THREE REALLY CREEPY GHOST STORIES

A ghost encounter can elicit a wide variety of emotions. They can be funny, sad, scary, awe-inspiring...and some can be downright creepy! This video presents three really creepy ghost stories, the kind that sends little icy shivers down your spine.

CASE ONE: THE GHOST THAT CAME TO BED. Shortly after moving into their new home in Merced, California, Sally Sanders (pseudonym) began to experience weird activity. Her husband never noticed anything strange, not at first. But Sally did. Late one evening, she woke up to feel someone climbing into her bed. But when she looked, nobody was there! She first thought it might have been her imagination, and that it would never happen again. But it did. A few weeks later, she again woke up to feel the mattress press down and the bedsheets rustle. But when she looked, nobody was there. As she always did when this happened, she fled the bedroom and slept elsewhere in the house.

It happened again and again, and Sally grew increasingly concerned. She knew that she had to take action. She decided to try an experiment. Knowing that the ghost always crawled into bed in the same spot, she moved the bed. This, she hoped, would stop the weird events from happening. Instead, it caused the haunting to escalate. It wasn't long after that when Sally not only felt the ghost crawl into bed with her, but this time it physically touched her!

Sally and her husband decided to move. But the ghost wasn't done with them yet. About two weeks before they moved away, the ghost attacked, crushing and trying to suffocate Sally as she lay in bed. It was the single most terrifying experience of her life.

CASE TWO: A VISION OF BLOOD. In the 1980s, Dorothy Hudson worked in a business office in Los Angeles. One of Dorothy's co-workers was Margery, (pseudonym), a bill-collector. Dorothy and Margery did not get along. One day the two of them got into a disagreement. The next morning, Margery was supposed to go pick up a debtor's check in Van Nuys, and come back to the office afterward. But Margery never showed up at the office.

Meanwhile, Dorothy was at the office and went to visit the restroom. Walking inside, she was shocked to see that the clean white tiles of the bathroom were dripping with blood. It was all over the walls and floors. Blood was everywhere. Dorothy blinked it shock. And when she looked again, it was gone.

A short time later, Dorothy answered the office phone. It was Margery's husband asking for Margery. Dorothy explained that his wife was supposed to pick up a check, but that she had failed to return to the office. "Oh, my God, no!" Margery's husband cried.

"What's wrong?" Dorothy asked. Margery's husband explained that he wasn't sure, but he had just received a call from the police, and he hung up the phone. A few hours later he called back with devastating news. Margery had been killed. She had been run over by a truck after picking up the check. Dorothy's boss visited the accident location and learned that Margery's body had been crushed under the wheels of the truck, and that blood was all over her car, the street and the sidewalk. The time of the accident was about the same time Dorothy had seen the vision of blood in the bathroom. Somehow, Dorothy had picked up on the terrible tragedy. It was an experience that sent chills down her spine and left her pale and shaken.

CASE THREE: A BROTHER'S GHOST. In the early 1970s, Tom and his older brother Jeffrey (pseudonyms) lived in a modest home with their parents in Los Angeles, California. The two of them were very close. Jeffrey had recently fallen in love with a woman and was about to get married. Then tragedy struck. Jeffrey was in a tragic car accident and died of his injuries at the scene. The entire family was devastated, but Tom was perhaps the most affected.

He spiraled into a deep depression. The senseless death of his older brother, whom he loved and idolized, was an event which left him with a crushing sadness. He just couldn't understand why his brother had been taken from him. Life no longer seemed worth living.

Then one day, Tom ventured into his brother's room, sat on the bed, and began to play some of Jeffrey's rock music. Jeffrey loved to sit in his hanging chair and listen to rock music. A favorite song of his was "Comfortably Numb," by Pink Floyd. Tom decided to play that song and reminisce about the all the good times he had with Jeffrey. That's when it happened: the hanging chair began to swing back and forth by itself! Tom soon learned that he could call on his brother's spirit anytime he wanted.

These three cases show how ghosts can manifest in a wide variety of ways. If you'd like to learn more, check out my book, California Ghosts. Now available!