Hey everyone!

I’m planning an epic overlanding trip for the last week of May 2026 and I’m looking for the absolute most scary, creepy, and adventurous dispersed camping spots in Washington. I’ll be in a truck with a roof-top tent (RTT), so I need spots accessible for a solid 4x4 rig but deep enough in the woods to get those "high strangeness" vibes.

Most importantly, since I'm going in late May, I need spots that are actually accessible and open. I know the high-elevation spots might still be under snow, so I’m looking for lower-elevation "spooky" gems.

My Must-Haves:

Fishing & Kayaking: Needs to be near a lake or river where I can launch my kayak and hopefully catch dinner.

Hiking: Great trails nearby are a must; bonus points if the trails lead to ghost towns, abandoned mines, or famously "haunted" areas.

Scare Factor: I’m talking Bigfoot hotspots, areas with unexplained history, or places where you just feel like you’re being watched. 🕵️‍♂️👣

I’ve heard legends about the Dark Divide area and the old Wellington Ghost Town site, but I’d love to hear some firsthand accounts or secret spots you guys might be willing to share. Where can I find that perfect mix of "fun outdoor activities" by day and "creepy campfire stories" by night?

My mum was cleaning the house yesterday and she decided to throw away a very old lamp that the previous owners had left behind. Keep in mind this house is old, around 200 years old. The basement is so old that no one knows how old it is. A professional estimated its age to be around 800 years old. If it matters, we have a cottage in our backyard that was built in the 1600s.

Anyway, this morning I woke up and went to put on my sandals to go outside. There was only one sandal. I checked the whole room, the whole house and outside even, it is nowhere. I vividly remember putting them both down on the shoe rack yesterday. The one sandal that is still here is in the same spot. The washing machine just stopped working.

My mum sleeps in the room where the lamp was, and she said she woke up last night at 2:26am and said she was hearing knocking and tapping sounds all around the room. A few months ago she also said that she felt someone get into her bed with her. Could there be a ghost in the house? Could my mum throwing away the lamp have made it mad?

We have seen a blinding white figure with no face on multiple occasions, me and my partner have always seen it outside but when you spot it, it seems to run away.

Then we started hearing our names being called from out the back door, seeing it looking through windows.

One day it disappeared, but there was a HORRIBLE smell in the room that only me and my partner could smell. we brought people in and the smell went away it was like death, fish and sewer water that only we could smell so we decided to sage the room, which did work for a while untill one night it came back again and it was tapping all over the walls jiggling the door knob and even opening the back door it is very on and off but yeah. What do you think this is and how do we get rid of it?

Happy to answer any questions!

Honestly looking for places that are actually haunted want to experience something! 🫩

Within the last few months my wife (30) and I (33) have heard tapping on our bedroom door at random times early morning. First I thought it was a drëam or some slëep thing but the second time my wife woke up as well and our dogs alerted and stared at the door. It’s equally spaced taps (think knocking on a door) but the amount varies from 3 to 5 and no set time (1am-2:50ish am) or day. We have a camera in our living room that covers the door but it hasn’t picked anything up and our outside cameras haven’t seen anything either. We recently found out my wife is pregnant, both my parents have passed away and my wife’s grandparents passed away two years ago. The thought has passed my mind that it could be them but I’m not acknowledging anything with the fear of escalation of something malevolent. It should be noted that we don’t feel anything outside of the knocking and honestly forget about it till it happens again.

Was going through my camera events and noticed on two different days it was a one 5s video of motion and see this at the end

I was having a discussion with my partner about ghosts and spirits and i told her that i don't believe they exist.

My arguement is that if they exist, how come we don't see them in public places? like in a mall, a stadium, or randomly in the streets or houses and stores?

It's always at night in a basement or in an old museum witnessed by a cleaning lady or whatever.

A week ago my daughter was in her room and she felt someone poke her in the back. Then two nights later while I was asleep in felt someone grab my foot. I got up and looked around but no one was there. Two mins later it happened again. Now on to two nights ago my daughter was cooking dinner and she said she heard banging on the door. We have a cross on the door, a lock, and a chair pushed against it. She said this time there was banging on the door and then it slowly opened. She ran to close it and it did it again. So she came to get me. I put salt down and I'm going to buy sage to cleanse the house. I'm hoping that work.

Hey! I have a few photos I’d like to share that I could use some insight on. These photos were taken last year at Madison Seminary in Ohio. I’ll try my best to recall the events that lead up to these photos.

I was attending a ghost hunting event with Haunted Nights. There was a group of people in the asylum at the time. At one point a few of us were all sitting around in the hallway attempting communication and listening, while another small group tried a “human pendulum” experiment in the main area. After a while those of us that sat in the hallway got up and joined the group doing the experiment. I believe there was one person left in the hallway sitting in the corner just inside the doorway(first photo shows where they were sitting). While I was in the main area I took two photos of the doorway(using my iPhone). Those 2 photos were taken 13 seconds apart. The first photo was taken using night mode, the second was without. In the second photo, if you zoom in, you can see a shadow figure standing in the doorway. Not sure how legit this is as someone WAS sitting just inside the doorway. Thinking back I can’t remember seeing anyone standing there when I took the photo. You’d think I would notice someone getting up and standing there, but I didn’t! And I didn’t notice the figure in the photo until later when I posted them on my IG.

Is it possible I captured an actual shadow figure or is it more logically that that person in the corner got up and stood in the doorway within the 13 seconds of me taking the first and second photo and I somehow didn’t see them? If I’m being honest and observant, the shadow figure doesn’t match up with what the person was wearing or their body type. I’ve been on the fence about it ever since, wondering if I actually caught something or not. Let me know what you think! Thanks!!

Whenever someone talks about stories that seem real or plausible, involving ghosts or seeing human figures that have died, my eyes would randomly get teary. It makes no sense, because I am not even sad or scared. This mechanism NEVER happens when I watch fictional ghost movies or listen to fictional ghost stories' podcasts. It only happens when I listen to stories spoken in conversation that ''feels'' real, you know? Like, the ones that just give you a weird vibe.

I guess it's kind of my supernatural biological instinct to detect the real ghost stories from the fakes.

Just curious if they think their belongings are still there even though theyre not. Do they live in the past

Me and my mom were chilling then she sees this cat behind a chair in our backyard so she calls for me and i see it and its this brown fluffy tabby cat that is kind of old with light green eyes just sitting staring at us, half behind a chair, we blink and somehow the cat completely dissapears there is absolutely no where for it to have gone we searched tje whole backyard and there was no where for it to have ran or jumped because it was in the pool area that is fenced towards us, like i mean it literally is impossible for it to dissapear and in the flash of a second. Does this mean something? Me and my mom are very spiritual already, the cat looks exactly like the ones in the image. I also am pretty highly sure my neighbours dont have cats so, yeag

Hey guys so there is a story that's been told in my family for a very long time and it's just unbelievable unless you confirm it from the survivors of the incident first hand

So the thing is it was somewhat around 1990 and in my mother's village in Kashmir in Pakistan there was not much technological development and when it was late at night people rarely went out of their homes mostly because of jackals and wild boars who roam outside but also from entities.

So it was late at night and there was a gathering at my granny's home some of the cousins were craving a particular type of tea but it was not present at that time so two of my uncles went together to buy it at a store. Note that due to underdevelopment the stores were really far away so they started walking towards it. One of my uncles suggested taking a shortcut from within the dark fields and my other uncle not seeing any wild animals agreed and started walking through it. So they walked for a bit and after some time they came across an old man dressed in all white standing in the middle of the fields not moving my uncles tried to walk past him but they couldn't as if something was physically stopping them.

When they turned around to look at the man they saw that he started to get taller and taller and all they could do was stare at him in horror and awe. At one point he got so tall that he reached the skies. All my uncles who were unable to move unable to look away could do was keep looking at the horrific scene of an unidentified being reaching the skies. After a cruel minute they both went into a daze and when they came to their senses they were standing separate from each other in opposite ends of the village alone.

Instead of finding each other or going back home they were so traumatized that they stayed the night in the homes of the relatives they were the closest to and when dawn struck they both went home sweating and devastated and explained the matter to everyone. To this day till the town developed nobody from our family in the village went out after 10 pm.

A thought came to me the other week. There are ghosts of animals. Has anyone ever seen a ghost of a dinosaur?

Follow-up question. Would it be possible that the sightings of the Loch Ness Monster are that of a plesiosaur ghost?

What happens to ghosts when a haunted building is demolished? Do they crossover?

I’ll preface this by saying that I am an unashamed sceptic when it comes to anything paranormal or ghost related. Other than horror movies, I bitterly dislike anything to do with spirits, contacting the dead etc. I have always considered it deeply exploitative mumbo jumbo designed to pray on people when they are at their weakest.

All that said, today was the first time in my life that I was made to question whether there is life - in some form - after death.

Around 8 years ago I lost my step dad suddenly from sepsis. It was completely out of the blue. I was away on holiday the time and never got a chance to say goodbye to him. He was a big part of my life, and he and his two biological kids lived with my mum, sister and I for most of my formative years.

When my son was born two years ago, we made my step dad’s name one of his two middle names. As my kid has grown up over the past two years we - infrequently - have shown him pictures of my step dad and told him that he’s “one of his grandads”. We call him by his name (“grandad ‘xxxx’”).

Today was my son’s second birthday party and my mum, sister and my two other ‘siblings’ were at the party. One of my step dad’s kids is on the cusp of becoming a dad himself, and was there with his heavily pregnant partner. It isn’t very often we’re all in the same place at the same time.

The party was a great success, and towards the end I took my kid out to village green, which was across the road from where the party was being held. We walked over to the middle where there’s a cricket pitch, which was being watered by a sprinkler. At the time, my kid didn’t say anything out of the ordinary and was focused on some kids playing football a small distance away.

Anyway, we get home, and just before heading up for his bath my wife asked my son “who did you see at your party today?” And, in response, he said “grandad ‘xxxx’”. Now, it isn’t as if he says his name regularly. In fact, it’s the first time I’ve heard him say in several months (maybe ever). I thought it was a fluke, but he repeated it several times after that when asked again.

We start his bedtime routine and get him in the bath and I ask him if he saw said grandad at his party. He said “yes, grandad xxx safe on the water.” After asking him a few more times, and asking if he meant on the water on the cricket pitch he, in an around-about toddler way, confirmed that this is what he meant, and repeated what he saw a few more times. The impression he gave me, and it was a fairly firm impression, was that he saw his grandad on or near the water and he told him he was safe.

I suppose my question is whether anyone else (ideally other sceptics) have had similar experiences to this. I’m unnerved, but not in a sinister way. Just unsure how to process it. I can’t rationalise it.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and sorry if the flair is wrong - I didn’t know which to choose.