Paranormal-mystery Stories

It's 2001, and Emily has lost her childhood home to both a haunting spirit and now the government is ready to snatch it up. Emily regrets ever inviting that spirit into her house and wants to make it right (and get her stuff back). Terrified since the ghost possessed her, Emily's life takes an unexpected turn when her name is drawn for a rare Halloween festival. A camp of spirits is the last place she wants to go, but if she doesn't show up, her classmates won't let her hear the end of it. But a comment from a classmate suggests the festival may hold the secret to banishing the spirit. Digging deeper, Emily learns about a mysterious portal opener who releases spirits on festival grounds every nineteen years. This has happened since the first festival's unexplainable "accident." Joined by her cousins, Emily rides terrifying rides, follows suspicious camp leaders, questions creepy carnies, and pieces together clues about the festival's dark past. All while gathering tickets to win the grand prize and spite a bully. But when Emily discovers a secret book, she must face her fears before the spirits unleash a dangerous entity. If she can't control her fears, everyone at the festival risks losing their sanity. Can she master her fears, banish the spirits, and reclaim her home? *** HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 carnies #3 paranormalmystery #5 dark-past #8 whodunit #10 portals #11 sleuth #15 middle-grade

What do you when almost everyone you meet completely forgets you? Witch-in-Training Rei Winterwood spends her time investigating paranormal crimes and magical misdemeanours. By now, she should have graduated into a full Witch, but her explosive mishaps are often more dangerous than the criminals she chases. Determined to prove she can solve a case without screwing up, she takes on a missing person's case. To solve it, she must attend a high school Halloween party and talk to the attending teens - but the problem is they won't remember her. Except for one boy - Lucas Shephard, who seems to hone in on her despite the fact that he should forget her almost immediately. When a girl's body is found, Rei must push harder in her search for the killer while protecting herself and the party-goers. Soon, Rei discovers something chilling: the murderer may be possessed by a Devil - someone exactly like Rei.

Delilah "Del" Cross went into the woods with the express purpose of never coming back out. However, death was interested in someone else that night. Del finds a murdered young woman, who soon rises from the dead as a zombie. Del is brought into a very special community living in happy isolation within the beautiful Whisper Valley. There creatures of myth and legend live together in harmony, following a strict set of rules that allow them to be who they are but also enjoy modern amenities like a steady Wifi connection and the latest smartphone. They all just want a normal life that's free from persecution by humans. For them, humans are instead seen as a commodity. Specifically they're known as the "Bodies" and they all have one year to either be sponsored or converted by one of the town's supernatural citizens. Del fills the vacancy left by the corpse in the woods, Calista Nightgrave. Calista should have been the next bride to a wealthy vampire, but instead she is a lowly zombie that's furious over the shift in her immortal afterlife. Both Del and Calista feel like something was stolen from them that fateful night, and they must work together to find the truth behind the death thief. *** Content Warning: Suicidal Ideation (Chapter 1: A Walk through the Woods) *** This is the first book in the Delilah Cross series. Books 1-4 are complete and available on Wattpad. Posting for the final book will begin March 2024. 1. The Death Thief 2. The Phantom Touch 3. The Blood Moon 4. The Bone Chapel 5. The Astral Eyes (March 2024)

"The house is haunted, Miss Jones. Haunted. There is an evil ghost in my home and I want it gone!" Andromache Jones is a tarot-reading witch from the sleepy village of Bramblesgrove, where she runs River Gardens Mystical Services. From here, she gives tarot readings, casts runes, gazes lovingly at the moon and stars, plays with crystals and herbs...and sometimes solves crimes. She likes to think of herself as a part-time private detective who untangles mysteries, but really she is an amateur sleuth who happens to attract trouble - and troublesome clients. It's been three days since Andromache Jones suffered her ordeal at the hands of The Magician and she doesn't know what to do with herself. She doesn't think she is up to working. She is not very keen on the idea of getting out of bed. In truth, all she wants is to be left alone. Unlucky for her, Jean Pottersworth is very persistent. Does she have a case that might chase away Mac's blues? The Apparition is the second short story in the Andromache Jones Mysteries series. The first is The Magician (also here on Wattpad), which you might want to read before The Apparition but if you don't, it shouldn't effect your enjoyment of the story.

Good beings disappear soon. Unhappy happenings spark a sense of anger, for a change. A change for the good. Although, the bad powers cannot be eliminated from the world, but good ones can be made to overpower, for the balance, in the universe.

Alex Kane doesn't go looking for trouble. Trouble finds him-usually around 3 a.m., in the form of visions he can't ignore. A psychic drifter living out of his van, Kane travels the back roads of America following nightmares to their source. No partner. No agency. Just a gift he never asked for and the dead who won't leave him alone. The Alex Kane Case Files is a collection of standalone short stories, each one a self-contained paranormal mystery. A ghost dog that won't stop following him. A phone that keeps ringing with a voice that shouldn't exist. Strange encounters on empty highways and in forgotten towns where something's not quite right. Each case file can be read on its own, in any order. Drop in anywhere. Stay as long as you like. Some cases have monsters. Some have murderers. Sometimes they're the same thing. 📖 Ready for a full-length investigation? Alex Kane's first novel, The Redwood Killer, is available now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCK4TM6L 📥 Want these stories to keep and get them before anyone else? The Alex Kane Newsletter subscribers get case files in EPUB and PDF format two week before anyone else. Sign up now here: https://www.bluecoffeepublishing.com/case01/ For fans of The X-Files, Supernatural, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. New case files added as they're declassified.

Candy was a pretty little seven-year-old girl like any other in Shirley County. She was prone to singing and dancing and splashing in the rain, in her yellow polka dot bikini and her favorite red galoshes. John was a normal little boy and he loved playing with his best friend, Candy. But their bond drew a darkness that had long stayed hidden in a small, southern mountain town. But our story begins long after that, when Candy and John are teenagers. John, caught up in the business of life, stops spending his summers in Shirley County. And Candy, hurt and lonely at first, moves on as well. She meets Sam, the new boy in town. Even though she has never ventured more than a hundred miles from her home, she has never felt at ease there. At odds with her high school friends and bored with her small town existence, she finds the adventure she needs in Sam. He is cool, confident, independent, and Candy likes that. He lives on the fringes of society, and perhaps she likes that, too. But she is sometimes overcome with a sense of dread, like a shadow has passed, just on the edge of vision. When John finally does find his way back, it’s to a Shirley County more disturbing than he remembers. He’s accosted by strange dreams, the evidence scrawled so frantically that his paper is ragged and torn. Howling animal masks and flailing human figures. Teeth sharp as razors. And John’s once comforting presence becomes unwelcome, when he turns up troubling information on Sam’s past. Despite the confusion of strained friendships, new romance, and high school intrigues, John and Candy begin to suspect something more sinister lurking amidst the days of football glory and the nights of clandestine rendezvous. And then there is a murder. There are dark spirits in the mountains of Shirley County, and one of them is bent on revenge.

This is a story I started writing in my French Revolutions class. Genre: Paranormal Mystery, Psychological Thriller Target Audience: Young Adult, Adult This story begins in a dark,dark room, there was no sound and all was still. Except that is for the little girl that had shrunken into the corner as if to hide from the big bad wolf. Did this girl know she was not actually alone I wondered. Could she see me? If she could that would mean that I was not really dead. But what if she was a medium? Then I would never know. Then it occurred to me. Why are we here? Where even is here? I try searching for an exit. There isn't one. Still, the girl does not move, it doesn't even look like she is breathing. I go over to her. Her eyes are closed. Maybe she's asleep. I leave her there. There must be a way out. If we made it in. there has to be. I must keep looking.

What Valeria Alvarez, a young paranormal activities researcher was to find in the little seaside town of Pacific Grove, was more than shocking. It gave many the notion that what science purports to know of supernatural phenomenon, is still in its infancy. Valeria gets pulled into a case that has resonated as a haunting on the California coast for over a hundred years. But what happens when the young subject who recites clues in her sleep begins to give details which encroach horrifically upon the life of the researcher herself? Valeria's romantic involvement with a professor who brings her into the case, further complicates her dealings as she begins to learn of her own hidden connection to the occult. The case brings the young researcher to a nexus of light and dark elements in the spiritual world. But in the process, she experiences a harrowing descent into the world of paranormal activity.

Some places hold dangerous secrets, full of fear and pain. But they can't remain silent forever. Montauk may need a special child to reveal its darkest secrets. Welcome to The End... Isiah 59:7 "Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways."

Her name is Angelina Star, her last name is literally Star. The star family truly lives up to their name but unlike her parents and four brothers angelina is an average middle school photography teacher. For years, she felt left out, but Angelina might be the biggest star in a family of celebrities.

At the start of the new millennium, ten-year-old Emily's made-up mysteries and snooping keeps getting her into trouble, and no one at school likes her because of it. Not fitting in and getting bored with her favorite books, she doesn't know who she should be. Worried, her mom takes her out for a girls' day at the mall, and Emily spots a Ouija board promising answers. Her mom refuses to let her buy it, so in the lamplight of her bedroom, she scrawls one herself and whispers to the spirit realm for help. Contact is made with a spirit named Morrigan, who has forgotten her past, and they agree to help each other so both of them can move on. But a dark mystery unfolds as they go searching for Morrigan's past. Emily makes a new friend, secrets are kept, and guilt and betrayal come between her and the spirit. As tensions rise, Emily seeks the guidance of three young witches for help. Now, she must learn to live for herself before losing herself forever. *** HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 paranormalmystery #3 cozymystery #3 amateur-sleuth #3 crystals #7 ouijaboard #15 middle grade