Your Best Ghost Stories

Today I went hunting on my old neighbor’s land in Wisconsin. He has an apple orchard on the Northside of his property, which butts up to the next neighbor’s corn field.

I took the boys there for the youth deer weekend and we saw a big buck two times (two evening hunts), and a pile of does out in the corn. Long story short, Ben missed a doe in the apple orchard and never had a close enough shot for the buck.

Fast forward to today. I figured I’d go after that buck myself with the bow, knowing exactly where he was going into the orchard before. I took my climber in and set up on a scrape line in the timber just outside the orchard. At 2pm a doe ran by, soon after a small buck was hot on her trail.

Hours passed with nothing happening. With the shadows getting longer, I knew the magic hour was going to be magic!

Right when primetime was starting, I heard something in the orchard….I slowly turned around and saw a women?? She was standing next to a chain link dog kennel which was used in the past years to keep bee hives safe from bears.

The road next to the orchard has little traffic, and I never heard a vehicle pull up.

I watched her for a little bit, she was just eyeing the fence and walking around it. There were no hives in the enclosure this year, so I was perplexed as to what she was doing.

Some rustling leaves took my attention from her, I hoped it was a deer but it was just a stupid squirrel….When I turned back around to see what she was doing…she was gone??

I brushed it off and focused back on deer hunting. But they never came.

With darkness setting in, I again turned my head towards the bee enclosure. She was back! I could barely make her silhouette out, and it looked like she was taking down part of the enclosure. I now knew why the deer weren’t coming in…..

With a little disgust and a ruined hunt, I climbed down the tree and packed up. My plan was to catch her on the way out and politely ask her what she was doing walking around the apple orchard earlier and again in the almost dark.

As I passed the orchard, I saw that she was again gone….I continued down the trail to where she would have parked….and there was no car there….I would have heard it start and leave….

Perplexed, I walked down to my truck and called the land owner. I told him that I saw a lady in the orchard tonight and she disappeared without a trace, and was wondering if she had permission to be there.

He answered with, “Well not anymore…but she was the bee keeper.”

I asked why she would be there with no bees, and he said “She can’t be there because she DIED LAST YEAR”

Holy sh$$ski

Never liked the spirit/ghost TV shows, movies, or anything about it to be frank. I’m not saying the mind isn’t seeing stuff but the mind can be conditioned to see stuff.

With that said I’ve had a couple encounters in my life that have changed my mind on things, still think the majority is hocus pocus crap and I won’t recant my tales here, but your story is a pretty cool one. Thanks for sharing

i was expecting a sasquatch story!!!!!!1

Back in college I shared a house with 4 other guys. It was the first few weeks after moving in and one of my roommates lost their wallet. We looked everywhere in the house and couldn’t find it.

A few weeks later I was sleeping and suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, slowly rolled over and there they were. 2 little kids. One girl about 7 years old and a boy about 5 years old with his hat on backwards. They were both hovering around my closet. They were greenish and looked just like you would expect a ghost to look like. I was terrified, they just sat there and watched me. I put the covers over my head thinking they’d go away, but they remained there.

I finally fell back to sleep and woke up a bit later and went to the bathroom, not remembering what I had seen earlier in the night. I came back to my bedroom and my covers were all bundled up in the middle of my bed. I said to myself that is weird since I didn’t place them like that when I got up. I then saw something laying on top of my covers, so I went over and picked it up….it was my roommates wallet. It then hit me what I had seen earlier and I totally freaked out. Threw the wallet out of my room and jumped back into bed.

I slept with a flashlight by my bed for the next few weeks, but never saw them again.

I dont believe in spooks, ghosts or the like but a couple of things happened many years ago that left me scratching my head.
It is said that little kids, horses, and dogs can see spirits.

I used to help my kid brother mow a cemetery close to where both of us live and we went there one afternoon to see if it needed mowed again that week.
I always found it peaceful when I was there but that day we had John’s two boys with us, one was four years old and the other six years old, the youngest one said, Dad, stop the truck I want to get out and play ball with those two little boys over there by that oak tree.
John asks him, what two boys, he said, right there, one has a blue ball cap on and other one has a red shirt on, John let him out and he went straight over to the tree where he said he saw the two boys and came back in tears.
He said they told him he couldnt play with them but didnt say why.
We found out later two little boys were killed in a car wreck and had been buried in a small yet unmarked grave there by the tree a week earlier.
We knew about the grave but had no clue as to whos it was.

Second story, my friend who is an avid horse and mule rider took a short cut through a neighbors property to access the backside of his property when part way across the field his horse went bananas nearly throwing him off, mind you this horse is bomb proof and had never been spooked before this day.
Bill rode cautiously back to the spot in the field that was about ten feet square and untilled thinking a snake or badger was in the grass and the horse went bonkers a second time, once he had the horse under control he got off and walked up the spot to find an ancient stone barely sticking out of the dirt and grass.
The markings on the stone had been worn away by time and not readable so he asked the property owner what was there.
He was told it was Indian medicine mans grave from the early 1800’s, since then the property owner has put up a chain link fence around the grave site with a warning to not go near it.

As I said, I dont believe in spooks but the time being with my brother when his youngest son wanted to play with two boys we couldnt see and the fear in Bill’s eyes makes me wonder when I reflect on it.

Yeah, I would write that spot off and never return…
DT

Years ago I responded to an alarm call (police officer) at an abandoned restaurant that was always rumored to be haunted. When we arrived at the restaurant, I could see a flag blowing in an upstairs window. I figured that set the alarm off. When we went in and searched the building, I went upstairs to move the flag. I figured it was by an air vent. The flag was no longer moving and there was not a single air vent even close enough to move the flag. (power was off anyways) I turned to say something to my partner and he was gone. We searched the rest of the building quick and bailed. Guns won’t work against ghosts/spirits!
DT

I worked building maintenance in some tunnels for a couple years. The tunnels connect the rochester prison/some old county Buildings and the rochester state hospital which which housed mentally insane people and is no longer there.

One night there was a steam leak in the tunnel and I was called into work in the middle of the night. The fire dept was there and the steam was isolated off after some time. After the steam was turned off and the tunnels were cooled down everything was wet and very humid. We went down into the tunnels and there was some barefoot tracks on the floor like somebody had been walking around in the steam which couldn’t of been a living person. That was enough to scare me

Oh hell no…

Years ago I was doing some mil-spec testing off site. It was an evening deal, it was just me and “Phil” in the building as everyone else had gone home. A couple of hours later I hear a door open, then slam shut, and then footsteps down the hall on the other side if the building. I said “I thought we were here alone”. Phil says “That’s just Doc”. I said “I haven’t met Doc”, and Phil says “ Well you wouldn’t because he’s been dead for a while”. Yea, I call BS. Phil suggests I walk through the building and see if I can find anybody else. So I did, I walked everywhere, looked in the restroom, everywhere. I never found anybody else in the whole place. I can’t explain it but I was there when it happened.

SR

Well my old neighbor called me this morning and fessed up that it was his sister out in the orchard who is alive and well

She walked to his house which would explain why I didn’t hear any vehicles leave lol

B-man wrote:

Well my old neighbor called me this morning and fessed up that it was his sister out in the orchard who is alive and well

She walked to his house which would explain why I didn’t hear any vehicles leave lol

Hahaha I think something similar is the explanation for most ghost stories, and like many of you I don’t believe in them….except for the one I saw!

I was in college, and my roommates were partying upstairs. I had early morning football or class or something, so I was in bed. My room you had to put a shoulder into the door to close it, and when it opened it popped open loudly. I woke up to my door opening and someone standing a few feet into my room. Figure it’s one of my drunk roommates and tell them to GTFO, and they don’t move. I say if I have to get up you’re going to catch a beating, and still they stand there. I get out of bed and they go out of my room, and I’m pissed and chasing after them, until I hit my door which was still closed.

B-man wrote:

Well my old neighbor called me this morning and fessed up that it was his sister out in the orchard who is alive and well

She walked to his house which would explain why I didn’t hear any vehicles leave lol

You deserve it. There is always a “rational” explanation.

Here’s a story I’ll never forget from when I was a kid.

We lived in an old farm house that was rumored to be haunted, but we never saw any signs of it….until one day.

I was probably around 10 years old or so, and was playing in my bedroom on a dreary rainy day.

For reasons unknown to me, my attention was drawn to one of my RC cars sitting still on a shelf. I was staring at it for a few seconds and it revved up and drove off the shelf, crashing onto the floor.

Immediately I figured “haha”, good prank little brother. Then I remembered the remote control had been missing for sometime….

I flipped the car over to turn the switch off….it was already off

Then I opened the battery door, and found it didn’t have batteries in it.

I’ll never forget that incident till the day I’m gone.

It was 100% reality, not a dream or something my brain has altered over the years. I threw the car in the garbage that day and never had anything else ever happen like that again.

It was either a ghost, spirit, or I had telekinesis powers that only worked once lol

My uncle lives in a 128 year old Victorian house that he grew up in and has lived in most of his life. His father used to smoke cigars and passed away 20 years ago. They’ve always said that sometimes during the night you can smell cigar smoke in the house. I’ve been over there multiple times overnight and there has been a few times where I could smell the cigar during the night. It makes the hair stand up on your neck once you get a whiff of it.

I’m not one to believe in ghosts or spirits but I don’t really have much of an explanation for it.. maybe it’s one of those things where your mind is playing a trick on you. Either way it is very weird.

There’s often strange smells in our house too, but whether anyone admits it or not, they are explainable…

I remember my friend growing up lived on a dairy farm with an very old farm house. He and his brothers and sisters had experienced strange things but I never really believed it and thought they were trying just trying to scare me. I slept over there a lot and never experienced anything – except one time. I woke up one morning to the clear sound of a baby crying – but there was no baby in the family. I remember walking into their kitchen and looking around trying to understand where it was coming from. It was clear that it was coming from the basement – which the only way down there was through my friend’s parents bedroom or going through the storm cellar doors on the outside of the house. The basement was just the old rock foundation and was used for some storage and the wood burning furnace and various other utilities. No one would’ve been down there and certainly not with a baby.

There’s a ghost in my house that’s been drinking all my whiskey overnight…

404 ERROR wrote:

There’s a ghost in my house that’s been drinking all my whiskey overnight…

That’s frightening.

404 ERROR wrote:

There’s a ghost in my house that’s been drinking all my whiskey overnight…

there is one stealing all my money from my checking account too

Coletrain27 wrote:

there is one stealing all my money from my checking account too

Same. Except the guilty party at my house is real. He’s my son. Damn him

Coletrain27 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Merican Eagle wrote:</div>
There’s a ghost in my house that’s been drinking all my whiskey overnight…

there is one stealing all my money from my checking account too

Female ghost with a ring on her left hand finger?
If so, they are the scariest kind. Watch out for those.

Several years back my work sent me to Memphis for a couple weeks to work on a project. One day work ended early and being a big history buff I decided to drive the couple of hours to check out the Shiloh National Battlefield. I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening soaking in the Civil War history and once it started to get dark I headed back to my car. On the way I found myself at the Union position known as “The Hornets Nest” which was the site of the battle’s fiercest fighting. By this time it was well past dark with just a tiny bit of moonlight and wisps of fog setting in. Being as late as it was there wasn’t another person anywhere in the park and as I stood there looking out across the field where the Confederate attack had come from I started to notice gray figures slowly moving around in the field. The longer I stared at them the more freaked out I became so finally I couldn’t take it anymore and started to walk out into the field amongst them. Only then did I realize what I was seeing in the darkness, the field was full of deer! To my imagination these deer looked just like the ghosts of fallen rebel soldiers.

There’s a ghost in my house that’s been drinking all my whiskey overnight

That’s frightening.
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I’m dying over here! You’re killin’ me!

Female ghost with a ring on her left hand finger?
If so, they are the scariest kind. Watch out for those.
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Scariest ?? I thought you were begging for another. Maybe I read wrong. But I don’t think so !!!!!

Bearcat89 wrote:

Female ghost with a ring on her left hand finger?
If so, they are the scariest kind. Watch out for those.

Scariest ?? I thought you were begging for another. Maybe I read wrong. But I don’t think so !!!!!
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Just having fun and with the 3rd (if ever) “Prenup”. It’s already been discussed.

I was a semi believer up until last summer when the, what I call, the “incident” happened on the lake. Have had a camper at a seasonal site that’s in the Chequamegon National Forest, and the owners have told some very interesting stories of some strange “occurrences” on the property.

Was out with the neighbor in the camper across from us doing some fishing, late July, Friday afternoon, dead calm, and hot. We were fishing the NW area of the lake, a little breeze from the SW comes up for about 20 seconds, then stops, then it comes from the E, again, for about 20 seconds, then stops, then comes from the NW, stops, then comes from the S. I’m asking the neighbor (ex military) if he has ever seen the wind do this, his response, NO. Same here, I have been on the water countless hours/days, and have never seen that. I also made the comment, why on a beautiful Friday afternoon we were the only boat out there, which made it kind of freakishly quiet. I suggested we move to the NE corner of the lake, which we did. Had the boat parallel to the shore, about 250 yards out, I was casting and facing away from shore, Ernie facing and casting towards shore. I suddenly hear wind whipping through the trees, and I thought, thank god, here comes a breeze. Tell Ernie, well here comes a breeze, he says “turn around”. I turn, we can hear the wind, but there isn’t a leaf on a tree moving, and then, about 5 feet from shore it sounded like somebody threw a boulder in the lake, you heard it hit, saw the stream of water come up, and then the “trail” disappeared, it didn’t come back down, plus, both of us were looking directly from where this happened, and neither of us saw anything “get thrown” from the shore. I asked him, “What the hell was that?”, he responds, I have no idea. Both of us were speechless, and were just watching all this take place. We were about 30 yards from a reed bed that was about 75 yards long, and about 10 yards deep, all of a sudden, about 1/4 of the reeds bent over to the right, and touched the water, then stood back up, I asked Ernie, did you just see that? He responded “The reeds?” I just said “Yup”, and he says, “I sure did”.

Just before the wind sound started up, it was very strange that all sounds of nature ceased, no birds, no bugs, even the water bugs that skip all over the surface were gone.

We brought the boat up to where the “boulder” hit the water, it was about 2 feet deep, and there were no “fresh” rocks there, and why did the stream of water just disappear?

We decided to leave and go back in, and I just kept asking him, “What the hell was that? What did we just see?” He says, “I have no idea”.

We get back in, tell the resort owners, they just smile, and say “You had a visit from the spirit”.

I have had several other “things” happen that have no logical explanation as well, and yes, this is a true story, and I have a witness.

I went to college in Mankato. We rented a really crappy duplex downtown for about 6 months. My roommate had to go through the bathroom to get to his room, goofy setup…

Anyways…my brother told me 2 different times in those 6 months that the upstairs kitchen sink would turn on with no one home. I cannot confirm that.

However, we DID notice something creepy once in that bedroom behind the bathroom. We walked home one night and saw a light on in that bedroom but then realized that the window that was visible outside…was not visible in the bedroom. So we went up there and the light was off in the bedroom, but saw light coming from a seam in the closet. There was a false wall in the closet with a small 2′-ish x 6′-ish room behind it…with old and dusty kids toys, blanket and a small pull cord light…

Moved out shortly after when I fell THROUGH the rotted floor in the bathroom. Gotta love slum-lords. This place was something else. We had a snowdrift in our hallway after the first snow of the year…

Lots of cool stories so far guys, please keep them coming

Paul D, that’s a neat one. I’d love to hear more from the resort owner.

Can you explain the splash more? It wasn’t a beaver smacking its tail was it? I’ve had that scare the crap out of me many times lol