We’d like to have an explanation for everything that happens in our lives. It means that life can be predictable, and we can feel more safe. When we think of the unexplainable, an image ofaliensoften comes to mind. But extraterrestrials are not the only thing that we aren’t able to explain.
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I was on a payphone and a Turkey walked out of the woods. Bit me on the back of the knee turned around and walked back into the woods.
I have a few. First is when I worked at a grocery store as a teen. Manager called “code G” which was everyone bring their trash to the compactor. The manager was also a family friend so joking around was normal. As I’m throwing trash away, I sense something’s about to be thrown at me and I duck. Rotten food passes over my head. My manager/friend is shocked and questioned how i knew he was about to throw something at me and I just said I had a feeling.Next scenario is saving my grandmother’s life. I used to visit her every couple months or so. Wasn’t a far drive, 30 minutes. One day I was at Walmart and randomly thought of her. Walmart was about half way to her house and I didn’t buy perishables so I figured why not stop and see her. As I pull in her driveway, she sitting on her front porch, she looks up at me and looks back down. I immediately know somethings wrong because she always jumps up to greet me. As I approached I noticed her lips were blue and started calling 911. Her lungs were 80% filled with fluid and two collapsed heart valves. The paramedics told me if I got caught at a red light, she’d probably be dead. This was around 80 years old, she passed away at 95, a year ago.
There was a huge earthquake in San Francisco in the 80s - my dad was there for a conference.We felt the quake where we were and I suddenly started screaming “Dad!!! Dad!!! look out for the chandelier!!!!” My mom and sibs were understandably freaked out.When we finally got ahold of him he told us that he’d been in a ballroom when the quake hit and had a sudden urge to jump to the side. A chandelier fell right where he was previously standing.My family never talks about it - freaked everyone out severely.
Shook hands with a stranger at work, he knew instantly i was pregnant, even though i had only told my mom and husband (bf at the time). I told him uncomfortably that no one knew here (at work) and he said something quieter, and ALSO “it’s a girl” - it was.
A black bear snuck up on me while I was in my garage and sniffed the back of my neck (I was on my knees putting together a grill).I thought it was my neighbors dog at first and had to do a legit double take when I turned to pet.
Weird one but when I was a teenager I almost died. I was on a cross country team and was running through a forest and suddenly got a cramp which made me stop moving for a second at that exact moment I stopped running a tree landed exactly where I would’ve been. That cramp saved my life.
I’m a pediatric occupational therapist. The first patient I ever lost was a 2 year old girl who we knew would eventually leave us due to multiple medical problems. She passed peacefully at home, where we did all our therapy sessions. She was never not attached to multiple machines that kept her alive—a trach, vent, Co2 monitors—so many wires and alarms.A week to the day after her passing, I woke from a dream where I was holding her on my lap. Her mother was next to me, and we were playing. She was completely healed—not a wire in sight. Smiling, talking (she was not able to speak in life), and being a normal 2 year old. I knew she was ok. I already believed in heaven, but this made me believe I saw her there.
First is simply that I have epilepsy. No known cause. After many years and lots of testing I had surgery that removed my left hippocampus.Post surgery I am a different person. I like different things. I am more extroverted. I am more emotional. My epilepsy is still an issue in my life, but with the new me it’s worth it.
Many years ago, we were very broke. I had been laid off from my job and struggling to find work. I was sitting on the couch and there was a pillow on the floor beside me. I had two small kids and they were playing in a corner of the room about 15 feet away. I heard a random plunk and a penny had landed on the pillow beside me.My kids had not thrown it and I had no idea where it came from. I took it as a sign that things would work out. The next day I got a call about a job.
You know sleep paralysis demons? Well I was finally able to touch (and hold on to) one of them. Felt 100% like a human arm. Interestingly, as soon as I touched it, I wasn’t scared anymore, and the"shadow person"(!?) started to panic instead.
On our first date, my now wife and I were hiking along a well travelled trail in a national park in TN. We had gotten turned about and ended up walking down a lesser travelled path that led to some primitive camping sites. It wasn’t until about thirty minutes down this path that she and I both stopped talking and started listening.See, we couldn’t hear anything beyond our walking. It’s a bright sunny day in the middle of spring. No birds chirping, no water running in the background, no wind rustling in the trees, and no insects buzzing around, just dead silence. She turns and looks at me as I am getting goosebumps and says, “I don’t like this, something is here.” We quickly turned around and power hiked back the way we came.A few minutes later it was like someone had flipped a switch, the sound came back all at once, birds, wind, insects, all of it. We hit one more spot later down the trail where everything stopped and the air felt heavy again. We noped out of there as fast as we could.If you are from areas around the Appalachian mountains, you know there are some things best left alone in the woods.
Lost my ATM card, went to the bank to have it replaced. Told them what I wanted the PIN to be, and they told me that the PIN would be randomly assigned and mailed separately, and once I received both I could then change the PIN to what I wanted it to be.The randomly assigned PIN was the one that I wanted.
A couple things. One of them being a dream about an event that hadn’t happened yet, with people I hadn’t met yet, that transpired years later. And another dream that involved me talking to my dead best friend who was alluding to things that I didn’t know about my bf at the time that ended up being true. That st still f*s me up.
When I was a kid my family used to watch Jeopardy all the time, one night we were watching and saw a clue about the movie Click. My mom, sister and I all shouted the answer at the same time and the tv froze. We sat there for a few minutes waiting and then one of us eventually suggested we try saying “click” in unison again. We did and the tv unfroze. Freaked my dad out really bad.
Many years ago during my A-Level final exams, I panicked like hell in the lead up to the exam for one subject because I basically hadnt revised at all, and it was my weakest subject. I had gone through a phase during that school year of slacking off like mad, and it reflected in my grades all year - but realisation hit me in the week before this exam that I had severely screwed up. I wouldnt be able to pass, let alone get a good grade.I still cant remember a single thing about the day of the exam - my friends later said I felt a bit off, more quiet than normal, but “me”.But I cannot recall anything at all about that day.I got an A on that exam. I still dont know how. I still dont have any decent knowledge of that subject.I walked into that exam room, wrote for 2 hours, and got an A.
My wife’s car got reverse-robbed.I went out to my wife’s car and found that everything inside had been tossed all over the place. I mean everything from every compartment just thrown all over the inside of the car.As we were cleaning up and putting everything back together, we found a $50 bill that neither of us could possibly have left there.
This happened 25 years ago before everyone had access to cell phones and you couldn’t find personal information online . Me and my friend were driving when she decided to take a short cut through an alley, all the sudden I heard my cellphone ring which I had just bought the week before , there’s was a lot of static noise coming from and all the sudden a woman on the side started telling me “ you need to get out of there , turn around and go the other way “ I just look at friend confused when all the sudden there’s was a man standing in the middle of the alley with a knife on his hands me and my friend panicked and started screaming as she put the car on reversed and got out there . Until these day I had no clue who called me or how they knew my number since I haven’t given out to anyone else outside my friend.
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When I was younger, (and everyone only had landlines), a friend gave me his number and I would call him at his house. I even talked to his family members. Stopped talking so much and lost his number. Tried to remember it one day and called the first number that popped into my head. He was there. But he was at a friend’s house that I had never met.
I woke up from a nap, laughing explosively and uncontrollably. it was one the of the scariest things that’s ever happened to me. i couldn’t catch my breath and i rolled onto the floor clutching my chest, i got so scared and ran to my dad (WHILE STILL LAUGHING). i believe he thought i was joking around but i sat in the floor and it slowly stopped. never happened again.
I was still living at my parents house and at around 2:30 AM our Rottweiler was sitting at the back door barking, wanting to go out to use the bathroom. I threw on a hoodie and sweatpants and walked to the back door where I found her growling, staring out the window. It was a little unnerving but because of the dog I felt safe enough to step out with her for a minute or two.As soon as I opened the door, she bolted to the corner of our property. On the side of the lawn she chose we had one standalone lamp post providing just enough light to get a rough idea of the landscape. I started making my way over to the dog thinking that she didn’t need to use the bathroom at all and just had the zoomies or something like that, so my plan was to just grab the dog and go back inside.Suddenly, the dog does a complete 180 and hauls a*s down our property line in the direction opposite of what I was facing. I turned around to start following her again and I stopped dead in my tracks. There was this tall and thin white figure levitating probably 5-6 feet off the ground in our yard. The fear flooded my body instantly. It didn’t appear to have any limbs (from what I saw in a panic), and it almost looked like it was moving in the wind. The dog was following it, jumping and barking in an aggressive manner.The adrenaline and fear coursing through my body gave me the strength to sprint over and scoop up this 80-90 lb dog and dead sprint to the back door. I told my family the next morning and they seemed pretty spooked but they also weren’t taking it super seriously. I have no idea what I saw.
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Survived being born w sepsis and drs said wouldn’t make it, hydroplaned across busy interstate during rush hour and wrecks happening all around me, beat aggressive cancer they said might not make it, still here to type this 🤷♀️.
At the YMCA camp in Missouri.At the little lake swimming cutout in the lake. They had everyone get out of the deeper water because an older man with Alzheimer’s had gone missing while swimming.The staff at the camp were taking walking sweeps arm in arm to try and find him.While coming out of the water I felt a gentle tug at my ankle and looked down to find the coolest shell I’d seen that day, very unique white with a blue stripe.I was walking around the small deck area that surrounds the water in an area they had cleared and looked down to find an almost identical shell. Then I noticed something at the bottom of the water. The old man, wearing white trunks with a blue waist stripe……
I share a reoccurring nightmare with my twin about the Licorice man from Candy Land chasing after me (HER in her dream) in our high school. He would chase us for hours, trying to get the best of us. He looks nothing like the actual licorice man from the board game—he is made of licorice and it coils around him. The licorice looks a bit like ennard from fnaf… all wires. He had red glowing eyes.He would chase me into the bathroom and I’d hide in one of the stalls. He would slowly open one after the other until he got to ours. He already knew I was in the stall but wanted to scare me even more. He’d throw open the stall, grab me, and i’d start turning to licorice and wake up.My twin and I had this same nightmare for years without telling each other. We were terrified when we found out the other was having the same dream. My twin thinks it was a demon and she isn’t even religious.
Was in a car accident where the vehicle rolled twice over a median into oncoming traffic lanes. Ejected from the car and walked away with a scratch on my forearm.I’m pretty strict about wearing my seatbelt and for some reason I didn’t have it on this particular day. I was told if I had it on, I more than likely would have broken my neck in the crash and would be dead.Felt very out of body for the rest of the day. I am still strict about my seatbelt, and ALWAYS wear it now despite the bizarre occurrence from the crash.Crazy part was there was 5 others in the car with the same circumstances as me, we all had minor to zero injuries.It felt weird and unexplainable to walk away from that situation.
I was taking a nap and had a dream I was at a festival sitting up on a hill just looking around. I noticed a storm was rolling in and even though I was sitting on the hill I could watch everything unfold, winds picked up, tents rolled all over the place, stage was falling apart and it was just chaos. I woke up from my nap and opened FB to find what I just dreamed had just happened at a Pukklepop. I have a lot of DejaVu happen but this one was the wildest of them all.
My friends and I witnessed a bizarre canine like creature bounding around a field while out hunting. The thing was doing what can best be described as a search pattern back and fourth in the snow. We must have watched it for 45 minutes and still can’t figure out what it really was.
One time, I woke up in the middle of the night to find all the furniture in my room rearranged, despite living alone and having securely locked all the doors and windows before going to bed. It was truly baffling and left me questioning if I had sleepwalked or if something inexplicable had occurred.
This doesn’t exactly rise to an X-Files case but I have no idea how I got home from a bar one night.I was living on my own and went out with some childhood friends and my brother. The next thing I remember was waking up in my childhood bedroom in my parents' house.My brother and friends were freaking out because they had no idea what happened to me. They didn’t really understand what happened. They said I had two maybe three drinks that got me really drunk then started making plans to leave when I disappeared. I drove to the bar that night so they went outside to see if my car was still there - which it was. My parents said 4 guys they had never seen carried me to the door then helped take me up stairs. My parents knew the people I was out with - including my brother. These were different people.About an hour after I woke up at my parents' house I got a message from one of the bartenders there I was friendly with. She told me she thought I was drugged. She said I had like two or maybe three drinks when I suddenly looked like I was black out drunk. The next thing she knew 4 guys she didn’t know were helping me out the door.The crazy part though was the bar (and my apartment) was a solid 45 minutes from my parents' house.I have no idea who the guys were, what (if anything) was given to me, why something would have been given to me, or how they even knew where my parents lived. I don’t believe anything was stolen nor was I injured in any way. My mom said the guys who took me to the door were normal looking guys about my age and perfectly polite to her. In the years since that’s happened nobody has said “Bro, you were wasted that night we took you home”.I just have no idea what happened.
I had a dream where I found out my my ex was cheating on me with a specific person. I kept it private, thought it was strange, but roughly six months later it came to fruition. Not in the way my dream had happened, but same person. Super weird.
I was outside at a park when i was 14 and an owl that was like half my size came flying down and tried to grab me on the head with its talons and then just flew away. i was so shook.
My dog has an intense ball obsession. It’s a specific blue and orange chuck-it ball size S. Anyways, I’ve thrown it out of being annoyed very far, multiple houses.It always comes back.Our names are not on it, we don’t have two. We’ve removed the squeak. It’s absolutely the same ball, and it just reappears days after we tossed it.
I was waiting on a street corner and this random woman tapped me on the shoulder and just started going at me that I needed to stay away from her husband. When I said I had no idea what she was talking about, she said that she supposedly just saw me with him a minute before. I had just left my house and hadn’t spoken with anyone that day, I was also like 19 and didn’t know any married men, so I was confused as fk. My mom picked me up as she was halfway through yelling at me and I never saw her again, but still to this day desperately curious what she thought she saw and what happened after to her and her husband. I know it could have been just d*s or something, but she seemed lucid enough. .
This happened to my dad back in the 1960s. He smoked cigarettes one after another so he had ashtrays all over his remote farmhouse. He went out of the house for a few minutes and when he came back in, he couldn’t find a single one of the many ashtrays he used. A few days later he found them all under his bed.
When I was maybe 5 I was alone sitting on the steps of my cousin’s trailer house, it was centered in the middle of these thick woods (humble tx) but there was a clearing for like a half mile radius. A bobcat ran up to me scratched me (harshly but it was such a small cut). I cried ran inside and told them what happened, and of course they didn’t believe me and thought it was just a cat. This animal was HUGE. It still feels unexplainable how the cut was so small.
One Christmas when I was super young, I woke up slightly early and just laid awake in bed, thinking I’d hear reindeer on the roof. As I’m waiting, I listen to the faint whispering of my cousins in the living room, (which at the time I thought was elves,) They were still chattering, when I saw the most paralyzing thing. A black gloved hand quickly reached onto my doorframe, grasped it for a moment, then slipped away. I cannot describe the kind of fear I felt there. Somehow it was the only time I can remember being scared enough I couldn’t react. I still don’t know what happened, and my grandparents sold the house years ago.
That time I fell into a glass door and the only thing that broke was the keys in my pocket.
I was going to a family get together at my brothers. as i was driving I noticed this telephone pole and thought it looked really weird but I couldn’t really see it that well or tell why it did. when I got closer, the thing snapped in half and was slingshotting back and forth across the roadway, half the pole attached to the powerline. i was in a van and the line was right in front of me, i couldnt stop and ran right into it. it caught along the middle of my windshield, all the way across and I could feel it kinda pull my van back a little before sliding up onto my roof where it got caught in the cargo rack finally snapped in two. when i looked back there was fire on one side of the road. I had to pull over, because it nearly gave me a heart attack.noone was around, no one saw all this happen but me. when i finally got to my brothers my dad called in to report the line down and the fire,.
I caught a BB gun bullet with my hand with no injury. Bounced off something and landed in my hand.
I had a dream in roughly 2003/2004 where I was a third-party spectator as a woman walked through a snowy city crying in the night. Then, a bunch of scary looking people with dark eyes surrounded her out of the dark. She pleaded to God they they would leave her alone. One of the people looked at the sky and said, “There is no God,” and then they k***ed her. In October of 2007, the movie 30 days of night came out, and that scene is in the movie, nearly exactly how I dreamt it. When I saw it in the movie, a chill went through my whole body and it was hard to breathe. I do know there is a comic book for the movie that was published in 2002. I bought it last year, but that scene wasn’t in the comic from what I remember. And I was in grade 3 in 02, so I certainly didn’t read it then. I attribute it to watching a ton of horror movies from a young age, and probably getting scenes mixed up in my head. My dad was legit showing me movies like the thing and pumpkin head when I was 5 lol.
I fell down the whole stairs at school and i was not injured.
When Covid delayed the opening of the Major League Baseball season, my Milwaukee Brewers schedule fell off my work cubicle wall right at the time the opening pitch would have been thrown.
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