Real-Life Ghost Stories From Real People | Cosmopolitan

Cosmo staffers share their spookiest real-life ghost stories.

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[tralhas]

During a hard period of my life, 12 years ago, I used to feel a strong, but not threatening presence around me, specially at work. It was like if there's a warm light embracing me. and it kinda comforts me.
One day, a co-worker who was a medium said to me:

- I know you feel her, and you don't need to worry. It's a very beautiful thing you two share... during ages and ages... just accept her embrace. Everything will be ok.

I burst into tears.
I still feel her sometimes. and I greet her everytime.

[sandrapereiiira]

the stories where objects reappear are just so mind blowing to me...there are no physical explanations, you can't blame it on wind or a hallucination or a coincidence or that someone's lying... those definitely are my favorite stories

[mgarcia]

"And she was like..." "And I was like..." "And she was like..." "And I was like..." OMG.

[_mike]

3:00 - There is an unknown old man in my room in the middle of the night, guess I'll go back to sleep. Seems legit.

[johnnyazer]

I remember one story that will stand out. in the winter of 1967, when i was very young, in Mohawk, in Central NY, I remember being on the basket ball courts with a couple of streetlights. There was this young girl about twelve with a pink parka, that would stare blankly into space, and when i would say hello to her, she was sitting down, I was fifty feet away. I would say hi, but she would not even flinch and keep that vacant stare off into space. This happened for three nights in a row. I explained it to some relatives, who then showed me the picture of the young girl, who drowned falling into the Barge Canal. I never would have guessed she was a ghost, not much light was on her, but I saw her face well enough. WOW.

[winniechen]

Awesome stories! Loved reading the experiences shared in comments too！

[shakilahmad]

Me and my younger brother share same bed room. One day in almost mid night i woke-up with noise of opening of drawer exactly 2 Ft away from my bed. In this space of 2 Ft my younger brother who was removing cloth from draws and we had face to face and eye to eye contact with each other.I harshly told him as what he is doing in middle of night, but he instead kept quiet and starring at me without winkling his eyes so i told him "Why you starring at me" and repeated with words " Come and sleep". I continued talking and turning my head other way when i saw my same brother sleeping. I immediately turned back my head but what i saw was amazing and terrifying scene of his dissolving and vanishing in front of my eyes. That night i could not sleep for hours. I still remember this.

[lindaeasley]

My first experience with the paranormal / ghosts was when I was a teenager some years ago .
It was the night of the day of my sister's funeral. I was settling down to go to sleep on the sofa ( we had company sleeping over ) and shortly after I turned out the light I heard a whispered voice say my name. I looked around assuming it was my mom but nobody was in sight. It sounded like my deceased sister .It scared the shit out of me but I never told anyone the next day

[bellamilr]

I’ve had a few paranormal experiences as a child. I used to be very afraid and shy. I think now as I’m older I’ve learned to deal with the fact that I can feel presence. If I walk into a room I can feel either good or bad energy. It’s crazy.

[megb]

I like how they had to add “From real people” like they were letting us know they are not actors

[badnewz]

My homeboy had a old house that was in the woods..I was asleep on the side of his house in my car one night and I heard something pulling my door handle. I never thought much of it until I was telling another one of my friends about it and he finished the story before I could..it had happened to him and a couple of other people too!

[renaydominguez]

I'm a 57 year young lady who has been spooked. At 14, I unplugged my radio. It continued to play Crazy on you, by Heart. I went to see why, and indeed it was unplugged. I followed the cord with my eyes, and about 10 seconds later, it just stopped. I will always remember that feeling of being scared. I'm Catlady Redd here in Muncie Indiana and this is 100percent true.

[BeatlesFanSonia]

A few years ago I was living with my daughter in an apartment while she was having a house built. One day she was on her laptop and the kids were playing a video game so I went off to take a shower. When I got out of the shower, I stepped into the hallway and I saw a little boy walking towards me. I said hi and he nodded and went into my daughters room. I thought that was odd because I didn’t recognize him. I ran to the living room but there was no one there! I called my daughter on the phone and she told me she took the kids shopping! I asked her about the boy in her room and she said maybe she didn’t lock the front door when she left and one of the neighbors kids was in the apartment. She stayed on the phone while I went to tell the little boy to leave. I searched everywhere but he was not there. He couldn’t have left because I had been by the front door the whole time and the back door to the balcony was still locked. He was flesh and blood and didn’t look like a ghost and it was the afternoon not nighttime! I hated that apartment but not because of a ghost. It just had an oppressive feeling.

[rileyschoales]

"pinstripe suit and a fedora" .. harry styles is haunting you?

[linnea_of_smeg]

Take a shot everytime the last girl says "like" boom you're drunk!

[alyssamurphy]

UGH, OMG! Please do more of these kinds of videos! This was such a good, spooky video and I *TRULY* enjoyed this one! Anything paranormal really peaks my attention, and I'd absolutely love if you'd upload more of these types of video content!! 👌🏼👻👻

[queeneva]

It's the middle of the day and I want to crawl under the bed and cry... If these stories were real, I mean wtf? So damn scary if I was these people I would have gone crazy

[tracygodman]

I use to see spirts all the time, until my mother died last year, which i'm upset about because I wanted to see her again! She did come to me in a dream and said she was ok, she was so beautiful and young. I miss you mom, love ya forever! I'm still waiting on that password!

[shakilahmad]

I have same visual confrontation with real ghost in my life. That scene turned scary when that boy dissolved in air in front of me. I can not explain my terror. But being a scientific in my approach i still can not deny existence of ghost. It was visual and ghost conforming experience. Most dont believe but i dont care.

[midevilgirl]

Seventeen seconds in....I LOVED PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS I still have my game anyway, continue...