The Haunted House That Terrorized a Family for Four Years | After Midnight

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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Inglewood, California, 1956. What began as a new start for the Long family quickly turned into one of the most chilling hauntings ever whispered about in American suburbia. This is the true story of a four-year ordeal filled with poltergeist activity, ghostly footsteps, moving objects, and a face pressed against the window that would keep the children awake in terror.

For Don Long and his siblings, the nightmare began with scratching sounds under their army surplus bunk beds. The noise would move across the room, from wall to wall, as if invisible claws were raking the wood. Soon, the scratching was joined by footsteps — frail, dragging, swish-swish footsteps that shuffled down the hall after midnight. Doors opened on their own. Objects flew across rooms. And then came the infamous night when a basketball dropped from a closet and began dribbling by itself.

But the haunting reached its peak in 1958 when Don and his brother saw her: the apparition of an old woman in a white lace wedding dress, staring at them through the window of a locked shed. They later discovered the dress belonged to Mrs. Dillon, the previous owner’s grandmother, who had died in that very house. The face they saw matched her photograph.

Was this the spirit of Mrs. Dillon? A violent poltergeist feeding on fear? Or something darker still? The Long family lived it, survived it, and decades later, they still remember every sound and shadow.

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0:31.7	Midnight has passed, and in the stillness of these hours,
0:35.7	the hauntings are never silent.
0:38.7	This is Real Ghost Stories Online.
0:42.7	After midnight.
0:45.1	Some hauntings follow families the way storms follow valleys,
0:48.6	settling into the corners of homes and lives as though they've been waiting there all along.
0:56.1	For the long family, it began in the 1950s, and what unfolded over the next four years would leave an imprint so deep that
1:02.4	decades later they would still remember every sound, every movement, every face pressed against
1:08.4	the window glass. But even before Englewood, before California, before the houses that would become infamous in their family story, there was the first sign.
1:19.9	1951, Renton, Washington, Christmastime.
1:24.4	A boy, only four years old, woke in the middle of the night, needing the bathroom.
1:29.7	The house was quiet, heavy with sleep, the whole dark, but for the orange flicker of fire from
1:34.7	a pot-bellied stove in the living room. He stepped out into the hall, moving toward the bathroom,
1:40.4	when something bright flickered in the corner of his eye. He turned toward the stove, and that's when he saw it.
1:46.5	A being made of fire shot out of the stove, three to four feet tall, its body flames,
1:52.1	its eyes burning red.
1:54.6	It danced across the living room in front of him, a grotesque parody of life born out of the stove's embers.
2:01.5	Terrified, he wet himself, bolted for his parents' bedroom, and dove under the covers.
2:07.3	His father rolled over and went back to sleep, but his mother found him crying, shaking, too afraid to walk back down the hall.
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