The Thing That Ran Down the Basement Stairs | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
After coming home late one night with his family, he briefly saw something move toward the basement stairs.
At the time, he assumed he knew exactly what he had seen.
It wasn’t until many years later—during a random conversation with his father—that he realized the moment might not have been as simple as he thought.
Because his father had a memory from that same night too.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Real Ghost Stories Online, what was it that went down in the basement stairs and then seemingly just disappear? |
| 0:14.0 | That's the question we asked today. |
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| 1:06.6 | Tony and Todd, we're on today's episode of the program. |
| 1:09.7 | And what's up with you? |
| 1:11.8 | Well, I know we're going to talk a little bit about something running down into the basement and then disappearing. |
| 1:16.4 | Were you afraid of your basement growing up? |
| 1:20.0 | Not, I don't know. |
| 1:21.7 | The house that I grew up in most of my childhood, no. |
| 1:25.1 | The one on Winnebago Drive that I grew up in a little bit more because that |
| 1:30.0 | was more of the, like the rock, the brick, the stone mason type deal. So it was very much, it felt |
| 1:38.8 | like a cave. It smelled like a cave too. Very limestoney. Moisture would get in there. And it was not finished off by any means. |
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