He Warned Her He’d Come Back | Real Ghost Stories

Real Ghost Stories Online · Oct 14, 2026 · 27m

Her father had one possession he was especially attached to: an old regulator clock that had followed him from the funeral home he once owned to the family home years later. He loved that clock so much that he used to tease his wife about it, telling her that if he died first and she ever forgot to wind it, he would come back and haunt her.

After his unexpected death, the family remembered that joke—but nobody really expected him to follow through.

Then one day, his wife forgot to wind the clock. When she came back into the room, the clock’s face door was standing open. She immediately blamed…