Celebs Who Have Had Actual Ghost Encounters

Kesha

In 2022, Kesha embarked on her own journey into the supernatural world with the Discovery+ series Conjuring Kesha. 

"To me, the supernatural comes naturally," Kesha wrote in a press statement about the series. "It started with my insatiable curiosity, my eternal searching for something bigger than myself. This has motivated my art, informed my music and has given a purpose to my entire life. It's an eternal search for proof of God."

On one of the first episodes, she and pal Whitney Cummings summoned a demon while exploring a haunted prison in Tennessee.

Joy Behar

On an October 2022 episode of The View, Joy Behar opened about her experiences with spirits while chatting with her co-hosts about a woman who allegedly had "sexual ghosts" in her home, as shared in this clip on Twitter (now X).

"I've had sex with a few ghosts and never got pregnant," the comedian and TV personality quietly admitted after co-host Sara Haines asked if someone could become pregnant by having sex with a spirit.

As her co-hosts burst into laughter, Whoopi Goldberg replied: "I'm just gonna let that ride. I don't know how many of you just heard what Joy just said, but I'm going to let it ride."

Vanessa Hudgens

During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show in April 2022, Vanessa Hudgens told host Kelly Clarkson that she's had "a lot" of run-ins with spiritual beings over the years and said she's "accepted the fact that I see things and I hear things."

"I remember getting ready for school when I was 8 years old, and there was … you know, those ducks [toys] that you pull [the string]? There was one of those on the dining room table, and I started walking, and it just started going alongside me," Hudgens said.

She continued, "I kind of shut it down for a while because it's scary. 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.' "

Hudgens added that she uses a "spirit box," which has helped her analyze "radio frequencies really quickly."

"Something about the electricity that it creates allows spirits to speak through it," she explained.

Dorinda Medley

Entrepreneur Dorinda Medley once revealed to PEOPLE that she believes ghostly visitors roam the halls of her historic Berkshires, Mass., estate.

"I think that if you are a good person, you will have good spirits in your life, and I think if you're a negative or a bad person, that attracts negative spirits," the Real Housewives of New York City alum said in 2021. "Because I've suffered loss, I believe that people don't go away; they just transform into different energy. So I definitely think there's all kinds of good energy, blessed energy, in this house."

Noting that she has "never once" felt "frightened" while living in her home, Medley continued: "Have I felt, like, the presence of [my late husband] Richard or the presence of maybe, you know, someone that I think loves me, a guard? … Yes."

"Last night, I actually was like, 'God, I kind of feel this guardian angel thing going on.' But that makes me happy," she added. "Wouldn't it be sad if we just thought this was it? You know?"

Demi Lovato

Lovato shared that her childhood home in Texas housed a ghost in a 2013 article the singer contributed to BuzzFeed.

"My house in Texas is so ridiculously haunted," she wrote. "Not by a bad spirit, but a little girl. I think her name is 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."

Lovato continued, "I believe that everyone can tune into that part of their mind. I think I have a really strong connection to the afterlife … When I walk into a room, I can tell if something has happened there or not or if a hotel is haunted."

Demi Lovato (Again)

Years after speaking about her previous ghost encounters, Lovato admitted she felt a spiritual presence while ghost hunting in 2021 on her Peacock show Unidentified with Demi Lovato. When the ghost appeared to only "communicate" if Lovato's fellow male hunters were out of the room, Lovato identified the root of the problem.

"She has trauma. That's why she doesn't like men," Lovato said, adding that she, too, had a traumatic past. At their costar's urging, Lovato sang her song "Skyscraper" to the entity, which was met with more noise from the electromagnetic field detector that the group interpreted as a "standing ovation."

Kristen Stewart

Stewart opened up about her belief in spirits in 2019.

"I talk to them," the actress told Vanity Fair of ghosts. "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."

Peter Weber

In October 2021, former Bachelor star Peter Weber told Page Six he'd been searching New York City for spirits with celebrity medium Jonathan Mark.

"He had this great idea to go do this ghost tour. I was actually, not going to lie, a little tentative," he shared of a historic tour of the West Village. 

Weber hoped to continue the hobby, adding, "I've always believed in that kind of stuff. I've not been too skeptical, and Jon's definitely got a gift."

Helena Bonham Carter

As she prepared to take over Vanessa Kirby's portrayal of Princess Margaret on season 3 of The Crown, Helena Bonham Carter sought approval straight from the late royal herself, with the help of a psychic medium. 

"My main thing when you play someone who is real, you kind of want their blessing because you have a responsibility," Bonham Carter said at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2019, per The Guardian.

Bonham Carter continued, "She said, apparently, she was glad it was me ... 'You're better than the other actress' … that they were thinking of. 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."

Queen Elizabeth II's outgoing younger sister also had a word of advice for Bonham Carter. 

"Then she said, 'Get the smoking right. I smoked in a very particular way … the cigarette holder was as much a weapon for expression as it was for smoking,' " the English actress recalled of Margaret.

Lily Collins

Lily Collins believed she received support from the ghosts of Ted Bundy's victims while preparing to take on the role of the infamous serial killer's ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer.

The Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile star told The Guardian in April 2019 that she was "woken up by flashes of images, like the aftermath of a struggle" every night at 3:05 a.m. while filming.

"I discovered that 3 a.m. is the time when the veil between the realms is the thinnest and one can be visited," Collins told the outlet. "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.' "

Megan Mullally

Megan Mullally believed a house she and husband, Nick Offerman, once lived in was haunted by the spirit of Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of former NFL star O.J. Simpson, who was murdered in 1994.

"It wasn't the same house, but it was on the same property where had once stood a house that O.J. Simpson had rented for Nicole Brown Simpson," the Will & Grace star said during an appearance on Busy Tonight in 2018. "We would have in that house, in one corner of the house, like maybe where the bedroom used to be in the old house, we would have all these sounds and weird things all the time. I would be like, 'That's Nicole, and she's pissed because Nick doesn't get it.' "

Mullally believed the spirit settled down after Offerman watched documentaries and the American Crime Story series about her murder. "Ever since then, no more sounds," she said. "She just needed Nick to understand what happened."

Kendall Jenner

"I do believe in ghosts," Kendall admitted to Vogue in a 2018 video. "I don't know if I've ever seen one, but I've experienced some pretty ghostly situations."

According to the model and reality TV star, the home of matriarch Kris Jenner is haunted by an otherworldly presence.

"In the house my mom lives in, [Kylie Jenner] and I would always hear footsteps on the roof while no one was home," she 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."

Gigi Hadid

"I've had a lot of unexplainable experiences with the supernatural," Gigi Hadid told Vogue in a video in October 2018. "When we were kids, we lived in this really old house, and I was given the attic as my room. 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."

Instead of getting freaked out, the Hadid family made friends with the spirit. 

"We convinced ourselves, and we would talk to her. We'd be like, 'Girl, we'll bring you some tea.' "

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny and a boyfriend once spent the night at the Massachusetts house where Lizzie Borden allegedly killed her father and stepmother with an axe in 1892.

"I kept hearing all these weird moaning and groaning noises, but there wasn't anybody else in the house. It was terrifying. It was pretty early, and [my then-boyfriend] was like, 'I have to leave,' " she told Entertainment Weekly in 2018. 

The eerie experience inspired Sevigny to produce and star in Lizzie, the 2018 film reimagining the infamous crime.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

On an episode of the Dale Jr. Download podcast, Dale Earnhardt Jr. opened up about a strange encounter when the conversation shifted to ghosts and spirits.

"When I wrecked in the Corvette in 2004 in Sonoma, and it caught fire, somebody pulled me out of that car," Earnhardt Jr. recounted. "And I thought that it was a corner worker because I felt somebody put their hands under my armpits and pull me out of the car. I didn't get out. I don't have any memory of myself climbing out of the car."

He continued: "And I remember sort of moving like in motion, like going to lean forward and try to climb out of the car, and then something grabbed me under the armpits, pulled me up over the door bars, and then let go of me. And I fell to the ground, and there's pictures of me laying on the ground next to the car. I know that when I got to the hospital, I was like, 'Who pulled me out of the car? I gotta say thanks to this person,' because it was a hand! It was physical hands grabbing me! I felt it. And there was nobody there."

The moment, Earnhardt Jr. said, "would be probably the closest thing" to a paranormal encounter he has experienced — "if it's real."

Kate Hudson

During an appearance on Alan Carr's Chatty Man Show in 2014, Kate Hudson revealed that she and her mom, Goldie Hawn, "see dead people."

"It is not really seeing; it is feeling a spirit," she clarified, according to E! News. "A fifth energy. I believe in energy. I believe our brains can manifest into visual things."

The Glass Onion actress added that she once saw a "ghost of a woman with no face" and shared some tips for dealing with a ghostly situation. "When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong there," Hudson said.

Jessica Alba

Alba had a terrifying experience with an unseen force as a child.

"I had no idea what it was. I felt this pressure, and I couldn't get up. I couldn't scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't do anything," she recalled, per the Sydney Morning Herald. "Something definitely took the covers off me, and I definitely couldn't get off the bed, and then, once I did, I screamed [and] ran to my parents' room. I don't think I spent many nights in that house ever again. There was definitely something in my parents' old house — I don't know what it was. I can't really explain it. But they got it blessed, and they burned sage and stuff since then."

Lucy Hale

"I have a ghost in my house," Hale told Hollywood Teen'Zine in 2010, explaining that her coffee maker once came on by itself at 1 a.m.

The Pretty Little Liars star added, "Doors close, not slam, but they close. And I have a motion sensor that lights up in my apartment, and I swear it lights up sometimes when there's nothing under it. And my dog barks a lot. I don't feel threatened … but it definitely freaks me out."

Laura Linney

Initially skeptical, Laura Linney became a believer after meeting one of the famed ghosts of Broadway's Belasco Theatre.

"It's absolutely haunted," she told host James Corden on The Late Late Show in 2017 of her former workplace. "I was not a believer. I had been told about the ghosts at the Belasco. There was a mysterious death of a chorus girl [at the theater]. Legend is that [during] final dress rehearsals, that's when the ghosts come out. I had forgotten this, and I was doing a play with Jane Alexander, and I turned to Jane Alexander, and I looked up to the upper balcony — there are two balconies there — and the upper balcony you can only get in from the outside, and those doors were locked, and I looked up, and there was a woman standing in the front row looking over with a blue dress and blonde hair. I just thought, 'Well, hello!' I looked back at Jane, and I looked back up, and she was gone."

The Ozark actress was further convinced that it had been a paranormal experience when she confronted the theater's house manager. 

"I went to the house manager, and I said, 'Joe, I think I saw a ghost.' And he went, 'male or female?' I said, 'female.' And he went, 'blue dress, blonde hair?' "

Claudia Schiffer

While giving Architectural Digest a tour of her Tudor mansion in England, Claudia Schiffer revealed her family shares the home with residents from beyond the grave.

"We had a medium go around, and she told us that, actually, all the ghosts in the house are lovely. No one needs to be scared," the supermodel told AD in 2017. "We welcome all the ghosts, basically."

According to Schiffer, the ghosts' haunting habits are creepy but pretty harmless. 

"We hear creaking noises, and strange things happen sometimes, like the music comes on."

Emma Stone

During a 2014 appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, Emma Stone revealed that she'd had ongoing beyond-the-grave interactions with her late grandfather. 

"There's a long family history with quarters. My grandfather leaves quarters. It's him. It's absolutely him," she explained to host David Letterman.

Although the Poor Things actress never met her grandfather, she insisted that she knew he was the cause of the phantom coins. 

"It's not a logical thing. It's magical," Stone said.

Ariana Grande

In 2013, Ariana Grande was asked if she believed in ghosts and aliens, to which she replied, "Of course."

"I've had a ghost/demon experience," the singer told Complex. "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 … 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."

Grande 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."

Miley Cyrus

Cyrus once detailed her frightening experience with a haunted rental apartment in London.

"It was seriously so terrifying. … I was having really crazy dreams … and one night, my little sister — it sounds crazy to tell you — but she was standing in the shower, and all of a sudden, I hear her scream," she told Elle UK in 2013. "I run in there, and the water had somehow flipped to hot, but it was still. It wasn't like the water had just changed, the knob had turned, but she hadn't turned it, and it was burning her. She was really red."

The "Flowers" singer continued, "Before I felt this, I thought I had seen a little boy sitting on the sink watching me take a shower, so I felt really freaked out," adding that her mom, aunt and then-fiancé Liam Hemsworth all had "crazy experiences" in the flat after the shower incident and that she ultimately decided to find other housing for her time in Europe.

Selena Gomez

In 2015, Selena Gomez confessed to being a paranormal believer during an appearance on The Tonight Show.

"I believe in ghosts, so I have a ghost app … I believe that spirits can tap into technology. Why not, right?" the Only Murders in the Building star told host Jimmy Fallon.

According to Gomez, the app has detected otherworldly presences around her in the past.

"Look, I was in a venue, and it actually said people in my life by name," the singer said.

Alyson Hannigan

In 2003, Alyson Hannigan told SFGate she shared her California home with an unexpected resident.

"I have a ghost in my house," she said. "I saw him a couple of months ago. I don't think he died there because there's a law in L.A. that when you buy a house, if somebody's died there, they have to disclose that. And nobody did. So I don't know why he's there. But he's very friendly."

She continued: "My friend saw him first one night. She said, 'I don't mean to alarm you, but I just saw a man follow us out of the house.' And I said, 'Well, at least he's gentlemanly; he let us go first.' Later that night, I saw this silhouette of a man standing in the bathroom doorway. I was like, 'Sweetie, what are you doing?' I thought it was [her then-fiancé, Alexis Denisof]. But then I looked, and Alexis was asleep next to me."

Keanu Reeves

The Matrix star once claimed he saw a ghost as a child in New York City during an October 2014 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Reeves recalled, "We'd come from Australia. Renata, [our] nanny, [was] 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."

"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,' " the actor added.

Jenna Bush Hager

During an appearance on The Tonight Show in 2009, the former first daughter said she believed mysterious spirits inhabited the White House.

"I heard a ghost," Jenna Bush Hager told then-host Jay Leno, according to the Daily Mail. "I was asleep, there was a fireplace in my room, and, all of a sudden, I heard 1920s music coming out. I could feel it. I freaked out and ran into my sister's room. She was like, 'Please go back to sleep. This is ridiculous.' "

Megan Fox

"I believe in everything," Megan Fox told MTV News in 2014, adding that although she has never seen a ghost, she has heard them.

Fox recalled, "I was just in Mexico at my hotel, and it was a bedroom, living room, bedroom … 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. Doorbell rings. I open the door; it's room service with my food … 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."

Matthew McConaughey

While doing press for 2009's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, McConaughey — in an interview captured by ScreenSlam — shared that his Hollywood home was haunted by a spirit named Madame Bleu.

"I was not even under the influence, and she was there," he recalled. "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.' For weeks, everyone that came to the house said the same thing: 'There's someone down in that hall, there's somebody down in that hall.' "

The actor added that, eventually, he stopped getting visits from Madame Bleu, and his guests fell in love with her former favorite room.