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Imagine a ghost sitting right beside you, observing you as you read a book on the couch, watch your favorite Netflix show, or scroll through this list. Maybe it’s quietly moving around in the passenger seat while you drive, or watching you intently in the theater as you enjoy the latest Marvel movie. Sometimes, you may feel an eerie chill that sends a shiver down your spine; other times, you may remain completely unaware of the spectral presence around you.
Numerous social media platforms, like Reddit, offer a space for individuals to share their eerie, unexplainable, and supernatural encounters. This list features even more ghostly experiences from people across the globe.
10. Odeon Cinema
In 1946, 2,000 moviegoers gathered at the Odeon Cinema in Bristol to watch The Light That Failed. Early in the film, the protagonist is blinded by a gunshot. What the audience didn't know at the time was that the cinema’s manager, Robert Parrington Jackson, was being murdered in his office. The 33-year-old father of four was shot in the head, with his body discovered by the cinema cafe supervisor at around 6:45 PM. He passed away in the hospital later that night. Despite a confession in 1989 by a Welsh robber on his deathbed, the murder remains officially unsolved.
Today, you can still catch a movie at the Odeon. In cinema three, however, there’s a strange phenomenon—temperatures reportedly drop for no apparent reason while films are playing. It’s believed that this chilling occurrence is due to Jackson’s spirit haunting the cinema, and it’s said that he appears only to women.
9. Xinhai Tunnel
The Xinhai Tunnel, built to connect Central Taipei to Muja, is constructed atop a hill that hosts a cemetery. This eerie location has led to numerous reports of paranormal activity. Drivers passing through the tunnel have described experiencing 'gue dong chiang,' a sensation where they feel as though they are driving through the tunnel endlessly, unable to reach the end. They can see the tunnel’s exit, yet they never seem to get any closer to it.
Some have reported encountering the ghost of an elderly woman sweeping the road in the middle of the tunnel. Drivers honk at her to get her attention, but she stubbornly continues her cleaning and refuses to move. Eventually, when an impatient driver pulls up close to confront her, she disappears into thin air.
8. University of Texas at Brownsville
The number of ghost stories circulating around the UT Brownsville campus is enough to fill two volumes of a book titled The Ghosts of Fort Brown. The campus was once a military fort, and one of the dormitories was constructed on the grounds of a 19th-century cemetery. Not everyone is frightened by the spirits, though; nursing student Olivia De La Garza mentions a little boy, about three years old, who enjoys visiting her dorm room at night to pull the bedding off her bed.
Other apparitions that haunt the campus include cavalrymen marching in formation, people waltzing and singing old war songs, as well as women and children dressed in Victorian-era clothing. It’s also said that jukeboxes play by themselves and books mysteriously fly off shelves in the library.
7. Ballyboley Forest
Ballyboley Forest in Northern Ireland is believed to be an ancient druidic site and the location where many people mysteriously vanished without a trace during the Middle Ages. This dark history has earned Ballyboley a reputation as one of the most haunted forests in the world.
In 1997, two brave men ventured into the forest, and it didn’t take long before they heard the sounds of a woman crying out in pain. They searched for her but found only trees covered in blood. Terrified, they decided to leave, but as they turned to go, one of them looked back and saw four hooded figures standing silently behind them.
Others have reported a sense of being watched, as well as sightings of dark shadows and eerie lights. Some even speculate that the forest could be a portal to another dimension.
6. Guantanamo Bay
The Bayview complex in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is infamous for more than just being part of a US Navy base. Built in 1943 as a club for military officers, it has gained notoriety for its ghostly inhabitants. One such spirit is that of an elderly woman who has been spotted sitting on the second floor of the club, staring out of the window. It’s said she once lived in the club until she was discovered dead in the bath many years ago.
There have also been reports of a man in khaki clothing, wandering the club from one of the residences to the bathroom. Given that the building was constructed on the site of old Marine camps, it’s believed that the ghost in khaki may have been a Marine in his past life.
5. Conn Barracks
During World War II, the Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt, Germany, served as a Nazi hospital and psychiatric ward, later transforming into a barracks for US soldiers. Two soldiers, using the same room two years apart, both experienced the same disturbing dream. In their dream, a Nazi soldier stood at their bedside, speaking to a nurse who stood beside him. The nurse was covered in blood, wearing a sorrowful expression. The Nazi soldier instructed the nurse to do something, and she began choking the soldier in bed. Both soldiers woke up at this point in the dream.
They later discovered that the room they slept in was built directly above a drainage room, where bodies were prepared for burial. Another eerie spirit believed to haunt the barracks is that of a woman who had protested against abortions while alive. Now, she is said to run through the corridors carrying a fetus.
4. Wroclaw
Wroclaw, the largest city in western Poland and a bustling student hub, is also known for a chilling incident where a grandson murdered his grandmother after allegedly being possessed by a demonic dwarf. It is said that her tormented screams can still be heard near the Hansel and Gretel building, close to St. Elizabeth’s Church.
The House Under the Golden Dog, now a restaurant, was once home to Frederick the Great. Legend has it that a mysterious force once snatched a quill from his hand while he was writing a letter. Today, strange noises can be heard emanating from the cellar beneath the building. Shadows at St. Mary Magdalene Church are believed to belong to maids trapped in an eternal prison. The chambers beneath Partisan Hill are infamous for the eerie screams that echo through their empty hallways. Additionally, back in the day, when Abram’s Tower (now a bar) was filled with sewing machines, a ghostly presence would set the pedals and wheels into motion, causing the machines to run on their own.
3. Gridley Tunnel
Some of the most terrifying ghost stories originate from Japan, a country with chilling tales of a Marine who slashed his wrists with pieces of a mirror, only to be trapped in another mirror forever. There are eerie accounts of floating red eyes, the anguished screams of nuclear bomb victims still haunting the air in Hiroshima, and terrifying instances of people being dragged from their beds by an unseen force.
Gridley Tunnel in Yokosuka has its own disturbing apparition. Drivers using this narrow one-way tunnel have reported seeing a man dressed as a samurai in their rearview mirror, standing in the road behind them. The shock of the sight has caused some drivers to crash their cars into the side of the tunnel. These ghostly appearances are most common when it rains between midnight and 1:00 AM. It’s believed that the ghost was once a samurai, murdered in the tunnel while on a mission to avenge his lord’s death. Because he never completed his task, he’s cursed to remain in the tunnel forever.
2. Macquarie Fields Station
Australia is known for its spooky legends, including the phantom girl who haunts the Wakehurst Parkway on the northern beaches of Sydney. Another disturbing story involves a ghostly girl that haunts the Macquarie Fields train station.
When the station falls quiet after the last trains have left for the night, a faint crying can be heard, gradually growing louder until it turns into agonizing moans. At this point, the ghost of a teenage girl appears. She’s said to wear dance attire with a bloody stain on her chest and drifts around the station, groaning more intensely. At other times, she sits in the middle of the station, crying uncontrollably, her soft sobs sometimes escalating into blood-curdling screams.
It is said that a young woman was tragically struck by a train at this station in 1906, and her restless spirit has been haunting the station ever since.
1. Central Philippine University
Central Philippine University (CPU) is home to a ghost story for nearly every corner of its campus. For example, the Roblee Science Hall, which once housed Japanese soldiers during World War II, is rumored to disappear at 3:00 AM. Students have reported glimpsing a young girl playing in the hallways, her wrists and ankles bound with chains, occasionally crying softly.
The Old Valentine Building is said to be the haunt of CPU’s founder, Dr. William Valentine. His ghost is known to frighten people at night, carrying his severed head in hand. In Franklin Hall, the spirit of a young man who took his own life is said to appear to students, while a lady in white watches from another building. Rumors abound in Johnson Hall about a doppelganger wandering the classrooms, and in the High School Compound, another little girl roams, startling anyone who crosses her path.
