Every month, IaskBuzzFeed readerslike you to share the creepiest experiences they’ve ever had.
Of course, I picked the best, most horrifying ones to share with you all.
From ghosts to premonitions, here are 23 of the most unsettling tales people shared:
1.
“One day, I dropped my daughter off at school.
Afterward, my preschooler son and I were sitting on the floor in the living room.
Suddenly, he said, ‘Poor sister.’
I asked, ‘Why poor sister?’
He said, ‘She dropped her donut, and it rolled all the way across the playground.’
Brooke, Glendale, USA
2.
“I’m a doll collector.
The most interesting story I have is when I found a kinda creepy-looking doll at Goodwill.
Obviously, I took her home.
So obviously, I brought her home, too.”
“That night, I had a strange dream.
I had that dream at least once a week for another two years.
They’ve been quiet ever since.
AJ, 23, USA
3.
“My sister once told me that I walked into her room, asking her for help.
When she looked over, I was dripping with water.
She turned the light on, and I disappeared.
She went to my room to check that I was OK, but found me sound asleep and dry.
Anonymous
4.
Like most teenage girls, we would have sleepovers.
This is when we would experiment and play with her newfound knowledge.
We often brought out the Ouija board.
My sister, wanting to scare the rest of us, moved the planchette to a different letter.
When we came back, we were all excited that it had moved on its own!
But my sister was really freaked out because it wasnt where she had secretly moved it to.”
“My mother struggled with alcoholism, and she and my sister didnt get along.
My sister had a small lump of clay that she stuck a few strands of my mothers hair into.
She called it ‘mom’ and put it on her bookcase.
Some time later, the bookcase fell over and ‘mom’ got squashed.
That night, my mother was in a car accident.
Fortunately, she was not injured.
Another thing that freaked us out was when my sister decided she could hypnotize us.
At one of our sleepovers, she hypnotized two of our friends, both named Debbie.
She stuck her leg with a stick pin about an inch deep.
She didnt feel it, and she didnt bleed.
Then, she told Debbie 1 that she was actually Debbie 2 and proceeded to ask them questions.
I wrote down the answers.
Once, she was unable to get one of her friends out of the hypnotic trance.
We were freaking out.
She finally woke her up, and we never did that again.”
Tami, Lake Havasu, AZ
5.
“This is a family member’s story.
It was the 1990s, and she was relatively young at the time, maybe 5 or 6.
She had been vacationing in Florida with her grandparents.
She refused to go, saying her tummy hurt too bad and she was staying there.
She hadnt ever had problems flying before.
They opted not to even attempt a rescue mission to avoid losing more lives.
When they released the flight number, it was THEIR flight.
She left work in shock and grieved all evening.
He had no idea!
The airport kept it very hush-hush, presumably so no other passengers would panic and/or cancel their flights.
The mother didnt tell the girl until she was much older, two decades after her grandparents passed.
She was in disbelief.
The instincts of children prevail.”
“I had never really thought much about the paranormal until I moved into my first apartment.
I got there a few days before my roommate and set up the basics.
I shrugged it off, but things just escalated from there.
My hanging blinds would move one panel at a time.
My TV would turn on at full volume in the middle of the night to an older black-and-white show.
She casually asked if I was having any weird experiences, and we started sharing stories.”
Months later, mybest friendand I tested positive for COVID and quarantined in my room for two weeks.
One night, I was sitting in front of my full-body mirror with my friend right next to me.
I looked up to see a tall, thin man in overalls standing behind us.
Long story short, we named him Charles and would have to warn anyone staying over about his antics.
Ive never had an object physically move in front of me since.”
Kena, Flagstaff, USA
7.
“We had another couple stay over at our house on New Years Eve.
We were up very late, hanging out.
While alone in the kitchen cleaning up, I thought, ‘This has been really fun.
Well always remember what a good time we had the year Don (our friend) died.’
I actually jumped when I realized what I had just thought.
He died five months later.”
We had been living there for about two years at the time, so I was pretty comfortable there.
The house was out in the woods, where we had goats and chickens.
The only thing out of the ordinary about it was a strange shack on the edge of the property.
It was small and much older than the house we lived in.
It even looked older than the neighbor’s house.
My sister and I were always creeped out by it, so we kept our distance.
One day, though, we felt a little brave.”
“We went out to the shack, which was actually pretty far away.
It took a few minutes because our property was so big.
As we approached, we thought we heard whispering.
Just as we stepped up to it, a huge piece of wood fell inside.
We turned and fled to the house and went inside.
That night, I woke up and froze.
I saw a face staring at me beside my bed.
So, we decided to go check out the shack one more time.
As we entered the woods, the usual feeling of fear we had was gone.
Naturally, we decided to take an immediate break and play with it.
and ‘No, you did!’
My friend was blindfolded.
There was no way she could see or peek.
I then turned the Ouija board upside down and rotated it into different positions between the questions.”
“Six questions were asked.
Only my friend’s hands were on the planchette.
I also did not tell her the selected answers or characters.
Two of the questions were yes or no, and the remainder required spelled-out answers.
The results were as follows:
1.
All movements of the planchette stopped exactly upon either a yes/no or a character.2.
Answers that required spelling were spelled correctly with no ‘fudging’ on my part.3.
Finally, the proof that the Ouija worked: I asked for my friend’s mom’s birthday.
It was off by a couple of years.
Her mom had passed a few years before, and he had all her legal documents in a drawer.
Her dad pulled her birth certificate out of the drawer to show us her actual birth date.
The Ouija board got it ALL correct, even when neither she nor I knew the correct answer.
The board went back into the closet and is still there decades later.
I don’t know who, but I DO know what I saw.”
“My house is haunted, and I meanextremelyhaunted.
“One of the creepiest things Ive experienced while living there is having random visions.
They’re extremely detailed, specific snapshots of moments.
Id gotten a physical for sports, and my physical health was perfect, too.
I wouldve simply brushed the visions off, except for the fact that they started coming true.
It came true when I got my wisdom teeth out.
It just kept happening, though.
From then on, all but six of the visions have come true.
They only ever happened in the entryway when I walked through the door.
I blame the house.
“My grandfather died when I was about 12.
My brother and I were visiting my grandmother in Augusta, Georgia, a few months later.
Anyone from the South whose granny made them homemade grits knows that they take a long time to cook.
Plus, there was no feeling of hands on my back, just a very strong force.
I flew out of the bed and onto the floor.
I looked behind me and saw nothing, but I knew exactly who it was.
I ran crying to my grandmother, saying, ‘Granny, granny!
Grandaddy just pushed me out of the bed!’
She said, ‘Oooh shuga!
He’s mad that you won’t come to breakfast,’ or something like that.
I remember kind of laughing, too, but being very weirded out.
Never heard from him again, but I was never salty to my granny after that.”
“I grew up in an old house that always made creaking noises at night.
I had a loft bed in my room with stairs going up from my doorway.
There was also a tall closet next to the stairs where my cat hung out.
My senior year of high school, I was in bed reading really late one night.
My cat started growling, looking out my open door into the darkness.
I just heard the ‘normal’ house creaking noises, so I wasn’t alarmed.
He was wearing a long, gray trench coat and black gloves.
I couldnt see his head…because it wasinthe ceiling.”
“I sat up in bed and shrunk as far away from him as I could.
At the same time, my cat jumped down onto my bed and started hissing at him.
I was already awake; he was still standing there, and my cat was still hissing.
We stayed that way for about five minutes until he slowly faded into the dark.
My cat quieted down, and somehow I fell asleep an hour later.
Flash forward to my mid-20s, and I’m in a new city.
The eeriest stories came from the people who bought the house from my parents.
He was wearing a trench coat and smoking a cigarette.
The family dog sat next to the old man, looking up at him.
The man was semi-transparent.
All those years later, it was both great and also spine-tingling to have myghost storyvalidated.”
“I was 11 years old and at an all-girls summer camp.
My cabin mates and I were in swim class, hanging out together in inner tubes.
I was the only one without a float, so I got out and went to the float shed.
The shed was shallow, so I didn’t have to look hard for an inner tube.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find one.
Frustrated, I grabbed the only yellow pool noodle in the cabinet and tossed it in the water.
‘Watch my pool noodle!’
I called to my friends.
They turned around and gave a thumbs-up.
‘Bring my sunglasses to me, hey!’
one of them called.
I ran to the pavilion where our belongings were and grabbed my friend’s sunglasses.
I ran back to the water and tossed them to her.
‘Where is my pool noodle?’
I asked, noticing it was missing.”
“‘What pool noodle?’
Confused, I ran out of the water back to the float shed.
I never touched that pool noodle ever again.”
I was washing the dishes while she was eating her cereal one morning.
All of a sudden, she started laughing and saying, ‘Stop touching my feet!’
Im talking to the black monster.'”
“My mother passed away in January of 1984.
My father arranged a two-day showing.
I then knew it was her that I felt.”
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“Several years ago, I drove up from Kentucky with three friends to see a Cubs game.
So, now we had an even longer trip home.
I pulled up, paid my toll, and asked for directions.
The gentleman told me how to get back on the right road, and I thanked him.
He replied, ‘You’re welcome, Nick.’
My name actually is Nick.
I was at a loss for words because there was no way this guy knew me.”
“I drove a good distance and pulled over, unsettled.
‘Did anyone say my name at the toll booth?’
All my friends said no.
Now, we arealla little freaked out.
“I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma.
In the mid-’90s, I worked at our local video store.
The store was in an old bank building built around 1900.
The basement housed both an old bank vault and the room where they prepped the deceased for their funerals.
Needless to say, the basement was creepy but still kind of cool.
Most people who’ve worked at the store will say they’ve had creepy experiences downstairs.”
“We all, however, have one shared experience on the video store floor.
It wasn’t violent or anything all the tapes would simply fall to the floor.
All, that is, except the kids section and a few westerns.
The building is now a secondhand store.
I often wonder if they have similar experiences.”
Meg, Chicago, USA
18.
“It all started with a Mylar balloon.
I yelled to my husband, ‘My birthday is in a couple of weeks!’
When I said that, the balloon moved over to me.”
“I got all giggly and said, ‘Someones here to wish me a happy birthday.
Whoever you are, thank you for remembering me.’
I thought it was my late husband who had died at 39 years old or my mom or Meme.
Its stayed with us for a bit.
I looked down the hallway and said, ‘Its going back.’
Then, it was gone.
Thinking it went back toward the kitchen, I got up, and my husband laughed.
‘You have to see where it went, dont you?’
Of course, I did.
I found it in our bedroom on the floor next to my side of the bed.
This made my husband a believer.
Ive always believed in this kind of thing.”
Susan, Vermont, USA
19.
We saw shadow figures and ghosts aplenty.
I’ve always been a spooky bitch.
Anyway, the story goes like this.
My daughter was having her 8th birthday party at our home with a gaggle of cuties in princess dresses.
They ran up to me, pleading to play with a Ouija board.”
“We collect originals, and at that time, we probably had about eight displayed around the house.
I said sure, set them up, and got ready to supervise.
Well, the board went off like it never had before!
Then off they went, in search.
This went on, and the planchette was flying.
Then, the messages started getting menacing.
‘I want you to play with me forever.’
‘If you stop, I will kill you.’
‘OK,’ I said, ‘let’s not play anymore.’
I moved to aparty gameand cake, but we never played Ouija in that house again.”
“I lived in a large, older rental home in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2005.
I could see them only if I didn’t look directly at them.
Nothing malicious or creepy.
I’d blink and shake my head, but they’d still be there.
Since they were just messing about among themselves and not bothering me, I simply ignored them.
They wouldn’t always be there, but it was quite frequent.
I didn’t believe in ghosts, but I decided then to be undecided.”
“I told absolutely no one.
I detest and thus avoid such sensationalism.
I said, ‘Oh yeah, I see them all the time!
No worries, I think they just like being a family.’
He was floored and busted out laughing, saying, ‘You’re kidding me?!’
I told him to go back; they’d still be there.
He did, and they were.
We had lively discussion as we ate, I’ll tell you that!”
Russ, Unknown
21.
I was surprised to see him and exclaimed, ‘Grandpa!
What are you doing here?’
In the morning, I woke up excited and looked for him.
I couldn’t find him anywhere.
I went to my dad’s room, where he was making his bed.
I was insistent that he visited last night and told my dad what he had said.
Tyler, California, USA
22.
That day, we stopped for lunch in a small town because my mom needed new sunglasses.
We decided to drive to a nearby Target, and as we did, we passed a cemetery.
He made eye contact and waved at us, which my mom and I found strange.
We drove by the cemetery multiple times that day, and we never saw him again.
Both my mom and I insist we saw a ghost that day.”
Their house faced a busy state highway.
Fast-forward, and I’m grown and married.
I was not the only one to feel this way.
One of the men a former Marine who worked there reported hearing ‘sounds’ on a Saturday morning.
), followed by a page of gibberish.
Another time, I heard a filing cabinet on the other side of my office slam shut.
This filing cabinet had to have a lever depressed to open it.
The footsteps passed directly overhead, then stopped.
I wonder if the new owners have experienced anything, but I’ve never dared ask."
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
