So to show you that everyday life can sometimes seem stranger than fiction, we at Bored Panda have collected some of the creepiest stories we found in this online discussion. I guess nothing gets you into the spooky season like questioning the fabric of reality!
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When I was little my parents had a painting of a soldier in uniform. I could see it from my bed when the door was cracked. SEVERAL times I saw the man in the painting move his head and look at me. The scariest experience was after I begged my parents to get rid of the painting. My dad calmed me down and I started to drift to sleep. But I had that feeling where you know you are being watched. When I opened my eyes (and I have never forgotten this) the soldier turned his head and SMILED! The next day my dad threw the painting away.““Years later my dad told me he had heard me moving around in my bed and was looking down the hall trying to decide if he should go check on me again. While glancing down the hallway, HE saw the man in the painting turn his head and smile!
It was after my Mom died and I dropped an earring she gave me down the sink. They were both on my dresser the next morning. Cannot explain it.
This is a relatively short story but still creeps me out to this day because of how certain I am of it. So I was working in Pittsburgh, PA in a travel job where I would stay in hotels throughout the week and then travel home for the weekend. I got off at 5:00 per usual and before I got on the PA turnpike I stopped at a mom-and-pop style gas station to fuel up for the trip home. Got my gas, went in paid for it and headed for the turnpike. I drove for maybe two an a half hours before I decided I was going to pull off and get a quick bite and use the bathroom. I punched in my GPS the nearest gas station and headed to it. And I swear to god I pulled into the EXACT SAME mom and pop gas station!“I walked in to get a burger and almost fell over I was so freaked out. Finished up in the station walked out to the truck and my GPS reflected I was in the same spot. Those two and a half hours of driving completely erased as it was after 7:00. I should’ve been halfway home. The only logic I have is I fell asleep at the station, but surely someone would’ve woke me up if I was there that long. I remember the drive and the gas in my truck reflected I had been driving. It’s my only ever glitch and still baffles me.
This just happened and my fiancé and I are a little freaked out.He couldn’t find his phone and I offered to call him. When he found his phone he answered on speaker and said ‘hello’ while next to me. I answered with ‘hello’ too, but when we heard my voice coming from his phone it was me clearly saying ‘hey.‘We looked at each other and I ended the call. We couldn’t come up with a rational explanation (which does not mean there isn’t one, we just couldn’t think of one).It made me feel like those scenes in horror movies where a character is standing in front of a mirror and their reflection doesn’t match their movements.
Just a bit of backround, no serious mental health problems other than some mild anxiety and depression, I take 25mg of Zoloft so I don’t think I’m tripping or hallucinating. This morning I woke up for work, left a little earlier than usual because I woke up before my alarm. Filled my water bottle, grabbed my access card and got in my car and drove off. My commute is the same every day…““Forty minutes, its mostly interstate, theres ALWAYS traffic. While my car is warming up, I pick an album to listen to for the drive there. I usually make it about 3/4ths of the way through an album before I get to work. Every day is a new album. So I did all that. I drove to work, I remember being cut off, I remember being in standstill traffic towards my exit, I remember the album I listened to, I even remember responding to a text using Siri. I remember seeing a type of car I’ve never seen before in the US, I remember thinking to myself Im glad it’s not as hot today. I definitely drove.So I get to work, pull into the same parking space I take every day. Step out of my car and lo and behold…I’m still in front of my apartment building. Forty mins later, almost done with the album I put on. Wtf was I doing?? Where did I go?
This one doesn’t have to do with me but more with my mom. This happened on a Friday. I was walking home from school. Everybody knows the feeling, you’re done with all the c**p from the past week and ready for the weekend. Once I got home I left my backpack on the couch. My mom had a shocked look on her face. I asked her what was wrong. ‘I picked you up early for a dental appointment, but now you’re here,’ she told me. I was not spooked, just a little confused. I gave her a hug and went to grab my backpack off the couch, where I left it when I got home. It was not there. Keep in mind there was no one in the house but us. I asked my mom if she moved it, she didn’t. After looking for a while, I found it in the passenger seat of my mom’s car. I felt confusion and shock at the same time. I walked home, there is no way it could’ve just teleported to the car like that. I still have no idea how it did that.
One Saturday night, several months ago, I attended a birthday party at a friend’s house. There were about 40 people in attendance, split between the basement and the main floor. I didn’t go down to the basement even once, because the music down there was extremely loud (which I hate) and most of my friends were on the main floor anyway. My best friend had given me a ride to the party, and we stayed together the whole night. A few days later I ran into a distant friend of mine at school, who had also been in attendance. He took out his phone and started showing me some of the photos he’d taken that night. He got to one that showed him and a girl posing for the camera, in the basement — with me standing in the background, smiling and looking in the direction of the camera, but not quite at it. I obviously freaked out and told him I hadn’t been in the basement. He told me he had seen me there for several minutes. He said he had tried to say hello, but I had seemed distant and distracted. I called my best friend, and she confirmed that I had been with her the entire night. I was not drunk/drugged, I drank nothing all night but a water bottle that I brought with me. To this day when I think about the picture, it scares the [hell] out of me. There must have been another me in the basement.
I’m not sure if this really counts as a glitch but still creepy and unexplained.A bit of context, I dated my ex (important detail, she had long hair at this point) then we drifted away for a while then we went back together in a relationship (she cut it short at that point).During the relationship I had a dream where she was there, however her “dream version” was in the past as she still had her long hair. In the dream she avoided me and acted really strange as if we weren’t together, just like it would’ve been during the “drifted apart” period… I was weirded out but not much since it was a dream, right?Well… I told her about the dream and turns out that she had dreamt the EXACT same dream as me… Except little detail, hers was 2 years BEFORE. Exactly during the time when she had long hair and we weren’t in each other’s lives. She remembers being weirded out because in the dream I acted like if we were together and our both descriptions of both the place and the people present in the dream matched perfectly. It was a house party with lots of people and some common friends, also it had lots of strange rooms with bizarre stuff like certain animals, objects or simply the layout of the rooms that made it impossible to just be a coincidence.TL;DR “multiplayer” dream with my ex with a two year gap between both perspectives.
Something weird is happening in our town and only my family seems to notice. The first thing we started noticing were duplicates. We would see someone somewhere only for them to inexplicably end up somewhere else. For example, my mother and I saw and chatted with an old friend at the grocery store and when we arrived home later we saw on Facebook that this person was out of the country on vacation and had been for a few days. They have no memory of speaking to us either.““I’ve taken phone calls that were duplicates of calls I had already taken with the other person swearing we hadn’t spoken yet.The scariest thing though has been the deaths. There have been four deaths in our community of very well known and influential people and every one of them has died twice. We hear about their deaths and see all the RIP posts on Facebook. We see the community fundraisers put on to raise money for the funerals and even see the cars at the church or funeral home only for these same people to die a week or two later and all the RIP posts and fundraisers happen again.Only our family seems to notice these things happening. My mother and siblings and my two kids. We don’t know what’s happening and it is starting to scare us.”
If I told you what I saw last night you would not believe me. Like i can’t even wrap my head around it. So here it goes… I went to do laundry around 2:00 a.m. with my oldest son. After we put the laundry in, we went to a McDonald’s drive thru to get something to drink. The drive thru was packed with about five or six cars ahead of us. I noticed none of the cars were moving forward and it had been like five minutes already waiting. So I decided to go around the car in front of me to the next drive thru lane (McDonald’s has two lanes). As I’m pulling around them I look into their car to see why they are not moving, and I kid you not both people — driver and passenger — looked dead! Heads tilted all the way back, eyes shut, not moving, dead! I freaked out and tried to pull out of the drive thru entirely going around the other cars just to get out of there, and the next car I passed, all the passengers also looked dead! Heads tilted back, eyes shut. I panicked thinking maybe they were all shot or someone killed them all so I fing hit the gas and got the fk out of there. My son called 911 and told them what happened and they sent an officer to check. A few minutes later the cop called us back said everything was fine at McDonald’s. Mind you, my son saw it too. We both saw the car in front of us the people looked dead. This s** was terrifying, it literally looked like one of those rapture movies or end of the world type of s***. Needless to say I can’t wrap my head around what we saw or why. I’m still scared over it.
While I was living in a Denver I had a friend flying into town to visit. The Denver National Airport was about 30 minutes away and her flight was scheduled to get in around 11:15PM. At exactly 10:30PM I get a text message from her saying “I just landed. Are you here?” Assuming her flight arrived early we immediately started rushing to the airport while I kept trying to call her, only to have her phone go to voicemail. I thought maybe her phone had died or something, so I continued to refresh the flight info page on our way there, but it kept saying the plane was still in transit. We ended up getting to the airport before 11:15 and with no word from my friend or new information about the flight we circled the airport and waited…until 11:15 or so when I get the exact same text message she had sent me at 10:30PM. I call her, she picks up and I asked her if she texted me while she was on the plane. She said there was no way she could have since she had her phone turned off the entire time. When I finally met up with her I asked to compare our text conversations in our phones. I had two of the same texts from her, one at 10:30PM and one at 11:15PM, while her conversation read only sent at 11:15PM. She confirmed that she hadn’t typed it out prior either. Her phone was completely off. Glitch in the matrix made me waste 15 minutes circling an airport.
One night I was scrolling back in my Instagram feed, not sure why I felt like doing that but I was weirdly compelled to. And I came across a selfie of myself where I had a very strange and unattractive smile. It had no likes — most of my photos have around 50-80 since my friends are active on it — and I don’t remember taking it or posting it though it was from a week before, max. It spooked me bad and I deleted it. I did not see a copy of it in my camera roll.It happened seven years ago and I still think about it. What happened? Was that even me?
Idunno how crazy this is compared to others, but this happened last night while I was on the phone with my girlfriend. I was telling her about my day and ended my sentence, “it shouldn’t be like that” I then herd static and my voice echoing, repeating back just the sentence " it shouldn’t be that way”. The phone call went back to normal and my gf couldn’t remember which one she herd. Did I glitch out to another parallel universe where I chose to end my sentence with the other words?
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There was one night during the mid-90’s when I was with my ex and there was a big yellow-orange full moon out so we decided to go out for a drive. We lived in a small west Texas town so we didn’t have to go too far to be out of town and into the countryside.After a short drive, she decided to become lovey-dovey so we were nearing a smaller town with a rest area just on the outskirts of the town. We parked and instantly, the mood changed and she picked up on it too. There was a van that was parked further down in the area and for some reason, my eyes kept going to it. I kept feeling like we were being watched even though I couldn’t see anyone in the front area of the van.My ex goes from being loving to apprehensive and she asked me what’s wrong but I couldn’t explain it. Everything just felt off: the moon, the van, the area, the music and I just had a feeling like we weren’t supposed to be there or that we were interrupting something.I had the terrible feeling that the car wasn’t going to start which would have put us in a really bad situation because there was absolutely no one around (except for whoever was in the van) and it was night time so the little town which was still about a mile or 2 away was mostly closed except for gas stations. This was also before cellphones were mainstream and affordable so we didn’t have that luxury. Fortunately, the car started and we got the hell out of there but as we were leaving, I looked in the rearview mirror and saw that a few people had gotten out of the van and were looking in our direction.I’m not sure if it classifies as a glitch but I think we both picked up on something that night that may have saved our lives and it was definitely creepy.
Not to long ago I was sitting in the middle of the back seat of a car. It was dark and my mother, her friend, and I were on our way back from dinner. As we were stopped at a light that had just turned green I was casually looking around at the cars in front of us slowly moving forward. I noticed a man on the very close to the edge of the road who proceeded to walk into the middle of our lane a couple cars up and suddenly he disappeared. We drove past the spot where I saw him standing and there was no sign of anyone who was hit or anything. This is strange but I distinctly remember him wearing a forest green sweater and a brown beanie. I don’t even know how this was possible but it still weirds me out to this day.
I remember when I was around 7 or 8 and at the time I had pretty bad sleep paralysis. However one night I went to bed and in the middle of the night I began having what I thought was an episode (can’t move, can’t scream, hearing static) however it was absolutely evident that the shadow of a adult figure was sitting on the edge of my bed. I know this is a common misconception among the sleep paralysis crowd because your mind is going into self defence due to the nature of your current situation. You begin to see and hear things. But what freaks me out about that night is I then fell asleep and dreamt that I was in that exact situation again and I was able to move this time, I was able to project my voice. I completely lost it and started throwing everything about the room, kicking and screaming. The shadow got up, opened the door and left. In the morning I woke up and my room was a mess, the covers were on the floor and my bedroom door was open (I couldn’t sleep with the door open because it freaked me out). There was something about that dream that always felt so real. 20+ years ago now and it’s as fresh in my mind now as it was then.
My friend was in the other room and I started meditating then tried projecting a thought to him. He came up to me later and said he saw my face and I started talking to him. Has made me a bit paranoid if people can hear my thoughts.
At my dad’s house we have several sets of drinking glasses, all the same style in various sizes. I don’t know why but I think they stopped selling them in the UK and we got some from france when we were on holiday. They come in packs of 4, and my dad remembers having a set of four already, and buying two more sets in france to make a total of 12. One day we found a 13th glass and have no idea where it came from. We couldn’t have picked up just a single one anywhere because they only come in sets of 4 and we’d remember if he’d bought an extra set and broken 3.
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Yo guys. So basically I don’t know if we can call this creepy as in creepy scary. But it is definitely not “normal”.So one day, me and my mom decided that we were going to sleep in my room for the night. A little bit of background: The living room is in between my room and my moms room, impossible to get to the other without crossing the hall, right?So I was in my room, and She was in the hall browsing on her laptop. She called out to me asking me to tidy up my bed so she could come in and knock out. I yelled back at her saying " OK COOL, but I need to use your laptop mom!” - cause I needed to use hers for a bit.She said OK and that she had left it in the hall, and started walking towards my room where I met her at my room door as I was heading out to grab it from the sofa. My mom was empty handed.Before I reached the hall, she yelled out to me saying how the !@#@#%#$% her laptop was already on my bed? In the exact place where I was lazing around.And she definitely did not put it there cause she walked to my room empty handed like I said.Still dont know how what or why!!
Not sure what you’d consider this, but it’s creepy none-the-less.December 22, 1998. It’s 9AM and my aunt makes a surprise visit to my house. My parents are divorced, and my mom is at work. She decides to treat my brother and I to a movie. She’s never really done this before, but we’re both excited.It’s now around 10AM and we’re sitting in the movie theater watching the movie. I’m getting bored, and my mind wanders. I suddenly have a thought flash through my head: “Which parent would you rather die first?” Being a kid, I weigh the option. “Maybe mom because she’s so strict… maybe dad because I don’t see him very often…” Then I shake the idea out of my head and think to myself “Don’t even think about this now because it won’t happen for a very long time.“The movie ends, and we drive back to my house. My mom is home, which is weird because she should be at work, and I remember making a joke to my aunt that “Maybe she got fired finally!” (My mom hated her job and boss and constantly joked how she wished he’d just fire her already so she can collect unemployment and find something better).I walk in and my mom tells me my dad (an armored guard) has been shot and killed during a robbery. He was gunned down at 10:02AM.The only reason my mom was home is because her sump pump broke and the neighbors called to say the lawn was flooding and icing over. The only way she found out he was killed was when she turned on the news and there was a “Breaking Report”. About an hour after, she got the phone call from the police/hospital.More weirdness: my dad was 44 years old. He died on 12/22/98. He was gunned down at 10:02, but pronounced dead at 11:22.EDIT: forgot this story. Years earlier when my parents were still married, they were fighting and my dad said something to my mom, “You’re going to feel really sorry the day I go to work and get shot in the head!“My mom remembers he said this in December, too, because she was putting up Christmas decorations.
When I was 10 I had a pet goldfish disappear on me. I suspected it was my best friend’s dog who ate the goldfish, as he was always very interested in the contents of the bowl. When I confronted my friend with this theory, he informed me, to my amazement, that I never had a goldfish.Why did I have the bowl?
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