Short (But True) Stories
From 1997 through 2002, I placed shorter-than-usual stories here on their own page. At 10 stories per page, there are about 200 here for you to read and enjoy. Pages are listed below, or you can click "Next" on the bottom of each page to work through the stories.
Please note that since some of the stories are nearly a decade old, the email addresses provided may no longer be valid. Unfortunately, I can only update addresses when the authors let me know of their address changes, so if you try to email an author and your message bounces back to you, you're pretty much out of luck.
If you are interested in contributing a story, read this.
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From: StigZodiac @AOL .COM
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Reader Submission
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002 5:10 AM
I was holidaying in Corfu last summer at the small, quiet resort of Kalami on the North east side of the island. One afternoon my partner and myself decided to explore,so by foot we headed off from the beach and found a footpath running along the hillside of the coast.The path was steep at first then it levelled off, it had great views of the bay and sea below. After walking for about 23mins i had managed to get ahead of my partner and on doing so, i noticed a woman coming towards me as
she approached i stood to one side to let her pass. Then i waited for my partner to catch up, i mentioned the woman but to my suprise she had'nt seen anyone on the path! This was weird as there was no other way from the path as it was too steep. If anyone had fallen, we would have heard them. SHE HAD COMPLETLEY VANISHED !
From: smartiepants55@hotmail.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: my personal story
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:40 PM
Dear Ghost Site,
A little while ago in Springfield Oregon I had a very intense and ghostly happening.
I was lying in bed and in the middle of the night I woke up for an unknown reason. I looked out my open door and saw a lady standing there. She was only an outline and inside that outline it was only dark. Even though I could not see any features or detail about her I could tell it was a female about 5'6"-5'7" and she was staring directly at me. I could see the outline of her hair that was a little bit past her shoulders and fairly wavy. Her gaze was upon me in an intense way and as soon as I looked at her I turned away and I think I passed out from how immediately I went to sleep. Please consider my story and please consider posting it on your site. I would love to hear from anyone who has had a similiar experience. I have more stories but please e-mail me back first.
Thank you, Shayla
From: danijani1@aol.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Reader Submission
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:54 AM
Hello There,
After reading stories on here for the past couple of years I've decided to share my story. My two sisters and I were living in our parents home in a small town in Idaho in the mid 1980's. Two of the previous owners had died in the house, but we didn't know this until later. Anyway, one night in returning home from work, I was met at the front door by my younger sister wanting to know if my older sister had been late for work . We both worked at the same factory but different shifts.I told her that she hadn't and wanted to know why. My sister told me that between the time that my o lder sister had left and I arrived home someone had walked from my room (our house was a two story), down the stairs and out the front door. My family had other experiences similar to this over the years that we lived there, however none of us talked about them until the house was sold 10 years ago. Hope you find this interesting.
From: Lumbeehotte@aol.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: STORY TO TELL
Date: Sunday, October 05, 2003 2:45 PM
Its is a true story. Last year we moved to an older house. It was around people so I wasn't scared. I was 14, and I was sitting in the living room. My room is on the left and if u sit on the edge of the couch you can look right in. (were I was at). My sister had just left, and the doors and windows were close. As I was sitting there looking at TV, something told me to looking my room. I'm the kind of person that hates when someone is in there room. When I looked, I saw a woman walk from my closet, to my computer. At first I thought it was my sister, and about to scream "get out my room," then I remembered, she just walked out. At that point, I was almost to scared to move, but I'm a new Yorker. I got up slowly, when to the door, opened it. Opened all the windows, (anything that would let light in). Later I started asking people about the house. They said it was a women that lived in my room, she was alone, didn't have friend or family, and died without no one knowing it. If i'm not in that room by 12:00P.M, my radio will go off as loud as it can, everytime one song.
Luzcille
From: "Dawn" dawnspirit@hotmail.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Men In Black Robes
Date: Sunday, October 05, 2003 2:25 AM
Hello; My name is Dawn and I wanted to tell you about one of my experiences I had when I was younger. I lived in a apartment building in Kitchener Ontario. It was shortly after my dad passed away that I would wake up for no reason as I lied there, I would see this men in black robes walking around from room to room in our hallway. I saw these men a few times they reminded me of Monks, but I don`t think they were. They had their hoods up I never saw their faces, they wore it looked like white ropes around their waists. All I knew was I was pretty scared. We did finally end up moving out of that basement apartment. I was glad because even on the sunniest days is was dungeon like. Quite a number of years had gone by I told my mom what I saw and she always said it was my imagination. One day as my brother and I sat and talked the subject came up. He too saw these ghostly figures just as I did too. What we experienced I have no idea. All I can say is I can still see those figures in my mind and this happened 30 yrs ago.
From: "Angela Boley" flyingtiger@wildlifemail.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: True Ghost story - Phantom Voices
Date: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:49 PM
This ghostly event happened Friday 09/26/03 exactly at 5pm in Kimbolton, Ohio. I pulled in the driveway and got out of my car to go into my cabin. I was first to be home and my neighbors across the street were not home as they don't arrive till 6pm.(Now I live in a very rural area inside Salt Fork State Park) As I approached the cabin, I heard a very loud voices talking from inside the cabin. I thought at first someone left the stereo on, but I was the last to leave the cabin earlier that day and made sure no stereo or anything else was left on before I left. I feel my windows viberate with the sound of the voices and they were definitely comming from inside. The main voice I heard was a man's voice. I also heard a woman's voice that was not nearly as loud. The voices got louder the closer I got the front door. I put my ear to the window and hear there were people talking inside but as loud as they were talking (they talked very fast!) I couldn't make out any words. Now the windows have curtains in front so I couldn't see inside. I thought the cabin had been broken into. I checked both front and back door. No sign of forced entry anywhere. I opened the front door. As soon as I stepped inside, the voices stopped. I have no explanation other than it was paranormal. We've had other paranormal experiences at the cabin every once in a while but I know every detail of it's history and there were no deaths nor any signifcant events in the cabin other than it changed owners. End.
From: XxShortyz4LifexX@aol.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: short story :)
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2003 1:54 PM
First off, i would like to thank you for creating such a nice site. The following story has never been published for profit or free. All names except mine have been changed
My friend Rae and I were spending a night at our friend Ninas house the summer of 2003. I must say what we experienced that night was our faults as we were looking for trouble through an ouija board. We were in her small living room sitting on the floor at about 1 am playing the board and speaking with someone who claimed to be "Matt" a 14 year old boy. We were doing regular stupid ouija questions when all of a sudden the planchette stopped moving. A few seconds later, we heard 13 loud dings. They were clearly coming from an old wall hung grandfather clock. Only Nina was truly scared. We asked why and she gave us our answer. That very clock had not worked for over 5 years. We were pretty weirded out but were stupid enough to continue communication with "Matt". We asked if he made the clock ding and he replied yes. He explained that he liked scaring us. Then we all saw something on her stairs. A random assortment of white lights in small bars. We were extremely scared at this point. When we finally got the nerve up to go to the area where the light was still perched, we all felt that the area was warmer then the room. At about this time, Ninas father came down the stairs. His first question was "How the hell did you girls get that clock to work?" We explained everything and he was not too shocked. Ninas family has an intense history of supernatural occurences to the point they changed religions. Both Ninas mother and father are extremely sensitive and clairvoyent and Nina herself is showing signs of being sensitive.
From: "Isaiah Rodriguez" irod_52@yahoo.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Read please.
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:26 PM
On December 1, 2002 my Grandma past from an illness called dementia. About two months before she died we had a very spiritual Father come in and try to heal her with the power of a holy touch. She became well and we actually thought god had healed her. Around Thanksgiving time she became ill and we had to place her in an elderly hospital. There is where she passed. I was the only person in the family not to see her alive the day she died. My parents took my brother and sister too visit her in the morning, and my unlce and my cousins happened to see her too. Its around noon when the rest of my Family gets home and no longer than two minutes that my parents got home my aunt comes and tells us that my Grandma has passed. I felt like shit because I didn't get to see her. I went to the hospital this time and seen my grandma dead. I was so sad I had to take a long walk to my girlfriends house. on my way over there I felt like if someone was following me. I look to my left and it w! as then that I seen my Grandma walking right next to me kind of in a floating motion. As I try to touch her cheek in amazement the vision of her went away. If anyone has ever expirenced this pleas e-mail me irod_52@yahoo.com
From: "Ryan Was" nobologna4me@yahoo.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: a story
Date: Saturday, November 01, 2003 6:10 PM
I am 13 and living in San Diego California, and discovered your site on google looking for an explenation for what happened in my neighborhood.
About a year ago, i noticed a gate in my neighborhood, which is very small with maybe 10 homes, that I had never seen before.
I got curious about this gate and went back the next day to see what was behind it, finding a large greenhouse and a meadow that seemed like it went on forever. This seemed impossible because everyone in this neighborhood knows that on that side of the neighborhood on the other side of the gate is a large, dusty canyon.
Anyway, about a week later I went back to investigate, and the meadow and greenhouse were completely gone, with a slope downwards with a house very near the gate. It is obviously too little of a time period to have dug a large ditch, started, and completed a house in a week. Besides, how could the meadow have been so big if there was a road in about 1/2 a mile?
If you have questions...or explenations...email me at nobologna4me@yahoo.com
From: "Chris STANTON" chris@stanjack.fsworld.co.uk
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: My strange experinces
Date: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:10 PM
Hello
Well after reading the site for over a year I decided to write my own.
The unknown: well ive been to my grandmas and grandpas house a few times now and its was only the second time something really strange really happened. It was a dark night in October and i was trying to sleep when out of the corner of my eye i noticed a very dark and mysterious shape. Mys sister was asleep so i got up and went to see what it was (silly me) and i felt a very distinct yank on my hair. I straight away dived out of the door. >From then on ive never been able to sleep at the house and since its a mew house im suprised.
The old castle Recentlyi went on a nighttime tour of portchester castle. My group of about 9 and the tour guide went with me. As we went around the church i noticed a brown shape like a monk. I brought a book the next day and it said that the castle is often been reported for a brown monk. Strangley no one else saw it. There it is
Will
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