Real Ghost Stories Online

Sometimes a haunting doesn’t creep in slowly—it crashes into your life all at once. When one listener was just eight years old, their family moved into a house that should have been a fresh start. Instead, it became the setting of a nightmare that lasted only two months… but left a lifetime of memories. It began with something small, but unsettling: every night, without fail, the kitchen sink would turn itself on. Not a drip, not a trickle—the knobs would twist, and the water would flow until someone got up to shut it off. Then, one night, things escalated. While preparing for a shower, the bathroom door slammed shut on its own, trapping the child inside. No matter how hard the parents pulled, the door refused to open—until, suddenly, it did. That should have been enough to send them running. But worse was waiting. At a cousin’s house, shadows gathered in the hallway, whispering about them. A demon-like face appeared in a dresser mirror. And later, back at their own home, a towering shadow in a hat pulled