Real Ghost Stories Online

What happens when your worst nightmare doesn’t stay in your dreams? For Sicily, a Chicago native with a lifelong sensitivity to the paranormal, the strange became terrifying during her stay in a historic New York apartment. The address itself was an omen: 666. At first, her life there was ordinary. She locked the chain, threw the deadbolt, and settled into bed like she always did. But within minutes, everything changed. Sicily heard the unmistakable sound of the chain sliding free, the bolt unlocking, and the heavy creak of her apartment door opening—then closing. Slow, deliberate bootsteps echoed through the loft. Step by step, they climbed the staircase toward her bedroom. Frozen in bed, Sicily’s body betrayed her. She couldn’t move, scream, or even whisper for help. It felt like sleep paralysis, but this was no dream. She was wide awake. Desperate, Sicily remembered the mantras she had been taught years earlier by psychics who warned her of a dark attachment. She whispered them silently, imagining hers