Ghost stories from United States

The Unseen Station

I never believed in the family gift, not really. My grandmother, Elara, had stories about seeing the dead, but she was old and maybe a little senile. My mother, though,...

The Clockwork Owl

Last autumn, I traveled with my family to my grandmother’s farmhouse in the Hudson Valley for her annual harvest gathering. I was assigned to sleep in the attic, which my...

The Yellow Sticker

I never believed in anything I couldn’t see or touch. That’s why, when my cousin Mira and I moved into the old farmhouse on Birch Road, I laughed off the...

Psychics, Witches, And Ghosts. Oh My!

This was when I was like 7 or 8, it was about 9:30 at night and my mom and I were downstairs watching TV. My mom went to wake my...

The Ledger of the Last Bet

The Riverbend Social Club had stood on the banks of the Blackwood River for over a century, its red brick facade weathered by floods and time. It was a place...

The Iron Kettle

In 1983, I was seventeen and helping my aunt run the Iron Kettle, a diner perched on the edge of the Klamath River in Northern California. The town was called...

The Cornice Watcher

I was born in a house that breathed, or so I believed for the first nine years of my life. My mother said it was just the wind in the...

The Wall That Breathed

I was housesitting for my aunt while she took her six-year-old, Mia, to visit their grandmother upstate. Her old farmhouse, nestled at the end of a dirt road that seemed...

The Tarot Reader’s Vengeance

Elara had always been sensitive to the unseen. Growing up in the fog-drenched town of Pemberton, she’d learned to live with the whispers of the dead, the cold spots in...

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