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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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.
DomovoiThe 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.
An 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 deadThe 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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
A 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.
PoltergeistA 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 deadTwo 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.
An apartment resident periodically feels a soft ball underfoot that vanishes when he looks down. He suggests it might be a domovoi.
DomovoiA 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.
GhostPoltergeistA 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.
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 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 deadPoltergeistThe 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.
A 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.
DemonA 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.
An 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.
Family 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.
DomovoiA 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.
In 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.
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.
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.
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.
PoltergeistAt 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.
PoltergeistHome 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.
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 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.
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 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 personAt 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 deadTwo 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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