Every month, I askBuzzFeed readersjust like you to share their spookiest real-life “unsolved mysteries.”
The distance sucked, and we argued a lot.
The message was mostly innocuous, but it pissed me off, so I sent a snarky reply.
I chalked it up to relationship stress and alcohol."
I tried to laugh it off because we were working things out.
He got a weird look on his face, half suspicious, half guilty.
He asked what I thought the message had said, and I told him.
It freaked us both out but also started some serious trust issues that we never recovered from."
Anonymous
2.
“I was 22, young, happy, and living alone in an apartment for the first time.
One day, I went to the common mailbox area to pick up my mail.
The weirdest feeling came over me.
I realized she looked and sounded incredibly familiar, exactly like me but fifty years older.
I knew, with every fiber of my being, that shewasme.
I turned around immediately after that one step away, but no one was there.”
One day, one of the goldfish disappeared.
I looked around on the floor, thinking it might’ve jumped out.
I completely emptied and cleaned the tank to look for it, including the filter.
I removed all the gravel and checked it thoroughly for remains.
At this point, I figured one of my cats had removed the lid somehow and eaten it.
The other goldfish remained, happy and healthy.
I never got another fish.
The top half of its back fin was missing and healed over, but otherwise, it was fine.
I still have no explanation for how this fish reappeared so long after it was missing.
I figure it was on some grand and dangerous adventure in an alternate reality."
I knew she had cheer practice and never skipped it, so I wondered what was wrong with her.
It wasn’t a trick of the light or my mind playing tricks on me because of my nap.
problematik
5.
“I seem to have a mischievous ghost who has followed me to three different houses.
Its mostly just a nuisance, doing things like turning up the TV or turning on lights.
One thing really shook me, though.
I had a diamond necklace given to me by my husband.
I never found it despite looking everywhere.
I was devastated.”
“Fast forward four years and we were living in a different city.
I got out of bed one morning and stepped on something sharp in the carpet.
I looked down and it was that same necklace I’d been missing for years.
My husband had vacuumed that carpet the previous evening, and there was no necklace.
I am now waiting for another necklace I’m missing to be returned!
Mary, Alberta, Canada
6.
We were all saying goodbye, and the goodbyes continued out onto the porch.
It was nighttime, so it was dark outside.
So my grandma decided to call her and ask if she had guests over.
They got halfway there but came running back and were truly spooked.
They said the closer they got, the more the moving figure didn’t look human.
It was truly the creepiest thing, and all nine of us saw it.
I still feel it inside me when I think about that day.
A lot of weird stuff happened at my grandparents' house while I was growing up besides that.
One time, the curtains burst into flames for no reason.
He ran into the house and opened the door to the basement stairs, but there was no fire.
meggs0486
7.
“For my 13th birthday, I had five friends over for a sleepover.
I said, ‘Oh, you didn’t just see what I saw, did you?’
She just nodded, still speechless.
My other friends separated us, thinking we were pretending and just trying to scare them.
We ‘investigated’ after arming ourselves with umbrellas and vacuum cleaner attachments but found no one in the house.
He usually wore old Navy trench coats and high-top sneakers.
‘Here’s where it gets really spooky.
He immediately said, ‘I remember!
My Mom had had that little picture for years hanging right there above the hall light switch.
It was him.”
Lacey, Dublin, OH
8.
“My partner lost her bonnet one day.
We looked everywhere, and I meaneverywhere.
For months, it went missing.
There on her head was the missing bonnet.
There was never any explanation as to where it came from and why it was on her head.
We’d looked formonths,and it was suddenly just there.”
“Part of my job is to take photos of the places we’re surveying for various projects.
Some of these places can be pretty remote.
Usually, it’s pretty normal.
It was all on its lonesome out in a bunch of cornfields.
There were no farmhouses or residences in about ten miles, so the place was quiet.
All you could hear was the wind blowing in the corn and the building creaking a bit.”
There was absolutely no one around.
Now, this place has been abandoned for at least the last 40 years.
Like I said, this was miles and miles from any houses.
The kid in the photo must have been about 5 or so based on their height.
The kid also only appeared in one frame.
I was awakened at about 3 a.m. by a frightening, loud scream.
Assuming our little girl had a bad nightmare, I hurried to her room.
Almost immediately, I smelled a terrible odor, almost putrid.
I had no idea what I was seeing or smelling.
In a bit, her room returned to normal.
Since she was obviously fine, I went back into my bedroom and eventually went back to sleep.”
After sharing our stories that morning, we were both freaked by our experiences.
In the evening, I was giving our daughter a bath.
Out of the blue, she said to me, ‘Mommy, I’ve seen the devil.’
We had not discussed the devil in our house nor in the church we attended.
I calmly asked her, ‘When did you see the devil, sweetheart?’
and she answered, ‘He was in my bedroom last night.’
“Before I was born, my great-grandmother was brutally murdered in her home in Tennessee.
My parents relocated to New Mexico, where I was later born.
I was an only child until I was 17, so I learned to entertain myself.
My mom once came in and asked me who I was talking to.
I told her I was talking to Lucy, then said, ‘Can’t you see her?
She’s sitting on my bed.'”
“My great-grandmother’s name was Lucille, so my mom asked me what ‘Lucy’ looked like.
Fast forward to when I was a senior in high school.
While sorting through old photos, I came across a picture of a beautiful woman with dark black hair.
She told me about the story again from when I was a child.
I don’t recall ever having seen her as a teenager or an adult.
“One day, I stopped to visit some friends.
Her grandmother was disabled and needed frequent assistance.
I showed up just after Brenda had put her grandmother to bed upstairs.
It was a warm summer evening, and we just stood in the backyard talking.
I told her, though, that someone was looking at us through the window.”
“As soon as I pointed, the person looking at us backed up.
It looked like they backed up into a tunnel or something, fading out strangely into blackness.
She said that he often came over to visit his wife.
Lance, Montana, USA
13.
“I frequently have very vivid, weird dreams.
One that has always given me pause happened a few years back.
I was visiting family and friends who lived in another state then.
She had also told me she was going to a party the night before.
She let him borrow the phone, got it back, and went home without problem.
However, something told her to check her bank account.
Sure enough, she was missing around $300.”
“The guy had used her Cash app and sent himself the money from her phone.
Luckily, she was able to get it fixed and got her money back.
It wasnt until she said, ‘No, this just happened last night!’
“At about age 12, I fixated on a surname.
Nobody I knew had that name, but still, I locked on to it.
Somehow, I knew.”
Once he was older, the sightings grew more unsettling.”
“Living in this house, I always had a sense of unease, like I was being watched.
Standing in my kitchen was the little boy, caked in dried cement.
He pointed to the neighbor’s house and said, ‘That’s where I’m buried.’
Halfway around the block, there was an old cemetery that obviously existed before the neighborhood was built.
On one of our many visits to the panhandle, we took my parents along for the trip.
They had rarely traveled far from our home state of Iowa and absolutely fell in love with this area.
It gets even weirder, though.
The next day my wife took the camera to get the photos developed.
Knowing Mom wanted us to remember the good times, not the bad, brings us great peace.”
Randy & Marla, New London, USA
17.
His hair was kind of strawberry blonde and cut shorter, though it still had some movement to it.
He glanced over at me, turned, and crossed the threshold and into the hallway.”
I went looking down the hallway to see if he was walking around elsewhere, but he was gone.
I asked my mom’s friend if she knew him, but she didn’t, either.
To this day, that’s been the clearest form an apparition has ever taken around me.
Sara, Los Angeles, USA
18.
“I’d never experienced a precognitive dream until about 25 years ago.
We lived in a small town and went to a quaint little church with about 75 members.
Being so small, our pastors were bivocational.
Our kids went to school together, and our sons were friends throughout high school.
One night, I dreamed he and I were sitting on the foot of a bed.
How will I tell them?’
I had my arm around his shoulders, trying to comfort him.
I remember telling him that his family was strong and they would understand and be okay.
I was so perplexed by that dream when I woke up.
“I told my husband about the dream and that I was really freaked out about it.
This was not long after 9/11.
I got chills and felt the color drain from my face.
I looked at my husband who had what I imagine was the same expression.
I did, through tears and blushing.
He asked when Id had the dream, and I told him I thought itd been the previous Thursday.
He and his wife both looked surprised.
That was the day hed gotten his orders and had to tell his family.
I described the room, remembering that the bedding was floral and a couple of other details.
Some of my colors were off, but everything else was really close.
I still get chills thinking about that experience!
He returned home safely 13 months later.”
GO, Tulsa, OK
19.
“I grew up very close to my moms side of the family.
My grandma was very strong-willed, and my grandpa was the easiest-going guy.
I woke up one day to the smell and FEEL of Marlboro Reds cigarette smoke blowing across my face.
I didnt smoke and wasnt sure why I could feel it on me.
He smoked Marlboro reds for 20+ years, and I knew it was him saying goodbye.”
“I went on an international trip and had my passport in my backpack.
Sadly, when I arrived in Europe and tried to go through customs, I couldnt find it anywhere.
I tried to go back on the plane for it, but the officials wouldnt let me.
So, so frustrating.
Years later, I decided to use that backpack again for another trip.
To this day, I am still flabbergasted and do not understand what happened or where it went.”
That night, I went to sleep still crying about my ring.
To this day, I still have no idea how that happened.
It gives me chills just thinking about it.”
He drew a diagram for us, explaining who had lived in which rooms.
My ex’s mom had passed away, and this uncle was her youngest sibling.
I never met his mom, but we had a photo of her on display in our place.”
“We all went to sleep soon after.
A white light surrounded her body, and she was sitting in the drivers seat of the car.
At that moment, my ex woke up and joined me at the window.
We then turned to look at each other.
I asked, ‘Do you see what I see?’
and he immediately replied, ‘YES.’
It was his Mom!
I felt like I was in a dream walking towards myself!”
We watched each other and nodded as we passed, but didnt stop or talk.
I got to the bleachers and sat down by my husband.
I was like, ‘Oh, thank God!
You saw her, too!
I thought I was hallucinating!’
When my mom got there, I told her about it.
This was in the late ’60s, so there were no ultrasounds.
Maybe that woman was my lost twin)."
GO, Tulsa
24.
“I suffered a fall one evening, and the next day I was texting with my adult granddaughter.
She was sympathetic and asked about the incident and my injuries.
I got a text saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ written in cursive.
Of course, I thought it was from my granddaughter, so I responded as such.
She said, ‘Granma, that wasn’t from me!’
“When I was 11 years old, I lived in a condo in a small village in Germany.
One evening, my brother and I were home alone.
It felt like someone was pulling my blanket away really slowly.
Wide awake and panicking, I pulled the blanket back.
I panicked and didn’t move for hours.”
“Everything was shut, so no wind was blowing in my room.
Now, here comes the creepiest part.
She took it back, and the same thing happened again.
No one else believes her, but I know she’s telling the truth.”
Kat, Germany, EU
26.
“My cat loved this little terrycloth ball she had that rattled.
She would throw it in the air and catch it; it was really funny to watch.
I remembered the ball because she loved it and figured we’d find it then, but no.
It just vanished mid-air.
We like to say it went in a black hole somewhere.”
27.Many, many years ago, I was staying in a house in Ireland.
I could then see the security system and feed from the cameras on their iPad.
I was shocked by what I saw: it was non-stop fairy-land.
Bonnie, USA
28.
“When I was about 8 years old, my family vacationed in Acapulco, Mexico.
I got caught in a rip tide and was quickly swept out far from the beach.
My dad was trying to reach me but couldnt.
Giant waves were crashing over my head, and I was petrified.
Out of nowhere, a surfer was at my side.
He put me on his board and swam us back to shallow water.
When we turned around a few seconds later, the surfer had vanished.
It was a ranch-style house with a crawl space for an attic and an unfinished basement.
“At the front of the house was a small window just under the roof peak.
Now, I never said anything to my husband; it would have freaked him out.
I never mentioned it to anyone else either.
He said he always felt he was being watched while he waited for the school bus in the mornings.
He said it was when he was very small, literally still in a crib.
He said the little old man would suddenly appear in this one specific corner and would talk to him.
in the evenings after putting him down for the night, never knowing there was someone else there.”
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