Moonlit Shadows: Creepy Sleep Stories

Three short Montana stories in one: knocks inside the walls of an old miners' boarding house in Butte, the vigilante numbers 3-7-77 following a couple through Virginia City, and a lake house on Flathead Lake that comes with a journal and a story still waiting to be told. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

Two short stories in one. A couple celebrates their anniversary at the Victorian Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, just down the hall from its most famous haunted room, and then a birthday visit to the sprawling Winchester Mystery House leaves a young woman dreaming of a red door in a basement. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In the spring of 2024, a screenwriter rents a little wooden cottage in Laurel Canyon, the hills where the music of the sixties and seventies was born, for a suspiciously low rent. On his eighth night, he hears live guitar coming from somewhere inside the walls. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

A podcaster checks into the old Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where legend says some famous guests never quite checked out, and sets up his recorders alone in Room 928. He starts getting answers, and the longer he listens, the less sure he is that the story is his to tell. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

Eric Thorne never met his uncle Daniel, but when Daniel dies, Eric inherits his remote house on forty acres in northwestern Montana, along with a sealed letter of rules. Lock the doors before sunset. Never open the barn. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

A newcomer to Kalispell, Montana hears about the long-gone Thornwood Estate from an elderly neighbor at a community potluck. As he digs through old records, he finds the family's story is tied to the land itself, and on quiet nights the ground where the house once stood seems to whisper. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

A writer researching American hauntings books seven nights aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, in the stateroom the ship's legends call its most haunted. Night after night he records, measures and waits, trying to understand who is still crossing the ocean on a ship that never leaves the harbor. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In the autumn of 1958, a young night watchman walks the dim halls of a grand old resort hotel on the California coast. The manager warns him that guests sometimes see a lady in a dark dress on the wooden stairs down to the beach, and tells him not to encourage it. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In the winter of 1989, a quiet man becomes caretaker of Larkin Springs, a fading railroad resort high in the snowy mountains of northern California. The lawyer who hires him says he doesn't need to check cabin nineteen, because nobody goes in there. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

Ray Corbin runs the only gas station, café and motel in Ironwood Junction, population fourteen, the last stop before a scorching California desert. In July of 1979, three friendly travelers stop for gas and water and ask about a shortcut over the mountains, and Ray tells them not to take it. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories