The grid below shows only some of the ghost stories submitted by the community.
Bachelors Grove – Chicago
Ghosts or Apparitions by Patricia
Unseen Ghosts Heard: EVPs/The Bell Witch by Lex
The Distressing Creep of a Darjeeling Hotel by Lex
Gangsta Ghost Rides a Bicycle by Lex
Way Bizarre First Experience by Lex
Please to go to the complete index of ghost stories
This website was created to honor a ghost story in particular. I’m talking about your ghost stories and your eerie experiences with the paranormal.
Before you start, I think you’d benefit to know about me and my personal story with ghost and haunts, would you?
I’m more than eager to tell you, in a nutshell, my story with them, but I don’t want to make a list or anything on this page, because I plan on entering my ghost stories as a self-contained article each one on this website’s True Ghost Stories section. Just like everyone else.
Still, I think a presentation is in order, so let’s proceed, shall we?
My Personal Story
The photo at the top of this page looks like a fake. It is there because I thought it looked cool and that is why I used it. The same goes for all the other dramatic photos featuring ghosts on the main pages of this website.
Still, that is the kind of ghost sub-product that I, personally, care about less and less every day. That is because I’m a psychic by nature and a self-made spiritual worker. I’ve been having paranormal experiences since I was 10-11 years old. I’m spiritual, yes, but not religious, at all.
I may or may not have preferences for this or that belief system, but all of them are just crutches and poor excuses for real philosophy, real power, and real conscience.
Some belief systems, I think are very corrupted indeed, and too much deviated from the original purpose of religion to be taken seriously.
Even having such a bleak view on everything I try to stay humble and learn when I decide this or that stream of learning is a relatively pure continuation from the pure source.
Even with such an anti-religious view, I believe in not just ghosts, but also hard to explain Fortean events and alien/UFO phenomena. This website is not aimed at any of those very interesting topics, though.
This doesn’t mean that I am a gullible kind of person or that Forteanism, ghosts, and aliens are my religion. Far from it. They’re just objects of study due to a lifetime of experiences in those three fields.
I have lived more than half a dozen very wondrous events and dozens of subtle and toned-down paranormal experiences.
Your Stories on this Site
The main section of this website is a library of ghost stories built by the community of ghosts experiencers.
This community provides, among other features, a scheme for licensing your ghost stories, and you can opt to keep all rights to your story by giving it a copyright license.
All services provided to you on this website are free and they will stay so, including editing services, media sourcing, and licensing features.
Please use the submission page to record each of your ghost stories that you care to share. One important thing, I ask you to please make a single submission for each ghost story.
I know that many of you may want to write a single article including all of your experiences because you think the greater length of the content will make your individual stories, the whole story arc, or you more credible or a more influential person that deserves special consideration when it comes to amazement and awesomeness in the world of ghost stories?
If you think like that, no problem, go ahead and create a single dazzling article including all your stories. Still, I encourage you to see if you can break down your group of stories into individual ones.
Doing that makes for a great way to organize content at first and to, soon after, aggregate in lists so lists of stories are more specific. Also, for those interested in any of your stories, to go directly to the specific one only.
The Most Important Rule to Follow
Please don’t post creepypasta or any other story about ghosts (or similar entities) that isn’t true.
Have the dignity of not needing to call attention to yourself with a falsehood.
Seriously, if you lie, sooner or later you’re going to pay. I hope you already know that lies and falsehoods aren’t godly or dignified.
If you didn’t truly live something, you don’t deserve any attention, much less any glory for your fibs.
The recognition and credibility are reserved for those that actually lived the experiences that you envy; the kind of events that you have the crass nerve of emulating with lies.
I hope that if you are one of those self-important individuals who spread fibs around, for God knows what reason, that you don’t do it in this community. There are other similar communities where this condition was not expressly ordained, and you will be better off posting your falsehoods there.
Pertaining to those that share their stories in all honesty, knowing that they’re sharing it telling the events just as they happened without flowery embellishments or doctored truths, since we don’t have a way to scientifically prove anything, this is kind of a very contested pickle.
The default feeling of each of us to each other should be of trust and a mutual agreement that to tell an untruth is pointless since negative actions like them always catch up with you.
If you want to write creepy stories, there are a million channels where you’re writings would be more appreciated, than in a community that aims at providing as much truth as humanly possible, while killing in ourselves all falsehoods, big ones and small, that degrade us.
Terms of Use Waiver
You’ll notice that this website has a legal menu at the bottom of the page. It’s a long, hard-to-digest piece of legalese, part of a set of pages that every website is required to carry for legal reasons.
Now, I generated the disclaimer, the terms of use, and the privacy policy with applications. It’s not that I just cut and pasted a generic, canned document for each page. No. The applications that generate these pages actually guide you through a process of customization that tailors the final product to your website in particular.
Point in case, when I generated the Terms of Use, the application added a gigantic wall of text on copyright and the rights to the content that the users contribute to the website. I rather let it in place and invalidate it here for the time being until I feel I am fit to go through all the unreadable text and modify that document.
The content rights in the Terms of Use page are wrong, and not at all in tune with the digital rights management approach of this website and community. What that wall of text in the ToU implies is ultimately muddy to me, but what I understand of it is that it is simply too generic and biased towards the site instead of benefiting the community members.
Correction to the ToU’s Content Rights Section
The rights management schemes and provisions for your content on this website are clearly explained on the Submit Your Ghost(s) Content page, below the submission form, under these sections
- Licensing Your Ghost Stories
- Giving Your Content CC Licenses
- Copyrighting Your Stories
- Visual Media Licenses
- Image/Photo Attribution for Attribution and Attribution-NoDerivs
- Image/Photo Attribution for Share-Alike License
Let me make this clear without legal jargon or any other gobbledygook:
The rights to your voluntarily contributed content on this website are what you decide to make of them. You can just post a copyright notice at the bottom of each of your pieces and keep the full rights to your content forever.
You can opt to keep the full rights to a piece, and lease it to the community for the time you see fit (copyrighted content), and then, if you want to migrate the piece somewhere else, you just un-publish, and that’s it.
Or you can give your content pieces any of the Creative Commons licenses, in case you want to give one or more special sharing rights to the content.
In case you want to keep the full rights, just specify at the bottom of your story with a phrase, including your name or handle, year and the word Copyright, and a symbol like this one © or use a ‘c’ between two parentheses.
Just read the brief explanations for each license if you still don’t know the CC ones, because even if the acronyms are a pain to remember, the licenses are very easy to understand.
Ready to Submit Your Ghost Stories?
Just 600 to 1000-1500 words for each ghost story. For more information about how to format your story for submission, please read the style guide on the Submit Content page.
You will notice that there are a few rules that your story must comply with for it to be accepted. On one hand, the submission system will force you to fill in the minimum word count, so that takes care of itself.
On the other, you’ll notice that you have the option to choose the category of the content you’re submitting. It’s your responsibility to use the pull-down menu in the submission editor and pick the correct section. In this case True Ghost Stories.
Not only the style guide, but almost everything you need to know about the process of submitting your ghost story is on the Submit Content page. Still, you have to be registered to access the Submit Content page, so here below I will make a synopsis of the style guide’s rules.
- One submission per ghost story
- Length of 600 to 1500 words. Titles up to 120 words.
- Format for your story’s title: [title of your story] by [your name or alias]
- Use subheadings if you decide to bundle more than one story in a single submission
- Include at least one image, design or photo per submission
- You can upload your own images or source one from the community library
- Do a grammar check (spell check is not enough), with a free tool like Grammarly before submitting
- If you don’t understand any of the above points, then read the rest of the info on the Submit Content page
- A lot of additional submission info (with DRM rules and the like) follows…
Click here to check the complete index of ghost stories
Click here to submit your ghost story (you must be logged in)
Hit us on our Facebook Page if you need any kind of support
Remember, before submitting, read at least several of the ghost stories already published:
