Nationality: Cantonese/American

Primary Language: Cantonese

Other Language(s): English

Age: 58

Occupation: Engineer

Residence: Yorba Linda

Performance Date: 19th of November 2023

This story was recounted to me through email and occurs in the 1980s in South Pasadena. The informant was living in a two person apartment with their roommate. The informant called this specific story the scariest one they can remember as the details are still very vivid to them. They noted that they always thought the apartment was shaped very strangely, and following the incident said the apartment was shaped like a pentagram. Following the story, the informant relayed to me their belief that these being are from other dimensions and although we are not supposed to cross paths, someone is calling them to us.

P was working in their apartment at night with the windows and doors closed. They recall it being after 12 AM and that they were home alone, the roommate was out at the time. While studying at their desk out of the corner of their eye, P noticed that his roommate’s door was sliding open. P said that it was like someone was walking out of the room. P’s body went cold and the roommate’s dog began to bark at the door. When the door started barking, the door stopped opening. P checked the air conditioner to see if it was on, but it was off, then they turned on the lights in the house. The next month P moved out of the apartment and that’s when P realized the apartment was shaped like a pentagram with sliding doors at the start of each corner. Later, P’s roommate moved out but did not give a reason why.

I found this story quite strange as the first thing P mentioned was the shape of the apartment. It’s quite strange that the apartment would be built in the shape of a pentagram, but it’s definitely a supernatural shape used in a lot of rituals. P made it a very big point that the apartment was weirdly shaped. P thought that the apartment might’ve been a door for things to come through because of its shape. P is my uncle and is known in the family for having a 6th sense that allows him to see strange/supernatural things. He often zones out staring into the distance and my dad thinks it’s because he’s seeing things in the room. He’s was hesitant to talk about this subject which only makes me think it’s more real. What he’s relayed to me also sounds like many other stories about being home alone and the dog barking at something unseen. I don’t think my uncle is the kind of guy to look up those ghost stories and take those tropes to come up with his own story, so I can only think this story is true. What I also find interesting is that my cousin has the same habit of staring off randomly, so she might have the same thing as my uncle, I might have to ask her about it too.

Nationality: American
Primary Language: English
Other language(s): N/A
Age: 18 yrs
Occupation: College Student
Residence: Southern California
Performance Date: 8 years ago

H.H is 18 years old. She lives in Southern California, in the same hometown as I. I had a conversation about her regarding any ghost experiences she has had in life. She mentions a story in the home she’s lived in since elementary school. She tells me this ghost story that happened when she was around 10 years old.

“It was maybe 8pm. The sun had already gone down and it was pretty dark. I was upstairs alone and my family had gone out leaving just me and my sister in the house with our animals. The bulldog was upstairs with me and we were playing tug a war in the middle hallway. Everything seemed fine- completely normal when he suddenly dropped the rope and looked around suddenly startled. His fur stuck up, clearly spooked and he started walking away from me. Stopping just before the open laundry room. It was dark, and the machines were off. Suddenly, it was very, very, quiet. He stood there and stared for a good long few minutes. And then starts barking aggressively at the empty room. I didn’t know what to do, he was starting to frighten me and I was spooked by the whole empty room situation he was suddenly offended by. I closed the door and he stopped barking but did not get comfortable again until I brought him downstairs and away from the room. He never wanted to go back up those stairs… and the laundry room shares a wall with my bedroom.” 

I think this ghost story is very interesting. I’ve known H.H for some time and know she has experienced many different spirits in life. Hearing this was interesting though as it tied into the idea of dogs being able to see more than the human eye can. After she did tell me this though I did ask for another story as this first one left me so intrigued and it feels like she may have vengeful ghosts in her house considering her dog didn’t seem too fond of the laundry room ghost.

Primary Language: English
Other language(s): Spanish
Age: 18 yrs
Occupation: College Student
Residence: Southern California
Performance Date: 7 years ago

A.R is 18 years old. She lives in a town neighboring my own in Southern California. She has already told me many ghost stories about her home in the past and I asked for a new one to write my ghost stories collection paper on. A.R. told me a story that happened back on Halloween night when she was eleven years old at the house she currently lives in. 

“It was a couple years ago on Halloween. I was eleven years old and back then my house had a whole hallway with all the rooms. At the end of the hallway was my moms room, and my cousin’s room(B.Y) was next to hers. Across from my cousin’s room was the bathroom that was also connected to my parents room. On Halloween, after trick-or-treating my family and I fell asleep in my moms room. There were only 3 of us at home at the time, me, my mom, and my sibling. At this time we already kind of had a feeling that the house was haunted. At 3am my mom and I woke up to hearing the garage door open, and we figured B.Y was home because the only way to get in was through using a password to get into the garage. He walked down the hallway and went to his room, he stayed there for like ten minutes, walked into the bathroom and stayed there for like fifteen minutes, then walked down the hallway and closed the garage. My mom ends up calling him and asking why he left but he said he wasn’t home. He was at Jack in the box. His friends were all there saying yeah he did not go back yet. So he hurried home as he was the man of the house at the time and my mom figured someone possibly broke in. He finally came home and we all fell back to sleep, but my mom ended up waking up at one point again in the night. She told me that she turned her head and saw two kids standing with only their heads poking out by the bathroom door. They were blue and just stared at my mom. She told me about the kid sighting not too long ago now though because she didn’t want me to get scared when I was younger. I do believe that house and especially the garage is haunted though as so many scary things have happened to me there.”

I honestly find this story to be pretty scary. The fact that A.R.s cousin wasn’t even home when they heard noises coming from outside the room is terrifying in itself. I’ve already heard of many scary stories of the ghosts that haunt her home and they all have spooked me out. I did find this one interesting though as she said her mom actually saw two blue children. It’s definitely peculiar and I would love to hear from her moms side one day, but hearing this story in general makes me wonder why her house is so active with spirits. 

Nationality: American
Primary Language: English
Age: 60
Occupation: Grocer
Residence: Maryland
Performance Date: November 25, 2023

Text:

W: “We have a neighbor and he’s got a very spooky vibe to him. It used to be a family living next door, a husband, wife, and son. One day, maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I woke up to someone screaming early in the morning. It was like a nonstop very painful type of scream. Our other neighbors called the cops and we found out it was because the son had found his mother dead in the attic. Apparently, she had hung herself and the son found her. Now what I think is that she is haunting that house and her husband. The son went to college a few years ago and never comes back, I think I’ve only seen him a couple of times over the years. There were rumors that the wife committed suicide because her husband treated her so badly. Now the man is a recluse, he never says hello to us even when we’re super friendly. He seems kind of neurotic too, he’ll wash his whole car if it has one spec of dirt on it. I think she’s haunting him because the attic window is always open no matter the weather and I swear I’ve seen lights flickering in there. What else would would make this man so jumpy? He always seems angry. I’m surprised he hasn’t sold the house since it’s so big and he’s the only one living there now.”

Context:

W is middle-aged male living just outside of Washington, DC. This story was told to me when I asked if he knew any creepy stories about murders/ghosts in regular homes. This came to W’s mind. W does not necessarily believe in ghosts, but loves a good story.

Analysis:

I know of this story because I live with W, so it seems very believable to me for there to be a ghost in the house. I have witnessed the neighbor and his weird, grumpy attitudes. It’s such a sad story, but by the way the man acts now, I can see him possibly being a cause for his wife’s suicide. I have seen the attic window open as well, but never the lights flickering. Flickering lights, however, are often signs of ghosts, and attics are creepy places, so a lot of evidence points to a ghost living there.