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Warning: This post contains mentions of suicide and death.
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Every month, I askBuzzFeed readerslike you to share the creepiest things they’ve ever experienced.
“When my daughter was around 5, my favorite great-uncle Jimmy passed away.
She had never met him, and I didnt mention it to her because she was so young.
I noticed she was playing Uno by herself and had two hands dealt.
I jokingly asked, ‘Who is winning?’
and she yelled, ‘UNCLE JIMMY IS!’
I about lost it!
She is 14 now, and I recently told her this story.
She still remembers playing with him.
They had no phone, and my sister lived about 15 miles from her.
So, I called her and asked her when she had spoken to our mom last.
My mom had been lying on the floor for almost an hour before she got there.
They rushed her to the hospital and had to do immediate surgery on her foot.
My sister called me as soon as she could afterward.
My mom would have laid there for over eight hours if I hadn’t called.”
Debi C, Estill, SC
3.
“Back in 2007, my family went to Kauai for my moms 60th birthday.
We were staying in a condo right on the beach that had been renovated from a motel.
I turned to look and saw a brilliant bright light and a man standing there.
As I stared at him, he and the light justdissolved.”
“My eyes hurt because of the adjustment from the bright light to blackness.
My hand was out of the covers resting by my head, and someone (or something?)
took hold of it and squeezed it gently.
The pressure stopped, and all was quiet.
When I had the courage, I opened my eyes…and nothing was there.
I told my family about it, and my mom absolutely believed me.
Dont know who he was, but I hope hes found peace.”
Kristin, Seattle, WA
4.
“This was in downtown Indianapolis in the early ’90s.
I was with a friend, and we were looking at rentals to share.
The rent was low even for that time, especially for a full house.
My friend asked why I stopped, and I said, ‘I can’t move.’
I was literally paralyzed by a feeling of absolute malice.
“The house was huge and dark, with only a few large pieces of furniture inside.
They circled around us as we walked, then ran up to the middle of the staircase.
They didnt make a sound just glared at us with menace.
My friend saw them too but didnt think much about them.
He and the owner were chatting, but I was so freaked I couldnt really talk.
So, the owner said, ‘Well, then lets show you the upstairs!’
Maybe you could put them in the yard out back?'
The owner replied, ‘What are you talking about?
I told you the house is empty, and I dont own any dogs.’
My friend finally got the vibe, and we booked it out of there.
It was hours before we finally stopped shaking.”
thomtramlaws
5.
“My dad and I were in the backyard with our telescope, looking at the stars.
After a bit, we saw a strange thing moving slowly across the sky, but very close.
This was in the late 1960s.
We were watching it move backward, sideways, and up and down.
I was only 12, so I asked my dad what was going on and what that could be.
He walked inside without another word.
Anonymous
6.
The closest courts were at our middle school, which was less than a mile from her house.
We walked to school every day, so it seemed like no big deal to us.
This was the early 2000s, so its not like wed ever tell our parents where we were going.
It was very much a ‘just be home when the street lights turn on’ kind of childhood.”
Naively, we were psyched, thinking we scored the whole place to ourselves.
We started playing and got really hot and sweaty.
She said he kept peaking out to watch us.
Apparently, as soon as the couple pulled up, he left.
We got so freaked out that we called my friends dad to come get us.
Thankfully, my friend had JUST gotten a cellphone after convincing her parents she needed it for safety.
Elizabeth, Dallas, TX
7.
“I won a staring contest with a doll.
I’m not joking.
I was sitting on my bed at 9 p.m., reading a book.
I looked up and a doll I had never seen before seemed to be staring at me.
I didn’t want to look away, so I kept staring.
After a while, it slowly, deliberately, blinked.
I immediately walked over to it, grabbed it, and slept with it.
That probably sounds weird, but I wanted it where I could see it.
I have no idea how it got there.
“When my mom was a teenager, my grandfather passed from a brain tumor.
She always replied that it was grandpa watching me.
At my grams funeral over a decade later, my cousins and I were all talking.
My cousins all had the same story.
It was bizarre.”
The owner mentioned that her son had an imaginary friend with a strange name.
My sister asked if his name was Hyle, and the lady said it was.
Hyle was my grandpa’s name.”
cecm
9.
“In college, I lived with some friends in an older house off campus.
It’d been built in maybe the ’20s, Id guess.
It had a basement, a main level, and an upstairs.
The upstairs door had a flimsy nail keeping it shut, and we werent supposed to go up there.
Naturally, we did.
We were all drinking and singing loudly.
A chest-height built-in cabinet separated the dining area from the living room.
On top of it, there was a bottle of water about half full.
“None of us were anywhere near it.
Suffice it to say, the party ended right away, and we all went to bed.
We started to think that maybe we should have stayed out of the attic after all.”
Kelsey, Minnesota, USA
10.
The store was in an old farmhouse that was said to be haunted.
The interior of this room was not directly visible from behind the counter, but the doorway was.
The cases normally sat on shelves along the walls and on A-frame-like structures in the centers of the rooms.
Clearly, we all had.
Finally, I worked up the courage to investigate and cautiously approached the room.
He moved constantly back then, and we had never visited him in this place before.
His arms were up against each side of the frame, and he was still and silent.
I thought it was my father at first and called out, ‘Dad?’
The figure didnt move.”
“I can still feel the goosebumps of terror that pricked up all over my body.
I yelled, Dad…Daddy?'
The shadow still did not move, so I screamed.
My fathers bedroom light went on, and the shadow figure instantly disappeared in the wash of light.
My father wrote it off as my usual night terrors, but I know it was different.
I saw a ghost that night, and it is the only ghost I have ever seen.
Thankfully, my father moved somewhere else, and we never went back to that house.”
Belinda, Lumby, BC, Canada
12.
It was basically a residential home that about seven women lived in.
I took the evening shift one night and overheard one of the residents talking in her room.
She didnt share a room with anyone.
I didnt think too much into this since she had dementia along with intellectual disabilities.
I tucked her into bed and continued on with my night.
About a month later, a handyman came to the house to work on some things.
“I didnt know what he was talking about, so obviously, I asked.
He told me that 20 years ago, a little boy died in the house after drinking laundry detergent.
Jules, Connecticut, USA
13.
Every night, that feeling would get worse and worse.
My bathroom was just across the wide hallway from my bedroom.
It was maybe six or seven feet from door to door.
Not very far, right?
“I vividly remember the worst night of them all.
I woke up around 2 a.m. with the worst urge to pee.
There was no holding it until morning, which meant there was no escaping going out into the hallway.
That next day, my Dad passed away unexpectedly from a fatal heart attack.
That night, I woke up again with the urge to pee.
Half asleep, I walked to the bathroom and back without a second thought.
Anitra, Arizona, USA
14.
I sat there wondering what the hell was going on.
Through tears, the girl managed to ask me if I had a young daughter who had passed away.
I was white as a ghost and mumbled yes.
About four years prior, my 6-year-old daughter died in a car accident.
“Istartedcrying and was in complete shock.
I was in such shock that I walked into the fitting room and balled my eyes out.
Michelle, Philadelphia, USA
15.
When I was 6, we had a family friend whose child I used to play with.
He had a heart condition.
When I went downstairs, my mum told my sister and me that he’d passed away overnight.”
“We got a rideable toy car for our kids, and some unknown entity (ghost?)
in the house loves to play with it.
I regularly find it in different locations than it was left.
The batteries have never run out after years of not replacing them, either.
The strangest thing, though, is that it turns itself on when no one is near it.
Last week, the kids rode the car into the living room.
After three seconds, it turned off.
I’d always turn to look, and they would be perfectly still IRL.
This would happen when there were no windows open, so no draft could be moving them.
“My family members, including myself, sometimes know when something is going to happen before it does.
My husband and I were going out for the evening and hired a babysitter.
Is she okay?'
I mailed the letter on the way to our destination.
When we got home, the babysitter said I needed to call my mother.
She had called to tell me that my grandmother died.
As it turns out, she diedat the exact timethat I had the strange feeling.
Judy, Dewey, AZ
19.
“When I was 10 years old, I had trouble sleeping.
Alarmed, I lunged forward and took a swing at it, hoping I could identify what it was.
Well, it ducked down just as you would expect someone to do to avoid being hit.”
“I was petrified.
I couldn’t move, I couldn’t scream.
Only then did I muster up enough courage to run to my parents' room for help.
It was too real, too three-dimensional, and I’ve never been very imaginative.
For years following this, I could only sleep with the bedroom door open and the hall light on.
I never saw it again, but it has forever stuck in my mind.
“Anonymous
20.
“Our 250-year-old farmhouse in the U.K. was being gutted and renovated.
My family had a temporary caravan facing the house, where we stayed during the weekends.
Mum and I were playing cards at the dinette in the front of the caravan.
My aunt and cousin stopped by for a visit and entered the only accessible door at the front.
We saw them leave 10 minutes later.
A little while afterward, my mum casually said, Thought they left.
Those figures hadn’t been them.
There was no other way in or out of the house, and we have no explanation.”
“Growing up, I was very close with my grandmother.
But I loved her dearly and spent as many weekends with her as I could.
She passed away when I was 19.
It was my first real experience with death, and I was devastated.
I would wake up covered in sweat and crying.
After a few days, it got to the point where I was afraid to go to sleep.
But this time, I woke up to my grandmother standing in my room.”
“She was literally glowing, radiating warmth and peace.
She was smiling she looked beautiful.
I never had another nightmare.
I love you, too, Grandma.”
It was September and still warm outside as evening came.
I thought it was going to hit me!'
My youngest daughter and I looked at each other with surprise, and both said, ‘Mom!’
We had often joked that owls were heranimal.
We still believe that was my wife saying goodbye to her baby brother.”
Bob, Chicago, Illinois
23.
“Years ago, I hung out with this one girl.
She lived with her parents at her grandma’s house down the street from my house.
Like I said, not the nicest lady.
“Now, we played with this thing off and on, and nothing ever happened at the time.
It was WAY more fun sleeping out there than inside with the adults.
We would go to sleep, and everything would be fine.
At home, I had a few things happen to me here and there.
Like, I had this wheeled, standing mirror that could be flipped over.
I had a shaggy rug, so it was not easy to roll it that far over.
It looked like that, but I could see no eyes or mouth.
Instead, he had hollowed out holes in their place.
She came in, and I told her I had just seen a face on the wall.
from the direction under my dresser.
I shut up and looked at her, but she didn’t react.
I asked if she heard that sound, and she looked at me strangely and said no.
I never actually could tell her or anyone what the face looked like until I got older.
If I had, I felt like something terrible was going to happen.
The biggest incident was back at my friend’s grandma’s house.
We got up there and saw all these boxes.
My friend opened one, and all we saw were old Beanie Babies.
So we went to grab a few games, snacks, and eventually the Ouija board.
But it was broad daylight at the time, so I shrugged it off.
There was no need to be freaked out or spooked because nothing bad happens in the daytime, right?
We asked the basic questions, like, ‘Is anyone there?’
‘What’s your name?’
As I did, I saw was this huge, 8-foot black, opaque shadow.
I saw a box that we never touched topple over in the direction it moved.
I turned back around to my friend, who looked shocked but also weirdly calm.
We left the attic and told her mom what had happened up there.
Of course, she just chalked it up to our imaginations or something and went back to cleaning up.
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