"Woke up one night around 1 am, heard the shower was on. I first thought it was my brother. He works night shifts, so I thought he had come home late and was in the shower. It went on for about half an hour until I got up and went to see wtf he was doing. No one was in the shower.
My brother wasn't home yet. I was the only one in the house. Still, I have no idea how it turned on or who did it. Almost five years later, I still think about it. Even writing this now, I feel like turning every light on in the house ahah, why do I do this to myself!" - Reddit user designer logic
"My kids were playing outside of the high-rise apartment we were living in at the time. They came running into the apartment hysterically, saying that a dead guy was outside.
A drunk had fallen from the 11th-floor balcony right in front of my kids. They knew he was dead, and they were only 5-7 at the time." -Reddit user MetalicONE
"My old co-worker had a son that was in his mid-thirties who had a son named Hunter that was 4 or 5. She said that Hunter would have bad dreams and that he would sleep with his dad when he got scared.
One night his dad woke up because he heard Hunter calling him. But he was calling him by his name, not 'dad'. So he went to his room, and he was asleep.
He woke him up and said, "Hunter, you were calling me. Is everything okay?" And Hunter said, "Dad, when they call you, you're not supposed to answer." and fell back asleep. He asked him about it in the morning, but he said he didn't remember saying it. I get chills when I think about it." -Reddit user LumosTheFox
"Hell, I lived in a house once that had child-sized footprints on the ceiling of one of the bedrooms—extremely high ceilings. I could think of no way someone would get a child's feet up there.
Not even climbing up a ladder and holding a kid upside down could've done it." -Reddit user madeanotheraccount
"Living in the Northern part of Mexico, the drug cartels war was very intense in the city. I was waiting to cross the street when I saw a big truck dumping a plastic bag containing a dead body.
The worst part is that nobody did anything. So I just waited for the light to change and ran like hell."
-Reddit user zernebock614
"When I was in high school, these four girls went to a concert in a city that was a 5-hour drive away. They tried to get a hotel room after, but they were too young and were denied, so they had to drive all the way home. About 20 mins from making it home, the driver fell asleep at the wheel, and the car rolled.
One of the girls was killed. A couple of days later, the girl's parents invited a bunch of us over to their house, where we were shocked to see they had her body laying in her bed." -Reddit user jakeputz
"Back in 2003, I was watching The Ring at 2 am. As soon as the main character finishes watching the cursed tape, my phone rings.
I picked it up, but there was no one on the line. Stopped watching the movie at that point."
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"I was babysitting my nieces one Friday night while my brother-in-law took his wife to dinner. She has a strict bedtime of 8 pm, so after successfully getting her to sleep (no small task), I decided I would watch the Skyfall movie that people wouldn't shut up about.
About halfway into the movie, I am absolutely chilled to the bone when Sophie (who sneaked out of bed and behind the couch) says directly into my ear, mere inches away, "You know James Bond murdered Jesus, right?"
I haven't offered to watch her again." -Reddit user whistledick
"Watched my grandfather die when I was 13. It was terrifying and messed me up for a while.
I was talking to him when he started slurring words together, and then his eyes went white, and he just fell out of his chair."
-Reddit user toaster-in-ur-butt
"There was a shooting outside of a club recently. We all saw the guy go down pretty immediately.
A friend of mine, a small girl, booked it across traffic from where we were and started giving the man who was shot CPR. Her left arm and hand were covered in blood the next day, and that was actually more disturbing because the adrenaline from witnessing/hearing a shooting wasn't present." -Reddit user Shuh_nay_nay
"When my first son was born, he let out a whimper then stopped breathing. It took them 30 minutes or so to get him stable enough to be transported to the NICU.
He spent three weeks there, which turned out to be cardiomyopathy and was treatable. Now he's a healthy 12-year-old with a ton of attitude, so it all worked out in the end!"
-Reddit user zerbey
"Waking up from a heart transplant, hooked up to hundreds of machines.
Not knowing how it all went." -Reddit user deleted
"I was in a local Target one night just browsing in typical female fashion. As I was looking for an anniversary card for my boyfriend, the card section conveniently located next to the entrance and exit doors, I watched two large men get into a screaming match. Becoming uninterested, I turned away until I heard someone scream.
I turned back around and saw one of the men with a gun pointed at the other guy, facing the inside of the store. In complete shock, I couldn't move and didn't breathe until the security guard tackled him to the floor and put him in cuffs. Worst night of my life."
-Reddit user coachashley
"The face of my best friend after he fell off my treehouse. He had a concussion and was paralyzed for like 4 hours.
Luckily I am a trained first responder(from a fire department), and my adrenaline was pumping, so his life was saved but damn. A lifeless friend is the worse."
-Reddit user Juststartedhere
"The London Tube bombings in 2005. While I didn't witness anything first hand (was at work in an office building on Bishopsgate and we were on lockdown as soon as it happened), I remember when we were finally told we could leave and make our way home, we went outside and it was just eerie and scarily silent.
I had never been in London when there were no cars, no buses, or anything on the street." -Reddit user deleted