Everyone has their own stories to tell. Some experiences in life that just cannot be explained are how it happened and what made it happen. Those memories remain a mystery to our minds that linger forever.
These stories from the Reddit Community will surely make you think twice and remember the unexplainable things that also happened to you. Watch out!
1. The Hole
When I was young, my parents and I went to see the fireworks show at the Vinoy (spelling?) Hotel in Florida. We were speaking to this really nice woman next to us - she was a foster mom for kids, adopted a lot of animals, super into charity.
I was dancing with her, and my mom called me over, saying the fireworks would start soon, and less than a second later, the shot went off to start them.
The woman grabbed her chest and said, "Ouch! Something bit me!" And when she pulled her hand away, there was a perfect hole in her chest.
She stood there a moment in shock before it started bleeding, and then she fell to the ground. Everyone started panicking. I was separated from my parents and hid in the elevator.
I kept going to random floors with people until I saw someone that my parents knew and stuck with them. The police came to our hotel room that night to get witness statements.
We were on top of the hotel, and I never really looked into it afterward (I still can't do fireworks). Still, my dad told me it was a freak accident involving the gun they used to signal the fireworks.
It was just the sight of her casually pulling her hand away, thinking it was a bee sting, and seeing this perfect hole. Then just... Blood. It was so surreal.
brintyb
2. A Not-So-Nice Lady
When I was 4, I was at a mall with my mom. The department store we were in had a children’s corner with toys and a TV so parents could leave their kids there while they shopped.
On this day, they were showing a behind-the-scenes special of the highly anticipated The Lion King, which was going to be in theaters soon. Thinking I would see the actual film, I sat down to watch while my mom did her shopping.
When it became clear they weren’t going to show the movie, and I was watching a glorified commercial, I lost interest and wandered away to look for my mom. But the store was huge, and I didn’t know where she would be.
So I started calling out for her. Suddenly, a lady approached me and asked if I was lost. I knew I wasn’t supposed to talk to strangers, but she seemed genuine, so I told her yes. Then she offered to help and took my hand.
I thought she was going to help me find my mom or at least take me to the front desk, but we headed back in the direction I’d just come from. Soon, we were nearing the door that led directly into the parking lot.
I remember thinking this wasn’t right as it was clear she was taking me outside, but she still had me by the hand. Moments after she led me outside, I heard a scream, and my mom sprinted toward us.
She had already been outside looking for me and had seen me exit with this woman. My mom flew into a rage: What the heck are you doing with my child?? Where were you taking her???
I remember the lady panicked and didn’t have a clear explanation. Still, I don’t remember the exact details from that point.
The next clear memory I have was driving home with my mom while she wept and told me to NEVER trust strangers; not even if they are nice, not even if they have candy or presents, not even if they need help, not even if they say they will help me. It really stuck with me.
allworkandnoYahtzee
3. Water Splash
I was in the shower with my girlfriend, and we were messing around, getting water in our mouths and shooting it at each other, etc.
She had some water in her mouth and was laughing. She must have accidentally swallowed some, and it went down the wrong way.
She looks at me with this terrified face and says she can't breathe. I thought she was joking at first but soon realized she was serious. I started trying to give her the Heimlich, but it didn't work.
Then I started banging her back on an upward angle, but that didn't work either. I was so close to grabbing my phone and calling 911 when she suddenly coughed the water up and managed to breathe.
Easily the scariest moment of both of our lives and we never mess around with water in our mouths in the shower anymore. That was a good scare.
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4. Under The Same Roof
This happened while living at my parent's house about 10 years ago. My whole family, brother, sister, and parents were at a Major League Baseball game. It was a night game, and being baseball, it ran a little later into the night.
I was working as a lifeguard in high school and usually got off around 9pm. The pool was super close to my parents, so I could get home within minutes. Well, I finally got home and got a shower, and I am trying to be quick about everything because someone from work was throwing a party that night.
I’m getting out of the shower and walking into my room, and there is all this shuffling and running downstairs, so I yell, “Hello?!” Thinking it was my parents.
I then yell, “Mom” “dad?!” Again, to no avail, and here the running of footsteps downstairs, and next thing I know, I hear our garage opening up. That kinda freaked me the hell out bc literally no one was home except for me.
I ran across the street and got my neighbor and her son, and I walked through my house with a samurai sword bc I was afraid whatever was in there was still there. The neighbor ended up calling the police.
When we did another walkthrough, we found that my dad had about $2-300 cash stolen, my mom's diamond rings and earrings were all stolen, and a set of earrings was lying on the bedroom floor with the jewelry box lid askew.
What happened was my parent's house was in the process of getting robbed when I came home. I was in the house with the intruders for some time before they realized I was home and heard the shower running.
I started to yell for my parents, which startled them and made them make a run for it, hence the footsteps and shuffling I was hearing. The escape route was through the broken garage door, which they must’ve scouted out about our house for some time.
The cop said that was the third break-in within our area within the past week, and they have been on the lookout for suspicious people without tipping off the public.
Probably one of the scariest things I’ve had happen to me, though. The moment I realized my parents weren’t home and someone else was in the house with me was a terrible, gut-wrenching feeling.
12carrd
5. Familiar Face
When I was a little kid, I had a recurring nightmare almost weekly. I would be in the basement and would hear a meow. I would search for the source in the dark and find it at a sunken window at eye level with a little bit of filtered light.
Lying in it would be a dead grey cat with empty eye sockets fixed on me, giving a mournful shriek. Sometimes, a red light would open in the eye, and everyone I loved would die.
I would wake up at various stages of this nightmare. It got so bad one summer that I slept with the lights on all night. Every time I heard a cat, I was afraid it was the eyeless grey one from the nightmare.
Fast forward 25 years later, and I am buying my first home with my wife. It doesn’t have central air, so we sleep downstairs in the basement for the summer. We have one of those sunken windows.
One night, the first week there, we woke up to the sound of a cat meowing and furiously trying to get into the bedroom through the sunken window. In the filtered light, I see a grey cat and an empty eye socket staring back at me.
We’ve slept upstairs since. But, in a twist, the cat is lovely. His name is Lou, and he runs beside me when I go for a jog. He also plays with our new Australian Shepherd puppy. Most social cat I’ve ever seen.
Thalesian
6. Mom’s Horror
We were at a friend's house testing out the new stroller. Me being dumb and unaware of my surroundings, I walked behind our car that my husband and his friend were working on (in the driveway, and we walked on the sidewalk behind it).
It was on a couple of jacks to let them get to the brakes to replace them. My friend, who also has kids, wanted to push her since strollers have vastly improved in just the last 10 years.
As she walked behind the car, the lifts suddenly failed, and the car dropped down and rolled back, pinning the stroller between two cars WITH MY INFANT STILL IN IT! I didn't know I could hold back a Saturn Vue while simultaneously ripping my kid out of a stroller.
DetergentButton
7. Fire Everywhere
When I was about 8 months pregnant with my second child, we had a small fire at our house. We filed an insurance claim and got money to replace carpets, curtains, paint, etc.
We (myself, my then-husband, 3 year old) went to the local big box hardware store to pick out paint colors and carpet. The paint aisle was busy, so we went to the carpet first.
While we were looking at samples, we heard the loudest boom, what sounded like the aisles literally falling over. It was deafening. We ran towards the back of the store and could see and smell smoke.
The fire alarm was blaring, and the employees were ushering us out the back. When we were getting close to the exit, a lady ran past us, literally on fire. My husband chased after her, yelling for us to get out. We exited the building into a receiving area that was padlocked shut.
The minutes it took someone with a key to unlock that gate so we could go around to the front (and find my husband) seemed like forever. The lady was hospitalized for a long time and had many surgeries. She had been in the paint aisle. Someone had planted a pipe bomb there. (USA, NC)
begeneca
8. The Shoe Print
Used to live in a house in a quiet neighborhood. I’d often stay up late in the living room, which had a fairly large glass door to the backyard that you could slide open with no curtain.
Sometimes, I’d hear noises in the backyard, but they were usually my cats. Sometimes, the motion-sensing porch light would turn on, but again, I figured it was some nighttime critter.
One day, after a night of snow, I noticed a fresh set of shoe prints that stopped dead right in front of that glass door. Someone had obviously been there at some point in the night.
Another time, I noticed the glass door’s lock was slightly tampered with. I’m actually freaking myself out writing all of this because, at the time, I figured it was just a one-time thing, but in reality, this person could have been making repeat visits anytime he wanted before and after that snow day.
prguitarman
9. Staring Eyes
Me and my husband (then boyfriend) lived in a cheap apartment (monthly lease) until we could find a better place. One night, we were watching Ghost Hunters or something similar in the living room (which also had a sliding glass door).
I was still awake, but he was drifting off to sleep. I keep seeing shadows move slightly (I think it’s the wind moving the tree outside).
I get the hair on the back of my neck and stand up, feeling/chills down my spine/I’m going to die. I look out the freaking door and see a shape of a man. We make eye contact, and he slowly moves out of eyeshots.
I wake my Bf and feel him, and he says my mind is just messing with me since we’re watching scary crap. No sooner had he said this than the guy walked back to the door and stared at us. My Bf sees this and says to call 911. He grabs a knife and chases after the guy.
This happens again when I’m home alone with our daughter. I called the police again, and the police officer said that the area was all clear but that the perp was most likely casing the place with ill intent. We moved rather quickly.
panicoohno
10. Mind Your Surroundings
Many years ago, when I was in high school, I stayed up late playing video games. My parents were out, but it was no big deal; being home alone didn’t scare me.
So I’m playing the game, and at around 3 am, my parents finally arrive. This wasn’t unusual, but something had happened based on their demeanor.
My dad told me that he had noticed they were being followed on their way back from their friend’s house, a far drive away. My mom had no idea, but my dad (being the driver) was aware of this car that had followed them from about halfway back.
Our house was in the suburbs; thus, getting to our house involved a few turns and whatnot. My dad purposely drove past our house without stopping, which is when my mom asked what he was doing. Sure enough, the car continuously followed my parents through the neighborhood.
My dad was driving to the police station when the car turned away and stopped following them. It’s scary to think what could’ve been had my dad not had the presence of mind to be aware of his surroundings as a driver and to act on his intuition.
My parents would’ve opened the garage door to put the car in. The idea that a car whose occupant(s) likely had malicious intent was right behind them is a thought that still bothers me to this day. Because of that past incident, I learned to always mind my surroundings when driving.
hammer_spawn
11. Lady In Black
When I was younger, around 14 or 15 years old. My family used to camp at a state park. Every night, my friend and I would walk through the woods. We called this "the ritual."
We decided to walk further into the woods this particular night than usual. We had flashlights, but we liked to try to navigate through the woods with them turned off.
We were about half a mile from the nearest campsite when we heard soft whispering behind us. Obviously, we hit the flashlights and spun around. Didn't see anything. So we kept walking, and we heard it again.
This time, we stopped and looked around a bit before we decided to head back to our campsite. Then we see what's whispering. It's a lady crawling on the ground whispering just random words. She was wearing dark clothes and was covered in dirt.
When she saw that we noticed her, she stood up and declared that she was looking for her campsite. We walked her back to the campground and tried helping her find her group.
Turns out she was just super drunk and got lost trying to find a bathroom. Her friends didn't even notice she was missing, and if we hadn't gone that far into the woods, she would have been lost all night. It was pretty creepy.
KMIAOFFICIAL
12. Loud Stomping
When I was 16, my grandparents hired me to house-sit for 3 weeks at their farmhouse in a small town. It was the second to last night of my stay, and all had gone well for a 16-year-old completely alone in a big, empty house for 3 weeks.
It was about 1 am, and it started to thunderstorm outside, so I decided to turn everything off and go to bed. I was upstairs in the front bedroom that overlooked their driveway, using the toilet, when I heard a loud noise outside that sounded similar to a tractor or riding mower.
Now, this isn’t completely unusual as my uncle lives down the street, and he is the one who does the lawn care for their house. But at 1 am during a storm, it was quite odd.
I heard the side door to the house open and could hear my uncle's work boots enter below me. I thought maybe he was there to help out in case of a power outage.
What really got to me, though, was the fact that the 3 German shepherds were lying at the foot of the bed - completely unaware, which is not like them at all. Those dogs go wild at a leaf falling to the ground 15 feet away.
So I go to the window and look out at the driveway - no cars, no tractor, nothing. No one is out there. All of a sudden, the stomping intensified, and I started to hear what sounded like someone was banging a broom on the ceiling below me.
Now, the dogs have started going wild, and I’m in full panic mode. The thunderstorm outside is intensifying, the stomping and banging on the ceiling is getting louder, and the dogs are going berserk.
Instantaneously, the power goes out, and everything - EVERYTHING stops. The dogs, the stomping, the banging, everything. The room I was in was pitch black for about 5 full minutes, and I hid under the covers in sheer panic, trying to call my uncle.
After that, everything was as if nothing happened, and the storm passed shortly after. It was the scariest and weirdest night ever.
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13. Frozen Body
I stayed at my friend’s house to cat sit for 2 weeks this summer. Normally, I don’t sleep over at people's houses when watching their pets. Still, his cat has anxiety issues and will tear the crap out of everything if left alone overnight.
My friend told me I could use his bedroom, which has one of those loft beds over a desk, and it faced the closet and the door into the hall. I couldn’t reach the light switch from the bed, so I would have to fumble my way up to the top in pitch blackness.
The first few nights went off without a hitch. The cat was quiet after I had fed him, and then I would just chill for a bit before going to bed. One night, though, I woke up.
This isn’t entirely unusual for me; normally, I sleep very soundly, but occasionally, I wake up from heat or noises or something. But that night, I was fine. Not too hot or cold, and I hadn’t had dreams before then. But my eyes shot open out of nowhere.
I was lying flat on my back, which was strange (normally, I sleep on my front or side). I didn’t feel tired at all. I raised my head and looked around the room, but I couldn’t really see anything. The room was as dark as ever, but I felt wrong.
I tried closing my eyes, but some part of me was keeping myself awake. And then I opened my eyes again. I looked into the darkness as hard as I could. As my eyes adjusted slightly to the darkness, I saw a figure in the closet.
I stared, trying to make sense of it. I reasoned it must be a coat or something hanging up, but then it started moving. It climbed up the end of the bed until it hung over my legs. I thought I could hear it breathing.
I couldn’t move below the neck but could close my eyes. I pinched them shut as hard as I could, unable to stop hearing the thing breathe in and out. Finally, I must have fallen asleep, because I woke up at 7 flat on my back.
I could move again, and for a moment, I didn’t remember what had happened the night before. But when I did, I grabbed my phone and my clothes and sprinted out of there.
I told my dad about it, and he told me it was probably sleep paralysis. He had had it at the same age. It made sense, but I still slept on the couch with the lights on for the rest of my time there.
ashenmagpie
14. Overnight Nightmare
10 years ago. I was 18 years old. As I was taking a shower and washing my hair, with every washing motion, I pulled out more and more of my own hair until I was bald.
No reason, no warning, nothing, just the pure horror of pulling out hands full of hair. The drain clogged with my hair as I silently stared in the mirror across the room at my own bald head. It felt like I was falling apart.
Mentally and physically. I honestly thought I would die that day. It was a sudden auto-immune disease. Alopecia overnight. It was scary as hell.
The weeks after, I lost all my body hair as well. My hair never returned, and I am very okay with it now, but I can never ever forget that moment in the shower...
TimVR
15. Frozen Beard
I was about 9, laying in bed watching snow fall from a window facing the backyard. Suddenly, a man’s face popped up just inches from my window, staring right at me.
I still remember his beard coated in ice and his steamy breath. After a few seconds, I unfroze and ran into my mom’s room. What a scare.
She thought I was making it up and sent me back to my room. I hid so I couldn’t see out of the window. The next morning, when we left for school, footprints in the fresh snow straightened out to my window.
Emlym
16. Strong Gut Feeling
My aunt told me about a creepy episode that happened to her some time ago. So, I'm from Italy, and she's too. She lives in an isolated house in the Tuscany hills, which are amazing during summer.
Still, in winter (and especially on winter nights), they're scary as heck. So, it was a cold and dark night, and my aunt was home alone with her three-year-old child (AKA my cousin) that day. My uncle had a night shift at work.
It was about 11 p.m. when her doorbell rang. She got out on the balcony to see who was at the door and saw a young man ("he was about 30"). She told me that he didn't look that suspicious.
She only noticed that he was really tall; she said he was "about 2 meters tall" (approximately 6.5 ft.). The man told her that "he had an accident with his motorbike one or two kilometers away," and he asked her if he could get in.
My aunt is an amazing woman, but she's gullible and naive. She didn't even think about, for example, how that dude got to her house, considering she was in the middle of FREAKING NOWHERE.
She was gonna open up to that guy. Still, while telling me this story, she said: "Something just told me that I didn't have to let the guy in," so she got out on the balcony again and told the dude that she would've called policemen and ambulances for him.
As soon as she said that, that guy ran away. She was terrified, and she locked herself in with the baby and called the police and my uncle. I still don't know what the guy would've done if she had let him in, and I'm glad I'll never know.
Nerd_Warrior
17. Back And Forth
I used to work as a farm hand/horse trainer assistant. One day, it was just me at the farm. It was kind of drizzling, so I decided to work horses on the lounge line(it's a long line, and you exercise the horse in circles around you for non-horse people) in the indoor arena.
Well, I get through about 4 of the horses on the list for the day and take a particularly calm horse down to get him a light workout. Out of the corner of my eye, I see someone walk by the human-sized door.
I figure it's just a figment of my imagination and keep going. I see it again, but going in the other direction this time. I keep going but keep an eye on the door. The next time I saw it, the horse I was working was going by the door, jumping sideways away, and making a loud snorting noise.
This horse doesn't spook at much. He'll walk by a trampoline with children jumping on it and being loud with zero issues. So now I'm starting to panic because obviously, it wasn't my imagination if the horse was reacting too.
So I stopped him and started walking him out so he could catch his breath and cool off before I put him back. I grab a dressage whip and call my bf. By the time my bf shows up, I have the horse cooled down, and we get him back in his stall and take a walk outside the arena.
There are footprints in the wet grass going all the way around the outside of the arena, and then they enter into the woods behind it. Someone was skulking around and definitely did not want to be seen.
The worst part of it was that a lady in a nearby town was attacked in her own barn with a fire poker about three months later. I don't think they are connected, and whoever it was never came back, as far as I'm aware.
Just the fact that there was some potential sicko wandering around for who knows how long doing who knows what was terrifying at the moment and had me on edge for a long time after. I didn't like being there alone after that experience.
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18. Hidden Cat
This was just a few months ago, but I still cannot explain it. I have a cat who is pretty much full-grown and stays home while at work. I am gone from about 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM almost every day.
He has always had a playful side to him, and I would find paw prints and stuff on the counters when I got home. It's no big deal. He would always wait for me when I got home and greet me when I walked in the door, except for one day when I got home and couldn't find him for my life.. which was odd.
So I kept calling his name and started to hear a faint "meow" coming from the kitchen. I start looking for him in the cupboards, thinking he got stuck. I still couldn't find him, but I could hear him meowing.
Eventually, I said screw it and started opening everything. I found him stuck in a regular drawer that you put silverware in. It’s not an actual cupboard but a very small drawer. Mind you, he is about 14 pounds.
He is NOT a small cat. He did not FIT in the drawer. I pulled him out, and he essentially ran and hid immediately. I tried investigating to see if he had somehow weaseled his way into the drawer from the cupboard underneath, but there was simply no way.
He was way too big to fit in there unless he had been shoved in there. He was also facing towards the front of the drawer, which would have been impossible for him to pull the drawer open, jump in, and somehow have it slide close on him.
To this day, I have no idea how he got in there. I called the management of my apartment and asked who had been in my apartment that day, to which they said no one had. No maintenance, nothing.
No one from the management was even in the building the entire day. I even tried putting him in there myself and closing it, but he just doesn't even fit. You would literally have to pin him down and slam it shut with him in there, and he would be stuck there without being able to move.
What I think is that someone was in my apartment that day (I lock my door every damn day) and had put him in there. Scary thought.. but that is the only thing I can think of. Nothing was missing, and I didn't notice anything out of place.
I bought a security camera that night, and management changed the locks the very next morning. I have not seen him try to open cupboards or drawers once in the months that have passed. It took me a while to get over the fact that someone was probably in my apartment and could come back at any time.
jakedasnake173
19. All Gone
I left on a weekend trip to see family. I didn't live in the greatest of neighborhoods, so I always made sure my doors were locked.
Cat had food and water to last him until Sunday, so I petted him goodbye and went on my merry way. I came home Sunday to every door locked and the cat was completely missing.
I was crushed for an entire week until someone on the street finally saw him. It took me another week to get him back. That was a year ago, and he's finally slowed down on snarfing his food at meal times as he was actively starving to death those two weeks on his own
Riodancer
20. The Car Guy
When I was in high school, I was walking home alone in my school uniform, and this car stopped in front of me as I was trying to cross the road.
The guy driving it asked me if I was still a virgin. I tried to walk around the car and ignore him, but he kept moving the car to stop me from crossing the street.
I looked around to ask for help, but the street was deserted. I have never been so scared in my life. I finally ended up walking back the way I came as fast as I could, hoping to find a way to hide or ask for help.
TravelingArgentine
21. Believe Me
I was 8 years old and my family took a trip to Las Vegas. I was an odd kid with a pretty good sense of my surroundings, so over one of the days, I noticed a man in several different locations that we were going to.
I mentioned it to my mom, and she said something like, "We are going to tourist places. He is probably one, too." I was 8, so I was "OK, Mom" and continued the day. Later, we were in the swimming pool at our hotel, and I saw a vending machine for ice cream.
I am from the south, and this looked like something out of Star Wars for me because it had Dippin Dots. I climbed out of the pool and saw the guy looking at us again. I think I rationalized it like my mom had. "It's a hotel. He is probably staying here."
I started to ask my mom for ice cream. After a few minutes of that annoying begging (I have two kids and can imagine myself), my mom gave in and let me go get ice cream. It was on the corner of a building where, if you wanted, you could turn the corner, and the pool would be out of view.
I walked up to the machine and started to make my selection when the man appeared next to me. "I want a bite." I was extremely creeped out, and the MAIN memory I have is how I felt in danger even though we were in public.
I said something like, "No sir," but he grabbed my arm and started to pull me toward the turn of the building. I would like to say I did something smart, but all I could do was try to jerk my arm back.
I should have screamed, but I just tried to get away. He was strong and had me at the turn when he suddenly let go and ran off. A fence on the side of the building meant he couldn't have gotten me far before having to climb a fence or turn around to go out the entryway.
I ran straight to my mom and told her what happened. It was an interesting night of an 8-year-old trying to tell cops about a man. Not the most reliable source. They used the cameras and found the guy who had warrants.
CaptainEngage
22. Other Brother
I grew up in a farmhouse built in the 1860s. I was probably 14 or so and was home alone while my parents took my little brother to t-ball practice.
My little brother did (and still does) call me "Sissy," and I have always called him Bubby. I was sitting in the living room watching TV.
I heard the back door that we always use open, and my little brother shouted out, "Sissy!!!" and I responded back with, "Hey Bubby!"
I waited a minute or two and heard nothing else, then yelled out again with no response. As it turns out, they hadn't gotten home yet. I was literally too scared to move and stayed put til they did get home about 30 minutes later.
justherefortheza
23. The Man
I was babysitting these two kids. I put them to bed (they both slept in the same room) then ordered a pizza and chilled out. Only a laundry room with a glass sliding door to the backyard was between their bedroom and the lounge room.
About an hour after I put them to bed, I could hear them talking. I muted the TV and walked towards the bedroom. I walked into their room.
Their bedroom light was on, and they were both sitting up. I asked them why they were talking to each other, and they told me they weren’t; they were talking to the man.
A shiver runs up my spine even as I tell this story. I got them back down and turned off the light. As I headed for the lounge room once more, I looked into the laundry as I passed. The sliding door was open. That was the longest night of my life.
Lettuce-b-lovely
24. Bear Night
When I was 14, I was out camping in the Rocky Mountains with my grandparents. I was in my own tent, and they were in theirs. We had made sure to put all food into the car to be safe from bears and made sure there were no crumbs or anything on us or in the tents.
I woke up at what I thought was 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning to the sound of heavy, padded footsteps and breathing. It was moving around the camp, so I sat up and looked through this little plastic window in the tent, and there was a huge bear outside.
I got scared and lay back down, trying not to move, and I heard the bear lumber over to my tent. I heard it sniffing and actually saw it poke my tent. After about 20 minutes of sniffing around, it left. But it was pretty terrifying for my 14-year-old self.
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25. Foot Care
My sister went to a nail salon that used the utmost in care and sterilization. They even used a plastic liner for the foot tub.
She got a massive staph infection on her leg, and after living with an actual hole in her leg the size of a grapefruit, it's starting to look somewhat normal 2 years later.
She has nerve damage in her leg and foot, though, and the infection nearly finished her off. You can be so very clean but still get staph. It is NO JOKE. You do NOT want to mess with it.
BlessedBreasts
26. The Doppelganger
I used to have long, dark hair, and I'd sometimes leave it loose before I went to bed. Once, while visiting my aunt, we were all up really late, and my cousin was sitting at the counter snacking on something.
I came up behind her to ask her to share, and she whipped her head around, startled, and didn't say anything for a few seconds.
Then, in a small voice, she asked how it was possible that I was behind her, clearly having left her room, when she'd just seen "me" go into my room, clear as day, dark hair flowing. We still don't know whether it was insomnia or something else that was responsible for what she saw.
takeflight61
27. Same Hour
When I was 14, for exactly an entire month (which month I forget.) I would wake up every morning at 3:30 am or 3:15 am with the feeling I was being watched.
If I did manage to fall asleep, I would be completely plagued with nightmares. One morning, I woke up at 3:15 am like normal, but I immediately felt someone tap on the back of my head.
Then, as the month ended, it was over. Needless to say, I can't ever enjoy or want to fall asleep from 3 am to 4 am and am still quite paranoid about my room in general.
Pug_
28. The Psychic Friend
Two years ago, I think, a friend and I sat on the balcony of my flat, drinking beer and talking. It was late in the evening, and you could clearly see many planes flying overhead.
My friend had the FlightRadar app on his phone, and we were checking out overhead flights from where they were flying to where.
All of a sudden, while he had a flight from Paris to Cairo open, he just looked at me and, in a very serious tone, said: this plane is going down.
Then he started laughing, I laughed, too, and I brushed it off as drunken foolery. The next day, I saw a report that a plane headed from Paris to Cairo had crashed into the ocean. We never spoke of it.
baki995
29. Unknown Scream
This one time, I was on my way home from work. I was young, about 18 at the time. The company I worked for at the time, we just parked at our boss's house and used company vehicles to drive around.
So I was all alone this Friday, driving into my boss's driveway to get to my car. As I parked the cube van, I shut it off and heard the loudest, gruesomest blood-curdling scream I had ever heard in my life.
Sounded like a man. I didn't know what to do. I sat there pondering for a moment. No one was parked at my boss's house. He's usually gone camping on Fridays.
It was just me there. So I got out and checked the shop door and his house. They were all locked. He lived in the country, so he had no close neighbors.
I peeked in the shop windows, but nothing. I went home feeling very uneasy all weekend. Monday morning came, and everyone at work was there and fine. I never told anyone this, and I am not sure if I actually heard that or not now.
Obyson
30. Chill Guy
Someone broke into my house TODAY and made himself a plate of food, took a shower, put on my father's clothes, and even switched my laundry.
My girlfriend and I walked in on him, sitting by the front door. My girlfriend’s father knows a lot of people, and he was wearing my girlfriend’s father's work shirt, so we just assumed he knew him.
He asked us if we believed in god and told us the church sent him. We ran out immediately and called 911. He did not chase us fast at all. He calmly walked out the door as we drove away.
While on the phone, we watched him hop two fences very calmly. He saw the cop coming down the road (he came in literally at 1:30, thank god) and ditched the shirt. We didn’t know if we had locked our gun cabinet, so we didn’t know if he was armed.
The cop jumped out and detained him, and he CALMLY went to the ground. He destroyed the house but didn’t take anything. He ruined my girlfriend’s parent's bathroom door (like he got stuck inside the bathroom???). He tore the tile in our room???
He made a pile of what he would take but didn’t even run when we caught him. My girlfriend is shaken up because this guy must have been here while we were there because we were only gone for 45 minutes.
The timing of when we got home was so perfect. My girlfriend accidentally honked the horn when we pulled up, notifying him we were home. Normally, we walk into the house and go straight to our room, and we would NOT have noticed him if he was still in the shower or in the kitchen.
He has previous charges of battery with a deadly weapon. Thank god we got lucky. He was definitely watching the house to know our very predictable leaving patterns.
Herobrineliller
31. Angry Granny
When I was about 10 or so, I was walking down the street about half a block from my grandma's house. I looked over and saw a man sitting on his front steps.
He looks up at me and says he wants to talk to me. He's acting like he knows who I am. I had no idea who this guy was, so I started booking it back to my grandma's.
This guy gives chase after little 10-year-old me. I made it inside and hid behind her living room chair. Luckily, my grandma was inside and is a pretty cool little lady because the next thing we knew, this psycho was bursting through the front door.
She gets up and starts screaming in his face to get out of her house, and he just sheepishly turns around and walks away. That was close.
VendettaAOF
32. Mother’s Scream
I work night shifts at a children’s hospital. Once, a call bell went off around 3am from one of the back rooms, and it was a woman frantically saying, “Someone! Please help me! The baby!”
The scream was with a baby crying in the background. I ran back there to help her, but the baby was alone, sleeping in the crib.
I asked the nurse if anyone had been with the baby all night, and she said no, he’d been alone all night. It still creeps me out when I think about it.
woundedtogether
33. Random Girl
Camping with Friends in Chilliwack, BC. Went up a logging road and made camp by the river. No one else was around for kilometers. In the middle of the night, as we sit around the fire, we hear something walk towards us.
Some random girl slowly walks out of the bush into the clearing and comes towards us. "Have you seen my ffrriends?" It was so eerie the way she said friends.
All of us are weirded out, and someone managed to say, "Uhhh, no." Then she smiles and says, "Ohhh okay," and continues walking back into the bush, but not the way she came.
We all decided to keep drinking until the sun came up, screw going to sleep with the wandering devil lady waiting in the bushes.
f00kinPrawns117
34. She’s Coming
When I was 8 (and my brother was 6), my mom picked us up from school one day. When we got home, my mom had forgotten her keys, so she knocked on the door for my grandma to let us in.
Now architecture is super important to the story: we lived in a very well-to-do apartment building on the 8th floor, where each floor was a long rectangle, with a single apt on each end (so 2 apts per floor).
There was a single elevator in the middle of the rectangle of each floor. The building was essentially all glass. There were no external fire staircases or ladders; the nearest structure was another building an entire block away.
Ok. So we knock on the door. My grandma yells from the inside, "I'm coming!" so we wait. And we wait. 1 minute, nothing. So we knock again. Again my grandma: "I said im coming!" 3 minutes, then 5.
She still isn't opening the door even though we can clearly hear her in the kitchen inside the house, so we are getting pissed. We knock and knock and she just keeps on saying the same thing: "I said I'm coming! I'm coming right now!"
10 minutes later, the elevator opens behind us, and out comes my grandma. The apartment had been empty the entire time.
It's been 20 years since then, and my mom, brother, and I all clearly remember talking to that voice that sounded EXACTLY like my grandma. Zero explanation. My grandma is still alive, btw.
SunnyBunnyBunBun
35. Different Timeline
Reminds me of when I was a child, maybe around 11, I had to visit the doctor as my parents had to work. My grandma said she'd come with me, and we agreed to meet right in front of the house where the doctor is.
I'd been waiting for half an hour when I finally decided that it was time to go on in on my own so as not to miss my appointment after I went on to school and once I got home, my dad asked me where I'd been the morning.
Apparently, my grandma had waited in the exact same spot. We were able to talk about the exact situations we saw while waiting yet completely phased out of each other's existence...
Weird. And no, it's not like that street was crowded. There was complete emptiness apart from the two or three passersby and an ambulance.
[deleted]
36. Not The Spiderman
I was bitten on my face by a brown recluse spider while on a training mission with the US Army. It happened while I was sleeping so the poison stayed in my face.
It was right next to my eye for about 6 hours. My head swelled so bad it looked like my face doubled in size. Oh god, that really hurts.
I lost nerve feeling in my eye socket, and now my eyelid uncontrollably flutters the more tired I get. Sort of like a tremor that people with Tourettes get.
Jasader
37. Elevator Incident
I lived on the 9th floor when I was a kid, and we had that stupid thing to lock the last guy in the elevator to make him go all the way down and up again when we were going to my place.
One day, I was the "lucky one," so while my friends tried to shut the door before I went out, I put my foot (with a sneaker on) between the door, but they still managed to close the elevator.
The ground floor button was already pressed, so the lift started to move downwards, and that was the moment when I realized that my sneaker gum got between the floor and the elevator door.
In 2 seconds, I was hanging down on my boot under the lift's roof. While scenes from my short life flashed in front of my eyes, my leg went outside the lift through a narrow hole and stopped at knee level (as it was thicker).
I felt a growing pressure on my knee against the roof, and eventually, the boot gum broke, and then I fell down on my head and back on the elevator floor.
Miecian
38. Car Scam
In the middle of the night, the guy came up to us out of nowhere and got real close to ask for a ride while she was pumping gas. I thought he was gonna rob us, so before he finished, I said no.
He said please, his car was about a mile and a half away. Again, no. This no came from both my mom and me. He leaves, and I look back to see him walking away and asking no one else anything at the gas station.
There were no cars on the side of the road for about 30 miles down. I occasionally think about this freaking rando. Yeesh.
[deleted]
39. Shadow Man
As a teenager, I loved climbing trees. Well, we had just moved into a new house with no direct neighbors but tons of trees.
I found the best tree to climb and spent the rest of the afternoon there. After dark had come and I was back in my house, I realized I left my wallet by the tree.
I took a flashlight with me and went to get my wallet. On my way there, a shadow of a man is reflecting from my flashlight onto the tree.
My heart skipped a beat, and I immediately calmed down because I thought it was my own shadow and I was being silly. It was when I picked up my wallet that I realized I could only create a shadow if I was behind the light source.
Shangtia
40. The Blue Mini Van
When I lived in Texas and was in the second grade, I was waiting outside of my elementary school for my mom to pick me up. She was late, as she often was, so I was one of the last kids there.
This would have been the very early 90s, so people were a lot more relaxed. At some point, the teacher went inside to go do something with another kid.
A middle-aged woman in a blue minivan pulled up, rolled down her window, and said that my mom had sent her to get me and bring me home.
I thought it was weird that she didn't know me by name, so I went inside to ask my teacher what I should do. By the time we got back outside, she was gone, and my mom arrived a few minutes later.
jareths_tight_pants
41. Couple Danger
I was taking a bike trip at night with my girlfriend. When it was around 1am, we were in the middle of a field with no buildings nearby. Then, we saw a black SUV coming in our direction.
We drove to the side to save space between us and him. As they drove past, he stopped a little behind us, came out of the car, and started screaming something.
We just noped the fudge out of there, and he tried to follow us. But we were on a very narrow field road, so he had nowhere to turn around. All I can remember about this SUV was its foreign plates and dark windows.
epej
42. Ski Scare
When I was snow skiing for the first time and heading down a slope way too fast. I started off on a green but somehow wound up on a much more difficult run.
I remembered there was a right-degree turn at the bottom of the hill I had to navigate, or I would fly off the mountain at 10,000 feet.
Somehow, I pulled it off and felt awesome, but looking back on it still scares the heck out of me. That was the scene that my brain will never forget.
coachrx
43. The Song
We live in an old farmhouse. It's over 100 years old and was moved to the farm from a city about an hour away. My wife swears it's haunted, as does my sister.
I'm a skeptic. They believe it is haunted by an older woman who occupies the living room in the middle of the old part of the house.
We host a band camp once a year where kids from a music school stay on the property for a few days, write music, and play some tunes at the end of the weekend.
During one of these camps, a pair of girls stayed up writing through the night. The next morning, I heard the song they had put together. They said it was inspired by a vibe they felt at the house...
The song was about a woman longing for a lover and a family she lost, stuck somewhere she used to know, but it got moved away, and she could no longer leave.
She had become a spirit haunting a house, watching a new family. They said they felt she might be in our house. They had never met my wife or sister to corroborate stories. Creeped me out.
daedaloofus
44. Horrible Accident
I was building a school a few years ago, and the electricians were using a Lull (big forklift) to lift units to the roof. The units in question were something like 8 x 6 x 4, big rectangles about 4 feet tall but wide and deep. Heavy as hell, too.
Anyways, an electrician is standing under the forks, motioning to the operator to get him on the roof, when the load shifts, falls and hits him.
I didn't get a good angle, so I don't know how it worked out, but his hard work saved his life. He went to the hospital with a massive gash across the top of his head and forehead and some brain trauma. Came back to work a month or so later.
Crabbagio
45. Cold Hands
I woke up in the middle of the night and felt something heavy on top of my head. I reached up and felt a cold hand, its fingers on my forehead.
It really felt like someone was reaching from behind me. I grabbed it and threw it off my head, only to have my arm follow. Uhh..
The weird angle it was in had caused it to fall asleep. 30 years later, I still remember how cold and alien my own hand felt. That was weird.
tarmitch