Real Ghost Stories Online

When Carrie agreed to help babysit for her best friend in a historic waterfront duplex, she expected late nights, diapers, and maybe a few creaky floorboards. What she didn’t expect were phantom footsteps, voices over the baby monitor, and a room so unnerving she couldn’t bring herself to look directly at the glass-paneled door. In this episode of Real Ghost Stories Online, Carrie recounts the subtle, creeping unease that built over weeks of babysitting in the Dock Street duplex. The upstairs room—bare except for boxes—always felt watched. Strange thumps, the sound of a ball rolling, and toys moving on their own added to the mystery. But nothing prepared her for the slow, heavy footsteps directly above her while the baby slept. Years later, her friend Dee confirmed what Carrie feared: the house may have been haunted. Her son laughed at unseen visitors in his crib and tracked something invisible with his eyes. Then came the final blow—a child had died in that home over a century earlier. What started as an