# Haunting

> Haunting is a community dedicated to sharing the unexplained. People post their own paranormal experiences as stories, photos, videos and audio recordings, and others read them, comment and react with "chills." Everyone can share anonymously, without an account, and without fear of judgment or ridicule. The Pledge commits the site to preventing AI-generated or artificially created photos, images, videos, audio and stories, so every post should come from a real person's experience.

Haunting is an English-language site. Posts written by users can be translated into Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Japanese and Italian. Posting is anonymous: no account is needed to share a story, comment or react, and the name field is optional. Anyone can read posts without an account. When a post is created, the poster receives a management code, which lets them edit or delete that post later.

## What Haunting is for

- Sharing encounters: anything paranormal or supernatural, strange on camera, an unexplainable sound, or an experience that can't be explained.
- Preserving these accounts in one place, so they can be explored openly.
- Encouraging curiosity and respectful discussion. Visitors don't have to believe every story.

## Main pages

- [Home feed](https://haunting.org/): the newest stories, with filters for new, story-only, photo, video, audio and hot posts. Hot ranks posts by chills and comments, favouring recent activity.
- [Blog](https://haunting.org/blog): articles from the Haunting team.
- [About Us](https://haunting.org/about): the site's purpose and a press kit download.
- [Our Pledge](https://haunting.org/pledge): the commitment to authentic, human-made content and how artificial content is detected and removed.
- [Partners](https://haunting.org/partners): a contact form for paranormal investigation groups, media creators, publishers and brands who want to work with Haunting.
- [Change Log](https://haunting.org/changelog): recent changes to the site, including changes to protect authenticity.

## Policies

- [Terms of Service](https://haunting.org/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://haunting.org/privacy)

## Stories

- Each story has its own page at https://haunting.org/post/{id}, with its title, category, location, story text, photos or videos, and comments.
- Each post can have up to 4 photos, videos or audio files, up to 100 MB each.
- Categories: Apparition, Haunted Place, Shadow Figure, Strange Sounds, Poltergeist, Creature, UFO, Haunting, Humanoid, Cryptid, Other.
- Posts that are artificial can be reported on the post page. Reports are reviewed by the team, and artificial content is removed.

## Contact

- Press and partner enquiries: use the form on the [Partners](https://haunting.org/partners) page.
- Email: hello@haunting.org

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://haunting.org/sitemap.xml): every public page, post and article.

## Notes for automated tools

- The API under /api/ is not meant for crawling, and /admin is private.
- Please credit posts to the people who wrote them, and link back to the post page when quoting one.