These stories have been submitted by visitors to the website. If your interested in having your experience posted go to the email page and click on the ghost. I will post your stories but won't do any editing so what you submit will be posted the way you write it.
(This story had been sent to us some time ago. Oddly enough the email just showed up a year and a half later. I wonder where it's been?)
DEAR SYRACUSE GHOST HUNTERS:
I READ SEVERAL OF YOUR ACCOUNTS OF PRIVATE HOMES IN THE AREA AND DECIDED TO TELL YOU OURS. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT OUR HOME WAS PART OF THE NAVAL MILITIA COMPLEX IN OSWEGO NY. IT NO LONGER SITS NEAR THE WATER HAVING BEEN MOVED IN THE 60'S TO WHERE IT NOW SITS. NOW ALTHOUGH I PERSONALLY HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING MYSELF MY WIFE AND CHILDREN HAVE WITHIN OUR HOME. WHEN OUR DAUGHTER WAS YOUNG SHE WAS IN HERE BEDROOM SICK IN BED, WHEN MY WIFE WENT TO GIVE HER MEDICINE SHE SAID A LADY HAD COME IN TO SEE HER. MY WIFE ASKED WHAT SHE MEANT AND SHE TOLD HER MOM THAT A LADY HAD FLOATED IN TO THE ROOM FROM THE DOOR, SHE SAID SHE COULDN'T SEE HER LEGS. MY WIFE ASKED HER WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE AND SHE SAID SHE HAD A DRESS AND A LITTLE HAT ON HER HEAD. PRIOR TO THIS MY DAUGHTER HAD NEVER SEEN AN OLD STYLE NURSES UNIFORM WITH THE HEAD COVER. MY DAUGHTER WAS NOT AFRAID OF HER AND HAS SEEN HER SEVERAL TIMES SINCE IN THE SAME ROOM. MY DAUGHTER IS NOW 19. I ASKED HER ONCE WHAT SHE DID WHEN SHE SAW THE LADY AND SHE SAID SHE JUST ROLL OVER AND GO TO SLEEP.
IN OUR HALLWAY NEAR OUR BEDROOMS MY WIFE AND CHILDREN HAVE SEEN A MAN IN A UNIFORM STANDING. HE STANDS THERE AND LOOKS UP AND DOWN THE HALL AREA. MY WIFE DESCRIBED HIS UNIFORM AS BEING An OLD STYLE LIKE THE CIVIL WAR. WE USED TO HAVE A NIGHTLIGHT IN THE HALL DOWN LOW ON THE WALL, WE USUALLY SLEEP WITH THE BEDROOM DOORS OPENED. a lot OF TIMES DURING THE NIGHT YOU WOULD SEE THE LIGHT REFLECTION ON THE WALL FADE OR FLASH AS IF SOMEONE WALKED BY ALTHOUGH YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYONE AND THERE WERE NO ANIMALS IN THE HOUSE. MY DAUGHTER WAS RECENTLY HOME ALONE AND IN THE BATHROOM WITH THE DOOR OPEN INTO THE SAME HALL. SHE SAID SHE WAS BENT OVER DRYING HER HAIR WITH A BLOW DRYER WHEN SHE LOOKED DOWN AND SAW LEGS AND BOOTS. SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT WE HAD COME HOME AND LOOKED UP TO SEE, SHE SAID WHEN SHE LOOKED UP FROM THE BOOTS NO ONE WAS THERE AND THEY DISAPPEARED.
WHEN ANYONE IS HOME ALONE AND GOES INTO THE BASEMENT YOU BEGIN TO HEAR NOISE UPSTAIRS AS IF SOMEONE IS WALKING AROUND IT TENDS TO BE AT THE OTHER END FROM WHERE YOU ARE, AGAIN NO ANIMALS HAVE BEEN IN THE HOUSE WHEN THIS HAS HAPPEN.
MY WIFE WAS STANDING ALONE IN THE KITCHEN RECENTLY AND THOUGHT THAT I HAD COME UP BEHIND HER, SHE SAID SHE FELT A BREATH ON THE BACK OF HER NECK AND TURNED AROUND, NO ONE WAS THERE. THIS HAPPEN A SECOND TIME WHILE ALL OF US WERE EATING LUNCH. I WAS ACROSS THE TABLE AND SAW HER MOVE AND LOOK BEHIND HER. THEN SHE LOOKED AT ME. I ASKED WHAT WAS WRONG AND SHE SAID SOMETHING JUST TOUCHED THE BACK OF HER NECK,
OUR FAMILY ROOM IS AT ONE END OF THE HOUSE AND THERE ARE TWO DOORWAYS NEXT TO EACH OTHER, ONE TO THE LIVINGROOM AND ONE TO THE KITCHEN, IF YOU SIT IN THE FAMILY ROOM WATCHING TV a lot OF TIMES YOU WILL CATCH MOVEMENT OUT OF THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE IN THE ENTRY OFF THE LIVINGROOM. WHEN YOU LOOK DIRECT THOUGH THERE'S NOTHING THERE.
JUST FEW OF OUR EXPERIENCES. HAPPY HAUNTING.
The New House
I lived in a house in the Baldwinsville area that was haunted. I moved in 2 years ago and very quickly realized there was something wrong in this place. I started to unpack and the lights would go off in the room. After this happening several times I had someone come in to check the wiring etc and everything was working. Well the lights going off by themselves continued until a friend said to have someone come in and bless the house and I did that. After this the lights weren’t a problem but the noises were. I would be in the kitchen and hear the front door open and slam. I live alone and every time I went out to see what was going on there was no one there and the door was still locked. Then the whispering started while I would be working on the computer. A couple of times a week I would hear someone whispering and I never could understand what was being said. This was too much for me so I but an ad in for a roommate thinking that someone else in the house would be helpful. After 2 days my new roomie asked me if I knew the house was haunted and I asked why would you say that? Well this roommate was seeing a man in the house but he would vanish whenever he knew that someone had seen him. Enough was enough I arranged to move out and within a month my roommate and I were in a new place and all is now quiet. I know it doesn’t sound very frightening but it was not what I could take. You can use this on the web if you like I wrote it without details. Anonymous
The Nursing Home
My husband & I were on their sofa bed in the living rom. The couple we were staying with were asleep upstairs as were their two children. I was lying awake & heardfootsteps going up the stairway. I was unable to identify their origin,it seemed they just started! Then I heard them again! I called out our guests names & recieved no answer. The next morning I told them what I heard, their reply was, oh that was just our ghost! Apparently their was a ghost who colud be heard walking up the stairs & it was also known to hide objects! The second experience I had with a ghost was while working the overnight shift @ a nursing home in Auburn, NY. I saw a white, cloud like figure that appeared to be hunched over as it floated down the hallway. I thought I was seeing things, after all it was the middle of the night on the 11pm-7am shift. I caught the apperition out of the corner of my eye & I looked out the dining room window, because the hallway was reflected in there. That is where I saw it. Another staff was sitting across the table from me & I noticed she did the same look. We put out heads down to continue our paperwork,then we slowly looked up @ each other as if to say "did you see what I saw?" She did in fact see the exact same image. There have been other sightings @ the nursing home. One night shift nurse tells the story of seeing a woman dressed in white entering a corner room @ the end of the hallway, thinking it was the supervisor, whom she had called for, she went to the room, no one was thetre except the residnets, who were unable to get up & walk on thier own. I also experienced "cold spots" & televisions coming on when no one could have turned them on.
Holiday Inn Grand Island
A few years ago I visited the Holiday Inn hotel in Grand Island to go swimming. I went to the rest room with my cousin and when I started to wash my hands I heard a little girl giggling, like the staff has said they heard. At first I thought it was my cousin, because there wasn't anyone else in there except for us. But she was still in the stall, and it sounded like it was right next to me. When my cousin did come out though, it stopped and that was it.
Stick Man
Well, My best friend and I were talking about ghost because we are facinated by the subject. We went to her house and we were up stairs. she has a basket ball hoop in her room and it kept falling down. She said that maybe it was the running man. I asked who that was and she said it was the ghost of the house. I asked her mom and she comfirmed that she had seen the running man. she told me he was a black stickfigure man but he had stopped coming when my best friend was born. after thaat we went in her basement and took some pictures. In only on picture we found an orb next to my best friends head. It might not sound scary but we were so scared!
Man In The Backgroud
My house is very haunted. We see a man that is always in the background watching what is going on. Seems like he is just checking things out and wants to know who we are. At night you will hear him sometimes in the hallway and if you go out there you feel cold. Anyway he is not angry or scary to me.
The Pizza Place
I started working at a small pizza place near campus my sophmore year of college. I had not heard any ghost stories about the place and had been in there to eat only once or twice. Now the way the restaurant in set up is like this. when you walk in the door there is the pizza oven and cashier to your left and it's kind of like a hall striaght back with a counter on the left side and booths on the right. at the end, you turn right to go either staight into the kitchen or down to the basement where there is storage and bathrooms.
Now, my shifts were always at night and being on a college campus, I rarely left earlier than 2am. There were always 2 waitresses, 2 cooks and a cashier on at this time. At the end of the evening, the other waitress and I would have to restock the supplies. Noone I worked with would go down there alone, we always went in pairs. It was a VERY dark creepy basement and I assumed that was the reason we went in twos.
After my first week, the cashier started telling me ghost stories about the place. He told me about his first encounter a few weeks after he started. He was the only one left in the place as he always is at the end of the night. He had done his rounds to make sure everything was all set for the night and was getting his things from under the counter to go home. He looked up and at the end of the hall stood a girl. Thinking he missed her on his rounds and she had probably passed out in the bathroom, he called to her to wait a minute and he'd open the door for her. He reached down and as he did, she turned, went around the corner and disappeared. He called after her and then went to the back to the restaurant. The kitchen was empty so he proceeded to the basement. He looked everywhere.... there was noone in the building and no other doors she could have exited though. The only other door was at the top of the stairs in direct view of where he had originally been standing and she had gone around the corner! he said he booked it out of there.
A few months went by and although I didn't forget the story, I hadn't seen or felt anything especially strange. one night, after restocking, the other waitress and I realized we had forgotten small cups. I had to use the bathroom so i told her I'd go get them while I was down there. She asked me twice if i wanted to go down there alone. I laughed at her "It's only a basement". She gave me a look and said "Ok then". I went down the stairs and into the bathroom on the right. When I walked through the doorway, it was unbelievably cold. I went through the second door and used the facilities. when you come out from there, there is a room with a bench and a full lenth mirror, the door leading to the basement was opened a few inches. I stood in front of the mirrir, kinda fixing my hair and when i looked, there was a girl in the doorway. Not really looking at her I assumed it was the other waitress and turned to talk to her.... there was noone there! I loooked back in the mirror and there she was! She had shoulder length brown wavy hair and her lips were moving but I didn't hear anything... I did THREE doubletakes from the mirror to the doorway behind me. There was nobody there. I ran through the door (VERY COLD) and up the stairs. The other waitress was behind the counter and the cashier was at the front, counting the money. As soon as he saw me, he laughed a little... "You SAW her!" The other waitress looked ready to leave about then! It took me a few minutes but I did go back down to get the cups (other waitress wouldn't come down) and the hairs on my neck stood up and I swear someone was watching me. I never saw her after that but I did come across cold spots quite often and frequently felt someone watching me.
The Boy
I had just moved into my house with my dad and step mom when I had started hearing noises. I figured it was because I didn’t know the house and it could just be settling or just the wind. When I was upstairs the noises would be downstairs and vice versa. When the noises continued for a few months I asked my step mom if she thinks something is in the house and she agreed that she feels it’s a spirit of a young boy. A few months after confirming it, my bedroom door would open halfway every night just after I’d enter my room. Finally one day I decided to turn around and look behind me as I was closing my door. There in the doorway to the room next to mine I caught a brief glimpse of a boys face. He looked “shocked” that I had seen him and disappeared in the same instance that I saw him. I told my step mom about this and she expressed her concern to a colleague at work. She suggested I have a séance with black candles to summon the spirit. I had no idea black candles had meaning in the spiritual realm and I had been burning one a few times a week because I liked the smell of it! I quickly got rid of it and my door stopped opening on its own. In the past six years I had heard many noises and felt like I had been watched from the same doorway I had seen the face that night. Many times I have felt ice cold out of nowhere and sometimes felt I have had to leave the house all together. We have asked neighbors about previous home owners and if a young boy had died and we’ve been told that nothing bad has ever happened there.
