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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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 deadA 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.
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.
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.
A 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 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.
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.
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 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 personA 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.
DomovoiThe 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.
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.
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.
A 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 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.
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