“To this day, almost 30 years later, it still unnerves me to think about it.
Usually, bringing it up sets off a few days of the same nightmare.”
The thread quickly filled with hair-raising stories that left me speechless.
Here’s what people shared:
1.
“When I was little, I had this paratrooper action figure.
One night, I heard rumbling sounds on my desk.
I freaked out and hid under my covers.
The next day, I couldn’t find the action figure anywhere.
I even got my parents to help look for it.
It was gone for good.
People never believe me and make jokes aboutToy Story, but it genuinely traumatized me.”
u/RobotMathematician
2.
Everything looked exactly as it should until we opened one particular cupboard containing various piles of plates, etc.
The rest of the plates were completely undamaged."
The incident happened on my nan’s birthday."
u/mbcorbin
3.
“When I was 16, we lived out in the mountains outside Vancouver, WA.
But it happened again when we turned the next bend, and everybody else heard it.
It was closer this time but not accompanied by any rustling or sounds of movement.
It was just the sound of a girl giggling in the woods.”
“This part of the forest was thick with underbrush, and nothing could reasonably have passed through silently.
We all dismissed it, but we were a bit weirded out.
Nothing was visible at all.
We immediately ran back to the house.
u/alranach
4.
This particular night, we stood looking over our city in the front area of the cathedral.
It was magical looking at the lights of the city.
We walked around the block, where it was darker, to start our walk.
Suddenly, this big black dog ran up to us and started walking with us.
We saw two men attempting to break into the building.
They saw us at the same time we saw them.
They started to run towards us in a threatening manner.”
They heard it/saw him, and immediately ran away.
We stopped in shock as they ran away.
We looked down at the dog, and he was gone.
It was like he disappeared.
There was no way he could have run away.
Everyone told us he was our guardian angel."
u/Fun-Recording
5.
In my dream, he was wearing a red thong and pleasuring himself.
Odd detail, I know.
I woke up crying, and my husband consoled me.
This had never happened before in 10 years of marriage.
I don’t have nightmares.
About a month ago, my husband and I were cleaning up that side of the yard.
What do we find in the dirt about three feet from the bedroom window?
A RED THONG."
u/morticianmagic
6.
“I saw someone peek in my room one night while I was playing video games as a kid.
As always, I figured it was my mom checking on me after getting home.
I was concentrating and didn’t pay too much attention to it.
I might’ve called out, ‘Love you, goodnight!’
but I don’t remember.
I went downstairs 10 minutes later for water, and nobody was home.”
u/NomadicShip11
7.
“I was out for dinner with my best friend and her boyfriend.
“A coroner had to examine her.
u/Sqr121
8.
“When I was around 7, I would have a recurring nightmare.
In this nightmare, I would descend the 23 stairs in my childhood home to my basement.
The lightbulb was always found burned out.
To this day, almost 30 years later, it still unnerves me to think about it.
Usually, bringing it up sets off a few days of the same nightmare.”
u/Tswhiting
9.
“For a few months, I lived at a friend’s house during my last semester of college.
I slept in their exposed basement.
Their backyard sloped down, so it was level with the basement.
This door would close and lock itself occasionally, meaning BOTH locks would close.
He’d left the door open and had his back to it.
I spun around, but the curtain was closed and perfectly still.”
“His brother also told me of a time he was visiting and heard a noise in the basement.
He went downstairs and found a lamp on, but nothing more.
He tried turning it back on, but it wouldn’t.
That’s when he looked down and saw that it wasn’t plugged into any wall outlet.
He ran up the stairs, got in his car, and went to his mom’s house instead.
He never set foot in his brother’s basement again.”
u/Expensive-Vast-2123
10.
I was so freaked out.
We should have been T-boned that night.
I turned back around and saw that Mama was gone.
I swear she saved us that night.
We turned right back around and went to our apartment.”
u/jess-kaa
11.
“You know how you might identify people you’ve lived with for years by their footsteps?
Well, my dad had Parkinson’s for over 20 years.
Parkinson’s affects your ability to walk and thus causes a shuffling when trying to initiate movement.
Unfortunately, my dad was very stubborn and never listened to how the doctors told him to walk properly.
I heard this series of shuffling and thuds daily for my entire life.”
“Well, he unfortunately passed away in 2015 due to complications from surgery.
A month after his passing, I was upstairs in my room, browsing my computer.
It went on for a couple of seconds and stopped.
I was home alone and nearly crapped myself.
I went downstairs and saw no one there.”
u/PM_ME_ENORMOUS_TITS
12.
“I lost an entire day.
I went to bed Friday night and woke up Sunday morning.
I felt absolutely fine, and it hasn’t happened again.
u/Conch-Republic
13.
“Years ago, my wife and I stayed at a coastal hotel with a beachfront view.
It did this multiple times as it traveled across the beach.
We both saw it and remarked on it while it was happening.
It was a clear night; we were both stone-cold and sober.”
“We stared in awe at this thing for five minutes before it dispersed without reappearing.
u/AbsolutelyNotAPossum
14.
“Back in high school, my sister and I were in the kitchen together one day.
I turned away from the eggs to talk to my sister.
We both heard the distinct sound of the eggs rolling off the counter and splatting on the floor.
We whipped our heads around simultaneously, but the eggs were just sitting on the counter.
It’s the only supernatural thing I’ve ever experienced.
So minor, but so odd.”
u/teach_yo_self
15.
“I was sitting at a red light on a two-lane road.
My six-month-old daughter was in the car seat in the backseat.
The light turned green, and I heard a distinct female voice say, ‘WAIT!’
It wasn’t the person in the pickup because all windows were closed.
The pickup next to me didn’t move.
Two seconds later, a semi ran the red light at high speed.
Had I proceeded through the light, I would have been obliterated.
It haunts me to this day, 40+ years later.”
u/No_Change_78
16.
“I called out of work and went to the beach on my birthday.
My eye caught something shiny out on the water.
I watched as it was practically driven to me.
A partially inflated mylar balloon washed up pretty much right to my feet.
I had to walk 10 feet, maybe.
It said ‘Happy Birthday.’
It was pretty wild.
My grandmother had died just two months earlier.
It was a pretty strange coincidence.”
u/iskin
17.
“I work security.
I spent a lot of time controlling gate access, often at night.
One night, I was at a warehouse out in the boonies.
All the warehouse workers were gone for the night.
I was the only person around for miles.
I was kicking back, chilling, and just watching movies.
I spun around and looked outside, but I didn’t see anyone.
I looked out of all of the windows, then got up and went outside to look around.
I pulled up footage, and there was nothing.”
“I talked to other guards who had worked the night shift at that site.
Everyone had experienced it at one point or another.
I kept working at that site for two years, doing a lot of night shifts.
That phantom would show up in reflections every now and then at night.
u/HeyTuesdayPigInAPoke
18.
“One summer, my friend and I decided to go camping in a remote forest area.
On the second night, we both woke up to the sound of footsteps around our tent.
We figured it was an animal, but the steps were too heavy and deliberate.
Suddenly, there was a loud knock on a tree nearby, like someone hitting it with a stick.
We called out, but there was no response.
After a few tense minutes, the noises stopped.
The next morning, we found human footprints circling our campsite, which led nowhere.
u/Hot-Goddess25
19.
“I achieved a huge professional milestone and I was so happy.
That night, I dreamt that all these women came to my door.
I looked behind them, and there were rows of women.
I know they were all relatives who came to congratulate me.
I come from a long line of poverty mill workers and so forth in the UK.
My achievement was huge because it broke centuries of poverty.
I always think about that dream when I feel low.”
u/leatclowns
20.
“I was really sick and had a team of doctors trying to resolve a serious health issue.
It was not hot or uncomfortable but comforting, like a warm blanket.
And I heard a voice in my head saying I would be okay.
My urge to cry was so great that I had to hold my chest and close my eyes.
It was the most comforting, peaceful thing ever.
I ended up with the least ‘bad’ diagnosis and recovered after a couple of years.”
u/ntntna
21.
We all stopped and stared, and the toddlers started crying.
My mum made me and my uncle go up to check it out.
I didn’t see anything but got goosebumps and a horrible sense of dread.
None of us can explain it.”
u/McFrodoSwaggins
22.
I bought a completely frozen whole chicken the day before and put it in the freezer.
The chicken had several bites taken out of it and several teeth marks on it.”
u/Mynameisinuse
23.
We sat there having a nice chat, and it was a really comfortable and friendly atmosphere.
Nothing even happened; we were just catching up and enjoying the moment.
The first thing I saw was his Facebook status, saying that his dad passed away that night.
She had the scariest look on her face every time.”
u/pumppan0o0
25.
“My best friend and business partner died almost eight months after a sudden diagnosis of a brain tumor.
He went to hospice, and the day he died, I was at home with my wife.
It was George saying goodbye.
I didn’t believe in anything supernatural before this, but I still can’t explain it.”
u/Predapio1
26.
“One Christmas, we told our parents that a grandbaby was on the way.
My MIL had been to her hairdresser, who has a bit of a reputation as a ‘see-er.’
I think you’re getting a grandbaby for Christmas.'
We had told absolutely NO ONE.”
u/OlYeller01
27.
“This was in the early 2000s.
My roommate and I were watching TV and having wine and snacks.
She got up and went to the kitchen to get some more snacks.
When she turned around, suddenly I looked around, and we were having a party.
There were loads of people, a fancy setup, high tables, and a full bar.
She looked at me and said, ‘Where did everybody go?’
We’d seen the same thing.”
u/CanIHaveMyDog
28.
It sounded just like his voice.
They did it again a few minutes later as she tried another piece.”
u/akiralx26
29.And: “A patient said to me: ‘Who’s that whispering?’
It was just the two of us in the hospital room.
I said, ‘No one is whispering.
What are they saying?’
She just shrugged and said, ‘Does that mean I’m gonna die?’
I comforted her and told her we were taking good care of her.
But she did die of a cardiac arrest about an hour later.
She was very sick.
She must have known.”
u/pifor
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