“I woke up and immediately knew that my uncle would die that day.”
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“My dad passed away in 2021 and was cremated.
He wanted to be spread in the mountains of Montana.
It took us a couple of years to coordinate this, but in 2023, we planned a trip.
I was dressed and ready to go, so I put my headphones on.
Suddenly, my dad’s favorite song by his favorite singer started to play over them.
There were no apps open on my phoneat all.
The song played through and then stopped.
No other songs played after it.
I like to think it was my dad.”
Anonymous
2.
Within a few weeks, my mother went into hospice care at a local facility.
They put her in room 129, where she later passed.
A few weeks later, I had just installed caller ID on our phone.
One Sunday afternoon, my husband and I were home and heard the phone ring.
The caller ID said it was the hospice.
I thought maybe my mothers former companion was calling, but when I answered, no one was there.
I called back, and the phone rang and rang.
The room…was room 129!"
“Around 2002, I met the woman who would one day become my wife.
She was a member of a Spiritualist Church in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
I signed up and got a reading five minutes later.
This was before the days of Google, smartphones, etc.
I had only met the medium very briefly once or twice.
She told me that she had an older female spirit who wanted to give me a message.
She said it was a grandmother or aunt or great aunt.
I asked who it was.
The medium said that she was a great aunt, one of my grandmother’s six sisters.
The medium said, ‘Of all of the sisters, I was the least rude.'”
They could come across as being rude, so I knew what the spirit meant by that.
But I still had no idea which sister it was.
Then the spirit said, ‘Of all the sisters, I was the sickliest.’
Still, I had no idea.
The medium then said she was getting a name.
She said that the spirit was named Pita or Pina or something like that.
I asked him, ‘Of all of grandma’s sisters, who was the least rude?’
He thought for a moment and said, ‘Well, probably Aunt Phyllis.’
I then asked him, ‘Of all of grandma’s sisters, who was the sickliest?’
Without a pause, he said, ‘Aunt Pina!’
I didn’t even know I had an Aunt Pina, so how could this medium know that?
Besides, her full name was Josephina, and only the family called her Pina!"
Randall L
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“I took a photography class in high school and was taking some pictures in our basement for it.
We lived in my (deceased) great-grandparents’ house.
I heard the back door (where we all enter the house) open and heard some distant whistling.
A couple minutes later, I came up the basement stairs to find only my mom.
I noticed his car wasn’t in the driveway, either.”
I told her I heard the back door open and someone whistling.
‘Oh, your great-grandfather used to whistle while he worked in his workshop downstairs,’ she replied.
The basement…where had I been taking photos for my project?
I’m pretty sure it was him I heard that day."
“My family purchased a house in 1966 from a couple moving to assisted living.
The woman’s late brother, a retired priest, had lived with them until he passed away.
He received special dispensation from the Vatican to have a chapel in the basement.
He would give the couple mass every morning, up until he was too ill to do it anymore.
Then, the blessed marble slab from the Vatican was returned to the church.
My bedroom was in the back of the house, which I found out had been his office.
It was like a mumbling run of words, very low.”
“This happened many times, and I told my parents.
JojoB, Central FL, USA
6.
“When I was 10 or 11 years old, I had frequent dreams of flying.
In the dreams, I wore my favorite baseball cap.
I never went anywhere without it.
I would flap my arms furiously and with great effort, and then I was flying.
I flew over my small town and nearby bay, amazed at how everything looked from above.
Unfortunately, I crashed through the heavily leafed branches of a very old olive tree in our backyard.”
“That morning, I woke up from my dream and found myself in bed.
right where I’d crashed in my dream.
To this day, I dont know how it got there!”
My mother had been ill and passed away before I could get to the hospital to say goodbye.
About a week later, I was going to the store.
I asked my uncle if he wanted anything and got him some groceries.
While I was there, the phone rang.
I answered it…and it was my mother.
I have NO explanation.”
Penny Odom, Santa Barbara
8.
“My husband was in the hospital in a city about two hours from home.
I drove there on a daily basis.
One day, I accidentally took a wrong turn and was headed into the city instead of out.
I stopped at a gas station because I was lost.
I sat in the car and cried, not knowing what to do.
I was overwhelmed, tired, and stressed as it would be getting dark soon.
All of a sudden, a man came over to my car window and asked if I needed help.
He gave me directions, but I didnt understand them because all the streets seemed to be one way.
He walked away as I thanked him and continued to sit there and cry.”
So, I followed him in a maze of streets, and we got on another bridge.
Relieved, I turned on to the exit.
I went to wave to him in thanks…and he was gone.
There was no car there.
He couldn’t have just disappeared because he still had a ways to go on the bridge.
The car just vanished.
This happened to me almost 30 years ago.
To this day, I call him my guardian angel.
I have told this story many times over the years, and I am still astonished."
Paula, Pennsylvania, USA
9.
“This happened in 2022.
It was dark out as it was rather late.
Something was heading toward us.
It looked like it was made of translucent black smoke.
It was fast and flew with intention.
“One time my friend was taken to the emergency room, so I went to see him.
This guy looked VERY sick.
I looked at my friend and was like, ‘So, who’s your friend?’
What freaked me out the most was that he didn’t ‘look like a ghost.’
mutagenic
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“One night in January of 1990, I had a weird dream.
I dreamt that a red and white plane crashed in a wooded area with houses around it.
I woke up in a cold sweat.
He walked up to me and said I looked as white as a sheet.
My mouth was hanging open, and my eyes were wide.
I was in shock!
That wasnt the first time or the last time that Ive had dreams come true like that!”
molly1722
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“About five years ago, we built a house on a large lot.
Over half of the lot was in the forest.
One afternoon while exploring the property, we came upon five very weathered unmarked limestone headstones.
We didnt think much of them, just that they were cool.
After that, things got a little weirder.”
“One night, my wifes foot was pulled while we were asleep.
My experience happened while sleeping in a basement room.
The door to the room was closed, and nobody was around or awake in the house.
We have come to live with the activity and will see what the future holds for us here.”
I bought my first house on my own.
Within the first week, I heard my daughter talking and laughing in her bedroom alone.
I left it alone, because she was very imaginative and didnt require a lot of attention.
Anyway, one night I was in her room tucking her in for bed.
I asked who Peggy was, and she replied, ‘The pink triangle that floats around her room.’
Well, okay.”
“Where we were living at the time, a common nickname for the name Margaret was Peggy.
He did not know about the Peggy pink triangle conversation.
One night, I was physically held down in my bed.
It felt like a person was lying on top of me, I was scared to death!
After about 10 minutes, it let up.
Other things happened, too we heard inexplicable voices and noises and sometimes saw people that definitely werent there.
Anyway, the next day I spoke to some older neighbors who had lived there for over 30 years.
I asked about the people who lived there before us.
I didnt mention anything about what had been going on in my house.
They just told me this out of the blue.
We had more instances throughout the years, but nothing as strange as those first few months.”
I immediately got terrible shivers down my back and over my body.
I felt like I was experiencing evil in the flesh it overwhelmed my senses.
I was so shaken that I got back in my car and drove the hour back home.
He was later caught and convicted.
I still get shivers when I think of him.”
This one night, it was just me and Jim.
We ran past a cave.
The cave was glowing with some kind of light.
We approached the cave and noticed hieroglyphics everywhere in the sand.
We both stepped into the cave and saw an almost eight-foot figure standing there in this glowing light.
It looked to have some bang out of feathers, and it was dancing in place.
The cave was silent no music or words.
It happened so fast.
Jim and I didnt interact with this being.
We left the cave and the beach and never spoke of it to anyone or to each other.
This was in the ’80s.
To this day, I still often think about what we saw."
“I’m a Christian, so I read daily devotionals each morning.
Devotionals are kind of like short stories that offer encouragement in your faith journey.
During Christmas break at college, I walked to the train station to take a train home.
I was the only person there.
The title of the devotional was ‘Be Specific.’
After I finished reading it, I immediately put my phone back in my purse.
I then saw a woman in the distance walking toward me, on the phone.
She then looked me in the eye and winked at me.
There was no way she could have known or seen the devotional I was reading.
That day, I’m convinced I encountered an angel.
I will never forget that experience.”
“About 15 years ago, my husband and I lived in an apartment.
It was our first place together.
It would just be sitting on the table or on a counter and would light up for no reason.
I brushed it off, thinking my phone was just acting up.
One night, after this had been going on for a little while, I was home alone.
“This particular night, I did just that.
I just stood there for a moment trying to figure out what was happening.
There were no windows open and nothing else out of place.
A few nights later, I was sleeping, and my husband was home and awake.
I had been in a deep sleep, so I had no idea what he was talking about.
He said he heard a huge bang and thought I had fallen out of bed.
After being a bit shaken up, we brushed it off, feeling like we were losing our marbles.
Then, the scariest part of all happened a few nights later.
I had fallen asleep with my husband asleep right beside me.
I woke up at some point in the middle of the night but could not move.
People describe this as sleep paralysis, but I had never experienced this before and have not again since.
On my side of the bed, a dark, shadowy figure loomed over me.
I couldnt make out anything about this ‘thing’ other than its large stature and lack of features.
It had no face, just a dark presence.
I closed my eyes hoping it would go away.
Eventually, I woke up like normal and told my husband the whole story.
We didnt stay there much longer.
When we moved to our new house, nothing weird happened again.
Still scarred for life, though.”
My brothers room was directly across a small landing, maybe 15 feet away.
Suddenly, I awoke, feeling like I was being watched.
Well, there WAS a figure standing there!
It was a shadow man as tall as the doorway itself.
Its form consisted of a shadow that was darker than the night around it.”
“I closed my eyes immediately, trying to figure out what to do.
Did I really just see what I thought I did?
I turned onto my stomach and pulled my foot back under the covers.
I could still feel it staring at me.
I hoped it would stay at the doorway or fade away.
Gradually, I could feel the air start to turn cool.
At the same time, I could feel its presence getting closer and closer.
I was so frightened.
The next thing I knew, I felt a cold, evil weight lying on top of my back.
The weight felt like when magnets repel each other, like an invisible force of sorts.
It seemed to be trying to push down into me.
It was very cold.
I was entirely petrified and thought I should call out for help.
My parents' room was directly below mine, and my brother was sleeping just across the landing.
I built up the courage to scream and counted in my mind again.
1…2…3…, and I screamed like I had never screamed before.
But to my horror, no sound came out.
To make matters even worse, the shadow figure moved its hand toward my open mouth.
I stopped screaming, and its hand faded from inside my mouth and throat.
I could still feel the cold.
I could still feel the heaviness of its form on my body.
I could still feel itsevil.
I didnt know what to do next, so I decided to start praying.
After what seemed like forever, I could feel the weight lifting and the air warming.
Eventually, I didnt feel its presence anymore.
Once morning began to dawn, I fell asleep.
I have feared this apparition returning my entire life.
I think it may have been tied to that farmhouse we lived in since it was quite old.
I always felt an evil presence from that side of my room.
Lets just say its not hard for me to believe in heaven and hell now!”
“My wife, my mother-in-law, and I bought a piece of land together.
My mother-in-law bought a repo trailer for us to live in.
When she took us to the lot to look at it, I immediately didn’t like it.
I set the chair back up and went back to watching TV.
A couple of minutes later, the hairdryer in her bathroom turned itself on.
My wife went in and turned it off.
It was bizarre.”
“Several months later, my wife and I had separated, and I moved elsewhere.
One evening, I got a phone call from her.
She was alone, scared to death, and wanted me to come over.
There on the mirror was a pentagram!
“My uncle passed away after a brief illness he’d been expected to recover from.
In each dream, she looked anxious, as if she was waiting for someone who was late.
I woke up and immediately knew that my uncle would die that day.
That afternoon, my cousin called with the sad news.
It was my grandmother, wearing her nightgown and robe like she always wore at night.
She looked at me, smiled, and then vanished.
I like to think that she was checking up on us to check that that we were alright.”
“My sons lifelong childhood friend (A) passed away from an illness he had.
I dreamed that I was sitting in a big wooden rocking chair in a cone of light.
I couldnt see anything outside that light.
A walked into the light and said, ‘Well, Im going now.’
I stood up, and we hugged.
Then he walked into the dark, and I woke up.
I looked at the clock it was 5:15 a.m. Later that morning, my ex-husband called me.
I told him I had the weirdest dream about A.
“He asked me if he could tell As parents about my dream, and I said no.
Of course, he immediately called them and told them about my dream anyway.
Later, As dad called me to ask me about it, so I told him.
Shocked, he revealed that his son had died in his arms at 5:15 that morning.
I loved that boy like he was my own, and he even called me his ‘other mom.’
I’m glad he came to say goodbye.”
22.And finally, “My wife and I rescued a white husky/shepherd mix from an animal shelter.
My wife instantly fell in love with her just from the pictures.
A couple of years later, our daughter was born.
“About three years later, we had to put her down because of a ruptured spleen.
Unfortunately, nothing could be done to save her.
The whole family was devastated at the sudden loss of our dog.
Soon after, I started having dreams of a white husky coming to see me and the family.
Our male husky was happy for companionship, and the family was happy to have another dog.
This is where things get interesting.
The new dog would act kind of strange from time to time.
She just turned around and walked right back out.
I went out in the hallway, and she wasn’t there.
My wife said no, she’d been fast asleep for the past 30 minutes.
After that, I knew it was the spirit of our old dog looking for my wife or kids.
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