{"data":[{"id":"01a14b01-94a4-7ad8-b733-5ff40ac640f3","category":"haunting","tags":["historic"],"title":"The mechanic on the Queen Mary","summary":null,"narrative":"About six years ago, my wife and I were touring the Queen Mary. It was December, so it was the off-season and the ship was completely dead. We decided to check out the engine room. As we were exploring, we heard the usual creaks and groans—nothing too crazy.\nAs we headed up the escalator, we heard someone with tools behind us. We looked back and saw what looked like a maintenance worker heading our way, so we stepped aside to let him pass. After a few seconds, no one came by. We looked back, and nothing was there.\nThe hallway itself led directly to the escalators. Later, we went back to check if there was a room or something he could have ducked into, but there wasn’t. And if he had gone back into the exhibit, we would have heard him—it was very loud when you walked on the metal grates.\nNothing crazy or scary, just something unusual.","language":"en","occurred":{"date":"2018-12-01","time":null,"tz":null,"precision":"week","at":"2018-12-01T12:00:00.000Z","range":{"start":"2018-12-01T00:00:00.000Z","end":"2018-12-08T00:00:00.000Z"},"time_of_day":"midday","duration_seconds":null,"duration_text":"A few minutes","recurrence":"single"},"location":{"lat":null,"lng":null,"precision":"unknown","place_name":"The Queen Mary","locality":null,"admin2":null,"admin1":null,"admin1_code":null,"country_code":null,"setting":"public_building","indoors":true,"place_id":null},"conditions":{"weather":"clear","lighting":"daylight"},"reporter":{"witness_count":2,"is_witness":true,"relationship":null,"display_name":"Topher"},"evidence_types":[],"details":{"senses":["visual"],"investigated":false,"manifestations":["apparition"],"apparition_form":"full_body"},"details_schema_version":1,"source":{"kind":"direct","name":null,"external_id":null,"url":null},"status":"published","license":"CC-BY-NC-4.0","incident_id":null,"revision":4,"published_at":"2026-10-17T17:57:22.161Z","created_at":"2026-10-17T17:55:56.992Z","updated_at":"2026-10-17T17:58:22.558Z"},{"id":"01a14a69-a7e7-7fd1-a457-a44176b78edd","category":"anomalous","tags":[],"title":"Boyscout Demon","summary":null,"narrative":"My story is from when I was between 10 and 11, I think- it was a long time ago, 20ish years. First off, I was homeschooled my entire life till college. So I didn’t make many friends or get out much. So my mom and dad got me to join boy scouts as a way to make friends and get some useful skills. I didn’t get friends but I got some great life skills. \n\nSo we were going to a camping outing some time in fall. The campground set up was a bit weird. It had one road up to the campsite that made a big circle that looked kinda like a keyhole. In the middle however was this small grove of trees. The camp sites were all set on the outside of the circle with the grove by itself. It was a bit chilly, so to keep warm, we really didn’t go beyond the fires edge. At this point in the evening, we had already eaten and just been eating s’mores and telling campfire stories.\n\nOf course we started telling scary stories. A few kids started with some classic murder stories, then a few boy scout kidnappings, Michal Myers type stuff. I myself was terrified as I thought I kept seeing things moving in the background of our campsite. But it was just shadows from the dancing fire as best I could tell. \n\nAnyways, I eventually was tired and a bit scared, so I decided to go to my tent to sleep. During this whole time I felt something staring at me from somewhere behind me. I was too scared to even look,  until I got up to go to bed. \n\nThen I saw it in the grove of trees in the middle of the campsites. It was tall, about 8-9 feet. It had goat legs, a human torso and horns, its eyes glowed red and all around the creature was this red mist that was flowing through the air. It just kept staring at me through the trees. It looked like it was on fire almost. No one else saw this thing.\n\nI ran to my bed, zipped up my tent and my sleeping bag covered my face and hoped I woke up the next morning. I think I prayed to every god I knew of, I hopes one would let me live. It was the absolutely most terrifying moment in my life. \n\nIt was also the moment I started questioning everything in my life.","language":"en","occurred":{"date":"2003-01-01","time":null,"tz":null,"precision":"year","at":"2003-01-01T12:00:00.000Z","range":{"start":"2003-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","end":"2004-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"},"time_of_day":"evening","duration_seconds":null,"duration_text":null,"recurrence":"unknown"},"location":{"lat":null,"lng":null,"precision":"unknown","place_name":"Michigan","locality":"Michigan","admin2":null,"admin1":null,"admin1_code":null,"country_code":null,"setting":"wilderness","indoors":false,"place_id":null},"conditions":{"weather":"clear","lighting":"dark_moonlit"},"reporter":{"witness_count":null,"is_witness":false,"relationship":"Belief Hole Podcast","display_name":null},"evidence_types":[],"details":{"phenomenon":"demonic"},"details_schema_version":1,"source":{"kind":"direct","name":null,"external_id":null,"url":null},"status":"published","license":"CC-BY-NC-4.0","incident_id":null,"revision":3,"published_at":"2026-10-17T15:10:55.141Z","created_at":"2026-10-17T15:10:00.644Z","updated_at":"2026-10-17T17:46:59.665Z"},{"id":"01a14556-8135-7237-947f-eb8a1b0e3c42","category":"haunting","tags":[],"title":"Hunting in Schaumburg Townhome","summary":null,"narrative":"This took place back in 2001. My cousin’s family had just moved from their apartment in Schaumburg, IL to a townhome across town. It was around Christmas and they had us over for a get-together. My cousin, my two brothers, and I were playing in his room. I noticed my cousin—who was normally an extremely talkative guy—was unusually quiet. After a while we asked him what was going on.\n\nThat’s when he told us he thought his house might be haunted. He explained there had been strange noises and things getting misplaced. His parents had noticed it too, but they chalked it up to being forgetful and just getting used to the sounds of a new home. When I asked if he’d seen anything, he said he’d seen something fly off his desk with some force, and that his window had just opened on its own.\n\nThe window is important. It was the kind with the locking latch on the top, and it had been painted over a few times so it wasn’t easy to unlock. The frame was wooden, with no springs or easy-open hardware—just friction to slide it up or down.\n\nA few hours passed and we were still in his room watching TV when we heard the click and the window slid open. After our freak-out (we were all somewhere in the 10–14 age range) we closed it and went back to watching TV. Not 30 minutes later, the papers on his desk and a model car he had sitting there came tumbling down. The papers and the car had been tucked toward the back of the desk, up against the wall, but they ended up a few feet out from the desk, closer to where we were sitting. Almost on cue, we heard the window latch click again and the window opened back up.\n\nAfter that we went downstairs to hang out with our parents. I talked to my cousin recently, and he says to this day that when he goes home to visit his parents, he still refuses to sleep in his old room.","language":"en","occurred":{"date":"2001-01-01","time":null,"tz":null,"precision":"year","at":"2001-01-01T12:00:00.000Z","range":{"start":"2001-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","end":"2002-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"},"time_of_day":"evening","duration_seconds":null,"duration_text":"Few Hours","recurrence":"recurring"},"location":{"lat":null,"lng":null,"precision":"unknown","place_name":null,"locality":"Schaumburg, IL","admin2":null,"admin1":null,"admin1_code":null,"country_code":null,"setting":"private_residence","indoors":true,"place_id":null},"conditions":{"weather":"overcast","lighting":"dark_moonlit"},"reporter":{"witness_count":4,"is_witness":true,"relationship":null,"display_name":"Topher"},"evidence_types":["multiple_witnesses"],"details":{"senses":["visual"],"investigated":false,"manifestations":["object_movement"],"apparition_form":"none","objects_involved":"Window with Latch\nModel Car\nPaper","recurring_pattern":"Objects move\nWindow unlatches\nWindow Opens","others_experienced":true,"investigation_notes":"3 other witnesses, occupant confirmed a semi regular occurrence  ","entity_appeared_aware":false},"details_schema_version":1,"source":{"kind":"direct","name":null,"external_id":null,"url":null},"status":"published","license":null,"incident_id":null,"revision":6,"published_at":"2026-10-16T16:15:57.155Z","created_at":"2026-10-16T15:30:59.500Z","updated_at":"2026-10-16T16:20:17.260Z"}],"next_cursor":null}