Midnight has passed, and in the stillness of these hours, the hauntings are never silent.

This is Real Ghost Stories Online.

After midnight.

Some families talk openly about the strange things that happened to them.

Others bury those things under rules, traditions,

and silence, passing them down without explanation. In her family, nothing supernatural was ever

discussed directly. It was simply managed, avoided, or punished. She was born in Lithuania

in the city of Canis, surrounded by relatives who believed deeply in things they never fully explained.

Her grandparents on both sides shared the same quiet certainty about what not to do.

Mirrors recovered after a death so a soul wouldn't become trapped.

You never rocked an empty chair because you might be rocking your dead child.

You never rang a bell inside the house because bells invited something that wasn't meant to be

there.

These rules weren't framed as folklore or superstition.

They were enforced.

She learned early that certain actions brought immediate consequences, anger, fear, sharp

corrections without ever being told why.

As a child, she broke those rules without understanding them and was punished for it,

and not gently corrected, but stopped, as if she'd brushed up against something dangerous without realizing it.

That was normal to her. What wasn't normal came at night. When she was very young, she suffered

from night terrors so severe that they didn't resemble ordinary nightmares. She shared a bedroom

with her brother in their small apartment, and it was he who later

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