We had neighbors call us at all hours of the night asking if we were ok. Then, a shadowy figure streaked around the corner, and the front door opened and shut on its own. He went running to save them, but no one was there. “When he walked back inside, he saw the reflection of the man in the hat in the mirror walking up the steps towards the kid’s rooms. It was so bad he went outside to see if there were people hitting the house. He said that when he got the kids in bed, pounding started all over the house. We got home around 2 am and found my brother sitting in the hallway shaking and crying. The most violent episode was when I let my 15 year old brother watch my kids. He said the man kept opening and slamming them shut, and he couldn’t sleep. I went to him and he begged me to make his drawers stop. Once I heard my 5 year old son screaming for me in the middle of the night. Every one of my kids saw the man in the hat between the ages of 2 to 5. “I lived in a haunted house for 10 years. The story by a user named Indian Orphan is downright creepy. This person tells the story of how a gang of ghosts attacked their house. My uncle replied, “Yea, she has been dead for about 100 years”. He walked her to the living room, pointed to an old picture, and asked if this was the woman she had seen. My uncle had no idea what she was talking about and asked what she looked like. Later that morning, she went downstairs and asked my uncle where the maid went, and thought that she was cooking breakfast. He is a Neurologist in NYC, so he had a habit of spending a little bit extra. She assumed that my uncle was hiring staff. “In the early morning, the friend woke up to use the bathroom, and noticed a maid bringing towels and a coffee percolator down the stairs. We all started to believe it after my uncle’s friend stayed over at the house one night.”

But since the house is so old, we used to just laugh it off. We always used to joke that you would hear people or things moving at night. He and the maid were said to have felt so attached to the house, that they haunted the place after they passed away. In the 1800’s, the former owners went back on their promise to give the house to the stableman and the maid, and sold it instead. “My uncle’s house is in the very eastern part of New York. In this story by a Reddit user called TwigSnapper. This haunted house in New York came with its own ghost maid. I watched a police officer turned in mid-sentence to stare at the wall. When you stand in one, you feel compelled to face a certain way. This has been witnessed by people aware as well as unaware of the phenomenon itself. But when you stand in a certain place, you feel something. The other one is the presence of “hot-spots” in the house. On the same day, every year, is the smell of something burning. Like how can you lose your watch in the middle of the completely cleared kitchen table? But the ones that get me the most are the ones where I am completely stumped. Various lost objects showed up in highly noticeable places. The stereo turns on at random times of the day, almost always to classical music. Once it ended up halfway across the room.” One plant in particular would get overturned often. Light bulbs smashed on the floor having removed themselves from the metal base. Hey, it’s an old house, creaks, groans, hot water pipes pinging, etc…it all happens. The typical footsteps upstairs, children laughing. But the number of times I have had to come up with rational explanations borders on obsessive. When I bought my house, they had to disclose reports of paranormal activity. “I am typically a skeptic and can usually apply logic to figure out a plausible explanation. Our first story comes from a Reddit user named TigLyon. The Real Estate Agent Warned Him That He was Buying a Haunted House, and He Didn’t Believe Them This person didn’t believe in ghosts, which is why he felt okay buying a haunted house. If you love these stories, check out our shocking stories about hoarders. Some of these just might make a believer out of you. For the sake of length, we’ve abbreviated many of the original stories, but the core message has stayed the same. Here is a collection of true stories told by people on Reddit who believed they were living in a haunted house.

Some people believe that the unhappy spirits of the house’s former inhabitants are still left behind. For hundreds of years, people have told haunted house stories that have been popular around the world.

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