Real Life Supernatural Stories That Are Sure To Spook

In case the state of the world isn’t scary enough for you right now, you are in for a real spook-fest as you read through people’s real encounters with the unknown! These supernatural experiences are sure to keep you on the edge of your seats and the underneath of your bed double checked.

With your nightlights on and your popcorn popped, the fun is about to begin!

Once A Nurse, Always A Nurse

When I was around nine years old, I caught chickenpox. I woke up in the middle of the night and called for my mom because little kids can’t do ANYTHING for themselves when they’re sick. I got so much more than I bargained for.

A different woman came into my bedroom and sat on my bed and stroked my hair until I fell asleep. In the fog of illness, I thought it was my grandmother in a strange outfit. When I woke up that morning, I went downstairs for breakfast and asked where my grandma was.

My mom told me that she was at her house like she always was. I told my mom that grandma had been in my room the night before, but she just laughed and said that I must have been dreaming.

When I told the story to my aunt while she was babysitting me that day, she had a very different reaction. She asked me to tell her about the person’s unusual outfit, and I described a nurse’s uniform from the 1950s. My aunt was shocked. What I was describing was something much eerier.

I was describing the wife of the previous owner of our house. That woman had been a nurse in the fifties and had passed a few months previously. The whole encounter definitely gave me a very spooky feeling.

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Through A Child’s Eyes

I have a twin brother. When we were around six years old, we were in central Australia with our dad and older brother. We were on a nature walk and my twin fell behind us a bit. The next moment shocked me to my core. We then heard him scream and saw him running to catch up with us.

Through his tears, he told my dad he had just seen something really scary. He didn’t say what it really was then. Later that day, we were in a nearby town and my twin pointed at a painting in the window of a gallery and said that the figure in it was what he had seen on our walk.

My dad went into the gallery and asked about the figure. They said it is an Aboriginal spirit that takes children who wander too far from the camp or their families.

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My Sister’s Picture Keeper

At the time I didn’t live at my parents’ home, but I was there watching their dog while they were out of town. My sister had died in their house about a year prior. While I was there, I witnessed a picture of her fall off the wall. But it got so much creepier.

I then discovered that EVERY picture of her in the house had fallen off the wall, seemingly at the same time. I chalked it up to something shaking the house, even though we live in Ohio and I felt nothing. I went home to my apartment.

There, sitting face-up on my desk, was a picture of my sister and me that I knew I had packed away. I don’t believe in things like this, but this occurred at a time when I was still very much actively grieving the loss of my sister, and it hit me really hard.

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The Haunted Mattress

One time, my brother went through a period of several weeks where he kept having chronic nightmares. It got to the point where he didn’t want to sleep in his bed anymore. In the dreams, there would always be a shadowy old woman who was trying to get at him.

One night, I decided to sleep in his bed and see if anything would happen. I wish I’d never done it. That night, I had one of the freakiest dreams I’ve ever had.

In mine, the woman my brother had been having nightmares about slid up through the gap between the wall and the bed, and she was trying to grab me and pull me off the bed. I woke up sweating and screaming. Finally, my mother decided to look into the situation herself.

Apparently, my parents had bought the mattress secondhand and my mother found out that one of the previous owners was an old woman who had perished in bed.

Safe to say, we immediately threw the mattress in the trash because that kind of thing is way too spooky for my family. I think we definitely should have burned it instead.

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