“He waved back, like a puppet moving only his arm.
“We bought a house that belonged to an older couple who had recently died.
The older woman had been a piano teacher and taught piano lessons in the home.
My wife also played, and we brought her piano along when we moved in.
One night, we were watching TV, and a re-run of the showCheerscame on.
“Years ago, my husband and I took a trip fromNew Yorkto Florida.
Starting at the NYC airport, I used my drivers license as proof of identification.
When we arrived at Miami airport, my license was nowhere to be found.
I frantically spent an hour calling places, emptying luggage, double checking pockets, my purse, everything.
It was my license, rescued from the incinerator.”
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3.
“My elderly father usually came to our house for dinner on Sundays.
During the week, we seldom spoke.
He did his own shopping and went out for dinner every night.
One night, I had an uncomfortable feeling about him.
I tried calling numerous times, but got no answer.
After dark, I knew he was not at dinner, but we lived almost an hour away.
He had bought ice which was now melted and had split his elbow open and couldnt get up.
We took him to the ER, and he was stitched up and otherwise seemed no worse for wear.
He asked me how I knew he was in trouble, and I didnt know what to say.
I just had a feeling.”
“My parents' house…echoes.
I would go downstairs to greet him, and there would be no one there.
Eventually, I joined the echoes.”
I texted back, ‘I am in class waiting for my professor.’
A few minutes later, my mom texted back that she finally believed me about the echoes.
“I used to work nights as a nurse in a childrens hospital on the hematology/oncology unit.
In the morning, the mom of my patient came out, and we chatted.
I didnt have the heart to tell her that no one was in the room next to hers.
When I told another nurse, they said, ‘Oh, room 3?
Yeah, that room is haunted.
Its always the sound of a baby crying.'”
Just before I started working there, a patient had died who was beloved by the staff.
If you buzzed her in, the kid who was deteriorating would usually pass within a couple hours.
We had to climb the fences to get in there.”
“We were walking around and played a little hide and seek.
He was just standing there, not moving at all.
I soon got tired of sitting on the roof and waved at him.
He didn’t move.
So I called him, and he waved back, like a puppet moving only his arm.
I thought he was messing with me, trying to freak me out.
There was no way he could’ve covered that, like, 200 meters in a second.
I was kinda freaked out and asked him how he got from that point to where he was now.
When we looked over to where I thought I saw him, nothing was there.
It still gives me chills.”
We stayed all day until it was dark.
Weeks later, we wanted to go again.
We drove to the location and couldnt find the beach anywhere.
We drove around for hours trying to find it.
We ended up stopping at a business nearby that had a security guard.
We asked her about the beach, and she looked at us confused, saying there was no beach.
Still to this day, we have no idea what happened and have never found that beach again.”
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8.
In between the bedroom door and closet door stood an eerie shadow man.
The photo was taken from a low angle, but it wasn’t blurry at all.
This ‘man’ was a clear shape he was made of pure dark gray shadow.
We never saw the picture again and never figured out how it got there."
“I grew up in an older New England home.
In the early 1900s, our house had been converted into a two family home.
When my parents bought it, they began the slow process of converting back to a single family house.
“On this particular night, my sister and I were full of energy and doing anything but sleeping.
We received MANY warnings from our parents to knock it off.
In the morning, we were both grounded.
But not for horse play, but rather because we broke the nightlight.
We protested, insisting we didnt do it, but neither mom nor dad believed us.
To this day, my sister and I both get a chill thinking about that night.
We know what we saw, but still dont know who or what broke the nightlight.”
10.
“One night my husband was working at a Christmas fair while I was home with the sleeping kids.
I swear, I heard my husband come home.
Odd thing was, he never said anything and also didn’t come into the living room.
I decided to wait it out, but after 10-ish minutes, I lost my patience and went looking.
Neither him nor his shoes were there.
I tried to call him, but he didn’t pick up.
“I used to live in an old factory building that was converted to lofts.
It had thick walls and thick floors I never heard my neighbors.
I made myself breakfast and turned on the TV.
I was confused, to put it lightly.”
I determined that I had a ghost, but I never felt malevolence, so I named her Ghostie.
Many months later, my friend came over and asked if I have someone else that stays here.
I said it was like, just me, my dog, and Ghostie.
She told me that she is sensitive and could tell there was someone else there.
I did not have any marbles in my house.
Shes followed me since then.
I’m not entirely sure why, but she likes to let me know shes still around.
She likes to steal my now-wifes belongings and hide them.
I told my wife to apologize or ask for them back, and then they reappear.
I actually think Ghostie is pretty funny and protects me from other spirits.
We talk to her like shes one of our pals, and she plays with the cats.”
I never felt alone in the house, especially when I was trying to go to sleep.
I looked over and, of course, it was gone.”
The rest of the day passed, and I forgot about the whole thing.
What she tells me next is a complete and utter shock.
She didnt tell me about it because she didnt want to scare me.She saw it, too.
Ive never had any other supernatural events occur outside that house only inside.
“I had a pair of small gold hoops that lived in a jewelry dish on my vanity.
One day while I was cleaning my vanity, I picked them up and accidentally dropped one.
I never heard it fall.
I searched under the vanity, under my bed, under all the things around it.
I searched the drawers, swept the floor…and still, nothing.
It was missing for a couple of weeks.
I was frozen for a second before uttering a small ‘thank you’ to whoever had returned it.”
My husband, wide awake, said, ‘No, he’s here, next to me.
Ive been hearing the boy singing for a while and didn’t want to wake you up.’
I then told him that we needed to stay quiet or he would be scared off.
We then heard one more ‘la la,’ and he was gone.
It did not feel creepy; it was actually strangely heartwarming."
Some even saw him."
“A few weeks ago, I lost the keys to my car.
I even went so far as to empty out the garbage and the recycling bin.
I was desperate enough to yell out to no one, ‘OK, jokes over.
like bring back my keys.’
I said to myself, ‘Well I didnt look there.’
And there they were!
No idea how they got there.
The next day I bought a locator tag, which I immediately attached to my keychain.”
It faced a big field, beyond which was a row of bungalows and fields.
I was about 11 or 12, it was late in the night, and it was September.
We had the windows open a bit, and my mom, sister, and I were upstairs chatting.
It looked 2D, not like a sphere.
It wasn’t glowing, it was just there, we all saw it.
Then, it got stranger."
We all watched it took maybe five minutes to get from one side of the field to the other.
Then, it just stopped.
Finally, the invisible clock hand continued until the circle disappeared behind the invisible giant card altogether.
Now, this was in the mid-’90s.
We all saw the same thing and couldn’t explain it.
“My fiance and I moved into a trailer and had many paranormal experiences there.
Occasionally, I would go outside to sit on the porch to smoke.
He refused to sleep in his bedroom for the first few months after we moved in.
The running came all the way to our bedroom door and stopped.
Anytime my son napped in his room, his toys would go off until he woke up.
We later found out a child had previously lived in that house and passed away in a wreck.”
“When I was 7, we lived in this two-story home that always felt off.
One time I was coming from my parents’ downstairs bathroom and passed the second bedroom.
I peeked in while passing and thought I saw my dad bending over, tying his shoe.
He looked up at me.
I stopped and called my dad’s name, asking where he was.
He said, ‘Im down in the den watching TV.’
No matter how many times I think back to that story, I still cannot explain it.”
I was not friends with Scott and maybe never even spoke to him in school.
Anyway, in my very first class of my first year in college, guess who walked in?
Damndest premonition I ever had."
“I used to work in an escape room back when they first became popular, so around 2015.
Because the camera was in the top corner of the room, it couldn’t be reached, either.
It was about 12 feet off the ground.
We were both super freaked out and couldnt explain it.
I still have no explanation for it other than that the building had a ‘visitor.’
It wasnt the only experience I had while I worked there, but it was the first.”
“Ive always had inexplicable, eerie feelings in certain areas of my childhood home.
I was about 7 years old and lying in bed asleep one night.
Suddenly, the power went out in my room.
I tried to be brave and lay there for a while, attempting to go back to sleep.
“This, of course, freaked me out.
I jumped up out of bed and ran to my doorway.The doorknob was gone.Like, completely gone.
Just door and wall where it once was.
I started really panicking at this point.
Like, I physically could not get out of my room.
I started banging on the wall, screaming for my grandparents because I couldnt leave to find them myself.
My grandpa came to my rescue with a flashlight and found nothing out of the ordinary.
My momnevergot sick growing up, so the dream was strange.
“I woke up immediately after this, and it was about 6 a.m.
I had this gut feeling that I should go downstairs to check on things.
As I did, everything that had just occurred in my dream happened in real life.
Every detail in my dream was captured perfectly.
I was freaked out, but didnt tell anyone because I didnt think they would believe me.
I was terrified to dream for awhile because I was afraid it would actually happen in real life.”
I left home wearing a diamond pinky ring that shed left for me.
While in Pennsylvania, we stayed at a hotel for one night.
The day that we checked out, I realized that the ring was missing from my finger.
“Months later, the ring showed up in my driveway.
Just sitting there as though it were gently placed.
I think of this often and smile.
She brought it back to me, and it brings instant comfort.”
We saw a disc-shaped object floating in the air.
A couple of the neighbors were outside and also saw it we were in complete shock.
It shot up into the sky, and after that, we never saw the lights again.
Every so often, we would talk about it amongst ourselves.
To this day I believe in UFOs, and I always will.”
25.And finally, “One summer, my family and I went tubing in the river.
I was using a koozie I had made to honor my sister, which had her name on it.
I was incredibly bummed, but we were all fine, and I still wanted to enjoy the trip.
We stopped on a bank a little ways later to swim.
All of the sudden, I felt the koozie sliding by my hand under the water!
The water was moving fast, so there was no reason it should not have passed that area yet.
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