Dreams and Nightmares
My dreams and nightmares as a child were haunted by a story I read in a book my parents bought for me. It was a book of true ghost stories, which I loved when I was a little kid.
It remains the most disturbing and creepy true ghost story I’ve ever come across. I can’t remember all the details, but I will try to recount as much of the story as i’m able to recall. The book claimed that it was a true story but try as I might, I’ve never been able to find out more information about it.
Years ago, in a small town, somewhere in the United States, a married couple and their young daughter moved into an old house.
One night, the daughter was awakened by a strange smell in her bedroom. At first, she wasn’t sure if she was still dreaming. She could hardly breathe and the air was thick with smoke. As she blinked her eyes and looked around, she found that her bedroom looked different. The wallpaper was old and peeling off the walls. The carpet was threadbare and worn away in places. The furniture in her room seemed to be old-fashioned and there were cobwebs and mold all over everything. Frightened, she jumped out of bed and tried to make her way down the hall to her parents’ room.
Minutes later, the family who lived next door heard screams outside their house and a rapping on their front door. When they opened the door, they found the little girl standing there. She was crying and babbling incoherently, and kept pointing to her own house. When they looked across the garden wall, they saw that her house was on fire.
They immediately called the fire brigade, who arrived minutes later and put out the fire. Sadly, most of the house was burned beyond repair and in the rubble, they found the charred bodies of the little girl’s parents. It appeared that they had been burned alive while they lay in bed.
When police questioned the little girl, she told them a shocking and unbelieveable story. When she had woken up during the night, she went to her parents room and opened the door. She had been confronted by a horrifying scene. Her parents lay dead in bed and there were two young black boys standing over them. One of the boys was holding a bloody scissors. The girl said she began screaming and fled to the neighbors’ house.
The police didn’t believe her story at first, and assumed she must have been having nightmares. But when they researched the history of the house, they found that it had originally been a reform school for young black boys. The boys were treated horribly by the people who ran the reform school and it had eventually been closed down and converted into a residential property. Nobody could ever convince the little girl that what she had seen was just a dream.
This is the story I read in that book years ago and, of all the true ghost stories I’ve ever read, this one scared me the most. It freaked me out to the point that I had to throw away the book because I kept having nightmares. LOL
So if anyone recognizes this story, please leave a comment and tell me where it happened so I can research the story further and determine whether or not it is actually true.
Thanks!
That freaked me out,lol.
dunno where,but i can tell you something i know..Im gonna have nightmares for the rest of my life!! and why dont you look it up on google or something?
Ive never heard that one…. very creepy!
Really weird. I know it won’t give me nightmares, but picturing it in my mind freaks me out xD lol
eh, not a lot of these scare me anymore, its just different now since i’ve seen a ghost
yeah… i just think that its sad how the police didnt believe her. i mean, standing in the doorway of your parents’ room seeing them dying would be terrible- and having someone tell you it was just their imagination or something would break my heart.
This actually happened in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is a true story. The families name was Fortier, the father Paul was an author. As far as i know he was only published once. The books name is Fields of Amaranth. They moved into a house that was once a home for incorrigable children. It was built in 1805 but soon after two children killed the director and his wife, then set the hose ablaze to cover their tracks.They were caught, tried and hanged fairly quickly. The house was rebuilt on the original foundations and passed from owner to owner for the next century. Paul Fortier, his wife Denise, and daughter Gisele moved in in 1905 just after he was published. They were not told of the history of the house. Denise found out through neighbors what happened there and she was on edge in the house after that. Then the daughter was complaining of cold spots in her room and could not sleep at night. The mother requested the parish priest exorcise the home but he scoffed at her and sent her away. That night there was alot of tension at the dinner table, Pauls’ mood had got worser and worser since moving in and he would laugh at his wife when she mentioned the cold spots or other phenomenon. The daughter did not want to go to sleep in her room because a cold spot had been IN her bed with her the prior night. Regardless she was made to go to bed. What happened that night was pieced together from the poor girls tortured memories and testimony of a few witnesses. The girl awoke sometime later to the smell of smoke but she saw no flames or sensed heat. She ran to her parents room, saw smoke coming from under the door, opened it and saw the bedroom was on fire. Her father was dead on the floor, scissors in his neck. Her mother was on the bed fighting off two small naked boys who were pummeling her with their fists, laughing without sound. The girl ran next door for help but when they got to the house there was no evidence of smoke, fire or the boys. The mother was beaten and bloodied on the bed and the father was still on the floor as the girl had seen. The verdict of the police was a domestic dispute got out of hand, and the wife stabbed the husband to stop him.They dismissed the girls account as she was only five and they said she was just in shock from seeing her mother kill her father.The mother lived for several months but died from her injuries after lying in a coma. The girl was sent to the United States to live with her grandparents, and the house burned for the last time in 1906. There is one book i know that has this tale: Canadian Hauntings, by Michael Norman and Beth Scott. It is published by Scholastic Canada Ltd. Ihope i was of some assistance. Happy hunting.
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Sheesh, now i cant go to my bedroom, i already thought it was haunted but that. Uggh!
tht was totally creepy!!!!if ppl wouldnt believe me then i would say then wat happen 2 my pparents cause they said tht it was a nightmare or bad dreams.so did they ever find outt wat happen 2 the little girls mother?if u find outt any wear or from someone please leave a reply at this story. thanks for reading tht.!.
HOLY **** thats a good story! Sorry for the launguage but … wow!
wow!!that is soo scary&freaky!!
Yea this freaked meh out……..hope this dnt happen to meh!lol :)
i don’t get this story i don’t find it that scary i find it very creepy but am not creep out those who are going to have nightmares i feel sorry for you, you shouldn’t had read this if your gonna get nightmares
i havent had a nightmare for about 6 years. I was about 5 and i just turned 11
OK THATS SOOOOO CREEPY I COULD BARELY SLEEP! I AM NOT SURE IF IT IS TRUE BUT ONE COMMENT SAYS IT DOES. I REALLY HOPE THAT DOESNÈT HAPPEN TO ME!!!! YIKES!
I havent had a nightmare ever since last year in 6th grade, but now I’m going into 8th grade, so about 2 years
wow thats freaky asriel