11 Scary Hostel and College Stories

Are ghosts real? Everyone has divided thoughts and opinions on this question but some stories and experiences are way too scary to deny. If you’ve ever lived in a hostel you must have heard some silly rumors around your hostel or college. But not all of them are just another rumor. Here are some horrifying stories by anonymous people that would send chills down your spine.

1- One night, sometime after midnight, my friend felt something hitting the back of his neck when he was studying at his desk. So he turned to look over his shoulder but saw nothing. He went back to his book but felt the hitting again. This continued to happen every night at the same time at the same place. It affected his sleep. One day, he bumped into an old janitor who'd been working at the university for years. Seeing him so tired, the janitor jokingly asked, "Didn't sleep last night?" So the student told the old man about the hitting he felt in his room. The old janitor told the student to move out of that room immediately, refusing to explain when the student asked him why. Apparently, years ago, a girl hanged herself in that room sometime after midnight. The hitting that the student felt was quite possibly the girl's feet hitting the back of his neck because her body swung slightly when she committed suicide.

2- Whenever I closed the lights and go to the bed I’d always hear voices like- someone wearing my slippers and walking in my room. One day while studying at night I heard someone tapping nail inside wall. It was coming from the roof. I thought maybe some work is going on on the terrace. The loudness of sound was continuously increasing and I got disturbed and went to the rooftop to request them to please reduce the noises they are making. When I went there I saw no one and maybe the workers have gone. Back to my room I sat on the chair to study and the noises began again.

3- One night when mom was with me in hostel due to my sickness, I had to go to hospital and wasted a lot of time. So to compensate, I studied until 12:30 at night. I and my mom slept after 1:00 am. After 15 minutes of our going to bed, we heard horrible shrieks from outside as if someone crying in pain. It was like someone is tortured or badly injured. They continued all night but to my horror no one on my floor had heard anything like it.

4- As I was about to sleep someone pulled my blanket and I heard someone breathing heavily at corner of the bed. I removed the blanket to see who it was but I saw nothing but air and darkness. The breathing sounds continued and I was so scared that instead of running outside I covered myself with blanket and pillow on my face. After a few seconds I was covered with sweat and I could hear my heartbeats. The voices were gone now and I somehow slept.

5- Back when I was studying in Banting, there was a bathroom on the third floor which we think is haunted because, on some nights, the water would be boiling hot. It should be impossible because there are no heaters in our showers, so the water is supposed to be cold or at least room temperature. So whenever the water turns hot, girls would run out in their towels, screaming. We heard that apparently before they built the college, it was a factory that dealt with manufacturing chemicals. There were rumours that many employees died because of some chemicals, including getting burned. 

6- My friends and I went on a trip to the coast, for four nights. The 11 of us shared a room in a hostel of sorts. My bed (a bunk bed) was pushed up right against the wall, so there was no way anything could get down there as I couldn't even fit my hand through the gap. Keep that in mind. On the first day, I awoke in the middle of the night... I turned to the wall and saw a woman hanging down my bed, in a white nightdress with long dark hair, covered in blood. I screamed and grabbed a torch to look closer, but nothing was there. My friends all woke up and asked who screamed, but I was too scared to reply. I thought maybe my friends were pranking me, but how could anything fit down the side of my bed?

7- My school gives us all laptops for the school year. I had never used the camera on it but one night in my friends and I were goofing around and decided to make videos on it. A week later, we went back through the camera roll to see what we shot. There were pictures of me sleeping. My laptop had been locked in my cupboard every night since we made videos.

8- I used to live in a hostel (Room 307) that was supposedly haunted by a student who committed suicide back in the day. We had a security guard quit on day one after he allegedly saw her. My first month in the hostel, I heard noises outside my room. So I used the peephole to look outside. I saw a girl in a red dress and red heels with classic good looks walk on the corridor at 3 in the night. She didn't notice me and just kept strolling. I was relieved that she didn't acknowledge me at all until she stared back at me through the peephole, dead in the eyes and said: 'knock knock'.

9- My hostel's warden used to live with us with his family. One night, his 6-year old went to bed with a slight fever but passed away the next morning. After her funeral, my roommate and I decided to look after their pet cat. So we went to their house and my friend decided to look in their bedroom. She was going behind the curtains, when she felt something brushing her foot. She thought that the cat might be around and so she started calling her name. Which is when she felt like someone slapped her in the foot. She looked around and there was nothing. After half an hour of searching, we gave up and locked the room. When we told the warden about what happened, he went pale and sunk down to his knees crying. He told us that he used to play hide and seek with his daughter and she used to hide behind the curtains. Whenever he was close to her, she would grab his ankles, slap and pinch them. 

10-I was new to the boarding school. And I was also new to the concept of common toilets. One night, I woke up with the urgent need to pee. Still half asleep, I rushed to the toilet, only to see my grandmom sitting on the toilet without locking the door. I immediately apologized and close the door. I leaned against the opposite wall holding my pee, only to realize that I wasn't at home. And my granny had passed away 6 months ago. 

11- I went inside a loo and my friend was waiting outside the door for me. Suddenly, the light went off and it became pitch dark. My friend said she would wait for outside, at the loo entrance. Just when I was figuring my way out, I bumped into someone and held her arm. "Hello? Who is this? I can’t see you," I asked the dark figure whose face I could not see, but got no response. I tried again: "Have you also bunked class?," I kept asking, but my voice was the only one that I could hear. Why was she not replying to my repeated questions? I could hear her breathe, so I was sure somebody was there. I shook her arm vigorously, trying to get her to answer. It shook like there was no body attached to it! A chill ran down my spine and I sprinted my way out howling, still trying to figure out what had just happened. There was nothing that could possibly be suspended right in the middle of the washroom. It was an arm. My friend waiting outside said she was standing there the whole time and that nobody had gone inside. Meanwhile, the lights came back. Still scared, I went inside with my friend, but there was no one inside. Not a single soul.

I know it must have been really tough for you to get this far but I know you could not resist reading all of these stories. All I want to say is before you go to sleep, look under your bed or ABOVE YOU!