People say that when you shoot a horror or a ghost film, you will attract spirits because the movie creates negative energy around you. We don’t know how much it is true but some of our favorite celebrities have had ghostly experiences around them. These stories will definitely bring chills down your spine.
From Miley Cyrus to Keanu Reeves, these famous people all claim to have experienced a terrifyingly close encounter with a ghost. Some celebrities have had brief encounters with the supernatural, but others said that they have engaged in longer-term relationships with otherworldly beings. Most recently, Vanessa Hudgens has admitted she believes she can communicate with the spirit world.
Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, it's interesting to read about ghost stories from our favorite celebrities. So scroll down to read on what some celebs had to say about their spooky encounters.
#1 Vanessa Hudgens
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On
The Kelly Clarkson Show in April 2022, Vanessa Hudgens said she has "accepted the fact that I see things and I hear things," even admitting that she can communicate with the supernatural by using a spirit box. "I kind of shut it down for a while because it's scary," she said. "The unknown is scary. But recently I was like, 'No, this is a gift and something that I have the ability to do, so I'm going to lean into it.'"
#2 Keanu Reeves
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Back to 2014,
Keanu Reeves told Jimmy Kimmel that he'd seen a ghost as a child. "I was living in New Jersey when I saw and felt this ghost," he said. "I remember just staring at this suit, which had no body or legs in it as it came into the room before disappearing. It was a double-breasted suit in white, and I looked at my nanny, who was just as shocked as me. I just couldn't get back to sleep afterwards, and I still see the figure in my dreams."
#3 Lady Gaga
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Not only does Lady Gaga believe in spirits, but she also believes they help her in writing her songs, specifically, that the late designer Alexander McQueen helped her with "Born This Way." "I think he planned the whole thing," she told "Right after he died [in 2010], I wrote 'Born This Way.' I think he's up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing."
#4 Kristen Stewart
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Kristen Stewart believes in ghosts and tries to communicate with them, as she told Vanity Fair in 2019. "If I'm in a weird, small town making a movie, and I'm in a strange apartment, I will literally be like, 'No, please, I cannot deal. Anyone else, but it cannot be me.' Who knows what ghosts are, but there is an energy that I'm really sensitive to. Not just with ghosts, but with people. People stain rooms all the time."
#5 Lily Collins
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When Lily Collins played Ted Bundy's ex-girlfriend in the movie
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, she claimed that she saw visits from the ghosts of Ted's victims. "I would go downstairs and have a cup of tea, trying to figure out why I had woken up again," she told The Guardian. "I started being woken up by flashes of images, like the aftermath of a struggle. I didn't feel scared — I felt supported. I felt like people were saying, 'We're here listening. We're here to support. Thank you for telling the story.'"
#6 Helena Bonham Carter
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Before portraying Princess Margaret in
The Crown, Helena Bonham Carter communicated with Princess Margaret with the help of a psychic medium. "She said, apparently, she was glad it was me. She said, 'You're better than the other actress' they were thinking of," she told The Guardian. "They will not admit who it was. It was me and somebody else. That made me think maybe she is here, because that is a classic Margaret thing to say. She was really good at complimenting you and putting you down at the same time."
#7 Gigi Hadid
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In an interview with Vogue, Gigi Hadid stated that she and her sister Bella would even serve ghost tea in their haunted childhood home. "When we were kids, we lived in this really old house, and I was given the attic as my room," she said. "We used to hear this weird sound in the closet, and then we asked my dad, and he said this old lady used to live in the house."
#8 Ariana Grande
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After Ariana Grande visited Stull Cemetery in Kansas (which she says is "known as one of the seven gates of hell to Earth"), she started getting very bad vibes. "I felt this sick, overwhelming feeling of negativity over the whole car and we smelled sulfur, which is the sign of a demon, and there was a fly in the car randomly, which is another sign of a demon," she told Complex.
#9 Kendall Jenner
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Kendall Jenner believes that she has seen spirits in her mother Kris Jenner's house, "In the house my mom lives in, Kylie and I would always hear footsteps on the roof while no one was home," Kendall said. "Kylie's shower used to turn on all the time, and we never knew why. So yeah, I'm convinced it was a ghost."
#10 Demi Lovato
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Demi Lovato has a Peacock program called
Unidentified With Demi Lovato about interacting with spirits since she believes in them so much. In one episode, Demi sung to the ghosts when they found out that they were dealing with trauma, and the EMF detector they were using at the time gave a "standing ovation".
#11 Miley Cyrus
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Miley Cyrus thinks the apartment she stayed in while in London was haunted. She said to Elle UK that the temperature once turned to hot by itself while sister Noah was in there, and Miley herself once saw "a little boy sitting on the sink watching me take a shower so I felt really freaked out."
#12 Chloë Sevigny
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As she told
Entertainment Weekly, when Chloë Sevigny spent the night at Lizzie Borden's house in Massachusetts, she definitely felt like spirits were there. "I kept hearing all these weird moaning and groaning noises, but there wasn't anybody else in the house," she recalled. "It was terrifying. It was pretty early, and [my then-boyfriend] was like, 'I have to leave.'"
#13 Kate Hudson
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Kate Hudson not only believes in spiritual encounters, but she also said in an interview on the
Chatty Man show that she feels like she can speak with ghosts. "I believe in energy," she said. "I believe our brains can manifest into visual things. When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong there."
#14 Matthew McConaughey
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In 2015, Matthew McConaughey told ScreenSlam that he was haunted by the ghost of a woman named Madame Blu. He said: "She wasn't that happy. It didn't seem like she was going to be much fun to hang around or have in my house, so I went ahead and stood my ground. I opened the door and said, 'You can move around all you want, but I'm not going anywhere.'"
#15 Octavia Spencer
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On
The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2021, Octavia Spencer revealed that she believes her house is haunted by a fellow actor. "I grew up watching Westerns and I bought this house, and it was owned by a guy who did Westerns, so I must have been a fan of his," she said. "I think he is my protector. I love him because he kind of sorts out the bad people who shouldn't be there. He runs them out."
#16 Kesha
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In an interview with Rolling Stone, Kesha admitted her belief in the paranormal and even said that she had previously undergone an exorcism. "I know it sounds like the most ridiculous story, but I went to my healer … and she told me that because of my job, I exude energy," she said.
#17 Emma Stone
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As
Emma Stone revealed to David Letterman in 2014, the ghost she sees is actually her grandfather, whom she was never able to meet when he was alive. She said: "There's a long family history with quarters. My grandfather leaves quarters. It's him. It's absolutely him."