Morayfield teen reveals terrifying paranormal encounters

From Gympie to Nambour and the Sunshine Coast, this now-Brisbane teenager says she has been seeing the ghosts of dead people since before she started primary school. And that’s not the worst of it.

A Queensland teen has revealed her life of paranormal encounters and how she takes the unusual experiences all in her stride.

And while Haily Stanbrough is only 18 years old, she’s a veteran when it comes to the supernatural.

She says has seen five ghosts and been touched by, or sensed the presence of, many more; so much so that she says she’s lost count.

“My first paranormal experience was when I was in Prep,” she said.

“I was compelled to look out of the window for some reason and this was at night and I’ve always been scared of the dark and when I looked out of the window.”

It was then that she says she saw a ghost for the first time at her family’s home in Golden Beach, on the Sunshine Coast.

“By the look of it he appeared to be about 12 and he was a ‘90s kid,” she said.

“He was leaning up against a tree and he had one leg against the tree and the other leg was out straight, he also had his arms crossed over his chest and he was also looking down.

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“He had on a backwards cap, a baggy zip-up jumper, a baggy shirt, baggy jeans and like those low-cut DC shoes.”

Ms Stanbrough said she didn’t experience any feelings of fear, just curiosity.

“I was staring at it and I was feeling completely calm, but also confused because I had no idea what it was,” she said.

“Well, when I did finally figure out what I was looking at I called out to my brother. When he came in my room he asked what was up and I walked over to my door where my brother was standing and told him that I think I just saw a ghost and he turned around and said if it was a ghost I would have screamed.”

But Ms Stanbrough said she didn’t feel fear and that many people mistakenly believed it was the go-to emotion in paranormal encounters when in reality the feeling was “completely different”.

That encounter was one of many.

At another home in Gympie, Ms Stanbrough says she saw an entity and picked up on something downstairs and in her bedroom that made her feel uncomfortable.

“There was an under-the-house part where the laundry is and I never liked going downstairs at night,” she said.

“I would always have the feeling that someone would be watching me or right behind me and I always felt a presence near me.

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“And also in the room I used to sleep in as well.”

There was just something off in the home, she said.

“My cousin ended up getting a porcelain doll from an op shop one time and kept it in the room I was staying in.

“My cousin, who used to sleep in there, would always call it the scary room. I’ve seen, like, a quick, white entity go past out of the corner of my eye a few times.

“I also always felt like someone was watching me when I had my back to the room when I was lying down in bed. And when I walked in to the room I would feel a little on edge a bit.”

Ms Stanbrough said items regularly vanished in that house.

“Things would disappear all of the time, no matter how hard you look. Some of the time you would find it, some time you wouldn’t,” she said.

In her early teens, Ms Stanbrough said a spirit attached itself to her. She said she sensed the person it used to be had drowned and while she has managed to disconnect from it, deep bodies of water make her feel uneasy.

Haily Stanbrough says she has had paranormal encounters most of her life.

But things were a little darker and more sinister at a particular house in Nambour.

“A woman actually died there,” she said, adding that she suspected some kind of satanic worship had been carried out in the home after a housemate found a red pentagram drawn on the floor downstairs.

“I stayed in the upstairs area and a couple of times when I was lying in bed, one time an entity sat on my legs, like lower leg ankle area, and the last time that happened the entity was really close to me, like the stomach area,” she said.

“Like, I actually felt weight on me where the entities were sitting.”

Ms Stanbrough said whenever the home’s occupants discussed the previous resident, lights would flicker and there was a sense of being watched.

“Each time you went downstairs something was always there and they weren’t that nice. The vibe from the entity wasn’t nice,” she said.

The teen, who now lives in Morayfield, said she now lived in a home with yet another spirit, but this one was much more benign.

It’s the kind spirits that help comfort her in what most people would consider to be terrifying encounters.

Ms Stanbrough said she was especially comforted by one loving spirit - her father, who passed away in 2014.