Los Angeles Haunted Horror House Ghost Story

Regardless if you believe in paranormal activity like tales of the dark side or not,  I want to share a scary ghost story that truly happened when I was younger. I was 9 and my brother Kyle was 6 / 7 years old. We moved around quite frequently during my whole childhood in Los Angeles and we had just moved into a new town and the house we lived in was large. If I remember correctly there were 5 bedrooms and 2 and 1/2 bathrooms. From the moment we moved in, there were strange noises and it always seemed to feel very dark and depressive. My dog would often sit and bark or growl towards the top of the stairs leading above the garage and also would stare and growl at ceiling above kitchen going into dining room (seemingly without any reason, no noises or anything like that). The home had been renovated and had additions not only on both sides and in the back, but also upwards, second story and rooms above the garage.  My little brother and I was sharing a medium-sized bedroom, our bunk bed was in the middle of the room, some narrow space beside it, and then our dressers/toy bins. At the foot of our bed was our TV (older TV, with the very large back and real glass front). At the head of our bed was our closet, but it didn’t have any doors because we accidentally broke them playing with our neighborhood friends. These kids either never had the experiences that we did, or never admitted it. Anyway, the weird doors were on wheels and easy to knock off track. So, they were completely off and out of the room.

Dark Souls Los Angeles Taken While On The Couch

Kyle and I are heading to bed one night and he kept tapping on the wall. I told him to knock it off, but he insisted it wasn’t him. I was getting aggravated and told him I didn’t care to just stop from now on. It stops for a few minutes and starts again. Now he’s frustrated, and says “why’d you tell me to stop if you’re just gonna do it too?” I told him I wasn’t, and we both help our arms and feet over the bed for each to see. The tapping was still happening. I could tell we were both getting freaked out, so I told him it was probably just something outside, like a tree. He laughed at me and said “There’s no trees bear our room. Plus what can reach our top window?” (He meant second floor.) I thought about it for a minute but didn’t have an answer. We were both getting more freaked out the longer we sat so I offered for Kyle to sleep on my bunk for the night. Ya know, because HE was scared, definitely not me Lol. So, we’re both laying on the bottom bunk, telling jokes and making each other laugh to lighten the mood. I look down at the TV and see a full blown dark souls person or figure (no face) in the reflection of the closet. My heart SUNK. I threw my arm over my brother and he started freaking out. I told him never mind, I was just trying to scare him and it worked lol. He was a little frustrated but let it go. I look up and see the man in the reflection again. I don’t know what to do. Before I could say anything else, a storage case comes hurling out of our closet, hits our fan, and breaks. I must’ve ripped his arm out of socket I pulled him out of that room so fast. I swear that thing was right behind us. Of course our dad didn’t believe any of our ghost stories. That room was awful. We mostly slept on the couch.

Also, this may or may not be related, but we had found crosses carved into our closet walls on each other. The housing people who did renovations had tried to cover it with dry wall patches but they were peeling, which is how we found them. Out of curiosity, my mom and I looked in the other rooms. The same thing was done in every single closet of the house. I don’t have an explanation for that night, but my brother experiencing it at the same time validated it for me, and finding those crosses confirmed my feelings that whatever it was, was not nice. (I can’t explain how, it just did.) 

I do believe this dark energy had followed me or even us, house to house in Los Angeles, but only when we were children. Has anybody else had something like this happen to them?



I have FAR MORE haunted stories from when I was younger, but this was the event that really startled me most of all. I wonder if it could have been tied to the crosses carved into the closets of my old home? We could not explain what it was that happened. There’s many more things that happened in this particular house but this is one that really creeped me out!