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32 Paranormal Stories to Read By A Sole, Flickering Light

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32 Paranormal Stories to Read By A Sole, Flickering Light

November 20, 2023

Apologies if you’re the one in 90 million people who is somehow sleeping well lately, because your sleep streak is about to end. You think you’re better than us? Well, you’ve kinda been cheating this whole time. We’ve had these ghastly tales swimming around our heads, and if you’re brave enough to soak them in, we’re guessing you’ll be up sweating and shrieking all night like the rest of us!

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THE MAN WHO PHONED HIS FAMILY, EVEN THOUGH НЕ WAS ALREADY DEAD. In 2008, a Metrolink train crashed in the northern San Fernando Valley, killing 25 people, including Charles Peck who died instantly. His family, however, started getting calls throughout the night from his phone. The calls kept coming for about 12 hours, and when they answered, there was only silence on the other end. His phone probably went haywire from the crash. Probably. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE NORTH LONDON EXORCISM GONE WRONG. Kennedy Ife (26) lost his mind one day when he started biting his dad and threatened to cut off his penis. His mother went to a minister, asking for help, and Kennedy was restrained for three days to cure him of the evil spirits causing his distress. Не died, his entire family stood trial for manslaughter, but all of them were found not guilty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A GHOST HUNTER STABBED HIMSELF IN THE AXE MURDER HOUSE. THE Villysca Ax Murder House JUNE 10 1912 The famous Villisca Axe Murder house in lowa is thought to be haunted by the family murdered there in 1912. In 2014, a group of paranormal investigators stayed at the house overnight. One of them, Robert Steven Laursen Jr., was alone in his bedroom when he started calling for help on a two-way radio. The group found him stabbed in the chest, and he was rushed to the hospital. The incident happened around 12:45 AM, the same time as the 1912 murders. — Source

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THE TWINS WHO WERE ALWAYS TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER. Also called the Silent Twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons never spoke actual words to anyone except each other. They would have little rituals like deciding who gets to wake up first, who gets to breathe first, and who can't breathe before the other one breathed first. They went on a five-week crime spree when they turned 18, and were sent to a criminal hospital. When Jennifer died suddenly in 1993, June revealed that they had a death pact, agreeing that one of them needed to die SO the other could — Source

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APPARENTLY THERE'S A HAUNTED FROZEN ELSA DOLL. A family in Houston who purchased a singing Elsa doll claims the thing to be haunted. It speaks on its own without being switched on, and it has never needed new batteries in the six years they've had it. They've thrown the doll out twice, but it kept ending up back at their house. The whole thing sounds like a prank, but the idea is still pretty creepy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE FAMILY WHO WAS PLAGUED BY GARDEN CERAMICS. A family in Southern California thought it was a prank when a bunch of ceramics appeared in their garden one day, but the creepy things didn't stop coming. Over 50 pieces showed up in about a month, with some in menacing positions as if they were supposed to stare at the family, watching them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE SKIERS WHO MYSTERIOUSLY DIED ON DEAD MOUNTAIN. A group of skiers were hiking in the Ural Mountains of Russia when a blizzard hit. They camped out for the night, but something terrifying happened because, when all nine of their bodies were discovered, it was clear that they fled their campsite half-dressed with bare feet straight into the storm in the middle of the night. Some of them had broken bones. One had a crushed skull. What happened to the group remains the talk of a lot of conspiracy theories. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE TWO DUTCH FRIENDS WHO WENT MISSING ON A HIKE IN PANAMA, AND THE CREEPY PICTURES ON THEIR PHONE. Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went hiking in 2014 and disappeared. Photos of their hike suggest that they may have trailed off the path and deep into the forest. Soon they were making phone calls to the Dutch emergency line, but couldn't get through. Nine weeks later, the girls' backpack was discovered, and bone fragments were found near a river as well as a boot with a foot inside. The photos authorities recovered from the phone were super eerie, with most — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2013 THE CONJURING Things mysteriously changed places in the Warrens' store room. Actress Joey King became covered with bruises, while Vera Farmiga woke up with three scratch marks on her thigh, and the same marks would also appear on her laptop and cellphone. Also, Farmiga would wake up between 3 and 4 a.m., the same time at which the witch dies in the film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2005 THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE During filming, the radios of actresses Jennifer Carpenter and Laura Linney would turn on by themselves, right in the middle of Pearl Jam's Alive. Cool song, but also, they would start shouting right where the lyrics scream I'm still alive. Eventually, all the radios were unplugged to avoid, erm, messages. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Annabelle Comes Home

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2019 ANNABELLE COMES HOME The set for the third Annabelle installment was so spooky, a priest had to intervene. A piano bench would move by itself, door knocks would be randomly heard, and performers saw shadowy figures on the set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2011 THE INNKEEPERS The movie is based on a haunted hotel Ti West where and his crew stayed while shooting The House of the Devil. During production, they witnessed flickering lights, slamming doors, and according to West, actress Sara Paxton would wake up in the middle of the night thinking someone was in the room with her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2012 THE POSSESSION Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan did not believe in spooks, but he does now. While filming, Morgan would feel random cold breezes, a light went from being turned off to exploding, and a fire engulfed a storage room full of props (including the possessed Dibbuk box prop the movie revolves around). CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1968 ROSEMARY'S BABY Shortly after release, composer Krzysztof Komeda went into a coma after falling off a cliff, and soon died. Producer William Castle got hate mail, developed kidney stones, and hallucinated about the film at the hospital, eventually screaming, Rosemary, for God's sake, drop the knife! And finally, there's the infamous fate of Roman Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1982 POLTERGEIST Tragedy followed this film. Actress Dominique Dunne was strangled and died in the same year the film came out, and Heather O'Rourke died of cardiac arrest at age 12, in 1988. A priest exorcized the set of the 1986 sequel, so maybe it all comes from the original using actual human remains for the pool scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1976 THE OMEN On two separate occasions, airplanes carrying actor Gregory Peck and the film's executive producers were hit by lighting. The FX artists that designed the iconic decapitation scene were in a car crash and witnessed an actual decapitation not long after production. Oh, and the animal trainer was mauled by a tiger one day after filming the baboon scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Himamushi nyūdo is a Japanese spirit that lives under your floorboard. Its main hobby is to come out while you're studying late at night and snuff out your lamp with its tongue. Literally the worst roommate ever. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some Native American tribes, such as the Ojibwa, feared the Mishipeshu of Lake Superior... ...an enormous feline/reptile hybrid who enjoys drowning children, and kills anyone who steals copper from its home. It was believed to have caused the sinking of ten copper- laden cargo ships in the 19th century. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM An unusually high number of accidents in a road crossing Dartmoor, in Devon, England, have been attributed to the Hairy Hands, a pair of disembodied hands that appear out of nowhere and wrench vehicles off the road. — Source

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This is the Bake-Kujira, a skeletal Japanese ghost whale that haunts the seas near whaling villages, and if anyone sees it, it curses their village with fire, plague, famine, and other catastrophes. Japanese mythology doesn't screw around... CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kelpie is a shapeshifting creature in Scottish mythology that lures people to watery deaths. It usually takes the form of a horse to lure exhausted travelers into riding it. Once the traveler touches a Kelpie, though, their hands will be stuck and the Kelpie will ride into the water and drown the traveler. In other instances, Kelpie lures people in the form of a beautiful woman. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Acheri CRACKED.COM In Native American and Hindu folklore, the Acheri are the spirits of little girls who died horrible deaths. They return and cause children to suffer from a respiratory disease and eventually die. Ward them off with red ribbons. — Source

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IN Lithuanian FOLK LORE, Aitvaras... IF IT ROOSTER MIGHT HATCH LAYS . INTO AN EGG AN A A DEMONIC chicken THAT LIVES IN YOUR HOUSE AND BRINGS YOU BAD LUCK UNLESS YOU feed it. IN REALITY, IF A ROOSTER LAYS AN EGG, THEN YOU WERE PROBABLY MISTAKEN ABOUT OWNING A ROOSTER. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM According to Southeast Asian folklore, Orang Minyak (literally translated from Malay as 'Oily Man') is a creature coated with black grease, who goes about raping virgins. This monstrous creature is so widely believed in the region it constantly makes the news. — Source

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CRACKED.COM If your money inexplicably goes missing in Malaysia, you can blame it on a Toyol. Toyols are mischievous child spirits invoked by witch doctors from aborted babies. They are used to perform petty crimes for them, as long as they are fed with blood every night. — Source

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La Ciguapa is a Dominican creature depicted as a beautiful slender woman with silky hair and backward feet. All FRoder's The legend goes that these women steal various things from the nearest villages such as raw meat, butter, and the occasional lonely man. They would lure these men with their beauty and passionately make love to the men which would kill them in the process. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Genderuwo is a sleazy giant that terrorizes the people of Indonesia. Genderuwo is a gigantic hairy man who loves to seduce lonely women, especially those neglected by their husbands or who have recently been widowed. It uses magic to seduce these women and there's nothing they can do to resist a Genderuwo's advances. Other than to satisfy its insatiable sexual desire, a Genderuwo also seeks to impregnate these women who will give birth to more Genderuwos. — Source

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A Tiyanak is a Philippine mythological monster that disguises itself as a baby crying for help in the middle of the woods. The Tiyanak turns into a monster when its lured victim is near, then goes back to being a helpless baby after killing its victim. CRACKED.COM — Source

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According to the Greenland Inuit, a TUPILAQ is an evil being made from parts of animals and dead children. Its creator puts it in the water and sends it forth to attack a specific victim. It is imbued with power by sucking the genitals of its creator. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Grootslang is said to have been a mistake by the gods. They made a dangerous creature that was strong, smart, and frightening. Half elephant Half snake Eventually the gods unmade them, but at least one grootslang is said to have escaped, and CRACKED.COM supposedly still lives in a cave in Richtersveld, South Africa. — Source

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Sundel Bolong is the ghost of an Indonesian woman who was killed while pregnant and gave birth in her grave. The name, which roughly means a whore with a hole, refers to a hole on her back through which her baby crawled out. She exacts vengeance upon sleazy men by posing as a beautiful woman when she's not busy abducting babies or eating placentas. CRACKED.COM — Source

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