As a child, the narrator met an old woman in the forest who couldn't come out and promised they would meet again. Later, from the same forest, he observed green spheres and a figure in white vanishing on the hill.
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As a child, the narrator saw a huge white semi-transparent figure waving at him near an abandoned dairy in the village of Staro-Arzamatovo; years later a local confirmed that schoolchildren had also seen the entity.
The author recalls five strange childhood incidents: a vanishing vision of his sister, a creaking couch with no cat present, blue flashes over a forest, a female voice from the hallway, and voices in the woods that his grandfather attributed to spirits of the dead.
GhostA narrator spending nights in a country house by the forest near Apraksin hears knocking and male voices near the house three times over two nights but finds no one. The area is known for heavy WWII fighting, with craters and war remnants on the property.
The author recalls several strange incidents from childhood and the recent past: clattering dishes in the kitchen, a shadow behind the door, a sound underwater in the bath, a female scream at night, sounds of a cat playing while the cat was asleep, and a knock on the door frame. He associates some phenomena with a domovoi and a kikimora.
DomovoiA collection of seven personal stories from the author: a bitten sandwich, a running shower in a burned apartment, laughter in a forest belt, 90s music from a dead street, chanting from church items, a giant dog in a swamp, and a white flash that led to an abandoned house.
Since 2021 a dacha owner has been noticing movement in the birch canopy out of the corner of his eye, and this summer sees a dog-sized creature that vanishes when looked at directly. A neighbor's wife reports a similar sighting.
Strange animalThe narrator recalls a school incident: a rattling door handle was heard from an empty locked classroom, and when they knocked back, blows came from inside, though no one was found there.
The narrator recalls hearing knocking at the apartment door as a child, which his mother later explained as a supernatural incident from her youth, after which everyone present died except her. The narrator still lives in that apartment and hasn't noticed anything similar, except for an incident with a neighbor who was just knocking to borrow money.
A first-year student at night encountered a small white creature with glowing eyes in the yard of a private house; it covered about 15 meters in three jumps. The creature never appeared again, but the narrator is still afraid to walk without a flashlight.
Strange animalAn account of paranormal phenomena in a rented apartment: footsteps, clinking dishes, a bathroom door handle being yanked, a hit on the back, and clicking sounds near the ceiling. Later it was discovered that a woman had died in the apartment. Also mentions an incident where an invisible force pulled the narrator away from an open manhole.
GhostSpirit of the deadA guy moved into a cheap rented apartment after the army and encountered a poltergeist: falling objects, a lock that blocks itself, nighttime awakenings. Neighbors said an old woman used to live here who didn't want new tenants, and recently someone photographed the author's girlfriend while she slept.
GhostSpirit of the deadA machine-building plant worker describes two unexplained incidents: the appearance of dirty footprints in a toilet and the anomalous behavior of a lathe that eventually maimed a worker and was mothballed.
As a child, the narrator, home alone with his grandmother, caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye of what he thought was his father peeking through the doorway, but instead saw a bald, extremely thin head resembling a skin-covered skull with crystal marbles in the eye sockets. His grandmother confirmed no one had come by.
Encounter with a Pair in Black Robes in the Forest
Second-hand accountThe narrator's grandfather in 2003 encountered a pair — a monk and a nun in black robes — walking through a remote forest and disappearing behind the trees. Later, two other acquaintances independently reported seeing the same pair in the forest.
A man renovating a private house, while hanging on a pull-up bar, sees in the window reflection a black cat climbing the stairs behind him. When he turns around, the cat is gone, and later he finds all his cats asleep in the other half of the house.
GhostThe narrator recalls how, as a child in the village of Kresty near Solnechnogorsk, he heard a frightened girl's voice outside his window at night wailing "Papa don't". The voice fell silent when his mother entered and resumed after she left; it never happened again.
As a child, the narrator and his friends saw a black horse-like creature standing on its hind legs dancing on a hill near Shipov Forest, which vanished after hearing his voice. Nearby, chanting prayers came from an abandoned street.
The narrator visits relatives in a village and for several nights in a row finds a strange cat on the couch, staring at him in the dark. His relatives deny letting it in, but a neighbor confirms such a cat exists — ownerless, appearing and disappearing unnoticed.
Domovoi in a Nakhodka apartment block: duplicated earrings and an egg
Second-hand accountIn a new apartment block in Nakhodka, according to the narrator's mother, strange things happened: a cat meowed at a corner, the brother pointed at an "uncle," items vanished and reappeared, and red earrings multiplied to five. After a mysterious egg appeared and then disappeared, the disturbances in the apartment stopped while the neighbors' got worse.
DomovoiA 7-year-old boy and his 13-year-old cousin were alone in their grandpa's village house when they heard knocking at the door, creaking outside, and a loud bang, though no one was visible through the windows. They hid in the bedroom and waited for their grandparents to return.
A first-person account of a nighttime incident in a private house: the narrator, then a schoolboy, wakes to a noise, encounters something in the dark that scratches him, beats it, and wakes up; later he hears the clink of two glasses right by his ear.
The author shares four childhood memories: a constant feeling of being watched in his brother's house and a silhouette of his grandmother, a miraculous rescue from a lake, a falling TV, and red eyes in the window.
Spirit of the deadAt 16, the narrator heard a librarian's story about devils knocking from under a bed in the dorm, and that same night at home she herself experienced loud knocking from under her bed, which stopped after her whispered plea.
While skipping school, the narrator sees a nun in a habit by the river running in panic, looking back, wailing and waving her hands as if shooing someone away, though no one is behind her.
GhostA teenager practiced magic from a book of Assyro-Sumerian rituals, after which neighbors and parents spent several days hearing footsteps and seeing shadows in the apartments. The narrator himself saw nothing, and no one knew about his hobby.
As a child, the narrator was sleeping over at his grandmother's and at night saw a huge black dog rise from the floor in the dark hallway. The grandmother connected it to someone having been hurt during the construction of the house.
Strange animalSpoiled Food and an Eye in the Doorway After a Ritual
Second-hand accountThe narrator's friend, after attempting to summon a spirit, found that all the food in his kitchen had spoiled within a day, and a couple of weeks later noticed someone's eye flickering past in a half-open door.
Friend's Account of Demon Visions and Fainting
Second-hand accountAn anonymous user recounts stories from a friend who claims to see demons: once she fainted after seeing a demonic face, and another time the lights went out in her apartment and a furry horned creature appeared. The narrator doubts the truth but notes unexplained details.
DemonA crew of workers renovates the basement of a hospital combined with a children's sanatorium, which houses a morgue. They encounter shadows, popping light bulbs, footsteps, voices, old-woman laughter, and a humming sound.
A clothing store employee hears a human voice in the fitting room early in the morning when no one else is in the store; later he and his colleagues notice movement and feel a presence.
A construction worker recounts how guards at a Kazan building site heard footsteps on an empty floor, and after a human bone was found, a string of accidents and injuries followed. The bone was eventually thrown out, and the ghost, according to the narrator, never found peace.
GhostThe narrator describes a series of unexplained occurrences in an old house: nighttime voices, dogs barking at unseen things, ghostly footsteps, lights turning on by themselves, and a red handprint on a niece's back. Several family members witnessed the events.
During a business trip to a village in Lipetsk Oblast, a woman stayed alone in a rented apartment where an old rotary phone began ringing, and then at night someone would knock on the door and rattle the handle, though no one was ever there. After a series of such events and a dream, she left.
Night Visitor in a Shroud After a Pulled Nail
Second-hand accountA tenant pulled a nail out of the floor despite the landlord's warning, and that night someone in a white shroud with a candle knocked on his door, complaining that it made his chandelier fall.
GhostA convinced skeptic and his mother cannot find a missing grey T-shirt he left on a coat rack. Two weeks and several cleanings later, the T-shirt suddenly reappears in the same spot.
At night the narrator lies in bed and hears an elderly female voice behind him saying an indistinct phrase. He checks the apartment with a flashlight, finds no source, and leans toward having hallucinated it.
After spilling water on his keyboard, the narrator unconsciously grabbed a towel that turned out to be from Omsk region, dated 1991, and could not have been in his new apartment. He and his girlfriend cannot explain its appearance.
Two childhood incidents: in winter the narrator saw a human figure in the reflection of a switched-off TV behind him, and in summer he watched a boy hiding in a wardrobe who vanished when checked.
Jar Flies Off Shelf and Moving Boxes in Store Warehouse
Second-hand accountThe narrator's mother works at a Perekrestok store where a jar flew off a shelf by itself, and camera footage shows boxes in the warehouse rising and lowering by a meter at night. A coworker called the store cursed.
PoltergeistThe author describes four incidents in his apartment: nighttime appearances of his dog with an invisible entity, a spontaneous swap of light switch buttons, a toy pistol rotating on its own, and loud cracking of the parquet floor.
The narrator recalls a night at a country house when he and his grandmother were alone and heard mysterious sounds of a falling weight and moving furniture on the second floor. The grandmother attributed it to crows, but the narrator was so terrified he stayed awake until morning and asked to leave.
A first-hand account of two incidents at an old dacha surrounded by dense forest: a steady nighttime light with no visible source, and a horrifying male scream followed by complete silence. The author suspects something is trying to lure people into the forest.
At night near a cemetery, the narrator caught a passerby in classic trousers and patent leather shoes in his peripheral vision, stepped aside to let him pass, but when he turned around, no one was there.
At night the narrator sees a female silhouette in front of the old washing machine, though his mother is asleep in another room. Later he hears scratching at the door, which stops after prayer, and the cat is found locked in the kitchen while the dog sleeps unusually soundly.
While gaming, a guy sees his mother walk into the toilet even though she had left for the store and he had closed the door behind her. He realizes it was someone else and waits for the real mother.
DoppelgangerAt 16, the narrator at night sees his father walk past him to the kitchen, then sees his figure disappear behind the doorway — right before the real father comes in from the kitchen.
DoppelgangerA 9-year-old boy left alone at home received a call on the home phone from a male voice demanding he open the door. He couldn't reach his parents and spent the evening in fear.
Creepy personIn March 2018, the narrator and their mother were visiting grandparents in a village. After receiving news of their great-grandmother's death, they heard a loud sound from the room with the freezer, but found no one there.
Missing Man Found Dead in Abandoned House with Symbols on Walls
Second-hand accountA 55-year-old man went missing after quarreling with his wife, left with the dog, and didn't return. Two days later his body was found sitting on a chair in an abandoned house, with walls and body covered in strange symbols drawn with charcoal. Cause of death was heart failure.
The narrator sees the wrecked car of a deceased relative move out of the parking lot on its own and block the road, then slowly roll forward in his presence, even though it cannot move due to damage.
Spirit of the deadAt a dacha near Konakovo, after building a sauna, the narrator's mother heard a distinct knock on the metal door while all family members were inside the house, and later found herself locked from outside in the outhouse. The family jokingly attributed these events to a bannik, and this version became a local meme.
BannikTwo Accounts from the DPR: The Torn-Out Lock and the Creaking Wardrobe
Second-hand accountTwo accounts from the DPR: the mother encountered a torn-out door lock, and the father — a wardrobe that opened by itself.
In 2021, the narrator moved to Moscow and rented a room in a three-room flat from an acquaintance. Strange sounds, knocking, and whispers began occurring, followed by an electrical surge; later, a new roommate also experienced panic attacks and a falling icon.
The narrator comes home late in the evening and sees their cat in the dark hallway, but after turning on the light the cat is gone and turns out to be asleep in an armchair across the room. Given the cat's age and size, the narrator doubts she could have moved that fast.
DoppelgangerA boy aged 8-10 hears his grandmother's voice from the kitchen offering to cook food, but the kitchen is empty; it later turns out she had been away from home for several hours.
A young man and his mother rent an apartment where strange things have been happening for three weeks: he feels a presence, a plant moves, objects fall and relocate. The last straw was his mother's dress, which at night moved by itself to the floor and was neatly smoothed out.
PoltergeistA guy renovates his deceased grandmother's apartment, where items vanish abnormally and a cold draft and creaking come from the bedroom with the "dark corner." The climax is a call to his lost phone: someone answers, footsteps and scraping are heard, and he flees in panic, never returning.
PoltergeistThe narrator recalls how one winter in a village, an acquaintance nicknamed DEAD woke him and insistently sent him to a neighbor's house, claiming the neighbor was dead. After finding the body, the narrator later learns that DEAD had dreamed of the deceased neighbor asking for his chainsaw back.
Spirit of the deadA young man staying at his grandma's village in summer went to the banya late at night without drinking, and encountered knocking on the stove, footsteps above the ceiling, soot-stained clothes, and scattered utensils. His grandma explained it as the bannik and devils who wash at midnight and don't touch drunks.
BannikPoltergeistTwo Stories: Poltergeist in an Apartment and the Voice of a Deceased Great-Grandmother
Second-hand accountTwo stories: the first is about a poltergeist in the apartment of the author's girlfriend's friend — sounds, missing items, and scattered makeup; the second is about a girl who, according to relatives, was possessed by the soul of her deceased great-grandmother, a healer, speaking in her voice.
PoltergeistSpirit of the deadNight Footsteps and Vanishing Figures in a Rented Apartment
Second-hand accountThe narrator's aunt and uncle, while living in a rented apartment, heard footsteps at night and both saw vanishing humanoid figures. At first they didn't share these experiences with each other, blaming fatigue, but later discovered they had seen the same thing.
Bathroom door shook on its own in great-uncle's apartment
Second-hand accountThe narrator's great-uncle in 2015 witnessed the bathroom door shaking and jerking on its own, as if someone were trying to break it down from inside, though the bathroom was empty. The family deemed it demonic and had the apartment blessed.
DemonVoice and a Tap on the Shoulder in a Dark Room
Second-hand accountThe narrator's mother was rocking his brother to sleep in complete darkness when she felt a tap on her shoulder and heard a quiet voice saying "goodbye" three times. The next day she learned that her friend's grandmother, who had been very fond of her, had died.
Spirit of the deadA man came home from his shift, went to bed, and heard footsteps in the kitchen. He found a stranger in old-fashioned clothes who asked to use the bathroom and then vanished, leaving a smell of metal.
Creepy personTwo Incidents: The Blind Old Woman with a Smell of Decay and the House with a Corpse in a Coffin
FiledTwo incidents from the narrator's life: an encounter with a creepy blind old woman whose apartment reeked of corpse, and a nighttime intrusion into a stranger's house where he saw a coffin with a corpse standing upright and people in suits.
Creepy personA settlement resident hears a child's cough and footsteps behind a locked basement door that cannot be accessed from outside; he takes the bikes home with his kids.
A resident of a new high-rise notices that sometimes people stand in the dark in the passenger elevator and only exit after someone opens the door for them. The cabin light turns off if the floor button isn't pressed.
Creepy personA boy walking to school in winter was saved from a pack of dogs by a tall young man who, when the boy turned to thank him, appeared to have a face like a skin-covered skull. The entity showed no hostility and walked on, leaving the narrator doubting whether it was just a mask.
In an old private house in a settlement near a city, spontaneous activations of TVs, smartphones, and appliances occur, along with nighttime knocking. The author seeks an explanation, including theories about military interference or electromagnetic disturbances.
An apartment resident periodically feels a soft ball underfoot that vanishes when he looks down. He suggests it might be a domovoi.
DomovoiGhosts of Deceased Patients in the ICU
Second-hand accountThe narrator's mother's friend describes ghosts of recently deceased patients appearing in the ICU only during night shifts. The department head, who used to laugh at these stories, encountered the ghost of a woman himself when he stayed overnight.
GhostSpirit of the deadA man born in 1987 recounts poltergeist phenomena in his apartment in the 1990s: creaking chairs, a falling curtain, a door opening by itself, and nighttime sounds. His sister also heard knocking and saw a ghost of a woman with a candle.
GhostPoltergeistThe author describes six incidents in different places: knocking and footsteps in childhood at his grandmother's, falling objects and footsteps at home, a face in the window, a ghost cat, a black eyeless cat and a domovoi, and a poltergeist in a rented apartment after an acquaintance's fortune-telling.
DomovoiA resident of a rented apartment has been encountering a silhouette in a black cloak, which he calls the NEH, for almost a month; his friend and the cat also react to footsteps, shadows, and sounds. The narrator is forced to sleep at friends' places and is afraid to return alone.
The narrator shares a series of strange incidents from childhood in a remote village: a hand touching the door glass, knocking on the window, a voice outside, scratching on the roof, and a human silhouette on the roof of a house under construction.
After the uncle's death, strange phenomena began in the grandmother's private house: a feeling of presence, shadows, smoke, conversations with the deceased, and mysterious messages. Everything stopped after the 40th-day ritual, when the narrator's mother saw a silhouette of a man walking into the forest.
Spirit of the deadGhostThe narrator and his father went hunting in Spirovo; at night the neighbor fired toward the livestock shed, from which something tall and pale ran off on two legs. In the morning they found a torn-up goat and boar, and soon sold the house.
Strange animalThe narrator recalls how at 14, left alone at home after learning of his grandfather's death, he heard loud kitchen utensil noises behind his bedroom wall for about six hours, while his dog reacted to them. He later associated this with a poltergeist but found no rational explanation.
Spirit of the deadPoltergeistA young man woke to the sound of something falling and found a chocolate candy in his locked room that couldn't have been there. Despite his materialist views, he can't explain it and is afraid to turn off the light.
The narrator recalls how a toy soldier disappeared in childhood and later hit him in the back, plus two nighttime incidents with a black silhouette and footsteps in the house, resembling sleep paralysis.
Shadow personAt night, a rhythmic rubbing sound on the carpet was heard in the room, seemingly getting closer to the narrator. She fled to the kitchen and stayed there until morning, then searched the room with a knife but found nothing.
Two friends camping in a homemade shack in the Vermont wilderness wake around 1 AM to the sound of a church choir right outside. In the morning, they find no trace of anyone, despite being miles from any settlement.
AngelA first-person account of how a friend and her family never answered calls from other rooms, citing a belief that demons use loved ones' voices to lure people. One day the girls heard a voice calling the friend from the garage, but no one was there.
DemonNight Visitor at a Logging Site
Second-hand accountIn the late nineties, two brothers working in logging spent the night in the forest, where a stranger walked up to their campfire, fixed their broken chainsaw, and asked them to light a candle for him in church. Later they learned that a feller named Yegor had died at that very plot a couple of years earlier.
GhostSpirit of the deadA first-person account from childhood: a friend's paralyzed grandmother screams at an invisible visitor, and the friend sees a shadow that vanishes. The grandmother claims a deceased neighbor, San'ka, visited. Later, before her death, she sees other entities.
Spirit of the deadShadow personIn a basement gym where the narrator worked out as a teenager, a weight plate rolled across the floor on its own. The gym owner reacted casually and warned not to touch anything in the far corner.
A lone person at night in their room felt something poke their shoulder, and just before that heard a floorboard creak from the window side. They searched the room, hid under the blanket, and in the morning confirmed that a specific board really does creak.
A resident of a two-story, six-apartment building regularly hears someone sneaking up the stairs at night and dropping a bag of ball bearings, but finds no one when he goes to look. His dogs react to the sound of the bearings but not to the footsteps.
The author describes a "knocker" that for about half a year knocked in the corner of his bedroom and answered questions with one or two knocks, then disappeared. He notes that none of his relatives died, so it was unlikely to be souls.
The narrator orders a pizza; the courier dies in a car crash on the way to him. Five years later the doorbell rings, and a woman from the management company is at the door.
A short message about a call from a fictional corporation representative who allegedly conducted an experiment on the author.
The author is at home drinking beer and farting loudly; suddenly the phone rings, an unknown voice calls him a farter and hangs up. He is baffled and speculates that his apartment might be bugged.
Creepy personAn office worker describes poltergeist-like phenomena: footsteps on an empty second floor, disappearing and reappearing items, objects spontaneously falling from a printer. A coworker confirms similar incidents.
PoltergeistAn overview post about "mimics" or "imitators"—entities that imitate the voices of household members, feeding on attention and fear. Examples, signs, possible causes, and methods of banishment are given.
A first-person account of an apartment where small items—a credit card, a phone, and hair ties—repeatedly vanish and reappear, which the narrator attributes to a domovoi.
DomovoiFamily Legend of a Domovoi with Three Heads and Three Beaks
Second-hand accountThe narrator recounts a family legend about a domovoi that supposedly lived with her great-grandparents: it dragged her great-grandfather off the stove at night, lived in a chest, and, according to all relatives, had three heads and three beaks.
DomovoiBlack Figure in the Room with a Child on Its Shoulders
Second-hand accountThe narrator's father late at night saw a black figure in the room, and the second time — the same figure with his small son on its shoulders. After that, the grandmother performed a ritual addressing the domovoi.
DomovoiA boy aged 11-13 was tossing sea pebbles in his grandmother's house when one of them suddenly veered off course and slammed into a wardrobe. His sister thought he threw it that way, but he denied it.
A woman hears distinct human-like breathing from under her bed; later her boyfriend confirms hearing the same sound. The sound recurs a few times over the year.
As a child, the narrator at night saw the shadow of clothes on a chair turn into a human-like silhouette in profile, which raised its hand and knocked. He ran frightened to his parents and notes it was not sleep paralysis.
As a child spending summer at his grandparents' village, the narrator was walking home and saw a gypsy woman with six children and a baby in the garden of an abandoned plot; she smiled at him and threw her child on the ground. The locals had never seen these people before or after.
Creepy personIn 2020, the author moved into a rented room in Moscow, where two months later poltergeist phenomena began: sounds of rolling jars, a feeling of presence, cold, a whisper of his name behind the door, and a lightbulb exploding. Later, a roommate artist had a panic attack during which an icon flew off his nightstand, after which the phenomena stopped.
GhostA student courier on his last workday encounters an anomaly in a brezhnevka elevator: a stranger vanishes into a shaft with no cabin, and then the elevator nearly kills the narrator. Later he finds local sources about a major who died in the same elevator in the 1970s.
GhostIn summer at a village, the narrator was alone in his aunt's house. Hearing a teenager's voice behind the gate calling his name, he went out but found no one. Later, his aunt confirmed she wasn't expecting anyone and hadn't told locals his name.
In May 2008, a kindergarten caretaker cursed a teenager after a conflict, predicting his death by autumn. In August of the same year, he was killed by a gunshot.
A first-person account of strange floorboard creaking in a village house in Verkh-Koptelka in winter 2019, heard only by the 13-year-old author and not by his parents.
As a child, the narrator heard running footsteps on the uninhabited second floor of their grandmother's house; the great-grandmother calmly attributed them to someone named "Vanechka."
The narrator recalls several eerie incidents that happened to him and his friends between 2007 and 2010 on a peninsula by the Belaya River near Ishimbay: nighttime screams, heavy hoof-like steps on water, the discovery of human remains at an old cemetery site, and a large creature in the river.
A narrator who was skeptical of family stories about a domovoi in the ancestral home personally hears an elderly whisper by his ear at night after his grandfather's funeral, to which the cat reacts by frantically running around the room.
DomovoiThe narrator describes two unexplained incidents from childhood and youth: nighttime rustling with a growl in the room, and a soft touch at the wall that turned out not to be the wall.
A guy is left home alone for three days and at night hears strange clicks and breathing from his brother's empty bed, then sees a glowing figure resembling his brother.
The narrator, as a teenager, spends the night at his sister's place in Moscow's Altufyevo district. At night the dog barks and runs off, after which the kitchen light turns on by itself and goes off a couple of minutes later with an audible switch click.
Strange occurrences in an elderly woman's apartment
Second-hand accountAn account of strange events in an elderly woman's apartment: missing items, knocking, voices, and visions of two women who allegedly came and never left.
DemonCreepy personIn 2007, a witness in an abandoned building saw a cinder block fly out of an adjacent room, glide past him, and disappear into a corridor, despite there being no people in the building and no sound of impact.
PoltergeistNight swim at the lake: a light, voices, and scratching
Second-hand accountThree young people at a lake at night see glowing water and a blue light over the beach, then hear voices calling their names and unintelligible chatter, and afterward hide in a shed where something scratches the walls outside.
On December 31 a driver stopped in a forest to get fir branches and heard a male voice advising how to break them correctly. He saw no one in the dark and quickly left.
During a night patrol, a security guard met his partner, who, according to cameras, had been sleeping in a windowless boiler room the whole time. The double disappeared into the forest belt, and the real partner remembered nothing.
DoppelgangerAt 18, the narrator was staying with relatives in a Ural settlement when something invisible repeatedly tugged and pulled the blanket under the bed at night. He clung to the blanket, sat up until morning with the lights on, and found nothing under the bed.
Twice in two nights in an old village house, the narrator was physically attacked: first an invisible force yanked his arm, then struck his back, leaving a bruise. His friend, sleeping in another room, didn't believe him, and they left the next day.
PoltergeistStrange Events in a Rented House in Suponevo
Second-hand accountA family story about strange events in a rented house in Suponevo: a heavy piece of sofa mysteriously moved across the attic at night, and years later the father heard footsteps above with no tracks in the snow. 40 years later, the narrator and his mother found the house.
Two teenagers explore an abandoned building and hear a child's voice calling for help. Finding the source, they discover an old Soviet doll in a red hooded jacket.
Home alone at night, the narrator hears heavy breathing from under the bed, then a low sound, grabs a pneumatic pistol and turns on the light — there's nothing under the bed.
Two incidents from the author's life on the Azov Sea coast: alone at night in a transformer booth, he hears footsteps on shells but finds no one around the corner; later, in a dilapidated house, he hears running in a locked attic, where no signs of life are later found.
The narrator was staying on the second floor of her parents' house and heard a monotonous knocking on the window glass that stopped whenever she turned on a light and resumed in the dark.
A witness walking home through a forest at night heard a looping bird-like sound that followed him to his building entrance and later sounded near his window. He could not see the source and describes it as clicking.
The narrator's phone went missing for months, then was found sealed inside the foam of a couch cushion, which had to be cut open.
The narrator wakes up at night before a trip and feels an invisible heavy entity walking on the bed, stepping on his stomach and placing a hand on his knee; the entity vanishes whenever he opens his eyes and never returns.
Two cases: in the first, the narrator and his acquaintance take photos in an underground bunker of a former military base and discover that shadows in the photos don't match the light source; in the second, the narrator finds skeletal remains and sitting corpses of homeless people on a technical floor of an abandoned factory.
In 1998, the narrator witnessed the corner wardrobe door opening by itself with force, despite no draft and closed windows. Afterwards, an icon fell from the shelf, which he linked to his deceased grandmother.
Spirit of the deadA collection of seven personal stories: paper moving without a draft, a shared hallucination of a black cat, anomalous star behavior, a mother's prophetic dream, a nighttime visit before a grandmother's death, a debunked mouse poltergeist, and a creature peeking from around the corner in childhood.
A story about friendship with the granddaughter of a village witch, their joint rituals with grave soil and herbs, and the girl's fear that her grandma wants to take over her body.
GhostCreepy personA first-person account of nightly occurrences in an apartment building: a black dog running on the stairs and rattling elevators moving on their own. It ends with the death of an elderly neighbor from a blood clot after he decided to confront the nighttime noise.
At night the narrator smokes on the stairwell between the eighth and ninth floors when he hears rhythmic claps ascending from below, though no footsteps are audible. The entity stops on the eighth floor and later leaves a wet handprint on his door.
After the grandfather's funeral, the light in the boy's room turned on and off by itself at night. The parents also witnessed this phenomenon and found no explanation.
The narrator recalls how, as a child after his grandfather's death, he became afraid to walk down the apartment hallway, and one day saw a semi-transparent brown figure missing half its body. After that incident, the fear disappeared.
Spirit of the deadA resident of a 1937 building constructed on the site of a church and cemetery describes anomalous phenomena in the basement, boiler house, and his own apartment, as well as the deterioration of his mental and physical health.
Two stories from the 1990s: in the first, the author and a friend see a dark silhouette in a stairwell that disappears when an old woman appears; in the second, five witnesses including the author observe a small shadow figure in an abandoned building.
Shadow personTwo incidents: an ancient phone belonging to the narrator's late great-grandfather rang from a china cabinet despite having no battery, and at the dacha a small cold room had a creepy atmosphere with a ginger creature darting past; later, breathing was heard from a wardrobe.
Spirit of the deadA depot worker sleeps in a former barracks where a man allegedly hanged himself. At night a radio turns on by itself, a presence is felt, and after a rude response mattresses fall from the top bunk. Later the narrator looks for an obelisk with a photo of a murdered woman but finds only his drunk coworker.
GhostThe Crazy Neighbour
FiledEvery night the narrator hears the hysterical laughter of a neighbour who, according to the narrator's grandmother, lost his mind while serving time for murder. One day, returning from the store, the narrator saw the neighbour's door open and then noticed the neighbour staring intently into the narrator's peephole.
Creepy personThe narrator describes a strange neighbor in an apartment building: her complaints about noise, tampering with the shared vestibule, conflicts with neighbors, and increasingly frightening behavior, including a sealed-off balcony and the reaction of pets. A mysterious "mother" is mentioned separately, whom no one has ever seen or heard.
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