What experiences have you had that have made you wonder about the paranormal existing? Doesn’t have to be spirits. It could anything considered out of the ordinary.
Thanks!
I was in my room with the lights on. My roommates went to bed. I was still up. All of the sudden I felt deep dread. Like I was prey being stalked by something lurking in my room or down the hall in the dark. I assumed it was the latter. So I pretended to not be scared and not to notice it… 30 minutes or more went by, it was so scary feeling cornered like that. I kept trying to pretend “it” wasn’t there. Then I hear whispered loudly and clearly, in my ear, “I know you can hear me.” This means it knew I was trying to ignore it and pretend it wasn’t near me. I had no idea how close it was. Also, this was a new high rise nyc apartment building. I don’t think it was haunted.
The other time was fairly recent, a few months ago. I was feeling so down and dark and out about the job market. I was so sad, scared, and full of grief after losing my job and feeling like I have to start all over again. This feeling seemed to swell and I started to doom spiral. No hope for the future. I took a hit of weed with my gf and proceeded to watch a tv show. All of the sudden I start to feel deep dread for my actual life. Thinking that for some reason I will k—l myself in about 2 weeks time, that I don’t have long left, and that I don’t have a choice in the matter even though I am not suicidal…
At this time, I feel what physically feels like gallons of my life force energy being sucked/pulled forcefully out through my chest toward the space in front of me (I was laying down). … this happened 4 times within 20 minutes approximately. I could feel it pass/woosh through my flesh and out. I had a feeling that something was feeding on my energy and I want to know why and what it was.
I want to know if this spirit/entity/being is in my apartment or if it is following me?
What are these things?
Apologies about the lack of effort in my post, I’m tired.
So many thanks,
Ginger
For some background, I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, but I’ve always been very open-minded toward other religions, spirits, and beliefs.
About a year ago, my partner and I had a random late-night or early-morning conversation about religion and God. This was very unusual for us. I don't remember every exact word, but we were basically questioning the existence of God and talking through the usual debates that come with that topic.
Mid-discussion, the room was suddenly lit up by a bright, bluish light coming from the top corner of the room. It lasted about a second, but it was incredibly bright, brighter than anything in our room that could have made a light like that. Trust me, we checked.
We also ruled out car headlights. My window runs parallel to the road, so headlights don't shine into the room the way this light appeared.
We were spooked, and of course, we wondered if it could have been a sign from God.
Then, a few minutes later, the exact same light appeared again right as we started talking about faith and religion again.
Because of the timing, it felt almost impossible to brush off as a simple coincidence. Since then, I’ve still wondered what it could have been. That moment actually inspired me to start educating myself on other religions and spiritual practices.
I wanted to share my story here to see if anyone has had a similar experience, or if anyone might know what kind of light this could have been!
I’m not here today to tell someone else’s story. I want to share something I personally experienced at a temple I visited recently.
Some of you may think my stories are fake, and maybe you’ll think this one is too. That’s okay. I’m only sharing what I personally saw and experienced. You can search for the temple yourself and decide what you think is real and what isn’t.
First, a little about me. I’m from India, I’m 18years old, and my name is Ayush. Most of the stories I post are from India. I’ve been interested in paranormal stories and ghosts since I was a child. English is my second language, so sometimes I use AI or a translator to help me write my stories.
Recently, I visited Mehandipur Balaji Temple in Rajasthan. It is a temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman, and it is widely known for people visiting the temple seeking relief from what they believe are paranormal or spiritual problems.
While I was there, I saw some things I had never experienced before.
There was a very long line inside the temple, and some people were crying, screaming, or behaving in ways that seemed very unusual. Some had their hair loose, some were restrained, and I saw people lying on the ground. I even saw a few people in strange positions, including some whose legs were raised while their heads were closer to the ground.
The temple also has certain rules for visitors. For example, visitors are not supposed to take certain offerings or food back home, alcohol is prohibited, and there are restrictions regarding consuming food or offerings given by other people. I honestly don't know the exact reasons behind all of these rules.
The atmosphere itself felt extremely strange to me. There were people crying, shouting, and behaving unpredictably all around me. Even before entering the main temple, I felt uncomfortable because of everything happening around me.
Photography and video recording weren't allowed there. I still tried to record something discreetly by turning on my camera and holding my phone in my hand.
That was a mistake.
In front of me, some people were lying on the ground and screaming things like, “Don't hurt me! Leave me alone!” and “I won't let go of him!”
Then one of them suddenly looked directly at me and angrily shouted that I shouldn't record her and threatened to hit me if I didn't stop.
I immediately turned my camera off. People around me also told me not to do it.
To be clear, I didn't see a ghost or anything supernatural with my own eyes. I only saw people behaving in extremely unusual ways, and I don't know what was actually happening to them.
I'm sharing this because I know some people here may immediately call it fake or explain everything differently. That's fine. I'm not claiming that I can prove anything paranormal happened.
My father is a priest, and he has also spent much of his life around people who believe they are dealing with paranormal or spiritual problems. Because of that, I've grown up hearing and seeing things like this since I was a child.
I have many stories from my own experiences and from things I've witnessed around me. Some of them may sound completely unbelievable, but I'll share them and let you decide what you think.
I'm not saying you have to believe me. I'm just telling you what I experienced.
Between December and January of this year, strange things happened to me. My sister started going to a family constellation familiar, and then we started having paranormal experiences. One day she saw that someone was watching us in our room, and I was asleep and I saw that a person I was afraid of in my childhood was staring at me in my dream (a girl who bullied me), and according to my mom I was screaming in my sleep, 'Mom, help me'. That was the beginning of this. They sent me to that family constellation therapist twice, supposedly to free me from despair. My mom paid for it after my sister went. The first time I went, after going I was half asleep and half awake when I saw a ball of black smoke with a Labubu smile coming quickly towards my face to scare me. I woke up completely in the middle of the night. Then the second time this woman gave me reiki And it all started horribly. I started having "logismoi" The face of someone who hurt me deeply came to mind (my rap1st from when I was little). from March until now, and still goes, nightmares of all kinds about all the people I was ever afraid of. disguises itself as people I was once afraid of. And also dreams where I scream at my mom or my grandma that I was a victim of abuse, beatings, and horrible things that they hid and never wanted to hear or admit, or that my mom abandoned me And I had to go from house to house growing up and nobody wanted the responsibility while she went on luxury trips or things like that. this family constellation therapist supposedly got sick for a month and couldn't see me anymore. And then I found out that around the corner from this woman's office there's a haunted house that no one has lived in for over 200 years and that everyone who wanted to buy it returned it. and also now is free but not even the homeless want to live there. I started going to church, I asked the priest to bless me and I told him about the situation, I prayed the rosary in Latin and Spanish, psalms, I bought the St. Benedict medal and prayed to it in Latin and Spanish i add bless water in every water i drink. I fasted for almost a day without water or food, but I started to almost faint from lack of water so i eat and end the fast. and there was also a situation where my sister went on a trip to see the World Cup And when she was about to board the plane, I rinsed a pot and it formed a tomb with a cross. I prayed a lot because it was her first trip to the United States and I had that threat. I want to upload the photo of the pot, but I don't know how. The thing is, I don't know what to do anymore, and it's annoying. I want to be calm, I don't want any more logismoi or strange things or stormy dreams (I had a stormy dream today) And then there were a lot of paranormal things happening at my house. My mom saw a man with a bleeding head Seeing her outside my house, in the same night then my sister saw TV turned on by itself, and our TV needs to turn on with two remote control, she was scared and so was my mom, but nothing happened to me that day. A girl who was my friend, I had never told her anything about this, and she told me that she dreamed that a black smoke entity like a ball was chasing me months after the dream of seeing that thing and when she said that, we were on a video call and some porcelain broke, just a sugar bowl, and she was looking for a cup and the sugar bowl broke on its own during the video call when she said that to me. In addition, she began experiencing sleep paralysis after that. I've been baptized, confirmed, and communion. I don't know what else to do, I want my mind back
I feel hands on me at night and at first I'm startled, but then I realize it isn't a threat and relax and i fall asleep then it's gone. Maybe most spirits are neutral and we already know they rarely harm you physically so maybe that's why most people can't detect them, because as we evolved to survive physically, our brains stopped prioritizing them because they dont impact our immediate health.
I went to high school in a suburb in Northern Virginia in the graduating class of 2009. As most, I try not to think of high school but today I happen to run into a girl I went to school with who also had me puzzled and honestly started to feed into the rumors of her paranormal guardians.
We will call her Nia. From the outside she seemed average, her looks weren't remarkable she was average in academics, wasn't a loner honestly could be annoying when you heard her in the halls but every time I had a closer encounter she became the mystery of my high school career and to this day can't explain everything I experienced with her. I would love to hear your thoughts.
I know she didn't have much adult supervision because she always had parties at her house or at least her brother, Peter did. At one of these parties everyone was playing games and enjoying our stupidity. Nia had walked in the door in her work uniform from Taco Bell and immediately went upstairs smiling and shortly but nicely greeting those who talked to her. One of the guys who was at the party was a pretty popular guy well call him Kyle, in the nicest way possible kinda out of Nia's league. He went from tipsy to wasted. Nia had come downstairs to grab something and all of a sudden Kyle was all eyes for Nia. He was sloppily hitting on Nia and had her pinned to the kitchen counter telling her how much he wanted the opportunity to go to her room... Yes those words. She was playing it off pretty gracefully but when she realized she wasn't getting away she froze and just looked at him in his eyes, not a glare just holding eye contact and it was like Kyle couldn't break contact from her. A friend I was with swears she was humming but I don't remember hearing it. It had to be a good five minutes of eye contact Nia let out a Mona Lisa smile and in a calm voice just said good night to Kyle. Kyle was grinning from ear to ear as he watched her walk away and looked like he just worked out and let out a huge breath.
A few months later I was assigned to a group project with her brother and was at their house and Nia came home and walked into the kitchen to grab something out of the fridge. Her brother greeted her almost like he was making sure she knew people were over. She looked over, smiled used my name and greeted me and told me I looked beautiful today. For a high schooler that was an interesting but much needed compliment as that morning I was actually having a Cyber fight with a girl who compared my looks to a troll and honestly hit my self-esteem a little. A few minutes later there was a knock at the door and Nia answered it, it was the dad of one of our varsity football players. He had come to see Nia and seemed really anxious and just in a bad palce. Nia ignored his behavior and escorted him upstairs. Maybe an hour later a woman in her thirties walked in the house smoking a cigarette and asked Peter is Nia was here and where was she. He said she was home and he thinks she is working. The woman smirked and continued smoking not acknowledging me or anyone else in the room. Twenty minutes later the man came down stair and handed a stack of cash to the woman and left, trying not to make eye contact with anyone. I know what your thinking but it wasn't giving "man did a bad thing with a minor" he just seemed so calm. The woman left and maybe ten minutes later Nia came down the stairs humming and Peter had said "Hey my friend are still here" and she stopped humming. She didn't looked disheveled, out of breath, the exact same as when I saw her before. She walked over to Peter and whispered "Did she leave us any money?" he just shook his head no. She didn't seem upset just sort of shrugged her shoulders like oh well.
At some point two guys with known crappy home situations moved into their house. Osman, a year older, super popular and had tons of energy. Also his best friend Dante, our year and probably the nicest person I have ever met in my life and honestly really hot too. For the visual they didn't live in a big house, three bedrooms- one always locked, townhouse in an area of the suburbs that well... wasn't a dream area. Rumors went around that Dante shared a room with Nia, even though Dante had a girlfriend and honestly it didn't seem to bother Dante, Nia or Dante's girlfriend but it bothered everyone else.
At school after the bell there was a fight between two rival gangs (2006) they left the gang part out of the news. The school was locked down and we saw SWAT trucks pulling up. Nia walked over to us and asked if we had seen Dante and we said we hadn't. She looked worried and looked around at the police making sure no one went back in the school. She walked away from us and started humming. Next thing my friend shakes my attention and points to Nia walking back in the school and it seemed like no one even saw her. We were in shock. When they were escorting students out one of the officers gave the thumbs up, im assuming that meant everything was fine and then we overheard the officer say can you believe that girl was just humming and hanging out in a classroom? My friend and I looked at each other and we knew it was Nia. We saw her walking out of the school but she was wearing different clothes, some rumors said they found blood all over the clothes she was wearing before but I don't know what actually happened.
A few months later, Nia never came back to school. Some say she got expelled, some said she got pregnant but none of her housemates spoke on it and until yesterday I hadn't seen her since. She looked almost the same but had this like radiance about her like she didn't look different she just had an attractive aura. She smiled and gave me a hug said hi and that I looked amazing. That was it, she walked away. I have never been so curious about a person in my life. r/Thetruthishere
Hello, I wanted to begin by saying this is actually something that happened a few years ago now, I could never quite explain it and I did my best not to really look into it too much, at the time I had other things to worry about and frankly speaking I was never sure what to make of it. But with time passing I've told a few friends about this and none of them seemed to doubt me so I was recommended this subreddit along with r/ParanormalEncounters where I'll probably make another post in to gather opinions. Sorry about the length, but also trying to write what I remember in case my memory starts playing tricks on me.
Any explanation is welcome; I wouldn't say that it bothers me nowadays, but the whole experience comes to mind uninvited sometimes, even if it wasn't anything too odd.
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There used to be a "Village" ( I am not actually sure if that is the correct term for it) where I would spend the end of my summers. This village was in the mountains and pretty out of the way, but not isolated, in theory you could reach the closest town pretty quickly by car. I'd say in the summer there couldn't be more than maybe 40-80 people living there, mostly on the much older end.
I don't actually know much about the place itself, aside from the fact that it was bombed during World War 2 and way more populated before the 2000s, but either way I was really familiar.
One summer day, I was exceptionally bored as I was left alone at home. I lived pretty much at the very bottom of the village, which was effectively just gravel roads on constant slopes with houses left and right encircled by mountains and woods always on an incline. Unfortunately, the bottom of the village was actually the more "dead" part; the only bar and most of the people who still lived there who weren't past their 50s lived near the top.
I think that day I wasn't really in the mood to deal with climbing up there, especially since it was already in the afternoon... I am not sure where I got the idea, but I decided to explore just outside the village, where most of the farmers' fields were. I wasn't as familiar with that area because there wasn't much there. Some fields, an underpass and an abandoned soccer field that you had to go way too deep into the woods to get to.
I would go a little deeper that day, just to see if I could find anything cool there, so I got on the gravel road and went by myself. I remember I didn't even bring much because it was honestly supposed to be more of a walk, with the "exploring" part being an extra.
After a little while, I took a right turn on the gravel road which to my knowledge was mostly farmland, which was correct, for a bit. It was very peaceful and there was a stretch of road where the trees on each side spaced themselves out and let you see into the fields all around.
I don't remember how far it actually was, but I figure I couldn't have walked for more than 10 minutes, by this point there was no real farmland, tractors or signs of people, just the woods.
The details are kind of foggy of when it happened, but I remember being taken out of my thoughts when I heard some kind of voice just a little way out of the gravel road I was on, into the brush. So I, being the smart person that I am stepped off the path to check it out.
I know it might sound stupid and in hindsight, it was stupid. But for context, remember I had been to this village for my whole life and everyone knew each other, or at least everyone knew the name of your parents' so when I heard a voice my curiosity was higher than my concern.
After just a few steps, I vividly recall just... stopping, mid step. I am not sure if anyone has experienced it before, but before I could even tell why, suddenly I felt on-alert and like something was wrong. I could actually hear the voice more now but, I couldn't make sense of it.
To this day I kind of struggle with actually describing it and I don't think I've ever heard anything like it since. I'm also double checking messages I exchanged with a friend years back where I described it, just to make sure I don't make up something because of time passing.
"it was just off like it was coming from one of those old radios, with that weird filter, it also sounded like it wasn't at the same height as a person but closer to top tree level"
That's how I described it at the time and is close to how I would still describe it.
I could tell it was speech, but it was just wrong. It wasn't any language I had heard before, and it was like someone was playing it from a radio, not actually being spoken, at the same time it definitely wasn't some kind of looping audio, each 'word' was different from the previous one. What was even more confusing is that when I say 'wrong' I mean it seemed to not even have a structure. It sounded like someone was playing a very old recording of a church chant or something like that, but the tape had been messed with and hit by a car. The voice itself was metallic, not just the sound. It's hard to explain.
Whatever it was, it scared the hell out of me. I realised I couldn't hear anything except it. No sounds from other animals, people, or anything at all. Just this creepy chanting that made no sense, playing to my front a dozen feet away, but I couldn't see anything because it was away from the dirt path as well, covered by brush and trees.
I had this urge to be as quiet as possible and get the hell out of there. I wanted to run, but I was genuinely terrified. I've been in scary and sometimes life-threatening situations, but this felt like a different kind of panic, I couldn't control it whatsoever. I remember it vividly to this day and it has never happened before or since.
I backed away slowly, so quiet to the point of holding my breath while keeping my eyes on... bushes and trees in the way. I could still hear this voice going on.
I don't remember if eventually I got far enough away that I started running or if I did this weird back-stepping all the way back to the nearest house, but I got home fine. It bothered me for the rest of the day and especially the night. Usually I would have gone over to the top of the village after sunset since the bar was the spot where people would socialise, but that night I just stayed at home and locked myself in, I don't think I ever got out of whatever panic-mode I entered until I fell asleep.
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And that brings us to today. I've never gone back to that area, ever. I live in an entirely different country now and have never experienced anything like it since, every part of it I mean. Nothing I heard since has ever sounded like that voice in the woods, nor has anything invoked such a feeling of terror for no reason. I don't have a history of auditory hallucinations or issues with hearing, and from what I know that area is desert; no one ever really goes past the fields, to the point where there are no lights or really anything. That spot does get animals obviously, but that was definitely speech, just nonsensical.
Does anyone have any idea what that could have been, or have experienced something similar? I know there are plenty of stories of voices in the woods, but I wasn't able to find much about people hearing this kind of metallic/artificial chanty-like voice in the middle of nowhere.
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A friend of mine lives in Appalachia, and he told me this story about something strange that happened to him and his wife last year.He has been visiting the Appalachian Mountains with his wife every year for the past four years. They always stay in the same cabin, and the landlord knows them pretty well by now.Last year, they went back to the same cabin.
During the day, they spent their time hiking and exploring the area. But almost from the beginning, both of them had the uncomfortable feeling that they were being watched.They kept looking around, but there was never anyone there.Eventually, they returned to the cabin that evening.Later that night, they were sitting on the couch watching a movie. At some point, both of them fell asleep.
My friend woke up sometime later because he heard someone laughing.At first, he thought he was dreaming.But then he realized the sound was actually coming from outside.He described the laugh as extremely strange—not like normal laughter, but almost like someone laughing to themselves while planning something. Along with the laughter, he could hear a strange scraping sound, almost like rusted metal being dragged against something.His wife was still completely asleep beside him.
He initially thought the sound might be coming from the television, but the scene playing on the TV was completely quiet.So he got up and looked outside.A short distance from the cabin, he noticed a homemade swing hanging from a tree. He had never seen it there before.Someone was sitting on it.
The person was wearing what looked like a clown costume.My friend stayed behind a tree and watched from a distance.
The figure was looking down at the ground, mumbling something to himself and laughing quietly. Every so often, he pushed the swing forward with his feet.My friend said the whole thing felt incredibly wrong.Then the figure suddenly looked directly at him.That's when my friend noticed that the person's entire face was covered in white paint, like a clown.The figure smiled and said:"Hi."
My friend immediately turned around and ran back toward the cabin as fast as he could.He could hear footsteps behind him.He reached the cabin, opened the door, rushed inside, and slammed it shut.Almost immediately, something hit the door from the outside with tremendous force.His wife woke up in a panic and started asking what had happened.Before he could properly explain, they heard knocking at the window.My friend looked over.
The same clown was standing outside the window.He was just staring at them and smiling.
My friend grabbed a firearm that he had with him for protection and warned the stranger to leave and not attempt to enter the cabin.The man didn't react.
He just stood there, staring through the window with that same expression.My friend's wife, who was now awake and angry, also confronted him and told him to leave.Still, the man didn't move.Eventually, they fired a warning shot into a nearby wall to frighten him away.The clown remained completely still for a moment.Then he slowly turned around and walked toward the woods.And disappeared into the darkness.
My friend and his wife didn't sleep for the rest of the night.As soon as it was morning, they told the landlord everything.The landlord was shocked. He said nothing like this had ever happened there before and apologized to them.What made things even stranger was the swing.The landlord said he had never seen that swing before. According to him, someone must have built it only recently because it definitely wasn't there during his previous visits.
They also contacted the police, who searched the surrounding area.They couldn't find the person.
There was no sign of the clown, and nobody ever figured out who he was or why he was there.
My friend still doesn't know what he saw that night.
He doesn't believe it was a ghost.Honestly, neither do I.But if his story is accurate, then there was apparently a complete stranger dressed as a clown, sitting alone on a homemade swing outside an isolated cabin in the middle of the night, watching him.And nobody ever found out who he was.
What do you think happened?
So recently you may have come across posts or videos of people saying that they think that their smart phones and devices are maybe reading their minds. because whenever they were about to type something up, the google suggestion already predicted what they were thinking about. And I get that because I’ve also experienced this phenomenon too in the past.
But I also noticed something else that I couldn’t help but share with everyone else in case I’m not alone in this situation.
And that is that I can sense the energy of a video or shorts before I watch it. Now let me explain what I mean by that. I’m sure we’ve all came across videos of gore and death online especially in the Wild West days of the internet. But when I was younger it would catch me by surprise and then obviously it would be a horrible experience to witness such evil.
But recently idk if maybe I’ve gotten use to predicting such content or maybe those videos give off a kind of negative energy that is detectable before you even see it. But I’m able to know that this video or content is going to be gore or injury related and I skip it because it makes me uncomfortable. But then I’ll go back to check as to why I skipped it and lo and behold it turns out my gut instinct was correct it was a gore or evil content.
I’ve always hated the complications of people getting hurt and found it twisted so idk maybe I’ve such conditioned myself to pick up signs.
Or maybe the whole phenomenon of our Devices reading our minds works both ways. If our devices can read our minds then we can also read our devices on a much deeper level.
What do you guys think?
I heard this story from my aunt once when she came to invite us to a housewarming party at their new home.
She told me that when they were moving to the new house, they had planned to stop at a restaurant on the way, eat something, and then go straight home and sleep. That’s exactly what happened. They reached the restaurant around 10:00 PM and left at around 11 PM.On the way, they had to take a highway, but there was construction work going on, so traffic was moving very slowly. They decided to take a shortcut.After driving for a while, they saw a man standing by the road. He looked completely normal. My uncle thought he might need a lift, and the man actually got into their car.After sitting in the car, the man suddenly said:
“Now I’ll stay with you.”
My uncle found the comment strange, but assumed the man was joking.After driving for a little while, my uncle and aunt looked toward the back seat.the man was gone.There was no way they could understand where he had gone.When they finally reached their new house, their 16-year-old daughter told them that a man had come to the house and told her:
“Tell your mom and dad thank you for giving me a lift.”My aunt and uncle were terrified. They asked her what the man looked like.When she described him, they realized it was the exact same man they had picked up on the road.That’s when my uncle and aunt remembered what he had said:“Now I’ll stay with you.”They started wondering if they had actually given a lift to a ghost.
A little later, their daughter went into her room.
Suddenly, she came running out screaming. She said the same man was sitting inside her room.My uncle and aunt immediately went to check, but there was nobody there.They had no idea what was happening.
Later, their daughter went to the refrigerator to get some water.When she came back, she screamed again.She said the man was sitting inside the refrigerator.This time, she described him as laughing horribly, with long teeth visible while he laughed. He also had an injury on his head, with blood coming from it.My uncle ran toward her after hearing her scream.But when they checked the refrigerator, there was nothing there.For the next two days, everything seemed normal.
Then their 10-year-old son told them something terrifying.He said that while he was sleeping, he felt as if someone was trying to wake him up. He also heard a voice telling him:“Tomorrow, I’ll take you with me.”He was extremely frightened.Later, while he was in his room, he looked up at the ceiling fan and suddenly started screaming.He said the same man was sitting on the ceiling fan.But once again, nobody else could see anything.At that point, everyone was terrified. They decided that they would all sleep together in the same room that night.My uncle kept trying to convince everyone that everything would be okay, but clearly nobody knew what was happening.
That night, their son was sleeping on the floor.
Suddenly, he heard a voice coming from beneath the floor.The voice said:“I’ll take you with me.”He told my aunt about it, and when she listened carefully, she said she could hear the same voice too.They somehow managed to get through the night.
The next day, they told their neighbor everything.The neighbor suggested that they all stay at his house that night and said they could investigate the area together in the morning.That night, something strange happened.Everyone had the same dream.
In the dream, they saw the same man standing on the road where they had originally met him. He was pointing toward a forest and mumbling something.
None of them could understand what he was saying.
The next morning, my aunt, uncle, and their neighbor went back to the road.They wanted to find out whether the man they had met was actually a ghost or whether there was some other explanation.
They searched around the area and eventually found an open area a short distance from the road.There was a grave there.What shocked them was that the grave had a photograph of the exact same man they had been seeing.They were completely stunned.
The neighbor suggested that perhaps the spirit was disturbing them for some reason, and that they could try apologizing to him and showing him some respect.So they cleaned the grave and left flowers there.
According to my aunt, after that day, everything became normal.They never saw the man again.I don't know whether this was truly paranormal or whether there was some explanation behind what happened, but the fact that everyone supposedly saw the same man—and later found a grave with his photograph—is the part of the story that still gives me chills. What do you guys think?
Hey yall!
So, I’m looking for community and people who have maybe experienced scary paranormal/ghost events and would like to share.
I have had my own experiences, which has of course, led me down the path of loving to watch documentaries on the subject. So much so, I started my first podcast. I am a small creator, and wanted to see if anyone had experiences they would like to share that I could read and react to on my YouTube and would like to ask permission to post. Happy to give credit in the description and on the video itself. Open real and fiction stories.
Can’t wait to read them all and be apart of this community!
I’m posting this because I genuinely don’t know how to interpret what happened, and I’d like to hear from people who have experienced something similar.
When my sister was completely asleep, she started talking and said something specific about our family/past that seemed extremely unusual. She said that and I quote “I told you so that you had powers”. The strange part is that, as far as we know. , and it isn’t something that would normally come up in everyday conversation.
She said that line in awake voice then I ask her what she says go to sleep in her sleepy voice
Or has anyone else experienced a situation where someone said something during sleep that seemed impossible for them to know?
For context, I am over the age of 21 (smoking is involved in this story).
Last night, my best friend (let’s say her name is ava) Ava, was smoking weed with me. We were hanging in my dorm room, and watching a show. Out of nowhere, she started making weird faces.
It was like she was mutatin, and I could feel the presence of either the devil or evil. She was making these faces and getting closer to me, and I asked her what was going on. I immediately felt a surge of fear flow through me and pushed away my need to sleep to stay awake and make sure was going to be safe in her presence.
About and hour later, I felt safe again, and fell asleep but awoke to my surprise with her hovering over me with a light being directly shown into my eyes. I asked it about her when I drove her back home, and she said she “was doing something but forgot what she was doing.”
Can someone please help me determine what the hell happened here?
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My family has been involved in the fishing business for years, so my dad and his friends are used to spending nights out at sea.One night, my dad went fishing with two of his friends. They took their boat some distance out into the sea when they started hearing an unusual noise coming from the engine room below deck.Two of them went downstairs to check the engine, while my dad stayed above. They looked around carefully, but couldn't find anything unusual, so they came back upstairs.A little while later, they suddenly felt something hitting the boat.One of his friends said, “Maybe it’s a big fish.”My dad replied, “No fish could hit the boat that hard. It feels different.”They looked around the boat but couldn't see anything in the water.So the three of them went back down to the engine room.This time, there was a horrible smell.My dad described it as the smell of something that had been dead and rotting for a long time.And then they saw it.There was a dead body lying inside the engine room.According to my dad, the body looked like it had been in the water for a very long time. It was badly swollen and pale, and the face was no longer recognizable. What disturbed them most was that they were certain the body hadn't been there when they checked the engine room earlier.They immediately became worried that if anyone discovered a dead body on their fishing boat, they could get into serious trouble.They decided to get rid of it and put it back into the sea.The three of them tried to lift it, but the body was extremely heavy and they couldn't move it. Eventually, they managed to get it into a fishing net and threw it overboard.For a moment, everything was quiet.Then they started feeling extremely uneasy.They decided it was better to return to shore.But as soon as they started moving, something hit the boat again.They looked over the side.The same body was floating in the water.It was somehow moving alongside the boat and hitting it.My dad remembers thinking, How can a dead body be moving like that?They started the engine and headed toward the shore as quickly as they could.According to my dad, the body appeared to follow them through the water.They eventually reached the shore and everyone went home.The next day, my dad went to check on one of the friends who had been on the boat.His friend had developed a very high fever. His face looked unusually pale, and he seemed genuinely terrified.While they were talking, his friend told my dad:“I've been scared ever since last night. I still feel like that dead body is here with me. I can still smell it. And I feel like I'm having trouble breathing, like something is drowning me.”My dad didn't believe in ghosts or paranormal things, so he told him that he was probably traumatized by what had happened and that the experience was stuck in his head.Then his friend's wife came into the room.According to my dad, the moment his friend saw his wife, he suddenly became completely silent and still.My dad thought something strange was going on, but he didn't understand what.Instead of going home, he went to visit his other friend and told him everything.That friend suggested that they visit a local temple and speak to the priest.They went there, explained everything that had happened, and eventually brought the priest back with them to the first friend's house.When they arrived, the door was locked from the inside.They could hear their friend screaming.They broke the door open.Inside, they saw the friend's wife apparently trying to strangle him and scratching him with her nails.They immediately pulled her away.The priest then sprinkled some water on her, after which she became unconscious.Around half an hour later, she woke up and appeared completely normal.My dad asked the priest what had happened.The priest simply told him:“Some things are better left unknown.”My dad still doesn't believe in ghosts and has never claimed that this was definitely paranormal.But he says he has never been able to explain where that body came from, why it seemed to follow their boat, or what happened to his friend and his friend's wife the following day.And honestly, that's the part of the story that has always creeped me out the most.
When i was 18 I regularly saw a girl in a white dress in my room (I always thought this was my deceased sister). A few years later my partner was sleeping in my bed and he saw the same girl in my room (I didn’t tell him about her yet) before this i just started thinking that i was imagining it and that it was just my way of grieving. Should we see a priest?
I normally don’t believe in this kinda stuff but im rea freaked out now
**Account of an Unexplained Experience During Lockdown, 2020**
This experience occurred on a Monday evening during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. I was at home with my then wife and our children. Earlier that evening my son had developed a temperature, and my wife and I had decided that this was sufficient reason for the household to self-isolate. I had contacted work and arranged to remain at home for the following couple of weeks.
The main incident occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m.
My wife and I had decided to go to bed. She went inside while I remained briefly in the conservatory to finish a cigarette. As I was about to follow her, I realised that I was still holding a disposable cigarette lighter.
I turned and tossed the lighter towards the table behind me. It landed in an ashtray containing a smouldering cigarette end. I walked back to retrieve it and picked it up between my thumb and forefinger. As I attempted to place it beside the ashtray, it slipped from my fingers in an unusually awkward manner, turned over in the air and landed back in the ashtray almost exactly where I had picked it up from.
I retrieved it again. A second time, while attempting to put it down beside the ashtray, I somehow fumbled it and it again flipped back into the ashtray.
I found this odd but assumed it was simply clumsiness. Rather than picking it up again, I tipped the ashtray so that the lighter fell onto the table, and then went upstairs.
I prepared for bed in the en-suite bathroom attached to our bedroom. When I had finished, I sat on my side of the bed and shook the duvet firmly from its corners in order to straighten it.
As the duvet settled over the lower part of the bed, I noticed that it appeared to have fallen over a small rounded object beneath it. My immediate impression was that our small dog, Hannibal, might somehow have been on the bed.
I placed my hand on the shape through the duvet.
It felt solid and warm.
However, the object seemed too small even to be our toy terrier.
I lifted the duvet to see what was underneath it.
There was nothing there.
I assumed that I had somehow misinterpreted the folds or tension in the bedding. Feeling slightly foolish, I threw the duvet back down towards the foot of the bed.
It settled over what felt like the same solid object again.
This was the point at which I became seriously confused.
Almost immediately afterwards, the door of the en-suite bathroom, which was diagonally across the bedroom to my left, slowly creaked open by several inches.
Through the opening I could see the window frame and towel rail inside the bathroom. The bedroom itself was well lit, while the en-suite was comparatively dark.
Near floor level, behind the partly opened door, I became aware of something that I still find extremely difficult to describe.
I would not describe it as a figure, shadow or recognisable object.
It appeared more like a localised absence or failure of visual perception.
I was looking directly at it and could see the surrounding environment clearly, yet I could not resolve whatever occupied that particular area into a coherent image. It was as though visual information was reaching my eyes but my brain was unable to construct an identifiable object from it.
The boundary of the area appeared to shimmer slightly and had what I remember as a faint olive-green quality.
It did not behave like an ordinary after-image. It remained fixed in the same physical location when I moved my eyes, and I could continue to see the bathroom and door around it.
I also had difficulty interpreting its spatial relationship with the door. Although I perceived it as being behind the door, parts of the visual disturbance seemed simultaneously to interfere with my perception of the door itself.
At approximately the same time, I became aware of an extremely rapid sensation of cold.
I remember seeing what appeared to be condensation in my exhaled breath and feeling moisture forming on my moustache. The temperature of the air against my skin seemed to have dropped dramatically, and I had the impression that the air in the bedroom had become completely still.
I then experienced something that was distinct from the visual phenomenon.
I became overwhelmingly aware of what felt like the presence of another intelligence.
This was not simply the feeling of being frightened or of thinking that somebody might be nearby. It felt more like the certainty one might have if another person had been sitting directly in front of them and a screen were suddenly placed between them: although the person could no longer be seen, there would be no doubt that they remained present.
I had the very strong impression that whatever I was perceiving was aware of me.
I also experienced an immediate and powerful impression that the presence was extremely old and malevolent.
I cannot explain how I arrived at either of those impressions. They did not result from seeing a face, hearing a voice or observing any recognisable behaviour. They seemed to occur simultaneously with my awareness of the presence itself.
I remained sitting on the bed looking directly at the area behind the bathroom door.
My muscles were extremely tense and I was frightened, but I remained conscious of my surroundings and was able to think about what I was experiencing.
My perception of time during this part of the incident is unreliable. It may have lasted approximately twenty seconds or several minutes.
Eventually I concentrated on controlling my breathing and decided to speak aloud.
I said words to the effect that this was my house and that whoever or whatever was present no longer had any claim there.
As I finished speaking, the visual disturbance appeared to withdraw backwards away from the gap between the door and its frame until I could no longer see it.
At almost exactly the same moment, the sensation of cold disappeared.
I distinctly remember suddenly feeling warm air against my skin and particularly noticing the warmth in the back of my throat as I breathed in.
Immediately afterwards, an object fell from somewhere above me onto the bed and landed directly in my lap.
It was a clear yellow disposable cigarette lighter.
It appeared identical to the lighter I believed I had left on the conservatory table downstairs only a few minutes earlier.
This caused considerable confusion because I could not remember bringing the lighter upstairs.
My immediate attempt to rationalise the event was that I must have absent-mindedly carried it upstairs and somehow caused it to become lodged above the bed, possibly around the ceiling lampshade, while shaking the duvet.
What troubled me was the apparent timing: it fell at almost exactly the moment that the visual disturbance disappeared and the sensation of cold ended.
I went downstairs shortly afterwards and checked the conservatory table.
The lighter I believed I had left there was not present.
To the best of my knowledge I possessed only one disposable lighter of that particular clear-yellow appearance.
I have no independent witness to the main incident. My then wife was elsewhere in the house during it.
I was not asleep and did not experience paralysis. I was able to move freely, speak, control my breathing and inspect my surroundings throughout the episode.
I subsequently spent a considerable amount of time trying to identify conventional explanations for the experience.
I have previously experienced sleep paralysis on two occasions and recognise the characteristics of those episodes. They were substantially different from this event.
I have also experienced what I believe was an episode of Exploding Head Syndrome on another occasion and have previously experienced unusual visual perceptions during severe sleep deprivation. Because of those experiences I have tried to remain cautious about attributing this incident to an external or paranormal cause.
At the time of the 2020 incident, however, I experienced myself as fully awake and lucid.
The event affected me considerably afterwards. I became preoccupied with attempting to understand it and spent many months researching neurological, psychological and paranormal explanations.
I later discussed the experience with my GP and was referred for therapy because of the degree of distress and rumination it had caused.
I am autistic, although I did not fully understand the extent of my sensory differences at the time. I have unusually acute hearing, smell and visual attention compared with many people I know, and I therefore recognise that individual sensory processing may be relevant when considering possible explanations.
I am submitting this account because, despite repeatedly considering misperception, memory error, illness, sleep-related phenomena and other conventional possibilities, I have never arrived at an explanation that satisfactorily accounts for the entire sequence as I experienced it.
I do not claim that the event was paranormal.
What I can say with confidence is that the experience itself was extraordinarily vivid and that, subjectively, I experienced a localised visual anomaly, an abrupt sensation of environmental cold, a powerful perception of another intelligent presence, and the unexpected appearance of a physical object in close temporal succession.
I would be particularly interested to know whether anyone else has other accounts involving the specific visual phenomenon I experienced: not an apparition or shadow, but an apparently occupied region of space that the observer can look directly at while being unable to resolve it into a coherent visual image.
When i was 18 I regularly saw a girl in a white dress in my room (I always thought this was my deceased sister). A few years later my partner was sleeping in my bed and he saw the same girl in my room (I didn’t tell him about her yet) before this i just started thinking that i was imagining it and that it was just my way of grieving. Should we see a priest?
I normally don’t believe in this kinda stuff but im rea freaked out now