Truly baffled by how many of y’all have had doppelganger experiences, TBH.
Warning: This post contains mentions of murder, shootings, and death.
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Hello, fellow enthusiasts of all things spooky!
“My sister called me because she was concerned her son had an invisible friend he always played with.
He had two sisters but preferred to go outside to play with his friend instead.
I brought pictures of various family members over to her house.
I was halfway through the stack, and he was losing interest.
Then all of a sudden, he lit up and said, ‘Thats my friend!’
It was a picture of our brother when he was the same age as my nephew.
He still remembers his friend as an adult.”
Theresa, Woodbury, USA
2.
“Back in the 1990s, I gave my mother a very nice CD player as a gift.
I had pre-loaded it with operatic and classical music for her.
When she died years later, I brought the CD player home with me.
I was telling my five grown children about this one day, out on the deck.
No one was in the house.
The kids just stared.
Anonymous
3.
My mom was in Detroit, Michigan but flew down to help as my hubby was at sea.
Mom arrived at the hospital and was directed to my ward.
On her way, she found me in the hall on a gurney holding my son.
She visited, fussed over her beautiful grandson for half an hour, then went to get coffee.
When she came back, she couldn’t find me and asked a nurse for help.
She was confused, claiming to have just visited.
“It was Christmas Eve a few years ago, and my family had come over for dinner.
My sister and BIL were staying over, but everyone else had left.
Instantly, a tremendously intense beam of light hit me straight in the eyes.
It was so sudden and intense that it was painful.
I yelled, ‘Turn off that damn light, you’re blinding me!’
The light went off, and I heard the door click closed.
“I searched through the house, but the doors were locked, and the house was otherwise empty.
“I work in an old estate house turned into a school.
We were alone in the building.
Then, we heard a woman’s voice come from seemingly nowhere, saying, ‘Hello?
We were the only ones there.”
baroquemama0226
6.
“The day my dad passed away, my mom and I were keeping vigil at his bedside.
Confused, he asked us why we left the room.
We said we wanted to give him and his family some alone time with Dad.
My mom and I heard nothing.
As I was walking back to my table from the salad bar, a woman was walking toward me.
We both stopped mid-stride just completely flabbergasted because it was like looking into a mirror.
She had the same hairstyle, glasses, and outfit on that I did.
Not only that, but her face looked just like mine.
For a brief moment, I thought I might be walking into a mirrored wall.
I got back to my table and was so confused.
I kinda wish I would have said something to her, though.”
Alicia, Hesperia, CA
8.
One weekend, they drove up with a friend and stayed with me.
It was perfect my girlfriend was away, so we had the whole house to ourselves.
We were getting ready to go out, so people were showering and getting dressed all upstairs.
I was downstairs in the kitchen washing some dishes.
My friend walked into the kitchen and asked me where everyone was.
I looked at him, confused, and told him that I thought they were all together.
“The steps were fast and heavy, there was no mistaking them.
Since we had wood flooring, it was an even more distinct sound.
The steps faded right before turning into the kitchen.
There was nobody else there.
“My husband and I stayed in Sedona, Arizona for two months about 12 years ago.
One day, we decided to eat lunch at a local restaurant.
It was chilly, so we both were wearing our down vests.
Mine was blue, his was black.
While we ate, we took off our vests and draped them over the back of our chairs.
When we finished, I took my vest off the chair back and carried it out.
My husband was paying the check and forgot his vest when he left.
It was not there.
We asked the manager if anyone had turned it in, but no such luck.
A few weeks later, we drove back to our home in Chicago.
When we got to our house, my husband went to hang up the new vest he bought.
Susan, Arizona, USA
10.
My brothers and I were in our bedroom, which had two beds in it.
They slept in one bed, and I slept in the other by myself every night.
After a while, our beds began to shake on their own.”
“This made us stop and look at each other, confused.
We couldnt make the whole bed we were standing on top of to vibrate like that.
We were too afraid to jump off of the beds, so we stood and stared, puzzled.
Finally, we heard our father walk in the front door, and the beds stopped moving completely.
He pushed the beds back to their original places because we were too small to do it.
I remember that night like it happened yesterday.
It never happened again, but it wasnt the end of the paranormal activity in my life.”
Cassandra, San Antonio, TX
11.
As I was getting ready to go, my grandmother suddenly told me that I was not going.
As it turned out, my friend’s mother was having an affair.
A bullet was lodged in my friend’s face, and her brother was shot in the back.
I would have been right next to my friend who was shot if I’d gone that night.”
“My sister took prescription narcotics for cranial dystonia.
She complained that her medication kept disappearing.
After several complaints, I told her to give me her latest refill and I would lock them up.
I started carrying the lockbox key with me at all times, but that didn’t help.
My neighbor popped in to visit, and I asked her to watch and count again with us.
It was impossible, so we counted a third time.
Now it was down to 52.
They were on a tray on the table, so I know none were dropped.
They simply disappeared before our eyes.
To this day, I have no explanation for it.”
“Back in 2019, I visited my sister in California with two friends.
Coming home, we took a redeye, so we began landing in Philadelphia around dawn.
Daylight stretched across the city, so I could see everything and patiently waited to land.
It was gone in an instant, and I wasn’t even sure I saw it.
It reminded me of, like, a villain’s evil laser beam blasting into the sky.
He saw it, too, while driving to the airport!
Neither of us could explain it, and neither of us could tell where it came from.
It was very surreal.”
“This unusual experience occurred shortly after my wife and I moved into a duplex in St. Louis.
We had a 29-gallon aquarium that we decided to convert to a terrarium.
We never worried about this plant crashing down on the terrarium; it seemed secure.”
My wife suggested I must have been sleepwalking and taken the plant down.
To this day, we have no explanation.
There was never anything paranormal in the house, and we never experienced anything like that again.”
“My husband, two daughters, and I moved into a home built in the mid-1850s.
We dealt with odd phenomena in the house before we even moved in.
I yelled for my husband to turn down the sound to no avail.
I was astounded to find that he wasnt there at all.”
“I turned off the TV and started back upstairs only to note car lights coming up the driveway.
Later, while watching TV in our den, a remote-controlled car came rolling through.
Thinking my kids or husband were playing a trick on me, I went to find the culprit.
They were all sound asleep in their beds.
At that point, I ran and jumped into bed with no explanation.
He said he was so scared, he just covered up his head and eventually fell asleep.
He, I, and his dog have heard and seen ‘things.’
I sat up and threw the bedding back rather forcefully.
There were no mice, but Ihadseemingly been tucked in.”
His dog heard it as well and followed the measured steps to and fro from downstairs.
Another time again while watching TV something whooshed past the door to the den.
We all saw it.
I had not gotten up at any point through the night, and told him so.
We’ve named her after our two grandmothers: Maud Alice.”
“Several years ago, I was the leader for a Girl Scout Wider Opportunity.
We were driving a 15-passenger van and towing a large trailer full of our gear.
We had stopped for the night at a Girl Scout camp.
The next morning, I asked the other leader if she had checked the trailer hitch and safety chains.
She said, ‘Yes.’
She said, ‘Of course I did.’
I continued on down a small access road to the highway.
I stopped before turning onto the highway and asked her a third time if she was sure she checked.
By then she was getting annoyed and replied, ‘I’ve told you yes twice.'”
“I pulled onto the highway and began to drive the speed limit.
After a short distance, we came to a very steep stretch of road.
The safety chains caught, but it gave us quite a jolt.
As we got out to reconnect the hitch, the other troop leader looked at me very weirdly.
Yes, somehow, I knew.”
“My younger sister and I have always been close.
My sister and I thought it was a weird coincidence and forgot about it.”
I was trapped in the car for three hours and suffered life-altering injuries.
The last time it happened was several years later.
I had just taken a home pregnancy test, and it was positive.
She immediately said, ‘You’re pregnant, aren’t you?’
I told her yes, and expressed my surprise, since we obviously had just found out ourselves.
Sure enough, nine months later, my son was born on a Tuesday.
I’ve learned never to take what she dreams about me for granted again!”
Lani, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
19.
“One afternoon, I was sitting on the couch, reading.
I was passing time before picking up my son from school.
I looked up from my book and looked at the fireplace door.
A dark human form walked from my right to my left.
I followed it with my eyes.
“Another day, I was in the same position on the couch.
Something made me turn to my right.
I saw this black form once again.
It stepped out from the bookcase in the hall.
As I turned to look, it slowly glided backward and away from my view.
To my right were the bedrooms, including the guest bedroom where I keep both parents’ urns.
“While waiting, we sat in the car and talked things over and made up.
We hugged it out and were both feeling happy and joking with each other again.
The car never had any problems like that before or since, and still runs just fine.
We both half-jokingly say it was her great-grandmother trying to get us to stop our dumb argument.”
He said the alarm kept going off, and he couldn’t figure out why.
When we went inside, it was exactly as I had suspected.
Cold air was blowing through a window frame onto the motion detector, causing it to trigger.
Once we figured that out, I asked him if I could see the basement.
We went down into the basement, and it felt like it went on for three blocks.
There was room after room on either side of us.
I suddenly realizedthiswas the location of my recurring dream.
We went through the curtains to find a laundry room and three large furnaces in a rather clean room.
It wasn’t scary or creepy, just a utility room.
After that night, I never had the dream again.”
PJ, Kenosha, WI
22.
She was smiling, and I was clutching my chest.
I couldnt breathe, and neither of them were acknowledging the fact that I was struggling.
I woke up with the feeling of dread, and my chest felt heavy.
It really bothered me.”
I asked her if everything was OK, and she said, ‘Why do you ask?’
I told her about my dream; it was met with dead silence.
I reminded her that her dad said it would be OK. She said she felt peace at that moment.
The test came back negative and, just like her dad said, everything ended up being fine."
“My best friend and I moved into a house together when we were in college.
A couple had built the house 60 or so years before and had lived in it their entire lives.
The husband had passed away years before, and the wife had been living there alone for many years.
We both just stood there and stared across the hall at each other with big eyes.”
“We ended up spending the night together in his room, staring at the door.
I eventually moved to another house outside of town and sold the old place to another friend.
I’m not sure it worked.)”
Bill/Lincoln, Nebraska
24.
She was really good about letting me get the experience.
One day, were out running an errand and were driving through a small town.
We came to the point that we had to stop as we were crossing the main road through town.
If I had gone, the truck would’ve T-boned us, and I likely would’ve died.
She asked me how I knew that was going to happen, and I told her I didnt.
I still cant explain it.
Its as if someone put a spell on me so that I couldnt move."
“That was an eerie experience, but what was really eerie is it happenedagainin the early ’90s.
I was patrolling with my squad sergeant, and we came to an intersection with traffic lights.
It turned green, but I was once again in a weird trance-like state and just sat there.
Again, I would have been T-boned and likely killed, and maybe my passenger, too.
We never talked about it again.
Roger, Oregon, USA
25.
“In college, I lived in a haunted dorm.
I had heard spooky stories about what happened but didnt think too much of it.
I had been living in the dorms for maybe a month or two when the ‘incident’ occurred.
I woke up around 2 a.m. to POUNDING on my door.
Like, BANG BANG BANG BANG.
“The series of bangs went on for two or three rounds before I finally got up.
When I finally opened the door…nobody was there.
I initially thought someone had been playing a prank on me.
The weird part, though, was that my floor had motion sensor lights that werereallysensitive.
Those lights were off when I answered the door, and the hallway was pitch black.
26.And finally, “My dear sister Rose passed away unexpectedly on March 22, 2016.
Losing her devastated me.
I was mentally very unwell for a long time.
I still grieve for her to this day.
She and I were very close.
My visit with her after Hurricane Katrina devastated our city was heartbreaking and very difficult for both of us.
Rose was extremely considerate.
She always sent me care packages no matter where I was stationed.
Some packages contained several bags of Camellia Red Beans, a popular local brand in New Orleans.
I could never cook them the way Rose did, so I rarely tried.
I still have two bags left of the red beans she sent me.
I keep them in a drawer in my kitchen.
After putting my bags on the counter, I went to the sink to wash my hands.
Surprisingly, something on the edge of the sink caught my eye.
There on the counter was one red bean!
I stared at it for a few seconds, because it was strange to see it there.
I knew I hadn’t taken out any of my bags of red beans recently.
I pulled out one Ziploc bag and then the other.
So, to my relief, I hadn’t lost my mind.
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