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Real Ghost Stories: Readers Share Their Spookiest Experiences

Real Ghost

Do you believe in ghosts? Many of our readers do. In fact, many say they have experienced paranormal phenomena firsthand, and they have the tales to prove it.

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Real Ghost

Do you believe in ghosts? Many of our readers do. In fact, many say they have experienced paranormal phenomena firsthand, and they have the tales to prove it.

In celebration of all things spooky this Halloween, they’ve agreed to share some of their creepy encounters with you, which you will find listed below in no particular order.

Please note that some of these trues stories may make your hair stand on end and give you goosebumps. Reader discretion is advised.

Click here to listen to creepy tales of haunted places in the Lehigh Valley as told by local expert Ellen Flynn on No Rain Date Ep. 24.

Nicole D. “I bought a house in Lehighton dirt cheap. I found out later after a lot of strange things happening that the couple who lived there prior to us was murdered in the house.”

Thomas B. “I lived on land where a brutal murder took place on Halloween Day 1880. The murderer was never found. The story is historical and known by many locals. Nothing was ever ‘right’ about that land or house; a shroud hung over things. The story is long and events happened over 140 years. The murder case is still open and still being looked in to by the local DA, who has visited/walked the land with me, as well as gathered my recollections.”

Ann U. “I’ve had two in the Gettysburg area. The first was while tracing the route of the 153rd Pa. Infantry Co. C from Lower Saucon. My great (times two) grandfather Edward Unangst was with that unit. We found the knoll where Edward had been wounded, and my 35 mm camera jammed. We returned to town and bought a disposable camera to go back for another try. Before the return, I tried the 35 mm in the town of Gettysburg and it worked perfectly. The return to the knoll, however, again produced a jammed 35 mm. It had been a great idea to buy the disposable! The second incident was in the Historic Cashtown Inn, where some of the Confederate officers stayed. We stopped by for lunch (they no longer serve lunch) and when my spouse went to the restroom, I put my hand on the brick wall and asked that if there was any spirit present, please make yourself known by flickering the lights. Nothing happened and I was disappointed, because this is a very active site. When Tim returned to our table, he said ‘wow, did you see that?’ I asked ‘what?’ and he said the lights went out and then turned back on in the restroom. I told him what I had done, but that nothing happened in the dining area. I’ve had other experiences, for example, a bread roll being knocked from my hand in the Hanoverville Roadhouse and an orb picture taken in Savannah, Ga. Sometimes these things come with being an empath.”

Darlene E. “I’ve always had a deep connection with the departed. I attract them. My sister who passed came to me briefly one evening. She literally appeared and disappeared. I felt she was trying to tell me something. Six hours later I received a call from one of her sons who had tried to take his life. She knew I would take care of him and I did. He’s doing well since that event in 2011. There has been several other occurrences, some not so friendly. I know there’s a parallel universe for the departed. Some call it heaven. They hear and see us and that’s why I try so hard to suppress tears for my son. I want his spirit to have peace and not see me in distress. It’s hard. Believe in ghosts/spirits. They exist.”

Angi M. “I have two stories about my Nana, on Mom’s side. She lived with us from when I was about 5 until I was 25. She passed a few months before I moved to my first apartment. 1) The morning she passed, I heard her snoring (our rooms were connected by a long closet that opened into both rooms, we each used half of it). I went downstairs to take a shower before work. I set my watch on the sink counter and noticed the hands weren’t moving. My brain went, ‘Dang, my watch di…. stopped.’ Literally, an unspoken thought, and it didn’t finish the word ‘died.’ 2) A month or two later, just before I moved to the apartment, I was returning home after movies at midnight and dropping off a friend, so it was nearly 3 a.m. I took the Summit Lawn exit from I-78, and was about to cross 145 because I lived on E. Rock Road. I watched the traffic light for 145 turn yellow, red. My light turned green. I couldn’t pick my foot up from the brake and hit the gas to move forward. It felt like a hand was on my ankle. A moment later a pickup truck heading south blew through the red light on 145. I would have been T-boned on my side of the car if I had gone when the light turned green. I sat there for about three more light cycles until I felt calm enough to continue home.”

Giuseppe R. “My father passed away at home. Two days later he called my name, clear as day. Also in the same house, I used to see a little Indian boy. Our neighbors–much later, after seeing him six times–told us the other owner’s son was killed going after a ball in the street in front of the house. Pretty creepy.”

Katie C. “My son never got the chance to meet his great-grandmother. She had passed away while I was pregnant. One time as a toddler visiting Great-Pop Pop, he became attached to a pillow she used during her chemo treatments. It was the only pillow he would sleep with for a couple years. One birthday he asked for a pillow pet, which he got. That night was the first time he slept with anything other than Gram’s pillow. The next morning we asked him what he was going to name his new pillow pet (a dog). It was a Dalmatian so we were expecting something like ‘Spot.’ He said ‘Snuffy.’ Never having heard that name before I repeated it to his Nana, who told me that was the name of Gram’s dog that she adored and which had passed decades earlier. Coincidence?”

Lorena S. “After my mom passed any light switch/lamp I turned on, the bulbs would blow out. I purchased an absurd amount of light bulbs following her death. My toddler (at the time) let me know while I was sitting on her bed there was a lady sitting on the bed with me.”

Cathy L. “There was a ghost in our old apartment. A figure of a little old man wearing a hat. I only saw him once. He was in our living room, shaking his head ‘no’ as he looked around. When I told the neighbors, they said that man had lived in the apartment below us years before. He committed suicide while he lived there. I guess his ghost knew nothing looked like his apartment when he walked around. He left and I never saw him again.”

Kristen W. “I used to manage the Moravian Museum in the 1741 Gemeinhaus (the oldest building in Bethlehem) and I was checking the basement for flooding after a hurricane came through our area several years ago. When I went down the stairs, I was leaning over on a doorstep, looking into a lower dirt floor area with a flashlight to see if there was standing water in there. I had on a skirt with tights, and suddenly it felt like someone had grabbed my skirt and tights near my abdomen and pulled on them, then letting them snap back in place. I’ve tried for years to debunk this one (I was in a paranormal group in college) and I still haven’t come up with another way that could have happened. The can lights would also come unscrewed all the time, so they’d appear to be burned out. Every day I’d have to go around before opening with a step ladder to screw them back in. I still haven’t explained that, either.”

Tracey S. “My uncle was killed in an accident when I was young. Before he died he had been helping do some remodeling at our house. I woke up one night and he was putting those plastic things on the ends of some electrical wires in my ceiling. The next morning those things were on there, but they weren’t the night before, and no one else did it.”

Still not scared? Check out our Haunted Lehigh Valley series featuring spine-tingling local tales told by Ellen Flynn, including:

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Josh Popichak

Josh Popichak is the owner, publisher and editor of Saucon Source. A Lehigh Valley native, he's covered local news since 2005 and previously worked for Berks-Mont News and AOL/Patch. Contact him at josh@sauconsource.com.

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