Do you ever get the feeling that something’s watching you, even when no one’s there? Or maybe you’ve had abizarreexperience that just doesn’t make sense, no matter how many times you replay it in your head. Lots of folks love a good mystery, until it happens to them, leaving them unable to close their eyes at night.These creepy occurrences tend to stick with you long after, giving you goosebumps every time you think about them. It’s true what they say - sometimes, the truth really is stranger than fiction, and we have 33 creepy stories to prove it.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Do you ever get the feeling that something’s watching you, even when no one’s there? Or maybe you’ve had abizarreexperience that just doesn’t make sense, no matter how many times you replay it in your head. Lots of folks love a good mystery, until it happens to them, leaving them unable to close their eyes at night.These creepy occurrences tend to stick with you long after, giving you goosebumps every time you think about them. It’s true what they say - sometimes, the truth really is stranger than fiction, and we have 33 creepy stories to prove it.
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I was sitting at a red light, two lane road. I was in the right lane, with a big pickup truck blocking my view of the highway I was waiting to cross. My daughter, 6 months old in the car seat in the back seat.The light turned green, and I heard a distinct female voice say “WAIT!” It wasn’t the person in the pickup, because all windows were closed.The pickup next to me didn’t move.Two seconds later, a semi ran the red light at high speed. Had I proceeded through the light, I would have been obliterated.It haunts me to this day, some 40 years later.
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I’m a deep skeptic, but when I was a child I was doing a “12 days of Christmas” event where we would doorbell ditch neighborhoods with themed gifts. This was in northern arizona. Out at one of the neighborhoods that was at the edge of the desert, we were making a turn with me and my friends in the bed of the truck, and we saw a man crouched down at the end of a cul-de-sac, right under the street light. And I immediately assumed it was a homeless man, but I wondered why they were so far away from the city. Then I realized he was crouched directly under the light, and he was just a dark silhouette.As we were driving away, he stood up, and walked in two separate directions. I swear it. One turned into two, two separate strides in incongruous directions, and there was an ugly dread in my gut, like deeply primal. And I turned to my friend to make sure he’d seen what I’d seen, and his face fell, and he quietly said “I have to go home. Right now.“My friend was navajo and believed he’d just seen a yee naaldlooshii (skinwalker), and to this day I wouldn’t have a solid argument against it.
Can you imagine going to bed on Friday night and waking up on Sunday morning with no memory or evidence of the missing day? It’s like you vanished for 24 hours. That’s exactly what happened to one netizen, and it still gives them chills to this day. Aliens, maybe? Whatever it may be, if that was a movie, we would love to watch it.
People are fascinated withmysteries, and luckily, there are plenty of good ones out there. Whether it’s a weird coincidence or some sort of ghost apparition, these stories tend to stick with the people who experience them for a long time.
I had a dream that I was in an Irish airport with two women. Neither I’d ever seen, but both were distinct in their own way. One was very bird like with shock blond hair, the other woman was heavy set and wore a head bandana. I remember wondering why I’d dreamed about it. In any case I wrote it down in my dream journal. We ate at an Italian restaurant that had a neon sign with a spaghetti and meatballs.Fast forward ~5 years to me being out of school and I get sent on am emergency trip to go fix an issue at a site in Ireland. Network broken, hpux box not booting, it was fun.Theyvsend along a couole of the woman who write some of the ERP software and needed to work with some of the staff to iron out kinks.It was those women.. the bandana was because she’d just completed chemo for breast cancer. The other woman had shock bond hair and was 50lbs soaking wet.We ate at that damn restaurant.. with the neon sign.I sat there aghast eating my chicken parm.Nothing like it has ever happened since.
It’s the same reason true crime and paranormal documentaries are so popular these days. They give us a little thrill, and scratch that itch we have to explore the unknown while keeping us safe from it. But some of these stories go beyond curiosity, touching on deeper fears, like what happens after death, or whether we’re truly alone in the universe.
Studiesshow that the belief in the supernatural increases when we are stressed. So, it’s no surprise that many of these unexplained events take place when people are in vulnerable states, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally. Our minds just become more open to picking up on the unusual, especially when we’re already on edge.
Guess I wrote this on Reddit before:Was out for dinner with my best friend and her boyfriend. Out of nowhere I got heavy problems with breathing, fast heartbeat, cold sweat and so on, so they brought me to the hospital. The doctors didn’t find anything, and after about 1 1/2 hours the symptoms went away as abruptely as they had started.Didn’t think about it anymore, until two days later my uncle found my mother, who was obviously choked to death on her dinner - she lived alone and we all thought she had a lot of Work, because she didn’t answer the phone for some days. He decided to look after her when she didn’t show up to his invitation for new years eve.Because it was no “Natural Death” (don’t know If this is the right term in english. It means that there COULD have been other people involved), a coroner had to examine her. He limited the death-time to “two days ago, somewhere between 7 and 11 p.m.“Well, i think you can guess which was the time span I went to the hospital with symptoms that are quite similar to the ones she must have had.
One common theme among these bizarre stories is the presence of some sort of shadowy orghostlyfigure. Can you imagine seeing someone looking at you while you’re chilling at home only to find out there’s actually nobody in the house with you? That’s exactly what one Redditor experienced on a regular night at home. I don’t know about you, but to us, that sounds like a horror movie in real life.According toresearch, about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, and many of them say they have encountered one themselves. While science may be pointing fingers to the brain misinterpreting shadows in low light, for those who’ve had these experiences, there’s no doubt in their minds that what they saw was real. Just ask our netizen – we’re sure they double-checked their locks that night, after seeing that shadow watching them.Then there are those bizarre experiences that seem a bit strange to be just coincidences. For example, one Redditor had a dream about anairportencounter with two women—one with blonde hair and another in a bandana. But that dream turned into a real-life meeting with those exact women in Ireland years later.
One common theme among these bizarre stories is the presence of some sort of shadowy orghostlyfigure. Can you imagine seeing someone looking at you while you’re chilling at home only to find out there’s actually nobody in the house with you? That’s exactly what one Redditor experienced on a regular night at home. I don’t know about you, but to us, that sounds like a horror movie in real life.
According toresearch, about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, and many of them say they have encountered one themselves. While science may be pointing fingers to the brain misinterpreting shadows in low light, for those who’ve had these experiences, there’s no doubt in their minds that what they saw was real. Just ask our netizen – we’re sure they double-checked their locks that night, after seeing that shadow watching them.
Then there are those bizarre experiences that seem a bit strange to be just coincidences. For example, one Redditor had a dream about anairportencounter with two women—one with blonde hair and another in a bandana. But that dream turned into a real-life meeting with those exact women in Ireland years later.
I think I posted this story before, but when I was in high school, my sister and I were in the kitchen together. I was planning to make a cake so I got three eggs out of the fridge and placed them on the counter. I turned away from the eggs to talk to my sister. We both heard the distinct sound of the eggs rolling off the counter and splatting on the floor. We whipped our heads around at the same time, but the eggs were just sitting there, back on the counter. Only supernatural thing I’ve ever experienced. So minor, but so odd.
Years ago, my wife and I were staying at a hotel on the coast with a beachfront view. Very late into the night, maybe sometime between 2 and 4 am, we were both on the porch looking out at the ocean. Something strange started to move along the beach. It was hard to see at first, because it was vague and transparent, but after a minute or two it became the unmistakable image of two people dancing together.Except, the image would disperse like a cloud of blue, luminous, swirling vapor suspended in the air, and then coalesce again into the dancing human forms. It did this multiple times as it traveled across the beach, we both saw it and remarked on it while it was happening. It was a clear night and we were both stone-cold sober. We stared in awe at this thing for a solid five minutes or so, before it eventually dispersed without reappearing.To this day we have no idea if it was purely an optical illusion, actual people paired with some atmospheric effect, or something beyond either of those explanations.
Then there are those cases where people hear or sense things that defy logic, like phantom footsteps or strange voices. Just like one netizen heard their late dad’s familiar footsteps, even though they were home alone. It was the same sound they had heard daily when he was alive. If that’s not enough to make you believe in the afterlife, I don’t know what is.
Everyone was having dinner on New Years, next door neighbours included, and we were talking about lost love ones, when suddenly there was loud stomping running up the stairs. We all stopped and stared and the toddlers started crying, and my mum made me and my uncle go up to check it out. I didnt see anything but I got goosebumps and a horrible sense of dread. None of us can explain it.Oh actually, the strangest one. I used to live next door to 2 parents and their son, similar age to me. We got on well and I was round a lot until I moved away, and we kinda lost contact. Anyway, a few years later, like 10 years later, i had a dream that i was sat in their living room, just me, the son, and the dad. we were sat there just having a nice chat, and it was a really comfortable and friendly atmosphere, such a chill vibe. Nothing even happened, we were just catching up and enjoying the moment. When i woke up i felt really emotional and i went to go on facebook with the intention of messaging the son for a catch up, when the first thing i saw was his facebook status saying that his dad passed away that night. I cant explain it, that was the only dream I ever had about that family, and it happened the same night the dad died. To me thats crazy.
When I was a kid I would spend my weekends with my Dad and my weekdays with my Mom.One time, I think I was like 11 or 12 I had a dream (while staying at my Dads) that my Moms house got broken into and robbed.In my dream I vividly remember black trashbags being on the windows where they broke in.When my Dad dropped me back off at my Moms : there was black trashbags on the windows.(Mom locked herself out and had to break in, it wasn’t a robber but the black trashbags that I just dreamt of left me with the eeriest feeling.).
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When I was little, I had this paratrooper action figure. One night, I heard rumblings sounds on my desk. It was dark but I could see the figure standing up turning its head quickly as if it saw me.I freaked out and hid under my covers. Next day, I couldn’t find the action figure anywhere. I even got my parents to help look for it. It was gone for good.People never believe me calling it “Toy Story” or something but this s**t traumatized me.
Not chills scary or unexplained, but something I always think about as being so improbable. I called out of work went to the beach on my birthday. My eye caught something shiny out on the water. I watched as it was practically driven to me. A partially inflated mylar balloon washed up pretty much right to my feet. I had to maybe walk 10 feet. It said “Happy Birthday”. It was pretty crazy. My grandmother had died just two months earlier. It was a pretty crazy coincidence.
One evening, my wife and I had just gotten home and she opened the freezer to get some ice. In the freezer, there was a whole chicken, completely frozen, which I bought the day before. The chicken had several bites taken out of it and several sets of teeth marks on it.
My mom and I have a weird like “psychic” connection at times. Two time really weirded me outThe first time, I’d gone to an acquaintance’s grad party and wasn’t having a great time. I sent my mom a text asking her to come pick me up and got a reply almost immediately. She told me in the car that she had been working in the garden outside for a long a*s time when she suddenly felt the need to go inside and check her phone, which was right when I sent her the textSecond time freaks me out way more. I had just gotten into a car accident (my fault, I was the only one hurt and it was minor whiplash.) I called her in a daze to come help. She had apparently gotten a horrible feeling that I, specifically and not my sister, had gotten hurt and was grabbing her keys and going into the garage to come find me at the same moment I called herThese don’t happen often, but when they do, it makes me question some s**t.
Saw someone peek in my room one night while I was playing video games at night as a kid. Had my headphones in and the lights were off but I did indeed see someone peek in out of my periphery. Figured it was my mom checking on me after getting home as she always did, was concentrating, didn’t pay it too much mind. Might’ve called out “love you, goodnight!” but don’t remember tbh. Went downstairs about ten mins later for water and nobody was home.
I was staying with my grandmother for a couple days just visiting. Me and my fiancé were sleeping in her guest room. We kept having weird scary dreams and feeling really uneasy. At night I would have these dreams/visions of an evil man and woman kind of lurking in the shadows.One night I was asleep and all of a sudden I could feel a hand over my mouth and nose suffocating me. In my sleepy state I thought it was my partner being weird (he does weird things in his sleep (but suffocating is not one of them)lol) so I pinched the s**t out of him. He yelped from pain which both made us fully wake up. He asked me why I pinched him so hard and I said “because you were trying to suffocate me!?” He said “no I was not”. We didn’t sleep very well for the rest of the night.To this day we fully believe some sort of spirit had placed its hand over my mouth and nose and restricted my air. We haven’t slept in her house since.
Seeing my phone fly across the room, my brother and I were in his bedroom sitting across from each other and talking. My phone was on his computer desk which was in between us. It just.. SHOT off the desk and slid away on the floor. We looked at each other speechless….. was so freaking weird. He actually went on to have multiple (and imo worse) s**t happen in that room. It’s a whole story haha. Happy ending though.
Man it’s a long story and every time I try to tell it quickly and explain exactly why it’s so weird, it ends up being a long story.So long story short… I once looked at my phone, put it in my pocket, walked out a door and across 10ft of empty pavement to a car, and lost my phone. Looked everywhere, nope, it’s gone. Two cars and 1 town later, as I’m nearing the end of my drive, it falls from above the passenger seat headrest into the seat.
This one will seem pretty silly but i truly have no idea how it was possible. i was sitting in my Livingroom and heard something fall in my bathroom, went to look and a roll of toilet paper that was about 15ft away on my sink was now in my bathtub, my cat was on the sofa beside me. never been able to figure it out because the distance is much too far for it to have just fallen off and land in the tub, it makes no sense.
When I was about 7 or 8 years old, I hated getting my haircut and my dad had told me he was going to do it the following day.Fast forward to about 9 p.m. or so, I had gone to bed and was lying on my stomach. Mind you, I had a plastic Darth Vader mask that hung on a bed post at the head of my bed. I’m trying to sleep, and I pick my head up for whatever reason, looked at the back of the mask…….seeing the reflection of a blacked out male figure at the foot of my bed with long hair down to its shoulders, holding a pair of scissors opening and closing them.A sense of fear consumed me, yet I had the courage to look back and it was gone, I ran out of my room and my mom said I was as white as a ghost and started crying, she sent me back to bed with a Bible and a cross pendent necklace 🤣.
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