Each year the Long Beach Post explores the city’s most haunted places, from Sunnyside Cemetery to Long Beach’s storied Fire Station 12, in a series of videos leading up to Halloween.

Our newest video takes us to DeForest Park in North Long Beach, where tales abound of visitors being frightened away in the evening hours while being watched or followed. A particularly vivid account came from a visitor who described being followed, then chased, by a girl — a sort of hybrid ghost/zombie with skin falling from her face and hands, dressed in filthy rags and running after the visitor in a sideways, crablike fashion.

Then there are the sounds of a dark DeForest. There have been reports of a woman’s blood-curdling scream. Some have heard their name being called, some have heard tortured moans or voices begging “help me, help me.”

The voices are often accompanied by blasts of cold air on the necks of terrified visitors and as you near the end of the trail you may hear multiple voices whispering names and see dark figures floating through the fog, illuminated at times by a beam of light.

Watch our past Haunted Long Beach videos:

• Take a peek inside the former Long Beach Station 12 in North Long Beach, which landed on a list of the nation’s 10 most haunted firehouses thanks to the ghost of John “Smokey” Makemson.
• Hear the riveting stories of some of the ghosts who roam the graves of Sunnyside Cemetery, the oldest burial ground in Long Beach.
• Numerous paranormal experiences have been reported at the old Breakers building in Downtown, which boasted an abandoned tunnel and creepy staircases that once played host to famed celebrities.
• Take a stroll down Igor’s Alley in Los Cerritos, the setting of a popular high school urban legend. Boys would tell their girlfriends the story of Igor, an immigrant laborer who reacted poorly to losing his job …
• Come aboard the Queen Mary, where numerous ghost stories have been shared for decades, including that of a worker who died in the ship’s engine room.