6 terrifying celebrity ghost stories in honor of ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do it’

Megan Fox told MTV News in 2014, “I believe in everything,” and recalled an experience she had in her hotel in Mexico. “I had pre-ordered breakfast for 7:30, and at 7 a.m. I hear them come in with the table, I hear them pouring the coffee...30 minutes later, at 7:30 I went in there. No table, no coffee, no food, no nothing, no one there. The doorbell rings, I open the door, it‘s room service with my food.” Her nanny heard it too, Fox explained, “Brandy the nanny comes out later and says, ‘Why did room service come at 7 when we told them to come at 7:30?’ So you can’t tell me I’m crazy, because two people heard it.”

While filming Love, Rosie in Dublin Collins enjoyed a two-month stay at the Shelbourne Hotel. Everything was fine for the majority of production until the spirit of a young girl decided to play. “Even though my eyes were closed I had this bizarre feeling of being watched by a presence like a pressure was standing next to me,” Collins told Entertainment Weekly. “I had this vision of a little girl standing next to me and staring at me. I turned into a little kid, like, if I don’t open my eyes it can’t see me! Then I heard a giggling and I felt this whoosh as if the energy just flew across my chest and across the bed.” Unable to sleep she heard a series of fire doors outside her room burst open and slam shut. The next morning she asked the staff about the history of the building. “They were like, ‘Oh! Actually yes, you’re staying on the same floor where this girl [is] known to just roam the halls and hang out a little bit at the hotel.’ [I was on] the floor she normally does it on!” Collin said. “I believe there are different types of spirits and based on what I read afterward of this young girl, it doesn’t feel like she’s a scary spirit. She’s just there and you’re existing in her world.”

Cyrus told Elle UK, the London flat she was staying in during her 2009 European tour was haunted. “It was seriously so terrifying. It used to be an old bakery and they turned it into an apartment building, and I was having really crazy dreams and really scary things.” Cyrus admitted it sounded crazy but said one night her little sister Noah was standing in the shower when “all of a sudden I hear her scream. I run in there and the water had somehow flipped to hot.” Nobody had turned it and ”it was burning her. She was really red.” Before that happened Miley said, “I thought I had seen a little boy sitting on the sink watching me take a shower so I felt really freaked out. I was sitting there the next night and maybe I’m crazy, but I could have sworn I could see this little boy sitting there on the sink, kicking his feet.” “My mom was getting mad that we were looking into it because she thought it was going to scare Noah, so then my aunt–who we hadn’t been told about this–comes in and she starts freaking out. She’s like, ‘I had no idea what happened but I left the apartment and I came back and all the doors and windows were open. I locked the apartment. So she told her and I’m like, ’Mom, see–I’m not making this up.’ Three or four more things happened after that. I will never stay there ever again.” Cyrus said they started looking into it and found out about the people who lived in the bakery. “I guess the wife died or something, she had gotten sick. So it was just the son and the dad that lived there in the bakery, and then the dad died and the son took over the bakery, and I thought I was seeing the son. I’m not even kidding.”

When asked if Grande saw has ever seen an alien the singer replied, “Not an alien, but I’ve had a ghost/demon experience.” She told Complex in 2013, “We were in Kansas City a few weeks ago and went to this haunted castle and were so excited. The next night we wanted to go to Stull Cemetery, which is known as one of the seven gates to hell on Earth. The Pope won’t fly over it.” “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 continued, “I was like, ‘This is scary, let’s leave.’ I rolled down the window before we left and said, ‘We apologize. We didn’t mean to disrupt your peace.’ Then I took a picture and there are three super distinct faces in the picture—they’re faces of textbook demons.” The next day she said she tried to send the picture to her manager but it said, “This file can’t be sent, it’s 666 megabytes.’ I’m not kidding. I used to have a folder called ‘Demons’ that had pictures with all the screencaps in it, but then weird things started happening to me so I deleted it.” As for the “weird things,” Grande said one night after getting off the phone she heard this “really loud rumble right by my head.” “When I opened my eyes it stopped immediately, but when I closed my eyes it started again with whispers. Every time I closed my eyes I started seeing these really disturbing images with, like, red shapes. Then I opened my eyes and got back on the phone and was like, ‘I’m really scared and I don’t want to go to bed tonight.” After moving to the other side of the bed she said there was a cloud of “massive black matter” right next to her. She fell asleep on the phone and she woke up it was gone.

Reeves claims he saw a ghost when he was a child in New York City. “I‘m probably like six, seven years old, we’d come from Australia. Renata, [our] nanny, in the bedroom, my sister is asleep, she’s sitting over there, I’m hanging out. There was a doorway and all of a sudden this jacket comes waving through the doorway, this empty jacket — there’s no body, there’s no legs, it’s just there. And then it disappears,” he explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2014. “I was a little kid and I thought, ’Okay, that’s interesting,’ and I looked over at the nanny and she [was making this terrified face]. And I’m like ’Oh wow, so that was real.’”

Lovato loves to go ghost hunting and saw her first ghost when she was only three years old. She told Buzzfeed in 2013 her house in Texas was “ridiculously haunted” by a little girl named Emily. “I‘ve had a medium come over and ghost hunters, and they both told me the same name, Emily. There were so many times that I saw her when I was growing up. I saw her in my closet one time. When I was three years old my mom caught me talking to something by myself. She asked, ’Who are you talking to?’ and I said, ‘My best friend Emily.’ She’s playful. She’d probably be around 11 or 12 years old, maybe younger.” Lovato said one time her friend came over and they started to watch a movie “when all of a sudden a laptop in my kitchen started to play a movie also. It was a black screen before, so it was a question of who turned it on and hit play. And after that Tucker texted a friend saying, ‘I think this house is haunted, a movie just turned on by itself,’ and there was a ’glitch’ in his phone that kept texting him back the word ’definitely’ over and over again. That happened about 30 times.” She continued, “There was another time when my uncle was in the living room watching TV and a balloon came down the stairs and turned around on the banister. I have crazy footage of just orbs flying through the air.”