancy

When my daughter was around a year and a half, almost 2ish, my sister in law was pregnant.

One night my husband and I are going through the bedtime routine with our daughter, singing silly songs, reading books, etc. When out of the blue she looks up toward the ceiling and says “Hi baby!” And starts waving. She giggles a little. Then waves again this time saying “Bye bye baby!” Then goes back to what she was doing like nothing happened.

The next morning my sister in law calls asking if we can take her to the ER. She had a miscarriage.

28. A Creature Climbing The Wall

Wasn’t going to post about this because it makes it that much more real, but it’s probably for the best instead of trying to deny it.

When I was a young child, me and my family moved around a lot (Coast Guard). We always drove, so we stayed in a lot of hotels. Practically every time I stayed in a hotel, after my family had fallen asleep, I would see a creature moving back and forth between the walls and the ceiling. The creature looked like a spider monkey, with its tail curled around its body. It moved back and forth not smoothly but in small jolts, almost like what you see while using a flip book. I was a bit intimidated by it, but was never stricken with fear. I saw it from as young as I can remember until about age 10. After that it just stopped.

My rational adult mind tells me that my imagination as a child ran wild. I tell myself that I expected to see the creature, and that’s why I did so often. In the back of my head, I know what I saw.

29. A Woman In A White Dress. He Is Afraid Of Her

So I grew up in a two family house for the first ten years of my life. My best friend lived upstairs and after my family had sold our part of the house to another family and moved I’d often visit him. One time when visiting, I saw the woman who bought our part of the house and currently lived there at the time. We make small talk and then she asks me if I remember seeing a woman in my room. I tell her no and she tells me that my parents told her about me complaining about a woman in a white dress by my bed when I was a kid. According to her my parents mentioned it when selling the house. She also tells me that her son is now seeing the woman and that he is afraid of her. I disregard it and sleep uneasily that night. The next morning I ask my parents about it and they completely ignore it. They don’t say its true or untrue, they just say nothing. I’m not sure to this day what happened for sure but I hope the lady that lived in my old house then was joking…

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