Paranormal Horror
Browse paranormal horror horror stories, unsettling encounters, and fictional nightmares.
My Son Keeps Waving at the Hallway
He says the woman outside his room waves back now.
I moved into a haunted house for all the wrong reasons
A first-time homeowner discovers that the ghost haunting his new house isn't trying to scare him away... it might be protecting him.
Her Loving Embrace
Every nightmare ends the same way: A gentle embrace that melts away the fear. There's just one terrifying detail that makes it impossible.
My daughter keeps asking for her other family
A little girl's strange obsession with another family becomes impossible to ignore after she vanishes without a trace one ordinary night.
My Sister has Been Tweeting From her Coma
A grieving brother notices impossible messages from his sister’s account after her accident, leading to a terrifying final discovery.
Expecting to only see animals I set up a ring camera pointing into the woods behind my house.
I pointed my Ring camera at the woods. It wasn't recording animals.
My Best Friend Keeps Pranking Me, Even Though He's Dead
For fifteen years, my best friend and I secretly passed the same broken plastic fork back and forth. His funeral should've been the last time I ever saw it.
There’s a Face in My Ceiling
Every night, it gets a little closer.
I think my mom is cheating on my dad
A curious boy searching for hidden presents uncovers a family secret that becomes more terrifying with every passing birthday.
Someone keeps knocking on my back door at exactly 2:15am
After his wife's death, an elderly widower begins hearing relentless knocks on his back door every Thursday at 2:15am until he discovers the impossible source is much closer than he ever imagined.
The Last Prophet
The world searched for answers when people started dying. The truth was hidden in the hands of the one man who caused it.
Mom, please rest in peace
A grieving child struggles to move on as comforting reminders of a lost mother become something far more unsettling.
The Man Who Came Back Wrong
After the accident, I survived. But something else came home with me.
I will draw you with a thousand words
A photographer's interactive gallery installation begins printing impossible messages, leading to an encounter with something trapped inside a masterpiece.
The Voice in the Baby Monitor
My son started talking to someone upstairs after midnight.
My boyfriend talks to someone who isn't there. One day something spoke back.
A woman grows concerned when her boyfriend constantly whispers to someone unseen until she hears a second voice answer.
There is a reason why you shouldn't burn witches
The last surviving witch recounts the terrible secret her coven has protected for decades and why the townspeople's hatred will doom them all.