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.
Apparitions
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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.
GhostThe 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.
A 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 deadAs 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.
GhostAs 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.
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 deadWhile 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.
The 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.
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.
GhostTwo 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.
The 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.
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.
DoppelgangerThe 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.
DoppelgangerThe 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 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.
A 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 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.
Ghosts 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.
Ghost
PoltergeistThe 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 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 personNight 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 personBlack 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.
DomovoiAs 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 personA 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.
GhostNight 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.
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.
DoppelgangerTwo 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.
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.
A 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 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.
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 person