“I wish I could say that this was the only time this ever happened, but it wasnt.
It was only the beginning.”
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Turning to the little boy next to me, I said, ‘Adam, yo pass the dressing.’
Over the next several years, I had the same dream many times.
“Fast forward to when I was 28 and had a son.
Life went on, and several years later, we were living overseas.
We were sitting at the table when someone next to me asked me to pass the dressing.
A chill went through me.
Anonymous
2.
“When I was seven months pregnant with my only child, my mom’s cancer aggressively returned.
“A couple of weeks later, she was home again.
A sinking feeling washed over me because I had forgotten all about the dream.
Two weeks later, my mom passed away.
Emily, Houston, TX
3.
“On March 2, 1974, I had a dream during the night that I was inFrance.
It was a gray, overcast day and somewhat cold.
I looked up and heard a large airplane as it was ascending out of Orly airport.
I watched a piece of the airplane fall off.
The next scene that I saw was one of utter devastation.
The plane had crashed, and everyone aboard was dead.
The dream stuck with me.
I was pretty much struck numb.
I wish I could say that this was the only time this ever happened, but it wasnt.
It was only the beginning.
Darnell, Kennewick, WA
4.
“Two years ago, in the dead of winter, I was home alone with my infant daughter.
It was midday, I think, and I was watching a movie while she slept in my lap.
These doors were very thick and very heavy, requiring some force to open and close them.
This particular day, like most days, I left our master bedroom door slightly open.
Like, it closed with an ATTITUDE.
If youve ever seen someone rage-slam a door closed, then thats what it was like.
Like, a lot more than a light-gust-of-wind amount of force.
None of it made any sense.
“In general, we had little spooky issues with this house, but this one genuinely disturbed me.
I still cant think of how this event happened, and its never happened since.
“I dated a woman who had a very close friend die in high school.
His name was Kyle.
He was cremated, and she wore some of his ashes in a heart-shaped necklace.
She brought up Kyle.
She said he protected her and that she could prove it.
I laughed and told her to show me.
From where we sat in my office, we could see into the bedroom.
She said, ‘Kyle, show us that youre here.’
At that moment, the light in the bedroom turned off.
I walked over and turned it back on, confused.
Unnerved, I asked her to leave and take ‘Kyle’ with her.”
My companion and I traded guesses as to the reasons for their actions.”
As we entered, there were several policemen having lunch, as well.
My companion let’s call her ‘E’ asked what all the commotion on the highway was about.
Nodding, we took our table, and the waitress came over.
She smiled at us and said, ‘Hi guys.
My friend and I looked at each other, then at the waitress.
Weve never been here before.’
She smiled, ‘Yeah, right!’
then recited exactly what we were going to order, right down to the drink choice.
I asked her to humor me and tell me the last time we had eaten at her diner.
She told me that we’ve come in at least once a week over the last several weeks.
Im 5 6, Black, bald, and, 200 pounds.
To this day, we’ve never solved this mystery.”
Felix, Cincinnati, USA
7.
“My local church, which is now closed, was built in the mid-to-late 1800s.
My mom used to help clean the church and was used to odd things happening while she was there.
My sister and I went in to help clean once.
We were dusting on separate sides of the room when I stood up to stretch.
I saw a cloaked, hooded figure in the prayer corner, standing with her back to us.
“It felt like something I really shouldnt be looking at.
The figure had disappeared by then.
When we found no one, we got out as fast as we could.
Con, UK
8.
“When I was in my early 30s, something weird kept happening to me.
Every time I stood after sitting, there would be a penny where I had been sitting.
It didn’t matter where I was sitting or what my body position was.
I went to a friend’s house and sat/stood just to see to it I wasn’t imagining it.
When I stood, there was a penny.
Needless to say, no one had an explanation.
This odd occurrence stopped after about six months and has never happened since.”
“I grew up in a late-1700s farmhouse with its original outbuildings.
When I was about 8, my dad redid the barn by hand.
I got really close to them, but they didnt seem to see me or hear me.
When she came back, she asked, ‘Have you seen a little boy in here before?’
She had just seen a little boy who matched the exact description of the little boy I saw.
She said he had a blonde bowl cut and ‘looked Amish.’
She was laughing at us.
Ive never seen them again, but Im sure theyre still out there.”
Gillian, Massachusetts, USA
10.
“I was driving home from church one Sunday afternoon.
It was a nice, sunny day.
The church was only about two very long blocks from home.
I approached my street, and there was a car in front of me sitting at the light.
You could hear birds chirping and the sounds of the city.
I was resting my head on my hand, waiting for the light to change.
All of a sudden, the city noise stopped.
It just suddenly went completely quiet in my vehicle, as if time had stopped.
The light turned green, but none of us moved.”
“No one blew the horn at each other, either.
Then, out of the peripheral vision on my right, I saw movement.
It was a car doing about 50 in a 30.
It blew through the red light and never even put on its brakes.
Right after we each in our respective cars watched it fly by, the sounds of the city returned.
It was as if we were placed in a protective bubble to keep us from moving.
Whatever happened that day saved me.”
LC Briggs
11.
“A littler over ten years ago, I rented a house in Maricopa, Arizona.
Maricopa is a small town in the middle of the desert.
At one point, it had been a popular railroad stop.
The house I rented was lovely and cheap, but we only stayed there until our lease ended.
“On this particular Saturday, I had gotten home around noon after working a half-day.
We both talked about how much nicer the kitchen looked when the island was cleared off.
I went to the bedroom to change, and he came with me.
It was mine, and it’d been missing for about two weeks.
We still, to this day, cannot explain how that happened.
Katie, Beaverton, OR
12.
“It was summer, and I was staying in a dorm at my college.
I left for the student union around 10 a.m. on a bright, sunny day.
Each time I passed a room, the door slammed closed behind me.
I heard howling wind outside, so I tried to write it all off as that.
I saw none of them there.
They said theyd been there all day.
Im still so shaken up; my hair is standing up just retelling it.
I still have no explanation to this day.”
Deanna G
13.
“I grew up in a house in a small town in New Hampshire.
The house always felt ‘odd,’ and unexplained things happened while we lived there.
Her answer was simply, ‘I don’t know.'”
“My room was upstairs, and my walls abutted that closet.
When I was about 12, my aunt and uncle gave me a pair of earrings.
The earrings were white with a purple flower on them.
They were my favorite pair, and I wore them all the time.
My room had wide floorboards with gaps in between them.
I watched in horror as my earrings and the backings disappeared between the floorboards.
I was very upset and went downstairs for the rest of the day.
I did not go back upstairs to my room until it was time for bed.
I have never been able to come up with a logical explanation for this.”
Melanie Hodge, Sandwich, NH
14.
He was sitting at the foot of my bed when I went downstairs to get something.
I called his name from the bottom of the stairs, but there was no answer.
I went back upstairs to my room, and my bed was completely empty.
There was no sign of him anywhere.
Confused, I went downstairs to see if my mom had seen him.
To this day, we have no explanation for what actually happened.”
c4bed291d5
15.
“I was sitting on my bed with my daughter, and she dropped her pacifier under it.
I was a teen, so I still had my trundle bed.
When that time came…there was no pacifier.
I figured maybe it somehow bounced and got caught up in the bed frame.
That was definitely something I wasnt trying to deal with at that moment, so I let it go.
I pulled the mattress off and lifted the trundle frame, but there was no pacifier anywhere.
I have absolutely no idea where the pacifier went I’ve never found it.
Its been almost 30 years, and Im still baffled by it.”
Me and my sister both vividly remember this, but mum said it never happened.
I told my mom about this, hoping to jolt a memory, but I got nothing.
Theres no connection to it being anyone else we couldve hung out with, either.”
Ive always shrugged it off as their minds playing tricks…until it happened to me.
The other day, I was downstairs making dinner.
I went upstairs to get something and passed by my daughter’s room.
I saw her laying down in bed, watching something on her phone.
When I made my way back downstairs, I saw her laying on the living room couch.
“She said she even saw me walk up the stairs.
lunallee212
18.
Its a very thin chained necklace with a few pearls on it, and not very long, either.
I could not find itanywhere.
“One night, I was fishing off the bulkhead of the local town marina.
There are three docks in this marina: the A, B, and C docks.
I then said I needed a long-nose plier to remove the hook, and he handed one to me.
I released the fish, and he started walking down the dock towards the water.
He had just vanished into thin air, just as he’d appeared.”
“When I was about 7 years old, my grandmother sent me a box of embroidery thread.
It was in a beautiful gift box covered in cherubs and the thread was all different colors.
I would lay the box carefully beside my bed when I finished.
One morning, I woke up, and the box was gone.
I searched everywhere, in every room.
I asked my parents and siblings, and everyone denied seeing it.
I cried myself to sleep for a week, and every day, I and my family would look.
Inexplicably, two purple embroidery threads were placed on the lid.
Even to this day 20 years later it still bothers me.”
Makayla, Kentucky, USA
21.
My parents had to change the locks at least five times that I can remember.
I was always fiddling with it, but never took it off.
I had my back against the seat, so no one could’ve taken it off of me.
One Saturday, I woke up to my ceiling fan spinning.
Then, I noticed something hanging on the ceiling fan knob on my wall.
It was my house key, still on the rope, dangling like someone had just put it there.
I confronted my parents about it, and they had no knowledge of how it got there.
They had no idea it had even been lost.
The whole situation was very weird.
I have no idea how my key just vanished to reappear months later.
She looked like she was just out doing some chores.”
No one with us was wearing a skirt, either.”
We had a big rabbit cage wrapped in chicken wire there.
Finally, I got up and pulled the curtain open to see what all the commotion was about.”
“Now, our backyard dumped into dozens of undeveloped acres.
The nearest neighbors lights had to have been one or two miles away.
Other than that, it was like standing in a dark closet when looking back there at night.
Immediately after I pulled the curtain open, I was face-to-face with a hooded figure.
The hood was pointed it looked like something a monk or wizard would wear.
This entity had no face, but I knew this thing was looking at me.
It was darker than my pitch-black backyard.
I smashed my face against the glass to venture to see where it went.
The boogeyman was gone.
I dont know why I wasnt afraid, but I do believe this entity was demonic.
It tried to shake me…but it didnt work.”
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