A domovoi, also known as domovoy, domovik, or domovyk, is a creature from Slavic folklore. It is believed to be a household spirit or guardian that resides in a home and takes care of the well-being of the family that lives there. The word “domovoi” is derived from the Russian word “dom,” which means “house” or “home.”
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Tucked away in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, approximately 16 miles west of leland, Michigan, South Manitou Island stands as a serene oasis of natural beauty. With its lush forests, towering sand dunes, and pristine beaches, it has long been a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers. The Island is uninhabited and can be accesses by ferry dervice from Leland. The Island was originally settled in 1830s by William Burton. The Island became popular in 19th century as a harbor and fuelling station. A lighthouse was also constructed in 1839 as it became one of the most important route.
The island is now a park of National park service and guided tours are provided for people interested in visiting the island.
However, beneath its idyllic exterior lies a rich tapestry of haunted tales and paranormal phenomena that have intrigued locals and visitors alike.
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Leap Castle was built during the 1300s by the O’Bannon clan. The castle has a very grim history of more than 700 years and is the location of countless battles between clans and later family feuds within the clan as well.
O’Carrolls was a violent and supposedly evil clan who battled the O’Bannons for the castle before finally taking control of the castle in the 1500’s. Before the violent disposition of the castle the land was already a place for many deaths because of the battle. However, the history of the castle became even more grim from then on. O’Carrolls were ruthless people who did not show any mercy. When the head died, there was a family feud between the brothers for power. One brother killed the other while the latter was holding a mass for family members in the chapel which is now known as “bloody chapel”.
The ownership was passed again in the later 1600s to the Darby family and the fighting for ownership and power continued on till the 1900s when the castle had already been passed on to many different people. The brutal history of the castle was already well known but the magnitude of the inhumanity brought upon the people was revealed once again when the restoration work was started in the castle in the late 1900s a wall was removed which revealed hundreds and hundreds of human skeletons lying on spikes which belong to guests who were supposedly thrown from upper floors to kill them. From the evidence found on the victims, it is believed that these murders occurred till the 1800s which means not only the O’Carrolls but the families that owned the castle after them also committed the same crimes.
There are many known spirits said to roam the castle and its grounds. The spirit of the murdered brother is said to haunt the bloody chapel. For hundreds of years people have seen light coming out of its windows and the spirit roaming around the chapel.
The spirit of the two little girls that supposedly lived in the castle during the 1600s have been spotted by visitors playing in the main hall of the castle. They are sometimes even spotted along with an old woman referred to as the nanny.
A Red lady is also seen roaming in the halls of the castle holding the dagger in one hand.
The spirit that has frightened people for the longest period of time and some people believe that the spirit existed even before all those families started living there. An evil demonic entity known as the “Elemental”. This malevolent being is said to have been unleashed on the castle through black arts which according to some might have happened during the early days of the castle. But a former resident “Mildred Darby” who had the first known experience with the evil entity describes her terrible encounter. It is said that she started practicing dark arts which led to the release of the elemental spirit. She describes it as being the size of a sheep, an inhuman skeletal face and dark decomposed eyes. The horrible smell that was already present in the castle intensified a hundred times. It was the smell of a decomposing body.
The elemental does not show itself until it is bothered by people but people have reported being pushed, badly scratched and feeling extremely nauseated.
The castle is described by many as the most haunted place in Ireland and definitely one of the most haunted places in the world.
While researching about Leap Castle, i came to know that Sam and Colby visited the castle just recently and as I am a big fan of Sam and Colby i watch all the videos as soon as they are uploaded on YouTube. However, this time i didn’t because i wanted to see how well I have researched.
Built in 1909, the Höfði house is famous all around the world as the meeting place of President Ronald Reagan of the United States and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union which was an important step towards the ending of the cold war. Even before this meeting which took place in 1986 the house has hosted several famous residents.
It was initially built for the French consul Jean-Paul Brillouin in Iceland, and was the exclusive residence of poet and businessman Einar Benediktsson (1864-1940) for twelve years (1913-1925). From 1925 to 1937 painter Louisa Matthíasdóttir grew up in the house since her family resided there. From the 1940s to the 1950s the British embassy resided in the house before it was purchased and restored for formal occasions by the city of Reykjavík. The house was built from timber and design imported from Norway.
One of the earliest occupants of the house believed it to be haunted by the spirit of a woman. They allegedly witnessed the spirit on various occasions. Rumours on how the woman had died vary from an accidental drowning to suicide and many more. When the British embassy resided in the house, John Greenway, the member of the embassy who lived there requested that the house should be sold as he would allegedly experience something that he called ” bumps in the night”. One other legend is that the place where the house was built is haunted by the spirits of ancient Viking warriors who used to have a house that was burnt down at the same place and they were buried there.
Whether the place is really haunted or not is a matter of debate but the house is known as one of the most haunted places in Iceland. Foreign ministry has stated that “we do not confirm or deny that the Höfði house has a ghost” thereby causing even more people to believe that there is something supernatural going on in the house.
Located near the urban oasis i.e. the Stanley park, one would never expect to find a place like deadman’s Island. It was the home and burial grounds to the Squamish people who lived there centuries ago.
The island is currently closed to the public. Due to its long and brutal history of wars and deaths it is considered cursed by the people.
Many people have died on the island. The island was the place for a battle that killed more than 200 people and many people have died due to diseases in the later years of the island. After years of abandonment, John Morton set off for the island to check the property before purchasing it. When he reached there, he saw many cedar boxes perched on trees. When he touched one of those boxes it crumbled and lots of bones supposedly from an old resident fell from it. The cedar boxes were used to bury the dead by the Squamish people. By 1870, these boxes were taken down from the trees and the dead were given a proper burial. John Morton however had left the island and didn’t want anything to do with it.
The island was then used by the people to bury their relatives as there was no cemetery present in Vancouver until 1887. In 1888 there was a deadly smallpox outbreak and those who suffered from the illness were sent to the island for quarantine most likely to never return back from the island. Many died during the outbreak. Since then the island has been abandoned with the local and national authorities having a dispute over it.
Nobody is allowed to visit the island except the reservists and sometimes the navy personnel. Those who have spent a night there claim to have heard disembodied voices and chains being dragged. Building no 1 which is said to be the most haunted building gets so much activity. People have heard footsteps, chairs being dragged, furniture moving on the upstairs floor even when nobody was on the island. Some people have even seen a glow coming from the trees that takes the shape of a human.
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I was a caregiver in a retirement home for 6 months at the beginning of the pandemic. We had one patient, let’s call them Robert, that was mute so when they called us because they needed something, of course we would just hang up and go to their rooms. I had been on vacation for a week and my coworkers and I didn’t had the chance to go over what had happened while was away. We had 24 patients for 2 caregiver so we would split the unit in half, 12 residents for each caregiver and we would help the other if needed. So, the first shift after my vacation, I was taking care of Robert’s unit. Few minutes after I arrived, I got a call from Robert’s room. So, hang up, finish with my current patient and calmy walk to the room. When I arrived, the door was locked which was really unusual since Robert usually leaves the door open. I knock, unlock the door and open it. To my surprise, the room was pitch black except the television that was turned on. It took me a few minutes to realize that Robert’s wasn’t in the room. So, I called my coworker and asked “Have you seen Robert’s?” And that’s when they told me ” Oh… Yeah… Hum… He passed away 2 days ago “. Alright, weird but not the first time that our system glitches like that and we get a phone call an empty room. go on with my shift, like nothing happened. I had left the door open. When I was helping another patient walk to the kitchen, when we passed Robert’s room, they said ” Hi Robert, thought you were at the hospital. Welcome back “. I was 100% convinced that the room was hunted now. We would get a call from that room a few times a week until Robert’s was buried and after that, nothing else happened in that room. We’ve also had another patient calling us because there was Mike sitting in his chair every night. Mike was the name of the patient that passed away in that room. They had never met.
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Marine stationed in Japan back in 2010-12.
I was military police. One night around 2-3 am we hear over the radio “uhhhh. Any units seeing the light over the water south?” It was a marine air station based on the southern tip of Japan. We had no flights coming in or going out that night. Everyone knew there shouldn’t be a light flying over the waters.
So about 3 patrol cars met up at the air field where there was a way better view. Sure as shit there’s a light sitting out over the water blinking slowly off and on. Some guys tried to say it was a star, so we had traffic control cameras from dispatch zoom in on it. Turns out it was slowly moving out of the cameras. So while by ehe we couldn’t tell it was moving, the cameras picked it up. We sat there kind of amazed for an hour before it went away.
As we were getting back into the squad car took a last look at the night sky and saw a small light dart behind some clouds in a movement that didn’t make sense. I didn’t tel the other guys, just thought there’s no way they would believe me.
Months later I was running on the sea wall and stopped to lay down and catch my breath. Again saw a light, watched it drive into some clouds and then disappear. That was around the time of the tsunami and Fukushima. Super weird.
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Two secondhand stories from my friend who used to be a security guard in the federal building in Portland OR:
One night she saw what looked like someone in a dark hoodie standing by an office door at the far end of a long hallway. When she called out the person turned to face her, but she couldn’t see a face in the hood. Then it “zoomed” at her, covering the full length of the corridor in about a second, sort of swooshed past her and disappeared. She was standing at the end of the hall with a non-openable window behind her in the building without even locking up, drove home and called in from his bed. He refused to talk about it.
Among their employees this building had a reputation for weird noises and sightings.
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I got called to persistent fire alarms being set off in a block of flats that used to be a poor house in the 1800’s. The alarms would go off 3-4 times a night at certain times of the year. We arrive and residents are all outside saying they could hear a woman crying, no one wanted to go in as they assumed it was her that was setting the alarms off and she might be crazy. We went up, yup sure enough could hear a woman crying, sounded like the stairwell.. up We went and walked, crying get louder, turn the landing and realised the sound was then below us. It was coming from the top step of the previous flight of stairs. Well I nearly shat myself… what made it worse was guess who has just bought a flat on the ground floor and was moving in the following week.. yup me. I used to bail through the front doors, past the staircase and into my flat like I was being chased by wolves.
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My sister has been a nurse for about 8 years in Southern and now Northern California. Worked in hospitals (med surge, tele, icu), dialysis centers, and now a hospice nurse. She has a few stories from the hospital, things like children laughing, shadows, patients claiming they saw another dead patient when they had never met. One of the creepiest that she and the other nurses told me was about a patient complaining and scared that something was under their bed. He was older and confused so they didn’t think much of it. Checked on him, responded to the multiple calls, and just tried to make him feel better. The next day, a new patient went into that room, another older person but not confused, and called to complain about something under his bed. They sort of brushed it off again after checking. The next night, a new patient in his 20s and completely coherent called crying that something kept running under his bed. They checked and found nothing but the patient was in such distress and shaking, they moved him. Happened quite a few other times as well.
They never found anything but that was so creepy to me.
Not sure if this is paranormal or not, but we live together now and she works as a hospice nurse. Every so often, she would scream or id hear her struggle or make weird noises in the middle of the night. I’d go to check and she’d tell me it was sleep paralysis. And explain what happened, that she saw a specific patient in her episode standing over her and growling, crying, or screaming. Always a very scary dream. The next day, that patient would die. Happened about 13 times so far. Trips me out!
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My coworker used to be a security guard for the Forensic Mental Health unit nearby, it used to be a mental asylum and was renowned for treating its patients horribly, there’s a grave yard nearby with over 200 unmarked graves for bodies they exhumed on the old asylum grounds. A lot of people would try to sneak into the old abounded buildings and my coworker and his partner would get deployed to tell them to piss off or to check it out to make sure no one was there and he said very regularly he would feel spirits, see unexplained movement and hear screaming, especially in the ‘treatment’ and intake rooms. Im not very spiritual but I totally believe him, that place has a lot of sad history behind it.
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Graveyard shift security at a hotel/casino. We got called to the top floor of the hotel because people from the floor below were calling in noise complaints. I was the FNG so I had a trainer with me when we went up. Dispatch told us over the radio that there was nobody registered on that floor, so cool, just a few idiots being idiots. We got up there and every single door on the entire floor was wide open. Anyone who has been to these hotels knows that you can’t just accidentally leave the doors open because they close by themselves. They weren’t propped open or anything, just open. We asked Dispatch if engineering was doing any work up here or had anything going on during the day. After a few minutes they told us they called engineering and they said no. We just noped out at that point and said there was nobody up there.
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Once worked in a call center very late at night. Around 8pm you’d hear all the doors in the main corridor slamming shut, but the doors didn’t open or close at all.
Later we tried to frighten one of the workers by telling them the place was haunted, and found out about a month later that the entire building was on top of a medieval plague pit, where they just build over it and left the corpses buried.
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I work security at night in a luxury condo, I actually started a little over a month ago and I already had a fair share of incidents.
Alarms triggered for no apparent reason, finding unusual doors unlocked, random orbs on the cameras, doors slamming while nobody’s around, elevator phone started by itself.
Hui bon hoa was moved to Saigon from China in search of work. He started working in a pawn shop and learnt French so that he can build better business relations with the French. He started his own real estate business and soon became one of the biggest and wealthiest merchants in the area. He had three sons who came back to help his father in the business and a daughter named Lan whom he loved and treasured.
Unfortunately, the daughter contracted leprosy which had no cure at that time. The disease can spread easily and the patient has to be isolated. The disease was considered more of a curse by the people at that time and due to the Hoa’s family influence and social status they could not let society get wind of this. As a result the daughter was kept locked in a private room and the maids went there day and night to give her food. The Hoa family even prepared a fake funeral for her daughter and it was told that she died from an illness so that nobody says anything about her missing from the social gatherings. The daughter used to cry from loneliness and people used to hear her cry thinking that it was the ghost of the dead daughter.
The daughter was ultimately driven to insanity because of the loneliness and she committed suicide. Hui bon hoa was devastated but he couldn’t bury her daughter outside now, so he made a cement coffin inside the room and was buried there. Due to his love for the daughter he couldn’t come to the terms with her death and still had the maids bring her food everyday.
On the one year anniversary of her death the maids saw something terrifying. When they came to pick up the rice plates, they saw that the rice was half eaten and the daughter was sitting on top of the coffin. She screamed and ran to get others. The family came and witnessed the whole event with their own eyes. Later the daughter was buried outside privately. Since that time, the daughter has been said to roam the halls of the house. People even saw shadows moving in the windows and heard the crying of a girl.
The house has now been converted into the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts museum. People visit the place to know more about historical events and facts but they leave with more than just historical facts.
Nee soon rubber estate was established in the early 19th century in the town of Yishun. Lim Nee Soon, a businessman started the rubber estate before expanding his rubber plantations in the towns of Sembawang and seletar as well. The plantation was so important not only for lim nee soon but also for the other residents of the town. Infact the businessman became so much of an influential figure that the town Yishun is named after him.
The rubber plantation was spread over a massive area with rows and rows of rubber trees that can be seen for several kilometres. According to Malaysian and Indonesian folklore, pontianaks likes to reside on rubber trees. Pontianaks are vengeful female spirits who are said to have died during child birth. They have long hair, long sharp nails and are dressed in white. They lure unsuspecting men, rip through their internal organs and feed on them.
Fast forward to several decades later. The plantation is now gone and new buildings and roads have been built instead. The area is now a residential place. However, pontianaks do not easily move on from a particular location and with the rubber trees now gone, these spirits have now found a way inside the homes of the residents. Residents have claimed to witness the pontianaks on or from their balconies and even heard their names being called when they are alone. People also hear whispers in the darkness. Even people passing by from that area have heard their names being called. It is said that if you hear your name from far away, it means that the pontianak is nearby and if you are your name being called loudly that means that the pontianak is far away.
White lick creek is a stream located in Indiana. Near the stream just south of highway 36, there is a railroad bridge known as the white lick creek bridge aka ” The Avon bridge”.
The bridge was constructed in 1906. The bridge is a historical landmark in Hendricks county and it is shrouded in mystery. A lot of people visit the bridge to know more about its past and whether the legends regarding the bridge are true or not.
According to the legends, when the bridge was in construction an Irishman by the name of Dad Jones was given the task of pouring cement into the wooden blocks. While doing his work he slipped and fell into the wet cement and quickly started to sink inside. He screamed and screamed but to no avail. His colleagues could only watch him sink in horror and there was nothing they could do to rescue him. He kept on pounding on the sides of the framework until he choked to death. The construction company building the bridge decided that it would be too expensive to remove the cement block that was now completely dry and they let the body buried in it and completed the construction instead. It is said that after the construction people would still hear the screams and pounding of the dead worker from the bridge. The ghost of the dead worker was also often seen flagging the trains.
Another legend is that of a woman carrying an infant in her arms on the bridge. She accidentally fell from the bridge and died. It is said that people passing from under the bridge can still hear her mourn and cry as she desperately searches for her missing baby. It is rumored that if you hear her cries you have to honk your car horn while driving under the bridge, which supposedly catches her off-guard and she stops screaming.
The original bridge was eventually torn down and a new bridge was built near it. Thrill seekers and paranormal investigators still visit the remains of the bridge in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the paranormal. Locals claim that they can still hear the screams from a particular section of the bridge.
Hotel del Salto is located near Tequendama Falls in Bogotá, Colombia. The city was ruled by Muisca people. When the Spanish landed in south America, they started murdering and enslaving the Muisca people. To escape this date people started jumping off the edge of Tequendama Falls. Hundreds of people committed suicide during that time. Normally people try to avoid a place with such a haunting past.
In 1923, architect Carlos Arturo Tapias built his home near the falls. The mansion was so big and spacious yet he was alone with nobody to share the space. Eventually the horrors of the place started getting to him and he realised that it would be better to invite paid guests inside the house. Many influential people and celebrities started frequenting the mansion and many big parties were hosted on a regular basis. After sometime the mansion was converted into a hotel and the parties kept on going. In 1928, due to the great depression businesses fell and many people were moved to bankruptcy. The tourism industry affected the most as people would not go on any sort of vacation.
History repeated itself and locals started to jump off the falls during the period where they had no money and were forced into starvation. The number of guests at the hotel started to fall and those who still came to the hotel had to assist in investigations because people committed suicide near the hotel. The period was the start of the descent of the hotel and it didn’t reach its initial success again but many people still frequented the hotel. In 1990 the hotel closed down because of the decay caused by the moisture. In 2013 the government started renovations at the hotel to reopen it as a museum. People still visit the museum to know more about the history.
The hotel and the area surrounding it has a brutal history and due to a lot of deaths in the area, the atmosphere around the place always looks grim. When the hotel was abandoned, many homeless people squatted there, and there were accounts of people being scared by shadows that they could see from the corner of their eyes. Many people were also found dead inside the hotel during that time. It is said that the homeless people were lured there by paranormal forces and died inside the hotel. The abandoned hotel attracted a lot of paranormal investigators and these investigators captured a lot of evidence. At that time the hotel was completely taken over by nature from inside out with vines and moss covering the hotel beds and furniture. It is also believed that the site was cursed by Muisca people because their land was forcibly taken and they were slaughtered and driven to suicide. Even when the hotel was in operation, the guests would have a hard time sleeping as they would often see apparitions and hear whispers even when nobody was around. Sometimes people would even hear screaming from inside the hotel making them visibly shaken. The hotel has now been converted into a museum and a cultural site. Tours of the hotel are also provided to the curious visitors.
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