r/Paranormal

For example, I hear knocks in my house and scratching under my bed, but when there are people at home, nobody hears them.

I don't know if this is the correct sub for this but I'm curious if other people have experienced something like this.

A couple weeks ago I had a dream, it felt very vivid. I was laying in bed. 3 men broke into my house, they just looked like shadow figures. I couldn't make out any faces. One of the men lean over and whispered "don't keep your doors unlocked."

I woke up immediately to check if my doors were locked and my front door was not. I quickly locked it and ran back to my room. I felt scared in the dream but now I'm wondering if it was just something trying to protect me?

I've had dreams before that end up happening later in life. I can't remember it now but one time I even woke up from a dream, told my spouse about it, then later that day it happened. He was super freaked out lol. I've never told someone about a dream and have it happen later that day. Most people don't believe me so it was nice to have proof for once!

I (29f) want to know if my personal beliefs about something can change the way it interacts with me.

My mom was close with her parents despite them being a little mean. They both passed away in 2022 and we have both their urns in our house on our shelf. We also own my grandma's 2 most prized possessions, her grandfather clock and her piano along with some other trinkets. My mom is very sensitive to negative energy and has been feeling like its her parents on the shelf bringing the bad energy into the house and has talked about wanting to get both of their urns out of her house and her old belongings as well.

I was talking to my mom maybe a couple months ago and she told me that she saw someone in the house. She was in her room and saw a tall black figure in a hat poking his head around the corner. She said he wasnt doing anything bad and looked more like he was curious about the house than anything else. I asked her if maybe she thought he was the culprit instead of my grandparents and she said she didnt know. But she told him to shoo and he seemed to go away.

Fast forward a few weeks im talking to her again where she told me the strangest thing had happened. She was talking to my brother (28) (we both live at home with her) and she said she really needed to get grandma out of the house because shes freaking the cats out. My brother told her that it wasnt grandma. It was the tall man in the house. My mom said she had never told anyone but me about seeing him. I asked if she was positive and she said yes. That not only did my brother say hes seen him poking around the corner of doorways but described the hat he was wearing perfectly and even drew it. My mom was in utter shock and now I know there's something in the house. They both say hes just curious and kind of just hangs around. I told them that it probably wasnt a good idea to interact with him and what if hes only pretending to be curious so you invite him and make him feel like hes welcome to stay. They told me they hes fine.

Well one night I came home around 2:30 in the morning from my boyfriends and the minute I stepped into my room I felt a nasty feeling and it made the hairs on my neck stand up. My cat normally comes into my room and gets on my bed but this time he bolted to my closet hissing, then bolted under my desk still hissing and growing and then bolted under my bed. It was freaking me out. The cat jumps out from under my bed and just starts attacking my mirror. Immediately freaked out I put a blanket over my mirror and flip it around. I honestly felt like this was about to be the end of me and I tell him to get the f*** out of my room and that hes not welcome in here. I slept with the lights on.

A couple weeks after that my sister (26) who also lives at home was doing a puzzle and realized that there were a couple pieces missing. We thought the cats must have gotten into the pieces or chewed on them while she was doing it because it took her about a week to finish wnd she did it on the dining room table. My brother and I helped her look but we could not find the peices anywhere. The next morning she texted me while I was at work if I had found the peices and I said no I hadn't. She told me thats strange because my brother hadn't found them either but they were on the table next to the missing space waiting to be put in.

Hes calm with my brother and mother, playful with my sister and he scares the living s*** out of me. Is he friendly with them and mean to me because I dont think he belongs in the house? What are your thoughts.

I have never been much superstitious, to this day I experience some things that someone could find unsettling or unsual but I always try to find a mundane explanation or I kinda just dismiss the whole experience.

This particular event happened when I was a child though and I still can't explain what exactly happened here.

It was dusk and I was searching for my grandma as I was hungry and wanted her to cook dinner. I finally found her behind my house. I told her that I am hungry, she didn't say anything and had a serious look on her face which I found a bit strange so I said "oh okay lets just go to your house" nervously and I turned my back to go.

As soon as I turned my back something extremely heavy jumped on my back and started scratching me, like deep scratches on my back, I feel to the ground. After some time my actual grandma heard my cries so she went to see what happened and it stopped.

I was very confused, I told her that I saw her behind me and that I thought she was scratching me (a dumb conclusion but I was a kid at least). She was very surprised to hear that, as she had been in another part of the yard the whole time (we live in a village in the woods and we have lots of land, that's why it was hard to find her in the first place).

Eventually she did say it was probably a rooster that attacked me. I did accept that explanation even though it felt quite heavy for a rooster, and I was still confused about seeing my grandma that wasn't actually there. When I told her about it she just said that I shouldn't wander around the house at night as it's bad (she is religious).

Is there anyone here who could tell me what might have happened that night?

i was yanked from my bed when i was 20. this was in Mexico at my grandmother’s ranch (vacation). i was going through a difficult time during this period of my life and was praying to god that night. (like really bad).

all i remember was praying hard and really doing my best to talk to god, since I was not a very true believer. but after praying, i felt the most insane sense of peace i’ve ever felt in my life. and felt like god had heard and touched me.

i then proceeded to have the most horrible nightmare i’ve ever had. i was with my family in my grandma’s kitchen. stepped out to hit my vape. it was pitch black outside. then as i looked back towards the door, it started moving farther and farther out of reach and then all i could see were spiders. spiders and their webs surrounding me. i yelled for my uncles to help me.

and then swoop. ended up on my ass at the foot of the bed. impossible for me to have jumped that distance, not to mention getting over the railing at the end of it.

my sister’s bf at the time was laying next to me since we were sharing the bed. i remember i yelled when i got pulled and then my mom or younger sister turned on the lights to the room (they were sleeping in the second bed).

didn’t think much of it and then went back to bed. i then turned to see my sister’s bf’s face completely pale and terrified. he then proceeded to refuse to sleep next to me. since he felt me being yanked off. he moved onto the second bed and repeatedly said he couldn’t sleep here.

i believe i did reach god. and some evil entity did that out of anger. mind you, my grandparents live in the remote mountains of Mexico. also, i did initially refuse to believe that what had happened actually happened. i told myself i must’ve slept walk or something. but i knew, and he was confirmation.

fyi: i was raised catholic and believed for some time in my younger years. then as i approached high school/college age, i became more agnostic then atheist. but i did try to find a way to get closer. doing research, etc. TO this day i don’t know if i do still 😂 even though that’s unexplainable. mind you i was and still am 5’10 250lbs. but deep down it’s undeniable and i am terrified of a real demon/evil entity meeting me again

I was just having a shower, waiting for my mum and sister to come home. They said they were bringing back food. 5 minutes after i got in the shower, i heard someone either call my name or shout "food"! So i washed myself pretty quick, got out of the shower, got dressed and went downstairs. There was nobody there. I go back upstairs, nobody there. I check out the window, my mums car aint even there, or any car for that matter. When i heard someone shout i literally yelled out "Huh!?" and found it odd there was no reply as it sounded right outside the bathroom door. I am really freaked out rn, plus weird stuff happens in my house sometimes, so i do suspect i have a ghost, but still, never heard someone call out to me before.

When I (30F) was younger, I thought ghosts were real. I even experienced things that I thought were supernatural. However, as I grew older, I realized that most things that appear supernatural can be explained by something natural. I’m also a marriage and family therapist student, so learning about mental illness has given me insight into how powerful the human mind is. I tend to believe that our thoughts can influence our reality. Therefore if I believe ghosts exist, then maybe I’d be more susceptible to a ghostly encounter. Interestingly, my professor, who I consider to be an intelligent woman, has said it’s hard for her to not believe in ghosts with some of the things she’s heard clients share. It makes me wonder, could ghosts be real?

Part of me wants to experience something like that to know if it’s real. Another part of me is grateful I haven’t. I’m also spiritual and grew up Catholic. I pray everyday and like to think that I have guardian angels protecting me. Maybe that’s why I haven’t experienced anything supernatural.

Is there anyone out there who is very logical and has had a ghostly experience?

I likely have a small haunting in my apartment - but it’s a good kind of haunting. I have a few experiences from before but this is my newest one. I store a small pile of books that I’ve bought from thrift shops. I keep them closed in a bag but because I’m such a slow reader and tend to get distracted by other hobbies I never get around to reading them. They’ve been in that bag for months if not more.

Recently I got excited of some new kind of books and decided to buy them since they were cheap. The books arrived home and I inspected them, then put them in a bag for later reading.

I got back to my computer. After some time a smell of old books drifted from somewhere. I looked and the bag where I store the old books from months before was wide open. I have not opened the bag!

I feel this was the spirit’s way of saying, ”Look! These are all the books you have not read and you’re buying MORE of them?!”

I know the typical descriptions like shadow people, orbs, transparent/translucent silhouettes, and even flesh & blood appearances. Do these variations indicate anything about the entity itself? Such as what type of entity it is, the intentions, or if it's residual vs. intelligent?

i don’t know what’s going on but for the past 2 nights at work i think i was seeing a shadow of a person . basically it would be in the corner of my eye or just a feeling that someone was there in my peripheral vision and at first i thought it was a actual person but id look up and realize no one was actually there .

basically i work over night security and i drive a patrol vehicle . the first time it happened out of the corner of my eye i thought a person was taking out the trash behind a restauraunt like they usually do, specifically leaning out the side door looking at what i was doing . but when i looked up the door was shut and no one was there .

the next time it happened i was driving and saw someone walk up to a wall near a dumpster and i thought they were standing around the corner to smoke a cigarette but when i turned the corner no one was there at all. i distinctly saw 2 black legs take a step towards the wall. that’s the one that freaked me out .

then last night i looked up and saw a shadow quickly move between 2 trees . and i thought it was someone on a scooter crossing the street behind the trees but when i drove around to look no one was there . it was not taking steps it was gliding very fast, that’s why i thought it was a scooter. no one was down the entire street and there was no where to turn off .

i’m trying to not give it energy but im also scared of it because this has happened to me before several years ago . so im trying to figure out what it means .
basically the first occurrence of this was in 2018. i would hold doors for people who i thought were behind me but turns out they weren’t and also a couple times in my peripheral vision i thought a customer showed up so i would go to greet them and there wasnt anyone there . i’m trying to recall if anything significant was going on in my life at that time but it seems completely random. it also seems to only happen when im distracted. it only happened for like a week back then and then just completely went a way . also i didnt work at the same place i do now . back then i worked at a oil change shop .

it feels too random to be my imagination like i was not expecting this to happen and its super out of character for me. and also things are pretty good in my life im not stressed or going thru anything right now .

My parents say that when I was little, I used to point at the wall in their bedroom and say, “Make it go away!” while crying, but they could never see anything there. I was 2 when we moved to this house and don’t remember what I might have seen that would have made me so scared. Has anyone else experienced this and successfully remembered what they saw? I lived there for the following 16 years and never really experienced anything paranormal.

Hi! Ive always wanted to share this story and thought Id ask reddit!

Years ago, when I was still married to my ex husband, we had just finished a day of helping my parents move into their new home. Clearly, we were exhausted and decided stayed the night in their upstairs bonus room.
*info: this is not an older home. But the tiny town the new home was built in is older. Think founded in early 1800s
My ex always was prone to sleep paralysis episodes. Like maybe 1-2 a month. So often he pretty much was unaffected by them.
Well that night, I remember falling asleep and it almost felt like I was having an out of body experience. I dreamt that I was awake, and I was staring at the foot of the bed. What I saw was the image of a golden figure surrounded by light. It was probably the most beautiful image I’ve ever seen. It didn’t say anything. It just stared at me and smiled. I wasn’t afraid at all actually. I felt surprisingly comforted. For some reason, it reminded me of my grandmother and I felt safe. The only thing I remember this figure doing was almost touching my feet or my lower legs in a comforting/caressing manner. Again like a maternal figure would do to a child who was scared. And that was it. I woke up.
The next morning, when I woke up, I saw my ex-husband was visibly terrified. I’ve never seen him look this scared in my life. When I asked what was wrong, he described that he had probably the worst sleep paralysis episode in his life.
He described a scene a dark figure standing at the end of the bed. Completely head to toe in pitch black with deep black eyes and a monstrous smile with large teeth. He said that the figure was scratching at his feet or lower legs. That the figure would punch him and not say anything. And his dream ended with the figure crawling up his body and smiling in his face and mouthing the words “id wake up if I were you”and then he woke up panicking and crying only to find me peacefully sleeping with a “little smile on my face.”
When he told me this, I was shaken, and I didn’t know how to interpret it. I dont know why, but I never told him about my dream. Something in the back of my head told me to keep it to myself. This was probably the oddest encounter I have ever had. At this point in time I had never had any paranormal experiences in my life. This was a first.

When I told coworkers and friends about this, all of them feel that it was some form of omen. My ex-husband would later turn into a very cruel man. He became mean, manipulative and abusive (story for another day) and we would divorce years later. Im still not sure what this could have meant. I like think someone was protecting me?

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When I was about 9 or 10 years old, on a Toys 'R Us game shopping spree, I saw a Ouija board and asked my parents if we could buy it along with some other board games already in our cart. They said yes. Later, back at home I put it up on a shelf in my closet.

​A few years later, I got it out one Saturday, our usual game night, skimmed the directions, and set it up, on our table. I never believed in spirits or ghosts growing up, but I wanted to try the Ouija board out anyway. So, without fully reading the directions and just based on stories I had heard and seen on TV, we proceeded to place our fingers on the planchette, called upon the spirits to come into our house, and started asking questions. For over 30 minutes, we kept asking questions, then reread the directions on the setup, and tried everything again for about 30 minutes longer. Then, after the planchette never moved, I yelled, "This crap is fake," tossed it back into the box, and put it back up on the shelf in my room. Note: We never read the part about closing the portal by saying goodbye and flipping the planchette upside down...

​Years later, after high school, trying to get rid of old board games that hadn't been played in years, I threw the Ouija board away along with some other games. Well, a few weeks later, I see the Ouija board in its box, looking pristine, sitting on my shelf in my closet like I had never thrown it out. I grabbed it and ran out to show my parents, asking them if they got it out of the trash and put it back into my closet as a prank. They assured me that they did not. So I put it back on the shelf and decided to keep it a while longer.

​So, several months had passed, and I grabbed the Ouija board in its box and this time crushed it, folding and crinkling up both the box and the board, while shoving it down hard into the outside trash can. I checked to make sure it was actually in the outside trash can when the garbage was collected. So, it's finally gone...

​The next few nights I check to make sure it didn't return. Well, one day I opened the closet door to check, and it was back, without even a wrinkle on the box or the board. Now I grab it, and with anger in my voice, I'm yelling at my parents, "I know you all must be pranking me!!" Then I showed them the Ouija board and its box. They said, "We didn't get it out of the trash." I said, "I can see because the box looks new... did you all buy another one as a prank?" They said no. Then, after yelling at them and receiving their full assurance that they did not in any way acquire the Ouija board nor put anything back into my closet, I decided to leave it on the shelf without touching it for many more years.

​About 7 years later, my cousin asked if I had a Ouija board. I said yes, you can have it. He said, "I'll bring it back." I said, "No, please don't!! It's yours now." He kept it, and it never showed up in our house again.

Hi! This is my first time posting, and I just wanna know if what I have recently discovered is something that is normal, weird, heard of, unheard of, or anything at all!

For a little context: I live in the middle of nowhere.. like down a county road type of nowhere, very few neighbors (none in walking distance), most of the land out here is farming and hunting land.

It's common for people to have little side of the road 'honor system' booths set up where they sell eggs and what not from their farms.

So, down the road a little ways from me is one of these booths, it's nice looking and decorated with flowers or something (I'm not too sure because I'm usually driving by too fast to really see what the booth has in it).

But, I just found out that it is not an egg selling booth.. in fact it is a phone booth (i have no idea if it works). This apparently is no ordinary phone booth because at night there are some people that go to that phone booth and use it...

to talk to dead people.

I just wanna know if this is a common thing that I'm just now learning about? Has anyone heard of anything like this?

And lemme say, I ain't knockin it.. I believe in a lot of stuff. I'm just curious.

And, I kinda wanna go pick up the phone...

Is there a person or place I can send spirit box recordings to, I’m having trouble deciphering some that I have, and some seems to be a different language. Thanks :)