Paranormal Report81 cases shown
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.
The 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.
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 deadThe 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.
In 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.
At 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.
A 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.
An 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.
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.
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 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 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.
At 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 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.
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 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: 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 deadThe 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.
The 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 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.
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.
A 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.
The 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.
At 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
An 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.
Three 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.
A 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.
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 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.
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 deadEvery 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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