Hauntedhouse Stories

Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

Everyone in Black Hollow knew about the abandoned house. It stood at the end of an old forest road, surrounded by dead trees and covered in black ivy. No one had lived there for nearly fifty years. But people still avoided it. They said two ghosts lived inside. Not ordinary ghosts. Dangerous ones.

Six people enter an abandoned house searching for answers. One by one, they begin dying in impossible ways, while strange ghosts and forgotten memories reveal that none of them are who they claim to be. As Ayaan tries to uncover the truth, he realizes the house has been repeating the same nightmare for years. And the worst part? He has already died there before.

Everything is perfectly normal. Every day I go to work, greet familiar faces, and come home to the same quiet routine. Safe. Ordinary. Unremarkable. But something is happening. Something quiet. Something almost sinister. Every day I pass the same crooked house at the end of my street. And I can't shake the feeling - someone is watching me. Waiting. Learning. Mimicking. Is it human? Or is it something else

Everyone believed the Morgan family tragedy was a simple disappearance. On a stormy autumn night, twin sisters Amelia and Evelyn Morgan watched their parents' marriage finally shatter. In the chaos, Amelia was shoved down the crumbling basement stairs, her neck broken instantly. Horrified by what they'd done, their parents buried her beneath the dirt floor of the old basement, staged her bedroom to look like she'd been kidnapped, and convinced the police she had vanished. Evelyn knew the truth. Before she could tell anyone, she disappeared as well. Her parents claimed she'd run away after grieving for her twin. In reality, she was silenced forever and buried beside her sister beneath the same basement floor. Years pass. The old farmhouse becomes infamous as The House of the Missing Twins. Paranormal investigators, journalists, historians, and true-crime enthusiasts all want answers. Most leave convinced the house is haunted. They're right. The sisters refuse to move on. Amelia is fueled by righteous anger. Evelyn desperately wants justice and peace. Together, the twins manipulate lights, whispers, dreams, cameras, and recordings, trying to guide the living toward the truth hidden beneath the basement dirt. But the closer investigators come to discovering the unmarked graves, the more dangerous the ghosts become-not because they want to hurt anyone, but because every failed attempt means their parents' secret survives another day. When a skeptical detective, a determined journalist, and a gifted psychic each uncover different pieces of the mystery, the house becomes the center of a decades-old murder investigation. The twins have one goal: Find our bodies. Tell our story. Make them answer for what they did.

Justice was supposed to set the dead free. It didn't. Six months after Amelia and Evelyn Morgan's bodies were finally found beneath the basement floor of their childhood home, the killers are behind bars, the town is beginning to heal, and the haunted farmhouse has become a memorial. Then one terrifying confession changes everything. Richard Morgan claims the twins were not the first secret hidden beneath the old farmhouse. When investigators reopen the basement, they uncover evidence that suggests the house has been hiding dark truths for generations. As Sheriff Thomas Hale and journalist Claire Bennett race to uncover a mystery older than the Morgan family itself, Amelia and Evelyn's spirits return-not seeking vengeance this time, but trying to stop history from repeating itself. Every wall has a memory. Every floorboard hides a secret. And some graves were never meant to be found. The truth beneath the floorboards was only the beginning...

After her divorce, Mara Voss buys a cheap old house at the end of a lonely gravel road - and finds a hidden, windowless room in the basement that isn't on any blueprint. Her neighbor warns her about the family who once lived there... and the game they never stopped playing. Now something in the house has started counting again. And this time, it's counting for her. 👻🏚️

The clock struck 12:00 AM. Rain hammered against the broken windows of Blackwood House as Daniel stepped inside. The abandoned mansion had been empty for twenty years, but tonight, he had come looking for answers. His flashlight flickered. Then went out. "Great," Daniel whispered. A cold wind moved through the hallway.

A Hogwarts Legacy AU: Thirty years after the events of Hogwarts Legacy, a lonely witch finds herself in Feldcroft to start over, but the abandoned cottage came with a resident whose story should have ended decades ago-and a mystery that refuses to stay in the grave. No use of Y/N or MC for the main character. You are not the Hogwarts Legacy MC. [ONGOING] Cross-posted in AO3 Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction inspired by the Harry Potter/Hogwarts Legacy universe. All original characters, settings, and concepts belong to J.K. Rowling and the respective rights holders. This story is purely transformative and non-commercial.

A Halloween road trip was supposed to be fun-not terrifying. When six college friends accidentally stumble upon an abandoned mansion hidden deep in the woods of West Virginia, they decide to spend the weekend exploring it. But as strange events begin to unfold, they realize the house isn't abandoned... and it definitely wasn't in the plan. What starts as laughter, pranks, and chaos soon turns into a desperate fight to survive.

She came to Newport for a fresh start. She didn't expect the house to know her name. After moving to Newport, 16-year-old elara morgen begins noticing strange things in her new home. Knocking from inside the walls. Messages from an unknown number. Photographs that shouldn't exist. Then she finds an old photograph dated 2006 Seven teenagers are standing outside her house. Six of them came home. The seventh disappeared. But there's something impossible about the photograph- the missing girl's name is hers. As elara begins searching through Newport's forgotten streets, old records and secrets, she discovers that some people don't want the past uncovered. Because the more she investigates... the more she realises someone has been waiting for her. And whatever happened in 2006... isn't finished

a young modern couple on the brink of divorce finds themselves in a republican style era where they have to solve ghost mysteries and rely on each other to get out of this maze and return to their real world in this whole journey they learn to depend, love and see other in different light

Seventeen-year-old Hayley moves into a new home with her family, looking for a quiet new beginning. The house is spotless. Silent. Until the phone rings. No one else hears it. The landline shouldn't even work. That's when the shadows start showing up. Thats when her brother disappears. Hayley is about to uncover a truth buried decades deep, tied to grief, obsession, and a voice that doesn't belong on this side of the line. Only one other person ever faced it and lived-if you can call what she became "living."

When a forgotten railway town is swallowed by a monsoon storm, Iraanshi Devre finds herself trapped inside Lantern House.

Dr. Luciana Islington is a brilliant cyberneticist, set to merge her technology with Tony Stark. But when Luciana goes missing, after a frantic phone call, her daughter, Mackenzie, sets out on a journey to find her. The search leads her to Evansborough, a touristy small town in upstate New York where nothing seems to make sense. There, it is clear Mackenzie's mother had dark ties to the town's past. Meanwhile, worlds collide as Clint Barton, struggling not to unravel after his experience with Loki, is sent by SHIELD to investigate Ravenwood, the haunted house in Evansborough, triggering a ghostly chain of events involving murder, old magic, and small-town secrets. CONTENT WARNINGS: Themes of PTSD, sequences of violence, some injury scenes, a graphic murder scene, mild language such as d**** and H*ll, mild suggestive content, and moderate creepy sequences of supernatural horror.

When Sarah and Tom move their family into an old Southern house, they expect creaking floors and history - not the soft presence that seems to listen from the walls. The haunting isn't violent. It's patient. It's waiting. Through their daughter Becky's quiet connection to a woman long forgotten, the family begins to uncover a truth erased from their own lineage - a love silenced, a name unwritten, a memory that refuses to fade. As the house exhales its secrets, Sarah and Tom must decide whether remembrance can heal what silence destroyed. The House That Remembered is a story of lineage, love, and the gentle haunting of truth - where peace arrives not through exorcism, but through acknowledgment.

Every night at 2:13 a.m, Maya hears three footsteps above her bedroom. There's only one problem. There is no room above her. At first, she blames the old house. The creaking floors. The pipes. The wind. Then she finds a photograph of a girl who disappeared from the same bedroom twenty-two years ago. The more Maya investigates, the more she realises that the house is hiding something. And when she finally discovers what happened to the girl, she learns that the footsteps were never the part she should have been afraid of. Some things are hidden for a reason.

Gabriel Laurent has spent his entire life seeing people who aren't supposed to exist. As a child, he was convinced that the pale figures wandering through his home were ghosts. But whenever he tried to tell someone, no one believed him-not his teachers, not doctors, not even his own parents. He was told that he was hallucinating, that something was wrong with his mind, and eventually Gabriel learned to remain silent. Years later, at the age of twenty-six, the dead begin speaking to him. They know his name. They know his childhood. They know secrets about his family that Gabriel himself has never heard. One of them is Lucien Laurent, a mysterious young man who claims to have known Gabriel before he was even born. Gabriel's search for the truth leads him back to his childhood home, where he discovers a hidden basement filled with photographs, names of the dead, and evidence of a ritual performed on the night of his birth. His mother has been hiding the truth for decades, while his supposedly dead father may have never been who Gabriel thought he was. As the pieces begin to fall into place, Gabriel discovers that his ability to see the dead was never an illness. He is connected to something that exists between the world of the living and the dead-and the spirits surrounding him have been waiting for him to discover the truth. But the final revelation is far more terrifying. The ghosts Gabriel has spent his entire life seeing may not be ghosts at all. And Gabriel may not be the living person he always believed himself to be. Some people spend their lives afraid of the dead. Gabriel spent his life believing he was one of the living.

The guesthouse was supposed to be Emma Lawson's sanctuary. Instead, it became her personal hell. With each passing day, the line between reality and paranoia blurs, leaving her to question not just her sanity, but her very identity. Desperate for a fresh start, recently divorced Emma moves into the Spencer family's charming guesthouse. The arrangement seems perfect: reduced rent for occasional housekeeping and babysitting. But perfection, Emma learns, is often a carefully constructed facade. Whispers of a vanished tenant. Odd behaviors from her seemingly kind landlords. A gnawing sense of being watched. As Emma unravels the neighborhood's dark tapestry of secrets, she's forced to confront the skeletons in her own closet. In this psychological labyrinth, everyone has something to hide - and Emma's past may be the key to unlocking a truth more twisted than she could ever imagine.

Some promises are too heavy for fire to burn. Seven years ago, Elozhane made a childhood promise to a sweet, dark-eyed boy named Kayden. Then she forgot him. Now an adult, Rae takes a job as a private tutor at the secluded, fog-shrouded Blackthorn Ridge-only to find herself trapped in a labyrinth of dark shadows, burned talismans, and violent supernatural hauntings. The estate hides a horrific secret. When ancient rituals, blood-written journal entries, and a tragic countdown 3 bodies and 1 shell-threaten to sacrifice her family, Rae must confront the dark ghost of the boy she once loved. But as the manor burns to ashes and secrets unravel, Rae realizes the darkest curse isn't the ghost haunting the halls... it's the promise that refuses to die. "Why did you forget me?..."