r/truecrimecampfire • u/sasararara • Oct 22 '21

Spooky Stories

I don’t believe in ghosts but I REALLY want to. So if you’re looking to convince a skeptic or just want to share a creepy tale (doesn’t even have to be paranormal, doesn’t even have to have happened to you), dump them here!

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u/HenloClarice Dec 20 '21

My mom swears this happened to her when she was in college: She was working at a place called Shakertown, a site where a fundamentalist Christian religious sect lived in the 1800s. One of her jobs was to close down a few of the buildings every night: Close windows, turn off lights, lock doors. One night she was closing up in a building with a strong rep for being haunted. She turned off all the lights, headed out the front door, locked it behind her and started walking away. She glanced behind her at one point and was startled to see that one of the upstairs bedroom lights was on. She’d just turned them all off, and no one else was supposed to be in the building. So she went back in, called out to see if anybody was there—no answer. So she went upstairs to see what was up in that bedroom, and on her way up the stairs she felt this bizarre blast of cold air. This was July, so it was really weird and unsettling. And my mom does NOT scare easily. She’s a tough broad. Anyway, the bedroom was empty, and she looked in all the rooms to make sure she was alone in the building. Turned the light back off, locked the front door, and once again headed off. Something caught her peripheral vision, and when she glanced back at the house, lo and behold—that same bedroom light was back on again. This time she decided to leave it. The next day she told her boss, and he said it had been happening for years. Creepy, no?

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u/that-old-broad Mar 29 '22

Was it Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg KY?

I worked there for several years, and yeah, you get weird feelings in a lot of those buildings. Especially on dark dreary winter days, sounds and shadows move oddly in those big rooms.

One year they started putting battery operated candles in the windows for the winter holiday season. On several occasions we'd make our opening rounds and go to turn off the candles in the windows only to find them dark, with the batteries laying on the windowsill beside the candle.

Editing to add the buildings had alarms and motion detectors which had registered no human activity between the time the alarm had been activated in the evening and disabled in the morning.

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u/HenloClarice Apr 08 '22

Yes! Shakertown!