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Real Ghost Stories Online

When the Ghost Isn’t the Problem—You Are | After Midnight

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Natural Sciences, Science, Spirituality

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Some people grow up haunted by memories. Others grow up haunted, period.

For one military family, every move should have been a fresh start—Pennsylvania, Colorado, and beyond. But for their son, the darkness always unpacked right beside him. Footsteps charging down hallways, warm breath on his face when no one was there, and laughter that bled through walls long after midnight. Each house offered a brief peace before the pattern began again: the lights clicking on and off by unseen hands, shadows moving with purpose, and a pale face grinning from the porch outside his window.

And then came the dream. A man in a yellow mask, laughing over a newspaper like he’d been waiting for years. When the family finally settled for good, the activity only grew bolder—footsteps on the stairs, whispers brushing against his ear, and a doppelgänger giggling in the basement where he never slept. Whatever this was, it didn’t haunt the house. It haunted him.

Decades later, he’s stopped running. The laughter still comes, soft and knowing, just behind his ear. Because some hauntings don’t live in walls—they live in people.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:08.8

This is Real Ghost Stories Online.

0:13.0

After midnight.

0:15.1

Some people grow up haunted by memories, others grow up haunted, period.

0:19.0

For him, the haunting didn't belong to a single house,

0:21.9

or a piece of furniture, or some cursed patch of land. It belonged to him.

0:28.5

Wherever the family went, Pennsylvania, Colorado back again, the strange followed like a scent,

0:34.4

only the dark could smell. He used to tell himself he was imagining it,

0:40.2

but each new house carried its own noises, its own restless pipes, its own explanations.

0:47.2

But after a while, the pattern became too precise to ignore. No matter the address,

0:52.7

the activity always found him patient and punctual as a tax collector.

0:57.5

The first real proof came in Pennsylvania. They'd moved there when his father took a military posting,

1:02.7

another temporary stop in a line of temporary stops. The neighbors told them right away the house was

1:08.7

haunted. His parents laughed, but even at 16, he could tell

1:12.7

when someone wasn't joking. The neighbors didn't say it for effect. They said it like they were

1:17.7

warning him about traffic on the corner. You'll hear things, they said, don't let it worry you.

1:23.6

For a while, he didn't. The house was older, sure, with floors that groaned like old men.

1:29.4

But nothing happened until it did.

1:33.2

It was about three in the morning, the hour when everything gets its turn to sound wrong.

1:41.0

He was just heading to bed when exhaustion hit like a wave.

1:44.5

He didn't even shut his door, just fell face first onto the covers.

1:49.2

A second later the house woke up.

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