The Haunted Homes Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.
When you buy a house you get a folder. Boiler manual, warranty for a washing machine that has already gone, a leaflet about the bins. In our…
1894 Upvote · 87% of readers believe this story
She was seventeen, sensible, the daughter of a colleague. She had sat for us four times. We got home at midnight and she was standing on the…
1763 Upvote · 86% of readers believe this story
I rented Flat 3 for two years. It is a nice flat. High ceilings, bad windows, a landlord who actually fixes things, which in this city is cl…
1608 Upvote · 86% of readers believe this story
When we moved into our house the doorbell started ringing at night. Always once, always a single long ring, and always, when I finally start…
394 Upvote · 85% of readers believe this story
I bought a fixer-upper and spent the first winter tearing into it, pulling up carpet, stripping wallpaper, learning the bones of the house. …
391 Upvote · 85% of readers believe this story
We bought an old house cheap, the kind of deal that should make you ask questions, and for the first month it was just a lovely old house. T…
390 Upvote · 85% of readers believe this story
I want to lead with the architectural fact, because it's the whole problem: we live in a single-storey bungalow. There is no upstairs. Above…
202 Upvote · 89% of readers believe this story
The doorway made no sense, which is why we sealed it. Our Victorian terrace had, in the back bedroom, a door in the middle of a wall that op…
190 Upvote · 77% of readers believe this story
They live in the corners of my eyes. I've had them for about a year, in the flat I moved into after a bad breakup, and the pattern never var…
178 Upvote · 98% of readers believe this story
I need to be careful here, because the internet has a name and a whole mythology for this now, and I don't want to be accused of borrowing i…
153 Upvote · 80% of readers believe this story
The handover was normal — keys, meter readings, the warranty for the boiler. Then the seller, an elderly man moving to be near his daughter,…
141 Upvote · 87% of readers believe this story
It started so gently that I gaslit myself for months. A mug I'd left handle-left would be handle-right. Chairs I'd leave pulled out — I'm a …
116 Upvote · 86% of readers believe this story
Our family home has been 'active,' as my mother delicately puts it, for as long as I can remember — the ordinary poltergeist portfolio of a …
104 Upvote · 90% of readers believe this story
I rent the top-floor flat, 6B, and it has a small second bedroom I don't use — I work from the living room and the box room became a place I…
79 Upvote · 86% of readers believe this story
We were the sensible ones. We bought a new-build specifically to avoid all of this — no creaking century of history, no previous owners' tra…
55 Upvote · 80% of readers believe this story
