Humans of FHC: Spooktober Edition

Maddie: "One time there was an orb in my sister's room, [so] I took Emily's Ouija board and my sister and I talked to it; [the orb] turned out it [to be] my grandpa. We were like, 'Do we know you?' and it went to 'yes,' and then we were like, 'Are you my grandpa?' and then it went to 'yes.' " Emily: "We take it with a grain of salt." Maddie: "It was probably nothing, but we like to think it was real." Ma...

"Before the house [that's there now] was there, there was an old, rundown house that had been there for probably around ten years, and nobody lived in it. So one day my brothers and I were like 'Alright, we gotta go scope this thing out.' We went up to it, and throughout the whole [house], all the windows were boarded up, or they were shattered. We walked up onto the porch, and there was literally...

"I'm kind of a [Halloween] fanatic. I was supposed to be born on Halloween, but I was born the 29th. [I love] the whole scary factor and the costumes and fall, in general-- and haunted houses, I'm really into that. I've been to The Haunt before, and I make it a point to watch as many horror films as I can leading up to it. And then Cedar Point does HalloWeekends, and I've been to that a few times...

“I was hanging out with my friends Cole Munger, Braden Lubben, Grant Coughlin, Johnny Mielock, and Noah Wolff. We were watching a horror movie, and it was like 2 [in the morning], and we heard this knocking sound. We all thought it was the movie, and then it kept going, and we realized that that's coming from something. So we paused the movie, and the knocking continued. It was this door in the bas...

"[My parents] named me 'Autumn' because they love the season- they love all the colors- and they also met each other in the fall. I definitely think I [share their love for fall]. I love everything about it like pumpkins and the colors and wearing sweaters and sweatpants and stuff, and I really love Halloween. I have to say [my most favorite part] is wearing longer clothes because you're always comforta...

“My older sister used to collect antique dolls, and she had over a hundred in her room. And I had to sleep in her room one night because something was wrong with my room, like the power or something, so I had to sleep in her room. [When I was sleeping in there] I heard a really loud thud. And one of the dolls, like one of the bigger dolls, was moved. It was terrifying.” (Junior)...

“On Halloween morning at 7:30, my brother [and I] were walking outside, and it was pretty dark because, you know, it was October. [While] we were walking to his car — and you got to understand, there's a barn that he parks in front of, and there's a little alleyway between the barn and the woods— in the alleyway a clown comes out, and I’m like, 'What are you doing here?' It [was] really sca...

"In August, my cousins and I all spent the night at my great aunt’s house. She’s 92 and lives alone. At around 1 or 2 a.m., one of my cousins and I were making friendship bracelets at the kitchen table. We were the only ones awake. The stairs to the basement connect to the kitchen, and we heard this little pyramid clock in the basement say the time. The clock says the time when you push down on th...

"One time when I was sleeping on my bed, I saw this weird demon creep out from the doorway and look at me. It scared me. [To me, it looked like] Nosferatu the vampire: really sharp fangs, a very bony face, very white and pale, blood on the mouth. Really scary." (Sophomore)

“Here’s the backstory: when I was six or seven, my grandfather told me that if I walked through the Alma Cemetery- about an hour and a half from here, the scariest cemetery I’ve ever seen- from the back to the front, he would give me a hundred dollars. Still a lot of money, but when I was ten I was like, 'holy crap, this is it, this is when I win the lottery, let's go.' But we never did it, and...

“I believe the moon landing was fake because the government wanted to make everyone believe that we had beat Russia in the Cold War. We also wanted to make Russia believe that we had beat them, so we sent a flag up there with some machines. Somehow, we put a flag up there, but none of it was real. It was all done in Hollywood with actors, a fake moon, and everything." (Junior)  ...

"My basement is just kind of spooky. My dad collects antiques as a hobby, so in our guest bedroom in our basement, we have a bunch of old pictures of random people that are black and white. It's very scary. Sometimes, I hear noises and footsteps coming from back there. At night, we keep our cats in the basement so they don't scratch our doors upstairs, and sometimes, when I'm doing my homework lat...

"There was this time where I was eight, and I went to London. My parents thought it would be a good idea to do an underground witch tour. It was in the sewers near The Catacombs. There was this circle of rocks on the ground, and it was said that if you stepped into the circle, you would get touched and visited by demons while you were in [there]. One girl, who did not believe in ghosts, went into th...

"I don't know what grade I was in--probably fourth [grade]. I used to have a queen bed in my room because my grandma used to stay over with us a lot. I always sat [in] the middle of my bed, and I would just kind of snuggle up in there. I always just got a weird feeling. We don't live there anymore, but I always got a weird feeling about the place. One night, I woke up in the middle of [the] night, ...

"One day, I was babysitting my baby cousin at my uncle's house, which is about 150 years old. They've had issues with spirits and ghosts and things in the past, but I've never experienced anything until I was washing my hands in their bathroom. One of my baby cousin's beach balls came flying in and hit me in the leg. I was really confused because I thought it was the dog at first. I was like, 'Oh,...

“At my house, there have been a few strange encounters. In my basement, there is this one corner especially that is just really creepy. There’s this wall in the corner that my dog always seems to bark at when no one is around or when it’s quiet and everybody is sleeping. She won’t stop barking at it no matter what you do, even if you move she’ll still go up to the wall and bark at it. Also...