Real Ghost Stories Online

It started with three knocks. In a Washington, D.C. courthouse waiting room, a young girl and a woman on oxygen sat side by side—until an ominous man in a black cape appeared behind the glass. He knocked once. Twice. Three times. What happened next changed everything. The woman collapsed, seemingly from fear, and the mysterious man vanished into thin air. No one else saw him. Not the sister. Not the guards. Just her. Years later and oceans away in New Zealand, another child witnessed something just as chilling: a transparent woman in a flowing red dress pacing the floor with nervous grace. She didn’t know it then, but this specter would tie back to her father’s secret—his dabbling in the occult, séances with friends, and one spirit he named “The Woman in the Red Dress.” The same ghost that visited his daughter when she was still too young to question why. Back in the U.S., a Massachusetts couple moves into a home built in 1874. From the moment they step inside, the spirits stir—footsteps, voices, and one te