[deleted] · 2139 points · Posted at 15:30:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was on vacation in Ithaca with my boyfriend at the time. We had literally, I'm talking 10 minutes, just gotten into town and stopped at a suspension bridge near Cornell's campus. I'm terrified of heights and, so, my boyfriend was coaxing me step by step over the bridge. It was gorgeous and we stopped at the middle to take a picture. On the side we had come from there was a parking lot with steps leading to the bottom of the gorge but on the far side there were hiking paths with no barrier. A woman walked past us and offered to take a picture for us. We declined and she smiled and walked quickly to the far side of the bridge where she smoothly jumped off into the gorge. There was not a second of hesitation, it was almost like she expected the path to keep going. The sound of a person hitting the ground from a jump like that sticks with you.

[deleted] · 476 points · Posted at 16:09:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 00:02:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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PennyLane013 · 5 points · Posted at 15:41:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry to hear that. RIP Katie.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:47:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My condolences. Have an upvote for support.

[deleted] · 28 points · Posted at 20:49:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Samuel_Gompers · 10 points · Posted at 23:07:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please find the Daily Sun article about suicide that made it past the nets. There haven't been any off the bridges since 2010. People have died in the gorges, but it was always, to my knowledge, ruled to be because of carelessness, drunkenness, or other impairments.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 20:59:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Donald_Pietrowski · 2 points · Posted at 22:50:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I believe that this girl did as well.

quinquidens · 4 points · Posted at 22:34:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Doesn't the bridge go over a gorge? I seem to remember back in the 60's they used to call it "Gorging out". Grim

WhoreyMatthews · 83 points · Posted at 16:43:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what happens when you end up at your safety ivy.

CFSparta92 · 56 points · Posted at 19:23:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not for Andy Bernard.

droidonomy · 2 points · Posted at 07:29:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not inconceivable that he met a similar fate after the finale.

sdrawkcaBdaeRtsuJuoY · 59 points · Posted at 19:19:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not funny ;(. Graduated Cornell 2 years ago now. 3 years ago there were 6 suicides within a 1-2 month period. To the point that every bridge on campus is now fenced. Nothing will ever take away that awkward hush every time you had to cross that bridge, see those fences, and be reminded of what they meant. I just pray that people feeling that way know and understand that there is ALWAYS someone who will listen, you just have to be willing to be heard.

oh_you_crazy_cat · 43 points · Posted at 19:49:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At Cornell now, they just took down the fences 2 weeks ago!

sdrawkcaBdaeRtsuJuoY · 9 points · Posted at 19:54:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Really?? That's amazing!! Thanks for the update! Enjoy it there - you'll miss it so much when you're gone lol. I never thought I'd say that =P

SlashtagBroloSwag · 3 points · Posted at 21:08:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They have safety nets underneath now that catch you, so if you do decide to jump you just end up with a bill for the cost of extracting you out of it. They are pretty inconspicuous, barely visible even of you are looking for it.

_payl0ad_ · 24 points · Posted at 21:10:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

if you do decide to jump you just end up with a bill for the cost of extracting you out of it

sucks for the person committing suicide over financial reasons...

elevul · 6 points · Posted at 22:30:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sucks for every person committing suicide. Now someone can't even suicide in peace, ffs. What has the world come to?

_payl0ad_ · 12 points · Posted at 22:33:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, Obama

Garek · 1 points · Posted at 09:18:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gives them a good reason to try again.

Zerothe0 · -4 points · Posted at 03:49:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ehh, suck more for the people that have to witness that.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:30 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Basejumping, anyone?

JBHUTT09 · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm over at IC. Why did they take them down? Did they figure it was safe now? I would think it's better to be safe and keep them up.

oh_you_crazy_cat · 3 points · Posted at 21:50:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They have suicide nets now

JBHUTT09 · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, ok. I guess those would be more effective. Can't exactly climb over a net. Hopefully they don't get much use.

oh_you_crazy_cat · 3 points · Posted at 22:06:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Unfortunately, I have heard rumors of drunk people jumping into the nets. The "nets" are made of steel cable. Ouchie!

JBHUTT09 · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sigh Why are people stupid?

asshair · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why'd they take them down?

oh_you_crazy_cat · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They put up suicide nets

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Time to jump and show them that was a mistake.

oh_you_crazy_cat · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

they are made out of steel cable

rule_of_law · 0 points · Posted at 21:46:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what are they trying to kill someone?!?

Quaeras · -1 points · Posted at 20:04:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are the signs still up? "People have died!!"

crayonbox · 2 points · Posted at 04:14:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Class of 2011 fist bump! It's weird, I have so many memories of Cornell but the tone and mood of the weeks following the suicide of the two guys who killed themselves in the same week is one of the most vivid times of my memory at Cornell. It could be because one of them was a good friend of someone I knew - but the campus felt so different then. Do you remember how CAPS started hanging around after prelims to hand out tissues and candy? Crazy times. I am happy to hear that there is progress. Taking down the fences and putting in the nets is a big step.

sdrawkcaBdaeRtsuJuoY · 2 points · Posted at 04:34:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, '11!! And I absolutely do. I remember walking out of exams for the hard core classes and having groups there with candy and just there to give you a hug and remind you to smile. It was so eye opening and so scary. And then everyone at home calling and asking me all the time how I was doing and that they would be there for me. Half the time I loved all the support, the other half I just wanted it to end because I wanted to forget. I'm so happy to here that their efforts seem to have made a difference though. It is such an amazing school and people need to remember the good too :)

marxsparty · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My father went to find some of those bodies (6 Engineers), he worked with the NYS Police Scuba Diving Team. I forget if he was writing a story on it, or went on it for shits and giggles/being a hella good suba diver.

[deleted] · -8 points · Posted at 19:26:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

6 suicides within a 1-2 month period

Jesus christ, people need to get some fucking perspective. It's just school.

CatatonicWalrus · 12 points · Posted at 19:31:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, but if you're going to a really nice school like that you're expected to keep up the work that got you there. You can only keep up for so long before the stress gets to you. I've never been that crazy about grades, but there's a girl in my class that I worry about. I keep an eye out for her because I'm afraid of something like this happening to her.

Pope_adope · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's always good to look out for people like that. Friends or not, they should always have someone backing them up.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:38:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I understand it, I'm just saying people need some perspective. Getting a few C's at an ivy league school (or any school for that matter) is not going to prevent you from getting a decent job and living a decent life.

rule_of_law · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

tell that to Bush... people have been riding his ass about a few bad grades for 13 years now

pinealpaste · 6 points · Posted at 21:55:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you saying Bush didn't have a decent job?

rule_of_law · 1 points · Posted at 01:25:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

no... just that people never let it up

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 19:42:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And you need to be more understanding. People have more problems that make them commit suicide. School, family, stress, emotional anguish. It all adds up.

CornflakeJustice · 4 points · Posted at 20:49:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's usually not "just school" that's the problem. Suicide is usually the result of macro life issues for a person.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Then why are so many happening at this particular (intensive and notoriously cutthroat) school? I went to a similar-sized college and we didn't have a single suicide over the four years I attended.

CornflakeJustice · 2 points · Posted at 21:24:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm very very certain of two things in those situations:

The school is a contributing factor, grades, stress, the radical differences are certainly going to do a lot of harm in someone for whom suicide is seen as a potential option.
I don't know the people who committed suicide well enough to speculate what other issues they had.

That said, as someone who has been on the borderline in the past, has had many friends who were, and have personally prevented a couple, I can tell you with certainty that while school related issues likely were the final straw so to speak, they weren't the only thing.

Please don't take any of this as demeaning or angry, but suicide and such similar issues are incredibly incredibly difficult to understand unless you've been there and I hope you haven't.

sdrawkcaBdaeRtsuJuoY · 3 points · Posted at 19:37:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Amen. It was one of the most real moments in my life. I'm not proud to say that that's what it took for me to open my eyes and realize that there is more to life than good grades. It just breaks my heart to see that fate for such young, amazing people. It's not right for any one to feel that much pressure on themselves.

Raincoats_George · 0 points · Posted at 01:02:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its funny..

Samuel_Gompers · 48 points · Posted at 20:31:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Honestly, fuck you. I was on campus during the rash of suicides four years ago. It was a statistical anomaly, but I have never seen a darker pall cast over a wider area. The entire campus was suffocating with grief. When two people kill themselves in such a public manner in the same week and it's not even the first time such a thing has happened that semester, it is very difficult to combat a feeling of hopelessness. Most of the people who jumped were either engineers or hard science majors, if I remember correctly. Yes, there's a stereotype that Cornell is the easiest Ivy to get into, but the caveat to that is that it's the hardest to get out of, particularly because of those programs.

Try saying what you did to the faces of the people who were in studied with or taught those people, who were in classes and clubs together with them. This type of disrespect towards issues of mental health is one of the reasons things like those suicides happen in the first place.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 21:11:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was a statistical anomaly.

It may have been the copycat effect. Hearing about suicides, particularly if the method is mentioned, can make vulnerable people more likely to do it.

Samuel_Gompers · 2 points · Posted at 21:13:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, that was what the administration argued. I said it was a statistical anomaly only because even though there had been gorge suicides before, there had never previously been anything of such a magnitude as what happened in 2009-2010.

[deleted] · 76 points · Posted at 20:43:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everything you said was honest and eloquent. It does not change the fact that human beings often cope with horrors through comedy. Be well.

Samuel_Gompers · 19 points · Posted at 20:50:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After the first one that was true. After the second one, there were still a few jokes. When we had two in one week, every time you even saw an emergency vehicle your stomach dropped. After the second one in that one week period, I walked into my dorm room to see my roommate with his head in his hands. He had no idea who jumped, but when it's all you hear about, all that is published in the campus paper, all that any administrative email discusses, it begins to weigh on you far heavier than any joke can lift. And the real thing is that most of the people making these jokes weren't there. I've heard too many other students at other schools say, "Oh, Cornell? Stay away from the bridges, amirite?" These wounds are still really fresh for a lot of people, so those who weren't there shouldn't expect any understanding from those who were for being crass and insensitive.

vivichase · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:11 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is such an elegant and mature defense. Props to both of you. My faith in the internet is restored by +1.

[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 22:34:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

People who actually deal with tragic and horrible things, like homicide detectives and trauma surgeons, cope with humor. You're just some guy who read a paragraph on the internet. If you want to laugh at off-color jokes, that's awesome, but don't try to claim some moral high ground about it, because the only thing you're "coping" with is cheeto dust on your keyboard.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 01:31:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wasn't laughing. And you are a self righteous idiot.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:46 on June 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

why do you say it's the hardest to get out of? Sorry, just curious.

Samuel_Gompers · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:20 on June 16, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a saying, that Cornell is the easiest to get into but the hardest get out of because classes, especially in engineering (though I was not an engineer), can be very difficult. Some of the other Ivies on the other hand have a reputation for grade inflation.

Whothefuckcares935 · -1 points · Posted at 23:04:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why are you even in this thread if you are so easily offended?

Samuel_Gompers · 4 points · Posted at 23:09:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reading a scary or creepy story isn't the same as mocking suicide victims.

Whothefuckcares935 · -4 points · Posted at 02:04:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never understood this, it's not like the suicide victims can hear us

chaoskitty · 2 points · Posted at 12:41:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's because suicide isnt about the person who did it, it's about the people they left behind who have to deal with the fallout.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 02:19:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What would you suggest, mocking people walking around with a huge stick up their ass?

d12green · -2 points · Posted at 19:15:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jeeze...this is horrible. But way too funny.

fates_fury · 2 points · Posted at 07:28:27 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why they're fighting to have fences put up there; I live about 10 minutes away from Ithaca.

Udontlikecake · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They've out up those safety fences on the main bridges. I don't know about a lot of the small ones. I think they are pretty recent though.

KingOTheCask · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, there is a HUGE reason that Cornell made those bridge barriers so damn high.

teh_tg · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went there with 10 friends and was to scared to climb down the gorge. Got to see my friends climb safely down and back up though, so all was good.

x3nodox · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The nets went up over the course of this year. The suspension bridge still doesn't have nets, but it has makeshift chainlink fences all along it now.

I_SLEEP_PLENTIFULLY · 0 points · Posted at 20:16:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've always wondered, is Ithaca well-known throughout the states? I'm from Canada and I stopped there for a few days on my way to Virginia Beach, and it's an amazing little town. I'm told that it has only a population of around 30,000 but it somehow seems way bigger.

Hootinger · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ithaca well-known throughout the states?

Im from western Ohio (near Cincinnati) and we know of it. I think most towns with an ivy league school are known. However, and this is sort of silly to admit, a few people are probably only aware of the town because the 2000 movie Road Trip took place there.

papiwoldz · -2 points · Posted at 22:40:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHO WOULD UPVOTE THIS

Whothefuckcares935 · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvotes are for comments which further the discussion, the information provided in this comment is sure to spur further discussion.

Hence, upvotes

papiwoldz · 1 points · Posted at 09:50:57 on June 22, 2013 · (Permalink)

who the fuck cares

Games_sans_frontiers · 1674 points · Posted at 17:34:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Fine fine! You can take our picture."

dingobiscuits · 106 points · Posted at 21:36:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I can't get you both in frame - I'll just go back a bit... back a bit more... a bit more..."

procom49 · -12 points · Posted at 22:06:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

U guys are horrible

ocd_poacher · 6 points · Posted at 00:01:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's reddit what do you expect?

procom49 · 3 points · Posted at 08:03:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow that escalated quickly! I wasn't speaking serious. I was laughing my way through this thread and said with a laughing voice "u guys are horrible".

Laceyduke · 5 points · Posted at 12:47:29 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who down votes this?

OGmolton · 13 points · Posted at 21:05:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

lol, surely it is ashame that such a helpful person would kill themselves, but bridges are where people go for that. I heard about a documentary these people made about the golden gate bridge, when it started it was about the bridge, when it ended it was about suicides from the bridge.

corrobot · 28 points · Posted at 21:56:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's called The Bridge.

[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 22:57:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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zx109 · 5 points · Posted at 02:48:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

the bridge to the other side perhaps?

RatTeeth · 8 points · Posted at 07:02:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Splash Splash Blub Blub?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:42:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I advise people not to watch it, I watched it a few days after a friend of mine committed suicide, made me depressed as hell.

Whothefuckcares935 · 16 points · Posted at 23:08:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On the Christmas Eve during our parents divorce my sister and I watched this movie and invented "The Most Fucked Up Drinking Game Ever"

Every time a jumper is shown you take a shot.

We're a merry bunch.

thecajunone · 5 points · Posted at 00:39:06 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not sure who is more horrible, you for inventing that game, or me for laughing my ass off and wanting to play it.

rken3824 · 3 points · Posted at 01:00:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

She looked like she could out run them.

FliesWithPig · 10 points · Posted at 20:36:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I'm at work laughing like an idiot. This is so bad but so funny.

[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 21:29:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't laugh until you laughed. It's your fault.

[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 21:50:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:00:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Real friend real friends yaay! :-)

Bigirishjuggalo1 · 7 points · Posted at 22:04:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This entire thread made me sad. :( Suicide is never funny.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 00:45:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not but.. but.. the context. Can I take your pic? No? Okay well I'm off! ... literally.

Bigirishjuggalo1 · 9 points · Posted at 01:00:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know. Believe me I can see the humor. I say rape isn't funny but tell people think of Bugs Bunny raping Elmer Fudd, so I get the morbid humor has it's place. Just made me sad, sadly. I suppose if I looked at it that she survived it would be hilarious but yeah. :-\ I think it's because I was unfortunate enough to witness a suicide without being able to stop it, so it hits home. You are right though... the context is definitely not without humor.

Laceyduke · 1 points · Posted at 12:47:54 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank yo

5_minutes_turkish · 3 points · Posted at 23:33:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was awful. Have an up vote.

poppinmyredditcherry · 0 points · Posted at 22:41:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really shouldnt have laughed as hard as i did at this...

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 07:47:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really shouldn't be laughing at this...

jwheelerBC · -1 points · Posted at 22:32:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

666 upvotes...

shitakefunshrooms · 37 points · Posted at 19:01:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

whoa that's so messed up. so she just chirpily offered to take a photo then jumped off and killed herself? sounds so much like the film old boy

MasterFasth · 77 points · Posted at 21:27:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

People about to commit suicide usually are happy, because they know that their suffering is almost at an end.

That's why, if you have a friend who's depressed and then suddenly seem very happy, you should be wary.

catsandtea93 · 67 points · Posted at 22:00:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I think the whole "depressed people seem happy right before they kill themselves" thing also has to do with when people tend to commit suicide (in terms of a timeline of their depression). When someone is as deep into the throes of a depressive episode as one can be, they're too depressed to work up the energy for just about anything, including suicide. As they start to rebound out of such an episode, they feel better, have more energy, but can sort of look back on the state they were in in before and think "I never want to be there again." And that is when people tend to kill themselves.

Source: psychology professor

Edited to clarify: I'm not a psych professor, a psych professor told me this.

shitakefunshrooms · 5 points · Posted at 23:04:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As they start to rebound out of such an episode, they feel better, have more energy, but can sort of look back on the state they were in in before and think "I never want to be there again." And that is when people tend to kill themselves.

Thats absolutely terrifying

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:53:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's terrifying is when you tend to know enough about yourself to be able to predict when a crash is coming. You get so afraid of it coming that you tend to seriously consider such a thing.

Source: I have major depressive disorder.

Also people with bipolar type ii disorder tend to have frequent fears of slipping down into depression, and that tends to be when they kill themselves. It's really sad.

cooledcannon · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yeah, many times i felt suicidal i had zero energy to actually follow through, when i got my energy back, i generally stop feeling suicidal/stressed out

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 22:22:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

woah...

thats just...creepy

clippings · 8 points · Posted at 03:09:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My roommate actually tried to kill himself last week, and this is exactly what happened- he was suddenly very happy.

He was locked up in his room for two weeks before, didn't say much to anyone, lots of change going on in his life... and the morning of his attempt, he was in such a better mood! So happy.

That's what threw me off even more when I heard what he had done later that day, but it makes sense after reading that. Keep a look out for the signs in your loved ones, everyone.

cooledcannon · 6 points · Posted at 05:59:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

tbh, its sort of relieving knowing its a suicide, because when i first read OP's story i thought she accidentally fell in, which would be really horrible.

(yes, ik suicide is sad. but suicide is not only voluntary, but if they really want to kill themselves they would always find a way. sometimes people are suffering so bad ending it is comparitively better than remaining alive)

shitakefunshrooms · 1 points · Posted at 11:20:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

yes, ik suicide is sad. but suicide is not only voluntary, but if they really want to kill themselves they would always find a way.

see i don't buy this premise really, people are not either suicidal, or not suicidal, it's a scale.

Depends on how they feel at that particular moment or even during the slow plan to do it, they would and wouldn't act out. [just because one buys a rope does not guarantee they'll use it, they always have a choice up until that last moment]

There was a study that said almost all of the survivors of a bridge suicide attempt immediately regretted the jump the moment they were free from the rail.

A friend works at a mental health institution and he says even the most self destructive patients are passive 90% of the time. Some are very stubborn, but they don't give up on anyone

So i think everyone, even the one's who've tried 3 or 4 times have a chance, most of the time they don't want an exit to life, but an exit to pain.

Euthanasia on the other hand is a quite different issue, its based on ongoing medical physical issues so there's a much stronger case for it. In their case an exit to pain paired directly with an exit to life

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 20:23:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

is there a picture of the bridge?

novalidnameremains · 15 points · Posted at 21:16:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://artdurkee.blogspot.com/2009/05/cornell-2-gorges.html

a_flat_miner · 11 points · Posted at 20:01:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck I walk across that bridge every day to go to class. You hear about it all the time but never actually visualize it.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 19:35:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And that is the precise reason that there are most definitely fences around the bridges in Ithaca, and nets at the bottom of most...

NDaveT · 5 points · Posted at 20:15:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what I was told when I applied there, back in 1987.

I was also informed that Carl Sagan taught only one freshman-level class, and it was packed every year. And that his door sign was the most stolen item on campus.

quantum-mechanic · 4 points · Posted at 23:40:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The fences are down.

laxinonli · 27 points · Posted at 18:50:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

rumor has it the Nard dog thought about ending it once while he was at Cornell

OldIronLungs · 11 points · Posted at 19:03:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it was gorgeous. Nice.

thefuge · 6 points · Posted at 20:13:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OP didn't come up with that on his or her own; it's basically Ithaca's unofficial slogan.

Adjust your karma-giving accordingly.

_John_Mirra_ · 14 points · Posted at 19:44:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Just as a frame of reference for anyone who hasn't been to Ithaca, it's a city with many hills and gorges in otherwise flat upstate New York. Jumping off the gorges is an uncommon method of suicide (edited for accuracy).

GemAdele · 26 points · Posted at 20:04:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not flat anywhere in upstate ny.

[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 20:19:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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JBHUTT09 · 13 points · Posted at 21:51:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Ithaca is gorges"

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Samuel_Gompers · 8 points · Posted at 20:35:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cornell has several every year.

You don't really know what you're talking about. There hasn't been a suicide off the any of the bridges at Cornell since early 2010. There have been accidents in the gorges, but mostly related to people being drunk and thinking it's a good idea to take swim.

_John_Mirra_ · 4 points · Posted at 22:54:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

You are absolutely right. I graduated from Ithaca in 2011 so my perception was tinged by the 2010 suicides. Huffington Post says 27 suicides over 20 years, 15 being students

6 every day. Thanks to you, I will now be stepping back all the time. Appreciate your post.

Limez · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"If you ever"?

maneatingmonkey · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Grew up on Long Island.

Going to the city is a frequent occurrence, but an everyday thing it is not for Long Islanders.

emilydm · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't new: "Always stand alone, hold the wall up with my back / Or else you might get pushed onto the tracks" - Five Blocks To The Subway by Biohazard, 1994.

cito-cy · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here in Hong Kong glass doors separate the platform and the train. I think Singapore is the same. Saves on air conditioning too!

maneatingmonkey · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You guys have air conditioned subways?

In New York those things are at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit 24/7. Even in Winter. Or at least it seems that way..

cito-cy · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All trains and underground stations are. Some above-ground stations are open-air though. The trains themselves in NY aren't air conditioned?

Our system only opened in 1980 and I think it was air conditioned from the beginning. It would probably be a whole other level of unbearable otherwise though.

I read some old MTR planning documents from before platform screen doors were invented. They used some some kind of novel "vortex" technique to keep the cool station air from being lost to the tunnels.

maneatingmonkey · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The trains themselves in NY aren't air conditioned?

I'm pretty sure the trains are, but the actual stations are so hot and humid even if they are it isn't doing anything.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

but then you don't get a seat

Squorn · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why I usually stand with my back to the track as the train pulls up.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why don't they install safety barriers on the NY subway, like Singapore and Malaysia (and probably more), have done?

maneatingmonkey · 2 points · Posted at 17:41:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They'd rather spend tax dollars fighting the scourge of smoking in public parks and overlarge sodas.

T-Bills · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why you should stand facing the INSIDE of the platform, not the track. Thank you for letting me have a seat every single time.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was just in San Francisco waiting for the BART last weekend. Large, deranged man was pacing back and forth, loudly threatening to throw people in front of the train.

dude187 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I now know why I was told this.

Yeah, because he didn't want to accidentally mistake you for a stranger as he pushes you over the edge.

dsgnmnky · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why subways in Asia have doors that slide open to prevent people from jumping onto the tracks.

scampbe999 · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stephen King wrote a character into The Drawing of the Three called "The Pusher" that did this. Fucking existential terror right there.

jojojoestar · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You can usually do this on most train lines but during peak hours its almost unavoidable when you ride the 6.

ILikeMyBlueEyes · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I visited NYC and was waiting for a subway, I instinctively stayed away from the track.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am from a not big place and had never really experienced subways before last September.

While I hadn't heard about people pushing others onto the track, I was terrified of it and stayed pressed against the wall until the train was stopped.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why all subways should have these installed as standard and by law

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happens in Toronto every now and then. Creepy to think that your life could just be over because some sick fuck decided to shove you in front of a train.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work in new york on a two week schedule, my off time is way far away. I swear for the last year every time I've come to work there's been a new story of someone getting killed on the subway tracks.

KountZero · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

he's right, there's a liveleak video of an innocent woman waiting for the subway and a dude just ran up to her at the last minute and push her to her death, if you watch the vid, you can feel how completely helpless she and everyone is in situation like that, it happen in a split of a second and she just die like that. That guy turn out to be mentally unstable. So yeah, better be safe than sorry.

kasper138 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This made me look up ways to survive subway tracks... the answer is luck.

tommyvodka · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jack Mort

westsideHK · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep. When I was in high school, I was waiting for the subway and someone pushed me—then yanked me back. It was this idiot girl from my school, holding onto the loop of my backpack and giggling like an asshole. I've never been so terrified.

captainfreiheit · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In Philly we do a good job of falling onto the tracks without help, thank you.

SEPTA did post "DON'T RUN FOR TRAINS" signs, so I guess "WE'RE GETTING THERE" ha ha ha public transit humor folks.

aftli · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My father is in training to become a train operator for the MTA. They tell you in no uncertain terms that in the first five years on the job you will have hit and killed somebody with your train. Not "maybe", "probably", "75% chance", but you inevitably will.

cherrysodasummer · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Back to the wall. Every time.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The thing was, after someone pushed the guy on the tracks there was a small amount of time where he was yelling for help and trying to get out. Nobody helped him. They just watched.

MethodOrMadness · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I used to frequent r/wtf (before they had a dental hygiene phase and I couldn't take it) I saw a CCTV video of a guy pushing someone off the subway platform in front of an oncoming train.

Since then, I have stayed well clear of the edge. Very good advice.

mariochu · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"New York's alright If you wanna get pushed In front of the subway New York's alright If you like tuberculosis" -New York's Alright if You Like Saxophones by Fear

amolad · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Step AWAY from the tracks as the train is approaching and look for crazy people behind you.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I used to take the subway alone I never really stood still if I was alone. I figured if someone tried to rush me, grab, or knock me over and I'm pacing around I can make an easier run for it.

Howdy_McGee · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've seen plenty of liveleak videos of just this happening.

jesuz · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:25 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always do that, or if I'm near the train I stand perpendicular to the track so I can see people coming or be harder to push over.

rxylab · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's a big fear of mine. I always stand against the wall or sit down. You never know what crazy fucker is standing next to you.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in New York.

~~I remember my dad telling me very seriously once "if you ever wait for the subway, make sure you're as far from the track as humanly possible until the train comes."~~

~~A few months ago there was a rash of people pushing other people into the path of oncoming trains.~~

~~I now know why I was told this.~~

FTFY

melanthius · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's always good to be mentally aware of how many events you are away from death at any time.

Like, racing on canyon roads for example. Often a single event: gravel in the road that causes you to go over a cliff, or an oncoming vehicle that is not driving predictably, may result in your death.

Compare that to rock climbing, you're two events away from death: (a) losing your grip, (b) then a failure of your ropes/belay mechanism.

Wherever there are other people, a possible event is a psychopath coming along and doing something crazy/unpredictable. So it definitely makes sense to just back away from the tracks and put an extra few steps in between you and death.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:37:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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rabbidpanda · 2 points · Posted at 15:45:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The trick is to be right infront of the door when it opens and to climb in before anyone can get out of the train.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:52:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Train cars should have an in door, and an out door.

TheBakercist · 0 points · Posted at 15:55:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This must be a New York thing. I lived in the DC area for a few years, and as far as I know, the only people getting hit by trains were the ones who jumped themselves.

People in DC would never risk being late to work by pushing someone off the platform.

Xaviermann · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If someone is thinking to push u onto the train tracks, I don't think work is a priority for them.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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TheBakercist · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never been to New York, so I can't say. But yes, I know it's huge. I've seen Law & Order SVU enough to know that.

DC is also full of crazies, and homeless people, and we have political activists out the ass, but we also know that pushing people in front of a train will mess everything up.

DooDooBrownz · 0 points · Posted at 16:39:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

goddamn public transportation, have you ever heard of anyone getting pushed off the platform when they were in a car? NO. save a life, boycott public transport!

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:24:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in Kansas. We can have cars.

maneatingmonkey · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Nobody in New York drove, there was too much traffic"

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's a great reason to not live in New York, in my opinion!! Plus, we don't have subway hazards anywhere. Just tornados.

[deleted] · 2441 points · Posted at 14:15:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was standing on my balcony when I saw some drunk guy flash in front of my eyes. I was on the tenth floor and apparently he fell over from the twenty-first floor. The split second he passed by, I got to see his look of fear, shock, disbelief and a whole bunch of other emotions before he fell to the floor in a thud and crack. You could just tell he was dead.

Edit: Holy crap, my first comment that went above 3 points (or something close like that)

oohcomely · 368 points · Posted at 15:18:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The thought of seeing someone's face as they fell to their death is horrible. I can't imagine what those last few seconds felt like for him...

gruselig · 18 points · Posted at 17:58:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know it's not really that comparable, but when I was 6 I slipped on a patch of ice and fell headfirst off a bridge in a playground. I still very clearly remember the feeling of falling out of control and watching everyone around me turn and look as I fell. I remember screaming for help, and knowing no one could catch me. I only have a vague memory of hitting the ground, and all I can recall is just crumpling in a heap.

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 21:42:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Similar thing happened to me when I was about 6 or 7. My training wheels were too low on my bike and they lifted the rear tire off the ground as I was riding down this big hill in my neighborhood.

My bicycle was one that you push backwards on the pedals to apply the brake. Obviously if the rear wheel isn't on the ground, it doesnt work.

The bad part was that the road was incomplete in this neighborhood. At the bottom of the hill was a ditch that was 15-20ft across and about 25ft deep.

As I was zooming down the street on my bicycle, I was terrified when I realized the brake wasn't working. I went sailing over the edge of the cliff on my bicycle and I was so scared, I had no clue what was going to happen to me. I just held onto my bicycle for dear life.

Luckily, at the time this happened. It was at the time of year where most leaves have fallen. Doubly lucky that nobody cleaned the leaves out of the ditch. Instead of landing on the drainage pipe in the bottom, I landed on soft leaves. My injuries were minor bruises and scrapes from the bicycle, instead of a potential spine or head injury.

TL;DR: Double check your child's training wheels.

barkingchicken · 4 points · Posted at 22:20:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What was it like walking away from something like that? I can't even imagine that feeling.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 23:54:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I think after I realized I was ok I was a bit excited. I'm not 100% sure though.

I do remember running home crying after getting stung by a bee once. Decides to cast a line into a nest with my dad's fishing pole. A fun time was not had.

Edit: I do remember telling my dad I wanted the training wheels off after I fell in that ditch though.

I then proceeded to do many dumb things on hat bicycle.

One day the chain slipped off and I didn't know how to fix it. Instead of waiting for my dad to come home, I took it to the top of this hill (different hill from before. This hill wasn't nearly as step but it was much longer and there was no ditch at the end. Only trees) and hopped on. Again, not taking into account the fact that without the chain, the brake would not work.

As o got to the bottom of the hill I realized the brake was out, again. So I had to choose to swerve into the neighbors' yards or go into the trees. I chose the yards. It helped slow me down, but I was still going a fairly decent speed when o hit their fence. Which I flipped over.

It was a little awkward for me when I had to knock on their door and ask to be let out of their yard.

raphanum · 1 points · Posted at 13:51:41 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's one way to wean your kids off training wheels.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 21:31:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Falling is always scary shit.I fell from a plane once and it was scary as hell, multiple times actually. In my dreams, but it was still scary.

stoogemcduck · 13 points · Posted at 18:13:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

By the accounts of suicide jumpers that survived, those seconds are an overwhelming feeling of unimaginable regret.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 21:05:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

From the first-hand accounts I've read of people who were falling to their almost certain death, the usual train of thought during those few moments is something along the lines of, "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT."

durdyg · -1 points · Posted at 23:37:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

so basically they're trying to quickly get their shit together.

windsostrange · 0 points · Posted at 18:20:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For at least a few, there's a brief moment of peace in there, too.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you have time to realize that there's nothing you can do to save yourself.

cherrysodasummer · 12 points · Posted at 20:55:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A friend of mine was at the scene of a car accident, he tried to help one of the drivers who was in really bad shape. And when the driver died his pupils went huge and black, and my friend said that was the creepiest shit ever because he knew the guy was gone.

ImApigeon · 2 points · Posted at 08:31:28 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

So the last thing that guy saw was your friend trying to help him followed by huge bright light. I hope that comforted him a bit.

tkbulmer · 7 points · Posted at 21:40:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A year ago now my best mate and me went to Hong Kong, we stayed in his dads place as he works there. One night we went out and for some reason got completely drunk i woke up at 4pm the next day out on the balcony 60 floors up. The sudden horror that i walked out onto the balcony and passed out was insane.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:22:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hopefully Ma-Ma didn't give him slo-mo first.

Nadkins · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

HA! That scene actually scared me because that would make falling to your death unimaginably terrifying.

Numble_Bunny · 24 points · Posted at 17:07:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Lol, I'm flying"

rasmusca · 9 points · Posted at 17:55:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

never a more reluctant upvote

ghostdate · 3 points · Posted at 07:41:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

As someone who fell from a great height and thought I was going to die, it feels a lot like, "oh fuck." it seems like it happens almost in slow motion, but you don't really have time to think about anything, it's mostly just your brain repeating "oh fuck." and instinctively bracing for impact.

Might be different if you're drunk though.

Agent_Volkoff · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

the lyrics "CAUSE IM FREE, FREE FALLING"

and I'm going to hell

dhobywallah · 4 points · Posted at 18:02:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I reckon if the person was compos mentis, a fleeting, haunting glance of realisation before impact. I've seen the look of realisation, or bewilderment, then realisation before death (luckily not through someone falling to their death), but my nan. It's a look that embeds itself into your memory, it really does.

Derp_of_the_West · 4 points · Posted at 16:47:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Weightless, I would imagine

Blackspades · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:39 on August 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hopelessness

Janscyther · 0 points · Posted at 16:43:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Take me drunk! I'm home!"

bleedingheartsurgery · 0 points · Posted at 18:45:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

cant wait to wake up from this nightmare. *pinch

oh shit

Ahhmedical · 0 points · Posted at 00:28:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's kinda cool like you never hear how someone's face looked as the fell or what they were thinking/feeling as the fell

bleedingheartsurgery · -1 points · Posted at 18:44:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i left the stove on!

BigUptokes · -7 points · Posted at 16:51:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd imagine something like this.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you make this? If so, could you make one where the person doesn't fall backwards, but rather falls into himself into a mushy puddle of mush?

soupastar · 1984 points · Posted at 14:28:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck. Drunk people need to stay away from balconies

EB-Esq · 2205 points · Posted at 14:39:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They should only be allowed in pillow stores and McDonalds play zones.

davvblack · 2541 points · Posted at 14:43:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

McDonalds play zones don't need any more urine.

SuperShamou · 935 points · Posted at 15:29:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ironically, that's my scary story. I worked at Burger King and every day I was terrified they'd ask me to clean the ball room. It usually stunk of urine and once a week some kid would shit in there.

[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 18:07:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You really should have quit letting that kid back in every week.

SuperShamou · 13 points · Posted at 20:39:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You have no idea how tough it is to prove what kid did it. I'm sure a lot of different kids do it, but we definitely caught a kid once and it didn't matter.

Facts -

Room didn't smell like shit 5 minutes ago
Room smells like shit now
Only one kid has been in there and he has shit leaking out of his pants and is covered in shit

Not enough proof. Kid's mom denies it's him and says she'll sue BK if we ban the kid from the ball room. Manager is scared of a lawsuit, same kid is back in the ball room the next day.

CrackersInMyCrack · 6 points · Posted at 02:17:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What a shitty parent, she is embarrassed so she threatens to sue.

Shitty kid, too. For reals.

Sparchs · 15 points · Posted at 17:10:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the ball pit might need one of those " employees must wash hands before returning to work" signs

Elesh · 6 points · Posted at 18:11:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You ruined any chance of me ever entering a ball pit again.

Wisdom4Less · 6 points · Posted at 18:55:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Coincedentially.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:18:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nah man, it rained on my wedding day. Can't iron the shit out of that one!

nss68 · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

came to say this, realized i couldnt have been the first. here is an upvote.

cuddlywinner · 6 points · Posted at 21:25:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This just made my adult self realize how dirty and disgusting those play pits that I played in as a child were. I remember fully submerging my self in those play pits when I was a toddler.

::shudder::

sircheatingham · 8 points · Posted at 18:11:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid we were eating at Mickie D's (back when they had those bombs ass toys, and people still thought it wasn't THAT bad for you...) I witnessed a kid throw up all over the balls in the ball room. After a concerned mom notified the manager he promptly had an employee grab a bucket of hot water(same one they used for the mop) and just poured it over the balls.....and then went back to work, no further cleaning was done. Last time we ate at that MacDonald's.

SuperShamou · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We had a procedure for doing it. Someone (usually me) would use a large bucket to scoop all the balls into the back of the manager's truck, then he'd drive through the car wash a few times. It worked better than you'd think... but it still sucked when I had to scoop poop.

brian151 · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would quit on the spot if my boss tried to make me clean up some kids poop.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:07:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And I thought tearing down the grill was bad...

amuday · 3 points · Posted at 21:20:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Forgive me, I was trying to picture an actual ballroom in a Burger King. I believe ball pit would be a cleaner choice.

KaazEDM · 4 points · Posted at 18:58:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We need to get Samuel L Jackson to say "WHAT? WHO SHAT IN THE BALL ROOM?"

deux3xmachina · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Throw a bunch of bleach and ammonia in there, no more problems.

SuperShamou · 5 points · Posted at 21:01:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

To... poison the kids?

deux3xmachina · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If there's no kids in the ball pit, there's no kids pissing and shitting in it.

CrackersInMyCrack · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too make a noxious gas to poison the kids and eliminate all the witnesses, of course.

fatcricket · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is how kids build up their unhinged systems...

ImAFlyingWhale · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's ironically mean?

NotReallyCoolGuy · 2 points · Posted at 21:05:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ironically refers to something taking place in an ironic manner. For something to be ironic means that there is perhaps an unintended and coincidental correlation between the two items being compared. This is at least my understanding of it for this situation.

The original commenter should have used the word "Coincidentally" to preface their statement.

ImAFlyingWhale · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes.

twaindwiva · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Guilty.

Balony1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bestof this thread

Axelblood · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

good luck finding the poop.

BenKenobi88 · 2 points · Posted at 20:58:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't worry, it's probably smeared onto every plastic ball.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ

ifrogotmyname · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How do you clean those things?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened all the time when I worked at BK. Does that restaurant chain just attract a classier level of people than most fast food establishments or

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

How the hell could you clean that?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still shit in there.

[deleted] · -15 points · Posted at 17:15:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 17:36:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ

InkRose · 3 points · Posted at 18:12:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I bet I can guess what kind of base you want >.>

Nudienawdee · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't no why this is getting down voted it was like an ad break in the middle of thread

I_am_chris_dorner · 0 points · Posted at 19:53:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think you meant to copy + paste that to your okcupid profile...

keith_HUGECOCK · 40 points · Posted at 14:52:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There goes my childhood.

dancingpoultry · 28 points · Posted at 15:10:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, at least you didn't piss it away.

celric-death · 5 points · Posted at 16:04:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ba dum tis

kimstr · 34 points · Posted at 16:04:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ba dum piss*

no1flyhalf · 7 points · Posted at 16:06:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is pretty far down the tree, but I want you to know that I saw this. Thank you.

dancingpoultry · 3 points · Posted at 18:37:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is pretty far down the pee*, but I want you to know that I saw this.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 14:56:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And pillow stores do?

Deathfire138 · 6 points · Posted at 15:03:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pillow stores are now accepting urine donations from benevolent drunkards.

angryPenguinator · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Says you.

Deathfire138 · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Source?

davvblack · 11 points · Posted at 15:06:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Drunk bladders and little kids.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:14:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a little kid with a golden shower fetish, I resent this.

Lets_Draw · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like how streets below balconies dont need more blood on them?

anakinastronaut · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was mean

I_am_Dr_Faggot · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On the contrary they do need more drunk people.

Optimuminimum · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or Adult men for that matter?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or drunk people

JamesAlonso · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And puke

SpaceEskimo11t · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Got dangerously sick twice as a child from those.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On the other hand, pillow stores have a deficit of urine.

warped_and_bubbling · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah but, imagine how much fun it would be to play in the balls while drunk out of your skull.

Vanetia · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or vomit

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Single greatest comment I read struggling not laugh in class

Curiouscrispy · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They could really beef up in the feces department, though.

themilkmaiden · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My 8 yr old knows this. He wrote a jingle. It goes "It's the Mickyd's playhouse! Come inside, there's pee inside!" It's quite catchy.

Semenslayer · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't forget the vomit

lutinopat · 2 points · Posted at 14:53:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe just pillow stores:

http://now.msn.com/man-stuck-in-highchair-in-mcdonalds-photo

Ted417 · 2 points · Posted at 15:00:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you ever drowned in one of those ball pools? It's not fun man. It's not fun...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you kidding me? McDonald's play zones are death defying enough! Have you seen how high those tubes go?

Source: I was seven once.

Moopies · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a frequently drunk person, I would be ok with this.

breeyan · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or you know, inside

therealdjbc · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dont want those pillows.

BigFoo · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You can drown in those ball pits you know. Dangerous stuff.

mego624 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you ever been stuck in one of those motherfucking ball pits? No drunk person could get out of that

Dildos · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sleep country canada!

almigi · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whenever I get the money to make "Almigi's Tavern" a reality, it's gonna have a play zone for drunks. Mostly just punching bags with sports team logos where they can punch teams they don't like, but still.

ohmygahdmahm · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They would probably smother in the pillow store, though.

DonnieQuest · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Best. Bar. Idea. Ever.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They could suffocate and drown in ball pits. Try again.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Know a guy who broke his neck in a play zone in high school. They are only for little kids.

wee_man · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you seen what collects at the bottom of the ball pit?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I want to be drunk in a mcdonalds play-place.

avantgardeaclue · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

To be drunk in a room full of pillows would be a dream.

iamatfuckingwork · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm drunk and am totally fine with this idea.

erock0546 · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a regular drunk, I like this idea.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:49:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to panama city for spring break one year during college.

The hotel rooms in most of the college price range places were connected with one long walkway on the side of the building with a handrail, with the hotel itself having 15 or so stories.

It wasn't unusual for a few people every week to die by falling over the handrail. Usually just being clumsy and drunk.

soupastar · 2 points · Posted at 15:34:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's awful

gngl · -1 points · Posted at 16:35:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's natural selection. And nature is awesome, not awful.

raphanum · 1 points · Posted at 14:04:04 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why the down-votes? Nature must weed out the nimrods.

neightdog · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

and trains. and balcony trains

CrisisOfConsonant · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a reason why most hotel rooms with balconies have them welded shut now days.

gngl · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or, from the POV of a staggering drunk, balconies need to stay away from drunk people.

noodlesfordaddy · 2 points · Posted at 16:37:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few months ago I got blind drunk on Absinthe and a lot of other forms of alcohol at a hotel, near the top. Apparently at one point I was sitting on the railing of the balcony. Just chillin'. The girl that saw me freaked the fuck out and so did everyone else. I have no memory of it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend somehow managed to fall off her balcony, which is railed pretty damn well mind you, a couple of months ago. Fortunately she was drunk enough to just kind of turn into Jell-O and wasn't injured in the slightest.

I don't even know how you would manage to just slip off a balcony, unless you're dumb enough to think you can sit and balance on the railing without getting bumped over. Which actually sounds plausible when you're drunk, I suppose.

soupastar · 2 points · Posted at 19:39:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live on the country and a lot of porches are high up/ on hills. A lot of people sit on the banisters even kids. I've sewn people completely sober fall off or almost fall. It takes just the slightest movement from someone else or yourself to just throw your balance off. I get livid when I see people fake others out sitting on them, they will run up and act like they are gonna push them which makes them react and lose balance

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Understandable on the thicker banisters, though. My friend's was just a very thin railing. I wouldn't sit on that shit if I was paid.

Raincoats_George · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My old roommate had a friend in college who was at a party one night and was sitting on the ledge of their apartment balcony drinking with everyone. Im not sure how high up they were but he of course fell backwards. Ended up breaking his neck and now hes paralyzed. The worst part was that nobody did anything, they all just freaked out. My friend didnt know better and ran down and held him. I wonder if she actually contributed more to his injury but I suppose you cant blame her. The fact that she even did anything when everyone else froze and did nothing makes me forgive her incorrect action.

soupastar · 3 points · Posted at 15:42:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 13 I had a "boyfriend" he was over at my house when my sisters bf and his friend came over who had previously liked me. I said hello to them but went back to the room where he was. He snapped threw me into the room the guys, my sis, and mom were in. Then up against a wall corner, then threw me on the ground and got on top of me. He just kept punching me over and over. Nobody got up or did anything finally my sisters bf gets up and gets him off of me. The fact my own mom and sis were two feet away and never said stop or did anything was insanely hurtful.

The even worse part was my mom didn't even talk to me about it. No talk about how it was wrong and I couldn't see him. Was as if it never happened. That's one of the reasons I ended up in an abusive marriage at a young age. Its crazy how people will just stand by and let stuff happen if other people are doing it as well.

gngl · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's one of the reasons I ended up in an abusive marriage at a young age.

How exactly does one go about doing that? "I sort of didn't like getting abused as a child, so I guess I'll continue allowing others to abuse me as an adult?"

soupastar · 3 points · Posted at 16:56:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When nobody tells you its wrong to be hit in any form you just tend to think its normal, happens from time to time. I grew up being "spanked" with various objects for the smallest of things. When he did that nobody came to me and said that's wrong and unhealthy, had they I would of realized it wasn't okay. My sister purposely broke my finger no punishment, no talking about it. She was very violent toward me during my teen years if I told my mom she just told me to deal with it or hit her back. When I told her my ex husband was hitting me and cheating constantly she just wanted details on who he was cheating with.

You add all of that together and I just thought thats what families did. If you did something wrong you got hit. I thought everyone went through this, especially as we got older I saw both of my sisters strike their husbands many times. It just seemed to me that in every relationship/family at least one was a hitter. My grandfather on my dads side used to beat my grandma so I grew up with it around and nobody talking about it.

gngl · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Interesting. I wonder if it isn't symptomatic of the segregated family life style you find in Western societies, and the associated limited social contact. I suppose these things don't happen in public.

soupastar · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think growing up in a small southern christian town was part of the issue as well. My mother was also very strict about what we spoke about outside of the home, so much show my grandparents were our neighbors and we rarely got to go over there in case we were to complain about our home life. When I was in therapy every single time right before I would get a lecture about what I was allowed to say and not to say. Which was pointless because she just left me at a doctors office to become a foster kid anyways. She just didn't want to be charged with abuse and neglect.

raphanum · -1 points · Posted at 15:12:50 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Idiot.

gngl · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:58 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your point being?

Booze_Lite_Beer · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And train platforms.

PineconeShuff · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes they do. I once hopped the rail of a balcony on the seventh floor of an apartment complex while drunk and nearly fell off the ledge. Also I'm afraid of heights

Gadgetgirlmarie · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And trains.

dontfeedthecode · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Luckily my fear of heights seems to be the only fear of mine that actually gets worse when drunk, I always end up with my back to the door/window by the end of the night.

jesseetzler · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is true. My friend told me a horrifying story before that happened at a friends party. His friends gf was really drunk on the balcony and the rails were really short ( why do some places make rails like 4 ft tall?) well she ended up leaning back and flipping over the rail. Fucked up part is the guy who was next to her tried to grab her but missed. Now he thinks its his fault for not catching her before she fell from the third floor.

soupastar · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did she live? I'm guessing no?

lumpiestprincess · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Drunk neighbour tried to climb down our building with an extention cord. Didn't end well

jkboyer07 · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And trains.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what they say to themselves but then they realize they shouldn't listen to themselves cause they're drunk.

Tyler1986 · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL...

sharp1ld · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And stairs

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Balconies need to stay away from drunk people.

mhende · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once saw a drunk guy fall off of the balcony/roof of Hockeytown while I was walking to a Tigers game. Found out after the game that he died.

veritas3777 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yup a friend of mine fell from a third floor balcony onto the hood of a car and died. Doesn't take that far to kill you

wcc445 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alcohol kills a lot of people. The Drug War starting to sound a bit ridiculous now? :)

Krases · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Protip: Don't get that drunk ever.

nsfw_goodies · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a man get crushed by a forklift truck before.

It's not so scary now i've seen one man one jar

teh_tg · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am removing my balcony.

kinsey3 · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm frequently drunk, and have never had a problem with balconies (or train platforms). I also have no fear of heights, though I do have a healthy fear of cliff-like edges. As long as there's a railing or something, I'm good.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why, its called natural selection.

macgruder1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A friend of mine slipped off a 4th story balcony while drunk down at the Jersey shore a number of years ago. One of the nicest guys I know. It shows that one small slip-up can end your life. Makes you cherish what you have.

RIP Chris.

soupastar · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry for your loss.

Daviska · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tell that to Panama City like 8 deaths a year from this shit

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a person with a friend currently in ICU from brain injuries sustained in a drunken balcony fall, I concur.

soupastar · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry for that, I hope he's pulls through

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No worries, it looks like he won't, but I guess you never know. Kind of crazy, I know two other people who have also dived into shallow ends of pools and permanently injured themselves.

Elliottderp · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck. Drunk people need to stay away from train station platforms.

soupastar · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

PSA: Drunk people you are not Dora The Explorer do not explore your surroundings after 2-3 drinks. Seriously its sad.

macromissy · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:44 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh. There should always be someone sober with a drunk person.

Drunk people make WAY too many poor choices.

ascalabro · 0 points · Posted at 16:23:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck. people need to stay away from alcohol

unspeakable16 · 0 points · Posted at 18:14:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a person who got drunk and almost fell to my death, small bridges are dangerous as well. Stay away from anything with height while intoxicated lol

soupastar · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I drink I just stay at home, even if I'm camping I don't leave from around the fire. I'm really glad I don't get all Dora the explorer while drinkjng

gideon777 · -23 points · Posted at 14:38:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you need to quit slobbering out the filth language. do you think you're cool? you're not. you have no honor. women read these. leave, fool.

nofreakingusernames · 5 points · Posted at 14:39:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what the fuck?

noscreamsnoshouts · 2 points · Posted at 14:46:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

(what the) fuck

Careful. That's what triggered the rantlet in the first place...

slacksalot · 3 points · Posted at 14:45:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Check the comment history for /u/gideon777 This person is just a troll, just ignore them.

darienlake · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i dont understand what this person is talking about when they keep talking about honor...

iaccidentlytheworld · 8 points · Posted at 15:40:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where was this? When I was younger (around 14) my dad and I turned the corner at night the second a man hit the ground after falling off od what we were later told was the 21st story of the building. People aren't supposed to bend like that. Were we scarred by the same incident?

ModRod · 7 points · Posted at 15:36:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My cousin used to live in a New York apartment. One day he saw a random guy on his fire escape. He made eye contact with him and my cousin freaked because he though it was a robber or something. They held gaze for a bit before the guy turned around and jumped.

My cousin was haunted (mentally) for a good while after that.

HeroOfTime31 · 5 points · Posted at 16:49:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My [drunk] brother fell from a fourth floor balcony to the ground with nothing but a bruised back, i dont understand how thats possible.

Related: My uncle fell down an elevator shaft, 20 stories. He survived with only a fractured vertabrae or two and legs. He can walk just fine today.

EDIT: drunk brother + proper terms

meanderling · 3 points · Posted at 19:48:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you sure you guys aren't cats

dhobywallah · 5 points · Posted at 18:25:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've come across a few studies/researches to suggest that being drunk (or being relaxed/not tense) can sometimes reduce the risk of serious injury in major incidents, I think this was based more on drunk driving/car crashes, where the vitcim(s) was not the drunk driver but rather the other driver. Link (but not the original one I read): http://www.livescience.com/24979-alcohol-injury-outcome.html

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's a pretty well known thing. Like the guy who got sacked up by a tornado and thrown a few miles and survived.

LaBelleVie · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope you're not the next to fall from a significant height in your family. Facetiousness aside, it's good to hear that both men were able to recover just fine.

pumpkindog · 4 points · Posted at 17:20:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sounds like his family is genetically adept to survive falls from great heights so it sounds like he should be ok if he does.

Mikeman101 · 5 points · Posted at 15:20:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That must have been horribly scarring to see someone's face during their last few moments knowing full well that they were done for. I can't even imagine.

BeefJerkyJerk · 5 points · Posted at 15:29:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a matter of fact, this happened to a guy here in Oslo on the 17th of may (the norwegian national day). Some people were drinking on a rooftop balkony, and some idiots decided to sit on the other, or should I say WRONG side of the railing. Apparently some girl spilled wine on his shirt, and when he turned around to wipe it of on her he fell down 10 floors and died. He was picked up by an ambulance, and most of the people just kept partying.

WcDeckel · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what? they kept partying?!

Sarah_Connor · 4 points · Posted at 16:10:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The hotel I stay at in Singapore has balconies for each room. I used to stay on the 67th floor and every time I stood on that balcony I felt like ghosts were trying to push me off.

dhobywallah · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe it was curiosity? There's a lot of "what would happen if...?" with things with a higher-than-average risk level. It takes one to think about it, another to recognise the consequences and a third to do it regardless.

pumpkindog · -1 points · Posted at 17:18:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

maybe terminators?

wow_trees · 4 points · Posted at 19:47:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend died this way :( Also on the 21st floor. In Dallas, TX.

He was having a party at his place. Cops treated it as a homocide and collected everyone's cameras, cell phones, etc. to see anything fishy in the pictures. What they saw was just a progression of him getting drunker and more belligerent as the party progressed and ruled it as a horrible accident. :(

jfish494 · 3 points · Posted at 15:21:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How did you know he was drunk?

Oraukk · 11 points · Posted at 16:54:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same way he knew he fell from the 21st floor. He found out later.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:45:54 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw his beer in his hand

Aregisteredusername · 3 points · Posted at 15:21:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once saw somebody dive off a fifth floor balcony and die. I was walking down a street and glanced over as I heard a loud yell and saw this guy, probably early twenties or late late teens, just leap. I found out he was on salvia and had a bad trip. This was in a college town a few years ago.

breeyan · 3 points · Posted at 15:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Woah when he flew by you saw his face? That's intense

LatinoThund3r · 3 points · Posted at 15:55:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was walking home from a bar one evening when I watched a drunk kid fall from the 3rd story of his house while all his friends watched, he was still alive and breathing when he hit the ground, face covered in blood trying to make words while all his friends crowded around him crying/trying to help him. I found out he died after arriving at the hospital. Be careful when you drink people.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:49:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why I cringe when I see high rises with balconies hundreds of feet up in the air. You can find them in downtown Chicago near where I live, and to me that's just inviting the inevitable. People get tipsy, clumsy, accidents happen.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why should the rest of society be tailored to the few morons like this? Thinning the herd IMO.

Chola4Life · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you stop after the first sentence he was just a pervert flashing. That was what I got out of it until I kept reading...

thatguyisswell · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This story is tragic. I was in the city when it happened, but really what do you expect climbing over a 15th floor balcony.

phytohydra · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's happened to me before. Then I woke up.

leontocephaline · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched a drunk guy get fatally hit by a car. Feels bad man.

danbot · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like in the movie In Bruges. A body hitting the sidewalk from any significant height sounds like about 150 pounds of wet laundry, because that's what a victim of fatal deceleration trauma becomes. Just so much bloody laundry.

sanktova · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happened in my university's town last year. Really tragic.

beersticker · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My drunk friend committed suicide off of a bridge. Drunk people shouldn't make decisions.

omg_IAMA_girl · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Chicago?

ntotheq · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw something similar, but not from such a height. I saw a drunk guy fall from a balcony at least from 20 feet up onto an asphalt driveway. I hauled ass to get below and help him, if possible. With a softball size bump protruding from his head, he came to about 5 minutes later. The first thing he uttered was he couldn't go to the hospital because he didn't have health insurance. He got up and ran about 50 feet around the corner of the building and collapsed again. At this point the fire department showed up. Still have a photograph of that balcony somewhere.

eccentricguru · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How do you know he was drunk?

Gonc · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

anyone else think that this story was about a drunk guy revealing his penis?

Kvothe24 · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How do you know he was drunk?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck sakes that is terrifying... did you know that you can die from falling off the 2nd floor?

My bro fell off a 3rd floor balcony (it was loose.. and he was drunk of course) and the doctor at the hospital said he was lucky to be alive and that it was a miracle he is able to walk.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 19:42:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually he thankfully missed the pavement by about 2 feet and there had been a major snow thaw that week so the ground was slightly softer than normal.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

natural selection at its finest

tehspamninja · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man, I lost one of my best friends who fell off a balcony. I didn't expect this thread to bother me so much :\

anelida · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you live in a building with 21 floors? wow

passerdeliciae · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was this at the University of Texas by chance?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I used to love to see people pass by my window, that was until I moved to the fourth floor" -some short horror story writer

c0ng0k1d · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

when you said flash i thought you meant he whipped out his junk

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

how do you know he was drunk?

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

talk about a buzzkill.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a similar experience, but it was in the apartment building across the street. I was watching TV, out the window I could see the guy standing on his 12th floor balcony, the next time I glanced up he wasn't there, about 5 minutes later I here sirens outside, I look out and he's all mangled on the street, the ambulance had just got there, when they put him in the back they didn't drive away for ten minutes. That's when I realised what I had just witnessed.

wanderinggoat · 0 points · Posted at 20:06:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you actually saw his face and not only one but many facial expressions as he fell past at more than 100mph? I would be surprised if you even realized it was a person falling past at terminal velocity.

LardAs · -1 points · Posted at 20:35:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Accidents happen when you party, dont wuss over it.

tajwon90 · -1 points · Posted at 10:24:59 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Errr... What is the point of your edit? Why do you think anyone except you cares about your comment scores?

Scarnox · -2 points · Posted at 17:43:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have neither the knowledge of physics or the brain's power to process visual stimuli, or the time to calculate any of what happened here, but I can pretty safely assume that there is no way that you could actually see the look on his face after he fell 11 stories.

I do know that (not accounting for air resistance) an object falls at a rate of 9.8 m/s^2, which means this dude was moving at probably about that twice speed (~20m/s). I'm Just assuming it takes a person about 2 seconds to fall 11 stories. I could be COMPLETELY wrong, but I feel like that is a safe ballpark estimate.

Since you likely did not expect to see a man fall right in front of your eyes at that exact moment, I feel like your eyes were not focused enough to see exactly what his expression was at that exact moment, even if your eyes/brain could communicate the information that fast.

I'm not calling you a liar, but I feel like it is more likely that your memory has filled in what the look on his face most likely was.

MetalicONE · 745 points · Posted at 14:38:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, I am seeing a recurring theme here... My kids were playing outside of the high rise apartment we were living at at the time. They came running into the apartment hysterically saying that there was a dead guy 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.

[deleted] · 88 points · Posted at 15:27:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Reminds me of a story I heard after the Sandy Hook shooting. One of the kids ran outside to her mother and said "I'm ok but all my friends are dead".

Edit: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/12/17/6-year-old-survivor-mommy-im-ok-but-all-my-friends-are-dead/

therealdjbc · 42 points · Posted at 15:35:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God thats horrible.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 15:37:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah that sentence has pretty much haunted me ever since I read it. It doesn't help that I have a very vivid imagination and I keep trying to picture what it was like for her.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:59:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Going back to bed, now. ಠ_ಠ

verstehe_nur_bahnhof · 3 points · Posted at 15:50:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

god this gave me chills

[deleted] · -6 points · Posted at 15:57:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DE-AD ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DE-AD

spenway18 · -15 points · Posted at 19:08:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are an asshole, but a funny one :P

blipblipbloopblip · 5 points · Posted at 15:25:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

bah, poor things.

VolleyVinyl · 3 points · Posted at 15:43:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my... Your poor children. I'm So sorry they had to see something like that.

raphanum · 0 points · Posted at 15:54:05 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

It'll toughen them up. Back in my day we'd wipe our arses with chilli.

Jmac0585 · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, I am seeing a recurring theme here..

I know Right?
Balconies are heartless killers.

ohmygahdmahm · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow..how did they deal with the aftermath of that???

MetalicONE · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:37 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

They were distraught to say the least. Thank goodness it does not appear to have had an ill effect on their psyche... save for the fact that they won't go anywhere near a balcony.

1337_Degrees_Kelvin · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RealityIsDeath · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oppo

hellothereoctopus · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:34 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not related, but I've always wondered how death registers in children's minds compared to adults.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 20:42:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Raiider · 0 points · Posted at 20:58:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Am I missing something? Do most kids not know what death is? I knew what death was at 4, I can't imagine growing up and not understanding it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:09 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Raiider · 1 points · Posted at 03:08:10 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I knew what it meant, and I say that only because my understanding of death never changed (and in my adult years I fucking hope my understanding of death is correct). I'm curious though, what was different for you? What part of your understanding of death was changed after your father's death? And I'm sorry about your dad.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 15:29:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dead with a capital "D".

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:18:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well if you start the sentence with it, sure.

gamesterx23 · -11 points · Posted at 18:21:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some faith you have in your kids to just automatically presume they're retarded and don't know what death is.

SpyGlassez · 1 points · Posted at 08:41:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some people are over protective of their kids. Maybe the parents never talked about death so the kids wouldn't be afraid of it, and didn't realize that the kids would be exposed to it via other routes like Tv.

gamesterx23 · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now you've turned it into not only a lack of faith, but a lack of intelligence and common sense as well.

SpyGlassez · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I agree, just that some parents seem REALLY clueless about what kids really can understand (and handle).

MetalicONE · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:01 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

at that young and innocent age it seems like they would have a hard time distinguishing death like that... but then again, I never saw anything like that so I can't really relate.

Bestforyouboth · 207 points · Posted at 13:40:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where was this?

Rumbottom · 1337 points · Posted at 13:59:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A train station.

frnicatr · 284 points · Posted at 14:34:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know, that's what would make it creepy; if it wasn't in a train station or on any tracks at all.

RabidMuskrat93 · 538 points · Posted at 14:55:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where was this?

At Burger King.

Helenarth · 9 points · Posted at 16:01:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Hamburglar strikes again.

7or3nzo · 7 points · Posted at 18:04:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The really scary thing is that the Hamburglar isn't even associated with Burger King.

_Valisk · 7 points · Posted at 19:06:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's just how good he is.

Helenarth · 1 points · Posted at 11:41:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what he wants you to think...

lysdexickovahdiin · 4 points · Posted at 16:18:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Where was this?" "You know those small trains they have in malls for kids to ride on..."

SuperShamou · 4 points · Posted at 15:34:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was the toy train that comes with a kid's combo. Buzz Lightyear never stood a chance.

FreakaJebus · 4 points · Posted at 15:51:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As they told us at Driver's ed, "ALWAYS expect a train!"

RabidMuskrat93 · 8 points · Posted at 16:04:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those are words to live by. If you always expect a train, you'll never be surprised when one shows up at a burger joint.

christhetwin · 7 points · Posted at 15:44:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where was this?

At Burger King.

But you said he was hit by a train?

Yeah, the guy was really drunk!

DairyKing · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a wonderful restaurant!

thatssomiley · 3 points · Posted at 16:56:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It suuuuure is

David_Copperfuck · 3 points · Posted at 16:58:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The King doesn't wait at the Subway for his train like a peasant.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gasp

cosmicsans · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hi, I'm Hank, and I'm going to take you to the whopper lair.

baalsitch · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bonus points for dead guy urine in the ball pit.

C1t1zen_Erased · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Classic Burger King

_Valisk · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Missed opportunity to say Subway.

RabidMuskrat93 · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No. You see everybody will be expecting subway. I decided to throw a curveball.

Teleport_Massive · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what happens when you order a whopper.

Arosal · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The train tracks, the train, and the man were really all just a child imagining a scenario while playing with his kid's meal toys in Burger King.

waleedwale1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been laughing for the last 10 minutes and now everyone on the bus thinks I'm crazy.

Megagamer42 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After that, all the employees came outside with snow shovels...

Taodyn · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Story sounds like a real whopper to me.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where was this?

On a plane.

ThunderOblivion · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of the Burger Kings in my city has railroad tracks on the property.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:33:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's impossible, dumbass..it was a McDonald's

TARDIS-Engineer · 3 points · Posted at 14:54:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GHOST TRAIN

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was in a train showroom.

ParticularJoker · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would make it hilarious, if some random drunk guy fell and out of nowhere a train comes to run him over.

strangeplace4snow · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oooh, like an abandoned mental asylum!

eeninety · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now THAT would be some really creepy shit and by far the scariest thing I would have ever seen.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:19:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BWAMMMMMP

Fidel_Castbr0 · 365 points · Posted at 14:08:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ

topdogg8990 · 4 points · Posted at 16:06:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How's Cubro?

Fidel_Castbr0 · 6 points · Posted at 16:19:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's going good since I'm allied with the Broviet Union

al5xander · 3 points · Posted at 15:31:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ʘ‿ʘ

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

( ͡ಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠ )

Fidel_Castbr0 · 7 points · Posted at 14:44:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

(;´༎ຶ ਊ ༎ຶ`)

spartacusisaturtle · 3 points · Posted at 15:34:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh god..

RabidWalrus · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"please... kill... me...."

TenspeedGV · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/fifthworldpics

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

Fidel_Castbr0 · 3 points · Posted at 14:56:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seriously, the only better one I've seen was Bilbro_Swaggins

Fidel_Castbr0 · 7 points · Posted at 16:18:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Broseph_Stalin

Edgar_@llen_Bro

Gengis_KhanSolo

Napoleon_Born2party

FroBRO-Swaggins

The list Bros on...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your welcome?

Opset · 3 points · Posted at 15:48:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm Ron Burgundy?

BrianIsBAMF · 3 points · Posted at 14:39:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Subway, eat fresh.......corpses.

Kubaker1 · -6 points · Posted at 14:22:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

heheheh

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:51:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Disneyland

[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 14:24:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

[removed]

Azabutt · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

His name references booze and butts. Probably explains a lot about reddit.

Bendrake · -8 points · Posted at 14:17:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A train station.

[deleted] · -7 points · Posted at 14:12:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes.

TrickBlimp · 28 points · Posted at 14:08:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God damn.. This is just so scary because it is undoubtably real. It could really happen anywhere

frog_gurl22 · 4 points · Posted at 15:18:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually it could only happen near a train. It's unlikely that you would see someone would get run over by a train while shopping at a Piggly Wiggly.

herooftime99 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what they want you to think.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any reason is a good reason to bring up The Pig!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Picture the following...

You're reading your paper copy of The Star, sipping your double double waiting on the platform for the next train. You're at the back of the platform so you can get on that car and exit at the stairs three stops later without delay.

You see the lights from the train coming through the tunnel and suddenly you feel someone push you. What the fuck? I'm falling, SHIT I'M ON THE--splat

It happens sometimes that crazy people will push people in front of trains. It could be you. You could have no warning. Stand well back from the gap!

craylash · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I stay at least 10 feet from the yellow border when I ride the ~~BART~~ subway.

gangnam_style · 51 points · Posted at 14:08:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why do people use trains so commonly? Is it just because it's easy? It seems like given the fact you're going to scar people, the mess, and the inconvenience, it would be kind of a bad way to go out.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 15:05:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Beowulf_Shaeffer · 13 points · Posted at 15:37:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess the only impact on their minds is the one in which E= 1/2 MV²

userdeath · 3 points · Posted at 19:29:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you are and don't care because it's irrelevant to you once you don't exist.

Updatebjarni · 7 points · Posted at 14:52:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think there's a big overlap between people who commit suicide and people who don't particularly care how bad other people's day is going to be.

UTLRev1312 · 7 points · Posted at 16:24:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i know someone who used a train. i didn't know him personally that well, but he ran in the same circles as me and i'm friends with his bandmates and others he knows. his life started spiraling, and the last straw was a fight with his gf. he was at a commuter station and jumped in front of a train at like 7 in the morning. i don't know if he went there with the intention of jumping or he was taking the train and it was a last minute decision after the fight. i don't think anybody knows (witnesses saw him pacing around and acting irratically, yelling on his phone in the parking lot just prior). not like he was a kid, he was about 30.

i also know a conrail conductor who had a teenager jump in front of him. it fucked the conductor up mentally for a while. it's a thousands of tons train, you can't fucking stop it on a dime. but every year, family and friends of the teen go to the spot he was killed to protest and yell at the trains passing by. like it's their fault.

as for why people use trains, i guess it's because there's no prep involved. you don't have to make a noose, take pills...it's cheaper and more available than shooting yourself, you don't fall for 30 seconds and possibly regret it. all you do is just wait for the train to arrive and when you are ready, take one little step and it's over. payoff is immediate. edit: the spellings

VolleyVinyl · 4 points · Posted at 15:45:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to read this a few times to get that you were talking about suicide, and not transportation. Too early for me, apparently.

MoarGhosts · 3 points · Posted at 17:17:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't use trains very often, but I hear they're much cheaper and more convenient than driving in big cities.

TheOtherMatt · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They might have already bought a weekly ticket.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:42:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ending your own life is a bad decision no matter what* but people really seem to choose dumb ways to do it. There are clean, painless methods why would you jump on the tracks?

^{*Euthanasia due to crippling disease is not a bad decision if considered properly.}

Ickle_Test · -2 points · Posted at 15:26:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck it, if you wanna fuck people up mentally on your way out, a train is a great way to go.

Personally, if I were to end my life, I'd do it in public, and in a horrendously gruesome fashion. I'm not gonna be around to enjoy/not enjoy life anymore, might as well fuck up someone else's

Raithwor · 3 points · Posted at 15:58:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

....Okay.

elevul · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, that's one way of doing it if you're blaming the society for your misfortunes.

Personally I would like to die falling from a plane, thousands of meters up in the air. Even if I'm gonna have time to regret it, that free fall sensation will make it much more pleasurable.

Sadly it's also nearly impossible to actually plan and succeed in dying that way. :(

Ickle_Test · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why would I have to blame society for my misfortunes? It's not possible to just say fuck it, I'm gonna traumatize a shitload of people by offing myself?

elevul · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sure, but then you wouldn't be someone who needs help, just an asshole that likes to see the world burn.

Ickle_Test · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

your point is?

desertsail912 · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's really terrible for the train conductors too, I've heard interviews with them after things like that and they're just so broken up, it's really sad.

Meranor · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

that's just it, it's fast, easy and (if done correctly) painless. It is really tough for the people who are at that moment working on the train though, and especially the drivers. They have to go outside every time and assess the ''damage'' done to the person and the equipment. Plus the knowledge that you just hit another person is too much for some people, leaving them scarred for a long time.

Source: I have to travel by train to get to my school, and the tracks are located close to a psychiatric facility, so people tend to run away from there and jump on the tracks a lot. It gets kinda hard to have any sympathy left for people who jump in front of trains after running late for the 15th time in 6 or 7 months...

gangnam_style · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit, where do you live where people are doing that that often. I've commuted every day by commuter rail for a year in Boston and I don't think we've had one suicide yet.

Meranor · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well I dont want to go into the specifics, since I dont want to ruin the reputation of the facility (it's actually quite humane and such). I live in the Netherlands, and if you take the train from Amsterdam to Den Helder on a regular basis, expect a lot of delays

_rusty_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I heard somewhere this is one of the reasons why train drivers get paid so much (at least here in the UK). Apparently you're pretty much guaranteed to run someone over :(

mustachepantsparty · 2 points · Posted at 15:14:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

While studying in London, we were all told that jumping onto the rails was one of the most common forms of suicide, with about 1 per week on average. While riding you'd hear an announcement saying there would be a delay on a particular line with "a person on the tracks." Pretty depressing when you're on your morning commute to school or work.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

one of the most common forms of suicide, with about 1 per week on average.

That sounds awfully small amount of suicides, 52 / year. Maybe it was per track? U.K. has about 7400 suicides /year.

mustachepantsparty · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I meant for just the London Underground, I should have been clearer. I originally heard it from a teacher while over there and just a quick Wikipedia check it looks like the amount of suicides on the Tube varied from as low as 25 in 1940 to over 100 per year in the 1980s. Between 1940-1990 there were 3240 deaths to average about 62 per year, so a little more than 1 per week. Source

Suddenly_Elmo · 2 points · Posted at 15:44:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think it's also because it's one of the few professions in the UK that still has a powerful union.

bubalu1102 · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think they don't want to be able to change their mind or have anyone stop them. :(

Boriddy · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I find it interesting that when I was younger I had a teacher who said if you wish to suicide per train, don't look at the train machinist. It might help him at least to get over the fact because you remain faceless.

wslabarr · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's easy? Or maybe some people just want to be remembered.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At first I thought you were asking why people use trains to commute so commonly haha.

snsdfour3v3r · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've heard that in Korea, they charge the families of people who kill themselves on the track for the cost of cleanup

Kurnath · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you're suicidal, you probably don't give a fuck about the aftermath.

David_Copperfuck · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe they want people to remember.

L_Zilcho · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's an easy way to go out. You just step off and it's over

dhobywallah · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I went up to London for a theatre trip, someone took their life on the Tube. Most of the passengers complained it was at their inconvenience (even my mum did when I rang her up later in the day!), but a couple of my friends were really distraught at the nonchalance of most people (which including me and a like-minded close friend, but we didn't voice our opinions), as well as the fact that they saw a jumper. I remember when we got off they almost broke down, and not being emotional people, me and my friend left them to deal with their feelings for a while, so they could calm down. Probably a bit harsh in retrospect, but it was better than hanging around them and acting as though nothing had happened.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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RabidWalrus · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some men just want to see the underbelly of a moving train.

Maybebabe · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's fast.

shemp5150 · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

that sight will stay with you forever man...

I watched a girl get hit by a freight train when I was 14. Still have nightmares about it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is a video of a drunk guy who falls on the infamous 3rd rail.

I do not recommend watching it, being what you have been through, I am posting this to show these trains are a god damned menace.

scramtek · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

down_down it would seem.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

During my freshman year of college, my cousin and I went to a nearby 7/11 to get cigarettes late at night. The only ones around were me, my cousin, and the man working the counter in the store. While paying for the cigs we see a guy stumble up to the doors and look in but he doesn't come inside. My cousin and I walk outside and open the pack to have a smoke and the guys just looking at us. He was clearly either very drunk or very high because he was barely standing upright so we paid him no mind despite the death stare he was giving us. He then blurts out some random nonsense that I took to mean him asking us for a cigarette so I held one out for him. He takes one step to reach for it then pauses. He rocks back and forth before tipping straight forward and without any attempt to break his fall he falls straight down and smashes his forehead on the garbage can next to him and drops to the ground. We rush over to help him and he's just laying on his back, head bleeding viciously, eyes shut, and not responding to a word either of us say. At this point the clerk runs out to see what's going on and calls 911. I take off my shirt and do my best to keep light pressure on the wound like the emergency responder told me to do. Now he starts turning completely blue and I truly begin to lose my shit because I literally have someone dying in my arms. We follow all the directions we were given over the phone and eventually the cops come and start working on the guy while waiting for the ambulance. They try everything from CPR to a defibrillator to save this guys life. A few minutes later the the EMTs arrive and they share a very brief word with the cops before they just shake their heads, move the guy onto a stretcher and cover him up. We're just standing in disbelief unable to grasp what just happened when the cop tells us that we did all we could have done and to not feel bad about what had happened. Of course that did absolutely nothing to comfort me and to this day I'm haunted by the look on that guy's face as it turned deep blue and bled uncontrollably until he died right in front of me. I think about that shit almost every day and I will never get over it.

TL;DR - guy was under the influence of something outside a 7/11 late at night, fell, cracked his skull open, stopped breathing, and died in front of me

silverbackjack · 2 points · Posted at 14:55:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Drunk is weird. I once played "Black" and FPS on Xbox when I was drunk and started crying and had to turn it off because the sound effects and visual effects of being shot were to real to me and it felt like it hurt.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:04:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sound.

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude...

Gollem265 · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I never ever want to see something like this

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my city there are reoccurring events of people being ran over by trains. I cant even imagine witnessing it...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh man, I'm so sorry dude.

GreanEcsitSine · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember a guy doing an AMA about witnessing the cyclist being run over by a dumptruck at Lollapalooza 2011. His description of the accident was quite graphic and unnerved me for quite a few months after that.

Enchilada_McMustang · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still remember when I was a kid some guy fell into the wheels of a huge truck, his head exploded in the loudest bang I have ever heard, I didn't actually see it but I will never forget that sound.

ridik_ulass · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

in films we are exposed to a lot of video and people know what the dead look like so we kinda get exposed to it, but the sound of someone dying doesn't persist, it is hard to recreate and we never really get exposed to it accurately.

sounds man, they stay with you for ever.

Mazuna · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm waiting for a train right now... Anything could happen

SqueezeMyWeasel · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

brain scarring

Well ovbiously his brain would be much worse than just scarred.

alahos · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How do you hear crunching with the noise those things make?

dontspamjay · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In college I was walking over a bridge that crosses a train track. Some guy had just been hit and I heard what I would call a wet thud (hard to hear over a loud train). I saw very little aftermath and I'm eternally grateful.

Word has it the guy was mentally ill or trying to kill himself. Those were student rumors so take them as you will.

ForeverAGnome12 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is how my friend's brother died. He was in his early 20s it was really tragic. Sorry you had to witness that.

nasaske · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My aunt works for septa as a secretary, every week they have at least one jumper. She brings home the reports from the conductors and they are gruesome

sLoZo · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What movie is this?

justmeinSF · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So sorry you experienced that.

Kryptonight420 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just watch the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

TL;DW: Dumb Ways to Die music video

treebait · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That happened on my morning commute once too. I didn't see anything as the train-station attendant was screaming for everyone to look away... until someone jerk yelled "Oh my god, look!" and I did (why?!?).

Even the smallest piece of him was enough to severely ruin my day and I promptly turned around and went straight home.

IPick · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was on a train when someone offed themself on the track. The smell was awful. I can't get it out of my head.

eggface5 · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw something very similar, but luckily the train had stopped and we were able to alert the driver. It was surreal because you just dont expect stuff like that to happen. I think the woman was ok, but they closed the train station for the rest of the night. Here's a video i found at the time of a nearly identical incident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ijGfDMiIs

JohnMarvista · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ironically, drunk people don't cause as much damage to their body when they fall because their muscles are relaxed.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a fishing hole that I visit regularly that has a really, really high train bridge just upriver of it. I've watched more people jump off than I care to recall.

kurosevic · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i used to take the train to work every day -- twice, I have been sitting on a train that killed someone on the tracks.

papiwoldz · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was riding the bus home from school with a friend of mine. He'd fallen asleep and I saw this guy sitting by the railroad as the train is coming. I thought about waking my friend up, but it's not something you do is it

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

talk about a buzzkill.

Entropy84 · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ho-lee-fuck.

thehoneytree · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Getting hit by a train is almost guaranteed to kill you. It's up there in methods to commit suicide. When I was severely depressed as a teenager, this was going to be how I killed myself. But I could never get over the fact that the train driver would feel responsible, and just how it would effect all the people on the train.

Namyag · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Imagine how much more terrifying it must have been for the train engineer. Most train engineers who've had their trains kill people never drive a train again because of the trauma.

TJnova · 1 points · Posted at 10:42:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my worst fears is doing some stupid thing (like the drunk guy above) that kills me because of my own stupidity or carelessness, AND I have time to realize this before dying: "if I wouldn't have fucked around so close to the ledge, I'd he going home tonight instead of hurtling towards the" WHOMP SPLAT

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:43:44 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

did you attempt to help???!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:15:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it's any consolation, he likely died immediately and felt no pain.

This reminds me of the stories about the jumpers / people who are pushed in front of the subway in NYC regularly. Apparently the worst is when they don't make it out in front of the train and instead get caught between the side of the train and the platform beside it.

Because the train is still moving, it pins them there while spinning the bottom half of their body around continually until the train comes to a stop. When it does, they're twisted up yet alive and think they'll be able to get out, however once the pressure is released (as they can do with the subway trains) the person is going to die immediately.

So you've a person, trapped between a train and a platform, thinking they're going to make it out alive but have absolutely no hope of it, and the police have to come and tell them what's happened, get their family to say their last goodbyes.

I've no idea whether it's true but I'm almost sure I first read about it in an article that was posted here on Reddit. Given that many, many people kill themselves on the NYC subway every year, or are killed by being pushed, I've no doubt that the police and subway staff see some fucking terrible things though.

brianimal · 2 points · Posted at 14:29:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like something I saw in a movie once... the name eludes me. Only in this movie, it was a car that pinned a jogger to a tree. Now this is going to frustrate me all day. Damn it, what is the name of that movie?

Jrag · 6 points · Posted at 14:33:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Signs

brianimal · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you... That was killing me but it seems so obvious now.

RedBeard_the_Great · 0 points · Posted at 14:43:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scary Movie 3

shawkward · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Odd thing, the media doesn't really report on the amount of people that commit suicide by train. In my two years working with the MTA I've seen 4 cases of this (and I worked for a area covered by a few lines). First time was a lady who jumped from the platform and ran across the rails to get hit by the opposite incoming train. Her body was mangled into the tracks and her body parts hit the cars below (elevated tracks above street).

Second, old man jumped on the rails and just managed to get hit by the train face first. The train had a jammed on the emergency brakes but still got him. I was actually on it too and had to try to help the guy. He was alive and his arm was shredded but he didn't make it.

Third, guy jumps on the rails but mis-timed his jump. He happened to avoid the train barreling down on him and land on the third rail. Fried right there.

Fourth one was plain old hit by the train.

EDIT: One more, drunk man was straddling pissing between train cars when he manages to slip between them. Half his body looked normal all the ret looked like cuts of meat and hamburger.

I've seen a lot of fucked up shit and dead people but I find it odd that I never have nightmares about them. I guess I'm lucky.

TL;DR, trains are no goddamn joke.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in Ireland. People very regularly kill themselves on the train lines here, very very regularly. It's never, ever reported though, but I got to know some people who deal with the suicidal and they said it's happening on a near constant basis.

I can see the attraction - it's instant and painless and requires little or no planning i.e fuck all chance to "back out" or rethink what they're doing. It's terrible to think of the damage it does to the train staff though.

_NutsackThunder · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:13 on June 19, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it makes you feel better, at that speed theyd probably be ripped in half, not spun.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:26:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched in horror as this drunk seeming guy fell (maybe it was on purpose, but I don't know) onto a commuter rail track just as the train was coming. The sound/sight of him getting run over (snap, crackle, pop) has stayed with me for life as the scariest, brain scarring thing ever.

FTFY

Sweetdish · 262 points · Posted at 00:00:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few years back I rented an apartment from a friend of mine. He had recently bought it and had it completely renovated. He put it up for sale but couldn't find a buyer so I offered to rent it in the meantime.

After moving in I realized there was something wrong with the lady next door. She was about 45 but looked much older. She would sit up all night listening to Christian radio shows and talking loudly to someone. It got to the point where I couldn't sleep so I went over to her place and asked her to keep it down. She opened her door and I got a quick peak. Her walks all had crosses painted on them in different colors. And words like "Jesus" and "angels" scribbled everywhere. The windows were painted black letting no light in at all. It was damp, yellow stained 50 year old carpets, dog shit and cock roaches everywhere. No dog though.

I asked her to please keep it down. She just looked at me and shut the door. Then she turned up the radio even louder.

The next night I had my GF staying over. I wake up in the middle of the night and see a shadow of a person next to the bed looking at us sleeping. I think I'm hallucinating as I usually do in the dark when I'm sleepy. But then the shadow starts talking. It's my neighbor and she's holding something in her hand. She broke in during the night and who knows how long she stood there.

"You should lock your door at night" she says and walks out.

The next morning I hear someone making strange noises below my bedroom window. It's my neighbor talking to herself in tongue. She has a plastic bag in her hand with her rotting dead dog inside. It's hot as hell outside and I can smell death from the bag.

At this point I'm scared shitless. Shes obviously very insane. I go upstairs and knock on another persons door and ask what the hell is going on. The guy is as scared as me. Apparently she broke into his apartment one evening as well while he was watching tv with his kids. He got up from the couch to get a snack only to find her behind the couch staring at him holding a power drill. (Now I know what was in her hand)

At this stage I'm basically pooping myself. I call the cops and they know all about her. Apparently she is a violent schizzo and she hasn't taken her meds. But they can't force her or enter her apartment w/o her permission because she owns it. The only thing they can do is get her when she goes outside. I sit up for the next two days waiting for her to run out of cigarettes. When I hear her leave at 2am to go across the road to the 7-eleven I call the cops. They have 3 cars and a special van over in less than 2 minutes. They restrain her and throw her in the van and drive off to some institution and in less than a minute it's like she was never there.

I never see her again. Still have nightmares about her looking at me in my sleep.

[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 07:03:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

okay, you win...this is it, this is the winning entry.

also, you've made me intensely grateful for my alcoholic 85 year old neighbor who just listens to gay porn at 2 am at top decibels. i didn't think that was possible. thank you.

[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 16:39:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had an upstairs neighbor who was creepy like this, though THANKFULLY he never broke into my place.

I noticed he moved in one day because he would listen to really loud music at odd hours of the day. (That's not a weird thing, and it didn't bother me because I'm a heavy sleeper) I met him a week or two after he moved in as he was sitting on the steps outside of my apartment's back entrance smoking a cigarette. He seemed really normal. We shot the breeze for a bit, and I talked to him about hockey since he was wearing a hockey jersey and that's pretty rare in Atlanta.

I don't hear anything coming from his apartment for a few weeks, until one Friday night I decided to stay in. I'm playing video games when I start hearing this screaming above me. At first I thought it was in the video game for some reason, and then I paused and muted my TV. He was just yelling random shit. This started happening on almost a nightly basis for a while.

Then the pacing started. I'd wake up in the middle of the night and I would hear pacing from one end of his place to the other. It would go on for hours. Sometimes I'd call my boyfriend because it just made me really unsettled feeling.

Then there would be really loud thumps and bangs coming from his place that would shake my whole apartment.

Then one day everything just stopped. I never saw him in person outside of that one time smoking. His apartment got vacated, then they redid the whole place and gutted it, and now someone new lives there.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:00:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely foul play. If that guy seemed normal, something happened.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:05:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I never saw any cops or anything. It was just one day I was talking to my boyfriend and said, "Yeah I haven't heard [upstairs guy] in a few days." I never saw any cops or anything. I mean, I work out of my apartment most days, but you'd think there would be cops called in. The next thing I knew they were cleaning/revamping the apartment. So creepy. My first thought was maybe he killed himself or got evicted.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

evicted makes sense. The demonic IRS came for him

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:17:50 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

The only skepticism I have with the eviction theory is that evictions take a long ass time here, and this ordeal probably occurred over a three or four month period.

MrNiceWatchBro · 0 points · Posted at 06:27:19 on September 21, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like this is what happened, He lost a crap ton of money on illegal sports betting or what have you (all the yelling random shit was his frustration from losing). The time to pay the bookie comes do and he doesn't have the money (the pacing at odd hours because he can't sleep and is worried). Then when he can't pay, the goons are sent in to mess up his place and take anything of value eventually I'm sure taking him away in a rolled up carpet (Loud bangs and thumps causing the shaking of your apartment). Remember he did have on that hockey jersey. It's just theory but it sounds possible right?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:05 on September 22, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm glad you solved this for me three months later!! :D haha

dopeinfernal · 0 points · Posted at 00:24:30 on January 8, 2014 · (Permalink)

Yeah if you watch to much tv their columbo.

davidandsarah08 · 12 points · Posted at 05:36:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This would be a great story for /r/letsnotmeet

Karbear_debonair · 6 points · Posted at 01:14:46 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is absolutely terrifying. One of my nightmares is rolling over and having some one standing over me. I am horrified that this happens ever. To anyone.

Eesh.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 7 points · Posted at 07:16:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Infinity nopes.

ilovemypossum · 7 points · Posted at 00:04:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is some creepy shit. Good thing you managed to get rid of her.

Browneyedgirl89 · 6 points · Posted at 01:03:51 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why couldn't they arrest her for breaking and entering?

Sweetdish · 9 points · Posted at 02:31:45 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

They couldn't arrest her cause there was no real evidence of a break in besides me saying so. The door was intact and she didn't take anything. I was to shocked to even consider it until the next day and the guy upstairs was scared of her. I think he was very happy about me moving in, giving her someone new to focus her attention on.

Browneyedgirl89 · 8 points · Posted at 02:48:40 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is insane!!!! I would be so freaked out! I bet your girlfriend was glad you woke up first! Ha

Sweetdish · 5 points · Posted at 05:07:43 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

She was so freaked out she refused to stay again until the woman next door was taken away.

Browneyedgirl89 · 2 points · Posted at 11:10:12 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I bet! That's so crazy!!

Eddyoshi · 2 points · Posted at 17:12:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

0.0 Oh shit...that's horror movie material there!

The_Fortune_Soul · 2 points · Posted at 03:14:20 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice plan of action!

kelpsong · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:54 on September 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

please please please post this on /r/letsnotmeet!!

ActiveSloth1234 · 90 points · Posted at 19:34:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to me when I was about 8 and still scares me to this day. One evening I went to let my dogs in from the back garden at around 9pm. It was pitch black so I quickly opened the door and my dogs came bounding in, as soon as they came in I locked the door and at this moment a person on the other side pulled the handle down trying to get into my house. We had a glass door so even in the dark I could see the outline of a man standing there.

I ran to my dad and he ran into the back garden after this man and saw him running down the road. Since then I have closed and locked doors at the speed of light.

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 02:18:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is the reason i check my glass back door is locked 1000000x a day. i hate you for posting this, it's my NIGHTMARE

CityFarmer · 7 points · Posted at 14:11:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am so terrified of this. Everytime I take my dog out to pee at night I always get this gut wrenching feeling that someone is going to catch the door before I can close it.

AndyWSea · 5 points · Posted at 21:18:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, that is just great. I had never thought about this before.

MoonPark · 4 points · Posted at 23:05:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I bet you are now.

AndyWSea · 4 points · Posted at 23:36:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

SIGH Yes...

vVvMaze · 7 points · Posted at 14:53:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

but....dogs.....

[deleted] · 615 points · Posted at 13:54:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Doll

old doll that multiple persons claim over the course of 100 years, that it is alive and possessed.

Kindhamster · 446 points · Posted at 15:49:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This page has some issues

NO SHIT, WIKIPEDIA

bic_man · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:10 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

[citation needed]

TSparklez · 180 points · Posted at 15:06:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why wouldn't those families burn that fucking doll like a normal person?

kultcher · 148 points · Posted at 15:42:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because that would let him out.

thornsap · 394 points · Posted at 17:10:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

dump it in cement the dump the cement into the sea

if that fails, dump the sea into the sun

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:46:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But then the doll reappears in their home, ready for revenge.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 02:02:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

feed it to a shark then feed that shark to a larger shark

Huntskiies · 5 points · Posted at 03:56:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Then dump the larger shark in cement and dump the cement back into the sea.

jalapenohandjob · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then feed the sea to a larger shark?

ThatsWat_SHE_Said · 5 points · Posted at 05:40:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And that shark full of sea, full of sharks, full of cement is dumped in the sun?

Subscribe-n-Unzip · 3 points · Posted at 23:16:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We've done it before to the bride of chucky

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:57:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If that fails, dump the sun into a black hole.

0N3e · 2 points · Posted at 14:10:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then shoot the sun. In the face.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is a good plan. you can't be too safe.

Hellion_23 · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The table is leaking...

Iwannaleavenow · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nuke it from space. It's the only way to be sure.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And dump the sun into the sea thus creating a vortex that rips everything apart.

Kindhamster · 36 points · Posted at 15:49:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not if you salt him first!

Damadawf · 17 points · Posted at 16:13:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some sort of iron weapon is always good to keep on hand, just in case.

scampwild · 13 points · Posted at 17:23:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And maybe keep it on a bungee cord so it doesn't get knocked away.

DMercenary · 8 points · Posted at 02:22:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Iron stake through the chest. Kosher and sea salt dumped on top of it with Kosher and sea salt concentric circles while a catholic priest, a rabbi and a imam stand in a triangle formation and begin their exorcism rites. A Buddhist and Hindu monk stand in between on the sides of the triangle.

On the last side is an atheist with a flamethrower. On one fuel tank is a label reading SCIENCE. And on the other is ENGINEERING.

Let's Rock.

rae1988 · 7 points · Posted at 16:55:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe throw it in the microwave?

VioletSky22 · 6 points · Posted at 17:09:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hah. I saw that episode of the x-files too.

[deleted] · 117 points · Posted at 16:23:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Child: MOM THAT FUCKING DOLL RUNS AROUND AT NIGHT AND BREAKS SHIT AND ATTACKS ME

Mother: ...oh. Huh.

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 18:19:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why doesn't someone just attack it I mean it's on display

[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 18:23:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seriously. Just punch it in it's dumb doll face.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:18:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too risky. You don't want to risk retribution from the other dolls.

Hellion_23 · 4 points · Posted at 04:17:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"HAHA YEAH HE'LL DO THAT"

[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 16:44:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because it's a tourist trap, and they want tourist money.

friday6700 · 3 points · Posted at 07:10:25 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pretty much. If I remember correctly, you used to be able to rent him.

beeisme · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you give me a quick run down on what it does. I don't want to see a picture of it.....

TSparklez · 7 points · Posted at 20:26:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Its basically like a real life version of Chuckie, where the doll is supposedly attacking children, talking, throwing things, and running across the house and windows.

TheJc0978 · 2 points · Posted at 21:32:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because he's my only friend.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what I'm saying.

RiskyBrothers · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because then you'd have to eat the flaming doll

Games_sans_frontiers · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because normal people don't burn very well.

ukmhz · -1 points · Posted at 20:10:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

.. a normal parent doesn't BURN A DOLL because a child makes fantastic claims about it being alive.

Bassefrom · 3 points · Posted at 21:51:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They would've 100 years ago

elevul · 5 points · Posted at 23:58:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Truth to be told, they would have probably burnt the child too, just in case it's a witch.

ATomatoAmI · 3 points · Posted at 00:42:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Send the doll to certain superstitious parts of Africa with a postcard explaining its alleged history and they'll have that fucker burned yesterday.

achesst · 118 points · Posted at 15:33:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh shit, that page made me jump. I didn't realize wikipedia used gifs as their main pic sometimes.

memo_rx · 190 points · Posted at 16:26:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

....they don't.

[deleted] · 74 points · Posted at 17:43:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 19:18:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to go load the article, and the picture got bigger, and then went back to normal size. Definitely not taking that nap that I was planning on....

Merryberry9 · -3 points · Posted at 21:52:53 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahaha

burek_japrak · 19 points · Posted at 21:00:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OH YOU MOTHER FUCKER YOU MADE ME EXPECT IT FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I EVEN HAD THE LAVENDER THEME ON YOUTUBE FUCK THIS THREAD I'M OUT

Parker_I · 5 points · Posted at 16:43:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why would you be listening to the lavender theme while reading this thread...

groundcontroltodan · 16 points · Posted at 16:57:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That definitely wasn't a .gif...

iopghj · 3 points · Posted at 05:22:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

live video of the doll.

ramo805 · 13 points · Posted at 17:40:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you're a dick!

RideShark · 6 points · Posted at 23:15:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

For the life of me, I don't understand why you didn't get multiple thousand upvotes for this, perfect comment for this thread.

inept_adept · 4 points · Posted at 17:07:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

shud up....

MentalProblems · 3 points · Posted at 17:43:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Very good!

sekai-31 · 3 points · Posted at 22:22:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you asshole! I copied and pasted the text into Word so I could read it in peace because of you!

[deleted] · 31 points · Posted at 15:23:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That doll is the thing nightmares are made of.

[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 15:25:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading that the doll was a gift from a servant of the family trained in voodoo. I never mess with voodoo.

capcalhoon · 56 points · Posted at 16:12:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading that too. Five minutes ago. In the link posted above.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:13:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The link I posted above. Forgot it was mentioned in the wiki article.

Vehudur · 13 points · Posted at 15:52:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

<Edited for deletion due to Reddit's new Privacy Policy.

873498792837498 · 4 points · Posted at 17:09:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any story you see like this isn't even "voodoo related" -- it's more like "this story hinges on a Christian American misrepresentation of voodoo claiming that something happened that EVEN VOODOO PRACTITIONERS think is bullshit."

It's like bullshit squared.

873498792837498 · 0 points · Posted at 19:34:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

christians downvoted. but it's true anyway.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 17:32:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who do?

873498792837498 · 5 points · Posted at 23:23:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You do!

That voodoo!

873498792837498 · 2 points · Posted at 17:08:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In summary: if our explanation of the doll's "evil possession" by an "evil spirit" hinges on "voodoo" being involved, and if the doll is only considered "possessed" if and only if "voodoo" was the mechanism, then this story is 100% FAKE.

"voodoo" is a real religion and in practice is far less creepy than (for example) mainstream christianity. If you see a story that starts with "so and so knew voodoo black magic" what you actually have is a fairy tale involving the racist exoticism of 19th century white America's imagination. In other words, Vodou is real, "voodoo curses" are not real.

White people figured voodoo was evil and Satanic mostly because it came from Africa. End of story. Evil because it's African.

Vodou as described by a present-day adherent: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/saumya-arya-haas/what-is-vodou_b_827947.html

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:05:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Get out of here with your evil voodoo magic

873498792837498 · -4 points · Posted at 19:35:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obviously, it's not working out for me too well - Jesus has been hitting that down arrow. Further proof that religion makes you dumber than you otherwise would have been.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:44:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you making a scrapbook with proof that religion maeks you dumber? Where did religion come into play in all of this? Because it was mentioned that a servant of a family practiced voodoo in the story, so you thought everyone thinks voodoo is all about evil curses which is not the case. So you come in the thread trying to prove a point that Racism fueled stereotype cases of "voodoo curses" or whatever, but that has very little to do with the story at all that I submitted. Go back to SRS, you are not intelligent, and do not blame Jesus or Religion for your shortcomings.

873498792837498 · 2 points · Posted at 23:31:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And, yes. Yes, I'm making a scrapbook. Big, fat scrapbook.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:37:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Keep fighting that good fight, preaching to a group of people who do not give a fuck HaHabrave

873498792837498 · -1 points · Posted at 23:25:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I blame Jesus and religion for the shortcomings of the idiots who downvoted a perfectly correct statement because it upset them in their emotions. Just like I don't think your opinion is valid here, because you weren't paying attention. Religion contributed directly to the racism and prejudice that prompted the "voodoo servant" origin to be made up in the first place. It's a good creepy-doll story, but there's absolutely no chance of "christian misunderstanding of voodoo" to have been a real-world cause of "haunted doll."

I blame Jesus for YOUR shortcomings. I figured your "evil voodoo magic" business was a joke, making fun of the people who think there is such a thing (in other words, Christians. That's the ONLY subculture that thinks there is such a thing as "evil voodoo magic. Choke on it.)

Apparently, you actually think that a nonexistent practice by a nonexistent "evil voodoo" culture could have actually "possessed" a bloody puppet.

Dude, it was a good "creepy story," but it's not real. Are you taking offense at the fact that its basis was supposedly a voodoo ritual that never existed, the fact that I pointed it out, or the fact that I pointed out that Christian prejudice is the particular mechanism that mangled real Vodou religion into "haunted dolls" tales?

If religion wasn't the dumb thing that made you think things like this, what was?

squashedfrog462 · 2 points · Posted at 00:22:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Standard Reddit. Even a story about a possessed doll somehow escalates into a religious/racial debate.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is nothing you could say to offend me, because I get my jollies off of upsetting you. Look at you, you made a account just to say something pretty much irrelevant or at least a completely minor to the story, but even though are partially correct, you say it in the worst way possible. You condemn a entire religion and expect to be praised for it. What does any of this have to do with jesus? I can read through your comments and understand the fine lines, but you leap from idea to idea like a autistic child. Not even troll bravery 0/10

873498792837498 · 2 points · Posted at 00:01:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

booga booga!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:03:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

huehue

873498792837498 · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yer face

873498792837498 · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

and yer mom

[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 16:00:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I cant find a link for it ( I did not try very hard either) but in that photo of Robert on the wiki page you will notice what look like notes stapled to the background. One of them specifically says "DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH" and the others If I remember correctly, are apologies from people who took photographs and regretted it for whatever reason, asking for Robert's forgiveness.

[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 16:37:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wasn't it something like; if you want to take a picture of him, you need to ask him, and if he blinks he gives you permission.

At least that's how I remember that shit.

callingapathy · 19 points · Posted at 17:37:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, and supposedly if you either don't ask, or ask and he says no and you take a picture anyway, he puts a curse on you.

cottonheadedninnymug · 6 points · Posted at 20:30:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also, he apparently makes all of your other pictures from your vacation to Key West disappear from your camera.

Casumarzu · 18 points · Posted at 20:51:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good, no one wanted to see them anyway.

callingapathy · 6 points · Posted at 21:02:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what a dick

quantumtardis · 11 points · Posted at 16:17:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw it in key west. Wanted to run the opposite way

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:22:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is really cool! I would love to visit Robert, he has a interesting history.

Vanetia · 3 points · Posted at 17:31:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wouldn't want to visit him. He might hitch a ride home with you!

idontsugarcoat · 18 points · Posted at 19:01:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Footage of him blinking @ 1:00 before the camera pans down

Jessibabe333 · 7 points · Posted at 21:19:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am so fucking scared of clicking that link..

GuyOnTheMoon · 7 points · Posted at 21:51:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Turn down the volume.

The music only adds to the suspense.

But it honestly reminds me of one of those edited "George Bush Blinked Like A Reptilian" videos you can easily find on YouTube.

idontsugarcoat · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

worth it

sekai-31 · 4 points · Posted at 22:24:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit, can someone tell me what this vid is pleeease? I'm too scared to click.

theaznone · 8 points · Posted at 23:45:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Basically someone is video taping Robert with cuts to a black screen with excerpts of Roberts Wikipedia while having a eerie music playing. Kinda of creepiness until the 1 minutes mark when shit gets all real.

10/10 would watch again.

PussyBender · 5 points · Posted at 04:20:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's 12:19 am right now and there's no fucking way in hell I'm clicking that link. If I do, I won't be able to sleep in years.

LiplockforWiploc · 3 points · Posted at 07:19:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched that video twice and couldn't see the blinking, so I googled it and came up with this one, which shows it better. Very creepy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgtwDYmpWAM

lordgoblin · 1 points · Posted at 09:17:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Still I couldn't see anything :(

LiplockforWiploc · 2 points · Posted at 10:08:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry. I think it may have something to do with lighting - I just watched it again to tell you when I saw it, but I'm now in a dark room with a bright light behind me and I can't see it. Sorry.

But I did see it in that video earlier, and one of the comments say they see the blink at 29 seconds.

Perhaps watch again in different light? If not, no big deal, the legend about the doll is far creeper than watching it blink.

Storemanager · 2 points · Posted at 11:42:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu9HZ1yk0vg again and at .59 pause it and use your arrow keys to shift through the scenes when around 1.01 you'll see the blink quite good if you have it set on 720 fullscreen.

Looks fake though.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:56:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure I want to watch this...

Bud042 · 1 points · Posted at 08:30:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just thinking about what that video will show me is making me want to cry

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:43:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh sweet Jesus.....

lilparra77 · 13 points · Posted at 14:52:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

... Nope

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 02:01:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Eugene was given the doll in 1906 by a Bahamian servant who was skilled in black magic and voodoo and was displeased with the family. Soon afterward, it became clear that there was something eerie about the doll..."

well no shit, if a yaqui brujeria gave me a cursed tortilla I wouldn't eat it and then wonder why I was poisoned.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

lol

ffejulator · 10 points · Posted at 15:45:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kill, kill, kiiiill. Die, die, diiie.

porqtanserio · 4 points · Posted at 15:59:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, I'm officially not sleeping tonight.

Kittae · 4 points · Posted at 20:01:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went to the museum's website, and they're all excited that the doll had it's picture taken by an aura-photographing camera. Now, I'm willing to rule out that the photographer is full of shit. But a "legitimate" aura-camera basically just catches your heat, electric field, what the hell ever. Plants and animals have those, they show in the picture. I'm not comfy at all with that doll having an aura.

ohsweetdarling · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Time to get rid of anything that resembles a doll or stuffed animal. !

drspankenstein · 3 points · Posted at 16:43:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is some creepy shit right there.

data_dawg · 3 points · Posted at 19:47:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They always showed this on the Travel Channel when I was younger. It was one random special show about ghosts and as soon as the opening came on I had to change it as fast as I could because I KNEW motherfucking Robert would be there. I had so many nightmares about this doll I can't even bring myself to look at him now.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did so much research on this fucking thing when I was kid i couldn't sleep for months. I still wanna go to Florida to see it.

Hotshot2k4 · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Finally. I've been waiting for something that I would find personally creepy, and parts of the article succeeded. If for some reason I was visiting the doll and would be taking a picture with it, I would indeed not ask politely.

NaturesWanderer · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm gonna take a picture of that doll even if he doesnt tip his head. YOLO

Meows_at_cats · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ohhhh fuck.

Silvercumulus · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That picture moved....

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

......teehee

causticwonder · 2 points · Posted at 02:36:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Of all the things in this thread, this one creeps me out the worst. I fucking hate dolls. I hates the dolls in my grandmothers house, I will never go see Robert. Never never never.

bluesman87 · 2 points · Posted at 10:39:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Classic Robert

Jaebird93 · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:59 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went on a ghost tour in Key West a couple of years ago and this story was the only one to genuinely freak me out, especially because the guide show us tons of pictures.

Dragonborn1995 · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:19 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

A celebrity demon...cool.

hippity_dippity123 · 2 points · Posted at 10:27:40 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't believe that this article exists. Wikipedia isn't a plaything for fairytale. Its written as though its actually possessed.

Vanetia · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Talky Tina and Robert should totally hang out.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GIVE ME THE POWER I BEG OF YOUUUUUUU

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its just a old doll that according to multiple witnesses throughout a 100 year span can move and speak by itself, and curse you. You know your normal spirit doll possession.

LFBR · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Tanzler

This article always gets me. Carl Tanzler converted the dead corpse of a woman into a doll basically.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i hate robert so fucking much

Nicoleness · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love the text that says 'this page has some issues'.

YouRazzleMyDazzle · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well that was fucking creeepy.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NO! FUCK THAT, THAT IS A CREEPY MOTHER FUCKING DOLL.

MagicSPA · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep. A good CCTV camera would end that mystery once and for all.

If only they were available to be bought and delivered straight to someone's door for significantly less than a hundred bucks on E-bay. If only.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCKING HATE DOLLS!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not even going to read this fucking page.

hate2pee123 · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im having such problems deciding whether or not to click that link

Lulu68 · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw him on a show about haunted museums and things when I was a child. I am going to be a twenty two year old woman in two weeks and I still won't click that God damn link. Many sleepless nights for me when I was little. I wouldn't even say his name.

DMercenary · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

For individuals who visit Robert in the Fort East Martello Museum and wish to take a picture of him, according to legend, the person must ask the doll politely.[9] If he does not agree (by tipping his head to one side), and the individual takes a picture anyway, the doll will curse the person and their family.

Ooohkay....

Darkencypher · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is fucking creepy

avantgardeaclue · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to be SO creeped out by Robert.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:17 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Late at night. Home alone, my brain tells me not to click...

Edit: Grammar

BallisticBennyBash · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:58 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)*

That looks like the talking evil doll pops had in regular show.

Edit: his name was Percy.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:03:30 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lived in Key West for 2 years. I've been on multiple ghost tours there and have seen and been in the house where Robert lived. Creepy Stuff!!!! There are pictures of him on every brochour*?

poopmailman · -1 points · Posted at 15:43:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sounds like he needs a few grams of that good ganja

Newbs280 · 2552 points · Posted at 13:52:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

There is a fark thread somewhere that described a guy taking a scenic route in the middle of the night to get to a certain town. He was driving up a hill, and came upon a car accident with two cars on the side of the road and a person lying down on the ground. For some reason he caught a bad vibe from it, and slowly drove past the scene. He stopped about 100 feet past it, looked behind him, and the person on the ground was standing up and staring at him, with about 20 other people coming out of the woods.

Nope.

Edit - /u/nodice3 has provided the link. http://www.fark.com/comments/3985541/45887207#c45887207

googlebum · 1631 points · Posted at 14:53:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

car jackers most likely, you stop to help and they rob you blind.

PadLilly · 1202 points · Posted at 15:19:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But do they work in groups of 20 though?

themindlessone · 1980 points · Posted at 15:50:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gypsies do.

forgotpasswordagain0 · 632 points · Posted at 16:43:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you fend them off they'll only come back in larger numbers

Bodymaster · 100 points · Posted at 17:15:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sandpeople?

[deleted] · 124 points · Posted at 18:31:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, these tracks are side by side. Sandpeople always ride single file to hide their numbers.

TheyCallMeStone · 26 points · Posted at 19:27:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And these blast points. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.

[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 19:35:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

-blast points all over the ground, walls, and hills in the background-
Checks out

7777773 · 5 points · Posted at 00:01:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One has to wonder how imprecise the sandpeople would have to be, in order for that comparison to work.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:56:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

they were taking potshot at Anikin and the other pod racers and missed all of them. Probably a pretty tough shot though.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 20:00:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well they do miss a lot.

TheyCallMeStone · 3 points · Posted at 03:50:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's funny because every other source - even the dialogue in the films - consistently points to them being the most elite soldiers in the galaxy. Yet in all of their screentime they seem to fuck it up.

Coffeezilla · 2 points · Posted at 06:49:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aren't the storm troopers clones of someone?

PlayTheBanjo · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:29 on July 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to wonder about that a lot. I think the original Clone Troopers were phased out and replaced with enlisted people (the Rebellion-era Stormtroopers), but the original Clone Troopers were all clones of Jango Fett after he won some contest to hunt down some rogue Jedi cult leader for Darth Sidius.

Looked it up, that's correct - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stormtrooper

(Scroll down to "History" and "Galactic Civil War").

Also sorry for orangeredding you on a post from over a month ago.

ArtifexQ · 3 points · Posted at 23:23:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He said precise, not accurate. Could just be very well defined blast marks.

nrbartman · 6 points · Posted at 20:32:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Crabpeople.

TuskenRaiders · 3 points · Posted at 20:45:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...what?

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:29:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Take Borats approach when buying a car: "If this car drive into a group of gypsies, will there be any damage to the car?"

Thydamine · 7 points · Posted at 21:37:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Their eggs can release up to 70 gypsies in a single hatch.

Taodyn · 3 points · Posted at 19:58:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They walk single file to hide their numbers.

kingkooka · 3 points · Posted at 20:29:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like sand people...seems Han Solo is in this thread recounting Luke's story.

TuskenRaiders · 3 points · Posted at 20:46:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

UUUurgh urh uuuuurgh!!

GarethGore · 3 points · Posted at 22:24:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you really fend off 20? Thats not very easy

SUM_Poindexter · 10 points · Posted at 18:15:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The gypsis scare easily, but they'll be back, and in larger numbers.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 18:20:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And when I say this, I get downvoted for "being racist".

Precise_Masters · 20 points · Posted at 19:11:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welcome to Reddit.....^racist.

gwf_hegel · 2 points · Posted at 23:00:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because you are.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 08:23:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well yeah. It's not about some goddamn internet points, but seeing how this guy has 1500+ people who agree with him on a matter I was bashed for, come on...

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 19:42:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:59:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes. If you don't know the difference you are pretty lucky.

heyitsaubrey · 2 points · Posted at 22:27:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, I'm Gypsy.

weedbearsandpie · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I'm from the UK and gypsy / traveller is one of the racial options you can choose on these optional surveys they do at colleges to check that they're not discriminating, it's on the form right next to things like white British and black Caribbean. (not that those are the only white / black choices)

lumpytuna · 1 points · Posted at 11:27:31 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not really any more. In the uk anyway it's mostly just irish travelers. There are some real romany gypsies left that are supposedly the descendants of North African travelers who came to Europe in the 16th C. but they are few and far between. Gypsy is just the term for travelling people.

heyitsaubrey · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's derived from Egyptian.

dijitalia · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like the Zerg?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:18:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL gypsies are sand people.

viper9172 · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"They scare easily..."

Levitationist7 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought that was Sand People?

ggg730 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They're like H.Y.D.R.A.

i_like_salad · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why they walk single file

TrizmoxRSA · 1 points · Posted at 07:35:55 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

We don't die, we multiply.

sfsdfd · 28 points · Posted at 17:20:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

There's historical precedent for groups of marauding bandits. (NOTE: I meant to attach this comment to the parent post, not to the one about gypsies, who have nothing to do with the Cult of Thuggee.)

I present one of the most fascinating Wiki pages I've ever read - no, one of the most fascinating things I've ever read:

The Cult of Thuggee

Thuggee is described as a cult of people engaged in mass murder. The modus operandi was to join a caravan and become accepted as bona-fide travellers themselves. The Thugs would need to delay any attack until their fellow travellers had dropped the initial wariness of the newcomers and had been lulled into a false sense of security, gaining their trust. Once the travellers had allowed the Thugs to join them and disperse amongst them - a task which might sometimes, depending on the size of the target group, require accompaniment for hundreds of miles - the Thugs would wait for a suitable place and time before killing and robbing them.

kinsey3 · 3 points · Posted at 20:52:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, I know of the Thuggee, but what connection do you suppose they have with Gypsies?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 11:02:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Genetic evidence suggests gypsies (well Romani) originated from the Indian subcontinent and migrated to the west in 500 AD. There is some speculation they had contact with groups such as the Rajputs and the Jats.

The earliest mention of the Thuggee is about 800 years after their supposed migration, so any connection is highly unlikely.

glycerinSOAPbox · 2 points · Posted at 19:38:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Patrick Rothfuss read that and nodded sagely. He knows what's up.

zhicago · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought this too.

pottyaboutpotter1 · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thugee? KALI-MA!!! Ahem. Sorry.

gwf_hegel · 2 points · Posted at 21:58:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Blatant misrepresenation of facts to make them suit an obviously racist agenda.

The Thuggees were a group of people (or: a cult) that had their golden age in pre-colonial India, with the earliest date of formation around 1350.

The Roma people, while most likely also originally from India, left the area long before the Thuggees even formed - probably between 500 A.D. and 1000 A.D.

sfsdfd · 6 points · Posted at 22:58:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Blatant misrepresenation of facts to make them suit an obviously racist agenda.

No - an honest mistake: I intended to reply to the parent of the post that I replied to. I've clarified my post with an explanation of the mistake and a disclaimer.

gwf_hegel · 1 points · Posted at 12:30:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alright, sorry then.

sfsdfd · 3 points · Posted at 13:36:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No need to apologize - I'm aware that gypsies have been targeted for persecution over many centuries, and that my mistake looked quite a bit unseemly. I appreciated your comment as an opportunity for correction.

themindlessone · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is what Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are based on.

ubsr1024 · 19 points · Posted at 16:58:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I will look on your treasures Gypsy, is this understood?"

Toby-one · 4 points · Posted at 21:25:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the correct answer. I remember a friend who stopped for a car accident and as soon as he stopped some guy pulled open his front seat door and got in at the same time two guys got in the back and they all had knives they had 2 cars filled with people and then they forced him to go into town and empty his bank account. The reasoning is that someone is far less likely to put up a fight if you overwhelm him with numbers.

1v1 "Yeah I can take him"

1v2 "There's always that one guy who thinks he can take them on"

1v3 "Only if I'm drunk"

1v6+ "Even if I'm drunk I know better than to fight six guys"

olijackson64 · 8 points · Posted at 17:23:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I fucking hate pikeys

PickleGypsy · 3 points · Posted at 18:21:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can confirm. Avoid gypsy traps and hide your pickles.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:23:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hence the term "getting Gypped." (I don't know if there is an official spelling. Could be Gyped, Jipped, etc.)

Though, this term was probably more from getting a bad deal out of a gypsie.

zhicago · 2 points · Posted at 22:56:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit http://i.imgur.com/Gfu1kZm.gif

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 17:28:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I fucken hate Pikeys!

baltihorse · 3 points · Posted at 20:52:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's a gypsy?

gwf_hegel · 2 points · Posted at 22:08:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A member of the ethnic group of Romani people, just in case it wasn't clear already that OP is making a massive generalization of an entire ethnicity. Hating Roma is probably the most popular form of open racism prevalent today in Europe (besides middle-eastern immigrants).

baltihorse · 2 points · Posted at 02:17:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, seems my comment was a poorly placed movie quote <.< but thanks for the knowledge!

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 21:07:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Woah now, this is Reddit. Tread lightly on Gypsies. Those who've never experienced them love to pull the racism card.

chrischunli · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Walkers too.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:33:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

True dat. At the moment there's a big problem in the UK where gypsies steal the copper cabling that power the lights along motorways. They do it groups of 10+ usually, and that's a small job really compared to a fully staged car jacking, which this sounds like

STylerMLmusic · 6 points · Posted at 17:03:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

First thing that crossed my mind after that gypsy bashing thread the other day.

SuperUltraJesus · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

link?

ubrokemyphone · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got in on the argument, so it was easy to look up.

Mikevercetti · 8 points · Posted at 18:22:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gypsies are awful, awful fucking people. I live in the US and my friend's family was robbed blind by gypsies. I didn't even know they existed in the US. While they were on vacation, a bunch of them plowed a pick up truck through a wall of their house and ransacked it, taking anything that wasn't bolted to the fucking ground. They were caught eventually, but most of what they had taken was either destroyed or sold, and half their damn house had to be rebuilt.

buildingbeautiful · 9 points · Posted at 18:29:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was living in Italy I came across a lot of gypsies because I had to walk/take the metro everywhere. One day I was on my way to Naples and I had to take the train out of Rome. I'm walking up the stairs to the flat where the trains come in, and I keep feeling someone pushing up against me from behind. Assuming that it was rush-time, I move out of the way so whoever is trying to get by me can do so. However, when I move out of the way, the pushing is still occurring. I turn around and some fucking gypsy woman is trying to get into my messenger bag that I had slung behind me. The worst part of it was that she was using her fucking infant to conceal her arms while she was fumbling with the clasp on my bag. I stare at her and scream "what the fuck is wrong with you?" in Italian and she just scurries off. My friend ended up being at the end of the staircase as she goes running down and he knows exactly what it was; He runs after her shaking his fist and screaming in Italian at her. Later I found out that my cellphone was missing. The one damn phone I had that I could use to call my family with. The fucking nerve of some people.

mastry0da · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:05 on June 28, 2013 · (Permalink)

the effin gypsies are everywhere in italy! keep your bags in front of you!

STylerMLmusic · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, that's not a thread to do with gypsies at all, mate.

ubrokemyphone · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uh, the linked comment says:

Don't tell them and enjoy a much smaller gypsy population.

In reference to bathing in toxic runoff. Are you sure about that?

STylerMLmusic · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:24 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, very sure. One comment doesn't have much to do with an entire gypsy bashing thread.

Natemaid · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn gypsies. Never gave me my silverware back.

yozman32 · 3 points · Posted at 17:30:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Crusty jugglers

Cymry_Cymraeg · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking gippos.

amadmaninanarchy · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking gypsies

Mocha_the_Gypsy · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

...I just can't say hi to you people can I?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gypsie son of a bitch burnt us

bobsp · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Brits do, so do Germans, and Chinese, and Russians, and Americans...and every other group of people.

macromissy · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:29 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gypsies are still a thing.

That's kind of fucking awesome - and scary.

xPico · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

first thing on here to make me lol in a long while

bordy · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I fuckin hate pikies.

dontneeddota2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You like dags?

midgettamer · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gyyyypsies, traaaamps and thieves!

gwf_hegel · 0 points · Posted at 20:16:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Fuck off with your racism.

Edit: +1758 upvotes for a comment that doesn't even try to hide its racism. I'm ashamed to even be registered on this website.

themindlessone · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gypsy isn't a race.

RudyJ · 3 points · Posted at 20:59:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Romani are considered a race and ethnic people (anthropologists use the latter term because they don't use the term race but both are correct). Either way, it is valid to call that comment racist, which it is.

themindlessone · 0 points · Posted at 02:35:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sure. Had I said Romani, you would have a point. Since I didn't, you don't have shit to say.

jesus_von_nazareth · 2 points · Posted at 07:12:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gypsy and Romani are interchangeable. It's the like saying "gook" instead of "Japanese", "kike" instead of "Jew".

Keep telling yourself otherwise, but that's how our language works. You can't hide from it.

gwf_hegel · 0 points · Posted at 20:41:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's like saying Jews aren't a race and Anti-Semitism isn't a form of racism. As Roma are usually considered a distinct ethnic group (even if not a "race"), bigoted hate speech against them (as you are uttering it) is considered racism. By just about everybody.

Semantics games won't help you. You are a full-fledged racist and people like you are the reason genocides (like the Holocaust, which killed 200.000 Roma) have happened and will probably happen again.

themindlessone · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I said Gypsies work in groups. They do. That's not semantics; it's fact.

gwf_hegel · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not a "fact", since I don't think it's an inherent characteristic of being Roma that "they" work in groups of twenty to ambush people.

White people and people of colour do the same from time to time, yet you didn't say "Blacks work in groups of twenty to rob people." I wonder why that is? The easy answer is because you're assigning malicious characteristics to the whole ethnicity of Roma people, which is blatant racism.

themindlessone · 0 points · Posted at 02:34:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You said Roma, not me. You will never win this argument, since I chose my words carefully.

gwf_hegel · 2 points · Posted at 06:59:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

You said Gypsies, which is exactly the same, just in an offensive way. It's like saying "niggers" instead of African Americans. Are you actually fucking kidding me?

Next you will be saying "Gypsies are not equal to Roma". Yes, they are. The two terms have been interchangeable since the beginning of time. You don't speak a private language, don't even try to claim it. The societal consensus that "Gypsy"="Roma" has existed for centuries, you can't turn against it. The meaning of a word is its use in a language, not what you dream it up to be.

Just accept it: you are a bigoted racist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Romani_people#Gypsy_and_Gipsy

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gypsy

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gypsy

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Gypsy

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gypsy

http://www.crystalinks.com/romapeople.html

By the way and before you try to backpaddle your way out of it: you use it with a capital "G", which is a dead giveaway that you're reffering to the ethnic group of Romani people.

Shovelbum26 · -7 points · Posted at 17:19:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're a racist idiot.

Zao1 · 2 points · Posted at 20:07:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL Gypsy is a race

Shovelbum26 · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but yes, yes they are

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:42:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Expect a call from SRS.

badf1nger · 0 points · Posted at 19:03:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did they have dags?

[deleted] · 49 points · Posted at 15:48:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The efficient ones do.

googlebum · 31 points · Posted at 15:49:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you're jacking a car, why not make a party of it?

t3yrn · 2 points · Posted at 20:01:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dunno, that seems rather inefficient, actually. You'd want a group, of course, but not so many as to minimalize the payout each person gets.

Kingmal · 11 points · Posted at 16:13:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Two of my friends got mugged by a group of about 15 people, both girls and boys.

blackwolfdown · 4 points · Posted at 16:37:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cannibals do.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:41:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If they're popular

joshuazed · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Car jackers are easily frightened but will soon return in greater numbers.

drunkape · 3 points · Posted at 17:31:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A herd of car jackers

JohhnyDamage · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We had a local story of a woman on the side of the road. When someone came to help about five guys would come and jump them.

Nothing stolen. They just did it till they were caught to hurt people.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:41:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And how long did they have to lay there in the middle of a nowhere-ness before a car finally came along?

DearIntertubes · 2 points · Posted at 18:35:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The extras are just there for the sex.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:01:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Zombie car jackers

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:03:58 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obscure cult wanting to kidnap someone to sacrifice them, probably.

Stamcia · 3 points · Posted at 15:59:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who knows , but for sure they rape in groups of 20.

Elljot · 786 points · Posted at 15:33:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember this story. They were supposed to be a satanic cult.

IwillMakeYouMad · 683 points · Posted at 15:51:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't want to believe.

SocalFox · 12 points · Posted at 19:33:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember this too. Some town nearby was supposedly known for satanic rituals. The guy didn't slowly drive by it though, he said he drove as fast as he could past it.

IwillMakeYouMad · 8 points · Posted at 19:37:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn... I remember that just 40 miles from the city I used to live something to do with satanic cults and rituals happened. Young men being kidnapped and sacrificed on a ranch. It was in the early 80s, I think. Since those stories, I have always been keen to get scared by these kind of thing.

Did you ever go?

SocalFox · 5 points · Posted at 19:43:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me? No. I just read it on some forum posted by this ex military guy. He was the one driving. Although I don't doubt it's a possibility at all. Not necessarily demons so much as really fucked up people.

IwillMakeYouMad · 10 points · Posted at 20:40:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man, if only there was an AMA from an ex-Satanist.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 22:21:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Laveyan Satanists (the most common type) don't really do that kind of shit though.

SocalFox · 3 points · Posted at 22:45:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eh, it would be cool though.

IwillMakeYouMad · 2 points · Posted at 02:11:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope they keep it that way. We never know when groups are gonna mess up. They seem to be good at keeping it on margin.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:23:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Most Laveyan Satanists aren't bad people, they oppose violence and unfair treatment to others. They're pretty much just really weird atheists or teens trying to be edgy.

IwillMakeYouMad · 6 points · Posted at 03:41:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

teens trying to be edgy

that is enough for me to stay away. You know teenager and their hormones and puberty. I do not dig that.

n0tsane · 5 points · Posted at 22:58:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm very surprised there hasn't been one. From my experience every Satanist will go on and on about it for hours, but you have to ask them about it. TL;DR Don't ask people about something unless you are really interested.

IwillMakeYouMad · 2 points · Posted at 02:10:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother is the one that is closer to that kind of stuff and I asked him many things. We both came into the conclusion that we shouldn't be messing with that people, so we would leave it like it already is.

johnnycage333 · 2 points · Posted at 21:28:11 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

BAM!

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/17dxn8/i_have_been_told_that_you_may_be_interested_in_my/

0l01o1ol0 · 1 points · Posted at 10:40:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST MAN, YOU GUYS IN THIS THREAD CAN'T JUST DROP PHRASES LIKE "SATANIC CULT" AND "KIDNAPPED AND SACRIFICED" WITHOUT GIVING A SOURCE. DOES THIS TOWN HAVE A NAME?!?! STATE?!?!

IwillMakeYouMad · 3 points · Posted at 13:27:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think that some things do no require sourcing and names. They aren't things we would like to know. Here is a news translated to English from where I used to live. But I don't think it is that exciting anymore.

edit: maybe not news, but they are the best I could find in English.

raphanum · 1 points · Posted at 11:53:20 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.fark.com/comments/3985541/45887207#c45887207

Here dude. It was posted further up the page.

Elljot · 3 points · Posted at 21:13:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah thats the story.

pottyaboutpotter1 · 11 points · Posted at 19:53:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh come on Scully.

IwillMakeYouMad · -1 points · Posted at 20:39:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's NSFW No Safe For │^under Wear

BlaydeRunner · 6 points · Posted at 19:59:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The truth is out there...

2EdgedDeath · 3 points · Posted at 22:02:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Make me mad.

astrograph · 5 points · Posted at 17:46:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

but then you won't be Mulder

snickerpops · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's some urban legend / creepypasta that shows up everywhere.

This thing gets posted over and over again for years.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 18:14:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

IwillMakeYouMad · -1 points · Posted at 18:34:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

vresiii

rcrabb · 19 points · Posted at 16:10:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, and it was in the desert. Either a classic scary story or a classic car-jacking/robbery maneuver. Probably the former.

[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 18:12:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The latter. Happens all the time in Africa. There's stories of people driving around the accident and running over the accomplices hiding in the grass.

Barl0we · 2 points · Posted at 21:26:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man Door Hand Hook Car Door!

I2ichmond · 18 points · Posted at 16:21:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every group of people in or near the woods at night is a Satanic cult.

Beardmaster76 · 10 points · Posted at 17:18:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or a bunch of stoners.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:25:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So... still a Satanic cult?

Iiii'm just kidding...I'll see myself out.

inept_adept · 14 points · Posted at 16:22:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

cue someone going on about how misunderstood satanic cults are...

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 17:03:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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durtysox · 12 points · Posted at 17:47:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Having known actual Satanists, this is true. They're also super arrogant and convinced that they know truth and that the rest of the world is either full of poor blind victims of Christianity, or is a wonderland of suckers for their mindgames. It's like some of the worst elements of reddit and their obsession with deriding the "sheeple", except with less science and more obese polyfuckery.

CrackersInMyCrack · 3 points · Posted at 06:32:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

except with less science and more obese polyfuckery.

So... Reddit?

tresdosuno · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So they embrace the manipulative qualities of religion rather than hide behind them?

Eh, six of one half dozen of the other.

Dragoniel · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is Satanism (which is a certain lifestyle and completely harmless) and then there are Satanistic cults, consisting of delusional murderous fanatics worshipping dark powers.

darkpassenger9 · 3 points · Posted at 19:38:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This topic comes up every month or so on AskReddit and that story is always near the top. The original guy who told the story didn't really speculate on what he thought it was, just that it freaked him out.

Eaton_Dixon · 3 points · Posted at 21:52:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Charles Manson's "family" were operating in the area at the time. My stepdad was stationed nearby the area this happened when he was in the Marines and they were explicitly told to not go anywhere near that area.

Flemz · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was a different story

Balony1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dateline: what would you do?

intergalaticman · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So being robbed would be the least of your worries... I am scared.

cake_is_lie · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I bet they were

OsakaWilson · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Supposed by whom? This is one of those responsibility evading structures that people use when they are passing on bullshit, similar to FOX News' "some say".

Commisioner_Gordon · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just wondering, what would a satanic cult do to someone in a situation like that. Murder them? Rob them? Sacrifice their body and offer it to their Dark Lord?

Elljot · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dont know to be honest. I don't know a whole lot of information about satanic cults.

raphanum · 1 points · Posted at 11:56:19 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

We can go with the simplest answer and assume all of the above.

Karagaghk · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know whether to upvote or downvote you, because your comment currently has 666 points. About satanic cults. Ugh.

Elljot · 1 points · Posted at 07:08:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Perfectly excusable, I appreciate your eye for detail more than your karma.

ILL_GRL · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Must. Not. Upvote. Karma points. Perfectly...relevant. URGH.

Ihaveredonme · 11 points · Posted at 16:19:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading this. The area he drove through was supposedly home to satanic cults or something. He probably would've been lucky if it was just a carjacking.

Show-Me-Your-Moves · 3 points · Posted at 22:28:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I read it, it was set in the remote mountains of West Virginia. Made it infinitely more terrifying somehow. Sort of like Deliverance.

breeyan · 13 points · Posted at 15:46:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or a cult out on the recruiting trail. Don't be so negative

n7shadow · 6 points · Posted at 17:12:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's fucked up really. Shit like this makes people afraid of helping those in need.

majinalchemy · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yea they should target assholes instead. I guess I'd just call the cops and say there's either an accident or robbers/murderers on x highway at mile marker y, either way the cops should be there.

JordanMcRiddles · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you read the story he was actually driving around a ghost town that was known for satanic activity. I fear it may have been much worse than car jackers.

reunite_pangea · 2 points · Posted at 19:27:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

aaaaaand now i'm afraid to take a car through any rural area

NatesYourMate · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what you get for trying to be one of those "good people" you always hear about. They disgust me.

moofei · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That must take a great deal of skill

Balony1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The guy in the car had a gun

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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CaptainJAmazing · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's fairly similar to a Snopes article that takes place in South Africa, but this one takes place on a remote highway in the Mojave desert near Amboy, CA.

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

well, in front of your face.

LevelHeadedAssassin · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in India is 2007, we had a similar situation. A group of 30 people or so blocked the road with two large trucks and themselves. Our driver slowed down and one guy proceeded to force the driver door (right hand drive for those that don't know) open but our badass driver grabbed a stick he had behind his seat and flight him off. Scary as fuck...

braeson · 1 points · Posted at 07:07:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a group by an Indian reserve in Alberta here that does that. The kicker, they will also kick the everloving shit out of any male in the car a make him watch his female counterpart be forcibly raped. There's several reports of it happening and no one is ever charged/caught. Absolutely terrifying area of country. I'm talking "the hills have eyes" shit.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:10 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would venture more than robbing was going to happen

NoDice3 · 412 points · Posted at 15:35:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.fark.com/comments/3985541/45887207#c45887207

merreborn · 9 points · Posted at 22:12:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was also, at the time, a hotspot for satanic group activity.

That was an early red flag. There's zero evidence of criminal satanic cult activity in the US. It's pretty much 100% 1980s urban legend.

rockets_meowth · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

nice try FBI.

kjolley3 · 1406 points · Posted at 15:35:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They were trying to throw him a surprise party and he just drove away. How insensitive.

mrfields · 26 points · Posted at 16:27:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just laughed out loud in a public restroom because of this comment

[deleted] · 31 points · Posted at 16:47:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was there. I heard you...

Full_Rune · 47 points · Posted at 17:20:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...along with 20 of his friends.

ShenanigansYes · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Worst. Birthday. Ever.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:11:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe it was that show on NBC where they film what you would do in certain situations and those guys were the camera crew.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my gawd I want to do this.

Guys, let's do this.

Please.

woopledoer · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or an intervention for the guy's addiction towards providing assistance.

SirDolphin · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Hey dude, you okay?" guy suddenly starts singing, and 20 others join in

macromissy · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:20 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Oh look! Here he comes! Everybody get ready!" ..... "Awwww. :( "

LordMcMutton · 377 points · Posted at 15:03:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bandits!

Hlidarendi · 388 points · Posted at 15:24:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men obviously.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:53:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Clearly. Now he's missed his chance to be a savior with the band.

Hlidarendi · 2 points · Posted at 19:54:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Robin was looking for new recruits and this guy blew it. What an idiot.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Noobs these days I swear.

Tnuff · 3 points · Posted at 23:27:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OP is literally King John

almigi · 2 points · Posted at 18:40:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was his foolish little brother Fred Hood and his band of Men named Mary.

MrBlackk · 2 points · Posted at 02:54:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Needed that!

DaftlyPunkish · 5 points · Posted at 16:09:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You made me exhale quickly through my nose

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You misspelled zombie

radikul · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...Fagelas?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, Thag and his goons.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU'LL MAKE A FINE RUG, CAT.

Pappydethkon · 2 points · Posted at 17:06:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bumper sticker: I don't stop for bandits.

FIND_SOME_WALL · 2 points · Posted at 19:01:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like the Viper gunslingers

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:17:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

¡Banditos!

WinterCharm · 2 points · Posted at 19:46:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fus Ro DAH!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

More specifically, highwaymen.

Kvothe24 · 2 points · Posted at 20:16:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't worry, I got this, guys.

viper9172 · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Raiders!

zacura23 · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cult members looking for a sacrifice!!

TheAngryBlueberry · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

pulls out DMR WHERE?!

LeeHyori · 36 points · Posted at 16:35:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THAT FUCKING GIF UNDER THAT POST. WHAT THE HELL.

hotfrost · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was just about to go to fucking bed... (europe)

droidonomy · 1 points · Posted at 07:19:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What was it?

Erzsabet · 63 points · Posted at 15:44:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to my husband and his dad while they were driving to 29 Palms to visit his brother. Not 20 people, but definitely carjackers.

Punchayouface · 10 points · Posted at 16:32:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did your husband and father in law stop? Or did they just cruise on by like the guy in the story and realize what was going on as they were driving away?

Erzsabet · 15 points · Posted at 16:41:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They kept going and saw the people stand up after they had passed them.

ciaratarium · 9 points · Posted at 19:21:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not sure I would have stopped anyway, but thank you for reiterating to NEVER EVER stop. I'm a 26 y/o female and I just went on a 9 hour trip alone a few days ago. This gives me chills.

Punchayouface · 8 points · Posted at 04:06:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No one should ever get pissy with you for not helping or picking up a hitchhiker if you're a female who's traveling alone. If they do, they can go fuck themselves.

Erzsabet · 9 points · Posted at 19:30:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you ever see something like that on the side of the road, the best thing to do is call 911 and let them know. If it's a real accident, they will get the help they need, if it isn't, cops may be able to catch them. And you won't get hurt.

matphoto · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seems like it would make more sense to actually block the road with the fake accident.

Erzsabet · 2 points · Posted at 19:52:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah. I'm not sure how much of the road they blocked. I know in other stories people have driven off the road completely to go around them.

Darth_050 · 6 points · Posted at 21:06:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then drive over the people hiding in the tall grass.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:38:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I laughed, but being creeped out by this thread, it being midnight, and having this scary ass image in my head of your car getting stuck on the bandit of a bandit while others approach gave me the creepiest, most uncomfortable laugh ever. I don't think a Reddit thread has every really intimidated me like this, maybe some of dying cats, but not like this.

zebrake2010 · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow. I've heard of that more than once out there.

[deleted] · 50 points · Posted at 16:19:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cool story time!

When my dad was younger he bought a sweet new Jeep. My dad had an awesome job so he was able to afford a top of the line Jeep, not a crappy one.

One day he was returning home from something (most likely work) when he sees a motorcycle turned over. There appeared to be a injured guy caught underneath. My Dad being the gentleman and all around good person he is decided he needed to help. He went to ask this guy if he was okay and he said that he was hurt. My dad then started to drag the motorcycle off him and BAM he was knocked out by a crowbar.

Unfortunately no one saw what happened. My dads Jeep was gone :( Luckily a month later the police found it! Next thing you know my dad gets hit by a semi going full speed while he is in that Jeep. Cursed Jeep.

ChristofferOslo · 6 points · Posted at 22:08:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, uhm, did your dad survive?

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:24:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ya, I was waiting for that question. HE SURVIVED! In fact he hardly got injured, but his glasses broke :( He might have got a concussion. The police couldn't believe it. They thought whoever was inside the jeep must have been dead and been taken to the hospital. They were surprised when he told them it was him.

My dad is one tough dude!

Nackles · 3 points · Posted at 22:55:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HE SURVIVED!

I hope that is the cool part of the story, because the rest of it is pretty goddamned creepy.

McKnackus · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You can't just finish the story like that. What happened to your dad?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He is fine. Some days I wonder if he is brain dead, but he is alive!

[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 15:50:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wasn't he a Marine too? Said he "smelled an ambush." Fuckin badass.

InterNatRunner · 25 points · Posted at 15:44:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Show me Potato Salad!"

Pussy-Hunter · 11 points · Posted at 15:55:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've heard a lot of versions of this, from multiple people in the car coming back from a party and finding somebody lying in the street with a girl telling to guy to just keep driving, to a guy driving on a route with corn-style fields either side well known for Satanic activity.

The scariest versions, and the ones I always re-tell are like the Satanic one, because it's likely they weren't carjackers, they were trying to get to the person themselves,

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:37:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes exactly the story is fake. Unwet your pantaloones, people

Pussy-Hunter · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a good one though ;)

Toby-one · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The thing about this story is that these things do happen even if they are not paranormal. I had a friend who stopped at an accident scene and as soon as he stopped 3 guys with knives got into his car and robbed him.

bleedingheartsurgery · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

cornfields on either side

*shiver. especially if road was narrow, iiighghghg

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:14:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good call. That shit was terrifying. It didn't even matter that the dude had a gun and was probably in better shape than those people. Fuuuck that.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:12:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

20 people > gun

Audiovore · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well you could take out a few with the car too.

aron2295 · 9 points · Posted at 15:37:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember that one or a similar one. Marine just crusing, white Pontiac Fiero with luggage and clothes thrown on the road and a person laying. What threw him off is the clothing was laid down "nicely" so he knew it was an ambusj

PastorOfMuppets94 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why is him being a Marine relevant to the story at all?

Audiovore · 2 points · Posted at 20:46:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was part of the original comment in reference to having a gun in his car and being suspicious of an ambush.

socks86 · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Made me roll my eyes too...

philipquarles · 9 points · Posted at 20:32:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

a hotspot for satanic group activity

http://imgur.com/l0FaSop

Rogansan · 5 points · Posted at 15:32:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is my favorite creepy story, it's true the hills do indeed have eyes in rural Virginia.

RorschachTesticle · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was in California.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Heyo, fellow rural Virginian. It can get pretty creepy up in these parts.

the_limbo · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a rural Virginian, yes, the hills have eyes, assuming they work.

editthanksforthegold · 4 points · Posted at 18:42:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

jesus christ. i am sitting in my apartment in the middle of the day and this terrifies me. i have the chills right now.

edit: it's now approx 30 minutes later and i still feel huge anxiety and dread over this post. fuck this.

Rebyll · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I take it you listen to the Rooster Teeth Podcast?

That's how I found that link. Episode 157.

Newbs280 · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I do listen to the podcast a lot, and yes, this is where I remembered hearing the story first.

You sly devil you...

Rebyll · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:51 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

Burnie has yelled about how things they've talked about have ended up on "Today I learned" and how that pisses them off, so I notice it a lot more than a person who has only listened to a couple of them.

classicals · 3 points · Posted at 17:59:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That actually gave me chills.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:24:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:14:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God I remember this. Nothing else has given me that hair raising feeling on the back of my neck better, because in rural South Carolina, there are oodles of long 2 lane back country highways. Makes me nervous as fuck to get off 385 or 85.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:40:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YEP THIS LINK WAS PURPLE. I think I need to get off the internet for a few months.

DrDongStrong · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember this. I wish there were pics.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fucking what.

DancingNancy4136 · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Between this and all these stories of people posing as cops outside of town 2 hours south of here and pulling people over, I never want to stop to help anyone or stop when getting pulled over.

samsonizzle · 2 points · Posted at 17:57:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn, that one got my heart going.

xRush101 · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck. I read the post and about half way through reading it when he passes the bodies, I got a txt message on my phone. Scared the shit out of me...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:27:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you Admiral Ackbar

ancientcreature · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mom told me a story when I was young that her own co-worker had told her. Apparently this lady and her husband were driving down a lonesome road at night, the man at the wheel. There was a thick wood only meters from either shoulder. On the side of the road were two young girls with a car that had its hood up, a universal sign of vehicle trouble. One of the girls had a flashlight.

They pull over and roll the windows down. After a brief exchange, the couple learned that indeed, the girls seemed to be stranded. The husband begins to get out of the car, at which point the wife notices that the girl with the flashlight, having been holding it nonchalantly behind her back once the help arrived, began discretely flashing it at the wooded area behind her, giving a signal.

She grabbed her husband, stopping him from getting out, and told him to get the hell out of there, quickly, which they did.

Nackles · 2 points · Posted at 22:58:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

DAMN that gives me the willies. The evil shit people will do is so much scarier to me than anything supernatural.

sonic4031 · 2 points · Posted at 21:20:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those were definitely Walkers.

raphanum · 2 points · Posted at 11:49:14 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please, tell me this is BS? Carjackers wouldn't work in a group of 20. It seems more like a cult looking for prey.

Quote from link:

I was driving a shortcut from Twentynine Palms, CA to Albuquerque, NM. Twentynine Palms is located in the desolate high desert east of LA. The shortcut was all two lane road through total nothingness, except for passing through Amboy, CA. Amboy is a nearly abandoned town nearly as far below sea level as Death Valley, with a dormant volcano and lava field on one side and a salt flat on the other. It was also, at the time, a hotspot for satanic group activity.

Chongling · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was probably a robbing setup

BraksOnBraks · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sounds like something almost out of the movie Kill List.

Highly disturbing.

ChaplinStrait · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the crap.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you sure that's not from the Rooster Teeth Podcast?

NoDice3 · 3 points · Posted at 15:55:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They had mentioned it. Podcast 157.

Newbs280 · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, Burnie specifically mentions that every time he thinks of creepy things on the internet, this will always pop up in his mind.

Bonefield · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a really old story. He reposts it every year in the annual scary story thread, unless someone reposts it for him.

iluffeggs · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm gonna be thinking about this for the rest of my life.

tallread1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goosebumps...

ethanwc · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Freaky.

doeeyed · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember this! Apparently cult members. That story was too damn creepy to forget

ThePolymath · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I made a post like this around Halloween a couple years ago and someone told this exact story. Still creeps the shit out of me.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to my grandmother. She was driving on a country road one evening and came upon a girl in crutches that was hitch hiking. She almost stopped to pick her up, but then got a weird vibe from it so she kept going. The girl was walking up a hill, and right at the top there was a car parked with 3 guys just sitting in it. From their vantage point, they could see the girl walking and if anyone stopped to help her.

inept_adept · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is why cars should have a self destruct

sophistafunk · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What.the.fuck.

Sterling_-_Archer · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

x3tripleace3x · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thats some fallout shit.

CrazyBoxLady · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Common gypsy tactic. Also, blocking the road with a large rock or fallen log. When you get out to move the obstruction, they rob you and steal your car.

Snorklepunch · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Link to the nope...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is fucking scary

wvndvrlvst · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What is this "fark"

Trollonasan · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God I just imagine their eyes glowing in the dark slowly emerging from the forest. Nope.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why am I still scrolling through, reading all these stories!? The article link wouldn't load and I got paranoid that it was a fucked up gif with intentional delay. Paranoid for the day!

Shurtugil · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck dude, I think that was one of my uncle's friends. Either that or something exactly like that happened to him. The look in his eyes when he tells that story is eerie.

0311 · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Meh, I dunno if I believe this. Marines are always talking about Amboy being a "Hills Have Eyes" sort of place, but it's really just an old, shitty town. It does look sort of creepy, but the terrain pretty much looks like this for miles, so there aren't exactly a ton of places for 20 people to hide right off the road.

We always used to talk about going there and camping for a night or two, but none of us ever did it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is an urban legend. I've read it on this site many times from different people.

NonSequiturEdit · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sounds like something straight out of an episode of X-Files or Fringe.

cheesesauceboss · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ive read a lot of stuff and seen every nsfl video out there. For some reason this gave such a shiver of fear. Eyebleach please.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I think I'll keep my 2nd Amendment rights, thanks.

RATabora · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For the uber lazy

I was driving a shortcut from Twentynine Palms, CA to Albuquerque, NM. Twentynine Palms is located in the desolate high desert east of LA. The shortcut was all two lane road through total nothingness, except for passing through Amboy, CA. Amboy is a nearly abandoned town nearly as far below sea level as Death Valley, with a dormant volcano and lava field on one side and a salt flat on the other. It was also, at the time, a hotspot for satanic group activity.

So I was driving by myself in the afternoon. I stopped in Amboy and snapped a picture of the city sign, just to prove I was there to friends who dared me to take that route to I-40. I got back in my car and proceeded to drive up into the mountain range between Amboy and I-40.

Once I reach the top I am driving north through a canyon with high grass on both sides of the road. Up ahead I see some stuff in the middle of the road. As I approach I slow down to see a red Pontiac Fiero stopped sideways across both lanes, a suitcase open with clothes scattered everywhere and two bodies laying face down in the road, a man and a woman.

I stop a hundred feet or so away and the hair on the back of my neck is standing up. Being a Marine, I reach under the seat and pull out a 9mm pistol and chamber a round. Something seemed very wrong, it looked too perfect as if it were staged. An ambush? Was I being paranoid? Something was just wrong. Getting out of the car seemed unthinkable, it was the horror movie move.

As I scanned the road I saw a line I could drive. Pass the guy in the road on his left, swerve to the right side of the woman, behind the Fiero and I'd be on the other side. I dropped it into first gear, punched it and drove the line I planned.

I passed the back of the Fierro without hitting it or either of the bodies in the road. I continued forward a couple hundred feet and slowed down so I could breathe and let my heart slow down. As I looked up into the rearview mirror I saw that the two bodies had gotten up to their knees and twenty or so people emerged from the tall grass on either side of the road by the car and bodies.

At that moment my right foot smashed the gas pedal to the floor and did not let up until I had to slowdown for the I-40 east onramp.

I will never know what would have happened to me had I gotten out of the car to check on the bodies or stopped my car closer to them. Somehow I do not think it would have been good. Sometimes real life can be scarier than a movie.

Harvey_Scorpius · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was also in a movie I rented from Redbox. It was a Ghost House movie (A horror B movie company that I believe is affiliated with Lion's Gate), and I had seen so many of these crappy movies that I can't keep them all straight.

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eww, this gave me chills.

BigOleBoot · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OMG I heard about this to. It scared the shit out of me. There was another case where a child asks for a ride and when you take him where he needs to go there are gang members there who rob you of your stuff. Im scared to help anyone these days.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This story shows up in every thread like this.

Source: http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Dangerous_Roads

meoschwitz · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Being a Marine, I reach under the seat and pull out a 9mm pistol and chamber a round.

This line killed it. California CCW permits would never allow loaded firearms underneath a car seat, and Marines don't get automatically get CCW permits or really any kind of firearm privelages that a normal citizen doesn't have. Story doesn't add up.

thebellmaster1x · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the implication is that his instincts as a Marine told him that he should load it, not that Marines get to carry loaded firearms willy-nilly.

meoschwitz · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sure, but my point is that he is carrying a loaded (condition three, which makes even less sense) firearm willy-nilly, which doesn't add up with the whole being a Marine leaving Twentynine Palms part of the story. Sounds a lot more like somebody writing a story whose idea of what a Marine is came from watching action movies.

dizzlefoshizzle1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit. That sounds terrifying.

Sensii · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like this scenario was one bad decision from being their scary story...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

that story itself sounds pretty made up. 20 people? alright.. 21 people blowing the whole operation after one car passes them by? yeah right.

BoxedUpAndShaken · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Best post in that thread

i got a voice mail on my cell the other day saying the warranty on my car was about to expire. i never had a warranty....

waxisfun · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been on reddit for more than half a year and have seen at least 4 variations of this story. Either it's not true or it's something that must happen surprisingly often.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a pretty common urban myth, I've got like half a dozen friends who have a friend of a friend/relative who this happened to. It's like the clown while babysitting story.

SilverGhost93 · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No that's cool, blood. You don't have to keep running warm.

doofy10 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like something straight out of a Cormac McCarthy novel.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck....

Mooshobi · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wonder if he called the cops to prevent others for falling for the trap....

moorethanafeeling · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a former U.S. soldier this is what stuck out to me.

Being a Marine

Hair on the back of my neck

This is my life now.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Clicked that link.

Saw that gif.

Looks like I've had enough reddit for the day.

ctrlaltcreate · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Settle down. It's an urban legend.

Old_Man_And_The_Sea · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

that story was just fucking excellent. the way he fills us in on irrelevant geographic details slows down the narrative just enough to build a lovely level of tension.

good fucking job, marine. i don't know if it was true or not but goddamn

Dukuz · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope he called the cops, they probably got someone else that night.

Seamus_OReilly · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Heh. I've driven that road, from 29 to Vegas. It is like something out of the old west, yucca trees on every side and you have to watch out for cattle on the road.

getweird45 · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just got the jitters

WilhelmScreams · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, 2008? I still remember reading that thread.

Imgeeyo · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read this too on reddit about a trucker guy! Something something about being a vet and carrying a gun in his car something something.

SilverAg11 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cue walking dead theme

SirEctor · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a gas station I avoid downtown where I hear cute girls will ask for rides and bring you to a location where you'll get robbed.

mr_midnight · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once when I was about 19, I was driving in my dad's Tahoe on a remote country road at about 10pm. It was really foggy out, and I was out riding around to find the really thick stuff. Sure enough, it gets so foggy that I can't see much more than 20ft in front, so I have to slow down to about 20mph or so.

I'm cruising along, about to get to this really creepy abandoned grade school that's overgrown with weeds and covered in graffiti. Locals called it Satan School, there are all sorts of creepy legends about murderous janitors and satanists making bovine sacrifices and shit. Anyway, I'm going 20, slowly approaching Satan School, when out of nowhere through the fog appears four or five cars parked on the side of the road, all with loud paint jobs and big rims.

It was so unexpected that that alone kind of scared the shit out of me. I figured they were probably just creeping around Satan School for a thrill, no big whoop. Until about 30 more feet down the road I hear all this weird sound, and I look to my right toward the school, and I see about a dozen huge gangster looking dudes running out of the ditch on the side of the road right toward me with their arms in the air, screaming and yelling like they're being chased, looking right at me. I screamed "FUUUUUCK!!!" and floored it. Luckily I was familiar enough with the road to know pretty much where I was going even at high speed in the fog.

As soon as I was sure they weren't trying to follow me, I called the Sheriff's department and said, "I don't know if they're looking for trouble or need help, but you should probably send a unit out."

evilbrother425 · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mom told me a story similar to this of how gangs would leave a baby carriage in the middle of the road and when a good samiritan would get out to examine it people would beat the hell out of the Samaritan and steal their car.

JackJones367 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tell em large marge sent ya.

SparkitusRex · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading a short story in a book of zombie-themed stories, and one had zombies that were sentient and would lure their prey. A guy was driving home from work and passed what looked like a horrible accident with a cop car there and everything. The cop standing over the dead body in the road waved the guy driving over to the side, but for some reason he kept driving and stopped ahead a good ways off and watched from his rear view mirror. Zombies started coming out of the woods, out of the trunks of cars, etc, to try to catch him. And he realized that the cop was also a zombie who had apparently killed the cop already and is now wearing his clothes to lure more people out.

So he got out of there as fast as possible.

pab2535 · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read a story about a woman coming home from work late at night, and about five minutes into her drive she sees a car tailgating fairly close behind her with their high beams on...[Insert bunch of stuff I cant remember]...guy in car behind her follows all the way home, turns out there was an axe murderer hiding in her back seat waiting to kill her when the guy behind her put his low beams on. To this day this story haunts me, I dont get off of work until 10 every night and I ALWAYS check the back seat of my car for murderers.

merrell0 · 233 points · Posted at 15:34:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

A few months ago I downloaded a program for my phone - Sleep as Android. I bought the premium version of the app for the extra features to record sound throughout the night when volumes reached a certain threshold. It would activate when I would snore or move around. I would usually spend the next evening going over some of the recorded sounds. Everything was pretty normal until I listened to something out of the ordinary.

It was near the beginning of April, and I had the apartment to myself. I'll let you listen to the sound before I go on explaining it: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10931795/APR102013-032352.mp3

It started out picking up my snoring, and then the hairs on my neck stood up as I hear my doorknob moving. Following this, you can hear my door open slowly.

I was confused and a little worried. Everything was still locked up, nobody came home (the chainlock was still latched on the front door), and my landlord certainly didn't come.

I don't use the app anymore.

[deleted] · 245 points · Posted at 17:56:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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merrell0 · 16 points · Posted at 23:50:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At first, I thought it was a cruel (and late) April Fool's joke, but I couldn't find relevant reviews or posts online about it.

Scrattonilliorabzis · 32 points · Posted at 01:25:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit. I use that app and I have it set to record but I've never reviewed the audio. Now I feel compelled to do so but come on, I've just been reading all of these creepy stories. Decisions...

Shit. As I was typing this I heard a little girl crying. It turned out to be my daughter, who has been in bed for 2 hours. She woke up and realized her mom didn't kiss her goodnight. (Her mom accidentally fell asleep reading).

It's funny how reading these threads can make me scared of my own daughter's own voice.

Now back to my decision... Review the audio or not?

merrell0 · 6 points · Posted at 01:47:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's an interesting listen - there won't be any loud noises or jump-inducing surprises. It's short and sweet, and it's downright confusing to me.

Scrattonilliorabzis · 6 points · Posted at 02:06:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I meant the audio from my own sleep recordings... Still haven't listened...

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 04:28:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do it. Remember noises can't harm you.

Tossmysalad69 · 22 points · Posted at 18:33:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why i'll never have any recording devices in my room at night. If there is something there, best not to know about it.

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 23:57:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same here, I know my house is fucking haunted. I've heard my name called out from behind me at night when nobody is awake, footsteps, breathing, shadows in the corner of my room staring at me, the whole 9 yards. I sure as fuck don't want to know what else goes on...

cosmicsans · 26 points · Posted at 00:51:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in high school, my cat Winter (who recently passed away :( ) would sleep on my bed. One night, I woke up and was just inexplicably scared. I looked towards the cat, and she was standing on the foot of my bed, staring at my bedroom door, hair on end. After what seemed like a lifetime, the door closed a couple inches, and she laid back down at my feet. Needless to say I loved having that cat sleep on my bed from that day forward.

My cat had a staredown with a ghost and won.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 04:24:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That reminds me of right after my cat died. We would usually let her in the backyard and she would meow when she wanted to come in. Well about a week later I heard meowing at my back door that sounded exactly like her. I was way too creepeded out to check it out.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 08:56:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cats are smart, probably another one trying to score a free meal.

High_Chey · 5 points · Posted at 02:35:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ignorance is bliss.

CrackheadSally · 34 points · Posted at 16:06:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How could you NOT use the app anymore??? You need a camera or something.

DuoNoxSol · 62 points · Posted at 17:53:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie.

HotPink124 · 6 points · Posted at 18:28:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i second that

merrell0 · 2 points · Posted at 23:52:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I honestly let out a "nope" and without thinking too much about it. I thought about using a camera but I kept visualizing seeing the door open without anything behind it, and that wouldn't have gone over so well with me.

JCockMonger267 · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You already know it's happening every night. You might as well get proof before the nut house that you're not crazy.

randomkloud · 1 points · Posted at 08:26:12 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

dont forget the table fan

nostalgicpanda · 14 points · Posted at 22:25:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was looking through this thread and talking to my friend about how sometimes I wake myself up at night because I'm talking to a somebody else in the room. The presence is normally in the corner and is male. It's happened to me for years and I find it a little weird whenever it happens but I don't really give it much thought whenever it wakes me up. I'm curious as to what I'm saying to it though, might have to get this app to see what I'm saying next time it happens.

paon-ecarlate · 3 points · Posted at 01:29:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you do, then you have to post the results to /r/nosleep or at least somewhere on reddit!

nostalgicpanda · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If anything interesting comes from it I will :)

Throwy27 · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:31 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any news on this? I'm very interested!

nostalgicpanda · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:28 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope, I still need to buy the full version because the other free one only records 2 hours in :/

I don't talk to the guy thing standing in my room very often, maybe every couple months or so.

Throwy27 · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:25 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Would you mind commenting here for me if you do manage to record something? I forget it otherwise (my memory is shot). I'd love to know!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely, please record it and share.

yogore · 11 points · Posted at 00:22:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to click on the recording link, but opted to finish the story first. Good plan.

Raenryong · 7 points · Posted at 18:11:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit. This is probably the creepiest thing I've ever read, mainly because it's so believable.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:08:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep, that's definitely creepy...

The_Gecko · 5 points · Posted at 22:57:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well. I use that app to track my sleep. Was thinking about using the sound thing to see if I snore. I don't think I'll bother now.

merrell0 · 6 points · Posted at 23:41:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was pretty useful. It uses the sound recordings and accelerometer in the phone to wake you up when you're in a light sleep so you wake up less groggy in the mornings.

Hexates · 5 points · Posted at 20:52:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ignorance is ~~not~~ bliss.

janeyk · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHAT! Set up a video camera in there! That is terrifying!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:06:59 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess I'm lucky that I can't make mine do that, since I have 2 fans and a window A/C unit blasting in my room at night, I wouldn't hear a damn thing.

webgirly · 2 points · Posted at 10:15:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This has happened to me with this very same app.... in my case though, as I'm notorious for bouts of somnambulism I didn't think much of it :)

CrossedFox · 2 points · Posted at 13:35:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Right when I read the part about the door slowly opening, I heard my own door rattle, even though I'm the only person in the house who is awake. Darn cat.

mnemyx · 2 points · Posted at 18:18:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the reason why I'm always so scared to listen to my audio from that app...so eventually, I stopped using it.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:23:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Crappy doors can be opened by pressure differences between rooms (e.g. open window + wind in one room, closed in the other). Additionally depending on how sensitive you are a change in pressure could also cause you to toss in turn, so this might be totally normal. But I'd probably freak out too if I heard something like that.

merrell0 · 6 points · Posted at 23:59:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lock my bedroom door at night; it latches securely. Not fully disagreeing with you, but that is highly unlikely.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 00:10:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fair enough, I was assuming it was like mine, with no lock and you could probably kick it open without damaging anything but the doors pride.

roses269 · 2 points · Posted at 01:17:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You can here the door knob being turned rather than the door knocking around like it was being blown by the wind. I have similar pressure differences in my house, if I don't prop open the bedroom door it will slam shut with such force that it sounds like a gunshot.

Ahil · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do u live alone

merrell0 · 3 points · Posted at 17:46:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I was alone at the time.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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merrell0 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a public link, it is available to anyone regardless of having a DropBox account. I uploaded it to Google Drive as well: link

jIceTea · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can't you listen to it? I don't have dropbox, and it works for me.

sjp092 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is the app still available?

Acebulf · 2 points · Posted at 21:28:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I used it this morning.

It's pretty great. It tracks your movements through the night so it can find the optimal time to wake you up without you feeling drowsy as shit.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en

nostalgicpanda · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you know if there's an iPhone version?

Acebulf · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend that has an iPhone uses a similar app, but I'm not sure what it's called.

sjp092 · 1 points · Posted at 07:21:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you! I'll try it out tomorrow.

DickBaggins · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would be pretty damn creepy. I downloaded a simliar app on my ipad but haven't used it yet.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What app?

DickBaggins · 1 points · Posted at 12:08:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not around my ipad right now to look, but if you just search sleep in apps you should be able to find it

willlurkforcash · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

10/10 would nope

AkitheFrivolicious · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh. Few things are scarier than the sound of your bedroom door opening while you're asleep.

lushmeadow · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So if you heard the door open, and when you awoke everything was still shut, is there a part of this recording where you hear the door shut and latch closed? Or do you just hear it open? That recording is creepy as fuck.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it just me or does it sound like footsteps as well? You should give it another go and see what else happens.

sentimentmachine · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

;__;

TheWierdSide · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:50 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

i didnt listen to it, too scared. what happened after the door opened?

alphanovember · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:49 on June 24, 2013 · (Permalink)*

What a lame hoax, man. Fakest snoring I've ever heard. And it sounds like you're breathing right into the mic, which makes no sense if you're supposedly sleeping.

0/10.

merrell0 · 2 points · Posted at 05:16:50 on June 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're absolutely right, I was breathing into the mic. The phone was on my bed next to my face, just as the sleep app instructs.

Nothing wrong with being skeptical! I have no personal gain trying to fool anyone here.

Goldraven10 · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:40 on July 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got this app too.... I just hear some moving and shuffling... Kinda disappointing.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm leaving a comment on this so I can find this recording later and listen to it when it's not 1:08 AM because I'm a scaredy cat.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 01:52:11 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

saved for when I'm on a computer

CrackheadSally · 366 points · Posted at 15:55:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When I was 7, I woke up in the middle of the night with an earache. I decided to tell my mom and step dad and walked out of my room. Someone was sitting on the chair in the living room (about 3 feet away from my bedroom door). The person looked strange (the face was just kind of distorted) but it was dark and I couldn't see well. "Mom?" I asked. The person shook their head, and I started getting scared. "Mike?". The person shook their head again. I decided the best course of option was to go back to bed so I wouldn't have to walk past this...person. I climbed in bed, and closed my eyes for a second, before opening them and seeing the person standing in my doorway, smiling madly and nodding furiously.

Edited: I screamed at the top of my lungs and closed my eyes. My step dad came running out of his room in his underwear with a baseball bat (that was a scary sight in itself). There was nothing there, but clothes my mom had folded and put on the chair where strewn about the living room. For the longest time I told myself it was my cat, sitting on the clothes.

HankHillWearingACape · 246 points · Posted at 19:42:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

why are you alive

NDaveT · 61 points · Posted at 22:31:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

plot twist: he's not

MadHatter69 · 23 points · Posted at 00:06:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the spirit of the whole thread and after reading at least thousand of these stories, I have no difficulties at all believing in that.

cosmicsans · 24 points · Posted at 00:57:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's funny. here I am 2000 comments deep into some of the creepiest stories that I've ever read, completely in fear to get up to turn the light on in my computer room for fear of taking my face away from my computer screen. Thoroughly creeped out, I continue reading comment after comment, steadily creeping myself out more and more with every sentence.

And I have another hour until my girlfriend gets out of work and comes home. If I need to move, I'll call my dog to come escort me.

cheesecaeks · 15 points · Posted at 01:13:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

lol that's what I use my dog for when my husband comes home late. "Heeeere dumb puppy, come with mommy to the bathroom!"

MiniMosher · 15 points · Posted at 03:15:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

in my family home I stayed up late with the dog, she growled at ''nothing'' once and I was like ''what is it girl?'' in a sympathetic voice, she growls again and then I'm just like ''BITCH I AM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT tell me what's up!''. Problem is that she's a spaniel so she can hear noises far beyond what we humans can, so it may have just been a car driving two streets down or whatever; it was just extra creepy that she stared dead ahead and wouldn't move, she's always desperate to show us anything remotely interesting in her world (which is anything that moves or makes a sound).

Stalinkitty · 5 points · Posted at 06:02:25 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

The other night my two year old golden retriever who is not frightened by much started barking uncomfortably around 11pm, alone, out in the living room where she sleeps. It was the kind of bark a dog makes when someone knocks on the door. There are a few yappy dogs in my neighborhood and she could have heard one of them, and I think my neighbor was doing something weird in his garage, but my palms were so sweaty as I opened the back door and looked outside, and then the front door, to find nothing. She hasn't been spooked since.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:43:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I planned ahead. realized what I was in for and turned on all the lights in the house.

heyjennyy · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stop toying with my emotions

heyjennyy · 6 points · Posted at 02:02:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think it's more like, how are you alive

macromissy · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:02 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am also shocked at him being alive today.

FCBarca1984 · 18 points · Posted at 22:54:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HOLY FUCK. Been reading this thread for about 3 hours now and thats the ALKFJPOAINEFAKW-2q6890u2906ikbq4v5 a22......

laromantica · 18 points · Posted at 01:18:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

U ok

errorami · 10 points · Posted at 03:33:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

no u

Breakfast27 · 16 points · Posted at 20:36:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck... This is the scariest/creepiest story yet and it's buried all the way down here.

MrBonkies · 9 points · Posted at 03:41:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

that...was one of the scarier posts here.

ruffyreborn · 8 points · Posted at 14:18:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The nodding furiously got me... Ugh

batalpaca · 11 points · Posted at 19:43:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah so this is the only thing that gave me chills BRAVO! I used to have night terrors like this when I was younger.

cannibalistic_duck · 5 points · Posted at 21:26:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then?

Haggisn · 6 points · Posted at 14:15:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Plot twist: You never had a cat.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 23:07:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, I won't be sleeping for awhile...

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 01:46:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

cool i'm not going to bed.

VitaminPink · 3 points · Posted at 02:20:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes I'm really glad I stick with a thread like this because the creepiest shit is waaaay down deep. I will never go into the living room without turning on the lights again!

DeathlyZpectre · 4 points · Posted at 21:26:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Read this mid day. Still get freaked out.

needtohelpyou · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:42 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Try reading at the hospital ;_____;

Mark2036 · 3 points · Posted at 18:01:32 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was your real daddy...

JejuneMondegreen · 3 points · Posted at 01:30:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

nopenopenopenope

latelyivebeenbored · 3 points · Posted at 14:02:28 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you had a fever induced hallucination?

BabyPandaaa · 7 points · Posted at 23:03:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think that there's a clue behind the story in your username ;)

Taurus_O_Rolus · 2 points · Posted at 21:24:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fucking shit.

scubadog2000 · 2 points · Posted at 21:30:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wanted to say that maybe it was Mike, but then I reread that. I just have one question: Did you scream?

CrackheadSally · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah after that I screamed and it was gone.

scubadog2000 · 8 points · Posted at 00:53:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good. Screaming like a bitch usually helps.

CrackheadSally · 2 points · Posted at 00:59:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I prefer the close my eyes and if I can't see it, it can't see me method but I'm rethinking that now. ;)

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:47:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hhnnggnhgggggggg

21skulls · 2 points · Posted at 02:23:12 on October 16, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is one of the creepiest things I've seen on Reddit. This and The Smiling Man keep coming back to haunt me.

octoale · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then you died, right?

CrackheadSally · 3 points · Posted at 00:50:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I screamed at the top of my lungs and closed my eyes. My step dad came running out of his room in his underwear with a baseball bat (that was a scary sight in itself). There was nothing there, but clothes my mom had folded and put on the chair where strewn about the living room. For the longest time I told myself it was my cat, sitting on the clothes.

Rosindust89 · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:28 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

and that's when I turned on all my lights. goddamn living alone.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:49:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is really fucking scary

Moosemaster21 · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:03 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you sure it had nothing to do with you being a crackhead? ^{^I'm} ^{^joking}

FeckinShet · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:45 on July 18, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you sure that his neck wasn't shaking and convulsing? Because I saw something similar when I was younger. When it nodded, was it blurry and did any of it's arms move slightly, but quickly? Also, you should see the newer House on Haunted Hill. There's a ghost similar to this.

Honeyglazedham · 0 points · Posted at 14:43:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

best course of action, not option.

AllTheCheesecake · 2141 points · Posted at 15:15:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

My dad died of cancer the day I turned 16 after about two weeks in a coma. It was really fast - less than two months between diagnosis and death. He died in the house. (we had a hospice attendant and my mom was very good about seeing to him in those final days).

Anyway, a lot of weird shit happened after he passed, but the one that still freaks me out when I think about it happened about 12 hours before he took to bed for the last time. He was in our living room napping on the couch while my mom was in the kitchen cooking. No one else was home.

Suddenly, he jerked awake and was shouting for my mom in a very loud, agitated voice. Clearly angry with her. "Beverly! Don't do that! Don't EVER do that again!"

She ran into the room, alarmed and asked what he was talking about, and he said, "Don't do that. Don't walk past me like that in that long, black wig."

Sometimes I think he saw death.

Edit: More to the story here

Heimdalr · 136 points · Posted at 18:35:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scary stoy. I had a similar experience with my grandpa. He was dying, alone in his bedroom and I wanted to sit next to him and talk to him. He looked at me and said that the chair was already taken by the tall man.

AllTheCheesecake · 34 points · Posted at 18:43:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck.

Heimdalr · 6 points · Posted at 18:50:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep one of my scary experiences, sorry to hear about your dad though :(

EthanJ555 · 38 points · Posted at 21:23:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Honestly if I was old and about to die...... I would say shit like that just to fuck with people. Hopefully he was just messing with you.

breeyan · 11 points · Posted at 05:09:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This theory makes things okay

BigMac286 · 4 points · Posted at 04:20:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

How did you respond to something like that?

Heimdalr · 8 points · Posted at 05:19:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just sat down lol. Only after a while I thought about it. I was 12 years old

supersegagenesis · 2 points · Posted at 04:48:38 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my grandpa was on his death bed, we would always hear him calling out the names of our other deceased relatives and carrying on conversations with them. I was a kid at the time, so i didn't know what the hell was going on.

Panchovilla64 · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:20 on August 12, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my grandma got really sick a couple of months before dying in went to go see her in the other room and when she looked at me she thought I was my dad and she told me to stop drinking and other things it made me really sad

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:13 on July 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

The two comments above me agve me the first real chills I have ever gotten..

jediknighttt · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:08 on September 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I HOPE HE LIKES TO PLAY DOG PILE!!!"

VanillaCupcakeCandle · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, hey there, Slendy.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 10:33:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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MrMobutu · 2 points · Posted at 18:47:02 on November 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not necessarily. If you are close to death, and your soul begins making the transition into the next plane of existence (as is concurrent in Tibetan Buddhist belief), you could begin seeing whatever exists in the beyond. Not trying to say thats the truth, but that's my interpretation.

[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 14:50:09 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Tall Man? I don't believe this story, sorry.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:38:55 on August 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mother grew up in germany and she remembers stories of the tall man (or thin man) and how he would "come to get her" if she was a bad kid. Maybe Op's grandpa was german and a bit delusional

Panchovilla64 · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:45 on August 12, 2013 · (Permalink)

Slender man

sillyspark · 734 points · Posted at 15:54:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ooooooo, this one got me. Shivering at work now.

AllTheCheesecake · 196 points · Posted at 15:56:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it is absolutely true.

flash__ · 64 points · Posted at 18:27:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

For a second there, I thought it wasn't, but then you said it was.

EDIT: Intended to be read in Brian Regan's voice.

WiserThanMost · 43 points · Posted at 18:43:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was totally all like "no way" and then when he said that, I was like "way."

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 19:06:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're so wise.

AllTheCheesecake · 3 points · Posted at 18:43:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I helped.

smokeyrobot · 39 points · Posted at 18:05:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you willing to bet all the cheesecake?

AllTheCheesecake · 12 points · Posted at 21:23:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's how I got it in the first place.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:46:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now I dont believe it's true.

AllTheCheesecake · 7 points · Posted at 18:47:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We're not friends anymore.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:50:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im just yanken your leg cheesecake.

TenuredOracle · 7 points · Posted at 19:10:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it is absolutely true.

...which makes me question whether or not the story is actually true.

AllTheCheesecake · 8 points · Posted at 19:13:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, you're the one with tenure.

TenuredOracle · 5 points · Posted at 19:24:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like the cut of your jib, buddy. Upvotes anyway for the entertainment.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:05:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same here. I'm at work too (I'm a nanny) and the kid's black cat just appeared in the open door. Freaked me out!

teawreckshero · 4 points · Posted at 19:49:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's 2:49pm, the sun is shining in my room, and I refuse to turn around...

serdertroops · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yup, that was weird...

Shitty_Human_Being · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This comment made me shiver.

...There's something wrong with me.

vinnyq12 · 2 points · Posted at 20:27:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shiver me timbers.

shung · 2 points · Posted at 21:12:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the one? A guy having a dream...come on

Tijuana_Pikachu · 2 points · Posted at 17:57:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your boss is behind you, and wants to know why you're shivering.

shitakefunshrooms · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i'm reading this as the sun is setting. worst possible time. ever.

Baublehead · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just hope your sun isn't setting.

cmwillia6 · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Agreed- I'm out in the hot sun right now and got a full body chill. I hope I never see that woman in the black wig.

Forgetful___ · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

me too

15r3Drzud123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should probably put on a sweater.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ya this is creepy as fuck

SFWsamiami · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shivering on the toilet. For real.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:44 on October 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sure as fuck rustled my jimmies ^sarcasm

[deleted] · 124 points · Posted at 16:53:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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AllTheCheesecake · 53 points · Posted at 17:00:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, creepy shit continued to happen after he passed away. Inexplicable creepy shit. But that is the one that freaks me out the most when I think on it.

[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 18:01:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Share? :-D

AllTheCheesecake · 287 points · Posted at 18:39:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

K, here goes. Below is a lot of personal information, but it's a hell of a convoluted story.

1.) After his funeral, we returned to the empty house to find it absolutely overwhelmed in the scent of his cologne. We figured a bottle had broken and searched everywhere, but only found the one in the bathroom he used before work.

2.) My mom flew down the stairs in a rage later that week demanding to know who had shaken her awake and yanked her covers off. It was just me and my younger brother, watching tv in his room. No one else was there.

3.) The dog started acting super bizarre. Not just weird growling and barking, but seeming tugs-of-war with thin air angled at an uncomfortably high angle for a Jack Russell. It was out of character. He would also stare and whimper/bark at an empty white chair we had on the patio pretty frequently after the death.

4.) Not spooky, but of note.

It was a long process to get him buried. A long, weird process. Here's a story about it.. TL;DR - he had six wives (not nine, bad journalist), but wanted to be buried in the back yard with his dog. He had secured paperwork for it decades prior to his death.

Also, yes, they got officially married a week before he died, but had been together for YEARS and adoption papers for me were in the works. Obviously they became null after he passed.

He was a bit of an eccentric. Luckily for my mental health, he was not buried in the backyard at the end, but rather interred at the local cemetery. My mother, feeling she'd let him down with not having the backyard thing go through, compensated with a giant ass full-sized marble tombstone with a sculpture of him in a tuxedo giving the thumbs up as his marker.

I am 27 now and haven't been home since about two years since he died. I did hear a random person refer to his grave as something they'd noticed driving by the cemetery in Arcadia. "I think it was a magician," the person said. Which never ceases to amuse me.

5.) Okay, so now that you know that, his body was held at the funeral home for a long time while the burial site was negotiated. This crazy ass woman who was the local psychic began to positively harass my mom at this point, claiming she saw him at the house.

The psychic swung by the house to drop off a casserole or some shit and said to my mom, "See, he's outside in that white chair."

The dog at that moment was not barking at the chair.

6.) My mom and I were working on my FAFSA forms for college about six months down the road. My brothers were on a visitation with their dad and it was around 7pm when my mom's phone started ringing.

The call was coming from my brother, Brett, and every time she answered it'd be loud static. This happened four times in a row before she finally got annoyed and dialed him back.

We heard the phone ringing. It was under his bed in his entirely empty room.

7.) Because I grew up in the world's shittiest little town, there was a lot of scandal and bullying associated with his passing. A year after he died, someone found a picture of my mom and him standing together on the day they were legally married and sent it to the newspaper. Someone published it with the caption, "Happy Anniversary Rick and Beverly, hope you enjoyed your 10 days together."

Someone taped it to my 11-year-old brother's locker.

Similarly, someone requested the song from his funeral at my junior prom. The song was "My Way" by Frank Sinatra. I left in tears. People are assholes. HOWEVER.

8.) As I said before, he died the day I turned 16. This made birthdays extra painful for me for a long time.

After I graduated college, I pooled waitressing money together for a few months and flew to Europe with about £2k and a suitcase. It was the fall of 2008. As you all know, shit went real bad shortly after that for the global economy.

By the time spring rolled around, I'd somehow ended up as a live-in nanny in the French Alps and it was time for me to turn 23. My friends threw a little dinner party for me in a tiny hole-in-the-wall in the citadel. It was pretty damn remote.

There was French pop playing in the restaurant, but as soon as the food came out the radio jittered and it started playing My Way by Frank Sinatra.

I felt loved.

[deleted] · 73 points · Posted at 18:50:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

a giant ass full-sized marble tombstone with a sculpture of him in a tuxedo giving the thumbs up as his marker.

Totally need a photo of that. It sounds awesome.

The people in your town sound... unpleasant. Hope you got far, far away from that.

indeddit · 82 points · Posted at 00:37:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Found a photo!

source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=32298966&PIpi=14567209

imgur: http://i.imgur.com/cCThvqD.jpg

feedmyllama · 30 points · Posted at 00:46:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is beautiful

tilted21 · 30 points · Posted at 01:00:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This might be the greatest tombstone I've ever seen

AllTheCheesecake · 17 points · Posted at 03:07:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Holy shit, you found it! Aw. I miss him. Fun note, I wrote the eulogy quoted there on the right. It's longer, obviously, but we just wanted a snippet.

Reneau · 8 points · Posted at 00:54:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That had to have cost buku stacks.

AllTheCheesecake · 5 points · Posted at 03:09:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah. We spent a majority of what he left us on it.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 02:46:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

OMG that is pure awesomeness!

GodOfRage · 3 points · Posted at 18:11:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If I were you and someone requested that song at my dance I would have went apeshit on some ass.

AllTheCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 02:25:48 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have always had an instinct towards being sad rather than angry. It's not an attempt to garner sympathy, it just is.

[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 18:54:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The phone one is creepy as hell. And fuck small towns dude. If it's any consolation maybe the song just came on at prom and it wasn't anything but shit luck? You seem pretty certain it was intentional but just a thought that might comfort.

AllTheCheesecake · 78 points · Posted at 18:56:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was intentional. I know who requested it. But it's okay, because they're all white trash with a hoard of children they can't afford now and I'm moving to Madrid to go to a top 20 MBA program in the fall. No hard feelings, haha.

[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 19:47:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha it sounds like the Midwest podunk town my dad's family lives in, like 100 kids in the whole K-12 school and they all hate each other. I always wonder why people actually try to be dicks - being nice is so much easier.

AllTheCheesecake · 17 points · Posted at 19:50:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's like their pride in their lack of education/ignorance. They wear it like a flag and I'll never understand what there is to be proud of in not knowing things.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:55:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And that's why my dad joined the military and got the hell out of there. Good for you on doing the same :) Just grow from it!

AllTheCheesecake · 6 points · Posted at 19:56:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn skippy.

DracoTheVampyre · 4 points · Posted at 20:55:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good on you for getting away from it. If it is anything like the town I grew up in, staying there after you graduate HS is a deathtrap.

AllTheCheesecake · 3 points · Posted at 21:07:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bingo.

WifeAggro · 3 points · Posted at 19:10:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahaha thats how it always happens. I tell my pre-teen daughter that all the time. Also I wanted to say I just read all of that and think your dad has a really strong spirit and loved you guys a lot.

AllTheCheesecake · 5 points · Posted at 19:15:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is the truth. It's also amazing (and kinda sad) how quickly the beautiful high school boys will go to seed.

I think he did/does too. I don't tend to get very Mulder-y about these things and approach most of the supernatural with a lot of skepticism, but after a while, it's hard to ignore what's happening. The song in France was really just so beautifully impossible.

theaveragetwin · 11 points · Posted at 23:15:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The song in France part was my favorite part. Its one of those things where it could be something supernatural or just a ridiculously unbelievable coincidence, but as Mulder would say, you just want to believe.

WifeAggro · 8 points · Posted at 20:53:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its funny cause I literally had a conversation yesterday with my six year old, because they have no filter and she mentioned something about missing me after I die. Anyways I said when i die I will still come see you. She then asked will I haunt her? I laughed and said no, but as I read all the things your dad was doing, I thought about are conversation and thought he is doing just as I would do. And it does appear freakishly scary but also It feels like a father wanting to still say he's around. I love it! =)

AllTheCheesecake · 5 points · Posted at 21:08:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly. I never felt unsafe even if it was spooky at times.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:11:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

good for you :) thats awesome! stupid piece of shit people! ...what state do you live in if you dont mind me asking? p

AllTheCheesecake · 3 points · Posted at 19:13:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Florida.

him2004 · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up in a small town (Punta Gorda) close to Arcadia. You are correct in saying a good majority of people there are trash. Also, if you were still there after hurricane charley, I have even more sympathy for you. Best of luck at your MBA!

AllTheCheesecake · 3 points · Posted at 22:02:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was my first week at UCF! Good times. 3 days with no power.

him2004 · 2 points · Posted at 23:42:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My sister lived in Orlando at the time, samething happened to her. The hurricane still packed a good punch when it blew through there. IIRC, 115mph sustained winds with gusts up to 135mph.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, but you guys had all the casualties. Stubborn old folks in mobile homes. Freaked me out. I feel weird going to Harpoon Harry's now because they used it to ... you know, salvage them.

him2004 · 2 points · Posted at 07:16:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my god, its been so long since I have gone to Fisherman's Village or Harpoon Harry's. I was in high school when it rolled through and it completely destroyed Charlotte High, but you guys had it bad too because of all the older buildings in Arcadia and Desoto.

Blackspades · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:47 on August 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Small towns are hellholes

Donky_Kong · 12 points · Posted at 18:48:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All of my emotions poured out on that last one.

tomoyopop · 4 points · Posted at 20:51:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You and your family have seen some shit. But you sound like a strong person that perseveres! Best of luck in the future.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:28:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow that was a lot. thanks for sharing! :)

OblivionsMemories · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is really sad and beautiful.

mapleclouds090 · 2 points · Posted at 07:00:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know its a bit late but... happy birthday (: /u/allthecheesecake...

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 12:23:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks :)

mapleclouds090 · 2 points · Posted at 07:00:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know its a bit late but... happy birthday (: /u/allthecheesecake...

party_thighs · 2 points · Posted at 14:42:31 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm stupid. I was thinking of actual marbles inside a transparent bust instead of the other marble material.

I hope things are going well for you. by the way, is it common to play Frank Sinatra at the restaurant/city you were in?

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:43 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope, it was pretty much all French all the time.

A transparent bust full of marbles would be the scariest thing in the cemetery.

amriknsci · 2 points · Posted at 00:23:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

1 reminds me of something that happened to me. A few years after my grandfather had died, I was at the house visiting my grandma. I opened the kitchen door and stepped into the rear stairwell and the entire space smelled of my grandfather's cologne... heavy, as if someone had just smashed a bottle. His stuff had been packed up years ago. I stepped back into the kitchen confused. I stepped back into the stairwell a a few seconds later... it was completely gone.

I think of it as a happy memory because my grandfather and I had a good relationship and I like to think that was his way of saying hello.

akpak · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Out of curiosity, did the strange things stop happening after you no longer lived in the house?

There is research to suggest that things like that usually revolve around one individual, often a young girl entering puberty or with an emotional or psychological stress.

AllTheCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1f9i14/what_is_the_scariestcreepiest_thing_you_have/ca8a0fu

here's a list of stuff. All except for the last one happened while we lived there. My mom claims occasional weirdshit still, but she's never really recovered from the loss.

sassafras64 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The last part of that is especially amazing. =]

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bizarre that the story was published in a newspaper in a small town in south central nebraska

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was all over the place. We had news vans parked out in our yard.

scrott · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This makes me happy. Also, I'm going to write a screenplay.

AllTheCheesecake · 0 points · Posted at 03:08:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What, about this?

scrott · -1 points · Posted at 03:11:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah. This reads like a good horror movie outline anyway. I wouldn't cheat you out of any money if it was successful. Reddit comments counts as a binding contract right?

AllTheCheesecake · 0 points · Posted at 03:15:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha, it's such a small part of the story too. Besides, you'd need rights from my mom and I just happen to have the hook up.

scrott · 2 points · Posted at 03:27:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ohhhh shiiiiiit. Maybe i'll actually finish this one. I have saved the comments so clearly I legitimately intend to do this. . . sometime...maybe..if I get off reddit. But I'll definitely contact you if that's the case :)

Nintendope · -4 points · Posted at 21:23:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Downvote for use of gay emoticon

adobong_manok · 7 points · Posted at 17:57:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Care to share some?

AllTheCheesecake · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

See ~~below~~ above :)

Nuoap · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Crap. Now I don't want to look in my backyard. Thanks.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have creepier stories than that, but you're welcome. :D

Nuoap · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha, what are they? The creepiest thing that has happened to me lately is probably my little brother talking in his sleep :I

AllTheCheesecake · 0 points · Posted at 12:23:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

you know you wanna.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did he see you from the back yard?

Gov_Chris_Christie · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't really believe in ghosts, but I hear things like these often of people seeing dead loved ones after they pass away. A friend of mine's grandfather had to sell his car & get a new one because he would walk out to the driveway to find his deceased wife sitting in the passenger seat.

I wonder if these really are spirits, or more just trauma experienced by people who lost someone.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been seeing stuff like this since I was a really small child. Don't really think it was the trauma of the loss, but everyone is free to believe as they wish. I don't really tell a lot of people cause I know I can't prove anything.

shalingrad · 27 points · Posted at 18:16:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Weird, I have a pretty similar story. My father died of brain cancer back in 2010 and was on a lot of chemo prior to that. I remember one day before we were going to bring him to the rehab center for some treatment, he fell off of a chair he was sitting on in my kitchen and fainted for a good 10 minutes or so. After waking up, it was like he was a completely different person. I remember him looking around with an extremely scared/worried look on his face and what he said afterwards creeped me out so hard even to this day: "I am God, there is nothing in life."

AllTheCheesecake · 10 points · Posted at 19:22:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is really unsettling. Shit.

shalingrad · 5 points · Posted at 19:26:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Chemo really fucks with you. There were times when he would see owls sitting on his shoulder, apparently.

AllTheCheesecake · 5 points · Posted at 19:27:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think owls are a pretty classic omen of death. Was he superstitious? With my dad, I've always wondered if the wig-woman was a hallucination if it was based on Asyrian boogie man stories his mother told him growing up...

shalingrad · 4 points · Posted at 19:34:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He was a believer in Hinduism (we're Indian), so that could very well be it. Not particularly sure if the owl represents an omen in Hindu culture/mythology but like you said, it's believed to be an omen of death in many other cultures.

soulkitchennnn · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Omfg owls. All I can think of is aliens now. I won't be sleeping tonight.

MiniMosher · 2 points · Posted at 00:28:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well if you are a pantheist, this is the best thing you could possibly witness. Also, people on /r/Psychonaut will report that when taking DMT they feel that they were ''one with the god(s)'', DMT is also a naturally occurring chemical produced in the human brain during REM sleep and shortly before death.

Just some things to consider... whether the effects of DMT are more than hallucinations is beyond my knowledge.

fernst · 42 points · Posted at 16:18:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this was the creepiest thing I've read on this entire thread, really

lemmingparty · 14 points · Posted at 18:49:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandfather talked about seeing people and other strange shit when he was in the final throes of pancreatic cancer.

He told my mother and her siblings to hammer the door shut. Screaming at them to hammer the glass sliding door shut (?). Since he was getting so crazy about it they all got hammers and started fake hammering the glass door. He instantly calmed down and said "SEE? Was that so hard?"

When the body is dying, the mind starts to go too. There were other things my Grandpa said but I like to keep them private.

zandyman · 16 points · Posted at 18:07:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

High narcotic loads (typically given to end-stage cancer patients) can lead to hallucinations.

My grandfather died at home from cancer and between the pain meds and his anti-depressants, he was tripping balls. It was kind of like hanging out with my friends on acid.

AllTheCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 18:19:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hm, that is a possibility. He never went into rehab or chemo because it was too late, but it also never metastasized in his brain. That was the only exhibition of less-than-perfect lucidity that he showed prior to the coma and death.

105802 · 15 points · Posted at 17:14:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The first story to give me serious chills, when my great granddad was in his final days of life (cancer also) he awoke quite violently and then smiled and said 'what a beautiful angel ' I never thought much of it as a kid, now I'm wondering if he seen something we couldn't

theosebia · 6 points · Posted at 21:04:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my great-aunt was dying, my cousin who was only three or four at the time, kept insisting on talking to "the pretty man with the feathers" in the corner of the room.

Gov_Chris_Christie · 4 points · Posted at 21:37:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This seems to be a recurring theme among people among their final moments. An uncle of mine kept complaining about a "metallic man" in the corner of the room when he was in his final throes of skin cancer.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:25:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or he saw a stripper.

AllTheCheesecake · 17 points · Posted at 17:36:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So you knew my dad?

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:27:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

It happens, when my aunt's cancer spread to her brain she would sometimes hear and see things that weren't there.

roses269 · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He may very well have. My neighbor died of lung cancer at home. At one point about an hour before he died he pointed to the window and commented on the three crows that were sitting on the sill. There was nothing there so his family assumed he was hallucinating. When he did die they looked up and there were three crows just chilling.

TheFundleBunny · 2 points · Posted at 19:39:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fuck. Chills everywhere...

I'm sorry your dad died when you were so young :/

Pontiflakes · 2 points · Posted at 22:04:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mom's dad died when she was in high school. She told me, once, that she had fallen asleep in an armchair after putting her siblings to bed. She woke with a jolt and impulsively said, "Daddy died." Seconds later, her mom called from the hospital with the sad news.

More sad than creepy, but your dad's premonition reminded me of it and I thought you'd find it interesting.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's kind of nice to think that somehow we're hard wired into the people we love. That she knew instinctively.

NurseAngela · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Chills, just chills!

KimmyKAOS · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That gave me chills

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good lord, it is mid-day and I am having nightmares about this statement.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

See? This are the ones that get me. These kind of things may not be real, but you seeing them is definitely something you experienced.

Omnipresentpenis · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

first one to give me the all over shivers

spectacularfreak · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's even worse is it sounds like he knew what he saw.

Lego_Legz · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck bro every hair on my body is standing up. I dont believe alot of stuff on the internet but for some reason I believe you...I dunno man...I dunno.

Alexandra_762 · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah this is similar to my story. My boyfriend's grandpa was in a retirement home (visited constantly, well loved) and I had the weirdest feeling like a week before and I asked my boyfriend how his grandparents were. He said he hadn't heard from them in a couple of weeks. Two days later his mom calls and says that his grandpa is ill and this was a Wednesday so I said we absolutely needed to go see his grandpa on Friday. We made the 5 hour drive and my boyfriend and I volunteered to stay overnight at the retirement home and watch over grandpa while the rest of the family was at the family house. I was brushing my teeth and the door of the bathroom creaked open but it wasn't like wind, it was slow and bone chilling(this bathroom is like in the middle of the house very far away from windows/doors/wind causing things) So I enter the bedroom to check on grandpa and there is this presence, I felt like I was being watched. I talked to grandpa a little bit and then went to the living room to find my boyfriend fast asleep on the couch. Grandpa died the next day.

dead_brony · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This gave me chills. These stories don't bother me now but I'm not going to sleep well later.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I just shit my self.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was he a practical joker? He could have just been fucking with you.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He was a joker. This was not a joke. But all the stuff I listed beneath kind of felt that way. He was a man who didn't fear death, but feared being forgotten so much that he made sure he'd create a ruckus even after he died.

znorlax · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

goosebumps...

reddit_last_week · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep. This one got me.

Mrr_Cow · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Faaakkkkkk, this one got me

surprisepinkmist · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Adding "Fuck with my loved ones on my death bed" to my to-do list. It'll probably be the last thing I check off.

totally_jawsome · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know this kind of stuff happens to cancer patients all the time. Being around them while they're dying is scary.

intoon · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Winner of the thread! Shiver...

ceeej31 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Trolldad level:Expert

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would be the happiest possible explanation.

BGYeti · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn dude I feel for you, my father was just diagnosed with Leukemia a few weeks back. Hope he doesn't go through the scary seeing things bit though.

kceb · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh man, that's so strange.
I've heard of "Deathbead Visions" but there isn't really any real evidence of them. Not saying that your dad saw the dead before he passed. We never know.

NoahDavenport · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Major fucking chills, man....major fucking chills.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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AllTheCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 21:31:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But I am not spicy at all.

MagicSPA · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the most chilling tale in the thread.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually my father had an exceedingly similar incident. Only he saw my mother dressed in black hovering over him in the middle of the night with "with a big knife over her head". I really hope it was the pain medication.

MagicSPA · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What was the weird shit that happened after he passed?

AllTheCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1f9i14/what_is_the_scariestcreepiest_thing_you_have/ca8a0fu

DangerDasha · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is very very sad :( I am sorry to hear you had to go through that.

the-average-gatsby · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey look if I read that last sentence over and over my goosebumps get goosebumps.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Time to go to the ER.

the-average-gatsby · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I'll be fine. Sorry for your loss though dude(ette).

TobyH · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If he was napping, it was probably just a dream. It's so horrible that you lost your dad like that, but I'm afraid it was probably nothing more exciting than just a freaky dream.

Sir_Jeremiah · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the FUCK. Jesus Christ this is by far the scariest shit in this thread.

shitwhistle82 · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK. That's so fucked.

skkid11 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminds me. My dad had a heart attack a few years ago and was dead for a couple minutes before they could defibrillate him back to life. He told me, months after it had happened, that he came to with a memory of hearing a voice. He said it said something along the lines of "Don't worry about your children, everything is taken care of" Very ambiguous... But it wasn't what it said, but how it said it. The voice was incredibly unsettling to him; it was shaky and raspy. Creeped me the fuck out when he told me, and he hasn't spoken of it since even after I've asked him about it. Probably just random shit firing in his brain, but still creepy.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a similar story. My great aunt lived across the street from my grandparents. The closest people that lived to them were 2-3 miles away. Anyway, my aunt was hitting close to 100 and was beginning to have health problems so my grandmother would come over a couple of times every day to keep her entertained and help her around. One day my grandmother was making tea for the two of them while my aunt was lying in bed resting. As she made tea my grandmother saw a human sized shadow coming down the hallway that connected to the kitchen. My grandmother turned, expecting my aunt but the shadow had vanished. Confused, my grandmother called my aunt's name but no one responded so she picked up the cups of tea and walked to the other end of the house, where she found my aunt. She was still lying in bed and when questioned about whether she had gotten up to go to the bathroom my aunt replied with an absolute "no." It was a week later that my aunt's health had declined so drastically that she was brought to the hospital. The day after that she died.

I've always wondered if it was just the house or my grandmother's own elderly age...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I imagine death looks like Ozzy Osborn.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you insulting my mom?

Nudienawdee · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ohh fuckk .....

thebenji23 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Got chills for real...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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AllTheCheesecake · 2 points · Posted at 21:19:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm really worried that there's no such thing as a good nursing home :/

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

welp time to go watch porn

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sans brunettes.

IanHarrisBoyd · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU WHAT?

Dreadlock · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Soo...death is either a woman or a drag queen?

NotAClopper69 · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HAPPY BIRFDAY

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So is just 69 you won't do with the ponies?

EpicPoptartPuma · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Makes sense, as you die your brain releases DMT, causing hallucinations and the light at the end of the tunnel type deal.

Hash43 · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That gave me the shivers.

carlitabear · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't understand. Am I missing something? He was in a comma for two weeks before he died... But somehow, 12 hours before he died, he woke up from a nap and saw death...?

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

12 hours before he went into the coma.

carlitabear · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That makes sense. Sorry for the confusion.

Inappropriate_Comma · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He was in a comma

ಠ_ಠ

carlitabear · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

God dammit. I meant coma. I feel silly now.

PacoTaco321 · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't think your mom would like hearing she looks like death...

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mom sometimes affectionately calls me the c-word. She isn't a predictable lady.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

week before he went into the coma

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you know if his cancer had metastasized? If the diagnosis is that bad it's usually stage four cancer, and it's EVERYWHERE. I went through this recently with my father, and his brain tumors would sometimes apply pressure on his brain in weird ways that would trigger certain sensory perceptions. A lot of times, you're still cognizant that you're dying, and the cancer will cause you to have hallucinations (for lack of a better word) of things like death-related imagery, as it's at the forefront of your mind.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it had spread to his stomach. too many vital organs were unsalvageable. It never reached his brain. he eventually starved to death from no room in the stomach.

BrisbaneRoarFC · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck, it's 9am here and that gave me shivers.

sailbro94 · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had something like that happen to me except I was strapped to a chair face up. As I sat there in total darkness I would start feeling this tickling sensation on my back and I was powerless to stop it ( it felt like when you are being tickled against your free will).

That probably explains the bondage fetish

PuddinCup310 · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read your link. When my grandmother died, I got her jewelry and jewelry box. I found out the box was actually a music box and My Way was the song. I didn't know what it was at the time, but my mom was right there and said, "oh...that's sadly very appropriate."

I use the box for my own jewelry, but I saved the bottom draw for her own pieces that were left inside. This last drawer, when opened, plays My Way when opened up (if it was wound up first).

The few times I even do decide to wind it, I play it all the way through no matter what. However, a few years later one night when I was asleep in bed, the music draw opened just enough to start playing and it was somehow wound up a few times. No one in my house was awake, let alone in my room. Plus, you have to kick my door to open in because it is a shitty-ass door and so I would've known if someone came in. I haven't even wound it for a while at that point. I tell myself it might've been a faulty spring or something inside, but it in no way would have opened that drawer. Nor did it happen again.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That story makes me happy. I've been listening to the song on repeat ever since I got home from work.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, you just gave me the chills.

Damunoz32 · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Although I can't explain the awakening from the coma, I (painfully) had to watch my mom slowly die of cancer when I was 18. She stayed at home and received hospice care here. I remember that she was constantly hallucinating, day and night, due to the amount of meds that were present in her body. I don't know your story nor your relationship with your father, but watching a parent pass is something no kid should have to experience. If you ever need someone to talk to about it, or just blow off steam, feel free to send me a private message anytime you'd like.

Edit: I don't know how old you are now, so ignore my post if its unnecessary.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm 27, but you know, these things sting all the time. I really appreciate the offer.

tacodepollo · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck. me.

Yogsolhoth · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why do I read these threads...

LuridNoir · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My step-father was dying in our home. He had brain tumors, and he told my mother he wanted to die at home. He was moved to our house, with hospice supplied help, and my mother cared for him. This was told to me by my mother.

At this time we had owned a cat, now this cat was mellow. Super frigging mellow.So, my mother and aunt were chilling on the bed by my step-father and the cat is just sitting there with him cool as hell (like how you think you look when trying to impress a woman) Now my step-father had been doing really bad at this point and we're all hoping he just pulls through again like he had so many times before. Apparently, my cat jumps up, arches, and starts hissing his big fat soul out at NOTHING. He started by facing the sliding doors, moving around from the sliders to the bottom of the bed before facing my step-fathers bed. Cat goes nuts, spittle flying, puffed up like there is no tomorrow, LEAPS off the bed and lands on my step-father. FREAKS OUT at the end of the bed and then, stops.

Cat goes from insane to totally mellow again, jumps onto the floor and started bathing himself. Like nothing ever happened.

My mother freaked out and refused to leave his side after that. She went to the bathroom and other than that remained by his side. Two days later, while the cat was outside, my step-father passed away.

I don't believe in God or any god in particular, but I swear on my last breathe that cat seen Death. If my cat seen death, your dad may have as well.

Crazy_Homer_Simpson · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The part about the woman in a black wig is very creepy, but i don't think it's uncommon for people in your father's state to see people that aren't there. my mother was around the same point as your father and said something about her aunt being in the room, who had been deceased for 10 yrs.

newgamenofame · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My butthole just involuntarily tightened. Thanks for that -.-

supergreekman123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have never actually gotten shivers from reading something. That was really creepy

Daxos157 · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ffffffuuuuucccckkkkk!!

backfire97 · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

now im scared of seeing death, before i die

Sheldon86 · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like sleep paralysis. People tend to see things when it happens waking dreams if you will. What you described sounds like a common trend of the old hag where I'm from a person wakes unable to move and sees an apparition of an old woman either standing in the corner of the room silently. Pacing the room screaming and hollering, or in some cases trying to strangle you. Never experienced it myself personally but I know a few people who have didn't sound like a pleasant experience.

ItsGotToMakeSense · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mom saw things and said things when she was on hospice too. One time while lying perfectly still and asleep, she had a complete lucid phone conversation from "hello" to "bye bye". A few minutes later she sang the happy birthday song. The next day we had a little chuckle over it together.

Anyway my point is that I wouldn't read too much into it, if I were you. Even if he did think he saw death, remember that death must have been on his mind. It's not too much of a stretch to say that it would make sense for him to dream of it.

fryandbend3r · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I also have at work shivers now.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aaaaaaaaand, I'm gone.

Eratticus · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one really got to me. I know he wasn't in the greatest of health at the time but to wonder what sort of things you see in your final moments is creepy.

MrBlackk · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reason I don't ask the goings on around my grandma's death. She did claim someone was stealing from her.

AllTheCheesecake · 0 points · Posted at 03:02:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone might have been. People do prey on the weak.

renvi · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That made me go, "hooooly fuck" but it also made me kind of sad.

breeyan · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Woah, that doesn't sit well. I should leave this thread now

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Sometimes I think he saw death."

I pooped a little.

kenlo9 · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fuck. This is the first story that made me shiver.

rachelcaroline · 1 points · Posted at 09:11:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my Papa (my grandpa) was on hospice with cancer this last October, my Nonnie thought it appropriate to put his hospital bed in the dining room because it was with the rest of us. The last few weeks Papa would reach up in the air and talk to people who weren't there. It made me really wonder what he was seeing and hearing. Your story in conjunction with what happened with my Papa really made me think about what happens when we are dying. So sorry to hear about your dad. Cancer is a savage beast, and I wish it upon no one.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:12:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work as a PSW (Nurses aid) and this happens quite frequently, people will see things and that's when you usually know it's close to the end.

It's really scary to even go through that with a client so I couldn't imagine going through that with a family member, I'm sorry you lost your father it's so tough loosing a parent especially as a teenager.

BiologicalTragedy · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:56 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

It may be the lack of sleep, but the images this created were unnerving to say the least.

jesuz · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:00 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would also have nightmares about Death...

stuckinportland · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:38 on July 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is actually a very common occurrence for people who are dying. My mom is a hospice nurse and part of the information they give to prepare families is that someone who is dying will often see people who aren't there. Sometimes it's people they know, sometimes it isn't. When my grandma was passing this happened to her, she said there was a man standing my her bed. The medical explanation is that the persons brain starts to die off while they are still alive, so memories get mixed up.

If it helps, people who are dying also hallucinate things that aren't so scary. My grandma was a quilter and would go through the motions of sewing while she was asleep and would ask us to grab projects at the foot of her bed that weren't there.

MrMobutu · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:30 on November 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always entertain the idea that when people are just hours away from death they begin to encounter "mediums" from a different plane of existence. Not your cliche ghosts or anything, but merely spirits that we normally cannot see, drifting in between here and whatever comes after.

I'm a huge fan of the Tibetan Buddhist doctrines, which heavily influence said belief.

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🎙️ Youdonotsay · 864 points · Posted at 12:42:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like sleep paralysis?

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FLHCv2 · 23 points · Posted at 15:12:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Am I the only one that doesn't have demons looking at me when I (think) am going through sleep paralysis?

I've done some reading, and it seems like everyone associates a demon or a figure. With me, I'm wide awake but I just cannot move. If I try to yell for help, it'll only come out a murmur. I can just barelyyyyy move my legs sometimes and ill just throw it off the bed if possible to wake up. No demons though.

Edit: I just wandered over to /r/LucidDreaming and found this comment "Plus, when your eyes are closed you can't see the shadow people." It's possible that I never open my eyes... now I'm scared haha.

GrahamasaurusRex · 10 points · Posted at 18:42:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Most of the time for me, it's exactly as you describe. Only twice (that I can remember) have I had different experiences. The first time, I saw all of the shadows in the room start to come together and form vaguely humanoid shapes which kinda crawled and crowded around. The second time I had the very specific but hard-to-describe sensation that something was trying to get inside me. Don't know how else to say it.

Both very unsettling. 0/10 would not reexperience.

yamyamyamyam · 3 points · Posted at 21:39:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm with you. Never seen anything, apart from my bedroom as it is. The worst thing for me, is that because i'm half awake i'm not fully aware that i'm experiencing something that will pass in a few minutes. For me, every time is terrifying because i'm in a mind state where I have no idea what the fuck's happening to me.

Dawwe · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you ever get sleep parlysis again, either hold your breath, or just take a deep sharp breath. It should break it.

shung · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thought I was the only one. Though I can only move my hands and arms.

happysushi · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to experience sleep paralysis a lot, but I haven't in recent years. I've never seen demons or anything during my experiences. In fact, it was never even scary. Like, when it would happen, I knew exactly what was going on. Then it only became a matter of waiting until my body could move again, and I'd snap out of it. I don't really see anything while it's happening. Maybe a very shadowed view of my room or something. But it's never scary. I'm glad it stopped happening though, because it was very annoying.

GradicalMe · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have experienced sleep paralysis only once. While it did feel like someone had grabbed my shoulders and was holding me down with a lot of force, I didn't actually see any creepy shapes, just my ceiling.

trololady · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

thankfully the only times I've experienced it, the "people" I've encountered that come near me are my mom or a staff member if I'm in a hotel or something. Enough to freak me out because I don't want them there, but not creepy or anything.

dhobywallah · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get demons/shadow figures either, I either see nothing but pitch black or my room/ceiling if my eyes open. I do occasionally have other sensory hallucinations, like the seriously vivid feeling of someones hand on my legs/thighs/stomach. Hell, I've even had the feeling of been hugged from behind, whilst I was lying on my back. It's strange, but like I said, never seen any demons! Edit: It's definitely different for everyone! Sometimes I think they reflect my dreams/are a continuation of them.

happysushi · 2 points · Posted at 20:58:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is similar to my experience! I would feel like someone/something is poking me in my side or thigh usually. I'm very ticklish, so being paralyzed during this was not fun.

dhobywallah · 2 points · Posted at 21:22:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeap! Luckily I didn't feel any dread/terror as some people apparently feel, I just knew I needed to wake up and let the feeling subside!

Dogssie · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For me its kinda similar in that I just wait it out and try to get out of it.

Dogssie · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I experience sleep paralysis just the way you describe it fairly often. I don't ever hallucinate anything except an occasional audible one. It happens to often that I don't have a feeling of terror, just annoyance and uneasiness.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It happened to me a couple of times, both with and without some figures in the room.

The first times I thought there was this little creepy girl walking past my bed. I was lying on my side so I could only see her go past me for a second or two. Very unsettling, to say the least.

Second time felt like someone was on my back, pushing me down. For a couple of seconds, or maybe 5, I seriously thought I was getting robbed, but when I couldn't even move my fingers I knew why.

I've also had it happen where I (thought I) heard this immensely loud bang which sounded like it came from my sister's room and I could do nothing for several second than just lie there. Again, I quickly realized why.

After the first couple or three I've only experienced it while knowing what is going on, which makes it far less unpleasant.

samtheman66 · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I started taking Lexapro, and I had the hilarious sensation of floating off my bed and flying through my room at ridiculous speed. Other than that, it's usually just regular dream visions, nothing scary... except cockroaches once.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:38:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just reason your way out of the fear.

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SHUT_THE_FUCKUP · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Using my throwaway account here. Because of what I've used sleep paralysis for.

I get em kinda frequently. When I didn't know what was going on, it was terrifying and there was demons and the like. After learning about sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming and how I could use this to control my dreams, the demons and the like went away.

I've tried to use it as a way to control my dreams, the first several times only with partial success because I would soon wake up. My first success was about a month or two ago when I was able to suck myself off by controlling my dream... Everything felt real. Everything. It was amazing.

Unfortunately I haven't had success since. With school being out, I'm not sleep deprived enough to have sleep paralysis.

DMercenary · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

heh. For me its liek that scene from Kill Bill "Wiggle your big toe" that is, Shake my leg until I can actually flip it over my other one.

AstralProject · 0 points · Posted at 20:17:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wish more people knew this.

Also, you're not seeing through your physical eyes when in sleep paralysis. You're already in your astral form inside your physical form, and what you're really doing is seeing through your closed eyelids!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry, but wanna back that shit up with some evidence?

AstralProject · 1 points · Posted at 11:08:27 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've told my girlfriend, at the time, to monitor me. Since the rate of breath is the only physical motion that can be controlled without snapping out of sleep paralysis, I told her to see if my eyes were closed when she heard me breathing faster. She confirmed what I suspected, my eyelids weren't even cracked!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:43 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry, that is not evidence. That is a story. Evidence would be someone would be you in your room, 'Astrally Projecting' yourself into another room where a third party has left an easy to remember sentence very visible to anyone in the room, and you being able to tell what said sentence was. Repeat this a number of times and you should call the JREF and set up an appointment to collect your much deserved 1 million dollars.

AstralProject · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:10 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've only been able to move out of my body 3 times when trapped in sleep paralysis. And it was at night when people sleep. That's 3 times in over 20 years. But I guess I could try something similar to that, good idea.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:13:49 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do it under peer reviewed controlled conditions and become a millionaire. Hell just doing it once is would be enough to get national attention. But a word of warning, many many people have tried before you.

AstralProject · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:15 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

If I can spend the next 20-30 years perfecting the art, I'll do just that. Right now it's purely random, and believe me it's frustrating. Astral projection is the single most beautiful experience in life IMO.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:32 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or it is a dream. A dream that makes you think you are leaving your body. There is ZERO evidence for any sort of spiritual world. Sorry.

kevik72 · 17 points · Posted at 13:05:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh god, I had the same thing. Not the same dream but it still happens to me sometimes.

MilkMan71 · 40 points · Posted at 13:49:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/luciddreaming may be able to help you out. Sleep paralysis happens to everyone, every night. The best way to deal with the hallucinations is to just close your eyes and go back to sleep; you don't even have to pretend that the monsters aren't there, because they really aren't. If you really must wake your body you can play with your breathing(usually just stop breathing), or close your eyes real hard, that will usually shock you out of it.

themindlessone · 11 points · Posted at 15:37:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wiggle your toes.

ScienceLivesInsideMe · 3 points · Posted at 16:07:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This never worked for me

themindlessone · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Really? It is the only way I can bring myself out of it. Interesting it doesn't work on everybody.

Boondoggle112 · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get sleep paralysis every now and again, not that often recently thankfully. I also have terrible eyesight but don't sleep with my glasses on, obviously. So i never see any demons when i get it. I just sense there's something fucking awful in the room with me. Interestingly though to break out of it i attempt to attack the presence. I'm by no means a violent person, but i guess instinct kicks in and i always end up trying to swing at whatever is ruining my nights sleep. Sorts it right out.

ChunkyThunder · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just yell "WAKE UP!" in my head and I wake up.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or they say keep saying "cough" in your head and try actually coughing at the same time. Also, the wiggling your toes are supposedly the way to break it.

I've read that sleeping on your back is usually the main cause of sleep paralysis. Should try sleeping on your side or belly.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The last part. My sleeping schedule gets whacked out a lot - and I get a lot of sleep paralysis occurrences. I've gotten so much I can feel it about to occur - your body just relaxes at once and you feel lighter but your head is still clear. That is my queue to turn over on my side or stomach.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:46:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yea fuck I know its when I start to feel like I'm melting, it scares me awake now

Dogssie · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've gotten it in every position

Meepmeeperson · 32 points · Posted at 14:11:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You have obviously never experienced sleep paralysis. It is so real, you can't just go back to sleep with said demon guy looming over you, or in my case holding you down.

Gastronomicus · 14 points · Posted at 14:20:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis isn't a binary condition - it's a spectrum. For some, the hallucinations aren't as intense or realistic, and the paralysis only partial or very short lived. I have had this for years, but usually the worst for me is simply a few seconds between being fully awake and asleep where I can't move and see ugly faces and things moving around in the room, sometimes with demonic laughter. I'll usually then wake quickly with a start, sometimes yelling. I'm fully aware that it is just a "dream", though with that adrenaline pounding it can sometimes take a bit of calming before I can return to sleep.

GrahamasaurusRex · 6 points · Posted at 15:03:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My sleep paralysis is even less severe than that. It used to be more intense, but when I get it now it's usually pretty mild and short-lived.

These days I don't get a lot of visual hallucinations anymore, and the "menace" doesn't accompany it very strongly. Usually I just get annoyed at not being able to move for 30 seconds to a minute or however long it takes to wear off.

FYI, for those that experience frequent sleep paralysis, try sleeping on your side or belly. It only happens to me when I sleep facing up.

Gastronomicus · 3 points · Posted at 15:47:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same, it's definitely improved with age, though it's usually worse on nights where I sleep more fitfully.

pure_badger · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's interesting. I get sleep paralysis periodically but never hallucinate. It's only a few seconds of not being able to move. I don't feel threatened by anything either, thankfully.

leroyjaquez · 3 points · Posted at 15:02:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I get it at least once a month, but I've never seen anything clearly. It's more that shadows seem to take form. I'm aware the entire time what's going on, but somehow that never makes it less terrifying.

leroyjaquez · 9 points · Posted at 15:03:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Funny addendum: Once, I "woke up" into sleep paralysis as I was falling out of bed. That'll mess with you.

homies64 · 0 points · Posted at 18:57:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I woke up with sleep paralysis and I couldn't breath. I thought I was going to die. I couldn't sleep for a few days after that.

Dogssie · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was your breathing blocked by something or was your body just not taking in breath?

Gastronomicus · 3 points · Posted at 15:50:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same, usually I see shadows flitting about more than anything. Occasionally it will take a much more clear form for a few seconds before morphing back into shadows.

From my sleep paralysis experiences I can pretty much dismiss most people's claims of seeing shadows, ghosts, glowing eyes, demons, etc at night waking from or going to sleep to the condition of sleep paralysis. Unfortunately superstition rules many, and they find that an easier to accept explanation.

Sidian · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck I hope I never experience this. I'm not affected by any of the bullshit stories you get in threads like this, but this is an actual thing that could realistically happen to me. Why do the hallucinations have to always be evil demons and monsters and shit?!

Gastronomicus · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a strange phenomenon for sure. But it's not like it happens every night - at least not for me. Maybe a few nights per year I find myself "awake" but unable to move without really any visions. I usually just try as hard as I can to move and eventually I snap out of it. Sometimes there are the appearance of shadows moving. Once in a while I see more specific things, usually hideous morphing faces. I sometimes also see these sometimes with my eyes closed when I am trying to fall asleep but suffering from insomina and only just barely entering sleep, yet still concious.

The reason for seeing faces isn't that strange. The brain is programmed to look for patterns to help us identify things. It is particularly trained to so this with faces so we recognise people. When it's dark, and the brain restless, it tries to make sense of things it can't see properly. Often, it makes faces appear. They're not really hallucinations in the sense of being awake and consciously seeing them, but they aren't quite dreams either. It's a weird state to be in, and uncomfortable. Once you fully acknowledge the condition though you can remember in these instances that it isn't real, and just be annoyed with it instead of frightened.

Sidian · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's just a shame that it's always so terrifying. Why can't you hallucinate that all your friends are around throwing a party for you? Nope, evil demon that wants to kill you.

Like everyone else I've had nightmares where you can't scream etc, but being awake and not being able to move and seeing things like that? Damn.

funfungiguy · 5 points · Posted at 15:16:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine is a dead lady crawling up the foot of the bed and putting her face all up in my face. Meanwhile my wife's sound asleep beside me and won't wake up and help me.

KaciMarie20 · 11 points · Posted at 16:14:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine is being pulled out of my body in a way (I don't really know how to explain it, but it's like I'm not in my body anymore) and then dragged like dead weight around the room by an ominous presence. I hate it. It's hereditary in my family on my dad's side, so almost my whole family has it. Not being able to scream for help when I try to wake up is just the worst.

flippant_burgers · 2 points · Posted at 17:51:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is one of the more terrifying versions that I've had as well. I felt as though I was pinned down on my bed, and then shoved across the surface towards the wall, and then crammed down into the narrow space between the wall and bed. It wasn't fun, but then I slowly started to become more conscious of myself in that state and it was never so frightening after that.

KaciMarie20 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

That's really similar to mine, although a lot of the time, it's more of a slinking motion as if someone's dragging me. I've gotten better over the years of being conscious of what's going on, so I'm not as afraid if it happens now as I was when I was younger. I've gotten worse I feel with the actual sleep paralysis part of it. After the whole floating thing, I end up locked in my body not able to make myself move or scream or anything. It's literally my greatest fear to be "locked in" like that. And everytime I finally wake up and am able to move, I just break down.

Edited for spelling error.

polerberr · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I've had some really superstitious people tell me about this. It creeped me out, but I'm sure there's a more plausible explanation for it. They said that "you are leaving your body through your soul and wandering in the astral realm." Wat.

funfungiguy · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds like a Hypnagogic Sensation maybe accompanied with sleep paralysis as a result of your panic?. Hypnogogia often comes with a floating sensation, or in your case being carried out of your body by an ominous presence. It's commonly regarded by UFO debunkers as an explanation for why those that claim to be abducted by aliens are levitated and floated away to the mother ship for probing and other cool space shit. Maybe your brain just interprets it as a ominous presence.

Sometimes I get that when I'm sleeping but I don't get carried around the room. I just float to the ceiling and about an inch before my nose is about to touch the ceiling, I fall and I wake up because I think the bed won't be underneath me.

That or sometimes I feel like I'm about to walk face first into a wall.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's the only way I've lucid dreamed it was pulling me into the closetand all of a sudden it clicked I was dreaming, it was awesome but I've never been able to do it again

Dawwe · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it is sleep paralysis, holding your breath should break it.

ihave2shoes · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit I get this too. I get woken up by someone hitting me and I'll be wide awake in fear with my face stinging as though I was slapped or I'd be sore like someone punched me in the stomach. I also get a dark figure standing at the end of my bed or walking around my room. Shit makes me want to sleep with the light on...

renernavilez · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When it would hold you down, would you feel a terrible pressure on your chest? As if a fat person was sitting right on your chest? Because I've experienced this during sleep paralysis, and I was so scared I almost shat a quasar.

marty86morgan · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis is different for different people. I'm very into lucid dreaming, and the few times that I've experienced sleep paralysis it has been very enjoyable. Extremely realistic stuff going on, and fully paralyzed unable to move, but just as with my dreams, I quickly realize what is happening, and have a short period of time to enjoy the experience before either waking up fully or falling back to sleep.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I see the grudge girl shadow/outline. I hate it.

Dawwe · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hold your breath.

MilkMan71 · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been practicing lucid dreaming for almost 4 years and have been in sleep paralysis more times than I can remember. It takes some getting used to, but it's very easy to let go of once you know how. You have to accept that it's all in your head and not real. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing. In time you will laugh that you were scared of something so trivial.

dhobywallah · 3 points · Posted at 14:41:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My paralysis seems to have levels to it - if I can "wake up"/shock myself before I'm too deep into the night terror, I can stop it, however, if I don't fully wake up, I just go right back to where I was, like pausing a film and returning to it. They used to be scary as fuck, but I've had them so often that I kinda know what to expect so the only thing that freaks me out is the increasingly loud droning noise and an intense feeling that the inside of my body is vibrating, even though I'm stuck.

TaJMoX · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you give into the vibrations you may be able to have an OOBE, which is like a lucid dream but much more vivid. Many times; more vivid than when you're awake.

dhobywallah · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I've done that once before, and you're right, it's extremely vivid, but I think I'm the sort of person who doesn't really like to get out of control (with things like that at least!), and as interesting as it is, it's inconvenient because I just want to have a normal nights sleep. (which never really happens!)

TaJMoX · 2 points · Posted at 00:47:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Usually when you're in an OBE state you have complete control and it's very easy to get back. For me, it's way too easy to "wake up" and it only lasts a few seconds because the adrenaline wakes me up. It's totally different than a hypnagogic state (awareness during sleep paralysis)

cheapvodkaandcamels · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get it all the time, and I technique I use is to concentrate on moving my head. The mental strain of me attempting to do so usually snaps me out in a few seconds. Weird thing about sleep paralysis is that when I do come to, you'd think I'd be flipping out. Usually not the case for some reason (I guess because I'm so tired). The worst are paralysis attacks though, when it reoccurs 10 times within an hour.

lizlegit000 · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tried doing that once when it happened to me. Closes my eyes. And opened them & it was still there. & my dog was barking/whining. Nearly died from a heart attack that night

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This is indeed the right way to handle it. Knowing what sleep paralysis was helped me a lot. But when it was happening frequently, I had no idea what it was. The things I saw terrified me. This one, that I could only describe as a demon, stalked and observed me- it looked almost humanoid, but was definitely not. It was pitch black, and walked with it's spine pointed to the ground, but it's head was 'normally' oriented. It crawled on four limbs- human like but they didn't move that way. It had no eyes, no nose, but I could feel that it was able to sense me. It would stay on my walls, or behind the head of my bed, watching me, observing, hovering. And I knew it could kill me if it wanted, but it never did. It just watched and let me be aware of how weak and inferior I was in comparison.

And it progressed- the worst was one night where I felt my sheets move, and I very clearly felt a hand come from the wall, slowly grasp my ankle, then try to pull me in to the wall.

I still feel a bit like crying when I think about it. I am a very scientific person, but for a while, I was literally convinced I was being terrorized by something beyond our plane of existence. It wasn't until 4 years later I learned of sleep paralysis. Now when I have hallucinations- auditory, sensory, visual- I shrug it off and tell my brain to fuck off and just go to sleep. And most of the time this is very successful.

warhammerist · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a similar experience. There were all these dark beings in the room walking around me a and through me. Although the logical part of me knows it was a hallucination from the paralysis it's hard to not fantasize about other dimensions.;)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Indeed. Sometimes the fear response just kicks in before the logic can overwhelm it. Or sometimes the logic just fails to overwhelm it. I'm thankful that it's not as bad as it used to be!

RoscoeG · 1 points · Posted at 14:39:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never experienced that. Aside from the night terrors part, the whole concept of sleep paralysis seems really interesting. I'm honestly curious, and I'd like to experience it for myself.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:36:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You really don't. I used to have it in my teens, it's hard to describe just how fucking horrible it is.
For me it felt like something was sitting across my chest, holding me down and slowly choking me. All I could hear was a very low pitched vibration, like a repeating rumbling. While I could not see anything, I perceived the shape of something humanoid in front of me, sort of like condensed shadow (the scene in Paranormal Activity of darkness entering the bedroom was the only thing that creeped me out about that movie just because of this). All this while feeling a lot of hands all over my body.

In a nutshell: You know afterwards that it was not real, but even if you're like me who is rarely afraid and does not believe in supernatural things, it will terrify you to the core. It's beyond normal fear.

ihave2shoes · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No you don't man. When they're bad they're bad. I Once thought I was going to die, there was this immense pressure on my chest and I couldn't breath. My thrashing woke up my ex and she was scared shitless, I was wide awake grabbing at her to help but I couldn't talk. I wasn't allowed to stay at her house for a while after that...

When these were frequent I would only manage 2-3 hours sleep a night.

ScienceLivesInsideMe · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/LucidDreaming

NorthCarolinian · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, stop breathing, last time I tried that everything started screaming at me.

MilkMan71 · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All the things screaming at you aren't real, you can ignore them.

CummingEverywhere · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

What really sucks is when you get auditory hallucinations too. Them demonic voices...

Edit: Sleep paralysis isn't all bad though. You can actually use it to induce some of the most vivid and intense lucid dreams ever. As you feel the paralysis setting in, just think of a beach, imagine the sound of the waves, the touch of the sand, the smell of the air, and the beautiful view. If you concentrate on them long enough these thoughts should solidify around you, allowing you to step from being awake right into a dream.

FenomG · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I sometimes undergo sleep paralysis when taking naps, and it scares the shit out of me every time because I feel like I am suffocating.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've had sleep paralysis, the way I wake myself up is try to move my hand. At first when I try to move my hand it just twitches, after a bit I can twitch it more and eventually I can move my fingers and my body wakes up. It's kind of weird, I've never had demons stare at me while I've had it or I would probably be scarred for life. That shit sounds terrifying.

Nodaki · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or struggle to make a noise out of your mouth. At first I found it terrifying but after learning what it is, I find it amusing that my body is fucking with me.

Blake83 · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine doesn't even involve visual hallucinations but there's no way I'd just be able to go back to sleep. The feeling of not being able to move, combined with a vague sense of dread, can be pretty scary. Usually I end up sending frantic signals to my muscles to move - after a while (it's hard to say how long) I jerk myself awake and it feels like I nearly had drowned but I just broke the surface of the water in time. I don't think "just go back to sleep" is an option.

goodnightbanana · 2 points · Posted at 13:48:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a thing! Happened to my brother last month :( It's commonly known as 'Old Hag Syndrome' google it! My brother saw Anubis standing over him :( Think Tomb Raider 1, that guy is freaky! Damn ancient egyptians!

dingobiscuits · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

like this?

Davethelion · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's the scariest thing in the world, but afterwards i always think to myself "That was awesome"

SK0SH · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Agreed, night terrors aren't that bad, other than the next day when everyone else is pissed at you for waking them up.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:55:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh God my one encounter with sleep paralysis is hands down the scariest thing I've ever been through.

mrboen94 · 2 points · Posted at 19:10:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Am i weird for loving the sleep paralysis? For me it leads to lucid dreaming, which is awesome!

davdev · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yes, you are weird. I have had it a few times and it is the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced.

mrboen94 · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aww :(

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had the same thing when I was a kid, massive nighttime hallucinations while wide awake. Except I don't remember ever being paralyzed. Sometimes it would happen while I was walking to bed. One time, after months and months of this, I chased one of the "apparitions" back to the attic door from whence it came. They slowed down after that.

pauklzorz · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not a dream though.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not when you learn how to induce lucid dreaming. Sleep paralysis is pretty much a door to it. At least for me.

xandr00 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't seem to get past it. Every time, man. How do you get around sleep paralysis?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jeez, how do I explain it? I pretty much just think myself up. Im aware I can't move, so I get up in the same manner I would move in a normal state of dreaming, and it always works for me. The best time to do it would be in the afternoon. Just try to take a nap and wake yourself up and go back to sleep, focusing on staying awake. And remember to "think" to move.

ottersauce · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This picture pretty well encapsulates sleep paralysis. I found it years ago and to this day it chills me with its accuracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare

boomfruit · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It really is the worst. Feels like you're suffocating and trying to build up all your possible energy just to break free .

SlowFive · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can confirm, its like your body is haunted.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I used to get that a lot. But your demon was male? Many people (including myself) see "The Hag."

davdev · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to see a little girl. Not a cute little girl, a creepy as fuck little girl

KingOfRages · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Plot twist: it was your dad standing over you, noticing that you had a night terror.

Insanity_Wulf · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Foot of the bed.

jasonbatemanscousin · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I get it, besides not being able to move, I can't breathe either.

Yup. Awful feeling...

You're 100% correct.

littlestblue · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i only ever had this once,i had a grey women standing over me. she asked "What will you trade for?"

I remember trying too scream at her to get the fuck out,but my lungs wouldnt work. They weren't burning, but they def hadn't moved in a couple minutes. So I just thought it really hard.

"FINE"

My waterbed shivered,i woke up in the same position. just fuckin drenched in sweat. the only thing that made me feel ANY BIT ok, was the orientation of my bed in the dream. it was facing north, IRL it's facing east.

mrtitkins · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Learned about this recently - can definitely relate, dude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

tanalilt · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis happens to me on a semi-regular basis. Something about being narcoleptic and the way I sleep. But even after having problems with it my whole life, they still scare me senseless on some nights.

It's better now, because my boyfriend and I share a bed, and he wakes up if he hears me breathing differently, or being just barely able to make noise. Doesn't last more than 30 seconds between when it starts and when he wakes me up. Still terrible, though.

friedpants · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure I've never experienced something like that and I never want to.

clauds · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still get sleep paralysis every once in awhile. Luckily I don't imagine demons (which would scare the shit out of me) but I do imagine pretty scary stuff. The latest one was about a week ago. I just moved into my new apartment for the summer and I'm on the ground floor. My bed is directly under a window with the kind of shades that are just rows of plastic strips - if that makes sense, don't know how else to describe them. Anyways, I've sort of been paranoid recently of someone being outside the window and in my sleep paralysis I imagined some woman going to the window and looking in at me laying there. She opens the window and reaches through the shades for my face and is like inches away and I can't move at all away from her hand.

It was terrifying but luckily at one point I just fell back/deeper asleep.

M00nfac3 · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also known as abduction... Checked your anus lately for any foreign transmitter thingys?

Not to imply you have domestic transmitters in your butt...

GhettoSanta2100 · 1 points · Posted at 01:09:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure the specific type of hallucination within sleep paralysis that you're having is referred to as "the Old Hag," in case you want to research it.

sweetberrywine · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you ever gone to a sleep doctor? Sleep paralysis is a symptom of Narcolepsy, and one of the reasons I finally found out what's wrong with me.

spaceburger · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get sleep paralysis fairly often. I NEVER get used to it and it sucks every time.

furordei · 3 points · Posted at 15:02:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happened to me 3 nights in a row and I hallucinated each time. Never happened before or since. Still scares me.

shaqfearsyao · 5 points · Posted at 15:16:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my Hmong culture, these night paralysis is from this old hag type spirit who sits on you. My brother has been bothered by this for years but instead of an old Hmong lady sitting on him, it's an old white guy who's trying to kill my brother. I still have chills when I think about the time he told me that the old white guy stabbed my brother with a ghost knife.

My bro has gotten better though after going to church and after seeing Hmong shamans.

ihave2shoes · 4 points · Posted at 15:41:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This put the shits in me...

HyzerFlipDG · 5 points · Posted at 15:39:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get sleep paralysis.. not fun. freaks my gf out because I will eventually break through the dream/paralysis and start actually screaming.

rcrabb · 3 points · Posted at 16:32:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've experienced sleep paralysis a handful of times in the past, but recently experienced it while in the process of falling asleep. Just at that point where you're drifting in and out of consciousness. I kinda knew what ws going on as I was semiconscious and had experienced it before, but it was terrifying none the less. All I wanted was to fully awaken and regain control of my body, as I had this dreadful feeling, even though I was safe in bed, that if I couldn't move something was going to get me. I tried to tell my wife to wake me up, but despite the fact she was right next to me there was no way for me to communicate this to her. Even with my best efforts I couldn't do more than make a low groan--in my head I was trying to scream for help. God it's such a helpless feeling. I found I could manage to rock my body a little, and kept doing this as hard as I could until I woke up properly.

It happened like two or three times that night and just made falling asleep a miserable experience.

AllowingZero · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the most accurate way of describing it that I've read. I get it too and like I posted above, the body is asleep but the mind is not. Terrifying.

Opset · 2 points · Posted at 16:13:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis sounds fun. Only sleep related disorder I have is Exploding Head Syndrome. It gets annoying sometimes, especially when it's not just a loud boom but a woman screaming like she's being murdered.

revilox · 2 points · Posted at 16:38:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is that what that is? I once fell asleep on the couch watching TV and I woke up around 4:30 am. I remember waking up and trying to sit up but I just couldn't move. I tried to lift my arm but it wouldnt budge. Eventually after 10-15 seconds I forced myself as hard as I could to sit up and managed. It was fucking weird and to this day I still don't know what that was and why it happened.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It seems similar, but usual sleep paralysis episodes are accompanied by audiovisual hallucinations of a terrifying nature. A lot of the time people report feeling a presence in the room during these episodes, like there is someone else in the room. Someone with sinister intent.

revilox · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK. Thank fuck I didn't have that. That sounds utterly terrifying...

Vinifero · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a similar experience at my grandparents house in Colorado a few years back. I felt like I woke up in the middle of the night, but couldn't move and people were standing all around my bed. These were all family or friends who had been to or lived in the house, some living, some dead. They kept telling me this was my "divine intervention" (i had started smoking weed a few months before this). These people were all people I knew, who would be ashamed to find out that I smoke.

My best attempts to escape away the situation only came out as slow crawling backflips in bed.

I'm still not sure if I ever even moved or if it was all a dream, but it stick with me for a few weeks after.

liverscrew · 2 points · Posted at 14:45:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep, night terrors are a completely different thing. You get a horrible nightmare, which persists even after you wake up. It's sort of the opposite of lucid dreaming, when you lucid dream you realize that you're dreaming while asleep. And night terrors are when your body is awake but your brain is still in the nightmare and you start acting accordingly. I used to wake up screaming that I killed everyone and even having my head dunked in ice cold water didn't shock me out of it. Here's a good example of what people do while having a night terror.

dhobywallah · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if what I had was a night terror about a week ago (usually my night terrors don't end up in this scenario!) but I basically really suddenly "woke up" (I wasn't 100% awake at the time but thought I was), with this overcoming sense of dread, and had a weird feeling that I had lost my pillow. Not the normal "oh no I'm being attacked, shit, help me", but I was genuinely panicking because I thought I was missing a pillow so spent a good 5 minutes (or what it felt like) tearing my room apart and putting it back together to find it. I even looked out the window and wondered if I chucked it out (which is impossible because the gap in my window is limited to about 3-4 inches so I couldn't have just thrown it out).

I remember getting back into bed, then I think I really woke up and realised, the pillow I was looking for never even existed in the first place.

I'm still confused about this, because it's just so random, and I genuinely felt feelings of dread and upset over a damn pillow.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:10:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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dhobywallah · 2 points · Posted at 07:54:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've had that feeling before definitely, but the pillow incident is just so specific that it really sticks out! When I really woke up later that morning, I literally sat there crying with laughter trying to figure out why the hell I was fretting over a "missing" pillow.

Awesoflife · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes i got this once and i couldn't move then i heard murmuring coming closer and closer and then yeah

breeyan · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uck don't even say it. I had that for a few times a few nights in a row, being awake and trying to talk or move is just impossible and its horrifying

bolaxao · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't. I experienced it for like 30 fucking seconds. It looked like I couldn't breath. It was awful.

cedargrove · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every few nights for the past ten years..... fun stuff. /s

the__republican · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep.

It can run pretty common among practicing lucid dreamers.

Friends of mine have seen aliens, "shadow people", zombies and the like.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember getting it through middle school and the 1st year of hs and i used to fight it at first then i figured i should just take comfort in it let it happen, then it actually got worse so i started fighting it again and that didn't help. Then i started mediating and it helped.

chaftz · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What about the demon?

TheCorruptableDream · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

blinks I can't believe I didn't know this was a thing.

My terrible childhood nights suddenly make a lot more sense.

Balony1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think this is similar. Does anyone else get that feeling of when your almost asleep and you jolt awake and feel like you fell onto your bed?

yamyamyamyam · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my god I hate sleep paralysis. Really, really hate it. I don't see things like the other guy, I just lie there, brain fully engaged but totally unable to move for what seems like an age. It's terrifying and the only way to stop it is to gradually build up enough momentum to roll myself onto my side like a fucking turtle. It's scary stuff.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I only get sleep paralysis after drug binges... wow I need to get my shit together

burnsyboy97 · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get this from time to time, I don't see things or people, but just sitting there... Laying, unable to move is absolutely terrifying.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scissor-lock

Barl0we · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh man...I've only had that shit happen to me once, and it was the worst fucking thing ever >_<

Back when I was still living at home with my mom, she came into my room to wake me up, I "woke" into sleep paralysis...I didn't have a "demon" as such, I just didn't recognise my mom...And I lay in terror, stiff as a board for something like 5 minutes. Scared the hell out of mom, too o_o

ButtersLover · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for putting a name to this for me. I've experienced it a handful of times, and it was the most terrified I've ever been. I'm always afraid to fall asleep for the next couple of days, and try to forget it ever happened.

Mazer_I_Am · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been dealing with this for 7 years now. Every time I sleep its like rolling the dice.

joeyregs · 0 points · Posted at 13:59:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope. I love it.

TedwardFortyHands · 0 points · Posted at 10:39:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have this at least once in 2 months, not being able to move. And having something lying next to me looking at me. Until it comes very, but I mean very close. I remember the last time, it was looking at me with a smile... until I became in a "oh fuck I can't move" state. Then it became angry and gained red eyes. And then it stopped. Could move again afterwards, but my heart was pounding like crazy.

Shitty_Watercolour · 2420 points · Posted at 13:44:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://i.imgur.com/rXwo3z8.jpg

oo scary

_vargas_ · 1351 points · Posted at 14:02:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Looks like No-Face's brother, Has-Face.

theEuphoriac · 284 points · Posted at 14:29:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't take the coins!

_vargas_ · 278 points · Posted at 14:41:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

^eh ^eh...

1337_Degrees_Kelvin · 5 points · Posted at 01:50:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Under my umbrella?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:12:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I loved that guy.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:42:21 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Apparently I drunk RES-tagged you as 'The one-night stand hero'.

Sounds like a sweet title, congrats.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:07:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

well if you insist.

OmegleMeisterGC · 2 points · Posted at 01:56:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I do this all the time hahaha :D loveee itt

KARMA_CONSPIRACY_NUT · 7 points · Posted at 16:21:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get this reference!

SambaLando · 30 points · Posted at 15:42:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's even creepier when you realize what he actually wants.

Eri713 · 7 points · Posted at 16:44:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welp, that was a ruiner.

metalninjacake2 · 2 points · Posted at 18:26:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seriously.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sad for days.

Krono5_8666V8 · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

300$ worth of coins? Take it!!!

everyoneknowsabanana · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or the tablet!

therealabefrohman · 7 points · Posted at 14:48:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

eh eh

ImNotJuanStopAsking · 3 points · Posted at 14:32:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You mean Face?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:27:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or Yes-Face

GhostOfPluto · 2 points · Posted at 15:00:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One-Face

JoshDre4 · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Looks like Mr. Isn't First String Anymore isn't first string anymore.

JohnnyRompain · 2 points · Posted at 22:27:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was little, on a few occasions I'd have a dream where a man with no face would try to strangle me. He could talk and stuff, but he didn't have a face. Is that "No-Face" a thing?

isoyea · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're my new favorite.

_vargas_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks! I'll try to not let you down.

Yogsolhoth · 2 points · Posted at 22:59:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or just "face"

akwynne · 2 points · Posted at 23:07:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man that was a great movie. Gonna have to go watch it again.

Celestiasbeard · 2 points · Posted at 01:34:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fun fact: his name is not No-Face, but in fact Noh-Face, referring to the traditional Japanese mask that he has for a face. Because puns.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:01:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good thing it ain't their sister Ass-Face.

Tarlyn · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes-Face?

renaman · 77 points · Posted at 13:57:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't think anyone has noticed you're here yet.

Sunhwo · 7 points · Posted at 14:10:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I noticed.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 14:04:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I figured on letting poor shitty colour in peace and not say anything

crashohno · 12 points · Posted at 16:26:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OH SHIT OH SHIT I'VE SEEN THAT GUY

Oh man my whole body just went cold

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 15:40:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit you're back!!! I thought you were dead or something

JJohn8 · 9 points · Posted at 14:59:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're a bad person. Or a good person. I can't decide.

Kingmudsy · 5 points · Posted at 18:41:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You might say that he's shitty.

whiteknight521 · 6 points · Posted at 15:10:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm afraid someone already beat you to this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG

edlolington · 30 points · Posted at 13:52:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did you do this to me man. That's creepy as fuck, even in watercolors D:

MangoTux · 10 points · Posted at 13:57:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Idunno. He looks pretty happy. I'd give him a hug, if I could move.

TheFlyingStrawberry · 3 points · Posted at 16:15:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Either I just haven't seen you post out you took a break, either way glad to see you back.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:47:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, it's great to see a Shitty_Watercolour again! Made my morning!

AMindBlown · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck. I was hoping it would be a watercoulour of the dude telling the 12 year old, "That's a nice one." This one is just fucking creepy...

HalfAPairOfWings · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was kinda hoping for a humorous shitty watercolor attempt of the creepy story.

mrvids · 2 points · Posted at 15:37:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Salad Fingers?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:02:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my fuck I love your water color. Very nice art.

chillpotato · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i'm gunna have night terrors from this, the shading on the face is too damn good!

inept_adept · 2 points · Posted at 16:32:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For the love of creep do The smiling man story that is in this thread...you must!

GeneralBlumpkin · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks. I didn't wanna sleep tonight anyways.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The reason why he's being haunted is because he didn't have his feet under the covers. Rookie mistake.

illiter-it · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you do the urinal one?

foxh8er · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sort of looks like the flatwoods monster.

happyseal_lala · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The demon's only there because the guy's feet are out of the blanket.

Gayballs · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your watercolours are getting progressively better. You need to remove the Shitty from your name.

LFBR · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit, that's sort of what it looked like when it happened to me.

aeruv · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He looks cute c:

lovehate615 · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shoulda had him saying, "That's a nice one."

Private-Detective · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

r/CreepyWatercolor

I sure as hell hope that doesn't exist.

BGYeti · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wish you would make me a watercolour some day, I would cherish it forever.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welcome back can I have another autograph?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not cool dude. Not cool.

ProveItToMe · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my god it's /u/Shitty_Watercolour. Where the hell have you been?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Looks like a horrible erection

theguywithacomputer · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YES! HE'S BACK!

troyv21 · 1 points · Posted at 01:45:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

wow, this oddly resembles what i've seen during sleep paralysis

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, I missed you.

scrott · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You! You get out of this thread!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You always make everything better and I love you.

Azarius · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I want this!

Percussionist61 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

HE'S HERE!!

captain_zavec · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welcome back SW! Reddit hasn't been the same without you!

starrydoodoo · 1 points · Posted at 14:08:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

something told me to not click the link but ooops. didn't plan to sleep tonight anyway

ChunkyLuvr · 1 points · Posted at 14:08:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Love seeing you back on reddit

13eautiiful · 0 points · Posted at 14:16:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love you.

Rampstine · 0 points · Posted at 14:21:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didnt even...

Its been a while friend.

joewaffle1 · 0 points · Posted at 14:22:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HeadshotDH · 0 points · Posted at 14:29:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you have a job or do you somehow do shitty watercolours as a living?

SantaIsAngry · 0 points · Posted at 14:46:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hi. I need a poo real bad. Can you please draw me one, you advertise shitty watercolours. Would you mind awfully as I feel it's the only one I'm going to get:(

steezygnarwal · 0 points · Posted at 15:26:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love you

Ayakalam · 0 points · Posted at 18:01:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shitty_Watercolour! Ah! There he is! Been a while, where ya been?? :)

Insertwittynameherez · 0 points · Posted at 20:11:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yay! You're back!

packofthieve5 · -1 points · Posted at 14:41:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You. I like you.

CarlDen · 1244 points · Posted at 14:08:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

You mean like this: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8tztryQHJ1qa1p6xo1_500.gif

Edit: My top rated comment has no substance but mahahaha may your dreams be forever haunted by this like mine are!

grurul · 298 points · Posted at 14:51:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you happen to know the source? It looks like something I shouldn't watch while living alone. So I'll do it.

TheKillerToast · 12 points · Posted at 20:22:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't ever open that .gif ....ever.

meowrawrshark · 3 points · Posted at 23:18:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wish I had seen this comment, got such a fright! Stupid brain.

TheKillerToast · 3 points · Posted at 02:14:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm one of those guys that opens pics and links before actually reading the comment or without realizing what thread I'm in....yeah I need to stop doing that.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:14 on October 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

I opened it, stared at it a while, closed it, then opened it back up again, then closed it again. I have no idea why I did that

NoopeptGuy · 5 points · Posted at 19:37:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I too would like to know the source of this.

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 20:55:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

NoopeptGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks!

hashtagpound2point1 · 10 points · Posted at 20:08:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's from a french movie or some shit. Can't remember the name, but I remember watching the clip. It's a lot less scary with context.

Sailor5619 · 2 points · Posted at 03:17:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's... Less scary without context??

philman53 · 3 points · Posted at 19:50:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

probably from /r/FearMe

CleverPunName · 3 points · Posted at 20:09:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love doing that with scary movies!

yourpenisinmyhand · 3 points · Posted at 20:26:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've watched some doozies alone in the dark. The first half of Insidious is pretty damned scary.

grurul · 3 points · Posted at 22:21:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I agree. Sinister was also pretty scary imo. The ending could have been better though.

BinHardon · 2 points · Posted at 23:09:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, last half really got silly. Pretty good mivie though.

AJockeysBallsack · 2 points · Posted at 23:33:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So many modern horror/thrillers today start out really strong and just peter out by the third act. It's really disappointing.

BinHardon · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cant really blame them. Its hard to make an original, satifying horror ending.

yourpenisinmyhand · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was exactly the case of Insidious. After the dude goes into the dream world or whatever it's just retarded. Some guy with a painted mask. When will Hollywood learn that the scariest monsters are the ones that you can't quite see and cant' make out. Shadows in the darkness, the unshapely moving being standing in the doorway, the glowing eyes outside your window, the crunching of leaves at night right beyond your path. Not some stunt man wearing red makeup.

arikitty · 3 points · Posted at 23:55:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest monsters are the ones you come up with in your head.

yourpenisinmyhand · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly. Cracked has an interesting After Hours video on the topic. I think it's this one but I can't for the life of me get it to load for some reason. No hollywood company can put to film the nameless shapeless terrors that haunt our minds.

Skullcrusher · 2 points · Posted at 20:18:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would usually know the source of a popular scary gif. But, you know, I've never found the source for this one. It always gets requested, but no one ever finds it.

Cat_With_A_Tophat · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's from a shitty after school special, it isn't even a horror movie, just has that scene that's creepy as fuck.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD....DAMMIT!!!!!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think it's marble hornets isn't it? Or it originated on /x/, can't remember

grurul · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

/u/Shygod found the source! It's a movie from the '70s called Penda's Fen, and here is a link directly to the scene with the creature.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh wow

ShipWreckLover · 1436 points · Posted at 14:17:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

NOPE

Fireworrks · 1049 points · Posted at 14:49:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK THAT

Rooonaldooo99 · 637 points · Posted at 15:00:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it the shaky demon gif? I dont want to click it.

JustAnAvgJoe · 1236 points · Posted at 15:18:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope, it's not. You should click it.

[deleted] · 451 points · Posted at 16:41:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK WHY DID I LISTEN TO YOU!?

JustAnAvgJoe · 39 points · Posted at 16:59:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because you had no choice. No matter what that little voice told you, the compulsion only grew stronger.

You had to know.

And now you do :)

n7shadow · 13 points · Posted at 17:42:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are not just an average Joe, are you?

Seregnar2 · 7 points · Posted at 17:47:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

JustADmncJoe

n7shadow · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hear, hear

JustAnAvgJoe · 3 points · Posted at 17:48:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have been known to deviate from the truth sometimes

listentobillyzane · 3 points · Posted at 18:26:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hes an avenging Joe

Loopy_Duck · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

;_; You are evil. :'(

vitaminDD · 3 points · Posted at 19:35:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do I click it?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You have been warned.

MiniMosher · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I, however, am listening to you and will not click that link as it's 2am here :P

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:53:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good idea.

Awesomely_awesome · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

But you're not the same guy.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought that was a FUCKING batman gif! Why oh why did I open it.

kitten_king · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I should wait until morning to click that....

AnalogPen · 0 points · Posted at 20:36:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

First day on the internets?

charliethesloth · 15 points · Posted at 16:10:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I just peed myself a little bit. This is entirely your fault.

Lexusjjss · 9 points · Posted at 16:55:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ABORT AWOOGA AWOOGA ABORT

kultcher · 30 points · Posted at 15:29:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

IT'S A TRAP!

DelTrigger · 7 points · Posted at 18:20:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fuck, haven't felt my stomach drop like that for a long time. DON'T CLICK PLEASE FOR BABY JESUS.

skittlenugget · 7 points · Posted at 17:37:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I TRUSTED YOU

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:21:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're a meanie.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:32:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HE LIED

HashtagZeroFucks · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On phone. Gif didn't load. The few parts it did the sun casted a shadow over it.

Glad I missed it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I trust him :) you should too

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What is it what is it

forgotpasswordagain0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

now I know for sure that it is

nappers_delight · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All my instincts are telling me that you're up to no good, sir or madam.

ybp · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU

Proiler · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dammit Joe, you lied to me!

imnotcharlotte · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you Joe

YourFoxyFriend · 11 points · Posted at 15:39:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

shaky demon gif.

thisidiotsays · 8 points · Posted at 15:49:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

shaky demon gif

You're adorable, and I love you.

DerangedPickle · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shaky demon gif? What's that? There's no fucking way I'm clicking that link.

IWillBeWatching · 4 points · Posted at 15:44:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

is shaky demon, that Japanese one? i stayed up hella late that night.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

why is it scary?

smokeinthevalley · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your comment came to late. I'll be huddling in my magic safety blanket till morning thanks.

prepetual_change · 449 points · Posted at 14:58:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah well, you might like this story at 2am then

ORRRR

this one

iphany · 355 points · Posted at 15:05:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD DAMNIT

von_Strangeduck · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And it jumped on me exactly as I finished reading the first story!

Stampsr · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't want to click it. Could you tell me what it does?

iphany · 9 points · Posted at 21:02:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh man it's so awesome, titties and rainbows, then kittens wearing bowties, then a Morgan Freeman AMA where he acts like we all hoped he would, also then this dragon comes, and basically it's not scary at all.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:06:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It appears to be text, but it is a long gif that will give you the jump scare of a lifetime.

toramichelle88 · 65 points · Posted at 15:14:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

jesus fuck. I just got up. I wasn't really awake before. Now I am.

ScienceLivesInsideMe · 13 points · Posted at 16:05:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

O MY TITS

rallets · 2 points · Posted at 23:39:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

good morning motherfucker

LobsterChops · 305 points · Posted at 15:33:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I had no idea you could disguise gifs inside a png. I hate you :(

thehoodatron · 20 points · Posted at 16:15:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HOLY SHIT: http://gif-explode.com/?explode=http://i.imgur.com/WsozTyv.png

hobbycollector · 5 points · Posted at 19:37:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hell, it got me a second time. I used your link to just read the stories without the motion. However, the first pane is the original image.

mntrs · 3 points · Posted at 21:25:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same. Even after reading your comment.. Jesus. Luckily it's just 12:25 am.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

1am here, x files in the background in bed. Even that version made me shit it a little bit.

carnige · 11 points · Posted at 16:34:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks to stuff like these, I middle-click most links with images and try to guess what it is by the little thumbnail next to the tab's name.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:34:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a .gif disguised as a .png and during reading a face pops up to scare you because you're close to the screen. I only had part of the image on my screen and didn't even see anything but the image distorts with this sort of fish-eye lens effect which was enough for me to notice that something popped up if i were to scroll down.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm so happy I read this, I really would've screamed (and maybe cried a little) since it's midnight.

If someone has ever played Don't Starve: I was playing it and my friend was too, we were talking over skype. Just tagging along and suddenly I hear this creepy fucking music. I got so scared that I closed my eyes to cool down, bad idea, when I opened them again I saw a hand reaching for my fire and I went apeshit. So apeshit that my friend got scared of just me being scared and shut down his game.

I easily scream.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:44:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just looked at it through gifexplode and the image isn't all that scary. Looks a lot like the weeping angels from doctor who.

chaoskitty · 1 points · Posted at 12:51:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't Starve is Minecraft-level scary when night comes. Especially when the fire dims and more wood is juuust beyond the light circle. Step out of it and you're dead. That game doesn't mess around.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Minecraft isn't scary imo :P But the hallucinations and sinister style of Don't Starve gets me to the bone.

chaoskitty · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me too. Isn't it odd how such a cutely quirkily drawn little game can be so frightening?

The_Relyk · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank god i read this first... Not gonna click that one now...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I only had the first post highlighted on my RES and it still scared the shit out of me.

jsxp · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

here's the same thing disguised as a .jpg! http://i.imgur.com/WsozTyv.jpg

0six0four · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

wow I thought hey nothing is popping up wtf, i zoom in because I thought you were playing. I hot gotten for a second time.

Tranger · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Having the habit of reading replies of a link is both a blessing and a curse.

5mokahontas · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you.

TheWiredWorld · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

.gifs are .pngs. long story.

DarkStar5758 · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it the first or the second? I want to know which it is before I click it.

SprikenZieDerp · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And that is why, while the web page is still loading but the picture/story/whatever is loaded fully enough to be readable, I press cancel load. It prevents the gif part from loading. Course, it can be tricky to do, some pages with hidden gifs load really fast.

Course, it sure helps that I am on my iPhone.

iimadoki · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY DIDN'T I LISTEN!

mapleclouds090 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always check if its a gif...had no idea you could do that

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:32 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the fuck...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:37 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the fuck no it's not, it can be opened in reddit, gifs go to a new page

scott2184 · 94 points · Posted at 15:17:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

MOTHERFUCKER!

The100thProblem · 68 points · Posted at 15:50:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you man, seriously, fuck you.

JDriley · 3 points · Posted at 17:53:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm too big of a baby to read/watch whatever it was. Can somebody give me a hint of what it was?

1337lolguyman · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

IT'S A TRAP!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

1337lolguyman · 3 points · Posted at 18:20:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a .png that hides a .gif

Basically a jumpscare.

hectert2 · 28 points · Posted at 15:56:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did not think it was possible for one's full body to shake so violently and get airborn in such a small instance in time

hectert2 · 9 points · Posted at 16:07:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wanted to read the stories so I opened it again. I flipped shit the exact same way!

jiodjflak · 17 points · Posted at 15:34:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE

coreleven123 · 11 points · Posted at 15:34:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU SUCK SO MUCH! I LOVE YOU!

the_ninja1001 · 12 points · Posted at 15:44:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aw fuck you, man! That scared the poop back into me!

HeyUnloving · 12 points · Posted at 15:54:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, i was trying to read those stories but weird shit kept appearing.

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 15:11:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I haven't read a story that scary in a while.

Aruu · 11 points · Posted at 15:30:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HOLY FUCKING CRAP.

Why?!

Makalu · 8 points · Posted at 15:46:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow you sneaky bastard. That got me good. My heart is racing slightly faster now but thanks for the entertainment.

udradn · 7 points · Posted at 15:47:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU SON OF A BITCH

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:58:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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CEMN · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So uh yeah 15 comments advising me against looking. What's in the ~~box~~ gif!?

adk09 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a list of stores from 4chan, which isn't scary in itself.

What's scary is that it's really a .gif where, after about 30 seconds, a demon jumps out of your computer. I almost shit myself at work.

CEMN · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah thanks I figured it'd be something like that. I'm happy I've developed self-restraint enough, after over a decade of Internetting, to not compulsively click on every and anything even though I know I won't like it. I'm such a pussy.

adk09 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He got me with the .gif

I haven't convulsed that hard since watching the Strangers at a friend's cabin. Because we're idiots.

crumblesnap · 6 points · Posted at 15:55:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:19:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

cunt

t3hm3l · 3 points · Posted at 15:34:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU

...I should have known better.

VicYesterday · 4 points · Posted at 15:37:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay, okay. Read that second story, but listen to "The Lonely Shephard" from the Kill Bill Volume 1 Soundtrack.

Holy frick.

CHGE · 4 points · Posted at 15:46:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in the middle of my crowded uni and jumped like a startled cat, damn you. I had even checked the file extension.

eblue33 · 3 points · Posted at 15:40:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy bejeezus that scared the fuck out of me.

Rodents210 · 3 points · Posted at 16:17:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just made an inhuman noise and involuntarily closed the tab.

Gadgetgirlmarie · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks.... thanks a lot.... hides

867stevo · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's 5 o'clock daytime where I am, listening to music and yet this still made me jump out of my skin for some reason.

Krehlmar · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate those kinds of scares, they're just mean.

Please put a warner before ya do such things because I've had mental issues and I can handle fear/nightmares etc. when I am aware they're coming but screamers/hjumpers are just to much for me. I literally kneed the table and almost smashed my screen.

gmpalmer · 2 points · Posted at 18:54:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck. That. Second. One.

xereeto · 2 points · Posted at 23:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

WARNING: LINK #1 IS A GIF. REPEAT: LINK #1 IS A GIF.

Fuck you, I just noped out of chrome and lost all my tabs.

Edit: to read the stories without the gif, use this.

Zach_Ryan · 3 points · Posted at 00:10:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't trust you.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:19:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dammit, new underwear wasn't something I wanted to spend on right now!

AlexMcEjik · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, fuck you, buddy.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That gif scared the shit out of me

thebrokendoctor · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared the shit out of me but good job because my face is now the smiling man's.

zfontaine04 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not as scary at mobile connection speed

Captain_Coon · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK FUCK FUCK

adk09 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU SON OF A BITCH.

I ALMOST SHIT MYSELF AT WORK!

chipCG · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't think I've seen anything that scary in a long time! My entire body shook while reading that second one.

Darksing · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you man

HamSammich25 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU SUCK

Tehfop · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YYYYOOOOUUUUUU

tmiller3192 · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU AND FUCK THOSE GIFS

crichmond77 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That second one is the scariest thing I've ever seen. Someone posted it in a similar thread a few moths back, and I just about shit myself.

Arch_0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You dirty bastard!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always know to close the window when I see the korean text and the green tinted man with glasses. Fucking hate that page.

farinaceous · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I made a noise loud enough for my dad to come in. Holy shit.

MikeJagga · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck. Just, fuck.

filthyneckbeard · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking fucking motherfucking fuck fuck jesus christ I hate you

passthelubdub · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks. I forgot what a jolt from my butthole to my toes felt like.

kerlykernnibal · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That fucking comic was the first thing in a long time to traumatize me so thoroughly I couldn't use a computer for a week. Thank god the URL is forever in my mind.

Dshark · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's interesting how quick adrenalin kicks in.

grassroots92 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU!!!! I think my balls just retracted into my stomach

acciogo · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice one. I curled up into a ball for half a minute while I waited for heart to leave my throat.

Jakubbucko · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

gaaaaaahhh fuck you perpetual_change.

Lone_Ranger_Cowboy · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you man. Just fucking fuck you...

Yousirareagentleman · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That. Was. Awesome.

digivolve_already · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ok, that was creepy

BurnieTheBrony · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No 'scary' thread is complete without that comic.

streulpita · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

dangit

seablood · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh fuck you.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now I wanna click it...

rcski77 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You son of a bitch.

That_is_reddikulous · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUUUUCK. I hate you man. Got me reaaal good.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh shit man, the first one was fucking borrible

iluvbewbies · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did I not listen to everyone else?!

Magrias · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ow, my neck.

AnswersWithAQuestion · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I want to read the rest but am too scared. Can someone transcribe it for me please?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you had me crochet a treble stitch instead of a double now!

Eri713 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know you, but I hate you.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude fuck you and your links! You motherfucker!

Have an upvote

real-dreamer · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seriously...? There's no quiet town near Minneapolis. It's all bustling city and suburbs.

CockOmelette · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually really want to finish that story. But...but I can't.

gonosis · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Clicked, realized by text quality I was being flimflammed, backspaced the FUCK out of it ASAP.

Goddamn its good to be a keyboard reflex ninja.

meatyfingers · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE. AT MY DESK AT WORK. JUST LOOKED LIKE AN IDIOT.

Andrewhaha · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you.

pumpkindog · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

so.... fucking... glad... i opened that and got distracted before reading it

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE -continues to NOPE out of the thread-

obvnotlupus · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

about that naver comic...

'she was wearing pink dirty pajamas and looked as if all her joints in her body were twisted. worse, her hair was a mess and sticking out to everywhere.'

so her hair being a mess is worse than all her joints being twisted... TYPICAL

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God, man! I am sitting in class and I freaked the fuck out!

ziggl · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahahah, well played sir.

vi1987 · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you. My pending heart attack will be the way I haunt you forever. Now I'm going to click on the second link.

r00tbeer · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I threw my phone on the ground.

FeedMeEntheogens · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD DAMMIT MY HEART

100percentawesome · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. It's almost 1pm, super bright out, and I almost just threw my computer on the ground.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My heart skipped a beat or six.

Awesome_Cake · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Since everyone in the house is still asleep, I let out the tiniest errrrrp then started laughing. I wish I could have recorded my reaction dammit.

Thank you sir for making me laugh while recovering from a terrible migraine.

Efentool · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hiphopopotamus13 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh my fuck. I'm in Starbucks right now and I'm pretty sure I just shat myself.

Raineko · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BUT IT SAID PNG!

Stephieyaknow · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well played.

-Squirrel · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha, got me. Good one, good one.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have the entire naver.com domain black-holed on my router.

Nuke it from orbit, as they say.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seriously?? I read the other replies and still clicked thinking how bad could this story be... Well I don't know, because after peeing myself a little bit I closed the tab.

designerdad · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck You!

youllforgetme · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You dick lol now I need clean underware.

Hotdoggy713 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU DUDE

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was awesome

Kruedenwald · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the first time something from reddit has made me exclaim while at work.

Mikevercetti · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you. Motherfucking fuck you.

CN14 · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

haha fucking shit I actually fell for it. Bravo sir, well played!

Errahn · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm going to email this to my mother.

RiskyBrothers · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

nobodylikesm3 · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuuuuuuck youuuuu

KingPupPup · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn that got me good.

Kaytala · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The second one made me cry. I hate you.

ErgoAsciiCat · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I read the text in the first link I thought I saw the text move. Anyone experiencing the same thing? I was reading the second post after reading the first. It's a .png can it really move?

Loopy_Duck · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OH MY GOD, PREPETUAL_CHANGE, THAT FIRST IMAGE FUCKING SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH. I pushed me head back against my chair and inhaled so hard... AAAAHHHH I hate you I hate you I hate you

delta835 · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cat was sitting on my lap when I looked at that first one. Now I've got nice claw marks in my legs >:|

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fucking christ shit ass bitch fucking NEVER again you goddamn motherfucking dogwhore.

SHIT

blackflag6 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you in the ass!

clrtxf · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

hahaha oh man. I knew the comic one but not the /x/ post. That was like a slight moment of shock followed by uproarious laughter.

Shattoy · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU BASTARD, FUUUUUUUUUUUCK

WaterFireAirAndDirt · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh fuck no, everytime I see that second site I back out of it. Two times is enough for me, thanks.

Nuoap · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOOOOO WHY WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! DAMMIT!

Squeaky_Belle · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The second one is unbelievably frightening.

Ragekitty · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT

Does anyone have a fucking AED? I think I need one.

Rogelnaut · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I WANTED TO READ THOSE YOU FUCKER!

rdavisii · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT YOU SON OF A BITCH COCKSUCKER THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME FUCK.

I'm sending this to all of my friends.

Dr_Mrs_TheM0narch · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have to agree with scott2184. YOU MOTHER FUKCER!

Juiicy_Oranges · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You fucking asshole, I was just scrolling down the second one because ain't nobody got time fo dat long ass story and almost shit myself.

karmagod13000 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh my god u asshole my eyes are all tearing up

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

goddamn fuckin shit

q8p · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aaaand this is why I shouldn't reddit at work.

tonygenius · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

JESUS

Notenough1997 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you.

flyingburger · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jesus FUCKING Christ.
Also Naver...bad memories. Parents caught me wanking it to sex stories on that website, way before it was moderated as well as it is now.
But jesus that was scary.

TheGracefulOne · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck face xD

stigmaboy · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The second one was funny. Have you seen the other works done by the same artist? Theyre all just as funny.

brock1215 · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

IT SAID PNG WHAT THE FUCK

Dorocche · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

nopenopenopenopenopenopenope

PotatoFruitcake · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you. Not even a jokingly, friendly fuck you. Just a regular fuck you.

Fuck you...

kitty_sohaha · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Meh,Looked at this on my phone. Threw my phone..

WildAndWoollyWest · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo^oooooouuu

electriccars · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha. Jokes on you. I was reading on my phone and after noticing the image warp to reveal hair (I zoomed in to read, I am on a cell phone after all) I zoomed out and took a screenshot and read the rest on that. :-D

JimRazes00 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SHIT SHIT SHIT ITS A GIF

FCBarca1984 · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahaha fuck you got me good

Random_Ass_Guy · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Didn't even have to click the link. When I saw that, it was late, I was alone, and the volume was turned up a lot. Fuck that.

Cudder · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

bit through my tongue I jumped so hard. well played though

kenzielark · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn it. I jumped so hard I launched my fucking cat off the bed.

bunsofcheese · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

damn you. headphones were on. and turned up.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

holy shit. i know this is late but i actually screamed out loud just now and its fucking 2 in the afternoon.

MintiSting · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tried reading that anime web comic. Creepy .gifs and stuff normally don't scare me, but that old lady in the beginning got me. Well played!

samandstuff · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HAD TO EXPLAIN WHY I SCREAMED TO MY BOSS THANKS

psgutz21 · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Got me.

marcusv2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Never tagged anyone before. My first one was for you. "fuckin' dick"

a_mediocre_riot · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Of course, I couldn't see that first one very well. So I made it bigger, and zoomed in.

I hate you. I mean, I love you, but I hate you.

ninjacheese · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shitballs

tonedizz · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I shit my pants. Just letting everyone know.

delsigd · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bravo...that first one got me BAD.

Barl0we · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're a terrible person >_<

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

gODDAMN IT FUC K

im going to save that one

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THATS A GODDAMNED PNG WHAT THE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Endulos · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THAT FIRST ONE IS A GIF! DON'T CLICK IT!

AFTER A LITTLE BIT THE TEXT TURNS INTO A SCARY IMAGE - PSA.

Darkmatterrainbows · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You son of a bitch. I made a " Oh" sound and woke my dog up.

wuxbustah8 · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What.... the.... fuck.....

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fucking shit. That scared the hell out of me! I saw the text and thought I was safe.

Subzero66758 · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep, it's daytime...I just flipped shit in front of my roommate. We're both Marines...he's never going to let me live this down now, thanks.

0six0four · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you son-a-ba-bitch!!! can't tell you how scared that made me. Oh jeez my heart beat feels abnormal.

madog1418 · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jesus fucking christ i just got to the demon-eyes part.

I literally gasped, almost tipped my chair back, and ducked and covered my head. Now i want to read it...

*edit: it loops...

Hunter-In-The-Sky · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I yelled "FUCK!" really loud because of you. You fucker, you.

Stew2122 · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you man! Commenting to save these to get my family with.

JCutter · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You fucking BASTARD...

limbago · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

luckilhy i'm too drunk for tha t to affect me

RebelliouslyOriginal · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I literally just fell out of my chair and made a shrill like screaming noise. I. hate. you. so. fucking. much.

AnswersWithAQuestion · 3 points · Posted at 17:15:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I forced myself to keep looking at the gif and proceeded to receive waves and waves of chills until I was pretty sure 20% of my hair had turned gray.

HotDogOnAPlate · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I nope'd the fuck outta there.

DeuteriumH2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I should've taken your word for it!

breemags · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY

Thefreak666 · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

STILL NOPE

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OVER EXAGGERATED TERROR

schectershred · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BOLD

JJ_Catano · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That felt like a motherfucking punch to the chest, Dammit i hate this Gifs

breeyan · 4 points · Posted at 15:53:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I backed out before anything scary could go down

JelliedHam · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE

FTFY

ragtop89 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's so scary about it? Why do you guys all over react..

Kurohime · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And this was all the confirmation I needed. keeps scrolling

findicano · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

its 1am here. i'll resist the urge and view it tmr morning

maciballz · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My body felt like it was on fire for a minute. Motherfucker I am scared!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this very aptly described my exact reaction on opening

lukalukaluka · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck right off. I'm in bed. Ain't sleeping.

mrsafetyhazard · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUUUUUUUUUCK!FUCK! FUCKITY FUCKING CHRIST FUCK. Ok I'm good.

Damadawf · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't be such a pussy. Look him straight in the face and say "NOT TODAY!". Only then, may you run away.

bobdolebobdole · 0 points · Posted at 20:36:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HAHA NOPE NOPE NOPE. NOPE IS FUNNY BECAUSE NOPE!

insertfunnyquotehere · 107 points · Posted at 14:24:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did I unfold it....w..why...

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 15:10:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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insertfunnyquotehere · 5 points · Posted at 15:20:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So what is it supposed to be, expand? Please enlighten me

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 15:38:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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_pagan_poetry_ · 6 points · Posted at 16:01:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If s/he is using RES, you can expand photos on the page.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:07:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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RiskyBrothers · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or using google translate

insertfunnyquotehere · 2 points · Posted at 19:07:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bingo! yeah I'm using RES, thank you so I was technically correct after all? :D

Algosaubi · 4 points · Posted at 15:06:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I knew it would freak me out, and I still clicked it. Why? D:

Rage_Mode_Engage · 33 points · Posted at 15:01:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WTF Never has looking at a gif gave me a rush of adrenaline. That shit is too real, yo.

Kallisti13 · 57 points · Posted at 14:50:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's like 9 in the morning here, and this freaks the shit out of me.

Nuoap · 4 points · Posted at 19:07:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's 3 in the afternoon here and I'm on the brink of freaking tears...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:52:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am in loud coffee shop, daylight, and I chickenshitted out before the gif fully loaded. Glad the bandwidth here sucks. I'm a puss.

Kallisti13 · 1 points · Posted at 01:38:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I opened it with shitty wifi and backpedaled so fast. Nearly threw my phone across the floor. Not cool.

telegrams · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

People always be like, oooh, midnight! The witching hour! SPOOOoooOOOoooOOOKY~!

But the spookiest shit always happens when the sun's out, I think. At night you can reason away the shadows; oh it's dark, oh I'm tired, oh my eyes are playing tricks on me. An intruder at night? Oh but of course, it's harder to identify a criminal in the darkness!

Compare waking up to the sounds of birds chirping and the sunlight's warmth, and seeing that shadow, in perfect, well-lit view at the foot of your bed. Or spending your day off lounging around the house, going to the bathroom, and just as you round the corner, seeing a figure retreat into your attic's crawl space.

Kallisti13 · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

STAHP. YOU'RE PUTTING THINGS IN MY HEAD.

pineapple_warhorse · 119 points · Posted at 14:18:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why can't I escape this gif?! Everywhere, it haunts me O_O

stormstopper · 189 points · Posted at 15:15:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Legend has it that once you view it the first time, it begins to replace other gifs that you view. Until one day, this will be all your gifs.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 16:08:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fortunately, reality has dictated such legends bull shit.

Cliqey · 6 points · Posted at 15:49:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All your gifs are belong to us.

Hexates · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Talking from experience eh?

not-a-celebrity · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

here. let's test it. I found this picture on /r/aww hopefully it's just a picture of a lab and a german shepherd. otherwise... http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8tztryQHJ1qa1p6xo1_500.gif

Raineko · 3 points · Posted at 18:18:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope works accordingly.

What about this pic I found on /r/gonewild? http://imgur.com/a09dyNB

Roguekiller17 · 7 points · Posted at 20:04:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh god damn it. The link was blue, I thought I was safe. :(

Barl0we · 2 points · Posted at 22:07:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same :/

darkly39r · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sure is a nice butthole.

shirttuckedinOD · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You...asshole ;'(

holomanga · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[RES ignored duplicate image]

Nice try, shaky demon.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All your gifs are belong to demon.

Duke_Nukem_1990 · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you watch it long enough to see it move its..well "arms" ?

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...no. And I'm not going to. Nope.

death_style · 2 points · Posted at 16:00:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What is it? I'm too scared to look :(

pineapple_warhorse · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Satan just staring at you in crackly gif form. Eyes piercing your soul, motionless, awful.

death_style · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope!!! Thanks for the warning!

born_mystery · 2 points · Posted at 16:04:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepy. It's creepy. Don't look.

death_style · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I won't!

CGRampage · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It follows you.

ahintofnapalm · 2 points · Posted at 19:17:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What is it

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:10:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the fuck is it? It isn't even scary

[deleted] · 59 points · Posted at 15:10:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT IT IS

everyoneknowsabanana · 23 points · Posted at 15:53:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is the scary demon-masked-guy-standing-over-you-and-watching-you-sleep gif.

Kurohime · 35 points · Posted at 16:04:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Luckily, I have never encountered this gif before thus have never seen it. NOT GONNA CHANGE THAT TODAY!

forgotpasswordagain0 · 21 points · Posted at 16:40:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

its not really that bad everyones just a little bitch about it because omg nope

BuffyPilotKnob · 6 points · Posted at 17:35:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

You're right, it's not that bad. I was on the shitter while coming across this thread, and decided to wait until I was off to click on it (don't want to be in a vulnerable position while clicking on scary gifs and all). I could have totally looked at it while on the can.

Edit: iPad autocorrect is autoincorrect.

ThundarrtheRedditor · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's the sauce on this?

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 19:16:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ketchup mainly

doggerland · 6 points · Posted at 16:44:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't know where the gif is from, but as it relates to sleep paralysis it's probably supposed to be an incubus.

SpySappinMyPost · 3 points · Posted at 20:51:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just be glad you didn't click on it. I personally don't know. It could be the Jeff the Killer one, for all I know. Just don't hit that link.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I clicked on it with my ipod covering the screen with my hand and its some really freaky demon statue looking fella and its shaking and OH GOD WHAT WAS THAT

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHAT'S IN THE BOX

fusems · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THIS, PLEASE

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

its scary, thats what it is

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's just some statue placed in front of a web cam with weird static around it.

Raineko · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

An unholy creature from a different realm.

nobuchanansland · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A clip from my little pony

BGBEASTLY · 0 points · Posted at 17:03:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a gif disguised as a page with a lot of writing so mid read a fucking demon comes out of the screen.

DetectivePenguin · 0 points · Posted at 19:41:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCKING SCARY ASS SHIT DEMON THING FUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKK

5k1895 · 38 points · Posted at 14:55:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY DOES THAT EXIST

TARDIS_RAVEMASTER · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a .jpg...a FUCKING .JPG!!

ThePrevailer · 10 points · Posted at 14:50:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I'm going to hit back and not let that thing do whatever it is it's about to do.

TremorPage · 10 points · Posted at 14:54:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THAT IS TOO FUCKING CREEPY HAVE AN UPVOTE.

b1ackcat · 9 points · Posted at 14:56:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The first second you look at that, it's so...........unsettling. Just...really unnerving. Then after you look at it a bit it gets better, but still.....weird...

Shizrah · 6 points · Posted at 14:50:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have to change my pants now. I don't know what I expected.

AwkwardBon3r · 6 points · Posted at 14:53:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Got me. Fuck.

Jsleezy · 5 points · Posted at 15:05:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aw hell naw

Maggeddon · 6 points · Posted at 15:05:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

genuinely terrifying

KarlC6 · 12 points · Posted at 14:52:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

where is that from?

joeredspecial · 5 points · Posted at 14:53:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I somehow avoided every other pic and hovered over this one without thinking. NOPE

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:07:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPENOPENOPE!

IsolatedAsian · 5 points · Posted at 14:50:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck that shit!

dutchy131 · 3 points · Posted at 14:50:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This creeps me out so much o-o

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:51:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is the creepiest shit I've ever seen on the internet.

Pikalika · 3 points · Posted at 14:59:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude this scared the shit outa me

noholds · 3 points · Posted at 15:08:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

well...fuck.

TheRealToodles · 3 points · Posted at 15:14:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man fuck you, I'm home alone in my basement and its dark. He's probably behind me now...

SummonerBot · 3 points · Posted at 15:15:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, bro. Definitely needed a new image to be afraid of when I'm alone.

suga_lumps · 2 points · Posted at 14:56:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So... no nap today then

Gumstead · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aww look, he's smiling!

AnonymousSkull · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's too bad it just loops that quickly, I fully expected a smile or something.

Lennygames1337 · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU

panduhz · 2 points · Posted at 15:26:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

muthafk, whhyyyyy

EZAC99 · 2 points · Posted at 15:30:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU, MAN.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:34:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't even know what the hell that is supposed to be, can't see all of it on my smart phone (yay), and its 10:30 am, but still:

NOPE.

SalemWitchWiles · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, I'm the only one that thinks this dude looks friendly?

ChaplinStrait · 2 points · Posted at 15:37:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Usually I can handle the things that people say nope to but that loaded and I booked it out of there so fast k don't even know if it was an image or a gif . Oh god never again.

aprofondir · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's daylight here and this still scared me...the moving artifacts (like on old movies) make it more scary

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:49:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

holy shit

Definition_of_idiot · 2 points · Posted at 15:49:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You sir, are an asshole

The_Crow · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate you.

ATmotoman · 2 points · Posted at 16:17:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU WITH A RUSTY SWORD YOU PIECE OF SHIT MOTHER FUCKING BITCH FACE CUNT.

EthanNewb · 2 points · Posted at 21:51:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's from the movie Penda's Fen. When you watch the scene in which this happens it makes it a lot less scary because you figure out it's just a shitty horror movie from 1974.

BingBongTheArchr · 2 points · Posted at 09:37:07 on August 13, 2013 · (Permalink)

2 MONTHS LATER YOU ARE STILL TERRIFYING PEOPLE

anonym0ose · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

goddammit.. why did I click that

Dalimey100 · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God Dammit, it's 10:30 in the morning and I already know I'm not gonna sleep tonight. Way to fucking go Carl.

Ataraxis420 · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn, that's surprisingly scary. I actually jumped a bit.

ThrillingHeroics85 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i used to see something like that during awake frozen night terrors

MrWh1t3 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I CAN'T UNPURPLE IT. This is the last thing I want to see before a post-work nap.

jepazo · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OH COME ON! Hmpfh.. Sleep is overrated anyways..

Bingu21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER

markthe · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't like that at all.

phytohydra · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

calm down everybody we all know you barely flinched and have the same bored expression on your face

Mintaka7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im not seeing that, nope... you canNOT convince me to.... nop, nope nope nope, aww what the hell..... Heart Rate = 0

Carthradge · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

IT'S TOO CLOSE TO THE SCREEN

mistertheinternet · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really can't understand why this is so terrifying to everyone. Is this like a Spooky Scary Skeletons type in-joke I'm missing out on?

telegrams · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

skeletons are not a fucking joke

givethezombiespizza · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its nine in the fucking morning and I'm shivering. You bastard!

Yotsuba21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY THE FUCK DID I EVEN CLICK ON THAT?!

Obelisk94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK MAN FUCK MAN! I accidentally hovered over it and it scared the shit out of me! Like I literally jumped from my chair and that never happened to me before! I even went for a little walk around my house...Whats worse is that I didn't even see what it was very well!

MacGiolla · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK.

PinkStarr55 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ommgg its nine thirty in the morning I am not ok with that.

toastybagel10299 · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am sitting in an office and had to put my hand over the picture so I could get the fuck out of there! Creepy as shit.

xeb_dex · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Great, now I have to change my original post.

kuroji · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ALL OF MY NOPE

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whyyyyy did I click?

Cpant · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ARGHH that still scares me every time, even at 12 noon. First time I saw that, I closed the browser.

Drunkenrooster · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eat a bag of tapeworms.

Hexates · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lovely :D

ICAMMACI · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aaaaaand that's enough reddit for today.

Freakears · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Great. Now I'll be thinking about that when I go to bed tonight.

Droidsexual · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am seriously confused by how much that gif disturbed me.

lewok · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

dude seriously, fuck you

megajim454 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you man I wasn't prepared for that shit!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God dammit! It's 5:30 AM and I was trying to get to sleep!

Fuck you! Really. Fuck you!

EViL-D · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

is this from an old movie or something? If so, which one? It looks creepy as hell :)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He looks like mr. Potato head.

Only all fucked up 'n shit.

bilingual · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you

unarmedhobo · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what i thought of when you said "you mean like this" http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj3lswaMrr1qgcyhl.jpg

awesomepossum87 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did I click that? Why am I in this thread before I go to sleep??

AMeadon · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome!

KingOfRages · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YOU

Maridiem · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still do not get why this bothers people :/

Shinther · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THE POWA OF CHRIST REPELS YOU!

Iggynoramus1337 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I almost screamed at work....now I need to go lie down in the break room for a bit...

LivingGhostMusic · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I SMILED BACK IN THAT BASTARDS FACE! No, who am i kidding. I shit bricks and now im leaving this thread...

Raineko · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did you do this to me.

Free_From_Reddit · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well fuck, i'm not sleeping tonight.

mentalina · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dammit! Fucking Hover Zoom!

socolover14 · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did I click?!? Goes and cries in the corner.

Tera9k · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a special place in hell for you!

skeemo · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i fucking hate you so much right now....

games0124 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHAT THE FUCK.

GewoonSjoerd · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY

SteezeWalrus · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm actually really curious where this is from. I've seen it a couple times before.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY THE HECK DID I CLICK THAT?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate you now...thanks

The_Relyk · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

AHH WHY

kinguzumaki · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY DO I OPEN LINKS WITHOUT THINKING OF THE CONTEXT! FUCK YOU AND FUCK ME!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ive had sleep paralysis a few times and once, there was something that looked almost exactly like this perched over the end of the couch i was sleeping on.. weird.

SnatchAddict · 5 points · Posted at 14:42:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I Yell to wake myself up. You know that feeling where you are being chased but can't scream? I forced myself to fight that by yelling. Scares the shit out of my girlfriends and my poor daughter.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 15:18:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

SnatchAddict · 3 points · Posted at 15:50:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Username is appropo yo

JUGG3RN0T · 6 points · Posted at 13:41:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sound like Sleep Paralysis . There are things you can do to help with it, mainly just sleeping healthier. One of my friends explained something similar happening to her and I mentioned sleep paralysis and she had never heard of it, she did a little research and changed her sleep habits and the "nightmares" stopped within a week or 2. It is apparently pretty common and everyone experiences similar "beings" like the old witch lady and the demon man, which is the creepiest part, why would so many people experience the same thing?

animeman59 · 11 points · Posted at 13:57:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because they are real. They just wait for the right moment and the right person.

Like you.......

achshar · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude fuck you, I wanted to finaly sleep.

feanturi · 3 points · Posted at 15:24:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I've always found it interesting that when I was a child I had this happen a fair bit, and it was an old witch lady. When I first read about sleep paralysis, it was being referred to as "Old Hag" since so many people see or get the impression of that presence. Archetype maybe.

Sleeping healthier is certainly key to avoiding it. I know that whenever I've gotten the effect, it's been when I've been over-tired.

Swany · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think this may be some sort of deep cultural thing, bits and pieces of our societies seeping into our mind unconsciously, like some sort of ever changing Zeitgeist. My Scottish father used to see a knight in full armour standing at the bottom of his bed, and in Japan apparently its common for the old lady to come in and sit on your chest.

Me personally, I usually think a burglar or murderer is around my bed, if it is something darker then its Satan and his demons, likely a result of my deep Christian upbringing, even though I've gone all heathen and atheisty.

delta835 · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's strange. I read the article and I have had the physical symptoms, except for the 'intruder' part. I've only had it happen two or three times, but it's just been that my eyes are closed, and I feel "awake", but I can't move or make any noise. It goes away after about a minute or two. Weird.

dhobywallah · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I suffer from frequent sleep paralysis and night terrors, but can honestly say that I've never experienced any "being" (visually, at the least, I have felt human hands on my legs/thighs/stomach before), but I do know that sleep paralysis takes on different characteristics to different people.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 13:19:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate it you want to move so bad but you just can't

Reptarftw · 2 points · Posted at 14:00:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Ugh, I was pissing at a stadium trough when I was 13 or 14 and had a similar encounter, guy in his 40s or 50s obviously staring at my junk the whole time. I'm not gonna say it was a scarring incident, but it was still fucked up.

Poozer62 · 3 points · Posted at 14:12:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You piss stadium troughs? That must hurt, you might want to see a doctor.

CheekySprite · 2 points · Posted at 14:47:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I believe "night terror" is the wrong term. Night terrors mostly happen to young children, and they don't remember it in the morning.

Nilliak · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

AAAAHHH! COBRAS! COBRAS!

Rage_Mode_Engage · 2 points · Posted at 14:57:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What you're experiencing was sleep paralysis. I used to get those too, but i eventually trained myself to be able to break out of them.

TheBrovahkiin · 2 points · Posted at 18:21:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The guy was probably just trying to count the number of gold beads on your ring in an attempt to find clues about a missing dolphin.

pdmcmahon · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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rachelface927 · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have sleep paralysis at least twice a month. I've never seen anything, just terrified because I can't move. (closest was the feeling of someone at the foot of the bed trying to pull the blankets off of me.) I really, really hope to never see anything.

brokenpheonix · 2 points · Posted at 13:53:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every year around April and December I have horrible sleep paralysis. They messed me up so bad I would try to avoid sleeping. The worst part, besides being unable to move, was that usually it was my boyfriend who was killing me. Slicing my skin off, cutting off 1 inch of my body starting at my toes, cutting my stomach open while laughing, etc. And I would finally 'wake up' and my boyfriend would be right there, laying all innocent like. One time he clawed my skin off and when I woke up he was rubbing my leg, trying to comfort me. I almost punched him. It takes me forever to realize that it's real, that he didn't do that to me. And as soon as I lay back down to try and sleep it happens again and again. Once it starts I can't stop the sleep paralysis for at least 3 days. It's awful.

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brokenpheonix · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bleh. I'm sorry they had no idea what the hell was going on. It's kinda hard to look at someone seriously and say, "There's this chick at the end of my bed? And when I'm asleep I'm really awake but she's there? And then she opens her mouth really wide and starts eating me?" I had no idea what was going on with mine so I did a shit ton of research before calling my mom with it. It started around age 18ish so there's that... luckily she knew what it was since my dad experienced it a lot. Scary shit, man.

joewaffle1 · 1 points · Posted at 14:22:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually remember a night terror I had when I was six. I was in my bed in the night terror and I felt like I was being suffocated. I yelled for my dad but no voice came out. It was very scary just feeling completely helpless.

JHawkInc · 1 points · Posted at 14:41:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Night terrors are the worst. I never really remembered mine (one with a bunch of random but consistent details that ultimately had to do with moving fast and out of control with no hope of stopping, another with walls that sorta resembled large paying cards, but I can't even remember what the scary thing was in that one).

What made them scary for me was when I would "half" wake up. Usually, I would wake up either standing in my parents' room, or sitting up in bed (regardless, mom/dad was there trying to calm me down), terrified and babbling about something that I could only barely remember (worse than that "I just woke up and my dream is rapidly fading" feeling), having trouble switching gears from night terror to "awake", even after taking in my surroundings.

When I would "half" wake up, I would be sitting in my room, or standing (or pacing) in my parents' room, full in the night terror, but awake in my own head. It never lasted more than a minute, maybe two, but there is something extremely unsettling about feeling trapped in your own body, simply watching what was going on without any control.

Andalusite · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

one with a bunch of random but consistent details that ultimately had to do with moving fast and out of control with no hope of stopping

Whoa, that is spot on. I remember feeling like a hamster in a hamster wheel that couldn't stop.

JHawkInc · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine was a car (old family car, stayed the same car in-dream even after we got rid of it in real life), large flat, dirt area, walled in (could have been an arena, never saw above/beyond the walls enough to see, but I remember thinking the word "arena"). Basically driving fast enough in a giant circle that a real car would have flipped and rolled.

So yeah, take your hamster wheel that won't stop and rotate it 90 degrees, and that's more or less what I was feeling.

TheWingnutSquid · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had those too, I saw random shit floating around like t-shirts but sometimes I would see people or ghostly versions of my dogs. I once saw a huge demon man with a hatchet standing in my doorway.

Kallisti13 · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a friend that had those same night terrors when he was little. He wouldn't sleep for days, and then one day he was in the kitchen during the day and his mom saw this bright figure standing beside him, and he stopped having the night terrors. He sleeps in the basement and lives out of town. It creeps me out to visit.

Riffy · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, Sleep Paralysis is terrible. Having had this, I thought I would post about it, but your experience sums mine up pretty good.

Peraz · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Were you lucid dreaming? If you wake up during lucid dreaming, you are paralysed. Your body is disabled, but mind still works. Then you get to see illusions, maybe a huge sound and etc. You could've stopped it by holding your breath tho.

OsakaWilson · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it only me, or did the "Creepiest" story not make any sense at all. I think "laid that one down" is what lost me, but, "That's a nice one" with quotation marks makes no sense to me either.

ffrraanncciiss · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I call them sleep paralysis? Google it.

Also, similar experiences. Instead of a dude, it would be a old lady in white holding a knife.

Ps my technique on trying to move is to breathe in an out heavily. I have control of that, then my my chest, then my whole body.

theetruscans · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The night terrors happened to me too. I would have this one where the was a shadow on the wall in my room and it would kill my shadow. I grew out of them but I sometimes still have that dream

Lurch185 · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother was at the bathroom when he was like 9 and some old guy looked into his urinal and laughed. When he got older he realized why the man laughed.

Cambridge_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The latter is sleep paralysis.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a dream one where a demon like dude was standing above me ,I think it's sleep paralysis ,after that I woke up to be within another dream of my cousin standing at my door and red and yellow glowing eyes in the corner of my room ...it was very creepy ,I still vividly remember it.

Doberweiler · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The "old hag." Sounds like sleep paralysis. Not a fun experience in the least.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You would love the movie Dark Skies.

Flexappeal · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to suffer some kind of waking night terrors. I'm not sure what it was. Some bizarre mix of a nightmare, panic attack and seizure. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, dead silence. And everything was moving but it wasn't. Everything was crawling or shrieking or howling or had teeth or something. The doorknobs fucking scared me to death, but they just looked like doorknobs. The ceiling was twisted and gnarled, even though I knew it wasn't, and it was the scariest thing to look at. Everything was just simply terrifying, I couldn't breathe. Shut my eyes and held the blanket over my face like a four year old until I exhausted myself back to sleep. Shit was not cash.

DerJawsh · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those night terrors sound like people's descriptions of Sleep Paralysis.

EDIT: Disregard... just scrolled down....

Senor_Poopo · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I, too, had night terrors as a kid. I don't remember all of them, but I do remember some. Specifically, I remember the one where I thought my mom was a nasty, green-skinned, horned demon that I punched repeatedly in the face. Only, it was really my mom that I punched in the face. I also remember ones where I jumped to my death, or woke up to my bed crawling with snakes, or spiders, or rats. The last one I had was in high school and was a guy in a ski mask, standing over my bed, about to bludgeon me to death.

Epistaxis · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"That's a nice one."

Well? Was it?

sallydreams · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had the same night terror!!! This big grey demon, all skinny and contorted was climbing the walls and crawled up on the ceiling and then pounced on me and licked his lips and said in another language (that I was able to understand in dreamland) "You're dead."

I woke up, sitting up. I was maybe 7? I remember running from my room and crying to myself outside on our back porch. I couldn't go back in the house for a few hours.

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sallydreams · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It always seemed to happen to me as I was slowly waking up. It's be light outside or around dawn, so I wouldn't go back to sleep either and I'd have trouble sleeping that next night too.

ficarra1002 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to/sometimes still do have something similar happen to me. If I fall asleep on my back, I'm basically guaranteed to wake up frozen and under 10 feet of water in the room.

I try my hardest to assure I'm on my side when I fall asleep each night. But occasionally I drift off on the couch or in bed watching TV to wake up at 3 in the morning pinned to the bed sucking in water. It's so fucking realistic, and even when I figure it's fake and mostly wake up, it keeps fucking going on for what feels like hours.

Shit's terrifying and traumatic as fuck.

floralmuse · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did he have a hat? If so welcome to the Hatman witness club

udradn · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ya I get sleep paralisys all the time, it starts as a normal dream and then a force pushes me down as a deafening buzz goes through my head, while everyone turns into demons.

Terrifies me even though I'm aware at the time that they;re just dreams

simpleton39 · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was roughly 12 once, and had gone to the doctor for some reason that I can't remember. Any how I remember that I was on some kind of relaxant and my head was a bit loopy. After that my mom took me to a McDonalds for lunch and I went to the bathroom (To tell you how loopy I was, I thought the McDonalds was in a tree).

As I was going to the bathroom a guy looked over and said "Why is your piss so dark? Are you on drugs?" I didn't know how to respond so I said "Yes" and walked out. It took me almost 10 years to be comfortable to use a urinal again.

gootshall · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had these. Same thing, the demon would stand over me looking at me and as soon as he would go to touch me I could finally move my body. It would be unbearably loud noises and he would just stare with his weird fucking eyes...I could never go back to sleep and I would always sleep with a light on for a few days after. The worst part is...I don't believe in demons or things of that sort.

IrieJunglist · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Night terrors are the worst. I spent half of my life occasionally feeling like I was seconds from death in nightmares to awake screaming my fucking head off running down whatever hall was next to my room. It was always a very helpless feeling. I dont know why but every time it happened I always felt like I was going to die and my body would go into emergency(do whatever it takes to stay alive) mode.

The worst was when I went to a boarding school in Mass. I lived in a big dorm room with abunch of other guys and it was in the middle of winter. It had been snowing all night so there was probably around 12inches of new snow. Turned out to be a terrible night to have a night terror. I can remember screaming my fucking head off like I was about to die running down the hall and busting out of the exit. Once I gained consciousness and realized that it was a night terror I was in 2 feet of snow 40 yards from my dorm in only boxers at 2am. It was humiliating. Didnt help much that I woke up the entire dorm too.

Night terrors suck.

xt600-43f · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sleep+paralysis+hag&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#gs_rn=14&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=mBPYDSp8_uxzvCdnG9i_WA&pq=sleep%20paralysis%20hag&cp=24&gs_id=uv&xhr=t&q=sleep+paralysis+old+hag+syndrome&es_nrs=true&pf=p&client=firefox-a&hs=bq4&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&sclient=psy-ab&oq=sleep+paralysis+old+hag+&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47008514,d.d2k&fp=357ef9fd8120be60&biw=1350&bih=597

http://www.castleofspirits.com/oldhag2.gif

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Meatbrick919 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My son had night terrors when he was 6 or 7. Scariest thing I ever witnessed. The look of absolute fear he would have and the screams and thrashing he would do while having them still haunt me. Just being completely powerless and not being able to snap him out of them was terrible. Luckily he never had any recollection of them in the morning and they stopped after about a year.

soc123me · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It might have been sleep paralysis.

_Molotov_Cocktease_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Night Man.

Rokursoxtv · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still have dreams like this, my friend. I believe its official name is sleep paralysis. But i've heard them called night terrors a lot too. They really do suck..

Lagrumpleway · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis! Comes with horrifying hallucinations! You get stuck between proper sleep and wakefulness with your body forgetting to un-paralyze you. (Which I guess it does so you don't react physically to your dreams.) Scary scary stuff especially if you get the incubus hallucination where some little monster sits on your chest.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was it The Night People?

Daydu · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did the demon also say, "that's a nice one..."?

rblue · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was about 12 as well, pissing at a local theatre (stall). I noticed a dude looking over the stall, and he says "Too small..."

To this day, I can't piss in there. I'm 35 now.

edit: Dick is a hair bigger though.

therealodayaka · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My four year old gets night terrors. He doesn't even recognise me when I come in to soothe him. I have to firmly tell him "It's Mommy" a few times before he understands who I am and lets me come near him. I have to sit with him until he falls back asleep or he freaks out all over again.

He doesn't seem to remember them the next morning though.

I've found it usually happens when he eats close to bedtime so we've cut out any snacking after dinner. That seems to have helped significantly.

soar · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid in our old place I had something similar. Used to see this guy standing at the foot of the bed. Scared the shit out of me. Happened a few times.

Another thing was I hope a dream, but felt so real at the time was I would be walking out of the room and around the hall corner there was this little area where you can see down the stairs going to the basement from upstairs and it was facing the door to get into the house, I would always get dragged downstairs and in the basement. Eventually I didn't walk that way anymore in my hopefully dream! Crazy how real things can feel when they aren't (hopefully).

mistertheinternet · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Night terrors? http://i.imgur.com/NtMmL.gif

NClark329 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good job on the win sunday harvick

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had the same thing happen to me as a kid, the night terrors. Mine would always be me in a dimly lighted hospital bed with two demon dudes staring down at me, while also not being able to move. It was the best and worst feeling when I woke up.

Lookoutbehind · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Second one is sleep paralysis. Look it up.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get them every once in a while. This picture always creeped me out when thinking about sleep paralysis and night terrors.

http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n06/doencas/terror/gr2.jpg

"As the picture above shows, the ancient Greeks even thought that during nightmare one is dominated by an "incubus" (a small demon) who sits on the dreamer's chest, leading to a sense of suffocation, breath difficulties, a racing and heavy heart."

Writes_SciFi · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wrote a really short story about this once.. have a look if you're interested.

http://thisfutureorthenext.com/from-the-depths-of-space/

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Similar nightmare as a kid. I feel some demonic face pressing on my back and I have the cover lifted up on the other side trying to yell for my parents but no sound is coming out.

fenrisulvur · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

I still run into issues with it as an adult if I attempt to take a short nap.

Vanetia · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a re-occuring nightmare that lasted a month. I was only about 6 years old or so.

My brother (who was ~2 at the time) and I are at a natural history museum with our parents. They're standing in front of the caveman exhibit and start holding hands and kissing. Brother and I head outside to give them "alone time."

Outside is a dirt path that slopes down on either side and curves slightly until it reaches another building. There's sparse vegetation and it's all dead or dying. There's a tree next to a wooden table down the slope at the inside of the curve of the path.

Our dog is there, and she runs down to the tree/table. I run after her to catch her, and as I get to the area, a book flies up in to the tree and a narrator starts speaking

"There are many kinds of birds. Owls, sparrows," etc

Every time the narrator says the name of a bird, it flies out of the pages of the book and at my face. Finally he says:

"Now this bird is the worst of all: The raven. Pay no attention to what it did to me just run for your life."

I look over to where the voice is now coming from, and it's from a man sitting on the table. "Sitting" as in.. he has no arms or legs. They've been pecked off. His skin is also a deathly shade of grey and his head looks like it was pecked at, too (only patches of hair).

That's when I'd wake up.

I had that fucking nightmare every night. It got to the point where I'd just try to lay awake in bed and wait until morning. I didn't want to sleep anymore I was so terrified of my raven dream.

Jakubbucko · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis!!! That happens to me every so often! I hear someone opening my door, and at first I think its my brother or something trying to wake me up, then I try to move my head to look, and none of my muscles listen to what my brain tells them to do! I've read that its the same as sleeping, just with your eyes open though. in other words, you're "awake" but your brain is still releasing the chemicals to make sure you dont move around in your sleep.

So_Many_Subs · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds intense man especially the sleep paralysis. On another note, enjoy that interesting race on sunday?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh god, those are the worst. I had one where I was a Jew in the Holocaust.

kef__ · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like you met the stranger. It used to happen to me sometimes. I have this huge black picnic-blanket-looking thing hanging on my wall next to my bed that I got at a music festival (it's got a trippy looking sun and moon on it). A year or so ago I was getting into lucid dreaming, and sometimes I would wake up halfway during a lucid dream and he would be stepping out of the blanket into my room, facing me... It was kinda scary at first, but because I had been lucid dreaming I felt powerful and was aware that he wasn't real so I could force him back. This happened probably a dozen or so times, but hasn't in several months.

Edit: It especially got easier the more it happened, but he would sometimes stick his head out of different posters in my room that looked solid black in the darkness of the room.

Hudek · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did the night terrors involve walking down the hall and when you step into s room its like a pressure switch activates and the dream split-screens to you on one side and this little black shadow creature crawls out from under your bed and loud terrifying music starts blaring as it crab walks toward you faster and faster, so you jump in your parents bed and try to hide but you look at them and their faces disappear and they fade away and the shadow creature walks in the room you're in and bolts into your face, and all you see is the silhouette of its body and the only way to describe the face was some demonized Joker, which then crab walks around the bed perimeter faster and faster until all you see is its blurred eyes and smile glaring back at you?

I've had this reoccurring dream every night for years when I was younger.

Long_Live_The_Queen · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Second one sounds like a common report from those with sleep paralysis.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis is the scariest shit that's ever happened to me. I never get used to it, I'm always freaked out and trying to wake myself up.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My night terrors were similar! But the demon thing that sat on the edge of my bed would sing lullabies in this AWFUL grating stone/nails on a chalkboard voice. And it would touch me and my skin would burn. Scary shit when you're paralyzed.

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The singing was creepy. All hard syllables and bleck. It always touched my neck or my stomach and that area would tingle for a few hours after I woke up... I do not miss those dreams, to say the least! I wonder why it's so common.

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Except it's real when it's happening. I wouldn't want it. But I also cried when I saw Jurassic Park last month. :P

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safthersabir · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is called sleep paralysis. I suffer from this too, and i am 17.

laser22 · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ahh, I've had that "demon standing over my bed watching me" before. Scary as FUCK. Definitely sleep paralysis too because I couldn't move, talk, or do anything at all except watch this dark figure hover over me.

g8m3 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had those too as a teenager, and a few as an adult. The worst ended when I had to kill my clone, essentially, only I was both of us at the same time. I felt his pain. And the sensation of stabbing someone and being stabbed are deeply disturbing. No matter how many times I stabbed him (me ) he (I) wouldn't die, I resorted to stabbing him in the roof of his mouth. He just kept screaming. When I woke up, my mouth was full of what I was certain must be blood and chunks of brain... I ran to the bathroom and spit it out in the sink. In my sleep, I'd worked up a mouth full of saliva.

lesbianpirate · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shadow people, google it. It happens to alot of people, it's so creepy but interesting.

Tlingit_Raven · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Night terrors are different than nightmares. You had nightmares due to having this scenario play out, likely coupled with sleep paralysis since you felt you couldn't move. Night terrors simply have you waking up with an inconsolable feeling of panic and distress, far worse than a nightmare would bring. The person will almost always bolt upright screaming when awakened by night terrors, and it is not uncommon for them to run from the room or at least jump from the bed.

Dafuq_is_Juice · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gahhhh the same thing would happen to me! But the "shadowy figure(s)" would stop right outside my door but never come in. After I was able to move again I would roll over and face the wall to sleep. I still sleep facing the wall to this day. Creepy stuff.

the_cox · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The dream thing is actually a common night terror that a lot of people have. It has to do with coming out of REM sleep too fast, and you skip stages. You're still dreaming, but you're awake. You can't move, except for your eyelids, and there's a frightening figure around you or approaching you. I had a friend whose uncle had these dreams as a kid. For him, the figure was a clown-like figure that would approach him with a knife. He would get closer and closer, slowly raising the knife above this kid's (the uncle's) chest, and then it would plunge down and he would wake up. Apparently they happened frequently enough for the Germans to make a word for it, but I forget what it was. I think it had something to do with an old woman, because that was the common fear figure.

shapeshifter666 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably sleep paralysis.

jax9999 · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

so... it begs the question.. (if your of legal age now) is it a nice one? lol

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jax9999 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

well whip er out, let's see

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your scariest story sounds exactly like sleep paralysis. I've had the same thing happen to me while sleeping on my couch. I could hear someone whispering my name in my ear and I couldn't move. I could also see what looked like a demon sitting in a chair across the room. I went around telling everybody fucking demons were after me until I found out about sleep paralysis.

netanator · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still get those kind of dreams to this day. I absolutely hate them and dread the thought of having to endure them. I've found that they usually occur when I drink too much caffeine before bed or when I'm under a lot of stress.

I hate to admit it, but I usually end up waking myself by screaming or yelling. Scared the shit out of my wife the first time it happened. Now she just thinks it's funny.

baileyjbarnes · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, actual night terrors happen in stage 4 sleep, not REM, so your not actually dreaming when it happens, you just wake up in a panic for no reason. Never had that, but I've experienced speed paralysis and man does it suck.

Kittenlies · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not necessarily. My brother would get night terrors where he would sometimes flail about and move. With sleep paralysis you can't move. Also, people often remember what happens with sleep paralysis and swear they were fully awake. With night terrors they almost never remember anything.
My brother, when he finally woke up after a night terror fit, would ask my mom why she woke him him.

LumosTheNox · 448 points · Posted at 14:26:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My old co-worker had a son that was in his mid thirties and he 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.

michaeljane · 39 points · Posted at 23:21:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck fuck fuck fuck. I'm alone at home and these stories don't help with the atmosphere

This_guy_is_rude · 31 points · Posted at 00:31:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yet you can't stop reading them, right? Fucking fuck. I'm okay now but when I go to sleep tonight all of these stories will be running through my mind.

michaeljane · 7 points · Posted at 01:21:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know right? Somebody posted a link to another thread of the same nature so I'm going to be reading all night. haha. All these stories about sleep paralysis really get to me because I can feel one is going to affect me. I always feel a presence, and its really unsettling.

The_Danma · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The thread wouldn't happen to be /r/nosleep, would it? If so...that thread is terrifying. So I'm right with ya, bro.

MrBlackk · 7 points · Posted at 02:40:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I won't break up with my gf for this reason!

[deleted] · 49 points · Posted at 02:44:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My cousins little boy would say things like that. My cousin spanked him once and he just looked at him and said "Its okay i'm going to be with Jesus soon." Him and his older brother were killed in a house fire by the end of the week on new years eve.

breeyan · 8 points · Posted at 05:21:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude.... woah

[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 01:41:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

holy shit. fuck you hunter

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 03:25:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aww shit, not those inter-dimensional telemarketers!

Dr_Mrs_TheM0narch · 10 points · Posted at 02:54:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember my mom saying something similar to this when I was little. She would always say they were ghost or spirits and not to answer because they wanted you.

needtohelpyou · 21 points · Posted at 19:37:59 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck this! Few years back when I was hiking with my family I went off track with my dog as they were slow. Someone called out my name and I answered. Next thing I know 20 or more people yelling, screaming and whispering my name and my fucking dog howl along. Id never run faster in my entire life. Met my family 15 minutes later. Thats my creepiest experience that I burried but your comment made me remember this event. *cry

Dr_Mrs_TheM0narch · 4 points · Posted at 00:18:07 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here have a hug.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 11 points · Posted at 02:47:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This would have fit in well in the "creepiest thing your kid has ever said to you" thread.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1d2v7i/parents_of_reddit_what_is_the_creepiest_thing/

soulkitchennnn · 10 points · Posted at 05:50:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Children say the CREEPIEST things. I'm actually pretty nervous because my son keeps telling me lately that I'm going to have another baby.

mauler519 · 7 points · Posted at 00:46:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of this

alexukop · 4 points · Posted at 03:26:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess something a little similar to that happened to me as a kid (which would make my dad the subject of this story). I, of course, only know this from what he told me. Apparently one night I was in bed crying, and when he came in to check on me, I simply sat up and asked him if he could "Please hurt me." Weird shit, when you think about it. Of course, I've never looked at in a creepy light, more of a "that's kinda silly" way. Mostly cause he thought it was pretty funny when he was telling me.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 02:30:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Strangely reminds me of Hunter, the baby boy from paranormal activity

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

But infinitely more scary

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:17:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would make the beginnings of a cool, creepy screenplay

Asillyn00b · 3 points · Posted at 16:38:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aw shit, my name is Hunter

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:53:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So. Fucking. Many. Chills.

SomeoneWhoIsntYou · 3 points · Posted at 22:54:27 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

My niece talks in her sleep and says the freakiest stuff. First of all you don't know she's asleep until halfway through the conversation when she starts talking about bloody babies and stuff.

MrDilbert · 2 points · Posted at 14:16:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was definitely some paranormal activity going on in that house...

Russianvodka47 · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 8 or 9ish, I was at my aunt and uncle's house. I woke up in the middle of night, woke my aunt up. When she asked what was wrong, I slapped her across her face and went back to my room to my bed... I remember nothing :(

Eddyoshi · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember one time when I was sharing a hotel room with my brother and he was busy doing a Skype chat with a girl. I am asleep and then apparently woke up and our conversation went like this starting with me:

"Where is she?"

"Who?"

"The girl...whats wrong with her?"

"What do you mean?"

"Why isn't she flying anymore?"

Yeah...not exactly creepy...just dumb :P

I also have another sleep-talking story which is pretty creepy where apparently when I was staying over at a friends house I was asleep and then suddenly woke up like the Undertaker with very wide eyes and proceeded to have a conversation with him...when he told me this in the morning I thought he was crazy...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking kids man

sentimentmachine · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sitting outside in 90° weather and just reading that gave me chills.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:01 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kids say dumb shit all the time, I never give this kind of thing much credence. I think you'd have to be a pretty fearful person to believe or even be affected much by the random shit they say

party_thighs · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:46 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

sounds like that creepypasta with the child waking up the dad..

Fortitude21 · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:50 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking fuck. I'm never having kids. Nope.

Unleashedv2 · 1 points · Posted at 10:08:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yup definately the scariest story i've read here so far...

melanie086 · 148 points · Posted at 19:29:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

While not actually eerie, it was probably the most scared I've ever felt in a moment.

When I was about 13 or 14, I woke up in the middle of the night needing to go to the bathroom. I had one of those bunk beds, but where instead of a bottom bunk there's a desk. For whatever reason, I started psyching myself out REALLY badly. I sat up in my bed staring into the pitch blackness, imagining a man with a knife standing under my bed ready to kill me as soon as I put a foot down the ladder. Or a torn-face ghost girl in the hallway. Or someone smiling and bloody at the turn into my bathroom. Basically the usual freaky images. I tortured myself for a solid 20 minutes, then used another 10 to try and convince myself of being stupid and go to the bathroom.

When I finally felt ready, I carefully stepped down the ladder, holding my breath, ready to feel my foot get harshly grabbed. I continued to the bathroom, slow and completely on edge. Well, I guess my mom was going to the bathroom at the time too, because she was RIGHT there in the hallway and she bumped into me. For the state of mind I was in at that time, getting bumped into just set me over the edge. I collapsed in the hallway in shock, started crying, and peed all over myself. My mom was stunned and apologetic, but not without a great deal of laughter and mockery first.

TL;DR: My mom is.

michaeljane · 16 points · Posted at 23:51:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This brought me out of the mindset this thread put me in hahahahha

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 01:54:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or a torn-face ghost girl in the hallway.

that put me deeper in

NySquirrel · 7 points · Posted at 15:51:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I collapsed in the hallway in shock, started crying, and peed all over myself. My mom was stunned and apologetic, but not without a great deal of laughter and mockery first.

oh my god. i just burst out laughing and my colleagues all stared. don't care.

Agent_Volkoff · 8 points · Posted at 05:52:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Similar thing happened to me last week. Home alone, I got up to go to the toilet at about 3am, no lights on in the house. I walk down my hall way and get to the loo, do my business and turn around walk past the bathroom door to see a shadowy figure just standing in the door way... well safe to say I screamed and ran into a wall, only to realize my dad decided to come home a day early and arrive in the middle of the night

bic_man · 5 points · Posted at 00:15:54 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your mom is...

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:00:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh jeeze, that's so sad and hilarious.

Shovelbum26 · 1215 points · Posted at 14:29:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Not creepy, definitely scary.

My parent's house got hit by a tornado when I was in High School. You don't realize how fast those things happen until you've been in that situation.

We live in rural North Carolina, not exactly Tornado Alley, but we do get some bad storms now and again. My dad had this habit of liking to sit out and watch thunderstorms come in. We were all inside when we hear him yelling for us to come out. We walk out and the sky just looks surreal. There was a wall of black clouds sweeping towards our house at a disturbingly fast pace.

When I say black, I don't mean really dark grey, or steely blue. I mean black. Jet black clouds. Like an ink cloud from a giant octopus was squirted into the sky. I've never seen it before in my life, not even on a video, and hope to never see it again.

So we were pretty freaked out by the clouds and the wind was picking up. I mean those clouds were moving fast. Someone, I think my Mom, said something to the effect of maybe we should get inside, just to be safe. But things start going crazy even before we can turn around. The wind goes from a 7 out of 10 on the windy scale to a 25 in like 3 seconds flat. We turn to get inside and I'm the last to go in the door. I try to pull it closed behind me but the wind is sucking the door open. I have to put both hands on the knob and jerk back with my full weight to get the door to shut.

At this point it's probably been 45 seconds since my dad called us outside.

We run to the hallway and start throwing things out of the closet under the stairs and climbing in. The whole house is full of this absolutely indescribable roaring noise. It was like a jet was taking off on our roof, or a train was driving through the living room. It wasn't so much sound as a physical force. It made your head throb it was so loud. You could feel it constantly in the pit of your stomach, like the boom from a loud bass speaker, but instead of having a beat it was just constant. It felt like your eyeballs were quivering in your head. The preassure changes from the wind also screws with your sense of balance. I kept getting that sense of vertigo you feel when standing at the top of a cliff looking down. It was an absolute sensory overload.

We all jump under the stairs and shut the door, when we realize we had left the dog out in the house. My Mom opens the door and yells for the dog, which comes barreling into the closet like a bat out of hell. We shut the door. At this point it's been maybe a minute and half, just 90 seconds, since we were sitting in the kitchen chatting and my dad yelled at us to come outside and look at these crazy clouds. That's how long it took to go from normal evening to absolute terror.

We sat under the stairs for maybe that much time again. Two minutes, probably three at most. It seemed like longer of course. Everything was shaking. I was just waiting for the walls to tear apart around us, or debris to start smashing through the door. Then the sound passed and we came out.

The house was still standing around us. So far so good. We go back out on the front porch and the door won't open. I give it a heave and push it open a few feet and squeeze out. The porch is destroyed. We had a small barn sitting in front of our house and it had been obliterated. The tornado had picked up the barn, turned it into kindling and threw it at our house. The posts on the front poach were all destroyed and it was just covered with broken glass, nails, shattered two-by-fours and peices of partical board. Looking out over our pasture in front of our house, where we kept a horse and some cows, and there were just masses of trees down everywhere, one stand of pines to the South of our house, probably about two or three acres of trees in total, were just gone. Our cars were pockmarked with hail damage. Our full-sized pontoon boat that we used for family trips to the lake on the weekends had been picked up from the front yard, rotated 90 degrees, and deposited in the back yard about 50 yards away. Behind our house a massive Poplar tree was down over the driveway, and had fallen just feet from the house.

Yet other things remained weirdly untouched. One of our barns was destroyed, but the other, standing maybe 30 yards away, wasn't even missing a shingle.

All in all we were incredibly lucky. The house sustained major damage, despite it's appearance though. The roof had to be replaced because the suction from the Tornado had made it unstable. In fact, to this day you can still see cracks in the walls in the corners of the top floor, where the tornado had nearly sucked the roof off the house.

But, we came out, none of us hurt, and even slept in our own beds that night. So when I see stories like those out of Oklahoma a few days ago I always think back to those few minutes of terror, and think how luck I was that those weren't my last moments, as they were for so many there.

TL;DR: Parents house hit by a tornado. We all survived, but a lot of our stuff got fucked up. It was terrifying.

Edit: Proof It was the one at the top, the 1998 (I was right, same year I graduated High School). The pertinent bit of info in that one is the supercell that went from Caldwell to Mecklenburg County. You can see that the site lists the affected county as "Lincoln", which is actually just a hair North of where I lived in northern Gaston County, directly West of Mecklenburg County.

SettVisions · 1393 points · Posted at 17:16:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You saved the dog, you never die when you save the dog.

dustinhossman · 36 points · Posted at 18:50:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am legend.

SycoJack · 6 points · Posted at 00:45:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Didn't they save the dog in Twister too?

beaglemaster · 4 points · Posted at 04:11:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He didn't save the dog, though....

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:48 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

BOOMER WILL LIVE.

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 18:57:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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SycoJack · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What town? I've been in Louisiana for six months, haven't heard of any tornado warnings out this(Iberia Parish) way.

Cyrius · 2 points · Posted at 02:05:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The second tornado of 2013 was an EF1 that touched down outside New Iberia on January 10. You might want to invest in a weather radio.

SycoJack · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well shit. I was here then and working. I stay in New Iberia and work just outside of it.

BigBennP · 9 points · Posted at 18:43:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sadly not always. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/dog-guards-dead-owner-body-oklahoma-tornado_n_3319239.html

ThatGingeOne · 3 points · Posted at 00:00:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Except in that story, the dogs owner was alive, and they have no idea why the dog was standing guard over that body. So that is kind of odd in itself

chipncheese · 7 points · Posted at 21:15:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tell that to Joes dad. twister reference

Shovelbum26 · 15 points · Posted at 17:28:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll have to keep that in mind in the future! :)

bbq_bevo · 8 points · Posted at 21:14:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So not true. I lived in Joplin at the time of the tornado and I heard of so many people dying from trying to save their dogs or people I knew that survived and barely made it to safety because they were looking for their pets. Oddly, I can't recall anyone mentioning their pets dying in the tornado. I'm sure it happened, but I think animals are pretty good about getting into safe spots.

Drunkelves · 2 points · Posted at 22:50:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yup, not true at all http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57553989/family-swept-out-to-sea-in-calif-trying-to-save-dog-in-high-surf/

Egypticus · 4 points · Posted at 19:33:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is known

TheFundleBunny · 6 points · Posted at 21:50:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like to imagine that the dog was on his way into the closet before they opened the door, and they just opened it right in time...

"Did we forget something...?"

"Uh... N-"

-dog crashes through door-

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:36:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Always save the dog.

crossryan1234 · 7 points · Posted at 18:31:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You clearly never saw the movie "twister", have you?

westerosdm · 7 points · Posted at 19:17:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Independence Day confirms this theory.

Crusty_white_sock · 10 points · Posted at 21:22:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BOOMER WILL LIVE

finalaccountdown · 2 points · Posted at 14:31:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i feel like this is bad advice maybe..

Jaspyprancer · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Karma, man.

TheJc0978 · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But the dog always dies ;(

rapscallionx · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

dawn of the dead. the girl goes after the dog they used to transport food to the guy across the street. she dies.

kimbabs · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You haven't watched "See no evil" then.

tryeffer · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not in Signs

alessikidd · 105 points · Posted at 18:10:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What.. happened to your horse and cows??

Shovelbum26 · 123 points · Posted at 20:39:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They all survived! I have no clue how. It's actually kind of weird, because the barn that got destroyed was our horse barn and the horse was in it at the time. When we got outside and realized it was gone my Mom started crying because she was sure the horse was dead. But while we were outside surveying the damage we saw it tearing up from the lower part of the pasture, just running around in circles. I'm sure with was freaked out, but it was totally uninjured.

That's one of the clearer visual images I have from the whole thing actually, the sight of that horse flat-out galloping up into the upper pasture with all the wrecked trees in the background. Weird how one imagine will stick in your mind like that.

cabothief · 18 points · Posted at 04:59:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The dog and all the animals lived, and your house survived?

This is my favorite tornado story ever!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:19:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yeah, In those really bad storms I have always been told to let the animals (horses mainly) out. they have no chance in the stable if the barn collapses and they can run really fast so generally they can get away from it if it direct hits your property.

I feel for you, in 2001 my house also got hit by a tornado. nearly the same scale of damage as you talk of. the house and animals were okay for me as well, but trees went down everywhere on my farm. took a camper and wrapped it around our flagpole. destroyed my kids climber from when I was young, wrecked two of our cars, started an electrical fire in our house by destroying a transformer on a nearby electric pole, and much more.

we honestly had much more warning than you did when it hit so we were holding out in a cellar with our dog when it rumbled through and I will never forget that feeling. It is like you say, not really a loud sound from in cover, but a reverberation... the tornado is shaking the ground, the ground is shaking you. I imagine its what an earthquake would feel like. I remember looking at the wall and it was almost like the wall wasn't there....the vibrations painted the picture outside perfectly in the 3 seconds it took to move through. I basically watched it go by through the walls.

My area of Ohio is becoming a mini tornado alley, we deal with tornadic thunderstorms like 1 out of 3 storms it feels like during the storm season. I was close to the Milbury Tornadoes. (the song seems like too much to me, but those pictures are incredible.) The school was rebuilt with help from a contest where kohl's was donating like half a mil to deserving school, Lake won one of those awards I believe. the police station was a total loss. a woman and her mother lost their lives trying to seek shelter in it. two of the houses shown in latter part these photos are of family friend's houses. they were out of town when the tornadoes hit. I was house sitting a third house that wasn't involved, a couple miles ahead of the tornado's path.

the next morning my mom and I had to go into the development that got destroyed to check on their houses and see what happened. it was so powerful to see this type of destruction. houses would have little damage across the street, my family friend's houses were both in almost 100% condition the morning after save for hail damage and a little bit of wind damage. the people behind their houses weren't so lucky. It's hard to tell because from the slideshow there isn't a perspective for the direction the tornado moved, but it was like it peeled house open and then threw everything everywhere out of them, moving on to the next one quickly and repeating the process. I won't ramble on about it but it was very powerful to be there the morning after.

ghostdate · 3 points · Posted at 18:02:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Large animals like that weigh quite a lot, and relative to a barn are quite stout. They won't be picked up and carried off, despite what Twister says. It is surprising that it wasn't killed by barn-debris though, but I guess animal hides tend to be quite a bit tougher than human skin.

Shovelbum26 · 2 points · Posted at 18:27:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, we were all amazed as well. I feel quite sure it probably was bruised and battered, of course it's hard to tell with a horse, but no cuts or broken bones which was certainly a minor miracle.

olliepots · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yay!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I want to know this, too!

Aruu · 15 points · Posted at 16:29:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds absolutely terrifying. You and your family are so lucky that your dad had a habit of sitting out on the porch and watching storms.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:10:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So glad I'm from the west coast. The worst earthquake I have ever been is nowhere near that bad. One time I wasn't sure if the second story apartment I was in was going to collapse around me, but it was just a rolling motion that lasted a few seconds. No way I could even walk to escape.

oracle989 · 4 points · Posted at 19:53:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's all about what you're used to. We get drought and hurricanes here in North Carolina, and an occasional bad storm or tornado. We're used to that, so it's not a big deal and we know how to handle it. We had that earthquake a few years back and people were confused or fascinated and talked about it for days, when it was just a little shaking that a lot of people didn't even feel. We also can't handle winter weather on the rare days when we get it, it's just ice everywhere and we just stop doing things for a few days while it melts off or the salt trucks get around to the secondary roads.

JesiisSpot · 3 points · Posted at 23:36:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad is just like that, along with my brothers and me being terrified of storms, I have developed an obsession with weather. I'll be the idiot standing on the rock pile behind the barn (I live on a Wisconsin farm) with my camera.

Aruu · 1 points · Posted at 10:35:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love the idea of being able to sit out on a porch and watch the storm roll in. I'm in a typical UK council house, so no porch for me, and I'm surrounded by trees. Whenever there's a thunderstorm I do sit in the window and watch it though.

I used to be terrified of storms! Now I absolutely love them.

JesiisSpot · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

We can watch as they come from about a mile away. It's always fun to judge how heavy the rain is by house fast certain treelines disappear.

Dash_X · 9 points · Posted at 18:55:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was like a jet was taking off on our roof, or a train was driving through the living room. It wasn't so much sound as a physical force. It made your head throb it was so loud. You could feel it constantly in the pit of your stomach, like the boom from a loud bass speaker, but instead of having a beat it was just constant. It felt like your eyeballs were quivering in your head.

Your descriptions are fantastic.

Shovelbum26 · 9 points · Posted at 20:54:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks! My memories of the event are, unsuprisingly, quite vivid even 10 years later. I've actually had lots of tornado nightmares since then too, something I'd never had before. :-/

IXIFr0stIXI · 8 points · Posted at 18:47:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Kind of like this picture? Dark black clouds Found on r/pics.

Shovelbum26 · 7 points · Posted at 20:35:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, that's stunning. I'd say they were even darker than that, but I never saw a funnel like that. The thing is we live in an actually somewhat hilly area with a lot of tree cover, so no big sweeping horizons to get a good look at things like funnels. Of course I'm sure there was one, but we never got a look at it.

wazoheat · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's actually a "Low Precipitation" (LP) supercell; they rarely produce tornadoes. I'm thinking he saw something more like this.

Cyrius · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

June 21, 2012 Near Sidney NE an "LP" (Low Precipitation)Supercell develops with tops climbing to 60,000 ft

We followed it to some wheat fields near Gurley, NE where the rotaion was so great that it formed a beautiful swirling (barber pole) formation which rapidly transformed into alovely mesocyclonic (rotating) cloud that produced a few small short lived tornados near Chapel NE. We wateched it fr quite a while west of Chapel, NE on US 30 where there was a windmill. The smoke from fires burning in distant Colorado added a red oily color to the sunset and influenced the storm color. We allowed the storm to pass over our heads as darkeness descended and watched the lightening illuminate the structure.

soullessginger15 · 6 points · Posted at 21:36:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As someone who lives in the middle of Tornado Alley, I can confirm that everything happens that quickly. When the sirens go off, don't stand on your porch and wait for something to happen. Get the fuck to a safe place because you could have only seconds before a tornado comes.

death_style · 4 points · Posted at 17:14:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm glad it wasn't worse for your family... Take care

Shovelbum26 · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, me too! It was nearly 10 years ago now but that kind of thing is tough to forget.

oracle989 · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I remember that one. There was a good deal of damage but not much in the way of injuries, if I recall.

Rretsmirg · 7 points · Posted at 19:38:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After the April 27th tornadoes that ravaged the South a few years ago, my sister's place was hit by the big F5 that carved a 100+ mile long path through North Alabama. Direct hit on her house (it was built with hurricane bricks and was still standing, sans roof, porches and one wall of the garage).

She had a pole barn garage. It was gone, I couldn't even honestly tell where it was, but in the middle of the place it sat, was this little 3 foot tall metal shelf, with several cans of oil and stuff sitting on it, with nothing around it but bare dirt and debris. Just standing there, I was like "what in the hell, who picked up that stupid little shelf and put the cans on it when literally everything you own is in the yard?" My sister was like "no one, the oil shelf was like that after the tornado, untouched".

A shitty little metal shelf, 2 levels, just sitting there, with the oilcans and shit not even knocked off of it.

Dovienya · 7 points · Posted at 20:12:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A tornado hit my home town when I was 13. At the time, my mom was working at a nursing home and they were throwing a party for one of the residents. They went into the hallways when the sirens went off. The tornado completely destroyed the building. The roof was ripped off, all of the cars in the parking lot were completely destroyed (my dad found my mom's car a couple of blocks away). My mom still has shards of glass in her back from that day.

But after the tornado hit, the birthday candles on the resident's birthday cake were still lit, sitting a room full of rubble.

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Of all the thins in this thread, your comment is one of the few that gave me chills.

I don't know why it so disturbs me that one shelf would be untouched in the middle of that devastation.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:50:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Backstyck · 3 points · Posted at 18:14:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This shows paths of tornadoes that have been tracked. Am I to assume that the degree of tracking employed across the United States is relatively even, or could this suggest an opportunity for the statistics to be erroneously interpreted?

Cyrius · 3 points · Posted at 18:26:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is a bias, but it's not enough to make the map look fundamentally different.

Radar coverage in the western US is limited by terrain and low population density. But the parts that have radar coverage still show few tornadoes.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this the same for all of West Virginia and surrounding areas of neighboring states?

I know it's pretty mountainous and there is very little cell signal. Are there not many weather radar stations?

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:57:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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oracle989 · 6 points · Posted at 19:58:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The reason you get so many in the midwest is that warm, moist air from the Gulf is funneled by the Appalachians and Rockies towards colder, drier air from Canada. It converges and leads to violent storms. It's also why tornadoes are largely an American weather event (barring a few cases that you elsewhere, but they're quite rare, and almost never of the same intensity). Two parallel north-south mountain ranges running the length of a continent from the subtropics to the subarctic is fairly unique.

Cyrius · 3 points · Posted at 19:01:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is true, but is not an absolute. Tornadoes can happen there, they're just much less frequent.

Cyrius · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Radar coverage in West Virginia is also somewhat limited by the terrain, although not as much.

However, West Virginia has a much higher population density than the mountain west, so large long-lived tornadoes would be reported even if radar didn't see them.

Backstyck · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for the information.

imriebelow · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have been looking for this map for ages. Thank you for posting it!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:01:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yup, that's about it. It was so bizzare, I mean you hear descriptions of "black" stormclouds, but no one ever really means black clouds. These were though.

Qender · 3 points · Posted at 22:30:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cameras probably don't have the contrast ratio necessary to capture the sheer darkness of something like that during daytime.

Saphro · 3 points · Posted at 19:15:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Taking a class on Natural Disasters as we speak. Tornadoes can happen anywhere in the world. They are just more common in Tornado Alley. Your story was incredible to read.

Darkencypher · 3 points · Posted at 02:35:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Storms like that can come out of no where. It is especially dangerous in places like Nc where most don't have basements.

Btw north Carolina represent!

Cyrius · 4 points · Posted at 18:33:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yet other things remained weirdly untouched. One of our barns was destroyed, but the other, standing maybe 30 yards away, wasn't even missing a shingle.

This is considered to be indicative of a multiple-vortex tornado.

The gaps between the vortices have low wind speeds and thus low damage.

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh wow, very interesting! Thanks for sharing that!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As some one who has grown up in Kansas, I have to say that I am happy as all hell to have never actually experienced a tornado.

HeyMrBananaGrabber · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What a great story. Sometimes nature is a scary ass bitch.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn nature! you scary

zeshtorm · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Very nicely described.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Shovelbum26 · 2 points · Posted at 20:53:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy crap, that's amazing! Moving earth is such a powerful force. I remember watching a video of a landslide in South America once. Those are incredibly intense.

Willawonka · 2 points · Posted at 20:00:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This story reminds me of my one tornado encounter. It is EXTREMELY rare to encounter a tornado in New England, but on June 1, 2011 one came within 1/4 mile of my house. HERE is the wiki in case anyone is interested.

I'm a HUGE weather fanatic, and I've had countless dreams and nightmares of tornados, earthquakes and other natural disasters since I was really young (the movie twister is most likely to blame for that). Anyway, this particular day was a beautiful summer day and of course I knew there was severe weather alerts planned. As soon as the alerts went up on the weather channel, I had the tv on blaring with the insane beeping noise that the channel makes when there's a severe storm alert, and my dad who was the only one home at the time hated me for it. haha.

I was outside, inside, then outside again tracking the storm in a variety of ways. And the sky had gone from bright blue to the darkest grey-black in places in a matter of 10 minutes. There was thunder and lightning in the distance, and from on my front porch I could see it all. There were a variety of tornado warnings, alerts, etc. (Honestly, no one really pays any attention to those since there hadn't been a tornado in western, ma in over 50 years.)

As soon as I heard on t.v. that a funnel cloud had touched down in the CT river near west springfield I ran to get my father and dragged him outside to see if we could see it. (Yes, if it was coming towards us that was a stupid idea, but I'd always wanted to see a tornado or be a tornado chaser.) We were outside maybe 20 seconds when we could see a giant could, all black coming closer to where we were. I know it was kinda stupid, but we kinda just stood there, in awe on our front porch with wide eyes as it spun past us. It was pretty freekin windy, but it never rained at all. Debris floated and fell onto our front lawn and neighborhood, which really put into perspective what we both just witnessed. Papers, shingles, parts of housing, roofing, plastic bags, just rained from the sky, even a while after it passed. It was insane just seeing a giant cloud spinning like that.

The power was out when we went back inside, and all cell reception was down as well. We had a difficult tracking my mother and sister down who had been at my grandmothers house at the time. They were both okay, but a car ride that usually would have taken them 15 minutes to get home took them 8 hours. Insanity. The aftermath seeing the school I used to run track at and the camp I went to as a child was insane. The woods I once played in was completely destroyed and trees were snapped like toothpicks all off at the same height. I think it was only an F3 but it still did serious damage and Monson, MA definitely got the brunt of it. We later found out that my Grandmothers Sister ended up passing away because of the storm. :(

Here are some photos: HERE, and HERE

Damn that was a crazy summer. TL;DRThere was a tornado, hurricane, earthquake, and someone tried breaking into my house while I was home sleeping all within a span of a few months. I finally moved out, but damn I had the worst insomnia for a while.

Also, I think it's pretty cool that my initials are NWS just like the National Weather Service. Something I'm definitely proud of. ALSO, sorry for my crappy spelling, grammar, and sentence structure. I'm an art major. Please forgive me.

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, you want to hear a crazy coincidence? My fiancee is from Western Mass. (Northampton) and I think her family has some stories about that storm as well. Also, I'm moving up there literally next week since we're getting married in September!

Willawonka · 2 points · Posted at 20:53:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh CONGRATS!! :D Northampton is so cute, I love it there. Check out Faces if you like a lot of random nick nacks! It's such a beautiful little town. OH and ice cream at Herrells! Smooshin's! Trust me, they're so good.

Shovelbum26 · 2 points · Posted at 20:59:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks! I'll definitely check out Faces! And Herrells is something I'm definitely looking forward to having regular access to, though it may mean I need to step up my workout regieme. :D

Bermnerfs · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was working in Springfield that day. I remember seeing the mammatus clouds and saying to someone "those are tornado clouds". Ten seconds later, hail. Then the power went out, then the announcement that a tornado just ripped through the south end.

The video of the tornado forming and sucking the river up was amazing. I can't believe how much power that thing had and it was a small twister. Monson/Brimfield seemed to get it the worst.

Also you forgot the halloween blizzard that year.

Willawonka · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

haha true! It was so crazy though all of that devastation in less than a year.

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wasn't there some insane flooding from a Hurricane that year too? I remember hearing my fiancees brothers talking about that.

Willawonka · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There definitely was from the CT River. Damn, I think everywhere it was pretty bad. Connecticut and the Jersey coast got the worst of it though.

wazoheat · 2 points · Posted at 20:21:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And just think, the fact that your house was still fully standing means this was a relatively weak tornado. Of course saying "relatively weak" tornado is like saying "relatively small" nuclear bomb. Still going to wreck you if you get caught out in it.

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I know. We were incredibly lucky or incredibly unlucky depending on how you look at it. We live in an area where very powerful tornadoes are almost unheard of, so the tornado we got was, as you say, relatively weak. Good luck. However, we live in an area where tornadoes in general are extremely rare, and yet we got hit anyway. Bad luck.

I guess we can call that one a wash. :)

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:41:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to my mom... But without the dog.

Hardparty · 2 points · Posted at 21:46:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

very well written, thank you

Vehudur · 2 points · Posted at 21:53:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you remember what the damage rating was?

Seems insensitive to ask :(

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I found the information here. It was the one at the top, from 1998. Apparently it was an F2. I actually never knew that!

CarolinaHillbilly · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was going to ask you if you lived near Stoneville, NC because a tornado came through and destroyed that entire town a couple of weeks later.

When I was reading your post I was sure you were talking about the Stoneville tornado outbreak

That was a crazy year...I still think about it every time a storm blows up and sometimes wake up in the middle of the night just to check the weather radio.

I take tornados really serious now-a-days. They seem to follow me around though. I was in the middle of the myrtle beach tornado back in 2001. Our hotel took a direct hit while we held up in the bathroom of our beach front room on the 11th floor. It sucked the sliding glass doors right out of their frames but spared my brand new PS2. :)

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yikes! That sounds intense! I would not want to be in a high-rise building during a tornado. That's a whole new level of fucked up.

CarolinaHillbilly · 3 points · Posted at 03:50:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

We got lucky that it wasn't a big tornado. I think it was an F2, still plenty powerful though!

We watched it form, I was playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater with my friend and my brother called us out to the balcony. There was something a ways up the beach out in the water. We were trying to figure out what it was, we were arguing about it begin a whale.

Then the tornado moves up onto the beach and sucks up a bunch of sand and we know what it is instantly. By this point my Dad had joined us, and we're all watching this thing as it starts heading directly for us.

People cleared the beach and ran for safety indoors, the tornado is picking up banana rafts, beach chairs, umbrellas and all sorts of other colorful things. It was crazy seeing all that stuff flying around in a huge circle, I'll never forget those banana rafts...

Anyway we watched it tear up everything until it took the roof off the small house/hotel next to ours. At that point we all ran and got in the bathroom. Building starts vibrating and I can hear the water getting sucked down the pipes, the toilet bowl emptied. There was a huge constant roar kinda like a train...well almost like a train. Its hard to describe but once you hear that roar you never forget it.

Eventually the building stopped shaking and my Dad tried to open the bathroom door, but the air pressure going through the room was making it nearly impossible to open. He finally did get it open and when we stepped out the wind was still whipping by at high speed. The tornado has sucked out the sliding glass doors and our room door had been opened, so it was just pulling air through our room.

Amazingly other than the doors and some cheap crap (plus a trash can) nothing else was damaged or moved in our room. I had just gotten my PS2 and had it sitting vertical next to the TV, it didn't move an inch or tip over and all my games were there too. I still own that console and I'll never sell it even though the disc drive is now busted. ;p

The Hotel had to give us another room because ours was damaged and water was leaking into it. We all made it out okay but there was damage everywhere. Glass in pools, cars smashed, the beach was a mess...I could go on. I spent that night staying up watching the clean up, they cleaned the beach up in one night with Bobcats and Bulldozers. If it wasn't for all the damage to the buildings on the beach front, and the Pavilion amusement park you'd never known there had been a tornado the day before.

Edit:

Just thought I'd add that outside of our hotel room was one of the overhanging exit signs that light up (the red ones). It had been damaged in the tornado and was hanging by one wire. So, begin the ass hole that I was/am I snipped the wire and kept the sign. It hangs up in my house to this day as a reminder of that vacation. :p

Ghastly_Reaper · 2 points · Posted at 22:57:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't know Cherryville got hit by stuff like that! One of my friends just moved from there into Avery County.

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, talk about a small world!

Reneau · 2 points · Posted at 01:08:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is going to sound weird, but I'm from North Carolina too, and either the way you phrased your words, your language, or the way your surrounding area/possessions are like.... I could just totally relate. I know it sounds weird, but I felt like part of your whole story for some reason. I have no idea if it's because we share the same colloquial language or what, but damn, I felt like I was having a chat with my neighbor.

DMercenary · 2 points · Posted at 02:11:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yet other things remained weirdly untouched. One of our barns was destroyed, but the other, standing maybe 30 yards away, wasn't even missing a shingle.

's what tornadoes do. Like the most recent one.

Remember seeing a pic of the destruction.

An entire street devastated, just utter destruction and rubble.

The next street over?

If it weren't for the other street and a couple of pieces of debris strewn over the houses, I'd say it was pristine.

fuk_dapolice · 2 points · Posted at 02:15:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What happened to the horse and cows?

shizzamX · 2 points · Posted at 02:28:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mom's house is in Mecklenburg county, I was only five when this happened but I vaguely remember hiding in the basement.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was probably the best description I've read. To think in 45 seconds everything's different is so hard to comprehend. Glad you made it through safe.

JoshuaTheWarrior · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That blackness. I was in the Joplin tornado. The power went out in a restaurant we were sitting in, so we started outside toward the car. Not 10 feet from the door, I look west and it's like a wall of midnight coming at us, while overhead it's blue skies and calm as can be. I barely had time to register it when all of a sudden wind and rain come slamming against us. I grab the family and yell at them to get back inside (they went running to the car) and we pile in as the storm blasts us. Luckily the building stood and we all escaped unharmed. But that blackness and the instant switch from calm to chaos was incredible. And that sound still haunts me.

And tornado dreams. I didn't think it hit me too hard until I was 3 states away about a week later. Woke up in a panic as a train went by a few blocks over. They've ebbed somewhat, but every once in a while they'll come back.

Glad you and your people are ok.

UZUMATI-JAMESON · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:00 on August 26, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know I'm late to this thread, but I just have to say, I'm from Oklahoma, so I've seen my fair share of storms, and the most terrifying thing is to see that pitch black wall cloud. You feel your heart drop into your stomach and your whole body tighten as you prepare for what's to come, I feel for ya.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On the upside, at least it probably got rid of the Wicked Witch of the East.

vogel_t · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's insane the way tornadoes can cut right through a building and with the exception of the 20 ft. damaged spot they can be totally fine on both sides

TehChid · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those were some pretty good visual descriptions.

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do an AMA?

Oryx · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

and I'm the last to go in the door. I try to pull it closed behind me but the wind is sucking the door open. I have to put both hands on the knob and jerk back with my full weight to get the door to shut.

That is really bizarre, considering that doors leading into houses open inwards, not outwards.

Shovelbum26 · 3 points · Posted at 20:26:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was a storm door, the kind that's like all glass, outside of the wood door.

Oryx · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ahhhh. Probably standard equipment out there. Crazy stuff, glad I live in Oregon.

Shovelbum26 · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They are extremely common in the south, but mostly because you can put screens in them in place of the glass so you can open your door when it's super hot and not get mosquitoes in your house. I never thought of it as actual protection from a storm, but I guess with the name it makes sense!

It was something like this, just to give you a visual.

Oryx · 2 points · Posted at 21:19:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Interesting. Thanks for explaining. Oregon has very mild weather, so it makes sense now that you mention it.

Contero · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The preassure changes from the wind also screws with your sense of balance. I kept getting that sense of vertigo you feel when standing at the top of a cliff looking down. It was an absolute sensory overload. We all jump under the stairs and shut the door, when we realize we had left the dog out in the house. My Mom opens the door and yells for the dog

At this point I was certain that that you were going to reveal that your mom's name was Dorothy and your dog's name was Toto.

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

lol, that would have been some serious trolling.

SeaLeggs · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

put both hands on the knob and jerk

...yup

Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well like I said, I was in High School. . .

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Shovelbum26 · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mentioned in response to another guy:

hellojello75 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So glad your family survived! I grew up in Saskatchewan and we have no shortage of tornadoes. I remember when I was about six we had a massive tornado come through and even though we were in the storm shelter in the basement the train-like sound was so intense. After everything was over we came upstairs to find our place completely intact except the roof of our house was ripped right off.

Raiider · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really, really, want to experience this. Without my own belongings/house, though.

Shovelbum26 · 2 points · Posted at 22:31:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I cannot say I recommend it. I still have tornado nightmares every now and again. I know it sounds exciting, but it's mostly just terrifying.

I mean, think of it like this. Imagine the most frightening moment of your life. Maybe a car stopped short in front of you and you thought you were going to plow into them, whatever moment you look back and think, "Man, I'm surprised I didn't wet myself". Then watch a clock and count three minutes off. And imagine you were that scared the whole time.

It's not exciting. It sucks.

Raiider · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're probably right. For some reason, strong winds give me a crazy high. I absolutely love typhoons (yes, I know it's not like a tornado in intensity at all) and any strong wind. Makes me feel so fucking alive.

CarolinaHillbilly · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like you I always wanted to see one up close, then I got my chance. It scared the hell out of me and was an awesome experience at the same time. Just to be able to feel that force of nature....that beast that can kill you at any moment.

I bet you sit on the front porch and watch those huge storms too? ;) A family tradition where I'm from. Lemme tell you though, once you've been near a tornado or seen the aftermath in person...like a house trailer that was tossed down a hill and wrapped around a tree like a horseshoe. You learn respect for it and it humbles you.

I guess what I'm saying is I understand why you want to get that close. But please respect the monster that is mother nature. She can kill you really fast.

I still have dreams of riding out the eyewall of a Cat 3+ hurricane. Hurricanes are what got me really into weather when I was a kid so its always been a dream of mine to see one up close. IMO the guy that gets to report from the street during one has the best job in the world. :)

Raiider · 1 points · Posted at 08:00:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I do respect the forces of nature and I am already humbled. I also know how it can obliterate everything. My original comment was about experiencing the specific experience that OP went through and not losing my house and family members.

DaCookieMonster · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When you got to the bit about leaving the dog out I thought you were referencing the movie 'Twister' but then I read on and found out your dad didn't get blown away by the storm.

SunAndCigarrets · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So now we know who let the dog out...

celtic_thistle · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK tornadoes, holy shit. I've only ever seen one, and it was tiny and far away, but I am so scared of them. Glad you and your fam are okay.

theguywithacomputer · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

;_;

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A similar thing happened to me. Any storms terrified me for years after that.

Springer33 · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's one of the most detailed descriptions I have ever read by someone who had literally been IN a tornado. I cannot begin to imagine how terrifying that was.

Booze_Lite_Beer · 1 points · Posted at 09:12:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reading this makes me even happier that tornadoes don't happen very often where I live. I'm had some pretty scary weather, but I can't really imagine dealing with them all season.

When I was in 6th grade we had a pretty scary storm. The sky turned this sickly green and you could see the dark clouds rolling across it. The entire school was sent to the tornado safety positions. Teachers staring out the doors looking shell shocked, kids crying all over the place, it was a mess. My best friend at the time was hysterical. She was convinced we were all going to die. She screamed louder when the lights went out. Both 6th grade teachers ended up hugging her between them to calm her down. They just kept telling her they wouldn't let it get her.

Not as bad as your story, but it was still pretty freaky for a little kid.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:04:10 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Acid. Not even once.

Bigjarome · 1 points · Posted at 12:31:06 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

What happen to the horse and cows?

shezbot · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:12 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, I remember that storm. I had taken some LSD earlier in the evening with the plan of going into Charlotte (lived in Union County) to see a show and my dad pointed at the weather channel and said "Watch out" and I ended up watching the goddamn Doppler radar for 20 minutes. I never made it to the show but ended up just hanging out with some friends, watching the trees and the wind and the rain and all that shit.

macromissy · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:47 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had never been afraid of tornados before right now.

This story makes me want to cry and vomit. :/ I'm so glad everyone was okay.

FeckinShet · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:50 on July 18, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have had this same thing happen to me in Nebraska a few years or so ago, the exact same clouds spreading fast. The storm that ensued was so epic that some people called it a "sandstornado". I was in Omaha visiting relatives when it happened, and it took down a huge tree uphill from their house. When I say huge, I mean HUGE. This tree must have been about 100-200 feet tall with a monstrous cottonwood diameter of almost 4 feet, and it covered the whole road so much that people had difficulty pulling out of their driveways. A trip to be remembered.

ztealthy · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:16 on July 26, 2013 · (Permalink)

no pictures by any chance?

pineapple_warhorse · 1853 points · Posted at 12:12:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Maybe not the creepiest, but what's on my mind right now...

I just moved into this house a year ago. There are child-sized handprints on one of my bathroom walls. Permanent handprints you can only see from a certain angle, like what water exposure does to paint. The previous owners have no idea what I'm talking about, and I don't know how they got there.

EDIT: I've been told I should put this here.

EDIT 2: Many of you have suggested grease or oil from kids' hands, which are reasonable explanations, but my room and bathroom are in the attic, which was only finished and turned into a suite by the last (childless) owners. I don't think many children, if any, have been up here. That's not to say I think it's a ghost or anything, just that it would take some odd circumstances for that to occur. I should have mentioned it before, sorry!

EDIT 3: First off, I had no idea so many people would comment! Awesome! Some people wanted a size comparison, so I took a (shitty) second picture to try and satisfy them. I think I figured out what bugs me about the prints: they're child-sized, but not child-shaped. Well, that and they exist at all. Here's the pic. You can see the measuring tape, which puts them at around 4 inches, and my thumb for reference. My hands are small (my friends say I have carnie hands), so these prints are pretty petite.

🎙️ Youdonotsay · 1345 points · Posted at 12:15:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude. I was at this country hotel/bar thing, (I'm in Australia) and I looked on one of the wardrobes in the room I was in. I saw two little hand prints on the mirror, and I tried to wipe it off with my hand seeing if I could smudge, or remove any of the print.

Nothing happened, It stayed there, I had a closer look and it seemed to be inside the mirror. If that makes any sense.

im_not_a_crook · 684 points · Posted at 13:47:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should watch the movie Mirrors. Your view on mirrors will be forever fucked.

pineapple_warhorse · 596 points · Posted at 14:12:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've seen it. I have some regrets...

RabidMuskrat93 · 19 points · Posted at 14:56:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some? I regret everything after watching that insomnia producing film.

zrvwls · 14 points · Posted at 14:42:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Really? I've seen it too. I thought it was.. yako

pineapple_warhorse · 5 points · Posted at 14:50:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, it was a good film. It just scared the crap out of me.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 18:11:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not as much as you'll regret reading through this.

laccro · 6 points · Posted at 18:48:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whut

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 19:31:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The "blue" test.

laccro · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have no idea how or why you find this stuff

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:49:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Find some random video on Youtube, then follow the thread down the rabbit hole. It's not hard.

FailureToComply · 0 points · Posted at 19:59:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do people really spend their time making this stuff up?

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:44:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you not entertained? Seems like a great way to hone one's skills as a writer.

Sasquatchamunk · 2 points · Posted at 02:45:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes. I love the SCP Wiki.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:37:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, Like wtf am I reading?

Quaeras · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Loved this one when it got linked a few months ago.

ATomatoAmI · 2 points · Posted at 22:28:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is that a newly posted SCP? I haven't read that one before and I've read a fair number of the files on the site.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's been there since last year at least, beyond that I'm not sure.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one is so fucking great, though I felt that it didn't really need to have everything explained so clearly. I could've done without some of the "log" stuff at the very end.

durdyg · -1 points · Posted at 22:39:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

TL;DR

PineconeShuff · 5 points · Posted at 15:42:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Regrets? Ha! Watch Mirrors 2, then talk to me about regrets

pineapple_warhorse · 5 points · Posted at 15:43:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a second one? Ugh, sequels are usually terrible. I will spare myself the agony, thank you!

PineconeShuff · 5 points · Posted at 15:49:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There are some real jewels in that movie. I hope whoever did the CG in Mirrors 2 never gets another job in Hollywood. It is horrible

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:18:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard Hostel 3 and Quarantine 2 were pretty good straight-to-dvd productions.

321232 · 2 points · Posted at 20:19:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it was good for a sequel. not good good. but watchable

cornishacid6 · 6 points · Posted at 17:27:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Regret this http://youtu.be/n5CHCpsJOzY

pineapple_warhorse · 3 points · Posted at 17:30:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm so glad it's early afternoon here...

laccro · 3 points · Posted at 18:45:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit

Quaeras · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tagged for later.

redditjang · 1 points · Posted at 11:24:52 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tagged for the morning!

AveragePacifist · 3 points · Posted at 17:23:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw the trailer for it and I had nightmares about mirrors one month after that.

deadleg22 · 3 points · Posted at 18:42:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I wanted my money back...

lizlegit000 · 3 points · Posted at 14:50:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw it & I didn't sleep that night.

Shitty_Human_Being · 3 points · Posted at 20:14:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That movie fucked me up for a good while, man. That is one of the movies I literally find frightening. The ending kinda ruined it though.

1337_Degrees_Kelvin · 3 points · Posted at 20:55:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That damn jaw ripping scene. Ugh.

mind_block · 2 points · Posted at 16:25:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me too, man.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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pineapple_warhorse · 6 points · Posted at 16:54:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scary. It got mixed reviews, that's for sure. I happened to enjoy it because, well, Amy Smart. And I appreciate anything that can creep me out, which it did.

Mr-Crasp · 2 points · Posted at 23:09:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do tell. I don't want to watch it. Mirrors freak me out enough as it is.

i_like_salad · 2 points · Posted at 07:21:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watch mirrors 2, get to see Kim possibles tits.

StrawberryJam4 · 6 points · Posted at 14:56:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because its a terrible movie? I regret wasting my time too.

[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 14:47:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a recovering catoptrophobic individual I think I speak for all of us when I say, fuck you.

KorbenD2263 · 31 points · Posted at 15:23:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love how googling 'catoptrophobic' brings up an image search of a bunch of mirrors with monsters in them. Because fuck you for trying to research your phobia, amirite?

OneTripleZero · 3 points · Posted at 16:55:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And right in the middle of them, a picture of... Notch?

thug435 · 2 points · Posted at 22:12:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was just about to google search it. Thank-you convincing me otherwise.

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So is it the fear of mirrors and reflective surfaces?

Opset · 10 points · Posted at 16:05:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The best way to get over your fear of mirrors is to start lifting. Then you realize there's never enough mirrors anywhere.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 14:37:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope. Already get freaked out if I stare at mirrors for too long late at night.

KarlC6 · 11 points · Posted at 14:49:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

thats the brain making fun for itself, it distorts your face and/or moves things behind you or around you because it basically gets bored of staring at itself (by that i mean eyes). Scumbag grey matter

sloppity · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Anyone else want to go stare themselves in the mirror now?

KarlC6 · 6 points · Posted at 16:01:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

its 'fun'

Tiredofthebullshit · 9 points · Posted at 17:28:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched that with a girl at my house, then had to act tough and drive her home and then drive back alone. You know how often you look in the damn mirror while driving? It was horrible.

rnedgar · 6 points · Posted at 15:15:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually had a fear of mirrors for years as a kid, I couldn't look into my eyes in the mirror, it was terrifying for me. I watched this movie after I thought I was over the fear, and I really shouldn't have...

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:53:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh jeez yes

socolover14 · 3 points · Posted at 18:11:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Risky click. Was happy with result.

durdyg · 2 points · Posted at 22:46:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

whew. someone give this man some gold.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes. I completely agree.

vVvMaze · 4 points · Posted at 18:06:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

there was this one scene from a movie, cant remember which, but it followed a girl all through the house while facing her, like she was running towards the camera. Then she reaches towards the camera and she movies away as if the camera were the mirror. I still have no fucking idea how they managed to film a scene like that. One of the coolest effects ive seen.

Cheeknuts · 3 points · Posted at 19:19:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You thinking about the scene from Contact? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD0_5HFMPIg

Thruthewookieglass · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Contact. Here's how they did it. Middle of the clip.

vVvMaze · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yup that would be the scene. So awesome.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:57:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

that was a fucking scary movie

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:21:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am the voice of reason: You should definitely not watch the movie Mirrors.

Yobuttcheek · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck that movie

_Flippin_ · 3 points · Posted at 19:25:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shouldn't have clicked the link. That cover. Fuck.

Nansai · 3 points · Posted at 20:50:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As someone who sleeps facing a mirror, I will never watch this movie.

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

wh...why

Nansai · 2 points · Posted at 01:38:54 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its been that way since I was a baby so I'm more comfortable sleeping that way.

HanaNotBanana · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I tried watching that shortly after it was out on DVD with my parents when I was in the eight grade. I got to the bathtub scene and just noped the fuck out of there. And I still haven't finished the movie

massivecomplexity · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly where I stopped too, except I was in third grade.

kiwalakills · 2 points · Posted at 15:26:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man, I already hate mirrors, but I like watching scary movies..

breeyan · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Commenting to watch later.

MrRandomSuperhero · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was drunk at 4 in the morning and thought it would be funny to watch that movie before going to bed...

Now, I don't remember much of the end of the movie, but I do remember barely sleeping that night.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:22:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mirrors now scare the shit out of me after watching that movie a few years back. Mainly when I'm baked, and especially because my parents literally have mirrors on every wall in my house. Lots of opportunities to have a mirror in front and behind me so it can definitely get creepy.

7or3nzo · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The preview for that movie messed me up a few years back. I was scared of mirrors for years.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

just read the wiki page. wish i hadn't.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:27:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My view of mirrors is already fucked. Not going to make it worse.

OllieNotAPotato · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck that film, seriously its one of the most messed up things I have ever seen. That bit with the girl in the bath

Nuoap · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No thank you sir I want my mirror views to stay positive. They are coveted.

totally_jawsome · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That movie really messed with my head! I was so paranoid after it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Speaking of mirrors (and this may be a testament to how screwed up I am), sometimes I used to think that I would see something out of the corner of my eye moving IN the mirror. It got so bad I had them all covered up in my house or taken down. Shaving without a mirror became an art.

That was right after moving out of the parents house to go to school five years ago and that irrational fear lasted about 6 months. They still make me uncomfortable at times.

maciballz · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've seen a scene from the movie. I have a large mirror in my room that I want to take down but I think people would know why. -__-

saviorflavor · 2 points · Posted at 20:53:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking trailer nearly made me shit bricks. No thank you.

Kikken_F · 2 points · Posted at 22:56:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah that's what you want you fucker. Never!

ggg730 · 2 points · Posted at 00:46:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't suggest anyone watch the movie Mirrors if you want to be able to enjoy a lightless poo again.

MrSwedishMan · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This movie was a really good horror movie just because of this. I need to rewatch it.

stop_drop_rofl · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watched it in my dorm room with about 10 people. Before people came over, we tied a fishing line from the bottom corner of a hanging mirror and I held the other end.

Throughout the movie I would gently tug on the line and make the mirror move slightly. Scared the shit out of the girls watching with us

..good times..

im_not_a_crook · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice, I'll have to try that someday.

astrograph · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The original is a Korean movie called Into the Mirror.

im_not_a_crook · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Great, now I have to see it.

Iggynoramus1337 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

someone took my phobia and put it film form

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK THAT MOVIE

When I was like 7 I see a commercial for that on TV and it freaked me the fuck out. I couldnt walk past mirrors for months. Fuck. Shit who makes a movie like that. Damn movie ruined my childhood, fuck.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So what you are saying is really, you should NOT watch the movie mirrors

im_not_a_crook · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was great! I've never been so thoroughly scared.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:15:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But I don't want my view on mirrors to be forever fucked. In fact, mirror inspector is a job I could really see myself doing.

im_not_a_crook · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha!

Saifire18 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We went to see batman (the one with heath ledger as the joker, i don't watch a lot of hero movies) and they played the preview for this. I suffer from depression and paranoia and this screwed me up for a long time. It didn't help that the bathroom there is made of almost completely reflective surfaces...NOPE NOPE NOPE

joshy1227 · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think reading that one sentence IMDb description was more than enough

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goddammit. I've always been freaked out by mirrors, I thought I would be the one to make a horror movie out of it!

RequiemStorm · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Many people, even those who have not seen the movie, have a phobia of mirrors. I don't remember the name of it though.

Pianoangel420 · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eh, my view on mirrors is already fucked. :(

partyatwalmart · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh god, the jaw ripping scene still makes me cringe at the mere thought.

Dank_means_moist · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd never watch the movie but I have a HUGE mirror in my room that originated in New Orlenes, It's at least 50 or more years old, but I always feel that the mirror is protective.

biccy_muncher · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hmmm, seems like my kinda movie.

pastrypalace · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No. No. No. I already hate mirrors from seeing Poltergeist as a kid. HELL NO.

GarethGore · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a bad idea with that experience, don't take this gentlemans advice. He is not your friend

trentyz · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched this when I was 13. I had trouble looking at mirrors for at least a fortnight.

miketheman1588 · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't see how the movie can be scary...The trailer features Kiefer Sutherland and a gun, so theres really only one way this movie can end

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're the worst kind of person

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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im_not_a_crook · 1 points · Posted at 13:04:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was, and it had Ren from Even Stevens in it. The movie sucked though compared to the first.

Crimsai · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched mirrors the week after I had sleep paralysis where a demon-girl was dragging me into the mirror beside my bed. I eventually 'woke up' with my legs dangling off the bed pointing at the mirror. Needless to say, I didn't finish watching the movie.

Sasquatchamunk · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPENOPENOPE Mirrors are terrifying enough, thanks.

roboticmumbleman · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was one of my fears as a child, that there was someone else on the otherside. I watched the first bit of the movie, and just quit. I couldn't handle it.

LonelyBrotha · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was so PISSED at the end

Bud042 · 1 points · Posted at 07:46:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That fucking movie poster, man. At 1:00 in the morning, that is much scarier than it would be normally.

TheMcDudeBro · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have reflected on that movie often. Crazy movie for sure

kaostic · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should watch The Truman Show, That will change your view on mirrors... http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcholfmMHZ1qb8njr.gif

Emotional_Masochist · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If I was on the Truman Show, it might explain a few things.

Wait, no, I've driven too far in one sitting for me to be trapped in a bubble-thing.

kaostic · 3 points · Posted at 15:07:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you sure though? Are you sure you were driving or was the scenery moving past you o.o

Emotional_Masochist · 2 points · Posted at 15:25:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was driving.

kaostic · 5 points · Posted at 15:35:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what they want you to think.

Emotional_Masochist · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe THAT is what they want YOU to think.

kaostic · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Touche.

WatchTheMovieHere · 0 points · Posted at 21:24:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watch the full film "Mirrors" here

pineapple_warhorse · 312 points · Posted at 12:21:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is so weird. I think I know what you mean- on the reflective surface rather than the encasing glass? Creepy. I'd have a hard time sleeping in that room, but I also get wigged out by mirrors at night.

Karbear_debonair · 613 points · Posted at 13:02:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do not feel weird about it. Mirrors are fine during the day, but once it gets a little darker? Mirrors are suddenly horrifying portals to the unknown.

pineapple_warhorse · 184 points · Posted at 13:14:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes! Anything could be in there! Having watched films like Mirrors or They certainly hasn't helped. Sometimes if I look in my own reflected eyes too long, I start to see something else looking back and scurry away to hide under the covers.

violationofvoration · 28 points · Posted at 14:19:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's actually normal. when your brain gets bored, repetitive signals such as staring at something too long, it starts to cancel out parts it deems uneccesary. In other words, if you stare at something too long you will see some sort of disturbance.

Lord_Boo · 35 points · Posted at 14:59:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Brains are assholes

pineapple_warhorse · 12 points · Posted at 14:46:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cool! I know it's totally in my mind, but it is definitely freaky. The brain is an amazing thing.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:09:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're also breaking down the connections your brain has formed that allow you to recognize yourself. Sort of like when you say a word too much and lose the connections that help you understand it and it just becomes a noise.

pineapple_warhorse · 3 points · Posted at 17:13:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love doing that! My favorites are "llama" and "window." Eventually they lose all meaning, and it's so interesting.

this_makes_no_sense · 3 points · Posted at 17:41:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's called semantic satiation and it's awesome! As for the brain getting bored, check out this link of a tree. Stare at the tree and something starts to happen. The reason this happens is because you're brain sees all the grey and just decides to block out large chunks of the picture, until the little movements catch your eye and then your brain unblocks it because you're looking at it. Same thing with the mirror!

procrastinating_work · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think its just a normal picture... All of the interesting zombie-looking things disappear if you stare at the tree. Not intended.

this_makes_no_sense · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The point is that the picture demonstrates that effect (regardless of whether it intended to or not).

procrastinating_work · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh! the people/zombies were distracting then.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Total buzzkill here, but I believe there's an explanation for that. It has something to do with repetitive stimulation. Very rarely do we ever see the same thing for any extended period of time, and so when you stare into your eyes, or watch yourself in the mirror, your brain begins to lose track of what you're seeing because it hasn't changed. However, you fill in the blanks for this missing information about what's in front of you, producing distortions in your vision (and possibly the illusion of "There's something looking at me"). You don't need a mirror to do this, however. The same effect happens regardless of what you're looking at. Mirrors are just creepy as fuck, so we jump to conclusions more readily.

pineapple_warhorse · 4 points · Posted at 15:19:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I agree with you. Not a buzzkill at all! I'm not particularly superstitious, but things do still creep me out, even knowing they have a perfectly rational explanation. I think that's just human nature- like why horror movies scare people. We know Freddie Krueger isn't real, but our fear response still engages.

Insanity_Wulf · 3 points · Posted at 17:49:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As someone with eyesight problems, I can't count how many times I've looked into my mirror without my glasses and seen things that seem go away once I have my glasses on.

Also fuck medicine cabinet mirrors.

deadleg22 · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me to. I look at myself and I think "yes that's me" I carry on staring at myself and I see something different. Like I'm now looking at my subconscious. It's like when you catch someone's eye who you don't know, and look away.

Esc_ape_artist · 2 points · Posted at 19:31:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/18/the-strange-face-in-the-mirror-illusion/

CokeCanNinja · 2 points · Posted at 03:36:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's really scary is when you glare into the mirror. Try to focus your hate into a true death glare. If you do it right, you'll almost shit yourself.

joeyjojojoeyshabadu · 2 points · Posted at 21:36:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Frickin' Prince of Darkness movie by John Carpenter. Mirrors!! (shudder)

stoxhorn · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Go to /r/luciddreaming, and see what stories They have of mirrors. seriously, They Are fucked up in the dream world

RaggedyGentleman · 318 points · Posted at 13:03:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BLOODY MARY BLOODY MARY BLOODY MARY

PresidentPancake · 1152 points · Posted at 13:44:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BIGGIE SMALLS BIGGIE SMALLS BIGGIE SMALLS

[deleted] · 479 points · Posted at 14:30:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

MUFASA MUFASA MUFASA

fuzzymae · 15 points · Posted at 15:57:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...do it again

Eremitt · 7 points · Posted at 15:50:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh I like that...MUFASA!

mewfasa · 8 points · Posted at 17:18:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, I'm almost relevant here!

Inoman58 · 3 points · Posted at 19:09:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess we were saying it wrong...

Baconated_Kayos · 6 points · Posted at 16:06:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oooh it tingles

Pozzik · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

CANDLEJACK

CANDLEJA

deadleg22 · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY.

mrbaryonyx · 1 points · Posted at 08:01:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY LED ROLLY RELLOW.....FUCK!!!!

Haywood_Jafukmi · 2 points · Posted at 19:41:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then a hand appears and wipes cum on your forehead...

themilkmaiden · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oooooh say it again!!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

CANDLEJACK CANDLEJA

TFJ · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Que pasa?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

CHRIS KLUWE CHRIS KLUWE CHRIS KLUWE

PatSayJack · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

KLUWE KLUWE KLUWE

lukalukaluka · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nelson Mandela

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

jaculate

jjakers88 · 0 points · Posted at 15:55:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ALAH HU ACKBAR !

SpySappinMyPost · -1 points · Posted at 20:45:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

STOP STOP STOP

That_Dude___ · 4 points · Posted at 15:13:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

[deleted] · 61 points · Posted at 13:47:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

madeanotheraccount · 76 points · Posted at 14:23:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BRITNEY MURPHY BRITNEY MURPHY BRITNEY MURPHY

What? She was gorgeous!

foofly · 3 points · Posted at 14:55:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I doubt she's too hot these days.

madeanotheraccount · 1 points · Posted at 08:41:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I said 'was.'

Scareynerd · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But not gorgeous enough for you to remember the spelling of her name, apparently.

[deleted] · 48 points · Posted at 14:06:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TOM CRUISE TOM CRUISE TOM CRUISE

[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 14:33:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SHITTY_WATERCOLOUR SHITTY_WATERCOLOUR SHITTY_WATERCOLOUR

sleal · 2 points · Posted at 19:25:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

noscreamsnoshouts · 2 points · Posted at 14:49:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wil Wheaton!

CowardlyHero · 3 points · Posted at 15:38:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wil Wheaton!

VegetableSamosa · 3 points · Posted at 15:54:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wil Wheaton!

wil · 26 points · Posted at 21:15:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You rang?

VegetableSamosa · 7 points · Posted at 21:54:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I, erm, didn't actually want anything. Just saw these two guys doing it and followed the crowd. Helping a bro out! Sorry for bothering you, Mr Wheaton.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:04:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

How often do people ask if Samosa is short for Sammy Sosa?

...do you have a picture of a vegetable version of Sammy Sosa? I'd really like to see it.

VegetableSamosa · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Never. I don't even know who that is.

tamammothchuk · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are one righteous dude to pop in when that happens. Plus I enjoy your funny spots on TBBT. I hope one day I can shake your hand.

noscreamsnoshouts · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

You came!

Wow.

Thank you, I.. well.. I just.. like /u/VegetableSamosa said: I didn't actually want anything.. I saw other people screaming for Tupac and Tom Cruise, and I thought: we can do better than that.

Sorry for wasting your time, won't happen again.

VegetableSamosa · 3 points · Posted at 23:02:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Even better, I finally got to use the Reddit Gold Username Mention feature! Score.

noscreamsnoshouts · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's been an hour.

I don't think he's willing to get summoned, today..

VegetableSamosa · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oi, /u/wil. Get over here.

Might work ;)

Dajbman22 · 2 points · Posted at 18:40:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe he's Wiling to get summoned.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:41:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:13:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

[deleted]

Bill_Clintons_Choad · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tom Cruise

bolaxao · 0 points · Posted at 16:03:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That one guy from the volleyball movie.

edit: Tom Cruise

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:57:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

try the closet

Qumpers · 2 points · Posted at 16:17:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:08:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

DEXTER'S SECRET DEXTER'S SECRET

Boingo4Life · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Florida everglades!

Hight5 · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RIGBY RIGBY RIGBY

Randactyl · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YBGIR YBGIR YBGIR

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

Lopezpie · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TOOOPEEKA TOOOPEKA TOPEKA

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN

TheMieberlake · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

MIKE JONES

RagingVoodooSorcerer · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TUPAC TUPAC TUPAC

AvonDetre · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch.

Damn, it didn't work. ;(

SonicSerene · 0 points · Posted at 16:54:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RAMPART RAMPART RAMPART

C'mon guys. Lets stay on track.

[deleted] · 637 points · Posted at 13:54:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

MEATBALL MEATBALL SPAGHETTI UNDERNEATH

[deleted] · 620 points · Posted at 14:03:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

[deleted] · 705 points · Posted at 15:00:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RAVIOLI RAVIOLI GIVE ME THE FORMUOLI

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:48:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I DID EVERYTHING YOU ASKED! I EVEN ATE A HUNDRED AND FIVE BLACK LICORICE JELLY BEANS THROUGH A STRAW!

tregrenined · 3 points · Posted at 17:46:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the first thing I thought of. Love it.

McFlowwithit · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RAVIOLI RAVIOLI, YOU KILLED MY FAMIOLI

mesika · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

shakira shakira

gman92 · 1 points · Posted at 11:10:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvoted for spelling "formuoli" properly.

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 21:51:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn, beat me to it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OH BIKINI BOTTOM

WE PLEDGE OUR HEARTS TO YOU

AS LOYAL

AS DEEP

AS TRUE AS BLUE

BIKINI BOTTOM WE LOVE YOU

velocirapetor3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RAVIOLI RAVIOLI GIVE ME THE FORMUOLI

Kevinn_Yeah · 0 points · Posted at 20:36:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

These people clearly need help turning caps lock off...

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 15:39:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

KIEF KIEF KIEF

QUEEF QUEEF QUEEF

Brownsugarz · 76 points · Posted at 14:56:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RAVIOLI RAVIOLI GIVE ME THE FORMUOLI

RaggedyGentleman · 7 points · Posted at 13:59:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

MOMS SPAGHETTI MOMS SPAGHETTI

Poozer62 · 6 points · Posted at 14:09:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

VOMIT ON HIS SWEATER

RaggedyGentleman · 5 points · Posted at 14:52:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

POPPED A MOLLY IM SWEATING

7or3nzo · 2 points · Posted at 18:13:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GUCCI GUCCI LOUIE LOUIE

RaggedyGentleman · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

G L A M A R O U S

Wyntir9 · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FENDI FENDI PRADA

california_wombat · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YES!

praseti0 · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shitballs. I choked on my coffee reading this piece. You each get my upvote.

youknowit42 · 0 points · Posted at 15:23:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

MOMS

SPAGHETTI

serendipitousevent · 125 points · Posted at 13:37:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

MOJITO MOJITO MOJITO

laur2d2 · 70 points · Posted at 14:46:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

if doing that caused a mojito to appear, I'd be drunk always

ignatius87 · 5 points · Posted at 14:54:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wonder how good of a bartender the mirror ghost would be though. Maybe he doesn't make them very well.

laur2d2 · 9 points · Posted at 15:12:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And there's the nightmare.

Ulti · 3 points · Posted at 15:49:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sure you get a Mojito - WITH GIN. JUST GIN.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:06:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

who the hell makes gin mojitos

Ulti · 3 points · Posted at 16:26:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shitty bartender ghosts, that's who!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

no wonder jack Nicholson wanted to kill his family

laur2d2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

im sure it does in south america

n7shadow · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And I'll be the new Bill Gates, DOLLAR DOLLAR DOLLAR

laur2d2 · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what if it's ghost money?

n7shadow · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

doesn't matter, got money

laur2d2 · 2 points · Posted at 00:54:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ghooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooost money

n7shadow · 2 points · Posted at 01:08:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

still more money than I have :(

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

serendipitousevent · 3 points · Posted at 15:11:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One malaria, two malaria, three malaria, ah ah ah!

promitchuous · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SHAKIRA SHAKIRA SHAKIRA

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:57 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I AM A BANANA I AM A BANANA I AM A BANANA I AM A BANANA I AM A BANANA

BigD71144 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

KARMA KARMA KARMA

diarrhea_douche · -1 points · Posted at 15:54:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ASSJOB PORN ASSJOB PORN ASSJOB PORN

illBoopYaHead · 22 points · Posted at 14:30:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They say if you scream 'Bloody Mary' into the mirror three times at 3am, your mom will tell you to shut the fuck up.

RaggedyGentleman · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll try it tonight!

illBoopYaHead · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please deliver!

h22keisuke · 10 points · Posted at 13:20:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am 29, and just reading this post caused my heart to race and my mind to freeze.

RaggedyGentleman · 2 points · Posted at 13:38:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry. Go on r/aww to recover to happier thoughts.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Honestly, if you did summon her shade, Bloody Mary would probably leave you alone if you promised to be a good Catholic and told her she was pretty. That's all she really wanted.

GetUrNoJokeRapeOn · -1 points · Posted at 14:58:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for stating your age.

boomsc · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Better blink better look away, Candyman's coming to get you. Just stop thinking, just stop singing, the Candyman can hear. You don't need to speak, he can hear your thoughts. Three little thoughts and the Candyman comes...

Guess what you just thought...

samino_acids · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are un-fucking-necessary, sir.

weedandmountaindew · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm 36 and I still refuse to look at the mirror when I get up to pee at night. She's in there, man. I know it.

RaggedyGentleman · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Does she age as well?

weedandmountaindew · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pssh, I told you I don't look! But I can feel her presence...

samtwheels · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Relevant xkcd

RaggedyGentleman · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When is there not a relevant xkcd

_Doh_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP D:

saormaCuMamaliga · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/u/Shitty_Watercolour /u/Shitty_Watercolour /u/Shitty_Watercolour

TheRobotFrog · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WIL WHEATON WIL WHEATON WIL WHEATON!!!

sk8t-4-life22 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

See I'm not one to believe in that stuff but there's still a part of me that is terrified to try it... O.O

RaggedyGentleman · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As long as their is a little bit of doubt, the legend will live on T.T

herpaderpster · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RAY AMSLEY RAY AMSLEY RAY AMSLEY

pottyaboutpotter1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope. All my nopes.

Donski1982 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

CANDY MAN CANDY MAN CANDY MAN

RainbowExorcist · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Guuuys stooop. I'm in the bathroom!

ifrogotmyname · 1 points · Posted at 13:14:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You have killed us all, dick.

Stamcia · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

thats why i have no mirrors in my apartment. only handsize

Logi_Ca1 · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone actually did research on what happens when people stare at a mirror in a dimly lit room:

At the end of a 10 min session of mirror gazing, the participant was asked to write what he or she saw in the mirror. The descriptions differed greatly across individuals and included: (a) huge deformations of one’s own face (reported by 66% of the fifty participants); (b) a parent’s face with traits changed (18%), of whom 8% were still alive and 10% were deceased; (c) an unknown person (28%); (d) an archetypal face, such as that of an old woman, a child, or a portrait of an ancestor (28%); (e) an animal face such as that of a cat, pig, or lion (18%); (f ) fantastical and monstrous beings (48%).

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20842976

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes at night i think that my reflection in the mirror is trying to protect me from it's twisted horrifying world.

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is comforting in a terrifying way.

Boner666420 · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I piss at night with the lights off since my eyes are super dilated. I'm always terrified that my reflection will do something ever so subtly different from what I'm doing.

Loopdedoop · 2 points · Posted at 22:50:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THIS. I made the mistake of putting my dresser across from my bed when I moved a few years ago, so when I woke up in the middle of the night to get a drink of water my silhouette in the mirror would scare the crap out of me.

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dresser (and dresser mirror) are right across from my bedroom door. I've gotten very good at not looking straight when I enter my room at night.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:03:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always get freaked out walking to the bathroom at night because of this. Our bathroom door is usually left open and the mirror cabinet is perfectly positioned to give you a lovely view of the darkened hallway behind you as you approach it. Almost had a heart attack when I saw a definite shadowy face right above my shoulder. I practically leaped the final few steps into the bathroom and slammed door shut. When I cautiously opened it I saw that my sister had stuck a Harry Styles mask on the outside of her door for reasons beyond my comprehension.

SprikenZieDerp · 2 points · Posted at 23:48:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dunno, even during the day mirrors freak me out a little bit. I am always expecting my reflection to start moving on its own and attempting to kill me...

God dammit, it's all because of that one Creepypasta! And some horror movies....

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Which creepypasta? I don't think I've seen a mirror one. I will admit that I don't read them often though.

SprikenZieDerp · 2 points · Posted at 01:47:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uh, it was the one where every day some guy would stand in front of his mirror and make silly faces. His reflection felt that the guy was mocking it, and so it got mad and killed the guy by stabbing itself in the eye with a screwdriver, cause they were connected. It was from the reflection's perspective, and it ended with the reflection telling the reader something along the lines of "If you ever stare in the mirror and get the feeling that isn't you staring back, then it's probably not you."

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:13:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i'm so glad there are others who realise this horrifying fact of life. mirrors are freaky weird and are not to be toyed with.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:41:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Looking at my reflection while under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms was exactly that. I had forgotten what I looked like, and the face there was doing all kinds of things I knew that I wasn't. But it wasn't a bad trip anyway.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this a reference to something?

AllThatYouTouch · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you ever stared at yourself in a mirror for long enough for you to doubt that it's yourself staring back?

I don't suggest it

SprikenZieDerp · 2 points · Posted at 23:54:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every time I look at myself in the mirror, I think that. So usually don't look into mirrors.

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can honestly say that I have not. I don't spend a whole lot of time looking at myself. Usually when I look in the mirror I focus on one thing. It's generally my eyes, they're different colors day to day.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah check out "the three kings"

shudders

http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/wbo0u/please_dont_actually_try_this/

Megaturbonerd · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fun fact: what color is a mirror? Green. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrZpTHBEss&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Megaturbonerd · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fun fact: what color is a mirror? Green. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrZpTHBEss&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This video is pretty neat.

Just a heads up, you posted your comment twice. You might want to delete one.

JulyLauren · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Isn't there an urban myth that says two mirrors facing eachother becomes a portal for the supernatural? I might be making that up but I'll be damned if I have two mirrors facing eachother in my room now.

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel like I've heard the same myth, but I can't remember any details about it. I tried to look on snopes, but it's either not there or I used the wrong search terms.

shelbzaazaz · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also if you've eaten strange mushrooms. You always get stuck in the mirror and then you always either cry or fall to your knees, if nobody breaks your focus.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 13:05:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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Karbear_debonair · 3 points · Posted at 13:12:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's so bad for me too. My bathroom mirror is right in line with the bathroom door and it's almost impossible to turn the light on without looking in the direction of the mirror. It makes having to pee at night quite the adventure.

;_;

ceejiesqueejie · 5 points · Posted at 13:39:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I also get wigged out by mirrors at night. They're fucking creepy.

totally_jawsome · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid I would stare at mirrors for hours and think about the other works through it. I liked to imagine there was a world where there was another kid just like me looking through their portal.

I told my mom my newfound realization and she flipped (incredibly religious) and told me that that's what witches do and I needed to stop. I think I scared her at how obsessed I was. I just kind of drifted off staring into a mirror wishing it would take me to some other land.

Now that I think of it, if I saw a kid doing that I'd be freaked out too.

Slendyla_IV · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually threw my mirror away.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:22:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone screw up manufacturing/repairing the mirror.

Dragonborn1995 · 2 points · Posted at 04:31:33 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I cover mine with a blanket unless I'm using it. I used to see things in it. Things it hurts to remember.

Caesar_taumlaus_tran · 5 points · Posted at 14:56:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The prints were on the other side of the mirror.

Kyyni · 2 points · Posted at 14:50:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think some older mirrors don't have the reflective metal thingy and the glass actually glued or otherwise connected together, so that you could change the reflective silver backing if it somehow got oxidated. Or then they got there while someone made the mirror.

Or then, you know, some creepy ass ghost made them.

kimjong-ill · 2 points · Posted at 14:50:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is how mirrors age - you start to see the wear in the patterns of the oils on the back of them. Some kid must have touched it years ago before it was put in place. Mine has a wear pattern that looks like paint lines.

jjakers88 · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

its probably from the child laborer who assembled the mirror for you

spanish9man · 2 points · Posted at 16:02:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ever think it's the prints of Chinese factory kids that put 'em together?

trenderman3000 · 2 points · Posted at 16:28:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Child labor

Sigma34561 · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mirror was made by child labor and the kids got handprints between the glass and reflector.

pyro5050 · 2 points · Posted at 16:32:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is actually a really fun thing to do, but a little dangerous with bare hands, get some gloves. :)

a good pair of gloves

Methyl Hydrate or Acetone or Toulene

Screwdriver

check into a hotel, get your trusty screw driver and remove the bathroom mirror from the holders, ALWAYS take the top and one side, leave one side and the tp holders in, makes putting the mirror back easier.

in one of the corners, you are going to want to do this grab a bowl and pour some of your chemical of choice in, i prefer methyl hydrate because it takes longer.

put your glove on, and soak the glove in the chemical, at the start you might want to try using a cloth glove over a non-latex plastic glove. to soak up more.

in the bottom corner of the back of the mirror place the glove for a min or so, allow the chemical to work,

grab a section of toilet paper or paper towel (NOT A TOWEL) and wipe gently the back of the mirror where you placed, be very gentle. you will be removing some of the chemicals sprayed on the back of the mirror to make it reflective.

what this does is weakens the reflection, gives an impression of a hand print when people look at it in the right angle, in theory it can be so subtle that you may miss it multiple times. :)

this is a permanent damage. just so you are aware, but extremely fun to fuck with people. :) you try to wipe it, and cant, it isnt reflective because you are seeing the back wall.

ilovetpb · 2 points · Posted at 17:03:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This can happen if someone handles the glass by hand before the mirror coating is applied, but I would be very surprised if that got past quality control.

SlowFive · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Child labor in the mirror factory?

meatb4ll · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could have been Sister of Mine

lostincognition · 1 points · Posted at 14:25:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i just got goosebumps

GotASpooon · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahahaha Jacob, you were shitting yourself ;)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was this by any chance in Clarkefield, Victoria?

SimpsonN1nja · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's possible that when they put the mirror on somebody used plaster or something behind which would cause it to look like hand prints on the outaide

Khnagar · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

If someome touches the surfaces of the inside of the mirror (not sure what the proper name for this is?) during production or assembly in the factory those palmprints are pretty much invisible until the right conditions like moisture of lighting are just right.

Of course, in most cases the handprints are from malevolent spirits trying to break into our world. If you see anything move in a mirror, in the corner of your eye at night, (when we are alone, it's night and our psyche is most tuned to picking up these things) it means they are close to breaking through.

You might find this hard to believe, but try to remember it the next time you walk by a mirror, alone at night. Be careful though, if they catch you noticing them they will come for you.

Deathcloc · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nothing happened, It stayed there, I had a closer look and it seemed to be inside the mirror. If that makes any sense.

It does if you know how mirrors are made... glass covering aluminum, the hand prints were probably on the aluminum or the back side of the glass

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tonight you wre going to say it was a perfect match.

AIbase · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have kids. There are hand prints everywhere that will not come off and cannot be hidden by paint. I don't know how what or why, but kids just do that.

McSomeone · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those dirty sweatshop workers.

Bassjumper0590 · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's probably a sign they were made with child labor.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was made in China and the child laborer didn't wear his latex gloves during assembly.

Jemiller · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mirrors have two parts: a dark often slate back and a clear pane of glass. The handprint can be wiped from the inside surface of either materials. Though I wouldn't recommend ungluing the surfaces because it could be hard to recreate a crisp image minus the handprint.

impenetrable_panda · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

..Narnia..

bloodofmy_blood · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe it was double sided glass

TheTiniestPirate · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope nope nope.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, the reflective coating is applied to the back of the glass, so the handprints were probably on the glass before the coating was applied. Hence, permanent handprints in the mirror.

mm0k · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of Are You Afraid of the Dark? "!pleH"

isny · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably from the ghost of the kid who made the mirror.

Feedthedragons · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Underneath the glass of the mirror, the people that put them in have to put the glue on(to keep them together with the frame) VERY carefully as to not make any shapes. This is because, when the mirrors fog up, the shapes show up through the glass. I don't know if this applies to your case, but I've heard a TON of stories about plumbers and landlords messing with people by doing things like this.

CarolineJohnson · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of a mirror where I work.

I was cleaning the mirror and there was this big circular smudge. I go to wipe it away with window cleaner, and it goes away. The window cleaner dries, and suddenly it's back.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is a mirror on my left and I'm now afraid to look in it :(

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:12:20 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe they got there when they were making the mirror.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually know what happened here. A kid touched the mirror before it was installed on the back where silvering is. The oils slowly tarnished the metal and left them.

madeanotheraccount · 448 points · Posted at 14:22:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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.

Edit: Thanks for all the comments, kind Redditfolk. The ceiling was about 16' and I'm gonna assume from a lot of what people are saying that it was a kid walking on the sheetrock before it was put up (or a seriously high set of bunkbeds).

AndThenSex · 249 points · Posted at 14:51:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At my grandparents house there's a adult-sized footprint on the ceiling of the bathroom right above the shower. I just kind of assumed that it seemed more reasonable that someone accidentally stepped on the surface before it was placed while building.

That's what I tell myself anyway. Makes it a bit easier to take a shower then.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 17:36:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was probably Jamiroquai

thepeptidesdidntwork · 11 points · Posted at 15:51:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once tried to squash a mosquito with my sneaker. Only it was on my roof and now theres a foot print.

AndThenSex · 5 points · Posted at 16:11:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you get the mosquito at least?

I have footprints on my bedroom ceiling also, but I did that so it's K.

fedora_and_a_whip · 5 points · Posted at 16:40:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

relevant username?

AndThenSex · 7 points · Posted at 16:45:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sex is always relevant.

SpaceballsTheHandle · 5 points · Posted at 19:44:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everyone in this part of the thread go clean your fucking ceilings right now.

Azabutt · 3 points · Posted at 22:49:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everyone else just looked carefully at their ceiling.

yagurlhayley · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope too scared too look anywhere but here

bitchbecraycray · 3 points · Posted at 16:52:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That does happen a lot. The construction workers have piles of the ceiling panels and dirty shoes. They walk on them sometimes

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:35:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Secretly there's an upside down ghost sraring at your ass.

bloodofmy_blood · 5 points · Posted at 19:55:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or someone was having some freaky shower sex

berilax · 3 points · Posted at 18:39:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My basement ceiling has a boot-shaped print on it. No matter how many times I paint it, I can still see the print. Here's the thing: I stepped on the drywall before I put it up, and it slightly depressed the imprint of my boot on it.

I like to think, 20 years from now, some future owner will be on some forum talking about creepy things and say, "There's this bootprint on my basement ceiling. I can paint it all I want, but I still see it. It's just unnerving."

SarcasticVoyage · 2 points · Posted at 17:34:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My old next door neighbors' house used to be the town orphanage back when orphanages were a thing (are they still in the US?) and one of the windowsills upstairs still had the kids' names carved in the wood.

abzka · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or they tried to kill a bug with the shoe? That's how I managed to have a few shoe prints around my apartment.

phoenixink · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We have some property up in the mountains and for a long time there were footprints on the ceiling above the porch. My siblings loved to tell me how every night, aliens would come down and walk around on the ceilings. Scared me absolutely shitless. Of course, the footprints were there from the workers walking on the boards before they put them up on the ceiling.

Claydogh · 2 points · Posted at 22:59:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandfather built a house not 40 years ago, its a small rinky dink cabin in the New York woods. Right above the shower there is a foot print on the wood. He had stepped in something, on the wood, then nailed it to the ceiling. I find it funny, but get out of our cabin.

Professor_Hoover · 2 points · Posted at 02:06:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly the same thing happened at school once. There was this metal curtain designed to reduce sun glare in the afternoon, and if you looked in the right spot you could see work boots. Probably just the builders, they were dirt prints on the sheltered side of the curtain.

[deleted] · 1060 points · Posted at 14:58:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Edwin17132003 · 8 points · Posted at 19:35:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spider pig, spider pig http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=714-Ioa4XQw

masheduppotato · 14 points · Posted at 16:43:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanking you for clarifying, for_clarity.

DardySing · 3 points · Posted at 02:05:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Go home Clarence

rapsteak · 3 points · Posted at 17:24:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ʘ‿ʘ

ThePowerof7 · 3 points · Posted at 18:23:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nocontext

totally_jawsome · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just to clarify, right?

schectershred · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Soo clear.

macromissy · 2 points · Posted at 00:35:31 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha. I love it.

Crayonzwow · 19 points · Posted at 14:48:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe the owners previous to you owned bunk beds and the kid kicked the ceiling.

frog_gurl22 · 7 points · Posted at 15:24:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a kid who slept in a bunk bed, I can confirm that many a night was spent "walking" across my ceiling. And we moved my bed a couple of times. My footprints are probably in a variety of places on the ceiling of both those bedrooms.

mmm_burrito · 2 points · Posted at 23:03:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could also have been a kid with dirty feet walking across the drywall before it was put up. As was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, greasy or oily prints will show through paint.

Whiskey-Business · 9 points · Posted at 15:22:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where I live are many, many houses more than 100+ years old. There's this one that people have moved in and out of for years. In fact, two different relatives have lived there on different occasions.

Relative 1 claimed that horse shoe prints would randomly appear on the ceiling of the living room, and then disappear. Sometimes at night they could hear the trot of a horse as well.

Relative 2 had a small child that would regularly play with a friend that no one saw. The typical toys going off in the night while everyone was asleep, was fairly common. I stayed the night once and had my own run in with whatever was living there, but that's another story.

HerrPurple · 4 points · Posted at 16:11:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For goodness' sake, share.

Whiskey-Business · 6 points · Posted at 17:15:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was probably 6 or 7 at the time when it was decided that I'd spend the night with my godmother, her husband, and 2 year old child. It was whatever, I played with my little cousin, like normal, until bed time.

Middle of the night rolls around and I gotta Go to the restroom. So I get up, walk down the hall to the restroom, and take care of business. As I Sat there on the toilet, that's when I saw it; there was someone standing there with me.

It was a little girl, dressed in those old-fashioned night gowns (you know, the ones with long sleeves with lace on the hem), short black hair that was somewhere between damp or greasy, purple lips and sunken dark eyes, with her head titled slightly down with a sad look on her face. The funny thing was I remember not being scared. I knew what it was, she had a very faint purple-blue glow to her, but I wasn't scared. I felt so sorry for her because she looked so sad.

After however long, she just disappeared and Iwent on my way back to bed. I told my mom the next day what happened and she, being a modern Catholic, kinda just brushed it off.

Years later, she told me about the stuff that had gone on at that house that other people had shared. She told me how my little cousin would mention that she was playing with the little girl, toys would make noise at night, doors would open and shut, etc. Well, apparently there was also a not so nice ghost as well that was reportedly a tall dark shadow of a man that my godmother and husband would see in their room at night. They would sometimes wake up with him standing by their bed and just have the most ill of feelings inside. When they started waking up to bruises is when they decided to move.

We finally found out what may be haunting that property. There's a small creek in the back, more of a ditch, with a good amount of water in it. Apparently sometime in the early 1900's a man drowned his daughter in that ditch. That kinda explained why her hair looked damp and her lips purple when I saw her.

It's eery now just typing all of that out. It's one of my most vivid memories from my youth and the fact that my encounter was corroborated years later proved I wasn't insane or dreaming (I was never a sleep walker either). I'm 25 now and to this day, no one stays in that house. People still come and go, but no one stays.

tl;dr this took forever to type on my phone, read it or don't.

Incarnadine91 · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Poor girl. The other ghost scared away her playmates.

madeanotheraccount · 2 points · Posted at 08:39:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

tl;dr this took forever to type on my phone, read it or don't.

It's worth reading.

keith_HUGECOCK · 5 points · Posted at 14:56:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Am I being stupid when I ask: was it wallpaper?

halfoftormundsmember · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope, that's a very good question. It would easily explain how the footprints got up there.

tomblim · 3 points · Posted at 15:33:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spiderkid, Spiderkid, does whatever a Spiderkid does.

Pipocas · 3 points · Posted at 15:47:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's your ceiling made of? Maybe a kid walked across the wood or whatever before it was installed

MangorTX · 3 points · Posted at 16:57:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My daughter taped paper eyes to the ceiling, over my bed along with a small sign, "I'm watching you". Only noticed it when I was in bed looking straight up to the ceiling. Kept the piece of tape there to remind me.

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 14:44:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's ridiculous. Why- how- would someone do that?!

TheJarvis · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What are the ceilings made of? Could have been walked on during production on the ground, then put up.

xatefroggg · 2 points · Posted at 16:37:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That ceiling is comprised of drywall more than likely. That drywall was on the floor at one time before it was installed and was probably walked on by a child. Maybe they did a bad job painting since the ceiling was so high and you can see the shoe prints through the paint.

Source-I'm in construction and have seen it before and I make those sleazy drywall finishers and painters come back and do it right or YOU WON'T GET PAID, NOW STOP ARGUING AND GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE FINAL INSPECTIONS TOMORROW.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im definitely going to be putting footprints and hand prints on walls and ceilings every time i move.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Footprints on ceilings... In one of the parking garages in Las Vegas, there are literally thousands of footprints all over the ceiling, in places you can't imagine a person being able to get their feet up there. I'm still confused to this day how they got there, much less so many.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spider pig?

hambonezred · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Make a fist. Use a rolling stamping motion with the side of your hand. That is the foot. Fingertips for toes. Now you too can freak people out.

General_DisarrayHoot · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A lot of times when you get footprints on the ceiling, it's from when they were building the place. The plywood was probably on te ground while it was being built and kids were playing on it.

-claudine- · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

my brother-in-law is very tall. He likes to hold my kids upside down over his head so they can walk on the ceiling. Nothing creepy about it.

weetodddid · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The drywall was probably walked on before it was installed.

Liv-Julia · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Supposedly Abe Lincoln did that for a prank-either put his feet on the ceiling in fresh paint or held someone else up there to freak out his step-mother. Source: memory from school.

b2311e · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

^Spider ^kid, ^spider ^kid...

gypsywhore · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Were the ceilings drywall? It could have been that while they were building the place, some kid with greasy feet thought it would be fun to walk on all the stacked building supplies. Then the builder wiped away some of the excess sand and said, meh, once a coat of paint goes over it, you won't even be able to see it.

Three coats of paint later and those greasy little footprints are still visible.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spider kid, spider kid. Does whatever a spider kid does

stubsy · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We have a footprint on one of our VERY high ceilings. Luckily we know the builder and asked about it. Apparently when they're getting ready to install a ceiling they'll lay out the drywall sections on the ground. Construction worker must have walked across it before it was installed.

syntheticwisdom · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Curious as to how high the ceilings are. I'm 6'5 so if I hold my arms straight up, you're looking at about 9-10 feet. Then add another foot or two for the kid. Maybe factor in a foot for a step stool or something.

Dumblerawr · 2 points · Posted at 19:10:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sounds like an absolutely evil prank to pull on someone if you're moving out

deep717 · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spider-child, Spider-child, does whatever a spider-child does.

TheFUNsultant · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Possibly when the ceiling was laying out before being put up. Children love construction sites, I know I loved going into houses being built and making obstacle courses.

biddledee · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I use to sleep in a bunk bed and could rest my feet on the ceiling easily, so that might be the cause. Might have been scaffolding in the room for painting or ceiling work that a child could climb on. Y'wouldn't know...

nahfoo · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When i was like ten i did something like this to fuck story my parents, i stepped, barefoot in mud and had my bigger friend hold me upside down over his head so i could put footprints on the ceiling. Not creepy but>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.

Tushaca · 2 points · Posted at 22:01:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was probably from a kid walking on the Sheetrock before they put it up.

MrBonkies · 2 points · Posted at 22:12:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's only one logical answer....

spider pig

Dank_means_moist · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

hahahaha My dad and brother, when they would work on houses doing dry wall and such, would stand on the scaffolding and hold my nephew upside down and have him walk on the ceiling. It was some "tradition" for them.

BooDipp · 2 points · Posted at 22:24:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have about 3 sets of footprints right above me on the ceiling. But that's only because I use to have a bunk-bed there and my older sister liked to press her feet against the ceiling...

PrivateCaboose · 2 points · Posted at 00:01:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kids playing around the construction site whole the house was being built or remodeled or something? My parents had a house built when I was a kid, they took me and my siblings to check it out while it was still being built and I made it my mission to run amok. Consequently my footprints ended up all over the Sheetrock they used for the ceiling in the garage.

anonymous3073 · 2 points · Posted at 05:12:08 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably Abraham Lincoln's work.

JakeOcelot · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:20 on June 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spider-Kid, Spider-Kid, he can walk on the ceiling. Can he make a spider-web? Of course not, he a kid. Look out, Spider-Kid is here.

readermom · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you ever read a biography of Abraham Lincoln? here's the story...

Just thought it kind of relates to this.

sofaviolin · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you hold your right hand in a fist and and put paint on the outer right part of it, then stamp it on paper and place 5 dots on top of that, it looks like little baby feet!

Solidgoldcaddy · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lionel Richie's Day Care?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think Calvin used to live in your house.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Omfg. There are child sized trainer prints of my ceiling above me right now. Previous tenants had no children. Ceiling is white and normal, not boards or do eyeing your have on the floor before you put up.

It didn't bother me before. Now I'm a bit creeped out.

Incarnadine91 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bunk bed, probably. I know I 'walked' on the ceiling a lot when I had mine.

sayaandtenshi · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well maybe the footprints got there before the board was put up and whatever was on the bottom of the foot is something that has managed to either stain the wood and paint or was just large enough to cast shadows regardless of paint.

bearlife · 0 points · Posted at 16:32:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spider-kid spider-kid doing things a spider-kid does

Kittae · 1159 points · Posted at 14:57:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Boyfriend lived in a house that made no sense--there was a light switch on a baseboard that worked a light two rooms away, for instance. Just shitty only-college-kids-can-stand-it house.

They decided to see if there was room in the attic space for some boxes. So Boyfriend opens the hatch-thing, pulls down the ladder, and goes up. Pulls the chain for the light to come on. The bare bulb is over a dusty room empty except for a rusty, metal children's high chair.

Boyfriend clicked the light back off, came back down the ladder, and said, "No, we're never going up there."

Ollipup · 172 points · Posted at 18:02:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it at UConn?

My boyfriend lived at a house there that had this exact set up... Light switch to the two rooms down the hall with the hatchway. But it also had a board marked "girls" and "boys" that had red lights that would glow when the rooms were illuminated.

There was also a bomb shelter when you went into the basement. It was more of a safe because there was no way to open the huge metal door from the inside once you locked it. When you opened the door, there was a long tunnel you could only crawl through with painted handprints and racist phrases written all over. At the bottom there was a circular room with a few shelves and bunkbeds. Definitely had nightmares of people crawling out and of being stuck in there.

Kittae · 26 points · Posted at 21:00:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds terrifying and I'm glad that this house was in rural Georgia, away from that kind of evil

agloomysunday · 19 points · Posted at 18:55:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn. Any pictures of that?

[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 22:38:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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pylon567 · 7 points · Posted at 09:15:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you find them, please deliver.

jmonty42 · 6 points · Posted at 20:36:44 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goes off to look for pictures of creepy house ... hasn't posted on Reddit since ...

aht09002 · 15 points · Posted at 01:31:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

We call that "bomb-shelter house" at UConn. I've been there for a few parties and went to the downstairs kitchen where the hatch to the shelter is (huge metal door with locks on the outside), took one look into the darkness, gave the biggest NOPE of all time, then went upstairs to finish drinking my shitty beer

capn_of_outerspace · 14 points · Posted at 20:06:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was the house some kind of orphanage in the past? Like during the Cold War in the 50s?

cornucopiaofdoom · 19 points · Posted at 22:18:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Strategic orphan reserves.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 21:43:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck that fuck that fuck that.

I'm terrified just imagining it.

CRAB_MAN13 · 6 points · Posted at 22:12:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ahh I've had this in my mind for a long time, so at my grandparents house there is this long ass hallway with white walls and at night it's scary in its oh right but somedays you could here this laughing like young kids softly laughing and rattling like toys and rustling o shit that was the worst I still hate that hallway

Commisioner_Gordon · 8 points · Posted at 00:53:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did someone say safe?? OPEN THE SAFE? WHATS INSIDE??

rland916 · 9 points · Posted at 21:43:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're not allowed to refer to anything similar to a "safe" on this site any more. It's just too painful

Wreak_Peace · 5 points · Posted at 22:20:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's just not safe to talk about the s word... The word has so much baggage, that it had to be locked inside of the s**e.

Dragonborn1995 · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:07 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

What is this guy talking about? Link please?

Kushtimes · 3 points · Posted at 22:08:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What area is this? I go to UConn

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:35:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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aht09002 · 3 points · Posted at 01:32:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know Mike M?

theaveragetwin · 4 points · Posted at 23:08:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

same boyfriend perhaps?

SynSyx · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to UConn - how did I never hear about this?!

LoH_Mobius · 1 points · Posted at 01:50:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like UConn to me...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:13 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Looks like I'm not going to UConn.

LoH_Mobius · 1 points · Posted at 12:51:31 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not that bad if you choose a place wisely, but also remember its all about the basketball

Kvothe24 · 205 points · Posted at 20:30:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've told this story before, it's very similar to yours.

The house I grew up in (and was actually born inside of was built in 1912 and at least one person had died there (probably not relevant, but whatever.)

There was a crawlspace that went from the back of my closet where a hole (about 3x3 ft, maybe four, just enough to literally crawl through) that went to the back of the two closets in the master bedroom. Those entrances had actual panels that went to the crawl space. We never went in there partially because there was no need and mostly because I was a kid and it scared the shit out of me.

Well in my teenage years, we're redoing the insulation in our attic. The only entrance to the attic at that time was a tiny square panel in the ceiling of one of the upstairs rooms. We were also going to build one of those pull down ladder things during this project. The attic always scared the shit out of us cause sometimes when we were kids we would wake up and the panel would be shifted slightly, as in pushed up a bit and not fully covering the whole, but we figured it was our dad fucking with us or some shit.

Anyway, attic insulation blah blah. The attic was unfinished so we were laying boards on the crossbeams since you could hypothetically fall through the floor of the attic if you stepped poorly. I noticed that the attic goes back way farther than I thought. I keep going with this shitty flashlight and see it actually drops down at one point to an area above the first floor. Then I see that this is fucking connected to that god damn crawl space, which is kind of weird, but whatever.

I keep going and it drops down to this large area that I would later realize is in the roof of our porch. It was like a tiny room, but the floor was sketchy like the rest.

There was a single childrens chair in the room. There were also some more things but I have to go to lunch so I'll finish this comment in 1 hour. Sorry.

Kvothe24 · 205 points · Posted at 21:36:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if anyone was even reading this or care but here's the final bit of the story.

There was that creepy wooden childrens chair standing up in this "room" area in the attic. There was also a board/piece of wood, about a half inch thick and the area of a regular sheet of paper.

There were names carved into the board. One in each corner, one on the top/bottom/left/right, one in the middle and two randomly inbetween. The weird part is that the one in the middle was carved deeper than the others, then gone over in some kind of red paint/ink. The weirder part is that name was scratched up like someone had gone at it with a knife or something in anger.

The weirdest part is that it was my name, and my name has a semi unique spelling, but I wouldn't say it's extremely uncommon. I've met a couple people with my name spelled the same, but still. It was fucking weird.

I didn't really think anything about it at the time. We redid the roof to the porch shortly after and pulled the chair and board out then (at the time, I just dropped it and GTFO of that creepy ass attic space.)

Last time I told this story people said a picture of it would be awesome. I did get curious and thought I might have stashed it in the basement or something, but I asked my brother (he still lives at the house) and he said we tossed it with the rest of the shit we through out when we were doing that remodelling. Whomp whomp.

AlmightyBaloo · 7 points · Posted at 22:09:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So what's your take on it? You never asked your parents for an explanation?

Kvothe24 · 18 points · Posted at 22:52:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I asked my dad who was right there, he had no idea and to get back to work.

I imagine that it was just a family that lived there and some little kid would sneak there to be alone/escape their siblings and really hated a sibling with my name. Just an idea.

Not as creepy as some psycho/ghost child sitting in an attic space that was connected to my bedroom closet through the crawlspace carving my name in a board and plotting my death.

soulstice915 · 10 points · Posted at 01:25:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've heard before of houses with little crawl spaces for children with mental disorders (and the like) to crawl into that may lead to a private room so that they can have alone time to cope with life and similar scenarios. I completely forget where I heard this from though, sadly..

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 01:27:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That makes sense. Some children with varying degrees of autism benefit from having an "isolation" room at school so they can calm themselves down.

samferrara · 5 points · Posted at 22:27:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh shit, I think I'm autistic.

SecondhandUsername · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:52 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whoa!

I was OK until the "Whomp whomp."

cabothief · 3 points · Posted at 04:52:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not only am I reading this/care, according to RES I have upvoted you 16 times when we've run across each other. That probably won't be interesting to anyone else, but it might be to you, possibly.

Kvothe24 · 7 points · Posted at 05:54:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm glad you like the things I say.

Dani212M · 6 points · Posted at 21:39:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You can more than hypothetically fall through in-between the rafters. My mom had fun explaining the hole in the ceiling and the debris all over the floor when my dad came home that day. And then the guy fixing it fell through pretty close to the original hole, he had to fix that one too.

Kvothe24 · 3 points · Posted at 21:53:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I'm aware. It's never happened to me and at the time my dad told me I had to walk on the crossbeams or I'd fall through the floor. I took his word for it. That's why I used the word "hypothetically."

Kittae · 3 points · Posted at 21:02:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Waiting to hear back

Kvothe24 · 8 points · Posted at 21:29:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just got back, finishing story now.

thebigeazy · 4 points · Posted at 21:13:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OP will surely deliver.

Kvothe24 · 6 points · Posted at 21:37:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1f9i14/what_is_the_scariestcreepiest_thing_you_have/ca8e0v4

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:31:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

57 minutes, only 3 more guys!

Kvothe24 · 4 points · Posted at 21:37:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here ya go.

leslieleanor · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ahhh! The suspense is killing me!!!

[deleted] · 188 points · Posted at 16:31:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck that.

CouchMangler · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Amen, brotha

blowinthroughnaptime · 46 points · Posted at 16:54:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is what I'm picturing. Does that sound about right?

Kittae · 16 points · Posted at 17:24:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's EXACTLY it

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 19:37:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Move. It's the chair's house now.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 20:29:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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KnightKrawler · 1 points · Posted at 11:53:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm thinking someone was dental work.

smart416 · 7 points · Posted at 19:26:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You just reminded me of when I was doing a home inspection for my buddy and found this in his attic. Creeped me right out.

pottyaboutpotter1 · 7 points · Posted at 19:56:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What? Demons have to keep clean too you know.

Uidl · 8 points · Posted at 20:59:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That could just be to collect water if the roof was leaking

__Anustart__ · 2 points · Posted at 21:27:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's very likely that was once an attic cistern, and hopefully not some spooky ghost child's fave hangout.

vitaminDD · 8 points · Posted at 19:32:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All of my nopes.

Just take them.

baccaruda66 · 11 points · Posted at 16:56:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As opposed to an adult high chair? ;)

Hyronious · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes. As opposed to an adults high chair. Not a bar stool type thing, a kids high chair.

clawson01 · 0 points · Posted at 19:27:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i was going to ask the exact same thing!

BGYeti · 3 points · Posted at 19:35:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your boyfriend made a very smart decision.

Darkencypher · 4 points · Posted at 16:56:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What a smart man. He is a keeper.

[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 17:20:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If yo' man ain't willin' to kill some ghosts for you, you ain't got yo'self no man.

Mmmmmmmmmmmhmmm.

TheCorruptableDream · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yesterday, I moved out of one of those only-college-kids-can-stand-it houses.

I am so glad to be away from that place. Though the scariest thing about that place was the badly flickering (and also completely illogical) lights. Thankfully, I only spent one night properly alone in that place.

Kittae · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Really, what is with these shitty houses that say "be creative with the wiring!"?

kyrandos · 2 points · Posted at 21:26:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not going to lie. Every single house my family moved out of while I was growing up - I left behind an old rusted object I'd pick up from the hobo-forests or junkyards the day before.

I like to think I was giving people exciting stories.

-trevor · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm picturing this.

atla · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My middle school hosted a yearly weekend trip for the kids in art club. We'd all go up to this weird commune place in the woods, fire the pottery we'd worked all year on, and do fun bonding shit. We were there Friday-Sunday, so we stayed in houses on right on the 'campus' of the art place (though a bit of a walk away from any other buildings; they were kind of nestled in the woods). Since this was a school trip, the boys had their house, and the girls had theirs.

The first night is normal. The house is pretty creepy -- each room seemed to be infested with a different kind of bug (some people were talking about how there were spiders everywhere; me and my friend were in a room where the ceiling and windows were covered in ladybugs). It's an old, rickety building (because art commune in the woods), so it's got a base level of creepy but it's not too bad.

Then, on Saturday afternoon, right after lunch, we decide to go exploring.

We find an attic (accessible only by a door in a closet). The stairs are kind of shitty (rough wood, unpainted, only horizontal planks -- no backing to transition between one step to the next), cobwebs everywhere. It's narrow, so we're all going single file. When we get to the top, we notice that the floor is really rickety; I was second 'in line', so I actually got to see the room from the second step (everyone else had to wait for us to go back down to see).

The room was dark. There were no lights -- only a single window, grey with dirt, cracked. It was almost completely empty -- at the center of the room was a single desk. It looked like real wood (not the fake wood they use normally), with the chair attached to it. It's small, like it was made for an elementary school kid.

In the far corner is a single white sneaker.

Both are covered in cobwebs and dust. It's pretty freaky, so we (being middle schoolers) scream and get the hell out of there. We tell our chaperone; instead of explaining it, she tells us not to explore the house anymore. We don't.

CherikeeRed · 2 points · Posted at 21:55:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remodeled a house with nonsense switches like that. There were switches in the den that only affected one outlet per, on the 2nd floor. After some investigating I determined it used to be a brothel. The madame would signal time-up from the office, which was now a den. It had some other quirks too, but none that were as interesting as the whorelights.

chromofilmblurs · 2 points · Posted at 23:06:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminds me of when my parents were having some work done on their house. Downstairs in our laundry room, behind the washing machine was a boarded up entry to a crawl space under the house. The electricians pried it open and looked in, then went upstairs and said to my dad, "there's something down here you might want to see."

Someone had used it as a children's play room. There was a kiddie size table and knocked over chair in there with a cup still sitting on the table. There were stuffed toys and such scattered about. Once they were finished, we boarded it back up. We haven't spoke about it since.

DeaconSage · 2 points · Posted at 00:46:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He made the right call on that one, fuck your attic.

redweasel · 2 points · Posted at 23:24:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in an old house. When we first moved in, we found a lightswitch on the living room wall that didn't do anything. We ignored it; in fact, put furniture in front of it and forgot about it. A year or two later we rearranged the furniture in the upstairs bedrooms and found that one of the electrical outlets we hadn't been using, didn't work when we finally did want to use it. Even then, we drove ourselves crazy trying to make plans, and make time, to have an electrician come and "fix that outlet." One day I finally put two and two together and... sure enough! That switch in the living room (first floor) operated that outlet on the opposite wall of the room above. WTF?

zushiba · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:16 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I moved in to my current house, half of the shit in the house wouldn't work. Like almost none of the lights would turn on. Everyone helping me move was walking around flipping switches trying to figure out what the hell was going on. I was in the garage and there were 2 light switches, one that turns on the outside light and the other one seemingly did nothing.

Finally someone was flipping switches inside when I flipped that switch and all the lights in the house came on.

There's 1 switch in the garage that controls like over half the house.

BroomIsWorking · 6 points · Posted at 19:04:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Get a braver boyfriend.

Kittae · 3 points · Posted at 21:00:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's the thing, Boyfriend is a man-beast, so I know he wasn't playing around

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's the big deal?

randomeese · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They should make that house into a movie.

ZalgoKetchum · 112 points · Posted at 14:02:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Low quality child labor maybe? How old is the house?

pineapple_warhorse · 6 points · Posted at 14:05:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not totally sure. It's Colonial style, but it's newer than that. At least 75-80 years old.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:52:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As opposed to high quality child labor. I smell a Nike commercial.

Bored · 55 points · Posted at 14:16:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could just be a raccoon or something.

pineapple_warhorse · 4 points · Posted at 14:48:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They're a bit big for raccoon paws, but it's not impossible. They're about 3.5-4 inches long, I'd guess. Pretty big coon, which is its own kind of freaky.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:13:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope we are talking about the animal.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What else would I be talking about?

KingOfRages · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wishful thinking in action ↑

as-we-speak · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Interior designer raccoon is not amused.

[deleted] · 362 points · Posted at 14:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My room had carpet when I moved in, and as time went by, I decided to remove it. To this, I found paint on my floor. First a dried drop of orange, followed by a strip of yellow. I found that the yellow strip was belonging to a handprint on my floor about the size of a little kids hand. Along with so many others in different colours. In fact, the only thing that wasn't a handprint was that of a note scrawled onto the floor in red. All it said was 'hello'.

Didn't sleep in that room for days after finding that.

buttsquirt · 795 points · Posted at 14:52:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it weird that I wouldn't think of this as creepy? Just the previous owners letting their kids run wild with some paint before getting new carpet put down...?

freedomweasel · 252 points · Posted at 15:03:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was my first thought as well. More of an "oh cool, that looks like it was fun" rather than scary.

underleaves · 16 points · Posted at 15:22:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. My parents let my brother and me draw all over the plywood floor in our living room before putting down carpet. I wish I had thought to leave creepy messages to scare people in the future!

deathberry_x · 3 points · Posted at 16:11:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because the paint colours are too happy to be creepy. Imagine if all the horror movies were thematically yellow/orange/happy colours, so many sleepless nights can be saved.

7or3nzo · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

or Happy colours would become terrifying.

FoodBeerBikesMusic · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, my parents let us write all over the living room wall, before they put the paneling up.

sternford · 2 points · Posted at 16:06:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my parents remodeled the bathroom I drew a little Waldo behind where the tiling would go

Incarnadine91 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's cool =) I wrote 'if you're reading this, hope you like our house!' underneath our kitchen tiles when my dad relaid them.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know, it was just a shock. Plus, with my wallpaper falling off and the yellowed, then mouldy roof, it made it like a murder dungeon.

HeroBrown · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah if it was all red paint maybe it would be a little scary. But who doesn't write things on walls when they start painting it?

halfoftormundsmember · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, this is pretty normal for anyone with kids.

I found a load of butterfly stickers on the inside of my airing cupboard.

Wagbager · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We did that when remodeling a foreclosure house we bought, except we wrote red rum, help, and rape dungeon in blood red paint.

gerald_bostock · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When first found, yes, but late at night it could be a little disturbing.

deadleg22 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes I usually wouldn't think of this as creepy but since reading some of the other comments, everything has turned a bit sinister.

syntheticwisdom · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought the same thing. "Honey we're carpeting the floor, little Johnny go nuts with paint."

neon_niccotine · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn I'm jelly.

DarkStar5758 · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or they got the carpet put in to cover it up. Not really scary, either way.

rosel19 · 1 points · Posted at 14:10:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll take the less creepy explanation any day.

3point1415NEIN · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, it's actually kind of adorable

mayo_is_a_instrument · 249 points · Posted at 14:32:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Are you my old teacher? She told us how in her new house, she would hear talking in her daughters room (baby monitor) and when she would come up the stairs her daughter would be looking off to a certain corner and laugh. She also said how there was a red strip of paint that would never come off her carpet.

EXTRA INFO: She also told us that when she painted her house a different color, something would be smashed or moved around. So she painted her house again and it started happening more often. Then she decided to paint it the original colors and everything went back to normal.

CaptainCupcakez · 18 points · Posted at 14:51:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is absolutely terrifying. Creepy children are the worst.

randomspiritlover · 36 points · Posted at 15:09:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They really are. At my daycare, sometimes the babies/toddlers will wave at empty corners of the room. One time this 2 year old was staring off into space and when I asked her what she was looking at she answered “ghost” with this completely blank look on her face. And another time, just after waking from her nap, the same girl sits up and says “they're coming”. It was fairly terrifying.

underleaves · 22 points · Posted at 16:02:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to work in a daycare located in a church and some of the other staff were convinced that it was haunted. Things would inexplicably get moved or broken and children would stare at/talk to people who weren't there. Probably the creepiest thing happened one morning when the preschoolers were all in the church sanctuary (they would have a little mini church service where they would sing songs etc.). At one point one of the little girls pointed and said "Look, there's a man behind Miss [Teacher]!" She turned around and there was no man. Kind of creepy, but kids make up weird stuff, right?

Later on at lunch the teacher was telling me and another teacher about it when a boy at the table said that he had also seen a man and started describing what the man looked like. The other teacher then decided to go over to the table where the original little girl was sitting (out of earshot of the boy) and ask her to describe the man. Her description of the man was eerily similar, though there was enough of a difference in their wording that it seemed unlikely that either one was simply repeating something they had overheard. Now, I'm sure there is an explanation that doesn't involve ghosts (coincidence, the teacher asking leading questions, etc.) but it was still pretty creepy at the time.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:17:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did they describe Jesus?

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 18:46:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OOO^{OOO^{OOO^ooohh}} I am the ghost of Jeeee^{eee^eeesus} ! I am here to ~~haunt~~ bless your soul!

kinsey3 · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy Ghost indeed. Still, the really creepy parts of Christianity are the ritualistic cannibalism and the raising of the dead stuff. Do you want zombies? Because that's how you get zombies.

HeWhoStoleGodsBong · 8 points · Posted at 15:14:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your name ruins my trust of you.

randomspiritlover · 8 points · Posted at 15:42:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha, it's the title of an awesome Sunset Rubdown album.

A_Mouse_In_Da_House · 7 points · Posted at 15:22:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God damn it. I WANT TO BELIEVE.

Prosopagnosiape · 3 points · Posted at 18:34:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My nephew's done the same! His parents were off on a holiday with some friends and their kids, and at the dinner table one evening, in one of those luls in conversation, he says 'i can hear them coming' and refused to elaborate.

Alysaria · 14 points · Posted at 16:18:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my nephew was about 3, my sister found him out of bed at 10pm. He was sitting on the floor, talking to the empty couch. She asked him what he was doing and he said "Talking to George. He fell off the roof."

Stalinkitty · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:14 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did some student teaching at my childhood elementary school in my senior year of high school. I worked with my first grade teacher to give certain kindergarten kids extra help or attention with just general stuff. The kids had weekly assignments to write about and draw what they did over the weekend. One day one of the girls came in with a crudely drawn picture of a person with no face falling upside down, with what looked like wings but I honestly wasn't sure. In her kindergarten scribble on the lines below she wrote, "why do people fall from the sky?" It was the scariest thing I've ever seen. The mind of a child is... extremely strange.

BrianInYoBrain · 8 points · Posted at 15:00:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They say that children are more susceptible to interactions with apparitions because they obviously can't be skeptical, but they also aren't looking for it.

I think they say something like that... "They" say a lot.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:57:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid and my parents moved into a new house I was absolutely terrified of my new room. I just felt like it wasn't right, there was something wrong with the room. Something about the room felt wrong, like you weren't alone or something was watching you. Every now and then I thought I heard a voice or a whisper and I have memories of seeing a tall, broad figure who would often just stand in the upstairs hallway. I could only describe it as half there and my parents told me I just imagined it. I had a pretty vivid imagination, so I trusted them, but it was always the same figure and I stopped seeing it at some point in my preteen years.

Another weird thing is that my mentally handicapped sister has 'friends' in her room when shes alone all the time, which she talks to and plays with. As far as I've noticed, those friends arent in other houses, or school, or anywhere but this house. She writes their names down and draws pictures, but they couldve just been any name and the pictures are just of stick people, so I always just dismissed it as her being her. She'll talk about them if you ask her how her friends are today and who is over, but she doesn't talk much and usually just says one word sentences.

Last week I was back home in that house and I was babysitting my 4 year old nephew. At about 1:30 in the morning or so (when my sister wasn't home) he came up to me and told me that there was something on his bed. Not under, but on his bed, with him when he was in here (I made sure to ask what he meant). That creeped me out quite a bit. I checked it out and everything seemed normal in his room and he said it was gone. It got me really wondering about that house though, but I figure if nothing bad ever happened to us in all the years we lived there, then I'm not too worried about it.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:16:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope she wasn't your science teacher.

gentlyweeps_88 · 3 points · Posted at 21:12:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I need to convince myself that your old teacher is a liar in order to fall asleep (2:42 AM now). Thanks man.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THE GHOST OF THE FOUNDER OF HGTV! OOO^{OOO^{OOO^{OOO^{ooo^ooh}}}}

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeahhhh no. I'd be moved out of that house so fast. The little kids that can see ghosts in movies are always what really makes my skin crawl.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you ever seen the TV show "A Haunting." From the few episodes I've allowed myself to watch, I've decided that if I ever move into some p.o.s. house with a growing family, and if my kids start saying they see stuff, I'm out.

Gonna have to find that guy who graduated top of his class in the US Navy Seals with 300 confirmed kills to go in there and blow up the house.

Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There are things you can try first though. Sometimes just telling "it" that it isn't welcome in your home and you don't want it there will make it leave. Sometimes holy water, or a blessing, or even burning sage can work too. -shrug-

I love that show though. It's just scary enough, without scaring me shitless. Sci-fi has a show about haunted schools that freaks me out though. Some of the things they show stick with me. Like the ghost of a little girl with pointy teeth and a freaky smile. Eeeesh

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:56 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

It would be more fun to have the Navy Seal from that copypasta go eff up that ghost.

Karbear_debonair · 2 points · Posted at 01:23:33 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have this great image of some jar head emptying a machine gun into the walls of a house. And then blowing it up. It's a pretty great image.

adios_turdnuggets · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why have I heard this story before? What state?

mayo_is_a_instrument · 3 points · Posted at 17:20:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Georgia? Am I allowed to say that? With this whole new privacy policy.

kettish · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lived in a haunted house there. McDuffie County.

Shitty_Human_Being · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking Paranormal Activity.

LogicalLarynx · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hear*...really?

mayo_is_a_instrument · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's how I spelled it?

LogicalLarynx · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's how it's spelled lol...hear is for when you use your ears, here is in reference to a place.

mayo_is_a_instrument · 2 points · Posted at 03:50:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's how I spelled it? What the fuck are you talking about " she would hear talking in her daughters room (baby monitor) and when she would come up the stairs her daughter would be looking off to a certain corner and laugh."

LogicalLarynx · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Then I'm retarded and read it wrong, which makes me an asshole lol...sorry about that

mayo_is_a_instrument · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Noooo, you're not an asshole. Haha it's okay man we're only human. ^Don't ^tell ^anyone ^but ^I ^did ^edit ^it ^before ^you ^commented.

LogicalLarynx · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You sick son of a ^I ^{^do} ^{^{^that}} ^{^{^{^all}}} ^{^{^{^{^the}}}} ^{^{^{^{^{^time,}}}}} ^{^{^{^{^{^{^no}}}}}} ^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^judgement}}}}}}} ^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^here}}}}}}}} ^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^{^lol.}}}}}}}}}

NoOneKnowsMyName · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Freaky!

pineapple_warhorse · 99 points · Posted at 14:08:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The solution is clearly to burn down your house and run. Wow. O.o

pdawg1000 · 2 points · Posted at 16:41:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its just that simple!

jet_heller · 2 points · Posted at 14:58:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait. . .kids had a great time playing with paint in a room without carpeting and that creeps you out? Huh. I'ld have loved it.

IneedanMRI · 0 points · Posted at 15:15:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Plot twist: Previous owner had no children...

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:48:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, not anymore.

backphlip · 2 points · Posted at 15:00:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Might just have been someone with an odd sense of humour.

Edit: some more photos

beastmode747 · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it looks like someone was trying to fuck with the next owners.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a bad/good/neutral habit of talking aloud to ghosts. If they exist, I think it makes them happy, if they don't then no harm no foul.

I probably would've just sat down cross-legged in the middle of the room and started talking. "Hello. I didn't expect to see anyone. What's your name? My name is Cyra. You're cute, how old are you?" Rinse and repeat for like a half hour.

electrobolt · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If we recarpet our house before we leave, we are writing "GET OUT" under there.

rachelface927 · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

dangit, this reminds me of something a redditor posted a few months ago, like "this'll be neat for the future owners of my house to find." he'd painted the words "GET OUT" on the floor in red paint before carpeting the room. soon as I find that picture I'll edit...

edit: http://i.imgur.com/syWxXAb.jpg

escapethefate13 · 2 points · Posted at 03:25:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You would have a field day in my parents place. In my old room I shared with my sister it used to be plaster and we were going to rip it out and replace it with dry wall. Well we took red crayons and drew on each others side of the room writing horrible things like from horror movies. We went to town and even on the ceiling I drew a huge pair of demonic eyes over my sisters bed. Well turns out on the ceiling instead of ripping it out we just covered it up with drywall. I hope some unsuspecting person in the future finds it.

pgrily · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably just little kids got into some paint while the parents weren't looking. I got in trouble doing this when I was a little kid once, though it was out on our back patio so not as big of a deal.

Mitch_Mitcherson · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That actually sounds a bit similar to what my dad did when our house was being built. We showed up while no one was there and only the concrete foundation had been built. He took out a can of paint spray and put our initials on the floor of our soon-to-be rooms. I bet those people who did the hand prints had a similar idea.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seems more like a fun decorating activity. Better on the floor under the carpet than on the living room walls!

Jakomus · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid they were laying new carpet in my sister's room and I decided to grab some paint and leave messages for future residents. So yeah, blame weirdos like me.

Long_Live_The_Queen · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was little, my parents painted my entire bedroom white, even the floors. They bought a lot of different colored paints and let me put hand prints all over everything. I was pretty happy about it.

Incarnadine91 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad got us all to sign the kitchen floor like that before he put the new tiles down, it was all stuff like 'if you're reading this, hope you like the house!'. So no big deal I imagine.

octoale · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My ex lived in a 2 story house that only belonged to one family before, a couple with no kids. They were both really tall and so a lot of the house was higher. In her room, however, there was a tiny closet, maybe 3 feet tall and not very deep. It had a jerryrigged lock from a metal loop and a block of wood with nails in it on the outside. Her room was carpeted when they first moved in, and when they tore the carpet up there was a huge puddle of red stained into the floor, with drag marks going into the tiny closet.

Nope.

WhootWhoot · 0 points · Posted at 14:52:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ain't nobody got balls fo' dat, I would've ran like a little p*ssy and never entered that house again

Andman17 · 14 points · Posted at 14:39:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ah it's nothing to worry about. It's most likely the result of someone touching it when the paint was drying or something. Unless the prints are in written in blood, you should be good.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 14:41:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds reasonable. Don't know why I hadn't thought of it sooner. Thanks!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you see them? He put up a picture. Far too horrifying for a rational explanation

Andman17 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

agreed.

RobbieGeneva · 10 points · Posted at 15:26:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At the time we had lived in our house for about 10 years or more. We did and had lots of work done to the place - lots. A woman, who used to live in our house years ago had two sons, each had died in their 20's from cancer. She stopped by one day, to plant a tree, and put some of her sons's ashes in our yard, we were fine with that. She told us the sad story, and the request of her son before he died, that a tree be planted every place he lived. Not a week later, we found two little boys foot prints in the concrete floor of the garage. We NEVER saw these imprints before, and like I said, all the work we had done to the house and garage, you would of thought in 10 years we would of noticed them before, well, because they are rather obvious. Weird. To this day, if I'm digging around in the flower beds, I am always finding marbles, little metal toy cars, and other little boy type toys.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's so sad. And freaky. O.o

RobbieGeneva · 7 points · Posted at 15:37:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The tree died, I replaced it, and that one died too.

[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 13:44:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did the previous owners have kids?

pineapple_warhorse · 44 points · Posted at 13:47:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope. And the ones before them moved in when their kids were in high school. Not sure about the history before that. I'm not saying it's supernatural, I just don't know what could leave tiny handprints on the wall that look like water/steam exposure. It's like a child with warm, wet hands held their palms flat on the wall for years or something.

[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 13:48:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah no matter what it's creepy!

pineapple_warhorse · 88 points · Posted at 13:57:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's what they look like. The flash made the marks look much darker than they really are- they're pretty subtle, normally. Link

[deleted] · 84 points · Posted at 14:01:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HOLY SHIT THOSE ARE REALLY SCARY.

pineapple_warhorse · 32 points · Posted at 14:14:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oooh yeah. I mean, I know there's probably a rational explanation, but when I go to the bathroom at night and happen to glance at them on my way out of the room... it's pretty hard to fall asleep.

[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 14:16:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My roommate found me curled in a ball in a corner one day over some Kleenex, so I don't blame you for being scared of child's handprints in a childless house...

soupastar · 2 points · Posted at 14:32:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why?

[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 14:36:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm a pussy. Was walking home from class and noticed a pack of tissues in my backpack. Got home and set my backpack down and went to the bathroom, came back and the pack of Kleenex was on the kitchen counter. Panic. Fear. Terror. I was too afraid to move so I just huddled in a corner. How did the kleenex get there? Who moved it? What moved it? She comes home and I tell her about the Kleenex. She laughs for about five minutes and then tells me that's her pack, we just happened to buy the same pack of Kleenex.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:54:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Paint the bathroom walls? That'd be super creepy if the hand prints showed through the paint, though...

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...I can never paint the walls on the off chance this happens. O.o

Nifubias · 2 points · Posted at 14:55:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why am I doing this at 10 pm? Oh well. No sleep for me tonight.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:33:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I bet it was made in china. They have very small hands, and they could have accidentally touched it when it was being made.

CrickRawford · 2 points · Posted at 16:06:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Soooo.... This is going to make you feel worse, not better, because you said they were child sized handprints, but it is a rational explanation.

That is exactly what handprints on the wall look like if the hands in question were covered^{in^lube.}

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...well that's unsettling.

CaptainCupcakez · 22 points · Posted at 14:52:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was thinking of regular handprints, not FUCKING DEMON PRINTS

mayo_is_a_instrument · 11 points · Posted at 14:32:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK THAT holy shit

ireallylikeeatingpie · 4 points · Posted at 14:50:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's this spot on my wall where soap sprayed out of the bottle once that kind of looks like that. I can't get it off. I think I'm going to get my kids to make creepy soap handprints on the walls in their closets so that whenever we sell the house it will freak somebody out someday.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha, do it! Others should suffer with me!

abzka · 3 points · Posted at 14:25:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is pretty creepy. Could have just been a guest's kid with sticky hands but...

Kyyni · 2 points · Posted at 14:51:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is fucking stuff of nightmares. Kudos for living there.

foofly · 2 points · Posted at 14:58:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh fuck that! Nope nope nope nope nope.

Unrelated_though · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit from the text you first wrote I couldn't make up they were this scary.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those look bigger than child hands. They look like they could belong to a grown man.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry, the angle is shitty. They're only about 4 inches long, a few inches smaller than my hands (which are pretty small themselves).

evylllint · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like how the hand prints have trails below them. Horror movie-style. WTF.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's part of what made me think of water damage, and also probably the scariest thing about them. I mean, normal handprints, fine... drippy child prints? NOPE.

Iggynoramus1337 · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

could you get something in there for size reference, those don't look like kids hand prints. Still creepy as all hell, but could be painters handprints stuck on the primer before they finished painting

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just posted an edit, but I don't think reddit will notify you so here's the reference picture I took. I realized that they're child sized, but they look like adult hands. My own hands are pretty small, so you can see how they compare to my thumb. But they're really slender, which kids' hands are not.

Iggynoramus1337 · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh yea, totally kids hands. Confirmed for creepy.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK FUCK SHIT WHY DID I READ THIS ON THE TOILET I HAVE TO RUN BUT I ALSO HAVE TO SHIT

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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pineapple_warhorse · 3 points · Posted at 15:01:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, the angle is shitty. They're much smaller than my freakishly-small hands. Maybe 3.5-4 inches?

KarlC6 · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

put this in your original comment

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Done, thanks!

Great_Zarquon · 7 points · Posted at 14:51:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could they have been made when other perspective buyers were looking at the house? Like, a family with kids came to visit with a real estate agent before you came along?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:35:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe oily hands?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could have had oily hands--maybe after helping mom bake something or play with dough. Wanted to be mischievous & leave a mark.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My room and bathroom are in the attic, which was only finished and made livable by the last owner, so I don't think many children have been up here.

Baaz · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That doesn't exclude the possibility of there ever having been kids in the house, one who washed their hands after going to the bathroom and without having dried them, held on to the wall...

sirkingsleyz · 10 points · Posted at 14:51:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The previous owners might have had midget hands...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what I was going to say... well... I would've just said really small hands, but close enough. Some people have really tiny hands. My best friend for example, her whole hand with fingers stretched out can barely cover my palm (and I have only slightly larger than average hands).

james333100 · 3 points · Posted at 15:08:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you tried painting over it?

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, we're just renting, and it's not really a big enough deal to bother with. They're just a little creepy, is all.

ttran984 · 3 points · Posted at 15:16:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my friend's store they have a back room where the bathroom is. And on the walk on every side theres colorful handprints of kids everywhere, freaks me out.

fingerblast69 · 3 points · Posted at 15:18:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Female's hands. Got out of the shower and had sex in the bathroom with wet hands. That's my guess.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:18:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some little kid was visiting (maybe even during the process of showing the house for sale), got grease on his hands and didn't want to get the towels greasy so he wiped his hands on the wall. Kid-logic.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:21:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The previous people living in the apartment I have now did this in a "human centipede"-esque way. I have not covered them up.

adras · 3 points · Posted at 15:23:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The house we just moved into had something similar. It's an old house, nearing 100 years old as far as I know, but it has been renovated and modernized except for the basement. Next to the basement door in the dining room is a window which doesn't open. There are 2 white child-sized handprints on the window which can only be seen at night when the light is on. Scared the crap out of us the first night, but now it's just a running joke.

moochie94 · 3 points · Posted at 15:24:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The fuck.....

luky7evens · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

AND I AM DONE!

Margot23 · 3 points · Posted at 16:20:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's weird to me that people who move out don't paint before they move, and people who move into a new place which hasn't been painted don't immediately slosh on a new coat of paint.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

shrug We're renting the house, so we can't mess with it too much. If we were renting an apartment or purchasing the home, the story would probably be different.

xatefroggg · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at a hotel and after getting out of the shower and from all the steam there was a message on the mirror that read "Help Me" with a hand smudge that trailed down off of the mirror near the toilet. I looked behind the toilet and there wasn't anything there. It freaked me out for a second then I realized that somebody just had their funny hat on trying to scare whoever used that shower next. I now carry on this tradition in every hotel I use.

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit, I was totally freaking out until you explained it. Clever jerks, whoever was there before you.

bobsp · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a woman's handprint.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It could be, but she'd have to have tiny hands. I've never met a woman with smaller hands than mine, and they're a few inches shorter. Definitely not impossible, though.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:45:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gypsies

bbchan · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can relate. My dad used to live in this house, and on his bedroom door were two sets of child footprints, right in the middle. The feet were right next to eachother, not in strides as if they had been walking, but just strategically planted there. So random...

Could never be cleaned off either. We tried.

pseudohumanist · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

child-sized handprints... Well, at least I'm not alone. I was living at that time with my colleague who once called me in her room asking why I was in her room since there were fresh handprints on the window. We tried our hands only to find out that it was neither her nor me. Around the same time, we had a couple of other things that made us think something's in the house (it was an old house in England). Like, I had a recurring dream three nights in a row that a guy wearing monk's dress was sitting on my bed, then the next night he was sitting next to my bed, and the night after he was leaving my room. Next night I had a nightmare so vivid that I ran into the kitchen only to find out there that I was not sleeping. The next night we went to a nearby pub (oldest in Warwickshire afaik), some 100 metres from our house only to see an untouched glass on our table to crack and break down while we were talking about the 'ghost'. Then there were some minor things like a light bulb that fell on the kitchen table as we were talking about the 'ghost' again, or some breathing in my ear in the evening, but nothing serious. We liked our ghost very much, despite everything and we even tried to communicate with it via a witchy-board.

I am a scientist myself, and I can rationally explain every single episode of this story, but if they happen in such a short time period you just start thinking.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Even if it's not ghosts, it's still sort of freaky in its own way to have that many coincidences in such a short span of time. Makes you wonder what caused it. Ghosts, the universe unraveling a bit, whatever...

therealodayaka · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a child's hand print on my bathroom wall too.

But I know where it came from. My son got into his grandmother's lipstick and got it on his hands, the hand print won't come off the wall, it's stained on there now.

It could just be something innocuous like that.

Edit: Here's the hand print in my bathroom: http://i.imgur.com/40PbeXN.jpg

vannsshiet · 2 points · Posted at 16:27:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At work, we hear shit all the time. One night I have the ac on, it's summer in Texas, and the condensation on the door showed a child's hand print. I thought damn kids, always touching shit, so I grab the windex and some newspaper and clean the door, inside and out. Condensation shows the fucking hand print still there, almost as if it was between the glass.

Harowan · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe its a print all the way back from when it was made? Like a child laborers hand print or something?

macrocephale · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Perhaps a previous occupier was contacted by the Dark Brotherhood?

6548888874747474 · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some kid put their hand on my car. They left this grimy little-kid hand print. It took forever to wash off. Conclusion: kids are really grubby!!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you win.

callme_emily · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep. After my brother moved out for college we were rearranging his room for my littlest sister to move into. Moving his bed we discovered discolored patches on the carpet in the shape of a little kid's handprint, except the palm to finger ratio was unnaturally skewed, like child-size palms and E.T. fingers that got pointy at the end. I remember my dad blaming it on the carpet guys.

The worst part was about two weeks later I found the same type of prints on my carpet, kind of streaky and in a row like animal prints, like something had been moving around. I was twelve but I slept in my parents bed that night and refused to sleep in my room for ten days.

Long since moved out but I still think about those prints every once and a while.

Fugggit · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work at a hotel in California with a similar situation. One tiny white handprint in the cafe part near the lobby reappeared every time maintenance tried to get rid of it.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had no idea there were this many "unexplained handprint" stories out there! This is both a little creepy and kind of cool.

sheepsix · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Doesn't look like handprints buddy, it looks exactly like Wilson.

...oh wait.

NovaRogue · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like this?

pumpkindog · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

spooky twist: previous owner did not have kids!!!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have one of those nearly invisible hand prints on my own wall, but it was the result of too much lube during sexy time and needing the wall to achieve a specific angle.

PolkadotMonkey · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Greasy hand prints on the drywall, from live children. Dirty child hands always show through paint.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I never assumed they were supernatural in origin. They just creep me the heck out and I have no idea how they got there. Kids do get into everything, I guess...

presce · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit it's 1:48 pm in the afternoon and that photo scared me.

OldMateJesus · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They look too big for child handprints.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Posted an edit above with picture for reference.

Tijuana_Pikachu · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That photo's creepy as fuck on its own.

mister_cunt_face · 2 points · Posted at 17:57:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You need a good primer, maybe two coats. Keeps the demonic handprints from bleeding through the paint.

BananasAreUnderrated · 2 points · Posted at 18:01:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe they had company over who brought their children. The children could have been playing around exploring the house and left the hand print.

socolover14 · 2 points · Posted at 18:06:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my gosh why why did I look at that picture. Nightmares will ensue.

SilverGhost93 · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We had some of those on the walls in my dorm room. It was an old dorm. In the middle of the night books would fly across the room and just fall off of tables and other various creepy things would happen. Throughout the course of the year my dorm mate thought that our room was haunted. I can't explain the handprints but I did the book throwing and various creepy activity. I just wanted to keep him awake. He snored so loudly.

mental405 · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This thread is giving me great ideas for things to do with my house before I sell it.

ctrlaltcreate · 2 points · Posted at 18:28:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe a woman's small hands? If they were 'finishing' it, that could be lacquer, woodstain, wallpaper glue, etc. etc.?

CU_Tiger_2004 · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm guessing that in your case and in the response about footprints being on the ceiling, some kids put their hands/feet - possibly with an oily/greasy substance on them - on the building materials before they were used and they were painted over after installation. They could have been the builders' kids, playing with and stepping on the drywall.

After some time, the substance that was painted over has begun to show through the paint.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sure I'm too late to this party for anybody to read this, but I grew up in a house where many strange things happened. I was 6 years old when I moved in there with my family.

One birthday I had a pool party and some friends were swimming right around dusk. For some reason we were telling ghost stories and after freaking each other out, decided to go inside. One friend stayed behind and started yelling that there was a footprint on the bottom of the pool. There were several rust marks on the bottom of the pool so we assumed he was just seeing something in that, but I had a weird feeling so I just pleaded with him to come inside. He kept insisting there was something there so finally I said, "if I look, will you get out of the pool"? He agreed, so I grabbed a pair of goggles and put my face on the surface of the water. Immediately my blood went cold as I saw the perfect shape of a small footprint. The arch of the foot, and five perfect toe prints.

I told him to get out of the pool now, but he said he wanted to do something first. He grabbed a diving bag (which was basically a sand bag that we would dive for, and swam to the bottom and placed the diving bag on the footprint. He came back up and confirmed that the footprint was rusted into the bottom of the pool and that he wanted to mark the spot so we could inspect it the next day. I didn't think he needed to because it was so obvious, but once everybody had seen the footprint we went inside for the night.

After a night of little sleep we went out the next morning. My friend dove down to the sand bag removed it and to everybody's surprise it was completely gone.

Many strange things happened in that house, mainly involving the pool and one particular bedroom. We found out years later that a little girl had drowned in the pool before we moved in. The parents drained the pool and filled it with garbage which accounted for all the rust marks on the pool.

TL;DR - a ghost left a footprint on the bottom of our pool.

After

Darelius · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You have the kids of La Llorona, i feel sorry for you.

shley_shlong · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a black hand print like that in an old house I lived in. It was in the attic and we couldn't get it to come off. Not to mention the fact that I saw a ghost in the house. Only lived there for 10 months, it was the longest 10 months of my life.

greyjackal · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Despite the unlikelihood of a kid getting up there, I've seen something similar when a mark is made in a base coat of paint and then painted over with the top coat.

Only shows up under certain light/angles.

Adrxone · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mama.

Eternalblaze · 2 points · Posted at 19:10:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok simple explanation. The previous owners enjoyed freaky shower time involving a long lasting lube. the female was short and therefor had small hands. Dayum, I should join Mystery Inc.

WindyPig · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now I own my own house, I'm going yo have think of something to leave for the next owners to really creep them out. I'm thinking glow in the dark paint.

akpak · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That didn't sound so bad... Until I saw the picture.

NOPE.

zoltronzero · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At a guess I'd say raccoons. If its in an attic that used to not be used much. They've got creepy little hands with long fingers like that.

MrPanduh · 2 points · Posted at 20:17:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

can someone describe the image posted? I don't want a panic attack at 4:17pm.

TobyH · 2 points · Posted at 20:27:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are they, like, really small? Because if they're not obviously a toddler's handprints, they could just be a woman's. Some girls have really small hands, I remember my dad had to pretty much get a child's-size ring for my mum, and everyone thought it was crazy that this twenty-something year old man was getting a platinum engagement ring that could have fit a ten-year-old.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just posted an edit, but reddit won't update you so here's a picture. They're definitely child sized, but they're not child shaped. I have really small hands, too, so the person who made these is either a kid with weirdly long fingers or an adult with weirdly small hands.

TobyH · 2 points · Posted at 23:32:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the elongated fingers could just be from the hands being drawn down the wall slightly, if you see what I mean. That's really freaky, though, do you have any friends with kids who might have done that without you realising?

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, unfortunately :(

I moved up here knowing nobody except my family. I was the first person in the house when we moved in. But you're right, the elongation is probably due to the draw, I hadn't thought of that.

TobyH · 2 points · Posted at 23:56:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes that's not a bad thing, moving somewhere you don't know. I'm actually considering doing it myself, even though I have a great set of friends.

The only other thing I can suggest is that maybe it was the kids of someone the previous owners knew. It's that or, you know, ghosts.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The move has definitely had its upsides, like being able to go back to school. But it's a lot harder to meet people as an adult than it is in K-12, so it can be lonely, too. Fortunately I'm used to moving, as my family has moved several times.The packing and unpacking is always a nightmare, though.

flying-redditor · 2 points · Posted at 20:29:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That reminds me when I was little, after I washed my hands I used to "dry" them up on the wall and it looked just like that. I used to made it every time and it kinda left a permanent print like that.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That makes a lot of sense to me. The prints are a little blurry, and it does look like prolonged water exposure. My only issue is, I don't think there's ever even been a kid up here. The attic where I live was only finished by the last owner, who didn't have kids. But it could be the old owner, if she has really tiny hands. I've never met her in person, so I don't know.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uh oh. Mold is bad- I'll look into that. Thanks!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:42:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THat's really fucking terrifying for no reason

giankazam · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I stopped bloody reading at child sized hand prints it's 11pm and I'm not in the mood for nightmare fuel.

Masterreefer · 2 points · Posted at 21:49:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thats your idea of "child-sized"? Maybe its just the picture but those most definitely looks like full size adult hands

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:58:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel like I should research the house now. Hmm...

inthrees · 2 points · Posted at 22:11:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's possible the drywall or other material they used to 'finish' that space was secondhand, or glommed on with grubby hands at the store it was purchased from, or whatever.

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have no idea. I don't know why that would show on the paint, though.

inthrees · 2 points · Posted at 00:31:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Certain types of stains will just always show through paint. I remember growing up, my chemical engineer stepfather brought home some stuff from work to help with a science fair project. I think it might have been the year I was doing electroplating, so it was probably silver cyanide, but whatever year and whatever chemical, we got some on the kitchen cabinets, and it stained the paint and soaked in and beyond.

And it was visible for years afterwards, through several touch-up paint jobs and repaintings.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:56:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Oh gosh no we have no idea how they could have got there." Sorry OP but the previous owners were just making sure you didn't bail on the purchase, the murderous child poltergeist is your problem now.

zernebock614 · 330 points · Posted at 14:42:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Living in the Northern part of Mexico, the drug cartels war was very intense in the city where I live a couple of years ago. I was waiting to cross the street when I saw a big truck dumping a plastic bag that happened to contain a fucking dismembered body. The worst part is that nobody did shit. I just waited for the light to change and ran like hell.

InferiousX · 18 points · Posted at 17:30:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to read a book about the cartels along the border for a Latin American History class....that shit gave me fucked up dreams for weeks.

zernebock614 · 26 points · Posted at 17:53:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fucked up shit indeed... the worst thing for me during that time besides the dismembered dude was to sleep in the bathroom of the room i was renting, because outside it was a fucking war, heavy guns firing plus granades...

sashabasha · 12 points · Posted at 21:09:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't even begin to imagine what that would feel like. Nothing could be scarier than that to me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:01:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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kewtifyed · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also curious about the book title.

InferiousX · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I replied to the other guy who asked w/a link

kewtifyed · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Great, thanks!

HUNG_AS_FUCK · 6 points · Posted at 01:10:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read a story that some cartels rolled 3 human heads accross the dance floor in a night club

Desefortunadamente · 4 points · Posted at 05:01:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was the La Familia Michocana in the city of Uruapan, Michoacán back in 2006.

Source: My entire family is from Michoacán

HUNG_AS_FUCK · 5 points · Posted at 05:06:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh wow! Thats so crazy :/

zernebock614 · 3 points · Posted at 16:06:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yeah, plus some bunch of crazy shit, like fucking putting people on barrels of acid, until they meleted.. and much more

HUNG_AS_FUCK · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its so disgusting people can do that kind of thing...

mr-self-destruct · 6 points · Posted at 19:41:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

vives en Juarez?

RoundandAround · 2 points · Posted at 06:00:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like Juarez. Tijuana never got THAT bad though..

zernebock614 · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

elpasowestside · -2 points · Posted at 23:34:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Does this guy live in J-town?

SanchosPanchos · -2 points · Posted at 00:30:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Does J-town live in Juarez?

Penjach · 9 points · Posted at 22:50:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL The most important thing when running away from body-dismembering drug cartel trucks is obeying traffic lights.

zernebock614 · 5 points · Posted at 16:05:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

dude, if you knew how fucking stupid people can be while driving in this city, you would understand..

Penjach · 5 points · Posted at 21:20:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I believe you about that.

Sjorser · 6 points · Posted at 20:06:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, damn those other people that did nothing.

SanchosPanchos · 18 points · Posted at 00:38:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

this is one of the saddest things about this whole ordeal. The Mexican families that could not afford to flee these bordertowns have grow accustomed to walking out to their cars and keeping their eyes focused on their cars only. Look in either direction and there was a very good chance you were going to see (a) bloody corpse(s). The cartels are not only ruthless in how they've mastered the practice of torture, they also enjoyed leaving these bodies out to instill the fear that they run on. It's basically "you try helping out the rival gangs (cops/military), you end up like these guys!" The Mexican bordertowns used to thrive in mulitiple ways, but around 2008 it turned real dark, real fast.

Sjorser · 5 points · Posted at 07:56:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What changed in 2008?

SanchosPanchos · 8 points · Posted at 10:18:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The cartel that ran the border I live by (La Liñea) began fighting with another cartel that was trying to take over. I've heard estimates of 70% drugs coming into America through this border and so it was a hot mess when that war started. Chapo Guzman is apparently related to the Mexican president (cousins I believe) and so the Mexican army was"fighting a war on drugs" but really their objective was to kill pdf the rival cartel that had ran things for quite some time. it's believed that Chapo under estimated how much of a fight La Liñea would put up; and so atrocious murders, decapitations and kidnappings became far to common.

[deleted] · 2700 points · Posted at 16:13:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I've posted this before a long time ago, but it still remains by far the single creepiest thing that ever happened to me, so here goes:

I was in Taiwan one year when I was younger, and had travelled to a busy night market (these are popular gatherings of food/shop stalls that usually operate in the evening). Nearby I spotted a sign for a netcafe in a 5-6 story tall building. Thinking I’d fire off some quick emails, I walked in the dark, small entrance of the building. The building was older and hasn’t been well maintained, but it’s not out of the ordinary in Taiwan. The entrance just had a dark hallway that led to a small elevator.

I pressed the elevator call button and entered. The elevator was uncharacteristically new compared to the building, but I didn’t think much of it. Like some Chinese/Taiwanese buildings, there wasn’t a fourth floor (it’s considered bad luck since “four” sounds like “death”), so it just read 1-2-3-5-6, which was usual. I looked for the floor the netcafe was at– 6th floor, and pressed the button. It lurched into action quietly and began the ascend. When it stopped, I figured it was my floor so I instinctively began to step out. Right before stepping out, however, the sight outside the elevator stopped me. It was pitch dark, only lit by the light in the elevator, it looked like it hasn’t been occupied for decades, with some random pieces of furniture covered with white cloth or similar. It was a small building, so each floor were single occupancy, so I could see pretty much the entire floor from the elevator. Thinking I must have gotten the wrong floor, I checked the light (that indicates which floor you’re on). Strangely, there was nothing, none of the indicators were on, but the floor button to the netcafe was still lit so I know I haven’t gotten there yet. All this happened within a couple of seconds.

That’s when I noticed a figure moving in the distance of the floor– it was not very visible but I could make out what looks like a person dressed in some kind of gown, moving slowly towards the elevator, where I was. I was thoroughly creeped out, so I started pressing the close door button. As soon as I pressed it, the elevator light flickered off, and I am in pitch dark. I am this close to pissing my pants, and it’s actually kind of freaking me out thinking back to it. The lights flickered back on under a second and the door closed, the elevator jolted back to life. A few moments later it opened again to the netcafe.

I am beyond relieved at this point. I walked out immediately and sat down at a computer. After gathering my wits a bit, I walked over to the cashier’s desk and told them what I saw. The girl working there listened and her face turned a bit ashen, so I asked her if she heard of similar.

She told me that she’s never experienced it, but some coworkers and occasional customers have brought it up– basically, the building has 6 floors, and the fourth floor had a history. Apparently the floor used to be a hair salon of sorts, until one of the employees killed herself there for some reason. She slit her wrists over the hair wash station and died. The store continued operations despite stories of weird appearances– when customers got their hair rinsed the water would look a little red, like the customer was bleeding, little things like that, and a couple people reported seeing someone’s figure walking away in the mirror, but wouldn't see anyone when they turned to check. Naturally, the business closed down a few months later.

The building owner tried to re-rent the place out, but never had any luck. Most businesses are quite superstitious, and no one wanted to rent the fourth floor after someone had died in it, even at a very cheap price. Finally, after dropping the price to nearly nothing, a stationary supplies store wanted to rent. During the renovations of the floor, however, several accidents would happen. Tools would end up in strange places, a mirror from the previous business shattered when no one was near it, and finally a worker had his hand jammed between the elevator doors when it closed on him unexpectedly. The workers refused to continue working and finally, the business left and the building owner finally gave up and shut down the floor. He then had the elevator company come in to replace the panel so that the elevator could not go to the fourth floor.

Let me repeat that– the elevator was programmed to never go to the fourth floor. It doesn’t even have a button. But for some reason, sometimes when people take the elevator, it would go to the fourth floor and the doors would open, and some, like myself, would see a figure walking around in the dark.

Edit: here was the original thread I posted in three years ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bhbyx/reddit_what_is_your_creepiest_most_unnerving/c0mvplr

Kylar_Stern · 261 points · Posted at 19:10:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, I remember reading this story when you posted it in a paranormal thread on Askreddit a few years back, I recognized what it was as soon as I saw "Taiwan" and "netcafe". It creeped me out just as much as the last time I read it.

[deleted] · 295 points · Posted at 19:22:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pretty cool thing: a redditor messaged me for details and actually went and found the place. He said the building was locked when he went (if I remember correctly) but that it was very creepy.

Marvalbert22 · 123 points · Posted at 20:23:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I need to know: how did you have the courage to go down the elevator after finishing at the netcafe!

[deleted] · 145 points · Posted at 21:07:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went with a big group of people lol. I did not want to go back in there, but I sure as hell don't want to use the stairs!

[deleted] · 49 points · Posted at 00:11:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The exercise is much more terrifying.

Marvalbert22 · 9 points · Posted at 00:05:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

good call

not_mr_deebs · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait why not use the stairs?

Baublehead · 15 points · Posted at 05:23:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You'd have to go on the 4th floor, however briefly.

Bronsonite · 20 points · Posted at 22:51:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wouldn't dare walk down the stairs knowing I'll pass by the 4th. I'd just wait for someone to ride with me down

CrackersInMyCrack · 16 points · Posted at 03:59:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd just jump out the window, let the suckers take the elevator.

MandyJones · 2 points · Posted at 09:27:57 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly my thoughts.

mightbebrucewillis · 21 points · Posted at 20:09:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I too would like the address (and building name if you have it)

RyanArr · 17 points · Posted at 19:57:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was it in Taipei per chance? I'm headed there in July I could check it out if you have an address.

[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 21:15:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Kaoshiung, near the main night market, by a sex shop. All I remember. I haven't gone back to Kaishiung since, but another redditor did find it at one point.

Edit: Mixed up the city name, hope it helps!

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 22:25:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hmmm. What year was this? I lived in Taichung near the largest night market in 05/06. I know the sex shop you're talking about, I used to buy condoms there, but the closest netcafe was a block or two away... if memory serves.

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 22:30:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes! People always recognize the sex shop. It WAS a couple of blocks away, if you have the address we could probably find it. This was in 2001 or 2002 summer.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:57:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Heh. Let me talk to my roommate at the time, his memory is better than mine. I'll PM you if he has anything. :)

bobojojo12 · -1 points · Posted at 07:49:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pm me too Im Writing a Story on this And if there is any more proof that this could be true i would be very Intrested in it

dkdonuts · 4 points · Posted at 00:13:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Didn't you say in your previous post that this happened in Kaoshung city?

elevul · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could you ask him the precise address?

sweatyeggroll · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Taichung, near the main night market, by a sex shop. All I remember. I haven't gone back to Taichung since, but another redditor did find it at one point.

by a sex shop

ಠ_ಠ

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 22:12:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah it stood out in my mind because it was a very memorable store. Also they were giving out free vibrating condoms that day.

acornmuscles · 4 points · Posted at 22:21:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Vibrating condoms? Cooooool.

sweatyeggroll · 6 points · Posted at 22:27:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Vibrating condoms, that's a new one

HayakuMiku · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ

durdyg · 0 points · Posted at 23:06:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

pics plz

RyanArr · 3 points · Posted at 04:10:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

i would but unfortunately Kaoishung on the other end of ~~Taipei~~ Taiwan, I don't speak Chinese, and I'll be busy with work my whole visit. I won't be visiting the old netcafe.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:56:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The last time I posted this (three years ago), someone managed to not only find the place but actually went to check it out. He wrote down the location in a comment on the original thread but he seems to have deleted it. It's in Kaoshiung near the main night market.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:40 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

wait a min. Taiwan, three years ago? I work in post production and I think there may be a link between a Taiwanese horror/prank show and your story

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:28 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Would be about 9-10 years ago now I think.

That would be amazing though. I've often thought about it as a possibility seeing as how prank shows in Taiwan aren't all that rare, and I would love to see footage of my reaction. I do have a very important question-- if I was pranked, would they have required some kind of disclosure form or some kind of video release form? Would someone from the film crew have come up to me after wards?

This would answer one of my biggest questions in life if I could just find out it was a TV show.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:02 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

no I was just messing with you but this could have been a possibility, also I'm sure disclosures are way different in other parts of the world in comparison to corporate America. Also, there are a lot of shows like this

jedibassist · 1125 points · Posted at 16:28:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep that's creepy as shit.

saviorflavor · 33 points · Posted at 20:47:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In theaters this Halloween, "The Fourth Floor." sound of little girl laughing

TheConcon64 · 18 points · Posted at 21:03:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That movie would be quite kickass actually.

randomkloud · -1 points · Posted at 07:54:59 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

funny, I was more creeped out by this comment than anything thatpasses for horror recently

meplusone · 8 points · Posted at 21:08:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A wee bit o' pee in my pants now. Thanks.

ragwriter · 19 points · Posted at 20:54:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uh... you guys know this is the exact plot of Haruki Murakami's 'Dance Dance Dance' right?

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 22:37:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Seriously!? Like with the netcafe and salon and everything? It happened to me in summer of 2001 in Kaoshiung and if it matches the story I'm going to seriously freak the fuck out right now.

Did the main character die 12 years later? Oh fuck fuck fuck.

Edit: mixed up the city name. Seriously though am I going to die?

behemothpanzer · 2 points · Posted at 07:46:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You remember where in Kaoshiung? I live in Taipei and spend a lot of weekends in the dirty dirty south.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:39:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone actually found the place when I first posted this experience, and sent me the details of its location, but he has since deleted that comment (you can see part of our discussion on the original thread). It has been 12 years so I have no idea what it would even look like now, but back then it was a couple blocks from the main night market within a stone's throw from this little sex shop.

kataskopo · 2 points · Posted at 16:37:45 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't die pls.

lokijki · 2 points · Posted at 08:44:04 on July 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

Found the post you mentioned and dug it up using unedditreddit, in case anyone's interested:

Hi there, it has been a few months, but a few months back I read your ghost story wondering where this place could be, and almost jumped when you said it was iin Kaohsiung---because that's where I was! Naturally I hopped on a bike to check it out (it had to be LiuHe六合 night market)---and really did find the rough location you described. Unfortunately, the internet cafe is gone and I didn't go and dig some history of the haunted unit. Anyways, it was just kinda cool to see a story on reddit and be able to scope it out in real life! You Taiwanese by any chance?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:50:41 on July 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whoa that's amazing, you're like a wizard.

TheOnlyPolygraph · 4 points · Posted at 21:58:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Replace a few details and omit every important character besides the protagonist and sure, it's Dance Dance Dance.

OnaxNinja · 5 points · Posted at 21:46:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's the scariest thing iv ever heard, reminds me of like 1408 or something

mapleclouds090 · 1 points · Posted at 06:50:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

damn! just when I finished reading this,my lamp suddenly shouts! damn....my genius brother was about to take off the bulb but forgot about it half way...but that was freakin' creepy!

stu8319 · 117 points · Posted at 19:19:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the reallllllly creepy part is being on an elevator. You have NOWHERE to run to. Eek!

Franz_Ferdinand · 8 points · Posted at 04:11:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a good reason not to take elevators in sketchy buildings/projects.

medahman · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now imagine it jams.

devilbird99 · 1 points · Posted at 10:22:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And this is why I always carry a knife, at the very least it makes me feel safer.

External · 622 points · Posted at 18:41:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I don't know why this doesn't have more upvotes. It's the middle of the day and I'm thoroughly freaked the fuck out.

Edit: I retract my previous statement. I think there may be an adequate amount of upvotes now...

[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 19:28:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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MistiWV · 40 points · Posted at 19:31:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if I'd recommend that.

HobbsMadness · 9 points · Posted at 19:36:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Love the SCP wiki. There are some really creative entries in there.

vVvMaze · 10 points · Posted at 20:26:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what the hell is it. I am on it now and still cant figure out what this website is.

Also, is that an actual building or is this just a huge creepypasta website?

HobbsMadness · 8 points · Posted at 20:33:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here is a list of all the SCPs.

And yeah, it's a user-generated wiki. Really have to give an A+ to some entries on account of sheer creativity.

Also, I think there is a video game that was the original inspiration for the site, but don't quote me on that.

akpak · 7 points · Posted at 22:08:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it me, or do they use [DATA EXPUNGED] or [REDACTED] when they can't think of what to write there...?

Heh.

MistiWV · 3 points · Posted at 22:18:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes that's true. When it's really good, though, is when it conceals information and lets your imagination fill in the horrible possibilities.

akpak · 4 points · Posted at 22:22:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I swear... That website is like tvtropes for creepypasta lovers.

HobbsMadness · 3 points · Posted at 00:12:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha, possibly. Or maybe just to leave it up to the imagination of the reader and let them fill in the blanks.

Acebulf · 5 points · Posted at 20:43:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you're talking about SCP-something, the video game, it came out after the site. AFAIK the site's inspiration was a creepypasta.

segoli · 3 points · Posted at 21:05:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The inspiration for the whole site came from SCP-173, which was a post someone made on /x/ years ago.

HobbsMadness · 2 points · Posted at 00:11:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, nice to know.

chadnotchad · 3 points · Posted at 03:08:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well I just lost my entire day to a bunch of.. something.. some really cool stuff at this site

whiplash444 · 2 points · Posted at 23:00:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I think there is a video game that was the original inspiration for the site." - HobbsMadness

MistiWV · 5 points · Posted at 19:48:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was the first story I stumbled upon that got me hooked. I didn't know if it was real or not, then that face I had to keep hidden from view. Still creeps me out.

HobbsMadness · 4 points · Posted at 19:52:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one is my personal favorite.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:11:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There were several games based off of it... Quite disturbing...

akpak · 3 points · Posted at 22:02:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That site is amazing, I love it.

FailureToComply · 6 points · Posted at 19:40:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the fuck did I just stumble on to?

JebronLames23 · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the hell is that?

x1expert1x · -2 points · Posted at 19:44:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just read over it, and told my dad who is an ex-coal miner. He told me it is impossible for someone to breath 50 stories underground. He has worked in extremely deep mines, where oxygen was being pumped into the mine. He says even at 20 feet in a hole you will feel it significantly difficult to breath. A stair is about 7 inches high, each floor in that thing is 13 steps, which means he was 379 feet underground. It is not possible for him to get a wirelessly transmitted signal from that depth. Ganna call it bullshit on that story.

Kayjin23 · 10 points · Posted at 20:21:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a wiki of paranormal entities kept under wraps by a mysterious 'foundation' none of it is meant to be believed. It's just really creepy sometimes, like that entry.

x1expert1x · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, pretty creepy. If you don't know about it, there is a website called creepy pasta, it has some really good stories.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 09:26:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

SCP was actually originally started from a creepypasta.

EDIT: I just did some research, The SCP foundation originated from a thread on /x/, the very first post came was a creeepypasta by definition but it did not come from the creepypasta website.

x1expert1x · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh damn, really? Hahah didnt know gosh do I feel dumb :[

awaythrow23456 · 6 points · Posted at 21:58:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But the stairs would have to pass the 4th floor, no?

intergalaticman · 3 points · Posted at 20:41:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did I ever tell you the story of blood flowing down a stairwell?

Tronlet · 10 points · Posted at 19:44:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The thread is mostly real stories, or at least things that could be real, which makes them much scarier. I was let down when I realized this was just a fake story.

bobojojo12 · 2 points · Posted at 07:47:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

How do you know its fake o_O

Tronlet · 4 points · Posted at 00:31:45 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

...Seriously?

Because I live in the real world where ghosts, as far as I know, don't exist. I guess this could theoretically be some really elaborate prank, but other than that...

bobojojo12 · 3 points · Posted at 00:35:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

As Far as You Know ...

Tronlet · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:22 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Right, and as far as anyone knows. If you've got some kind of evidence, do let me know, I'm pretty sure James Randi has a million dollars ready for you.

alandizzle · 3 points · Posted at 20:52:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sitting inside a Panera Bread during my lunch and I'm creeped the fuck out

Apocalypse_Gladiator · 3 points · Posted at 06:48:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you happy now? Is 2197 enough for you?

Gyro94 · 6 points · Posted at 20:33:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because theres no TL;DR...

JustCallMeEro · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same- I'm at work, surrounded by people, and I'm still checking over my shoulder for someone sneaking up on me in the darkness.

jonnygreen22 · 2 points · Posted at 02:30:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm at work all by myself in an old house/shop and as i'm reading these I hear a loud CRASH! in the kitchen. Jumped up and went to look and a huge canvas has just fallen over for no reason so yes I am also freaked the fuck out!!

3klipse · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank god I work on the 2nd floor, and day shift. Fuck night elevators.

23saround · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's probably because it sounds more like a creepypasta than a real story. Now, it is good...just the whole concept doesn't seem real.

NotSoMrNiceGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A thousand+ upvotes isn't even enough!

You greedy fuck.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its midnight for me :'(

Stizzrickle · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I work from 6pm to 6am and have a work out period where I work out in an old WWII morgue converted military gym at midnight with most of it's lights off. Fuck this thread.

fyro15 · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Guess elevators in Asia during the middle of the night are not an option anymore.

theelectricllama · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably because its an essay.

Reqvhio · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

its 4 am in the morning here, feel my pain

lilbriggsy · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm laying in bed at 3:30.am

mAssDstRuCTiOnX · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I read this at midnight laying in my bed.

mrbaryonyx · 1 points · Posted at 07:56:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah there are higher stories on here that aren't as scary. Something about a guy not knowing what to call his brother in law's wife or something.

wontallah · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:13 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aaaaaand I'm reading it at night, alone in my room, because I'm a fucking idiot.

Mantups24 · 0 points · Posted at 22:09:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It' raining and thundering here, and I'm scared as shit

somecrazybroad · 0 points · Posted at 22:30:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because it's clearly not real.

tajwon90 · 0 points · Posted at 10:28:45 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Surely retracting your previous statement would involve deleting the comment?

CeeDiddy82 · 79 points · Posted at 19:44:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's what I think:

You were pranked.

That floor might have a history, who knows.

So what happens is pranksters get to the 4th via stairs (unless this is a building with no stairs) and although you can't get to the 4th floor from the elevator, you can most likely summon the elevator from the 4th floor.

So the pranksters see someone going up to the 5th or 6th floor, push the up button so the elevator will stop on the 4th floor, then proceed to scare the shit out of the unsuspecting passenger.

TheCorruptableDream · 96 points · Posted at 20:21:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was taking a more fun, fantastical note. That the programming for the fourth floor isn't quite right, and one day some poor person accidentally got off on that floor. They've been waiting a while for that elevator ride out, but these people keep getting scared and riding off with the elevator before freedom can be achieved.

18scsc · 24 points · Posted at 20:46:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

More likely they were homeless and snuck in.

CeeDiddy82 · 7 points · Posted at 20:27:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haahaha

They should just take the stairs

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 21:22:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I considered this. Hidden tv pranks are very common and I thought maybe I just fell victim to one. But I stayed at the Netcafe for quite some time (didnt want to go back down the elevator) and no one else seemed to have noticed anything weird so it was obviously just me. The girl working there also looked genuinely scared so that didn't raise flags.

I ran through every scenario I could think of, mostly because I'm usually a very rational, logical person. Prank, tv show, my own imagination, it's all possible, but nothing really made sense to me.

elevul · 10 points · Posted at 22:21:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If this was America you would have just unsheathed your gun, with a flashlight on it's end, and explored the floor, shooting at everything that moved.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:37:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

pew pew!

Booze_Lite_Beer · 1 points · Posted at 09:26:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd have arrived with an army of monks ready to nuke the place. And one thought just crossed my mind. What happens during the Hungry Ghost month!? If I worked anywhere above level 4, I'm taking a leave of absence for that entire month.

davdev · 4 points · Posted at 20:16:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah for logic. Though it would probably still freak me out a bit too, even if my rational mind eventually took over

Quillava · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I assumed it was just some homeless guy living in a free room

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 22:16:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's what I think: dude made it up. Good story though.

howsthisbitch · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really want to believe you.

bksbeat · 11 points · Posted at 19:06:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sounds like Murakami's Dance Dance Dance

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:19:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's Dance Dance Dance?

fancycat · 12 points · Posted at 20:27:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's like Dance Dance Revolution, except with less dance mats and more ghosts

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A book.

kceb · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A book... that I'm about to check out!
I looked it up on Amazon and the writing style is very unique.

rewindrecolour · 3 points · Posted at 20:16:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haven't read this particular book, but I thoroughly enjoy Murakami's writing. Such a fantastic writer.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have The Wind-up Bird chronicle floating around my apartment somewhere. I haven't read it yet though.

kceb · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been looking for new things to read.
I think I'll grab a couple of his books and disappear for a while

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:03:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Read Zeitoun by Dave Eggers as well.

OddEye · 3 points · Posted at 19:35:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought the same thing, actually. Never did finish that book.

newrosehotel · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought the EXACT same thing.

ChisaiKyoku · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oooh now I want to check that out.

involving · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes! I expected a sheep man to appear.

APSketches · 11 points · Posted at 19:25:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest shit I read in a long time. Seriously.

leahdanielle · 11 points · Posted at 19:22:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good on you for not peeing your pants. I think I would've.

friedpants · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just pee?

[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 18:45:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit, this needs to be made into a movie... or at least, it needs to be higher up in this thread.

cwlsmith · 4 points · Posted at 20:19:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They already made a horror movie about an elevator. Go watch "Devil". Although, I will say, this story would be WAYYYYY scarier than "Devil", consdiering "Devil" wasn't really that scary at all.

Mustardtigerjack · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kinda short movie though

awhsheit · 5 points · Posted at 21:26:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm an beginner cartoon/storyboard illustrator and I would love to draw your story. May I use it and illustrate it sometime?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:26:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sure thing! Can you send me a link when you're done? Only if its convenient but I'd love to see it.

awhsheit · 3 points · Posted at 22:51:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely. It won't be for a while, but I'll let you know first thing!

Nackles · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you possibly keep a list of who wants to see it, because I'm SO there!!

awhsheit · 4 points · Posted at 23:14:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Anyone who replies.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

replying!

HopelessChip35 · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me too!

notevenremotely · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

also replying!

ShiroTori · 1 points · Posted at 09:05:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm interested as well.

Nackles · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks!

boredommademedothis · 1 points · Posted at 09:52:01 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

sorry I'm late.. reply!

NovaNexu · 1 points · Posted at 08:40:30 on July 12, 2013 · (Permalink)

never too late

vi1987 · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep. Replying- I wanna see.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:22:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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UndeadBread · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, don't think about what you would do. Instead, think about what would happen to you as you were trapped in the elevator with this silhouetted figure slowly approaching, seemingly floating, and then suddenly flickering out and reappearing inches from you, gaping maw full of teeth, as it cries out in a way that couldn't possibly human or even like any animal you've ever encountered. And just think about those blank, hollow-looking eyes as you slowly come to the realization that you once knew this person, an old family friend who hung themselves in your childhood home. Instead of calling the police, your parents panicked and buried the body in the yard and it has just been sitting, waiting for the right moment to materialize. That moment is now, Randall, and there's nothing you can do about it but close your MacBook and try to think of something besides the excruciating pain you are about to experience.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 01:22:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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UndeadBread · 6 points · Posted at 03:17:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Turn around, Randy.

Captain_English · 7 points · Posted at 21:14:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepy, but I have to say:

If I were the suicide ghost woman haunting the place, I'd stand closer to the elevator door.

Shuffling from across the room is never going to get the results I'm after.

renison · 4 points · Posted at 03:13:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i watch horror movies as a hobby. i read and write awful, morbid, terrifying horror stories for fun and craft. i love the genre and thus have a 'thick skin' when it comes to frights and scares.

this...this has me curled in a ball, joints knotted and in a cold sweat.

ohGodgoodbyelife · 3 points · Posted at 19:26:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh God, that does it for me

Soulsproxy · 3 points · Posted at 19:51:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

10/10. Would shit pants again.

kasper138 · 3 points · Posted at 20:02:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of /r/nosleep before it starting sucking balls!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:13:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok I've got a great business model we rent out the fifth floor and sell new pants and underwear for all the scared people who soiled themselves from seeing the Taiwanese hair salon ghost. We will literally make millions.

Really_Likes_Nutella · 3 points · Posted at 22:11:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Elevator_Incident

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:18:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit my story is on creepy pasta?!

bobojojo12 · 1 points · Posted at 08:06:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Son Of A Bitch http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/1-2-3-5-6

ssell · 1 points · Posted at 13:03:35 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

That Creepypasta was created on April 28, 2011. http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Elevator_Incident?action=history

smpx originally told the story on March 25, 2010. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bhbyx/reddit_what_is_your_creepiest_most_unnerving/c0mvplr?context=3

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:55:09 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

The long-windessness and unnecessary literary flourishes make me think this is a work of total fiction.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:44:05 on July 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:24:48 on July 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whoaaaaaaaa

NovaNexu · 1 points · Posted at 08:43:54 on July 12, 2013 · (Permalink)

Worst part about these types of scenarious: you're alone.

kceb · 2 points · Posted at 19:39:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Despite your story being utterly terrifying to me, I keep reading it (I relish in creepy stories like yours).
I want to know why she killed herself and what the room looks like in the day.
You didn't scream at all? Because if I was in your shoes I would probably shit a brick while screaming bloody murder and backing up quickly to a corner of the elevator; especially after the lights flickered off.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:36:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Forget screaming, I felt paralysis. It was a weird but very physical reaction.

Laceyduke · 1 points · Posted at 12:37:18 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happened to me during a game of tag a while back

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:46:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like you were on some kind of fucked up Asian TV show that features scaring the fucking shit out of white people and then making fun of them.

weinaynay · 2 points · Posted at 21:01:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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seeshellirun · 2 points · Posted at 19:36:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was the very first thing on reddit I ever read - I was directed to it from Digg, if you can believe it.

When I finally joined reddit two+ years ago, I went back looking for it and had no luck. It really bummed me out b/c I remember being so creeped out and that does not happen much with me anymore.

All that to say, thanks for reposting AND for posting the link to the original thread! I now know I'm not crazy!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Glad I could be of service! Digg actually got more interesting lately after the update, nothing like reddit though.

alphanovember · 2 points · Posted at 05:06:02 on June 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fuck! I remember reading this all those years ago. Damn, that was a different era.

SilverMetal · 2 points · Posted at 19:32:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, fuck, here I am in Taiwan, on the 4th floor of my apartment building, at 3:30 AM. Alone. And I guess I'm not sleeping tonight.

Juiicy_Oranges · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You win.

Dom_Of_The_Dead · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whoa, that's insane! Thanks for sharing!

roxbigred · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is terrifying.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i have goose bumps

SteelDonkeyAssassin · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Excellent story, *shudder* not only did my blood run cold but my very heart.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

go back to /r/nosleep

hornyoctopus98 · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm just gonna say that you're lucky as fuck for not being taken with the figure.

Almost pissed myself reading that.

springboks · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eastern countries always have superstitious stories like this. You were younger and your imagination went a little crazy, it was just an old abandoned floor.

Skullcrusher · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why are asian ghosts always the scariest?

nhluhr · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't even care if this is a true story - very entertaining read.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest stories so far: 1) Smiling Man 2) No 4th Floor (this story) I LOVE this thread. That is all.

and-julia · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am thoroughly freaked the fuck out, but thanks for sharing!

Omnipresent_Walrus · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welp. I ain't sleeping EVER

Random_Ass_Guy · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Never going to anything on a fourth floor again.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd nope right the fuck outta there.

SoF4rGone · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And we're done with elevators. Thanks for that.

Strongsight · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are one brave mother fucker I know.

honjo · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you take the elevator down again?

vVvMaze · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In situations like this I always wonder, what would actually happen if you stood there or got out on the floor and walked back towards what you saw. Walked right up to it, just to see what would happen. Would get violent, if so, how? No one has ever been killed by a ghost in recorded history. Could it actually do anything to you? Would it try to communicate. So fascinating.

eternalexodus · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuuuuuuuuuuuck that.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The "Close Door" button is what you push when you want to nope the fuck out.

BeN9o · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What did you do when the light went out? Did you back up? Freeze? I genuinely think I would shit myself, that sounds like a nightmare.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Knees went weak, total panic, and felt like I wanted to pee. I think if it stayed dark I would have just lost it.

DangerDasha · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

post this on r/nosleep.

CurrentlyPastaBatman · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was planning on taking a small vacation next year and Taiwan is one of the stops. Is this in Taipei? Do you remember which building it was? Cause I never want to go there ever...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

It was in Kaoshiung, near the big night market. I wish I still had the address, but its the one close to the sex shop (there was only one when the last redditor went).

KevinTheGoldfish · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone needs to put a light in that corridor immediately. Fuck that I rarely cry and this makes me want to cry with fear. And it's still bright.

Twothousand2000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cool story. Do not believe.

Nudienawdee · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit I'm scared

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend in hong kong has a lot of stories from her and her friends. Creepy shit that happens in and around east asia and southeast asia. Would tell you them, but I forgot most of them.

timthetollman · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice creepy pasta

Sir_Jeremiah · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope. What the holy bitch. I would have fucking shit my pants and died right when the lights turned off.

WadeK · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This got onto the No Sleep Podcast, right?

MuttonTheChops · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

well I guess I should take the stairs in Taiwan... speaking of that, they must have stairs in the building, they can't just have an elevator, can they? Do you know anything about the stairs to the forth floor?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:13:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There were stairs, i know that because I considered taking it for a moment. Then I realized I was NOT going to walk the empty, poorly lit stairs down into whatever hell awaited.

MuttonTheChops · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Go back down the elevator and risk another unwanted stop or guide yourself down a dark stairwell to bump into whatever the hell was in that room on its way up? I'm guessing you jumped out of the window haha

Themanwiththeplan87 · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit sage that shit before the unholiness kills us all.

Raiider · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Taiwanese ghost stories are some of the scariest. Almost peed my pants.

flyotw · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Laid in bed reading this and just moved slowly closer to my girlfriend for reassurance that everything is ok. Little bit of piss came out due to fright.

Nick_jimenez · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No no no no no why did I read that

Zerasad · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's some creepypasta material right there.

ohnothisisbad · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't think I've ever consistently had goosebumps while reading that long of a passage...reminds me of one time my freshman year at college. I had recently gotten into a little tiff with my roommates over their use of my laptop when they both had their own. Early one morning I awoke (extremely hungover) to the sound of someone typing on my computer. As I flipped over in bed to yell at my roommate for using it, I realized that there was no one even in my room, but the keys we're still typing. To this day I can't tell this story without getting the chills.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh holy shit that is creepy, we're the keys moving?! What the fuck.

drunkennova · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If the elevator was not programmed to go to 4th floor, someone must have called it from the that floor... aaaand it gets even creepy....

MiTCH_x · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welp, I shouldn't of read that just before bed.

ChisaiKyoku · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy crap that's freaky.

egomouse · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I gave you some karma to try and make you feel better, cause, fuck.

codsonmaty · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking phone rang halfway through the story and now I'm changing pants

digsy · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading this before, it freaked me out then and it freaked me out now. It's so easy to imagine being there. Thanks!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay, that's enough for me.

mementomori4 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That reminds me of one episode of Babylon 5 where they find a "hidden" floor accessible only from the elevator and Garibaldi goes to check it out... creepy build up.

stingen · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Andddddd I just shit myself.

Zeeboon · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Meh, I thought this could be a pretty good creepypasta, but the moment you mentioned the suicide and whatever it became another generic ghost story.
7/10

[deleted] · 140 points · Posted at 15:06:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

EMT here. I have a ton of these kind of stories, but this one sticks out the best. Warning, NSFW language. This call is from a few years ago:

Our ambulance is dispatched to a residence for a male with leg pain. My partner and I walk in, and seated in the recliner is an older, African-American male with a cast on his left leg. He tells us he was in a motorcycle accident a few weeks ago and broke his leg, and was discharged from the hospital a couple of nights ago. He says he tripped over the coffee table and banged his bad leg again really hard, and wanted to go back to the ER and have them check it out, just to make sure he didn't re-injure himself.

So after [Boring Medical Terminology Here], we're off to the local hospital. Talking with him in the back, he seemed like a pretty chill guy. We're bullshitting back and forth about motorcycles, his ER visit, his ex-wife, and was just generally an easy going guy.

Half way to the hospital though, he suddenly stops talking, and holds his hand out to me like he wants to shake my hand. I take his hand and as I give him a firm handshake, he looks me straight in the eyes and says the creepiest thing I have ever heard:

"Thank you for everything you are about to do for me."

His eyes then begin to bulge out of his sockets, he starts foaming at the mouth, and starts screaming at the top of his lungs. "I'M GONNA TAKE A DIABETIC SHIT ON YOUR DONKEY DICK YOU CRACKER LOVER!" "FUCK ME IN THE ASS! FUCK ME NOW!" Just over and over again for about a solid 45 seconds, maybe a minute. Then he stops, throws up all over himself, then collapses on the stretcher, unconscious.

I literally just sat there the entire time in total shock and fear until he collapsed. Took a breath, checked my pants, told my partner to start driving faster, then began providing manual respirations to make sure he kept breathing.

Crazy thing is, I'm talking to one of the ER nurses after we dropped him off, and she told me the same exact thing happened when he was in there earlier. And none of the doctors could figure out what it was...

othilious · 35 points · Posted at 13:21:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like a form of Epilepsy or Tourettes. The moment(s) leading up to an actual episodes can make people do weird shit. Some people can actually recognise the onset of an episode. Perhaps this guy realised what was about to happen, and figured he'd thank you beforehand?

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 17:32:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My money is definitely on it being some kind of seizure, definitely.

[deleted] · 33 points · Posted at 04:18:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

whatever you get paid, it isn't enough.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 17:34:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lol. I actually did it for free that day. Volunteer EMS department.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:56:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

well, then, sainthood or something!

holomanga · 12 points · Posted at 22:01:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd love it if he was totally neurotypical, and is actually the king of trolls.

neonhighlighter · 11 points · Posted at 12:33:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He sounds like my friends playing video games.

zerostr · 9 points · Posted at 21:22:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tourettes?

silentmikhail · 7 points · Posted at 10:53:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sorry this happened to you. But I'm also sorry I kinda laughed so hard at this my cereal spilled out of my mouth onto my laptop

ChefManz · 0 points · Posted at 13:11:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ohhh that made me laugh, also you are now tagged as "cereal laugher"

triddy5 · 3 points · Posted at 07:51:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tourettes maybe? That's pretty funny, I hope he lived.

penguintux · 2 points · Posted at 08:52:18 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've heard of vomit seizures before, even ones where people would do the same thing every time before they vomit. I know one where a girl would vomit into her cupped left palm, same way, every time.

Winterpeg · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

hypoglycemic much?

AMBsFather · -7 points · Posted at 01:12:45 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

So some form of tourettes or epilepsy is creepy now? He was probably thanking you for listening to him and helping him before he went into one of his episodes. So what?

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 01:24:23 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Posting about it probably doesn't do it justice now, but then it was very WTF for me. At the time I was fresh out of EMT academy, and it was the first time I saw something of that nature. To have someone stop mid sentence, shake your hand, then literally scream bloody murder in your face, while all alone traveling in what is essentially a wooden box on the back of a truck doing 60 MPH, then totally stop practically dead the next moment, and then to top it off hear another medical professional tell you there was nothing neurologically or cognitively wrong with the guy and it was truly deemed unexplainable behavior... It was just surreal and definitely a creepy moment in my career. I've been in much scarier and creepier situations since, but none of them were as memorable as this.

I'm sorry you don't see it my way, but at least I thought it was worth sharing. Agree to disagree, and all that.

AMBsFather · 4 points · Posted at 01:27:59 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I see what you're saying. Just the fact that it caught you off guard and he went 0-100 like that is what freaked you out. I understand now.

lpopsicle · 69 points · Posted at 15:29:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watching an A7 Corsair grab the #3 cable that had not been fully retracted. After the wire broke and whipped around 2 sailors were dead and 2 were amputees. Getting to the sceen seconds after was the most horrific site I have witnessed. Using a mop and pail to swab up the puddles of blood. Heart wrenching.

rolfraikou · 3 points · Posted at 01:21:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Woah, what do these terms mean?

ThisIsFlight · 10 points · Posted at 04:34:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My best guess is he's talking about the third arresting cable on an aircraft carrier. The A7 is a Vietnam era jet that served until the early 90s. You can imagine what a heavy duty metal cable whipping around at high speeds on a crowded flight deck amounts to.

lpopsicle · 9 points · Posted at 18:59:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry, it was a number 3 cable that had just trapped another aircraft. The cable was retracting but the Corsair was to quick and caught the wire before it could be waved off. This was 1981 or 82 mid Atlantic doing work ups aboard the USS JOHN F KENNEDY CV 67. I was a member of the Crash and Salvage Team.

cosmicsans · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not too sure about some of them, but a plane was taking off and caught a cable. Ghost ship like phenomenon occurs to sailors.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:11:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

not taking off, landing. there aree multiple arresting cables that stops planes when they land and this one was not fully retracted and therefore snapped when the jet hooked it. imagine the scene from Ghost Ship with the cable that kills people

cosmicsans · 5 points · Posted at 19:51:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay, so the exact scene that I put there haha :p

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 20:22:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i didnt read your link text.

oldrinb · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:08 on June 27, 2013 · (Permalink)

okay then why did you bother responding?

[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 23:18:15 on June 27, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because you were already wrong so I didn't imagine that the link you had there would be relevant or correct tbh

PetrusOfThorolund · 67 points · Posted at 16:17:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

To really get my story you have to have an understanding of my third floor landing.

There's a single set of stairs that lead up to it, once on the landing its a T-Shape, with an Office the left, my bedroom to the right, and straight ahead is a bathroom with a shower.

Anyway, one night, ~10PM I'm taking a shower before I head to sleep. The glass panels on my shower is that like, concave/convex glass that blurs everything, so everything was blurred and unclear. I glance at the door and I see some kind of hand like figure. Now, it was pitch black, so right there it freaked me out because I come from a family of pale white welsh people. What freaked me out more was how the hand seemed to come through the door, or at least an angle where whomever the hand belonged to would be visible.

All it did was hit the lights. That's it. No noise, no attack or anything, it just turned off the fucking lights. So there I am, I just witnessed a phantom hand, and now I'm in my shower and it's pitch fucking black. I've never been so chilled to the bone before, something about being in the darkness of the night, with the only noise being the water hitting the floor beneath me, just reduced me to the most primal state of pure fear I've ever been in. I eventually get myself to leave the shower and hit the lights. The relief that came over me was immense.

I've never been able to explain it. The stairs up to the landing are old and creek like hell, I would've heard someone come and go down. No one was in my room, or the office. Weirder still, nothing like it has happened since.

TL;DR Phantom hand trolls me while I'm taking a shower

Typoopie · 4 points · Posted at 22:30:32 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ever hear of those autistic people who lurk in random peoples homes? They stay out of sight and move around at night, turning off/on lights, moving things etc before moving on somewhere else. I know this because it's in my line of work...

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 05:11:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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PetrusOfThorolund · 2 points · Posted at 10:17:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

well

sorry?

funwithgoats · 6 points · Posted at 17:28:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Most terrifying thing so far. I don't even know how I would've reacted. Oh my god.

champ999 · 1 points · Posted at 02:18:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is both terrifying and hilariously awesome. Phantom hand knows how to scare without effort.

JamesRenner · 68 points · Posted at 03:10:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm a journalist and was told this doozy by a woman I interviewed for a true crime story.

When this woman was a young girl, say 8 years old, she started to come down stairs at night to tell her father that there was a man in her closet. He tells her there's no such thing as the Boogeyman and sends her back to bed. This happens on and off for like a week. Finally, he gets frustrated and walks her back to the room and says, "I'll show you there's nothing in your closet" and goes to open the door. It opens an inch and then he feels someone slam it shut.

Turns out there really was a man in her closet. This guy was a perv who would come in to the house every night and stare at the girl from the closet while she slept. The dad kicked the shit out of him and the perv went to prison for many years.

I researched her story 20 years after this happened. The guy had just gotten out of jail again and no one could find him.

mister_flibble · 17 points · Posted at 23:55:34 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then she won every argument with her dad throughout her teen years... " is there going to be drinking at the party tonight? " "no... Hey, remember that guy in the closet you didn't believe me about when I was a kid? " "... Have fun! "

oohcomely · 13 points · Posted at 03:24:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

what the fuck. I was expecting some kind of ghost story, but that's infinitely creepier.

martininkorea · 10 points · Posted at 05:48:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ghosts aren't nearly as creepy as pedo-stalkers.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 11:26:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And this is why I refuse to not keep massive amounts of junk in my closet.

fishfishfish · 1792 points · Posted at 13:04:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I housesit for a family friend when she goes out of town. The woman who lives there is really into a bunch of spiritual stuff - new age stuff, reiki, etc. The very first time I was housesitting, I was outside watering the plants. I was the only one there and had closed the door after me. From the driveway where I was watering, I had a completely unobstructed view of the front door, the only door that was unlocked at the time. When I went back inside, there, on the little table next to the front door was a half eaten cookie. The table had been completely clear when I went outside and I hadn't seen cookies that looked like that anywhere in the house. Nothing too creepy, but very puzzling and unsettling.

When the woman returns, I mention it to her and she laughs and says she "gets ghosts all the time." I'm a fairly skeptical person, but honestly, ghosts were the best explanation.

The next time I was over, I was pooping around 10:30. The house itself is fairly old and creaks from time to time, but nothing too loud or disruptive. While I was pooping, there comes a single loud knock from the other side of the bathroom door. This wasn't a little creak or pop from the house, it was a loud, determined rap on the door. It was enough to scare my poop back in for the rest of the night.

[deleted] · 2012 points · Posted at 13:20:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the ghost was just trying to help you along by scaring the crap outta you.

scalzo19 · 818 points · Posted at 14:11:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It did the opposite

[deleted] · 458 points · Posted at 14:21:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well that was a shitty thing to do.

flippinandfloppin · 18 points · Posted at 15:13:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That ghost is an asshole.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:17:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The original comment shows as 1 hour ago, and this comment shows as three hours ago.... Wut

mickeymau5music · 8 points · Posted at 15:08:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can we NOT start this shit?

the_pissedoff_walrus · 8 points · Posted at 15:15:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You gotta be shittin me! Of course we're doing this

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 15:33:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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zippe6 · 4 points · Posted at 15:41:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

cut out the crap

maxgroover · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What a crock of..nevermind

Shitty_Pun_Thread · -2 points · Posted at 02:31:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I give this a 4/10.

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

lolz!

ATW2800 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh don't start this crap again

XephirothUltra · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, it wasn't shitty anymore after that.

globmont · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know right? What a piece of crap that ghost is!

Shitty_Human_Being · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sorry.

Jefftheperson · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What an asshole!

RagingVoodooSorcerer · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That ghost did a crappy job of helping him.

Cinnvext · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happy cake day, friend. :) Enjoy the upvote.

Mordekai99 · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Literally

M00nfac3 · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least he knocked? Polite ghost!

Shitty_Pun_Thread · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No kidding!

Nimbleturkey · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That pun was utter crap.

pooncartercash · 0 points · Posted at 18:51:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Literally.

CommunistCappie · 0 points · Posted at 22:32:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good Intention Ghost. Tries to scare the shit out of you, does the opposite instead.

european_impostor · 3 points · Posted at 16:28:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SHLURP!

HotDogOnAPlate · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everyone knows that the anus clenches and tightens up in response to fear. If the poop hadn't been sucked back in there would've certainly been a turd slice. That ghost knew what it was doing. What a dick.

tailboys1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Inverse shit

David_Copperfuck · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It scared the poop back into him?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oppository

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe he's a new ghost.

_Adolf_hipster_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Man that ghost scared the shit into me!"

"Wut"

abenton · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:45 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scumbag spirits

Nuoap · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here. You deserve it. Happy Cakeday.

Ineedashite · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lucky bastard, I wish it would knock on my big door:(

p-melt · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happy cake day!

cheesefrykid · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ghost laxatives??

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

hur hur TURDLE. hur hur.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well it just scared OP shitless.

electric-sloth · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU NEARLY SCARED THE CRAP, RIGHT OUT OF ME! I APPRECIATE THE EFFORT, BUT I HAVE BOWEL MUSCLES!

dylan1130 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"That scared the shit into me!"

Nackles · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

rimshot

Moosemaster21 · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:58 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

It scared the crap into you? That's a new one

_vargas_ · 1087 points · Posted at 13:24:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am now thinking of a scared turtle pulling his head back into his shell.

[deleted] · 434 points · Posted at 14:08:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or a prairie dog going back into the ground.

RabidMuskrat93 · 1143 points · Posted at 15:09:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or a turd going back in your butt.

BuffyPilotKnob · 13 points · Posted at 17:39:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good metaphor.

long_wang_big_balls · 4 points · Posted at 18:22:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the UK, that is actually what needing a shit is called. 'Prairie dogging' or a 'turtle head', or 'my ass smoking a cigar'.

BuffyPilotKnob · 8 points · Posted at 18:27:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was actually referring to the "turd going back in your butt" metaphor, and I am aware it's not a metaphor, I was being facetious...oh, never mind! It's ruined now!

And also, we do refer to it as "prairie dogging" or having a "turtle head" here in the states too. Especially since prairie dogs are indigenous to North America...

long_wang_big_balls · 4 points · Posted at 18:27:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry I ruined everything :( I feel like the child you never wanted

BuffyPilotKnob · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aw, no way long_wang_big_balls, you're totally the child I wanted! I need something to blame my failures on.

long_wang_big_balls · 5 points · Posted at 18:37:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm a wang, and you are a knob. It only seems right for me to carry the weight of your failures, and I do so gladly.

BuffyPilotKnob · 3 points · Posted at 20:07:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Long_wang_big_balls, you're all right.

rallets · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

now kiss

RolloTonyBrownTown · 2 points · Posted at 18:11:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A true poet that RabidMuskrat93

RabidMuskrat93 · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I try.

metalninjacake2 · 2 points · Posted at 18:24:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

))=((

back and forth forever

NoahDavenport · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or a... shit, nevermind.

MrJoeBlow · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really needed that laugh right now in this thread. Thank you

NotSoMrNiceGuy · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah.... or that

YouWantMyUsername · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the type of reply that makes me breathe through my nose faster for like a minute.

almadison · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't often comment on Reddit. Hell, I barely even read things on Reddit. However, when I read this comment a few hours ago, I laughed so hard I was crying and a coworker came and asked if I was okay. Thanks for the good laugh!

akwynne · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This made me laugh for a good solid minute. I like you.

7Aero7 · -2 points · Posted at 16:13:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And the cycle continues.

BrianInYoBrain · 3 points · Posted at 15:11:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's enough Diglett, come back!

CovingtonLane · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or a prairie dog going back into the ground.

Upsidedown.

Asskarass · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Prairie doggin'!

SweetLobsterBabies · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"But daaad, it's prairie doggin'"

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what we call a six more weeks of win-turd.

DFTBAwesome · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you from Canada?

PenguinPWND · -1 points · Posted at 15:57:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or poop and an ass.

middayminer · 4 points · Posted at 14:57:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or an unusually long manicured finger silently going back into the drainhole after tapping around the basin.

as-we-speak · 3 points · Posted at 15:04:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I WAS IN THE POOL!!!

H8rade · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once scared my turtle while he was taking a huge shit and it shot back into him. I felt so bad.

Kjostid · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I totally imagined that the poop was sucked back up after it had already been defecated and laying in the water. This made me laugh and vomit a little all at the same time.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:03:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did someone say....turtles?

SovietPoland · 2 points · Posted at 02:47:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

But with poop.

thrownormanaway · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

scared turdle

FTFY

Shizrah · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why have I upvoted you 14 times but never tagged you?? :-(

[deleted] · 633 points · Posted at 13:52:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared Shitless.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 15:46:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared Shitful?...

The_Ponnitor · 2 points · Posted at 17:06:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

*Shitful

harman314 · 2 points · Posted at 14:51:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared. Shitless.

HMJ87 · 3 points · Posted at 16:16:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared; Shitless.

John_Paul_Jones_III · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared shitful

FatalisDrakari · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared shitful

thebenji23 · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared shitfull

Ezemryt · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think in this case it'd be scared shitfull.

Shoshingo · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In this case, scared shitfull

Baal_Redditor · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You must think I'm some kinda moron to believe a story like that.

212robster · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared shitfull

aerodynelove · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared Shitless.

Hiyoooo!

mandypanda · 7 points · Posted at 17:54:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last time I was in Latvia, I was in a bathroom at a hotel in Liepaja and completely alone, when all of a sudden I see the shadow of a big person in front of the stall door (the stall doors were made of brushed glass... yeah.) and 3 really violent sounding loud knocks, and this person violently tried to open the stall by turning the knob... I say "what the fuck, there are other stalls, its empty in here!" immediately pull up pants, open door, and theres no trace of anyone in there at all. Never heard them come in or leave, and no one was in any of the stalls. Freaked me out for the rest of my time at that hotel!

fishfishfish · 8 points · Posted at 18:53:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was politburo.

sinchsw · 4 points · Posted at 17:53:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ghosts? I've got ghosts. My aunt is a psychic and told me that based on my son's family history and his birthday he might be extra sensitive to the paranormal even into adulthood. We moved into a 100 year old duplex about a year ago when he was just 15 months old; it wasn't long before it started.

First incident we were in our dining room playing with him and he kept staring off into the dark living room near the ceiling and smiling. We asked him what he was looking at and he said, "Dead guy". This more pleasant experience happened multiple times throughout the year. My aunt claims it is my deceased grandfather.

Then there is another spirit. My sons door would sometimes be opened even though he couldn't reach the handle. The TV would turn on by itself, and he would wake up screaming. Not to mention the times he would sit alone in either of the closets and have a conversation with someone. My aunt claims this is a female that is trying to channel through him and my grandpa is around to protect him.

Just days ago we had guests over and he went to bed without issue. At around 10pm he woke up screaming. I went in the room and he was wide awake sitting up staring at the ceiling.

"What's the matter?" He looks at me with huge frightened eyes. "What do you see?" "Ghost. Ghost. Ghost." "Ghosts can't hurt you." "No. Ghost. Ghost. Ghost. Ghost. Ghost. Ghost."

He slept with us that night.

fatalvaux · 2 points · Posted at 21:13:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's super creepy. I'd be looking for a new place to live if I were you. How old is your son now?

sinchsw · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He just turned 2 last month. If what my aunt said is true it won't matter where we live, but perhaps if this spirit is attached to the house we could take a gamble on what we'll find at the next place.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

what is his birthday?

sinchsw · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

April 30th. According to my aunt, those born on October 31st (All Hollow's Eve/her birthday) or exactly 6 months opposite (his birthday) tend to be more open to receiving.

[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 14:31:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I took reiki lessons from a local woman. Her house was crazy with odd things happening. It generally felt very odd. She would "talk to spirits" while we were having my lessons. Also, she was really into the idea of spirit animals and otherworldly beings.

One day when I was there, we were sitting at the table and something kept poking me in the leg. It felt like a bird pecking me. I kept looking down and she asked me what was going on and I said something kept stabbing me in the leg with its beak. She just smiled and said, "It's not me." It felt like whatever was doing it was doing it hard enough to leave a mark, but there weren't any when I checked later. The rooms we were in often felt "crowded" and we were the only ones there, besides her dogs.

She also claimed to see one of my ancestors near me as I was practicing and described her rather well. Still not sure what to think.

steve_yo · 13 points · Posted at 15:38:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm a fairly skeptical person, but honestly, ghosts were the best explanation.

LOL.

NoosedMoose · 10 points · Posted at 16:17:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Half eaten cookie = life after death.

Honestly, It really is the best explanation.

pause-break · 4 points · Posted at 16:12:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once as a kid I was home alone and in the bathroom when someone knocked at the door. I wasn't too freaked out initially. It's obviously not unreasonable to assume that my parents had come home earlier than expected or that a family friend for whatever reason had let themselves in so I responded, "just a sec". But as I was washing my hands they knocked again. Knock Knock Knock

"Hello, who is it?"

No response. I paused. I slowly walked towards the door and before I could put my hand on the handle, Knock Knock.

"Yes, who's there?" I asked more forcefully and again was met with silence. Now I was scared. Somebody was either knocking on that door and unable to respond to me, or was knocking on the door and intentionally not responding to me. Both scenarios terrified me. And as many trapped and terrified 11 year old's would do, I cried. Audibly cried.

Knock Knock

I didn't respond. Just wept. I couldn't fathom what was on the other side of the door. I could not picture it. As I was approaching my teens, the things I feared were changing from the supernatural and silly, to the tangible and reported dangers from other humans. The bizarre world of my imagination needn't colour pictures of the weird and cartoonish to frighten me any more as the news now painted all the pictures I ever needed for a sleepless night. Murderers and kidnappers were on every corner and far less susceptible to the good old 'hands on eyes chanting "I don't believe in X"', defence. The scenario I found myself in then however seemed to take the worst of both those worlds. What I pictured behind the door was indistinct evil. With all the malice and cruelty of the worst of human kind, and the erratic, dangerous unpredictability of the supernatural.

Knock Knock Knock

I wish I could give you an ending but I can't really remember one. It turns out the door was merely creaking. It creaked in deep knocking tones, around two or three at a time. Many times after that I'd got caught out thinking someone was knocking at the door and then I'd remember and laugh to myself. In reality the story isn't particularly note worthy, except for me. Because it was simultaneously the last time I was ever afraid of monsters and the first time I was ever afraid of people.

TheWiredWorld · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude.

wat

SilentSamamander · 5 points · Posted at 14:49:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And this is why I refuse to shit anywhere except in the comfort of my own home.

AfroKing23 · 3 points · Posted at 15:29:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not saying it was ghosts, but it was ghosts.

Not_A_Complete_Loser · 3 points · Posted at 15:22:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like my house. Cupboards open and close at odd times, lights turn on and off, the radios in the house turn on and tune into some religious channel, the faucets will turn on on their own, sometimes you hear someone knock on your walls when no one is home, and you can hear the floor boards creak in the middle of the night.

It's only a fifteen year old house, and honestly I'm more worried about the idiots who keep racing down my street more than anything else. Damn kids and their motorcycles.

TheWiredWorld · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Moar pls

Ashneaska · 3 points · Posted at 18:15:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, free half cookie!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:40:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night I was getting ready for some family night we had planned. I was putting on my makeup in the bathroom mirror when I hear this loud thud, thud, thud behind me. It was clearly someone running down my hallway, I then see something black flash behind me. I yell at my sister," ok, ok I'm almost ready! " I walk out of the bathroom look around the corner where my sister would have been... no one was there. I walk throughout the house, still no sign of anyone. Turns out my sister was waiting for me in the car. There is no way my sister or anyone would have been able to run pass my bathroom... then in a few seconds time sneak behind me, and somehow beat me to the car with their seat-belt on. When I got out there I asked if she had ran down the hallway a minute ago, she looked at me funny and said she's been sitting in the car waiting for me for the last 5 mins.

I also one night let my arm dangle on the side of the bed, I woke up to a hand print on my arm, it was imprinted in a way where it looked like someone was trying to grab my arm so I could pull them upwards.

Anyways, your bathroom story reminded me of mine.

Caberman · 4 points · Posted at 14:09:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I would have just slept in the bathroom that night. O_O

8anana_Pancak3 · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So basically, it scared the shit into you.

Lasair · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Agh, you just reminded me of my encounter with unexplainable knocking.

I live in a finished basement that is basically two rooms, with both rooms connecting via hallways, from both ends. One of the hallways is very long, while the other is short. The furnace room and stairs are in the middle, making the basement rectangular in shape. There's one door between the two rooms, but I took of the door handle so I could prop my bed against it. I then converted the small hallway on the otherside into a cubby space. So there's a bunch of shit crammed up against the door.

One night, at about 1:00am, I heard three distinct knocks coming from the other side of the door. The door that my bed is right against... the door that has a huge shelf against it...

The knocks weren't very threatening, just slow and deliberate. Needless to say, I freaked the fuck out, woke up my SO, and made him travel down the long hallway to check out the other room. Of course nothing was there. We checked the furnace room too, just to be safe.

Dunno what it was. My only explanation is that it could have been coming from the other door, which leads outside, since both doors are pretty close to each other. Maybe some fuck running around the neighborhood, trying to freak people out? Wouldn't surprise me, considering the Mexican man that once emerged from our pond.

tl;dr: mysterious door knocks in the middle of the night.

WiserThanMost · 4 points · Posted at 18:45:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ghosts were the best explanation.

Ghosts are never the best explanation.

WilhelmScreams · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once had that loud, distinct rap on my bedroom door shortly after moving into my house. I know I wasn't crazy because my wife and I both shot up.

mistywalrus · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The ghost was just being polite.

ModThatShit · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Best explanation: Old lady eating cookies and too lazy to clean it up. She also likes to disturb people while taking a shit.

brat_prince · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How long before you left the bathroom?

NoApollonia · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get weird sounds when I'm in the shower - like the sounds of cabinets opening and stuff. It only happens to me, not when my husband showers. He swears it's not him. I have learned to take very quick showers.

80sTan · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL; Ghosts can scare shit into you.

deathberry_x · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

scare my poop back in

The scariest sentence in your story. So. Unsettling...!

Rodents210 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandma does Reiki and I'm certified at Level 1. I don't necessarily believe in it but damn if it isn't interesting to learn.

pyro5050 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

that knock is best explained by a rapid release of air from a cross beam nail. you should tell her to have the attic inspected or the floor joists inspected as they are releasing gasses/moisture and causing loud cracks, which can actually be the inital signs of failure.

Rozo-D · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

jesus h christ if I was pooping and that happened I would have noped the fuck out of there with my pants down running down the street with poop dangling out and I wouldn't have cared.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm a fairly skeptical person, but honestly, ghosts were the best explanation.

Really?

roltrap · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am a very rational, agnostic, scientifically educated person but in my life I have been living in - because of the lack of a more fitting word - two haunted places. The first one we moved out of because of it. We never got it to stop. I posted about it on /r/thetruthishere a long time ago with pictures of my ex-girlfriends scars that she had from it.

The second one was in my current home. It drove me near desperation because of the lack of sleep. (Activity was both during daytime and nighttime. Nighttime activity, especially the grownling and breathing, was what kept me awake sometimes.) I didn't fear what was going on but when it became physical, I called someone whose number I got from a person I knew at the time. She came here and almost fainted. After she was done (took her 2 hours) I never had any activity anymore.

I don't know what the fuck all that was but it was unsettling to say the least.

FillingTheVoidInside · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you're a skeptical person, ghosts are never the explanation

mitchsusername · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

SomeSmallBloke · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least they knocked.

ex_nihilo · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ghosts are never the "best" explanation.

IRONHain47 · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We had a bathroom door in my childhood home that would get blown by the AC and periodically "knock." Scared the tits out of me, though.

MonsieurLeMeister · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It scared the shit right into you?! That's creepy.

ACannabisConnoisseur · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Usually you find a half smoked joint next to that half eaten cookie

theledman · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The next time I was over

Wow. you had balls to go back after that.

KingOfRages · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Shitless In Seattle"

SilverGhost93 · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend has a creaky house and you can hear every footfall in that place. He was alone in the house in his room and he heard what sounded like someone running up the stairs, then over to his room, then violently shaking the knob. He didn't hear any footsteps going away from the room, but when he answered the door nobody was there. Other weird shit would happen too. Like he'd put a clothes on a hanger and then hang the hanger up in a closet and the hanger would practically jump off the rack. That house was really old and honestly one of the first times I ever thought ghosts would be a logical explanation for anything.

Atlas_Perpetually · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared the shit into you?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

House sitting can be super scary! Did she have any animals? Even small ones? One time I was house sitting and a tiny pomeranian busted open the door in the middle of the night because he decided he wanted to sleep in bed with me. The door flung open with the loudest THOOM ever. I spent the rest of the night terrified and awake.

iz_an_ocelot · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds much like where I house-sit...

googolplexbyte · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a little kid, I'd sneak in my neighbour's house and steal food. I wonder if they thought me ghosts.

barrym187 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've mentioned this story before and it's eerily similar to the cookie thing. I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to ghosts and whatnot but this was extremely haunting:

I was home from college and sleeping in my old bedroom at my parent’s house. I always keep a bottle of water next to the bed so I can drink it throughout the night. I woke up that morning (Around 6AM) and reached over to grab it but it's not there. It's not uncommon that I'll knock it over and it'll roll under the bed or the table but it's usually within arm’s reach. It's about 6am and getting light out so visibility in the room is pretty good and I still can't see the damn bottle anywhere. After groping around under the bed for a while I’m coming up empty-handed so I get out of bed and on my hands and knees feeling around for it, checking my desk, under the table, bed, etc. I finally say "fuck it, I must have left it in the kitchen" but I can’t shake the feeling that I'm 100% positive it was right on the ground where I was kneeling. I decide to hit the bathroom since I’m already awake now and glance over on the kitchen counter on my way... nothing... nothing in the bathroom either, as I suspected. I head back to the bedroom and I'm actually growing frustrated that I can't find the thing, I turn into the room and it's sitting straight up, right where it was supposed to be. I would have literally been crushing it while I was looking for it. After the initial confusion, I sat on the edge of the bed staring at it for like ten minutes with goosebumps. There was absolutely no possible way I could have missed it, I was the only person on that floor of the house at the time and everyone upstairs was asleep (mom, dad and sister). I would have had to go out of my way to avoid it while I was looking for it. It was early but after a couple minutes of looking around the room for it, I can’t entertain the idea that I was confused or disoriented due to just waking up. After staring at it for a while, I just threw it in the garbage because I was afraid to drink it. This was like 10 years ago and it was such a small event but I still think about.

TL;DR - Lost something and found it right where I was looking for it, no one could have put it there or would have, and I'm not crazy... at least I think I'm not.

Ahmerikan_Machine · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this Dog?

MagicSPA · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd invest in an indoor security camera. You can get them cheap on Ebay and you could end up capturing something that would transform our understanding of reality.

Ghosts eat food? I'd pay to watch that, and I'm sure the Randi Foundation would be interested as well.

michaeljane · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my fucking god as soon as I finished your story, my door popped really loud. Scared the shit out of me, but it's because it always expands and contracts.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did you go back???

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ghosts have to poop, too.

AcclimateToMind · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

but honestly, ghosts were the best explanation. makes perfect sense.

ImAWhaleBiologist · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm fairly skeptical, but honestly, ghosts were the best explanation.

You don't have a single fucking ounce of skepticism in you...

meplusone · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You were understandably scared shitless.

Ilikemooseypeople · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are not a skeptical person if you think ghosts are the best explanation.

aftli · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh, old houses. I grew up in one. Our kitchen had a tile floor, and the kitchen chairs made a very distinctive sound when being moved across the tiles. If it was super quiet at night and somebody was getting up from the kitchen table.

Sometimes I'd hear those chairs moving at night, with everybody else asleep, and all of the animals upstairs.

HawaiianShirtMan · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm just impressed you remembered what time you were pooping at.

applesandroses · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure if I should laugh... or cry..

Dinosaur_Girl · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your story reminded me of this

sassafras64 · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I will never poop with the door closed again.

GideonThaCat · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The next time I was over, I was pooping around 10:30.

Why is that so funny?

PsykicPaper · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you letbout a blood curdling scream?

cartmancakes · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

when i become a ghost, I'm SO going to do this to my friends and family... I will be the pooping ghost

HandyAndy136 · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm thinking that perhaps there are some neighbourhood kids who like to spook out the people next door from time to time. Perhaps there's an unsecured entrance to the house that you're not aware of?

bobsp · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ghosts don't exist, someone is entering that house. Your friend is lucky they are not (yet) violent.

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shoulda yelled, "I'LL BE OUT IN A MINUTE!!!"

swagaroofagaroo · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:26 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit. So, what did you do after you heard the knocks??

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:08 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

scare it back in? So it scared the shit into you?

patchsonic · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scared the shit into you.

dfranz · 0 points · Posted at 15:36:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

but honestly, ghosts were the best explanation.

I don't mean to be a party pooper, as this is all in good fun, but if you think about it, what is a better explanation?

The incredibly unlikely, but entirely possible under the laws of physics and human knowledge, event that somebody picked your lock and left a half eaten cookie on your table to fuck with you. Or a ghost, that breaks known laws of physics and there is no empirical evidence for, decides to manifest itself in the form of a half eaten cookie?

Even though the first explanation is INCREDIBLY unlikely, it's still virtually infinitely more likely than a ghost.

lixilisk · 0 points · Posted at 14:44:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It Gandolf'd your poop. "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"

RoarKitty · 0 points · Posted at 14:49:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This wasn't a little creak or pop from the house, it was a loud, determined rap on the door.

I swear I've had this happen to me too! It doesn't sound like the usual 'house settling' sounds, it sounds like one knock on the door. This has happened when no one else was home, but it started happening when my now step-dad moved in. I wish I knew what the sound was from!

BerntPickle · 0 points · Posted at 14:53:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im pooping with the door cracked open, thanks for ruining my daily poop.

breeyan · 0 points · Posted at 15:41:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

New age spiritualist sounds like a trait that would make me likely to dislike someone

Grammar22 · -1 points · Posted at 14:44:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It could be a mouse. It probably dragged the cookie to that spot from its hidden spot.

Raincoats_George · -1 points · Posted at 14:51:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The poop was all ready to take a vacation. It packed its poop bags and put on its poop hat, opened the front door, heard the ghost and noped right back into your rectum.

I now know exactly how Im going to haunt people when Im dead.

thisisnotdan · 445 points · Posted at 15:07:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One morning at about 1:00 AM, I got a phone call from my little sister's cell. She lived a time zone to the east, so it was 2:00 AM there. It woke me up, and I immediately sensed that something was wrong. I picked up the phone and groggily said "hello?" when I heard a muffled woman's voice--possibly my sister's--say, "Please, help me." She sounded terrified and desperate.

I immediately thought I was having a "Taken" moment. My sister is being kidnapped/tortured, and it was all she could do to call me for help! Should I hang up and dial 911? Should I yell into the phone? Should I keep listening and try to pick up some kind of relevant information? I really wished I had one of those fancy phone recording devices that the Taken guy had right then. I opted to keep listening, and as I did, I occasionally heard muffled yelling and screaming, much to my horror. Her phone must have been hidden away pretty well.

Then something strange happened: I heard what was clearly my sister's voice, also muffled, but completely calm. I didn't hear what she said, but it was a very casual, conversational tone. Then I noticed for the first time that there was also scary music along with the yelling and stuff in the background.

tl;dr My sister butt-dialed me in the middle of a goddamn horror flick at 2 in the morning.

I hung up, called back, and gave her hell for it.

slapstick2099 · 20 points · Posted at 03:27:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking awesome.

davidandsarah08 · 12 points · Posted at 04:27:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, my heart was racing, and I really felt such rage at her at the end lol.

imriebelow · 6 points · Posted at 19:48:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in college, I was chilling out watching Kyle XY in my dorm room one day, when I got a call from my grandmother. She sounded upset and kept asking me if I was okay, and I was like "Uh. Yes. I'm watching TV."

Eventually she handed the phone to my mom who, also frazzled, asked me if I had called them earlier, which I hadn't. Turns out they had received a call from a very distraught young woman crying hysterically, claiming that she had been beaten up, and begging for her mom to come get her.

My mom basically called up the cavalry at this point. My dad was already halfway to the school from his work, and they had contacted campus security to come check on me. (That guy showed up not long after I got off the phone.)

I was pretty annoyed that no one had thought to actually, you know, check that the girl was me, or call me earlier to check things out.

I guess that girl eventually got hold of her real mom. : /

TheWierdSide · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:49 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

So was it a pocket-dial while you were watching kyle XY or what? coz the last line of your story confuses me...

imriebelow · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:53 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, it was a wrong number. Some girl really did get beaten up and accidentally called my house instead of hers.

TheWierdSide · 0 points · Posted at 11:48:03 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

and you didnt investigate?

imriebelow · 5 points · Posted at 02:15:02 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

By the time my parents had figured it out, *69 wasn't working because they had received another call. The girl probably called the right number once she had calmed down and realized her mother wasn't showing up. (To add to the story: she apparently specifically mentioned that she was calling from school, from the nurse's office, which helped convince my parents it was me. So she was in a safe place.) Or it was some kind of weird prank.

TheWierdSide · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:44 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh ok so she wasnt in mid-murder when she called, that's good to hear!

Booze_Lite_Beer · 5 points · Posted at 09:35:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

TROLOLOL

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is my favorite story yet. Thanks for creeping me out and making me laugh at the same time.

Attitude_UpTheWhazoo · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:22 on October 13, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my mom was younger she was at home watching The Shining, waiting for my grandma to get back. My mom was about 13, and at the part of the movie where the little boy is saying "redrum" the phone rings. My mom answers and all she hears is someone screaming "REDUM! REDRUM! REDRUUUMMM!"

My mom absolutely loses her shit. Screaming, crying, snot everywhere. Turns out it was my grandma. It is kind of weird that she chose that exact moment to pull this prank, having no idea my mom was watching The Shining.

Just thought I'd share a funny story that my mom still doesn't think is funny.

scritore · 1 points · Posted at 10:05:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha that is absolutely hilarious!

astronaughtman · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

abenton · 3 points · Posted at 16:41:51 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

And I will walk around a major city throwing grenades to help my family pinpoint my location

cjhf29 · 238 points · Posted at 15:12:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I've been on a tour at an old prison and some of the scariest shit i've ever experienced has happened there. I'm not convinced in ghosts and what not but if there are, they're deffinetly there. every other person who works there has their own creepy story. My scariest was when i had a group of about 30 people in the gallows one night (the room where people where hanged) and the room is made of corrugated tin, so i was there doing my bit when suddenly there was this huge bang on the roof. everyone looked up and a few people screamed by a lot laughed, we have a few actors that jump out on tours so they probably thought it was that. The banging didnt stop though, it was kind of irregular at sort of like half second intervals (like boom, boom, boomboom) and people we getting creeped, me included. so i took the group outside. now the roof of the room is a slanted A frame so if you walk back a bit you can see the outside roof. we all watched as this one bit of tin looked like it was being stomped on from the outside , moving and everything, still banging when i took the group to the next spot. we finished off the tour and a few people thought it was a joke, but it genuinely terrified me. i've got some 'ghost' photos on my galaxy i'll try and upload now, but i'm not very good at internetting

cjhf29 · 270 points · Posted at 15:18:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

this was taken by one of the actors on the tour who does their bit in solitary confinement which is where this picture is take. 100% guarantee this is original and there was no one in that hallway

accidentaldouche · 88 points · Posted at 17:37:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck. that.

threeseashells · 30 points · Posted at 19:02:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OK, I need some bad-ass motherfucking Reddit photo detectives to get on this ASAP!!!

scubadog2000 · 25 points · Posted at 19:52:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We've...got nothing.

idontsugarcoat · 58 points · Posted at 20:09:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, if you look closely you can see that this picture was taken on a potato. When I get the test results back, I should be able to tell if it was a russet or an Idaho.

scubadog2000 · 17 points · Posted at 20:28:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

To be honest, I didn't even look at the picture, let alone closely. I don't trust a single link in this thread.

TheFundleBunny · 7 points · Posted at 21:38:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

no jump scare or anything, but it IS creepy as fuck.

scubadog2000 · 5 points · Posted at 21:44:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepy is enough for me to not click it.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 23:08:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scuba-dooba-dog, where are you? We've got some work for you now.

alphanovember · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:56 on June 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

Protip: most of it is blatantly madeup.

scubadog2000 · 1 points · Posted at 13:03:51 on June 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

That doesn't change the fact that there could be screamers scattered about.

iamberlo · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure if I can trust you because you are a dog in a scuba suit.

scubadog2000 · 3 points · Posted at 15:18:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, don't be specie-ist.

newbie81093 · 8 points · Posted at 21:16:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh jesus i don't like that one bit

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:04:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is terrifying!!!!! You always see "ghost" pictures with a bunch of glowing specs of dust on camera lenses or flash flares, but never something like this, where its apparent that a human(ish) figure can be seen so clearly.

MadHatter69 · 4 points · Posted at 23:11:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I see lord Voldemort.

ntgv · 4 points · Posted at 01:09:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

nope nope nope nope nope

ZarxcesHappyLand · 3 points · Posted at 21:31:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All my hate.

HUNG_AS_FUCK · 3 points · Posted at 01:32:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

shit, my sleeps gone

Shikaku · 3 points · Posted at 11:51:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck that noise.

splittle · 2 points · Posted at 00:20:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whaaaa. Do you have any more? Please don't drop the ball on delivering this one OP!

cjhf29 · 4 points · Posted at 02:42:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

one more, its kind of tricky to see though, it was take in the gallows and it looks like theres a 'ghost' sitting on the chair they used to sit prisoners on when they couldn't stand before being hanged

cjhf29 · 2 points · Posted at 02:59:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

just posted it as a comment

feeldawrath · 1 points · Posted at 04:38:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's some Amnesia shit right there!

Bud042 · 1 points · Posted at 08:14:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, no one human.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:58:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is terrifying

faijp002 · 1 points · Posted at 13:15:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

looks legit, nice find!

Andhareall · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nopenopenopenopenopenopenope

Dragonborn1995 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:52 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:01 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

can u take a picture of the picture and not just a scanned rendition of the image?

sunny-in-texas · 0 points · Posted at 00:29:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry. Wanted to be creeped out, but looks like a hazy pic of someone in a fencing face shield and outfit. No offense!

cjhf29 · 12 points · Posted at 07:15:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

here's the second photo, apparently it got deleted a couple of times http://imgur.com/DTdVTDT

willithepimp · 5 points · Posted at 10:53:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fremantle prison, by any chance?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:46:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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scubadog2000 · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah. My mum works at an art academy (in the attic), so when it rains on hot summer days, the roof pops until it cools down. Still, she says she's heard someone come up the stairs (there are pretty steep metal stairs leading to the half-floor), when no one is there. It doesn't help that during WWII all schools and high schools were turned into emergency hospitals and morgues. What is unsettling, is that I went to school about 2 blocks from there and we had the wardrobes in the basement (most hospitals have morgues in the basement). The building was built as a school, so I'm guessing it served the same purpose. It's not as creepy as unsettling, knowing kids were dressing in places where such things happened.

Hexates · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fun fact: The rooms of an old hospital near where I live was turned into rehersal rooms for bands and my larp-gruop hosted urban-fantasy larps in the old basement and used some other parts of the building for conventions. The building is pretty rund-down, especially after several bands have had their way with the rooms. And according to a friend a floor which we used as a dorm during the larps was haunted. I never experienced anything of the sort, except for once when taking pictures in the air-vent and got a creepy feeling, possibly because of the cramped space. It's now being turned into a school. I would not attend. (mostly becuase I miss the old locale for our larps)

cjhf29 · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could be, i've been there for about a year and a bit, so i've been there all the seasons and nothing like its happened before or since. i know what you mean, but it sounded a lot louder than you'd think and it sort of seemed to be coming from the same spot

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 08:41:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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cjhf29 · 3 points · Posted at 09:23:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

nope dope, fremantle prison

Dr_fish · 3 points · Posted at 10:27:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember going there on a tour as a kid. There was one bit where they dropped a dummy or something onto a rope or wire mesh above us while there was an incredibly loud scream. Or something like that, it was a while ago. It scared the shit out of me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:14:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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cjhf29 · 1 points · Posted at 12:28:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ahh yuck, i've heard some gnarly stories from that place. i heard one about 3 tradies (workmen) who were staying in some cottages around there and doing some restoration work, when one of them went to sleep by himself in a different room to the other two. In the middle of the night he ran into the their room screaming that he'd been hearing footsteps and mumbling all night, then things started falling off his bedside table/ the wall etc.

mexiwok · 4 points · Posted at 07:45:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not going to lie. I read every word of OP's post in my head as Steve Irwin and that made me not scared.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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cjhf29 · 3 points · Posted at 02:59:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

For context, this is the room where people where executed and the chair is used for people who were to nervous to stand before they were hanged

electriccars · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What happened to the link? The comment was deleted?

xxkrysxx · 5 points · Posted at 06:00:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think it's because of rule #9 on the sidebar.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 07:14:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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electriccars · 2 points · Posted at 02:58:58 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did the people see it? It looks awfully close for them to look so casual.

cjhf29 · 1 points · Posted at 13:41:26 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

nope, it was just a picture down an empty hallway

electriccars · 1 points · Posted at 14:10:17 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm referring to the comment picture with the ghost in the chair next to all those people. Not the one of the hallway.

cjhf29 · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:18 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

ohhh aha same deal, no one saw anything. everyone said they were feeling weird though, like restless

electriccars · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:22 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cool. His face looks pretty clear. Have you had any luck finding out who he was?

coolfirezero · 1 points · Posted at 09:35:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

how do you even get in to a job like that? I mean really one or two of those i'd nope the fuck out of there

Invad3r · 2272 points · Posted at 13:21:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw this little bird walking on the street when suddenly a seagull grabbed it in it's mouth. Seagull started to smash this helpless bird against the ground few times. After a while it ate the bird and I saw a bump on seagull's neck like the bird was stuck in it's throat. Then it flew off.

I was just standing there and said: "What the fuck, seagulls shouldn't do that."

Fuck seagulls.

olliepots · 86 points · Posted at 14:58:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in Venice I saw two seagulls tag team a pigeon- each took a wing and they proceeded to try and tear it apart. It was horrifying. Luckily this old babushka started shaking her umbrella at them and yelling in Italian and they flew off.

Jobe76 · 14 points · Posted at 19:36:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

upvote for use of the word "babushka"

oikos31415 · 5 points · Posted at 00:35:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw the very same thing... It's a small world.

KnockoutKOD · 3 points · Posted at 01:58:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm gonna guess you're Russian, right?

olliepots · 3 points · Posted at 02:39:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Polish ha

KnockoutKOD · 2 points · Posted at 05:23:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Close enough. Sorry for selling you out to Hitler a long time ago.

olliepots · 3 points · Posted at 16:10:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks man, no worries.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aw, nice old Nonna!

ERR0R404namenotfound · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What a horrible woman she may have just killed a bunch of baby seagulls.

Curly_mullet · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:01 on July 25, 2013 · (Permalink)

This. Same place. I was in Piazza San Marco, the tides were in so the piazza was flooded. There was a group of pigeons nears the waters edge enjoying the water when out of no where a seagull swoops in and grabs on of the pigeons. The seagull pulls it into the deeper part of the water and drowns it. The seagull proceeds to peck the piss out of it and

fifteentango88 · 0 points · Posted at 18:12:50 on July 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Venice is a dump.

🎙️ Youdonotsay · 1581 points · Posted at 13:25:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls are assholes man.

electriclights · 540 points · Posted at 17:01:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Birds are assholes. I saw a cat-sized Raven tryin to eat a Pigeon alive in front of a Starbucks last week. I shooed the Raven off and the stunned pigeon slowly toddled off. The raven flew up on to the building and casually started calling its friends. I'm pretty sure I've made a powerful enemy.

[deleted] · 129 points · Posted at 20:12:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You shouldn't mess with Ravens man, they never forget a face.

No really, they are one of the few animals that are able to remember human faces.

WillDissolver · 108 points · Posted at 20:31:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not only able to remember, but to describe faces to others in such detail that birds born two generations later can recognize the face of someone who killed one and flee.

Or call in reinforcements.

cabothief · 7 points · Posted at 05:09:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Source on this? Minorly skeptical, majorly interested in reading about it.

WillDissolver · 7 points · Posted at 06:05:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pleased to oblige.

cabothief · 4 points · Posted at 06:39:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow! Thanks! Really interesting!

I really like the terminology. Crows "scold" people, like you do to a misbehaving child.

But the data was pretty wow. Glad I read that. Thanks.

My goodness I'm rambling. I should be in bed.

WillDissolver · 5 points · Posted at 07:09:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would say it was my pleasure, but this fact about corvids freaks me straight out. They can bring way more friends to the party than you or I could.

Witchgrass · 3 points · Posted at 18:30:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought that was crows

Ravens too?

WillDissolver · 4 points · Posted at 18:38:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They're closely enough related that there's only minimal difference.

electriclights · 10 points · Posted at 01:22:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe the pigeon I saved will come to my rescue? Get his head bobbing buddies together and form a pigeon-zord?

...who am I kidding, pigeons are unorganized ditzes.

pylon567 · 1 points · Posted at 08:56:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some bird will help you.

mightyneonfraa · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's crows.

ghostdate · 1 points · Posted at 07:48:08 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

All ravens are crows, not all crows are ravens, etc. etc.

lumpytuna · 2 points · Posted at 19:56:00 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, all ravens are corvids, all crows are corvids, but they are two completely different species of corvid.

ghostdate · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:16 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Corvid is Latin for crow.

lumpytuna · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:04 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

The genus 'corvus' containing crows, ravens and magpies actually takes it's name from the latin for raven. So if it were down to semantics, surely you would say that all crows are ravens but not all ravens are crows? This is just language semantics though, and although the family can also be known informally as 'true crows', to call a raven a crow is just incorrect.

ghostdate · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:58 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sources seem to vary, but some say corvid is Latin for raven, while others say for crow.

I suppose it doesn't really matter, for the sake of this discussion, the intelligence and ability to recognize human faces is across the majority of the family corvidae, so both crows and ravens can recognize faces, not just one or the other, as some were suggesting.

lumpytuna · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:42 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

They are both fucking amazing animals, that's for sure. We raised a crow once, nearly 20 years ago now. It had been pushed out of the nest by its parents, we couldn't tell when we picked it up, but it grew to have a slight deformity of the beak. Crows often abandon imperfect young, harsh but sensible I guess.

Although it's not quite as cool as some of the studies and evidence coming out now, we always knew it could recognise us, I guess it just didn't occur that that was out of the ordinary. When anyone who wasn't a family member entered the living room, even as a young bird, it would instantly become alert and a little stressed. Damn I miss Mathew. You don't get to spend weeks shoving raw mince right into a baby bird's stomach without getting a little attached somewhere along the way.

triddy5 · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They're fucking smart too. I think I read the third smartest animal in the animal kingdom behind dolphins an whatever else. They've been observed to break off twigs in the wild and use them as tools. . Also, they can talk.

inimrepus · 11 points · Posted at 19:15:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice knowing you.

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 20:23:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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soulkitchennnn · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a raven watch me through the window at work on HALLOWEEN for like 2 hours. Now I'm sure I'm cursed.

EvilTonyBlair · 8 points · Posted at 19:23:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Get a slingshot to protect yourself. Soon they'll come for you, perhaps in an isolated area like an alley.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 20:29:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Negative. Flamethrowers are best against flocks of birds .. and killer bees.

EvilTonyBlair · 3 points · Posted at 22:32:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll take your word for it, Walmart Security; facing off against birds or bees must be the easy part of your day.

anelida · 4 points · Posted at 21:01:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a human eating a pig. Humans are assholes.

PatSayJack · 4 points · Posted at 20:18:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was a darkfriend.

Uhhhhh55 · 3 points · Posted at 22:17:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Randall Flagg, anyone?

tehspamninja · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watch "The Birds" and learn to protect yourself before it's too late.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:46:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why do you think a pack of ravens is called a murder?...

Mercules · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You need more upvotes. Although I do love birds, especially crows. They're smart as fuck.

Cupcake_in_Acid · 2 points · Posted at 03:29:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time we were coming back from Monterey Bay Aquarium, when a magpie swooped down and attacked my mom's hair. The funny thing is that we stayed there for a while and the same magpie started attacking women. Not a single male. Just women passing by. Stupid sexist magpie.

AmberHeartsDisney · 2 points · Posted at 11:35:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's funny you say that. When we were at Disney World I found a bird stuck in some vines in the water. I could tell it was getting tired and we weren't really suppose to get in the water but I did anyways!

Well I got the bird out of the water and got a towel rapped him up and held him a good thirty minutes. His little bird heart was beating so fast. Then I noticed more and more birds gathering around watching me. When I put him down he still couldn't fly , he was so sleepy.

I stayed with him because I wasn't sure if his wing was broken or not. After about an hour he finally flew!! Me and a little girl cheered with excitement.

I swear them damn birds followed me the rest of the trip.

Raivyn · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

ಠ_ಠ

Edited. Shadowbanning to enforce rules on this site is childish, poorly explained, badly implemented and the admins should feel bad.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just ask Hitchcock

Subscribe-n-Unzip · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Caw the raven, nevermore

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They are not called murders for nothing friend.

electriclights · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's actually an Unkindness of Ravens, so maybe it will just make disparaging comments about my weight.

SpyGlassez · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought it was a quiz of ravens....

CL0THESLINE · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nevermore!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They are known to attack college students who study them.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

but the Raven wants to live same as the pigeon.

RipinLip · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You've basically effed with the Michael Corleone of ravens.

I wish you a quick and painless departure. ಠ_ಠ

MonkeyvsRobot · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pigeons are flying rats... the Raven WAS on your side.

Izzuriaren · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

soon

soulkitchennnn · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last week I watched a crow troll a hawk. Aren't crows supposed to be extremely intelligent? I was afraid the hawk would eat it. I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

davewiz20 · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wasn't there a story about how Ravens or Crows remember people's faces and will continue to fuck with that person?

endelikt · 1 points · Posted at 06:49:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Raven Lord is all knowing and all powerful. Fear for your life, puny human.

tekasc · 1 points · Posted at 14:08:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cat-sized? Damn.

YM_Industries · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hope nobodies posted this yet, can't really see be casey I'm on a mobile device, but /r/birdsbeingdicks

KidFlo703 · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard somewhere that ravens recognize human faces for years..

Markonite · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love how you said you made a powerful enemy like ravens are just stirring there plotting to get you haha up vote

iamatfuckingwork · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:19 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cat sized ravin!?

albinoblackbird · 1 points · Posted at 01:35:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Raven's can remember faces and will try and peck their enemies to death.

Source: I am a raven.

youastar · 9 points · Posted at 15:16:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

The other day I saw a seagull eating a dead pigeon which had been hit by a train. Shit was nasty. I took a picture of it.

EDIT: here you go

7or3nzo · 4 points · Posted at 18:19:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You better post that picture.

CatholicGuy · 5 points · Posted at 17:59:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, we're not going to ask you to see it.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:30:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes we are.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

wanabeswordsman · 6 points · Posted at 15:12:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/BirdsBeingDicks

CakiePamy · 5 points · Posted at 15:16:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A seagull tried pooping on me once. Fuck all, seagulls.

roltrap · 6 points · Posted at 16:49:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Much like the average redditor, seagulls don't control their anal muscle.

CakiePamy · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You don't understand, it circled me a few times before aiming Its filthy bird hole at me. It pooped a few feet in front of me and laughed.

MrBlisss · 5 points · Posted at 17:58:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I want to up vote but I'm scared they'll find out and shit on me

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:42:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would not give 1 fuck if their entire existence was wiped out tomorrow, I fucking hate those birds with a passion.

SeaMenOnTheRocks · 3 points · Posted at 18:56:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls gotta do what Seagulls gotta do. They are pretty bad at flying, as far as birds go. They basically eat whatever there is to eat. Trash, fish, birds, your salad, bread, peanut butter on your dick, fruit, eachother, sand, oil, everything.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:29:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seaholes are assgulls man.

proceedtoparty · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuckin sky rats.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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TheWanderingAardvark · 3 points · Posted at 19:54:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once had a seagull steal a donut from my hand and throw to the ground a few feet away.

Then it stared at me for a few minutes while repeatedly stamping its feet, like some kind of battle challenge.

Genuinely scary.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:31:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was that doughnut in your owl glove? Maybe he was jealous you didn't have a gullglove.

HotDogOnAPlate · 2 points · Posted at 17:34:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They're like flying raccoons.

adeadseagull · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It didn't end well

ace586 · 2 points · Posted at 22:20:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Based on how often they crap on my car, I'd say that's literally what they are.

Invad3r · 3 points · Posted at 13:39:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shits on your head and shit.

dkevny · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Check out how Eddie Rickenbacker felt about Seagulls- who was he? Only our most decorated flying ace from WWI http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/rickenbacker.htm#.UaYl4cu9KK0

HogSnout · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagull shit on my head on my way into a usenix conference.

killhimalready · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls: Man's asshole.

Bwenj · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Assholes Man defends mankind with an arsenal of assholes.

dudaloopa · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shithawks. They are the worst.

omaca · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shitehawks.

dudaloopa · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No.

omaca · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I take it you're not Irish.

dudaloopa · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It doesnt sound right. I am, but shithawks flows better

E-Squid · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Liked great winged anuses flapping their way across the skies in smelly flocks

Mathari · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a Floridian I can confirm this.

-trevor · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls always get sand in my potato salad.

SwiftBacon · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

MINE MINE MINEMINEMINEMINE

davemingchan · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine.

captain_awesome214 · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You don't say!

PricklyPricklyPear · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tossed a piece of bread to a limping seagull once. Another gull jumped onto its back, drove its face into the ground, and flew off with the bread.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a fat guy have a bag of chips stolen from him by a seagull once, the pure disbelief and sadness that spread across this mans face as he watched the seagull fly of into the distance with his bag of chips was just awful. Seagulls have no souls.

omaca · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking seagulls. Living the thug life.

Who steals chips?

GarethGore · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Never a truer word.

bl33dy · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

pelicans are worse...and bigger

Show-Me-Your-Moves · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what happens when you mess with Steven Seagull.

M00nfac3 · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Classic seagull...

AHNOLDDD · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/BirdsBeingDicks

isny · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine?

Lectra · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls really are assholes. When I was around 4 years old, I was eating McDonalds at a picnic area and a seagull swooped in, grabbed my cheeseburger, then flew off.

Fuck seagulls.

_PROBABLY_POOPING_ · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Birds gotta eat man. Even seagulls.

Indoorsman · 1 points · Posted at 09:47:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls are the homeless vagrants of the bird world. They will rob your shit, eat anything, and shit anywhere they please, while being loud and ruining the beach.

MoonPark · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched a seagull pick up a rat bigger than itself and attempt to fly off with it. Not only are they assholes, they're morons as well.

scottiea · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:38 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

agreed. beach, my twins were 1.5, my son turns around with his fries, attacked by gulls! fries fly, screams, then he turns around, and in nicest, angry voice possible runs around two handedly shooing them "shoo shoo shoo"

Nbk420 · -3 points · Posted at 15:08:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Only bird Im ok with killing. In middle school we'd give them muffins filled with crushed alka seltzer

xAugustus · -1 points · Posted at 18:44:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man assholes are Seagulls

trentlott · 50 points · Posted at 14:52:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Birds are horrifying little dinosaurs.

JUGG3RN0T · 21 points · Posted at 14:03:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This kind of thing always made me feel a little uneasy, like that pelican eating the pigeon, or the praying mantis eating the mouse. Warning: they are both a little disturbing, the way the pigeon keeps struggling....shudder

Invad3r · 15 points · Posted at 14:12:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That mantis vs. mouse was really disturbing. What kind of person puts those two in a jar and watch them fight?

teev00 · 0 points · Posted at 15:59:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds something Japan would do.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

japanesebugfights.com is the friggin greatest

funnywhennecessary · -4 points · Posted at 16:07:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably the same who feed mice to snakes?

Lab_Monkey · 9 points · Posted at 16:14:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Snakes naturally eat mice. And most snake owners feed pre-killed mice so that there is no extra stress on the mouse and no risk of injury to the snake.

beccaonice · 6 points · Posted at 15:59:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know what you mean. There is also one of a cow eating a baby chicken, a deer eating a bird, a turtle dragging a pigeon under water.. those weird me out.

DhulKarnain · 3 points · Posted at 16:44:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or spiders eating fucking frogs, fucking birds or fucking bats.

Fuck spiders.

WorkSucks135 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That mouse must have been disabled or injured somehow beforehand. I just don't believe a praying mantis could overpower a mouse.

Azabutt · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The comments on the pelican video got a little weird.

Lord-Fumblebuck · 6 points · Posted at 15:51:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you gave a seagull a chance it would rape your house and steal your family.

TheSTEF · 5 points · Posted at 16:28:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife!"

shatterly · 4 points · Posted at 15:58:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at the Denver Zoo years ago, and in one of the animal enclosures I saw a magpie kill a baby rabbit while the rabbit's parents tried in vain to chase the bird and get the baby away. The baby rabbit was screaming, and its parents were just so helpless to do anything. That fucking bird would just flap away for a second, then come back and peck the bunny some more. Never in my life have I wished harder for a BB gun.

espressokitty · 4 points · Posted at 17:33:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Poor little bunny :( I once saw a blue jay swoop out of a tree and eat a field mouse whole. It was really creepy, I didn't know a jay could do that.

bobojojo12 · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did i read this :(

Terraky · 5 points · Posted at 15:59:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe the pigeon kidnapped the seagulls daughter, forcing the seagull to use all the skills it acquired over the years?

this_makes_no_sense · 5 points · Posted at 18:24:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A lion kills a gazelle and nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan," but when a seagull kills one little bird, everybody loses their minds.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:00:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuckin seagulls, man.

NiflheimrBlodox · 2 points · Posted at 08:44:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls are nice, you don't understand them !

Sources : I'm half-Seagull

long_wang_big_balls · 3 points · Posted at 18:17:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A seagull stole a pizza slice out my hand once. I've never forgotten. Asshole!

hatever · 3 points · Posted at 19:10:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually filmed a blue jay pecking a bird to death in my back yard. Periodically it would grab the smaller bird, beat it against the concrete, and fling it about. I then saw it....birds are dinosaurs. They are avian dinosaurs.

SpyGlassez · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend's dad used to keep chickens, and because it was on a farm, there were lost of farm kittens/cats. The chickens killed at least two kittens, one by pecking and one by straight up standing on it and crushing it. No one saw the murders, they just found the corpses.

SentimentalGentleman · 2 points · Posted at 14:50:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ Why would seagulls do that? In case of a last resort, when it hasn't eaten in a long time?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:31:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just be glad it wasn't your lunch

dun dun dunnnn!

saugysauce · 2 points · Posted at 15:32:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The shithawks are comin' for you Invad3r

scubadog2000 · 2 points · Posted at 18:28:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once saw a pigeon get eaten alive by a seagull in the middle of a city.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/animalsbeingjerks

deadleg22 · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you call the police?!?!

kangkong66 · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls, the flying douchbag!

VenetiaMacGyver · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once watched a large seagull eat an entire other, slightly smaller, seagull. They were fighting, then the big one just reached out, snapped the littler guy's neck, and started swallowing it, head-first, like a snake.

It got stuck when trying to swallow the thing's wings, then started running/waddling around in circles -- a seagull with half a seagull sticking out of its mouth. Its neck was stretched so large I wondered how it didn't bust open.

It fell down, and I thought it had choked to death. But I kept watching it in horror, and sure enough, the fucker kept swallowing. It got to the legs, then stood up, and waddled off. With the other gull's legs dangling out of its mouth.

I tried to follow it for a while -- I was curious about how it would consume the legs too, and wondered how it even breathed. But it ducked into some rocks and disappeared.

I agree. Fuck seagulls.

cmwillia6 · 2 points · Posted at 21:09:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw a raven do this at the Eiffel Tower. All the other small birds were freaking out... Especially the one getting captured. Lots of kids around to be horrified by this as well. It was awful; now I hate ravens.

bazza_man · 2 points · Posted at 00:18:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am late for this but this has woken up a repressed memory! arrrghhh... (probably nothing for most people)

anyways, when i was around 5 my family decided to fly to Europe for a holiday to meet family (i am from Australia).

anyways, the my grandparents had an awesome farm, usual thing, pigs, cows, chickens, etc. I loved being there (i am from the inner suburbs of a large city) and getting attention, etc, my job was to feed the chickens in the morning throwing food/seeds and i loved it.

so one morning i am feeding these chickens and there was a hen with lots little chicks, and i am watching them and sensed this massive shape above me and looked up. This freaking huge eagle (probably a falcon as was 5 years old) swooped down over my head and grabbed 2 chicks, and then flew up into the sky. I will never forget the chicks chirping loudly and then their voices fading away as the eagle/falcon flew higher into the sky. I was in shock and felt so sorry for the baby chicks and felt i let down my grandparents.

ion-tom · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once as a kid I saw a seagull eating a disembowelled pidgeon.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/birdsbeingdicks

jaykayelemenoh · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE

breeyan · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe it choked to death

l1ghtning · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

throat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_%28anatomy%29

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

damn flying rats!

Tallforahobbit · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You k now what? As bad as that is, I've spent the past 2 hours reading creepy stories about the paranormal, magic stalkers, and demons. I'm actually really glad there's a normal one.

B-Dog628 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine.

r3dsleeves · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine

IMongoose · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my professors did some work with these big colonial bird nest sites that had pelicans and gulls in them. He said they would try to avoid going on the site as much as possible because after they scared all the birds off and left, the gulls would return before the pelicans and it would be baby pelican genocide. The gulls would just gorge themselves on unattended baby pelicans and the researchers all felt super bad about it.

Gorillaz_Inc · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you sure that was actually a seagall and NOT a pelican?

Invad3r · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes I'm sure. No pelicans around here where I live.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I saw a seagull with a worm hanging out of its mouth. The bird was squawking like crazy. I imagined it thought the worm was gross tasting compared to the McDonald's French fries it's used to eating.

General_DisarrayHoot · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nah man pelicans are assholes.. they eat ducks and shit

AccipiterF1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Put the bird in its crop.)

GameStunts · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sorry to tell you Seagulls are fucking disgusting and do things like this. They attack birds nests and eat young birds, hatched or not.

BuffyPilotKnob · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stephen King knows seagulls are evil. Read The Talisman.

fool-of-a-took · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, that's just nature: red in tooth and claw

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hah like humans are anymore humane...

ztheday · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once saw a seagull at Virginia Beach, and he looked like shit. I mean real rough, like he was recovering from a week-long bender.

He was fiending around on the beach looking for cigarette butts. When he would find one, he'd eat all the left over tobacco out of them and then move on to the next one. He was all strung out on nicotine.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gullp.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a pidgeon get run over by a car. Half of it was just mangled and it limped to the gutter clearly confused about why half of it wouldn't work. It then lied down breathing heavily to die and another bird came and ate potato chips it was dying on. Birds are assholes.

EmperorOfCanada · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've long put seagulls into a category of animal that there should be less of rather than more. Hornets, black flies, deer flies, horse flies, mosquitoes, parasitic worms.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Similarly, I was driving across the 23 mile Pontchartrain Causeway bridge between New Orleans and the north shore of the lake last week. I's a loooong, straight bridge, and you tend to sort of zone out and go into auto-pilot because it's so long. I've had some minor hallucinations before, probably because my brain goes into some kind of semi-sleep state during the drive over flat blue waters with the opposite shore growing gradually, gradually closer.

As an aside, the New Orleans Hornets recently changed the name of the team to the Pelicans, which I initially thought was kind of weak, despite it being the state bird.

Anyways, I was about 12 miles into the bridge and I saw a hovering spot directly in front of me in the distance. The closer I got, the larger it got, but it didn't seem to be moving. It wasn't until I was about 100 feet away that I realized it was a pelican just cruising, motionless, right about the traffic below. It zipped over my car leaving what must have been just a couple of feet between us.

I have a new respect for Pelicans when I think about how easily that thing could have divebombed and ripped my throat out.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/BirdsBeingDicks

Random_Ass_Guy · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its

SunShineNomad · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine

Robot_Tanlines · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pigeons can't swim, so seagulls will knock unsuspecting ones off docks and let them drown. They will then chow down on some soggy bird.

I_T_apostrophe_S · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"It's" is a contraction of either "it is" or "it has". The possessive form of the word requires no apostrophe (i.e. "its mouth" or "its throat").

Couchlock123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read bird as kid.

rivercityransom · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls really are asshole birds. They usually build dumps strategically to attract seagulls in order to keep them from attacking endangered species and their eggs. People think they're helping the environment by protesting dumps, when in reality what they're protesting will save species that are hurting for survival. Source: wildlife biology courses.

Ricktron5 · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goddamn trash birds

kmankch · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obligatory /r/birdsbeingdicks

jonnymars · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a seagull tear the guts out of a magpie in front of the magpie's mate once, that was a sad day.

euphoric_barley · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/birdsbeingdicks

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulls are rough man. I once watched a seagull peck a pigeon to death. It was brutal.

iBlinD · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He was Steven, Steven Seagal

Pianoangel420 · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seagulp.

bryix · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My buddy and I were down in the San Francisco bay on a fishing pier. We were just walking, joking around and whatnot when we saw this huge pelican. I mean it was the biggest damn pelican we had ever seen. My friend saw a discarded bait fish sitting on the pier and decided he wanted to feed it to the pelican, while taking a pic with his cell phone. Well, the pelican ate the fish, then tried to eat the phone. My friend ran away. He was freaked out, but I like to think that I notice and recognize miracles.

noott · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/birdsbeingdicks

Getsuyobi · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for posting something that made me laugh instead of never wanting to sleep again. This thread is too much.

trentyz · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw this yesterday. A seagull grabbed a helpless sparrow and started thrashing it about right in front of me. I broke up the fight, but the sparrow's painful squealing was haertbreaking. Fuck seagulls man.

never0101 · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/birdsbeingdicks

(Edit. I am phone and can't words)

crazyad · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i witnessed two seagulls eat a pigeon on the roof of one of my school's buildings a couple of years back. they had pecked at the neck, which left the spine exposed. every now and then, they'd peck and the pigeon would freak the fuck out. this carried on until the end of our lesson, and the pigeon was still periodically freaking the fuck out

Pillow_fighter_winne · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

damn nature, you scary

cimd09 · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of the YouTube video of a pelican eating a pigeon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1CTngj8zwE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Evidently, it's a bird-eat-bird world out there.

LORD_BOOZ · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have an Uncle who once watched a seagull eat a rabbit whole. He said it took the bird roughly 5 minutes to eat it but when it was done it waddled away too heavy to fly.

jebsta1 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/birdsbeingdicks

GingerSnapBiscuit · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a swan drown a duck when I was feeding them at the pond when I was like 8 or something. Swans are cunts.

Sentrion · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

its* (x2)

Morning-Star · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I very much needed that after reading that fucking creepy as shit elevator story above.

triddy5 · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, something similar happened to me. I was in LA, I had been subletting, looking for work. One day I was sitting at an outdoor cafe when I saw two birds fly over head. It was a larger blackbird and a smaller one, I think gray. The larger black bird was chasing the smaller one all over the place, capturing it and pecking at it before the little bird could get away. It could never get far though. It would fly up into a tree and the black bird would go after it. This went on for like 15 minutes, and I one point I tried to help the little bird, but they were flying so fast and all over the place that I could never grab it or the black bird to do anything. Finally, the black bird got ahold of the little bird and landed on an adjacent roof, and I just watched and it pecked the little bird violently to death. It was one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I left LA a week or two later, I took it as an omen.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:47:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw the same thing at a duck pond at Culzean Castle in Scotland last year (day-trip from Glasgow). Holiday weekend with families and their kids out enjoying a rare day of sun. A English guy and his wife had their dog off the leash and the dog started chasing all the ducks in the pond and startled a little flock of ten ducklings, trampling a few of them underfoot and sending the rest into confusion which was perfect timing for one of the seagulls to swoop down and snatch one by the neck. The seagull ten flew to a log and was thrashing the duckling and beating it against the log. All the while the English couple just stood there shouting at their dog who had no intention of listening. Let me just say this, the Scottish parents, who now had to cover their kids' eyes and explain to toddlers what just happened to the ducklings, turned their wrath toward the English dude (who clearly wasn't concerned about the situation) and though I couldn't understand what they were shouting (I'm American and the Scottish accent still confuses me) it was very clear that if the English couple didn't get their dog and get the hell out of Dodge, things were going to get very very ugly. Not a minute later the couple got their dog and got into their car and left.

morris309 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once saw this lame pigeon land on the road, it looked fucked up in the head, walking funny and shit. Anyway 2 seconds later a bus turned the corner and ran it over and there was this awfull pop as its body shot guts across the road. Before I even had a chance to comprehend what I had just witnessed a seagull swooped down and ate its head whole, then just flew off. I had no words. I remember looking up and seeing my own expression reflected on the face of some guy across the road. Also have you ever noticed how hard seagulls make flying look?

FlemDeezIll · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When i was little i watched a seagull get sucked up into the bottom of a passing van and flung back out featherless and stumble away. It was pretty great.

ILikeMasterChief · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:20 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Somehow, this is the saddest thing I've read in weeks. And I don't even care about animals

ignorancesbliss · 1 points · Posted at 08:29:34 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Steven Seagull?

ceejiesqueejie · 681 points · Posted at 13:53:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When I was 14 my family and I fell on hard times. We got kicked out of our house and ended up in emergency housing, basically we went to charity who found us a house that we were able to rent for 100 a month, but only for 3 months. That summer, my mom and step-dad separated temporarily, and my three younger siblings would go to my step-dads for a week or so then come back to my mom and me. This house was FUCKING. CREEPY.

It started off with just that feeling, you know? Like, something isn't quite right, that you might not be the only person in the room. In the day, that's all it was, the feeling that something was up. Your instincts pricking at you. I tried to ignore it, but as soon as dusk arrived shit would start happening. More than once I could hear this static-filled music playing, but I couldn't find the source, it just filled the halls. I heard whispering and went to my two sisters room, in the open closet, a pair of eyes looked at me and disappeared. My brother spent one night in the house and didn't come back. In my room, I could never win. On one wall, a mirror, when I flipped over to face the window, I watched tall shadow figures pace in front of it. In my mothers room, the same shadow figures paced in circles around her room. One night, she and I sat up for two hours in her bed watching these shadows. She was strongly religious and didn't know what to make of it.

During the time we lived there, there was a lunar eclipse. I had never seen one before and was very excited for it. When I went out to look, every time, this terror took over me and I couldn't stay outside, I couldn't explain it. When the moon was fully cloaked, I went outside, looked up, but my head suddenly snapped down and to my left. I could see three tall shadows walking in between the tall pine trees in the yard. Panicked, I ran back inside and into my room, flinging myself under the covers with my eyes shut tightly, but listened to the pacing outside my bedroom window.

Three months of this. We moved out at the end of summer into a new house, my mom and step-dad got back together and I was with my younger siblings again. We all agreed the house on Acorn street was fucked up, and still get chills when we drive by it, just to see.

TL;DR: fucked up house. Can't explain.

Edit: a couple people have asked where this house is. It's in a small town on the East coast of Florida, I can't remember the exact address, I was only there for three months . I don't know if anyone else has had the same experiences because I never came in contact with anyone else who lived there. My siblings and I agreed though, and even my mom, that the place wasn't right. If felt like it went beyond just ghosts.

This is the house, from google maps. Been forever since I've been back to my hometown.

Top view.

Edit 2: In response to u/_venkman asking about the mirror and hearing the pacing outside. The mirror was something different, I forgot to explain that initially. I could see my room, sometimes it would be the shadows pacing, not like in front of my window, but as if they were in the mirror itself. Once or twice I would sneak a glance at the mirror, and there would be a shadow stopped right in my mirror, as if it were looking down at me laying in my bed. Once I looked and saw not shadow figures, but darkened forms that seemed to grow darker as a I looked, sitting on my bed and standing in my room. That was the last time I looked at the mirror, I think. I always made an effort to avoid it.

I sensed these things, not with my psyche or my third eye, but with my physical eyes. I could hear the shadow forms pacing, as though they had feet, the walls were thin and the window didn't have proper seals, so I could hear the wind blow or the rain fall as the window was never fully closed. That meant hearing the shadows as they paced around my house. Every. Night. No amount of prayer, as my mom suggest I do, had any affect on these things that I felt and saw. The house was just unnerving, frightening.

I lived in houses before and after that had the more "ghosty" type symptoms, I guess. The restless feeling, things moving, lights turn on or doors shut on their own, I've always been sensitive to these things, I can't explain why. But this house, the house on Acorn was something different entirely, beyond my capacity to understand or even will myself to explore. It still fills me with a sense of dread, thinking about it now.

Edit 3: Holla to my fellow Titusville cousins! Get out as soon as you can. <3

jackrabz · 134 points · Posted at 16:13:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least I found out early in the day that I won't be sleeping tonight since I live on Acorn Street.

ceejiesqueejie · 16 points · Posted at 17:07:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you're not in central Florida on the East coast you shouldn't worry too much.

FCBarca1984 · 5 points · Posted at 21:10:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Acorn street? Is that in the goldenrod and colonial/50 area? That sounds so familiar.

ceejiesqueejie · 4 points · Posted at 21:11:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're close, but it's not in the Orlando area. It's in Titusville. An hour directly east of Orlando.

taymiser2815 · 6 points · Posted at 22:54:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy Crap! thats to close to home, im from Titusville, and I actually remeber having to go down that road to buy some stuff off of craigslist... sketchy part of town

FCBarca1984 · 1 points · Posted at 01:09:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah ok. Damn I thought it was close

TylerDurdenisreal · -17 points · Posted at 17:28:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

So there's a Florida on the west coast?

What the fuck is with the downvotes? Normally reddit loves snark. I meant no harm, /u/ceejiesqueejie, your story was one of the better ones in the thread.

ceejiesqueejie · 44 points · Posted at 17:29:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I guess I should say the east coast of Florida. Because Florida has a west coast and an east coast, it being a peninsula and all.

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 10:55:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know you didn't mean anything by it. Reddit has been unpredictable with the downvotes hammer lately. It's kinda confusing at times.

Afa1234 · 2 points · Posted at 00:28:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Listen to them pacing

breeyan · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Open your windows tonigt and just listen a little for shadow people shuffling around your yard

suburbiaresident · 0 points · Posted at 02:02:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, if you looked at the pic, you'd see you have nothing to worry about as it clearly says Acorn Drive

mr_midnight · 34 points · Posted at 19:22:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NEVER hide under the covers! Whatever's after you might be in inch from your face when you peek out again!

downhereforyoursoul · 52 points · Posted at 21:48:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please don't ruin the magic of my ghost-proof covers, kthx.

Starklet · 18 points · Posted at 15:38:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is probably the scariest I've read on this thread. Thanks for the nightmares.

ceejiesqueejie · 17 points · Posted at 15:42:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're welcome, and I'm flattered that you think this is the scariest. The smiling man freaked me out.

socolover14 · 14 points · Posted at 18:32:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was reading this and my dog barked. I almost threw my laptop across the room in terror.

ceejiesqueejie · 5 points · Posted at 18:47:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That could have been disastrous! Glad you didn't throw it!

tiajuanat · 9 points · Posted at 15:21:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Would love to see pictures of the place.

CouldBeAHorse · 8 points · Posted at 16:27:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lived a house with odd experiences too. Nothing ever as concrete as what you described except for once when I saw eyes staring back at me. It is to this day the most unsettling experience of my life.

Nicksaurus · 26 points · Posted at 18:15:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once looked up from my computer to see eyes looking at me from across the room. I sat there in terror for a few moments before remembering there was a painting resting against that wall, and I was only looking at the reflection of my glasses lit up by the computer screen.

vertexshader · 4 points · Posted at 18:25:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love hearing logical explanations. Have an upvote!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:23:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seconded, though an unsolved mystery can be fun in it's unsettling-ness.

banditprod1 · 7 points · Posted at 23:15:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had something similar to me happen early in the morning one time. I was around 12-14 around this time btw.

I was awaken from a dream (I can't really remember what it was about but it was a good dream) and when I opened my eyes, there was another set of eyes just staring straight into me. I blinked. They were still there. I freaked the fuck out and screamed "What the FUCK?" And threw the pillows I was laying on. I cried. Hard. The eyes are burned into my memory. It was like someone was just laying with me...watching.

For more info: I was on a top bunk bed and if I sit up more then a couple feet then I would smash my head against the ceiling fan.

FearsomeMonark · 6 points · Posted at 18:22:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If there was a lot of Native American culture ir especially a reservation near you, it could've been Skinwalkers.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:17:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not that I believe in those things but holy crap are they terrifying.

ceejiesqueejie · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There have been several ancient Indian burial sites uncovered in my hometown. I wouldn't be surprised. There was a post on Reddit about it recently.

FearsomeMonark · 3 points · Posted at 22:55:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Regular Skinwalkers are fucked up.

I can't imagine ghost skinwalkers.

renvi · 2 points · Posted at 05:12:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is that like Hawaiian nightmarchers? (Born and raised in Hawaii, so I know jack nothing about native american culture :x)

FearsomeMonark · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, these aren't as noble as Nightmarchers, They have allegedly been responsible, in rare cases, for a murder on a reserve. They're evil, thieving, nightmare-fueling abominations of spirit.

renvi · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:06 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh. Well, shit. O_O...

tomoyopop · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There are some excellent Skinwalker stories on /r/nosleep.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:27:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was this in Connecticut by any chance?

ceejiesqueejie · 3 points · Posted at 15:34:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Florida.

873498792837498 · 7 points · Posted at 16:53:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thinking of Middletown, CT? I've heard so many stories coming from that damn town. WTF, Connecticut?

reddextor · 3 points · Posted at 20:35:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my goodness my cousins just stayed with friends out there and they said it was really weird.

873498792837498 · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everyone from Middletown says it's really weird. I've heard from total strangers who overheard me mention the place, "Oh, don't go there, it's really weird!"

All the "weird" stories seem to be either eccentric locals, creepy eccentric locals, actually insane locals, or typical Americana ghost stories. But Middletown does have a regional reputation, even if it's only folklore.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:27:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mother in law works in Middletown at the hospital and she calls Middletown Mental Town.

bluepie · 2 points · Posted at 21:54:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What have you heard about middletown? I live about 20 minutes away so Im pretty curious.

873498792837498 · 2 points · Posted at 23:29:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Knew a guy who knew a guy who grew up there. Abandoned mental hospitals, not-so-abandoned mental hospitals, hospital graveyard with unmarked, or numbered graves, abandoned mine tunnels, and the strange occurrences that happened in these places. I take all of the "ghost carriage" and "disappearing cemetery caretaker" stories with a grain of salt, but it seems like every tale this guy had from Middletown was "had to run from scary old guy with a gun in the cemetery, ghost horse and carriage chased me down the road, got into a fight with an apparent teenage cult, saw weird lights in the old mine, someone chased us through the mental hospital and grounds."

You know, good, old-fashioned, unverifiable vague claims. However, Middletown seems to be pretty dense with these stories. Every town has a few, this one (and nearby towns) have a lot. Then again, that could just be the crowd I knew at the time!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:53:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:28:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

CT is crazy, lots of creepy places.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

no Madison CT

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:34:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My husband left me one time and I too had to find emergency housing. I was lucky enough that a local church had emergency housing. Much like what OP had said,it was a 3 month stay for $100 a month. The house was huge and split up into 5 apartments. We had the bottom floor which was a three bedroom. There was a door in the living room though that lead to a staircase that lead to the upper floors. Well when my kids and I first moved in we were the only tennets. One night I had put the kids down in their rooms and I went back to the living room and heard someone on the stairs. I opened the door and there was nothing. So I put a chair in front of the door and turned the TV up and kind of just tried to forget about it. Then one night I was laying in the bedroom and heard the cabinets in the kitchen open and close. i had thought that my son had gotten out of bed and was out there. So i walked out there and he wasnt there but the cabinets were all opened. My son was asleep and my daughter at the time couldn't walk yet. Other little things like that happened. I would hear voices and no one was there. Very creepy. And now it is 1030 and I won't be able to sleep...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live on the shoreline

PathToEternity · 7 points · Posted at 20:42:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother spent one night in the house and didn't come back.

We are still waiting for him to this day.

procrastinatingtoo · 4 points · Posted at 19:38:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mother experienced the same thing in her childhood home in Baltimore. She said that they would constantly pace around.

NEVER_CLEANED_COMP · 4 points · Posted at 15:49:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like something out of Vacancy.

Schezemu · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

funny, I used to go to school by the place they shot Vacancy at. freaked me out driving past at night.

mdski89 · 10 points · Posted at 17:10:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You may have been exposed to electromagnetic fields from old/bad wiring - some people are more sensitive to it than others. It may have enhanced the electrical energy of the entities.

grungeroner · 6 points · Posted at 19:20:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

May also be low level carbon monoxide poisoning. It's one theory behind all of the hauntings in old places. Leaking or obstructed chimneys and faulty furnaces.

Ajajane · 2 points · Posted at 00:55:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Considering this thread, your post is quite comforting lol.

cantaloupeking · 4 points · Posted at 18:28:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wat.

mdski89 · 4 points · Posted at 18:40:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

High emf fields are known to cause people to hallucinate, vomit, get dizzy, etcetera - or just cause a general feeling of dread, panic and of being watched.

cantaloupeking · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Electrical field would suffice. Where's the source? I was unaware of this.

mdski89 · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_o_007.pdf

This is a scholarly source. I don't know if you have access to it. There's a lot of reading between the lines that has to be done because there are so many different types of electric fields - you have to deduce what you are exposed to. Google scholar has interesting articles as well. I first heard of it on the TV show "Ghost Hunters" but there is legitimate evidence of it screwing with your electrical impulses in your brain.

cantaloupeking · 3 points · Posted at 22:52:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Really? I scanned it and it seemed to say there was no evidence for effects on cognition in humans - if you could refer me the page that'd be grand.

mdski89 · 2 points · Posted at 01:31:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I looked under the nervous system section page 25. I mean it's up to you to form your own opinion of papers and such. I'm not saying I agree with it but scientifically speaking it is definitely plausible.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:22:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My family moves around a lot (I'm twenty years old and I've lived in twelve different houses already). I've always been very superstitious and I'm always scared we'll move into a house like that. I don't know what I'd do.

ceejiesqueejie · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not much you can do except live through it.

elevul · 2 points · Posted at 23:50:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or call a priest to cleanse the house.

socks86 · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or just get the fuck out of that house?

elevul · 1 points · Posted at 11:27:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, depending on the price of the priest, it might be cheaper to get a priest to cleanse it than renting another apartment.

vVvMaze · 3 points · Posted at 19:05:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

do you have any pics of the outside of the house? or inside for that matter?

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I edited my comment and posted the only photos I have, from google maps.

poopmailman · 8 points · Posted at 15:47:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

damn, sounds like that house could use of few dabs of some hash oil

zombiekilla123 · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This would make a good movie

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:18:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night, she and I sat up for two hours in her bed watching these shadows. She was strongly religious and didn't know what to make of it.

i feel like i need to run but i don't know where to run to

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's... Complicated, in a way. You know I mentioned my step-dad? My biological father had been a shadow throughout most of my life. He paid child support but I never spoke to him, never saw him, never received anything from him other than that check, which my mother would promptly use up for one thing or another. My mother always told me my dad didn't want me, that he didn't want to be my dad, that kind of thing. I believed this for 20 years. Nearly four years ago, my father contacted me through Facebook. In speaking with him and finally meeting with him and building a relationship with him and my step-mom, I found out how much my mother had lied to me. My father is well off, and has helped me afford things I could never afford myself. He has helped me more than I could say in one small explanatory comment. So, technically, my family has fallen on good times, but it's the family that makes up me, my dad and my step-mom. My family my siblings and my mother (step-father is no more), still struggle and are now several states away. I don't see them anymore. My mom took all of my siblings and moved to New York two summers ago, and left me by myself in Florida. I miss them so much.

I have a complicated life's story.

katedid · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know... that is pretty creepy. What you mentioned about the static music and the whispers, that happened at a house I used to live in. My mother even went to the fuse box and turned off all the power to the house to see if that would make it stop. It didn't.

A LOT of creepy stuff happened in that house on Elm Street. All my bad dreams have always involved that house.

One day, I was home alone. I had played hookie from school. We lived in a rancher home, so it was one level with a small attic. I was walking down the hallway to go to my room and I heard this loud noise. I can't really describe it too well... Sort of like a grinding metal noise/electronic motor noise. This scared the shit out of me and I looked everywhere for the noise. Finally, there was only one place left to look, the attic. I pulled the hanging cord and the stairs came down. I climbed up the stairs and into the attic. It was coming from a box of my brothers' old toys. I opened it up and inside it was a medium-sized robot toy (he could walk, hold stuff and I think you could play a little basketball game with it). That had been making the noise. So I took the batteries out of it and put it back. I'm not really sure how it came on, because it had a power switch that was in the off position and no one had been up in the attic for a long time.

Kluiver · 2 points · Posted at 21:10:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep, that place is definitely haunted. It's a haunted house.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:22:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is incredibly intense. Could you elaborate?

So, how fully did you sense these things? You could actually hear them pacing outside your window? Yikes.

When you looked in the mirror, where did the shadows appear to be? Outside?

ceejiesqueejie · 2 points · Posted at 22:58:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh god, the mirror was something different, I forgot to explain that. I could see my room, sometimes it would be the shadows pacing, not like in front of my window, but as if they were in the mirror itself. Once or twice I would sneak a glance at the mirror, and there would be a shadow stopped right in my mirror, as if it were looking down at me laying in my bed. Once I looked and saw not shadow figures, but darkened forms that seemed to grow darker as a I looked, sitting on my bed and standing in my room. That was the last time I looked at the mirror, I think. I always made an effort to avoid it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow. Thanks for the reply!

I hope no offense is taken when I say that I'm not yet entirely convinced that I believe this story. Regardless, it's pretty awesome.

You didn't happen to ever read much H.P. Lovecraft and/or have a highly active imagination when you were younger, did you?

On a different note, I'm interested by the fact that you've lived in more than one location with such "paranormal happenings". Is this common in Florida, or at least in your area? I'm from the northeast, and even though there are "haunted" graveyards/historical sights (particularly in the areas developed 200-300 years ago), I've never heard anyone describe such occurrences.

ceejiesqueejie · 2 points · Posted at 23:54:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No worries, I understand your skepticism. I never read HP Lovecraft and I don't recall having a more active imagination than normal kids. But when I started to go through puberty I gained a sort of "awareness" to things other people couldn't see. I started seeing thing in the corner of my eyes, feeling when there was something going on and hearing things other people couldn't. I've seen many doctors who tell me I don't have schizophrenia but that I psych myself up and my brain plays tricks. Either way, I know what I see and hear can only be described as super natural, and that's ok too.

I'm not sure if its a common thing, but with Titusville being so close to the space center, I've had a lot of people tell me it might have something to do with it. I'm also incredibly empathetic, to the point of being able to predict, accurately, how a person will react to certain situations or news, I think this goes alongside my sensitivity to certain energies.

There were two houses I've lived in where I did not hear or see with much intensity. One was close to a ravine and while that did give me an uneasy feeling, there were only a few instances of seeing or hearing something that was not natural, and those things happened around my youngest sister who had started going through puberty. In the other place, it felt like I should have been feeling or seeing things, but it was muted, like someone had laid a large woolen blanket over whatever might have happened. It was empty, and quiet. And again, I don't know if it's the area, or if it's me. But almost everywhere I go I can *sense* things like what I've described. Maybe I am crazy, trust me, I wonder that a lot at times. It's gotten to the point though, where I can control when I feel or sense things. Kinda like a switch, to turn my radar on and off.

I could go on and on about these things, lol. It's been the focus of much reflection and thought for many years. I don't want to make my comments too long, but I would be happy to continue on of you're interested.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:15:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hmm. What was the experience of the rest of your family? You mention that your mom stayed up at least once watching these figures with you. Did she see them the way you did? Like, notice that there were three without you mentioning the number?

Did your brother state any reason for not staying in the house more than once?

And just one more question about the mirror; you say that you saw these beings "in the mirror". Did you see anything when you turned around and looked at the area being reflected?

Lastly, do you share your mother's faith? If so, do you believe this could be demonic, if it isn't explainable by psychology or some other science? Being a Christian myself, I would totally understand either answer.

Edit: if you're tired of answering questions, I totally understand. I won't be offended if you are.

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The experience wasn't as intense for my siblings, but my sister, who was 11 then has said multiple times that she saw the shadows I described, as well as the pair of eyes, when she saw them, she said they were glowing red. She did her best to be with my step-dad as much as possible. My brother told me he could feel something very bad watching him. He was 9 at the time and refuses to talk about it now. When my mom and I say up watching, she could see the shadows, she was as terrified as I was, only, on her walls there weren't just three shadows. It was maybe a dozen, we didn't count. But they circled her room like a carousel, and she prayed trying to get the shadows to go away but that never did anything.

As for the mirror. I saw nothing when I turned back to my room. They were only reflections in the mirror.

At the time, I shared my mothers faith and held true to the Christian teachings. I would explain it to be demonic, I can't think of any other explanation and that certainly is the easiest answer.

I don't mind answering questions at all. :)

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:31:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Huh. I still not sure if I fully believe or not, but if true, I sure hope things have gotten better or work out for you eventually!

elevul · 2 points · Posted at 23:49:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dammit. No sleep tonight. :(

Afa1234 · 2 points · Posted at 00:28:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Send the ghost adventure guys there, that'd make an interesting episode

shadamedafas · 2 points · Posted at 02:01:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're killing me. I grew up 5 minutes from that place.

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holla to my Titusville cousins! :D

shadamedafas · 2 points · Posted at 02:49:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, PSJ, so I suppose it's a technicality. Now Winter Park, though.

ViridisLeo · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just thought it was kinda weird how I have 4 bars and AT&T and 4G and 45% battery at the time of viewing the google maps photo, and you have the exact Same thing.

pretty_fly_fly · 2 points · Posted at 02:23:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to be a total creeper and find out which city it was because that house and road are familiar to me. I think a few years ago, when my grandparents were showing me around their old city, we may have passed it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:31:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I keep grotesques in my room.

socks86 · 2 points · Posted at 06:13:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Three months? 3 days of experiences like what you are talking about and I'd be out of there. 14 years old be damned.

barnardine · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Infrasound can do strange things.

Khad1013 · 2 points · Posted at 02:56:12 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

My boyfriend and I looked it up on Google maps... COMPLETELY different across the street. Its all sunny and cute

nascyUSF · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:18 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

TITSVILLE

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:48 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yup.

dumbname2 · 3 points · Posted at 17:38:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You met some unhappy/unsettled ghosts, man. The house I grew up in was haunted, but they were mostly docile ghosts. My sister saw three, I saw one, and we both heard them on our front stairway often. Former resident of our house saw a Revolutionary soldier charge through the front door, but that was as aggressive as they got. I felt paralyzed a few times lying in bed (I think it was them) but I eventually shook it off and carried on with sleeping. I actually tried talking to the ghost I saw, but it had disappeared by the time I got the nerve to speak.... still kind of regretful about that.

Your story gave me goosebumps. Don't go back to that house.

vVvMaze · 3 points · Posted at 19:07:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i want to hear your stories. I cant seem to believe in them. Not till I see one for myself. I want to believe the people who say they saw them, but for some reason I cant believe them. I still enjoy the stories though.

dumbname2 · 3 points · Posted at 19:21:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

To provide you with a bit more detail, here are my stories:

My sister had never really complained of ghosts until I told her of my experiences, so she shared with me. She was walking down our driveway one night with our neighbor friend when she noticed our attic light was on. Very odd, considering the time of night and that we rarely go to our attic, if ever. As she and her friend notice and check it out, a shadowy figure walks by the window and then the light goes out. She asks my mother and I if we were in the attic the other night and we both responded with a confused "No, why?" She didn't tell me her reasoning until a few years ago.

My sister has seen 3 different ghosts, I have seen one, and we both have heard the same one outside our bedroom doors (it was a child ghost playing with his ball on the stairs... our house's history confirms a child died there hundreds of years ago. It's a farm house built in Massachusetts around 1760). We didn't really tell anyone until nearly 5 years later. I threw my head under the covers when I first saw my ghost (It was a him. I could see straight through him to my ceiling, but it was the outline of a male.), but after about 20 seconds I decided to ask him a question. Though, he was gone when I looked. I'm still disappointed in myself for being so afraid to this day. I was about 12 years old when I saw him and haven't seen him since (I'm now 26). I just wanted to ask him why he was still here, and if he was okay... probably would have asked about the floating part, if I got there.

My sister didn't fair as well as I did... in terms of "bravery". She was maybe 15 years old when she had her experience. Three ghosts (at least one male) were sitting at her make-up table in the corner of her room. She opened her eyes and looked across to see one sitting in her chair and two more - one at each shoulder of the man sitting. When she looked at them, they all turned their heads to look at her. She freaked out, needless to say, threw her head under the covers, and didn't come back out from underneath until morning. She never saw them again, either.

My mother also does some "far out" religious things (she's a Sufi). A friend was performing a healing on a her and something picked him up and threw him across the room. He was physically lifted from the floor and thrown nearly 8 feet into a wall. He was quite shocked, to say the least. We think it was my deceased grandfather protecting her because he thought she was being hurt. He was Irish Catholic so he probably didn't understand what was going on.

There were also several ocassions where I felt like someone was lying on top of me, pinning me down on my bed. Maybe once a month, I'd be getting ready to sleep when I feel something on top of me, like another mattress. It's not terribly heavy but obviously noticeable. It shortened my breath sometimes which made me nervous but I was always okay. After a while, I have to force myself to move, like I'm shaking "it" off me. I audibly yelled a few times, "Get off me!" or "Cut it out! I just want to sleep!" and whatever "it" was left me alone. It never really stopped, though. Whenever I visit home this will happen from time to time, but not nearly as frequently as before.

My sister complained also of her electronics not working properly. Her stereo could never keep consistent volume, her TV changed channels, etc. After sharing stories, she figures it's the little boy that plays on the steps outside our rooms messing with her. She lets this go because she knows it's a child and he doesn't know any better. This goes on and she's becoming a teenager getting more easily upset. After the kid plays with the dimmer in her room, she flips on him and yells and berates the ghost child. He never really messed with her stuff after that, but the ceilling light in her room always burned out a lot faster than the rest of the house. No matter how many electricians came to the house, it never really got better until she moved out.

Another story from before we moved in, but this happened to the former owner's son in the 1990's: So, our house held many families (being built in 1760) and one member of one of the families (I'm omitting names for privacy purposes, I don't want ya'll to Google my house) was in the Massachusetts militia unit from Worcester, MA that was marching towards the battle of Lexington and Concord. His band never made it in time (my father's book discovered all this out. He didn't print it, though). The son from the 90's was entering the back door of the house when he noticed a figure in the field behind the house. This field was always kind of eery.. our dog barked at it constantly. He thought nothing of it until the figure starting moving closer to him. He began fumbling for his keys to get in the door because he realized it looked like a person. There is no reason a random person should be back there. He scrambles to unlock the door, as now the figure is charging at him. He finally gets inside after what feels like an eternity, turns around, and the figure is yards away from the house and still charging. As the figure comes into the light, he can make out that it's a man dressed in Revolutionary War era uniform, holding a musket with fixed bayonet charging straight at him. He jumps back from the door but the ghost charges straight through the door, through him, and runs up the stairs (which leads to my former bedroom) only to disappear.

edit: added bit about my sister's experience with the three ghosts.

vVvMaze · 3 points · Posted at 19:47:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Very interesting stuff. Although terrifying, I want to experience a Ghost for myself so I can confirm existence. To those who have their confirmation, like you, that is cool. But me, I need first hand experience.

Thanks for sharing the stories though!

dumbname2 · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Although terrifying

It depends on what kind of ghost you come across. I absolutely was scared the first time I saw one, but I realized later that I've been lucky to experience the kind/docile ones. Why the "kind" ones? I have no idea.

I don't usually share my stories because I think people will think I'm weird (I know I probably would, if I were them), but this is all anonymous so, anytime! :)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where is this house? Did anyone else experience this?

Edit: Address?

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please see the edit to my original comment. :)

Hexates · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Interesting, what was the address to this house? Are there other people who have lived there who have similar stories to tell?

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please see the edit to my original comment. :)

Hexates · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, thanks! It looks exactly like I imagined. Interesting.

MagicSPA · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What was the name of the town?

ceejiesqueejie · 2 points · Posted at 21:26:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Titusville.

dizzaray · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The shadows were likely from cars going by or the trees swaying; I saw shadow movements on the ceilings in my house a lot and it used to creep me the fuck out until I made this connection.

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

No dude. These were forms, like cloaked people that would pace in circles like a carousel, all the way around my moms room, you could see it on all four walls from the flood light that stayed on 24/7 in the back yard. And this wasn't on a busy road. Very quiet sort of town. You'd only turn onto this road deliberately.

theaznone · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this located in Ormond by the Sea. North of Daytona Beach? Because the pic of the house you posted looks so familiar and if was, I have stayed there before.

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A bit more south, in Brevard.

theaznone · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh okay.

Commisioner_Gordon · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

On your spiritual aspect of this, did you have crosses in the house, did you get it blessed were they agitated by Holy things etc? that may answer what these things were if you think they werent just ghosts.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:47:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I do believe these are Cybermen trying to get through the dimensions.

Sysop_2400 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Clearly, you're a Cylon.

LinkFixerJr · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

/u/_venkman

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

u/_venkman

finnsucksfinnpenis · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:47 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahahahaha, yeah....

no.

Harowan · 122 points · Posted at 17:50:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just told my girlfriend about some of the stories in this thread and after telling her of the weird man waltzing story she said casually "Well, yeah, that's like what happened to me." I've been compelled to post her story. I used to be sure all ghost stories were made up but she's told me of so many weird things that have happened to her that I don't always know what to think any more.

She grew up in a smallish Romanian town on the Danube, for those who don't know this is a wide river that flows from the German mountains out to the black sea. She's told me some sad stories of the past where people had tried to swim across the river after world war two to escape the country but either drowned from the currents or were caught by the police and shot. In fact, there had been a lot of troubles resulting in the death of innocent people in the region, post world war two, making this story freak me out that little bit more.

She had finished walking her date back to the army barracks at the edge of town and was heading back to her fathers apartment. She followed the path home along the river and was in a very calm mood, she described it as a mood in which nothing would phase her.

As she walked back she looked into the window of the post office which had been closed for a while as it was 3am. In the window was twenty faces, noses pressed against the window, staring out. She carried on walking, unphased. At this point obviously I was thinking, "Hmm, yeah, well that's not that odd, there probably were people in there"

She carried on walking further and she glanced to her left at the river to see a bunch of people swimming towards the shore. She turned her head forward and kept walking some more. She looked toward the river again, expecting for the people to be gone but they were still there. "How many people?" She shrugged, "One hundred?". All swimming towards the bank at 3am. She felt like stopping but was compelled not to break stride, she kept on walking.

As she got to the park she could see figures running and dancing in there. She didn't walk through, it's to the side of the path. She said they were wearing an odd assortment of clothes, some old fashioned, some white and semi translucent. They seemed like young people. Their dancing wasn't modern, it was waltz like. She carried on.

As she neared her fathers apartment she could see a figure moving in the distance, growing larger as she neared. She remained neutral, she wouldn't have had to pass him as her turn off was before him. As she neared she could make him out more clearly. He was wearing an old fashioned suit and was waltzing by himself. He wasn't going anywhere as his waltz took him around in circles, he was simply dancing by himself.

She got home and her father said "What happened?" as he could see the odd look on her face. She didn't really know where to start.

After our conversation she said two things of note. The first was she had kept calm as she kept thinking "It's good, there's nothing to worry about, there's something else, there's another side." The second.. "Maybe it's some kind of phenomenon then, that waltzing"

All I can say is I was unnerved. She's gone out now but she'll be back in a few hours so I'll pass on any comments / questions.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:10:03 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn thats crazy! Kudos to her for not freaking out! I would have lost my shit!

Harowan · 5 points · Posted at 12:24:17 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha me too man

scubadog2000 · 6 points · Posted at 00:24:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did she know about the swimmers during the war? I'm guessing that's the "Stuck in time" phenomenon, where either tragic or events in general replay occasionally. The post office was most likely something else during the time.

Harowan · 3 points · Posted at 22:09:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not actually during the war, it was post WW2 so around 1960-1980 which makes it that bit sadder. She did know of it but she said it wasn't as if that was on her mind at the time or if it was new information that she had learnt close to the event. Do you know more about the stuck in time phenomenon? She's interested

scubadog2000 · 3 points · Posted at 22:17:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haven't done much research on it myself, but I found this, which might help her out, or at least give her a place to start looking.

Harowan · 2 points · Posted at 12:40:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, had a read. Was interesting but not many conclusions drawn unfortunately.

cornucopiaofdoom · 3 points · Posted at 16:26:49 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Doubt you will find many conclusions or consensus. Also look up "residual ghosts" - there are some that appear on American Civil War battlefields - soldiers marching, etc. and seem to hold to old terrain or structures - like they are interacting with the environment from a past time.

http://paranormal.about.com/od/Ghost_Videos/ig/Best-Ghost-Videos-Ever-Taken/Gettysburg-Ghosts.htm

Also accounts of Roman soldiers - likewise keeping to old terrain.

http://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2012/06/the-ghosts-of-roman-soldiers-walking-on-their-knees-2215909.html

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 01:59:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i've read about "ghost scenes" playing out before. there's been stories of a really mundane victorian scene (horses pulling carts, women standing around) going on in the city where i live for a few minutes in the early hours in the morning

Harowan · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's pretty eerie, what city if you dont mind me asking? I wonder if there's any correlation in where these happen .. be it because of where past things have happened or maybe all near water.. that kind of thing. Hmmm

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:30:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

in britain and not near water. this is exactly where it's supposed to have happened;

http://i.imgur.com/IHBOdZc.jpg

and is from the time the scene depicted!

Harowan · 2 points · Posted at 12:39:50 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Weird, im a brit too, hey! Noticed on that photo on the sign on the right it says 'Rapers' lol

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:50 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck. where abouts are you? now that i think about it, it's sort of near water - the river clyde in glasgow

Harowan · 2 points · Posted at 22:24:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im from Essex bordering London but the story happened in Romania. Maybe the water things a long shot but I wonder if theres something linking all the sites.. not gunna get too into it cause i could drive myself mad trying to find an answer lol. Someone else linked me this, you might like

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:32 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:00 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

it is

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:43 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:18 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

aw yis :3

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:46:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Twist: His gf is actually a ghost and was one of the dancers.

Harowan · 2 points · Posted at 22:04:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

She laughed at this comment!

DRUMSKIDOO · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:37 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

a 'Timeslip' maybe?

jakeputz · 64 points · Posted at 15:18:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest: When I was in high school, these 4 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 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.

thatshilar · 9 points · Posted at 05:44:23 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the actual fuck? Please elaborate.

jakeputz · 11 points · Posted at 22:56:22 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Elaborate? Well, the parents invited a lot of the girl's friends over to their house, I think it was a day before or the same day as the funeral. (this happened in about 1986) Quite a few kids went over to the house,even though it seemed a little odd- I think we felt super-bad for them because she was their only child and we knew they just lived for her. They were quite old to be parents of a high school aged kid, which made it sadder somehow? Anyway, they welcomed us into the house, and after a while asked us to see her room, where they had her body in her bed. I saw a look of horror on my friend's face as she came out of the room, and when I realized what was going on, I turned around and got out of there as fast as I could.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:30:51 on August 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

I realise I'm two months late, but still:

It's less common without a coffin(more likely if they were older people from a poor background and their daughter was young), but home viewings are super-common: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral#Visitation I imagine they didn't realise you weren't expecting it and assumed you knew you'd be seeing the body. Also found this while looking for the previous link, which should help explain why it became a tradition. >.>

Qzaristar · 4 points · Posted at 00:43:10 on September 14, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just thought I'd chip. Its extremely common, here in Ireland, to have a wake (viewing) of the body for 1-3 days before the funeral. Mostly these days in a coffin but when it's a child it's often in their bed, less sterile I guess. Also, lots of superstitions around it. Such as when the person passes all mirrors in the house are covered to allow the spirit to pass and all clocks are stopped to the time the person passed. A very important tradition around it, is that you can never leave the body alone, at least one person must be in the room until they are buried.

I know it sounds morbid but it's actually a great way to celebrate someone's life. The time is usually spent sharing happy memories

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 02:44:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

holy fucking shit

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:04:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

wtf! is that even legal?

champ999 · 10 points · Posted at 02:21:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"She's not dead children, she's sleeping. Sleeping. Sleeping. Sleeping"

arshanti · 3 points · Posted at 18:32:50 on July 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes it's legal. There's nothing wrong with having the body in bed before the funeral. I've been to many Muslim funerals and we normally have the body laid in bed and covered or on a mattress on the floor of the living room.

tellmetheworld · 354 points · Posted at 20:08:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was playing Kinect one night. It detected a second player. I was alone.

ruffyreborn · 31 points · Posted at 14:34:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Woke up one night to some noise downstairs. Xbox was on and the kinect was moving up and down every so often like it does when you set it up. Turned it off and went back to bed.

Next morning, i booted up the xbox and tv and started kinect adventures. Several pics were taken last night of "in-game action", but no one was in the pictures.

Spin-A-Jen · 16 points · Posted at 04:36:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Simple, yet elegant. Would instantly piss.

michaeljane · 31 points · Posted at 23:41:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It finally detected the black guy.

Kylar_Stern · 8 points · Posted at 03:23:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Did you call the securiy guard?" "Yeah I did, nice guy, he spent the night trapped in the security booth!"

TheOneTrueFool · 22 points · Posted at 21:14:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds like a bad 'Yo Mamma' joke.

berlin_a · 5 points · Posted at 03:36:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Kinect is a creepy fucker.

OriginalKarma · 6 points · Posted at 03:46:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Toby?

lolyusaythat · 3 points · Posted at 04:16:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

toby, what the fuck man, i was on a roll

leonidas914 · 7 points · Posted at 13:09:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

happened to me with the wii. i played alone in my room when suddenly another hand flushed over the screen but the remote was off D.

kieganrockstar · 3 points · Posted at 04:17:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's fucking terrifying.

[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 15:05:15 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

yeah videogames malfunctioning... ooooh creepy!! ;)

butters_owns · 7 points · Posted at 01:59:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Paranormal Activity 4 shit!

Morning-Star · 3 points · Posted at 05:02:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

dude, fuck that. I would have quit right then and there and watched a Disney movie to fall asleep.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 01:39:18 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Morning-Star · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:06 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, I've had to do that a few times, too. Lights always have to stay on. Sometimes I even just let the TV run all night. I keeps me from feeling alone and freaking myself out.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:05:39 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:52 on August 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't tell if everyone is just exaggerating, or if I actually just have nerves of steel. I've never lost any sleep over something I've read or watched.

Coffeezilla · 2 points · Posted at 08:21:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should've had Kinect take a picture of the room you were in.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

one line stories.

Risotti3 · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:16 on November 21, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude thts fucked

jackdoco · -1 points · Posted at 04:55:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bullshit as no one plays Kinect alone

Nevixd · 172 points · Posted at 16:13:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just last year, I was in NYC and riding a packed subway. Mid-ride, a man gets up with a strangely large backpack. He cleared his throat and said, "Alright everyone, the time has come-" and in that moment the people on the sub's faces turned to fear, a mother nestled her son, and I tensed up, ready to pounce. He continued to say "-I am a poor man, in need of food, if anyone has anything on them or if they could take me out for food it would save my life." My girlfriend and I got him some KFC and asked him to approach a large group of people differently. All in all, he was a nice guy- didn't even look homeless. My girlfriend still refers it as "The day the KFC guy was 'gonna kill us".

conpermiso · 18 points · Posted at 20:37:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was riding the El one night and all of a sudden this white dude stands up in the middle of the train and announces "Ladies and gentleman, my name is Ted Vigilante..." and I instantly thought "Oh fuck, this is how it ends." until he finished "And I'm running for Court of Common Pleas"

That's right, this fucking moron politician was canvassing for signatures on the El.

Nevixd · 7 points · Posted at 20:59:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's kinda' a dick move. You scare the crap out of a bunch of people, and in turn they don't or at least don't want to help.

ChrissMari · 4 points · Posted at 13:05:56 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Vigilante lawyer!

conpermiso · 2 points · Posted at 13:56:21 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I felt so stupid afterwards, his ads are everywhere.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 03:49:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is seriously the worst way to get the attention of a group of people.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:45:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everyone's least favorite moment on the subway: "Excuse me, can I have everyone's attention please?" I just die a little inside. Although, this guy...god. He's lucky he didn't get tackled and beaten up. That's some scary ass shit right there.

wordtoyourmother8 · 483 points · Posted at 14:59:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I worked at two hospitals (placement) during my last year of college. At one hospital I worked with professionals that did therapeutic play with children on the Pediatric ward as well as on the Adolescent Psych ward (at the other hospital). My "boss" and I would do crafts, projects, art, etc. with the teens to help them have an outlet while they were getting treatment for mental illness, addiction issues and other medical issues. Each day, before we would see the teens, we would get a run down from the nurses on the ward explaining who everyone was, what issues they were being hospitalized for and any other info we needed (this could include anything from a warning that the patient had violent tendencies, how they are adjusting to being on the ward, which patients they did or did not get along with etc.).

So this one night, we were given the usual run down of the teens on the ward and the nurse mentioned one teen in particular. This girl (I will call her Sally, obviously not her real name) had all of a sudden just stopped talking one day and started to act really out of character. She would not respond to family, friends, siblings, doctors or anyone for that matter. She was hospitalized because they became concerned about her harming herself and they were definitely trying to ensure she was being watched 24/7 just in case she was experiencing some type of psychosis (I don't know a ton of details because we were just given a quick run down of the patients' case). From what I was told, they had checked and ruled out a brain tumor and other possible physiological causes and found nothing abnormal. Now just to set the stage, this hospital is a very old hospital with dark hallways, poorly lit rooms, and the coldest most creepy atmosphere I have ever experienced. In every way it looked like a hospital you would see in a horror movie and when walking down the hallways, I remember always being scared something would jump out at me because there were a lot of "blind spots" due to it's very old layout.

Anyways, this night in particular my co-worker/boss and I started the crafts and activities for the kids in the "kitchen" room where we always did our activities. I was sitting close to Sally and tried to initiate conversations but she would just stare blankly. My boss/coworker tried as well and Sally would not respond and without warning she would just occasionally look at us and laugh loudly or smile at me with glossy eyes. The doctors had tried all day to get her to speak and she said nothing so I just chatted and tried my best to "include" her even though she wouldn't really engage.

I started to doodle on a piece of paper while talking with some of the teens and just randomly wrote down "Hi!" and drew around it, not even really thinking about what I was doing. Almost immediately after I wrote "Hi!", Sally picked up a pencil and wrote "hello"! I was shocked to say the least. I was the first person in days and days that she attempted to communicate with. I didn't know if it would work, but I wrote "how are you?" and she actually wrote an answer! I was blown away! After Sally and I exchanged a couple questions/answers my co-worker noticed what was going on so she kept the other teens busy and just nodded at me to keep going. Within a few minutes, this girl and I had written almost a page of conversation and she was communicating through writing with no trouble! I couldn't believe it was happening! I was getting all this info from a girls that everyone thought was unreachable! We "talked" through writing for what seemed like hours (but was probably just about 1 hour) and while I was asking her about how she was feeling about being in the ward, she admitted through writing that she was scared. I pressed on, trying to see if she was scared because she was in a strange place or missed her family etc., but she wrote it was because she saw people in the room with us. Obviously, there were people in the room with us so I asked her why the people in the room scared her and she simply wrote "they are dead". I swear, when I read, it felt like my stomach hit the floor. I looked up from the page we were writing on and she just looked at me and then turned her head and stared at the door. No one was there..... well, at least, I didn't see anyone there. Sally stared at that door for easily a minute and I swear SHE saw something there. I was more scared than I could even express. I will never forget the look on her face. Whether or not there was a person/ghost there, Sally could see someone.

I took some deep breaths and once I had her attention again, we started communicating again through writing. We "talked" this way until 9pm, when I had to leave with my co-worker/boss. I thanked Sally for "speaking" to ee and she seemed a lot more "aware" when I said goodbye. She still was not verbalizing, but I know that the doctors were going to do their best to find out why. I collected the papers we had written on and before leaving the ward showed the entire conversation to my co-worker and the nurse in charge. Everyone on duty (nurses, etc) was dumbfounded that I had actually communicated with her and they assured me that the pages would be passed along to the psychiatrist the next morning. I was filled with so many emotions.... I was happy I had spoken to her and she was honest with me but I was also still incredibly scared and shaken up. My co-worker dropped me off at home and I remember walking in to the living-room and my roommates knew immediately something had happened. I was shaking and blurted out everything that happened. They were supportive but also freaked out by the situation. I have never been happier to have roommates because if I had gone home to an empty place, I probably wouldn't have slept for days.

Sadly, because of the schedule I had and the many different shift changes at the hospital, I never saw Sally again and no one knew what the final diagnosis was for her. I still get chills when I think about the look on her face that night when she stared at the door. I don't think I will ever shake that feeling. I just hope she got the help she needed. edit - spacing, word/spelling fixes

TL;DR - worked on an Adolescent Psych ward (in a hospital that could be the set for a horror movie) and got a girl who wouldn't talk to communicate through writing. During the conversation she divulged she could see dead people in the room with us and stared at one of them that was "standing" in the doorway. I gave our the papers from our conversation to the medical staff who couldn't believe she actually "spoke".

sort of EDIT: Was gonna change some awkward phrases but I've decided to leave it. Sorry if I ramble.

[deleted] · 54 points · Posted at 15:05:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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wordtoyourmother8 · 17 points · Posted at 17:03:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I agree with you that it definitely could have been adolescent schizophrenia. Since then, I have met and become friends a couple people with schizophrenia and when they are ill, they have great difficulty distinguishing reality from their delusions/hallucinations. It's understandable that people experiencing psychosis sometimes act erratically because what they think they are seeing/hearing etc. is so incredibly real to them.
The only regret I have from this experience (with Sally) is that I never was able to find out how things worked out for her. I hope she was able to get some help and is now living a happy life.
EDIT: wording of one sentence

[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 16:22:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

wordtoyourmother8 are you a ghost?

wordtoyourmother8 · 13 points · Posted at 16:58:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry to disappoint, I am 100% among the living. No "Sixth-Sense" shizzle going on here! =)

stingray85 · 8 points · Posted at 23:04:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you sure? A lot of redditors are actually the dead, reaching out to the living, though they don't realise it of course. You need to make a concerted effort to come to terms with your past, admit that you died, and then move on to the light.

Go to the light wordtoyourmother8! Move towards it!

Unless there is no light, only darkness, in which case god help us all.

wordtoyourmother8 · 8 points · Posted at 00:57:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you stingray85 for your suggestion... I did what you said, I followed the light and I walked for what seemed like hours. I could hear a noise. It was faint at first, but got louder and louder the longer I walked. As the white light seemed like it couldn't get any brighter, I realized it was the sound of wings flapping.... angel's wings.... thousands of them, it was so loud, I could barely think. Eventually the white light engulfed me. Suddenly, everything went black. Silence and darkness. I closed my eyes....when I opened them, I was in my bed, at home, staring at the ceiling. As I sat up, I noticed a small note taped to my chest. With a shakey hand, I picked up the note and flipped it over and it read:
You aren't done yet

Seriously, thanks for your message, it gave me a laugh! I apologize for not coming up with an equally humourous response.

NDaveT · 20 points · Posted at 20:49:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some kinds of aphasia make it so people can't speak but can write. I'm kind of surprised none of the doctors thought to try that technique.

Bonus speech pathology trivia: some aphasia can be treated by having the patient try to sing instead of speak. Singing uses different parts of the brain.

boss_ginger · 6 points · Posted at 21:50:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Very true and it is broadly broken into receptive (not understanding) vs. expressive aphasia (being unable to articulate, but able to form coherent thoughts). I would suggest watching Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman shot in Tucson. She definitely is aware of her thoughts, but neural damage prevents her from forming them into spoken words. I am not sure if it affects spoken written or both, but if I recall correctly, it can make writing just as difficult as speaking.

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for this info! I have never heard of this before. I am going to research it later on (have to do laundry first, yay!)!

delusory · 6 points · Posted at 21:43:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think this is my favorite story, because it manages to be both scary and have a pretty good ending. You probably ended up helping that girl a lot. Nice work.

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you, I really hope I was able to help. I hated the idea of her being so scared and feeling alone. It was bad enough that she was in the hospital away from her family and friends, but seeing what she saw, just took it to another heartbreaking level. I hope she is happy now and living an awesome life. =)

macgruder1 · 4 points · Posted at 20:48:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope she found some peace of mind eventually.

wordtoyourmother8 · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me too. I think of her often. I still live in the city I was going to school in and I always wonder if I will ever bump into her.

DrewsephVladmir · 4 points · Posted at 01:07:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like to imagine that some night, you are going to be woken by the sound of your bedroom door being kicked in. When you get your bearings a few seconds later, you'll realize it's that girl standing there with a shotgun and a baseball bat. She'll cock the gun, toss it to you, and say, "They're coming for us. If we work together, we can make them go away.....disappointed."

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would be awesome.... (sort of) terrifying, but completely kick-ass!

NotInKY · 4 points · Posted at 22:38:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would have expected that, since you were the one the girl opened up to, getting you two back together would have been a priority. The way it happened, she could feel like you were used to "crack" her, so the staff (who obviously wouldn't believe she saw ghosts) could isolate her again and try to fix her. I'm not saying she didn't treatment from the staff, just that, if I were in her position, I'd want to have someone around who'd listen without just trying to fix me.

wordtoyourmother8 · 5 points · Posted at 00:21:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would have loved to continue working with her, unfortunately, the program I worked with was only present on the ward twice a week (10 hours total) and I wasn't allowed access on the ward alone because I was still a student. Unless I saw them at the beginning of the week, often they were released or transferred by the next time I was on the ward. Although I LOVED my placement there, I found this aspect incredibly frustrating as I rarely saw the same faces more than twice (with the exception of one male, sadly, he was in the ward more than he was home).

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 23:40:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The thing is, with schizophrenics, you have to "fix" them. They're seeing things that don't exist, and the job of clinician is to orient them to reality. The proper response is, "I understand you think you see dead people, but there aren't any dead people here." You don't want to indulge mental illness.

Granted, by having this attitude, I'd be the first person the ghosts murder.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 11:42:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is maybe a bit off topic, but I've found that a great way to relieve people of the fear of the "supernatural" is to show them how to protect themselves with it. I've done it for several of my friends kids that were having night terrors, were scared of ghosts or the boogey man. I either teach them to draw old symbols or sigils that have been used for warding off evil spirits for centuries. Or I craft them small amulets they can hide in their room or give them jewellery they can wear.

I personally don't believe in ghosts and such, but this method has been successful EVERY time. As soon as they believe in it, it seems to work for them :)

wordtoyourmother8 · 2 points · Posted at 11:57:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a fantastic idea! My niece has had problems with nightmares for over a year (unfortunately, it's something she "inherited" from me as I rarely have a night without being scared shitless for one reason or another) and I think this would be really beneficial for her! My sister tried all sorts of things to help my niece and finally had some luck with a teddy bear called Norbert the Nightmare Nibbler. He's a little funny looking but the premise is that he stays awake at night while the child sleeps and he eats all the bad dreams before the dream reaches the child. My niece told me a couple weeks ago that Norbert does a good job but sometimes falls asleep during the night so sometimes the bad dreams sneak in.(LOL) Maybe I should invest in a Norbert for myself.... =)
Thanks again for the ideas, you are incredibly creative!

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:36:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any more stories from the scary fucking hospital?

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate to disappoint, but no, I don't have any other stories I can think of right now. I also worked on the Pediatric ward but, unfortunately, those stories are mostly just sad. =(

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:32:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awww, I don't want to hear that unless it's kids throwing poop or something....

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:44:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shocking to me that they didn't ask you to come back and communicate further. Dumbfounding.

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Another person mentioned this so I will cheat and copy and paste the answer. Sorry for the delay, I had to do laundry and the night has flown by!

I would have loved to continue working with her, unfortunately, the program I worked with was only present on the ward twice a week (10 hours total) and I wasn't allowed access on the ward alone because I was still a student. Unless I saw them at the beginning of the week, often they were released or transferred by the next time I was on the ward. Although I LOVED my placement there, I found this aspect incredibly frustrating as I rarely saw the same faces more than twice (with the exception of one male, sadly, he was in the ward more than he was home).

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is really a tragedy. Thanks for the info, it was rather thoughtful of you.

thesands0ftime · 2 points · Posted at 22:20:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Random question, how did you get in the placement program? Was it organised through your college or degree? I ask because working with adolescent psyc is something i'm particularly interested in

wordtoyourmother8 · 3 points · Posted at 00:40:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The placement was arranged by the college I attended. I worked on the Pediatric ward, the Adol. Psych ward and in a clinic in one of the hospitals playing with the kids while they waited to see the doctor (essentially, it was the BEST JOB EVER because I got to play with toys all day long! woot!). The program I worked with was based on working with kids through therapeutic play to help ease the stress of being in the hospital. Another huge aspect of the program was using dolls/puppets to explain to the children what would happen during medical procedures and then discuss how the kids felt about the treatment, answering questions they may have, etc. (This was not something I did as I was not trained in the "medical side" of it).
When we were on the Psychiatric ward, we just did crafts and other projects with the teens so they could have some relaxation and a forum to chat about how they were feeling about being in the hospital/what they hoped to get out of the care/ how things were going at home etc.
If you don't mind, I will PM you with some specific details about the program. I think it's an awesome program and the people you work with are amazing!

thesands0ftime · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, some more details would be appreciated. I'm probably in a different country, however there could be some equivalent in mine :)

akbrag91 · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should try and follow up on her and see what happened to her

wordtoyourmother8 · 2 points · Posted at 21:19:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would love to but unfortunately it's been quite a few years since then and I only knew her first name (because of it being a hospital, we only had access to certain information). I do often wonder if I will bump into her one day though. I remember exactly what she looked like and I still live in the city where I met her. Who knows, maybe one day she'll recognize me! =) (It's doubtful but hey, I can dream! LOL)

noniwashere123 · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As soon as I read "hospital", nope.

_omega_as_fuck_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you ask her why she wouldn't/couldn't talk?

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

She never really said specifically why she wouldn't talk, she just repeatedly said how scared she was. Another redditor mentioned "aphasia" but I haven't had a chance to research that yet. I really hope they figured it out because Sally really needed someone to help her... it was a hard situation to walk away from.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like the movie fracture

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never seen it, but I will look it up. I'm always happy to watch a flick.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure if that was the exact name. I'll search for it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Found it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_(2005_film)

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome, thanks!

incarnaderp · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

TWIST: you were one of the dead people she was seeing!

Moosemaster21 · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:19 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was in one of those wards for issues with chemical dependency when I was 17. All of the other kids in the ward had those issues too. One new girl came in, we'll call her Jess, obviously not real. When she first showed up she slept/stayed in her room for two days. On the third day she came out and would just fucking stare at me. I was creeped out but most of those kids were pretty weird (myself included) so I just kind of let it go. When we finished one of our sessions, I decided to stay and work on an assignment they had given me, about my control issues or something. One of those dumb worksheets asking questions like Why do you feel you need to be in control? What are you afraid would happen if you let go of your control? and so on. I've been working on the assignment alone in the room for about five minutes, and I swear to God nobody was there, when suddenly two hands slap down on the armrests on my chair and there's Jess, staring the FUCK out of me. She looked scared shitless but so confident at the same time. I nearly shit myself and jumped out of my chair. She slowly leans in to me and I'm like What the fuck? This girl is trying to kiss me? Then she passes my face so close our cheeks rubbed against each other. A shiver ran down my spine and I tried to stay calm. I didn't move.

She puts her lips by my ear and whispers "they're watching you." She stayed there for a good five seconds. Then slowly pulled away and walked out of the room without looking back. I nearly fainted. I got the hell out of that room and finished my assignment in a well lit hallway.

The next day, one of my supervisors asked if I had given my assignment to someone else after I turned it in. I asked why she thought that, and she showed me my paper. A few questions in, my handwriting noticeably changed. I don't know if I was shaking or what, but it looked like I tried writing lefty. It was so distinctly different and unrecognizable to me. I told her what happened and I wasn't sure if I should have or not. But she thanked me and probably told someone else about it.

Everything was normal for the next few days. Jess came out of hiding and acted like a totally reasonable person. I would still catch her staring at me now and then but not the way she had initially. My last night in the ward, shit got fucked up.

On top of chemical dependency issues, the ward was for mental issues or depression. So they had supervisors awake around the clock who would open each room door to check on us literally every ten minutes. For someone who has trouble sleeping like I do, this was hell. Right when I feel myself falling, BOOM, blinding light from the hallway (the lights outside were left on all night and the supervisors would hang out there talking. There was a girls side and a boys side, and they congregated between the two).

Anyway, it was my last night. The door opened a crack, and it usually closes shortly after they see if we're awake or asleep and if we're okay. This time it didn't. It opened, slowly, enough for someone to enter, and then shut quietly. I thought it was weird, but I didn't see anyone come in so I tried to sleep. Within seconds I felt warm air against my neck. I rolled over and almost screamed. Jess was lying next to me, breathing heavily. I hadn't even felt her crawl into the bed. Creepier still is that she was completely under the covers with me. Holyyy shit. It felt like we laid in silence staring at each other for ten minutes, but it was probably more like thirty seconds. I tried to ask what she wanted, but only a croaking sound came out. I literally could not speak. It was like my vocal cords had been ripped out. She smiled at me, which was scary as fuck. Then she put a finger to my lips and goes "They're coming." Same whisper voice as before. I almost fell out of the bed and had to catch myself against the wall, and lost focus for a moment. I regained my composure almost immediately just in time to catch the door closing.

Her being in my room was virtually impossible. The hallway was monitored at all times and boys and girls were not even allowed to touch each other, much less be in the same room. There were significant penalties for these actions. To this day I have no idea how she made it over undetected.

I did not sleep the rest of the night... I laid there staring at the door as the midnight checks resumed like normal. As I left, I said goodbye to the friends I made, and she was the last person I saw. We locked eyes for about ten seconds, and for the first 7 or 8, she just stood there staring, stony-faced, saying nothing. Then the last couple seconds, she smiled eerily and nodded. She winked at me and promptly walked away.

There is a strange ending to my story, but I feel like I've already talked enough and I'm not sure it's worth mentioning. Let me know if you want to hear it.

TL;DR I was in a teen Chemical Dependency ward, a new patient haunted me for the week that she was there. I didn't sleep well before, I sleep worse now.

wordtoyourmother8 · 1 points · Posted at 12:07:51 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds like an incredibly terrifying experience! I cannot blame you for being completely freaked out! It must have been hard for you to work on your personal goals while this was going on. I would love to hear how things ended if you don't mind sharing...

Moosemaster21 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:22 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll try to be brief. To go to treatment I had to drop out of high school. I re-enrolled later that year and had a music production class at a different campus, where kids from various schools would meet for that class and other career development courses. Well one day this girl, Jess, walked into class while I was working on a song (this was a few months after treatment). I nearly shit myself again, having memories flood back like crazy. But she beamed and yelled my name and came up and hugged me. To this day we're actually friends. We've hung out a couple times and text back and forth a lot. A little over a month ago I worked up the courage to ask her about all the things she did. She has no recollection of them whatsoever and thinks I'm crazy. She laughs and jokes about how messed up my mind is to think that any of it happened. Blames it on my drug abuse. Not to be mean, but she is just plain wrong when she says it never happened.

In her defense, she came into the ward EXTREMELY intoxicated, by what she recalls was a deadly combination of prescription medications mixed with some not-so-legal things. It's not uncommon for binges like that to purge your memories. But I am 100% sure that those things happened. I remember them so vividly I shudder when I recall them.

wordtoyourmother8 · 2 points · Posted at 00:19:29 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for sharing your story. I am happy to hear you and Jess are friends now, that's a really happy ending to a scary situation! It's amazing that she has no recollection of what happened, but given the fact that she was intoxicated, it does make sense.
Again, thanks for sharing, I hope things are going well for you (and Jess too). Take care!

FeckinShet · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:13 on July 18, 2013 · (Permalink)

She's probably a psychic, and this is very possible. She can also have high-functioning autism as well and this is why she doesn't verbalize.

Insertgirlyname · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Would it make you feel better knowing that schizophrenics can have visual hallucinations, including people who aren't there?

wordtoyourmother8 · 7 points · Posted at 21:12:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know I didn't say much about this, but I do understand that psychosis and some mental illness can and do cause delusions and hallucinations and I definitely believe that was the case with Sally. I know that it is very unlikely that there was actually a "ghost" standing in the doorway but being young, naive and somewhat out of my element (my first time "working" on a psych ward), I kind of got myself worked up without looking for a logical explanation. =)
Luckily, I had really supportive co-workers, teachers, friends etc. and I was able to discuss my experiences. My professor had me talk about it in class just so others could learn about trying different strategies when working with children and youth. Sorry, I think I'm rambling again!

mahoodie · 0 points · Posted at 01:38:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminds me of the movie were Bruce Willis starred in.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 20:10:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obviously, there were people in the room with us so I asked her why the people in the room scared her and she simply wrote "they are dead".

"I see dead people."

wordtoyourmother8 · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It wasn't until I wrote out my experience that this line popped into my head. Unfortunately, my experience couldn't be passed off as a movie scene, so I remained freaked the fuck out for quite a while.

[deleted] · 213 points · Posted at 13:53:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Back in 2003~ I was watching The Ring at 2 am. As soon as the main character finishes watching the cursed tape, my phone rang. I picked it up, but there was no one on the line. Stopped watching the movie at that point.

[deleted] · 260 points · Posted at 15:38:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My parents were watching that when I was a kid and wouldn't let me. My sister told me to call the house phone and then hang up when they answered. Years later, I saw the film and realized she was an asshole

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 20:07:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you carry out that plan?

[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 21:31:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Of course

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 04:05:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should've whispered '7 days'

SquishMitt3n · 17 points · Posted at 09:11:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

and then murdered them.

Toppre · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:32 on June 13, 2013 · (Permalink)

SquishMitt3n, have an up vote.

Coffeezilla · 4 points · Posted at 08:20:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

She was helping you get revenge on them.

Atmarks88 · 3 points · Posted at 18:25:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did that exact thing to my mom when my dad was at work. We watched the movie together then I "went to bed" called the house phone, whispered 7 days and hung up. Her face afterwards was priceless

Karbear_debonair · 3 points · Posted at 01:21:43 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mom went to see The Ring in theater with her then-best friend. They had driven separately.

On the ride back to the friends house, my mom called her and said, in the creepy horror voice, "You have seven daaayyssss."
Friend shrieks, whips the cellphone across the car so hard the battery flipped out of it. My mom is cackling evilly in her car. Friend calls back freaking out.
"Red. That's not cool. That's not funny Red, I know it was you! That's not cool."
"Camille, what? What the hell are you talking about dude?"

It was evil. Hilarious, but still evil. Lol.

strider_sifurowuh · 3 points · Posted at 14:39:05 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shortly after I finished watching The Grudge (when I lived with my parents during high school) (presumably at the cheeky suggestion of my mom) my sister stood behind my door, hair in front of her face, in a white nightgown and started with the gargly croaking from the movie. Needless to say I was not amused until later.

vokyam · 3 points · Posted at 05:19:01 on August 28, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know I'm two months late but I've been lurking this thread all night and these comments reminded me of funnier times being a dick teenager. It was 2002, and my cousin was visiting from Belgium. The poor girl was in a new house, thousands of miles from home, jet lagged and terrified of horror movies, so, of course, we watched Scream together in the dark. She panicked halfway through the movie, and we had to turn it off as she was basically in tears. I excused myself to "the bathroom," put on my Scream costume that I had bought for two Halloweens prior, and snuck up behind her. When she saw me, she screamed the most blood-curling scream ever elicited from a human being and high tailed it out the back door and over the neighbor's fence.

BlackRain23 · 2 points · Posted at 08:32:58 on February 17, 2014 · (Permalink)

Duuuuude. Dick move... Dick. Move...

Still fuckin' funny, though. xD

anras · 16 points · Posted at 15:02:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After that movie came out I read a story (could have been made up for all I know), about a prank...Someone set his friend's screen saver to the scene of The Ring where the girl comes out of the well and walks toward the screen. The victim of this prank had his computer in his bedroom, so basically he woke up to that, and presumably pants were shat.

InferiousX · 10 points · Posted at 17:24:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My g/f at the time it came out hated The Grudge because she thought it was so terrifying. So one night, I get to her apartment like 15 min before she usually got home from work (I had my own key) and hid in the closet.

When she got into the bedroom, I tapped the closet door just enough to make it look like it had opened by itself and made "The Grudge noise". She looked like she was about to feint.

TL;DR I'm a dick

YOUR_VERY_STUPID · 26 points · Posted at 17:34:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

but she didn't feint- it was actually a regular attack that you were unprepared for

rachelraenoel · 6 points · Posted at 20:23:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh good god, I watched this movie when I was like 13 or 14, all of them in a row, and for a month i had nightmares that she was chasing me around my room on the walls just at the junction of where the wall meets the ceiling. Did not get a good nights sleep until in my nightmares, I finally killed her. I feel your g/f at the time's pain.

LaLloronaX3 · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:42 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up watching horror movies, no movie has ever terrified me as much as The Grudge. My husband would terrorize me with that noise all the time. To this day I can't look at the DVD cover or hear that noise without cringing o_O

yourfaceisamess · 6 points · Posted at 19:45:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched that movie when it first came out in my living room with some friends. After the movie, they left and I went on the computer.The compter was on a desk behind the couch so my back was to the tv. Not long after, my dog jumped on the remote and turned the tv on to static. I have never ran out of that house so effing fast in my life.

shorthandround · 6 points · Posted at 18:02:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Ring freaked me out when I first watched it. My sister decided it was a good idea to flip her hair like the girl in the movie and knock on my door. I screamed like a 5 year old girl.

yourmother-athon · 6 points · Posted at 22:12:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No joke. My step-father and I got bloody noses a few days after watching this movie. I was in 5th grade and thought my days were coming to an end.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:59:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too late . . .

Brilliant film.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:21:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 7 or 8, my parents were watching the ring and my sister told me to put on this white dress that I had, she combed my hair over my face for me and told me to walk slowly into my parents bedroom. I got a kick out of my parents reactions.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:04:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh god I had a lot of weird stuff happen to me after watching that movie. When I was watching it at home the power went out, and the a couple of minutes later the phone rings and someone calls asking for Becca, which I don't know anyone named that but it was a girl in the movie. Then we got a leak in our roof that you could see on the ceiling and it made a perfect ring. I think I found a real scythe like the creepy ones grim reapers use in my neighbors yard a few days later as well. Maybe I was just a paranoid kid that just linked these things together.

General_DisarrayHoot · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

well. your still here so that's good

Hexates · 2 points · Posted at 19:12:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, since you're still around it can be concluded that the curse is not real. Or you are a bad person.

Beardopus · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My tv went to static EXACTLY a week after I first watched The Ring. Exactly. Didn't sleep for days.

teslaabr · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My TV didn't go to static but it did turn on by itself one time within the week after I saw the movie. I came home to an empty house and walked past the living room to the bathroom and heard a click. When I came out of the bathroom I noticed the TV was on in the living room. Still don't have an explanation--creeped me out.

HundRetter · 2 points · Posted at 00:50:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Even though the movie scared the shit out of me, I definitely participated in a prank where a friend told me his brother was watching it at that moment, so I called him and said the old "7 days.." when he answered.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:39:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watched this by myself. After the end, I'm flipping channels to find something cheerful on. Hear knock on the door. Its like midnight. Get up, look out the door (I was paranoid enough before I started reading this thread), and saw long dark hair and freaked.

It was my mother coming home from work. I was expecting her but still got freaked out.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:33:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

something similar happened to me. I was with at a friends' house watching it with all the lights off. After they watched the tape, the house phone rang (it was just her mom, but my friend flipped out because her mom usually calls her cell). No big deal. Then later, someone rings the doorbell of the house and then leaves. we unwillingly watched the rest of the movie.

crullah · 2 points · Posted at 21:49:56 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had something similar happen. I watched the movie with my girlfriend and then at the end found the easter egg on the DVD which was just the video from the movie. At the end of that playing, my girlfriend's phone rang and it was like 2AM. It was her work (a server went down or something) but still, the coincidence was pretty fucked.

savionen · 4 points · Posted at 18:29:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BUT WHO WAS PHONE

palordrolap · 5 points · Posted at 20:35:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh.

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Nethrix · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:44 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Almost same thing happened to my parents. They were watching one of the ring movies, and after the tape cut off our power went out. My father then took this opportunity to call my mother from a different room with an Anonymous number, breath into the line heavily, then hang up. I also had a nightmare that night of a girl brushing her hair in a mirror while her skin fell off (sorta like that girl in the tape). When I told my mom about this she freaked and will not watch scary movies anymore.

[deleted] · 166 points · Posted at 20:40:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

So a while back my mom lives in this house on brindle mountain. The landlord to the place was super anal about making sure they did no remodeling or repairs...he wanted NOTHING changed. It was odd to say the least.

After a while my mom and stepdad started saying they think the place was haunted by the ghost of a small girl. They said sometimes they would see the shadow of a girl walk from room to room. Or hear playing in the back when nobody was back there. And sometimes it sounded like a small child was sobbing but couldn't tell where from.

So me being an atheist at the time kinda blew it off. I was like "yeah...right...haha"

So anyway. This was towards the end of me and now ex-wife's relationship. When we split up, I started living with my mom until I got on my feet. We shared custody of our daughter 50/50. So one week she'd stay with me until Friday, and then she'd go to her house until the following friday, and then she'd come back with me. Simple right?

Anyway. It was Saturday night and I was on the computer. It's probably like 2 in the morning. I'm just surfing music. The computer desk was in the kitchen facing a wall and on that wall was the doorway that led to the bedrooms. So If anyone came out of bed to get something from the kitchen then they would walk right passed me.

My little girl was always getting up in he night and getting into trouble. She'd raid the fridge or knock something over climbing up on something. She like to get up in the night and raid the kitchen because she knew everyone was asleep and she could get away with it.

So this particular night I happened to be up and on the computer. I see my daughter sneak into the kitchen with my peripheral vision and she froze when she saw me. And just stood there. I didn't look at her or pay her attention. I figured she had seen me...she knows she's caught....hopefully she will go back to bed and go to sleep without me having to make a big deal of it.

So she stands there for about 3 minutes. I can see her the whole time but I make a point not to look at her so she will just go back to bed. She eventually turns and walks back towards the bedroom.

It was dark in the room...but I could still see her turn and leave.

Everything was dead silent after that. So after about 15 minutes, I got that feeling in my gut that all parents get when their kids are too quiet, and decided that I need to check on her because she's probably up to no good...in 15 minutes I should have heard her climb back in bed or rustle through toys.

I stood up and walked into the next room that led to the bedrooms. And it was pitch black...couldn't see a thing. I stopped dead in my tracks, the hair on my neck stood up, and I got a sick sick feeling in my stomach...that's when it hit me:

My daughter was with her mother that night, not with me.

It still gives me chills to think about it.

MiniMosher · 7 points · Posted at 12:21:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is a rather common thing, I always used to see little dark figures moving in the corner of my eye in my old home. The ancient celts used to believe in a domestic sprite that lived in-between worlds, so it could only be seen in ones peripheral vision and lived near doorways, under some stairs or in hedges; which were only all the places I'd see things in.

Preebos · 6 points · Posted at 23:00:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The second to last line practically gave me a mini heart attack. How does this not have more upvotes?

Beck83 · 3 points · Posted at 22:40:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wtf that scared the crap out of me

Harowan · 2 points · Posted at 22:28:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

We just had an do do do do, do do do do moment after reading that. Can you tell we dont know where the tunes from? haha

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:01 on July 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good set-up.

[deleted] · 60 points · Posted at 16:07:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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davidandsarah08 · 3 points · Posted at 05:34:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds absolutely horrific. How did you handle this situation, during the actual incident? Was it one of those things where your logical mind takes over and keeps you from freaking out, or were you hysterical? Somewhere in the middle?

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:14:08 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

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davidandsarah08 · 3 points · Posted at 17:19:40 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for replying. I have been in high energy, emergency situations before so I understand the unreal feeling thing. Glad that you are doing well!

ohmygahdmahm · 3 points · Posted at 20:34:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

How terrible.

fireflyfire · 3 points · Posted at 17:07:26 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to a family in the UK only a few weeks ago. It killed the dad and one of his daughters. His wife's leg was amputated, and his son has life changing injuries. Their other daughter was unharmed.

Investigation showed the dad wasn't wearing a kill cord for the engine. Really tragic but completely avoidable.

Chip085 · 246 points · Posted at 14:44:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My cousin had a child about 8 years ago. My great grandmother (very beloved woman, all-around great person. my 'Gramma Shaver') passed away while his wife was pregnant, and only about 2 weeks before she was due. This was a big deal for a few reasons; my cousin would have been the first of his generation in my mother's side of the family to have a child, therefore would have been my Gramma Shaver's first great-great-grandchild. 5 generations alive at the same time, it would have been pretty cool. BUT she passed away from a stroke and it was very tragic... Fast forward a couple of years. My cousin and his wife are showing their daughter family pictures (she's approx 3-4 years old at the time). Asking her 'who's this?' and seeing if she remembers names of aunts, uncles, gramma/grandpa etc. They sort of skip over a pic of my Gramma Shaver, and she puts her hand on the pic and says "That's Gramma Shaver!!!" My cousin said he was a bit uncomfortable, but asked "Do you remember hearing us talk about her?" And according to him, his daughter looked him right in the eyes and said "No, but she visits me and talks to me all the time!!"

He said he didn't sleep right for a few weeks. Good thing we're all sure if she IS a ghost, she is probably the most kind gentle ghost there is. Still... creeped me out.

TL;DR - Baby born two weeks after beloved great-grandmother dies - 3 years later, child knows her name from seeing her picture and says she talks to her and visits her, despite knowing nothing about her.

[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 23:54:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's like how my sister creeped the fuck out of my aunt when she was little. My grandmother died when I was almost a year old (I have one memory of her somehow, everybody was talking about some war I forget though) and my sister was in the womb. So when my sister was about 3 my aunt was feeding her pudding and fed her airplane style. My aunt remarked how that used to be her favorite way to eat pudding when she was a little girl, my sister replied with something along the lines of "I know, that's how I used to feed you!".

When my other uncle visited, she called him crash. That used to be my grandmothers nickname for him when he was a kid, we never referred to him as crash before around her. Just fucking weird...

cosmicsans · 13 points · Posted at 00:44:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Similarly, my grandfather seems to still live in the house that he built. My grandmother still lives there, but lights will turn on in the dead of night, and doors will be closed when my grandmother opened them. Sometimes the pillow on my grandfather's side of the bed will have a dent in it when she wakes up, when she fluffed it the night before.

She finds it comforting to know that even in death, 7 years after the fact, that her husband still watches over her and sleeps next to her.

mbrattoo · 7 points · Posted at 18:10:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's actually really beautiful in a way. Of course, I'd be terrified but as long as she finds comfort in it.

cosmicsans · 6 points · Posted at 19:53:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, exactly what I think. Also, there have been times in my life where I've heard him talk to me, even though he passed away. Never really thought anything about it when it happened but when I was knocked unconscious by an IED blast in Afghanistan, I remember hearing his voice say "Get Up," right before I woke up.

mbrattoo · 2 points · Posted at 04:03:02 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's incredible. I just feel like a lot of paranormal happenings are benevolent in nature, especially when they involve our loved ones and seem to help or guide us. Also, thank you for serving.

bpcarter93 · 13 points · Posted at 21:23:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We have a great grandma ghost at my grandmother's house as well. Most of the grand kids who spent any time living there (myself included) have seen her. She frequently walks up and down stairs, opens and closes doors, and she has opened a few windows as well.

She also enjoys appearing at family gatherings. When people are crowded around the table, she has been known to walk by on the fringes of everyone's vision. She always wears the same old style polka dot dress whenever she appears.

Psychotrip · 9 points · Posted at 15:12:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is terrifyingly awesome, if true.

ransim · 9 points · Posted at 02:57:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually did this as a child. My maternal grandmother was killed when my mother was quite young (8 or 9) by my grandfather. My mother named me after her and my great grand mother.

There was only a single picture of my grandmother in the house and it was an old hunting picture of her in my parents bedroom on top of their dresser, far to high for me to see.

My mother use to catch me talking to my "invisible" friend. My invisible friend was my grandmother. I knew her name, I knew what she looked like, I knew how she died and I knew what she was buried in, at the age of 6.

I don't honestly remember much of it now, though I do very distinctly remember the dress which was a green lace tiered dress with a sweetheart neck line.

The funny thing is my mother didn't actually know what she had been buried in, she was so young at the time and the funeral was closed casket. After I told her I was talking to my grandmother she actually called one of my great aunts and asked.

The really creepy part though is I look exactly like her. Like we could have been twins. Part of me wishes I remembered more of it.

mbrattoo · 4 points · Posted at 18:16:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandmother died when I was 15 and I never knew it when she was alive but looking back at photos of her from the '60s, we look very similar. Older relatives are always creeped out by me, especially since we don't see each other often, and it doesn't help that I have a penchant for vintage clothes and jewelry. In short, I think a few of them see me as a ghost myself. The funeral was uncomfortable.

Squorn · 5 points · Posted at 18:35:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have nothing that creepy, but my family always remarked about how much my little sister's sense of humor resembles that of our grandfather, who died a few months before she was born.

aforsythe · 7 points · Posted at 19:45:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened with my dad's cousin about 2 years ago. My grandmother passed away a few years ago, but had been in Las Vegas for the past 30 or so years. She didn't travel a lot and kept in touch sparsely with family in Oakland, CA.

So, one day he gets a call from his cousin about his mom and how she had missed her and what not. Well, they got to talking how her son had been playing in his room while she was doing some gardening in the front yard. He came out letting her know that Betty told him to let everyone know she was doing fine and to let us know she was in heaven with mom (Great Gma). She immediately was stunned by this and decided to pull out pictures of the whole family and ask which one she was. Mind you, she had NEVER met the kid ever. As sure as he was, he picked her out of the line up like a witness to a gruesome murder trial. Still get shivers to this day and suspect that my nephew sees people around my step-moms house as he stares up and sits quietly.

Dr_Mrs_TheM0narch · 15 points · Posted at 20:55:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can confirm that children can see things that we cannot. I was playing with my goddaughter upstairs on the bed when she was three months old while her mom went downstairs to check on her mother. She suddenly sat up and started staring at the ceiling, holding her hands up and giggling like she wanted someone to pick her up. I know she was playing with her grandmother. Her mother screams up the stairs to call 911. Her mother had stopped breathing. They took her off the ventilator 3 days later. Even though the machines were able to restart her breathing I think she left that day I was watching her granddaughter.

boocakes · 3 points · Posted at 06:05:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a story very similar. My mother told me this story about two years ago. When I was around three years old, my mother and I were in the kitchen. I was sitting on a chair and my mother was about to sit on a chair next to me when I said to her, "You can't sit there. Gram is sitting there." My great grandmother (whom everyone called Gram) passed away a month before I was born. No one ever spoke to me about her. My mother also said I sat and had a conversations with Gram. Not only did I talk to her, but I would only eat hotdogs for a week or so which was Gram's favorite food. My mother was extremely freaked out.

scubadog2000 · 9 points · Posted at 20:11:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've read countless stories about this happening. "Ghosts" are people who haven't finished something in this world, so are forced to finish it. Often times, it's seeing the newborn (also sometimes guarding them, hence guardian angels) something something else (sometimes buying themselves a little bit of time to do something they didn't get to accomplish, but really wanted to). Most don't remember it due to their brain not being fully developed at the time, but children can see things that grownups can't. It's nothing to be afraid of, as your grandma got to see her great-great-grandchild!

CapnSalty · 12 points · Posted at 23:17:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're right, it's nothing to be afraid of. My great grandma used to visit me all the time when I was little, and her smiling face is one of my oldest memories. I had never met her (she died on the mainland, and I live in Hawaii) but she would get pictures of me and ask about me all the time. When she passed, I guess she came over to watch me grow up for a while before moving on. I'd stand up in my crib, and she'd smile, sitting in her rocking chair, and I'd wonder why she wouldn't pick me up. I guess she couldn't.

laromantica · 5 points · Posted at 01:04:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That last bit made me really sad, but the idea of this actually being a possibility is comforting.

CapnSalty · 3 points · Posted at 02:53:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, I think she just couldn't pick me up because she was mostly invisible! It wasn't sad at all, and I think that probably all of our great grandparents and loved ones are there when we are infants. I remember her smile, and that she was so proud and at peace. It made her happy, and then one day she disappeared. Don't be sad, they love us!

mbrattoo · 6 points · Posted at 18:25:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had an angel that I used to see when I was small and she was dressed in all white. She would just stand there and smile and she was absolutely beautiful. I stopped seeing her after a while and nearly forgot about her until my mom showed me a photo of my great grandmother and there my angel was. Only thing was that she died far before I was ever born. On another note, all of my imaginary friends had died. One was a teenage boy, another a little girl who was my age. My parents always figured that I could see ghosts and were just happy that they didn't seem malevolent.

CapnSalty · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yup, you're pretty lucky that you didn't attract some malevolent beings with your ability and vision. I'm sure your angel was watching over you forever, and protecting you from the darker beings that pick up on people with your skills.

sniffsyoursocks · 3 points · Posted at 17:55:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My little cousin used to see and talk to our dead grandmother. In one instance she told my uncle "Grandma is sad." When he asked her why she said "Because she can't hold me." :(

CapnSalty · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think i told my mom that, lol! I bet it spooked your mom!

red_raconteur · 2 points · Posted at 03:49:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My little cousin has done something similar. Our grandmother died in 1999, my cousin was born in 2004. When my cousin was younger (3-4 years old) she would say things about talking to our grandmother or our grandmother visiting. She could also tell stories about the family that no one had ever told around her or would know weird details about people or events that she shouldn't know. That stopped right before she turned 5.

tjsayhey · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this one gave me chills.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 15:08:47 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone clearly told the kid who she was.

Redlaw711 · 53 points · Posted at 14:59:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few years ago I was driving back to my house from a friend's about 2 am. I was getting close to my house, in a really rural area with corn fields on both sides of the road. All of a sudden I saw stalks of corn blocking my path... going straight across the road from one field from another. Nobody is around, no cars, no houses, just my headlights shining on upright corn stalks standing across the road, as thick as the fields to either side. I knew I wasn't lost or anything - I drove home this way every day - and stopped the car on the road, just staring at the corn stalks trying to figure out what the fuck to do. After sitting there for a minute, I decided that staring at the corn waiting for something to happen was much scarier than doing something. So I hit the gas, hoping the corn would just fall down in front of my small car. It was one of the strangest feelings driving through the corn - I imagine it is what it would feel like to run through Platform 9 3/4 for Harry Potter. One second I was staring at what seemed to be a solid field of corn, and the next my car is easily knocking the stalks over and I was through. The rows of corn across the road weren't as deep as I had thought, and in no time I was on the other side looking in the rear view mirror at a wall of corn with a now gaping hole in it. Went home, went to bed still freaked out. The next morning I went to leave, drove down the same road... and the only sign of the corn was a few stalks lying next to the road. I still have no idea how that happened.

TL;DR - Mysterious wall of corn blocks road at night, gone by morning

honeybadga · 15 points · Posted at 00:23:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ghost corn.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 13:13:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have no idea how they would have done it, but that sounds like some sort of prank or something.

Holovoid · 2 points · Posted at 22:56:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you by any chance in Ohio?

Redlaw711 · 7 points · Posted at 23:21:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is corn in other states! - But yes, Ohio here

Holovoid · 8 points · Posted at 02:22:10 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

No way. I used to live in the Dayton/Chillicothe area and heard a few similar stories, people were out after a night of partying or work or whatever and ran into random corn in the middle of the road. At least 2 different people that I remember. Damn creepy shit.

Redlaw711 · 3 points · Posted at 13:08:54 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I lived up north of Columbus when this happened in a pretty heavy farming area. I always wondered if a combine had crossed over the road from field to field and left them behind or something

tinksmaster18 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:32 on July 16, 2013 · (Permalink)

This makes me completely shiver. I am in Columbus.. and I never hear stories from Ohio on Reddit. So much for sleeping tonight.

altxatu · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:44 on August 11, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm imaging some farmer the next morning, Mabel, dang it! Some idiot drove through our dang corn last night!

silvernarnia · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvote for weird factor and Harry Potter

Eggsbreakfast · 430 points · Posted at 13:31:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

His Face All Red by Emily Carroll

It's a short but beautifully drawn story but the whole thing baffles me!

lentilstew · 38 points · Posted at 17:22:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also Margot's Room, another Emily Carroll story. She's just great, man.

AintHappening · 13 points · Posted at 01:12:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One thing I found interesting while reading that.. on the "Gone" page, if you click and drag the full moon to a lighter colored area, you will see that it's more than just a moon...

Tourney · 8 points · Posted at 01:57:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whoooa, how did you find that?

AintHappening · 4 points · Posted at 15:23:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was checking the source code for any additional .. explanations? This photo was not a .jpg like the rest, instead it was a .png - and it was named differently than the rest of her conventional naming. Went back to look at it again and realized it was more than it appeared to be.

errorami · 5 points · Posted at 02:51:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm on my iPad. Can you please tell me what it was?

Noctus102 · 9 points · Posted at 04:21:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

the moon is actually the letter O in the word MargOt

lentilstew · 3 points · Posted at 14:15:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man! Great catch!

Mira2013 · 13 points · Posted at 18:57:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So he gives her flowers to show they're entering into a relationship, then she makes a doll for the daughter (assumably Margot) that the two have together after starting this relationship, then he's gone for hours (Possibly having an affair or binge drinking) Hitting a wall shows they hit a wall and could not progress any further in their relationship and then she killed him and regrets it? Is that what is supposed to have happened?

q8p · 19 points · Posted at 20:19:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or he legit became a werewolf and she had to kill him.

thattallfellow · 7 points · Posted at 19:46:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Click on the things in order.

Mira2013 · 5 points · Posted at 20:56:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess I was kind of close

mbrattoo · 6 points · Posted at 02:18:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, thanks for giving me something new to read! I'd heard of her work at some point but had forgotten her name.

Contero · 37 points · Posted at 18:52:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It came from the internet

^(most ^strange ^things ^do)

[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 15:04:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yeah, i thought it was great too but i didn't quite get what happened at the end there.

funkeepickle · 29 points · Posted at 21:41:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The main character is left with a choice at the end. He can rescue his brother from the hole and take him back to town to expose the doppleganger, but in doing so he exposes himself as an attempted murderer and ruins his own life. Or he can kill his brother for good andpreserve his reputation, but live alongside the doppelganger who may or may not be planning on killing him.

eternaladventurer · 24 points · Posted at 19:05:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SPOILERS

I read a lot of interpretations, but the one that made the most sense was that the narrator was losing his mind beforehand, and the guilt made him lose the rest of it completely. As he gained confidence and status upon his return, he hallucinated that he was his brother that had returned and not a grown version of himself. At the same time, the vision he had of himself returning to a lower status was his own perception as to how he felt inside. When he returned and found his brother, he stayed in the pit with him so that the two sides of himself could be reconciled.

NoNotWheatley23 · 49 points · Posted at 21:46:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought the best interpretation was : The brother that comes out of the woods is the beast, as a shape-shifted doppelganger. (The beast was not "just a wolf".) You can tell because the author uses the exact phrase "(most strange things do)" when describing the beast and describing the brother that comes out of the woods. In the end, the real brother survived the shot and fall into the pit. The protagonist is given a second chance to make a decision: rescue his brother to expose the doppelganger (but admit he tried to kill his brother), or re-decide to kill his brother, make up a story, and then show his body (which would also expose the doppelganger.) He has to do something, because it is obvious the doppelganger intends to kill the protagonist, who is the only person in the village who knows the truth. The doppelganger is digging a grave for the protagonist, possibly so that another doppelganger can replace him as well. The theme of the story being, given the chance to remake a decision you regret, would you actually choose anything different?

melonhayes · 13 points · Posted at 22:43:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have to admit that I thought that it was his real brother which returned and the dopleganger was still alive in the pit.

Eggsbreakfast · 8 points · Posted at 01:00:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I've read a few interesting interpretations in which they both ran from the wolf and it was the doppelganger who killed it and began masquerading as the brother. But it didn't count on the protagonist's jealousy and was thus shot and thrown into the pit, and this is seen by the real brother who emerges days later acting like nothing happened. He can't look the protagonist in the eyes because he knew that his brother had tried to kill him. Plus, in the last panel, you can see that the body in the pit had those devilish eyes ("Thank God he killed that devil"). Like all the other theories, this one seems chillingly plausible, but there are still loose ends like why the protagonist saw his brother digging holes or why his jacket was perfectly clean and not torn. It seems almost impossible to find certain closure and that's what makes me shudder

rogersmith25 · 7 points · Posted at 23:13:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought this too. It's certainly the most sinister interpretation.

eternaladventurer · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is another great interpretation, one of the best I've heard. Part of the genius of the story is that there are so many ways to interpret it to suit your own fears. Thanks for sharing!

Unfortunately, it may make me go back and read it again. And it's 11 PM now.

Geodude074 · 0 points · Posted at 02:26:28 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I agree with some of what you said.

My interpretation is the following:

The "brother" that comes out of the woods is the beast/doppelganger like you suggested.

The doppelganger traps and kills its victims by digging holes and luring victims into it. There is evidence to support this theory: 1) The brother is knowledgeable about all things in the woods, such as oak leaves and brooks, but once he stumbles across the hole, he remarks, "How curious!" suggesting he's never seen anything like it before and it shouldn't exist. 2) The hole smells of lilacs. In a few panels, you can see that there are lilacs in front of the brother's house, implying he likes lilacs. The doppelganger had put lilacs in the hole to lure the protagonist's brother there. 3) When the doppelganger comes out of the woods disguised as the brother, it begins digging another hole in secrecy at night, plotting to lure and kill the protagonist.

It is very possible that the doppelganger had been plotting to kill both brothers for a very long time, with the protagonist's brother being the first target. The doppelganger doesn't like killing quickly though - instead, it loves to plot, plan, and watch its victims fall into its trap. The doppelganger had been killing livestock and destroying fences, knowing that eventually the protagonist's brother would venture out to search for the "beast" that had been killing the livestock (remember, the protagonist had no animals, so the doppelganger wasn't trying to lure him out yet). The brother would then find the hole and the doppelganger would kill him there and take his place. It was not expecting the protagonist, however, to kill the brother out of jealousy.

At the end of the story, the protagonist is not left with a choice of saving his brother as you had mentioned - he actually dies, but it is not portrayed. There is evidence to support this theory: In the second to last page, you can see the protagonist's lantern flickering and beginning to lose its light. In the very last page, there is nothing but darkness - not because it's the end of the story, but because the lantern had died out. I'm not sure about you, but any story that ends with lights flickering out, and nothing but darkness, does not signal hope or change - it signals death.

This is how I imagine the ending: The brother had survived the fall. The protagonist climbs down and discovers this. You see the brother, with his face all red, turning and looking at the protagonist - but really, he is looking past the protagonist, at the figure standing behind him - the doppelganger. The doppelganger blows out the lantern, leaving them alone in the dark - and now both brothers will be tortured and killed at the bottom of the hole - a hole that no townsmen knows exists and will ever find.

eeclaren · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The lantern went out as the brother turned his head

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:25:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what does that mean?

tony_bologna · 15 points · Posted at 15:32:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like to imagine that the story is intentionally vague to give it a sort of: Whaaa?! feeling. You read it and you're both confused and a little scared.

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 18:15:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm only left with confusion actually; to me it just looks like a couple of horror clichés put together, which don't make any sense in the context. Unless of course I'm missing something.

crumblesnap · 12 points · Posted at 16:41:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I loved it, but I'm left wanting more

signorafosca · 9 points · Posted at 17:19:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All of her pieces are the best kind of fucked up.

thrillmatic · 7 points · Posted at 15:08:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was fun.

eternaladventurer · 6 points · Posted at 19:03:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SPOILERS

I read it many times and interpreted it that it that it was the narrator's own guilt that manifested in his brother's return. His brother never actually returned, it was the narrator's own growing madness that made him believe he did. The returned brother was actually his own exterior personality, while his renewed confusion and lower status were how he felt inside. Once he returned to the hole, he saw the truth of what he's done and couldn't continue- he stayed there with his brother and the two became one.

holomanga · 4 points · Posted at 21:37:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you give me a TL;DR of the plot? There is no way that I'm clicking, but the curiosity is causing me to dissolve.

enuie · 7 points · Posted at 21:49:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not really scary, actually, and there's no jump scares. Check it out, the art is beautiful. :)

holomanga · 5 points · Posted at 22:20:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fine, but I'm reading the TV tropes page first. Also, I'm gonna wait until day because there is no way in hell I am going to click anything in the thread when it's dark outside and I'm the only one awake in the house.

SharkReceptacles · 7 points · Posted at 23:59:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's OK, really. It's not terrifying, just quietly creepy, and that's mostly because of the style of the drawings (scratchy, largely rendered in red and black; the whole thing looks very Victorian-style gloomy) rather than the story, which, while gently unnerving, is left entirely open to the reader's interpretation. It's "brrr"-creepy in a Poe/Dickens/Collins kind of way. You can read it as a ghost story, but I read it as a study in guilt and the nature of madness. It's very short and well worth a read but if you're a nervy soul who's about to go to sleep, saving it for the morning won't hurt.

N.B. There are no unexpected gifs or sudden scary faces or noises. It's a static comic. No jumps, I swear.

holomanga · 5 points · Posted at 07:18:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, it's morning. Time to read this thing.

holomanga · 4 points · Posted at 07:22:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Read it. It was brilliant. Have upvotes, all of you.

eternaladventurer · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry to reply so late; I live in Asia and we're probably in different time zones. All I can say is that you should read it- do it in a brightly-lit, crowded room if it helps. I would be doing that fantastic story a disservice if I summarized it. It will haunt you, though...

EDIT: Darn, I'm 7 hours late. Glad you read it anyway!

Dogmaster · 3 points · Posted at 15:05:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had forgotten about this one, I love it.

IAMAVelociraptorAMA · 3 points · Posted at 15:13:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Beautiful!

And wtf

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:12:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I don't get it either.

AkitheFrivolicious · 2 points · Posted at 02:45:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This. This.

The face at the end still gives me goosebumps.

lunchbitch · 2 points · Posted at 07:41:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was actually kind of cute!

BlackLock- · 2 points · Posted at 13:21:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

scary thread link Nope.jpg

twiddlestick · 2 points · Posted at 11:03:42 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

amazing! i love the tunnel part it was so realistic!

captainklaus · 2833 points · Posted at 13:12:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd been living alone for less than a week. I got some Chinese take-out and was eating in front of the TV. I finished my meal and cracked open the fortune cookie. It read "You will have a visitor tonight, lock your door." There were no visitors that night, but the memory still haunts me.

Caesar_taumlaus_tran · 1389 points · Posted at 15:00:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"There were no visitors that night"

Because you locked your door.

RaindropBebop · 230 points · Posted at 16:50:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, OP totally dodged a bullet.

goldandguns · 6 points · Posted at 21:27:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of how people say they "almost died" "we could have died" and so on.

How the fuck do you know?

RaindropBebop · 17 points · Posted at 21:35:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I almost died reading your comment.

xereeto · 0 points · Posted at 22:49:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because he was joking?

Ferrariic · 17 points · Posted at 17:58:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Didn't lock door, still forever alone

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:01:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like that lady who dodged a bullet from a stalker killer who was in her closet and she wasn't home.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:09:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 22:17:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A depraved murderer came to your door and quietly turned the knob to see if it was locked. It was, and he left. And you never even knew.

durdyg · 4 points · Posted at 23:14:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

holy santa claus shit.

missdewey · 83 points · Posted at 14:37:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some guy who writes fortunes for a living is fucking with you.

berlin_a · 3 points · Posted at 03:35:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What is the deal with that guy? He turned mean and bitter.

great_wall_of_vagina · 1090 points · Posted at 14:05:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you forgot to give the delivery driver a tip.

5k1895 · 404 points · Posted at 14:48:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got some Chinese take-out

take-out

I doubt it.

_Valisk · 9 points · Posted at 19:03:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dunno about anyone else, but I call take-out "take-out" regardless of whether or not I actually picked it up. What else would you call it?

mmmm_whatchasay · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah. Most people I know and I would say we're going to order take-out.

TheRedGerund · 7 points · Posted at 17:56:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think british people call Chinese food takeout even if it does deliver. might be wrong though. probably am.

Tpresty · 13 points · Posted at 18:13:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never heard a british person say takeout, it's a takeaway whether its a delivery or not.

durdyg · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never heard a british person say takeout

fuck the british.

thebellmaster1x · 10 points · Posted at 18:03:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I (American) generally refer to it as Chinese takeout as well, regardless of whether or not I pick it up myself.

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 15:34:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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7or3nzo · 8 points · Posted at 17:59:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just the tip.

In_Dying_Arms · 8 points · Posted at 16:34:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wouldn't leave a tip.

dahahawgy · 5 points · Posted at 16:22:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Twist: captainklaus was high as a kite and thought the delivery guy was a Chinese restaurant.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:48:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Much of the English speaking world that isn't the U.S. calls it "take away" which I like better.

robb338 · 8 points · Posted at 16:27:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read this as " the derivery driver"

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:47:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:00:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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MuzikPhreak · 3 points · Posted at 16:09:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just the tip of the great wall.

sidmad · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I never tip african americans, it's disrespectful.

breeyan · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I upvoted just bc of your name

pokker · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

why would you tip him?

TenuredOracle · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I fucking love your username.

Zombie_Feeder · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But the delivery boy didn't come to rip out his organs.

TheJc0978 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ey muthafucka where my monies

brutalmouse · 41 points · Posted at 14:50:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually have a funny story about fortune cookies. Years ago my mom went to this Chinese restaurant and she enjoyed the food so much that she went back there for dinner the same night. She cracked open her fortune cookie which read, "You must really like Chinese food."

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think my favorite was my cousin's which read, "If you tempt a squirrel with a squirrel with a nut, prepare to be bitten." She ate cashew chicken. There was a squirrel right outside. My cousin was actually somewhat scared.

[deleted] · 1958 points · Posted at 13:45:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

See this is why I'm always like: "fuck the Chinese".

Zeemos · 1498 points · Posted at 14:09:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fortune cookies were actually originally invented by the Americans.

[deleted] · 1946 points · Posted at 14:25:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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SIGNIFICANT-OTHER · 614 points · Posted at 14:37:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking was originally invented by the Hindu.

mynameistrain · 938 points · Posted at 14:51:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking was actually invented by eukaryotes about a billion years ago. Hindus were quite late to that party my friend.

lesser_panjandrum · 1428 points · Posted at 14:59:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those eukaryotes were devout Hindus.

virak_john · 17 points · Posted at 15:25:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, they are now.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:09:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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foxh8er · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You mean with MCAT study guides?

A_WILD_SLUT_APPEARS · 7 points · Posted at 17:47:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now they're devout Hindus. Reincarnation, my friend.

My goal is to be reincarnated as a pistol shrimp.

geekmuseNU · 4 points · Posted at 22:25:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

To quote cracked.com: "If Chuck Norris were underwater, he would drown. And then a pistol shrimp would punch a hole in his corpse"

Amphabian · 12 points · Posted at 16:52:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Check mate, atheists.

[deleted] · 41 points · Posted at 15:40:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

BA_Start · 2 points · Posted at 00:45:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They believed in polycellularism.

LongStoryShirt · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL

canisdormit · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Doesn't matter, Shiva destroyed the penis.

ParableTitsMcCoy · 1 points · Posted at 07:56:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

From america.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:24 on November 16, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, the old Reddit switcheroo.

macrophage001 · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So...fuck eukaryotes?

[deleted] · -12 points · Posted at 15:34:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stupid

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 15:22:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

See this is why I'm always like fuck the eukaryotes.

warped_and_bubbling · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eukaryotes were actually originally an evolutionary offshoot of archaea and bacterium.

pogo123 · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But what a party it was.

ballsofstjohn · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read this comment in the voice of a gentle elderly Indian man with a native accent tinted with a bit of British due to receiving an Oxford education.

wiredwalking · 2 points · Posted at 15:19:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You mean quite laid to the party. Amirite? High five?

AllRadioisDead · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

See this is why I'm always like fuck the eukaryotes.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can confirm.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FALSE. Hindus don't go to parties.

nrbartman · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dat membrane.

Peaceandallthatjazz · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, they reproduce, but I wouldn't call it copulating

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not if you consider reincarnation.

electrical_outlet · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Little known fact, Hinduism was actually invented by eukaryotes.

mesquirrel · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well thats just not true.

LerithXanatos · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

See this is where you're wrong. I invented fucking.

boomsc · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why I love Rati

DORDDepartment · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why I'm always like Hindu the Americans.

KameTheMachine · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know him. cool guy

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And this is why I'm always like: "Fuck the Hindu"

NitrousO · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm hindu and I confirm this statement.

holomanga · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Only one of them.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:10:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

see, this is why I'm sick of pun threads

Hans109 · 0 points · Posted at 16:34:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

no wonder that place is overpopulated

therealtheremin · 7 points · Posted at 14:46:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Americans were actually originally invented by the English.

bungabung · 2 points · Posted at 14:38:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also, originally from California.

Zeemos · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happy cake day.

bungabung · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks! :)

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was actually the Japanese that introduced the fortune cookie. So, if you're brave enough to venture down that path, fuck the Japanese.

limewired · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks Ben Kingsley

BlazedAndConfused · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey! That's a good show

kingnutter · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why I always fuck the duck until it explodes.

quizzer106 · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I see you watched the new iron man

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm game. Havent had a good shag in a while.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn commie

iamatfuckingwork · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck the po-lice!!!

Cliqey · -1 points · Posted at 15:36:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Huh.. You know, I've only ever fucked Americans. Go figure.

walruz · -1 points · Posted at 15:44:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

America was actually originally invented by the Italians.

SimonCallahan · 125 points · Posted at 14:35:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hollow and full of lies...

achshar · 8 points · Posted at 16:06:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yea, I have seen Iron Man too.

nathanrael · 8 points · Posted at 19:18:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Iron Man Three, actually.

Icefire65 · 23 points · Posted at 14:36:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're just an actor. You don't know anything.

RabidMuskrat93 · 12 points · Posted at 14:58:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I, too, watched Iron Man 3

[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 14:54:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Chinese fortune cookies. They look Chinese. They sound Chinese. But they are actually American. Which is why they're hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste to your mouth.

SilentSamamander · 13 points · Posted at 14:40:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

... The Mandarin?

unknownman19 · 6 points · Posted at 14:50:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And that's why they are hollow, full of lies, and leave an unpleasant taste in the mouth.

poorariel · 3 points · Posted at 15:03:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, Iron Man 3!

jesuscantplayrugby · 3 points · Posted at 15:15:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone else saw Iron Man 3, I see.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:23:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, Mandarin.

JimmFair · 3 points · Posted at 15:24:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alright mandarin no need to get sassy.

SousukeS · 3 points · Posted at 15:26:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks Mandarin

brewmatt · 3 points · Posted at 15:36:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok Mandarin.

I_am_Dr_Faggot · 5 points · Posted at 15:11:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Chinese fortune cookies. They look Chinese. They sound Chinese. But they are actually American. Which is why they’re hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste to your mouth."

Soundvo1ume · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you, Mandarin.

Joseph445 · 3 points · Posted at 14:41:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I learned that from Iron Man 3

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:00:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I too saw Iron Man 3

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:00:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you already know this before seeing Iron Man 3?

Zeemos · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope

zrvwls · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ABCs?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I too watched Iron Man 3

crystaljae · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But the Chinese have mastered their true use. Psychological torture!

drgigantor · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why they're hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste in your mouth.

dr_schmutz · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fortune cookies originate from Japan, and then were introduced to the U.S by Japanese.

Kaono · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're referencing a movie, but the truth of the matter is they were invented by the Japanese and popularized in the US.

Dshy · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You learned that from Iron Man 3, didn't you?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope. But close. The Japanese invented the concept of a fortune cookie (more of a savory folded cracker) with a fortune or saying inside.

Americans popularized them, but it was originally a Japanese tradition.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you learn this from Iron Man 3?

bromel · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Get outta here Mandarin.

jt8908 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks Mandarin.

banhammer1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I learned that from the mandarin

wee_man · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a funny story about Yao Ming's first NBA game and the Houston Rockets passed out 20,000 fortune cookies to the crowd to celebrate his arrival in the USA...except Yao had never seen a fortune cookie before and assumed it was a snack people ate at NBA games.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

'murcas plan all along...

Killvo · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So is "chinese food"

IAmATroyMcClure · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"That's why they're hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste in the mouth."

Balthusdire · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually, they were invented by the Japanese. Starting in Kyoto as larger and darker cookie. They then moved to the US, being served by Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. From there they spread out and became a hit across the US.

Sources: Wikipedia, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles (An excellent book, well worth the read)

D-Speak · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why they're hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste in your mouth.

kind_of_a_big_deal_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Iron man 3?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

no,by japanese.

KingCarman · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

did u know this before Iron Man 3? :D

artiethestrongest · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks Obama

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, Trevor.

HumanTrafficCone · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok Mandarin

ApolloNaught · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I, too, saw Iron Man 3

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Fortune cookies are a western invention..."

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Drive

Edit: watched both Drive and Iron Man 3 yesterday, confusing stuff.

Assassin83 · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why the are hollow and full of lies...

VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I learned that from Trevor.

TheChadmania · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh you're that guy.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

False: american Chinese

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:55:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL

Calrose_rice · 1 points · Posted at 13:35:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel like this is an Iron Man 3 reference and not just from fact.

cmallard2011 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:07 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mandarin?

The_Stealth_Clown · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:26 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw Iron Man 3 as well.

Caesar_taumlaus_tran · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you the Mandarin?

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:29:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So... Fuck the Americans?

Now I just feel like a terrorist.

dynamitedjangodan · 2 points · Posted at 14:45:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel you bro. It's either a terrorist, or a racist.

noturtles · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BURNINATING THE CHINESE

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akai_ferret · 5 points · Posted at 16:59:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This got 897 upvotes?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, this is Reddit, what were you expecting?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah! Fuck them hard!

O_littoralis · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Fuck the state of California!"

SN4T14 · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

See, this is why I'm always like: "Time to eat this fortune cookie whole."

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK THE POLICE

artuno · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you should just burninate their cottages? Or their peasants?

PimpinTheLibrary · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For me it's because they're hot.

Juslotting · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why I always fuck the chinese

CapitanPeluche · 2 points · Posted at 15:43:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why is this getting upvoted...

AnarchPatriarch · 0 points · Posted at 20:10:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because most people can identify a joke when they see one.

CapitanPeluche · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well see, usually the jokes i identify with have punchlines. My mistake.

Garbagemn · 0 points · Posted at 00:38:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In china. Can confirm. Fuck the chinese.

Shovelbum26 · -1 points · Posted at 14:09:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I think you clearly forgot a word or two there, and I'm curious as to which one it is. This post can go so many ways.

Edit: For posterity, the original post was:

See this is why I'm always like fuck the Chinese.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:15:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I fixed it!

usernamegoeshere95 · -9 points · Posted at 14:30:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, "Chinese" is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian- American, please.

goldandguns · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the movie, he corrects the Dude's use of "Chinaman," not "Chinese"

Luca20 · -5 points · Posted at 16:23:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NO FUCK YERR MONGORIANS

Dalimey100 · 11 points · Posted at 15:14:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There were no visitors that night

That's where you're wrong... :)

joggle1 · 12 points · Posted at 16:16:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My wife got a fortune cookie that was completely blank. I joked with her, "Honey, you have no future!" and she replied, "Don't say that!!"

That was the last fortune cookie she ever got. She died just two weeks later (completely out of the blue from a blood clot in her lungs).

tyrone17 · 3 points · Posted at 23:34:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goddamnit, this one hit me. Sorry about your wife.

sorrykids · 3 points · Posted at 14:14:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If that's true, that's scary!

I just sent this to my daughter the other day:

How Do Fortune Cookie Messages Get Written

There is NO way that message is in their database...

UshankaBear · 6 points · Posted at 14:27:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If I were in charge of printing fortune cookie messages I'd throw in stuff like "I watch you in your sleep. You sometimes snore," "Someone you know is not who they seem. Beware" and so on.

anotherMrLizard · 9 points · Posted at 15:54:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you sent out enough fortunes you could include "personal" details, like, "I watch you in your sleep, Tim." At some point, someone with that name will read it and freak the fuck out.

aidenandjake · 4 points · Posted at 15:00:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once got one that said "You don't have to worry about your future." I was like "Oh good... uh... maybe not."

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:15:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i once got a fortune cookie that said "if you think your day is going bad now, wait until you get home"

suburbiaresident · 3 points · Posted at 16:00:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe it meant sexy company, and don't forget to lock your door, so no one walks in

Hugh_G_Normous · 6 points · Posted at 15:41:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

five seconds after I read this, while I was still admiring the creepiness, someone buzzed up to my apartment. I could feel my heart pounding, but I knew it was just a coincidence, so I went to the intercom and asked who it was. A moment's silence, then "Fed Ex." I popped on a pair of slippers and headed downstairs, but there was no one there, and no package waiting for me. As I got in the elevator and hit the button for my floor, I realized that I'd left my door unlocked...

Qtwentyseven · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Get yo weapon, and investigate every nook & cranny! Aah!

Shaqsquatch · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man, I once got a fortune cookie that said "be cautious when walking alone at night". I made a joke about it at the time, but a week later I almost got mugged walking home from a bar.

morphex001 · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got that exact same fortune years ago after a family dinner and decided to throw the fortune out the car window on the way home. I completely understand why you were creeped out.

TheRationalMan · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is actually a brilliant way to fuck with someone.

Theory_Praxis · 2 points · Posted at 17:45:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone is angry with their paycheck at the fortune cookie factory.

Izzen · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE. Mexican food it is then.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:34:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Such massages are forbidden in fortune cookies and horoscopes in germany

Lasercat77 · 6 points · Posted at 15:13:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wish my fortune cookies would give me massages.

Neokarasu · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my mind, your comment finished like this:

... "You will have a visitor tonight, lock your door." Then I heard a knock on my door.

TravisBickle_Krinkle · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe the "visitor" was just an annoying relative?

w1red · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminded me of this classic creepy comic.

uncontrollablesharts · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy Christ. Right after I got done reading this my front door got three loud knocks.

deathberry_x · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think it's scarier that there were no visitors. :/

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you didn't notice the visitor because you locked your door...

ridik_ulass · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

maybe you did have a visitor that night, but because you locked your door you escaped contact?

Makaque · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh man. Your story just reminded me, and I had totally forgotten.

When I was around 9 or 10 my step dad told me that my mom had slept restlessly the previous night. She kept tossing and, at some point, started talking in her sleep. She kept saying, "you need to lock the door." He assured her that everything was fine and that the doors were already locked. That was understandable given that my mom and sister were both pretty obsessive about checking the locks, and between the two of them they'd normally check the locks a good 7 times, not to mention that my step dad would also check. This went on for a while, but finally she said something like, "they'll get Makaque." So finally he gets up to check and finds that the front door had been left completely open. Creeped me right out when I was told the next day.

neums08 · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my college roommate and I were moving into an apartment in what turned out to be the worst part of the city, a cop waved us over while we were unloading our stuff and asked us if we knew the area (sort of, we had lived on campus for two years prior), and if we actually were moving here voluntarily (yes, but we may have waited a bit too long to find a place). He mentioned that college students historically are often targeted for robberies and muggings in the area due to commonly owning and carrying easily-sold electronics. We ordered Chinese the first night, and his fortune cookie read:

"It would be best to lay low for a while."

We bought permanent black curtains for every window the next day.

lbened01 · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good lord. Just after I read this, and thought about the scary potential bullshit. My fucking doorbell rang. Scariest walk of my life. Fucking UPS man.

TL;DR. Fucking UPS man.

damnrooster · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Unfortunate cookie. Ha! I made a pun.

JubBird · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to read my horoscope everyday just for kicks. Then one day it said, "Something bad will happen to you today." I haven't read my horoscope since.

JDBunc · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My door would be locked before I finished chewing.

Juan-Solo · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The visitor was fear!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read this as a rap. I don't know why.

SilverGhost93 · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow. I just realized my dream job is writing fortunes for fortune cookie companies.

higginsnburke · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

*ghat you know of...

ohhgod · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember getting phone calls like this in the Sims

JIVE-ASSMONKEY · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude. Fuck whoever printed that fortune cookie.

b0r3datw0rk · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's a pretty clever way to mess with someone lol. I wanna do this.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If I ever manufactured fortune cookies, I'd put in really creepy stuff.

For example, I'd probably make half of them say "Behind you." Nothing else.

Jayfire137 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepy ass cookie...how is that supposed to go with my beer and in bed

clrtxf · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got a fortune cookie a couple of months ago that said. "it takes everything." Seriously written just like that, no caps, no period. Freaked me out.

AllTheCheesecake · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got one once that just said "no."

Nuoap · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeeeeaah, that's it for Chinese tonight.

Kiki_17 · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe there was a visitor....

teawreckshero · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There were no visitors that night

Or so you think.

TehChid · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I have a fortune cookie with me. I'm scared to open it now

EDIT: Fortune Cookie said "Your best investment is in yourself" All Clear

RufusStJames · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You just gave me a great idea for /r/CrazyIdeas.

Tdiggy · 51 points · Posted at 16:05:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Driving to pick up a friend who was at this cabin party about 40 miles west of where I lived. It was close to 2 a.m. So i'm driving down this back road to find this random cabin somewhere and I come across this red 4 door sedan with all the doors open and 4 limp figures in the seats with their heads slumped over. That alone kinda freaked me the fuck out. Later on I'm driving by again after a failed attempt at picking up my friend, mind you it's getting close to 3 in the morning, and only the front seat passenger door was open and ever person in that car was staring with a blank dead stare directly at me as I drove past at 10 mph. Very creepy to me

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 10:57:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They had either just woken up or was going to rob the first person who asked if they needed help.

Helping people is a great thing, just do not do it if there is no escape route.

vVvMaze · 8 points · Posted at 20:03:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ur friend made you drive 40 minutes to pick him up and then when you got there decided he didnt want to go with you, making you turn around and go home? wtf.

mskerryedwards · 5 points · Posted at 19:21:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It sounds like they were asleep and then woke up... but I can totally see why you'd be freaked out

pastel-forest · 3 points · Posted at 13:19:55 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

why would the car doors ALL be open?

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 09:11:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

cocaine is a hell of a drug

[deleted] · 98 points · Posted at 16:53:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother and I used to play hide and seek in the dark, and took it very seriously. We would close all blinds, cover all lights (microwave, oven, tv, etc), and had very well set rules. One night it was just my brother, his friend, and me, and we decided to play. As our eyes adjusted to the pitch black slight silhouettes could be made out, but generally you could be a foot away from someone and not know they were there. So my brother is it, and I'm sitting in the corner of the kitchen hiding. His friend yells safe, and I hear the two of them talking in the living room. As they're talking, the door to our walk in pantry starts to slowly open. I can see the silhouette of a large-headed man holding a knife and walking towards me. Literally frozen with fear, I just sat there ready to fucking die. When this knife bearing man got close, my brother came in and flicked on the light. The man pulled off his mask to reveal he was my brother's other friend who had been hiding outside unbeknownst to me just so they could scare me. At this point I was crying, and obviously didn't want to play anymore. Not paranormal and creepy, but I've never been more scared in my entire life. Cunts.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 10:17:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard a story on NPR once that is similar to yours.

Basically this guy had like 4 siblings, and the oldest had to baby sit. Essentially the oldest convinced them that there was a werewolf outside, to the point that on of the two youngest was sitting on the couch so terrified that when they decided it was over, he did not get it at first and was just all calm cool and collected and told them "I know why you are here, I'm read to die, you killed them and you will kill me too." or some super crazy shit like that. They stopped doing such pranks after that.

SquishMitt3n · 5 points · Posted at 10:17:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just don't understand how people can think this is a good idea.

Deadbreeze · 1 points · Posted at 07:02:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Daaaaammmmnnn

Labirynthgrl · 1 points · Posted at 13:21:09 on June 28, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of "One Player Hide and Seek"

awildkristenappeared · 46 points · Posted at 07:04:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i was visiting my dad in portland as his job required a temporary relocation from michigan. my mother, brother, and myself took 10 days hitting spots all over oregon and washington state. we ended up at multnomah falls, a popular state park and tourist attraction.

when we flew back to michigan, he was going through his camera while he listened to the news, and heard that someone had died at the falls that day. it's not uncommon for suicides to happen in places like the falls, but as he was scrolling through the pictures, he was curious at what time the suicide occurred, because my dad had one of those cameras that time-stamped every photo.

The news reported the time of the body's discovery as my dad fell onto a picture timestamped at 3 minutes prior to that time. At the top of the falls, in my family photo, there stands a man at the edge minutes from jumping to his death.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:14:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have nothing to say about this except...holy shit.

allergictoyourcat · 4 points · Posted at 22:10:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is OP going to deliver?

EtsuRah · 3 points · Posted at 18:37:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You still got the photo and maybe a scanner? That would be awesome to see.

allergictoyourcat · 6 points · Posted at 22:10:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah we need proof

EtsuRah · 3 points · Posted at 22:16:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I mean, yeam I guess. I would definitely like some. I'm not too hard up for proof since most of this thread is copy pastes, and people trying to work their writing and story development skills.

But if he really does have the picture. That would be insanely awesome!

awildkristenappeared · 0 points · Posted at 21:06:32 on November 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

wow completely commented this and forgot to revisit until thoughtcatalog ripped off this post as a blog and used all our stories! love it. anyway, i'd love to show you guys the picture, but my dad was way too freaked out. He never got it printed, and I'm sure he has it stowed somewhere away on a memory card, but there's no way I can dig it up. sorry fellows :/

_vargas_ · 1002 points · Posted at 13:58:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Years ago, I lived in a townhouse above the an old couple that were the landlords. This was in the historic section of Albany, NY near the park. The landlords were in their sixties, maybe early seventies. This place actually had a plaque on the front of it saying it was built in 1880-something and that some rich state senator had lived there. There's places like this all over the area that had been subdivided and rented out.

I lived there for a year and every now and then, always while I was trying to sleep, I would hear faint, organ music accompanied by some rhythmic banging sounds. I always have slept with a fan to drown out any ambient noise and sleep better. This music was just...floating through my room. No one was above me. Just the old people who went to bed at nine below me. I would get up and try to find the source of the sounds but it just seemed like it was everywhere and nowhere.

Since I never heard any music or anything from any other room, and I never heard that music during the day, I concluded that it was the ghosts of previous occupants that had lived there decades before. This actually affected my decision to live there again when my lease was up. The old couple even offered to knock $50 a month off the rent if I resigned. That would have amounted to nearly a month of total rent over the course of a year. I thanked them, but declined, opting instead to live in a newer place.

Flash forward a couple of years. My friend is having a party. He invites some coworkers that he used to work with at the state. I'm talking to one dude about all the places in Albany I had been in. He's lived in several, too. After some conversation, we find out that one of his friends used to live in that exact same apartment before me. I've never told anyone about the music and banging I would hear there but I just have to ask this guy if his friend ever said anything about the place being haunted. His eyes light up when I ask him.

"You're not going to believe this!" he says and starts thumbing through the contacts list in his phone. He dials his friend. When the guy answers, he gives him a brief overview of the conversation we had been having then hands me the phone.

"What's up, man? Yeah, I lived there in 2003. You heard the music, too? That was the landlords having sex below you. I swear to God. I actually asked about them about it the morning after I had heard it for the tenth time. The old man sheepishly explained that he was banging his old lady. He apologized and said they'd keep it down. The funny thing is, it seemed to get louder and louder over the last couple months I lived there. It was almost like they wanted me to hear."

The mystery was solved. That organ music I had heard was literally organ music that the old people would have sex to. Somehow, that was creepier than it being ghosts.

[deleted] · 69 points · Posted at 16:26:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Rhythmic banging, indeed.

Hrodrik · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

organ music

awkwardelefant · 18 points · Posted at 17:07:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Best ending ever

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 17:03:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A boombox can change the wooooorld

IwillMakeYouMad · 18 points · Posted at 16:06:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man, that old man is the man.

l2ighty · 10 points · Posted at 16:19:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

FUCK! Nothing about Albany. I was born there and am going to visit family there next month.

edit: nevermind, read it. thank fucking god.

justdowntheroad · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live here..and felt the same way.

dumbname2 · 8 points · Posted at 17:40:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I'd rather it be ghosts.

chrisdelbosque · 8 points · Posted at 18:56:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have upvoted you many times during my visits to Reddit and yet I could never find something that I felt was tag worthy for you. I finally have something for you that I feel is worthy, Listened to Old People Have Sex to Organ Music.

Thank you.

_vargas_ · 6 points · Posted at 19:17:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

waltz walk?

UndeadStormtroopers · 11 points · Posted at 20:22:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, but I'm prepared to learn.

tresdosuno · 4 points · Posted at 21:19:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Then you are ready, tall douche bag.

[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 15:20:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The best kind of shitty person. Or the best kind of tall person. Really, I'm just trying to say that this is a great combination.

[deleted] · 44 points · Posted at 16:06:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is hysterical to me.

cutanddried · 5 points · Posted at 17:12:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

but are you graceful?

phytohydra · 12 points · Posted at 16:01:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yeah but the people you'd be scaring might be shittier people and shank you.

A_WILD_SLUT_APPEARS · 7 points · Posted at 17:45:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a short, shitty person I envy you.

Carthradge · 7 points · Posted at 16:06:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

just make sure you don't get pepper sprayed/shot

trakam · 5 points · Posted at 17:08:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

They won't have time before you start eating their face, in for a penny in for a pound.

Matthew1428 · 3 points · Posted at 16:52:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's people like you that terrify the fuck out of me.

rockne · 3 points · Posted at 16:52:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, but how's your smile?

UndeadStormtroopers · 9 points · Posted at 16:59:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If I try and make myself smile, it looks pretty fucked up. So I'm golden there.

robcap · 3 points · Posted at 17:54:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for lightening my mood after reading that, you dispicable person.

Shitty_Human_Being · 3 points · Posted at 20:03:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We could team up, man!

Sexwax · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tend to be friends with tall and shitty people, or you're a confident asshole, lets be friends.

xxboonexx · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That man was crazy. Crazy hilarious. I feel he never had any intention of hurting you. Maybe he was high. And a good actor. Or Maybe he somehow crossed the gap between cartoon world and real world. But became a human looking form. I picture a pencil thin mustache as well. Dastardly. Or maybe he was insane. Shit is wild. Either way. By far the best recount of incredibly odd behavior I've come across.

ctusk423 · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Until you get maced/tased/testicular torsion. Then it's not so funny.

occamsrazorburn · 5 points · Posted at 17:58:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Never got close enough for a sack kick.

dalek_cyber · 3 points · Posted at 18:21:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Got* means you've done this before :/

raziphel · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

monkey grabs the peach.

oangbsite · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It wasn't really a scary story, but if all the tall, lanky people in the world did this (like myself), it be frighteningly hilarious.

Egypticus · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Until you get pepper sprayed in the face.

Source: My friend pepper sprayed me in the face as a joke.

heyjennyy · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For your safety and the heart of the person you would be scaring, please don't do this.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Until your "victim" pulls out a gun.

MrBonkies · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

until you run into the person who chooses 'fight' in a 'flight of fight or flight' situation, and is sincerely under the belief that you mean to kill them.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

funny until someone shoots you

kralrick · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:09 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

A tall and very shitty person.

googl1234 · 0 points · Posted at 16:09:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You won't do it. No balls.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:57:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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BlackZeppelin · 3 points · Posted at 17:20:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because he's in high school.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:31:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That actually clears it up. Thank you.

FireSail · 0 points · Posted at 17:16:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure my friend Alex did this. He's such a bro!

custron · 858 points · Posted at 14:05:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hnnnnnnngggggggggg

MiddleInTheMalcolm · 465 points · Posted at 14:35:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your response is all I need to know I won't be reading this comment at 1.30am.

Erzsabet · 46 points · Posted at 15:13:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a bright sunny morning here and it still creeped the fuck out of me.

A_Mouse_In_Da_House · 3 points · Posted at 15:27:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of that courage the cowardly dog episode... the one with the nephew...

CoolKoala53 · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Naughty

Erzsabet · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never seen the show.

A_Mouse_In_Da_House · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5781493/courage_the_cowardly_dog_freaky_fred/

Obelisk94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man every episode in that show scared the ever loving shit out of me!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:29:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not that bad

breeyan · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You have made the wise choice. Picturing that shit before my dreams would surely ruin my night of sleep

kobrahawk1210 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would he smart. Take a look at it in twelve hours.

Brainwash_TV · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too late for me :(

AnswersWithAQuestion · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm confused. What emotion or response is "hnnnnnggg" supposed to portray?

MiddleInTheMalcolm · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hnnnggggg sounds like a constipated cow groaning.

It was all I needed.

Juwafi · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's usually internet slang for "I just came!", so I have no idea what MiddleInTheMalcolm is thinking or why the comment was upvoted at all.

Edit: It can also mean "I'm having a heart attack," but that only makes slightly more sense.

TheMieberlake · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No. It's a funny story. You should read it.

HotDogOnAPlate · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't do it. Save it and read it later (it's too good to miss entirely), but now, don't read it.

Just don't do it.

Random_Ass_Guy · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Explanation?

TalonIII · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't be a wuss. Read it next to your window. Trust me.

JackGunner93 · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

2.51am. So much regret.

Dwychwder · 1 points · Posted at 08:35:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok god, it's 1:34 am here. Still scary.

Flashzach · 1 points · Posted at 08:37:22 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are a smarter person than I.

[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 15:17:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

[deleted]

MiddleInTheMalcolm · 2 points · Posted at 22:57:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mainly because I am

ButtByBacon · 0 points · Posted at 15:20:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yea, definitely don't read it. It's 8:19am where I am and I felt like my heart was in my throat the whole time I was reading that.

ohGodgoodbyelife · 0 points · Posted at 15:55:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's almost 12PM for me and I still regret reading it.

theERJ · 0 points · Posted at 16:30:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

read your comment, looked at my clock... 1:29am... god damn it.

Filmosopher · 0 points · Posted at 16:44:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bloody hell! It's 00:42 am here and I was about to go to bed! I'm gonna wake up with that figure smiling over my supine body.

mesquirrel · 24 points · Posted at 15:09:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I came too.

balloseater · 3 points · Posted at 15:40:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, it was such an adorable story as well. I have subscribed to OP's posts for more dance-tastic themed moe.

CuntyMcshitballs · 0 points · Posted at 16:33:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I came too! : )

marineabcd · 0 points · Posted at 19:13:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I too just ejaculated...

optimisticality · 398 points · Posted at 14:18:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welp, never going outside at night again.

Nizzler · 683 points · Posted at 14:57:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

outside has been canceled. Thanks, Smiling Man.... jerk

Rogue_Toaster · 7 points · Posted at 16:41:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Let's face it, it was already canceled.

secret759 · 5 points · Posted at 17:30:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/outside will be distressed.

sabrinaladawn · 5 points · Posted at 15:58:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why we can't have nice things.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think you mean thanks Reddit.

Ghost1031 · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's 5:20 right now and I am in the process of taking a shit. I can confirm that I am officially now scared to see what's behind the shower curtain at this very moment.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:27:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks Obama!

ignatius87 · 6 points · Posted at 14:58:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welp, never going outside again ever.

PathToEternity · 2 points · Posted at 19:26:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or outside ever.

LordMcMutton · 567 points · Posted at 14:31:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If I ever move to a large city, I think I'll start creeping people out like that.

Cpt_PP · 693 points · Posted at 15:24:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love the thought of the smiling man meeting somebody equally creepy and the two of them just spend a while trying to creep the other one out the most

Cliqey · 29 points · Posted at 15:35:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Getting creeped out, while trying to creep someone out, is the worst. It's almost, like amplified by the creepiness of whatever you were trying to do.

MadHatter69 · 8 points · Posted at 19:51:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dunno, it sound like fun.

[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 16:05:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aww. Makes me think that's the way The Smiling Man meets his wife.

ka36 · 11 points · Posted at 16:46:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The sex would be weird...just sayin'

beta_crater · 15 points · Posted at 17:04:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He's already got his "O" face.

Jabbawookiee · 16 points · Posted at 17:00:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It will end like this.

BGYeti · 7 points · Posted at 19:55:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Risky fucking click my man.

Qtwentyseven · 7 points · Posted at 21:08:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a Calvin & Hobbes strip.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:46:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb bit where the creepy phone stalker calls the other creepy phone stalker.

lurking4life · 5 points · Posted at 17:10:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then they fall in love. The new romantic comedy by whoever the hell makes shitty movies: Sexy Smiles.

EagerIguana · 5 points · Posted at 18:15:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im envisioning something resembling the character from 'The Mask'

thegraymaninthmiddle · 3 points · Posted at 02:21:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Still a better love story than twilight.

seansdc · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or dancing together.

Kitty_party · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually that's terrifying to me because only one of those people would be playing a game, the other one would be doing it for real D:

johking24 · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:11 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like just another day in Santa Cruz!

Erzsabet · 443 points · Posted at 15:13:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That might work, until someone decides to beat the shit out of you out of fear.

[deleted] · 424 points · Posted at 15:47:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Would you please explain to the court why you violently and brutally battered Mister LordMcMutton?"

"He was freakin me out!"

Bluewind55 · 87 points · Posted at 17:17:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

"How so? was he threatening you?"

"No he was like smiling and shit!"

inimrepus · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of this: http://gawker.com/5932846/american-becomes-laughingstock-of-canada-after-letter-to-editor-lamenting-lack-of-handgun-during-mild-confrontation

UrbanGimli · 15 points · Posted at 18:15:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"he started dancing and scaring me"

"You beat a man to death because you got served?"

Electroguy · 7 points · Posted at 16:31:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sounds legit! case dismissed!

BewhiskeredWordSmith · -2 points · Posted at 17:30:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sounds legit!

case dismissed!

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Duhya · 6 points · Posted at 18:15:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

words

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KingOfRages · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Yes, I see, well... makes perfect sense to me! Not guilty!"

Ktaily · 8 points · Posted at 16:02:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or pulls a gun.

username_00001 · 2 points · Posted at 18:30:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah don't do that in the south. People will shoot you in the face.

ProjectD13X · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:06 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gun owner from the south checking in, would fill him full of holes.

CrazyBoxLady · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or shoots you.

Erzsabet · 4 points · Posted at 16:28:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, that was my other thought.

Balony1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Forget beaten, with my luck I'd probably scare an old woman that just so happens to carry a gun

Jimmyjohn678 · 387 points · Posted at 15:07:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And the cycle continues...

seemsprettylegit · 7 points · Posted at 16:18:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Until he gets shot.

forgotpasswordagain0 · 3 points · Posted at 16:29:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

as is tradition

_adidias11_ · 3 points · Posted at 16:26:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's the circle of life.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:30:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The cycle is broken...

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 15:17:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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breeyan · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pick innocent victims

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:25:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You'll probably get shot...

french-toast-mullet · 3 points · Posted at 17:48:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If I ever move away from your attic, I think I'll start too.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:19:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's exactly what I thought

sevenzark7 · 2 points · Posted at 15:33:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone needs to draw this scenario out.

StockWobble · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You devilish bastard you!

Xanthos · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nigga gon get shot

signorafosca · 2 points · Posted at 16:02:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are the worst.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Until you meet someone with a gun.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:36:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you enjoy getting shot or stabbed in your spare time?

rabbithole · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't do it in the South. Stand your ground law will blast a hole in your ass.

SgtQuack · 2 points · Posted at 20:08:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Find where op lives, we'll organize something great.

Symphonymphoy · 2 points · Posted at 20:57:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have fun getting shot

klauskinski · 2 points · Posted at 21:08:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After living in large cities for decades, I feel more fear on empty streets, especially in suburbia. Anybody could run up to you and do anything and there's no one to witness, help, call cops, etc. Creeps me the fuck out.

Jokkis · 2 points · Posted at 21:27:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And get shot or stabbed? Probably not a good idea

anatomized · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You'll have to be pretty dedicated though because you'll have to creep people out to the point of paralysis otherwise you're just gonna get your ass kicked.

theheartofgold · 21 points · Posted at 14:53:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Christ almighty.

I love scary things like this. I got a frisson.

eeviltwin · 5 points · Posted at 16:12:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got a boner.

(fear boner)

theheartofgold · 3 points · Posted at 17:42:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, like a friss-hard-on?

gymgal19 · 90 points · Posted at 14:55:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes I wonder if the creepy person in stories like this are seriously that insane, or if they just go around freaking people out, and then sit on reddit hoping that their story will show up.

professorhazard · 11 points · Posted at 17:25:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's just Jim Carrey doing all these things.

smokeyrobot · 6 points · Posted at 18:24:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am going to guess that the guy was tripping his balls off and genuinely just as confused by the Redditor's actions. LSD makes you do some crazy shit.

Lyrr · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It more than likely never happened.

JayTWC · 19 points · Posted at 14:41:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Had a picture of the mask in my mind the entire time I read that

melodyponddd · 2 points · Posted at 16:08:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a mix of that and The Joker! Jack Nicholson's Joker, specifically.

Oops_I_Pooed · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think it's this guy.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 14:41:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, that's easily the most terrifying thing I've ever read.

AllOfTheIsz · 7 points · Posted at 15:23:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you should spend some time in r/creepypasta and terrify yourself even more!

A_Mouse_In_Da_House · 2 points · Posted at 15:29:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Most creepy pasta doesn't do it for me. Holy shit that did though.

AllOfTheIsz · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I humbly suggest "No End House" it was a fantastic creepy read though rather long. There are a few good reads of it on Youtube though if you prefer to listen.

sammybear911 · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, now I have to watch out for smiling people AND doors with numbers on them

MothafinMullins · 18 points · Posted at 14:29:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just decided to buy a gun. Thanks.

pogo123 · 6 points · Posted at 15:23:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice try, post-humous Charlton Heston.

Jerky_McYellsalot · 0 points · Posted at 16:17:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's fiction.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 14:57:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read this while imagining an old 78 rpm record playing 20's ragtime on an antique record player.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:31:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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Zherdev · 5 points · Posted at 14:29:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

and now i keep glancing over my shoulder...

dizasterpiece114 · 5 points · Posted at 16:18:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm picturing him as Freaky Fred from Courage The Cowardly Dog. Fuuuuuck that.

WillyWaver · 9 points · Posted at 14:44:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holymotherfuckingshit

pr0nghorns · 4 points · Posted at 18:09:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When he started getting bigger at the end, I expected him to turn into the Loch Ness Monster and demand tree fiddy...

Axinex · 4 points · Posted at 02:00:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just felt my balls get sucked half-way up into my torso and my butthole puckered so hard it nearly ripped my shorts off.

TryToFlyHigh · 3 points · Posted at 14:37:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really have to take up classical dancing... Holy shit that's creepy as fuck

laceena1 · 3 points · Posted at 14:44:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow. That's one of the creepiest things I have ever read. I'm surrounded by people at work and still freaked out.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 14:31:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got unnerved just reading that.

KristofB · 4 points · Posted at 14:54:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This would be an awesome jap-horror scene!

Wazzaahhh · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know why but I consider the guy following him was The Joker (Cartoon Version)

MrPanduh · 2 points · Posted at 19:38:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading this from /r/nosleep

metallica1124 · 2 points · Posted at 21:14:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The running at him part, that's when I'd probably start to freak out

ToiletBow1 · 2 points · Posted at 01:16:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You may have just challenged people living in that area to try and find him...

l3wis992 · 2 points · Posted at 01:19:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its not the story that scared me, it was then ending and the note about insanity.

Jennaphur · 2 points · Posted at 01:20:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sitting in my house, which is currently 80F and that gave me goosebumps and a chill. That was scary.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:12:04 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think there was no need for him to fear for his life.

One does not simply waltz into murder.

missdewey · 2 points · Posted at 14:41:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now I'm afraid of everything, thanks.

mrfields · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yup...just going to sleep between 1 and 2am now.

mushperv · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome story. Can you tell us the city?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

japan

A_Mouse_In_Da_House · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think you may have missed the day in school when we defined the difference between "Country" and "City". It's all cool though. Just saying Japan makes it make sense.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

finland

theblueberryspirit · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dug around just to make sure it wasn't where I live because JESUS. Seattle, WA.

SwaggerLeGodwin · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck no man

Bainsyboy · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The goosebumps.

jbtk · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm here at work looking over my shoulder every few seconds.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i pictured jack skellington

sauseman · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK FUCK!

AnimusOscura · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it helps, this is what I thought of when I read about the exaggerated tip toe steps. I couldn't find the creepiness in the story after I imagined the Smiling Man as Ace Ventura.

broden · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know I'm missing the point, but to me the guy didn't come across as violent.

The whole experience would have been much less scary if the OP had whipped out a camera.

pixiespaz · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one has been giving me nightmares since it was originally posted.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sorry, anything involving the phrase "tall and lanky" in combination with a suit sounds like a contrived attempt for a creepypasta, trying to ride out the slenderman wave

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know it's probably not... But I really want this to be real.

beepborpimajorp · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminded me of the cowboy bebop episode Pierrot Le Fou.

http://youtu.be/mrdKi1wOb4A

One of the best episodes in the series and definitely worth a watch if you like freaky stuff and don't mind blood/action.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oddly similar, and I want some people to see this instead of getting buried. This awesome podcast, TBTL, has a great Halloween story about an encounter with a crazy person, apparently real. It's on this episode: http://www.973kiro.com/category/tbtl_player/?a=9948102

CurlyBackJoe · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's 3am in New Zealand and I had the smart idea to read this thread because I couldn't sleep.. Holy shit. I can forget about sleeping now.

adamvan101 · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This would make the best animated short

ShozOvr · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest part was,

I just watched him go, until he was far enough away to almost be out of sight. And then I realized something. He wasn't moving away anymore, nor was he dancing. I watched in horror as the distant shape of him grew larger and larger. He was coming back my way. And this time he was running.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in manhattan and its daytime and I am in my apt ....I just sat in the corner with my back to the wall cause that shit just got me so paranoid as if hed pop out my closet ...all slow and creepy and shit ....fuck man

james333100 · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is a youtuber that sometimes reads nosleeps. Here is the link to him reading this one I'm sure you'll find it very good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWM4GV12a7Y P.S. not going to be fancy and put it in a word. It will stay big for mobile redditors.

bstones · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Somehow I imagined a combination of Pierrot Le Fou and Shaco as this Smiling Man and sharted in my cubicle

VonIsengard · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And that is why I do not walk after dark (or even during the day) without 1-3 of my five German shepherds. They would not be down with that creepy shit.

JollyOldBogan · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I HAVE TO WAKE UP IN SIX HOURS TO GET TO WORK BY 5AM WHY THE FUCK DID I THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO READ THIS.

BRAIN, YOURE A CUNT.

lizlegit000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My heart is pounding so fast especially after I read that he was running towards him. FUCK! Fuck! That's why I always take my dog with me whenever I go outside in the dark.

Cyridius · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My entire mouth went dry reading that. Creepy.

Chemical_Link · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like The Slender Man tbh.

kevinkanif · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What city? I want to find this guy and give him sour candy....

DesertPunked · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I died a little on the inside o.o

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is not even remotely unnerving.

therealabefrohman · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got fear tears

Hugh_Jeffincock · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The joker was toying with you

IAmTheRedWizards · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pretty much anything from Let's Not Meet is the creepiest thing I've ever read.

FantasticHamburguesa · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate reading long paragraphs so I immediately skipped this. Though I read the comments saying that this was scary as EFF. So I grudgingly went back to read it and I must say....GOOSEBUMPS MAN. Scared the fuck outta me!

abrAaKaHanK · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was beautifully written.

I'd like to read more of that guy's work.

why_cant_i_join · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

isn't that just like this? warning: don't click this at night in a dark room by yourself

GrandfatherBong · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The moment he said "what the fuu...." I just pictured him as the rage guy in a suit and it wasn't very scary

AllOfTheIsz · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is an old creepypasta that was likely copypasta'd to r/letsotmeet.

For more like this come on down to r/creepypasta!

bmcnult19 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think this is why I would have a concealed carry permit if I lived in a big city. And carry a concealed gun. I think the sight of a glock would end his fuckery pretty quickly.

longhairedfreakyguy · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's the smash flinging, th-the crash dinging...

Cyrusdexter · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sub is just full of nope.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This should be the top story. Takes the cake for sure.

keith_HUGECOCK · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha gotcha!

mymooski · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You have an incredible gift with words. I hope to someday read one of your novels.

dratthecookies · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No sir, I don't like it.

eccentricfather · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I will memorize this word for word and then tell it to my children around the campfire this weekend. I will be taking PayPal donations for their therapy.

HarryHayes · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Best scary story Ive read in reddit, and I would almost say the internet.

Booze_Lite_Beer · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Firstly, you need to write a book. I wanted to stop reading but I couldn't. Secondly, my heart's beating so fast and I'm afraid it's going to stop! And now I've to get off the bus in 3 mins and walk home alone and it's night where I'm at. And I can't even run today thanks to all the squats and MMA training I did an hour ago.

edit: I limped home in record time. Mind fuck.

prvtbenjamin · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is the image that was in my head when reading your story http://comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/batman-17.jpg

BrianInYoBrain · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bath salts. not even once.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel like that story was tailored perfectly to my fears. I've already seen this guy in my nightmares.

frataliens · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welp, off to r/aww for a while to calm down.

skitzokid1189 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

did anyone else play accordion music in their head every time they read the dude was walking?

MJA_44 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of the judge from who framed roger rabbit... I hated that smile.

ijarritos · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/TheSmilingMan

librarygirl · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got a fucking text message halfway through reading this and jumped out of my skin.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think they were living in David Lynch's mind.

SeeStannisSmile · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I keep picturing HIM

DyingSpartan · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

10:30 am. Just finished a chem final and this was 10x scarier than my chem final.

Koraboros · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wtf, that's it? Wasn't even remotely scary.

amazonian414 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

all i have to say is holy shit. This is so fucking creepy.

jax9999 · 35 points · Posted at 17:38:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One morning I woke up to my grandmotehr calling my cellphone. I was upstairs, and it was weird for her to call me.

"there's something wrong with your father."

so, I came downstairs and she was in the hallway looking towards the living room where my father was on the flat of his back not moving.

I went to him and tried to see what was wrong. he was cold. I ushered my grandmother into the kitchen to sit down. and called 911.

In the meantime I started CPR.

He was down for hours, must have died during the night.

there is a certain type of desperation when you're doing CPR on your own father. I've done it before, when being trained, and a few times over the years in emergency situations. but this was different. I was doing CPR, and the phone was on my shoulder, and I was telling my grandmother everything was going to be alright at the same time trying not to lose it myself.

Then a big mouthful of cold dead black blood came up.

I'm not sure how much I swallowed. I know some went to my sinuses and came out my nose.

This froze my entire soul. I could taste my fathers cold dead blood. My brain shut off dead for a minute. I don't remember getting up and going to the sink. In that missing time I had gotten up went into the kitchen and was trying to wash his blood off of my face. I had my grandmother behind me asking what was wrong, but I couldn't talk. I couldn't even think barely. I was just trying to wash that smell, that taste out of my mouth and nose.

that was four years ago. I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, and all I can smell or taste is my fathers dead blood.

I hid this for years. I kinda had a mental breakdown, and lost it for 2 years. Didn't tell a soul. Eventually I told my boyfriend. I had an irrational fear if i ever told him he'd never want to kiss me again. but he did. so that's ok.

I hope I'm never in another situation where I have to do CPR, because I don't honestly think I could do it.

heremovedit · 7 points · Posted at 18:04:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to give CPR to my dead naked stepfather who had aspirated vomit at some point during his fatal MI. I work in healthcare ,but it still fucked with me. I eventually took an EMT course just to make sure I didn't miss anything. To this day I still can't eat,smell our look at carrot cake with getting a little adrenaline dump

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 13:58:13 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is easily one of the most horrible stories on a thread with a thousand horrible stories. I'm so sorry this happened to you, and I'm glad you have figured out a way to deal with it.

Deadbreeze · 5 points · Posted at 00:11:39 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not sure how much I swallowed.

I'm not sure how much I threw up. God that must've been horrible for you. My sincerest sympathies.

Liv-Julia · 4 points · Posted at 04:01:36 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am truly sorry you had to go through that. Wish I had some magic words to comfort you.

1s2s2p3s3p · 39 points · Posted at 06:51:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a stalker for a number of years. One day out of the blue he sent me an email saying "Ever been raped?"

I had, but nobody ever knew about it. I lived alone at the time, and I was terrified of him for years before law enforcement finally took me seriously.

kieranjane · 5 points · Posted at 09:56:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ohh gosh that's awful man :( what happened?

1s2s2p3s3p · 7 points · Posted at 13:47:37 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to move to a different country before the police would take me seriously. I received a very specific threat a few days after moving here... he mailed me a copy of a Sherlock Holmes novel and added at the end "anywhere in the world you go, I will find you". He alluded to knowing where I lived and what I was doing, and I reported it to the security folks at my university because I was living in on-campus accommodation at the time. They sent me immediately to the police, who put me in a safehouse for a few days while they verified that he hadn't entered the country.

He was banned from ever entering the country I live in now, and the FBI got involved in America to stop the online harassment. If he shows up, he'll be arrested for stalking and harassment, on the basis of the mountains of evidence I handed over (emails spanning multiple years, stuff he mailed to / left at my house, threats made spanning multiple social networks, etc).

I still remain vigilant as hell when I go home.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:13:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have been stalked before, and that shit gets under your skin. I'm so sorry.

NitroGamer447 · 4 points · Posted at 12:25:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upote for the chemistry name.

NitroGamer447 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:06 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't even know why this was downvoted.

[deleted] · 429 points · Posted at 14:00:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Decades ago on a road outside Midland, Michigan, thousands upon thousands of frogs went to die.

Cars slid through this green and red mass like they had hit a patch of black ice. Cars were in the ditch with a 200m trail of frog carcasses behind them. It was chaos.

When I got home, my mud flaps were liberally caked with amphibian death. Why were all those frogs in the middle of the road?

Edit: Google revealed that it was probably mating season. Is it creepier that we ran over a mass frog orgy?

damnburglar · 11 points · Posted at 18:32:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I experienced something similar on Highway 63 north of fort McMurray a few years ago except instead of frogs it was tent caterpillars (or something similar). There were so many that road looked to be crawling.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 18:50:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Caterpillars: that's worse.

Sarzul · 3 points · Posted at 19:08:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not if you have a fear of frogs...

tomkaa · 12 points · Posted at 19:01:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

rustle rustle
hop hop
rustle rustle

Marko the frog, tired of jumping through dense undergrowth mutters to himself:

"Aww I ^ribbit can't see shit in these ^ribbit leaves. Hey ^ribbit lady frog, where ^ribbit are you at? ^ribbit"

hop hop hop hop

He jumps towards a clear spot, and lands with a plop and a slap on a hard, dark grey surface. Looking to his left and right he sees it extending far into the distance.

"hey cool, a big open patch! I'll ^ribbit definitely be able to see that fine ^ribbit frog ass from here! HEY GUYS, GET OVAHEEEER^ibbit"

Francis the frog, hearing Markos call hops over and says to him:

Hey good job Marko, let's all hang out here. Say, what is this place anyway?

As more frogs hop onto the big flat space, the early dawn light begins to shine down to reveal long, white strips that score the centre of the dark grey strip that the frogs are congregating on. Many frogs appear, and more are attracted by the excited noises of the other frogs. The sun rises higher and soon the frog orgy is bathed in the heat of the morning sun. The frogs can see each other well, and they marvel at this wonderful meeting place they've found. In the distance a low rumble is heard, and a point appears on the horizon of the long, dark, grey strip.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:02:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your tale of frog orgy genocide is...beautiful.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 18:52:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The tarantulas in California do this during summertime in the mountains. You can hear the soft thump of their bodies hitting the mudflaps.

Overlord-Brian · 11 points · Posted at 20:57:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would get the biggest truck I could find, and bring sweet sweet metal death to the horde.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 10:20:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am visibly disturbed by this.

TricksterPriestJace · 4 points · Posted at 18:05:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Life without sex or a gruesome death.... Tough call.

AGSlack · 6 points · Posted at 19:14:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm from midland, that's funny. Where at?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

US10, just before the M18 exit.

Come to think of it, they were probably fleeing Beaverton.

The_Turd_Burglar42 · 3 points · Posted at 19:27:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Doesn't matter, had sex.

Not_Really_Classy · 3 points · Posted at 20:16:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read a post on here about the weirdest things truckers have seen, and the exact same thing happened with tarantulas.

mementomori4 · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember that... it sounded so disgusting, and they also almost lost control of the truck because it got so slippery... ಠ_ಠ

goddamnyouryan · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

are you from midland? I grew up there.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:50:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, just north of there. Midland was the only mall or cinema for 50 miles!

insidethetardis · 2 points · Posted at 01:25:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm from Midland Michigan and there is so much weird chemical plant related stuff there!

vi1987 · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

With ranidaphobia, that is by far the creepiest story ever.

BasketOfCats · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened on the border of Lake Mille Lacs in MN, but with mayflys. So waxy you had to scrape off the thousands of dead ones off your windshield.

schectershred · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvote for the edit.

ibestalkinyo · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live right outside of midland. What road was it?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:15:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

US10, just before the M18 exit.

ibestalkinyo · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember now that was wierd.

oh_you_crazy_cat · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

no, it's hotter

DrunkenArmadillo · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They probably weren't having an orgy in the road. Lots of amphibians will migrate to water sources in large groups to mate. You just killed them on the way to their orgy. Sucks for them.

ThrobbingCuntMuscle · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Go a bit west of there to Evart to see the glowing tombstones. Those fuckers are creepy as hell. There's also the cemetery in Farmington Hills (off of grand river near Drake) where (by the big tree)you can put your car in neutral and ride in it as it coasts uphill. Pretty freaky.

michaeljane · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading a similar story on here and the guy described the noise of thousands of pops underneath the tires. Was it like this?

dragon1031 · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same thing happened when i was living in Japan. Millions of the cutest, bright green, quarter-sized frogs all decided that they absolutely HAD to get to the rice paddy on the other side of the road and we had literally no other way to get home that late at night.

That moment of choosing between flooring it so it is over quicker or going slowly so you don't have to scrape pieces of frog off the car later...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it creepier that we ran over a mass frog orgy?

r/nocontext

erietemperance · 1 points · Posted at 11:06:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was like playing Frogger, but as the car.

adamwizzy · 1 points · Posted at 11:49:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The same happened here in the UK a few decades ago with ladybirds.

LarneyStinson · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm from Mount Pleasant, MI...The frogs were probably mutated from Dow Chemical.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hypersexualized by the dioxins, breast implants and scrubbing bubbles?

TheWierdSide · 0 points · Posted at 20:04:13 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happens with Crabs in some other country, the crabs were on their way to the ocean. can someone link me to this phenomenon?

1shotaccount · 104 points · Posted at 18:42:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was around 6, my family lived out in the rural desert in Southern California near a Cahuilla tribe reservation. We had a few acre ranch that was beside small mountain (or large hill). My room had large windows that faced towards the mountainside and as such, it was always extremely dark at night so there was a motion sensor porch light that was attached over the backdoor which you could see from my window, think of an L on its side. Backdoor lead to a room we never used but anyone coming to the property thought it was the front door.

Anyway, one night, while trying to sleep I hear a tapping on the window like a subtle scratching. I wake up and see two very striking yellow eyes and the silhouette of something at the window, very canine. Now we had coyotes here but this was the size of a small man, far larger than any coyote and there were no wolves in the region - we had a dog, but a border collie was no where near the size of this.

So we stare at each other for a few moments, just dead still - I'm completely frozen on what to do while it just stares back. It begins to scratch again at the window then turns and walks, upright, to the backdoor and tries the handle. The light goes on, see this furry dog-man thing trying to get in and I freak. Remember running out of my room and grab a rifle we had in an case in the living room (like 15 feet away from my door) and then run back to my room. There it is, on the other side of the glass looking at me. It sees the rifle then bolts into the dark.

I never knew what it was and I only learned about 'skin-walkers' much later. Never told my parents but I slept with that Winchester rifle beside my bed for a few years after.

rolfraikou · 23 points · Posted at 01:00:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That region (up to portions of Irvine even, but mostly Pala down to there) had a number of sightings of a "bison man" or "bigfoot type" who supposedly protected indian burial grounds.

I number of friends and I saw a large hairy creature a couple of times in the Elfin Forest nature reserve. Seemed to be hunched down both times. Fucking huge. Way bigger than a mountain lion even in that position, which is just about the largest creature you'd find in the area. It was also attracted to sound. We lured it towards us, but bailed when it got too close for comfort.

I don't believe in creatures protecting burial grounds, I am, however, open to the idea that there may be creatures we are unaware of in some regions.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 5 points · Posted at 06:49:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could it have been a bear?

rolfraikou · 7 points · Posted at 06:59:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In 1999 to 2000 there were a dozen sightings of a blackbear and this made the news for the San Diego area. Bears aren't considered a local creature.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 3 points · Posted at 16:08:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brain would probably still convince me it was a bear so I didn't lose my mind. That's creepy as hell.

scubadog2000 · 30 points · Posted at 23:02:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

From the Wikipedia article:

"Some Navajo also believe that skinwalkers have the ability to steal the face of a person. The Navajo believe that if you ever lock eyes with a skinwalker, they can absorb themselves into your body. Alternately, some Navajos believe that if you made eye contact with a skinwalker, your body will freeze up due to the fear of them and the skinwalker will use that fear to gain power and energy. It is also said that skinwalkers love the light and that their eyes glow like an animal's when in animal form."

Dude...

Edit: Source

sbeeblez · 28 points · Posted at 07:06:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"A skinwalker can also be killed by saying their real name then shooting them in the face with a gun." I think this would kill just about anything.

Coffeezilla · 11 points · Posted at 08:37:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Trick is, if you don't say their real name they don't die.

SquishMitt3n · 33 points · Posted at 08:59:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Joe? BOOM. Henry? BOOM. Travis? BOOM. Elvies? BOOM. Got ya.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 20:51:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have no clue what a 'skinwalker' is but if it is coming from this thread, I don't have the courage to look it up.

Dank_means_moist · 17 points · Posted at 03:09:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A skinwalker otherwise known as the yee naaldlooshii originates in Navajo, Hopi and Apache legends. They are people who have turned from the good way and now practice the Witchery way. They are witches who can shape shift into animals by using the skin of the animal and can attain amazing abilities. The highest level practitioners are considered "Pure Evil".

In order to become a skinwalker the potential witch has to kill a member of their family they love the most.

There isn't much to fear from a skinwalker, they mostly haunt Native American peoples and rarely if other bother other races, though it's been known to happen.

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 09:35:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Skinwalkers are proof that Native American Legends are hella bad ass.

ThisIsFlight · 7 points · Posted at 03:48:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wasnt there a Paranormal Witness about a white family being harassed by a skin walker?

Dank_means_moist · 1 points · Posted at 04:04:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They MOSTLY haunt Native American peoples...mostly. looks at you seriously Mostly...just Native Americans but sometimes, SOMETIMES they gang up on whitey! MA HA HA HA HA!! :-P

AnalogPen · 16 points · Posted at 00:41:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They are a Native Indian legend that a few tribes tell stories about. Sort of like a witch/lycanthrope combo, they can use magic to change their shape/appearance, though their 'alternate forms' are not limited to wolves, as in European mythology. They are usually regarded as evil and frightening, like the Wendigo.

Dank_means_moist · 11 points · Posted at 03:03:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to live just outside the Navajo Reservation. Most of the older Navajo folk will not talk or tell stories about the Skinwalkers, talking about them is strictly verboten however younger people will talk about nf them.

Generally they leave white people alone and only bug the Native Americans. I've heard so many stories from people with first hand experience it's unreal. Luckily not had any.

cosmicsans · 10 points · Posted at 01:39:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the United States one can witness the battle that occurred at Hat Creek Monument in northwestern Nebraska involving Cheyenne Indians and soldiers of the Fifth U.S. Calvary. Witnesses to this re-enactment have heard disembodied voices and unexplained noises as well as sometimes seeing ectoplasmic mist and phantoms. The spirits are aggressive but usually avoid human contact. It is not known whether or not a person would be safe if he/she entered into the battle.

gypsycamptrash · 6 points · Posted at 04:32:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely skin walkers

Notenough1997 · 3 points · Posted at 21:26:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im so glad ive never looked up skinwalkers. Now i probably will.

NDaveT · 4 points · Posted at 23:00:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When you're done, check out the American TV series "Wolf Lake". Canceled after only one season, of course.

cosmicsans · 3 points · Posted at 01:42:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also Related: Stiginies Basically some kind of owl shapeshifting medicine man from Oklahoman tribes.

EtsuRah · 3 points · Posted at 05:44:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I pitured this:

http://s2.hubimg.com/u/3757345_f520.jpg

With a human body on hind dogs legs

AmbystomaMexicanum · 13 points · Posted at 06:52:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I just peed. Thanks.

EtsuRah · 9 points · Posted at 18:30:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You mean hydrated your pants.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 09:38:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why the fuck did I click that...why I am I retarded?

EtsuRah · 10 points · Posted at 18:31:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

why I am I

Deadbreeze · 5 points · Posted at 07:58:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jesusfuckingchristyoureanassholeman

EtsuRah · 7 points · Posted at 18:30:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's "Jesusfuckingchristyoureanassholeman ESQUIRE" to you.

passively_attack · 1 points · Posted at 10:12:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I hate thee. Seriously, I have a quiet night job, usually by myself. Thanks.

EtsuRah · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No safer place than in a crowd at daytime.

bobstay · 7 points · Posted at 17:35:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

At six years old you went and got a rifle, instead of yelling for your parents?

42thegame · 4 points · Posted at 15:13:54 on August 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

welcome to the country

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Which reservation in SoCal? Please don't say Anza

losMarathons · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:42 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading a very similar story to this in an older thread. OP talked about being on their farm in the dark and seeing several coyotes/wolves in the distance that suddenly stood up and ran off on two legs. This is creepier to me than anything else in this thread.

vVvMaze · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:31 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

you were 6 years old and you were handling a rifle and slept with a rifle?

[deleted] · 40 points · Posted at 15:37:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night when I was about 7 years old, I went to sleep at around 9:30 and got into the second level of my bunk-bed. I soon fell asleep, but then I woke up in the middle of the night to someone whispering "No, no" repeatedly as if they were in pain, thinking I just imagined it I tried to go back asleep. And then that's when I heard it, the creaking of the wooden boards on the stairs, slowly getting louder and that whisper "No, no". I knew it wasn't my parents because they were sleeping in the bed next to mine. Then I heard some screaming along with the foot steps coming up the stairs and again the whisper of "No, no". So I slowly got out of bed, crept towards the ladder to get to the floor and I slowly began to crawl towards the bedroom door in the dark which had a full view of the stairs. I opened it without creak in the darkness and I saw nothing moving in the dark nook of the stairs. But I now heard the whisper of "No, no" coming from the room upstairs which nobody used. I silently crept towards the stairs, but I kept the lights off, and I began to creep down them so I could check the front door. Nothing was out of place, so I turned on the living room lights and that's when I saw it for an instance. The silhouettes of three people outside the living room window and then they were gone. I proceeded to turn on every light in the house and crawl into bed with my parents as I waited for it to be morning.

scubadog2000 · 6 points · Posted at 23:48:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait, so you didn't wake them up?

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 00:06:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tried to but, my parents aren't really morning people and turning on the lights and the TV, for some reason, took me about half an hour so they figured whatever I though I saw was probably gone by that time anyways so they went back to sleep.

Side-note, I actually posted this on Reddit from my childhood bedroom so yeah I was bit freaked again because all of the memories came rushing back to me again.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:07:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

you are a brave soldier. i'm in my house in a different country freaking out about your room

errorami · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:50 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait.. How do you know what country he lives in?

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 18:19:40 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

everyone on reddit is american until proven otherwise

errorami · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:14 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for clearing that up.

ravencrowe · 215 points · Posted at 14:12:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid, my parents went out one night and left me home alone. We had a bunch of cats, and we fed them all in separate rooms with the doors closed to keep them from stealing each other's food. My parents had fed them, I only had to let them out. I went to the back of the house to let out Playful, who ate in the room directly across the hall from my bedroom. When I opened the door, there was blood everywhere. His food dish was about a quarter filled with it, and there were bloody pawprints on the floor near the door... but not a speck in on my cat. I checked his paws and his mouth, there was no blood on him at all. When my parents came home they checked him over and weren't able to find any explanation either.

[deleted] · 113 points · Posted at 18:15:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He vomited blood and cleaned himself, as cats do.

highpressuresodium · 17 points · Posted at 18:54:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

seems reasonable

xHelpless · 30 points · Posted at 18:58:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He likely found something, a mouse for example, killed it and ate it. There is a lot more blood in those things than you think.

jax9999 · 25 points · Posted at 19:12:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you had a intruder that wanted playfuls food, playful fucked them up. and remember, cats are self cleaning.

tjm91 · 40 points · Posted at 20:56:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't nobody fuck with Playful.

mightybonk · 11 points · Posted at 01:43:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He ain't playin'.

semvhu · 12 points · Posted at 21:17:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like Playful used one of his nine lives.

BinHardon · 20 points · Posted at 23:27:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like he literally exploded and just - respawned?

ATomatoAmI · 13 points · Posted at 00:58:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It goes largely unreported that cats are actually Time Lords.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 01:38:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is sotrue. and yet never receives much media attention.

eternaladventurer · 11 points · Posted at 19:15:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once, when my parents were out and when I was about to leave to go to my high school's football game, my cat brought in a dead mouse. I said fuck it and just left her to play with it. Later that night I returned and, though there was blood all over the dining room, no pieces were ever found.

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 20:41:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eeesh you lived in a house full of cats, kept them in separate rooms and one was called Playful? Definitely creepy.

Qured · 6 points · Posted at 20:10:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like how Playful saved a quarterfull of blood from whatever he killed in his food dish.

FearsomeMonark · 5 points · Posted at 19:25:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you sure your cat isn't a familiar for a fucking sorcerer?!?

FCBarca1984 · 2 points · Posted at 21:04:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You forgot to mention the part where you had blood residue under your fingernails and when you fainted.....

silvernarnia · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this a reference to Chicago? Please be a reference to Chicago.

FCBarca1984 · 1 points · Posted at 06:38:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Darkness is here......

HyzerFlipDG · 4 points · Posted at 18:44:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

W....T....F......??

JejuneMondegreen · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?

leslieleanor · -2 points · Posted at 02:48:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

...maybe she was on her period.

soul2squeeze15 · 160 points · Posted at 14:02:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was about 7-8 years old and normally after school my mom sets up the tub so I can have my afternoon bath. Keep in mind that my bathroom was tiny and there were no room for someone to hide in without being spotted immediately. So my mom watches me go in the tub, gives me a toy and walks away to the kitchen to finish cooking. I wanted to splash around in the water with my toy so I closed the glass sliding door of the tub. As soon as I closed the sliding door, it quickly opened on its own. My tiny little mind couldn't fathom how that happened. A few seconds later the sliding door rapidly opened and closed for a few seconds. I started screaming and my mother ran to the bathroom to find me crying in the tub. I told her what happened but she didn't believe me. The sliding door was closed when she found me crying in the bathroom. For over 20 years it bugged me. Was it part of my imagination? It felt completely and entirely real.

Neverinfocus · 17 points · Posted at 21:20:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOT your imagination. I once had a similar experience as a child. I was about 3 or 4 and I lived in a condo with my mom and dad. We had underground parking and their was a sort of "garage" or storage/work shop in the basement connecting the condo to the underground parking garage. My mom would stack up our empty cans and bottles near the bottom of the stairs in the shop for my dad to take in to recycling. Well I was sitting at the top of these steps one day (as I was too young to and scared of the basement to go down them), and my mom was sitting in the living room up the hall and she heard something falling down the steps over and over and then heard me say "Daddy stop throwing those at me" so she came around the corner to check on me. She asked me what fell down the stairs, I told her "nothing", so she asked what all the noise was that I was making. I told her that Daddy was hiding in the basement throwing the cans from the bottom of the steps up at me. My mom ran down the stairs seemingly surprised expecting my dad to be down there, thinking he had come home from out of town to surprise us. There was no one there, and there were cans all over the floor in the basement. When she realized that it may have been a "supernatural" experience, she asked me what exactly happened, so I showed her with my hands that the cans flew up from the basement at me and hit me and then rolled back down the stairs. There was no way I could have or would have gone down to the basement and brought the cans back up with me and then thrown them down. That memory still gives my mom chills.

severus66 · 8 points · Posted at 02:58:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Funny how ghosts have a very strong desire to be obtuse.

They never do anything obvious --- just something half-assed in a way that you think your mind might be playing tricks on you.

That's because it's actually the latter and ghosts don't exist, but what do I know.

Deadbreeze · 7 points · Posted at 08:13:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have an early memory, about three or four, moved into a new trailer recently. Its not a creepy memory. Just weird. I've considered hypnotism to go back to that day and sort it out. I was in my room, by myself, and just lifted off the ground. Just up, a couple feet, for maybe ten seconds, then back down. Then, I gave zero fucks, and continued doing whatever my little mind was preoccupied with. Later in life, the memory held more weight, because I realized that people don't just fucking up and fly around.

TL;DR: I have a young memory of levitating. No big deal, until I was older and realized people don't levitate.

Games_sans_frontiers · 6 points · Posted at 17:29:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was probably down to your pops. "Honey I don't need to fork out twenty bucks for a spirit level just to fit a sliding door."

soul2squeeze15 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha! I really doubt it. I would have seen him through the glass door.

kerune · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He's saying he built the door not level. So it slid on its own.

I_eat_grapes · 10 points · Posted at 15:47:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who you gonna call? Ghost Busters!

ShootTheBull · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a similar experience and it has bugged me for decades as well. Your story encouraged me to share...

itismonday · 2 points · Posted at 02:39:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, let's hear it :)

ShootTheBull · 2 points · Posted at 04:42:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i made a post

Jalapeno_Business · 2 points · Posted at 18:35:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How fast was it sliding open and closed? Did it slide all the way? If it stopped halfway, how abruptly did it stop?

soul2squeeze15 · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All the way and really fast. It closed about 5 seconds before my mother came to the bathroom.

Jalapeno_Business · 3 points · Posted at 19:13:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yikes, I was going to say I have a sliding glass door in my bathroom that does something similar if you close it just right, but nothing like what you just described.

My door will slide open then close itself too, just at about the speed if someone casually slid it open. I have seen my kids slam it shut in a similar manner that makes it open and close once or twice too. It doesn't sound like this is what you are describing though. Freaky.

shujinkou · 66 points · Posted at 14:52:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a good one I have posted before. Technically happened to my wife not me, but a good story.

My wife is an RN and she was on float to another unit helping out (she normally worked cardiac but she was helping out in the Alzheimer’s unit). She was saving a particular patient for last as the patient was known to be a real pain. Very old, mean to everyone and just generally tried to make the nurses miserable. She and the respiratory therapist got to the patients room at the same time so they decided to tackle her together. They got into the room and the patient had smeared shit all over the walls of the bathroom and the hospital room, she was standing on the bed screaming and jumping up and down on the bed. The two of them somehow got the patient calmed down, got the horrible mess cleaned up, and got their jobs done. She said it took about three hours. They then got went out and put a do not disturb sign on the door to make sure the patient could stay calm and get some sleep. They were standing one person on each side of the door (herself and the repertory therapist) catching their breath and proclaiming how much that sucked when they spotted someone. A big farmer looking guy wearing a John Deere baseball cap, overalls, a red plaid checkered shirt and big work boots coming down the hospital hallway (and he looked kind of annoyed). He walked right past them into the patient’s room slamming the door open. My wife caught the door on the back swing and marched right into the room after him (respiratory therapist right behind her) planning on dragging him back out and giving him a piece of her mind. When she got in the room he was not there.

No sign of the person she followed in.

She looked under the bed.

She looked in the bathroom.

She checked behind all of the curtains.

She even made sure the window still would not open.

No sign of the farmer at all. She then noticed the patient was sitting upright in the bed just kind of staring off into space.

So she asked her: “Did you just see someone come into the room?” The patient said “Yes, it was my daddy; he said he was coming to take me home tonight and that you mean people won’t be able to hurt me anymore.” She responded with: “That’s great, how about you get some rest before he comes to pick you up.” The patient then lay down and went to sleep. The patient died that night.

My wife and the respiratory therapist swapped stories to make sure they were not crazy, they both saw it.

TL/DR; Wife saw a ghost come to pick up his daughter from the hospital.

JustsomeDane · 3 points · Posted at 11:28:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That actually warms me a little. I don't know, it's just somewhat comforting thinking that someone is "picking you up". ALthough the farmer in this instance didn't seem too nice :)

MiniMosher · 3 points · Posted at 12:44:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

well, if we go with the story, it's quite heartwarming that in her breakdown her father came back from the dead and marched into the hospital to rescue her :)

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:56:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have read this before! It gave me chills then, it gives me chills now.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:06:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy smackeroli!

That's lunacy

simplicity541 · 2118 points · Posted at 12:51:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One morning last December around 4:00am, I wake up to a piercing, shrill, alarm-like noise. In a panic I jump out of bed thinking it might be a phone or my car alarm or something but as I was trying to locate the origin of the noise, I realised it didn't change frequency or volume regardless of where I was in the house - there was no point of origin (as far as I could tell with my semi-conscious brain). So I'm stumbling around in complete darkness with a tiny flash light when I think to myself 'how stupid am I?! I just did the cliche horror film thing and started walking around in the dark instead of turning on the lights' - I find the light switch...click...click...click! CLICK! CLICK! It doesn't work!! I look outside, the whole neighbourhood's pitch black, no street lights, no cars, nothing. I grab the phone, it's dead. I find my mobile and call a friend, they don't pick up (probably because it was 4 in the fucking morning!! However my twisted brain led me to the conclusion that something awful had happened) So there I am, the shrill noise is still there in the background, I'm standing in complete darkness, and perhaps the sleep deprivation combined with the rush of adrenaline caused by my immense fear led me to the notion that the end of the world had arrived. I thought, whatever's happening doesn't matter, the adrenaline was wearing off and I felt exhausted and pretty down in general so I slinked off back to bed, falling asleep thinking I'd rather die peacefully in my sleep than fully aware of imminent death in the darkness.

That day, I found out our power had been cut in the night which set off a neighbour's home security system (he wasn't home to turn it off) which explains the lack of electricity and the awful noise.

TL;DR - Neighbour's alarm led me to believe the apocalypse had arrived.

Monkey_Chow_ · 1603 points · Posted at 13:32:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least you didn't run to the nearest living thing and start having sex with it

serendipitousevent · 960 points · Posted at 13:36:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least they didn't run to the nearest dead thing and start having sex with it.

[deleted] · 892 points · Posted at 13:58:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Two types of people.....

Alebuntu · 716 points · Posted at 14:23:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ʘ‿ʘ

THIS_IS_OVERUSED · 6 points · Posted at 18:04:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ

clb92 · 3 points · Posted at 18:31:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ‿ಠ

THIS_IS_OVERUSED · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

;)

CockOmelette · 4 points · Posted at 17:19:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

AH! IT'S THE SMILING MAN!

XephirothUltra · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have never laughed this hard at any face ever. Well done, good sir.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you the smiling man?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:43:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ʘ‿O

Minnesota_Winter · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Make that three...

heisenberg15 · 2 points · Posted at 22:26:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ

KnockoutKOD · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

•~•

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, now that is just creepy.

HeWentToJared91 · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tits.

DrWobstaCwaw · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least you didn't run to the nearest sex thing and start having a life with it.

sgtblast · -8 points · Posted at 14:51:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least you didn't run to the nearest living thing and start making it dead.

tailbonebruiser707 · 30 points · Posted at 15:09:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's over bro.

TheREDish · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alive and dead. Yes. Two types.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:25:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Potato, Tomato

LouQuacious · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

then there's that third freak group of us whose standards are living, attractive people of the opposite sex and same species...

QWERTY_J · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Three if you count comatose patient fuckers.

Ares54 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those who have sex during an apocalypse, and those who die before they can.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Rapists and Necrophiliacs?

Taodyn · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Living and dead.

TheJc0978 · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But are they really different?

ratz30 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Different strokes for different folks :)

Jolaroux · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those who can finish lists...

himself_v · 3 points · Posted at 20:58:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least the nearest dead thing didn't run to him.

gsjopul · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dog didn't like that either :}

Jmunnny · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least they didn't run to the nearest corner and start having sex with theirselve.

toleran · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stay classy Reddit

art_is_dumb · 1 points · Posted at 08:02:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what I call a serendipitous event

iamatfuckingwork · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, we'll how the hell else am I supposed to fall back asleep in the middle of the night?

RougeCrown · 0 points · Posted at 14:14:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least he didn't run to the nearest cousin and ask her for a blowjob.

cuntyfuckbags · 204 points · Posted at 13:55:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's my usual response when I realise I'm in a dream. One day it will end badly.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 14:05:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted]

BrianInYoBrain · 5 points · Posted at 15:19:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"So get this. I had this dream that I went to work in my underwear. I realize it's a dream and decide 'fck yeah, I'mma lucid dream this shit' so I said 'fck you boss' and f*cked his wife and secretary at the same time... turns out, I wasn't dreaming... I no longer have a job." Yeah... let's hope that doesn't happen.

YouCanSayThatHere · 10 points · Posted at 16:24:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Fuck"

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 18:47:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I kind of like this novelty account for some reason. You need to be more active.

BrianInYoBrain · 2 points · Posted at 07:22:37 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was trying to be family friendly by putting a an asterisk where the "u" is but I was not aware that reddit isn't about that shit. Fuck.

DerekMosher21 · 2 points · Posted at 14:38:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He never said he didn't.

What_A_Win · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Story time please.

simplicity541 · 1 points · Posted at 13:57:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would've been very very weird given that I live in a Cul-de-sac with lots of little old ladies and one creepy guy who lives alone and has a home security system.

sallydreams · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

O man, quite a few years ago I rented a bunch of cheesy looking zombie films from blockbuster (we were going to have a "B movie marathon") and one of them was, I shit you not, a porno. I forget (or repressed?) the name of it but here is almost every other scene:

[A boy and scantily dressed female are running through the woods and find a run down shack, there are holes in shack and it looks like the wind could blow it over. Zombies are in the horizon as shadows behind them]

Boy: let's hide in there! [Points to shack]

Girl: what are those things? I'm scared!

Boy: I will protect you! [Closes door to shack and props a door up against the crooked ass door and you can see zombies through the cracks, EVERYWHERE in the shack, way closer now, shambling with their arms up]

Girl: You're my big strong man! [Que swanky sex tunes as they hump like fevered rabbits on easter.]

O man, I haven't thought about that movie in years. It was softcore but when there is 20% plot, 60% sex and well, I guess 20% non-sexual action.... It's a porn, mmmk.

STylerMLmusic · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did this last week. Would not recommend.

Daemonecles · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

End of the world...might as well go back to bed.

killhimalready · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ever had sex with a couple blades of grass?

Doesn't really do anything for me, man.

omaca · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Says who?

Blacky31 · 727 points · Posted at 13:39:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was sitting in New Orleans airport on the 21st of December last year. All of a sudden all of the alarms everywhere went off. I legitimately thought it may have been the rapture.

Secretly I was praying it was zombie related.

Kubaker1 · 165 points · Posted at 14:23:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On the 21st of December? Not the end of the world?

Blacky31 · 206 points · Posted at 14:25:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I ran around looking for at least one Mayan, for predictions.

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 15:19:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey you look kind of Mayan, are you Mayan?

[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 15:43:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, no...Meeser Apocalypse no here.

this_raccoon · 4 points · Posted at 15:41:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"At least one Mayan. A dozen would have been better, because they could have contradicted themselves and argued and I could have made an average out of what they said. But just one Mayan would have been fine."

portablebiscuit · 8 points · Posted at 16:52:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Grabs man - "Are you Mayan?" "I am Russian." "Dammit!"
Grabs another man - "Are you Mayan?" "I'm Canadian." "Dammit!"
Grabs a third man - "Are you Mayan?" "I am Bolivian." "Close enough."

captainxenu · 5 points · Posted at 17:46:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"All I could find was a chick named Maya. I was soooo bummed."

Wreak_Peace · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend went to Cichen Itza on December 21st. Said there were loads of hippies there.

holomanga · 3 points · Posted at 21:36:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On the 21st of December my power went off. I fucking shat the great pyramids.

almigi · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was I the only one who was just a little dissapointed that the world didn't end? I already has a band of folks lined up and we had plans of where to loot for supplies and others we were going to track down to add to our little band.... but... nope... business as usual.

WillSuckStuff4Karma · 21 points · Posted at 14:23:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aren't we all?

dutchy131 · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Going around searching for mayans is just silly...

AfroKing23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No. Hell no. HEEELLLLLLLLLLL NO.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:36:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's never zombie related :(

dl064 · 2 points · Posted at 14:40:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In Madeira last christmas time there was an island-wide powercut. Literally everything except the boats at the harbour, and apparently parts of the hospital.

My pal thought it was cool; I thought that most awful, scary anecdotes started that way.

TheBigSweat · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you remember... the 21st night of December

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you know how disappointed i was on my birthday when no zombies arrived? Or at least a Jesus? But nope nothing! I was sad when i realized i was to live in reality for the rest of my life :(

Blacky31 · 2 points · Posted at 01:39:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

21st of Dec?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:05:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yup, another thing that sucks about having my bday on dec 21st I'd that at my family always counted 1 present for both bday and xmas....bastards

Blacky31 · 1 points · Posted at 13:06:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My birthday too, yep hate it

Bcarey1233 · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I was at a train station in Paris and there was an unusual amount of soldiers and police walking around. They started evacuating the lobby of this hotel connected to the station and putting up police tape. These guys were walking around with machine guns and were yelling french at people to back up. We were thinking there was about to be a politician or something showing up to the hotel cause it looked like they were pushing back the crowd for security reasons. All of a sudden all of the soldiers and police started yelling in french and taking cover, us Americans freaked and started running. All of a sudden BOOOM a "bomb" went off. And then the police guys all went back to normal and started packing up the tape. I guess it was a bomb-situation drill for them and all of the french people understood this, not speaking much french we were terrified.

square--one · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Incidentally I turned 21 on that day. Cos I am the child of the apocalypse.

Blacky31 · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I turned 28 haha

TobyH · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tiny tremor, probably. Tremors are freaky things, especially if you don't live on a fault line, because nobody expects them or knows what to do. My uncle tells this story about when he was sitting in a lesson, and it was dead quiet as all the kids were working away, and then suddenly this one little boy leaps to his feet and shouts 'DID YOU FEEL THAT!?' Everybody just sort of stares at him as he looks around expectantly, and the teacher just goes 'sit down, Johnny.' When he got home that night he saw the news: 'Tremors in Nottingham'.

tehspamninja · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't hope for zombies in an airport, there are no weapons to be found! Very little transportation aside from planes, and not a lot of food that doesn't go bad quickly either. Also, lots of people.

Epidemilk · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least it wasn't Denver airport, that place is fucking weird

Cocacolonoscopy · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

upvote for being in New Orleans!

pyote5 · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On the 12th of the 12th of the 12th I was at work in an office in a small town when all of a sudden the power goes out...EVERYWHERE. There was aMassive power cut and the whole street was dark. The only lights were of cars passing through. People were standing outside of their shops wondering what happened. It was pretty eerie. This one kid was shouting (Jokingly) "It's the end of the world we're all going to die".

The drama didn't last long though. Since everybody was on their phones immediately and it became clear pretty quick that everywhere else was fine and the world hadn't ended...but for a moment, seeing my computer click off and the office go dark, my heart raced just a little bit.

isny · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So it's the day of the apocalypse (Dec 12, 2012), and I, feeling the need for some apocalypse movies, put on the new 'War of the Worlds'. My son and I watch the first half of the film, where the attack begins with huge power outages. We eat dinner, and the power goes out. He then decides that he wants to sing 'It's the End of the World as We Know It'. My daughter starts freaking out. My wife looks out the window, sees lights in the distance (the mall), remarks that she's never seen those lights before...what could they be? I try to explain. Panic ensues. The power comes on two hours later. I figure that's how the apocalypse starts.

kiwifruitfan · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Having grown up in a church that preached about the rapture constantly, every time people seem to disappear for longer than 5 minutes and i cannot locate them, my first thought is always oh shit it's the rapture....

MrBonkies · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was around 13 and it was near years eve for 2001. There was a lot of talk about the world ending. I'm in the boston area and there are fireworks every year to celebrate the new year...though I didn't know of this. So JUST as it turned 12 am (aka 2001) and all of a sudden I started hearing BOOMING noises...I seriously thought the gates of hell were opening up somewhere nearby (and I'm not even particularly religious...or christian).

Numbajuan · 1 points · Posted at 13:46:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh. I'd be terrified. Louis Armstrong is a shifty airport, too. Under construction since...forever. Gosh.

SevenDeadZombies · 0 points · Posted at 15:35:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thats what I'm talking about!!!

[deleted] · 318 points · Posted at 14:37:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Oh man I thought your story was going to end with you realizing that the noise was actually coming from your brain itself and you are the only person who can hear it because its this terrible messed up audible screaming that somehow got triggered in your mind but it sounds to loud and real but it's only in your head. Kind of how you can sometimes hear ringing in your ears but this is very sudden, extremely loud, horrifying screaming that doesn't stop. I've heard of something creepy like that that can happen to anyone for seemingly no reason. It's scary.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:24:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

exploding head syndrome is weird. I have pretty loud tinnitus day in and day out, but occasionally get a bout of exploding head.

I don't know that the name is appropriate, but I can't think of a better description, it's just such a strange sensation that accompanies the sound.

All I've ever been able to describe it as, is as "hearing light". Just imagine someone has a dimmer switch on a very, very bright light, in your head and they're slowly cranking it up, and when it hits the top, the brightest it can go, the bulb explodes, in your fucking head.

flippertits · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I get this sometimes after a few days drinking heavily in a row. I'll be lying in bed hungover, just about to drift off to sleep and then BANG, it's like something going off inside my head and waking me up. Sometimes it's a weird sort of two-note whistle noise as well, but mostly a bang or a thud, like someone's hammering at my window (I live on the 4th floor). Weird.

butt-chin · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard a loud, building roar in my head one morning when I was half asleep. It was quite scary. It was the loudest thing I ever "heard." It lasted only very shortly, but it seemed like it wasn't gonna stop building in loudness. I thought I was being taken over or something.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:33:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's the thing that gets me about it. I've had a few experiences with it now (It strikes me a few times a year actually.) and it still freaks me out every time. I think because I can't say I heard it, I have to say I "heard" it, because I can barely even describe it as an actual sound, even though it's deafening as hell til it clears.

ughduck · 4 points · Posted at 15:13:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exploding head syndrome? That's where I thought this was going too.

Aruu · 7 points · Posted at 15:32:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've had exploding head syndrome once before, and that's all I ever want it. It felt like the TARDIS sound was going off inside my head.

doctorbedlam · 5 points · Posted at 16:06:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe when they announce the new episodes for the next series they'll have one called "Journey into Aruu's head"

Aruu · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahah that would make for a both interesting and disturbing episode.

Though I sure wouldn't mind having the Doctor in my... head.

dalek_cyber · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

art imitating life right there.

butt-chin · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, exploding head syndrome, I just looked that up and it sounds very similar to something that happened to me a couple of times. I'm half asleep and I "hear" this growing, deafening roar. Kind of scary. Didn't know it was an actual thing.

Aruu · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It only ever happened to me the once. I was very tired at the time, hadn't slept the night before, and had been drinking pretty heavily. I guess that all of those factored into it when I finally managed to fall asleep.

The same night was the first time I experienced sleep paralysis too. Really wasn't a fun night!

He_who_fights_foo · 3 points · Posted at 21:11:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, that happened to me once, combined with sleep paralysis. I was almost asleep, with some light music playing in the background, when all of a sudden I'm jolted "awake" by a very loud, yet not painful, roaring, kind of like low pitched radio static.

Consciously, I'm very awake, still able to make out the music. I'm paralyzed and can't move or scream, which I was trying very hard to do. About 20 seconds later I wake up pretty scared of what just happened.

Lotrent · 5 points · Posted at 15:03:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happens in the metro all the time.

webbitor · 4 points · Posted at 15:21:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

From time to time, I suffer from sleep paralysis (night terrors) just before waking up.

For me, this sometimes includes the sensation of a sound. It may be a piercing whistle or shriek, and once, I heard an orchestra blasting a single note. Of course it's always overwhelmingly loud and frightening.

A_brand_new_me · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I also have this problem some nights. Hell just two days ago I heard the absolute loudest plane sound just outside my window right as I was waking up. I was convinced I was indeed awake when it happened and fully expected to see a crashed plane or something outside but of course nothing. When exploding head/sleep paralysis happen to me it is truly terrifying. What makes it so bad for me is that I think I've woken up and just laying there with my eyes closed and then all of a sudden you hear a terrifically loud crashing sound ( a lot of times it sounds like thunder/lightening for me) which then actually wakes you up.

webbitor · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When it's an abrupt occurrence (exploding head), I classify it as a hypnic jerk, and my sensations range from a cannon going off to the feeling and sound of being hit in the head with a 2x4. Usually happens while drifting off.

I differentiate those from night terrors, which usually happen in the morning or sometimes in the middle of the night, and often include a period of paralyisis, and if I hear anything, it's more drawn out.

All of these, as well as migraines, seem to be triggered by exhaustion and dehydration. In recent years (I'm 34), both issues have mostly subsided, so maybe I'm growing out of them. But I've also made getting enough sleep a higher priority. Still get migraines, but rarely the tear-jerkers I got in my 20s.

wickedfarts · 5 points · Posted at 15:29:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The fuck. You just scared the shit out of me.

dfgrod · 2 points · Posted at 01:01:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jesus Christ.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:11:02 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

What

RidesCoattails · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stop!

free_dead_puppy · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happened to me when I was a kid. I didn't know that shit happened much.

iclubseals · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome, now my ears are ringing. Thanks a lot!

Just for that, you are now aware of your tongue in your mouth.

bgstratt · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was thinking tinnitus ala Archer.

gibson324 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sort of thing happens when I'm about to fall asleep, but its different noises everytime, but it takes a moment to register because I'm so close to sleeping.

HighSpeed556 · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You mean a bug crawling up into your ear drum?

Taodyn · 0 points · Posted at 19:57:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ring ring ring ring ring ring Banana Phone!

_vargas_ · 205 points · Posted at 13:28:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, but who cut the power?

Dreadedjippo · 786 points · Posted at 13:36:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nosferatu!

GetUrNoJokeRapeOn · 2 points · Posted at 14:53:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kinski then?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:53:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wish I could give you a bucket of upvotes.

Getpoopedon17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nah Captain Price did it

Toby-one · 0 points · Posted at 21:42:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually it was Gaz.

filbert13 · -5 points · Posted at 17:42:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this a reference from catdog?

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:27:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

spongebob

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:51:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hash slinging slasher.

zerostr · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But who was alarm?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hello? Who turned out the lights?

FillingTheVoidInside · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cut the power? They can't cut the power, they're animals!

okawei · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's still not that impressive Gob...

samweirdo · 2 points · Posted at 19:16:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What about the lighter fluid? Where did it come from?

GrantSolar · 2 points · Posted at 20:40:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was the aliens! Just like in my comic book!

Stalins_Brother · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

trevormatic · 2 points · Posted at 15:06:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BUT WHO WAS BED??!!

Rocklobster92 · 7 points · Posted at 14:33:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Something like this happened to me once when i was 12. I was at my grandparent's house and I went to use the bathroom. When I came out they were gone and nowhere to be found - they never leave. No note, no nothing. I look around and call for them - no response. I try to turn on the TV, it won't come on. The power is out. Strange. I walk outside and look around. Nobody in sight, things are eerily quiet. I start thinking something is off, so I go to the neighbor's house and knock on the door to see if they know where my grandparents are. No answer. Nobody is home. Try the other neighbor's house. Nothing. No power, no people, no noises - just me and a neighborhood full of silence. No cars go by. It must be the rapture. I've been left behind. I go back in and try the tv again. Still nothing. I sit down and cry for about an hour. Then my grandparents come back in. They were at a neighbor's house a few houses down visiting. They thought I would be OK by myself since I was 12. Turns out I wasn't OK by myself. Haven't spent much time alone since.

vitalious · 2 points · Posted at 14:22:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You sure gave up on life quickly. "Meh, fuck it..."

simplicity541 · 2 points · Posted at 17:44:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brain just went into shut down mode and decided it was better to be snuggled up in bed. Obviously I would not be of much use in a crisis situation.

aeruv · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Hello, we're alien slendermen." "Meh." sleepytiem

bee_randin · 2 points · Posted at 16:04:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That panic mixed with confusion is definitely some scary shit.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

end of the world? better go back to bed

DrThrobin · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A shrill alarm? My first reaction would be tornado. Hurry and put on clothes and shoes, grab who ever in the home and run for storm shelter/center of structure.

People need to realize those powerful storms can happen almost anywhere.

I_told_you_sooo · 3 points · Posted at 14:04:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alarms have back up batteries so they don't go off when the power goes out.

Source: can't think of anything clever. I install alarms.

simplicity541 · 2 points · Posted at 14:07:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks. I figured that one out through experience.

DownvoteTsunami · 2 points · Posted at 14:01:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like you were just too startled from sleep to comprehend a fairly benign scenario. It happens.

simplicity541 · 0 points · Posted at 14:06:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know. I went full retard because of some guy's alarm and I still can't believe how many irrational thoughts went through my head.

[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 13:42:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Once I heard a creak in the living room when it was pitch black downstairs at night while I was getting a drink.

I ran upstairs and got my fucking shotgun and blew the fucking door down(my brother was abused as a kid so I was really protective back then.) There were THREE fucking home invaders in my living room.

You're thinking the scary part has passed right? No. They were wearing these fucking creepy as hell Theatre masks(Like these ) and all standing there in a fucking line with suits on like FUCKING Slenderman.

They were facing me and it was like they WERE expecting me to suddenly blow the damn door down and threaten them with a fully loaded shotgun. They made no reaction to it however.

Well I asked them who the they were and told them to get the fuck out otherwise I would blow their faces off.

They didn't say a word.

The thing that caught my eye the most though was that their eyes were covered entirely by the mask. Like it wasn't possible for them to see. And it was pitch dark with no lights on before I came in - so how could they see? They were literally blind.

One of them picked up the picture of me and my mother on the table and fucking pointed at it with his shiny white gloved hand.

He then took off his mask-

edit: .....well he didn't get the chance because I blew it off. Then did off the other two.

Called the police and there were no records of these three in the database. Like they were three humans who had never existed. Their size and appearances weren't compatible with anything. It still creeps me out how they were essentially strangers and had never had any record of existing on this planet before this event.

Went in three days later for questioning and I'd heard their bodies had disappeared. Their bodies disappeared without a flash and the police were not doing anything about it. I'd asked why and the cop escorting me said "we don't question orders from higher up". I speculate this higher up had them removed and the story wiped.

I DID manage to look through the bodies before the cops came and there was pictures of my dad and mom holding letters next to some government building? What? This really shook me because my mom and dad died....7 years ago.

Apparently this went down deep and big too. I ruined my chance of getting involved by killing these invaders. I still regret doing such a stupid act.

There were also these tapes - really old audio tapes - in their pockets too, they seemed almost primitive. They were ones you inserted into your car or radio. I never got the chance to play them as I didn't have any of the necessary tape players around the house. I would've kept them if not for the police almost threatening me to hand the tapes over. They'd known I had them somehow and it seemed to be a top priority for them to get them from me.

It was 3 tapes in total.

I still wonder what was on those tapes, why the invaders were carrying them and if they were at my house to show them to me.

The tallest and biggest of three and the last to die DID speak but it was a "Wait-no" before I did him off. *It was a weird voice though - very wierd. * It was like a deep, creepy and soft kind of voice - the sort you get off big bad villains in movies.

Well I know - should not have killed three human beings like that. But I was fucking SCARED. And it was more of a reflex than a decision.

HugenMooks · 3 points · Posted at 13:48:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is there an ending to this?

EHendrix · 16 points · Posted at 15:33:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Give him time to make something up.

konratax · 0 points · Posted at 13:54:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

the suspense is killing me!!!

evylllint · 0 points · Posted at 15:35:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This story...

I don't know what to think anymore about life, the universe...or anything.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every time there's thunder in the middle of the night I assume it's nukes--the fuck is wrong with us?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And that's how myth and legends starts.

as-we-speak · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Funny, you mentioning total darkness reminded me of this story. When I was 12 or so, I woke up to a blindingly bright white sky. In my stupor and half asleep state, I was convinced somebody dropped a nuke on the city. I ran shit scared and jumped into my parents bed, thinking I should spend the last precious seconds of life with them. I jumped right between them and hugged them each with one arm, bracing for impact. When a few dozen seconds passed I realised that it was just a lovely sunny summer morning, the first in days after a long period of rain. Funnily enough, my parents didn't wake up, so I just crawled back to bed pretending nothing happened. I never told them what happened.

EDIT:spelling

JPost · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well let's not jump to conclusions or anything...!

KVillage1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sane thing happened to me when the blackout in NYC happened years ago. I was a kid just came home from camp and all the alarm systems went off at once on my block means my sister got into out family car and turned on the radio and all stations were static I was pretty sure the world ended

breeyan · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I too have have had one of those "oh the apocalypse is happening? Im just too tired to give a fuck. I am gonna go die in my bed " days

terevos2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Power being cut doesn't explain the phone being dead, because phone lines carry their own power.

lytesabre · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night I fell asleep listening to the Evil Dead 2 commentary. At some point in the early morning a thunderstorm started up and woke me just enough to hear it mixed with the screams and creepy music from the looping menu of the DVD, which made me think the apocalypse was going down. I also went back to sleep.

btribble · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me a little bit of the time I moved out of my parents and in with some roommates.

After sleeping poorly in a new house, I am woken up early in the morning before the sun came up by an alarm clock going off: be-be-be-beep! be-be-be-beep! I try to ignore it. Certainly one of my new roommates will shut it off. be-be-be-beep! be-be-be-beep! Hmmm... Ok, I'll go investigate. I stumble around yet-to-be-unpacked boxes in my pitch black room and turn on my light by the door and open it. The light spills out into the hallway and I lean out to see if I can figure out who's room the sound is coming out of. be-be-be-beep! be-be-be-beep! It isn't coming from one of the bedrooms, it is coming from the front of the house be-be-be-beep! be-be-be-beep! I turn on the hallway light and stumble towards the front be-be-be-beep! be-be-be-beep! There are tons of boxes that my roomates have left out there. (Story aside, this should have been foreshadowing of my roommates poor housekeeping habits) There are no lights to turn on in this room because we haven't plugged any in yet, just a faint light coming from the hallway. be-be-be-beep! be-be-be-beep! I narrow in on one box in the dark, and open it while thinking to myself "One of them has a travel alarm." After rummaging deeply in the box I my hand grabs something plastic and pulls it out. It's going be-be-be-beep! be-be-be-beep! It gets stuck as I'm pulling it out because the cord is wrapped around something. Wait, cord? I pull harder and the plug pops out and smacks me in the chest. be-be-be-beep! be-be-be-beep! I'm holding the clock in one hand, the electrical plug in the other and staring at the dark face of the clock with half closed blurry eyes. For a couple seconds I stand there in a strange house in complete confusion thinking I must be dreaming before I smash some buttons on the clock and it stops making noise. In retrospect, whoever designed a clock that still rings the alarm when it is on battery backup is a genius, but you freaked me the hell out for a minute.

fullmetalcorgi · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Am I the only one that read it as "so I'm stumbling around in the dark with a tiny FLESH light...." ?

Matthew1428 · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK! I was in the middle of reading this and I was home alone and suddenly the phone started ringing and nearly gave me a panic attack!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night I was playing Battlefield 3, a little intoxicated, alone at the time... When suddenly I hear the Emergency Broadcast System come on, announcing it was a message from NORAD and that an inbound missile was being tracked from North Korea. I couldn't believe it, but it was so surreal, I was wondering how EBS had taken control of my sound card... My heart sank, I felt cold and terrified... I got up to... I dunno, maybe seek shelter in my basement, seek confirmation, something. It was about that time that I realized I had previously queued up the Radioactive album from Yelawolf on Spotify, and that was just the intro, but it was my forst time hearing it.

tl;dr - The intro to Radioactive by Yelawolf made me temporarily think the world was ending.

Edit - stupid iPhone keyboard

Shmink_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't think I could sleep knowing my hours were limited, I'd probably do something that wouldn't matter in the panic like vacuum the house or something useless.

simplicity541 · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the massive adrenaline rush went to my head and they I just crashed when it wore off, suddenly the land of dreams beckoned and I thought 'what the hell, if it's gonna end now, might as well be tucked up in bed'

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time a squirrel did something to the generator outside my house and it made a loud boom and the lights went off.

My parents thought there was a bomb and they went crazy.

Makaque · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was once at home when I began to hear an alarm for which there seemed to be no source. I started off calmly trying to find it. Pretty soon I became frustrated. It was so loud. I tore my room apart but the sound was everywhere. I screamed and I covered my head but it didn't help. I thought for sure I would lose my sanity if it didn't end. Then I woke up. My phone alarm had been going off right next to my head the entire time. The urge to break my phone in half was strong.

simplicity541 · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I assure you, the urge to break my neighbour's neck was also pretty strong the following morning when I found out what had happened.

TicklishEyeball · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any PTSD?

kryonik · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of The Hum.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminds me of when I was working as a baggage handler. A big portion of my job was spent crouched inside the cargo hold, stacking luggage. One time a co-worker closed the door of the hold on me so I could scare another co-worker when he came to open the door. I sat for too long inside that pitch black hold and started to get scared I was going to be taking a flight inside it.

Well that's just the setup to the real story, which comes when my band got invited to play a show at a youth camp on an island. The electricity ran on generators and at night it got turned off, so it became pitch black at night, no light coming through the cabin window AT ALL. I was sleeping on a fairly narrow bunk bed and woke up in the middle of the night in that completely disoriented state you sometimes get when waking up in a strange place. WHERE AM I? Problem was that because it was pitch black I had absolutely no visuals to orient myself with, and the only thing I could feel was the cabin wall right next to me. My disoriented half-asleep mind flashed back to being trapped in the cargo hold of a plane and that became my reality for an absolutely terrifying half-minute or so. I can't quite describe the panic that I felt as I clawed blindly around the bunk, trying to figure out where I was, and then trying to figure out how to get out of the cargo hold.

simplicity541 · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The whole 'waking up in a strange place' always has a weird effect on the mind. Regardless of how rational you are, your brain jumped to a familiar but unfortunately terrifying scenario.

symon123 · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I literally laughed myself to tears at this.

Kellygrl6441 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is actually a recurring nightmare of mine: wake up and no lights no matter how hard I flip the switch; find everyone gone or unconscious. Freaks me out every time!

TarantusaurusRex · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You just reminded me of a really bizarre experience that I had when I was around 21 years old.

I was living with my boyfriend in a house we rented off campus. I commonly woke up in the night for multiple reasons--to get a glass of water, or use the toilet, etc.

But one night, something woke me up. I had a strange feeling. I laid in bed trying to figure out what it was that was making me feel so uncomfortable. Then, after a few minutes of staring into the darkness and listening to my boyfriend snore beside me, I noticed there was a low-frequency hum, a VERY low-frequency hum, that I could sort of feel in my body physically. It was causing me some discomfort, and it gave me an anxious feeling. After all, what could possibly be causing something like that between 2 and 4 in the morning in my neighborhood? I remember the cat was awake, and was also very alert (she typically slept on my pillow all through the night). When I sat up in bed and put my feet on the floor, I felt her fur against my leg. She wouldn't leave my side.

I got up and ventured into the house slowly, making my way to the front door. I couldn't figure out if the sound was inside or outside of the house. I opened the front door and looked out the glass door. There was so much fog, and the street lights were shining down into it. The fog was so thick that I could barely see past the sidewalk in our front yard, which was probably only 30 ft/9 meters away. I noticed movement. Two silhouettes were moving through the darkness. They were walking around in the street, sort of in circles, but not really going anywhere. They stopped and stood for a moment, possibly talking, and then they disappeared into the fog while my kitty and I stood there, watching them, confused.

I closed the front door and locked it. I locked the back door. I must have checked that the doors were locked three times, because I had such a frightened feeling in my stomach. Then, I went back to the bedroom, laid down in bed, and went back to sleep.

I can't believe I forgot about that eerie night. I was so tired and in a zombie state. It was so bizarre, everything, and all of those things happening at once. I know that there is some explanation, and that the two silhouettes were probably just a couple of college students walking home on a foggy night, but holy crap it was a weird experience.

kaseyeeyo · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fight or flight?Nope. Sleep.

simplicity541 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fight - nothing there to fight. Flight - where am I gonna go? If there's something out there I'd rather not go outside like a lamb to the slaughter. Sleep - ignorance is bliss, if I'm asleep then I won't see the zombies approaching.

pologiant · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God this happened last night in my house. Scary as fuck. Damn near pissed myself.

whiggie · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like how you calmed down after you came to conclusion that the world was ending instead of just going BATSHIT INSANE!

simplicity541 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I accepted my fate pretty quickly, I know.

thebeatsandreptaur · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was sleeping at a friends house in a city with a large nuclear reactor/test site in it when I heard a loud siren. I woke up obviously and asked my friends husband "What the hell is that?" he said "Its just the nuclear alarm you can go back to bed." or some thing to that effect. What he forgot to mention was that it was the nuclear alarms...monthly test. For about 10 seconds I was pretty sure I was fucked.

HanselSoHotRightNow · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have dreams of this notion on the regular and often after panicing, my response is to go back to sleep because I can't do anything about my impending death.

I have been getting them for years now and I don't know how to describe the range of emotions I run through only to land on, "I am going back to sleep." I think somewhere, my conscious mind knows that it is not real and that going back to sleep IS what I should be doing.

nameless88 · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On New Years Eve 1999, I was in 5th grade, and I was a little worried about Y2K, since I was young and everyone hyped it up a lot.

So, when the new year hit, I was like "Hey, cool, we're fine" and then the entire sky lit up like it was day time, and I kind of panicked for a split second because I thought all the nukes went off. Turns out, everyone just set off like a billion fireworks at once, because it was the year 2000, and I guess everyone wanted to explode a lot of shit that night because FUCK YEAH, NEW MILLENNIUM.

Point being, I've been in an apocalypse scare, and, I totally get it. You handled it like a champ.

simplicity541 · 2 points · Posted at 20:46:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

'went to bed' - yep, definitely handled it like a champ.

nameless88 · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Well, world's ending. Everyone I know and love is going to die, or is already dead. Fuck it, I'm going out sleeping, and tomorrow morning if I'm still around, I can start scrounging in the wasteland for the meager scraps I'll survive on from now on."

simplicity541 · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My crappy logic came to the conclusion that if everyone's dead I won't survive anyway. I mean I'm a skinny, white girl so not much of a chance at warding off zombies.

nameless88 · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dunno, I've played a lot of Fallout. I think I'd have a puh-reeettty decent chance of being the Last Best Hope of Humanity.

Or I'd be passed around like currency among Raiders.

I'd say it's a 50/50 chance of either.

GregorSD · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This EXACT thing happened to me a few years ago. I wasn't scared of it, more just annoyed. My mum however was horrified for some reason.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Never bought the "turning on the lights" thing is smart. It is your house, your eyes adjust to the dark and you have an advantage over everybody who isn't a navy seal. Horror movies keep the lights off to save money on the gore budget and to give the cinematographer a chance to shoot in the dark.

DerpingtonHerpsworth · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminds me of a short little story. My wife and I lived in a cheap apartment at the time, and every once in a while our fire alarm would go off for no reason so I'd go to check it out.

Sometimes it would just stop on it's own. Sometimes it stopped after I fiddled with it a little.

Well, this one time I wouldn't stop no matter what I did. I finally yanked the power cord out of the damn thing and left it to sit on the shelf to think about what it had done.

It might have been later that day or maybe a day or two later. I don't remember exactly. Anyway, I was hanging out at home and I heard it again. What the fuck?!

So I run upstairs, look around and see it sitting on the shelf where I left it. Still unplugged. I checked for batteries. Nope. Then I realized the sound wasn't coming from the alarm I was holding, but from the spot on the wall where it was usually mounted.

Not really knowing what I was going to do I reached up and grabbed the wires that plug into the back of the alarm, and...

It stopped.

Never happened again, and I have zero explanation for it.

There were no batteries, no other fire alarm in my apartment, and despite how thin the walls were at that apartment, I would be able to tell if it was the neighbors alarm. I've heard theirs go off before too.

Weird...

Marten_Toffy · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hah, pretty similar thing happened this morning. I was awaken to the sound of loud rumbling you normally attribute to big trucks passing by on the road, or a train, but it was much louder than the train that normally goes by, and lasted much longer than a truck. Really it only took a fraction of a second to realize what it was, but the real panic was when my training of getting up as fast as I could, packing clothes and canned foods and waking up my family. Then I realized I wasn't back home didn't have to do any of that stuff.

I still called my mom to tea couple hours later after I woke up, to tell her about it though. Earthquakes and tsunamis are scary shit.

ThinkRadical · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The alarm in my house did the exact same thing. Except it made me feel like I had brought on the apocalypse. Poor unsuspecting neighbors...

I had forgotten my damn passcode.

ciaran036 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I find the light switch...click...click...click! CLICK! CLICK! It doesn't work!!

This is a common nightmare scenario for me.

But when it actually happens, it scares the bollocks out of me. Usually it's just a blown fuse on a light bulb or whatever.

But what you described is the worst combination of events. A power cut. Being half-asleep, you can't see a thing, and you question whether this is a nightmare or real-life... and by fuck whatever you do, don't start hallucinating. Jesus fuck. Pirates and clowns are the scariest creatures of nightmares, I don't need them crossing into reality!

tryeffer · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought towards the end you were going to mention that the neighbors power was cut off and their alarm went off because someone broke in and when you were downstairs the robber was in your house but you couldn't see him because the power was off so you went back to bed without realizing that you almost brushed shoulders with another unknown man inside your home

Becca_smashley · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This exact thing happened to me! It was the carbon monoxide detector malfunctioning.

SquishMitt3n · 1 points · Posted at 09:48:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

same thing happened to me except it was our alarm. Luckily I figured it out in the first 5 minutes, but I almost had a fucking heart attack when it woke me up.

ceejiesqueejie · 1 points · Posted at 13:38:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would straight up be having a panic attack.

TehHolyFace · 1 points · Posted at 13:57:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everything is terrifying when you wake up. I once fell asleep on the sofa and woke up to hearing in a soft voice "Jammy....Jammy....Jammy?" Then I woke up to this advert when the monkey is looking directly at the camera. I jumped to my feet while my heart was pretty much pumping out of my chest. The advert still creeps me out today. Damn Jammy Dodgers.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

To be fair, until the monkey starts dancing it is a reasonably creepy commercial. Although it is possible I only feel this way because I have been reading creepy stories for the past half hour...

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:41:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How did you know it was 4 am in the morning?

simplicity541 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mobile.

GriffinGTR24 · -21 points · Posted at 13:13:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I predict many upvotes for this comment. EDIT: This was meant for the above comment. Learn to use context clues, people.

MrBuddyHolly · -2 points · Posted at 13:41:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

extra bonus points(upvotes) if it happened on December 21st, 2012

simplicity541 · 1 points · Posted at 14:01:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well it was nearing the date but I don't remember the exact morning this happened, however despite being the rational, sane human being that I am normally, the thought crossed my mind as I was drifting off to sleep.

MrBuddyHolly · 1 points · Posted at 14:07:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"man they WERE right, and I've been too busy to restock my y2k shelter!"

wolfmanravi · 65 points · Posted at 15:24:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

My parents were out one night and my brother and I were home alone. We were probably 12 and 10, respectively. Anyway, there's a knock at the door and I hear a voice say "Pizza." Initially thinking it was my father playing a joke I instinctively went to open the door when it hit me...

That wasn't my dad's voice.

"We didn't order any pizza" I said. There was no reply and no audible movement. I went to my bathroom window which allows some vision of the footpath leading from the front of our property to the front door but you can't see the door itself. So we waited for about 15 minutes clutching a cricket bat and some ornamental fireplace poker until finally the dude moves away from the door and walks away.

Just some guy with dark hair in a long ponytail, a long dark coat and no pizza.

edit: changed some nouns for clarity

J973 · 42 points · Posted at 16:16:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure you saved yourselves from getting raped and murdered.

honeybadga · 5 points · Posted at 22:03:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or getting pizza'd

allergictoyourcat · 4 points · Posted at 20:05:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This gives /r/random_acts_of_pizza a whole new feel.

vVvMaze · 8 points · Posted at 20:29:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

as a former pizza delivery person ive been on the other side of that door a couple times. It makes you real uncomfortable when the home owners are freaked out at your presence.

One time I went to the wrong house and rang the doorbell. All the lights in the house went off and soem guy on the other side yelled "what do you want!?"

I knew right away it was the wrong house by the way he said it. There was no house number on basically any houses on the street (dont know how the mailman knew) So I asked him his house number and told him i was looking for number 316. He said this isnt 316 and told me to leave right away....

As I walked away and got back in my car I looked back at the house and saw the blinds pulled apart. Lights were all still off but the guy was watching me until I drove away. I never saw his face.

By the end of it, I was the freaked out one.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 08:15:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

How scary. It reminds me of The Strangers.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:13:54 on June 26, 2013 · (Permalink)

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wolfmanravi · 4 points · Posted at 03:18:33 on June 27, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in Australia dude. And this was in the mid 90s.. Maybe he's just a real dedicated international stalker-type..

ludnik · 67 points · Posted at 20:06:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is creepy, at least I always thought it was. I was working in a big grocery warehouse, hundreds of people worked there, it was night shift, sitting in a breakroom at lunch with a couple of other guys trying to find something to talk about to stay awake. I started talking about the best jobs I'd ever had. After a minute or so this older guy who never ever said more than a word or two at a time starts telling us about this nursing home he used to work at. He was in his 60's and he'd already been at this current job for 30+ years at the time, so his story took place when he was a young man ( I surmised ). He was an attendant for this nursing home and he told us he used to have sex with many of the female residents. These were elderly ladies and handicapped people as well. He told us he'd usually get it on with at least one of them every night and they were all very grateful for his attention. He felt he was in heaven at the time. According to him some of the ladies he was involved with were in their 80's and all of them were very lonely. He said his favorite was a younger woman who had cerebral palsy or some nerve disorder. He said that although she couldn't talk, he could tell she loved his attentions by the way she'd squirm and wiggle during sex. He told us he'd eventually been "let go" from this dream job but not for what reason. When break was over and he left the breakroom me and the other guy sat there for a moment and I asked him if he'd ever heard that story before. He said "Hell no, I've never even heard him talk that long about anything before." The guy in question was always such a quiet guy and I switched back to day shift not long after that so I never talked about it with him again. But it really stuck in my mind in a creepy way. I think he BELIEVED what he said but were these women his lovers or his victims?

HI_McDonnough · 25 points · Posted at 01:20:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep, rape. Every damn time.

Xaevier · 2 points · Posted at 14:30:32 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

The cerebra palsy one indeed sounds like rape but there are quite a few older nursing home patients who are perfectly mentally capable and did enjoy his company. Just because a person get's old doesnt mean they stop wanting attention and even sex.

HI_McDonnough · 6 points · Posted at 22:30:11 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is no indication from the story that there was any consent...and if one looks like it was done without consent, likely others were the same. Nursing home residents do have a right to have sex, and many of them do. But if he had to creep around to do it, I am doubting consent.

Just because someone is old doesn't mean they will be more likely to want sex from a perv. It is more likely that he was targeting the most vulnerable patients, those with mental status changes or post-CVA unable to talk.

The most worrisome part to this story is that the younger person with CP may have been completely aware of what was going on...and some of the older people incapacitated but still mentally aware...even those that were confused were likely to be afraid.

I can't believe that if these multiple women were all alert and oriented that they would have liked the sexual musical chairs. Someone would have eventually complained, likely loudly. Admin would have had a difficult time with just a hush-hush firing, then...but sex with people who can't talk? Easy to just fire the guy and ignore that it ever happened.

I myself plan on sex in my 80s, and know plenty of people in their 80s who are sexually active. But I DO NOT FOR ONE MINUTE believe this guy was some Don Juan of the nursing home set.

allergictoyourcat · 9 points · Posted at 20:01:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I. I. Jesus this has no words. But yes Rape comes to mind.

mmorales4 · 8 points · Posted at 01:47:17 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

have you reported this guy? this is rape, if not you need to report him someone that depraved should not be walking about free

ludnik · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:40 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard this probably 20 years ago and the guy was 60-something then. He's dead.

davidandsarah08 · 10 points · Posted at 06:05:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, he sounds like a rapist to me.

honeyblunt · 3 points · Posted at 03:07:37 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's always the quiet ones

ludnik · 3 points · Posted at 15:05:53 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

.. yeah. Think about the tall hillbilly that held the gun in the movie Deliverance and you've got this guy. Real quiet.

alalal982 · 29 points · Posted at 18:28:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened just a couple weeks ago on a friday. It was late at night, around midnight. I had two friends in my car, we were coming back from a restaurant to celebrate finishing up the school play. I just dropped the first friend off and was now making the four or five mile drive to my second friend's house. It's a narrow road in MA that cuts through some pretty dense woods. She was in the front seat and we were listening to ballads, just talking about life. Not a big deal.

I was behind a deep red pickup truck that had a motorcycle in the bed of it the entire way so far. I wasn't tailgating them, nothing, even though the driver was going a bit slow for my tastes and swerving around just a tad too much. When I'm just about to reach this intersection that's not even a block from my second friend's house, this guy pulls over. Seemingly no reason, he just pulled over to the side of the road about a car or two's length from the blinking red light. As I pass him to stop up ahead, I see his face. He has a pretty generic face, nothing unusual, but he's staring right at us with anger in his eyes. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I just sense something's...not quite right. My friend looks out the window and says; "What is he doing?" shakily. I look at my rearview mirror to see the guy getting out of the seat, pulling a ski-mask over his face and wielding a huge, I'd say 10 inch knife in his hand. He started sprinting at my car, almost reaching the passenger side. I screamed and slammed on the gas, driving around for a while, the man only chasing my car for a few blocks until he knew he wasn't going to catch us. When I got back at the intersection minutes later to drop my friend off, he was gone. My friend ran inside, locked her doors and everything and I sped away, but it. Was. Terrifying. I told the police and filled out a report last week. Never driving at that intersection again.

vVvMaze · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:43 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

is there a follow up? Did the police ever say they found him?

alalal982 · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:21 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry for the late reply, but no. Haven't heard from the police since the incident.

Walden_swirl · 28 points · Posted at 06:22:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was about 14-15 years old and living in my parents mobile home in southern california. We lived in a quiet beach town where everybody knew each other and nothing bad ever happened. Anyway, It was a school night about 11pm so I was laying in bed waiting to fall asleep. In those days I had a loft bed, which looks like a bunk bed except instead of a bottom bunk there was a desk which had my computer and tv and stuff on it. It was getting close to summer so I had my window open to let in the cool air. I was just about to fall asleep when my screen fell off my window sill and crashed onto my bedroom floor. Now this still isnt a strange occurence because I would often come home and leave through my bedroom window so the screen did not perfectly fit into place due to me taking it off so regularly, so it would periodically fall off but it did startle me and got my blood flowing. So i rolled over in bed and looked up at the ceiling and thought I would just put it back on in the morning. Then the pungent, sickly sweet odor wafted up into my face. I couldnt exactly put my finger on what that smell was but i thought it was very strange and I should maybe check it out... but slowly because I was tired and it was most likely a raccoon that had died under the house (wouldnt be the first time) So i rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, sat up in bed, and let my legs hang off the side. My heart jumped up into my throat as i saw a large tattooed arm reach through my window and feel around on the floor in my bedroom. The guy grabbed the screen and slowly, quietly pulled it out the window. At this point I was freaked the fuck out and my adrenaline had kicked in at levels my pre-pubescent body had never before experienced. My eyes started to water, I stopped breathing, and time stopped. I thought it could have been some crazy crack head coming to kill us and steal all our valuables. seconds ticked by and I sat there in my bed not two feet above the window the arm had just shot through. I thought maybe he will just go away. But of course he didnt. To my horror I watched as the mans arm grabbed my window frame once again then he pulled himself up slowly and a leg crept through next. It was silent and had I been asleep this mountain of a man would have come into my room without a sound and we never would have know he was there. But, I was not asleep. I grabbed the bowie knife I kept underneath my pillow (because I, just like every other teenage boy, was a badass) and I yelled at the top of my lungs "I HAVE A KNIFE GET THE HELL OUT OF MY ROOM!" and before the guy could completely pull himself up into my room from outside I scared him. He lost his footing and fell backwards out my window and into rosemary bushes outside cussing and spittin. I remember yelling out for my dad and saying something along the lines of "DAD SOMEBODYS BREAKING IN" and he was at my bedside faster then I could get the words out. He looking out the window, told me to stay there, and jumped out the window after this smelly fucking ogre. He never did find that guy but police came and looked and eventually they decided it was a drunk homeless guy who was desperate and looking for a place to sleep and maybe some free food and stuff to pawn. So we locked up the house fixed my window and went back to bed a couple hours later. I didnt sleep that night. That was an incredibly tramatic experience for me being that I was essentially the person who had to confront a home invader. But that isnt the scary part. Whats truly horrifying is, a couple days later we found a makeshift home underneath our house with a sleeping bag, water, extra clothes, and a big ass hatchet... This guy had been living underneath our house for god knows how long without anybody knowing he was there. I believe he chose to come in through my room because It was the only room in the house that was open to the outside that you could not see a person sleeping in it unless you where standing in the room (because the loft bed made it look like it was only a desk from the outside). I still think to this day the dude had planned on robbing us, cased the house, and chose my room as his entry point because he could get in quietly so he wouldnt wake anybody up. He then built his home under our house and waited for his opportunity. Then whenIi left my window open he decided to strike. Ive had tons of crazy scary shit happen to me in my life but that series of events that unfolded was easily one of the most fucked up things thats happened to me and it really opened my eyes to the fact that crazy fucked up things do happen to normal people and you should always hope for the best but plan for the worst.

TLDR; crazy tattooed ogre man tried to break into my bedroom when I was a kid

InstyKim · 7 points · Posted at 13:58:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I totally know that feeling.

When I was about 6 years old, my cousin was sleeping over at my house. We played games and when it was time to sleep, we slept in my bedroom. My bed was big enough for both of us so we lay there talking until we fell asleep. Sometime in the night, we both woke up to a sound. We weren't sure what it was but it woke both of us and scared us enough that we didn't move and began to talk in whispers. She and I, at the same time, look toward my window where I had a desk and a coat rack. The moon was shining through the window and we could just barely make out a large figure attempting to conceal itself behind the coat rack and desk.

As soon as we realize it's an actual person and not just some trick of light and shadow, we didn't say a word or scream but just booked it out of the room and into my mom's bedroom. We told her there was someone in my room. She instantly called the cops.

The cops were quick. Like, really quick. The intruder turned out to be this man who was distantly related to my family. His excuse for being in a 6 year old girl's room in the middle of the night was that he was coming over to see if my mom wanted to buy some knives...which he was carrying around with him. Yeah.

SpyGlassez · 3 points · Posted at 04:28:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit, that is scary.

Deadbreeze · 2 points · Posted at 09:58:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Annnnd the ol' KA-BAR is going under the pillow tonight. Let's just hope I don't stab my cat.

assortedwarheads · 430 points · Posted at 13:52:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

"The photo of you that will be used at your funeral has already been taken."

Edit: It's supposed to sound more threatening than creepy. Obviously it wouldn't be true unless your death is imminent.

pure_satire · 107 points · Posted at 15:40:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit, all my recent photos are terrible.

Subscribe-n-Unzip · 2 points · Posted at 01:49:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

True.

Source: I'm most of your recent photos.

HoboMagoo · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:57 on October 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

*Gives imaginary gold (sorry I'm poor)

danroccks · 9 points · Posted at 16:35:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I was in the Navy and my mom has my bootcamp graduation photo hung up on our wall and I always think "That photo will be resting on my coffin."

assortedwarheads · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They always seem to use those photos for deceased soldiers, don't they? Now that I think about, I'm sure every graduate must have been thinking the exact same thing as you. Damn...

frozenpredator · 9 points · Posted at 18:19:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I went to Afghanistan I had to take my 'funeral' picture before going. And then had to sign what was essentially my will...

I did that together with my dad

electrobolt · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for your service.

keith_HUGECOCK · 7 points · Posted at 16:14:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't show up in photos.

samino_acids · 4 points · Posted at 17:42:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me either.

Or mirrors, I can never get my hair right...shame.

girls_might_poop · 3 points · Posted at 16:36:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Wait. What?

Edit: Ahhh.

Kindhamster · 7 points · Posted at 15:54:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hopefully not for me...

I really hope that when I die I'm old enough for a photo of me at 16 to be irrelevant.

Ghostnips · 2 points · Posted at 02:35:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always thought that "you pass your death day once a year." Was a little more chilling.

Cheesemoose326 · 3 points · Posted at 15:48:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Unless I die pretty soon, that's doubtful. It will probably be in some kind if scrapbook, though.

assortedwarheads · 8 points · Posted at 15:53:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's the idea, that your death will be soon.

Chongling · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually pretty depressing considering all the different possibilities why it was the last/best picture taken of you. What if cameras were outlawed?

death_style · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit, that's creepy

ProfBatman · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Meh. Even if I lived to be 100, I'd want them to use a nice pic of me at age 25.

Summon_Jet_Truck · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope my friend donates my crossdressing photo to the cause.

I want there to be laughter at my funeral.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:55 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

and only scary if you give a shit about dying

Extinguisher312 · 0 points · Posted at 15:47:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow. I never thought of that before, that's creepy. Now I'm sad:(

DilatedSphincter · 0 points · Posted at 16:30:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

how is that creepy?

assortedwarheads · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is was intended to sound threatening rather than creepy.

jedibassist · 27 points · Posted at 15:56:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was either 16 or 17, and was staying over at a friend's house that was 50 miles from nowhere in upstate New York. He went by the name 'Raven' and lived with him mom on a skinny dirt road with only a few houses on it.

We decided to go for a walk to take a break from video games, and to smoke a few cigarettes where his mom wouldn't give us any shit, and while we're walking I start noticing some old stone walls up in the woods a bit, and a path that seems recently used. Intrigued, we followed the path up into the woods, hoping that we'd come across some pot plants or something good like that. Instead, after following the path along the stone wall for a bit, the woods opened up into a clearing that was obviously an old ass graveyard. There were maybe 20-30 headstones that were in various stages of decay, and an old wooden shack, all surrounded by a crumbling stone wall. There was a wooden entry arch at one point it seemed, but it had rotted away into nothingness quite some time ago.

So we start poking around a bit. My buddy walks off to the far end to check out one of the larger headstones, maybe to see if we could find one with a readable name, or something we could get a stone rubbing from. I walked over towards the shack to see what state of decay it was in. At this point I noticed that the shack had a lock on the front, and seemed pretty sturdy. I walked around to the back side, where there was a window. It only took a couple of seconds for me to realize that I was staring at a workbench that held a massive pile of human bones, complete with skulls, etc. All of them seemed bleach-clean, like something out of the movies. I turned to where my buddy had headed off to to see him running towards me. All he said was "dude, there's an open fucking grave over there." I pointed into the window at the bones and his eyes went wide.

Thoroughly creeped out at this point, we just took off back the way we came. When I asked about the open grave, he said that it looked like there was an old rotten casket down in the hole. So my best guess is that someone was excavating this old ass graveyard. For what purpose I'll never know, nor do I want to.

vVvMaze · 3 points · Posted at 20:36:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

after 200 years since last burial, graveyards can be bought and the graves removed. Remains cremated and the land used for something else. That is probably what was going on.

danhalen1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:07 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

What town was this in?

AnalogPen · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:40 on July 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could have been grave robbers. They will take gold teeth, burial jewelry, etc.

Ashidoku · 30 points · Posted at 16:59:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Anasi's Goatman Story

As far as I know this has convinced me to never go camping again.

InstyKim · 4 points · Posted at 19:11:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOoo^{o^{o^o}}

Deadbreeze · 3 points · Posted at 10:38:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepy as FUCK. But I kept wondering, how the fuck do you not notice a new person? Even after a couple hours with twelve other people you should... aw what the fuck do I know. Could make a fuckin scary movie off that shit. I know that.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:39:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy sweet mother of god.

That's a hell of a story.

AnalogPen · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:44 on July 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was awesome.

Lindarama · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:17 on September 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my god, that is so terrifying. I'm sure it's fictional but part of me wishes that it was true.

laythepipe · 30 points · Posted at 18:24:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My boss had a coworker (single female) who had just moved into a brand new apartment complex, which was in a decent neighborhood and seemingly secure. She came home one day to find that she had not only been robbed of all her electronics, but the perpetrator had done a bunch of creepy stuff like eat her food, lay on her bed, and go through her tax documents. The police advised she move, as he was likely to come back as soon as she replaced her belongings. So she bought a house across town. When she moved she started getting these phone calls from random or blocked numbers. The guy would say things like "I saw you at work today walking to your car" or "I saw you at the grocery store", and she could recognize his voice but not place it. So I guess this chick was blind as a bat and would always take her glasses off right before bed and place them on her nightstand. One morning she woke up and her glasses were missing. She tore her house apart, and ended up going to the eye doctor to get a new pair. She came home from work the next day, and her glasses were laying neatly on her pillow. She got a new job and moved out of the state, never to have any issues again.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 18:18:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I almost threw up from reading this. This is basically my worst nightmare.

pastel-forest · 3 points · Posted at 14:47:52 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Amen. Shit like this shouldn't be allowed to happen in real life.

suster525 · 1488 points · Posted at 13:18:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I think I found your usename on Reddit."

[deleted] · 95 points · Posted at 15:23:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Famous last words.

Ashneaska · 18 points · Posted at 18:17:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I AM NOT AFRAID TO KEEP ON LIVIN'

CptSilver · 5 points · Posted at 18:43:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

:'(

SmoSays · 2 points · Posted at 05:53:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I looked through your reddit history hoping you'd mention your name somewhere so I could freak you out and go, 'On that note, YOURACTUALNAME, I have known about your reddit account for a while now'.

I didn't learn much aside from you being Iranian and in Switzerland studying law I think. And also not very happy (to say the least).

I once planned my suicide and even got to the point of writing my suicide notes (one for each person I knew/loved). This scared me and I managed to talk myself off the ledge so to speak by digging into what I love most: reading and movie-watching.

In that, I couldn't kill myself because I have to read this book when it comes out or see this movie. I set small attainable goals like 'stay alive for a few months until X comes out' and I would always eventually find something else to wait for.

Instead of seeing this whole life of misery (as it seemed at the time) ahead of me, I had something to look forward to that was in my control. And control, I think, is something depression sucks away. So once I started working to obtain pleasurable things/experiences, no matter how inconsequential it may seem, it sort of took a bit of the sadness away. I started taking control in other ways and also am taking medication (which helps greatly).

And I've entertained this plan, and I implore you to do the same, that I could just run away. I could literally flee and live somewhere anonymously where nobody knows me and I don't have to worry about the rough life I have currently. And that safety net is actually really helpful.

I hope this helps you in some way.

PS. Distraction is your friend. Some say you shouldn't use a crutch and I say fuck those people. Think of it like having a broken leg: you will have to use crutches for a while and may even need a cane the rest of your life. Distract yourself so you don't even have a chance to think about how shitty things are and you may need to do that to unwind in the future. Sometimes when you stop thinking about things, they don't seem as bad when you revisit them.

And for me, my worst enemy is an idle mind.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:08 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahahaha thanks a lot for having taken the time out and typing this out. It really means a lot!

Actually your plan with the short-term goals is very smart and sounds effective! Also, the crutch analogy was genious. You must be a very smart person!

The thing is when I have my episodes not even the dearest to me matters anymore, so I don't know if I will be able to "look forward" to something. I'll try it next time around. Thanks again :)

PS. I still freaked out a little when you outted my personal information lol

SmoSays · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:07 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't have to look too deep to find your info. I tried was honestly like three comments next to each other that had your age etc.

The worst part of depression is that even when you have a good (or alright) day, you know it won't last, that the depression will come back, you know? But this is a flawed way of thinking. It assumes that your default emotion is depressed. Because your bad days or moods ALSO end eventually. It may seem like the bad outweigh the good but that's because our minds are predisposed to focus and remember the negative. After all, aren't most news stories about bad stuff happening? I forget the scientific reason for this. I think it has something to do with evolution and survival. Sometimes it helps me to focus on other people's bad stuff. Their problems are easier to deal with than my own. It also helps to put my life in perspective, to see lives ten times worse than mine.

WARNING: THIS MAY LEAD TO MARATHONING REALITY TV. My drug of choice is true crime. And /r/letsnotmeet is a great rabbit hole to go down.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:01 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahaha thanks.

Btw I think you should make a post on /r/depression, describing what depression is like. Your descriptions are spot on!

barton26 · 18 points · Posted at 15:25:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now you have to kill them.

JRezR · 20 points · Posted at 15:40:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"What's a reddit?"

swagaroofagaroo · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:13 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's le readit?

bobmuluga · 18 points · Posted at 15:48:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's when you deny it and then delete everything.

keith_HUGECOCK · 15 points · Posted at 15:55:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah this is always awkward for me.

Ancaeus · 9 points · Posted at 17:53:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Keith!?!

pcc987 · 9 points · Posted at 18:23:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He prefers Dr. Hugecock

keith_HUGECOCK · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes?

swagmaster9000 · 13 points · Posted at 16:10:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

explains the 3 day old account

[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 15:23:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

3scary5me

tendorphin · 4 points · Posted at 15:27:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...said Mom.

Parker_I · 3 points · Posted at 16:50:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Somebody looked over my shoulder at school and got my username. :(

suster525 · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh boy that sucks:-(

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:59:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

3 times I have deleted my reddit account and made a new one because of this.

KevinPeters · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:44 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you by any chance David's sister?

silkysmoothie · 4 points · Posted at 15:46:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Usename ?

suster525 · 7 points · Posted at 16:30:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I accidentally wod.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:21:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I believe it's French for "Username"

silkysmoothie · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obviously. How didn't i think of that?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:58:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to be Nyerg

king_of_blades · 4 points · Posted at 18:33:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually two of my close friends know my reddit username. Both are internet savvy and redditors, so they won't be weirded out by usual internet shenanigans, but it makes me think twice before I post something I shouldn't.

DaveTheRoper · 3 points · Posted at 15:45:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My worst fear. O.o

HotDogOnAPlate · 2 points · Posted at 17:44:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[shudder]

Traciikay · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ahh!! This just happened to me this week. >_<

XephirothUltra · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Since it's still an "I think", I could probably deny it and say it's not.

jax9999 · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh shit delete delete delete.

reddit should have an emergency button simply called "mom found reddit"

it deletes all posts.

Thefreak666 · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

deletes reddit account throws hard drive into the ocean moves to africa

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I never want to hear those words from ANYONE in my life.

ErrorNotValid · 2 points · Posted at 19:46:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Giving someone anonymity can bring out the worst of them."

TheFundleBunny · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are...

are you..

suster525?

I found your username too!

PhoenixPaladin · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

USEname

sonic4031 · 2 points · Posted at 22:29:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get it.

Sunny_Bunny808 · 2 points · Posted at 02:52:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

stuart?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:34:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

DELETEDELETEDELETEDELETE!

Dylan_the_Villain · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My worst fear (slight exaggeration) is someone finding my reddit username but not telling me. Just watching my every comment, silently judging me.

suster525 · 2 points · Posted at 23:45:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh gosh. That is scary...

anonymous11235 · 268 points · Posted at 13:51:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know about creepiest ever, but recently I had a good scare... I was out camping and took an extra day at the campground so I was the only person left. Great big field, one tent. The park owner even offered to refund my money if I wanted to leave, but I was there on my own specifically to get away from the hustle and bustle, and I stayed the extra night.

I finished a novel I was working through and decided to finish the night playing call of Cthulhu on my iPad--not really scary but it sets a mood, you know. I fall asleep and wake up to something poking me in the back. I lie there : poke poke. It's in the middle of my back and I can here it scraping the bottom of my tent.

I look around without moving. My neighbors had told me about seeing some venomous snakes and I'm worried maybe something crawled in to get warm... I finally decided that it must be under the tent itself. Poke poke.

I sit up and the thing shimmies out from under the tent into the woods. For all I know it was a chipmunk or mole or something trying to keep warm, but it did give me a scare.

Karbear_debonair · 47 points · Posted at 14:12:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You just reminded me of one of my creepy stories.

I grew up in a house that was creepy as hell. Everyone saw shadows move, everyone lost things, everyone heard voices in that house. People who had never heard the stories about it would come into the house for the first time and comment on strange things.

One night during the summer I'm laying awake on my bed trying to fall asleep. But I can't. It's too hot, and it feels weird in the room. I'm on my right side, then my left, then back again. This whole time my brother is singing and tapping in the bunk above me.

Finally, pissed, I reach up to push up on his bed. I would do that in retaliation when he was loud. As I roll onto my back I feel a hand through my mattress. It started at my neck and swept down my back, pushing the mattress as it went. Scared the ever-living fuck right out of me.

I never did figure out what the hell that was.

Raenryong · 12 points · Posted at 17:48:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck that......

Segat1 · 3 points · Posted at 21:33:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Logon-q · 1 points · Posted at 11:19:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you where just microsleeping?

Falling asleep short periods and dreaming.

heavydeflips · 17 points · Posted at 18:50:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was a post on a /r/askreddit thread similar to this one where a guy was camping by himself. He basically was awoken during the night to something sucking/licking his toes. He finally gets the courage to look and discovers that there is a grotesque, deformed MAN in his tent. He startles the man and the guy runs off to a line of trees where another man is standing with a lantern in his hand. They stand there for a hour or so just staring at this guy and finally disappear into the woods.

Hopefully someone can find this thread/post. It was one of the most terrifying things I have ever read and my description of the post does it NO justice.

anonymous11235 · 8 points · Posted at 18:58:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You make a convincing argument that I should never camp (or I fact be) alone. Ever.

PsuedoNom · 6 points · Posted at 19:20:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fuck that one scared me so much I almost started crying. I'm not sure I'd want to read that story.

Teapotfox · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE

That's it, I'm out. All done. Never, ever camping ever again.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really want to read it now.

heavydeflips · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I asked the fine people over at /r/tipofmytongue for help, waiting for a response.

GritsConQueso · 12 points · Posted at 15:51:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That reminds me of a camping trip in the Olympic National Park, along the shore in Washington State. It may have been the Mosquito Creek campsite. Anyway, I had packed in a brown paper bag with a couple of apples in it, and I was looking forward to eating one at the end of a long day's hike. It was dusk, and my tent was already up. So I sat down near the fire with my legs out in front of me, back propped against a tree, and I was holding the bag in my lap when I just, kind of, fell asleep peacefully before I could actually do much of anything. Then I woke up with a start when my apple bag started rustling violently, and then one of the apples just jumped out of the bag. It took me a minute to get a fix on what was happening, but as I came to and calmed down I caught site of a weasel or chipmunk or something similar which had my apple and was making it's way off with it... which means that the creature was in my lap for a while. Anyway, that was a good trip, and the experience was more amusing than frightening, even though it startled the hell out of me for a moment or two.

mental405 · 10 points · Posted at 19:40:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Back in my day when we went camping we didn't have any of this new fangled gadgetry like iPads. We had to entertain ourselves the old fashioned way by drinking heavily and burning things in the fire.

anonymous11235 · 2 points · Posted at 19:49:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it helps me to save face, I resisted all but one night. I went out to catchup on some novels and... Finished the two I brought.

Eurycerus · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My parents were camping once and didn't scope out where they put their tent and had the identical thing happen to them. It was indeed ground squirrels or some other ground dwelling rodent, attempting to get out, which they verified when they moved the tent.

agitatedshovel · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude it was a bear

DutchRedneck · 56 points · Posted at 15:08:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too late for the party i guess but still... Here is my creepiest moment. Worked as a security guard in a hospital when my coworkers received a call from a woman who found a note from her husband. In that note he wrote he was going to kill himself and he also noted the exact area of where he would do it. (Toilets)

We thought it was a prankcall but obviously we still had to check it out. Mens toilets where clear, next where the womens toilet. Fuck one door locked. Also no response to our yelling and knocking, so we yelled we where going to open the door. And unlocked the door with the side of the key and opened it.

What we saw there was absolutly horrific, not so much as in the gore but the way he took his own life. We found the man laying on the floor with a plastic bag taped around his head. Every item in his pocket was placed on the toilet, phone, cigarettes, lighter, wallet etc. My collegue checked his pulse, but he was already cold. So we where to late.

We contacted the police and my coworker had his wife on the phone the whole time trying to comfort her as she wasn't allowed to tell anything about the state of her husband. That was up to the police to tell.

Anyways police removed the tape and found another plastic bag under the the other one. When they removed the second plastic bag and tape we saw he also had put pieces of paper in his nose.

So yeah this guy was a patiant of the psych ward and decided to kill himself by suffocation. Anyway, never took a dump on that particular toilet again, neither did my coworkers.

TL;DR: found a guy who comitted suicide on the toilet.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:46:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fashionably late

MrBonkies · 1 points · Posted at 04:15:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm confused...would it have been hard for him to have torn off the plastic bag? because if it wasn't, in a certain (very dark/twisted) light, what he did was really impressive.

MostlyBullshit · 1416 points · Posted at 13:06:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was buying a house last year, and one of the places I decided to look at was a renovated farm house. The main building itself was pretty nice and I was considering it as an option, but then the realtor took me to check out the old barn that was on the property.

From the outside, it looked like it could be converted into a really nice workshop. I walked inside and almost immediately felt something fall on my head. I brushed it away and did the "get it off me" dance until it fell to the ground. It was a tiny spider.

Then another drop on my head. I repeated my freak-out and got another, larger spider out of my hair. Then I made the mistake of looking up. There was a huge black spot on the wall, which I realized after my eyes focused was the biggest fucking cluster of spiders I have ever seen in my life. In that moment, I was a faster sprinter than Usain Bolt.

Jmonkeh · 949 points · Posted at 14:09:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But think about all the space you'll have to work with after it stops smoldering and you clear away the ashes!

HannahSlamma · 16 points · Posted at 16:28:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So much room for activities!

N0V0w3ls · 8 points · Posted at 16:52:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And after you scrub the fallout, you won't even have to use a radiation suit!

Taodyn · 3 points · Posted at 20:11:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So much room for activities.

MisterPhip · 42 points · Posted at 14:16:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was swimming in a creek with friends once in my youth when one of the guys goes over to the bank to pull himself up onto dry land. When he reaches up to grab this big tree to pull himself up I notice that all the bark on the tree trunk kind of... moved.

The whole trunk was covered in wolf spiders - as soon as he realized what he was holding on to he screamed and flopped back into the water. It was creepy/ hilarious.

Shiny_Vaporeon · 11 points · Posted at 17:47:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And that would be the point at which I would give up entirely on live and vomit myself to death.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:06:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had no idea what wolf spiders were so I googled it and now I'm sad.

Hermish94 · 3 points · Posted at 14:58:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is horrible. I wouldn't have been able to sleep for days

An_Ignorant_Fool · 9 points · Posted at 15:53:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I won't be able to sleep just with the mental image. Today is going to be one long cringe.

Pnutbot · 2 points · Posted at 23:57:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wolf spiders will inject venom freely if continually provoked. lol.

[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 14:13:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...and every redditor just looked up to their own roof.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:43:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ceiling*

ceejiesqueejie · 17 points · Posted at 14:14:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fire. You need fire.

[deleted] · 573 points · Posted at 14:06:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice try Mostly Bullshit

[deleted] · 457 points · Posted at 14:29:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oddly enough this one is the most believable so far.

Lira70 · 10 points · Posted at 15:17:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yup, as a field trip when I was younger we went to one of those old farm places where they still do things the old way just to show people. And they had this work barn we could look into with a wooden rail. We had our arms resting on the rail looking in and we spotted huge clusters of furry looking stuff. I don't know what I was doing with my hands but I felt something furry beneath the rail where my arm was. My friend decided it would be fun to hit it with his water bottle. It was a ball of over 100 spiders that just spread out everywhere.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:05:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now I'm itchy :(

IICVX · 6 points · Posted at 16:45:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's because it's only mostly bullshit, instead of entirely.

frobeast · 5 points · Posted at 15:23:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sure the bullshit was directed at the

I was a faster sprinter than Usain Bolt.

part.

aidenandjake · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pretty sure it was prompted by poster's username.

StayPuffGoomba · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

While its the most believable, I'm choosing to believe its mostly bullshit, because I want to sleep tonight.

Nimbleturkey · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I truly believed it before I read his user name.

saintelove · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't worry about correcting him, he goes to IU, so he's not exactly a bright one.

mashimur0 · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well... faster than usain bolt is quite unlikely.

akpak · 3 points · Posted at 20:44:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He's only mostly bullshit. This could be the true story!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yes....maybe the part about walking into a barn is true

RolandTheJabberwocky · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God dammit

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 16:45:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck! He finally got me!

80PctRecycledContent · -2 points · Posted at 16:54:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This thread is like a magnet for all the novelty accounts.

Fuck. I'm so sick of novelty accounts. Thank fuck for RES user ignore.

[deleted] · -28 points · Posted at 14:23:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who are you to say that? I don't particularly believe it either (seems unusual), but do you have any evidence?

[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 14:24:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was making a joke about his username....

TryToFlyHigh · 5 points · Posted at 14:39:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can confirm. Username makes for incredebillity.

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 14:44:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck me I ought to go to sleep. I always looked at things like this and though "haha, that'll never happen to me, i'm far to clever for that" haha.

rolfeinarb · 2 points · Posted at 14:35:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Woosh :D

aarace · 11 points · Posted at 14:10:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The barn in the movie Arachnophobia!

Were there any farmers caught in the webs?

Karbear_debonair · 2 points · Posted at 15:22:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hated that movie with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. I was required to watch it for one of my classes in high school. I sat stubbornly in the back corner of the room refusing t look at the screen. Judging by the bits that I did see, it was totally worth the hit to my grade to not look.

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What a shit of a teacher. Definitely impacted my life and increased my already fear of spiders.

Karbear_debonair · 2 points · Posted at 23:34:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't think she understood how deep my fear of them was. i think in her head I was exaggerating. I'n not too upset about it anymore, but I felt creepy for days after we watched that.

durdyg · 2 points · Posted at 01:09:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Movies should always be optional in public schooling IMHO

gee_willickers · 9 points · Posted at 16:04:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mom used to tell me this story about how my grandmother was walking home from school one day when she was a little girl, just enjoying the day and kind of tugging on low hanging tree branches as she walked by. One branch she pulled on released some sort of spider's nest onto her head, which was then covered in tiny crawling spiders. She ran home, silent, for fear that opening her mouth even to scream would just result in a mouthful of spiders. Her (foster) mom spent the night picking spider parts out of her hair with tweezers.

NikaNuss · 8 points · Posted at 15:49:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my office, spiders live in the roof and sometimes fall into cubicles. I have to make an effort everyday to not think about that, or else I spend hours freaking out and thinking there are spiders on my head.

You've just made it impossible to ignore the office spiders. Oh, how I regret reading this.

durdyg · 2 points · Posted at 23:07:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Remind me not to apply there.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 15:57:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In Texas we get big groups of Daddy long leg spiders that will all just chill on a cave roof or ceiling. If you run a flash light across them, they'll all start 'hopping' up and down, slowly at first and then faster and faster till they drop. Only the spiders that the light hit will drop, the ones the light doesn't hit will stay asleep/dormant/whatever.

It's creepy, but once you realize you can control it it's a good trick to play on people.

Arukemos · 4 points · Posted at 15:10:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, now my hair is ruined for the rest of the day.

DraX696 · 4 points · Posted at 14:18:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would die on the spot. Holy shit.

Rawlo234 · 3 points · Posted at 14:19:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My head is now itchy as fuck, thanks.

keko191 · 3 points · Posted at 14:47:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Then you added a bunch of windows

lmcgeh2 · 3 points · Posted at 15:32:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, it's just Charlotte having her babies. NBD.

Sneaky_Rafiki · 3 points · Posted at 16:33:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Should have called John Goodman.

stearnsy13 · 2 points · Posted at 15:49:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest post in this thread. No joke.

kurfar · 2 points · Posted at 15:54:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What about Insane Bolt?

InstyKim · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh gods...that's awful. I really feel bad for you but I can't stop giggling. Still...yeeesh...that would suck. Maybe my reaction is similar to "whistling past a graveyard."

DidlyDame · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shivers. Something similar happened to me once. I was in this school trip in Ecuador and we were walking a trail in some forest/jungle when I felt an itch on the back of my neck. I scratched myself but it just kept itching. Till I looked at my fingers and noticed tiny black spiders. All over my hair and neck.

andr0medam31 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least you won't have a gnat/fly problem.

Antebios · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SPIDER BROs!

DangoGirl · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you man, I just had to peek at my ceiling through half closed eyes to check for spiders :(

ItsBobLoblawsLawBlog · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just brushed off my head a few times and fought off the shivers creeping up my back... just to be sure

Fabrikator · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THIS.. is when you yaoming.jpg and burn the house down.

coghosty · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your estate agent was in league with the Spiders.

Xaeriki · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I scratched my head right after i read this... And it continues to itch O.o

iz_an_ocelot · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is my nightmare...

birdisaword · 1 points · Posted at 07:58:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I brushed it away and did the "get it off me" dance. Haha

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welp:

http://31dayshalloween.blogspot.com/2010/10/if-you-werent-afraid-of-spiders-before.html

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:11:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can never trust you with that username.

Ooobles · -1 points · Posted at 14:14:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you and your username

PsuedoNom · 77 points · Posted at 20:03:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a both seen and heard story for all those people who read buried posts.

My parents were drug addicts. When I was young, we had a nice home, but slowly, as I matured we started living in shittier homes. When I was a teenager we rented a decent size, but rundown house in a weird neighborhood. On moving day, we set out exploring, excited to see that the unfinished basement at least had a semi-finished laundry room. Underneath the stairs in that laundry room, there were some child like drawings on the walls. A picture of 5 family members, including a baby, with the caption "Our new home." It was a little weird, but whatever kids draw in random fucking places, we just covered up the art and used the laundry room.

That basement was super creepy, their was always a feeling of something watching you. All of us experienced some kind of weird thing in this house. Now, I've believe in ghosts because of an earlier experience I've had in a much older house, but I still remain skeptical.

Everyone who stayed with us or visited us reported hearing a voice of a little boy behind them at random times during the day. It was always the same thing: "Rah!" the noise that little kids always make when they are trying to scare you. We all kind of ignored it, dismissed it or lived with it.

One day, I was home alone and sitting on the computer doing my online classwork, when I started to hear this weird buzzing noise. I ignored it for awhile, but it just kept going, this steady buzzing noise. No one was home, even my dog was gone. I waited until my dad came home from work and fell asleep on the couch and decided to investigate. By then, the noise had been going for about 2 hours. I eventually followed the noise downstairs and saw my dad's electric hair clippers, turned on and just buzzing all over the bathroom floor. I was really confused as to how this happened. I turned the clippers off and heard an impatient sigh come from the otherside of the basement. Not thinking, I just said, "sorry." and noped the fuck out of there. I got back upstairs and woke my dad up and told him he left his clippers on, hoping for an explanation. He told me he lost his clippers weeks ago and told me to go get them from the basement.

The last thing that happened was something that really cemented the fact that there was something weird in that house in the minds of our whole family. My mother, brother, sister and I were all getting ready to leave the house. Keys in hand, shoes on and all of us walking towards the door. My brother stops at the fridge and says to us, "I'm going to take this last Pepsi, ok?" ALL OF US heard from the basement, a distinctly child-like voice, I'd say a boy around 4 or 5 shout, "NO!" in direct response to this statement. It was so clear; it was that bratty toddler NO that so many parents are familiar with.

We all solemnly looked at each other, confirmed in each other's eyes what we just heard and hurried to the car as naturally as possible. That is probably the only house I was HAPPY to hear we got evicted from.

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 01:45:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i like that you said sorry to the ghost, you'd survive the horror ghost film

PsuedoNom · 5 points · Posted at 04:31:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It sounded so disappointed in me... fear and panic causes me to do weird things

SquishMitt3n · 7 points · Posted at 10:54:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've done the same thing before. Home alone, I went to get the last piece of chocolate from the fridge when I hear a voice say "That's mine." Of course, being the gentleman I am, I just say "Sorry" and walk to my room, close the door, and just sit on my computer noping the fuck out of my mind.

shaqfearsyao · 6 points · Posted at 03:13:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

About the last part, I've always been told to never ask open ended questions if you're leaving somewhere. So for example, if you're leaving the house, never say "hey everyone, are you ready to go?", because you never know if something is going to think you're talking about them and leave with you or answer you.

PsuedoNom · 6 points · Posted at 04:33:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Makes sense. I recently did a ghost tour at the Stanley hotel and the tour guide told all of us to make sure we very clearly vocalized to any spirits on our way out the door that we appreciate the time spent with them but they need to stay here and are not invited home with me.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 04:07:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like how your dad made you go back down there to get his clippers. Classic parenting.

PsuedoNom · 6 points · Posted at 04:21:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He tried but I made up an excuse as to why I couldn't do it and hid in my room.

MiniMosher · 3 points · Posted at 03:11:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

man you'd suck in a horror movie, too genre savvy lol

MrBonkies · 9 points · Posted at 03:38:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

4 out of every 5 dead children, prefer pepsi over coke.

The more you know...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:41:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

But the important part - did you get the can of Pepsi?!

oograh · 121 points · Posted at 14:43:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've posted this before, but I was late to the party: When I was in high school (I'm nearly 40 now) my parents bought a good sized house, for what they paid. They were aware the house had a "history" but none of us were superstitious, so they bought it.

The history of the house, was that a man had killed himself there. The people who lived there in the early 80's had rented the basement of the house to their friend. His wife left him, and I guess the divorce was messy. He didn't die in the house, but in the driveway, he ran a hose from his exhaust into the window of his car.

My parents lived in the for over 10 years. We always joked about the place being haunted. The basement in particular, just had a creepy feel to it. I never got the whole "feels like you're being watched" feeling before then, and haven't since, but you just got that feeling. There were always small things going on (creaky floors, breezes, crap like that). Most were dismissable. Here's the stories that stand out.

My mother was reading a book in the living room late at night. Sometimes she had trouble sleeping, and was going read, until she got tired. This night was was sitting there, and heard a metal noise like a "ting", then the clack clack clack of something hitting the floor. She turned around to see the final skid of a fork, as it came to a stop beside her. Three fork was sitting on a table across the room. She said it sounded like someone had hit the tongs and sent it flying across the room. Everyone else was asleep at the time.

Well after my sister and I had moved out, my sister had a child. My parents bought an automated swing for the baby, for when they visited. The swing would randomly swing on its own. The swing would be turned off, it would just be like someone had lightly pused it. It happened enough, that my parents would just kind of mention it lightly, when it happened. They'd just say "oh hey look, the swing is moving again" and go about their day. One night I was staying over at my parents watching tv. It was about 2am, and I heard a tap tap tap. It was coming from the fireplace. The swing was about 7 feet away from there for reference. The tapping was deliberate sounding, like a person, or animal had done it. I shrugged it off and kept watching tv. Five minutes later, tap tap tap. I'm intrigued now. I go to the fireplace expecting a trapped bird. Nothing, and no taps. I turn to sit down, and once I pass the swing, tap tap tap. I have a better hearing vantage now, and it sounded like someone tapping on the mantle. I walk up to it, and when I get to it, tap tap tap, loud this time. Nothing was there that could have caused it, and the hair in my arm is standing on edge. I, kinda spooked, turn around to go outside for a smoke (before I quit) then TAP TAP this time, instead of a third tap, the swing swung forward like someone pushed it full force. I had a couple cigarettes instead of one.

Last one. Back when I was just out of school, before moving out, I was up late. I was in the hall, when I hear my father yell "what the fuck!" i asked, though their door, if everything is okay. He exits the room. He is white as a sheet. He said he woke up, and saw two old ladies standing at the foot of their bed. They were just staring at him, and mouthing something, like talking to him. Said, there was no expression on their faces (happy, sad, scared...) and no sound. When he yelled, they disappeared.

cheesetrain · 9 points · Posted at 16:42:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

wow, this sounds eerily like my parents' house. It's a brand new place, built 8 years ago, but they used the floor of a burnt down church as the flooring for the first and second stories of their place. Nothing too crazy ever happens, but from time to time there's a creepy vibe. One time, my mother and I were reading in the living room and we heard a soft clinking noise. We looked around and found a nail rolling down the floor towards the stairs. It looked like it was being pulled by an invisible string. It reached the stairs and went down the spiral staircase all the way to the bottom. The creepy part was it was rolling so slowly. Since then we've seen little things like rocks, screws and random objects follow the same path and end up at the bottom of the stairs.

Another thing is a rocking chair that we have that just rocks on its own. It's not super creepy, but one time I was home alone with a friend and the rocking chair was going. Every time it rocked forward there was a sort of hollow thump that sounded like feet hitting the ground before the chair rocked backwards. I've never been so scared of an object before in my life.

Username957 · 8 points · Posted at 20:07:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I will remember your fathers technique for getting rid of ghosts

cosmicsans · 6 points · Posted at 01:08:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've heard (and I'm no expert) that sometimes just telling spirits that they're not welcome in your home is enough for them to leave. Sometimes they cling to things, and when you tell them that it's time for them to go they get up and leave.

However, you can't sue me if you tell them to leave and everything starts getting worse. Not my fault.

HotPink124 · 3 points · Posted at 18:35:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i would be living in a box or car far away from either of these houses

cosmicsans · 3 points · Posted at 01:07:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't understand why I'm still reading these posts....

Ogbu · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a great grandmother leave me a rocking chair. So even though I hated the damn thing my grandmother FORCED me to keep it in my bedroom till I moved out at 18.

The house was creepy enough without adding the threat of seeing it rock on its own. And I did, more than once.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 00:11:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds really similar to my house. I'm the only one who's experienced this stuff, but it might be because I'm the only one who lives in the oldest part of the house. See, our house has two main additions to it. The original part, built in the 50s, is where I sleep. They added a kitchen and living room to that, then on top of that they added an in-law house which is where everyone else sleeps. I've got the only room downstairs, and it gets creepy as hell around 3-4am.

I've seen shadowy figures in the corner of my room by my door just looking right at me, I sleep with a light on sometimes because of just how fucking creepy it is.

Another time, the creepiest night here, I walked out of my room, thought I saw someone but they weren't there when I looked again, so I shrugged it off and went back to my room. A little while later I went out to get some more water and I swear to fucking god someone called my name from right behind me. "Matt! ...Hey Matt! ...Maattttt!" in like a whisper-y tone, I know for a fucking fact everyone else was asleep and it definitely wasn't me.

We've also got your typical creaking floors, and all that stuff. But what creeps me out the most is the boiler room. God fucking dammit, that room is the creepiest room in the house, even during the day. Every time I'm even in the room next to it, it still feels like someone is watching me. Whenever I go in there I just feel the extreme urge just to get the fuck out of there immediately. It's not good, dude.

Dr_Mrs_TheM0narch · 3 points · Posted at 21:01:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Renovation! <---This is what I'll be screaming while doing air guitar in front of the house.

Nightshade101 · 3 points · Posted at 21:56:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one made my hair stand on end.

vengeancecube · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Geez this reminds me of some of my own stories. I lived in a house like that. LOTS of completely unexplainable things happened there.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:52:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i love your dads reaction to the ghosts

WhiskeyJack33 · 53 points · Posted at 14:21:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once happened upon an accident on the highway right as the first responders were getting there. The driver hadn't been wearing a seat belt and he went through the windshield and there were pieces of him splattered all over the road. It's odd how it doesn't really seem like a person when you first see it. Then after a second you realize how fucked up it is.

I wasn't there when it happened, but needless to say after that I wear my seat belt every time I'm in a car.

ViciousMihael · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You weren't already wearing it every time you were in a car?

WhiskeyJack33 · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did most of the time, and always when i was driving. But sometimes in the passenger side or back seat i wouldn't bother. Especially on short trips.

I was younger and dumber when this happened as well, close to 10 years ago.

silvernarnia · 3 points · Posted at 07:46:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminds me of a wreck my mom and I saw once on a road trip. We were just outside of either Dallas or Phoenix (it's been a few years, my memory's foggy) on the Interstate, when we start to notice that traffic going the opposite way had just...stopped. No cars coming toward us for a few minutes. Then, we drove under this bridge, probably another Interstate, and we found out why. On the other side of the road, a minivan had apparently flipped off the overpass somehow, and was crushed and upside down across both lanes, debris everywhere. The ambulance was pulling up as we were passing, and there were only a couple of cop cars, so it couldn't have been very long since it happened. Obviously, our side's traffic had slowed considerably, and I got a better look at some of the debris. It was children's things - toys, a busted-open suitcase spilling clothes, what looked like the mangled remains of a playpen-type thing...and then I saw him. The man sitting on the side of the road, his knees drawn up, sobbing and just staring at the van. He had blood all over one side of his face, and there was a cop standing next to him with a hand on his shoulder.

I'm about 99% positive that what we drove past was a father mourning the death of his child[ren]. To this day, I have nightmares about that scene, and it haunts me. I'm almost in tears just writing about it. If my mom and I had left our hotel even five minutes earlier, we probably would've seen it happen.

mister_flibble · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:55 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Somewhat similar: at one point on the way to class I drove by a motorcycle accident immediately after the ambulance had arrived. Saw the trashed bike first, and then saw the guy sitting on the side of the highway. He seemed surprisingly fine at first, but then I looked a little lower and realized one of his legs was just ribbons of flesh from the knee down. Nearly crashed myself.

Throwy27 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:56 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel so incredibly uncomfortable if I don't immediately put my seatbelt on when I get in a car. Not sure why though, I've never been in and never seen an accident like that (fortunately).

007_Monkey · 77 points · Posted at 14:53:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Guy lights himself on fire, runs through a parking garage and jumps from the eighth floor or so. Watching him fly through the air and hearing him scream is one of many memories I would love to forget. Hearing him hit the concrete made a sound that is hard to describe but is probably closest to the sound those kids jelly toy things make when you throw them on the ground and they flatten out. Any temporary relief I recieved from his screaming stopping was quickly replaced by confusion as I see what I thought was a greyish pinkish ball rolling along the ground about ten feet away from his head towards me. Brain pulls a total derp as I think thats an odd looking basketball, wonder what it's doing overe here nowhere near any outdoor courts. Snap back to reality, yup intact brain, instant out loud WTF. The sounds and smell of burning flesh are what is burned most into my soul. I guess not really scary, but these days I don't do heights or get close at all to fire.

Sumpumpolis · 5 points · Posted at 05:19:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A friend fell 50 ft rock climbing due to a stupid self-belaying error. I saw him hit the ground, and when I got to him his face was coated in blood and his skin was gray, he wasn't breathing, and was unconscious. After months in the hospital, he lived. It was terrifying.

Sumpumpolis · 6 points · Posted at 05:29:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

With 4 broken ribs, a broken hip, 5 broken vertebral spurs, a shattered ankle+leg, broken jaw, severe concussion, lacerated spleen, and 30 odd stitches in different places.

thesreynatwork · 2 points · Posted at 13:14:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I started eating subway just prior to reading this comment. I made a poor decision.

xxDamnationxx · 3 points · Posted at 21:58:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Subway, eat flesh?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shiiiit. Seriously, that can fuck someone up for life. I'd probably be in therapy.

CapnSalty · -1 points · Posted at 00:27:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's not really fair that you have to life with that for the rest of your life. The selfishness of some people...

[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 23:39:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid my bed faced the open doorway and I could see straight down the hall to my mom's bedroom. One evening when I was about 8 or 9 I woke up looked down the hall and saw a feminine figure leaning against the doorway of my mom's room. There were no distinct identifiable features, but I could tell it was a lady, and she was all white. I put the covers over my head and screamed for my mother.

The next day we were at the county fair when my mom and dad are talking, basically saying "we should tell her." They sat me down, and had explained that a lady was murdered in the house at the top of the stairs (where my mom's room was) back before they bought it. They never arrested anyone for the murder, but people speculated it was her husband. They shared some of the strange things that happened in the house right after they'd moved in. There were a LOT of strange things.

About 20 years later my boyfriend and I are staying the weekend in the house while we're in town. We got into a slight argument, and I told him "I'm going to bed." And as I'm walking away, I hear a very distinct voice (a female's one) saying "Where are you going?" and I stopped and said "I told you, I'm going upstairs." To which my boyfriend responded with confusion as to why I had repeated what I'd said. It hadn't registered right away that it had been a female voice, but it was definitely like someone was there asking me. The next day I had told him the history of the house, and then he shared some strange things he had noticed over the few days but didn't tell me because he was worried I'd think he was crazy.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 23:45:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's some intense stuff. I think I'll be sleeping with the lights on tonight.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:22:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i shit you not i had something like this happen minus the back story. i described the woman as like "a vampire" looking round my door frame at me in my bed facing out into the hall. my mum told me it was a dream or something but i don't remember telling her until years later which is weird as fuck

Kokir · 27 points · Posted at 04:32:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was 2 weeks ago now. I live in a small apartment, safe one. But anyways, I live alone, and no one else has a key to my place. I had had some friends over for dinner. It was late. I said I would do the dishes in the morning. I give the cat some water and turn off the lights. Head to bed. Wake up at about five to go run. Flip on the lights. Throw on my gear. About to head out. Stop to feed the cat. Then I notice my trash can. Its about ten feet from its regular spot. Which I thought odd. I am ocd about its placement. So I put it back and then I notice the scariest thing. My dishes are all done. They are all put away. My kitchen is spotless. I know I didnt have that much to drink. So by now I am freaked out. I call the cops. The guys show up and ask whats wrong. I tell them everything. They are as shocked as I am. No signs of forced entry or anything. The only difference was my kitchen had been cleaned as I slept. And so I go to my best friends apartment while they investigate. They turn up nothing. Im shitting my pants upon returning to my apartment. I have no clue what to think. I dont believe in the supernatural. But when this happens, small thoughts become big ones. So I truly believed something otherworldy was just haunting me for shits and gigs. But an hour later, my neighbor knocks on the door. Asks why the cops showed up. I tell her the story. She laughs and tells me she got drunk and googled how to lockpick, then practiced on my door then did my dishes as compensation. I asked her how hard it was to lockpick the door, because it cant be easy. She tells me this the tenth time she has tried lockpicking my door and this is the first time she has been successful. But she was drunk every single time. I was haunted by a drunk woman who was bored

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 10:36:18 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

best story in this thread hands down :_D

pttymcgee · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

small thoughts become big ones

Well put.

masquerade_wolf · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:09 on July 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it makes you feel any better I've sleep-cleaned my house before, so it is possible.

Kokir · 3 points · Posted at 00:21:30 on July 21, 2013 · (Permalink)

It doesn't make me feel better

Lindarama · 3 points · Posted at 23:19:03 on September 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wish I could do that. I hate awake-cleaning.

Racid · 27 points · Posted at 09:07:44 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)*

My boyfriend was in the army before I met him, this is by far the creepiest story he's told me. It gave me goosebumps.

He lived in a two story townhouse (on-base housing) in Ft. Hood for about six months. Tenants always came and went because of deployments. Weird stuff would happen both at night and during the day; mainly thuds in his bedroom on the second floor and shuffling. He felt uneasy being in his room so he always slept on the living room couch on the first floor.

On the weekends he would be up late playing Xbox Live, being the achievement hunter he is and due to insomnia. he wouldn't fall asleep until 5AM.

One night, he was up late on his Xbox dashboard, sitting on a sofa chair, smoking a cigarette. His Kinect was plugged in. As many of you know, there's a screen on the bottom right corner that shows an infrared version of what the Kinect camera can see. This lets you know what its detecting. It's really sensitive and although at times frustrating to use, surprisingly accurate.

This was when the hair behind his neck stood up. He noticed the infrared screen. Standing to the right of him, alongside him, was a solid female figure.

He wanted me to add that he has never EVER used his Kinect after this. Even after moving back home to Chicago. I can attest to that. Haha

chimpcheng · 3 points · Posted at 11:20:17 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

That does it! I'm unplugging my Kinect and putting it away!

Racid · 3 points · Posted at 07:31:32 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just remember that the Xbox One kinect will be required to be plugged in at all times and that it will always be watching you... Or a guest. NOPE.

chimpcheng · 10 points · Posted at 06:30:05 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

*Note to self: Buy PS4...

[deleted] · 289 points · Posted at 13:46:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Hearing my grandfather call my name when I was alone in my apartment and he had been dead for seven years. Mind you, he died in (and had never been outside of) the States and I was in my apartment in north France. Still gives me the chills.

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions on its origin! The only thing is that I thought I've heard people call my name or say something to me before when they haven't or when no one is around, but this was much different. It was crystal-clear when I heard him, usually if I think I hear something of the sort, it's not as readily distinguishable in what is "being said." I had also finished posting a status for my family sharing pictures of him and my also deceased grandma and how it was about seven years ago. Maybe that had something to do with it, but I still peered into the hallway expecting to see him there. I didn't respond because I didn't want to egg myself on into lunacy.

[deleted] · 88 points · Posted at 15:52:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Auditory hallucinations are more commonplace in perfectly healthy minds than you'd think. The most frequently reported one is hearing your name being called by someone you know.

It's only happened to me once, but it was eery as hell (it was my dad calling my name. I'd just dropped him off at the airport, and his plane had just taken off. I seriously thought his plane had crashed for a while).

DigitalGarden · 13 points · Posted at 16:23:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I get this particular auditory hallucination enough that I looked into it.

I hear people calling me, clear as day, and they aren't calling me. Sometimes it is someone I live with. I have also heard dead people call me, too. It has happened maybe 10 times. Annoying, but no longer creepy.

Bogwart · 6 points · Posted at 17:28:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get it a couple of times a month. Not always my name. Once, a neighbour, on the opposite side of the block called me (I thought). I was in the garden, so heard her, and ran all the way around, thinking she was in trouble. She wasn't even home. Made me doubt my own sanity a bit.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mother told me a week ago that she had a similar experience. It was when we were in the process of moving out of our old house (this would have been like 13ish years ago) and she was there alone finishing some packing or something upstairs. She said she heard her dad (who was, and still is, alive) call her name, clear as day. "Dawn?" She thought it was strange, but she called back to him and went downstairs to look for him, since it wouldn't have been super unusual for him to come by and help her with something, even though he lived 35 minutes away. When she didn't find him, she started to worry that something had happened to him so she called my grandparents' house and he answered the phone.

EverythingAnything · 4 points · Posted at 18:26:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After my parents divorced, I would hear my dad calling my name fairly regularly, up till the age of about 10 I'd say.

chipCG · 3 points · Posted at 19:14:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had the same situation, only my mom was calling my name. It happened for years. One day, I heard her clear as day, and then they stopped. I haven't had one since I was around 12.

jax9999 · 6 points · Posted at 19:05:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you seem knowledgable, what the hell is this occasional ghost text message i keep getting. i feel the buzzing in my pocket like my phone went off, but nothings there. sometimes the phone isn't even there.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:18:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha, well I don't know about your first assertion, but what you're describing is Phantom Vibration Syndrome. It's very common, and not perfectly understood, but in my opinion it's a sign that we should all "unplug" ourselves from our cell phones regularly.

cucumbers · 2 points · Posted at 19:07:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

phantom vibrations.

Casumarzu · 2 points · Posted at 20:58:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw on reddit quite recently (probably within the last two weeks, you know how time works differently on reddit) that the body constantly has the "buzzing" sensation all over but, you only notice it because you anticipate the alert from your phone.

Casumarzu · 2 points · Posted at 20:54:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes when I'm dozing off, I'll "hear" a familiar voice saying just a syllable. I always assumed it was just my mind shutting down for sleep.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:21:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

See I just assume that when I hear things like that, my brain hears something it does not recognize, is missing the information for a source, and so we recognize it as a familiar one. It makes sense to me, I hear my phone go off all the time when it does not, even if it is in a different room or inside while I am outside.

sir_stegosaurous_rex · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had this happen to me when I lived at home with my mom and sisters. We'd hear my mother calling us all to the kitchen and run there to find that she hadn't gotten home yet. Or if I was home alone, I would hear my sisters talking downstairs. It hasn't happened once since I moved out, though. I maintain that that house was haunted as fuck, anyway.

sasspariller · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to me once before; I actually just forgot about it until now.

I was asleep and was awokened by what I thought was my roommate yelling my name outside my door. But it sounded like she was inches from my face. I even heard the floor boards creak as she stood there from the other side of my bedroom door. Although it felt completely real, I was absolutely terrified and knew something was wrong so I just sat there in bed waiting. I didn't hear anything after that and the more I thought about it I realized it creeped me out because it was actually my own voice I heard rather than my roommate's. I had problems sleeping for a couple weeks after that.

tolarian_tutor · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking thank you, now i know, almost everytime i'm in the shower i'll hear my mum call my name, weither ahe's at home or out the country, every -fucking- time!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:21:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm about to come of as a know-it-all, but that might be something else. Ghosts! No just kidding. A huge part of consciousness is recognizing patterns, and it does it so readily that it will even make patterns out of chaos. With enough variation, white noise (like a shower, or traffic) will eventually make pitches that are the same as other familiar sounds, and the right combination will sound close enough to a pattern your brain knows that it will fill in the gaps and tell you it's that pattern. Also very normal!

Sorry for the rant, I just fucking love the brain!!!!

jahemian · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:33 on August 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always hear my name being called out, in public or when I'm alone. Glad I'm not the only one. My names pretty uncommon so its not like every 5th person on the street has my name.

weirdpanda · 0 points · Posted at 17:29:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is very helpful to calm your nerves.

Until you realize you're not the only one that hears it.

Then you realize that whatever is shouting, growling, making noise, telling you things can't do anything else or they would be doing it and then it's fine again.

insertfunnyquotehere · 6 points · Posted at 15:31:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So what did he want from you?

lordgoblin · 3 points · Posted at 16:04:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe it was exploding head syndrome?

I've had this before when walking my dog or trying to sleep.

Just auditory hallucinations

crudeTenuity · 3 points · Posted at 17:42:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Were you in the process of falling asleep? Auditory hallucinations can happen pretty easily then, especially hearing your own name.

I only know this because I had to look it up once when I was falling asleep I heard someone whisper my name, really chrisp and right next to my ear, freaked the fuck out of me

mr_midnight · 2 points · Posted at 20:19:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not fully related, but once when I was 21 or so I was tripping acid with some friends in a park late at night for my birthday. We were walking through a field of grass and wildflowers, when I thought I saw an edelweiss flower. Definitely wasn't one, I live in Louisiana, but the instant I saw it I could hear my grandfather (who'd been dead for 4 years) singing 'Edelweiss' as clearly as if he were right in front of me. When I was really little, he used to sing it to me while I was going to sleep. I cried like I was a little kid again, it's still the second greatest birthday gift I've ever received (the first also being related to him, but that's a different story).

Becca_smashley · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a dream about going to visit my grandpa (who had been dead for about 5 years at the time) at his house. I was shocked to see him on the porch and he told me he had never gone anywhere, and no one ever came to see him. I cried and he hugged me, woke up and could still feel his embrace.

_aron_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandparents talked about this happening all the time. I never want to experience this.

PlasticSmiles · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in an older house and in one of the bathrooms with the shower running and the door closed I sometimes hear my SO's voice say, "Hey, you"

SwissPatriotRG · 77 points · Posted at 15:05:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In middle school, class was letting out and my best friend and I were walking to our buses. He had to stop by the music room to pick up his instrument to take home, so I told him "goodbye".

I kept walking, turned around the corner and he popped out of another door with his instrument and startled me on purpose. We walked and talked for another minute and as I was walking away from him to get on my bus I told him "goodbye for good this time".

That weekend he was killed in a car crash in front of his house, he was ejected and his family's car rolled over him.

Now I relive that last interaction I had with him every once in a while. Definitely creepy.

davidandsarah08 · 10 points · Posted at 05:26:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am so sorry to hear that. I cannot imagine what it must have been like to have to deal with the death of a contemporary, let alone a best friend, at such a young age. My heart truly goes out to you.

jahemian · 3 points · Posted at 00:36:12 on August 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

My ex boyfriend and I went on the same bus together. We didn't end on bad terms but we didn't really speak. I was sitting up the front of the bus and it was his stop. Before he got off the bus he said "goodbye". Random I thought, he never says goodbye. That afternoon he went home and committed suicide. It didn't even hit me that he said goodbye to me until a few years had passed.

[deleted] · 54 points · Posted at 15:31:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About five years ago on Valentines Day I was with my fiance (now wife). We had just finished dinner and it was about 11PM. She lived pretty close to a cemetery and was always talking about how many deer she'd see out there at night and she wanted to show me, so we drive out there.

Here's the Google Maps link: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.323121,-111.676456&num=1&t=h&z=17

So we pull in and immediately see a huge black object about 30ft from the car directly in front of us. It was a good 7 feet tall and had this black robe on (Grim Reaper style) moving across the road. I say moving because there wasn't a noticeable "step". It wasn't going up and down. It was like floating across the road like it was on a skateboard or something.

So we were pretty scared then but we couldn't turn around because the road was pretty narrow, so I drove a little farther until there was a fork I could start heading back (See linked image). So we get back around and it had just made it's way across on the shorter road and by the time we saw it again it was just standing in the road looking at us.

Right before this we were pretty freaked, but when it was just standing looking at us it was the most scared I've ever been. Our lights were shining right on it and there was nothing in the face. The light wasn't reflecting or anything, just black.

It looked at us for about 30 seconds and then just turned and kept going the way it was originally. I gunned it and went as fast as I could out of there. I would have thought I was crazy if my fiance hadn't been there to see it too.

Routes: http://i.imgur.com/uzvL2gt.png Our car is the yellow line and the red dots where it's position where we saw it.

ctrlaltcreate · 3 points · Posted at 22:05:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like this?

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:15:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Had to be something like that combined with a long ass grim reaper robe and a motorized skateboard or something

ctrlaltcreate · 3 points · Posted at 22:17:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There are also shoulder rigs with grim reaper tops that would do the trick. End up being between 10 and 12 feet tall depending on who's wearing it. Put that on a dude who can walk smoothly and it's creepy as hell. Knew guys who ran those rigs at a haunted attraction I worked at in my youth.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 22:23:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That actually makes a lot of sense... Well the setup and the costume, not what the hell they were doing in the middle of the night at a cemetary making me poop my pants in front of a girl haha.

Maybe they were there to look at the deer as well!

ctrlaltcreate · 7 points · Posted at 22:29:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dunno. Kids love scaring people, and kids often have nothing better to do.

champ999 · 5 points · Posted at 23:34:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for making this more rational. I live in Provo which is practically fused with Orem, and I almost flipped when I saw this is just miles from me.

AgentArtichoke · 2 points · Posted at 03:22:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Right? Eagle Mountain/Saratoga Springs for me. Chills.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 22:56:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I loved Orem. Wish I still lived there. Hated driving up by that cemetery after that though.

kamajo8991 · 56 points · Posted at 19:28:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I have 2:

I was laying in bed with both kids (baby and preschooler, they're not 16 year olds lol) and my husband.

It seemed like I was in a half-awake kind of state. I was cuddled with the baby. The bedroom door was wide open, with the bathroom light on for child-comfort.

All of a sudden, I see a very tall figure, taller than the door frame, reaches it's long arm in under the door and wraps around the inside wall. It was wearing red. I couldn't see it's face, just the right side of it's body, as it's head would be higher than the frame on the other side.

As he slowly crept in the room, I couldn't move. I felt my heart race faster and faster. I'm trying so very hard to scream, to wake my husband. He was laying behind me.

All I could do was try to scream, watching this figure come into my room, in the middle of the night. I couldn't hide my baby from it. I was losing my mind. I started to shake, trying to yell.

Eventually, I "woke up", screaming my husbands name and shaking around.

He shot up, thinking the world must be coming to an end or something (I felt so bad for scaring the shit out of him).

Eventually, after staring out of the room for a solid 20 minutes, I fell back asleep, exhausted.

TL;DR: I've only experienced sleep paralysis once in my life, just a couple weeks back. I've never felt such fear ever before in my life.

The Other:

About 3 years ago, my husband worked 3rd shift (gone at night). We just had our son a few months ago, so it was just me and the baby at night. This was fine, until one night.

It was 2:20 AM on a hot summer night (alright, technically morning). I had the bedroom window open, I had the fan on and the T.V. as well- to fall asleep to.

All of a sudden, the bedroom door is busted open.

For a split second, I thought "he's home early?" until I heard- in an unfamiliar voice- "ARE YOU IN HERE?!"

I froze. With my back to the door, I could see the silhouette reflection of this man in the glass of the window (which I was facing). This wasn't my husband.

I didn't say anything, too afraid. I just lay frozen, eyes wide, panicking.

Then he shouted "FINE. WHATEVER!" and slammed my door shut.

I quickly, but gently- not to wake the baby- covered my son up with the blanket. Instantly thinking I was about to be murdered, I didn't want him to get the baby.

I frantically tried to think of where to hide my son, but I couldn't leave the bed because the floor creaked, he'd be able to hear me. I thought about the dresser drawer, or the closet- but he'd hear me moving, so I just covered him.

I conveniently slept with my cellphone, to occasionally text my husband at night.

The first person I called was my own mother. Why? I guess you instinctually go to whoever has provided you the most comfort over the years.

She didn't answer.

So I called my mother in law. She did happen to answer, I -in a terrified voice- told her what was happening. She yells at me to call the police, to which I do.

I get the dispatcher. She asks the usual, with me crying "Someone's in my house! Why are they in my house?!". The police are on the way, and get there fairly soon.

I hear them come in downstairs, and up to my room. Nobody was in the house anymore.

They asked me a few questions, I answered. Until they asked the one question that scared the ever loving piss out of me...

"Who's been living in your basement?"

What?

"There's some stuff under your basement stairs. Anybody else live here besides you three?"

No. At least...not that I ever knew about...

TL;DR: An unexpected room-mate.

marganod · 18 points · Posted at 08:43:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone I know has a story like your second one. Family of four (mum, dad, kids 11 and 13) and they were living in a fairly standard UK 1960s three bed mid terrace. It started with them hearing creepy noises- footsteps, creaking and the odd bang. This had been going on for months, and they were jokingly referring to it as their pet ghost. None of them were particularly freaked by it, just considered it one of them things.

Fast forward a few months, and the mum came home after work, kids were out doing whatever. She saw some large muddy footprints going up the stairs, and started yelling at her husband for making a mess. No reply, but she figures he was hiding from her rage.

She sets to it, scrubbing the mud out the carpet, and is halfway up the stairs when the front door opens- husband comes in the front door. She starts shouting at him about the mud when he says "that wasn't me- look, my feet are bigger". He grabs a cricket bat and the phone, and they go up the stairs. At the top of the stairs, under the loft hatch, the prints disappear, so they get a ladder and torch, and go investigate.

Open the hatch, and the husband is pushed back off the ladder, and some neckbeardy type bloke rushes out, down the ladder, down the stairs and through the front door.

They phone the police, who pop round to check it out, and in the loft they found a little "nest" of blankets, food wrappers and drinks cans. The scariest bit though was the notebook they found- it had detailed notes on all the families comings and goings for the past 6 months. The guy had just sat up there, watching and listening, nipping out for supplies during the day whilst the family were at work/school. They never did find him. Creepy as you like!

kamajo8991 · 8 points · Posted at 16:57:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh sweet jesus that's terrifying. I think the note keeping knocked the creepiness up a good few notches for sure.

Ikkinia · 10 points · Posted at 19:43:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is fucking terrifying! Anything become of that creep after this?

kamajo8991 · 5 points · Posted at 19:51:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope, never saw/heard anything after that. Not that I'm complaining! Ugh.

Ikkinia · 3 points · Posted at 20:34:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, good riddance. That's horrifying!

omnivorewhore · 7 points · Posted at 19:53:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my god. What. That second one. Jesus.

uncanny_valley_girl · 8 points · Posted at 19:54:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit. If it weren't for Reddit, I wouldn't believe that this is so common (unexpected room-mates), but it is. My sympathies.

pastel-forest · 6 points · Posted at 14:50:56 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm literally crying over this, It's bad enough having that but...when your Children are involved :(

moiraq · 171 points · Posted at 17:46:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When I was sixteen I was sitting at a table with my mom talking about life, musing on the afterlife and reincarnation.. The usual. I began to laugh and say "you know, I'm pretty sure I remember my past life". This was about the time her face went pale. I asked her why.

That's when she began to list all of the details of my silly past life which I always felt was just a recurring dream I must have. She told me how I was the youngest child in a family of poor travelers. How my crib was the top drawer of any dresser where we would sleep and my mother was a tall, boney, angry looking woman with her hair pulled high, always wearing a long dress. All the details I was about to tell her, for what I thought was the first time.

"How did you know all of that? I've never told you before!" I said.

"Because that isn't the first time you've told me", she said, "you told me that story many times when you were a baby, after you first learned to talk."

"I don't believe it!"

"And the worst thing..." she said with a dark brow, "was when I would come to play with you...and you would tell me your other mother was behind me."

WithAllMyHeart · 18 points · Posted at 19:32:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hello again, Coraline...

Spicyjalapenoboy · 9 points · Posted at 20:14:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My nickname at school is Coraline and you scared the tits off me.

WithAllMyHeart · 17 points · Posted at 22:54:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was so hard for me not to giggle as I watched you type this.

MadHatter69 · 9 points · Posted at 00:11:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spicyjalapenoboy, DON'T TURN AROUND

Blagginspaziyonokip · 5 points · Posted at 05:11:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mama

thesi1entk · 5 points · Posted at 19:54:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

that is truly horrifying!

FCBarca1984 · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait so you're telling me you've been re-incarnated?

moiraq · 8 points · Posted at 00:48:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I mean I'm saying I was maybe probably most definitely reincarnated.

nursebad · 2 points · Posted at 08:11:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ian Stevenson spent his life researching cases like yours. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 10:26:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE NEVER CLICKING A LINK IN THIS THREAD AGAIN!

cornucopiaofdoom · 2 points · Posted at 00:16:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am picturing something like this...

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6ACW_Spinach_Can_Collectibles_Popeye_Mural_Chester_Illinois

moiraq · 2 points · Posted at 00:50:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

As much as I like the idea of Olive Oyl as my other mother, I definitely wouldn't want to catch her standing behind me in the dark.

But man do I hope I have a dream about being on that boat tonight.

iopghj · 3 points · Posted at 12:34:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im sure your are gonna rock the boat.

scubadog2000 · 6 points · Posted at 20:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Look on the bright side: There's someone watching over you.

I posted another comment on this thread about this phenomenon, so F3 my name, will ya? I don't want to repost the comment.

Either way, children often times remember their past life. My mum tried to question me about it when I was little, but to no success. I can remember one dream about being a man somewhere in moscow, but that might as well have been a scene from a movie I caught a glimpse of.

danrennt98 · 235 points · Posted at 13:37:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

tip: read right to left

thanks gold giver!!!!

TheKiefer · 41 points · Posted at 17:58:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

DDR... DDR...

Also for any people who are wanting more/longer from the same Writer, his name is Junji Ito and you can check out The Spiral Obsession/Uzumaki and Gyo

invertedhat · 1 points · Posted at 07:51:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

All his work is great, but I have never been as unsettled as I was when I finished reading Gyo. Incredibly creepy, and the art is great.

TheKiefer · 2 points · Posted at 15:06:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've heard Uzumaki was better than Gyo, which I haven't read yet, maybe I should look into it, thanks!

Xaevier · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:38 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

they even made movies of gyo and uzumaki. They dont really do his work true justice but they arent bad

timharveyau · 24 points · Posted at 15:04:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Read all of that. Was awesome.

twofivetwelve · 9 points · Posted at 16:43:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Claustrophobes beware

trololady · 8 points · Posted at 16:14:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love all the series this artist does. You gotta read the spiral one. I'm easy to freak out, but for some reason these are just creepy/not creepy enough to keep me hooked but I don't get too scared to stop reading.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 17:18:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

for anyone interested, the spiral story is called Uzumaki, and you can read it in its entirety here. highly recommend it. surreal, disorienting, and profoundly unnerving. you'll never look at hand drills the same way again.

edit: spellign

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:47:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got 4 chapters in and this is just silly. It's not really scary or anything. Kind of dull and annoying. Does it get better or should I just stop reading if it isn't having that effect on me?

adobong_manok · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It gets really scary as it goes. Read on, man, but if it's not your thing, it's okay.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All right I'll give it another go. I have read other things by this author, I just wasn't into this so far. We'll see what develops.

abetterthief · 2 points · Posted at 19:53:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not so much scarey as creepy and very much WTF at points.

trololady · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it's nothing like seriously fucked up, depending on your exposure to super fucked up things, but the ending totally got me as the freakiest part. it is really long though, so prepare to be invested.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay thanks. I'll try and make it to the end, I hope I like the payoff.

Skullkan6 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are we talking about the spring-spine zombie?

koddish · 2 points · Posted at 02:01:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

why the hell did i start reading this. now im sucked in

tomoyopop · 2 points · Posted at 02:50:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jesus Christ the jack-in-the-box chapter.

Tonxasaur · 3 points · Posted at 18:00:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uzumaki! Seriously, this series is easily one of the strangest and creepiest. I hunted down all the books a few years ago. Was easily worth it to show them to people who usually end up reading the whole thing in one sitting just to see how messed up it gets.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:27:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where can I find his other works?

trololady · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

if you didn't already see one of the above comments, you can read them here

grimaldri · 11 points · Posted at 15:50:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's one of the funniest things I've ever read for some reason...

honeybadga · 13 points · Posted at 21:57:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I'm looking for my hole"

NEVER_CLEANED_COMP · 14 points · Posted at 15:45:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's Japanese, so I'll just check the other comments, if you don't mind.

kaiden333 · 17 points · Posted at 17:23:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not a jump scare, and it's in English. Just do it!

Freakears · 9 points · Posted at 17:14:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not the clicking one.

randomheadache · 6 points · Posted at 17:31:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hole-y Hell

stoxed · 6 points · Posted at 17:39:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

DRRRR DRRRR DRRRRR

mickeymau5music · 3 points · Posted at 15:23:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ohhh I hated this one. So fucking weird.

forgotmydamnpass · 3 points · Posted at 17:31:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Look up junji ito, he has a lot of stories in the same style and they're truly additive, try Uzumaki, it's about spirals and it's absolutely creepy, spirals creeped me for weeks after that

mickeymau5music · 3 points · Posted at 17:51:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope. Nope nope nope. Not reading ANY of that.

Keiti_ · 5 points · Posted at 16:30:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh god oh god oh god

That is some freaky shit

Damn you Japan why so scary

GreedyJess · 2 points · Posted at 21:05:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

omg are you kidding me...the ending was laughably stupid. waste of 10 minutes.

Stpehen1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Durr durr...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was creepy but definitely not the creepiest thing I've ever read. An interesting concept none the less. I think most humans would want to go into their hole just out of pure curiosity to know what was in there or on the other side.

Wyboth · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That may legitimately be the scariest thing in this thread.

Hexates · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, that one is a tad bit scary. But you really should check out his other stuff too, If you want to be creeped out and disgusted, read Glyceride

It's a disgusting tale.

THIS_IS_OVERUSED · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy ball fuck that shit spooky

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember reading this a few years ago, and it still gives me nightmares

IeatDogfood · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The most disturbing part was when he said something like "isn't it time for you to go back to your tent ?" when he had the chick alone and vulnerable

XSeed_EaterX · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

well that was unique

Raezak_Am · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/whatsinthisthing

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this and uzumaki

ConfidentDoucheGuy · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know, this shit is massively creepy and every time I read it I get really uncomfortable, but I can never put my finger on why.

alexmcpad1827 · 1 points · Posted at 11:44:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

holy fucking shit that's creepy!

vVvMaze · 1 points · Posted at 13:59:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i dont get the ending.

real-dreamer · 25 points · Posted at 15:30:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in the military I saw someone try to hang themselves outside their Window. They tied themselves to an ac unit and the unit fell they fell onto the ground. The ac unit landed on their head.

It was sad.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:04:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did they live or die?

real-dreamer · 6 points · Posted at 13:08:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The soldier died that day.

mandino788 · 96 points · Posted at 15:20:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably not creepy/scary in the way that you mean but for me the first thing that popped into my head is the night that I called the police for the first time. Additionally, this story could be a bit triggering for some

I was 18, it was the fall after I had graduated from high school. I had been pining after these snow boots from Target for a few weeks and finally had enough to buy them (I'm weird). I got them, then went over to my friends house with them on to show her. She lives directly across the street from me so it's maybe a 30 second walk from door to door. I hung out over there for a while, then around 10:30 decided to go home since I had to take the bus to class early the next morning.

It was trash night so I went inside, grabbed a full bag, went out the garage door and took it to the curb. I heard some crunching in the leaves in my yard but it was dark and I just figured it was an animal. I went back in for the recycling bin and when I put that at the curb a man approached me. He asked for directions to a nearby street so I told him. He then leaned in and whispered in my ear "I'm going to rape you."

I took off running towards the house, tripped on my snow boots and fell in the garage. He was behind me but I got inside and locked the interior garage door before he got to me. I heard him messing around in the garage. I ran upstairs and told my mom what happened, we called 911 and I spoke to the dispatcher while my mom found something that could be used as a weapon and went to see if he was still in the garage. He wasn't so she closed the garage door then we waited for the police.

The officers drove around looking for him for a bit, then came to the house to talk to me. They didn't find him :(

About a week later I was on the bus and saw him. He looked right at me but the way he acted was like he didn't recognize me. I called my friend to come meet me at the bus stop by the house and we walked back to her house and called the police again. They came out but still didn't find him.

Probably one of the shittiest times of my life. Oh, and I threw the boots away. I couldn't wear them after that :(

scubadog2000 · 6 points · Posted at 00:44:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm surprised you didn't call the police while you were on the bus and didn't tell them the route.

cosmicsans · 8 points · Posted at 01:45:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This possibly could have been pre-everyone-has-a-cell-phone era.

Also, I enjoy seeing you traveling down this thread as I am.

scubadog2000 · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Considering he called his friend to meet him, he probably did have a mobile phone.

I left the thread about an hour ago, after I read a couple of hundred posts. I'll probably have to wait till morning to sleep. Good luck on the creepy adventure!

drunken_trophy_wife · 4 points · Posted at 04:45:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He? I guess it's possible but it seems pretty unlikely.

mandino788 · 7 points · Posted at 15:02:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're right, I'm not a he :)

scubadog2000 · -7 points · Posted at 15:19:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, apologies. If you were a he, the police would have just laughed it off.

mandino788 · 8 points · Posted at 14:57:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That probably would have been the logical thing. I was only a stop or two from my street, I really wanted to nope the fuck off that bus.

The response from the police kind of blew my mind. They tried to find him and all but this is what they told me:

"He didn't physically touch you, he's allowed to say what he wants. The only things you can't say are that you're going to harm the President or that you're going to blow up a building."

They were going to try to find him and get his picture, then just keep a record so if something happens in the future they could show it was a pattern. -_______-

scubadog2000 · 6 points · Posted at 15:14:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it was LAPD, he and 3 other hobos would've already been burnt to a crisp. Quality police work.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:16:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your mom's awesome for going into the garage when he could've still been there.

mandino788 · 5 points · Posted at 15:04:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

She definitely got all Mama Bear. I had to laugh afterwards at her choice of weapon. We had issues with our garage door not opening right and she had replaced the giant springs that are attached to the track. She bought a few extra in case we needed them in the future. She grabbed one of those. Yeah, it was heavy and metal but can you imagine hitting someone with one of those? Probably not very effective lol

Blackwings21 · 9 points · Posted at 06:50:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too bad you didnt have a brother. If that happened to one of my sisters, I woulda took the bus with them but stay separated like we were strangers and have her point him out.

Then Sit next to him and say "Im gonna shoot you when we both leave this bus".

I have a concealed carry license, So woulda followed him home and cocked my gun hard so he could hear it, Just to make him feel what he did to other people.

Sorry if this sounded creepy but I Really cant stand people that prey on the weaker.

Holovoid · 3 points · Posted at 15:55:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You sound like a good guy.

allergictoyourcat · 2 points · Posted at 19:01:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Picture Greg while you read it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:03:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i'm glad you got away

[deleted] · 52 points · Posted at 19:30:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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MrBonkies · 2 points · Posted at 03:57:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm confused...the dude used the fence to cut his own throat?

davidandsarah08 · 3 points · Posted at 05:31:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Basically, that is what I think happened. The fence had barbed wire on it. He dragged his throat across it. He cut deep, hence the gargling sound and blood everywhere.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:15:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

you did your honest best; the guy had a death wish. or at the very least, he was reckless with the sacredness of his life.

ghost_of_a_fly · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So he did it intentionally?

davidandsarah08 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is what I am guessing. I doubt people would have to wrestle him to the ground if it was on accident.

Kallehoe · 1 points · Posted at 09:42:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ye :/

MrUncreativeMan · 826 points · Posted at 14:51:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Since this is going to get buried, this one is for you, guy who hits new.

In the middle of the summer two summers ago, I was sleeping in my bed peacefully when I heard the loudest thunder I've ever heard in my life. Normally I am not afraid of thunder but this time my entire house shook as if it was a huge earthquake. I shake it off and go back to sleep. No big deal. Next thing I knew, I was jolted awake by a flash of bright purple lightning and the loudest fucking thunder that zeus could possibly create. Then i start to hear the screams. It had seemed as if outside my window was a choir of demented hell spawn screeching in cries of agony. As I laid in bed terrified I thought to myself "This is actually happening. I can hear them. This is how it ends" Later I found out that the screams were just a pack of foxes that were scared by the intense lightning, but still that was some scary shit right there. TL;DR Thor trys to smite some demon foxes and they eat me.

Happy_Cats · 9 points · Posted at 19:11:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was hanging out in my room and I heard a woman screaming for like, 5 minutes. Later I found out there's a type of fox that, when cries, sounds exactly like a woman screaming.

roses269 · 4 points · Posted at 23:11:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard a fox like that right next to my living room window while playing Left For Dead at night. Scared the living crap out of me.

blart_history · 1 points · Posted at 03:20:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep. I'm a camp counselor and we have one of those guys hanging around. First night I heard it, I thought something was happening to the horses. Afterwards, I just had to make sure to inform the camp nurse and/or the children that the noise was just a fox; nobody was in danger.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:32:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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iopghj · 2 points · Posted at 04:47:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

one night I was disturbed from a nice sleeping session by a lightning strike about 30 feet from my window.

for about thirty seconds my house was shaking and my heart rate was spiking. I had no clue how close it hit until I went outside the next day and saw the branch that was hit laying on the ground. the heat boiled and hardened all the sap in the branch.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:23:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You just gave a plausible explanation for an event that happened when I was 12 and on summer camp with the boy scouts of the Netherlands. O_o

trinlayk · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

also peacocks and some kinds of wild cats have blood curdling cries that they may make in the middle of the night.

(grew up in the woods <Northern part of Indiana> and later lived across the street from a farm that had peacocks. )

G-Riz · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't forget screech owls. They sound like dying cats.

Don't even get me started on coyotes, Jesus fuck

trinlayk · 2 points · Posted at 18:47:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh yeah, the woods and farmlands are full of critters that sound like humans being murdered... or worse.

Sam_Geist · 7 points · Posted at 23:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The first time I visited Brisbane, I was ten years old. It was also my first time to Australia and I'd heard that kookaburras laughed.

What I had never heard was that they sound like the hordes of hell itself at 6 o'clock in the morning right outside the window!

DpThought0 · 4 points · Posted at 19:21:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sweet zombie Jesus - foxes. I was taking a late night jog through my neighborhood when I startled a fox. I couldn't see what it was that I startled - I just heard the most terrifying noise, like a cat, a woman, and a baby were all screaming as they were being murdered. I had no idea what the noise was at the time and sprinted home so fast that I was seeing red and getting tunnel vision. Awful noise if you don't know what it is.

Rifta21 · 3 points · Posted at 19:38:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Foxes make the scariest sound ever. I cant even imagine how scary a whole pack of them would be.

nrbartman · 3 points · Posted at 20:57:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Its super hard to describe accurately too. And mimicking the noise to the best of your capabilities just confuses people further.

In case anyone is wondering what it sounds like, imagine this when you're alone in the woods.

michaeljane · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fuck! I watched that twice and I jumped every time!

TypicalBetaNeckbeard · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched this then went on to watch videos of baby squirrels and bunnies taking baths. Of course.

trinlayk · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Peacocks in the night... pretty close to the fox scream for scariness.

baritone-boy · 3 points · Posted at 21:19:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Foxes are the worst! When I was a kid we lived in an area with foxes and I used to think there was a lady living in the woods who would just scream

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've woken up like this a lot and stayed awake until it calmed down because I knew more was coming (the seriously loud stuff, normal thunder won't wake me). Fox screaming would keep me awake the entire night -shudder-

Diskformer · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Foxes can sound like a banshees being exorcised in the most painful way possible. If you haven't heard it before and don't know what it is, it will make you believe in hell for a while.

GrantSolar · 2 points · Posted at 23:11:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Screaming foxes and cats are seriously creepy. When I didn't know what it was, I thought someone had left a small child out in the fields by our house

kino2012 · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait, they ate you?

Iceis · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Foxes have a very hauntingly beautiful sounds, but in the wrong context is just a scary mess of sound.

Orintemple · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scumbag foxes. They make some weird ass noises. There was one by my old workplace once and someone across the street started trying to tease it with a stick and it made a sound like nothing I have ever heard before or since.

EDIT: They are so cute though...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Chaos reigns.

SquishMitt3n · 1 points · Posted at 11:00:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of the scariest nights of my life was during a random ass summer lightning storm. I didn't see the flash because I was asleep, but my god...the thunder. It sounded like an explosion outside my window, and I mean like a full blown (heh) explosion. I woke up and 1 second later jumped out of my bed, and went and saw my dad, who was awake as well. I asked him what the fuck it was and that's when I noticed some more lightning (no where near as loud this time).

pastel-forest · 1 points · Posted at 13:43:41 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is cute

KimmyKAOS · -5 points · Posted at 16:58:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvote for Thor

Gayballs · -2 points · Posted at 22:17:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Since this is going to get buried.

Well, I downvoted you to make that prediction come true.

nmoline · 74 points · Posted at 13:46:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I nearly forgot this story, short but creepy.

I was about 16 years old and was heading back to Central Indiana from King's Island (theme park in Cincinnati). Somewhere along the highway we saw a man walk out of the woods about a quarter mile up. As we get closer I noticed it is a middle aged man completely naked; other than a latex mask (think BDSM) and a chain around his neck. There was nobody else visible from the road.

Being that I was 16 I just looked at the strange naked man and kept driving. Thinking back I always wished I had called the police, who knows what he was doing in the woods along the highway.

Mr_Old_Sky · 5 points · Posted at 16:32:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, King's Island is the shit.

I live an hour away and I love going there during the summer. I guess the next time I go I'll have to look out for kinky ghosts.

nmoline · 6 points · Posted at 18:59:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's been nearly 13 years. If the naked BDSM is still alive he's probably 60 now.

CapnSalty · 0 points · Posted at 00:28:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If he wanted help, he would have waved you down, or waved down another car passing him.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

spankin it?

nmoline · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hopefully, he could have been raping some folks in those woods.

brewlliant · 3 points · Posted at 20:23:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or he could've been being raped and escaped.

Also, hello fellow Cincinnatian?

nmoline · 2 points · Posted at 20:54:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Indianapolis, we're cousins.

scubadog2000 · 2 points · Posted at 22:05:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Considering he was the one with the chain and mask, he was probably the one being dominated/raped.

[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 15:38:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night my father was at the door making death threats, he was drunk and probably on some kind of medication. Felt like I was going to die that night. Didn't.

hellomrpervert · 10 points · Posted at 16:05:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Didn't.

Thanks for not leaving us hanging.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:51:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did.

needlestuck · 25 points · Posted at 02:08:59 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, this is a day late and will totally get lost, but here goes.

I work nights at a residential treatment program for teenage girls recovering from drug addiction. The program is housed in an old duplex that they have opened up so both sides are in use. The program houses 15 girls max and there are two staff on 3rd shift, me and a coworker. We split the shift into four hour increments--one staff is upstairs on the floor with the bedrooms monitoring the clients and the other is on the main floor doing whatever. We switch halfway through the night and it's easy money like nothing else. The way the house is laid out, since it's an old duplex, is that there are two living rooms--one on each side of the house, kind of mirrored in location, and two main stairwells that are side by side.

Creepy shit doesn't really happen there--the most that you get is some girl running off in the middle of the night or catching girls having sex with each other or whatever. Normal teenage shit.

Well, I come into work on Thursday night and I putz around for a minute and then head up one of the flights of stairs. I notice the one of the doors to the living room on the side of the house I will be on is partially closed, which is a little odd--the door is a massive, heavy wooden sliding door that most people don't want to fuck with. Weird, but whatever.

I go upstairs and take my seat and fuck around on my laptop and whatever. All the clients are sleeping and I check their rooms about every half hour like I'm supposed to. Around 1AM, I decide to go downstairs to grab a drink. The door to that living room is completely closed, which is very weird but I figure my coworker decided to take a nap in there and closed the door against the light. Except that I didn't hear the door close, which is impossible. Those doors creak and groan and scrape on the floor and bang when you open/close them. But, whatever. I'm not going to chance waking up my co-worker because she's fucking cranky in the middle of the night. I grab my drink and go back upstairs.

Around 1:30, there's this massive crash on the first floor. I call out to my coworker and ask her if that was her. She responds--from the other side of the house--that it was not, and gets up to check the first floor. I get up and check on all the clients, figuring that one of them got up when I wasn't paying attention and is sneaking down for some food or trying to get out or whatever. All the kids are in their beds and my coworker says that there's nothing out of place. She checks all the doors [we have four--two front, two back] and they are all locked. I'm a little freaked, but, still, whatever. I decide, just in case one of the kids is fucking with us and has learned the schedule that we check rooms on, to do random checks so, I'm up maybe every ten to fifteen minutes to check rooms.

While I'm on one side of the house, I hear footsteps on the other so I jet over there to see who is out of bed and fucking around. They all appear to be asleep and they are all actually in their beds. I'm getting pissed.

This continues until 3AM, when we switch places. I go downstairs and my coworker is in the office and asks me if I locked the cabinet with all the snacks in it and the staff fridge. I had not. She gives me the weirdest look and tells me she had left them all open because she goes in and out to get food/drinks during the night. I then ask her if she had been sleeping in the living room under me and she says no. I am thoroughly freaked out and ask her if she heard the door close to that room and she once again tells me no. I could fucking feel the blood drain out of my face.

Our program is in the middle of a city with lots of homeless folks so, at this point, I thought maybe one had somehow gotten into the house. I am nervous as fuck and run around and check all the doors again--that I had checked at the beginning of the shift and that my co-worker had checks after the big crash. One of the front doors is unlocked.

So, I gather my fucking courage together and, while my co-worker hides in the office, I go to the living room and began to push the door open. I was fully expecting a crazy person with a knife to be curled up on one of the couches or a former client to have crawled through a window and be passed out on the floor, but it was empty..and the light was on, where it had been turned off before. None of the windows were open, nothing.

I am freaked out to the nth degree and am convinced that someone is in the house. I search the first floor while my co-worker goes up to the second floor and checks all the beds again, where all the girls are sleeping and accounted for. Co-worker is a very religious Spanish woman and she begins praying and talking about putting scissors in the bible to ward off the devil and all kinds of shit.

I sit on the couch in one of the living rooms and am wide awake where I am usually taking a nap. I keep hearing shit moving around upstairs and my co-worker keeps checking the beds and all the kids are asleep. I walk the inside perimeter of the house again and, as I cross over the landing at the bottom of the sets of stairs, I see a man standing on the landing above me out of the corner of my eye and I jump a foot. I look fully and, of course, there's nothing there.

Around 5:30AM, one of the day shifters comes in and settles down to watch a movie in the other room. I let her get settled and fuck around on my phone a little more and go in to talk to her around 6:30AM. Before I can tell her about all the night's craziness, she asks me which client is awake and crying and processing/talking with my coworker at the top of the stairs.

No client is awake, no one is crying, and my coworker is not talking. I tell her this and then tell her about all the crazy shit that happened and she flips the fuck out and tells me how the half of the house that everything kept happening on is haunted and how all kinds of stuff has happened to her there. Co-worker comes downstairs and we are all comparing notes and we hear someone walking in the kitchen.

All three of us head out. One of my co-workers runs upstairs to check beds and me and the other one check the kitchen--we go from opposite sides, as there are two entrances. We meet in the middle and...nothing.

By that time, it's 7AM and it is time for me to get the fuck out of there and, boy, was I happy to go. Told a bunch of my other co-workers what happened and they apparently think of me as the calm and logical one, and they are freaked out. I work for the next week on high alert and nothing else, thankfully, happens.

I am still convinced that someone snuck into the house--either one of the girls had a boyfriend or dealer come in or someone broke in or whatever. We have zero security beyond the locks on our doors and it is entirely plausible that someone could have gotten in. Fucking crazy shit. I have never been so freaked out at a job as I was then.

cupkaaate · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:07 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work at a residential treatment facility too and your job sounds 1,000x better than mine. We have four different houses but I mainly work at the girls home, which is just 9 girls but I have to work by myself and definitely don't get to take nap breaks and I have to check on them every 7 to 15 minutes. But, I guess all four homes are haunted and people have freaky stories about things that have happened.

Pajamathief · 23 points · Posted at 08:47:48 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

The first week of July, 2011 was the creepiest, scariest week of my life. On the first night I went into my bedroom and noticed my closet door was open, and a foul odor (like cat piss, but stronger) was coming out of it. I febreezed it, shut the door, and fell asleep. Next night, before going to sleep a really heavy presence settled in the room, and the stench returned out of nowhere. A hot uncomfortable static in the air. Movement drew my eye to the corner of the room and I saw a dark shape, darker than the shadow around it crouched down. It seemed like it was staring at me a few seconds, and then disappeared. Freaked me the fuck out. The third night, 5 minutes after I layed down in bed that same presence and smell settled in the room. I could hear scratching from the closet, and occasionally a sort of low noise between a growl and laugh. I turned on the light, opened the closet; nothing there. Went back to bed and fell asleep pretty quick, though I woke up at some point half asleep and heard a metal squeaking sound. When I woke up next morning I realized what the sound was. The metal chair I keep in my closet had been propped up next to my bed. This is what really got to me... because it gave me the idea that something was watching me while I slept. I put the chair back, and left my room. That night I didn't even try to sleep. I left the lights on and messed around on a laptop. At 3:13AM I heard one loud, eerie bang on my door. I heard my dog in the next room start barking immediately, so I know she heard it too. Opened the door, no one was in the hallway. I could hear everyone snoring down the hall. On the fifth day I crashed on my couch, and had a really vivid nightmare about this owl outside the window just staring at me, and I couldn't look away. Woke up in a sweat etc. Anyways I was in the den later that night, maybe 10:30 pm, parents are asleep. I got up from the computer to go downstairs and smoke. I stepped outside the room and from my left I heard the distinct sound of someone walking across the 2nd floor landing (it always creaks and makes a popping noise at the spot closest to the den) I looked over expecting to see my mom walking from her bedroom. Instead it was the shadow I had seen in my room, much darker than all the shadows around it, coming at me extremely fast. Adrenaline took over, I swung at it... and hit nothing. This scared me so much I ran downstairs and grabbed a knife, and just stood in the kitchen waiting and listening. Eventually the heavy presence went away and I went to the couch to sleep. On the 6th day my mom woke me up before going to work, it was still pretty dark in the house. My brother had slept over at a friends, so I was home alone. I poured cereal, sat down and watched TV. Not twenty minutes had gone by since my mom left and the presence and the stench settled into the living room, much stronger than in my bedroom or closet. I was so fed up and angry I jumped up and turned to the darkest corner of the room it seemed to permeate from and yelled at the top of my lungs "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" And it must've because after that I never had another experience. I didn't tell anyone until about a week later when my friends suggested ghost hunting at Bachelor's Grove (we still haven't gone) and I told them my story. My brother was there and while hearing my story stopped me and told me about seeing the same dark black shadow in his bathroom straight across from his bed. He said it seemed to stare at him, and he would become paralyzed. He also mentioned the weird piss-like smell.

Moral of the story... intense rage seems to get weird shit out of your house pretty quickly.

martininkorea · 2 points · Posted at 10:19:00 on June 13, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, that story actually made my neck hairs stand on end. It's creepy, and I'll trust your word that it's true. You told it well, too.

xcalypsox42 · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:05 on June 25, 2013 · (Permalink)

My phone rang in the middle of reading this and a let out an audible...well not scream but..."terror" sound. Good story!

LadySmylee · 23 points · Posted at 17:15:51 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

True story.

My grandmother once lived in an old, three story house. It was set in the woods and slightly run down. It needed new paint, some of the floorboards would creak and the doorways were no longer straight from where the house had settled over the years.

The house itself always gave me a slightly uneasy feeling. However, I have an over-active imagination and at the time of this event I was heavily into my Stephen King horror phase (I was about ten).

The third floor of the house contained three bedrooms. One bedroom belonged to my aunt Beth, who was eight years older than me and wanted very little to do with my brother or myself. Since we stayed at Granny's during the day while Mom and Dad worked, I think it was a jealousy thing. Beth was my Mom's youngest sister and the baby of the family, while I was the first grandchild.

About three months after they moved into this house, Beth started complaining about noises coming from the walls in her room that kept her up at night. Granny and Papaw dismissed her complaints, but when my other aunt who lived there began to echo her concerns, they decided to investigate.

I was there when Granny took Beth upstairs and began searching her room, just to prove there was nothing there. The rat traps they'd sat hadn't worked and they owned three cats, so mice were not likely the culprit. Anyway, while moving a big dresser away from the wall, they discovered a piece of plywood nailed to the wall. It wasn't even painted. (I should mention the dresser had come with the house, as had a lot of the furniture). Granny, being Granny, immediately took a hammer and crow bar and tore off the plywood.

Behind it was a small door.

I'm not kidding when I say small. It was about three feet high and narrow. An adult man would have to really squeeze to get in there. The door was locked but Granny got it open anyhow.

Inside was a little hallway, very dusty, that opened into a tiny room. I could walk in the hallway if I hunkered over. An adult would have to crawl, and could only sit in the little room.

There was a small chair, doll sized, in that room. Nothing else. The walls had been covered in wallpaper that was now very yellowed with age. Dust and cobwebs everywhere, I sneezed for days after this little adventure.

What we finally noticed, and what still haunts me to this day, was the fresh looking scratches on the walls of the tiny room and the little hallway. Nt scratches, really...more like gouges in the wall. These gouges were in groups of three, as if whatever clawed hand responsible had only three fingers.

There was no dust in the gouges. They looked fresh.

We backtracked out of that little room, not saying a word. Granny nailed the plywood back in place and moved the dresser back against the wall. And that was that.

Two night later Beth moved into her sister's room and they kept that room locked until they moved out a year later.

The house was eventually abandoned. I went back with a group of my friends in high school to show them the little room, but the stairs were in really bad shape and rotten. The house was torn down not long after.

martininkorea · 1 points · Posted at 10:13:50 on June 13, 2013 · (Permalink)

What a creepy story! Also, your granny sounds pretty cool.

LadySmylee · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:54 on June 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks...Granny was cool and a lot of fun. I inherited her mischievousness. ;)

kiefercalyx · 23 points · Posted at 16:51:00 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was about 6 years old when our washer broke and we had to go to the laundromat at little shopping center to do our laundry for a little while. I remember it was a warm June afternoon just before dusk I was sitting on the back of my Mom's car eating some candy when I heard the roar of engines coming down the boulevard in front of me. I could see down the road it was two vehicles, a primer colored hot rod and a van racing at top speed side by side, as they neared the intersection where I was at the road rose ever so slightly and they were going so fast both vehicles rose and collided sides in mid air. The van kept going but the car rolled twice fast and hopped on the third roll and as the car rose the guy was coming out ever so much and he his head was chopped clean off when the car landed.

The real freaky part is the head rolled into the gutter about 6 feet directly in front of where I was sitting.

KarthusWins · 70 points · Posted at 20:07:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was standing in front of my house wth my dad on a spring day when I was 7. We were looking across the street at the neighbor's house, making casual conversation to pass the time. Suddenly, we see about 3 crows start to circle around the house. Then, one of the crows dives into our neighbor's yard and starts to pull apart their storm drain (the water spout that catches roof water and sends it to the ground). It appeared that a family of finches had built a nest in the drain, and the crows wanted to eat the eggs. They succeeded. But that was not all. The crows then caught one of the finches, ripped its head off, and started to eat it. The other finch darted off in fright, abandoning its home.

About 3 minutes later, I shit you not, the finch returns with about 50 other finches, and they start to attack the crows. The crows took down a couple more of the finches, but they were covered in a massive swarm of angry feathers. Two of the crows were ripped to shreds within minutes, and the other one got away but fell to the ground after making it to a nearby hill (probably due to a damaged wing). It was very scary for my young mind, and I had just seen the horror movie "The Birds".

After everything was done, my dad turns to me and says, "What the fuck." That was the first time I heard him swear.

thedrunkmonk · 15 points · Posted at 20:22:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvote for dad swear.

Deadbreeze · 4 points · Posted at 09:41:55 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep. Made me laugh at the end.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 22:23:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 08:32:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

damn right. good forthe finches.

butterfly_beatrice · 7 points · Posted at 08:08:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Angry birds... Not as fun in real life.

vVvMaze · 5 points · Posted at 17:54:25 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is the most awesome story in this thread. The fact that the finches rounded up reinforcements in incredible.

Super_Pie · 2 points · Posted at 22:53:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After watching The Birds i cried.

CestMoiIci · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking hell. That is awesome.

gibsonton · 68 points · Posted at 21:36:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Buried but it's worth a try... Didn't happen to me, but someone I know.

Friend in her second year of college away from home living in a 1 bedroom apartment by herself. Living alone she was always super conscious of locking her doors and everything. Comes back from class one day and notices that her stuff was not how it was when she left, clothes on the floor, papers rustled, etc and there was a picture on her floor of a little black boy (whom she had never seen before). Enough was out of place that she was way weirded out and she called the police.

Police come to investigate cant find any evidence of breaking and entering and they ask if they can take her computer. They take it, she's freaked but she tries not to worry about it.

Next day police show up, bring her the computer and tell her that they found something on it. They open her Microsoft Word and find 100's of letters to her. Weird ass love letters talking about her. Every single one ended the same way, "If you don't believe me just look under your bed..."

No joke, they look under her bed, lift up her mattress to find 100's of used condoms...

Needless to say she noped right outta there and moved back home the next day.

Never found out who it was. Assumed it was someone working maintenance considering doors were always locked and she came home to them locked when the incident occurred.

latinagringa2121 · 10 points · Posted at 03:31:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Buried but I read it, and THAT is creepy as fuck. The thought that he entered her apartment hundreds of times, I mean...SHIT. As a girl who lived alone in a little one bedroom myself last year, with a regular, predictable schedule...I just got chills.

allergictoyourcat · 4 points · Posted at 19:46:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Couldn't the police run DNA on those condoms?

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:25:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's useless if they have no match or it. This person would have to have a record.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:32:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

dear god in heaven. that really has me upset.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 3 points · Posted at 16:19:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Brb checking under my bed.

davidandsarah08 · 2 points · Posted at 06:39:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please share on /r/letsnotmeet it is a great story!

illBoopYaHead · 2476 points · Posted at 12:51:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After living in my house alone for 8 years, I came to the realization that I had closed a lot more doors than I had opened.

ChickenMclittle · 2310 points · Posted at 13:06:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm still not sure if this is about being a failure in life or spooky ghosts.

illBoopYaHead · 1385 points · Posted at 13:10:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepy part is not knowing!

[deleted] · 1165 points · Posted at 14:27:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please boop my head?

illBoopYaHead · 1719 points · Posted at 14:33:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

[deleted] · 737 points · Posted at 14:38:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you!

donjohnson210 · 86 points · Posted at 15:00:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was really cute.

everyoneknowsabanana · 12 points · Posted at 15:29:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's something to restore the creepy.

Kremox · 8 points · Posted at 17:20:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nosferatu!

Superduperscooper · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this creeped me out so much when i was a kid.

amankinperc · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aww he's smiling

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is oddly cute :3

grant0 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I agree: this made me laugh out loud, hard.

BrutishElf · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are.

blackwolfdown · 5 points · Posted at 16:14:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What mystical cult initiation have we just witnessed?

aareyes12 · 4 points · Posted at 15:21:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:13:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aww I want a boop too! Beat me to it.

bublz · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:49 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

That little interaction was the cutest thing I've seen in this thread.

ThepIGOFmigS261468 · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me too please!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:41:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

drunkenpriest · 23 points · Posted at 14:53:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Khandance was never heard from again.

illBoopYaHead · 50 points · Posted at 14:54:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You've discovered my secret! BOOP

ximan11 · 3 points · Posted at 21:53:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RIP drunkenpriest

Jared6197 · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You murderer!
I know the secret to your boops!
I'll tell everyone in my next comment!

drunkenpriest · 3 points · Posted at 14:54:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Until he commented 15 minutes later.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:29:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why am I always a "he" to you guys on here?!?!?!

drunkenpriest · 2 points · Posted at 23:51:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why am I always a "he" to you guys on here?!?!?!

Its due to the inferiority of women. You should take it as a compliment that we consider you one of us /s

Aregisteredusername · 6 points · Posted at 15:19:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You've just been waiting for this moment to come for 163 days, haven't you?

illBoopYaHead · 10 points · Posted at 15:21:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Correct, khandance is the first person to ask.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 15:54:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can I get in on this hot Booping action?

illBoopYaHead · 11 points · Posted at 16:04:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:07:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hnnnnnng. Harder!

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:57:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

really?! Ahh man that is amazing! :)

why_cant_i_join · 9 points · Posted at 15:29:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

now boop mine

illBoopYaHead · 10 points · Posted at 15:31:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

Chimney-Rexxar · 1 points · Posted at 01:26:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

BOOP ME PLEASE

MoonPark · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Will you accept a boop from an amateur rather than a professional?

Chimney-Rexxar · 2 points · Posted at 23:11:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes

MoonPark · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Then please sit back, relax, and enjoy your boop. boop!

Chimney-Rexxar · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

please boop me i'm begging you

velocirapetor3 · 8 points · Posted at 15:53:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ooh ooh, me next! Boop my head!

illBoopYaHead · 5 points · Posted at 16:04:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

velocirapetor3 · 8 points · Posted at 16:13:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK YEAH!

kredwards9807 · 1 points · Posted at 08:52:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh oh me next me next!!

illBoopYaHead · 1 points · Posted at 09:34:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

sigh... boop! you're the last one!

kredwards9807 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

YESH!! Thank you :D

Nrksbullet · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I won't sleep now unless I get a boop as well!

illBoopYaHead · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

Nrksbullet · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

aaaaahhhhh...yessss thats the stuff. Thank you.

grant0 · 2 points · Posted at 18:28:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Boop me!

illBoopYaHead · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All right, let's keep this PG-rated.

Cinnvext · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me too, me too!

illBoopYaHead · 2 points · Posted at 21:10:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For 5 months nobody asked for a "Boop, now everybody wants a boop!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You waited 5 months for that. Bravo.

Jobboman · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

d'awwww

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/karmaconspiracy

naivat10 · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do me next!

Britt2211 · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me too? :(

iTaos · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do me!

elshroom · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not that head. ;)

captainxenu · 0 points · Posted at 17:44:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you ill boopY my Head?

illBoopYaHead · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boop!

Insertwittynameherez · 0 points · Posted at 19:17:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me next! Me next!

stanfan114 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And not knowing is half the battle!

G. I. Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeee!

Private-Detective · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And knowing is half the battle!

GunRaptor · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or is it the sad part?

danrennt98 · 40 points · Posted at 13:24:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, if you don't want to sleep tonight, it's a spooky quote. If you haven't been open minded, then be nice to someone you usually wouldn't have today!

KeybladeSpirit · 4 points · Posted at 14:40:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Neither. He lives in a huge house and discovers new doors on a regular basis, most of which are open.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why not both?

anras · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Inability to count.

tiajuanat · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably a settling foundation or heat expansion and contraction causing doors to unlatch.

gerald_bostock · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Either works.

newtothelyte · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Either way you're in a shitty situation

raziphel · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it's a story about early onset altzheimers. :(

imkindofimpressed · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My feels are... scared I think.. but also think they are still feeling..

wee_man · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OP has an inability to start what he finished.

georgerob · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

or just counting how many times he closes a door

Lightfail · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure the original mentioned it was closet doors.

Thydamine · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn these shitty latches!

Mr_Skeazy · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or you know, air pressure. By closing a door you inadvertently open another by changing the pressure in the room.

20jcp · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

having guests around that don't close doors, like women who dont turn off lights...

Bobbilite · 408 points · Posted at 13:11:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your house is crooked.

TheTemplarKnight · 7 points · Posted at 14:40:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And he is a crooked man.

ferrarisnowday · 5 points · Posted at 15:02:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

or drafty

nottheweakestlink · 4 points · Posted at 17:54:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was a crooked man

And he walked a crooked mile

He found a crooked sixpence

Upon a crooked stile

He bought a crooked cat

Which caught a crooked mouse

And they all lived together

In a little crooked house

nss68 · 4 points · Posted at 02:24:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

lol my friend lives in an apartment building and his bedroom door just pops open sometimes. His immediate thought was that the place was haunted. Even though it only happens when his window is open, and when the door didn't latch fully.

LordMcMutton · 2 points · Posted at 14:27:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That seems very poetic for some reason. Like Shel Silverstein-esque

pyro5050 · 2 points · Posted at 16:22:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

not crooked, the house will shift with tempture variance with seasons, causing some doors to be tight at times, and other doors to lose their ability to latch properly.

jordorb · 2 points · Posted at 14:34:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This. My pantry door won't stay open!

Kvothe24 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Iax?

evilquail · 985 points · Posted at 14:12:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Weird, I've got the similar thing going on but opposite. I seem to be opening more doors than I close.

http://i.imgur.com/voZUFC4.jpg

TARDIS-Engineer · 98 points · Posted at 14:54:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GHOST PISTONS

dalek_cyber · 5 points · Posted at 18:37:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

trust this guy, he built the type 40

everyoneknowsabanana · 9 points · Posted at 15:29:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or, you know....regular pistons.

TARDIS-Engineer · 24 points · Posted at 15:43:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NO GHOST PISTONS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT

ILoveBooksAndMen · 11 points · Posted at 15:45:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Trust him. He helped engineer the TARDIS.

shutyourgob · 2 points · Posted at 22:21:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

P-P-P-Pistons!

Daycardinal · 2 points · Posted at 04:05:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

GHOST BALL

WeaponexT · 8 points · Posted at 15:27:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That or your ghost has OCD.

throwsIOExceptions · 2 points · Posted at 19:27:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you two live in the same house, but never knew it

Hrodrik · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my case it's drafts.

Jamie_BasicLee · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Law.

Drew-Pickles · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:43 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really want to upvote this but you're on 1111 upvotes. Sorry :(

evilquail · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:15 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha someone ruined it anyways :P

Drew-Pickles · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:29 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welp, might as well upvote you now then!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

clearly your pistons are powered by /u/illBoopYaHead's doors

marino1310 · 23 points · Posted at 13:53:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always notice my folding style laundry doors are always open no matter how many times I close them

IAccidentallyMyPenis · 7 points · Posted at 14:20:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The hamper ghost strikes again!!

scampwild · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine too, but that's because my cat is a dick.

...right?

doomwolf240 · 0 points · Posted at 14:54:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And the walls will ooze green slime..

[deleted] · 82 points · Posted at 13:37:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I believe some sort of citation is in order?

illBoopYaHead · 20 points · Posted at 13:48:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry I actually read something similar on Reddit a while ago, I attempted to find the original story on google but nothing came up. Could you give me a link?

Mikeoneus · 7 points · Posted at 16:10:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/yvjao/whats_the_scariest_thing_you_can_write_in_30/c5za5ep

There ya go. I don't know if this is where it originated, but it's from a while ago so it could be where you picked it up.

illBoopYaHead · 2 points · Posted at 16:21:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks, that sentence is a lot better than mine!

Doc_Hemingway · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mikeoneus Deliverous...great job, have some crappy internet points

Mikeoneus · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Always appreciated.

ProfessorManBearPig · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OP will deliver right?

Fagadaba · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are you asking the OP if he'll deliver?

spiraldroid · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same here. Maybe it was something along the lines of "What is the single scariest sentence you know?"

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 13:56:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit i can't remember where it's originally from either, but i think starting with "i read this on reddit a while back", would be better than passing it off as your own. And i believe the original was about cupboards or cabinets.

growling_owl · 6 points · Posted at 14:55:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On a post that's supposed to creep people out, I think the last thing people want to see is: "..."-Read on reddit somewhere.

Bladelink · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was originally regarding closets. I'll track it down.

Found this thread, where it's at the top. It's also followed by an incredibly frightening story about a woman living in a cabinet in a guy's house.

ty556 · 3 points · Posted at 14:24:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mark Twain

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's some real old creepypasta, the source has probably been lost for a while now.

RaggedyGentleman · 91 points · Posted at 13:05:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is the creepiest sentence I've ever read.

YEEAAAAHHHHHHH · 9 points · Posted at 13:54:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gave me the heebie jeebies.

atriaventrica · 20 points · Posted at 14:38:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Repost. The original is better: "I swear all the years I've lived here alone, I've closed that door more times than I've opened it."

ThreatOfFire · 3 points · Posted at 15:20:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Truth, I remember this from a "creepiest sentence" thread.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I might be slow, I sort of don't get it.

RaggedyGentleman · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

His doors open of their own accord.

sam28 · 2 points · Posted at 14:24:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

~~This is the creepiest sentence I've probably ever read~~ This is a pretty creepy notion to entertain.

"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..."

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:46:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"It was the last woman on Earth"

feanturi · 10 points · Posted at 15:07:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And the man called out, "Go away! Batin'!"

sam28 · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bow chicka wow wow

Galaxyman0917 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a woman

Fidellio · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's not even a little creepy dude.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...it was the crew from the ISS, newly returned from space. "Hey there," the first said in greeting. "Where'd everyone go?"

BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How is this creepy? The odds are, it won't be you. And if you're the last man on earth, what do you have to live for?

Darko33 · 1 points · Posted at 14:38:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Twist: His wife and kids are always leaving doors open and it's driving him slowly homicidal and insane

RaggedyGentleman · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He's single

Darko33 · 2 points · Posted at 15:17:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hmm..

..Twist: His wife and kids are poltergeists.

RaggedyGentleman · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gesundheit!

Unrelated_though · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get it, help?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

its a repost

RaggedyGentleman · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

T.T

[deleted] · 307 points · Posted at 13:53:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's some Stephen King style shit you just wrote there. I applaud you and also hate you for scaring the shit out of me as well.

4_out_of_5_people · 421 points · Posted at 14:28:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This has been floating around for a while.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:31:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It did sound familiar.

solar_realms_elite · 3 points · Posted at 17:26:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where's it from originally?

4_out_of_5_people · 10 points · Posted at 17:40:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't know how to find it, because fuck reddit's search bar. But the first time I saw it was in a thread that was something along the lines of "What's the scariest/creepiest story you can tell in one sentence?"

Happy_Harry · 9 points · Posted at 18:34:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This? Google FTW.

(search for "site:www.reddit.com creepiest story one sentence")

i_punt_cunts · 2 points · Posted at 19:11:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Genius, mate.

Balony1 · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Enough of your puns

Conboneeshnahad · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The 5th person believes it

Rylan_97 · 2 points · Posted at 21:06:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's only what 4 out of 5 people think though.

4_out_of_5_people · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's what 4_out_of_5_people knows.

[deleted] · 100 points · Posted at 14:24:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

its a repost

TheRedGerund · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

copypasta

VikeOfOdin · 1 points · Posted at 14:16:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My first thought, exactly.

Happy_Harry · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

According to this thread it is from "Memoirs of a Gaysha"

Crimsai · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The end of that sentence freaked me the eff out, it was really well written. Actually felt a jolt of adrenaline and wanted to run away.

deadbird17 · 4 points · Posted at 15:06:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Might want to check your latch alignments.

Unrelated_though · 8 points · Posted at 15:11:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get it, why is everyone praising this one?

Lemon1412 · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He's living alone. If he closed more doors than he opened, that must mean that someone else opened the doors.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also, why is he just realizing this? Does he remember every door his whole life?

Unrelated_though · 0 points · Posted at 20:16:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah... but what's so scary about reading that?

Lemon1412 · 2 points · Posted at 20:20:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This person most likely does not have good intentions. Also, people are generally scared of the unknown.

Unrelated_though · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I get the premise and stuff, but it just isn't really scary to read like most long creepy stories with a buildup etc.

Lemon1412 · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, and you didn't get scared, so what are you confused about? The people who think it's scary get scared.

thebestdaysofmyflerm · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because people don't understand that drafts push doors open.

Richeh · 3 points · Posted at 14:36:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's one hell of an opening sentence for a ghost story.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:12:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure I read this somewhere at /r/shortscarystories ...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:49:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have definitely read this before. The opening line to a short story, perhaps?

illBoopYaHead · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not sure, I have looked for citation but I cannot find it! My version is just a loose quote.

misfitkid99 · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your asshole friends don't know how to close doors eh?

oposssom · 5 points · Posted at 13:52:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That maybe the scariest lone single sentence I've ever read

Flexappeal · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't turn around; they don't like to be seen.

creamyjoshy · 2 points · Posted at 14:45:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

3sp00ky5u

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:44:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm 99% sure my roommate opens and closes the spare bedroom door at random times just to freak me out. She knows I'm scared as shit of our house.

mrt3ed · 1 points · Posted at 13:45:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it an old house?

twonkythechicken · 1 points · Posted at 14:13:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably those fucking kids that don't shut the door behind them.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hmm I've seen this quote on reddit twice before.

lordgoblin · 1 points · Posted at 14:28:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yup, often variations of the closet being open or wardrobe

xnerdyxrealistx · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's the ghosts of inconsiderate kids.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the same in my house, except for in my house, I have two doors at either end of the hall, and when one is opened or closed, it causes a draft that sometimes pushes open the other.

RobertD1297 · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I ask my parents to close my door, I'd prefer that they close it all the damn way.

makubex · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should be fine unless a set of stairs appears behind a door which was once just the entrance to a closet.

DeFex · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same for me, the wind sometimes opens the back door if I don't click it shut, and my cat can open the cupboard door as well. So creeeepy!

umbrianEpoch · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This morning I went to take a shower only to find that the shower curtain had switched which side I had pulled it to. I live by myself in an apartment.

IAmTheRedWizards · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obligatory plug for /r/shortscarystories

bobsp · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You opened them, you just don't remember.

EZAC99 · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The best thing is that you have 666 karma points on this.

youknowit42 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably wind. My house does that all the time if I have a window open.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

While foundation problems in your home may seem scary at first, technology has come a long way and foundation repairs are cheaper and quicker than ever. My advice for you, or anyone with mysteriously opening doors, is to look for a licensed and bonded foundation repair specialist. Have several come in and do a free estimate, then check with neighbors to see if anyone else has had problems with their foundation and ask for any advice from them. I know this is a scary time in your life but with the help of your support network, you too can vanquish the ghouls of an improperly settled foundation.

chadderbox · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At first I thought you meant closing doors in a metaphorical sense and were describing your spiral into being antisocial and depressed. It fit, in this thread, since that would indeed be scary.

Stoppit_TidyUp · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wind.

Ayavaron · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Doors just open on their own, especially if you didn't close them all the way. You ever invite a guest over? Guests will leave all your doors almost shut but not actually. You probably don't close them securely. Then they reopen.

Fappin_Alone_Guy · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wind or spooky ghosts? 0_0

GreatTragedy · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sentence reminded me of House of Leaves.

Cardcontrol · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After dating a girl for 3 years I realized she was getting laid more than me. Kinda similar.

penny_whistle · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THEN WHO WAS DOOR?

eightclicknine · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

wind

Amphabian · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not even gonna quote it? Wow. Dick.

stefer · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Perception filter. If you must just slowly look in the... corner... of your... eyes...

furlongxfortnight · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If all of the doors were open when you first entered the house, and now some of them are closed, and the house has a lot of doors, then that's normal.

boxxybrown3014 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is really beautifully phrased. I love the possibilities with this sentence.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to rent a house that had a closet in the master bedroom, on which the door was only about 4 feet high. As if it wasn't weird enough to have a child-size closet door, the door had a sliding bolt lock on the outside. As if it was there to lock something inside the child-height closet.
So after a few nights in this house, I had put something in the little closet and of course didn't bother to lock the bolt.
Sure enough, shortly after midnight... squeeek... the half-sized closet door slowly opens by itself.

I think I slept downstairs on the couch that night. Upon investigating a little bit, it turned out that this particular closet was sort of a half-attic, and wasn't airtight to the outside world. So when the wind would blow outside, the closet door opened. A previous resident had installed a bolt on it to keep it from blowing open in the middle of the night. This explanation was still not good enough for my friend who I tried to get to housesit a few months later.

ohhbacon · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

House of leaves?

happysquid14 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You might have a Japanese woman living in your house. It's becoming more and more common.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That quote should not be attributed to you, as it came from someone else. Why didn't you include that in your comment, instead of tricking people?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Emilia Pond?

jax9999 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

meh it's only a shape changing alien prisoner that escaped through a crack in the universe in your bedroom.

TheMieberlake · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

-- Sarah Winchester

Quaeras · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This would be excellent flash fiction if it were fiction.

Devanismyname · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get this feeling sometimes as well. I think its just the draft or something that causes that. That's what I have been telling myself.

cbfw86 · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wind. Its the wind. Be cool, man.

xereeto · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why did I come to this thread.

Falco1 · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Boop mine too?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Air pressure will open doors

Garbagemn · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same thing would happen in my house. I found out that it has to do with improper doors and some weird pressure zones.

thebestdaysofmyflerm · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My bedroom door used to do this all the time before I got the latch fixed. It's just a draft pushing doors open.

riottaco · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One door on my house is always open! I always close it but I come back later and it's open. I do live with people though...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:50 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you have central A/C? Do you leave doors open when you open exterior doors? Pressure changes can cause this.

banmenow · 24 points · Posted at 14:10:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Schizophrenia scares the crap out of me. Can't even imagine..

Ogbu · 7 points · Posted at 15:08:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My husband has it, and it saddens me and creeps me out just to think of it.

MoonPark · 8 points · Posted at 15:25:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This, completely. There has been nothing in my experience as genuinely terrifying as proper human psychotic madness. I've seen all kinds of supernatural shit and nothing has terrified me so much as when a truly delusional crazy guy followed me around hospital (I was in being tested for something nasty, btw, so feeling a bit vulnerable anyway), confabulating and hallucinating, wouldn't leave me alone. Eventually the nurses felt sorry for me 'cos I was crying and scared to death and they put me in a room for my own safety. Hospitals are bad enough, hospitals with crazy guys in are infinitely worse.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:23:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm demonstrating very clear examples of developing it. I'm 21, and my life is a mess. It's awful.

Rainb0wReaper · 3 points · Posted at 23:45:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My SO has some form of schizophrenia or Multiple Personality Disorder, it's terrifying and it totally seems like he's possessed... It's truly just awful

banmenow · 5 points · Posted at 00:55:50 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well you're awesome for sticking with it

Rainb0wReaper · 2 points · Posted at 00:11:14 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you so much :)

Thereminz · 3 points · Posted at 16:41:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Perfect chance to reply "me too" to your own comment

soulofWren · 7 points · Posted at 18:15:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're confusing schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder.

With Schizophrenia, you experience extreme paranoia, auditory/visual hallucinations, ect. Basically, an inability to separate reality from fiction.

Multiple Personality Disorder is just what it sounds like. You have multiple personalities, and you usually have no idea that you have it. You just have holes in your memory, or "lost time", that can't be accounted for in your head.

Thereminz · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

they may hear voices though, and be crazy enough to post it

also just joking around

VegasVeritas · 24 points · Posted at 00:53:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a beautiful cat named Oreo who we had to put down due to terminal cancer of the jaw in early-mid 2011. During that time I was away in Anaheim doing an internship, so I never really got to say good bye or be with her when she passed, and that was really hard on me since I had been her caretaker for about 15 years. I returned home from the program drained and depressed.

Two days after moving back, I was laying in bed, watching a movie, when I heard a distinct, questioning meow. I automatically got up to check the cat food and water and fetch a treat. I stopped myself, stunned.

I didn't own any cats.

I was entirely alone in our tiny condo.

I recognized that meow. It was Oreo. It was the meow she made when she was asking for attention. I stood dumbfounded for a minute, perfectly still, hoping for the sound again. Nothing.

gypsycamptrash · 8 points · Posted at 11:47:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So sweet. She came to say goodbye to you.

VegasVeritas · 3 points · Posted at 01:09:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not going to lie, the skeptic in me does not like it, but I like to think that is the case.

My husband and I also like to think that she also seems to come by every once in a while to terrorize our current cats.

One night both of them completely froze and had a cat Mexican standoff with a part of the wall, this went on for a good 5 minutes. Then they watched the spot they were hissing at move up the wall, across the ceiling towards my husband and I, and then in to the bedroom. Think cats watching laser pointer but with no little red dot. Just like that they were normal again.

It's funny because Oreo was the most territorial alpha cat on earth, having run off two other, MUCH larger, cats we took in while she lived. So musing that she's continuing her reign of terror kinda works in that situation.

Ezziboo · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:30 on November 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

My Siamese Daisy girl visited me every night for almost 6 months after she died.

VegasVeritas · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:25 on November 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

How did you know she did? Can you describe what you experienced?

Ezziboo · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:34 on November 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Daisy was the grand dame of our multi-cat household. She slept in bed with us every night for 14 years, right between my husband & I near our pillows.

It started about a week after she died. She's the first kitty we had cremated...her ashes are in a tiny wooden box that we keep on a shelf in the living room. At night while watching TV, I would see her every night in my peripheral vision (scared the crap out of me the first 3 times it happened...finally, I just started saying 'hi, Daisy girl...Daddy & I miss you so much'), but when I turned my head to try to see her, I couldn't see anything.

About 2 weeks after this began, I think she started coming to bed with us. I would feel the mattress move in the exact same way it felt when she would jump into the bed.

I was missing her terribly (still do)...it's entirely possible that these things were my brain's way of easing the pain of losing her...

InductedMist · 3 points · Posted at 03:34:30 on October 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

All aboard the feels train! Next stop onion station!

BionicWoman212 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:47 on July 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pets are the only ghosts i'm ok with

sortathrow · 47 points · Posted at 13:59:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few months ago I had lung surgery. Anesthesia really fucked me up, and I would have nightmares, which made it hard to sleep, and then I would start seeing shit.

One night when I couldn't sleep, I was watching tv, and I saw the most horrifyingly real wolf walk in front of my TV. It was huge too. Size of a large bear. It looked at me, and snarled. I quickly pulled the sheets over my head, then I passed out.

CityKat991 · 3 points · Posted at 21:34:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The same thing happened to me! I had surgery on my stomach and anesthesia really messed with my head. I refused to sleep in my room for about six months because I thought I saw something in there.

Pikitott · 3 points · Posted at 17:35:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

at least your lungs are okay :)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SMILE DOG

cosmicsans · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

NO NO NO NO NOPE HELL NO NO NO NO

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was little (read: nine) I had a couple of surgeries and was a little fucked up for a while. I remember seeing something like the ice monster in hercules only it was a greyish tan color and it would pace in front of my door at night. My mom seemed really upset when I told her this. My mom was convinced that the anesthesia made my senses heightened or whatever (my mom was very new-agey at the time)

anesthesia probably just fucks people up.

CapnSalty · 4 points · Posted at 00:24:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Anesthesia def fucks people up, and for some reason docs don't tell you that. My grandpa hallucinated thousands of bugs coming out of the windows and AC unit in his hospital room, and he'd call us at all hours of the night yelling about how dirty the room was. We were confused, since he was in a state of the art hospital, in the recovery unit, and we were pretty sure that they'd clean.

He also hallucinated a large, black nurse that would call him "Buddy," which was his childhood name. He'd ring for the nurse and ask for him by name, which spooked all the nurses on that floor because there were no male nurses that worked there.

Kaytala · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:49 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been there just from lack of sleep. I saw what may or may not have been a ghost/my brother's childhood imaginary friend. Creeped me right the fuck out!

[deleted] · 46 points · Posted at 15:18:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Watermelonin · 6 points · Posted at 17:32:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damnit I'm going to Florida tomorrow with small children.

buzzwell · 9 points · Posted at 17:53:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Beware the bone man

Nataliyana · 4 points · Posted at 21:38:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would watch that film.

HerrPurple · 8 points · Posted at 18:52:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Stealing plants." Taking cactus clippings from neighbors' yards in the dead of night? I have an uncle who does that.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:25 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kids say weird shit constantly.

redlaWw · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could be a seizure or some kind of psychotic episode...

Mikeheathen · 43 points · Posted at 00:35:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up in the south in the late 70's and early 80's. My grandmother lived on a cotton farm in SC, and my cousin and I would go visit her during the summer. We'd help out on the farm, but during the heat of the day we'd go swimming in the river to cool off. Our favorite spot was fairly isolated, so we never really saw anyone else, but there was an old dirt road that ran from the gravel road back to an abandoned farmhouse in the woods.

My cousin and I were in the river when we saw a cloud of dust in the distance. We thought maybe our uncle was coming to take us back to the farm, but we always swam for an hour or so after lunch, and he never drove the tractor to come get us. We'd heard stories about some backwoods family who'd gone all Deliverance on some kids a few summers ago, but we figured it had to just be our uncle trying to freak us out. Regardless, we snuck up to the river bank so we could see the dirt road, but we'd still be hidden in the trees.

We saw a ratty Oldsmobile Delta 88 with blacked out windows creeping down the dirt road. The car didn't belong to anyone we knew. I only remember the make and model because I knew it was the Evil Dead car...and because of what happened next. After it passed by our hiding spot, we noticed it didn't have a license plate. It drove another 30 yards or so and then stopped. A black garbage bag flew out of the passenger window and into the field. It was about the size of a football. Then the car made a slow and methodical 3 point turn, taking great pains not to let the tires venture too far into the cotton field. It made its way back the direction it came, until it disappeared out of sight.

My cousin and I had remained silent throughout the event, and with the car gone we looked at each other. I wish we would have just ignored it. I wish we would have headed back to farm. I wish we would have told our uncle or our grandmother what we had seen and had them come investigate. But we were 13. Curiosity was killing us.

We had to look in that bag.

As we left our hiding place and headed down the road, we looked around nervously, hoping the Delt wouldn't show up again. As we got close to the drop zone, we could see blood on some of the cotton directly above the bag's resting place. We looked at each other one last time, and then we opened the bag.

There, in the bottom of the bag, wrapped in a bloody washcloth, was a tiny baby girl. She looked like she might have just been asleep, but she wasn't. The image of her lying there, naked, bloody, and discarded, has haunted me ever since.

davidandsarah08 · 8 points · Posted at 06:31:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What happened after? Did you tell anyone? Were the police called? An investigation started? Or did you just not ever say anything about it?

Mikeheathen · 10 points · Posted at 13:14:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

We called the cops and gave them a description of the car. They launched an investigation, but since we couldn't see who was driving, and didn't have a plate, they never found out who it was.

davidandsarah08 · 3 points · Posted at 21:55:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, that sounds like some deep, dark shit was happening. No plates? Black car.

mister_flibble · 8 points · Posted at 23:32:35 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandfather had similar happen to him as a kid. He and his friends used to go swimming in the river in an area that was usually pretty empty because at that point in history (1930's) this particular river had some pollution issues and a few drainage pipes emptied directly into it. So one day they're swimming down there and one of his friends sees something oddly shaped floating out of a drainage pipe. Being about 12 and curious, they all go to investigate and find a dead baby, roughly newborn in size estimate, floating facedown in the water. Police were called and they came and collected the body, but no one ever found who dumped it/who the poor kid was...

squashedfrog462 · 4 points · Posted at 03:00:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my. That is really sad :(

gypsycamptrash · 1 points · Posted at 11:52:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, don't leave us hanging! Did you let the cops know and did they find out who it was?

lukeyboy767 · 80 points · Posted at 14:37:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I posted this before, but:

My wife and I just moved into a brand new house this past July. There are definitely creaks and weird nosies from the house settling. However, I had a buddy over one night. We all had got a little drunk and as we were going to bed, my buddy jokingly knocks on our bedroom door and asks if he can sleep in our bed because "there is a ghost in his room!". "Go to bed Rodney!" I say.

The next day, after he went home, he told me his girlfriend asked him, "So, you called me last night?" He didn't remember calling her, so he checked his phone and there was no record of any new outgoing calls. He told her that he didn't call her, and she said, "That's interesting, because I had a missed call last night from you, and a voicemail. Listen to this." What came next was the weirdest thing ever.

It was this loud droning noise with lots of feedback and interferrance. Her phone would translate any voicemail into text, so while you heard this weird growling sound, the text message read, "HELP ME. HELP ME. ARE YOU THERE? HELP ME PLEASE!"

Creeped out.

JejuneMondegreen · 12 points · Posted at 01:34:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Toss phone into a fire.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 01:50:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

rodney got possessed as fuck

vVvMaze · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this didnt happen. Phones work by voice recognition pattern....which clearly is not what you heard. They dont work as magical cross plane existence translators.

lukeyboy767 · 3 points · Posted at 19:38:53 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for telling me what I heard and saw for myself didn't actually happen....I guess? I have no reason to make this up bud. Choose to believe or not, I don't care...just contributing to the topic.

Krayken · 20 points · Posted at 16:05:03 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Ok, I still get chills when I think about this but here goes.

It was a weekend night, a Saturday I think. I was home alone that night since my wife was out of town. So, I had the whole house to myself. I was cleaning up after a quick dinner I made and something outside the window above the sink caught my attention. I saw what appeared to be movement out of the corner of my eye. It startled me and I immediately stopped what I was doing and looked out the window, scanning for anything in the pitch-black backyard.

After a minute or two of trying to see anything through the dirty window, I cautiously went back to cleaning up. I honestly thought it might have been a big bird or something that flew past the window.

No more than a minute or two later, the motion-sensor light about my back patio turned on. Now this will only turn on if a large object passes in front of it. A bird will not trigger the light. I instantly grab the closest, largest knife I see and move slowly to the back door. I could still see the light from the motion-sensor floodlight bleeding through the closed patio door curtains. I remember thinking at this point about whether I should quickly jerk the curtains completely open or try and peek through a slit. I chose the latter.

So, without moving too fast or making a lot of noise I peeked outside and initially I didn’t see anything. However, after a moment I noticed something just out of reach of the floodlight. I couldn’t completely make it out but the color was gray-ish and had a curved shape. It was also moving slightly. The movement was almost like a rocking motion. I remember struggling to make sense of what it was. I was going through everything I could think of trying to explain it. I just couldn’t make it out, I had never seen anything like it.

As I’m standing there, peeking through the curtain at this thing, it stands up! What I was looking at the whole time appeared to have been it’s back as it was hunched over and squatting down on the ground.

Ok, so at this point I’m ready to defend myself. I thought for sure this was some freak in my back yard and he’s going to try and break in. Right then, with it’s back still to me, it slowly turns it’s head to look back in my direction. When I saw its face, I jumped back from the door in fear while making a not-so-manly sound.

I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. The split-second I saw it’s face felt like 10 minutes. It had huge, dark-reddish eyes. I mean huge. The eyes were way too big for it’s face, which was pretty much featureless and expressionless.

As I backed away from the door trembling with the knife in my hand, I could now see a shadow through the curtains. This thing had come up to the door and was standing there! This thing was tall! It had to be at least as tall as me (6’4”) and it was still rocking back and forth which very much unnerved me.
At this point my heart was beating so hard that I actually thought a heart attack was imminent. I clutched the knife and yelled at the figure. I don’t remember exactly what I said but I know it involved some threats and some cussing.

Right then, the floodlight cut off. This in itself startled me for a second. I was still holding the knife but had stopped yelling. Everything was silent, except for my heart beating in my ears. However, it couldn’t have been more than 10 seconds later when the floodlight turned back on. Which made me jump again.

When I looked at the door, the shadow was no longer there so I knew whatever it was had moved. I had a feeling it was still out there though. So, I crept up to the door again completely expecting this thing to jump out of the shadows. I peeked through the curtains and into the backyard. I saw nothing in the light and couldn’t make out anything beyond that. I remember staring for what seemed like hours, but was only a few minutes until the floodlight timer made the light turn off.

After a little while of just standing in my kitchen holding a knife I mustered a little courage and went outside with a flashlight to make sure it was gone. A few sweeps of the flashlight was all I could do before I slammed the door shut and locked it.

I still don’t know what I saw and honestly don’t like thinking about it too much as it just freaks me out. I suppose some would say it was a gray alien, but who knows. All I know is that I don’t ever want to see it again - especially in my backyard.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:13:37 on June 22, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is there anything you could relate it to, physically speaking, that reminds you of what you saw?

Did it have "human" features?

beccajoy84 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:38 on September 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

ooh, you saw Red Eyes! The first time I heard of Red Eyes, my boyfriend told me that when once when he was a kid, his mom worked late nights sometimes and he was home alone and went up stairs and saw her in the hallway. He said he was surprised and happy to see her, but as he got closer, she morphed into this tall, gray thing with red eyes. I didn't think much of it until someone else in our small town told me that they were on a camping trip and when it got dark they all saw this big gray thing with Red Eyes and someone started throwing rocks at it. Then I saw it on one of those paranormal TV shows- a lady talking about how her kid had an imaginary friend, a little boy, but eventually the her son became afraid of his imaginary friend and said that he would come to him at night and it scared him. One night her son woke her up, scared, and she let him sleep in her bed. Out of curiousity, she went and slept in his. She woke up at some point and there was a little boy watching her. She started talking to him and it morphed into this big gray thing with red eyes. I don't know if Red Eyes is an alien or something worse, but I definitely recognized him in your story.

Uhhhhlisha · 23 points · Posted at 04:05:57 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in high school we moved into a new house. Very quickly my older sister and I learned that there was no way of sneaking out of the house, as my moms room was by the front door, the sliding glass doors were too loud, and the door leading into the garage, no matter how slowly, gently, you could ALWAYS hear it open/shut. And with all tile floor and being as "heavy footed" as I am, you could always hear me walk. Well one night, I am laying in bed and just as I am about to fall asleep, I hear what sounds like someone running barefoot on the tile floor from the garage door, to my hallway, back to the garage door. But I never ONCE heard the door open. I was frozen, like you see in the movies. It was so loud. It was a school night. And why would anyone be running? It's 12:30 at night. Then I thought maybe it was my little sister. But...that's not like her. Still frozen. Can't move. After about 15 minutes, I got up. And grabbed the nearest weapon of choice. My hair brush.

My older sisters room was next to mine at the end of the hallway and I figured that would be the safest option, because I would have to cross over to get to my moms room. And with the open layout, there was no "sneaking" if there was a murderer! Well I went full force into my sisters door with the plan of barging it but it was locked. After that recovery, I asked her why she was running in the hallway. She opened the door and said, "I thought that was you". She convinced me to run into my moms room, where I found her and my little sister DEAD asleep.

I finally got my mom to wake up. She called the cops because she thought it was one of the teenagers in the area. When they showed up, we went out the front door and were standing on the patio talking to the cop. The door was still open. In the midst of the conversation, someone..or thing, rings the doorbell. Then again, then a few times in a row, pauses, then multiple times in a row. Pauses. Then one more time. All of us stood there, half turned around with a "WTF" look on our face. The cop legitimately said, "I don't deal with paranormal shit". I thought he was joking but when I turned around he was already getting into his car. I am forever convinced our house was haunted (other incidents occurred, too, which makes me think this).

SquirrelLock · 3 points · Posted at 05:09:04 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Such as..

Uhhhhlisha · 11 points · Posted at 14:11:06 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my moms bathroom there was a half "wall" and the other half of it had columns that went up to the ceiling. She had little voltive candles in the middle of each one. She would always yell at us saying we moved them (for ex. two would be in the middle instead of one) and would make us fix them. So we would except everytime we would tell her "okay I moved it back" we would walk in there to see it was moved back to being the way it was, with two in the middle. So my mom thought we were being smart asses. I can't tell you how many times I got grounded for this.

another was that on the 17th of each month all of our pictures that wer in frames would be turned upside down. Not the frame. The actual picture. Someone would have had to open each one take the picture out and put it back in. We had about 12-15 of these.

another extremely terrifying experience was that we had a bunch of sliding glass doors. 5 in total with one being in my room, which always scared me because I thought i would wake up and see a scary person just looking in. Well around 230 in the morning there was someone pounding on the sliding glass door. This startled me (and of course my mom) and it went on for what seemed like forever, but more likely just over a minute. Just continuous pounding. We Turned on the lights and opened the blinds to all 5 doors but not one person was outside doing this. Yet still, it was happening. And then it just stopped. I have no idea what it was.

when we bought the house, we bought it from the daughter of the man who owned the house, but he had passed away. He didn't die in the house. I don't think. And we were told he just died from old age. But other little things like fans suddenly turning on high, blinds moving when fans weren't on or there was no air flow that would make them move. After a while my mom said it was probably just him playing tricks. The mans name was frank. So my mom would always be like "dammit frank stop moving my candles".

tailbonebruiser707 · 2 points · Posted at 15:10:31 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha well I'm glad there was at least a little comedic relief from your mom. I would hate to buy a house and turning out to be haunted.

Mdrizzle3 · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:37 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Take a picture of this 17th of every month thing.

Uhhhhlisha · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:47 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't live there anymore! Haha. But I know we have actual pictures (back when you used to actually print photos) so when I go to my moms house I will try to find them and scan some in. It was honestly crazy.

Mdrizzle3 · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:29 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome, I'm anxious to see this. It does sound crazy.

Uhhhhlisha · 3 points · Posted at 03:51:10 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ive contemplated going to the house and asking the guy who bought it if anything has happnened .. but that seems just as creepy

dixiegirl13 · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:10 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude...that sounds like the house I lived in when I was a younger teenager. Seriously. Couldn't sneak out. We also though it was haunted, but not that bad.

iLoveBoxing · 20 points · Posted at 03:43:15 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Could not resist posting on this epic thread! I'm fairly new to reddit. This is a true story, very creepy/scary and not paranormal. The cops got involved ha. It happened to a friend, I know the place really well so I feel I can give a good retelling of it.

So we all live around this park in Michigan that just has paved paths going through a prairie type of woodland with many varying but mostly thin Michigan trees thickly and thinly rowed along it. A great dog walking route which ends at a dam outlet which is also a decent spot for fishing. One summer the 5 of us or so, probably rode our bikes up and down and past that trail every day, day and night. It was practically an ear shot from our friends house. He had the no rules place with an awesome view overlooking the Huron river. We felt safe, we felt like we owned that area. It was always relaxing and never eventful, with the exception of more than a few bike races. Off of this trail was another trail. Only this was a boardwalk that mazes through a flood plane. It was beautiful and once you entered you felt encapsulated in this richly scented miniature lush forest. Needless to say we used to tear ass through there on bikes, kind of risky because many of the turns were awkward and slippery. The boardwalk makes two loops, offering a short walk or a longer one. The latter had a dead end that has a roofed bench area resembling a sort of shanty but open. Someone scribbled "The Crib" on the wall and as silly as it was that became it's name. "Hey guys, wanna ride out to the crib? Let's take this beer out to the crib." Ahh those were good times...

Anyway, it had been a few years since we gallivanted around there, but on many occasion one of us will have just come from walking through there. We all found the place to be a nice memory and very peaceful. One night, my friend found himself walking the board walk, no big deal I think he just left our 'no rules' friend's place and decided to go for a walk before heading home. Knowing the boardwalk trail blindfolded he had no issue navigating the dark forest. Not much moonlight creeps through the many canopies, still an enchanting place nonetheless. He stops at 'the crib', decides it's time to pack up and puts his backpack on heading out. Well as he reaches the end of the one-way leading from the crib connecting to the loop he hears footsteps on the boardwalk 20 ft or so behind him. His eyes were fairly adjusted but still it was not easy to make out an image where the sound was. He stops dead still, listening to be sure he isn't imagining it. Through the silence he hears the steps continue, only now getting closer to him. At this point he decides to call out, "Hello?" he says concerned but calmly. No answer though the footsteps stop for a moment then continue. "Fuck that." He thinks to himself and begins walking the trail away from the footsteps.

He made sure not to run but kept walking, only a little quicker. The trail winds a bit creating blind corners and through the curves he can hear the footsteps still approaching but never quite right behind him. He can't see through the foliage and physical confrontation was not a plan, this was scary. He stops again, knowing there is someone nearby and now confronts it verbally. "What do you want?! Look, I don't know who you are but you better stop following me or I'm going to call the police!" The footsteps continue, my friend won't give him or her or whatever a chance to get too close. He power walks ahead wishing he wasn't alone in the dark woods with somebody, apparently ignoring him, apparently following him. At one point in the trail it crosses a large creek that has a beautiful stone bridge that you walk under, it holds up railroad tracks that pass over. My friend quickly thinks to take the path we sometimes use to skip the trail and take the tracks back to our nearby friend's place. 20 ft or so ahead, he quickly makes a move up the hill to the top of the bridge and makes it to the tracks.

At this point he calls 911 and starts explaining what's happening, that there is someone following him, creeping him out and not responding to anything he says. It's 150 yards or so to the dam and the edge of the park, but the police tell him a car is very nearby and is heading to meet him. My friend explains he may have lost the person but as soon as he thinks he can relax a bit, a guy comes ambling up the hill, awkwardly catching his balance as he sees my friend and continues his medium gate towards him. It's a guy in a hoody with the hood up, head slightly down, walking abnormally slow and calculated. Bad vibes oozing off this guy, my friend starts to run. Just as his feet crash on the rocks laid around the tracks he hears the same noises coming from behind. The guy began chasing my friend. Running full speed at him, arms bent but no swing at the elbow, he looked like T-1000 running. My friend said he about shit himself, but no sooner he sees a squad car pull up in the parking lot straight ahead about 70 yards away. My friend waves his cell phone at the cop, who quickly jumps out and jogs towards my friend, seeing the guy chasing behind. My friend still running, is told to stop and just as the cop shouts this, the guy goes back to his odd medium gate. After my friend affirms it's he who called, the cop walks past him to confront the guy. He tells the guy to stop, gun drawn. The guy DOESN'T STOP. He just keeps walking towards the cop at this point, no hesitation at all. Lucky for this guy though, the cop was a badass and decided not to kill him right then (IMO). The cop bravely walks up and just grabs the guy who at this point we find out is a pretty young scrawny kid, maybe mid 20s, probably younger. The cop questions him as he walks with the psycho back to his car, the guy never answers a single question. No name given, no answers, no reasoning. It was like he didn't know what he was doing before and doesn't know what he's doing now or why he's there. His only compliance was physical, nonresistance.

Never got a follow up except that the guy was busted for drugs a good number of times in the past and is now doing time for warrants. I always tell my friend I would have run up and socked the little asshole, especially after finding out he wasn't a bug guy. But... I try to honestly place myself there and not only did he do the right thing I'm not sure I would have done better, forget confronting a creepy person in the dark!

Edit: Sorry it's so long :/

TL;DR: Friend goes for a night walk through a wooded park, gets followed by a silent menace. Cops are called, guy gets arrested, friend still gets shook up when asked about it.

zombiejim · 4 points · Posted at 06:10:33 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was ready to stop reading when I saw it wasn't paranormal, but the fact that I live about 50 miles from Huron river and it's realistic has me freaked out more than anything else on this thread.

[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 21:27:09 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

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HarjiFangki · 10 points · Posted at 12:58:39 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe he's a homeless ex-opera singer.

wanderingthisearth · 6 points · Posted at 22:06:57 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

i go to school in Northern California, I would not be surprised if the crazy look and the singing was related to drugs. people there are creepy.

weholditdown · 22 points · Posted at 15:15:50 on June 18, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing that has ever happened to me happened on a Friday morning. My boyfriend had left for work and I was making breakfast and getting ready to leave myself. He left the door unlocked, but as we live in an apartment complex where you need to either know the code for the main door or buzz the flat you want from outside, this wasn't as irresponsible as it might sound - besides, I was still in the house and would be leaving soon.

I was just checking all of my essentials were in my bag, when I realised my phone wasn't in there, nor was it in the living room/kitchen. I realised it must be in the spare room, where I'd previously got dressed (the only full length mirror is in that room), so I went in there.

I quickly realised something was amiss when I saw that some clean clothes I'd folded and placed on the bed that morning were now strewn across the floor. It also seemed like there was a lump under the duvet. Heart pounding, I tentatively lifted up the duvet and found a man who I had never seen before lying under it. His eyes were open.

Without thinking, I said 'Excuse me?' in a loud, but shaking voice. The guy stood up then. He was massive and being a 5'3, 125lb girl alone in the house with this complete stranger, I became even more frightened. I genuinely thought this guy was going to attack me. However, again without really thinking about it, I told him I didn't know who he was, but he needed to get the fuck out of my flat right now. He looked confused and seemingly right through me and I assumed he must be on drugs or something. He asked if he could collect his stuff and I replied that there was no stuff to collect, as this was not his home and he needed to get out right now before I called the police.

Thankfully, he did get out and I quickly locked the door and made a series of phone calls. One was to the non-emergency police number telling them that a man I did not know had somehow got into my flat and that while I had got him to leave, I didn't feel safe leaving for work until I knew he wasn't around. They promised to send someone around right away after I gave a description of him. I also called my boyfriend to tell him what had happened, but not to come home, as the situation was/had been taken care of. I also called work to tell them I was going to be late and why, then sat patiently and waited for the police to arrive.

Then someone started knocking on my front door and not just any old knock. They were pounding their fist against it aggressively.

I looked outside my living room window and there was no police car yet. Sure enough, when I peered through the spy hole in my front door, I could see the man from earlier. At this point, I promptly lost my shit. I'd surprised myself with how calm I'd been before, but now I was sat on my living room floor, crying, hyperventilating and telling the police that they needed to try and get here quicker. I also called my boyfriend, who said he was coming straight home.

I sat on the floor for what probably amounted to 5/10 minutes, but felt like hours, listening to the man hammering on my door. I heard a car pull up outside and to my great relief, a policewoman got out. Shortly after, I heard voices outside my door. The woman was asking the man who he was and what he was doing here. She told him she was coming inside to speak to me and that he should under no circumstances follow her in. She came in, asked me for my side of the story and then told me she was going to get the man away and then come back and talk to me. Back outside, I heard her berating him for terrifying a woman 'half your size and nearly half your age'. She took him in her car and drove off.

A while later, she came back and told me what had happened. The man had been contracted to do some work in my city. On the last day, he had gone on a huge bender with some colleagues and got so wasted that he walked into my flat, mistaking it for his hotel room, hence why he asked for his 'stuff'. I had music playing that morning and - as mentioned above - was making breakfast, so he must have walked in unheard while my back was turned. After I ordered him to leave, he continued hammering on the door because he was still convinced this was his hotel room and that he needed his stuff (no idea who the hell he thought I was in that case). How he got in was explained by the policewoman, who said that she'd been able to get in and out easily without punching in a code or my flat number. The lock on the main door must have been broken.

So while this turned out to be a relatively harmless guy, it still holds up as the scariest thing to happen to me in a while.

Britlantine · 5 points · Posted at 11:10:30 on October 22, 2013 · (Permalink)

"For you, the day the drunk graced your apartment was the scariest day of your life. But for him, it was Friday."

mommawolfie · 3 points · Posted at 13:41:16 on June 19, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh man I would have gone to pieces afterwards

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:41:51 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

Poor thing, I would've had a nervous breakdown!

Rockford1888 · 42 points · Posted at 19:32:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The day my great grandma died she kept looking up in the corner and asking "Am I going home?" To no one in particular. No matter how many times we answered her she wouldn't stop asking that question. When her time finally came she raised her fist into the air and yelled "on ward" and then fell back peacefully. That was her last word on her death bed.

Later found out that her mother (my great great grandma) did the exact same thing when she died. Asking over and over again if she was going home.

lacrimaeveneris · 9 points · Posted at 15:41:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've gotta say, as last words go, "Onward" with a raised fist is pretty awesome. Looking forward to the next great adventure, apparently.

HI_McDonnough · 7 points · Posted at 01:01:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandmother, while dying from lung cancer, in a hospital bed in her living room, sat straight up and reached out her arms, said the name of her son who died at the age of 12..."Michael, pull me, pull me" over and over. It took my mom and two of my aunts to hold her back in the bed...at this point she weighed about 80 pounds...and died within 48 hours.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:04:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My gran died of lung cancer at home with her family all around her. I was sitting next to her as she quietly whispered "Michael" and pointed at end of her bed. Michael was her son that died aged 3, she never got over it. It wasn't hugely creepy, more comforting that he was maybe there to collect her.

olliepots · 4 points · Posted at 17:19:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your great grandma is a badass.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:09:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

she raised her fist into the air and yelled "on ward" and then fell back peacefully

that part is really pretty school. an intrepid spirit.

ohmygahdmahm · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I knew a lady who died at 89, in her home, surrounded by family. She belted the Star Spangled Banner before laying her head back and dying.

AnalogPen · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:23 on July 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was...very touching, actually...

Timmycosmo92 · 212 points · Posted at 14:00:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not the 'Creepiest' thing I've ever seen but whenever I am driving at night time I always seem to think I see something/someone in the back of my car when I glance at the rear view mirror. Scares the shit out of me every time!

Spifffy · 11 points · Posted at 15:45:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you have head rests?

If so, Humans are very very good at picking out the shape of a head and shoulders, a quick glance is enough for the imagination to take over.

olijackson64 · 10 points · Posted at 17:43:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Think that every time you wash your face or hair in the shower that when you open your eyes someone will be stood in front of you. This scares the shit out of me every time.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 19:12:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh I wash my face before bed every night and some friend of mine in high school told me a story about looking up doing that one night and seeing a fucking demon goblin thing in the corner of the bathroom behind him. If I think about the story I scare myself to death mid-face-wash.

Nicksaurus · 5 points · Posted at 18:16:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

EVERY TIME.

sLoZo · 2 points · Posted at 19:12:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or when you open the curtains in the shower and somehow you expect someone gonna be there .. shiiit.

Jolteon_Used_Thunder · 8 points · Posted at 16:07:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've watched Zombieland too many times, I always check the backseat before I get in the car.

Contero · 7 points · Posted at 19:18:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is probably a good place to put my own story.

I was hanging out at a friends house after he had just flown back into town. Good times were had and at around 1am I decide to drive back home.

My friend lived on a street with no streetlights. Pretty much completely dark except for a porch light left on here and there. Slightly creepy but I had gotten used to it.

I started to pull away feeling pretty relaxed. I get to the end of the block and make a turn. Suddenly in my rear view mirror something laying down in my back seat sits up right behind me. This wasn't just an eye trick, I could hear it move and everything. I went from happy and relaxed to adrenaline pumping terror in just under one second.

I turned around and it turned out to be my asshole friend's suitcase he had forgotten when I picked him up from the airport. I guess he had made it really bottom heavy so that the force from the turn was enough to prop it up on end.

doomshockolocka · 7 points · Posted at 15:55:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why I drive a truck.

No backseat=no problem

lancerevo98 · 5 points · Posted at 16:37:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

but then you imagine you see someone, or something, in your truck bed

cosmicsans · 3 points · Posted at 00:53:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least if it's in the truck bed it still has a window to get through first.

scubadog2000 · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As he steps out to check for it, there's nothing there. He sits back into the car and the engine dies...

gentlyweeps_88 · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I should have left this thread a long time ago

lancerevo98 · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/u/storytellerbob

Starklet · 3 points · Posted at 15:35:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate this! Imagine actually finding something one day... And thinking "I knew it!" Just before your car crashes down a ravine, never to be seen again.

ChaplinStrait · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well thanks for planting that in my head.

cj7jeep · 3 points · Posted at 16:06:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why I ride a motorcycle. Lol

gleepism · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some morning when it's fairly chilly, lean close to your mirror and breathe on it. Then look in it.

teenit88 · 2 points · Posted at 20:03:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always do this too. Then I wonder what I would do if someone was actually in my backseat.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:46:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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MaximumAwesome · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this an actual thing because that happens to me all the time. To the point I pull over and turn on my cabin lights.

Spanish_Galleon · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have similar fear, except they aren't in the car. When i am driving in the darkness i will see some one in the street, that wasn't there before, and they will look up just as I hit them and have no face, then if i go out they wont be there.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Slenderman.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do u scream like Sam Jackson at the end of 1408?

Nero920 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I got into my car at midnight and closed my door. The door light turned off. I look into my rearview mirror and there is a giant eyeball staring back at me.

It was my eyeball, When the lights went off I adjusted to the dark. I was leaning to the side and had a clear view of my eye.

Scared the piss out of me.

cosmicsans · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not sure why, but this really made me laugh.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should watch 'Let Me In,' then... really good, creepy movie with a pants-shittingly scary backseat killer scene.

TheRealPlan · 23 points · Posted at 14:19:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hearing a child screaming in the woods at night. You know they are lost but you can't find them. Very unsettling, still gives me nightmares.

eatenface · 8 points · Posted at 22:35:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A lot of animals sound like women or children screaming. I hope it was just this.

annuvin · 1 points · Posted at 06:46:30 on October 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

A rabbit sounds like a baby crying when it is being killed.

Irkalla · 7 points · Posted at 00:43:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably a fox. They sound exactly like a terrified child screaming.

aforsythe · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any back story to this?

BMan84 · 1 points · Posted at 04:12:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is close to the premise of a short story published by Steven King in Esquire last year.

Eatsoap · 20 points · Posted at 15:32:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not the creepiest thing I've seen, but I noticed that an old man was filming me while I was about to sleep on the train.

tehjoshers · 2 points · Posted at 02:36:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well then, what the fuck is the creepiest?

Eatsoap · 4 points · Posted at 06:11:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I realised that an old man was following my friend and I around the neighbourhood. He never took his eyes off us, but he kept his distance.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once was sitting in the airport waiting for my flight and across from me was a teenage boy with long hair, looking very misfit-ish. I was watching him peripherally when I realized he was taking a pic of me on his phone. I looked straight at him and he freaked and pretended to txt or something. When his mom came back I seriously considered demanding he delete the pics... but didn't. Because how awkward would that be if I was wrong? ...Even though I'm pretty sure I was right.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:16:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i think this happened to me too with a guy on a train so i took several pictures of him too so when they found my phone after i went missing they'd have a picture of the guy who had cut me up in a bath

Eatsoap · 1 points · Posted at 12:31:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He probably texted to his misfit friends about all the filthy conformists at the airport.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:25:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahahaha! While I was texting my filthy conformist friends about the misfit creeper snapping pics of unsuspecting young women.

alexbeekmeyer · 21 points · Posted at 00:29:29 on June 12, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once I was on holiday in Portugal with my family. I was 16 and my brother and sister were both 4. This was a few years ago and so a few years after Madeleine McCann had been abducted. We were on a beach on the South Coast, near where she had been taken. Suddenly we heard a man shouting at the top of his voice looking for his daughter. He was running around the beach with his wife, searching desperately. My dad and I, and a few other people decided to help him look. We got to the end of the beach and saw a cave, still shouting her name. Our search party entered the cave and saw her there sitting down. I heard the dad ask her what she was doing (she looked about 5 or 6) and she said, in these exact words: "The man was taking me to get an ice cream." At the opposite side, there was a small hollow, just big enough for a man to crouch and fit through, leading back towards the town. To think what could have happened if we were several minutes later is horrifying, and we didn't let my brother or sister out of our sight for the rest of the holiday.

jokersblow · 7 points · Posted at 17:05:20 on June 16, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't stop thinking of this one, do you know if it was reported to police or if anything came of it? The creepiest shit I have ever heard.

kmlj5390 · 3 points · Posted at 20:53:05 on November 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow that's creepy, you should report this to the police seen as they have re opened the maddie case in the last month. Something similar might have happened to her! Please report this if you haven't already.

LeoJohnsonsSacrifice · 41 points · Posted at 14:40:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a couple of random stories, but this one still creeps me out the most:

When I was about 12 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night to my cat meowing at my open door. I got up and followed her into the living room - the whole time she kept looking back at me to make sure I was following her. When we got to the living room, she jumped up on the piano which was directly under a large picture window that looked out onto our front yard. As I looked out the window, I watched a round object, about the size of a basketball, slowly float down my driveway about 4 feet off the ground. It got to the end of our fence and went toward our neighbor's house.

It had a couple of tiny lights on it. It was dark gray. I stood there for a minute with goosebumps on my arms, then walked back to bed. I know this was not a dream, and my 12 year old mind definitely did not make this up. It has been burned into my mind for 18 years, and I have no idea what the hell I saw.

cornucopiaofdoom · 3 points · Posted at 17:14:34 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

It could have been ball lightening. Not saying it was or wasn't...just could have been. It is a very poorly understood phenomenon.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/ball-lightning.htm

kovani · 2 points · Posted at 07:20:38 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

drone

pdross1 · 123 points · Posted at 16:10:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

My girlfriend and I don’t talk about this ever because it scares us so much to remember. We’re still scared of the area by our bedroom door, and we sleep with the lights on.

The Incident

2am. We are slammed awake by an alarm coming from inside our bedroom that is so loud, that it hurts to hear. Going from deep sleep to heart-pounding-adrenaline-dump, and the noise so loud, I am experiencing complete disorientation and panic.

Someone is standing in the bedroom door. Child sized. Very long hair. “WHO THE FUCK IS THAT?!” I scream.

“WHERE?!!!!! WHERE?!” my girlfriend screams.

I’m yell-crying at this point. “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT????!!!!”

It doesn’t move. The light switch is right next to the door, right by the child. I force myself to jump up (our mattress is on the ground) and flip the light switch.

Instantly, the child is revealed to be a towel hanging on the doorknob. I don’t care what anyone says, I will never forget being that scared and feeling that unsure of what to do. Even though I know nothing supernatural was going on, it still gives me the willies just to think about.

Edit: The loud alarm was the smoke detector. We had just moved in so we had no clue what it sounded like. We couldn't figure out what had set it off. Very WTF.

[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 22:46:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A pretty similar thing happened to me when I moved in to a new apartment complex. Deafening BRAAAAP BRAAAAP BRAAAAAP at 3am like a missile launch warning alarm followed by seeing something child sized standing at the end of my bed swaying back and forth. Lights on - it was our rocking chair moving from the sheer force of our overweight cat launching off of it. I had draped my sweater over the back of it before going to bed which made it look like a child wearing a dress. Never again.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:38:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

wtf was the loud alarm?

pdross1 · 4 points · Posted at 19:03:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The smoke detector. Thanks for the heads up I fixed that little plot hole!

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 21:54:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This made me LOL

EasilyConfused7 · 5 points · Posted at 04:47:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Child sized. Very long hair.

Fuck that... is there a term for being scared of creepy little girls with long hair, white dress optional.

arosal8093 · 3 points · Posted at 05:05:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a great place to stop reading and go to bed. Thank you and goodnight :)

Dramaftw · 3 points · Posted at 22:51:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

+1 for yell-crying over a smoke alarm.

SMJ1989 · 3 points · Posted at 00:43:58 on June 21, 2013 · (Permalink)

youre a fuckin fuck

savionen · 2 points · Posted at 23:48:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHAT A TWIST.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:23:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

sometimes smoke detectors will go off just from dust particles. if you had just moved in and did a lot of cleaning and sweeping, i guess its possible you shifted a lot of dust.

imacoda · 2 points · Posted at 05:48:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nothing paranormal. Just normal scary. This is part of what makes this one great. I'd be so freaked out. I completely understand why you were so scared.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh that's horrifying! I have terrible eye sight so things in my room are always blurry and ALWAYS look human/ghost-shaped to me. It's the worst.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A mattress on the floor is a wonderful breeding ground for body lice and bedbugs.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel for you. Generally, this is why I don't believe in ghosts really. When you turn the lights on, its usually towels and chairs.

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 03:03:14 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not WTF at all, you and your gf are a couple of pussies.

claymier2 · 60 points · Posted at 18:33:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my last apartment, every morning, 3 a.m. I would hear this woman screaming "help" in this loud, clear, blood-curdling shriek.

I tried asking my landlord about it and he got real quiet and wide-eyed and never said a damned thing about it.

None of the other tenants would talk to me.

JustsomeDane · 4 points · Posted at 10:09:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You must have gotten some explanation? I'm dying to know!

claymier2 · 7 points · Posted at 11:52:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not a word, still nothing even a year later.

JustsomeDane · 4 points · Posted at 18:28:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow. That's incredible. How do you not die of curiosity?

claymier2 · 1 points · Posted at 14:23:43 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who says I didn't? O_O

But seriously, I dunno, a bit of it was lethargy, trying to pry personal info like that from Ohioans in Columbus is like pulling teeth.

The other bit was maybe I didn't want to know.

Either it'd be a darkling plot that would twist me inside it and swallow me whole, or, worse, it'd end up being so fucking mundane that I would be depressed from the disenchantment of this mystery. Maybe someone liked watching horror movies at 3am. Or some girl just had traumatic dreams, sad, but not exactly campfire material.

Truth is, I'd prefer it stayed a mystery. It's such a better story unsolved. IMO of course.

JustsomeDane · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:51 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get that entirely. One needs a little bit of mystery. Spices things up a bit. ;)

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:41:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

maybe just night terrors?

claymier2 · 4 points · Posted at 15:36:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what I told myself, It just freaked me out that it was almost every single night, right around 3am. I'm a light sleeper these days and "she" would wake me up right around 2:50a-3:15a.

I say "she" because it occurs to me that with that sort of efficiency it could've been some a$$holes "clever" alarm.

MrWiggles2 · 4 points · Posted at 23:18:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Plot Twist: You're the ghost

claymier2 · 1 points · Posted at 14:17:40 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks M. Nightshammalamma!

FuzzeeLumpkins · 2 points · Posted at 01:06:22 on September 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

3am kinky sex club, but you're not particularly good to look at

Sorry :(

claymier2 · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:07 on September 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

and you have no actual idea what I look like.

FuzzeeLumpkins · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:16 on September 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

twas a joke. chill.

claymier2 · 2 points · Posted at 13:41:14 on September 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

apologies for the overreaction I should know better than to write my reddit mail replies after bad days.

FuzzeeLumpkins · 2 points · Posted at 14:05:58 on September 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

No worries. I just didn't want to trully offend

claymier2 · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:01 on September 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

LoL I think this is actually one of the nicest things someone's done for me on reddit, so any grievance is forgiven, I hope you have a great week.

FuzzeeLumpkins · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:21 on September 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

And you, pal :)

pyroguyFTW · 103 points · Posted at 19:59:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn. I should never have looked at this thread. Forever shall I regReddit.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 04:00:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Admit it, you've been waiting a long time to pull that one out, huh?

HitchSlap92 · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

10/10

MNTwins420 · 3 points · Posted at 08:09:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yea, I hear ya. I made the mistake of opening this thread right before I was going to bed, which was over an hour ago now...

cannibalistic_duck · 2 points · Posted at 22:25:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pssh.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvote for "regReddit."

Deadbreeze · 2 points · Posted at 08:01:20 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to re-read to see if I missed something about you using regedit before jumping on this thread. Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh....

danrennt98 · 20 points · Posted at 13:20:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The man at the window:

http://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/yffma/the_man_at_the_window/

Nataliyana · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I so badly want to click that, but I know I shouldn't!

wanderingthisearth · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i really really want to click it!!

guavabutter · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:59 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Click it.

wanderingthisearth · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:32 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

clicked it. already read it somewhere else....

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:54 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope, not gonna click it.

I am TERRIFIED of seeing a face through a window or in a mirror. I keep all our windows at home covered with the blinds drawn at all times.

ILikeMyBlueEyes · 19 points · Posted at 18:38:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is my personal /r/LetsNotMeet story.

20 years ago, when I was eight and living in San Diego, CA at the time (my dad was in the navy and we lived in military housing.), I had an experience that has since made me develop a phobia of windows with no curtains or blinds of any sort shut at night.

It was roughly 2 AM (I was having a friend sleep over) and my friend and I were playing with our Barbie's in the living room. Now, the dining room and living room are basically just one big room. And on the wall in the dining room section, there were 3, floor to ceiling windows that had no blinds or curtains whatsoever. So anyone standing outside those dining room windows could easily watch whoever may be in the living room. And I felt like someone was watching us.

I turned my head to the right was greeted by a sight that I will always remember. It may not sound gruesome in description, but to an 8 year old....There stood a man, a white man. I know this because he was wearing a dark blue, short-sleeved t-shirt that had a pocket on one side of the chest. So I was able to see his bare forearms, which were also quite hairy. He wore a black ski mask and black gloves. He had his face pressed up to the window with his hands on either side of his face to block out any glare from the street lights, watching us with such intent.

I screamed my little eight year old head off and curled into a ball. My friend doing the same. Sobbing, she asked what were we to do. I said that we were going to count to 3 and run upstairs to get my dad. We began counting, but I only made it to '2' and I was hightailing it up those stairs. My friend was hot on my tail. We burst into my dad's room in hysterics, screaming about a man staring at us through the window. He didn't hesitate to jump out of bed and race out to the backyard (where the man would be standing). Of course by the time my dad got there, the man was gone.

Years later I am retelling this account to my mom. My parents were divorced, but she lived in the area and remembers hearing about a rapist on the loose right about that time in that area. To this day I am convinced that man was that rapist.

SmackySmack · 22 points · Posted at 18:45:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I moved into my first apartment in Los Angeles, I kept getting the feeling I was being watched. I didn't like sleeping with my back to the door and didn't know why.

I felt safe when I was on the phone with someone or had company but I never felt totally secure when I was by myself. I tried to let it go but I couldn't -- I just got lots of weird vibes.

One night, middle of the night, I saw a kind old man with glasses on, a little stooped over walk into my bedroom; he was a bit surprised I was there and I just said "It's fine, everything's fine." He said "Oh, O.K." and looked apologetic and backed away. When I woke up, I thought it was the most bizarre dream. Got up, went about my day.

I ran into my landlord the following week and asked him who had lived in my apartment before me. He told me some girl lived there for four months before me, but before that it was empty for a long time. I asked him why and he mentioned the previous owner of the building had lived in that apartment before going to the nursing home where he died.

I asked him to describe the guy...and he did and I turned white.

TL;DR Ghost of the previous occupant of my apartment visited me; I thought it was a dream.

BGYeti · 6 points · Posted at 22:03:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least he was an older nice guy, could have turned out much worse.

SmackySmack · 7 points · Posted at 23:25:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was the weirdest part. You hear stories where creepy nasty shit happens. In this case, I choose to believe he was just checking on the building he owned.

Zurukea · 21 points · Posted at 11:44:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A little late to the game, but when I was going to high school and living at home my dad was a volunteer fire fighter of the ruralish' area we lived in. We had a pager in the house so that if somebody called in an emergency to the fire department/ambulance bay it would be transmitted to all the fire fighters and paramedics.

My bedroom was downstairs and often when up late at night gaming, I would run to the top of the stairs and listen to an incoming page. One night I just made it to the top of the stairs when the message started. It was an elderly lady just screaming "NO!!! NOOOOO!!!! OH NO OH NO NOOO!!" There was so much despair in her voice. Needless to say I didn't sleep well that night.

99Coxy88 · 21 points · Posted at 13:21:51 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

About three years I ago I saw something that to this day I cannot explain. A mate and I had been drinking in our local pub. After closing time he invited me back to his place to stay the night. Where I grew up is on the coast and quite rural so it was about a 40-minute walk to his house but only a 20-minute walk if we cut through a wooded area about 70 acres across. It was about 1 am but we always crossed the woods at night so even without flashlights we new our way perfectly. It was summer and pretty warm so about half way across we stopped in a clearing and shared a joint. The clearing sloped quite steeply down a hill and we were stood at the top edge looking down and out to sea, with the far edge less than about 100 yards away.

The view from there is amazing, it was a lovely clear night and it is a place we knew very well but for some reason something did not feel right, neither of us had spoken for about five minutes and I felt very uneasy. I sensed he felt the same, but being guys, neither of us was about to admit to feeling scared so we just stood there peering into the trees and smoking in silence.

That is when I saw it. A dim shape was moving through the trees on the other side of the clearing. It looked to be about 4-5 feet high, it did not seem to have a solid shape and gave off a dim silvery light that cast shadows across the clearing. The best way I can describe it is as a kind of glowing blob. It moved slowly towards us from inside the wood but as it got to the edge of the tress it started to move around the edge of the clearing, all the time casting shadows and weaving in and out of the trees. I watched this, not breathing and frozen to the fucking spot for a good 20 seconds. I glanced over to my mate, and could see he was staring at the thing too, I could even see the shadows this thing was casting move across his face! After about another ten seconds the thing just stopped, gave of a bright white flash and just fucking shot up into the tree canopy crazy fast and just vanished. The whole thing had lasted about 30 seconds and the only noise was the wind in the trees.

We stood in silence for another minute until I tugged on my mates sleeve gesturing for us to move on. We carried on our journey in silence not speaking a word to each other. I think neither of us wanted to acknowledge what we saw while still in the dark wood. We crept on, I was shitting my fucking pants, constantly listening and looking all around me. I had no idea what I had just seen, where it had gone or even if I had really seen it. After a tense and silent 10 minute walk we had reached the other side and as soon as we were back on the well-lit road we looked at each other’s pale faces and tried to figure out what the fuck we had just seen. My mate told me he had seen exactly the same thing but had not been able to tell if I had seen it too. Both of us had felt horribly uncomfortable the second we arrived in the clearing, a place we had been hundreds of times before and never felt anything out of the ordinary.

We did not sleep that night. We sat up trying to explain what we had seen. To this day neither us can even guess what it was we saw and I no longer cut through the woods at night.

weholditdown · 5 points · Posted at 17:46:04 on June 18, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would scare the shit out of me for sure, but reading this all I could think about was that episode of The Simpsons where Homer thinks he's seen an alien, but it's just Mr Burns all glowy and weird from some treatment he receives.

99Coxy88 · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:52 on June 21, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha ha. I almost used that to describe it but thought it didn't really convey how pant shittingly creepy it was. Was a very weird experience as it was so clear and lasted for a good 30 seconds. A few people have dismissed it saying we either imagined it or it was just a trick of the light. But as we have always said, both of us saw it, we were deep in a wood at 1am so there was no light, and it was not as if we just glimpsed it out the corner of our eyes. We were full on staring at it for half a minute. Still cannot even guess what it was, not even sure if I want to know. After three years I still wont walk through there at night!

me_z · 145 points · Posted at 14:08:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually had the most frightening nightmare the other day. I was coming home from work, and it was dark out. As I walked up the steps to my front door, I saw little children playing on the lawn but couldn't make out if they were neighbors or not. I walked up close to them and they were adults with kids masks on. Woke up in a cold sweat. It sucked.

Sparkiran · 3 points · Posted at 17:26:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ohhhh this sketched me out so hard.

iveriver · 5 points · Posted at 18:22:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck nightmares. Fuck, FUCK nightmares.

Username957 · 3 points · Posted at 19:57:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you been looking at too many adult and child face swap pics?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would freak me the fuck out, no doubt.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:54:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a pretty sketchy nightmare too once, In the dream I was a doctor at some hospital and one of my patients died, and for some weird reason I brought the corpse home with me and put it on my kitchen table. Then I went to bed, and woke up late at night, so I decided to go to the kitchen and check on the corpse, but when I got into the kitchen, the man was sitting up. I was frozen in terror, I just stood there looking at it for what seemed like an eternity. Then all the sudden it got up and started walking towards me slowly, I ran out of the kitchen and down my fairly long hallway to the front door and tried to get the door up. But it was locked somehow, and in the intense moment as the dead man was walking towards me and nearly catching me and me pushing the door and turning the knob, the door opened. I ran out and towards my neighbors house. But as I was running I looked through a window into my house, and inside I saw 2 men wearing the dead body and laughing.

MadHatter69 · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That kind of reminded me of this story, which could have been (and maybe already is?) a post in the main thread of its own.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is just going to sound silly but I had the exact same dream a couple of years ago and I still remember it now. In my dream, the adults in the masks were dancing rather than playing and I could hear the music from one of those old music boxes as they danced in unison. Creepy as fuck.

bludstone · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBC6z6xcnFM

The link is funny, not scary. Eerie at best.

Poezestrepe · 19 points · Posted at 14:47:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Told this one before on here, but here you go:

I live in a house that was built in 1816. Our bedroom is on the top floor, with a solid stone staircase leading up to it from the door on the first floor directly into the room.

One night, I woke up to my husband quietly closing the door and sneaking back up the stairs (trying to avoid waking me). Since I was awake now, I turned to tell him to just come up.

... only to realize he was right there beside me in bed.

Crippled2 · 37 points · Posted at 15:42:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My college roommate went camping up in the rural areas of Mississippi like in the sticks, he said this area was so remote it was decently far from any major stuff. They parked their truck in a clear area and walked to their campsite. The camping area was fairly known to the "locals" which at the time he thought nothing of. As the night progressed he heard what sounded like men talking to each other, he heard rumbling of the leaves and grass in their general area and communication. He grabbed his side arm motions to his friend, he knew something wasn't right. He heard the movement grow closer, they were in a fairly wooded area and with as dark as it was he assumed whoever was out there couldn't see them yet, as the men for some reason weren't carrying lights. He decided to sneak out of their tent. He saw men in the distance armed, he said he then heard sounds from the left and the right as well which led him to believe they were trying to move around him. At this point they decided to abandon their gear and take the food and water and make a run for it. They weren't too far off train tracks and while going back to their truck trying to be as silent as possible my friend glanced at the tracks and saw a heavy-set man with a shotgun. This man glared at him with no reaction while tapping the end of the barrel on the tracks. He told me the sound of the metal tapping and the stare of that man sunk into him like a knife. My friend decided the time for trying to be silent was over and yelled to his friend to run as fast as possible. They got back to the truck and drove all night till they hit a larger town. He later looked up that area and found out there have been murders and a rape. He also found out after they got back to a town that kids in that area break your windows of your car while your off camping and then push your vehicle off cliffs. (This guy was a Eagle Scout, all about nature and hunting) he said from his experience these men weren't out looking for animals, they were out there for something else but he didn't want to find out what that something was.

This is why i don't go camping, fuck nature I'll stay inside. He has yet to go back to Mississippi.

pttymcgee · 9 points · Posted at 19:35:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why would anyone go to Mississippi anyway?

Crippled2 · 4 points · Posted at 02:39:49 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nature? Fuck if i know camping isnt my thing.

bobstay · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:28 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you tell us the location?

Crippled2 · 2 points · Posted at 02:39:30 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dont recall it was probably 5 almost 6 years ago he told me coming back from a summer break the first day we moved back into our dorm.

[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 18:27:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 21:17:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can only imagine that level of helplessness when something like that happens, but I know what it's like to see someone in front of you that you can tell wants to either fuck you, kill you or both. Luckily I was behind a chain link fence when he swooped up in his crappy station wagon and got out and tried to get me to go with him. I felt scared a little but the fence saved me, and I just told him No and to go away right now. I was disgusted by the look in his eyes.

I doubt he got caught but I was so upset for not getting his plate number off the front, I didn't think until he had started turning around and the plates weren't on the back for that very reason. I gave a very good description for being six. But I was so worried he would come back and get me. That fucking look in his eyes.

allergictoyourcat · 3 points · Posted at 23:17:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jesus. Your dad didn't try to chase these creeps down to at the very least put the fear of god into these assholes.

[deleted] · 53 points · Posted at 14:33:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if this can be classified as paranormal or mysterious but just weird. My boyfriends mother decided to buy a house in the small town we were living in at the time and we would rent it off of her. This was an old Ukrainian town with several abandoned buildings including an old theater and an old hospital that was apparently haunted. Anyway, we go looking at houses and there is one that a guy use to live in. His parents owned the house and he was quite mentally unstable from what my boyfriend tells me. We go into the house, it's really old. There are affirmations on every door in paint.. "You are beautiful" "Life is what you make it" "Love unconditionally". The house is moderately well lit but is in totally shambles. My boyfriend, Jack, says he wants to see the downstairs. I'm spooked easily so I didn't go with him. I'm wandering around the house when I hear Jack yell at me that I have to come downstairs and see "this". I walk downstairs, the entire basement is dirt, there are piles of dirt all over the place, a shovel in one of them, there are a couple free standing shelves with jars of lord knows what on it, there is a wooden fence basically that has created a path to the end of the house. This fence is basically just plywood dug into the dirt. I walk all the way down the pathway to where Jack is standing and he's pointing into this little room, it has no door but a red sheet hanging from the ceiling and it's been pulled open and nailed to the wall (which is cement by the way), I look into the room and there was just a bed on the floor, a side table with some crumpled up paper on it and a light that was on (was not turned on but was left on) with a red bulb and it was swinging aggressively back and forth. It looked like a place where you would probably keep someone if you abducted them. I started crying, I was so scared. I went back upstairs, walked out of the house and refused to go back inside.

That night I have issues falling asleep, ultimately it was not up to me where we moved, it was up to his mother and I was terrified. I am not even remotely spiritual but I went and bought all these candle and rocks and smudge bundles to clear the house of whatever energy had followed me out of there. I finally fall asleep and I am in the house again. I walk into the living room and there is a little girl in the prettiest little red dress reaching her hand out to me. I grab onto it, she pulls me down, I kneel and she says "You cannot move into this house, do not move into this house". I woke up, woke Jack up and said this relationship would end before I'd move in that house...

Geekzilla13 · 9 points · Posted at 02:29:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not to be rude, but did it? Did you break up with him instead of moving there?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm curious about this too..

bilingual · 3 points · Posted at 17:17:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

спуки

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:07:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

good for you!!!

BalthazarBadia · 19 points · Posted at 14:58:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I worked as an art teacher, one time I asked the kids in kindergarten to draw whatever they were scared of, then we would talk about it, anyway, there were a lot of spiders, and horror movie monsters. But there was this little girl who really got to me. She shows me a drawing, made form crayon, of a creepy face, and I ask her (like I did everybody else) tell me about your drawing, and she says, this visits me at night, over my bed, I tell my parents but they don't believe me!!

So this is either, her little brain turning a very horrible experience in to a "monster" or its a bloody actual MONSTER, either way its creepy and scary, still have the drawing.

Fronkenstorm · 8 points · Posted at 22:52:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should most definitely post that drawing.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 3 points · Posted at 19:12:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes! Pleeeeeeeease?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 09:15:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

teacher gave us the same assignment in grade school i drew a brain aneurysm.

r_quez · 18 points · Posted at 18:41:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work in a call center.

One day I heard from across the office a girl who got really upset to the point of tears and then I saw the supervisor pick up the phone and shortly after he hung up. I thought nothing of it. Probably just a really rude customer. The next day a different supervisor call me over to listen to the call.

Everything sounded normal until the agent came back from a brief hold to speak with the customer and all you could hear were growls. It didn't sound like growls that can be produced by a human. Sounded like a demon straight out of a horror movie. The agent kept trying to get a response and the growls started to sound angrier and louder. It sounded as if the more the agent spoke the more agitated the "creature" got. This continued for about 5 minutes until the girl freaked out and had her supervisor take the call. The supervisor said he was going to disconnect the call and he called her back. The customer picked up the call and spoke is if nothing happened.

MrKhaosRaider · 18 points · Posted at 06:24:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my older sister was about 4 she used to have a "closet monster". She would say that there was a scary old man (she described him as wrinkly and wore old clothes) by her window. It used to keep her up at night and she would say that he did all sorts of things to/with her. A few months later my mother discovered that a 65 year old man had hung himself in that room 10 years earlier.

I also had a dream once where I was shot in the head and I woke up with a head ache. The entire thing (the dream that is) was extremely realistic and I remember every detail. There was excruciating pain and I was twitching on the floor, trying to scream for help but the wrong muscles were moving, my vision was fading and I slowly felt all feeling leave me, starting from my legs and eventually my neck. When I finally blacked out I woke up and couldn't stop shaking for hours.

bolognahole · 19 points · Posted at 11:10:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When it comes to ghosts or hauntings, I am very skeptical to say the least, so I have a bit of trouble trying to understand what I experienced a few years ago at a previous job.

I used to work for a rental car company in the wash bay detailing cars. I would work the night shift by myself a lot. There was nothing peculiar or remarkable at all about the building I was working in. It was an office/wash bay that was about 20 years old located near the airport.

Anyway, one night I'm working by myself, lying in the back of a car vacuuming out the carpets, when I see someone walk past me. I get up to see who's there, but I was alone. I go in the office thinking my boss stopped by, but that was empty too. I assume I imagined it and go back to work.

Another night, I'm by myself, this time I'm in the bathroom when I hear the door slam and footsteps in the wash bay walking through the water on the floor. I wash up quickly thinking Its my boss again. I come out and look around and the place is empty. I get a bit unnerved but like I said, I don't believe in ghosts, so the feeling passes quickly and I get to work.Then again there was what I thought was someone walking past the car while I was in cleaning up, and again I couldn't find anyone. A few days later i'm out with a friend who also works there (he actually got me the job) and he asks me how I'm doing with it so far. So I say how its ok, the work is pretty easy, but.... and he chimes in "seeing weird stuff in the night?" I'm like, "WTF! How do you know that?" He then tells me about his other friend who used to work nights who quit just before I started working there. He used to complain about weird stuff going on when he was there by himself and had to switch to days before he quite for another job. So, that has me a little uneasy but that feeling passes again because I'm sure there is nothing paranormal going on.

About a month later, I get another higher paying job so I'm training in my replacement before I leave. One evening while working together, I get out of a car after cleaning the inside, hear someone behind me talking. It's just audible to know its someone talking, but not laud enough to hear what they are saying. I don't even turn around,there is a phone in the corner which is a direct line to the rental counter at the airport so I just assume its the new guy talking with the agent to get a list of cars they need for the morning. However, when I do look up, new guy is in the back of the parking lot about 50 feet away, locking up all of the cars before we close up. I turn around to see who's talking on the phone but I'm alone in the wash bay. I still don't understand it.

neenerneener45 · 3 points · Posted at 05:10:21 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Of all the places to haunt...

rammalammadingdong · 36 points · Posted at 14:40:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I chased a guy around our old house and he ran up the stairs, into my father's room, and slammed the door shut. I grabbed a gun, walked in to the room and searched it head to toe. There was no one to be found. I clearly saw a man in a white t-shirt with jeans and a brown ponytail. Years later, I moved back to Texas, and went to see my half-brother. My now ex-step sister was there as well as my ex-step mother. I told them that I thought the place was haunted. My sister asked me to whisper the description of the person I saw in the house into her ear. After I did, she told her mom to describe the man she saw standing over their bed while they were asleep. She gave the same description I had.

Side note: I made a room in the basement and between my dad and I was the first floor. I could hear when my dad would get up, I knew the squeaks and creaks from his bed. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I could hear walking on the floor in between us, knowing full on that my dad was in his bed. It was certainly some creepy shit.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:11:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those damn deadbeat hippie ghosts!

Ixidor89 · 2 points · Posted at 04:43:29 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know, it's possible there's a guy squatting in a crawl space that you guys don't know about.

rammalammadingdong · 2 points · Posted at 21:37:10 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

When he went into my dad's room, I was right behind him. There was no way he could just disappear that quickly.

illuminatzi · 76 points · Posted at 13:34:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Heading to my then-boyfriends house one night, we took this back road as a short cut. It was dark- I don't remember being able to see the moon at all, and very few other cars were on this road, so all we really had were our headlights as far as sources of light. I was talking to him, and turned my head back look down the road when I saw this old man crossing, wearing a plaid shirt and moving rather quickly. I remember the plaid vividly, and he seemed to really stand out in the dark. Before I had time to react properly, my boyfriend drove through the man. I watched him pass through the hood, the dashboard, down the middle of the car and vanish. It was like time had suddenly slowed down then caught back up with itself. Boyfriend saw nothing, but I insisted we never take that road again after.

lordgoblin · 4 points · Posted at 16:07:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

maybe you were just hallucinating

Coxinitor · 3 points · Posted at 17:26:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When you started with "Heading to my then-boyfriend...." I thought he might not live through your story. What is this thread doing to me?

submuloc_j · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I know what you did..."

Duhmas · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why I feel so bad for psychotic people. What they see is happening, no realistically, but it is happening in some form. I've seen some Spirits in my day, most not creepy but some are darker than night.

scubadog2000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I read a thread where there was a guy with schizophrenia doing a little AMA in the comments. To us, normal people, it's hard to imagine having your mind be a separate person, but the 3 voices in his head (always the same ones, so it wasn't just a mish-mash) actually argued with him. Imagine that. Arguing with your own mind.

glasscut · 39 points · Posted at 14:53:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my son was a little over a year and a half old, he started to notice day/night cycles explicitly but he recognized them as "light and dark". One night, at dusk, I saw him standing by the window, pressing his hands against the glass, looking out into the night. It was a gloomy night with very dark purple skies and silhouetted black branches waving in a heavy wind.

I asked him what he was looking at. He turned to me and smiled as he said, "Dark is here."

The shudder that ran through me still make me look over my shoulder whenever I remember this as night falls and I find myself alone in a room.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dark was sometimes crazy for me as a kid. One can only venture a guess to his night time adventure land.

[deleted] · 33 points · Posted at 23:05:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandmother passed away in March of 2009. Her visitation was an open casket, so she was dressed in a sea foam green pantsuit and her hair was lightly colored gold, just as we remembered her. After the visitation, I said my goodbyes and made my way back to Ohio so I could go back to school and whatnot. Weeks later, I visited my grandpa to check up on him and the family, see how things were after her passing, etc. I went into my grandpa's room and all around him, staring up at his TV (he had it about eight feet from the ground on the top shelf of his closet), was my family: dad, uncle, aunt, everyone. They all have straight, almost terrified faces. I looked up at the TV, on which my grandpa had his DVR paused on EWTN, a Catholic television station -- he was very, very religious. Almost simultaneously everyone in the room said "WATCH" and my grandpa hit play. EWTN must have been discussing modern Israel or something because all I saw was a mass of people walking through what looked like ancient ruins. They were all dressed in drab, plain clothing. Nothing too colorful. It's just this mad rush of people, none of whom are particularly interested in the camera, which seems to be above them pointing diagonally down. Out of the corner of my eye I see my aunt brace herself and cover her mouth with her hand. Just as everyone in the room gasped, I saw it: a figure in the center of the crowd, wearing a sea foam green pantsuit and with golden hair, staring directly at the camera. For a good three seconds she stares, emotionless, before disappearing in the crowd. Everyone in the room lost it, including me.

I'm not religious at all, nor am I very superstitious, but this still makes my spine tingle.

Deadbreeze · 3 points · Posted at 10:11:44 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who was it? One of the golden girls?

Edit: DAMNIT. Missed the part about her sea foam green pants suit.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:55 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

looked like her, coincidence, creepy as shit though!!!

WompyTomperson · 101 points · Posted at 13:08:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Most likely the whole "Max Headroom" and "Vrillon" broadcast intrusion

EDIT: http://wibx950.com/ground-zero-with-clyde-lewis-wkcr-signal-hijacking/

That had also felt creepy to me.

maverick715 · 26 points · Posted at 15:04:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Link

Thats creepy as hell. There was a guy on reddit not to long ago who claims he knows who did it. According to him, it was an autistic guy with the help of several hackers in Chicago. How they did it is still unknown.

ramo805 · 11 points · Posted at 18:18:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eeb6e/i_believe_i_know_who_was_behind_the_max_headroom/

themindlessone · 8 points · Posted at 15:55:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Either that guy is an award winning author, or he knows. That was too specific.

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 17:15:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

its pretty easy to be specific about details that literally nobody else could verify

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:08:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 11:35:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not insinuating that anyone is a liar, my point was that you shouldn't believe something just because someone gave a detailed account of it. Personally I like the story but I don't particularly believe it. As you admit you obviously can't actually prove any of it so don't be so offended when someone else points that out.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:05:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know someone confirmed the place did but who confirmed the people did?

maverick715 · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any update on how you think they did it?

cosmicsans · 2 points · Posted at 01:16:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://inmediares2013.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/aliens-meme.jpeg

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 14:48:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can not imagine what it would've been like to be up that night alone and to have seen the Max Headroom incident live. With no one else around who would believe your story?

InsanityWolfie · -6 points · Posted at 16:45:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Care to provide a link?

sasquachs_balls · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why do I have you tagged as "in love with his sister-wife"?

InsanityWolfie · 3 points · Posted at 19:03:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because youre an idiot. Its my cousin/sister, not my wife. Although, I do love my wife too.

bigsol81 · 10 points · Posted at 15:23:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I never thought the Max Headroom broadcast intrusion was that scary, really, just weird as fuck. I guess it's because the source is obvious (a dude with a mask). I guess if it had been purely audio, that would have made it a lot creepier to me.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 17:00:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So you're up at midnight, watching Doctor Who, and then that comes on.

I don't know, I'd be fucking scared.

Deadbreeze · 2 points · Posted at 08:27:23 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)*

GODDAMNIT. I thought it was just a creepy picture to go with the audio and held my phone up to my ear. I noped out before it finished. I dont wanna go back.

EDIT: Annd I went back, its just a still image. What is this "dude with a mask" shit your talking about? If you're talking about how the sounds were made, then WOW, you are presumptuous. Not sayings its paranormal, but I am saying I don't believe YOU know the method in which these sounds were created. I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T WANNA GO BACK!!! Am I missing something here?

Edit2: I am, sorry I only checked out the link provided. Thought everything mentioned (max headroom, vrillion) was referring to that link. Man I waste a lot of time making an ass of myself on reddit.

Edit3: Okay, Max headroom TV hijack was not scary at all to me either. That recorded audio shit had me shivering though. Sorry for my uneducated rant. I reddit on my phone. That matters, right?

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:40:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still want to know why people find Max Headroom creepy rather than hilarious. The first time I watched it I fell to the floor laughing thinking of all the people who just wanted to tune into whatever show they were watching only to see a man in a Max Headroom mask get spanked. I was also 12. But still, just because we don't know how he did it doesn't make it creepy.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think it aired at night and that's why. Back then it was a big deal to be able to 'break into' the broadcast and seeing that guy at night and not knowing what's going on would creep me out.

Just seeing it on Youtube however is fascinating - I would love to know the back story.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thats true. I guess at the time it would be unnerving. I too would love to know who it was and why they did it. There was a Redditor who claimed to know who it was and wrote a post about it, I cant find it now however.

mr_midnight · 4 points · Posted at 20:13:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking hell, that WKCR recording probably takes the cake for me in this thread...

BuildMeARocket · 3 points · Posted at 23:17:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me too. I mean, after all this experience of threads and stuff like this on the internet I really thought I was becoming immune since nothing scares me anymore. But damn, I was close to pure panic when the "EEEEE"-noises started. Couldn't get past 10 seconds even before I had to close the tab, I'm gonna have to try again tomorrow when I'm not alone in my dark room at 2 AM.

Deadbreeze · 1 points · Posted at 08:31:02 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Yea me too. Except I thought it was just audio. I'm going back, hoping the video will make it less scary. I was making weird faces and my eyes were tearing up. And I'm a dude, who's not afraid of ghosts.

Edit: I was confused by the comment only providing one link. Thought it was all one thing. There's no video, I went back WKCR and pissed myself, all for naught.

FearsomeMonark · 3 points · Posted at 19:50:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Max Headroom happened during Doctor Who if I'm not mistaken, so a LOT of people didn't sleep that night.

silvernarnia · 3 points · Posted at 08:09:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck that man. I got like five seconds into the creepy part and had to shut it off. I don't do scary noises. I just don't.

johnw1988 · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't think it is creepy at all, I just think it is awesome. That man is my hero and I'm glad they never caught him.

I'm not sure if this one is real or not but it is pretty creepy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njpd8yYm2JY

mylowe · 3 points · Posted at 19:27:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's creepy as fuck.

The_Coletrain · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've seen some creepy stuff in my time browsing the internet, but nothing will ever be more frightening than seeing the video of some dude in a Max Headroom mask talking with a distorted voice. There's just something that's unsettling about it...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:15:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That ground zero link is almost definitely fake. Good luck finding a ten year old cassette tape with audio that clear (especially the "creepy" voices reciting names).

Deadbreeze · 2 points · Posted at 08:58:59 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please, PLEASE let that be true. Fake or not, those sounds evoked some fuckin weird feels in my chest. I didn't even make it to the voices saying names part. Someday I'm going to lock someone in a dark room and play this at high volume. Actually... I better not.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:38:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whatever the fuck those notes were, they chilled me to the bone.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i really don't get what the big deal about max headroom was. There is nothing creepy about it

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know, I find the real Max Headroom to be disturbing, so I know for me the distorted real life version is similar.

gandi800 · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eh, to me that's just some people, very smart people, messing around. The knowledge and equipment to perform such tasks was becoming more and more available and someone just found a way to exploit a system. Early day hacking and nothing more.

Cobra289 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not familiar with these, care to elaborate?

mothfukle · 74 points · Posted at 13:34:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was young I would get sleep paralysis. I remember one time I was lying in the living room by myself and started to fall asleep, and the sleep paralysis started. I couldn't move or open my eyes when I started hearing this weird buzzing noise and then a really creepy voice started saying my name. Kept saying it, slightly louder each time as if it was getting closer. I finally snapped out of it. It was really freaky, messed me up for a few days as a kid.

nakedjay · 8 points · Posted at 16:03:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to get sleep paralysis all the time when I was younger, especially in my teens. I never had a night terror from them and they quit happening after I turned 21.

About 4 years ago, I was 26 at the time, I had another episode. I couldn't sleep one night, I just kept going in and out of sleep. Then it finally happened, sleep paralysis, except this time was different.

The room was pitch black, I like sleeping with zero light in the room, but even though there was no light I could see everything. Best explanation I can give is it was a ghost world like what you would see when you died in World of Warcraft. I look to my left and I see a very dark demonic figure standing next to my bed staring me down. My thought process was, who the hell does this demon think he is coming into my room. I tried with every ounce of my being to swing my right arm to try and punch this demon in the face.

I woke up swinging my entire body to the left side of the bed. The demon was gone. I wasn't scared, just depressed that I didn't get to fight a demon. I decided it was best to just stay up the rest of the night and watch cartoons.

scubadog2000 · 5 points · Posted at 21:34:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You've got some balls. "Oh, there's a creepy demon next to my bed? Better punch him!"

I must admit, I would've screamed like a bitch. Mentally AND physically.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:11:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Something really similar happened to me when I was 21. I've had sleep paralysis since I was about 12 or 13. Most of the time I didn't hallucinate or anything but one time I woke up to a buzzing sound that was sort of inside my head but not... it's hard to explain.. and it kept getting louder and louder until it was so loud I was basically mentally screaming "STOP" from fear. Then this really calm voice filled my mind and said "Don't worry, it's just a test. It will be over soon." A few seconds later, it stopped. That one still freaks me out whenever I think about it.

SamalotMedia · 2 points · Posted at 21:51:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sounds like something I would imagine frank the bunny saying to someone in their sleep

HyzerFlipDG · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

as someone with sleep paralysis I just got the biggest chill down my spine ever. My eyes also started to well up in fear. Holy Crap!

tiajuanat · 3 points · Posted at 15:13:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The very rare times I get sleep paralysis, my eyes are closed and it's quite obviously just an internal dialog between myself and intrusive thoughts, but I'll be damned if it's not some of the weirdest things I've ever heard.

DragonflyWing · 3 points · Posted at 16:09:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh, sleep paralysis is the worst. Once, I woke up but couldn't move or open my eyes, and I could hear something big growling and slobbering as it thundered down my hallway and threw open my bedroom door with a crash. It sounded completely real, I had no idea it wasn't until I suddenly was able to open my eyes and there was nothing there. My door was still closed, and my husband was asleep next to me...if not for that, I would seriously have thought it was real. SO scary.

scubadog2000 · 2 points · Posted at 21:35:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least you had your husband besides you, but I can't even imagine what the kids that have no one nearby (or even on the same floor) are thinking.

DragonflyWing · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's no wonder that a lot of small children believe in monsters!

scubadog2000 · 3 points · Posted at 22:02:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Since a lot of people seem to be experiencing the same thing, I looked it up on Wikipedia. Here's what it said

"Hypnagogic hallucinations are often auditory or have an auditory component. Like the visuals, hypnagogic sounds vary in intensity from faint impressions to loud noises, such as crashes and bangs (exploding head syndrome). People may imagine their own name called or a doorbell ringing."

and

"Humming, roaring, hissing, rushing, zapping, and buzzing noises are frequent in conjunction with sleep paralysis (SP). This happens when the REM atonia sets in sooner than usual, before the person is fully asleep, or persists longer than usual, after the person has (in other respects) fully awoken."

mothfukle · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pretty much describes what happens to a T. Doesn't help the 9 year old version of myself tho...the brain is an amazing, and sometimes terrifying thing.

AllUpInYourGrill · 2 points · Posted at 15:54:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When that happens to me, I always get my name whispered very loudly and sharply once right in my ear.

DJ_Ms_Config · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sort of happens to me, still... But I get the buzzing noise, and it starts on one side of my head and then sort of rushes over to the other side (I don't really know how else to explain it) getting louder and more intense, and once it gets to the other side of my head, I hear a voice whisper my name really loud. Scares the shit out of me every time.

efro4472 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had the same fucking thing happen to me when I was fourteen. The buzzing, the voice, my name. Fuck.

steelgoddessmoon · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have sleep paralysis as well. First started experiencing it as a kid and I thought I was being haunted by a freakin' ghost. Dark figures around bed, feeling like someone sitting on my chest, voices....it wasn't until I was older and stumbled across an article on it, I realized what was happening to me. I experience it about 2-3 times a month. Sometimes more when I am stressed. I know what is going on but shit! It still freaks me out!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About 2 weeks ago, I had sleep paralysis, GUESS WHO THE FUCK WAS STANDING OVERME? JEFF THE KILLER. It shocked me into waking up and I went straight into panic mode, threw a punch right through my wall.

FUS_ROALD_DAHL · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I get sleep paralysis frequently if I nap during the day, but I thankfully have never had any of the scary demon hallucinations that a lot of people experience with it. I mostly start panicking that I'll suffocate facedown on the pillow.

cleaver_username · 3 points · Posted at 15:26:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine always starts in the middle of the night, when it is too dark to see clearly. Waking up at three in the morning to see a wiry-haired demon sitting on my window ledge was terrifying. He had giant tusks, and was all hunched over. That is the one I remember most, but it happens about once a month to me. Just google sleep paralysis in Google Images.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:42:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really would flip out. How realistic is it? And is it hard to convince yourself not to freak out?

hi_masta_j · 6 points · Posted at 16:48:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis happened so much to me in my early teens, I was convinced it was real. Except, I didn't have a demon, I had an alien. One of those skinny grey ones (damn you X-Files and Sightings). It got to the point where an incident would cause me to fight sleep, Nightmare on Elmstreet style, until I fell asleep a day or two later exhausted and guess who was waiting for me...a grey. After talking to my cousin about it we came up with a test to see if it was real or not. I slept next to a shelf with an encyclopedia set, so I flipped every other book letter over and went to sleep. Like clockwork, I was visited and during the paralysis, I looked over at the shelf and saw the books arranged normally. When I snapped out of It and was completely awake, I looked over at the shelf to see the books arranged with half of them flipped over. Only then, was I completely convinced that my night terrors where just an intensely terrifying form of lucid dreaming. So yeah, its pretty fucking realistic. You always freak out for the first couple of moments but, as soon as you gain control, you just remind yourself "it's just a dream" and than you wake up, turn on the TV for awhile and go back to sleep.

cleaver_username · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It has been happening to me all my life, so (as terrifying as it is) I have kind of gotten used to it. When I fist see it, my chest locks and I cant breath. My eyes are usually stuck looking at whatever it is I see. I have to actually remind myself "This happens, it is OK, there is nothing there. Work on closing your eyes." Once I am able to close my eyes, it breaks the paralysis and I can blink and see that nothing is there. But oh god, those first few minutes are truly terrifying. If I die early, I think it will be because of all the years I lost, by being scared shitless.

HyzerFlipDG · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yep that is pretty much how it is for me. I end up staring at lights shining through my window or the moon if it's bright enough.
I have had a fear of aliens since I was a child and swear I have had an encounter with one. My room has our router and cable modem in it so there are always blue and green blinking lights in the room. Wake up with sleep paralysis and throw in some blue lights, your blanket nowhere to be found, and a fear for aliens and you have yourself a really really intensely scary situation. I usually can't break the paralysis until I have tried to scream for at least 5-10 seconds. My GF says that when she wakes up I am making loud moaning sounds like if you were to scream with your mouth closed. Sounds about right.

cleaver_username · 2 points · Posted at 16:53:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At least you have someone to cuddle up to afterwards. My boyfriend doesn't wake up for anything, so I will maul him with hugs and cuddles once I finally wake up. But there have been a couple of times when he wasn't home after an episode. There was no sleep for me that night.

HyzerFlipDG · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

the weird thing is I will get back to sleep as soon as I get out of the paralysis most of the time. I have had hundreds of these episodes and not all of them are as scary as the rest. sometimes it's just me fighting to open my eyes or to move.. when I finally do I wake up, realize what happened, and go right back to sleep. There are some nights where I will do this 3-4 times. At least I don't get the scary paranoia alien encounter thing with all of them. I might not sleep ever again if that always happened.

cleaver_username · 2 points · Posted at 19:25:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like I said, usually I have no problem going back to sleep. But at least once a month I am too terrified, and my boyfriend gets properly squished as a result. :)

FUS_ROALD_DAHL · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, geez. I hope I never have anything like that. I've heard a lot of people imagine things sitting ON them, which would be even worse.

Vitilago · 17 points · Posted at 15:15:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank god I'm seeing this at 8 in the morning this time

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:15:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

haha no shit mane

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 16:15:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gunshots outside my bedroom window at 4:00am. Close enough to see the flash. Scared the piss out of me and my wife.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What did you do? Did you find out who was shooting or what they were shooting at?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:29:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

We woke up to 3 shots in rapid succession. Then we heard a strange moan/yell followed by a fourth shot that completely lit up our room. We both hit the floor. Quietly. Grabbed the Yorkie off the bed too. I called 911, and after a while I saw cops driving through the area for a few minutes. I never found out anything more.

silvernarnia · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where in the ever-loving fuck do you live?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:46:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was exotic Portland Oregon.

coromell · 2 points · Posted at 04:39:27 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to my parents a couple weeks ago. Dude unloaded a full clip in the yard next to theirs. Dad said he was so close to the property line they saw the flashes and it scared the absolute crap out of them.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:24 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing about it is there is nothing you can do. I don't own a gun, and for a moment I thought "I wish I had a gun." But what would that have done? A gun can't protect us from stray bullets. I'm just glad no one was hurt. Hope your parents were okay.

thesoz · 15 points · Posted at 23:46:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live near San Francisco, across the bridge, and its quite beautiful and all, but it is pretty foggy sometimes. Like foggy to the point that I can't see my car in the driveway, 20 feet in front of me. Anyway, I'm coming home from school one day about two years ago, and its pretty foggy already in the town my school is in (about a 10 minute drive) and I get to my hill and drive all the way up (my house is at the top of the hill). I've lived in this house most of my life, about 14 years now, and nothing odd has ever happened. So I get to my house, pull up in the driveway, and i can barely make out my dog in the window, wagging his tail and everything. I get out of the car, and immediately the howling wind that blows down from the higher hills blows my car door shut, and continues to ravage the foliage around my house, yet the wind never does this when its foggy, otherwise there is no fog. So I'm feeling a bit skeptical as I open my door and go in, I call for my parents but no one is home but my dog. It's really cold in the house, and I'm thinking okay well what's going on, I'm spooked. I go upstairs to my parents room on the top (third) floor and find that both of their windows are slid all the way open, letting in all the wind and thus making the house a fucking igloo. I close the windows, turn on the heat, and go downstairs to my room on the bottom floor and feeling pretty cold and tired, I crawl into my bed with my laptop where my dog crawls in with me. I'm typing some essay for homework that I've been working on for a long time, when suddenly I realize my room is fucking freezing, and when I look, the windows ACROSS FROM MY FUCKING BED ARE WIDE OPEN. All the windows in my house are like sliding doors, and their a bit old so they make a huge noise when being opened. I swear, these were not open when I went into my room. So now I'm shitting my pants, and close the windows. One of them fogs over a bit, and the word "NO" has already been written out in the glass. I literally ran to the bathroom to avoid shitting myself, my dog knew something was up so he scurried along with me. As I'm in there, I hear knocking at the door, and at this point I'm getting pretty fucking scared out of my mind. I sneak out of the bathroom, literally sneaking around like a fucking cartoon character. I go to check the front door, nothing in the peephole, and I sink down to the floor. The couch next to me blocks my view of the huge sliding glass doors (like 15 ft wide by 25 feet tall) across the big room. I stand up again, see that one of the doors has fogged over as well, and "WHO AM I" is written on the glass. I grab my laptop, dog, and car keys, and stayed the night at my grandpas house 50 miles away. To this day, I have no explanation for what happened, there has never been any other sense of a ghost or other thing in or around my house, but I have never been more scared in my life. My mom believes me, I don't know why, but we have no idea what it was or if it'll ever happen again.

garrettrl1 · 17 points · Posted at 05:38:34 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in 8th grade, my family lived in a gate guarded community that had houses pretty close together. There was about 10 feet that separated us from the neighbors house. No fence or anything. I had the only room downstairs and one night I was woken for whatever reason. Almost as soon as i opened my eyes, I caught a glimpse of something moving out the window. It was a person who stopped moving instantly. Terrified, I just continued to stare out the window while the figure also didn't move. Being dark, I wasn't sure if they could see my eyes open or not. After a minute or two, I slowly snuck out of bed and snuck upstairs to get my dad. We came back down quietly to only see the person was gone. He called the security guard who arrived pretty quickly. I will never forget... Standing at the front door with my dad and the security guard explaining what had happened when all of the sudden the person goes jogging (cant describe the persons creepy stroll) by and slowly turns his head and makes eye contact and has a little grin. The security guard bolts after him with no luck. Probably darted between two other houses. 14 years old, and slept on the floor of my parents room for a week after that. :/

hydrazi · 34 points · Posted at 15:50:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was about 11 years old and my family lived in a 100 year old, sprawling farmhouse in Upstate NY. Our nearest neighbor was 6 miles away. I was rarely in the house alone, but this night I was.

I was getting ready to watch the 2 hour premiere of the TV movie "V", yeah in the 80's. Aliens that look human but turn out to be lizard people who eat humans.

I am watching it near the large picture window that looks out onto one of the hayfields beside the house. Just after the first guy gets his fake human face torn off to reveal lizard beneath, my dogs both started to growl.

It was dark out, but it seemed a little lighter out. The hair on the back of my neck stood up. Both dogs quick growling and just huddled behind the couch (NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE OR SINCE). And then I saw a growing light that blasted overhead and disappeared behind the hill. Winked out. I lost it. Aliens.... coming to eat me....!

I grabbed my .22 rifle and ran down cellar with the dogs. I stayed there until my parents got home. I pretended to be cool. Then my parents told me about how they were at another farm visiting, and all of the animals got totally silent and they saw a bright light and came home fast.... because they were scared.

gothoops3 · 35 points · Posted at 18:41:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

One of the few (and last) times I ever babysat, someone called the house. The girl was allowed to answer the phone as she was about 11 or 12. It was a very brief conversation and I asked her what they had said. She said they asked if get parents were home and she had said no. When I asked her what he said, she told me all he responded with was "good." And hung up. I freaked out and still get shivers about it to this day. Luckily, the parents came home about a half hour later and I had to explain to them why the curtains were all closed and we had shut ourselves in the basement.

TL;DR don't let the kid you're babysitting answer the phone. Ever.

vi1987 · 12 points · Posted at 20:39:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shouldn't an 11/12 year old be old enough to know that you shouldn't A) Talk to strangers and B) Let strangers know your parents aren't home??

BGYeti · 4 points · Posted at 21:25:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You would think, as a 20 year old male though who has to prove his masculinity that is more of a challenge than a threat.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:24 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would think so. From the time we were old enough to answer the phone, and then also stay home by ourselves, we were always told never to tell someone on the phone that our parents weren't home, and to never answer the door when they weren't home.

[deleted] · 33 points · Posted at 19:24:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I posted this in a few other threads, so some of you might have read this before.

I worked at a campground on night shift. 12a - 8a, every night. It wasn't bad. I would bring in my PS2 and game a good portion of the night, only having to deal with 1 or 2 people on busy nights. It was just me in this little 8' x 8' shack, with nothing around but dark, all night. My first week there, the other third shift guy who was quitting told me about this payphone a few feet from the shack where I worked. He said it rang every night at 4:17a, just once. It was probably just an automated test call, he guessed. He's never answered it himself. I go for a few months with the job. It was the middle of summer so most nights I had the windows closed so I couldn't hear the payphone go off.

Mid-August I started leaving the windows open during the night. Sure enough, at 4:17a every morning the phone would ring once. The ring even sounded creepy, like the payphone was submerged in water then put where it sat.

One night I got up the nerve to answer it. I set an alarm at 4:15 and would go wait at the phone until it rang. When it did, I answered it. But there was no sound. Just dead air like the someone was on the other line but wasn't answering. I said hello a few times, and hung up. I did this every night for a week with the same results. I didn't think anything of it and left it alone after that for about a month. The first week of October, I decided to answer the phone once again. I set my alarm and when the time came, I answered the phone.

"Hello? Hello?"

Then I heard what sounded like someone inhaling through clenched teeth. The voice that sounded was rough and sounded like he had gargled gravel. The best comparison I can give is Horace P. Gauge from The Suffering.

He said my name. My complete name. First, middle, and last. It was a voice I'd never heard. My voice caught in my throat and I hung up. I rattled some change into the payphone and hit *69.

The number had come from California. I live in Indiana.

omnivorewhore · 12 points · Posted at 20:03:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where in Indiana? My guess is the guy who quit was pulling an elaborate prank on you...yeah that's it.

uncanny_valley_girl · 7 points · Posted at 20:18:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOW I see why I have you tagged as 'Payphone Paranoia'. Good story, bro.

blahkittens · 6 points · Posted at 21:10:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did the phone ring again?

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 21:36:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah. It continued to ring every day at the same time until I quit. I'm pretty sure it still rings.

super_mommy4 · 3 points · Posted at 17:43:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

What campground in Indiana?

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:49:38 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whitewater Memorial State Park, Mounds Campground.

super_mommy4 · 3 points · Posted at 04:19:44 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wondered if that's where it was! I used to go camping up there with my family when I was younger! That makes this story even more creepy

BGYeti · 3 points · Posted at 21:31:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well thank god whoever it was is so far away.

SharkieBait · 3 points · Posted at 05:28:52 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lots of nopesauce on that sammich, let me tell you.

Loris0214 · 120 points · Posted at 14:11:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest: (but proves I have some kind of good energy watching my back) I was about 16 and home alone in my house at night. This was back in the day when MSN messenger was the thing to do. So I was chatting away on there with some friends and my internet kept cutting out. So I would be signed out of MSN and then signed back in. This went on for a while and kept cutting out quicker and quicker. Eventually I couldn't stay online for more than 30 seconds. So I was like fuck this and get up from my computer chair to leave the room. The moment I was at the door way turning the corner to go up the stairs, the light fixture falls off the ceiling and shatters where I had been sitting on the computer chair. I ran upstairs and proceeded to hide under my blankets until my parents got home. TL; DR - Almost got injured, but some good ghost saved my ass

Karbear_debonair · 59 points · Posted at 17:10:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alternate: something was trying to kill you and the computer interfered with the energy expenditure. Your computer saved your life.

Hexates · 5 points · Posted at 20:41:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the best comment I've read all day.

vVvMaze · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

alternate: light fixure would not kill him only give him bump on the head.

16 year old boy hiding under covers cause light bulb fell out of ceiling.

weakly · 2 points · Posted at 21:33:32 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

New twist: you getting up caused the light fixture to fall.

eternaladventurer · 4 points · Posted at 19:12:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at a child's funeral when I was working in a village in rural Tanzania. It was the worst kind of day for a funeral; a storm was brewing in an utterly-grey sky, enormously unbroken by tall buildings or mountains. Just after the ceremony when people were milling about outside of the little wooden church, a huge branch plunged from a tree and fell directly beside an old woman who had been resting against it. She stood up, obviously shaken. The creepiest fucking thing was that the humid, heavy silence that already dominated the scene just continued. Tanzanians are talkative, caring, and friendly- but in this instance, no one spoke to reassure her or ask if she was all right. She moved to sit somewhere else silently, and people continued to simply walk quietly off to their own homes.

Still one of the most bizarre moments that I've witnessed. In retrospect, it hardly seems real.

MadHatter69 · 4 points · Posted at 00:20:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was talking over Skype with my girlfriend the other day; the subject was the game Limbo and how that boy is searching for his sister in the afterlife, when all of a sudden I heard a loud noise and glass shattering.

She just said: "a light fixture just fell inches from me, it almost killed me".

After she cleaned it all, the rest of the conversation was eerie. I could tell she got very, very scared (and so did I, for that matter, as I didn't know what the hell was happening while she was cleaning the mess).

paon-ecarlate · 2 points · Posted at 20:01:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds a bit like a poltergeist having some fun with you. But if you feel like it was good-natured I wouldn't worry about it.

[deleted] · 261 points · Posted at 13:49:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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mskerryedwards · 72 points · Posted at 14:39:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really hope you called the police?

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 20:39:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

or swat?

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 20:40:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

or U.S army?

eu-guy · 6 points · Posted at 14:21:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

or the Avengers?

pesmerga2007 · 3 points · Posted at 15:44:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ghost busters?

allergictoyourcat · 3 points · Posted at 19:46:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or Shaft?

DuceGiharm · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shrek?

Toppre · 3 points · Posted at 20:19:16 on June 13, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who the fuck would call Shrek?

_vargas_ · 65 points · Posted at 14:05:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:21:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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Dalek456 · 3 points · Posted at 18:22:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Rufiux · 0 points · Posted at 20:48:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SAME!

xubax · 29 points · Posted at 15:36:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

She's a psychopath. Psychopaths don't have emotions (with the exception of things that directly affect them) and do weird shit just to see what it's like.

If you still have any contact with her, stop.

[deleted] · 28 points · Posted at 16:38:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a 80% possibility that she will become his boss.

pissoutofmyass · 6 points · Posted at 19:18:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The correct term is Antisocial Personality Disorder. Some of them have emotions, but ignore them somehow. Others don't have emotions. Others don't have emotions or feel empathy but understand its meaning and sometimes attempt to mimic it as best they can to fit in. Not all with this disorder are malicious.

nursebad · 2 points · Posted at 08:21:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucked up cat murdering indicates malice to me.

lacrimaeveneris · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

True, and especially the last group can be pretty interesting folks.

That said, force-feeding a cat marshmallows and microwaving it suggests some malicious intent.

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 18:40:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I WOULD FUCKING KNOCK ALL HER TEETH OUT IF SHE SAID THAT TO ME WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK

mementomori4 · 4 points · Posted at 21:43:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know, I'm a very nonviolent person, but I would be more than willing to get arrested for beating the FUCK out of someone like that. Seriously.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:59:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh yeah , getting arrested... better make it a murder while I'm still beating that cunt.

Preachy · 12 points · Posted at 14:56:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's probably the most fucked up thing regarding animal cruelty that I have ever read.

Farabee · 9 points · Posted at 16:13:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't creepy or scary, this just makes me indescribably angry.

pastel-forest · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:19 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

my thoughts exactly

CanadiangirlEH · 9 points · Posted at 16:34:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Was her name Kayla Borque by any chance?

Link, for reference.

pineapple_warhorse · 6 points · Posted at 14:37:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my god... That's horrible.

TINYDANCER07 · 13 points · Posted at 13:50:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what.in.the.fuck.

iamadogforreal · 6 points · Posted at 16:11:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You work with a straight up sociopath.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 17:13:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is a special place in hell for these type of sick fucks.

Eshajori · 5 points · Posted at 19:24:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't believe in a religious hell, but I now hope/believe that the universe can create a hell for these people in order to maintain a cosmic balance.

fluffysquidsy · 4 points · Posted at 18:17:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Would microwaving it cause the marshmallows to expand? What was their purpose?

SeaMenOnTheRocks · 0 points · Posted at 19:03:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was wondering why noone was asking this question. I guess it's taboo to ask how that cat would taste? I'm just wondering if it was all marshmallowy on the inside.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:13:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't even....why...

xipietotec · 5 points · Posted at 17:18:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My first girlfriend's dad admitted to tying cats tails together and pitching them, as well as setting them on fire. As a kid.

Bonus points: He was a psychologist.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whaaaaaaaat?! OMG that's fuct!

danroccks · 4 points · Posted at 17:03:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've worked with a surprising number (more than 5) of guys who grew up in the country claiming to have had friends or neighborhood kids that would collect stray cats bury them neck deep and then mow the lawn.

cheestaysfly · 3 points · Posted at 22:58:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The capacity for cruelty in humans knows no bounds.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was his name derek.

danroccks · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

no, no derek

kakatak · 3 points · Posted at 17:06:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't believe you and now my life is ruined

PrincessAloria · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope she was a liar :< Poor kitties

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I shouldn't have read that... Fuck man. That REALLY FUCKED UP.

Wrath_Of_Aguirre · 2 points · Posted at 01:02:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would have punched her in the face and stomped on her chest. Woman or not.

Steph1423 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a friend that I made in the 3rd grade. She was new and was previously homeschooled before arriving at my school. One day, she told me and my other friend that she'd hung a cat before. Wasn't too disturbing. But then she told us that it turned blue T.T

MuthMuth · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, fuck.

LFBR · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK

rolfraikou · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I do now want to do this to a plush stuffed animal, replacing the stuffing with marshmallows, because I think THAT would be funny.

I had an orange persian/something mix (stray, not sure exactly what it was) that would smell unopened marshmallows, open the very top cabinet, and just rip the bag open to get to them. Cat fucking loved his marshmallows.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ಠ_ಠ

LurkerUsurper · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We must find her, and destroy her.

To the pitchforks.

adgal617 · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wut.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know a kid who microwaved his hamster. But it was because Hammie was cold and the kid new that the microwave warms things up. Poor fucking kid.

shaqfearsyao · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know why but I had a feeling of deja vu when I read your story, like I've read it before. Ok, on to the next story.

Octane14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did she name the cat S'mores? Seems like a good cat name...

durdyg · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:45 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe she was just awkward and trying to flirt with you. Or a Satanist.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I worked with a lady who told me she was killing raccoons for eating the cat food she had outside. One day while working, I happened to walk by her car and there was a raccoon in a cage in her back seat. I asked her about it and she said she was trying a new method by letting it "bake" in her car. Later she went out, I guess to check on it, came back in and grabbed some gloves and drove her car around to the dumpster... A few friends of mine had gone to school with her and told me many stories of her torturing animals. She's crazay!

MissaRosa · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When we were in high school, my friends and I used to "cat bowl" by sliding a kitten on the kitchen floor towards a triangle of empty solo cups. It didn't hurt him at all, though.

[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 05:02:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Home alone one night in my apartment. I always locked and dead bolted the door when my husband was out, so when I heard a knock on the door around 10 or 11 I ran to let him in. With my hand on the dead bolt, something told me to stop and look through the peephole. A man in a ball cap stood there--with his hand over his face. So awful to think what might have happened if I had simply opened the door.

Edit: Sorry guys, didn't realize anyone wanted details. Blatantly hiding his face. His whole head was turned to the side and down, flat palm up against the side of his head. No clipboard, pizza, uniform or anything like that. I backed away from the door (ugh, I can still feel what it was like to be separated from him by only a few inches) and yes, he eventually left with no further trouble. In retrospect, should have told management about the shadiness.

oohcomely · 9 points · Posted at 05:29:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

.....fuck. Was he blatantly hiding his face or at least pretending to scratch his eye? That's scary.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:14:28 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:52 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ooo even scarier! Yep, never even thinking about opening the door again, home alone or not.

pttymcgee · 4 points · Posted at 17:32:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit, I'm glad you didn't open that door!

Scouth · 3 points · Posted at 18:54:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Go on...did he eventually just leave?

MarkMerriman · 15 points · Posted at 17:25:38 on November 14, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I had a weird thing happen to me when I woke up.

I had literally just woken up and I was in that half awake half asleep state. I woke up to see a face, silhouetted by the light in my hallway, right in front of mine. Right in fucking front of my face. I couldn't see who it was but I knew it was my best friend. So I was like 'Hey man, what are you doing?' and as I sat up and moved my head, his head moved with mine but stayed the same distance from my face. I blinked and then... the face was gone. I do not live with or near my friend and he was not there that day or night. I only realised about 2 minutes later when I woke up that I just experienced something fucking terrifying. Apparently it is a form of sleep paralysis where you can see hallucinations but still move while experiencing them. Pretty weird night...

LICKS_CAT_BUTTS · 15 points · Posted at 07:03:26 on November 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

Props for posting on a 5 month old thread. I am re reading this creepy story threads sorting by new :)

ashleighqueen · 7 points · Posted at 19:55:19 on April 18, 2014 · (Permalink)

I'm doing that now!

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 03:57:59 on April 28, 2014 · (Permalink)

Hey, me too!

DANIcandii · 6 points · Posted at 12:53:50 on May 5, 2014 · (Permalink)

Me four!

folklure · 2 points · Posted at 23:44:12 on December 16, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same here. Was pleasantly surprised when I found new content :)

kittypooo · 6 points · Posted at 01:22:13 on December 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

i had almost the exact same experience, but what ever it was kept calling my name. It was a woman's voice so naturally I believed it was my mom. I kept asking, "What is it? What do you want?" with no response. As soon as I sat up it was gone, I was completely alone and my door was wide open. I ALWAYS sleep with my door shut.

D3rpyd3vil432 · 3 points · Posted at 13:36:42 on January 10, 2014 · (Permalink)

You're right, that is weird. Maybe that could explain those strange memories I have from when I was little enough to be in a crib. I remember, I was laying on my back in my crib, holding this round, fluffy toy, that was like a pikachu, but when you hugged it, it would vibrate. I remember the exact way it looked, brown, with black stripes, and a tan little tummy, with round black stuffed animal eyes. Then I remember, I had accidently dropped it, and watched it roll to the ground. I was about to start crying, because I was still too small to climb out of the crib myself. Then I heard something calling my name. I can't say what the voice sounded like, maybe like a man's, but the voice I don't remember. But I do remember looking around, and then looking inbetween my two toyboxes that were leaning against each other in a corner, but they weren't fully touching, there was a small space behind them. I remember watching, as this strange, shadowy hand began to rise up from the ground from behind that small space, which didn't stop rising, Instead it seemed to float now, and it gave me the little toy back, and the only thing I remember from the rest of that, is going to sleep right after it hands me the toy. shudder thinking about it now, gives me complete chills....

wrong-hole · 34 points · Posted at 16:42:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Forgot this one.

My parents when first married used to hop in the car with their 3 dogs and a tent and drive somewhere and camp a few days. You can camp virtually anywhere in Scotland and it's legal btw. They wouldn't have a map and would just drive until they found a nice spot.

So they came to a country road and a guy in a tractor said "you can't go up there. Your car won't make it. I can barely get up in a tractor". My dad takes it as a challenge and battled up this road. Pot holes and mud galore but somehow they made it. At the top of the road there was a stream and a meadow. Then at the end of the meadow was a new forest, all the newly planted saplings in neat rows until you hit the old forest about 800 metres away.

My dad claimed it was like heaven. This perfect camping spot that they couldn't believe they had found randomly. They got out the car and it was eerily silent. The stream was bubbling away but there was no wind and no birds. My mother said "this feels weird" but my dad just laughed it off and they started setting up the tent. They set the tent up and realised the dogs (who they used for hunting) had wandered off.

They found them stood in a row facing in to the new trees with their hackles up growling. There was nothing there. It wasnt an animal or they would have just chased and tried to kill. My dad tried to get them away but everytime he got them back to the tent they would slowly stalk their way back to the edge of the trees.

It was starting to get dark and the dogs would not stop growling and being really anxious. They had never been like that before and never ignored my dad's commands. They were highly trained hunting dogs so it was weird that they were so frightened and angry that they would ignore him.

As it got darker my dad said they couldn't stay. Somethig was out there and they couldn't see it but the dogs could. They took the tent down (not even putting it away properly) and jumped back in the car. They drove to the nearest village. Found where they were and drove to the nearest family (about an hour away) because they couldn't camp that night even in a different place.

They described the place , the road and everything about it and my mothers uncle (who they were staying with) got out the map and asked if that's where they were. My dad checked it out and realised it was. The area was where they had been finding bits of bodies from the lochabie bombings which had just happened not that long before my parents accidentally ended up there.

Creighton_Beryll · 10 points · Posted at 20:13:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Lochabie bombings?" You mean the destruction of Pan AM flight 103 over Lockerbie?

wrong-hole · 2 points · Posted at 21:07:37 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, sorry for my spelling.

Should have said terrorist attack but the point remains.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:14:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

that is freaky. i was just thinking about that place today

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 07:25:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

the dogs could recognise what violence does to us, that we can't.

so very sad.

StickleyMan · 222 points · Posted at 12:53:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This scene from Spongebob. I was watching with my kids and saw that and nearly shat my pants. They thought it was hysterical. What the fuck kind of kids show does that?

[deleted] · 74 points · Posted at 12:57:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All we had as kids was Large Marge.

StickleyMan · 17 points · Posted at 12:59:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh fuck Large Marge was scary as fuck though. That was a mean thing for Pee-Wee to do.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 13:55:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dumbo: Pink Elephants on Parade: This gave me nightmares as a kid.

Parker_I · 2 points · Posted at 03:02:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought I was the only one!

Crapiforgotmypasswrd · 6 points · Posted at 17:05:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck large marge

chunklemcdunkle · 3 points · Posted at 16:07:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh fucking jesus.

Large marge. I had both, though seeing as that I'm around 20.

Spongebob is a true work of art; a well crafted show. There's so many different themes there in the episodes, the music is great, especially when they want to be creepy.

lordnibbler77 · 2 points · Posted at 04:22:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goddamnit! I could have gone the rest of my life without thinking of large marge again.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:36:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Muwahahahahahahahahaha!

SuspiciousOfEveryone · 25 points · Posted at 15:47:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You must not have watched Ren n Stimpy as a kid. Every time I look back at that show now, I can't believe I thought I was funny, and also that anyone thought it was appropriate for kids.

deathberry_x · 4 points · Posted at 16:28:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They had a lot of nipples.

cornucopiaofdoom · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Did my ex-wife send you?"

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:37:08 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY

wanabeswordsman · 17 points · Posted at 15:15:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Clearly you didn't grow up with Rocco's Modern Life, Courage the Cowardly Dog, or Ren and Stimpy.

deathberry_x · 7 points · Posted at 16:28:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was having internal fights with myself the entire time. They creep the shit out of me but it's supposed to be a cartoon so I pushed on. I was an idiot when I was a kid.

Aero_ · 7 points · Posted at 16:29:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

or fucking Zeke the Plumber from Salute Your Shorts...

samino_acids · 3 points · Posted at 17:43:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Salute Your fucking Shorts, oh man.

Easy there, you don't have to hit me QUITE so hard with the throwbacks!

Upcakes · 3 points · Posted at 18:18:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

AHHHHH, I forgot all about that episode!

OneTripleZero · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ren and Stimpy

Call the police.

FancyOctopusHat · 4 points · Posted at 16:16:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spongebob is surprisingly horrifying sometimes. The episode where he gets infected with mold or algae and then spreads it to everyone via their food still haunts me. Also I wish his brain didn't fly out of his holes quite so often... Eurgh.

MedeaDemonblood · 5 points · Posted at 19:00:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Clearly you have never watched "Adventure Time."

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:03:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This is one of the most screwed up segments of a children's cartoon I've ever seen. Man adventure time is awesome.

MedeaDemonblood · 3 points · Posted at 20:46:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah man. Though nothing holds a candle to the 360 degree pan of the Nightosphere in "They Went to the Nightosphere." It was like Dante's seven circles on crack. There are so many creepy ass moments in that show, I wonder how kids take it. I'm 27, so to me it's nothing.

Epidemilk · 3 points · Posted at 21:01:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Remember the Jiggler? Me and one friend call that 'the Eraserhead episode'

Mrsatchesfriend · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Spongebob has a bad trip"

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:52:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scene from the episode "Shanghaied" when the Flying Dutchman threw Squidward into the hell-zipper really messed with me as a kid. That being said, it's one of my favorite episodes, mainly for its absurdist quality. Could've been written by Tim and Eric.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember as a kid, pausing this scene rewinding it and playing it again, creepy ass shit though...

Werekitty · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn Flyin Dutchman.

TheRobotHunter · 2 points · Posted at 20:04:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This looks kinda fake and real at he same time. Anyone know what episode?

cottonheadedninnymug · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's real. It is from the episode when the Flying Dutchman crashes his ship, so he stays at Spongebob's house until his ship is repaired. He starts out trying to scare Spongebob every chance he gets. Eventually, Spongebob gets tired of the Dutchman trying to scare him, and is no longer scared by the Dutchman's attempts. The gif is from one of the Flying Dutchman's failed attempts to scare Spongebob.

xxDamnationxx · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:27 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spongebob is a kids show?

Kull44 · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

A Spongebob scene? I can't access youtube here, but I will as soon as I can. I'm so curious what could be creepy in Spongebob!

EDIT: Thanks for the info, guys - I didn't even bother checking the link because the last 5 I had tried were Youtube and I'd given up. Thanks again!

thetreece · 6 points · Posted at 15:29:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a gif. Not a youtube link. Here's an imgur link in case you have trouble accessing at work (or wherever you may be): http://i.imgur.com/xcfVDw5.gif

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a gif

Damadawf · -15 points · Posted at 16:09:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh sweetheart, if your little spongebob segment is the creepiest thing you've ever seen, you've had a very sheltered life.

splattypus · 89 points · Posted at 13:31:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sure you know about /r/creepy, /r/nosleep, and /r/fearme (probably a few more, as well).

Here's that Korean Jump-Scare comic

And here's the reddit thread(of mostly creepy-pasta) that got me to join reddit, and is still my favorite thread ever.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 15:49:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So about that scare comic..

I went to the page and, being terrified of spooky things rushing towards my face I skipped 2/3 of the way through to which I saw some f&cked up thing running towards me at 100mph. After which, I was done reading.

splattypus · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah.

Even when you expect it, it's impossible to prepare for the good jumpscares.

EinsteinDisguised · 13 points · Posted at 14:47:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went to /r/FearMe, clicked the top two posts of all time and proceded to nope the fuck out of there. I like being scared, but fuck that.

splattypus · 3 points · Posted at 14:49:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's a very special place that requires a lot of emmersion to get into first. Then I imagine it's even more terrifying.

dratthecookies · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I don't like that at all.

injygo · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like it. It's pretty ~~sexy~~ scary.

Nataliyana · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't even go to top posts, just the normal stuff. Nope, nope, nope.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:42 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I clicked on your link, saw a red picture with a giant bunny-type thing in the woods and immediately closed the tab. Don't know what that sub is, not going to find out. After 2 days of reading through this thread, I'm terrified of my surroundings.

TheJanitor07 · 4 points · Posted at 15:17:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Korean link doesn't seem to work on my phone, saving for later.

iamadogforreal · 3 points · Posted at 16:12:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/thetruthishere is like nosleep but doesnt allow fiction. Obviously people can lie but they are supposedly true stories

splattypus · 4 points · Posted at 16:13:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh thank god. /r/nosleep turned to shit when it turned into a horror-writers workshop, complete with weekly awards and shit.

therealodayaka · 2 points · Posted at 02:52:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dunno, even horror fiction can be pretty creepy. I mean that Penpals story was one of the top rated stories and is even being made into a book. It's obviously fiction but was still way creepy.

splattypus · 1 points · Posted at 13:04:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I missed that one. Haven't visited in a long while. What just turned me off was the 18 part mininovels being posted every few days. I don't to have to spend 2 hours a day reading one story on reddit. In that sense, the creepypasta was much more appealing, short and sweet and to the point. Not only did the long stuff trudge on and on, but it overshadowed the shorter but good stuff too.

Not to detract from any of the authors, but the 'everything is real', campfire-style stories disappeared, and that was the biggest draw of the subreddit to me.

therealodayaka · 2 points · Posted at 14:04:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely read the Penpal and Mr. Cartwright series. They freaked me right out. Penpal is several parts long, but is definitely worth the read. Mr. Cartwright is shorter but way freakier and will definitely make it hard to sleep at night.

splattypus · 2 points · Posted at 14:10:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Word, I'll definitely check it out then. Thanks.

danihendrix · 4 points · Posted at 16:25:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

[–]asmith1243 196 points 3 years ago (241|45) Hey reddit! I don't have a story to add, but I figured this would be a great opportunity to plug the subreddit I just made. It's called NoSleep and is dedicated to everything scary! Start sharing your other scary stuff!

lol

splattypus · 3 points · Posted at 16:26:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep, the birth of a subreddit, right then and there. History.

Lazek · 3 points · Posted at 16:55:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like to imagine that the last "lol" wasn't laugh out loud, but rather a man sticking his arms up.

Scotsman333 · 3 points · Posted at 15:31:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why the fuck is Alien crawling through the woods on /r/fearme ?!

splattypus · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I couldn't even begin to tell you why.

tomqvaxy · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thems people bunnies! I love them.

eu-guy · 3 points · Posted at 14:44:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy crap, what's up with the people on /r/fearme? Reading the comments, I think those people are mentally sick and want to commit suicide...

splattypus · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Check out /r/TheoryofFearMe, it explains the sub a little better. Also see their post on /r/subredditoftheday. It's kind of a 'in-character' subreddit, requiring you to adopt the character and immerse yourself in the theatrics for the sake of the atmosphere.

IDontNeedTherapy · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just lost a couple hours of my day thanks to you.

splattypus · 3 points · Posted at 16:56:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're very welcome, it's a shit day anyways.

Snibbin · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Commenting to find this later

KyleChief · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. I have read that 3 times but I've never had it with the sound and the movement, just pictures. I quickly scrolled down to try and get it to work and it scared the absolute shit out of me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On phone, saving for later.

Alexander2011 · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the FUCK is going on in r/fearme?

splattypus · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I couldn't tell you.

They were recently the /r/subredditoftheday, that should give a better explanation of what's going on there.

Snibbin · 2 points · Posted at 21:44:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Korean Jump-Scare comic

NOT FUCKING COOL

splattypus · 2 points · Posted at 23:50:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey I warned you.

I guess it's still not enough. I read that thing once. One time. A year ago. And then I saved the link in case I needed it again. But I'm not gonna read it again, no way.

Snibbin · 2 points · Posted at 00:08:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was so unprepared haha! I was just reading along, like ya... this is pretty creepy... but you know, it's just a story... It might give me the chills, but I don't know why I would jump at a story.

I was so unprepared...

splattypus · 2 points · Posted at 00:13:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The title of the original post to reddit was "The scariest god damn thing I've seen on the internet in who knows how long. But we must agree for the safety of web browsing to never mimic this."

I presumed it was some sort of creepypasta, or like a Teds Caving Story or something.

Turns out that disclaimer at the beginning about people with health issues is legit.

lewhovian101 · 2 points · Posted at 23:10:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/ISwearItsTrue has a lot of potential. I'm suscribed to it but it is really small.

FCBarca1984 · 2 points · Posted at 23:11:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No what have you done! I was almost done with this shit for one day. Damn you!

therealodayaka · 2 points · Posted at 02:53:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/LetsNotMeet

splattypus · 2 points · Posted at 13:02:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's scary on an 'all-too-real' level.

pastel-forest · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:16 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Astral_Fox · 14 points · Posted at 14:55:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple of years ago, I was driving back to my house in downtown D.C. This was around 3-4 in the morning, not a soul on the street or anything like, bar some idle police cars. When I reached an intersection on the south side of the Capitol, I stopped at a red light. Of course, I could have blown through it as it was 4 in the morning with no other human presence in sight, yet I felt compelled to stop.

I was looking saround, bored, waiting for thr light to change. That's when I saw, on my right, what looked to be a man. Only, this wasn't your average man. He was wearing full late-1800s Bowery Bhoy-type garb: three piece black suit, cane, foot-tall top hat. I couldnt make out his face in the dark. I was utterly thunderstruck by the sudden appearance of this man. It was as if he had appeared out of no where.

The light turned green. I slowly eeked by him; I was transfixed on this man. I couldn't drive any faster than I did. As I drove by, he took off his cap revealing a perfectly parted hair, matted down by an extreme amount of gel. He tipped his hat to me as I drove by. And this, my friends, is what really shook me to my bone. When I drove past, I looked in my rear-view to see which way he was going.

He was gone.

Maybe not as scary or creepy as some of these other stories but that was a moment where time seemed to stop. I didn't sleep at all that night.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What in the fuck...this is horrifying. Just in case you haven't read The Smiling Man, you should.

electrobolt · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My heart stopped when I saw this. I think I saw that fucker in Northwest DC in 2009.

dgreenz21 · 15 points · Posted at 15:02:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

apparently when I was about 4 years old, I went into my moms room at 3am and said "mommy, theres a little boy at the end of my bed. he wants to play with me"

jondaniels16 · 13 points · Posted at 16:10:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a man getting gang beaten outside of a 7-11. They were taking running kicks at his head. I called the police but there had already been several calls about the incident. I checked the newspapers for three days and didn't hear anything about it so I assume that he lived. Still it was the darkest most disgusting thing I've ever seen.

Podrick · 17 points · Posted at 16:10:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was waiting for the 6 train at Lexington Avenue, and this man ran past me pushing me aside and jumped as the oncoming train slowly coming to a stop and trampling over him. Everything was in slow motion, an MTA worker screamed as he jumped infront of the train. Once the train stopped in the heat of the moment, his boyfriend jumped down on the tracks and reached out to him. Urging the jumper that he was going to be alright. I helped him back up to see his shirt covered in blood. Myself still shocked from what I just witnessed tried to see what happened to the guy. I went up and down the platform near the front of the train to see his body. The paramedics arrived in 10 minutes and urged everyone off the platform. I ended up taking the E that day.

[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 02:08:27 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I awakened to smoke in the house I rented with 2 roommates. One of the roommates actually woke me. We were all outside watching the house burn. The same roommate that woke me ran back inside for some unknown reason. I was put in the back of a police car where it was warm. As I looked through the back window, I saw her lying in the driveway where CPR was being performed. She died. When we went inside to look at the damage, we saw her handprints on the wall. They led to the bathroom with a final smear to the bathtub where the she was found by firefighters and taken outside. I will never forget those handprints of lost desperation.

sat52 · 6 points · Posted at 15:58:08 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

was she trying to save a pet or save something else?? I can't imagine any material thing would be that important. That would kill me not knowing.

MrWit · 16 points · Posted at 15:43:30 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I practice Qi Gong which is a form of meditation originating from China.

During meditation practice, I would routinely hear odd noises coming from my television. Almost like someone was flicking the plastic portion of the back of my TV with their finger. I meditate with my eyes closed and every time I would hear one of these noises it would cause a "jolt" and I would see a flash of odd discordant colors on the inside of my eyelids.

At first I didn't think anything of it, I have a large plasma screen television, and maybe that's just the noise it makes while cooling down. Also, during meditation, you in theory, create an electromagnetic field. I thought perhaps this somehow was interfering with the T.V. itself, and I would usually meditate after watching T.V.

One night I decided to keep my T.V. off for an entire day, then meditate. The same exact noises started coming from my computer monitor on the other side of the room. I unplugged both monitor and television, and the "tapping" noises started coming from both television and monitor intermittently. This makes no logical sense, if there is no current running through the television, it shouldn't be making any noise. This noise only occurred while meditating, and only at night.

At this point I'm beginning to doubt my sanity for a bit, so the next time I meditate, I turn on the voice recorder on my phone, and place it directly in front of my television. I meditate for around 20 minutes, then check the recording. You can clearly hear the sound of tapping on glass(the screen is glass). I play this for my GF to make sure I am not insane, she hears it too.

So I start researching this and according to Qigong books, performing QiGong can actually attract malevolent entities (demons) due to (Long story, it just does).

Since both my television and my computer monitor are in the basement, I decide to start meditating in my living room. My living room has a couch located directly in front of a bay window, which is where I choose to sit and meditate.

Everything was fine for about 5 minutes, and I think I am in the clear when all of a sudden I hear the same freaking "tap tap tap" LOUDLY on the glass window located directly behind my head. I freak right the F**k out and turn around, turn on the outside lights, there is nothing there. Nothing at all. At this point I "know" there is something living in my house.

So for the following weeks, I tried my best to just ignore the noises and sounds. Somehow, knowing there's something there somehow made it worse. While meditating I sometimes could feel some awful presence directly in front of my face. I would open my eyes and would see nothing. It is incredibly alarming I would hear weird noises coming from the laundry room connected to my basement. I would hear someone using the bathroom, and the toilet flushing when there is no one left in the house.

This has persisted for over 3 months now. I still don't know how to get rid of it.

tardwash · 10 points · Posted at 22:25:11 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would stop meditating for staters....

MrWit · 3 points · Posted at 20:28:30 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd rather be harassed by something than lose the little peace of mind that I have.

tardwash · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:28 on June 11, 2013 · (Permalink)

Zen?

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 23:58:38 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should record yourself meditating and if you catch anything interesting on it, you should put it on dropbox or somwhere else and provide a link so we can hear it!

MrWit · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:31 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can try this, some part of me worries that giving it attention of any kind may be a bad idea.

I don't currently use drop box but I can record the noises on my phone and figure it out then post an update.

kiefercalyx · 4 points · Posted at 04:41:37 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Studied/practiced Zazen (Zen) Meditation now for about 15 years and YES it does attract these energies but it is part of a "breaking through" that the meditation is bringing to your life. In Zen tradition it's called "Makyo" or a distraction in the way of enlightenment.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:36:41 on July 19, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if it's kosher to reply to a very old thread, but I would suggest you post this at r/occult. There are a number of simple (somewhat involved, but simple) banishing rituals that you can do to deal with this. A lot of occultists (pracitioners of the Western mysteries) perform a banishing before and after every meditation. The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is simple and easy to learn. If you want to go into more detail, there are larger-scale rituals that you can learn, but the LBRP should be very helpful in clearing your area.

ta_kia · 15 points · Posted at 18:18:04 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

When i was a fresher at university i moved into this block of flats which used to be a prison but had been renovated and converted into student accommodation. the place had been nicely done up, 7 bedrooms. There were only 5 of us so two of the bedrooms were not in use. my flatmate came into my room late one night all panicky. she'd left her room to use the bathroom and with the corridor light switched off noticed a light coming from under the door of one of the unoccupied bedrooms. my other flatmates had gone home for the weekend so it didn't make sense for the light to be on. we decided to check it out. we walked up to the door and tried the handle. it was locked, as it always is. i tried it again just to make sure...definitely locked. so we stood around contemplating the fact that maybe the light had always been on and we'd just never noticed. i didn't realise i had been leaning on the door until it started opening. we were both soo freaked out we immediately ran out of the flat and called security. but whoever or whatever was in that room had left by the time security came. the only thing in the room was a pair of my flatmates flip-flops she had lost a few weeks ago. we had the locks changed the morning after.

chimpcheng · 16 points · Posted at 12:27:59 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've always been a 'fan' of creepy/spooky/ghosty stories, but, being a man of science, I never put too much stock in it, despite experiencing some strange occurrences.

For example, I used to work in a hospital, and would often go down to the basement to the freezer room, which was were my specimens were kept. Anyway, whilst picking my tubes one day, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a kid looking at me. Now, a kid had no business being there, especially as the department required keypad access and the freezer room was off-limit to most staff. I put it down to 'trick of the light' or 'imagination', but it was some time later that I learnt that the freezer room used to be where they carried out autopsies...

Like I said, I put some logic to it, but, from that day, I would always wedge the door to the freezer room open, to hasten my escape if needed. However, I never saw anything in that room again...

It wasn't until a trip to Hong Kong that more or less convinced me that ghosts might exist, having said that, a big part of me is still very sceptical.

Back in 2007, we went on a trip to Hong Kong and China, and one of my hotels was The Shamrock Hotel on Nathan Road in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

After a session out on the town, we all went back, played rock, paper, scissors as to who was going to get the beds and sleep on the floor and soon passed out. Part way during the night, in that half awake/half asleep phase I could swear that was someone standing by the window. Despite slowly getting round to being hungover, I reasoned that I was still drunk and that the figure by the window was merely the curtains all bunched up.

Later in the night, I was having a conversation with my friend, who, sadly, for him, lost out and had to sleep on the floor. During our conversation, my friend in the other bed turned over and asked "who are you speaking to?". It turned out that our friend on the floor had left the room sometime ago, yet, somehow I'd been having a full conversation with him or, as it turned out, "something"...

The next morning, I was on the hotel phone to friends in a different room asking what the plan for the day was, meanwhile my friends who I was sharing the room with were chatting. Overhearing snippets, my blood ran cold. I hung up, and we began to dissect the night.

It turned out, that we had all "seen" the figure by the window and the reason that my friend had left the room was because he "felt" something climb over him, hold him down and stare at him. Once he was "free" he had left the room to sit in the lobby the rest of the night. So the person I was speaking to in the night wasn't him...

We told the leader of my group, who had a word with reception, who rang us to confirm that we wanted to change rooms. I tried to explain why we wanted to switch, but the receptionist said "don't worry, I understand why" and that they will get a different room ready as soon as we packed up.

Cue the fastest clearing out of a room known to man. One of the guys left toiletries behind, but we refused to go back to the room to help him retrieve them.

According to local tradition, hotels which experience "problems", sometimes get a priest to bless the room and in order to rid spirits, ghosts, or whatever, they "chase" them into the end rooms with a view to expelling them out of the building. We happened to be staying in an end room...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:45:35 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

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chimpcheng · 3 points · Posted at 13:17:47 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was a 'corner of the eye' event but as far as I could tell he was solid and was wearing a jacket and dark trousers. Other than that, I couldn't tell you anything like facial features, but he did have short dark hair...

nyky21 · 16 points · Posted at 03:45:15 on June 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

I met these 2 Canadian girls a few summers ago that I hung out with with and shared an RV in the forest with in Cali for a while. They traveled around a bunch and I also did so us gals would chat for hours exchanging stories. I once asked them what the scariest thing that has ever happened to them while traveling, they have gone all around the world together. They are both blonde, pretty and really sweet girls in their mid 20's so they have had some interesting experiences. I am the same age and I have had quite a few scary times, but this story was freaky to me. They said the scariest thing that has ever happened to them was in rural Australia. I don't remember where they said specifically, but they had rented a car and were driving to some place to camp and they said it was quite desolate where they were driving through. It was maybe 2 in the afternoon and they wanted to find a bar to have a drink and some food. They pulled off the road into some old bar that they thought looked good. They said they walked in and all of the people in there were kind of rough looking old guys, and when they walked in, of course all of these 10 or 15 dudes that seemed to know each other all turned and stared at them. They said the bartender didn't seem as scary so they sat with him at the bar. They got some food and beers and chatted with the bartender for about an hour and a half and he started to talk about how he closes his bar at 4pm. He said he was getting ready to go soon and that they should think about leaving. They jokingly said back something like "Aww you're kicking us out?" and he lowered his voice and said "No, I don't want to but you are not safe here. I am going to buy these guys a round of pitchers to keep them here and you two ladies should leave, soon. These guys will follow you and hurt you." or he somehow implied that they will definitely get raped if they stayed. So they said goodbye and left and they said camping that whole night they were super uneasy, but nothing happened to them. Good thing that bartender was there and that they decided to sit with him right? Wild.

spook327 · 74 points · Posted at 14:14:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never told this story because I don't entirely believe that it happened and have even rationalized most of it away as a child's overactive imagination, and the inherent faultiness of memory.

When we went anywhere for a vacation, we always drove. It was cheap, and as kids the three of us were pretty well-behaved in the car. Inevitably we'd be wide awake at night and insist that Dad tell us a ghost story (much to Mom's irritation.) Years later of course, I recognized the source materials for his stories as fragments from popular slasher flicks and common urban myths that we'd have been too young to hear.

One time, he told us a story about a local myth that creeped me the hell out because it sounded pretty plausible. Sometime just before the civil war, an escaped slave had managed to flee north to the copper country and managed to get a job working in one of the mines. He got on well with everybody there and soon got the nickname "Black Jack" on account of his given name and his heritage.

When rumors surfaced that he had violated someone's wife, a gang of four took it upon themselves to do something about him. Late on a full-moon night, he was ambushed on the road and beaten to within an inch of his life by the four men, wearing all white in a prototyical KKK outfit. He laid dying in the ditch, and swore revenge upon those who had attacked him, offering his soul to the devil in exchange for revenge.

Each month after for the next four months, one of the men who attacked him was found smashed into a nearly unidentifiable pulp by a massive hammer. Each time, a large, limping figure dragging a hammer behind him has been seen somewhere near the murder. Thing is, Jack was rather uneducated and never stopped killing after the first four, as he didn't know how many men attacked him. And so he rises each month to slay the first person he finds wearing all white...

So the story goes, anyway. Like all ghost stories, it was pretty much designed to scare us stupid kids, and we kept trying to make it worse by pointing out white clothing we each were wearing at the time. By the next day, we'd largely forgotten about it.

Several months later, we were on another trip and stopped at a motel for the night. I remember my Dad not getting along with the guy behind the desk; some argument about price or something. Anyhow, I just recall that he was a bigger guy, balding, with a thick black beard. Most of all, I remember that he was wearing a stained white wife-beater.

Late that night, my parents were sleeping as was my youngest sister. The older of my two siblings and I were quietly playing cards by the window when I heard the sound of metal dragging against concrete. I shushed my sister and asked if she heard anything and she said to stop trying to mess with her. Well, we wound up arguing and waking up Dad, who yelled at us to get back in our sleeping bags. We did, and everyone went back to sleep.

That morning while we were packing, Dad went to pay the bill and came back looking actually scared -- something I'd never seen before. He took Mom out of the room quietly and then she stayed in there with us while he went to a payphone out in the parking lot. I didn't know what happened at the time, but that when we left there were police cars and an ambulance in the parking lot, and Dad spent a lot of time talking to the police. Neither Mom or Dad would tell us anything, and still don't like to talk about it at all.

mskerryedwards · 55 points · Posted at 19:07:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's why you never wear white after labour day!

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:28:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please go ask them what happened and then come back and tell us!

Typically_on_reddit · 4 points · Posted at 22:23:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really wish you would ask but I respect your parent's feelings. please

volcomsnow909 · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've got know what happened!!

Mighell · 3 points · Posted at 23:21:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No matter how uneducated Black Jack was, he surely should know 4 people is a lot less than 1 person every month for the last couple hundred years.

HanaTamago · 7 points · Posted at 17:23:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

To this day they haven't given you any clues as to what happened?

That's so scary! To think that you were that close! You heard the metal on concrete!

centerofthesun · 2 points · Posted at 02:16:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man, try to figure out the date and search for news articles for the area this was....

michaeljane · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's a wife beater?

cornucopiaofdoom · 3 points · Posted at 23:56:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://abovethelaw.com/2008/08/a-sartorial-quandry-what-type-of-t-shirt/

michaeljane · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

thanks, i was expecting it to be a tanktop.

ProfessorManBearPig · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You can't just leave us hanging like that! I need to know!

biscuitmap · 48 points · Posted at 14:43:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 13 I was in Mission Beach in San Diego, and I really wanted to buy a hat with the little money that I had. After looking at all the shops they had on the boardwalk, I couldn't find any that I really wanted so I just forgot about it an moved on. About a half hour later, I was walking on the street with my dad and we pass by a homeless guy who, I shit you not, said "Sorry you couldn't find a hat kid." There was no way he could've known unless he was following me or was a psychic. Both of which are creepy.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:37:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A bum looking guy once said "don't do it with her" as I was riding by on my way home to fuck a chick I met that was meeting me there. I did it anyway because I told myself there was no way he could have known and it was a fluke, but it was weird.

biscuitmap · 4 points · Posted at 19:21:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just curious, did anything happen because of it? I mean in a herpes sort of way.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:03:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Nope, luckily, because the first condom did break when I was gettin' down heavily.

Edited needless details.

holomanga · 2 points · Posted at 21:57:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brain can't process this. Are you serious or parodying people like this?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:01:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What can't you process? True story. Extraneous details included.

ATomatoAmI · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe not; first one broke, gave up. Or out of them. That's what I got out of it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:06 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

could have known that a man might fuck the women he is with? seems logical

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:57 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wasn't with anyone. I was on my way to meet her at my place.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 20:15:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe he was making fun of your haircut.

biscuitmap · 6 points · Posted at 20:27:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is quite likely actually. My hair was terrible back then.

lokitheinane · 3 points · Posted at 02:36:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

had you walked down that way on your way there. maybe he heard you talking about getting a hat earlier, and they when you walked past hatless, he put 2 and 2 together

AlfredHawthorneHill · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you help an old altar boy, father?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 11:06:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the elder scrolls series there is a story called "The beggar prince" about a prince who wanted to know everything going on in the kingdom, so the daedra made him a beggar for all of days, because even the most hushed things would be said in front of them, for no one noticed the poor. It is entirely possible that he saw you looking through hat shops and you just did not see him.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:23:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you just had a really unfortunate haircut. He was sorry you couldn't cover it up.

sortathrow · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's amazing. Did he have a beard? (of course he had a beard, he's homeless) He must've been a wizard.

biscuitmap · 3 points · Posted at 19:22:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was a long time ago but I vaguely remember him looking like this. (Not really)

cosmicsans · 2 points · Posted at 01:53:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a Rabadon's Watchcap IRL.

HillaB · 48 points · Posted at 16:36:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to my grandmother while she was living in Northern Michigan with her sister. The husbands (my grandpa and great-uncle) were off fighting in WWII and their cousin, who was pregnant with her first baby, came to visit as her due date approached because her husband was also fighting. One evening, my grandmother was laying in bed when she heard a blood curdling scream. She and her sister rushed down the hall to see their cousin standing completely motionless, staring into the dining room. She asked them if they saw them on the table. When my grandma looked, she didn't see a thing. The cousin told her she'd seen two coffins, one normal sized, and one the size of a baby coffin, sitting on the dining room table. Six days later, my grandma's cousin died in childbirth, as did the baby.

HI_McDonnough · 2 points · Posted at 00:57:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where in Northern Michigan? That's where I live, the story sounds strangely familiar.

HillaB · 2 points · Posted at 01:24:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Iron Mountain

HI_McDonnough · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Much further north then I am, but my grandparents were all Yoopers.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:54:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holyhell, that's creepy

redlaWw · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes, when something goes wrong in a pregnancy that doesn't affect the mother until delivery can be detected by the mother earlier in the pregnancy and, assumedly, could've stimulated such a hallucination. Alternatively, it could've just been a likely outcome that the mother was worried about, which ended up happening because of its likelihood.

elegantrubble · 40 points · Posted at 14:26:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to volunteer at my church (mostly to get out of sitting through service) which was a creepy building unto itself, 100+ years old, lots of creaks and unidentifiable noises constantly. Anyway, I was in the house part of the church, getting supplies from a closet when in walks the gardener, who always gave me the creeps as well. He just stood there by the door looking at me then said something along the lines of I shoudn't be creeping about by myself, I'll scare someone to death. I got out of there straight away with the excuse people were waiting for the stuff I was getting, the guy was just so weird, so unsettling.

A few months after that they found a body buried in the church grounds (had no graveyard) of this girl that had gone missing and guess who the killer was. Soon after that they linked the gardener to 3 other murders and suspected him of more.

TL;DR: was alone with a serial killer

[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 20:23:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was up camping on private property ( my friends owned it) approximately 11 and a half miles from the nearest paved road/building, when we heard laughing in the distance which my friend responded with a pump of his 12 gauge and we went to check out what was happening. After 15 minutes of walking we come across a clearing with a burnt out campfire with embers still red. When we returned the next morning to clean up their shit, we found one of those motion capture hunting camera things strapped to a tree. We took the little card thingy out and put it in a laptop and saw pictures of us hiking, entering the property, and then a variation of nine other people within about 700 pictures.

IceViper777 · 3 points · Posted at 17:12:22 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

that's creepy as shit

shiftymojo · 16 points · Posted at 09:10:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i live in rural nsw Australia and always hear stories of big cats that people see from time to time. i never really believed it until i was out shooting one night just on foot with a 243 in the middle of a paddock ages away from my ute at dusk. i see a big mob and start aiming for a bigger one. something spooks them and most start to run so i take a shot to try and get one. what i didn't know was i didn't spook them the giant fucking panther about 50m away from me that attacked one of the kanagroos was what scared them.

there was a moment when we both realized the other was there and i sat there looking into those big yellow eyes for what seemed like a good 5 seconds before it took off into the bush. i have never run so fast holding a gun in my life after that. i was sure it wouldn't come back because they are from what i hear afraid of people especially after i shot the gun.

older zoos circuses and traveling shows use to have panthers and if they couldn't take care of it they would release it or escaped. cougars use to also come on the WW2 battle ships from what i heard. i don't really know about the cougars but definitely there are panthers in australia

kieranjane · 3 points · Posted at 09:40:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

you really reckon there are aussie panthers? Did you get a good look at it? It couldn't have been a dingo or a feral cat?

shiftymojo · 4 points · Posted at 13:08:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

it was huge black and had these sharp yellow eyes. it was definitely a big cat. there's videos and pictures of panthers in NSW they arent native but there nothing to kill them and there are plenty of animals around to eat. im 100% sure there are big cats in Australia. not a huge amount but there's some out there

Almighty_Egg · 2 points · Posted at 10:06:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha, you bogan

JayRobot · 13 points · Posted at 20:07:25 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

The first day of school in 8th grade our science teacher told us a story. She turned off all of the lights and asked us to close our eyes and imagine what she was saying. It went (kind of) like this.

"You are playing in a field of flowers by yourself. It is one of those days where the sun is shining but it's not hot. All of your favorite colors of flowers are in the field. You play for a little while longer, then you realize you are really thirsty. You begin to walk down a dirt path with trees on either side, someone has been taking care of them. The dirt road seems to go on forever, until you spot an old house in the distance. You approach the house and it seems abandoned. There are cats and dogs running around everywhere. You come up to the porch, you step up and the floorboards creek. You peek through a window, from what you can tell the house is dark. You can tell someone lives there. You knock on the door. "Anybody home?" You say. Nothing responds. You try a few more times but still no response. You are really thirsty, so you turn the handle, hear a click, and the door squeaks open. You step inside, and you are immediately cold. It is deathly quiet in the house. You walk around the one-story house, kitchen, living room, bedroom, but you find no water. You come upon a mysteriously out of place door in the back of the house. You slowly open the door to find that it is the door to the basement. You take a few painfully slow steps down. It is even colder in here than it was in the house. Your feet reach the floor. You put your hand on the right side wall to guide you because there is no light at all in the basement. You feel the walls peelings. You ease ever so slowly along the wall. You hear a faint noise. You reach your trembling hand in front of you, until...

The teacher then screamed at the top of her lungs. The whole class fell out of their seat. A couple kids ran out of the classroom. I know a table was flipped from fear. That was the scariest story I'd ever heard. It was how she delivered it, gradually getting more frantic and dark. She tied this to science somehow but I forget. Dick move. Dick move.

LadySmylee · 6 points · Posted at 22:19:21 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love your teacher....

mulls · 14 points · Posted at 01:32:53 on July 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess for the guy that hits the "new" button...long post.

My parents got divorced the year I was graduating from college, and my mom moved into another house about 5 minutes from the one I grew up in. I spent the summer at my dads house before moving back up to the Bay Area (this all went down in LA and I was going to school in the Bay Area). I was 1 day away from driving back up, and I took an entire duffle bag of laundry over to my moms to see the new house (and an excuse use the laundry facilities).

It was late afternoon when I showed up and no one was home - there was a note left saying they all went out to grab an early dinner and to hang out and they'd be back soon. My little brother was still living with my mom and he had a new tricked out PC with Quake on it (this was mid nineties, and divorce victims get lots of gifts).

So I started doing the laundry, fire up the wash. 20 minutes of Quake, swap wash to dryer, new load in wash, etc. and repeat. There was a little bathroom that I walked by between the laundry room and my brothers, and every time I walked by the light was on. Being a recent college grad, I was obsessed with turning off lights in rooms unused. But by the third or fourth trip I thought "WTF?" and then just blew it off - old house but new occupant, clearly they are still screwing with the electrical, and not a big deal. It was in between the walk from the laundry to the bedroom, I heard the jangling of the gym equipment in a room at the back of the house. Not working out noises, but the weights shifting around, support bars lightly jangling.

I was in the house alone and now it was dusk. I yelled "Hello? Hello? You guys home?" No one answered and it stopped. My skin all of a sudden TOTALLY CRAWLED (like it is now actually), and I turned around in my tracks, went into the laundry room to start packing all my folded cloths into the duffle and just get the fuck out, and I had my back to the door - all of a sudden that feeling that someone is about to hit you, or is rushing right up behind you, took over and I spun in my tracks bracing myself, terrified - no one there. But I could vividly feel it.

I got OUT and didn't come back for about 1 month when I was back in LA. I was speaking to an older woman who was a friend of my mom and was living in the house as emotional support. I told her the story and she just smiled and said "The spirit comes to those who are troubled to let you know that it's there and knows. Has happened to your mom twice and she was told about it in a dream." I guess I was having a tough time processing my parents being divorced after 25 years of marriage. My sisters friend had an encounter in the house when she lived there for 2 months (baskets flew off the wall) bc she was bummed her nutty professor parents moved to Europe and left her in LA alone, and my brother in law woke up with the guest room doors banging because he was stressed out about studying for the bar. I now fully believe in ghosts - or weird spirit energy anyway.

tl;dr - my parents got divorced and my mom moved into a haunted house.

aareyes12 · 29 points · Posted at 15:20:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

A fucking owl screeched at my window and woke me up at the devils hour. Now, I'm not one to believe any folklore, but my Mexican culture has deemed owls as witches. That night, I believed...

mrbored10 · 3 points · Posted at 16:45:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

LECHUSA!

aareyes12 · 3 points · Posted at 16:50:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

D: They live in the trees behind my house. It happened about a week after my dad scared them away with a shotgun.

We have bats in our car port and I'm still more afraid of the owls .-.

mrbored10 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once had three Owls stand at my Porch gate at 2 am, I had to muster all of my courage to Sprint past them as i slammed my gate open. I cried for 3 hours after... :[

scubadog2000 · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate when people assign superstitions to animals. I love owls and see nothing to fear of. Same with black cats crossing the road. It crossed the road to get to the other side. Nothing else. As for the witch part, I don't see why witches are frowned upon. I, myself see them as people who know more than us.

mrbored10 · 3 points · Posted at 12:06:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, Assigning animals to superstitions, Mythology and Folklore has been going on since we were cavemen (If you believe in evolution that is). Owls in Mexican folklore means that they are Witches or a Witches pet, in Greek Mythology its a sign of Athena. We were brought up thinking that Owls are a bad Omen if it was around Witching/Devils Hour because of our culture, If we were brought up around the Greek Mythos we would be freaking worshiping them!, Everything just depends man.

scubadog2000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

But...but...THEY'RE SO CUTE!

cosmicsans · 2 points · Posted at 01:43:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Related Look up the part about Owl Men, or Stiginies, which are basically shape shifting medicine men from Oklahoman Native American tribes who turn into owls.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ooooh. Even worse, one night it was storming. Wind and rain pouring down in sheets.

I was about 4 or so and loved storms but my parents seemed to be worried. Moreso then usual.

Everyone knows the story about La Llorona. Now, I hadn't heard the full story yet, just that there was a woman who would look for a children.

It took me a while to understand why my parents were so afraid that night. Apparently they kept hearing screeching and thumps against the wall. Being superstitious, they put my younger brother and I in the bed, lit a candle to the Virgen, and then crawled in with my brother and I in between.

They told us they found dead owls outside of the apartment and apparently, I kept asking who "the lady in the window was"

Well, shit. Thankfully I now have a room with no windows. I love owls but those screeches and the all the folklore I grew up in . . . o__o

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:54 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ay caramba!

MooseDougington · 29 points · Posted at 17:59:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was laying in bed around 6pm after work, trying to take a quick power nap. I hear a door open and shut, thinking my roommate had just come home.

I then hear someone yell, "Hello! Hello!" I shrug it off thinking it's coming from outside my window. It gets louder, "Hello.. Hello! Hello!" This now sounds like it's coming from downstairs so I get up to see what the deal is. I walk out of my room saying my roommates name. I make it halfway down the stairs when I come face to face with a 55 year old Filipino woman, holding a plastic grocery bag filled with clothes.

We make direct eye contact, so I ask her if I can help her. She looks straight at me and screams, "I'm a lost 7 year old girl can you please help me get home?" I could only muster up an "Excuse me?"

Again, "I'm a lost little girl can you please help me get home". At this point I'm terrified so I slowly start to back up the stairs and ask her if she can leave my apartment. She puts a twisted grin on her face and says okay while turning around to walk out. She reaches the door, turns her head and winks at me, then proceeds to slam the door shut and leave. I'm still greatly haunted by her..

thedrunkmonk · 4 points · Posted at 18:41:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, I'm sorry. That's creepy and sad for that woman.

gonzodie · 3 points · Posted at 01:21:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

jesus, mary & vishnu, imagining this seriously disturbed me, I'm so sorry this happened to you.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:51 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

possibly having some kind of mental episode, like early onset dementia or something, hallucinating and suggestible. Poor girl

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 11:46:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

She probably was bad at American social ques and that question was something she was taught to test the kindness of people. If they try to help her they are probably caring, if they react negatively then she knows to GTFO.

[deleted] · 28 points · Posted at 22:18:04 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

My scary experience occurred at my Dad's girlfriend, Susan's, house. To paint you a better mental picture of things, she lived on a nice piece of land and didn't have any neighbors too close by.

We had a bonfire one night, which I spent some of the time leaned up against a tree listening to my iPod, but got up to get closer to the fire. After we all came inside and went to bed, I awoke suddenly at about 2 am and realized I left my iPod against the tree. I decided to go retrieve it. The bonfire pit is about a 5 minute walk from the house, and Susan's dog, Shadow, stays in a huge cage next to it. When I reached the tree, I could barely see anything because it was so dark, so, I started crawling around and feeling for my iPod. Shadow started to growl. I figured he didn't know it was me so I started talking to him and he quit. I finally found it, stood up, and checked to see if it was still working. Shadow started growling again, and I looked up to see a man standing by the tree, only an arm's length away, smiling at me. I fell backwards in shock. He's still smiling and says in a low whisper, "Hi." I jumped up, sprinted back to the house, too afraid to look behind me, but I could hear Shadow start barking and growling like crazy. I burst inside, ran into my Dad's room, and frantically told him what happened. He went outside to investigate and found no one. We called the police, but they didn't do much. I always wonder what would have happened if Shadow hadn't warned me.

PurpleLego · 108 points · Posted at 16:14:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I AINT CLICKN A GOD DAMN SINGLE LINK FROM THIS THREAD!

y0mirs · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

AGREED.

holomanga · 0 points · Posted at 21:50:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THAT MAKES THREE.

rachelraenoel · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same here.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:45:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Daeyus · 3 points · Posted at 10:07:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't listen to this guy. That comic scared the holy fuck out of me xD.

Camphikefishbike · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck that, I'm clicking them all. There's gold in them there hills!

Nataliyana · 0 points · Posted at 21:42:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are right to do so, I've clicked a few and I regret it very much.... the internet is a nasty, creepy place.

PurpleLego · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

thank you for doing what I could not!

NekoLuna · 37 points · Posted at 16:11:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once have read about this Internetstory where someone put a quiz in the internet where the answer would lead to a treasure which is hidden with a lot of money and nobody could have solved this quiz but one guy managed to get the answer but there wasn't a treasure at the location..but an another quiz. This would go for like 2-3 times with one quiz after another and this guy put the solutions to the quiz on youtube after he managed to solve it (sometimes it took him weeks) which you can see even nowadays (can't find it though) and how he traveled to the locations. So finally he managed to solve the last puzzle which lead to an open field (he posted the coordinations) and he put a mobileupload with him in a train and a showel to dig finally the treasure on youtube. The next day there was a text in a newspaper that some guy was killed in an open field...the coordinations even matched. After month of solving the puzzles to get the money he get killed by the Riddler.

tl;dr - A Guy solves a Puzzle on the internet, gets killed by the Riddler at the end

ps: if someone has the links to the story please link it.

wildcard1002 · 15 points · Posted at 17:07:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://vimeo.com/13780892

accidentaldouche · 3 points · Posted at 18:09:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

holy shit.

marianass · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

SPOILERS

the police says they found an unidentified body, yet they put a picture of say person still alive, how come?was that person carrying a pic of himself? or did the killer leave it at the scene?

ChuckECheese92 · 5 points · Posted at 19:26:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Al 1. That is a good one.

champ999 · 2 points · Posted at 05:22:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Confirmed Fake, still fun though

CockRagesOn · 3 points · Posted at 23:00:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a similar thing on 4Chan where the guy would leave parcels around for users to find. He'd then post photos of them that had been taken without being seen. It got a lot of attention to the point where groups of users would go to each location and nearly caught the guy once.

FreeDzhokhar · 2 points · Posted at 02:19:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Operation Falcon Punch

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where the hell is Batman when you need him?

scubadog2000 · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm just wondering, couldn't the police track the IP that was used to upload the video, locate it down to the nearby area and question the people around, if they recognise the face?

michaeljane · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Omg I saw this!

mightyneonfraa · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, actually, they found an unidentified body. No way of telling which one of them it actually is.

lordnibbler77 · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:34 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Looks like it was a video presentation:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-story

IKinectWithUrGF · 105 points · Posted at 14:33:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few days ago I was sitting on my couch just doing Facebook/reddit things. Now mind you, the day before I had already had 3 spider run-ins and 2 centipede sightings, and as an arachnophobic... Just freaking nope.

So I'm sitting at my computer and I see my cat waltz by. He jumps up to the back of the couch, like he always does, and sits himself down behind me. I don't really look back where because, well, reddit. Then I see some movement to my left.

"Don't worry" I think to myself "that's just my cat's tail swishing back and-

Meow.

My cat makes a cute adorable meow... to my right.

Whatever is moving to my left is not my cat.

I slowly horror-movie-reveal turn my head and look down, and there is a centipede about 3 inches long crawling its way across my chest. I start making "NNGGGHAAARghhaababaAAAAHHNOOONONONO" noises as this disgusting little critter crawls to the center of my chest, stops, looks up as if to indicate a speed dash TOWARDS MY FACE, and then continues across my chest. It then crawls under my armpit to my back.

WHERE I CAN'T SEE IT.

Thankfully I was wearing a dress shirt, which I literally ripped off and sacrificed to save myself, leaving it and the centipede on the couch. I haven't sat on that couch in about half a week, and I go around the living room when I can.

EDIT: TLDR Centipede crawled across a very distressed arachnophobic.

Starklet · 7 points · Posted at 15:34:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man if that were me, that thing would be across the room so fast it would probably catch on fire.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:23:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

because, well, reddit

That one line is capable of justifying any act. Well, almost any.

beta_crater · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Mr. President why did you press the button?!"

"Because, well, Reddit."

TaJMoX · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And your cat was there watching and laughing at your reaction the entire time. He could have easily taken care of the bug but he was having such a good time looking at you freak out. Cats are jerks.

IKinectWithUrGF · 2 points · Posted at 16:15:03 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

There has literally been spiders I've thrown the cat at where he just looks at it stupidly and leaves it alone.

My cat has some stories, to say the least T_T. He's really stupid.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:03:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a drop ceiling. Once, I was screwing around on my laptop and a centipede fell out of the ceiling onto my keyboard. I threw the laptop. Fortunately did not break it, as I'm a knitter and it landed in my project basket full of soft yarn. I get nervous every time I take something out of the basket now. I didn't see where that fucker went. I know it's waiting for me... somewhere.

n053b133d · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

3 words: Ortho. Home. Defense.

OwlsOnnaShip · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ughughugh house centipedes are the worst!

A few years back, my treadmill at home was in the basement. There were pipes above it, no big deal, until one day when I was literally about 2 seconds from stepping onto it for a run... a centipede falls from the pipes on to it. If I had been on it, it would have fallen on my head. I was horrified and moved the treadmill the next day.

imriebelow · 2 points · Posted at 03:55:54 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple years ago I picked up a roll of toilet paper, and a house centipede crawled over my hand. Ever since then, every time I have to replace toilet paper I shake it to make sure there's nothing lurking on it.

HotPink124 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

omg, i almost had heart failure just reading that. i get centipedes every summer and i freaking hate them. theyre demon spawn! ive even had ones on my bed! luckily not while i was in it. and luckily one has never touched me. nope nope nope

thebochman · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

dude you gotta clean your house

Mooshobi · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

gah, i cringed just reading that.

Punchayouface · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know a centipede is freaking huge when you confuse it with a cat's tail. Jesus tapdancing christ.

Hexates · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pesticide. Kill the little buggers before they get to you.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why are my legs so itchy now

Deadbreeze · 1 points · Posted at 10:02:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reading these comments, I guess I'm the only person in the world who imagined the centipede giving a "oh heyyyyy" when it looked you in the face and then continued across your chest.

IKinectWithUrGF · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Looking back on it I picture Kronk from Emperor's New Groove against the wall freezing and going "Bedaaaaaaaaayaaaaaaayaaaaaaaa..." and then continuing his James Bond-ery.

Except it was a F***ING CENTIPEDE.

sweetsweetm · 60 points · Posted at 16:04:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to my horseback riding teacher's sister, Nancy (I think her name was), when I was like 9. It didn't freak me out so much at the time, but my mom reminded me of the story a few years ago and it's so creepy. So Nancy went to the mall one day to run an errand- when she came out she had trouble finding her car bc 2 trucks had parked on either side of it obscuring the view. So she finally finds it and a well dressed man (wearing a long dress coat, leather gloves and holding a briefcase) comes up to her and asks for her help. His car broke down and he needs to get to meeting and was hoping Nancy could drop him off at the train or bus stop about a mile from the mall. Nancy says yes and they get into her car. As soon as the doors close she knows something is wrong. She starts sweating and internally freaking out. All she knows is that she wants him out of her car. She did some very quick thinking and asked him to help guide her our of her parking spot (since the trucks on either side of her made it hard to see the rest of the traffic in the parking lot). As soon as he got out she locked the doors and sped away. Once safely on the freeway Nancy starts to feel extremely guilty and wondering if she was just being paranoid. She looks to her passenger seat and sees the man's briefcase. Relieved that she has a way to track him down and apologize she pulls over and opens it. The briefcase is empty except for a roll of duck tape and rope.... This has kept me awake many nights over the past few years.

[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 15:06:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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sweetsweetm · 8 points · Posted at 22:57:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey! This makes me feel much better!! Thank you

Sylvanas_Windrunner · 27 points · Posted at 23:14:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing I personally had the misfortune to witness witness was a man in my bedroom that didn't belong there when I was a teenager. I woke up to him beside my bed, and he then went on to attempt to murder and rape me. That has left me with a lasting case of insomnia and serious issues about trusting empty houses to this day.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 23:52:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck

Trcymcgrdy1 · 2 points · Posted at 02:10:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

shit

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 09:22:05 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

How did you survive this? Do you remember the thoughts during the episode that made you believe in your ability to live......?

Sylvanas_Windrunner · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:26 on July 3, 2013 · (Permalink)*

How did you survive this? Do you remember the thoughts during the episode that made you believe in your ability to live......?

The only thoughts I really remember having during the entire thing were, "What is going on?" and "Oh my god, I'm going to die." Nothing else occurred to me. It wasn't that I believed in my ability to live, as it were, but more that my desire not to die was overwhelming in that moment.

I survived because I realized I was going to die if I didn't get him off of me, so I fought as hard as I could, and dislodged him. He panicked and fled when I started screaming.

nitnitwickywicky · 152 points · Posted at 14:02:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its 10pm, I'm lying in bed, I should not be in this thread.

pigsinabutt · 3 points · Posted at 05:07:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This. It's 1am and here I am.

sidthecoolkid · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

meh. it is the lady outside who should be on you worry list.

AlmightyB · 2 points · Posted at 18:54:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But you want to keep reading, don't you? Maybe you've turned away from this thread now, but the orange envelope is luring you back... there's even more stories. You want to keep reading...

Stumpledumpus · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, that rhymes!

MrBonkies · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

you're telling me!

Home_and_Away · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's like Hot Cheetos, you can't stop at just one. You keep reading in the hopes that the next story will squelch the terror of the one before it.

weeniedachsund · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

1am for me. I don't know why i do this to myself.

invisiblerain · 3 points · Posted at 15:56:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's noon here so I'm all good

ChickenBaconPoutine · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So you think.

It just hits you harder.

ChiefTyrol · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One am. Alone in my house (plus cat).

Should abandon.... Can't tear myself away...

ChickenBaconPoutine · 3 points · Posted at 16:16:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alone in my house

Are you, really?

Did you check everywhere, to make sure?

samino_acids · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahahaha you're a bad person.

t3hm3l · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Almost noon here. Still kicking myself for reading this.

IwillMakeYouMad · 0 points · Posted at 16:00:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is 11 am here I am scared. Lets be friends.

Tilted_Cartridge · 41 points · Posted at 13:38:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, so The first moon landing. There was a big chance that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong wouldnt be able to get back to the shuttle. William Safire prepared a speech in case of that event. Its rather chilling when you think about it. They would have been left on the moon to die. Either starve to death or commit suicide. No chance for rescue. http://watergate.info/1969/07/20/an-undelivered-nixon-speech.html

iamadogforreal · 4 points · Posted at 16:37:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Big chance? Come on. The mission was planned out pretty well and the only major snafu was navigation computer related.

I have no idea what the presumed odds were, but it wasn't a 50/50 chance. More like 90/10. Ignoring the on pad deaths of 3 astronauts during Apollo 1 during a test fire, Apollo has had zero fatalities in non-test missions. Only thing of note was Apollo 13 and its oxygen tank exploding but that led to an abort not deaths.

KatAttk · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's so creepy... It's like reading your own obituary while you're still alive.

pastel-forest · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:42 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a nice change of tune

marmadukeESQ · 0 points · Posted at 14:39:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Module. sorry. :P

Artemissimetra · 12 points · Posted at 15:11:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A guy that owns some cows on the levee of the Mississippi River told me a story of a wild woman he had seen back there. The cows normally don't let anyone get real close to them, but this guy would see her milking the cows that had newborns. She would run off when she saw his vehicle. It's creepy to think of "wild" people living in the woods with no other human contact

Kaytala · 13 points · Posted at 19:33:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my brother was little, he used to have an imaginary friend that he would play with. My parents didn't really think much of it until one day they realized that he hadn't talked or played with his imaginary friend for awhile so they asked him about him and he said that they weren't friends anymore and refused to say any more about it. My parents left it alone figuring he'd probably just grown out of it and that was his way of saying it. Not long after, my brother would get terrible night terrors. Something about the man in the black hat was coming to hurt him and me (I was really little at the time. My brother is older than me). My brother had described his imaginary friend as a man in a black hat. A few months after this started, my brother started getting terrible migraines. My dad's brother died of brain cancer at age 5 so my dad didn't want to take any risks with my brother and started bringing him to the doctor. He got all sorts of MRI's and CT scans and stuff but everything was normal and he eventually stopped getting both night terrors and migraines and nothing bad ever happened to me.

Fast forward a few years, we got a dog. My dog would frequently stand at the top of the stairs looking into my room, hackles raised and growling menacingly at apparently nothing. My mom distinctly remembers this happening on several occasions. It was around the same time appliances in our house would randomly turn on and off. The toilet would flush, the microwave would turn on, the radio wouldn't turn off, etc. It was also around this time that I developed sleeping problems that I've had ever since I was little. I don't remember this since I was still pretty little but my parents told me that I would wake up in the middle of the night and they would hear me crying so they would come to check on me and I would tell them there were people in my room. There was no one there. It got so bad an so frequent that my dad would sleep outside my bedroom in case there was someone coming into the house at night. The nights that he did that, I never woke up, but the dog would start barking in the middle of the night so he would check out the windows and check on the dog and never saw anyone outside or anything. Eventually, this stopped too and everything went back to normal again.

Fast forward again to my pre-teen years and my friend got a ouija board. We played around on it and decided to ask it if there was a ghost in my house. It said there was and his name was Christopher. We did the typical ask how he died and how old he was and what did he look like, etc. He was an older man and had died at home. He liked to wear a black hat. I hadn't told any of my friends about my brother's imaginary friend so that really freaked me out and I told my friend to take her ouija board out of my house and not bring it back ever. I later asked my parents about the man in the black hat and they also got pretty freaked out. Once again, the dog would bark at night and growl at nothing. I had nightmares for about a month straight after that but eventually everything went back to normal again.

Fast forward to shortly after I graduated high school. My parents had gone away on a trip to Peru and my brother had long since moved away from home. I was home with the dog for about 2 months by myself and my insomnia got really bad. I averaged about two hours of sleep per night for most of the time my parents were away. I started seeing things out of the corners of my eyes like little shadows that weren't there and what looked like demons or imps or something hiding in dark corners. I let my dog sleep in my room with me at night because it was freaking me out. Several times, my dog would wake up and stand at my door, hackles up, snarling at the door. I was too afraid to ever go and look on the other side of the door, but eventually, my dog would calm down and lie down again as though nothing had happened.

A few days before my parents got home, I was in the kitchen and noticed my dog was standing in the hallway looking like she was ready to attack something. She was snarling pretty ferociously so I picked up a big knife and walked into the hallway to see what was going on. There, standing at the end of the hallway, clear as I could see my dog, was an old man in a black top hat. I ran back into the kitchen, picked up the phone and called my best friend to come over. I went back into the hallway and the man was gone. My dog was calm as well so I put the knife away and hung out with my friend for awhile. When my parents got back, I started sleeping more normal hours and stopped having hallucinations. Nothing really strange has happened since then, but that was probably the creepiest thing I've ever experienced.

MsLippy · 5 points · Posted at 06:26:22 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

PROBABLY?! That was probably the creepiest thing you've experienced?!

That is creeptastic.

ihatetubas · 14 points · Posted at 01:15:34 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok so i made a throw away account because i only browse reddit and never comment, but I couldnt resist telling the story of my possessed brass instrument so here we go.

So i'm part of my school band, and I play an old rusty tuba which i get to keep at home for practice, i keep it in the corner of my room standing on its bell which is HUGE so its very stable. So one night im lying in my one mattress bunk bed trying to sleep when i hear this huge smash. Too scared to investigate I clamp my eyes shut and wait out the night, to scared to sleep. When i wake up I am shocked to see my tuba on its side, I also have an old wardrobe in my room which I always close the doors of before sleep because it creeps me out, the doors were wide open.

The very next night i'm alone in the house (for sure) and i'm in my room studying. I hear someone downstairs call me name, i did not just mistaken, I properly felt it like someone really wanted to speak to me. So forgetting i was alone I rush down stairs to see what up. Not a soul about but as i began walking up the stair i heard another crash in my room. fuck. Bursting into my room knife in hand, heart in mouth i come upon my tuba on the floor and the wardrobe doors swinging.

This was the last i ever encountered of my encounter with instrumental terror but still to this day I knot my wardrobe doors together with string and tuba on its side. I also never played it again because I have one at school and one at home. Sorry if the story was to long as well.

subarujump · 12 points · Posted at 00:41:22 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

My story pales in comparison to many of the posts here, but on the other hand I'm thankful I haven't had too many scary or creepy things happen to me.

Near my old house is the abandoned parking lot of a golf course that was closed in the early 90s. It's a secluded parking lot and of course that is a magnet for teenagers getting into all sorts of mischief.

One night in my early 20s, some friends and I were reminiscing about the place and decided to hop in my car and go for a late night visit, maybe scare some kids who were making out in their parents car or something like that. We got there and aside from the lot being in even worse shape than it had been in my own teens, it wasn't much different. There was also trash laying everywhere, so perhaps people were now using it as a dumping ground.

After a few minutes of more laughs about the good old days, we decided to leave. Among all the trash there was a larger than usual pile of it located near the center of the lot, and being young and stupid I thought it would be funny to get a bit of speed and drive my car through the trash pile before we left. I rolled the car into position and just before I moved my foot to the accelerator I was overcome with a really weird feeling and switched on my fog lights instead.

At that moment, a very disheveled looking man raised his head out of the trash pile and looked at us. From the look of him he was probably sleeping off a large quantity of booze, but aside from looking like a hobo there wasn't anything out of the ordinary about him. Still, his appearance was so abrupt and unexpected that we all started screaming and I turned around and drove out of there as fast as I could.

It wasn't until about a mile down the road that I realized how close I had come to running over and likely killing someone. Still haunts me to this day how I got that weird feeling and what would have happened if I hadn't heeded it.

tl;dr: Almost ran over a bum who was sleeping, concealed in a pile of trash.

schola99 · 13 points · Posted at 04:46:12 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

Made an account strictly to post in this thread. Bear with me as this will take some set up. This was in 2008 in Wisconsin. Me and a few friends were driving up north to stay at a buddy's cabin for Memorial day weekend, about a four hour drive from Milwaukee to Merrill. We left the city late because one of my friends coming with had to stay late for a rugby game, meaning we didn't actually get on the road until 10 p.m.

It's a fairly relaxing drive, not a lot to look at - mostly through farmland on four lane highways. I'd done this trip a few times but never at night and with the lack of city or highway lights it's essentially pitch black the whole way aside from the occasional light from car traffic, which was few and far between.

So, we're about three hours into the drive (about 1 a.m.) and me and my friends are keeping busy reading signs on the side of the highway because that's all there really is to look at. Then one of my friends reads one aloud that says "watch for school buses." Almost immediately about four car lanes in front of me, two red brake lights pop up out of the dark and we see a school bus completely surrounded by fog.

So now the whole car of guys is screaming. I have one friend telling me to pull off the highway, one saying drive past it and another saying slow down. I opted to try to pass it as my friend wanted to take some pictures. This proved to be difficult as the bus was going a generous 85 mph on a 65. After we finally got ahead of it, the bus drifted back into the dark and we couldn't see it again. Later looked up to see if there were any bus crashes on that stretch of highway (highway 29) and didn't turn anything up, but did find that it was nicknamed Bloody 29 because of all the awful wrecks that have happened since it was built. Could maybe be easily explainable as the photos don't really look all that paranormal but it's truly one of the scariest things that has happened to me. Here are the pics we got:

http://share.pho.to/2VwGA

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:45:26 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thats pretty fuckin creepy for me considering I live near there!

SpellthiefLux · 14 points · Posted at 04:46:59 on July 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing to happen to me? This was back in the late nineties, when I was still living in the Philippines. Well, when I was around four or five, my uncle brought me a little porcelain jester doll he had found from a flea market overseas. I forgot what I named him. His face was painted to look like a jester's, with a white face and red streaks of paint running from atop his eyebrows down to his cheeks. I had a strange affinity to the doll and would constantly bring it up to my room because I considered it a pretty toy or something. However, each time that doll entered my room, I would come down with a fever or some other sickness, so my mom told me never to bring it in my room anymore (she's very superstitious). Somehow, the doll kept appearing in my room without anyone bringing it up there, but my mom wouldn't believe me. Who would believe a five year old girl, anyway? The last straw was when the doll popped up in my room yet again, and I got a bad case of the measles. My mother ended up burning it and burying it near a mango tree in our yard. Since then, we moved to the US and up to now, I still have no idea if that cursed doll is buried in our old yard.

Blacky31 · 67 points · Posted at 13:41:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Certainly one of the creepiest in my opinion is this recording of the last known castrato singing.

Very eerie

85FurnaceFuneral93 · 11 points · Posted at 16:06:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Get that scary ass shit out of here.

MsAnnThrope · 6 points · Posted at 17:41:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it weird that I don't find that creepy at all?

Onironaute · 2 points · Posted at 17:52:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nah, didn't find that creepy at all in and by itself.

MsAnnThrope · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay, good. :)

AndThenSex · 7 points · Posted at 15:54:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am with you on that. I remember hearing it when I was watching an episode of QI and they started going on about it. The crackling of the audio got me a bit too, that and just how unnatural it sounded. Then you start thinking about the poor kid and how it happened. His parents probably told him that he was just going to get a haircut...

EtsuRah · 2 points · Posted at 18:02:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What? I can't find anything about a person. All that comes up is a wiki about castrato being a rare singing voice.

Can I get a backstory?

cjwakef · 18 points · Posted at 18:07:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Castrato were young boys who had their genitalia removed so they would not produce male hormones and their voices wouldn't grow deep over time. There were choirs of these boys in the 18th century called Castrati. They had a very prevalent role in Operas. Very creepy.

Darkencypher · 2 points · Posted at 02:37:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Things like that are very creepy. I think it's the bad quality.

XxKansasBoyxX · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:15 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

that song will haunt my dreams... fuck...

Blacky31 · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:03 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dreams? I'm never sleeping again

rachel_soup · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:58 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

DAMMIT

AnalogPen · -1 points · Posted at 23:40:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He looked like Chastity Bono.

dcpohe48 · 38 points · Posted at 18:48:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The dad of a friend told me this story:

He and his cousin were 8 or 7 years old, they were walking through the woods near their house when they saw a dwarf walking around he describe "just like the ones in snowhite, whit their hats and clothe" he kept satring at them and for some reason they though it was a good idea to throw rocks at him, but he started to run just to stop again and stare at them again, everytime they got closer to range the dwarf laughed at them and ran further, they kept doing that for some time until the dwarf got through a river and stood on the other side of it, that time the dwarf kept making a sign with his hand and saying "vengan, vengan (its spanish for: come here, come here)" they kept throwing rocks but he was out of reach, it was getting late and they were tired so decided to go back home and the dwarf just ran into the forest on the other side of the river. When they got home they told the story to their grandmother who started to yell at them the reason the grandmother was so hysterical was beacuse that river was well known beacuse a lot of kids had died there.

A few years later an aunt of him were walking along with them when suddenly she just driffted away and started to walk into the woods, his mother started talking to her but she didnt respond until she catch up with her and shook her and asked her what was wrong with her and she replied "beacuse that little man was calling me, didnt you see him? it was so funny looking and he kept calling me" his mother just called her crazy and kept walking.

(english is not my first lenguage so excuse me if i have some mistakes)

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:49:28 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ay caramba!

Dave-C · 11 points · Posted at 14:36:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in the 2nd grade, it was near the end of the year. Many of the teachers where inside the school for a going away party for the students while a few remained outside to watch the kids that wanted to play. I was a little young to remember this completely but I guess some of the teachers didn't feel like standing around to watch children play. This left a large area outside of the school with no one watching it.

I came outside and was walking in that direction and rounded a corner(not knowing there was no teachers). Somehow a rock fight (imagine a food fight with rocks) broke out. It was ending around the same time that I was rounding the corner and I watched as a child ran past me with the side of its skull missing. Blood and bits of matter was on the ground. The child ran around the corner that I just passed and I could hear the teachers start to yell.

Maybe not the worst thing to see but it really haunted me. Btw, the kid lived and is still doing fine. (big metal plate and some skin graphing.

MsLippy · 3 points · Posted at 03:18:49 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have been reading every single post in this thread, it's fascinating me! Your story struck a nerve because the same scenario happened to me as a child! I came around a corner (fence or brick wall) and there were kids throwing rocks and a little boy almost ran me over screaming and running with his hand over a gaping hole in his head. Terrified me. Pennsylvania?

Dave-C · 2 points · Posted at 05:33:03 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope, Virginia

YouGladBro · 12 points · Posted at 14:38:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember watching the beginning of an X-Files episode when I was probably just a little bit too young for it. It kicked off by showing this group of young kids (my age or a touch younger) in a playground during recess when a swarm of bees descended on everything. Everybody but one kid had managed to run inside (where, miraculously, no bees decided to follow). This kid had succumbed to the stinging swarm and fallen to the ground trying to ward them off. Everyone, now inside, watched in horror and made no move to help.

That was the first time I found out that people don't have an innate desire to help someone who's suffering when they themselves will be put at risk. And for my tiny little self, it scared me to know that I had already been living in that world and always would be.

mightyneonfraa · 6 points · Posted at 05:05:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember that episode and it wasn't a kid who was stuck outside. It was the teacher, who only failed to escape because she ran back and saved the kid who did get left behind.

paradoxikal · 11 points · Posted at 17:37:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been reading these entries for hours before realizing I had a creepy story of my own! I can't remember if I've shared it on reddit before or not, but here goes.

This takes place in the house I lived in from the time I was 3 months old up until I was 15/16. It was a two-bedroom home built in the early 1900's, but my parents had remodeled and made it all nice. I shared a tiny bedroom with my younger sister. I had a tendency in this house to wake up every single night at random, in the middle of the night. I have no idea why. I also always felt like someone was there with me...I'd have to peek out of the shower curtain every so often while I was showering because I felt like I wasn't alone.

I think I was 11 or 12 when this particular incident occurred. I had woken up in the middle of the night as usual, and laid in my top bunk waiting to go back to sleep. I happened to look over towards the closet and saw a figure standing there. I used to describe the figure as a 'monk' because it was tall, thin and seemed to be wearing a dark cloak that covered its whole body. I realize now that I am older that what I saw could've possibly been better described as a shadow figure. It stood about 3 feet away, and raised an arm to point towards the single bedroom window. It repeated this motion a few times, and then fled through the open door into the living room, where my mom was sleeping. I went back to sleep and didn't think much of it.

The next night, the same exact scenario happened. Except this time, the figure ran through the closed bedroom door. I never saw it again other than those two nights in a row.

Other things that used to happen in the house...our computer was in the basement, and the basement door would shut and lock very easily so I often would find myself locked down there accidentally. On one such occasion, I went up the stairs and found the door locked, so I waited patiently on the landing for someone to open the door. As I waited, I heard footsteps approaching from the bottom of the basement stairs. No one was down there but me, and I couldn't see anybody.

Tons of stories from that house.

Before we moved to the house we're in now, we found out from a family acquaintance that his aunt and uncle used to live in our house, and his uncle had died in the living room. Not sure if that's relevant to the figure I had seen, but still an eerie coincidence anyway.

EDIT: It's worth mentioning that since we moved out of that house, I never feel like I'm being watched and I never wake up in the middle of the night anymore. I also never have experienced any unusual occurrences since moving from that other house.

KrazyFUBAR · 13 points · Posted at 21:36:32 on July 25, 2013 · (Permalink)

I took my now ex-girlfriend to the lake with a bunch of other friends for the weekend. We spent the day cliff diving, barbecuing, just dicking around. We left for the lake Friday morning pretty early, the drive was about 4 hours away (Texas). This was my first time to visit this lake and I wasn't aware it was in the middle of absolute nowhere.

The lake is surrounded with camp area. On one side of the lake has no electricity (no lights and pretty much outhouses). We decided to stay on that side.

The sun went down and later that night 2 of my friends decided they wanted to have sex in their tent. Me and my girlfriend leave and walk to the other side of the lake. She had to use the restroom. The restrooms on this side of the lake were lighted and had actual stalls and sinks.

I kept thinking it looked scary as hell. The walls were faded white brick that looked as if it was melting and the only light came from the flickering florescent light from the women's bathroom (men's bathroom was on the other side of the little square building).

It was dark and quiet so I peered in to make sure it was empty. It was. At least that's what I thought.

As soon as she crosses into the bathroom she comes right back out saying she heard something inside. She backs out and I bend over to look under the walls of the stalls.

First thing I see is a pair of huge muddy men's work boots. Now normally I wouldn't think much about it, maybe the men's bathroom wasn't working, but the boots were facing the wrong way and beside the toilet instead of in front of it. At that moment whoever was in there slammed the stall door open screaming in tongues or some shit. I never saw him and I've never run so fast.

rustlecrowe · 188 points · Posted at 13:12:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment

CyborgWalrus · 281 points · Posted at 13:51:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The beginning is ok but once it gets to the part about "you go to sleep to keep us from coming out" shit the story hops onto an express train to absurdville.

[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 14:35:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepypastas always do that. I have never found one that uses a consistent level of creepy.

JaneAnger · 2 points · Posted at 21:41:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What about the cabin in the woods?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:45:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The movie?

JaneAnger · 2 points · Posted at 22:04:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope! For all I know, that's not the actual name, it was just a wee creepypasta about a guy who spends the night in a cabin in the woods. Not the creepiest, maybe, but I like that it isn't too over the top.

tolan77 · 5 points · Posted at 15:23:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Wake_Up One that doesn't.

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 15:44:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your right. That one started at banal and went straight to boring.

MisterDonkey · 6 points · Posted at 15:48:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have a kindergartner write that down and hand it in to their teacher.

General_GTFO · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

See, this one would be more chilling if it was a coma instead of being raped. Inescapable coma dream where everything is created by your brain and you would want to wake up. In the rape situation, why would you want to wake up? You're being raped out there, but you're not in here.

mightyneonfraa · 2 points · Posted at 03:50:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seriously. I remember reading that and thinking to myself "Fuck that. The real world sounds like it sucks balls, I'm staying here."

cosmicsans · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.creepypasta.com/psychosis/ Another one which is also, by far, my favorite.

lacrimaeveneris · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Long, but that is an AMAZING one.

zyax · 13 points · Posted at 15:46:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The whole story was over the top. Four mutilated human bodies manage to kill 6 special op soldiers and one rips through a leather strap + 200 pound weight.

The premise had potential but the delivery lacked.

brianbrianbrian · 6 points · Posted at 17:05:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my favorites that isn't really believable is when a kid is woken up by his parents being murdered, and then a malformed man-beast drags their corpses into the room. The kid stays under his blanket while the man-beast wipes blood on the wall, then climbs under the kid's bed.

He peeks out from the blanket and the blood was used to write "I KNOW YOU'RE NOT SLEEPING" on the wall.

Windows_97 · 5 points · Posted at 17:49:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok so just as I was reading the "I KNOW YOU'RE NOT SLEEPING" part, my laptop decides to scare the shit out of me even more. That alert "ping" was so well timed. God dammit.

RequiemEternal · 132 points · Posted at 13:59:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one is good right up until the ending. It's the same old creepypasta cop-out monologue.

q8p · 24 points · Posted at 15:04:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep. The ending is so...lame compared to the rest of it. I wish it has been something more ambiguous, like:

"WHAT ARE YOU?" he demanded. "I must know!"

The subject smiled.

"I'm awake."

END

Onironaute · 5 points · Posted at 17:59:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oohh, I really like that. Much better than the original.

mightyneonfraa · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Proof that less is always, always always more in horror. I've never read a horror story that could have benefited from being a little less subtle.

amazing_rando · 3 points · Posted at 16:42:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel like creepypastas are all written by people who learned to write by reading them, so they all tend to be similar in their mediocrity.

StrawberryJam4 · 2 points · Posted at 15:13:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's the same as that abandoned by Disney one. It had potential but AS USUAL the last part of it just got incredibly stupid. It ruined the entire story for me

Karbear_debonair · 45 points · Posted at 13:38:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was a fun read.

ChromiumSulfate · 5 points · Posted at 15:42:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So they said that there were five subjects, right? One was clearly dead upon entering the chamber, leaving four. One supposedly died in the struggle after his spleen was ruptured. One died in surgery. That leaves 2, not 3.

Carthradge · 3 points · Posted at 17:32:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually, they seem to make mistakes like that several times (at least 3-4). As I read and came upon them, I kept going back like, wait didn't X die, how are there Y left? It's just wrong.

aarace · 5 points · Posted at 15:12:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a fictional short-story, so not real...but creepy none the less.

jgrizwald · 6 points · Posted at 15:59:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lost it when the physiology would not permit them to be able to breath, let alone talk, with outside pressure within the pleural cavity. That's too bad.

TheKiltedStranger · 21 points · Posted at 13:49:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just had an actual physical reaction to that.

My heart started pounding in my chest, I got really dizzy, and I began to hear static. I eventually stopped.

Creepiest friggin' read ever.

ChaplinStrait · 8 points · Posted at 15:53:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awww you must be new.

TheKiltedStranger · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I certainly don't think so; I feel as though I've earned my Internaut status... but this makes me rethink some things.

ChaplinStrait · 3 points · Posted at 17:31:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess it just wasn't very scary for me when I first read it ages ago.

crazyheckman · 4 points · Posted at 15:43:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's the creepy pasta website. White text on a black background makes your senses go crazy if you stare at it too long. I hate when people do that shit.

bolaxao · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah after reading white backround on black text you see slightly white lines everywhere you look for a while

michaeljane · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Really? I read reddit on my phone in a pitch black background and white text. Never noticed any abnormalities.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:04:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

First time on that website? Last year I went on a "Creepy pasta binge" And read most of the stories on it... Some of them are REALLY, good, like BEN and The Russian Sleep Experiment, others suck. Smiledog is the one that really fucked me up for awhile, I couldn't sleep for a good week because of that one. And the night I did sleep... FUCKING SLEEP PARALYSIS, GUESS WHO WAS HOVERING OVER ME? JEFF THE KILLER.... FUCK THAT SHIT.

TheKiltedStranger · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry bro.

I've been there before, mostly for the Pokémon Creepy Pastas, but none of them were anywhere near that gruesome.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Pokemon ones are usually good. but stay away from Smile dog... pass it on.

TheKiltedStranger · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Will do.

noholds · 7 points · Posted at 15:28:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Read that one a long time ago. Scared me back then. But now, just a few sentences in is this:

The researchers postulated that he had physically torn his vocal cords.

Anyone with a decent amount of knowledge in human physiology would know that vocal cords are not actually cords and therefore cannot actually "rip". Even in Soviet Russia, Physicians would know that.

edit: spelling

BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a good read but it's riddled w inconsistencies. Google the small things.

Carthradge · 3 points · Posted at 17:31:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That story is FULL of inaccuracies to the number of subjects left. I counted at least 3-4 cases when he mentioned two, or three, etc patients left, when the number was different. Too poorly written to be admired.

ChromiumSulfate noticed this too.

PinkWalruZ · 2 points · Posted at 14:42:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit, that was creepy

CursedJonas · 2 points · Posted at 14:50:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is my favourite fictional short story of all time (In written form, that is) It is so creepy!

kryonik · 2 points · Posted at 18:06:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the Pirate Cove one is more disturbing.

heavymetalandtea · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html

Random_Ass_Guy · 2 points · Posted at 20:19:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Beat me to it.

Slayer5227 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it bad that the story really didn't freak me out?

RadicalParticle · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reavers.

Hexates · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I liked it the first time I read it. Now I just find it mildly entetaining as a work of fiction.

connortheasian · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have never prayed for source documents/ reference pages as much as I did reading this...... Luckily there aren't any.

Monktushu5 · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would play the shit out of this if it was a horror game. Except the ending needs to be changed.

iamglory · 1 points · Posted at 14:28:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is absolutely my favorite!!!!

Melody_finder · -2 points · Posted at 15:51:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit, this scared the crap out of me. Is this a reliable source?

Carthradge · 3 points · Posted at 17:33:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

not at all... the story is also full of holes as to the number of people alive at any point (I think 7 patients died in total out of 5 initial...)

BashfulTurtle · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reliably fake

tedwin223 · 33 points · Posted at 15:24:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest moment of my life was after the first plane hit the north tower on 9/11 before we knew it was terrorism. I was afraid it was my dad because We (my family) thought he was flying a private jet from Boston to New York for business. But to our relief his secertary informed us that he was flying American Airlines that day. It was a wave of relief...until we were informed that they were both American Airline planes after the second plane hit. To make matters worse my dad's phone did not connect because it was off while he was in the airport. We waited for what felt like an hour and half watching the towers and everything that went on that day until my Dad called my mom and asked what was going on. My Mom told him through a flurry of relieved tears what had happened, because he didn't know! He dropped his shit and ran to a HERTZ car rental and said something along the lines of "i'm renting this car and it's going all the way to Ohio. I have to go to my family." And apparently the car rental guy just looked at him and said "just give me a contact number so we can bill you for carrying it across a few states." Apparently that's not allowed? Anyway, my dad drove all day and night from boston to cincinatti. It was the scariest day of 5 year old me's life. I fucking love my Dad.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 19:32:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Another great 9-11 story: My dad and sister were supposed to fly that day from California to NH. She was leaving her abusive husband, and my dad had gone out to help her get her stuff out and get her away safely.

Of course, all flights were grounded. My dad rented a car instead and the two of them spent 3 days driving across the country.

When they got to the car rental return place on the east coast, my dad went to pay. The guy behind the counter kind of looked at him funny when he saw how far they'd driven, and my dad briefly explained.

The guy just stared at him for a moment, did a few things on the computer, and handed my dad the bill: $0.00. All he would say was "God bless America." He had waived almost a thousand dollars in fees.

Made a very bad week a lot better.

sat52 · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:45 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

that's a great story!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:22:11 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can still remember almost everything about that day. My dad is in the military and I remember coming home from school (I was in high school) and there being this solumn quiet hanging over the house. My dad didn't speak at dinner. He had his government-issued Blackberry sitting next to his plate, which he never had his phone at the table. It kept buzzing and he would check it, and not say a word.

A couple weeks later, we came home one day and he was gone. We got a call later from his commander that said he was deployed, we could not be given his location or his return date, and the base would try to keep us informed.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

As someone who regularly freaks herself out when her boyfriend takes too long to text back, I cannot IMAGINE this kind of waiting. I'm glad he was okay.

JMFargo · 24 points · Posted at 23:42:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my early teen years I had a party and my friends stayed the night. We decided that we would do "Bloody Mary" but with two people at a time for two reasons:

a) We were all pussies.

b) We all figured that some of us would lie if we went in alone. This way we had confirmation from two people, not just one.

John and I stepped into the bathroom and recited slowly over the candle that was held between us and the large mirror.

"Blood Mary."

"Bloody Mary."

We waited, watching the mirror, looking around the edges of our own reflections for any hint of movement or a brutal murder about to happen to the two of us. Disappointment set in and I shrugged, looking at my own reflection.

It was smiling. I wasn't.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:49:12 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bull. Shit.

JMFargo · 6 points · Posted at 18:23:48 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Heh. I would say the same thing so I don't mind if nobody believes it.

It's entirely possible that my brain made it up in the heat of the moment. My buddy, John, later refused to ever talk about it. He wouldn't confirm or deny anything and eventually would say that he was never at that party.

MsLippy · 1 points · Posted at 06:57:49 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ahhhh! You're so mean! That's not true, right?

JMFargo · 3 points · Posted at 14:39:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

100% true but I'm okay with folks not believing it, so just pretend that I responded that it was all a big lie.

MsLippy · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:06 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Soooo scary. I hoped you were taking the piss.

itsnormal4us · 1 points · Posted at 09:29:50 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do it again!

Jagaloon91 · 23 points · Posted at 19:09:15 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my parents were younger they stayed in a family friends house in Baltimore for a few days while visiting some friends. When they got to the house the power was off so my dad had to go into the basement and turn on the power. The basement was unfinished and gave him a weird vibe so after he turned the power on he went upstairs and locked the basement door. Throughout their stay creepy things kept happening to them like the window shades would roll up on their own, they would receive phone calls with faint noises on the other end but no voices, and noises coming from the basement. My mom wanted to leave early because she was scared but my dad said it was just and old house so a lot of the stuff was falling apart and making noises. The house also had a long hallway leading to the room they were staying with at the end. One night my mom had a dream that they was a tall man at the end of the hallway standing there scraping the wall with a knife. When she came out of the room the man charged her and when he got close to her she woke up. She woke up sweating and scared shitless. She woke my dad up and made him pack their stuff up and left. My dad had to go back into the basement to turn on the power but the lightbulb at the bottom of the steps burnt out so he grabbed a flashlight. He went down the steps turned off the power and turned around to leave. When he was about 10 feet from the steps the flashlight bulb exploded and shattered the glass. He stumbled through the dark, ran up the steps and left. While they were driving home my mom explained the dream she had to my dad and why she wanted to leave so badly. My dad freaked out because he had the same dream the night before.

[deleted] · 42 points · Posted at 15:33:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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divdan · 3 points · Posted at 19:06:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't feel like sleeping tonight anyways.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:41:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ear plugs, my friend. But then again, there's always your nose.

divdan · 6 points · Posted at 19:51:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Only an insanely evil person would say that.

cosmicsans · 4 points · Posted at 01:25:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU EAT ABOUT 7 SPIDERS A YEAR IN YOUR SLEEP.

divdan · 2 points · Posted at 01:55:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I now understand the term "Ignorance is bliss"

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:19:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

and peaced out

I feel like you two might have been bros in another life or something

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

Show-Me-Your-Moves · 2 points · Posted at 23:57:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spiderbro

JejuneMondegreen · 2 points · Posted at 01:42:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

AH FUCKING FUCK FUCKTITS.

olliepots · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend in college had to go to the ER after having a cockroach crawl down his ear canal. Still gives me the shivers.

Deadbreeze · 1 points · Posted at 10:09:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Spiderbro saw an earwig dip in there and said "not with one of my bros you little punk!" Bit him, sucked out his juices, high legged (spiderbro high five) your finger when you stuck it in your ear, then peaced out and left that carcass rotting in your ear canal as a little joke. Oh, spiderbro. You so crazy.

Morning-Star · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:40 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is the worst one I've read on this /r/AskReddit, and I've read over 200 of them.

PrayForTheTroops · 11 points · Posted at 16:11:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once woke up in the middle of the night to what sounded like an intruder tripping and falling in my bedroom bathroom. I ran to the kitchen and got a knife, I saw my doors were still locked. I ran back and tried to open the bathroom door slowly and immediately there was some pushback...like somebody was trying really hard to keep it closed. I tried again and I could barely open it an inch before it was pushing towards me more...as if the intruder was leaning against the other side of the door. Fortunately, it was just the shower curtain that had fell and become jammed in between the door and the shower...I was still freaked out trying to figure out how to get in the bathroom because I didn't know why it happened.

Saganic · 10 points · Posted at 17:14:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to work at a restaurant, late night Janitor shifts. I would start 2am and get off around 6am. One night I had finished up early, so like usual, I poured a draft beer (the job had it's perks) and went to take a nap in one of the booths. The booth had a window, so you could see the empty parking lot of the neighbouring business. I finished my beer and dozed off. Shortly thereafter, I jumped up, startled from a loud screeching noise. I look outside, and see a shiny black van screech to a halt. The back doors open, 4 guys step out... I shit you not, wearing black suits and ties, like a scene from men in black. The driver stepped out and seemed to stand guard by the back doors of the van. Two of the suits walked around the front of the restaurant, the others went around back. I felt they were surrounding me, I was literally freaking out, I had no idea what to make of it, I remember feeling really confused. I grabbed a giant kitchen knife, and hid in a different booth with a better view, trying to catch a glimpse of what they were doing. I could only see two of them, they just seemed to be looking around intently, like they were searching for something. Then, I shit you not, the guy back at the van started making weird birds calls or some shit... the four suits came running, jumped in the back of the van, and sped off. It was so fucking weird. I"ll never know who these men were, or what they were doing.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

you drink beer before six in the morning and sleep in a restaurant booth and still are the least creepy person in the story

jokersblow · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably casing the place... In some really weird, over dressed manner.

Saganic · 5 points · Posted at 17:50:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe it was a scene for an indie movie, and I just didn't see the camera man! No clue, but they were casing. When doubt.... aliens!

reticentbias · 13 points · Posted at 18:45:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably too late to see much exposure in this thread, but I thought I'd share. I went to Vegas for my 21st birthday with my best friend, and when we landed in Vegas, we both had to piss bad. We'd been drinking the entire day (in the previous airport and on our plane flight, first class seats!) so we had to go BAD.

We made a mad dash to the bathroom and stopped at the 2 closest open urinals. Big mistake. Next to the one I stopped at, there was a short, stocky mexican gentlemen standing very close to me with both hands on his junk. I could tell this from the periphery of my vision without even turning my eyes. It gave me the heebiest of the jeebies for some reason, and THEN, this motherfucker finishes, shakes his shit a couple times, and ruins my life forever. He turned toward me with his junk out, still cradling it in both hands as though it were the most important sausage in the meat shop, he began to shake it at me violently. He shook and shook and shook. I don't know if he was crazy, and he was trying to spray me with urine droplets, or if he was crazy, and he was just having a one man all hands on deck beat off session right in front of an audience.

I stumbled over to the sink and splashed water in my face, unable to believe what had just happened to me. I will never forget that man's junk, nor his face as he grunted angrily and furiously whipped it toward me repeatedly until I stumbled away, defeated.

xXXTGPxXX · 2 points · Posted at 04:57:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sorry, this was less horrifying but more comical. That fine gentleman was simply being alpha as fuck.

uhuhshesaid · 10 points · Posted at 20:37:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some back story is necessary here: I live in Kampala, Uganda. Despite being E. Africa it actually has a reputation for being fairly safe. People walk on streets at night, in well lit areas with very few problems. There is good social control and if someone steals your purse or harasses you, generally you can yell and scream and some shop owner will pop out and tackle them. One time a police officer was just nearby when a man tried to snatch my purse, and I had to ask the officer to stop beating him. Thieves caught in the act are a big deal here.

So one night my boyfriend and I are having some drinks at a nearby bar. We decide that it's a beautiful evening and to take the 15 minute walk home. Everything is normal and fine until we turn onto a main street near our home. Now, this being Uganda, the norm is for there to be a main paved street and then the dirt side roads. The side roads are where most homes, including ours, was --we've since moved to a main road. Dirt roads are not well lit, but we hadn't heard of any crimes at all in the neighbourhood (and word spreads fast here) so we felt reasonably safe.

As we are nearing our turn off from the main road a boda man drives by (bodas are basically motorcycle taxis) and he says, '"Careful it's...." and then as he is driving away, we miss what he's saying. As we get closer we see a mob of bodas come up about 100 ft behind us and we can clearly hear the word 'police' more than once. They quickly zoom off.

I'm fucking freaked out. My boyfriend has spent more time around these parts, and seemed fairly blasé. He had gotten too comfortable. He seemed completely unworried walking and joking and sometimes stopping to hug me. I'm in full fucking nope mood and pushing him off me and walking quickly to where our compound is. My safety trumps his feelings. We had a guard there and I knew I'd feel safe inside the gates.

Shit is dead quiet on these side roads (rare) and alarms are going off in my head. We get to the fence, I already have my keys out (oblivious boyfriend is still digging for his) and get inside as quickly as possible.

Turns out, one of our neighbours and friends, Lawrence, had been out walking around the same exact time and was horribly beaten by two men. His neck was so swollen it looked like he had a goiter and he had cuts and scrapes all over him. They even tried to cut off his leg with a machete. Luckily they came down on his leg with the wrong side of the weapon and caused fairly shallow cut. These events caused a huge stir in the area because these crimes were actually extremely rare in the area.

Lawrence heals. Meanwhile these crimes continue. One Ugandan girl gets beaten to a bloody pulp in front of a primary school. Multiple sightings show they are 2 guys on unregistered bodas. They go around with pangas robbing anyone and everyone. White, Ugandan, Indian, they don't care. One of my friend gets held up by the 2 men...they just stole her bag. Another friend wasn't so lucky and she was sexually assaulted. Another boda drive was also attacked, but the only thing we found of him was some blood and pieces of his motorcycle. Fucking awful shit.

These crimes are still happening in my area and the police are doing jack shit. Hard to make the police do anything here. But the other night I was home alone as my boyfriend was on a business trip. We moved to a more well lit area on a main road and hadn't gotten a guard yet. Just two amazing dogs.

Around 2am he wakes me up calling to say goodnight. As we're chatting I hear some bodas pull up to my (now) guard-less gate. I get off the phone and get very quiet, turning off everything in my house. My 2 dogs start going crazy. The girl dog is a barker when stray dogs go by our gate, but she is growling and absolutely losing her shit. I'd never heard her like that before. I grab my own machete and thank god every window in my house has bars on it. I position myself at a vantage point and wait.

Besides the dog, nothing was moving. Then I see my dogs go tearing off across the compound. A few moments later I hear the bodas rev back up and drive away down the street. I stayed up until it was light that night. Nothing has happened lately, but I do love my fucking guard dogs. Also my new guard.

TL;DR: I live in a now-dangerous area of the city and I think my 2 dogs saved my ass.

hereticjones · 11 points · Posted at 22:29:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Growing up in Albuquerque, I used to walk to elementary school every day with some friends along the same route. Along this route was a vacant lot behind some houses. It had some tall trees along one end and an arroyo (a dirt irrigation ditch) along the other.

We'd often cut across this lot to shorten our route. There was always trash and sometimes larger items dumped here; old washing machines and the like. An old weight bench, that sort of thing. One day we found an old couch and we stood it up so we could sit on it. From then on we'd stop at The Couch and hang out for a bit on the way home. We'd shoot the shit and share some snacks if we had any left over from lunch. One time a friend of mine tried a half cigarette he found. He coughed and said it tasted terrible (no shit, right?).

Eventually we'd drag other shit over and started making a dirt lot living room to hang out in.

One morning I was a bit late and had to run to catch up to my friends. I'm chasing them down and see them cut into the lot (we had to cut through the trees and go under a tumble-down chainlink fence). As I came into the lot I look ahead and I see my friends standing around where The Couch is.

They're not passing it or sitting on it waiting for me like I thought they might be, just standing around it. I can't see the couch.

I run up to them, wondering what the fuss is about when WHAM!

The smell hits me in the mouth and I just pull up short, standing there with my brain kinda vapor locked, not knowing what to do. Just like my friends were; "gobsmacked" I think is the term.

Our couch was gone, and instead there was a blackened circle and the charred remains of the couch. On said charred remains were the burnt to a crisp remains of a person.

One arm was sticking up, the wrist curled back, the fingers flexed into a claw-like hook. All the hair was burned off and there was some melted... stuff all around it. Synthetic clothes and probably body fat, looking back, probably. The jaw was wholly exposed, and open impossibly wide.

One of my friends suddenly blarfed down the front of his shirt, and we all burst into tears and ran off to our respective homes.

We never cut across that lot again. We never talked about it, and I never asked what the aftermath was. I know our parents all called the police, but that's it.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

allergictoyourcat · 1 points · Posted at 06:54:26 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a previous resident of Albuquerque. I'd like a source. Larry Barker investigates.

chumia40 · 11 points · Posted at 23:01:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So this one time, I got home at night, but before my roommate. I watched tv for a bit and went to sleep.

My room is down the hallway and to the left and my roommate's room is at the end of it. I left my door open that night and around 3 am I wake up and in the darkness I notice that a person the size of my roommate was tiredly walking towards his room dragging what looked like a bag full of clothes... I remember thinking, "why the hell is this guy doing laundry in the middle of the night?" and go back to sleep without giving it a second thought.

Fast forward to the next morning. I wake up get ready for work and I see that my roommate's room is closed and left for work. In the evening when I came back I noticed my roommate was not home yet and around 7 pm he walks in the apartment with a hamper full of clean clothes and I asked him how he his day had been.

He then proceeds to tell me how he had gone to visit his mom after work the day before and took some laundry and ended up spending the night over there. He never even set foot in our apartment until the next day.

tashhepstir · 11 points · Posted at 23:04:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest thing about this story, is the fact that it's true and isn't unrealistic in the slightest.

Happened about half a year ago to a friend. He'd been out partying, and then too much alcohol and he blacks out.

He woke up on a bare mattress in a room he doesn't recognise, completely naked on the bottom half, missing his wallet and mobile phone. He's also absolutely covered in scratches and bite marks.

Understandably, he freaked out but decided he has to get out as quickly as possible. So whilst trying to find a way out, he found the front door. It was blocked by metal bars.

By this point he realised he is in deep shit. He went back to the room he was in, climbed out the window and had to scale the building to the next apartment with an open window; which he sneaks into, steals trousers and get's the fuck out of.

According to the people he was out with, the last time they'd seen him that night, he'd been speaking to a really old man. Strange.

allergictoyourcat · 2 points · Posted at 06:58:37 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a man who once used to get blacked out like it was going out of style. My blessings just went up ten fold.

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 02:09:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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squashedfrog462 · 5 points · Posted at 02:16:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy crap. So glad your safe that sounds like my worst nightmare!

illkillyourayromano · 3 points · Posted at 02:55:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you. It sucks that the world we live in is so shitty and that we can't feel safe walking down the street, but it really reinforces the fact that when you're a woman, especially a very petite one (I'm only 5'0) you have to take extra precautions against assault. There are some seriously depraved people out there.

Also, never take 6 shots of Jack Daniels and then try to walk home through the ghetto in stiletto heels.

squashedfrog462 · 3 points · Posted at 03:19:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

We've all been there girlfriend, luckily some of us have lived to tell the tale from the sounds of things.

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 02:23:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing that has happened to me was when I was in high school. Probably grade 10 back in 2007. One weekend I was at my friends house who lives a block away. To get to his house I go through the park that is in the middle of the block instead of all the way around. That night we were having a big poker game which lasted a very long time. About 3am my dad calls me saying to come home. I was already out of the game at this time. Anyways, I left his house and headed through the park. As I'm walking I hear a scream that sounds like a little girl. Oddly enough I look at the swing set and see a little girl in a white dress on the swings. At first it didn't seem creepy to me until I realize this girl is alone and it's 3am. I stop walking and I start staring at this girl on this swings, thinking should I go help her. When suddenly she gets of the swings, turns and faces me and yells. Come push me. This freaked me out. The girl looked to be about four years of age. I turned and started to walk home when I hear her scream " I SAID COME PUSH ME!" Then this girl starts running toward me! I fucking ran! I got onto my street and hid at the side of my house. Now in the pitch dark I'm crouched at the side of my house and this little girl is on my street. I can see her standing in the middle of the road when she yells. "READY OR NOT HERE I COME!" At this point I was about to shit myself when put of no were I see another little girl come out of no where. Grabs her hand, and they start skipping back to the park. I quickly ran to my door. Unlocked it and went to bed. I haven't gone through the park at night ever again. And now that I drive I don't ever need to. Fuck that park. Fuck it! Anyways I never thought a little girl can scare the shit out me.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was camping one time and we were drinking and smoking pot, and took a little drive to look at a bridge over the river that had collapsed. So we come upon another group of campers, which were two 30-something bar fly type dudes and like a 5 year old girl. Something about that little girl scared us so badly we all stayed in the car. She kept coming up to all the windows and asking us to come out, we never said a word to each other about it until we left, I was so glad I wasn't the only one who felt that way, but even now i gets my heart up thinking about it

gypsycamptrash · 1 points · Posted at 11:19:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the fuck. That is pretty scary.

Deadbreeze · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:14 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

TL;DR: dude ran from a little girl.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 05:21:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This will get buried in here but it's been bugging me so here goes. I was walking my son back to his mother's apt after playing at the park. My son is in a stroller, and as usual, he's pointing out any birds, or squirrels, or dogs, you know. It's always fun. We're walking along in front of these apartments and I see a man sitting in a wheel chair, but it's a special needs wheel chair, it has a board across the lap so this man can put things down. The street is to my left, and he's got his back to the street. So he has to turn his head to the right to see me. He doesn't look good- he didn't quite look "special", but I couldn't help notice him. He was bald, very pasty, and squat. If you want to know exactly what he looked like- he looked like that baby/dwarf that Satan carries while Jesus is being whipped in The Passion of the Christ. I'm usually one to say hello, and he notices me so I smile to say hi as I'm walking. I get closer and this man is moving his lips. He 's saying something to me. I crane my neck in, and he raises very short stubbly fingers. The middle finger raises and he whispers- "fuckyou..fuckyou..fuckyou." He's giving me the finger. And he's sort of nodding as if it's a response. Very casually. So he's very troubled, right? I can understand that- but I don't want my son hearing that. The weird thing is, I look at my son, and not only does he not hear him, he's not looking at him either. He doesn't see him. So instead of saying, "Could you not curse around a little one?" I looked around for his caretaker. Nothing. No car door opened, no front door opened, no one coming out saying "sorry". Still, I was pretty understanding so while walking bye I keep looking at him. When I get to his left I notice two streaks of blood on his left cheek. Like scratching too hard. "Fuckyou...fuckyou..." So I kind of picked up the pace and got my son home. I went back out, because I was intrigued by what I saw, and nothing. Maybe five minutes went by, no one there. I've never seem anyone like him, and I can't believe if someone was that troubled they'd just be left alone out on the street. Pretty freaky, it felt like seeing a ghost or something. Can't get it outta my head.

random_cat_generator · 11 points · Posted at 05:42:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work in healthcare IT, so when something goes down at work, I pretty much stay there until it's fixed.

I was working late one night last summer. Probably mid to late July. I was there alone, just sitting at my desk fixing whatever was wrong with the system at the time. At the time, this was only my second time there after-hours and the first time there past midnight. The building itself is kind of creepy at night. The HVAC system makes all sorts of weird squealing, hissing and banging sounds. You can feel it in the floor. The walls make a cracking sound as the air flow changes. On top of that, the office is located in a somewhat secluded area, so if there was say, a murderer, he or she would probably be able to break into the building without any witnesses at this time of night. You can probably imagine how jumpy I was.

Amidst the fucking creepy noises this place makes at night, I hear talking outside my window. Of course, the blinds are down as to not draw attention to the building after hours. I just assumed there were people going for a late night walk or something. But as I listen, the talking just doesn't sound normal to me. It just sounded like 'noise' if that makes any sense. Almost as if it were talking in a foreign language. I remember having to consciously make the choice to look outside, or to turn the lights off and pretend like I wasn't there. Well, being as close as I was to pissing my pants I just sat there and did nothing. But now in addition to the voice which I still cannot understand, it sounds like someone is moving the landscaping rocks just outside the window. So I do the only thing that was logical to me at the moment - which was to turn off the lights and then slowly and carefully peek outside between the blinds. I almost shit myself. A toddler's face was pressed up against the window, staring back at me. What the fuck? I can't move. I don't know if he saw me or not. Not sure if I was really seeing this for real or not, I somehow got the balls to open the blinds up. Keep in mind the lights are still off, so due to the light outside of the office, he probably wasn't able to see inside that well. I just stand there, a few feet away from the window...no idea what I should be doing. Then, just like his mom or dad called his name out or something, he ran away and down into the parking lot. I looked outside but couldn't see him anywhere. Still too scared to go outside, I called 911 and reported having found a possible missing child. Minutes later, my phone rings and it's a restricted number. Thankfully, it's just the police department. They inform me that there have been no reports of missing children and that an officer would be sent out to the area to have a look around - no action on my end was required.

Well being shook up and whatnot, I decided to just call it a night. It was probably close to 1:00am now. I drove home, slept and went to work the next morning. Later that day, I check the news websites for reports of missing children. Nothing. I even check the 30-day police log online for any signs of child abuse or missing children. Nothing. The kid that I saw that night was completely unaccounted for.

I still don't know what the hell I saw that night.

Ehhks · 12 points · Posted at 12:09:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely this. It's what a person with schizophrenia hears all day everyday. I can't imagine going a day like this. Video

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't even have words for this. It's fascinating, but omg that might give me nightmares. Especially the laughing.

alcide170 · 13 points · Posted at 19:31:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm coming in a little late but I have a pretty good addition.

This is a story about a trailer my sister and her husband at the time bought. So basically my sister met a guy, had kids (ages around 3-7 at the time of the story), and bought a trailer to put on my mom's land. Weird things kept happening in this trailer. These were the strangest:

1st Count

The husband was playing video games in the bedroom and he kept hearing laughing coming from the front room. The kids were at my mom's house. After he had enough of the laughter, he decided to go see what was so funny. He comes to the living room to find my sister dead asleep taking a nap. He wakes her and asks her if she was laughing, she is adamant that she was sleeping and was mega groggy from being woken up.

2nd count

It's bed time for the kids. My sister puts her son, the youngest around age 2 or 3, to sleep. She then puts the older child to sleep but as she's doing the nightly routine, she hears this blood curdling scream from the other room. She runs into the room to find her son kneeling on the ground with his arms out staring at a picture of the Virgin Mary. He's not responding to anything but cannot stop crying bloody murder. She picks him up and takes her to their room and he falls asleep sobbing. In the morning, he has zero recollection of the event and when asked why he was crying, he doesn't remember doing it.

Final Count

Now fast forward about year. The marriage isn't working out and they end up filling bankruptcy and lose the trailer. The trailer sits on my parents' lot while it goes through the bankruptcy process and winds up being owned by a real estate company. It's been pretty much abandoned for months with no one having access but the RE company. However, since it's my parents' land they continue to maintain the lawn. So one day my mom is cutting the grass and decides to take a smoke break. She pops a squat on the stairs that lead to the front door lights a cig and then mid drag hears something from the trailer. Keep in mind, it's been abandoned for a while. She puts her ear closer and it's fucking laughing again!! She heard goddamn laughing. She drops the cigarette and hauls ass back to her house to tell everyone.

We still aren't sure if the trailer itself was haunted (weird right) or if the land is. Prior to having a trailer on it, it was a crop field.

BenjiGriffin · 11 points · Posted at 17:12:20 on July 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 15 I was staying over at my best friends house, a house I had been staying at since I was 7 years old. His house always gave me the creeps during the night so I was hesitant to sleep in the spare room by myself for the first time (they had recently renovated and the spare room was his parents old bedroom hence why I had never stayed in it before). Sleeping wasn't a drama, a few noises here & there. At about 6am I was woken by the sound of his dad leaving for work & fell back to sleep, at about 8am my friend came and woke me up, we could hear his mum running the shower upstairs. We were joking around and waking ourselves up a bit when out of nowhere as if it was right next to us a deep & dark manly voice said "No worries" we froze and stared at each other, we looked around and no one was there, looked out the window to see his dads car was gone (he is the only child that lives at home so it's just him and his parents). We told his parents that afternoon and the said they hear and see things from the corners of their eyes, a dark shadow that moves throughout the house, touches things and makes noises whilst everyone is asleep, even slammed open a few doors. We have no idea what it meant by "no worries" does it mean not to worry in life? About him? Was he saying he is not a threat and not to worry? I'm 23 now activity is pretty strong in the house still, always an adventure when I go back there

StephanGucci · 12 points · Posted at 14:25:20 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

My son is a year a half old. He has never been a great sleeper. Lately My wife or I have to settle him into his crib, turn the lights out and then stand beside the crib and encourage him for a while(some nights longer than others). When he seems like he's going under we retreat to a rocking chair on the other side of the room. At this point we don't say anything, just sit quietly and let him work it out until hes asleep. If he gets restless at this point we'll just say "Shhhh" quietly a few times, so he knows were still there.

A few nights ago I run through this process and I'm sitting in the chair. It's been a tough battle tonight and I've had a long day, so after Shushing him a few times he goes quiet. Victory. I relax lean my head back in the rocking chair and close my eyes. As I'm about to get up and make my escape I hear from the closet about a foot from where I'm sitting "Shhhh"

There's a night-light in there now. I told my wife I think it may be calming for him, but its completely for me.

sweetd00d · 16 points · Posted at 06:04:48 on July 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

Preeeeeetty sure you should get your child out of there.

NewTeethThatsWeird · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:08 on August 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you tell your wife about it?

OldClunkyRobot · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:09 on January 14, 2014 · (Permalink)

HO LEE SHIT.

ludothegreat · 29 points · Posted at 18:39:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple years ago my wife and I were driving home and took a back road that lead us right into the side of town that we live on, just a couple blocks from our house. The back road isn't too secluded, it’s just off the highway and there are a couple farms and houses along the way, but it’s usually pretty empty. You might see one or two cars passing you ever other time you take the road. Over all it was a pretty normal situation, especially weather wise. I don’t remember what season it was or if it was morning, midday, or evening, but it was daylight and there were no clouds or fog anywhere in site. That part I do remember.

About midway down the back road I noticed a low cloud that was floating across the road. It’s Wisconsin, this isn't that unusual honestly. We got closer and I started to look around for other clouds or fog rolling in. There was nothing, still not that unusual.

As I kept getting closer I didn't think anything of it, until I got to the point that I might actually drive through it if I continued. It was at that point that two sets of eyes turned and looked at both me and my wife. Both of us gasped at the same time. I made eye contact with whatever it was that was closest to me and slammed on the breaks.

As we were stopped in the middle of the road, I realized that it wasn’t a low flying cloud, but two living creatures of some sort, resembling fog or a cloud that were walking across the road. They were maybe six or seven foot tall and one was a bit taller than the other. They were actually touching the road and followed the contour of the ground. They did not actual float across, simply looked as if they were. When they hit the shoulder of the road, they went downhill. They didn't float evenly like fog or a cloud would, they actually moved while touching the ground.

A good overall description is hard. I honestly have no really good way to explain, but the creatures were cylindrical and stood upright, like a tube standing on the ground vertically. For those of you who have seen Donnie Darko, the weird blobby thing that comes out of people and lead them to where they need to go, imagine that, but standing up right and looking more like a cloud or fog than metallic goo.

Something else to note is that there was definitely two creatures, but they were connected. It was as if there was a thinner “cloud” between them, connecting them together. My best way to describe this is to imagine how an ancient scroll looks if you were to prop it up on its side and you separated the two ends a bit. You have the two ends, which would be the two creatures, and then the paper in the middle, connecting the two. The “paper” in the middle was thinner and more transparent that the two creatures. This is another reason I believe we saw some sort of living creatures.

Right as I slammed on my breaks, after they turned to look at us, the “cloud” that connected the two creatures seemed to grow and start to hug or grab around the creature further from us and they both sped up to get out of our way. Like a mother grabbing a child to keep them safe or a husband doing the same to his wife, so they could safely cross the road.

I don’t know what we actually saw, but I definitely saw what I just explained. It was the most surreal experience of my life. I literally felt like I was in a movie and was meeting face to face with a creature from another world for the very first time. I've never been able to find another story similar or anything describing creatures like what we saw. I don’t know what it was, but it was absolutely the creepiest experience of my life.

MrDeadSea · 4 points · Posted at 04:21:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

what the fuck

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 08:16:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

for some reason, i'm thinking one of the don juan books, by carlos casteneda, has something like this in it ... a living fog being thingey. it's been decades since i 've read those books though.

ludothegreat · 2 points · Posted at 12:11:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know what I'm doing at work today. Thanks for the tip.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i have to run and take my neighbor to the doctor. later in the day, i will look through those books on amazon and see if i can narrow it down. i can tell you right off, it's not in the first three.

the don juan books, btw, are full of these sorts of 'abstract' beings like you describe. well, maybe not full, but they're there.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:07:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

okay, i've been re-reading bits of pieces of his books online and i think your encounter sounds like the 'inorganic beings' castaneda encountered both dreaming and in regular consciousness.

from the Art of Dreaming, definitely the freakiest book of the whole series:

"The awareness of sorcerers grows when they do dreaming," he went on. "And the moment it grows, something out there acknowledges its growth, recognizes it and makes a bid for it. The inorganic beings are the bidders for that new, enhanced awareness. Dreamers have to be forever on their toes. They are prey the moment they venture out in that predatorial universe."

http://aquakeys.com/toltec/art-of-dreaming-chapter_05-world-of-inorganic-beings

then there's something where carlos and his group of sorceror-apprentices would dream separately and enter a fog bank that would occur near a real bridge somewhere in mexico, and pass to the nagual side ... and into the space of the second attention ... something like that.

this site is great. it has all the books online, and with audio. i think all the chapters of each book are there:

http://aquakeys.com/toltec/

ludothegreat · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bad ass man. Appreciate this. Expect some reddit gold in a bit.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:24:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

absolutely not necessary, i enjoyed being put in touch with thqat material again.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:43 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)*

thank you so much for the reddit gold! it's fun!
i've been on quite a journey this past weekend with the castaneda material myself and found another quote where don juan tells carlos that these inorganic beings slip between the rings of power and into our everyday level of awareness all the time. i honestly and truly - despite what people say about the veracity of castaneda's books - believe that this is what could have happened to you. it's those eyes you wrote of ...

anyway, when i was at ucla i was in a subject area that overlapped with anthropology, where CC was finishing up his doctoral degree at the time. i knew people who knew him, and he was amongst not a circle of my friends, but a circle of acquaintances. on the periphery. though he did give me a piece of afro-haitian voudun art that i have cherished for years. i knew him as a very nice, very formal, very kind person. shortly after that, he went into seclusion. i knew carlos died of liver cancer in 1998, which i assume derived from the ingestion of toxic plants, but i didn't know the whole story. do you? it's quite something, and threw me into upset this weekend. from the outside in, he looks to have become just another really, really beserk tyrannical madman-cult leader, whose death seems to have precipitated the collective suicide of his harem of women (no one knows where these women went, and they have yet to picked up their $$ inheritance from him). the stories from his post 1974 time are really terrible. this had the effect of making me feel so unsafe, and so unsure, that i at one-time got that close to someone who had this in him, as if the ground shifted radically under me, calling into question so much in my life. and that maybe i unthinkingly, uncritically, swallowed those books - as did a lot of people with a whole lot more impressive credentials than i. not that i became a disciple, or anything like, but i felt their immense power. and i never once thought 'scam?'. in part because the books contain a great deal of 'correctness', parallels to the straight anthropological material, in part because the subjective experience as a legitimate feature in anthropology field work was so on the rise in the wake of those books, and in part because if you hang out in the arena of anthro and such, you hear a lot of perfectly normal people tell you very weird experiences they had or things they witnessed.

so that was my weekend - reviewing the material, reading articles that tried to present the real sources that castaneda purportedly stole from, articles detailing his many lies - which i already knew about -, reading about amy wallace's book, things like that. and i'm going to re-read the whole series of his books to see what i consciously or unconsciously absorbed and made a part of my life, in order to reassess.

but right now, tuesday, based on what i read about what happens when you make datura/jimson weed your ally, based on the trajectory of the 'path of knowledge' , including the obstacles and pitfalls, that don juan outlined, based on the incredible cloud of obfuscation around his life, his activities, i would say that yes, he was on the path he said he was on, yes, it does exist, and yes, he got way-laid exactly the way he said he did, that yes, those books are more than works of fiction.

ludothegreat · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:37 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Glad you are enjoying the gold! I have never actually read any of the books in whole, but I would love to. Nor do I know the story of how Carlos dies. I think I have heard a story similar to what you mention though.

You've perked my interest even more in these books. I think I might have to go and look for copies myself.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:24:59 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)*

actually i think i will understand the books more after hearing the story of how he turned out. the first three books are the actual 'doings' in the real world, of 'sorcery'. the rest are his world turning inside out as he moves his consciousness -purportedly- from the tonal (the world of everyday agreements and consensual reality) to the nagual (the world of spirit, eternity, and ??) and then becomes the nagual. early in the first book he accepts datura/jimson weed as his ally. don juan tells him that he himself did not want jimson for an ally. jimson is about power, sexual vitality/passion, power over others worldly success, and some other stuff i can't remember now. don juan says 'i'm am a poor indian, what do i need power for?' but carlos really took to jimson, and jimson to carlos. right from the very first. and as i read that, i was thinking 'dang! that's exactly what he became!!' the one thing all the stories about carlos agree on is his tremendous capacity for multiple orgasm, even into his early 70s.

there are stories in the anthropological literature of these 'brujos' being able to do amazing things: move bodily from point a to point b under their own volition, that sort of thing. in his books carlos talks about dying as a man of knowledge, which means you consciously join with death and remove yourself bodily to another dimension, and that you can sometimes 'bleed through' to this reality and people can see you again, even if momentarily. don juan and his friend, don gennaro are said to die this way.

so basically when carlos dies, everyone in the media says 'ha ha! he died of cancer. he died just like everyone else. it's all bogus. a scam'

his followers do not release a statement re his death until the death makes it into the news, and when they do, months later, they say he died with full awareness as a man of knowledge. which is vague enough, but still a lie: he died hooked up to a morphine drip, having lost control of all his bodily functions for around 36 hours.

but it is a fact that he said as early as 10 years previous, that he didn't think he was going to make this hurdle of dying as a man of knowledge. he said he was too weak, that he had indulged in power. he wanted to dies as a man of knowledge, but he felt he had made a wrong turn and had lost his earlier impeccabilty.

there are a lot of weird events around his death but the weirdest is that his five closest 'colleagues' - all women - all disconnected their phones two days after he died, and just disappeared. all of them have some amounts of money coming to them - around 100k apiece, which in 15 years have never been claimed. but in total, his estate was little over 1 million,, which you know isn't true because he was the best selling author in the world for 11 consecutive years. his estate must be more like 20-30 million. so some think the women took off with the passcode to a swiss bank account or something like that. some think they committed suicide to catch up with and join carlos in the space of infinity. in 2003, the remains of the one women who left a few days after the first four was found way out in death valley. the bones were so dessicated, they couldn't extract dna from them and had to wait until developments in dna testing allowed a positive i.d. in 2006. sooo, who knows? these women have literally not been seen by anyone for 15 years.

i think there's some powerful non-consensual non-everyday reality going on here.i don't think it was a scam, even though it's really effed up. and i say this as someone who has never done drugs, can't stand the desert, is not attracted to those cultures and who thinks that if there is a genuine spiritual path towards greater consciousness or something, it isn't mine.

read the books. the first 4. they'e very easy reads. okay, the end. no more long posts to you!

nicoledoubleyou · 2 points · Posted at 13:53:39 on June 22, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really enjoyed reading all you had to say. I had no idea what any of this stuff was, no idea these people, books, and ideas, existed. But reading your words made it sound interesting, I can tell you know what you're talking about, you don't sound like some, idk, college hipster/hippie type, but a scholar. Not sure what my point is, besides that what you have talked about and the way you talked about it intrigues me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:26:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

and also there's this:

The second attention.

Don Juan explained to me that the examination of the second attention must begin with the realization that the force of the first ring of power, which boxes us in, is a physical, concrete edge. Seers have described it as a wall of fog, a barrier that can be systematically brought to our awareness by means of the blocking of the first ring of power; and then can be perforated by means of the warrior’s training.

After perforating this wall of fog, one enters a broad intermediate state. The task of the warriors then consists in going through it until they reach the next divisory line, which must be perforated in order to enter what it is properly the other self or the second attention.

Don Juan used to say that the two divisory lines are perfectly recognizable. When warriors perforate the wall of fog they feel that their bodies are squeezed, or they feel an intense shaking in the cavity of their bodies, generally to the right of the stomach or through the middle part, from right to left. When warriors perforate the second line, they feel an acute crack on the upper part of the body, something like the sound of a dry bough that is broken in two.

The two lines that box in both attentions, and individually seal them, are known to seers as the parallel lines. These seal both attentions by means of the fact that they extend into infinity, without ever allowing the crossing unless they are perforated.

Between both lines there exists an area of specific awareness that seers call limbo, or the world between the parallel lines. It is a real space between two huge orders of the Eagle’s emanations; emanations which are within the human possibilities of awareness. One is the level which creates the self of everyday life, and the other is the level which creates the other self. Since the limbo is a transitional zone, there both fields of emanations

extend one upon the other. The fraction of the level which is known to us, that extends into that area, hooks a portion of the first ring of power; and the capability of the first ring of power to build skimmings makes us perceive a series of skimmings in the limbo which are almost as those of everyday life, except that they appear grotesque, uncanny and contorted. In this manner the limbo has specific features that do not change arbitrarily each time that one goes into it. There exist in it physical features which resemble the skimmings of everyday life.

Don Juan sustained that the feeling of heaviness experienced in the limbo is due to the growing burden that has been placed on the first attention. In the area located right behind the wall of fog we can still behave as we do normally; it is as if we were in a grotesque but recognizable world. As we penetrate further into it, beyond the wall of fog, it becomes progressively difficult to recognize the features or to behave in terms of the known self. He explained to me that it was possible to make that instead of the wall of fog anything else appeared, but that seers have opted for ccentuating that which consumes less energy: to visualize the wall of fog does not demand any effort.

What exists beyond the second divisory line is known by seers as the second attention, or the other self, or the parallel world; and the action of going through both edges is known as “crossing the parallel lines”. Don Juan thought that I could assimilate this concept more firmly if he described each dominion of awareness as a specific perceptual predisposition.

edited to add: i'm pretty sure this is what i was thinking of, with its emphasis on parallel lines ... the way cylinders are composed of parallel lines ...

Geekzilla13 · 2 points · Posted at 02:51:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not trying to sound like a creep or anything, but where in Wisconsin? I'm just trying to make sure it isn't anywhere near me.

ludothegreat · 2 points · Posted at 03:48:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Grant County, North of Platteville.

Geekzilla13 · 8 points · Posted at 05:59:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh thank god. Well, enjoy your smoke-monsters!

zeroX90 · 3 points · Posted at 15:51:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Great. Just freaking great. I grew up, and my parents live, just North of Platteville on Hwy 80, but in Richland County. There's enough freaky shit around there, I don't need to think about this next time I go home :0/

ludothegreat · 2 points · Posted at 15:58:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was on Old rout 66, about 45 min south of Richland Center. The creatures were headed north, towards Muscoda. Hopefully they are on the other side of Richland County.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.wowhead.com/npc=58672/fog-walker#screenshots ello?

[deleted] · 48 points · Posted at 13:38:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was sitting in the living room reading a magazine once, with the balcony windows opened to let some breeze in. All of a sudden my glass of water on the coffee table started to slowly shake, some magazines fell onto the floor. There was a very vibrant whoosh coming from the sky that was getting louder and louder. The whole house was shaking and car alarms was going off in the neighbourhood! I was scared for my life! I ran to my bed and went under the blankets, all curled up, thinking the world is ending and the sky is falling. My cat ran up to me and hid under the bed. The whoosh came and went really loudly, almost deafening me.

After a while of silence, I stood up and went over to the balcony. Some neighbours were outside their houses, wondering what just happened. There was some broken pottery and spilled drinks, but that was all the damage. And then the house started to shake again. Curious, I decided to stay on the balcony and hold on.

All of a sudden, two army jets flew past really low. Two Russian Sukhois made a low flyby and then disappeared behind the mountains. Turned out they were practising for some parade.

Punchayouface · 5 points · Posted at 18:14:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What you described happening to you is really similar to what happened when I was hanging out in my highrise downtown apartment one night about five years ago. It was not too long after a legitimate terrorist scare happened not far from where I was living, so I FREAKED, thinking it was a real terrorist attack. Turns out it was the military flying helicopters really low and really fast IN BETWEEN the highrise buildings. Assholes. I almost ruined the carpet.

telegrams · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Err, what country do you live in, if you don't mind my asking? Is it normal for Russian aircraft to fly over your area?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lived in Malaysia and is back living here after absence for 5 years. This happened about 6 years ago? Its certainly not normal, and well, it was a special parade.

mordocai058 · -1 points · Posted at 16:36:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure i've read this before...

irockmysock · 23 points · Posted at 14:29:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was walking by myself in a deserted parking lot when a 50 year old homeless man said to me "Do you want a blowjob for 15 bucks"

You can imagine my terror.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 17:19:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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random_chico · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:22 on July 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not if he takes his teeth out first.

_aron_ · 5 points · Posted at 18:41:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait, he was gonna pay you? That sounds like a win-win there buddy!

Its_Phobos · 3 points · Posted at 20:31:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Terror of not having $15, or the terror of wondering if he had change for a $20?

Darth_Corleone · 4 points · Posted at 17:35:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did he ever give you the money???

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A hole is a hole.

honeybadga · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

An eager fella is as good as a lonely lady.

pesmerga2007 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dunno... I think the best I could have done was a bj and about tree fiddy..

BlakeTheBagel · 21 points · Posted at 14:50:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I've got a great one.

When I was about 6 or so, I had been upstairs in my house watching TV. Apparently I'd fallen asleep, because the next thing I knew, it was night, and absolutely nobody was in the house. I walked cautiously downstairs to get the phone and called my mom.

Fortunately, she answered. She told me they thought that they could go eat while I was sleeping. (Yeah, I was kinda pissed.) Well, once I hung up the phone. I got a cup of water and sat down on the couch.

At this point in my life, I was irrationally afraid of the dark, so after sitting there for about 2 minutes I got up and ran around the house turning on every single light I could find, even in the garage and the pantry. I went to the foyer and was going to turn that on when I saw what appeared to be the silhouette of a person in our yard. My heart jumped. I ran and jumped on the couch, screaming.

I hurriedly called my mother back and told her what I saw. She obviously didn't see this as a very pressing matter, so she told me to calm down and get something to drink. This didn't satisfy me at all.

After hanging up, I went back to the fridge with my already half-full cup of water and got some more.

That's when I saw it. Clearly through the back door window. A freaking midget goblin with glowing, yellow eyes.

I dropped my water and ran for my life. I ran out of the house and to my next-door neighbors, hoping the goblin wasn't following behind me. The neighbors let me in and called my parents, telling them to come get me.

Eventually they came and got me, my mother with the most exasperated expression on her face.

Katarinaspussycat · 27 points · Posted at 22:00:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a mom I can say with authority that your mother acted like an asshole. I'm sorry :(

BlakeTheBagel · 4 points · Posted at 22:06:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I forgave her eventually. She normally doesn't behave like that. Plus she's got severe depression, so I try not to be too hard on her when she screws something up.

fates_fury · 3 points · Posted at 10:49:25 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would -never- have left my 6 year old alone; that's just asking for trouble. My daughter is 11 and I still don't leave her alone.

scubadog2000 · 3 points · Posted at 23:14:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy shit. Look at the post above yours and then check my comment there. The guy described pretty much the same thing you witnessed. In my post there I described how they have glowing eyes, can walk standing upright and lock eyes with their target. You did the right thing by running to your neighbours.

BlakeTheBagel · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My phone's not letting me see it. Can you explain, please?

scubadog2000 · 2 points · Posted at 00:13:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll just paste it. Story:

When I was around 6, my family lived out in the rural desert in Southern California near a Cahuilla tribe reservation. We had a few acre ranch that was beside small mountain (or large hill). My room had large windows that faced towards the mountainside and as such, it was always extremely dark at night so there was a motion sensor porch light that was attached over the backdoor which you could see from my window, think of an L on its side. Backdoor lead to a room we never used but anyone coming to the property thought it was the front door. Anyway, one night, while trying to sleep I hear a tapping on the window like a subtle scratching. I wake up and see two very striking yellow eyes and the silhouette of something at the window, very canine. Now we had coyotes here but this was the size of a small man, far larger than any coyote and there were no wolves in the region - we had a dog, but a border collie was no where near the size of this. So we stare at each other for a few moments, just dead still - I'm completely frozen on what to do while it just stares back. It begins to scratch again at the window then turns and walks, upright, to the backdoor and tries the handle. The light goes on, see this furry dog-man thing trying to get in and I freak. Remember running out of my room and grab a rifle we had in an case in the living room (like 15 feet away from my door) and then run back to my room. There it is, on the other side of the glass looking at me. It sees the rifle then bolts into the dark. I never knew what it was and I only learned about 'skin-walkers' much later. Never told my parents but I slept with that Winchester rifle beside my bed for a few years after. -1shotaccount

My comment:

From the Wikipedia article:

"Some Navajo also believe that skinwalkers have the ability to steal the face of a person. The Navajo believe that if you ever lock eyes with a skinwalker, they can absorb themselves into your body. Alternately, some Navajos believe that if you made eye contact with a skinwalker, your body will freeze up due to the fear of them and the skinwalker will use that fear to gain power and energy. It is also said that skinwalkers love the light and that their eyes glow like an animal's when in animal form. -scubadog2000" Dude...

BlakeTheBagel · 2 points · Posted at 00:24:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I was going to post an EDIT that I saw it but it didn't send. Yeah I'm terrified now. I remember it being kind of green-skinned. It wasn't very canine-like that I can remember, but it did have a relatively large bit of black hair on its head. I'd later figured it was just my mind playing tricks on me. Now I'm not so sure.

scubadog2000 · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're welcome.

By the way, I suggest you keep a pepper spray or a gun nearby. If not for skinwalkers, then for thieves breaking in. Especially if you live alone. One day it could save your life.

BlakeTheBagel · 2 points · Posted at 02:00:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, haven't seen a skinwalker in quite some time, but I'll be sure I'm ready when they come for me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:52 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

You were 6 years old, your mom left you alone in the house, and you called her... on her cell phone? As in this happened within the last, at most, 20 years? Not in the 30's or some other time when that would be more common/acceptable? Did your neighbours not call child services?

BlakeTheBagel · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:26 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Let me explain. I'm 15. This was 9 years ago. I called her cell using our home phone. I knew my neighbors pretty well. They offered to let me stay until my family came back. They needn't call child services because that would've been quite unnecessary, considering they'd just left to go to the store and possibly eat. They'd have come back later anyway.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:46:46 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

leaving a 6 year old alone in a house unsupervised for longer than maybe 10 minutes is pretty damn irresponsible

BlakeTheBagel · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:04 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I realize that. It was definitely one of the lowest points in my parents' parenting career. They're much better about it now. In fact that was probably the only time they've ever actually done something like that.

ice00100 · 21 points · Posted at 06:37:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok. Ive read through all the horror stories here and some are definetly freaky as fuck. As I type this on my smartphone late at night ive got my bedroom lights on still.

I definetly believe in jinns (ghosts) and have more then one story of em. However the scariest story I can not share. Its just too scary to recall and freaks me out still, even though I was 8/9 yrs old and am 30+ now.

Anyhow.... Family of 6 living in a not so old townhouse in Saudi Arabia. I shared a room with my older bro and it was situated in the front of the house. U could look out our window and almost see the front door directly underneath it.

It was late. 3/4 am. Everyone's asleep. I wake up for some reason and here someone turning a door handle and some weird creaking sounds. I wake up my bro. He hears it too. We confirm its not in our room. We step out of our room and hear this noise coming from the staircase. Im already scared at this point and tell my brother to wake up our parents. He says we shouldn't bother them with this until we know whats making the sounds.

We start walking down the stairs and hear it louder and louder. Its as if someone forgot to unlock a door but r still twisting the handle and pushing against the door to open it. So like a creaky kind of sound and a thud.

We get downstairs, him in front, me right behind. He turns the light on at the bottom of the stairs, from where we have an unobtrusive view of our front door. The door handle is moving up and down as if someone's trying to open the door.

My brother insists on getting a closer look. Hes only a year and a half older then me. Im still insisting we go wake mom and dad. He isnt listening. Curiousity has got the better of him. We walk right up to the front door and peer through the peep hole.... no ones outside. The handle has stopped moving. My bro says it was nothing and we turn around. As soon as we round our heels, the handle starts moving again and someone is clearly pushing the door trying to get it open.

My bother the brave holds the handle to keep it still and can definitely feel resistance. He unlocks the door and quickly opens the door!!!! There is no one outside?! He walks out and looks left and right and sees no one.

He tells me it must've been a prank and it's probably kids from the neighborhood. Im not buying it because no one can hold the handle one second and dissappear the next.

We lock up and get to the stairs. This time someone or something starts heaving against the door and the handle's moving out of control. I freeze in horror as my brother turns around and goes to the door. He looks out the peep hole and doesnt see anything. He was about to unlock the door and go out again when the door shakes like mad and someone now starts knocking on it.

I freak out and plead for him to come back upstairs with me. He doesn't hesitate this time and we ran upstairs straight into our room. I slide under the covers with him and cover my face with the blanket and try to hold my breath and stay as still as possible still hearing the handle move. Dont know when I drifted to sleep but glad I did.

Next day we tell our parents and I dont think they believe us. They never heard anything. They told us we are to stay in our room atnight no matter what.

From that day on a lot more freakier shit has happened. Maybe ill relay it some other time.

kieranjane · 10 points · Posted at 09:58:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

OH MAN COME ON I WANNA HEAR IT NOW

otollok · 5 points · Posted at 14:34:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please please please please please

SpyGlassez · 2 points · Posted at 04:19:26 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this some other time??

ice00100 · 2 points · Posted at 07:17:59 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah this is some other time.

Roberttothemax · 1 points · Posted at 14:30:25 on July 12, 2013 · (Permalink)

is this some other time?! come on man!

don_vamer · 47 points · Posted at 14:09:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Three black spheres , in a triangle formation , flying by my home at night, no sound, no lights i saw them because i was lying on my back at the roof of my house looking at the sky, thinking about some problem or something i had at the time, they were flying very low and about maybe 60-80 MPH to the south.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 20:37:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wish I had a roof to lie on. That is like my all time number one fantasy. Rooftop seat, amateur telescope, couple of beers.

Man.

cosmicsans · 0 points · Posted at 01:12:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I get my own house, I know this ain't gonna fly for me because I'm gonna have solar panels on the roof of my house.

Gonna cost me like 20 grand upfront, but damned if I'm paying to power all of my computers and electronics outright.

Dalek456 · 19 points · Posted at 18:17:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How do you not have three things be a triangle?

linkmandrew · 38 points · Posted at 18:41:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A straight line

micmea1 · 16 points · Posted at 18:56:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After sifting through this creepy thread for like an hour, this collection of comments made me laugh really hard.

Orintemple · 10 points · Posted at 20:57:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Agreed. This was a good breather.

redlaWw · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A straight line is a degenerate triangle.

Dalek456 · 1 points · Posted at 12:37:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did not think of that, but they still had to be a triangle, unless they were in a perfect line.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:57:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep, seen it too. It was solid inside the triangle, no? Like when it passed over stars, it blacked them out, like it was a giant aircraft? What I saw was perhaps 500-1000 feet in the air, really low for a plane or anything, and crawled across the sky slower than what a plane would travel.

don_vamer · 0 points · Posted at 05:40:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly, really low for a plane, lower than an helicopter maybe, but i think they were separate , almost as dark as the sky

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:06:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I genuinely thought I saw an alien mothership.

Thesgnl · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw this exact same thing when I was like 16ish, me and a buddy were walking to the local plaza, it was dark outside, we both saw it, 3 black spheres that went West, it felt like it was really nearby, so we both kind of ducked our heads as if it was going to hit us (it flew over our heads, not sure how far away it actually was). We both confirmed it on the spot too, so I know it wasn't just me seeing something weird.

thecod · 3 points · Posted at 20:24:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

they were planes waiting to land, i see it all the time.

iopghj · 1 points · Posted at 12:47:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

unless the are military then planes have lights.

TheJc0978 · 0 points · Posted at 21:38:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aliens. Only explanation

Blacky31 · 20 points · Posted at 13:46:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is fucked up too

recording of the east area rapist

janeyk · 6 points · Posted at 20:12:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That picture on the video is equally as scary as the actual recording.

IroN_MiKe · 6 points · Posted at 21:25:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I noped the fucking fuck out of there when I saw that.

holomanga · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

haha nope

carke · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What does he say? I was too freaked out by the picture to listen.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:49:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mostly "I'm going to killll yoooou" over and over again. Argh!

towo · 18 points · Posted at 19:29:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hiding in the bushes while those older kids from the playground went past, hunting for the victim they wanted to test out their knife on.

cannibalistic_duck · 6 points · Posted at 22:26:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:14:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There were kids with a knife, they wanted to put it in him. It happens and it does in fact feel weird as shit.

UrNotAMachine · 19 points · Posted at 12:41:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This will be completely buried but I was working as a counselor at a sleep-away camp and there was this small ginger camper that hadn't said one word to me. I woke up in the middle of the night to him standing over my bed. I asked him what was wrong and he replied. "When I die in my dreams I don't wake up." He had no recollection of it the next morning!

PRGrl718 · 47 points · Posted at 16:29:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

So many creepy things have happened in my family. My mom believes it is because my grandmother (mom's mom) used to do black magic and curse at the devil. She's "saved" (Christian) now - but shit still happens. Where to start:

One of my oldest brothers when he was younger (about 14/15) used to get in a lot of trouble. He was always hanging out with the wrong kids, shoplifting, drinking, fighting, etc. One day he was walking about to meet with his so-called "friends" when he saw a coffin float above his head and it lowered enough so he could see it. He saw himself in that coffin. He ran straight to my grandmother's apartment and prayed the rest of the afternoon with her. He refused to let anyone in our family know what he was about to do that day, so I wouldn't know - sorry.
My puny, little four-foot-two grandmother has been exorcised (around 62 years old at the time). This happened a while after she got a call that one of her sons (my uncle) had gotten arrested and was in jail. I wasn't born yet but two of my brothers, my (at the time) baby cousin, my uncle's wife, my aunt, and my mother were there. My mom said as they were beginning to exorcise her, she started speaking English (she only speaks Spanish, minus a couple English words like "hello" and such) and started to speak in tongues but in a very manly and deep voice and that it just didn't sound like something that should be coming out of such a small woman. They started to forcefully hold her down onto the chair and they said she was stronger than anything they could imagine. She's 87 now and has a sense of humor about it. Heck, one time at a family outing I had to share a room with her and this was right after I was told about this story. She thought it would be hilarious if she just sat up in her bed staring at me for five minutes but what felt like eternity and fall back down to sleep. Next day she's laughing about it with everyone in our family about how I almost shit my pants.
YEARSSSSSSS ago, back when my family used to live in Puerto Rico and my mom and her brothers and sisters were kids, before my grandmother became Christian, she gambled a lot and would curse at the devil when she didn't win. I don't remember what exactly the "game" or whatever it was was called, but it wasn't exactly a lottery. I'm not sure, I'll check with my mom later. But anywho, so one day she lost at this thing and she threw pennies out the window and said something to the extent of "If this won't bring me any luck, then I'll take the devil's." They lived in a small house which was raised a couple feet off the ground. That night, my mom said she heard about ten or fifteen cats underneath the floorboards, scratching and meowing. And when they meowed, it sounded like "MaRIaaaaaaa, tienes MIIIEEEEDDDoooooooooo?" (Maria, are you scared?)
Last summer we had this huge family reunion. All of the older cousins slept in the same room, and the youngest cousin (eight at the time and the only young one - he has a history of sleep talking and night terrors) felt left out if he slept in his room 'cause he wanted to be with the older kids. So we're talking all night and it's about three in the morning and we decide it's time to hit the hay. About a half hour later, the lights flickered on and off, and we heard a scratching noise on the floor outside the door which irked everyone in a fucking unsettling way. This kid rises from his bed and says "I dare not speak of what I hear" and falls back into his slumber ... AN EIGHT YEAR OLD.
A couple years ago, I was left home alone (I have a phobia of the dark so I always sleep with a small lamp on 'cause nightlights don't so SHIT). My dad was working the graveyard shift, brother was staying at his girlfriend's house, mom was staying overnight at the hospital to keep my grandfather company. So I'm about to hit the hay, laying in bed still wide awake, lamp on. My cat absolutely lovessssss to sleep right next to me and I know what I experienced was real because she woke up and started hissing before anything started to happen. I heard footsteps, but saw nothing. They got closer to me and my bed and got louder. All of a sudden I felt a shiver on my neck, this thing started to breathe into my ear. Then, what it sounded like, was this thing just took a whole bunch of glass and metal and threw it forcefully onto the ground right next to me which startled me so much I couldn't even fucking scream. I was so fucking petrified. My cat's going ballistics right now. I don't think I had an inch of sleep that night. The next day when it was finally bright outside, I check the kitchen to see if maybe I was just imagining things and maybe some dishes had fallen or something. Nothing.
Now to just lighten up the mood after all these stories: my brother's a prankster. If he says to go along with something devious, I'll do it. A couple years ago, I was doing my chores and it was time to clean the bathroom. I hate chores, decided to have some fun before I windexed the mirror. So I put some lotion on my hands and made a footprint on the bathroom mirror (you can make them by closing your hand into a fist and then using your thumb and fingers my making the big toe and all the other ones). I showed my brother 'cause I thought it was pretty cool. He said to make a couple more and not to clean the mirror this time to see if my mom would notice. A couple days go by and my brother picks me up from a fun-run event. He says in the car that our mom finally noticed the prints and that I shouldn't say anything, just go along with the plan. At the time, there were some kittens who were born in the shed in our backyard. When they meowed, it sounded like a baby crying. EPIPHANY So my brother decided to say that we heard babies crying the other night, but we just played it off 'cause we thought it was the kittens. Her mind is playing tricks on her and all this other mumbojumbo so right away, she agrees and she's all "you know what, I think I heard those too." She calls my dad at work and tells him and he's all skeptical, "Wife, you know they're always playing pranks. It's probably nothing." "BUT YOU'RE NOT HERE, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE SEEING." My aunt is here with us too and she's even wayyyyy more spiritual and Christian than my mother and right away she says we need to call the pastor. My mom brushes it off and says to wait. If this keeps happening the next couple days, then she'll call. So my aunt and mom go to the grocery store, do some errands, enough time for my brother to come up with something even more devious. He finds an audio recording of a baby crying, hooks it up to the surround sound in our living room, and puts it on a loop - just audible enough. So they come back about an hour or two later. We're helping them bring in the groceries - after about fifteen minutes, my aunt's all "Shhhhhhh, ques eso?" (Shhhhhhh, what is that?). Myyyyyy motherrrrrrr started balling her eyes out and rannnnnn the fuck out of that house faster than fucking Usain Bolt himself. She asked our neighbors if anyone was babysitting. Nope. Call the fucking pastor. This was when my brother had to yank the phone out of my mom's hands and explain to her it was all just a prank. Then some beatings ensued.

Edit - If you guys want more of these, my brain is packed with a million more. I'll try to recall some more things that have happened.

Spicyjalapenoboy · 4 points · Posted at 20:13:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes! More! Puh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeezz!

vikinglizzie · 2 points · Posted at 21:55:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YES!! More please!!

kceb · 2 points · Posted at 00:57:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

More please!
Man, what's up with Mexican black magic! I know a few people who have had to go to witch doctors at the urging of their grandmothers because of past curses on their family.

PRGrl718 · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lol, we're not Mexican but I hear a lot of these things happen in Latin cultures and in a few Asian/Southern Pacific cultures like in the Philippines and such.

kceb · 2 points · Posted at 01:56:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, haha, I'm sorry. I've been hanging out in this thread for a few hours and other stories kind of melded together.

PRGrl718 · 2 points · Posted at 03:43:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's all good homieeeeeeeee.

Morning-Star · 1 points · Posted at 06:59:55 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

you and your brother are evil little genius fuckers. bravo. I'd like more too.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 17:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wouldn't say this is scary or creepy, but it certainly was haunting, and has stuck with me my entire life. Back when I was in high school, a student who was a few years older than I died very suddenly. He was about 19 years old. This kid was the the type of person that everyone loved. He had severe (juvenile) diabetes, so much so that there were a few times that ambulances had to be dispatched to the high school because he was going into shock. He was one of the sincerest and most genuine kids I've ever met. No matter who you were, you knew this kid to be the nicest of people. Nobody fucked with him. So when he passed, it sent a shockwave through the students, teachers, and parents of our small school community. My Dad, in particular, took it hard. He was one of this kid's teachers at the high school, and had him in his class. My Dad and this kid had become good friends over the years. Flash forward to his funeral, and we're all there. There was a huge crowd at the funeral and later at the cemetery. But, I'll never forget... When we had arrived at the cemetery, as his casket was being lowered into the ground, his mother (who was already in tears and sobbing) began screaming: "I WANT MY BOY BACK! I WANT MY BOY BACK! GIVE HIM BACK!" Everyone heard her, turned to look, and an audible cry of sorrow and sympathy rose up from everyone there. The mother was sobbing and screaming this, as her husband helped her back to the car. She was devastated. Up until that point, I had never seen that much pain in another person. I have never forgotten that experience, and I reckon I never will.

EDIT: Grammar et al

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 09:36:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've heard the anguished cry of my friend's brother as his casket was rolled into the fire for cremation. You don't forget hearing that sort of pain.

Deadpool594 · 12 points · Posted at 17:07:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time, a few years ago, this old man was burning the ditch behind our house. We didn't think much of it until the fire got out of control, and the old man was nowhere to be seen.

The fire department arrived and put out the fire, but the old man was still nowhere to be seen. My brother and I were looking out the window watching all of this.

Then the sheriff arrived, and he and the firefighters were huddled around in the same area. I went to go give an update to my mom (who was in another room, on the phone with my dad) and when I got back, they were pulling a charred corpse out of the burned up landscape.

He was completely 100% burnt to a crisp. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my entire life, and The look on his face still haunts me to this day.

TL;DR I saw a man burn to death and now I cant sleep at night.

PennyLane013 · 10 points · Posted at 18:20:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in a terrible car accident about ten years ago with my brother and some of our friends. We went 50 mph straight into a tree. I remember waking up in the car, hearing lots of screaming, and seeing a lot of blood.

Next thing I remember is waking up outside the car, hearing my brother crying my name. We were all laying on the ground. The front end of the car was wrapped around the tree. The alarm was going off and the headlights lights were flashing directly on the tree. I had a concussion and was obviously confused, and I asked one of my friends what was happening. He said, "The car is dying."

I still can distinctly picture the lights flashing on the tree and hear the screams of all my friends, and especially my brother calling out my name. It haunts me to this day. I have chills just thinking about it. Worse thing is, this was right by my house, and I have to drive past where the tree was almost every day (they eventually cut the tree down).

The night when this happened, my parents were at a friend's house. They told us that the music that they had on randomly shut itself off, and at the same time they heard tons of sirens close by. They had a bad feeling, so they left and went home. They walked into our house to find my brother's video game paused like he was going to be right back. There was a voicemail from the hospital on our phone.

fates_fury · 2 points · Posted at 10:58:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did your brother survive?

divdan · 10 points · Posted at 18:31:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night I was playing solitary on my moms laptop while she was asleep on the couch. All of a sudden the lights switch off four a split second. At that moment my mom jumped up (she is a very heavy sleeper) saying that "death just passed through our house." I thought she just had a nightmare but we found out the next morning that our neighbor had died in his sleep.

PeopleWillDie · 9 points · Posted at 19:05:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Kevin Cosgrove calls 911 during 9/11

I've listened to it once and have never had the courage to listen to it again. The "Oh God!" at the end will be forever burned in my memory.

Burkey217 · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my goodness.... so true about the ending. It's one of those things you don't want to believe is real.

imriebelow · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:52 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

(Is this the one that's synced with the video of the building falling? I'm afraid to click the link.) Oh my god, yes. I made the mistake of listening to this once late at night. I just sat there with my hands over my mouth, feeling increasingly sick. I kept thinking about what he must have been seeing and experiencing at that moment, the floor falling out from under him and the ceiling caving in.

peck_112 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:52 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my god. All the above stories were quite creepy but that was horrific. By far the worst thing i have heard.

cumaboardladies · 11 points · Posted at 19:18:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went on a cross country road trip, and let me tell you I saw a lot of crazy shit I will never forget. The one thing that I will never forget was when we were on some interstate (I was around 11 so my memory is alittle fuzzy) in New Mexico. We usually parked at walmarts because they would let RVs use their parking lots to stay the night. Well this walmart was right off the interstate so our RV was parked not more then 50ft away from the interstate. We were watching a thunderstorm come up over the hills so I was looking out over the interstate. Well I started to hear a semi truck start blowing its horn and wondered what the hell he was honking at as there didnt seem to be anything infront of him for quite some time (this was at night). He then just held his horn and about 2 seconds later I saw that he was honking at a man who was just standing in the middle of the interstate in front of him. I knew what was going to happen to this man but for some reason I couldnt look away. I saw the semi truck plow right into this man and saw his whole body explode pretty much. The one thing I remember vividly was when we were standing outside watching the police clean up they had those white coroners sheets. They finally picked up all the peices and I remember the whole sheet was blood red.

dan5050 · 11 points · Posted at 19:19:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This will probably get buried but this is the scariest moment of my life. Here comes a long one

When I was 20 I had taken a college course only to find that it was going to take me nowhere in life. I stuck it out and got my certificate because I'm no quitter but I was heavy in debt and really depressed. I had seen my cousin that summer at his sisters wedding which he flew home from his job in Afghanistan for. We chatted a little bit at the wedding and he told me about his job there. He was making big money doing almost nothing and it was coming in quick. So fast forward 4-5 months. I just graduated, had no clue what I was going to do with my life, and needed money bad. I called my cousin and two weeks later I was flying to Afghanistan. When I got there I stayed with a crew of five guys in a system of shipping containers that were renovated to be lived in on base. My cousin had quit a couple months earlier so I was all on my own. But after a week I found out that a) I'd be moving across base behind a concrete mixing plant along the outside wall of the base by myself and b) the entire crew would be leaving for a week. Leaving me to cover for them. The day they left and the day I moved were one and the same. My 21st birthday. A night to be remembered the rest of my life. In my entire 7 month career there I had never heard so many rockets hit in one night. The elections in kabul were going on and tensions were high. For three hours you could hear explosions. Once every 15 minutes. Getting closer and closer. So there I am huddled up in my container right along the wall of the base freaking out when the sirens suddenly stop and so do the rockets. All was quiet. I turned the lights off and settled into bed, my heart still racing. I was lying there for five minutes before I heard it. A slamming outside my room followed by a howling scream as if a woman was being stabbed repeatedly outside my door. Now I was a civilian so the only thing I had to protect myself was a box cutter. I was imagining ten taliban members waiting to bust my door open as I clutched that box cutter and hid under my sheets. I woke up the next morning box cutter in hand and still very much alive. I found out within the next week that a bunch of stray cats lived around the mixing plant who had a habit of howling late into the night.

Tldr: I was sure I was going to lose my life one late night in Afghanistan

sawwaveanalog · 9 points · Posted at 20:07:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

The night before my 11th or 12th birthday I was not able to sleep because I kept freaking out thinking that there was a sort of grim reaper style/emperor Palpatine looking cloaked demon type thing in standing in the middle of my room watching me. I did not have nightmares often as a kid and wasn't afraid of the dark or anything like that, but for some reason that night I just had this really vivid vision as I was laying there that somehow that demon was in my room with me staring at me. He was wearing a black cloak and didn't have a face, just glowing red eyes under the hood. I didn't actually see it, but in my mind I knew it was there. It freaked me out to the point that I slept in my parents room that night. I remember describing the demon guy to them and them saying it's cool, there are no demons in your room blah blah and that was it, I fell asleep in there just fine.

The next morning comes, and everything is fine, I had pretty much forgotten about it. We eat breakfast, and then my mom brings in a few presents and cards. I'm sitting there opening stuff, and get to the card from my uncle. I open it up, and my entire family goes silent. Totally black card. Cloaked demon in the middle. No face. Glowing red eyes. It didnt say anything. On the inside it didn't say anything, my uncle had just signed it. My mom took it without saying anything, took it outside, and did something with it. It was 100% exactly the demon thing I was seeing in my room last night. Identical. So fucked up.

The story has a happy ending though, my parents surprised me with a trip to Chicago that day instead of school, and then when we got back into town they surprised me with a Super Nintendo. So, win. But I will never forget that card, was definitely one of the most eerie things that has ever happened to me. It wasn't just a sort of similar looking guy, it was exactly what I had been seeing the night before, on an incredibly bizarre, out of context card. I have no idea what purpose that card was supposed to have, but happy birthday wasn't it.

EdgHG · 6 points · Posted at 20:13:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No no no. You don't get off that easy. No one asked your uncle wtf with the fucked up birthday card?

sawwaveanalog · 3 points · Posted at 20:26:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't recall, but said uncle was the victim of a ridiculously brutal random assault in the parking lot of a grocery store on the evil side of our town several years prior to the time that this happened, and as a result of that he lives with moderate brain damage, so odd behavior isn't really unusual from him. I'll ask my mom about it next time I see her, I'm sure she remembers.

EdgHG · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay so that explains the odd choice of a birthday card, but it's not exactly like Hallmark is making that shit. You can't walk into a store and inquire about the location of the demon face cards. I'm not saying you're lying or anything. Its just a very odd detail of the story.

sawwaveanalog · 3 points · Posted at 21:34:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everything about the story was odd ha. I'll ask my mom if she ever said anything about it to him, I never did.

breakfast_cats · 2 points · Posted at 20:59:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, did you ever talk to your uncle about it? Seems like a very odd card for an 11 year old's birthday. Especially since it was completely blank.

[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 21:57:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Late to the party but...

I had just moved to the outside of Montgomery, AL and was living by myself in a pretty large apartment. I didn't know anyone in town and had only moved in to my apartment 2 weeks ago. I hadn't moved any furniture down except for a mattress and my television.

So one weekday night after i'd been down there for a couple of weeks I came home from work and had dinner, showered, all that good stuff. I remember watching TV, not seeing anything good on, hopping in bed and turning the TV off, putting the remote on the floor near my head.

I fell asleep, and woke up later in the night. The TV was blaring, so I reached to grab the remote and turn it off, but the remote wasnt there. So i got up, turned it off and hopped back in bed, kind of still half sleeping. And then i heard that fucking wood creaking noise where you can tell someone is tiptoeing but still making a lot of noise. Holy fuck I remember I couldn't move. Literally frozen with fear. I hadn't even brought my gun to town yet so I literally had nothing to defend myself with other than my bare hands. The person walked around in the living room for a minute, walked in the kitchen, back to the living room and then the front door opened and shut. I didn't move for probably upwards of an hour. Finally I got up the courage to turn the lights on. So i went to make sure whoever it was, was gone, and I checked the locks and all that. Walking back to my room I saw the remote control over in the far corner of the living room.

The mother fucker who broke into my house had literally gone in my room, taken the remote control from right next to me, walked out of my room, turned the tv on, walked around, and then left. I had to get a xanax prescription to get any sleep for the next month. Awful.

Moonburner · 10 points · Posted at 23:12:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 5 or 6 years old we had a babysitter that watched my little brother and I because my parents worked late. Well the phone rings and my sitter answers. He then tells the caller that "they're not home right now." My sitter then asks me what my address is? I tell him my address and he tells whoever is on the phone. They finish the phone call. A short time later the phone rings and this time I pick up the phone this time. On the other side I hear a sinister voice say "thanks kid coming to get you." For the rest of the night my babysitter, my little brother, and I were scared to death, in a back room, until my dad got home. Not really paranormal but sufficiently scared me.

Trcymcgrdy1 · 7 points · Posted at 02:13:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

your babysitter is a dumbass. Who the fuck gives an address out to anyone. I understand you can be young and naive, but whenever I have babysat, I was told never to give any information EVER. Especially when you are at other people's houses looking over their kids. Babysitting fail.

Moonburner · 6 points · Posted at 04:21:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly! I may have been 5 but even I was pissed!

timmer420 · 8 points · Posted at 00:35:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 7 or so, me and my family drove to Seattle for vacation. (I don't know exactly where at) but we got stopped all the sudden and there was a bunch of cops. I looked up at this bridge that was in front of us and a guy was standing at the edge. I didn't know what was going on, but my sister did (she's 4 years older then me). She was crying, and my mom was trying to calm us down but I was just chillin cus I didn't know what was happening. Pretty soon the guy jumped and I watched him fall to his death and then I knew what was happening. I got really scared and started freaking out. 13 years later I forgot about it but one of the comments in this thread made me remember.

Godraep · 0 points · Posted at 13:30:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sorry but you must know this. It's ''all of a sudden'' not the sudden.

I don't normally correct grAmmar so I do apologize, but I can't let you go through life saying ''all of the sudden''

timmer420 · 2 points · Posted at 01:19:14 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know, I'm usually really big on grammar, but I was really drunk when I typed this on my phone.

Griffinist · 10 points · Posted at 02:19:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have an aunt that live in rural Indiana and there's not many people around her. One day a bible salesmen came to her door and starts trying to sell to her. She said she thought it was strange that he would work in an area so underpopulated and religious. She tells him that she already has her own bible but the man kept trying to sell to her. The odd part about this guy is that the whole time he's keeping an unbreaking smile on his face and a happy, upbeat voice. After minutes of telling this guy she does not need another bible she tells him that she owns a gun and will not hesitate to shoot him if he doesn't leave. Then he says, without breaking his upbeat character: "You wouldn't want blood all over your nice porch would you?" My aunt slammed the door, locked it,grabbed her kids and locked them and herself in the bathroom." She said when she looked at the bathroom window he was gone and there were no cars on the roads in any direction.

BMan84 · 4 points · Posted at 18:05:58 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

A very similar thing recently happened to my mother. My parents live in a rural area of Greenfield, Indiana. She saw the guy walking up holding a bible and said she just got a bad vibe for some reason. She pretended to not be home and says he knocked on the door for maybe ten minutes, eventually starting to pound on it. We went to visit my sick grandpa that weekend and she brought it up to his pastor, and he said that anytime they go out trying to sell bibles or spread the word or whatever, they always go in a pair of two, usually one guy and a girl, and to never answer the door for a lone person claiming to be a representative of the church.

electrobolt · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:01 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminded me a lot of the story of Robert Johnson, the great blues musician, meeting the devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi.

There's something about very rural areas that somehow feels so very... strange sometimes.

Either way, hell of a story. Even if he was just some creeper, thank goodness your aunt was okay.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

he really needed to make a sale

martininkorea · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe he was referring to his blood? Either way, it's not a good way to finalize the sale of a bible.

Griffinist · 2 points · Posted at 20:53:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

he was, that's what makes it so creepy.

martininkorea · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:56 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, it still is creepy.

Ivarsveins · 10 points · Posted at 02:37:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me and my mom where out in the country at my grandparents house when I was 13 and it was surrounded by bushes.

It was around 2 in the morning and I was just sitting alone in the living room on my laptop, when I look out the window and I see something face-like in the bushes but it was hard to make out because of the darkness. I was of course freaked out but O calmed myself down because I remembered reading an article on how the human brain tries to make out faces in everything we see.

So I just stared at it for a while chuckling to my self when my stomach just hit the ground..... the face blinked and then slowly retreated back into the bushes.

I was up all night under my covers with a golf club by my side.

I have never liked going there ever since.

martininkorea · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was probably an animal like a raccoon or an opossum.

Ivarsveins · 2 points · Posted at 07:17:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in a country where the only wild animal is the ferret, we don't have racoons or opossums.

Photochromic · 9 points · Posted at 02:47:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was very young playing catch by myself in the back yard. There was a section of the yard that backed onto a road. At some point the ball got away from me and rolled onto the road. A red car stops and a man gets out of the car, retrieves the ball, and holds it out for me to come and grab. Just as I am about to reach the man he suddenly turns, gets back in his car and leaves. I turn around to see that my father had just come outside. Found out a few weeks later a young kid had been kidnapped by a car matching the exact description of the one that had stopped.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 03:21:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

OK so I'll chime in. Albeit late. One night a buddy and I, after a night at the bars at about 1 am we got invited to a party at our friends new house. We live in Charleston wv and he lives on a particularly rural area called Pinch about 30 minutes out... So we naturally got lost in a very spooky place because I suck at taking directions. Anyway we drove quite a ways up, deep into a "holler" as we call it....we were far from any sign of civilization including trailers.. there I saw the creepiest thing I have ever seen. It was an old church that looked as if it had been in a fire, repaired with plywood. It may have been as old as the 50s. Anyway beside the church was a newer looking playground and the entire thing was surrounded by a barbed wire fence...with the barbs on the inside, as if to keep something in.

correcthorsestapler · 11 points · Posted at 04:55:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one happened to my wife.

I had just come out of surgery, so I was at my parents' house overnight since I was in no condition to drive. We were in the living room, which has a large picture windows facing the front yard. I was asleep on the air mattress while my wife was on the couch next to me. At the time, I also felt like crap and had been running a fever.

She said that in the early morning, before sunrise, she woke up to some birds squawking outside the window and saw a dark shape come in through the large windows, hover down the hallway towards my parents' bedroom, and then it slowly moved back to the living room. It ended up hovering over me for a second, then turned towards her and started to reach for her. She said she could make out a cloak, but there was no face, and the hands were a boney shape.

My wife said she closed her eyes and felt her neck go cold for a second. Then it was gone.

She spent some time the following day seeing if she could find anything that sounded similar to what she'd seen. She happened upon this.

I know she's not one for ghost stories, but she was pretty shaken up the next morning.

gypsycamptrash · 3 points · Posted at 10:50:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds similar to what my mother saw, she believes it was death though.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 05:29:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alright, this was a combination of a dream and reality I had one night.

It was the middle of the night, and I was fast asleep in my loft bed. I started to have this horrible dream. In the dream, mind you at the time I did not know this was a dream, I had just woken up and was lying in my bed in the dark. I heard a strange knock from my downstairs and hushed voices. As I climbed down my ladder, I heard the sound of footsteps climbing up my creaky wood stairs. I pause at my door way, which is to the left of the stairs, with the door remaining closed. I heard the steps approach my room, and then turn away and head for my parents room, which is just to the right of my room. Time passes as I silently stand in the doorway, and eventually everything is quite, as if no one had been in my house. I creeped out of my room and into the hallway, checking all the rooms on my top floor. It's still pitch black, but everything looks normal. Keep in mind, I have NO idea I am asleep. I completely thought this was real. I turned around and started for my room, when I hear a slight creak and an insidious noise that can only be described as a cry of despair coming from somewhere behind me. I'm still not sure why, but dream me ignored this, shut the door to my room, and crawls back into bed.

Thoroughly creeped out, dream me began to relax when I hear the scream again and a loud crash. All of a sudden, I heard footsteps running down the hall towards my room. THUMP THUMP THUMP.

And then I wake up with a start as my door crashes open and my trashcan falls over.

I still have NO idea how my door got pushed open and my trashcan knocked over, I think it was my dog, but damn it scared me more than anything when I awoke from a dream I thought was a reality to my door being pushed open. It was fucking scary.

TL;DR: I had a dream about a murderer in my house and my bedroom's door mysteriously opened at the same time it would have in the dream.

orpheusofdreams · 10 points · Posted at 06:41:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When I was in the third grade, I was lying in bed staring at the moon. I must have been staring at the darn thing for about thirty minutes until it started to move. At first it moved very slowly and after 2 seconds it accelerated and warped away. When I peeked out of the window, I found out that the real moon was on the other side of the house and not in direct view of my window. I raved about it all night but my parents didn't believe me.

Edit: Just remembered the creepiest thing I've encountered. One time my little bro and I were playing basketball and I heard someone whisper, "help." The sound seemed like it came from someone running because of the doppler effect. I just froze in my spot with the ball in hand. I looked at my brother and he had the same expression of shock. I asked him if he heard it too. He said he didn't hear anything but he saw what seemed like a lady run by me. Creepy shit.

l33ch842 · 9 points · Posted at 06:55:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The sheer silence in the middle of London on July 7th 2005 (the first big city I ever visited). No automobiles, no sirens, not one person was talking loud enough for anyone else to hear. That by far was the most surreal/creepy experience I ever experienced.

VigilantInfidel · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why was it quiet? Was an event going on somewhere else that required the streets be blocked off?

l33ch842 · 4 points · Posted at 21:06:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The London Underground bombings and the bus bombs went off that day. My father and I arrived by train at about 9-9:30 AM GMT.

cuntpuntyourface · 9 points · Posted at 02:27:40 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

After reading all these stories, I feel more comfortable that my belief in otherworldly entities is further grounded in other peoples' experiences.

But here's my story. I want to say that I'm an avid believer in ghosts, but I have a strong ability to waive off most occurrences. I get especially freaked out in my own room after watching scary/horror movies... which is what makes this story kind of creepy.

Directly across the way from my room's door is the door to the room across the narrow hallway. If you want to think about it, my room is at the end of a hallway that's maybe 4 to 5 feet wide and there's another room directly on the other side. I'm an only child so the other room happens to be the room I sleep in.

I'm studying in one room - my desk faces a wall and to my left is the door. As I'm sitting there reading, out of the corner of my eye I see a figure hunched over in a cradling fetal position on the ground (arms wrapped around bent legs). It's completely white, isn't wearing any clothes... hell, I don't even know what it was. But at that very moment, I froze. My whole body turned cold. You know when you always scream at those characters in the movie to run, but their feet are planted and they're scared stiff. That was me. It was the scariest, worst feeling I've ever had.

Of course, when my body is able to move again, I look there and it's gone. I didn't see a scary movie before this. I was just sitting there doing homework. It never happened again. It's a new house. I felt pretty comfortable in it, which makes it even weirder.

konan375 · 10 points · Posted at 03:28:42 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is quite late, but I just remembered it.
Now, my Dad passed away almost two years ago. During the summer after his death, I was at my uncle's birthday party, and my Mom told me that my uncle had a dream where he got a phone call from my Dad. Apparently, all my Dad said was "you're next." Then hung up.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 11:34:36 on July 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn!

kiefercalyx · 10 points · Posted at 06:25:13 on August 16, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I shared a small 2 bedroom apartment several years back with a good buddy. We had lived there already about a year and a half and never had any incidents until this one night I had just drifted off to sleep and it felt like someone or something sat down abruptly at the end of my bed, the pressure was such that it startled me to awaken. I quickly brushed it off that it was me jerking as sometimes people do when they are drifting into sleep.

Later that same night at about 3am I awoke to a light knocking at my door and assuming it was my roommate I asked "What's up? Come in." I said this twice and nothing happened so I got up to open my door which had a direct view down the hallway toward the other bedroom and only bathroom in the apartment. When I opened the door I caught a shadowy glimpse of a dark figure standing in the hallway that then proceeded to leisurely walk into the dark bathroom after which no light went on.

Thinking that was odd I called out to my roommate as I walked down the hallway. As I approached the end of the hall the first thing I noticed was my roommate in his bed sound asleep snoring and this made the hair on the back of my neck stand up because I saw someone go into the bathroom. I stopped in front of the dark bathroom and slowly walked in and turned on the light, there was no one there but I immediately was taken back by a pungent sulfur smell that made me back up quickly and cover my nose. It was genuinely repulsive and I can't tell you how fast I skedaddled back to my room and jumped in the bed. I wasn't able to fall back sleep until the sun came up.

Business-Socks · 274 points · Posted at 12:04:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Walk in an empty room.

Close the door behind you.

There's a roach clinging to the wall there.

NOPE.

pineapple_warhorse · 347 points · Posted at 12:14:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh god, worst nightmare. I can't handle those things at all. Here's my ultimate roach nightmare:

When I was maybe 10 or 11, I went swimming with my grandma in her pool. I grabbed a pool noodle, jumped in with it, and submerged it. I blew on one end to make water come out the other, but instead a fountain of cockroaches erupted from it, spraying all over me, my grandma, and the pool. I had a panic attack and took an hour-long shower, sobbing all the while.

Business-Socks · 82 points · Posted at 12:18:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I once took a swig from a cup only to find the texture of a roach that had died inside it. More than a decade later I'm REAL weird about inspecting my drinks.

pineapple_warhorse · 22 points · Posted at 12:22:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh...god... shudder

nrbartman · 2 points · Posted at 21:08:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same shudder as when 5 year old you crawls through a culvert at your babysitters only there's like a billion ants inside and you come out the other end absolutely covered in them.

danrennt98 · 12 points · Posted at 13:23:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank god it's 9 am here, because you guys just grossed me out so bad I wouldn't have been able to sleep with the light off

No roaches in my house, THAT I KNOW OF

aeruv · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank jesus..

My area? NO roaches. I'm/ SAFE OHGOD WHATS THAT

ITCHTICH

Yodoggy9 · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you haven't seen any, that probably means that you don't have roaches...in numbers big enough for them to need to migrate from room to room. Yet.

rivea · 6 points · Posted at 13:48:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've heard stories of those coffee machines (Nespresso-type but starts with a K?), which have been known to house small colonies of cockroaches, either from the German manufacturing point or when they've reached their destination. Sometimes they just appear in the coffee...

I've never seen a cockroach in real life and I don't know how I'd handle that.

MansHumanity · 9 points · Posted at 15:18:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP. My family owns two Keurigs, I better not have any roaches

rivea · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

From what I remember, you need to check the water container part (at the back maybe?).

Good luck on your quest.

MadmanPoet · 6 points · Posted at 15:14:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That would be Keurig, I do believe.

And you've never seen a cockroach? I live in Charleston, SC. Cockroaches are the largest demographic here.

rivea · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

UK!

iPutTheScrewNTheTuna · 1 points · Posted at 04:10:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The worst are the palmetto bugs... roaches that fly. I'm also from the lowcountry.

MadmanPoet · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I once heard that the only way to kill a palmetto bug was to drop a brick on it. I tried that once. Once. All it did was piss it off and gave it a weapon.

Business-Socks · 9 points · Posted at 13:52:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was a dude close to the four corners area who imported a big cactus from Mexico and had it put on the corner of his property. They heard sounds inside it but dismissed it (I mean what do you do about it?) until one day it let out a colony of tarantulas. No one was hurt, but it made the local news.

Yodoggy9 · 6 points · Posted at 00:04:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Snopes says NOPES! Nice try, though.

thehuntedfew · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yeah, Klix machines, they had an issue with ants to, you would select coffee and it would drop a cup and then pour hot water, ant apocalypse each time, they were attracted to the sugar

InstyKim · 6 points · Posted at 14:13:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once I was visiting a friend in his apartment. We were both nursing pretty rotten hangovers and he offered me a cup of coffee. I happily accepted. We got to chatting and he was showing me how his personal sauna worked. Being interested and a little perplexed at the hows and whys of someone having a personal sauna in their kitchen closet, I paid little attention to the mug I was drinking from. Then, it happened. I finished the coffee and glanced down into the mug. Stuck to the inside bottom was a roach. How in the world it managed to cling to bottom even after having hot coffee poured over, soaking it....well, I shuddered. I retched. Then I politely excused myself and left. As soon as I got to my car I puked.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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InstyKim · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I...I'm speechless. Thanks to everyone who supported me on my journey to this victory.

Seriously, though. I now only drink out of something I have inspected thoroughly.

Business-Socks · 2 points · Posted at 14:19:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YES I was at a family members house so I didn't fucking lose it like I wanted to, I just left. Try not to get sick. Get sick a lot.

jibs · 5 points · Posted at 14:16:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once was having lunch with my future wife in a cafeteria. I was drinking a can of orange juice. Was talking and grabbed my can blindly and took a swig... Wondered for a second because I didn't remember buying a Sprite. It was someone else's garbage that they didn't clean up before we sat down.

jesuscantplayrugby · 3 points · Posted at 15:41:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my dad's friends knew I was afraid of roaches, so one day he held out his hand (closed fist, palm down) and said "Here, quick, take this!" I did, and it was a cockroach. It's been 10 years and I still make people hand me things palm-up, open hand.

mynameistreason · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What a son of a bitch, I'm sorry:( eughh... I would have murdered him.

FancyOctopusHat · 3 points · Posted at 16:32:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Eew. Ever had a ladybug infestation? You think they are cute but wait until cluster so thick you have to scrape them off the windows into jars. Forget to look in a glass and drink a few. When they finally die (the ones you couldnt capture while alive) they fall everywhere and you crunch around instead of walking.

I always blow into cups before I drink out of them, which is slightly awkward at other peoples' houses.

c_nt · 2 points · Posted at 02:38:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This last Easter I dragged myself out of bed around 8:30, sleepily grabbed last night's empty glass from my desk and started towards the kitchen. I got about half way there before I actually looked at the glass I picked up.

There was a big, fat roach sitting in the bottom. Naturally, my instinct was to scream, then throw the glass away from myself.

So my poor boyfriend gets woken up by my shrieking, quickly followed by the sound of glass shattering. He jumps out of bed to find me standing in the hall, naked, almost crying and surrounded by broken glass.

"Sorry, there was a roach in my cup... Happy Easter."

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:26:01 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, remember that time you drank ants because we didn't check if ants had invaded your cup? Mmm, tasty tasty ant cola.

wintercast · 1 points · Posted at 14:41:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i understand this.. i did the same thing with ants and with a stink bug. now everything has caps or i get those plastic toppers for my soda cans.

Predux · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of the time I took a drink of my Fanta and suddenly found my mouth to be full of ants. I always inspect or cover my drinks if there's a point where I can't see it.

Lazek · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at the shooting range once, and it was very hot out, so I had a powerade. I take a drink and something brushes my mouth. I look inside the bottle and a fucking wasp was in the powerade, and it was still struggling and drowning!

"Aw fuck no," I said as I furiously spit out the drink that had actually made it in my mouth, "you ruined my powerade!"

I capped that fucker into his plastic tomb and threw it on the range, where I gave it three rounds of 9mm. One of the shots made the bottle burst pretty impressively, and I never found the wasp or any pieces of him. Maybe he survived, but I hope he didn't.

indubitabluh · 1 points · Posted at 07:53:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was an infant my family lived with my grandmother and aunt for 3 years in a very old, very run down apartment building in the not so nice part of Yonkers, NY. It was infested with cockroaches. Very, very infested with cockroaches. Every time someone wanted to use a cup they'd have to dump out the dead(or alive) cockroach and wash the cup first.

Just recently my mom told me the story of when she brushed her teeth, thought something was off, glanced at her toothbrush and saw bits of cockroach IN the bristles of her brush. As in, there had been a cockroach there and she brushed her teeth with it. Yup.

Idk what's worse, that they can fly or that they run so fast and light that you can't even tell they're on you until you see them or accidentally squish them onto yourself.

I have a very very VERY bad and irrational phobia of insects to this day.

aidansdad22 · -1 points · Posted at 17:51:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

as a teenager, I picked up a can of soda I had abandoned an hour or so before in my room, took a swig and got a mouth full of big black carpenter ants in my mouth. (some of them still lively) spit out the soda as if I were a fire eater, spraying the carpet and walls with grape faygo. Really freaked me out...

SaturdayInAthens · 11 points · Posted at 18:33:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This reminds me of a story my dad told me. He was in the Marine Corps and my family was stationed in Hawaii for a couple years. Our front yard has this hole in it that was a few inches wide and deep enough that you couldn't see the bottom. One day while doing yardwork, my dad decided he would put the hose into the hole to see if he could fill it up. After a minute or so my dad hears a buzzing sound. Literally hundreds of huge cockroaches flooded out of the hole and ran all over the yard. My dad is a big burly military man, and he says he screamed like a 6 year old girl who had just seen, well, hundreds of roaches come from the depths of hell.

TheShrinkingGiant · 3 points · Posted at 14:26:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cockroaches or junebugs?

Because usually junebugs love pools it seems. I was playing with a foam ball thing in a pool once, and it went into the water intake for the filter, so I reached in and pulled it out, noticing it felt bumpy now. in the 10 seconds it was out of sight, it had been covered, literally, with junebugs. Fuck those things.

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 14:43:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely cockroaches. I don't think I've ever seen a junebug in that part of Florida. I'm not a big fan of those, either. They're pretty dumb so they get stuck in my hair a lot. I want to like them cuz they're fuzzy and harmless, but bugs in general tend to ick me out.

TheShrinkingGiant · 2 points · Posted at 14:47:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuzzy?

Junebugs?

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 14:52:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, not all of them... But this one and this one are! Their fuzz is mostly underneath, I think.

TheShrinkingGiant · 3 points · Posted at 14:56:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never seen them fuzzy! That's crazy! Now I want to ride a giant one.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't tell if that would be terrifying or awesome. Probably both.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:14:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Flying waterbugs. One flew in the window and up my pant leg.

swimbananas · 3 points · Posted at 15:56:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We have roaches in my university's theater all the time. One time I was getting ready for a show in the dressing room, and was putting on my costume. I put on one of my shoes and felt a lump in the toe, so I naturally took it off and stuck my hand in to check. There was nothing inside but just as my hand was coming out of the shoe I felt something running up the pants leg of my costume. I shook my leg, and out poped a huge roach. All I could do was stand in shock as it scuttled to the corner and disappeared.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a theater performer/costume tech... thanks. Now I'll never feel safe. :(

BossLackey · 3 points · Posted at 16:26:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last night I had to get into the linen closet and kill all the roaches. It was the only place in the apartment where they were at. I sprayed Hot Shot for a split second before they started just pouring out of everything. Just looking at it you would have no idea there was anything but towels in there. Took two and a half hours to kill them all. Had to pick them up one at a time.

pineapple_warhorse · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nothankyou.

samino_acids · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah...MOVE.

BossLackey · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If only that were in the cards. Gotta love livin in the city.

CoffinRehersal · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was the only place in the apartment where they were at.

I regret to inform you that this is most certainly not the case.

BossLackey · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Believe me, it is. I checked every conceivable spot they could be after I found that area. I'm sure there's a few somewhere, but no infestation by any means. The reason they were there apparently, is because my girlfriend had left an unwashed dayquil cap in the closet on a shelf. That's what they were eating apparently. I told her even back when she had that cold to rinse it out. Hopefully she'll listen to me more often.

n3gative · 3 points · Posted at 18:08:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in college I lived in a rent house for the summer.. The first time I found out we had roaches was when I came home and flipped on the living room light and the black floor instantly turned white as they fled the scene... I could always hear them crawling when I was trying to sleep. Nope!

Second instance I put on a work glove to clean out our shed. While I was loading trash into the bed of our truck I felt something scratching at my hand. Lifted up the bottom and a giant wood roach fell out. I still to this day turn gloves inside out before I put them on.

jbtk · 3 points · Posted at 18:52:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once put my shoes on one morning after a night of partying, went to QuikTrip, felt something in my shoe, took it off, and saw a cockroach just hurry out of there and crawl across the store's floor. Fucking felt something in there, too, just forgot about it thinking it was just my sock moving around. Moral of the story, check your shoes before you put them on.

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 22:32:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to live in New Mexico, and there you have to check your shoes for scorpions. Honestly, I prefer those to roaches.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:04:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't half as bad as yours but once I got out of the shower in the morning and flipped my hair upside down to brush it while it was still wet. (I'm a girl, just to clarify lol.) A giant ass black spider (think wolf spider size) plopped onto the shower floor from my hair - I still tell myself it fell off the ceiling but I think it was in my hair for a solid 15 minutes or overnight. UGH.

Choc_Lesnar · 3 points · Posted at 20:01:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

10/10 would NOPE

CaitlinPants · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope nope nope nope

[deleted] · 85 points · Posted at 13:11:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Roaches, they're incredibly gross, but they don't bother me as much as these hellspawn do..

My wife makes me take care of spiders. I sic the cat or the vacuum cleaner on those though.

theheartofgold · 71 points · Posted at 14:34:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking FUCK house centipedes. One time I was taking a nice relaxing bath when I felt something brush up against me. Looked down and a house centipede was frantically scrabbling up my side trying to get out of the water.

I calmly burst into tears and ran naked out of the bathroom.

kyuubi287 · 2 points · Posted at 11:07:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I happened to be sharpening a pocket knife when one tried to run past me and i cut the little fucker in half. Victory! Until it then ran in two separate directions...

GaryGibbon · 44 points · Posted at 14:41:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my mum lived in Hong Kong she and her roommates used to have a wild spider living in their house. It was a shitmassive spider, about the size of a tarantula. It would appear around corners, emerge out of holes in the floor, run on the ceiling, basically scare them shitless. However they put up with it, because it would absolutely assrape any centipede or cockroach that got into the house. Anything that wasn't a mammal or a spider would get ambushed, tied up, and eaten by that eight-legged monster. My ma once found a boneheap (well,exoskeleton) of cockroaches piled up in the kitchen. Apparently the spider disturbed a nest of them from behind the sink and they ran for it, but not one of them left the house.

They called it Ethel. It was a badass spider.

tomatotank · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

shudder

[deleted] · 42 points · Posted at 14:25:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

To take out the trash at my apartment, you go down these covered stairs with a high ceiliing in a back hallway. There is usually a House centipede hanging out on the wall- but far away. One night, I got to the bottom of the stairs, and the centipede was hanging out right over the only doorway. I loudly annouced "You stay up there, and I'm just going to walk out the door and then come back in, I don't have a problem with you, you don't have a problem with me". When I tried to walk through the door, fucker dropped from the wall directly towards me, and drifted past my face like a feather from hell. Of course I was home alone and spent the rest of the night checking my hair in the mirror in case he decided to take up residence.

14Typesoftables · 24 points · Posted at 14:45:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can't stop laughing at feather from hell.

PrincessAloria · 2 points · Posted at 19:56:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I need to draw the feather from hell. I need to.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please do. I will try not to look at it.

rachel_soup · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:24 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hahahahaha, a feather from hell. Pure gold.

Karbear_debonair · 24 points · Posted at 13:26:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I couldn't sleep a few days ago and decided to clean. I'm sitting happily on my floor folding clothes and I look up and one of those fuckers is just chilling on the wall by my door.

Huge exercise in self-control to not shriek my fool head off in the middle of the night. My family would have been less than amused. It was even creepier than normal too. The damn thing was straight black. -shudder-

Ineedashite · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What is it please?

Karbear_debonair · 6 points · Posted at 15:20:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I believe they are a type of centipede, or millipede. I've heard them referred to as house pedes. Wiki says there are a bunch of different ones that are called house pedes.

also: these bastards are faster than heat-lightning. Ew.

Ineedashite · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Christ, I hope they don't live in England:(

Karbear_debonair · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For your sake, I hope so. They really are freaky.

Blue_Bi0hazard · 2 points · Posted at 21:41:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

wait...I thought these were in america.... Fuck...

NoApollonia · 3 points · Posted at 15:26:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A house centipede - look like some sort of hell-spawn though.

Ineedashite · 2 points · Posted at 20:08:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's genuinely terrifying.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:26:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

House centipede.

Ineedashite · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's awful:(

buhala · 17 points · Posted at 13:28:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Warning: the image scared the crap outta me.

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 13:44:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 47 points · Posted at 13:46:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It has the ostensibly innocuous name of "house centipede".

I prefer to call them "terrorfuckdemons", though. At least, when the kids are out of earshot.

Reptarftw · 12 points · Posted at 14:04:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They're actually good guys! I know they're gross, and they move fast enough to make you jump every time. But they feed on other, less coexistent insects.

[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 14:10:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read that, when I was in the "know your enemy" phase of things, trying to make sure those beasts didn't mean my house needed to be burned down.

It's rather unfortunate for them, though. Why couldn't nature create a beneficial bug that didn't look like it was designed and sent by Satan himself to destroy all that is good and pure in our world...?

I certainly don't go looking for these things, as I'm sure you can imagine. So if they stay out of sight, they are welcome to a bug-buffet in the walls of my house. That's the deal. They break the terms of it, and they either get sucked up by a shop vac or eaten by a calico.

NoApollonia · 4 points · Posted at 15:29:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As much as I know this, any time I encounter one I'm going to kill it. It looks too damn creepy and if it wanted to live, it wouldn't be where I can see it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:05:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My roommatess and me call them "superbugs" because they're freaky as fuck and almost indestructible

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 13:49:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 13:56:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I find them on a monthly basis up in Michigan (US). I've read a few places that they are actually good to have in your house, because they are carnivorous bugs that eat pretty much any and every other bug. So, if you see a few of those, there's a good chance that you don't have much else in the way of bugs. They also try to steer clear of humans and food supplies, so you aren't going to find one in your Cheerios one morning (maybe there is a god).

To be honest, though, I'm rather surprised that these horrible beasts aren't in Australia. You certainly have your fair share of horror-bugs though..

wintercast · 4 points · Posted at 14:44:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We have them in maryland (US). they seem to like damp areas and are often in basements. I think they are basically harmless, just look nasty with all of the legs and they are super fast.

I was in a college class when one ran across the room. It was large class you could see where the thing ran because all of the students jumped up out of their seats like the wave.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 14:52:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They are apparently even beneficial according to some sources. They don't carry disease, they don't like human food and they don't burrow into or eat structures. All they do is kill other bugs that do all of those things, and they do so very efficiently.

They do have a sting/bite that is apparently on par with a typical bee sting, but much less likely to cause any kind of allergic reaction.

But they look like Satan's Housepet, so the deal I've forged with them is that they stay out of sight and eat anything that isn't a mammal in the house, and I don't hunt them down.

wintercast · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Agreed. They are apparently really good hunters. I don't kill them, but I also don't want them on me.

I have a fear of cave crickets.

stumbleuponlife · 3 points · Posted at 14:39:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you have house centipedes, wouldn't it be a sign that you do have lots of other bugs? Else, what would they be eating to survive in your house?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:49:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

From what I've read, there are a handful of these bugs in pretty much every building or structure that is in their native habitat. You might have another bug infestation if you start seeing them everywhere, or see them in places that don't otherwise seem "welcoming" to that sort of bug. They like moisture and darkness...so running into them in the basement (where I always see them) or in the bathroom is pretty common.

It's when you start seeing them all over the place, running across the living room...then you might have a problem.

pineapple_warhorse · 0 points · Posted at 14:33:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've found them in my old house in New Jersey, and where I live now in Illinois. They prefer damp, humid environments, or so I'm told. I've seen them mainly in bathrooms.

GeneralBullshit · 6 points · Posted at 14:47:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in the North east coast of the U.S. and I find these guys almost everyday. They go out of their way to avoid people, they are only active at night and freeze up whenever they see a person.

They look scary but they're not that bad, they're pretty chill and from what I can tell they kill any other bug in the house.

random_chico · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:17 on June 27, 2013 · (Permalink)

We have them in Canada. They move into our basement in the summer. I beat them to death with a broom like I am killing a cat when I find one.

As vile as they look, they eat other insects and spiders that lurk in the dark corners of your house. However, I'd rather just have spiders to deal with other bugs. Spiders don't bother me. These things creep the hell out of me!

NoApollonia · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my house, they have the name of wall monsters.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend calls them the "many-legged bug." I think "terrorfuckdemons" is more accurate. They also have poison legs, which is how they get you.

One night in college, I lay awake for an hour watching one of these things lurk right over my bed. I was too fearful to squish it (what if it escaped?) and obviously, I couldn't go to sleep with it sitting five feet from my head. I finally woke up my roommate at 2am and she squished it for me.

Also, this same roommate once got roses from her mom for her birthday. One night she was leaning over to sniff them--and buried in the petals, just waiting for an unsuspecting nostril, was the beast. She showed me and thought it was funny.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my sister was little she used to call them "80 miles per hour". One ran across her bare foot and she named it that. Yikes.

llama_delrey · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where I live, we call them "South City Crawlers." I didn't know what their real name was for over a year of living here.

fenrirsmuse · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They're the scariest non-harmful creature you can find in your home in north america.

DavidlikesPeace · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

it's a Taxxon. They're aliens serving the Yeerk Empire. :( we're all doomed!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I call them walking mustaches. They look terrifying, but they eat spiders and don't bite people or anything. They're just weird looking.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:39:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They look like something sent for the express purpose of destroying your day, but yeah. No bites. They're just horrifyingly fast so they startle me when they come out from someplace so I always scream when I see one.

pineapple_warhorse · 6 points · Posted at 14:31:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Breathe...breathe...

Ok, whenever I see those I flip my shit. I am a grown-ass woman, and I dissolve into a sobbing, hyperventilating puddle when I encounter one. So scared I can't even kill them. One dropped on my head once when I was showering. I literally cried for about an hour.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 14:36:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your story makes me itchy.

If it's any consolation, I'm a grown-ass man who would probably react in a much less composed and rational manner than simply crying for an hour.

velawesomeraptors · 3 points · Posted at 18:43:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once I went to wipe my face with a washcloth. There was one in the washcloth.

pineapple_warhorse · 2 points · Posted at 22:33:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What I said out loud while reading your comment: "Oh JESUS god why fuck!"

velawesomeraptors · 2 points · Posted at 03:07:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah that was the first time I had ever seen one before too, so... extra WTF.

beepborpimajorp · 5 points · Posted at 15:28:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

House centipedes look scary but they're actually really fucking awesome. They tend to be afraid of humans/pets so they stay out of your way and just kind of chill in your house eating annoying pest bugs like ants, mosquitoes, roaches, fleas, spiders, etc.

I have a deal with the ones in my house. They don't come out when I'm awake and I let'em stay and eat anything they can find. It's a really great symbiotic relationship and the only time I've ever seen them come out is when they're dead or dying, so I respectfully take them outside to pass on.

I was terrified of them at first but I'd really rather have them around watching my back than spiders or whatever else. Some folks have spiderbros, I have centipedebros.

Bag_of_Ducks · 3 points · Posted at 14:31:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We call these "Basement Crickets" our cat calls them "Delicious"

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I have a calico I lovingly nicknamed "Lenny", because she likes to play with things like this. Unfortunately for her playmates, they don't usually last very long through her playtime sessions, and once they are dead...she does us a solid by cleaning up the remnants of her friend. And, of course, by "cleaning up" I mean "eating".

Cats are so fucking weird.

wintercast · 3 points · Posted at 14:42:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh god, those million legger things.. They like to sit on the ceiling above the toilet at my mom's house and then drop on you when you look up.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:53:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit, add that to my list of irrational fears.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:54:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks to that image I'm like fucking Sherlock Holmes, inspecting every corner of my house.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:58:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I found one crawling across my fireplace hearth one particular evening. Bitch crawled into a hole in the grout, far too deep for me to get him with my typical vacuum cleaner approach.

So, I got the grout filler and made a little centipede tomb for that fucker. It was one of my more satisfying kills.

FUS_ROALD_DAHL · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I see one of these fuckers in my place at least three times a month. It's getting worse now that the weather is getting warmer. I keep a spray bottle of all-purpose cleaner in the living room for the express purpose of killing these things. One spray and they fall off the wall - sometimes I can find them afterwards, sometimes not...but either way they're guaranteed dead.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:55:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My standard kill-methods are either a shop-vac or a calico who will eat anything she can fit in her mouth She seems to regard those things as some sort of treat. It's absolutely one of the more disgusting things I've seen (although, my parents had a dachshund when I was growing up, he would eat cicadas...the crunch of that made me sick to my stomach).

My most creative disposal method involved concrete filler...one ran into a hole in the grout on my fireplace. I grabbed a tube of filler, locked and loaded my caulk gun, and entombed the hellbeast.

FUS_ROALD_DAHL · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, I wish I had a cute insect-eater at home. I like the shop-vac idea but I know as soon as I pulled it out of the closet and plugged it in, the centipede would be long gone (though sometimes they do freeze for a while). I read somewhere that diatomaceous earth is good for stopping pests, but I don't think it made much of a difference. I may have been applying it improperly, though.

therealabefrohman · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yesterday night I found a three-inch one near my bed. I didn't want to kill it because it would leave a gigantic squashed carcass, so I just sloooowly eased myself into bed and turned off the light.

It was a rough night.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would have checked into a hotel.

mustachepantsparty · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The thing about house centipedes is that they eat all of the other bad bugs in a house like roaches, termites and ants... so although they are scary as shit to see, they are good for the house.

sirdomino · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So just pretend they are nanotech pest control??? ;)

mustachepantsparty · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what I tell myself when I see them and want to run away :)

verymuchn0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those guys are the best though. They eat all other bugs: spiders, roaches, silverfish etc by the buttload. One of these guys can keep your house bug free for a long time.

twohoundtown · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would take 10 of those over a roach any day. I have one I let chill in my bathroom cause they eat spiders, plus we are buddies now and he doesn't even run when I come in and will crawl onto something so I can get him out of the tub.

sirdomino · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Really? video???

twohoundtown · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He's not in right now, but I can take a pic when I see him.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jerkapeds! Fuck those guys.

sprz · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Does the cat actually do the job? I get those things in my apartment sometimes and I think it would be worth the extra $50 a month to have something other than me take care of it

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have three cats, two of them use these as play-things, and one of those eats them.

The third cat is scared of his own shadow, so he usually trips over himself trying to run away from something like this.

So, it seems that 2/3 cats are not afraid, and 1/3 reliably "terminates" the bugs. For the other times, I go with the shop vac.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the hell is that shit.

wrgm0100 · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Honestly, I was terrified of those when I was a child. Nightmares. No lie. Now I'm over it and try to always let them live in hopes that they'll help me in ending my roach problem. Roaches are so much more repulsive to me now.

House centipedes kill cockroaches

Geeklat · 3 points · Posted at 18:15:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was an infant my mother left me in my crib with a bottle of juice for the night. This was a new apartment so she wasn't aware of any bug problems. She's woke up by my screaming/crying. Well it turns out my bottle had a leak and it attracted some friends. She found me in my crib covered in roaches that were attracted to the juice that I had spilled all over.

Needless to say most people now understand my pathological fear of roaches.

socksgaming · 9 points · Posted at 12:12:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice username

Business-Socks · 29 points · Posted at 12:40:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sock brofist.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad once squashed a roach and somehow as he was saying gotcha or whatever the roaches guts shot up INTO his mouth. Said he invoked puking for the better part of the day

HollyHellcat · 2 points · Posted at 15:31:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a student, I worked several summers on a painting crew with the maintenance department for my university. I was the team lead for my crew, so it was my job to inspect and prepare vacant residence units before the crew entered to paint.

One day I was inspecting an empty bachelor unit. It was fairly clean and had just a few small holes in the wall from something the previous resident had mounted to the wall. As I was patching the holes I heard some paper rustling, but figured I had heard a resident in the hallway and ignored it.

When I turned to leave something caught my eye in the kitchenette, so I stopped to look. I had already walked through the unit and hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary, so it took me a moment to realize what I was seeing.

Roaches. Everywhere.

I bolted out the door and called my supervisor. While I was waiting for him to pick up I realized what that rustling paper sound really was.

fenrirsmuse · 2 points · Posted at 15:33:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Giant hissing cockroach inside my mosquito netting on my first night in Tanzania. I almost went straight back to the airport. Thankfully my home-stay was cockroach free.

Remiford · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the country at my grandparents house when young, coming in for the night. My sister was maybe 14 at the time and had very thick shoulder length hair. She felt a tickle on her scalp.

Fucking cockroach. Buried in her hair, walking on her scalp. Took my mother five minutes to finally dig through the hair and catch it. I watched from about 12 feet away and it's still the most unsettling thing I've ever seen. Sister was sobbing uncontrollably. She has a distinct roach phobia now.

Business-Socks · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That'd fuck with me too.

implying I'm not already fucked.

abowlofRice · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple days ago I walk into my shower, turn on the water, and then look at the curtain and a fucking scorpion and a cockroach are on the curtain, literally less than a meter away from me. Fuck no.

Business-Socks · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scary but my first thought was that you interrupted their battle ... POKEMOOOOOON!!!

Three_Headed_Monkey · 1 points · Posted at 14:22:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Opened up a drawer to get something out. Roach right there on top of the pile of stuff. Closed it and walked away.

Gollem265 · 1 points · Posted at 14:28:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just BUST it with some brass knucks!
Example, with a spider: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=XhbViqimO04&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXhbViqimO04

stinkymcgrunts · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was tripping on mushrooms in college with my roommate...we got hungry after watching "Naked Lunch" and walked to a Chinese food joint. There was a roach on the wall that I swear was talking to me.

Never returned because it was scary...and quite unsanitary I guess.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well if you live next door to people who keep roaches you never completely get rid of them.

yeahtron3000 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where I am right now, there are giant roaches EVERYWHERE. They crawl on me in my sleep. It's fun.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to go take a bath once. I guess I was about 7 years old. I decided to sit in the tub as it was filling. I turned on the water but hadn't put the plug in yet. A massive Palmetto Bug crawled out of the drain and across my foot.

That was the day I started taking showers.

Simsalagrimsala · 0 points · Posted at 15:50:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man everyone from /r/trees would be psyched if there was a roach behind every door they went through.

primesrfr · 25 points · Posted at 13:52:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Posted on a different thread about my old house…..this is another story of something that still kind of freaks me out to this day.

Was around 17 and had gotten home from work rather late. Went straight to my room to change and found myself hungry. It was probably around 1am by this time and I didn’t want to cook anything and make too much noise as I was afraid I’d wake the parents. So when I ventured to my kitchen I started shuffling through the cupboards looking for a quick fix of snack food to tide me over until the morning.

Now our kitchen was positioned so that the kitchen door led to our back yard. The door itself was an old wooden door but my dad had added one of those metal security gates on the outside for good measure. It was one of the security gates were the holes on the door were small enough so that insects could not get through and therefore we could leave the wooden door open in the summer to allow for a breeze to go through the house. In addition to the security door, my dad had also installed one of those auto security lights, you know the ones……they go on automatically whenever their motion sensor is triggered. Usually the light would only go on when I would let my dog outside to pee at night. However, on this night he was already lounging in my room waiting for me to come back with some snacks for him as well.

Anyways, getting ahead of myself. So, I was busy creeping through the cupboards and finally hit the jackpot with some pop tarts. Knowing my dog, I didn’t want to chance him snagging the tart from my hand as I ate it so I busted those things open then and there and ate them raw(I am hardcore like that). As I am standing there eating the first pop tart I hear a faint whistling sound from outside(wood door was open). At first I thought it was the wind but then I noticed that the whistling was a distinct tune and not random whistling. I didn’t know the tune but I could tell that it was from a song…sounded like a happy and sad song all rolled into one(know that doesn’t make sense buts that’s the best way I can describe it). After standing there for around 20 seconds I decided that it must be one of my friends that’s lives down the block screwing with me. Maybe they were on the other side of the fence and whistling there to scare me. Right when I am thinking this thought I see the security light suddenly turn on. I quickly looked around the surrounding area but don’t see anyone or anything that could have set the light off. The whistling is still going on……

Now I am in semi panic mode. Is it one my friends? If so, where are they hiding? If it’s not one of them then who is it? I am stuck standing there now and can’t move as I stare outside waiting for something to happen. Nothing does….a minute or so goes by…with the whistling continuing and the light remaining on. Suddenly the whistling gets louder and I see the door knob to my metal door start to move up and down and I can see through the metal door to see that there is no one there. The whistling sounds like its right outside now and the door knob keeps moving like someone is trying to get in. The security light is still on so I have a clear view of the front of the door and know for sure there is no one there. Fuck the pop tarts,I dropped the box and jetted back to my room, slammed and locked the door and hid under my blankets with my bat and dog. I never went out to the kitchen at night after that.

TL;DR - Fuck pop tarts

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 21:27:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, A few months back I was in my kitchen getting a late night snack, Something similar happened, Only I saw what the fuck was at the door. This local hobo, just opened the door, asked for a roll... and then left when I gave it to him... I was confused as fuck.

otismatis · 7 points · Posted at 14:08:12 on August 25, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, here's something to add to your creepiness, depending on where you live. In the early days of the Mormon church (also called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), they would recruit young boys to follow outsiders around town, and whistle (and whittle) to alert the townsfolk that there was someone there who didn't belong. It happened primarily in a city called Nauvoo, and probably happened occasionally after the church relocated to Utah, although by then, the original boys would have been a bit older.

Anyways, here is an article published in a journal called "BYU Studies," owned by the Mormon church, about the Whistling and Whittling brigade.

https://byustudies.byu.edu/showtitle.aspx?title=5191

My point: if you live in Illinois, or Utah, you should be pretty creeped out. And if you ever hear any LDS hymns, let me know if you pick out the tune you heard that night!

HI_McDonnough · 3 points · Posted at 01:49:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your TL;DR made it all better, I giggled.

Big-Cat · 41 points · Posted at 14:39:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The SCP Foundation http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173

Megahurtz400 · 8 points · Posted at 14:59:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the FUCK is that?!

DoktorZ · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was my first reaction. Don't be surprised if you find yourself addicted to that wiki, reading every single entry whenever you have a moment to yourself. Then you're probably going to want to know about The Holders. Just remember, they must never come together.

holomanga · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's their SCP number or foundation tale or whatever?

melikeum · 5 points · Posted at 15:55:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvote for the SCP foundation! I did nothing but read these for several days. Amazing stuff.

Big-Cat · 4 points · Posted at 17:13:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yea, sure its creepy ass shit but there is a lot of good work that has been put into it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:17:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, its good.. but 173 isnt even the worst of it..

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:10:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This scared the shit out of me.

drquantumphd · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i dont...i...what.

hillbillyheaven · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't understand what that site is about. It's some kind of ongoing prank?

mrmacky · 4 points · Posted at 18:18:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not a prank, it's more of a collaborative writing project.

If you've ever seen the Sci-Fi channel show Warehouse 13 -- SCP is kind of the textual equivalent.

There are hundreds upon hundreds of these little "manuals" for processing & containing fictional ( ? ) items that range from funny to dangerous to disturbing to OH-GOD-I-NEED-TO-GET-OFF-THE-COMPUTER.

The site is done up in a wiki format; and you have to be Pretty Good(TM) to actually write and publish an SCP [secure containment procedure] on the site.

Cthulhuh · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvote for SCP... such a good site.

Started reading it on and off when I was in University a year or so ago, and have been reading it ever since. I am sad that soon I will be at the end :(

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can you describe it? It's blocked on my internet for some reason...

holomanga · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A collection of over a thousand "manuals" for containing anomalous objects; ranging in creepiness from funny to HOLYSHITNOSLEEPEVER.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love the whole SCP wiki. It's the perfect mix of creepy, disturbing, fascinating, and sometimes even funny (you have to admit, some of the -j's are pretty hilarious)

holomanga · 2 points · Posted at 21:56:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some of the non-j's are funny as well :). Such as the one with the infinitely duplicating cakes, until you realise that they break conservation of mass and will eventually destroy the universe.

BabyPandaaa · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've read like 100 different SCPs and now can't sleep. That's like classified, freaky shit.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:42 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure why people like this wiki, I can not get into it no matter how hard i've tried

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:33 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay. In a mere 3 minutes I got hooked. I guess it didn't strike me as creepy before but now im VERY creeped out. big enough to admit when I am mistaken!

[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 15:51:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if it's creepy just really mind fucked me.

I was riding through a nearby town and saw a man in a traffic jam that looked a bit familiar. I filtered through the lane on my motorbike to see if I knew him, and from the side of his face I thought I did. When I drew alongside the vehicle he was the spitting image of my father.

My father had died three years earlier. I followed that car for a good 30 minutes in a trance trying to work out how the fuck this man looked identical to my dad. Every red light I'd go alongside the vehicle and look in puzzlement and to be honest, more and more depressing thoughts started. At one point I even questioned if he was dead, so I broke away and rode back to my normal route home. The car he was driving was a quite noticeable colour and make and I have seen the vehicle twice since then (in one year).

As a side note, if there is anybody posting a story about a motorcyclist who stared at, tailed and quite possibly came across as a man possessed, I apologise.

Nataliyana · 3 points · Posted at 22:17:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had something similar happen to me, I was on a train in Wales (originally from England) and I looked up and saw my Granddad who had been dead for about 15 years at this point. The man was the spitting image of him, the more I stared the more it upset me to see him in the flesh again. I nearly went over to him but didn't, I also questioned whether he had actually died as this man looked like his clone. It was creepy and very upsetting at the same time.

iamglory · 18 points · Posted at 15:42:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THIS WAS TODAY:

My dog goes outside EVERY morning at 2-3am. Like clockwork. I wake up to let him out and I usually put the cats in their room (the dogs don't get along with them) and then perhaps a early morning snack.

My dog is very well mannered and listens to all my commands. I am walking around the house and hear him barking. I do not want him to wake up the rest of the people in the house, so I run out and yell at him to get inside. He is stuck at this one part of the fence into our neighbors back yard and will not move. His hair is up, his tail is pointed straight up and he will not listen to me. I tell him to get inside and he does not listen. I try to trick him and say, "it's time to eat." He wags his tail, still upright, but will not leave this spot. I put on some shoes and drag him away and he's growling at this one part of the fence.

I get an idea and put him inside...all the while talking to him and then I close the door behind him and stay outside. I stand there very quietly in the dark for maybe 30 seconds to a minute and then I hear someone walking behind the fence. They take two or three steps and then I hear this metal clanging sound and then nothing. I stand there for another 4 minutes and then I hear more footsteps walking away from the fence.

I am about 85% sure that someone was trying to get over my fence and steal stuff but were surprised by my dog. The only reason they didn't run was because I came outside by the time they had just got on the other side of the fence and were trying to not alert me that they were there.

I realized later, lying in bed and trying to sleep, it was probably the stupidest thing I could ever do and should have just gone inside.

FCBarca1984 · 6 points · Posted at 23:43:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

and you better hug your dog!!

iamglory · 3 points · Posted at 00:28:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's funny because he's never aggressive. That's why I found it so weird. If it were my other Dog I would have figured it could have been anything.

scubadog2000 · 3 points · Posted at 00:02:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bloody hell! If your dog ever does this, always take him with you. If he's a decent-sized german shepherd, he'll guard you, better than any knife ever could. Getting him inside and leaving yourself outside, alone and unprotected was a bad idea. The intruder could have been armed. Maybe he could have been barking at someone in distress or calling for help (he can hear things we can't).

iamglory · 2 points · Posted at 00:26:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know it was very very very dumb. If the neighbor wasn't so damn close...I mean the person would have been in arms length...then I would have maybe thought someone needed help. However, I really believe someone was just standing there. This post did not help at all with any paranoia.

FCBarca1984 · 2 points · Posted at 23:43:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damnnnnn. I hope you install some cameras or something. Glad nothing happened.

icantrecallaccnt · 10 points · Posted at 14:22:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was around 7 years old the neighborhood kids and I wandered in to a house that was being built on our street. It was mostly completed structurally (IE the inside simply wasn't finished with no carpeting, drywall or anything else). It was night time, no builders cars or anything else were around. At this point the windows weren't even put in, so a whole bunch of us decided to just walk in the house. We walked around the main floor, the upstairs and just for the heck of it headed into the basement.

Flashlights in hand as we walked into the basement we heard an EXTREMELY deep loud voice scream "GET OUT NOW" to which one kid in our group replied "Who's there?". The response we received was "THE DEVIL". Now while it was likely a hobo or someone else taking up refuge in a to be completed house. We all took off running.

piercelol · 10 points · Posted at 14:28:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in a rural area on a farm.

When I was 16 my older sister and I were the only ones home, we were watching TV in the lounge where we could see our dogs in the doorway going ape shit barking at the back door. A few seconds later we hear it open and slam shut and see a shadow cross over the doorway, the dogs run under our legs and bark at the doorway. we call out hello, but no one replied so we thought it was my other sister being a grumpy bitch. A few minutes later the ads come on and I go up stairs to grab something and I can hear something in my mum's office so I start talking to my mum while walking towards it. Open up the office door and no one was in there, my mum just left the ratio on. So I turned the ratio off and go checkout my sisters room, It was empty so I sprint the fuck downstairs grab a knife and explain to my sister that no one else is home. The lights flicker so my sister grabs some candles while I call up our neighbour to let them know what's up and tell my parents to come home ASAP and wait it out in the corner like little bitches.

My mum said she didn't turn the radio on. Imagine if he was in the office waiting for me or my sister? That's fucking creepy man.

buscoamigos · 11 points · Posted at 17:16:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lived alone in a small apartment. I came home one day and on entering I sensed that something was out of place. Later that night I noticed that in the kitchen trash someone had thrown away the used remains of a cake decorating kit and someone had also trimmed my fern plant and tossed the pieces in the trash. No one else had a key to my apartment. I also didn't get a surprise party. Never did figure it out, but for weeks afterwards every time I entered my apartment I would look in every corner to make sure I was alone.

Gogo2go · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wtf? That would seriously creep me out.

FutureAngryOldMan · 10 points · Posted at 12:10:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whelp thanks for convincing me I need to buy a gun.

PennyLane013 · 8 points · Posted at 16:07:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night a few years ago, my grandma fell in the bathroom and broke her back. I found out a few weeks later that the same night, at the same time, my dad suddenly jolted out of his sleep and saw little flashing lights everywhere in his bedroom. He said that his entire room was literally filled with THOUSANDS of lights. One might think that he was dreaming, but he has had several experiences with ghosts. He later attributed this to someone/something trying to warn him. He told me never to tell my mom, because she would probably never sleep in their bedroom ever again.

Nethrix · 10 points · Posted at 18:58:06 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have always had a problem with closets. Dreams and real life alike. From ages about five to eight I would have a nightmare every night of something in my closet (my closet back then was about 3'x20') that would open the door slowly and stare at me before slamming it shut. When I turned about 9 or 10 years old I joined karate, one night when I came home I went upstairs to get dressed. When I opened the door to my room it was dark inside, despite it being sunny outside. I stood at the frame of my door in confusion when the closet door knob gently started to rattle and twist, the door slowly creaked open and a shadowy hand grasped the outside of the door. When the door was all the was open I could see it completely, it was like a tall figure in black robes with a hood covering its face. Just like it did in my dreams. I ran downstairs and told my parents what happened, when we went back upstairs the door had been shut completely, and the room was as lit up as the outside. It never happened again.

PenguinOfWar · 9 points · Posted at 16:35:42 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't usually comment, but after reading a bunch of these stories I feel compelled to share. I've got a couple of stories, both scary but not in a paranormal way. I'll try to be brief.

Story the first

This happened when I was a kid and can be explained by the fact that I was delirious with flu, but I struggle to remember another time in my life (with the exception of my second story) when I felt such primal terror.

I awoke one night, feverish and hallucinating, to find that the my bedroom (which was a pretty standard rectangle shape, but with a small "corridor" of about six feet that led to the door) around me was moving and twisting. The shape would change, things in the room would flit in and out of focus, and when I looked at the small corridor, it seemed to stretch before me and extend outwards infinitely, with the door barely visible at the end.

Thoroughly freaking out at this point, I got up out of bed, stumbled to the door and made my way into the hall. My other had obviously heard me and come to check on me as she was in the hall. Things only got worse from here on, as when she spoke I could see her lips move but I couldn't hear anything. I distinctly remember myself trying to speak to her to tell her I couldn't hear here, I was seeing things, I felt sick etc, but she kept "talking". After a moment or two, she turned and walked away, but it was wrong. The way she was walking was unnatural, like how a ghost or entity walks in a movie. Ever so slightly sped up as if someone had hit fast forward.

I recall making my way back to bed, heart pounding, and cocooning myself in my covers. I was told later that I wasn't making any sense, just gibbering, and didn't seem to be responsive when I was stumbling around in the hallway. The emotions I felt at the time still stick with me to this day.

Story the second

Up until I was 18 I lived in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, which is about 10 - 15 miles from Belfast. If you're at all familiar with the UK / Ireland you'll know that NI was a particularly... heated place to be for most of the last century.

When I was a teenager I worked in a store in the village. At the end of a day during the summer, when I was still light outside, a colleague and I were cashing out the tills, doing the counts etc when suddenly there was a righteous blast from outside that shook the windows and knocked dust from the ceiling tiles. I swear I even felt the faint concussion of the blast. Abandoning what I was doing, I quickly made my way to the front of the store and looked out through the glass on the locked front door to discover that the street was silent, empty of people, covered in some sort of debris and clogged with dust.

At this point, now heart pounding, adrenaline pumping and thoroughly freaking out I unlocked the door, threw it open and stepped into the street.

To find that one of those gigantic crane / truck hybrids had been making it's way through the center of the town when one of its tires had spontaneously disintegrated, releasing it's pressure and shedding rubber debris all over the street.

Even though the cause wasn't a bomb, as my paranoia had led me to believe, it was still incredibly lucky that no one was harmed when the truck tire blew out.

TL/DR Flu hallucinations and terror attack paranoia are not a lot of fun.

JohnnyBrillcream · 3 points · Posted at 20:35:52 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

Late reply, just came back to read more stories. Similar flu experience, dreamed I was in a cave or what I though was a cave but it was pitched black. I had the overwhelming feeling of nothing but fear, hard to explain but there was absolutely no other emotion, just pure unadulterated fear. Woke up screaming with a fever of 105, parent had to carry to a cold tub and had the same sped up experience, kept screaming to slow down. The bathroom was only a few paces from my room and it took them 3 minutes to get me there because I was screaming so intently to slow down.

PenguinOfWar · 1 points · Posted at 14:10:28 on August 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Terrifying, ain't it! Thanks for sharing.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 22:27:57 on November 11, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was once sleeping like normal when I had an out of body experience. I was floating around the rooms downstairs in my house, pitch black and empty. It ended with me floating by the front door before I work up feeling paralysed for a few seconds. The next morning, the front door was wide open.

Embrocate · 25 points · Posted at 14:42:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I had a panic attack in the middle of a huge field and 100% convinced myself that someone was sent to kill me. I was sure that there was a sniper posted somewhere on the horizon in the trees and, at any second, my head would be blown clean off. It was terrifying.

cosmicsans · 2 points · Posted at 01:49:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid in high school during the time of the DC sniper, my mother had asked my neighbor to drive me to school (he was already passing my house to drive his kid) because I had the weirdest fear that the DC sniper was in the woods across the street from my house waiting to shoot me. Then, a couple days later, daylight savings hit, and it was still dark when I had to walk to school. I was genuinely scared.

Maybe that's why I learned to shoot so well while I was in the Marines?

kmankch · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Agoraphobia, fear of large open expanses. Do you have that, by any chance?

_____applesauce · 15 points · Posted at 04:34:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So one of my good friends is very paranoid. He has a fear of someone breaking into his house while he is there. He locks every window and door and always has the blinds shut so no one can see in. Knowing this, I decided it would be funny to go to his house late at night and mess with him. I just got done talking to him on x-box so I knew he was home. When I got to the house I noticed his car was there but his dad's was not. Thinking nothing of it. I figured he was alone and he would be even more creeped out. I started knocking on his doors and tapping on his windows. I can hear someone inside running around, freaking out and I heard a scream. This went on for about ten minutes.

I then walked down the road to call my friend and see how he was doing. He said he went out with his dad and would be back in a bit. Confused I went home.

The next morning he called me saying that a window was open when he got home that night. The couch was also moved.

Needless to say, I think I scared the shit out of a potential robber and cause him to change his mind.

champ999 · 7 points · Posted at 17:14:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Way to Accidental Batman dude.

_____applesauce · 4 points · Posted at 17:49:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's what I do best.

puffnstuff272 · 23 points · Posted at 16:12:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This story

"I was driving a shortcut from Twentynine Palms, CA to Albuquerque, NM. Twentynine Palms is located in the desolate high desert east of LA. The shortcut was all two lane road through total nothingness, except for passing through Amboy, CA. Amboy is a nearly abandoned town nearly as far below sea level as Death Valley, with a dormant volcano and lava field on one side and a salt flat on the other. It was also, at the time, a hotspot for satanic group activity.

At that moment my right foot smashed the gas pedal to the floor and did not let up until I had to slowdown for the I-40 east onramp.

MrBonkies · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

dude...there's another guy in this thread with this exact story. One mentioned that it might have been some sort of cult.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:05:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yup, same story upthread. so, this is some cult's m.o. ....

sentient1138 · 2 points · Posted at 09:46:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That story, and various versions of the story have been on multiple threads about creepy/ scary/ paranormal stuffs. This one also happens to be word for word exactly like the others.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:11:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I never heard it being done in groups of twenty, but when I was younger I knew some pretty criminal people, they would walk up to parked cars in the middle of the night and rob them. I assume that if one or two would be a robbery, 20 would be a murder. I think had the guy been like "I am _____ of the united states marines" and was brandishing a pistol, they might have noped the fuck out.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:40:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Source?

[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 17:21:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched my best friend shoot herself with a rifle in her mouth and out the top of her head when I was 13. I have PTSD and a myriad of other mental issues because of that now, and I am unable to hold a job.

thedrunkmonk · 14 points · Posted at 20:12:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sorry, friend. There was nothing that could be done. I hope you one day will outgrow your PTSD and know that we aren't defined by our memories.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 10:29:43 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I needed to read this, too. I have a lot of trouble going to sleep because of a lot of shit that's happened to me. It's really nice to hear that we aren't our memories...thank you!!!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:46:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sorry... Fuck

tayylorsaurus · 16 points · Posted at 16:28:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was Halloween and I was six.

It was pretty late at night and I was still in my costume after walking through the whole neighborhood. I had been in bed but got up to get a drink and a piece of candy. My dog slept in my room so she got up with me. I walk into the kitchen and there is a scarecrow standing on our back patio, staring in through our sliding glass door. My mom was in the office on the opposite side of the kitchen. She hears me gasp and comes in. The scarecrow starts tapping on the glass. She looks over and tells me to go hide in the pots and pans cupboard with my dog. I go. She goes up to the glass, tapping back. The scarecrow looks around, turns and goes and hops the fence into my neighbors yard.

My mom swears this never happened. But I still have the hay that I found on our back porch.

jedibassist · 6 points · Posted at 16:31:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your mom is a witch.

bonifiedwalrus · 5 points · Posted at 20:16:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it was Halloween, it was definitely someone screwing with you. Either way, that must have been scary as hell

tayylorsaurus · 3 points · Posted at 20:29:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am still terrified of scarecrows.

me_no_no · 3 points · Posted at 10:56:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scarecrow walks at midnight.

Nataliyana · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my goodness, nope, nope, nope, nope!

kobesgoodankle · 15 points · Posted at 13:52:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last summer, two of my friends and myself were driving in my friend's car to go get ice cream. We were talking about The Exorcist and my one friend was mocking it calling demonic possessions phony and ridiculous.

The second I went to defend that kind of stuff and tell him not to mock it, there was the loudest thud that hit the side of his car. It hit the car so hard he had to swerve into the shoulder. Scared after what happened, we got out of the car to see the damage.

The car was all smashed on that side and nothing but blood was sprayed over the side. We were on a major highway doing about 70 m.p.h. in the car. We thought we hit a deer (which would not be uncommon in the area we were in), but there was no hair sticking to the blood and nowhere for the deer to run to. Plus, there was no way the deer would have survived a hit like that losing that much blood.

We eventually got to our destination but I still get the chills thinking about the conversation we had and what happened at that exact moment. Freakiest thing I've ever been apart of.

Witchgrass · 4 points · Posted at 22:48:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know how you watch those crime shows featuring hit and runs and you're like HOW COULD YOU NOT STOP AND CALL THE POLICE

this right here

NINJA EDIT: I realized they stopped but whatever animal they hit must have gotten thrown/dragged pretty far away ... RIGHT? (Please don't be ghosts)

kobesgoodankle · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:36 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

You would think the animal would have been found. But I'm telling you there was no trace of it whatsoever. Being where we're from, hitting animals with cars is a usual occurrence. However, with that much blood on the car, there should have been globs of hair stuck to it. Even scarier was not seeing any other evidence of an animal being struck. No footprints, no remainders, nothing. As scary as this is to say, it was a demon.

NeoShader · 7 points · Posted at 19:05:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Left the house locking the door handle only. Came home to find the deadbolt was locked,and the handle was unlocked. Nothing stolen or out of place. :(

champ999 · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of the Breaking and Entering skit by Dane Cook.

sat52 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:24 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

That happened to me once and freaked me the fuck out until I remembered my mom has a spare key and she had probably come by during that day when I wasn't home.

NeoShader · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:03 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same thought! Called my parents. "Did you come into my house?" Nope, they were out of town.

Silentknight11 · 7 points · Posted at 19:45:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Iv got a story, Ill try to keep it short.

I believe I was 9 or 10 at the time. My mother played in a small rock band with some friends, and my father helped out with sound occasionally. They were due to play at a small club somewhere in the city, and had informed me that they wouldn't be home until late. They left me the phone number to the club and told me to call in the case of an emergency, and they would leave the neighbors phone number just in case.
About and hour after they left, I had started watching some TV and making myself some food when I heard a knocking sound on the West side of the house. At the time, my garage occupied this space so I assumed something had fallen over in the garage and hit the wall. My dog also had an opening near the back door of the garage to get in and out when it rained, so perhaps he was coming in that way and hit something. Either way, I decided not to worry about it.
A short time later I heard another noise, but it wasn't the same knocking noise I had heard before. It sounded like someone was scraping a metal object on the metal fence that surrounded our property. The noise continued for several minutes, going back and forth along the fence. I looked out the upstairs window, but I couldn't see anything. My dog was surprisingly quite at this point, I figured if someone was out there he would have started making some kind of noise.
Eventually the sound stopped. I had made my way back down to the basement to grab the phone from our living room. Once I grabbed the phone, I heard a very violent pounding sound on our fence. It sounded like someone was trying to smash the fence down. It was at this time that I heard my dog going crazy. My dog was an Alaskan Malamute, possibly 150 lbs and was as tall as I was. I stayed in the darkness of the living room with the phone ready to dial. I made my way through the darkness of the downstairs hallway into a small guest bedroom we had. There was a walkout door that opened into the backyard on the opposite side from where all the noise was coming from. My dog was still growling, and barking like I had never heard. It sounded more severe than when he would bark at the mailman, or school bus. I slowly made my way over to where the dog was, while dialing the number to the club. The phone seemed to ring forever...nobody was picking up. I dialed my neighbor, nobody picked up there either. I remained in the backyard, in the shadows for hours.
The slamming noise had stopped, but my dog still wouldn't stop barking. I had imagined walking around the house to see someone standing just outside the fence staring at me. I was terrified. Finally, I saw a pair of headlights pull up into our driveway. It was at that point that I made my way over to the area I had heard the noises. The fence was missing a metal pole used to anchor it into the ground, and there was a bit of damage done to the surrounding fence. My dog was fine, thankfully.
To this day, even though that dog has since passed I still thank him for potentially saving my life. My family doesnt really know how to take the story. When I bring up the fact that the fence doesnt just damage itself my parents agree, but dont think I was in any real danger. Nothing like that happened again.

TL;DR: I was home alone, heard some pounding and scraping noises on the fence outside. It sounded very aggressive, very quick. Eventually the sound stopped, and after my parents got home I inspected the fence to see there was some damage, and a metal support pole missing.

IUsedToBeGood · 6 points · Posted at 20:21:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh this thread again? Sigh, time to go make some popcorn and wait for the regret to kick in tonight when I'm trying to sleep.

MattRaven7 · 8 points · Posted at 20:55:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid, we lived in a house built in the 20's. We went through what seemed to be a phase of weird things happening. That's not the important part, so I'll skip it. The important part is, that almost on a nightly basis for a couple years I had this same dream. I had 2 closets in my room. In the dream, I would hear the door to the same closet open, and then hear something walking out of it. It would make a thudding noise like "THUMP thump THUMP thump" etc. After a minute, this old lady in a gown of blue flowers would come into view. She had a wooden leg, and that's what was making the off-pitch thumping sound. She'd look at me as if she wanted to say something, then changed her mind, turned, and walked out the bedroom door. Every dream, the exact same thing. I remember saying prayers that I would stop having them.

I was about 9 then. We moved out when I was 10-11. One night, in the new house, my Grandma was over for dinner, and she and my Dad were talking. Having been from that same neighborhood herself, they were talking about it. She talked about what the neighborhood was like as it was "growing". She also mentioned how our neighbor had told her about the guy that originally had built our house. His wife had a wooden leg. I shit you not. I had not known this until we moved.

calliope24 · 10 points · Posted at 21:21:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was younger I had a family friend I considered an Aunt; Her name was Lacey Jane. She died of cancer, unexpectedly as I was young and no one told me what was happening. Before she passed away she had gone on a trip to Ireland and brought me back a Claddagh ring and I loved it. When I was older I lost the ring, which really broke my heart because it was all I had left of her. One night I was sleeping in my room when I heard this insane commotion in the room next to mine, which was an empty room since my brother moved out of it. I was freaking out, it sounded like someone was tossing things around and moving the coat hangers in the closet, so I panicked and went to my parents to go check it out. When they turned on the light in the room I saw on the floor in the middle of the room the Claddagh ring that Lacey had brought me from Ireland. To this day I dont understand how it ended up there as I had lost it months earlier at our old house.

musicman1015 · 6 points · Posted at 22:59:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One day, I received a call from an old woman by mistake. She was trying to reach a person from her church. She ends up just talking to me anyway, telling me about strange stuff that has been going on in her house. I learned all of this after a few days of talking to her. She says that her house is full of ghosts and/or demons and begins to describe to me what they do in her house: There were a few that would literally cram shit and food down her toilet, a few of them would pile on her couch and say awful things to her, one would follow behind her when she walked down her hallway and breathe heavily/strangely, and a small demon would sit on her curtain rod and shake them while glaring at her.
Hearing her descriptions and terror while she walked around the house telling me these things freaked me the fuck out. After getting the name of her church and talking to them, they confirmed that she was a bit off. They were doing what they could to help her but that she had become somewhat mean toward them, despite their attempts to help comfort her. A few days after I talked to them, I never heard from her again.

TL;DR: Old lady called me talking about demons in her house. Found out crazy old lady was crazy.

who519 · 7 points · Posted at 23:11:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As I was falling asleep one night I heard a beautiful unfamiliar female voice whisper clearly into my ear..."Thank you for letting me be so free." Wasn't scary, but still haunts me a bit, wish I knew who she was.

quiqonky · 8 points · Posted at 01:44:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In 1999 I lived in Virginia Beach with my best friend, my boyfriend, and our newborn baby in a first floor apartment. I'd gotten off work at midnight thereabouts, watched a movie alone as everyone else was asleep, and then went to bed around 3 am. I laid there awake probably 15-20 mins when I notice a shadowy figure approach the window (which was ceiling to floor) and reach for it.

I elbowed my boyfriend hard (he was usually really difficult to wake up) and yelled, "Someone's at the window!" and I have to give him credit, he was instantly awake and shouting, "Motherfucker, you better run!" along with other things, and he ran out there while I called the police. They showed up quickly and had already caught the guy before they even got to my door. He had made some ridiculous reason he was out in an apartment complex he didn't live in at 3 am and they knew it was the guy. They still asked me to get into a squad car and "identify" him, while assuring me with their lights on him there was no way he'd be able to see me. That was almost scarier than seeing him try to get in my window.

It had the desired affect, though, because once he knew I was out in the car and pressing charges, he admitted it was him. Get this-he told the cops he'd heard strange noises coming from our room and was investigating! Ugh. We found out later that this man had been picked up before for Peeping Tom offenses and that he was actually prohibited from even being in our apartment complex. We moved into a second floor apartment a few weeks later.

When we went to the first hearing, we unknowingly sat behind him and his wife (!). Apparently he had thought we weren't going to show and was going to plead not guilty but when he saw that we were there, accepted a deal that sent him to a mental hospital. I remember the police officer thanking us numerous times for actually showing up, because apparently this guy's previous accusers never did. That shocked me. Who is nonchalant about some guy trying to get in your window!?

squashedfrog462 · 2 points · Posted at 02:34:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not me, I would have been packing nuggets. Good on you, and your boyfriend!

TheBarracuda · 7 points · Posted at 04:43:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't so much creepy or scary but take it for what it is. One evening while working at McDonald's I was told to lock up a bit early. I lock the far doors and telling a small group of people that I am locking up, that they are welcome to stay and to let us know when they want to leave. As soon as I finish talking with them I saw a car pull up and a guy run up to the doors I just locked. I wave with both arms and point to the unlocked doors. I start heading in his direction to tell him to go around when he turns and runs back to his car while stuffing a large pistol back into his pants. The people I just talked to had will seen this as well. (We had been told earlier in the day that there had been a wave of robberies of fast food joints recently) I ran to the unlocked doors and fixed that problem quick. The police were called and statements taken. I moved out of state about a week later. In the new city I had taken to reading the newspaper that had articles from every state and liked reading about each state where I had lived. One day not long after moving I noticed "Tennesee: Hermitage". Wow! I used to live there! "McDonalds... Robbery...". Oshit "3 killed 1 stabbed and left for dead"

Great timing. twice.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 07:10:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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TheBarracuda · 3 points · Posted at 04:13:00 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for that, I found it last night and started thinking how easily that could have been me if I took just 30 seconds longer to get to the door.

hastoobeme · 8 points · Posted at 05:20:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had one experience several years ago where some friends and I went to shoot airsoft guns at each other one night. There were about 9 or 10 of us and we decided to play at this church/school that one of my friends did maintenance for. We divides into two teams, went to opposite sides of the property, and waited for the agreed time to start. My team (about four of us) started on the church side which also doubled as the schools basketball court (crazy, I know). Off to one side of the court were some mats rolled up and standing veritcally next to some office doors. One of my friends and I noticed one of the doors open and a dark figure creeping from the doorway to hide behind the mats. I alerted my team to surround the mats. I never took my eyes from that area but when we looked, no one was there. I thought it was weird but I was too focused on the game to give it a whole lot of thought. After the game, I talked with my friend who worked there and he said that there had been some weird occurrences there, like people see other people in reflections while no one else is around or hearing their name called by a voice they never heard before.

Josh_McDeezey · 8 points · Posted at 03:39:29 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is there a sub reddit for this kind of stuff? I'm really enjoying the readings!

--TheDoctor-- · 6 points · Posted at 06:59:36 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

/r/shortscarystories

/r/fearme

reithescout · 3 points · Posted at 16:31:27 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't forget /r/letsnotmeet

🎙️ Youdonotsay · 3 points · Posted at 06:27:48 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll look into starting one if there isn't, these are awesome.

--TheDoctor-- · 5 points · Posted at 07:00:06 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

/r/shortscarystories

/r/fearme

ladybhbeb · 3 points · Posted at 14:22:14 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Loving your username... Up vote for that :)

dixiegirl13 · 9 points · Posted at 20:43:53 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

My parents live in this county park with campgrounds. The county rents out the upstairs apartment long term and the downstairs one short term, like for a weekend or whatever.

When I was a senior in high school, during the winter I had to take a bus home and walk about half a mile through a wooded area that led to the main office to get home. About three times a week or so I'd get the feeling someone was watching me. My uncle told me it was just cougars, and if they hadn't attacked me by now they won't, they don't wait that long on prey. I told him I never saw any and he said they hide really well. Not the most comforting thing but I didn't think it was a murderer or anything.

So I was talking to my mom a few weeks ago and somebody committed suicide in the park. This park is 45 minutes away from the main town and about four miles from the nearest little town. Not exactly convenient. The guy that did it shot himself in his car. The park manager walked right by it during the day, it wasn't until night when border patrol saw it they thought anything was wrong. I was thinking, how traumatizing for an adult to find it, what if a kid found that??

I like living there but it is creepy.

500P4H07FY4 · 9 points · Posted at 22:08:37 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok so here it goes. No exposition because I woke up to my sister running down the hall towards my room screaming, the kind of sincere scream that gives you chills. She jumps onto my bed and shakes me furiously telling me to wake up. Its amazing how fast your brain works in these situations, I jumped out of bed looking for a weapon thinking there was a murderer chasing her. Out of breath, she explains she was in the our parents' bathroom blowdrying her hair when all the bottles on the shelves fell onto the ground like some kind of poltergeist shiz. I go to the room acting like a tough guy about to perform an excorcism, trying to remember the Lord's prayer or something. Indeed, the bathroom was a mess but no explanation so I go back to my room and watch some TV to calm down. I pass by the news which has live coverage of the shuttle re-entering the atmosphere. I live in Florida and back in the day when NASA was always sending off shuttles, when the shuttle re-enters the atmosphere it gives off an incredible sonic boom which shakes the house and scares the balls out of you. Apparently, that's what caused the bottles to fall all over the place. tl;dr: Astronauts messed up my parents' bathroom.

duckyaisha · 7 points · Posted at 00:58:46 on July 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is probably the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. I was walking with my (now ex) boyfriend through the neighborhood and we were talking, enjoying ourselves. It’s roughly 11:00 PM and we are 16 years old. Across his street is a park and at the time one basketball court had about 8 people playing, the other- next to the swingset and playground- is currently empty. We walk past the first basketball court, around to the baseball fields, and then head back walking between the playground and empty basketball court. Now, the only lights in this shine on the basketball courts so its dark where we’re walking, especially in the playground area. We’re not paying attention and I almost walk into a swingset pole. I laugh it off and swing around the pole and then my blood goes ice cold. A dark figure is slumped over on the swing next to the middle pole. I can’t tell what gender it is, but it’s wearing dark pants and a jacket and it has long dark hair obscuring its face. Its arms and legs are dangling beneath it, moved only by the wind. It’s really thin, with bony legs and arms, and its feet and hands are dragging in the woodchips- if the figure stood up it would be very tall. It is completely still; not even the chest is moving. I sprint to the basketball court where people are playing and my boyfriend follows, confused, not having seen the figure. I tell him what happened, and he laughs it off, saying it was probably just some passed-out junkie, but neither of us wanted to keep walking and we went back to his house immediately. To this day I wonder what it was, if it was alive or not, if it was human or not.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:07:29 on December 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

maybe it was an extra sweatshirt/sweatpants set from someone playing basketball? putting on and taking off layers type thing?

laurabelles · 22 points · Posted at 15:04:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was pretty young and at the beach with my family. There was a giant cluster of rocks that sort of split the beach in two. I really wanted to climb the rocks but my mom wouldn't let me. We walked up to this woman and my mom asked her if she knew of a pass through the rocks to get to the other side. The woman replied, "Yes, over there by those humans," and pointed to a group of people.. To this day this is the only proof I need that aliens exist.

TL;DR I met an alien once.

holomanga · 5 points · Posted at 21:59:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or someone awesome enough to refer to people as "humans" in public. Admit it, you want to do that.

Namenlos · 5 points · Posted at 22:31:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know a guy who does this. He refers to friends/family/personal acquaintances as "people", and the rest of you as "humans".

He is pretty strange.

holomanga · 4 points · Posted at 22:36:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Brb, updating idiolect

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 09:55:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

actually, he's sort of like every tribe in the world who when you translate the name they call themselves, turns out to be 'the people', and everyone else is just everyone else.

[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 10:36:28 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Labirynthgrl · 4 points · Posted at 10:31:45 on June 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Omg I went there as a kid! I never knew!!

Jaymakk13 · 5 points · Posted at 06:32:17 on July 19, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wentto knotts and calico a bunch of times with my ex wife and her family. Creepy!

[deleted] · 50 points · Posted at 12:06:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 94 points · Posted at 13:45:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And boy they were happy to see you!

ayb · 1 points · Posted at 14:18:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

and then ... ??

Capatown · 3 points · Posted at 14:45:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No and then

[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 15:37:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in Uganda with a bunch of friends for a leadership program for an orphanage, we were literally leaving the funeral of one of my "brothers" (I'm really close to a lot of these kids) and we hit a ten year old with a bus going 50mph. I saw him run out into the middle of the road, look at us and just freeze. He hit and I looked away instantly helping the younger kids. Cops pulled shotguns and AK-47's to protect us from mob justice. Happened this year on January 1st

Dddawn · 14 points · Posted at 15:11:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the thread about the "deep web" that was on the front page a while ago, someone talked about a website devoted only to eerie videos that progressively got worse the further down the line you clicked. It would start with something like a girl being interviewed or someone feeding peanut butter to a dog, and ultimately ended with an abused chimpanzee literally ripping the skin off of a live human and eating it. I read the whole description of every video that night, and even though I didn't actually watch them, I was too scared to sleep that night knowing that things like that exist.

DoktorZ · 14 points · Posted at 15:27:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You'll be glad to know that was only creepypasta.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:32:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

normalpornfornormalpeople.com

pris_c · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Must see link!

AirplaneStrikesBack · 15 points · Posted at 15:38:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Years ago I was around 10 years old and home alone; my parents had gone out to dinner or something. I was watching TV, when the phone rang. I answered, and there was a female voice on the other end. She sounded a bit elderly, but it was a calm soothing voice.

She addressed me by name, so I figured it was one of my mom's friends or a relative, but the voice was very unfamiliar. She kept asking how I was doing, and when I asked who it was, she kept saying "just a friend". After a few minutes of this, I was getting really creeped out and thinking of the "the calls are coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE" urban legend. I asked if she was looking for my parents, but she insisted she was just checking to make sure I was ok. At this point I had had enough, and I ran to my neighbor's house and told him everything.

When my parents came home, I told them the story... they were more amused than creeped out I think. We tried *69-ing on the phone, but they told us the number was blocked or something. To this day I don't know who it could have been... definitely wasn't a relative or one of my parents' friends. Perhaps it was a CALL FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!! Really though, I have no idea who it was on the phone. Just weird.

ModafinilRacetam · 15 points · Posted at 03:18:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a story from my parent's, so I cannot corroborate it, but keep in mind that they're terrible liars, and can't keep a straight face for their lives.

Creepy part one:

A little while before I or my older sister were born, my parent's lived in a...somewhat different house. My father had lived in it alone for some time before he got together with my mom, and every night, the closet door would come open.

So, being creeped out by this, he nailed the door shut (he had the house to himself, and didn't need the space in the closet.

Every morning, the fucking thing would be open. Nails on the ground.

Creepy part two: I don't know if the house was one or two stories, but I do know that it had a basement, where the washing and drying machines were kept. The basement wasn't fancy--it had dirt floors, in fact--and when they went down there, my parent's swore to me that they heard the faint sounds of cult-like chanting.

Eventually, my mom got so freaked out by it that she refused to go down there alone.

Creepy Part Three: Eventually, they got a Rottweiler together. However, he was not yet the 165 lb beast I knew when I was a kid--he was still a puppy.

He would do weird things in the house. He stared and growled at walls, refused to go down to the basement, and wouldn't go anywhere near the closet.

One day, my dad went off with a friend, leaving my mom alone with the dog. After night fell, she heard someone whisper "get out of the house", which she brushed off. But it repeated itself, getting louder and crueler, until it was screaming at her.

This was apparently the last straw for her, and she immediately demanded that my dad move out after this.

His friend moved in afterwards, laughing at his stories--and was gone withing a month, admitting there was something wrong about the house.

Now, I'm an athiest and a skeptic, so I don't really buy the "ghost" explanation, and the part where the house told my mom to get out sounds like a bad prank by my dad--but they're terrible liars, and have stuck with this story for 15 or so years, and my dad's friend has corroborated it.

but frankly, the idea of a crazed person breaking into the house, pulling out nails, setting up speakers to sound like demonic chanting in the basement, and screaming at my mother to get out is plenty creepy enough for me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:21:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should read the Amityville Horror or watch one of the movies of the same title. What you're describing is very much taken right from the pages of that book.

littleempires · 8 points · Posted at 14:17:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've had an experience where I've heard someone banging the door from the inside of my closest in my bedroom in the middle of the night, I was the only one home. Another night (a few nights ago) I kept getting woken up, kind of delirious, and out of it I went to the bathroom, I turned my head towards the living room and saw a figure standing there. I passed it off as me sleepy and seeing things. I told my wife the next day joking about me going crazy...she said "OMG! I got woken up to and saw someone standing in our living room too...I thought I was just sleepy and seeing things in my head too...". Another time I went to wal-mart to pick up groceries, while my wife was cooking for us. Apparently while I was gone she went into the bedroom and someone knocked on the door, she went to the front door and no one was there, then she went back to the bedroom and another knock at the door happened. This point Bentley (our dog) was standing in the middle of the kitchen growling at nothing. My wife shrugged it off and started to prepare lasagna, she opened a box of lasagna, put the box on top of the oven and went back to the bedroom, she heard a loud bang in the living room and came out to the lasagna box sitting in the middle of the floor in the living room. She never touched it.
Edit: Replaced my wife's name with "my wife"

VonIsengard · 7 points · Posted at 15:32:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened to my husband about 6-7 years ago. I was already upstairs in bed, he was downstairs on the computer, probably on WoW.

A little backstory: we had joked for months about our harmless "ghost". Things would go missing, in the morning pictures would be tipped over, just inexplicable but not really disturbing stuff. I'm not superstitious so I figure there's an explanation. This story includes my dog so I have to add she is ridiculously well trained, had the highest level AKC obedience title and a therapy dog certification so she was NOT prone to weird behavior.

He gets up to go to bed, locks the door, and hears a low, guttural growl. My dog, Aila is snarling and staring so intently behind him he said his blood ran cold, he thought someone was in the house. He turned to look, and as he turned, Aila lunged, furiously barking, teeth snapping at thin air, behind where he had stood. Her barking actually woke me but I assumed a neighbor walked by our townhouse door or something and went back to sleep.

My husband called her name several times, reaching out to touch her, at which point she snapped out of it, started licking him and whining a bit.

The next day he was still unsettled by it. There is no explanation for it and she has not done anything like this since, and she is nearly 11 now. We have also long since moved out of that townhome.

b_normal_y · 5 points · Posted at 15:40:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We never had a dog growing up but I would babysit for people who did. I hated those nights after putting the kids to bed and it was just me and the dog. And then the dog would just start barking/growling at nothing. I love dogs but the barking at nothing (or something) gives me the heebie jeebies every time.

VonIsengard · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Usually it isn't nothing, they hear things we cannot. That I'm used to. What was so eerie was this in inside our house, at a spot she pinpointed.

tsukingshi · 6 points · Posted at 16:06:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After my grandpa died, I had to go to Vietnam for his funeral. Around the house, strange things started to happen. The family dog would wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the door. He would just stare. Then would happily bark and run towards it. It was also tradition to cover all mirrors when someone died. I woke up in the middle of the night from a strange dream, and right when I sat up from my bed, the covers from 2 mirrors fell. These things happened until the 49 days of mourning ended. I was already back in Texas before the 49 days ended so I would see my grandpa in my dreams smoking, holding a gun, or sleeping. I have never seen him smoke in his life, or never even heard of him ever smoking. I told my mom about my dreams and she told me that my grandpa quitted smoking before I was born, and he was in the Vietnam war. I don't see him in my dreams anymore now, but apparently I was the only one "seeing" him.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:50:51 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Either memories of him you can't fully recall, or he wanted to share more about himself before he died, and then died and shared.

Josht44 · 8 points · Posted at 16:22:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was 12 years old and it was one of the first times my parents let me stay home "alone" for the night. I knew they weren't coming back until around midnight so I was going to have a blast. We had a two story house where my room was on the bottom with a game room right next to it. So I'm playing video games when I hear someone walking upstairs. I remember my parents telling me to lock the door and that I totally ignored/forgot said advice. So I shut off my GameCube and hide in the bathroom with the door locked and lights out. Then I hear it. This creepy tune the man was whistling. Ill never forget it. He walks carefully down the stairs seemingly taking forever. As the whistling gets closer I'm about to lose what little sanity I have. He wiggles the bathroom door to find it locked. The whistling stops. The next thing I hear is my front door being slammed shut. I stayed locked in the bathroom until my parents came. Pretty creepy shit for a 12 year olds first night home "alone".

HorridCrowd · 9 points · Posted at 16:48:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This story scares the crap out of me every time I think about it.

I was at my grandparents house one night, my grandmother then came into my room at 3:30 in the morning and told me, "Your grandfather needs your help. Get up". This sort of startled me because she has never done anything like this. I go out to where my grandfather is right outside the door that goes into the garage and he tells me that, "The garage door just went up and down 6 or 7 times we need to check it out." I obviously said alright and we went into the garage only the find the pull-string that prevents the door from opening, which can only be pulled form the inside, was pulled. He looks at me and says, "We have to go outside to fix it so no one can get in". We then head outside and when we rounded the corner to look at the garage the motion lights came on and there seemed to be scratches on the door. He and I fixed the door and went back to bed.

About two weeks after this, I was staying there again and woke up at around 2:30 in the morning to hearing stomping in the kitchen, which is very close to my room. I get up and hear the stomps come closer to my door and stop. I figured that my grandfather was adjusting the thermostat. I opened my door to see what was going on only to find that everyone in the house was asleep and all the lights were turned off. Needless to say, I didn't sleep well that night.

A few weeks passed and I went over there on a weekend because I had nothing better to do. Since it was a weekend I stayed up rather late and fell asleep watching TV on my bed with my door opened. It was about 1:30 in the morning and for whatever reason I woke up without any reason. I look around and realize that I had fallen asleep with the TV on. I looked at my door and at that instance I saw a man-sized figure step out of my doorway and walk down the hall towards the kitchen. I slammed my door and stayed up all night. By this time, I was pretty convinced I had a demon or ghost or something in my grandparents house. I was just relieved that whatever was in their house wasn't following me.

Maybe a month after the last incident happened, I was at my dad's house and I was about to go to sleep. At my dad's I am on the other side of the house from everyone. It was maybe 10:30 at night and I was about to go to sleep. I had laid down, turned my TV off and was drifting to sleep. Then outside of my door, I heard a combination of stomping and a really low sound. This honestly scared the hell out of me. I, in all of my infinite wisdom, decided to see what it was. When I opened my door, I saw the same thing that I saw at my grandparents house. I teared up from fear and left the light on and fitfully tried to sleep. It didn't work well.

Maybe a month and a half had passed after the last incident. I was at a friends house and he and I cleaned out his shed to we could just hang out in there and smoke his hookah. He usually has a lot of peopleover to his house, but this night it was just he and I. We were smoking hookah and were almost finished. We were just listening to some music and I was just sitting there listening to the music when all of the sudden a black flash darted underneath my legs but I didn't feel anything. I start to look around to see if one of his cats came in with us. As I started to look around, I realize that there is no cat in the shed. I start to become afraid on the inside but trying to keep myself outwardly calm. I look up at my friend, who the look of being close to panic and, all he says to me is, "I think something just ran underneath your legs." At this point, I started freaking out because I didn't say anything about it. He told me that he saw it as well. We both ran out of the shed and went into his house and just watched TV until we calmed down and went to sleep.

This was the last time anything like that has happened. This was maybe 8 weeks ago. I saw this question and figured that this could be a good read to someone TL;DR: I have a demon and it's scary

Lichenologic · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you should feed it and keep it as your pet.

fates_fury · 2 points · Posted at 23:08:07 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Chances are from your description, it's not a demon. It isn't trying to hurt you, and it isn't trying to do anything else.

leorising · 6 points · Posted at 20:56:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest shit I heard was another redditor describing how he was doing a 10 day hike or something in the redwoods and saw no one the entire time.

Came back and got his film developed and there were a couple of pics of him sleeping in his sleeping bag.

Can't find that post but it was creepy as shit.

electrobolt · 3 points · Posted at 01:55:24 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds like it was adapted from a well-known creepypasta of the same topic, so I'm crossing my fingers that it wasn't true. :(

I USED TO LIKE THE WOODS BEFORE THIS THREAD

q8p · 7 points · Posted at 21:06:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm late to the party and this was all in my head (literally), but it still sticks with me.

I had just recently had jaw surgery and my jaw was still wired shut. To deal with the pain I was prescribed liquid oxycodone. The pain actually wasn't all that bad, the doctor described the surgery as "perfect" so I guess it being done well equated to less trauma and pain. Anyways. I had only been taking like half doses of the oxycodone whenever my jaw started to ache and even that still made me a bit buzzed, but one night right before it was really starting to hurt so I was just like, okay, it says it right there on the bottle, I'll take the full tablespoon. Well, it certainly got rid of my paint and soon I was tripping pretty hard, but I was so so tired that soon I was out like a light. That night is forever etched in my memory. I don't know what you would call a dream that is only scary when you wake up, but that's what this was.

The entire drug-fueled episode consisted of me being torn apart by myself. I could simultaneously feel myself being violently disemboweled and feel myself doing the disemboweling. And I don't just mean that I was aware of it, I mean feel it. I felt it. I can still feel it. It lasted an eternity in my dream and all of reality was just awash in blood and gore and bones, but it was all me. The worst part. The part that still makes me go flush when I remember was that I enjoyed it. It was a distinct feeling of fevered euphoria as my body was rent apart. Just wave after wave of ecstasy and offal.

I woke up terrified and drenched in sweat.

xpensivewino · 5 points · Posted at 21:22:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My great aunt from Trinidad was a chain smoker. I was little when I knew her and it's pretty much the only thing I remember about visiting her. The day she died, my family's home in Canada wreaked of cigarette smoke to the point we had all the windows open on a freezing cold November day. It lasted one day and then just vanished. My mom assumes she'd just stopped in to say Bye.

gaymy · 8 points · Posted at 22:17:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Something I heard happened to a girl in student halls in Edinburgh last year - the locks on the halls doors were faulty and so wouldn't always lock securely, but the University didn't take immediate action to fix them. In the meantime, a student went to her en-suite bathroom one night to get ready for bed. As she was brushing her hair in the mirror, she noticed in the reflection that there was a man lying under her bed. She carried on brushing, trying to act as if she hadn't noticed him, then walked out of her room and locked it from the outside, locking the man in. She called the police and when he was arrested, not only was he found to be a known rapist but he also had a knife. Freaked me out for the rest of my stay in halls.. I'm just so glad she dealt with it so logically and got out safe.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 03:56:05 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

How did she lock it from the outside?

gaymy · 1 points · Posted at 10:36:24 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because in halls you have a key to lock your individual bedroom door as well as your front door.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:58:53 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know, but you can't lock a door from the outside in a way that it is not possible to unlock it from the inside. If you could then anyone at any time could take anyone prisoner in their own rooms.

gaymy · 2 points · Posted at 20:54:07 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well yes, you could technically take someone prisoner in your room if you wanted to but no one would expect a student to do that. You'd be right if it were a latch but it was most likely a key hole where you have to use a key on either side of the door to unlock it.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:57:14 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm still dubious; first of all i would expect exactly that and nothing less from college kids, my doors are like that but my house was built in 1922 and it is a major pain in the ass, and finally student housing would never have that because it's an enormous fire hazard

jezzerat · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:16 on June 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

Considering how many dorm residents every year get "locked" in their rooms by pennies their fellow residents have quietly and painstakingly wedged in their doorjambs while they sleep, a school would have to be insane to give them doors that can't be unlocked from the inside.

nathanb2159 · 5 points · Posted at 02:07:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

An event that happened to me when I was younger, may not be creepy to you, but it sure as hell was creepy for me.

When I was 9, my father and I went camping in the Glass House Mountains in Queensland Australia.

We were camping in a 2 man tent in the middle of the woods.

I woke up in the middle of the night to a light flashing around the outside of the tent, however I couldn't hear any footsteps or movement. The light progressively got faster and faster, at this point I woke my father up and he stepped out of the tent to see what it was, he couldn't see anything near us that could be causing that light.

He said "Fuck it" and took me out of the tent and put me in the front seat of the camper van. He sat in the driver seat and we both went back to sleep.

I woke up again about an hour or so later to a man staring at me from the windscreen of the van. He stared at me for what seemed to be an eternity. I tried waking my father up, as he was waking up the man walked away.

I told my father and he got out of the van to see if anyone was around. He found no one.

He then got back in the van and we then drove off to find a motel to stay at.

To cheer me up he started running over cane toads on the way out of the woods. (odd way to cheer a 9 year old up to be honest)

Apologies about the grammar and sentence structure.

squashedfrog462 · 3 points · Posted at 02:19:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yowie.

electrobolt · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:01 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your dad sounds like an awesome guy. And yes, that was definitely creepy as hell.

Sasquatchamunk · 8 points · Posted at 02:27:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe last year or the year before, I slept in a different room (same house) than I did before. At the time, I didn't have a bedframe; I just slept on a mattress which was on the floor next to a children's bunk bed, facing the closet door of our small room (I shared the room with my two sisters). One night, I feel asleep maybe around 12 or 1? It wasn't terribly late. I only slept for a few hours, I think, because when I woke up, it was still dark and I assumed everyone was asleep because it was deathly quiet. Now, I was and still am a kind of fearful person, and this was only a short time after I had seen Zombieland for the first time, so I was fucking terrified. I was always sure to keep my door closed and fuck it all if I had to pee in the middle of the night--nothing terrified me more than the thought of opening the door to go to the bathroom and seeing a zombie shamble by. Of course, I knew this was my imagination screwing me over, but it still scared me. That being said, it scared the shit out of me when I woke up and it was still dark, late, and no one was awake, and yet my door was open--wide open, as well as the closet door. I couldn't see what, if anything, was in the closet, as the hinges were on the right side of the doorframe and he door opened towards me. I remember being far too scared to actually get up and check why the doors were open, so I just stayed still, in my bed, not making a peep and holding onto my blankets for dear life. My cat, Gatito, always slept next to me, and tonight was no difference. He sat crouched on a folded blanket beside my bed, and he was wide awake as well, now. He seemed confused and a little scared, and was staring at the open closet door. This was uncharacteristic for him, which only made the situation even more frightening. I've considered that maybe my dad was in there, daggering out some old clothes or something, but the closet was pretty small the go with the small room; there wasn't really any room for a person to be in there and not be seen or heard, even with how the door was opened. The light wasn't even on in there! After a few tense minutes of just sitting there, terrified, looking back and forth between my cat and the closet, my cat got up and, in crouched-cat-attack-mode (like when two cats are about to pounce at each other, y'know?) and walked cautiously over to the closet. He peeked around the door inside, stood for a moment and stared, and darted out of the room. I could swear I almost shit myself then. No one was awake, the doors were open, it was still dark, and even the brave old cat was at least a little scared of whatever the fuck was in there. I don't know exactly how I managed to fall asleep after that, but eventually I did, and you can bet your ass I didn't get up to close either door or check what may have been in the closet. The next morning I was a little less scared about it; everyone was awake and t was brighter out now, so when I woke up, I finally took a look in the closet--nothing. To this day, I have no clue what was in there; it had to have been something to freak out the cat like that.

Deadbreeze · 3 points · Posted at 21:39:02 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just imagine the cat: "I'll just take a look and see what's in he-WHOA, fuck it, you're on your own, BYE!"

AmbystomaMexicanum · 7 points · Posted at 06:34:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

It's hilarious now, but at the time it scared the shit out of me.

I was in Paris on a school trip my senior year, and we were sitting on the fairly-full metro, headed back to the hotel after dinner. At one of the stops, some guys get on, one of them carrying a large, black, square-ish thing with a handle on top. One of them starts speaking in French very loudly and quickly, clearly addressing everyone in the car. None of us could speak French well enough to understand what they were saying (they didn't offer it at my school) and the only person who would have been able to understand them was our tour guide, who was at the front of the car, out of sight. Obviously, we thought they were going to blow up the train or something. What happened next is something I will never forget. All of a sudden, loud techno music starts playing and the guys start dancing. Then they start stripping. They danced up and down the car taking off various articles of clothing until they were wearing nothing but their underwear. The train stopped and they got off, still undressed and carrying the speaker with the music still blasting. Our tour guide later explained that they had said they were out-of-work "actors" and that they were accepting donations.

Tl;dr: Thought some sketchy guys on the metro were French terrorists. They were strippers.

Edit: I have pictures. http://imgur.com/a/F4TkC

Bdragonsky · 7 points · Posted at 06:52:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was young I went down stairs one night to get some water and I found that the TV was on, but it was on a channel with no signal so you know it looked like a snow storm on the screen. Anyways being the youngster that I was I said "Who's there?" and then all of a sudden the TV just shuts off.

TheLittleBox · 8 points · Posted at 22:50:01 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest thing to ever happen to me was while peeing. I was taking a piss in a bathroom with no windows. Mid stream, one of the lights does that "bright flash, burn out." I pissed all over the toilet. Got my heart racing an for the longest time I didn't use that bathroom in fear of it happening twice.

Shroomiedoom · 6 points · Posted at 00:10:59 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

This probably wont scare too many people, but it made my heart drop a bit. I used to go to school at Santa Monica college years ago. I've since moved to the northern part of the state. Once in April I got an automated voice message letting me know that there was a bomb threat on campus. I haven't gone there in years, so I just sent a text to nearby friends to avoid the campus like the plague. Nothing ever came of it, and I almost considered it to be a joke- it sounded almost fake. This morning I got a call stating that a possible shooter has been sighted on the campus and to stay inside and lock all doors. Again, I didn't think much of it. I just got a phone call and hearing that creepy robotic voice made my stomach drop. All the message said was that "councilors will be available to help students and faculty starting today in ____ building" and continued on other times they would be available. A quick google search confirmed. :/

Lamaomgrofl · 12 points · Posted at 14:10:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was 8 years old, and I finally got to have my own room. Adorned it with posters, toys and other stuff a typical 8 year old has.

During the day, that room was the best place to be, but at night things just got fucked up. My room had this window, which faced out towards the house next door and the street. And I didn't know why, but at around 12-2 AM I would hear noises. Freaky noises. They first sounded like creaks, slowly getting louder and louder, like someone was walking on some worn out floorboards or something. After some time, they increased in intensity and frequency, like that person was sprinting across such a floor, and damn, I was scared at that time. I would huddle in my blankets and wait until the noises ended.

Alas, those creaks were only the beginning. After the creaking noises had gone out, they would be joined by moans and snarls, and eventually, screams. Just like the creaks, they would be barely noticeable at first, but after sometime they got so loud that it was like they were right next to me. This sequence of noises went on for an hour or so, always around the same time each day, and needless to say my 8 year old self was scared shitless, thinking that some infernal hellspawn was preying on those outside and soon enough I would be next.

For the next 5 years, I had to listen to those noises every single day. Sometimes they would get so loud that I would often be jarred out of sleep by them, and eventually one day I decided to check out what was happening.

At around 1 30 AM that night, I heard no noises, and saw nothing in the night. I was convinced that I had somehow managed to scare away the beast with my bravado (13 year old me was kind of dumb). I decided to go to call it a night and look for the source tomorrow, and it was at that moment that I heard them begin.

Suddenly, finding the source of the noises didn't seem like a good idea, and I was mentally cursing myself for my stupidity. After an internal debate, and in a fit of sleep deprived bravery, I flung aside the curtains, and saw...

My neighbors. Their shadows anyways. It looked like they were jumping around the room or something, and then suddenly my mind pieced everything together. They were having sex. Loud, noisy, weird sex. The creaks were made by their motions on the bed, while the moans and screams were coming from the wife.

Needless to say, I always felt weird meeting them after this incident.

TL;DR: Neighbors were having weird, noisy sex, scared the shit out of 8 year old me and plagued me for the next 5 years or so.

FancyOctopusHat · 14 points · Posted at 16:09:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My boyfriend has night terrors sometimes. Creepy things he has woken me up with:

Hiss of panic "What the fuck is crawling across the ceiling?!???"

Shakes me awake "Baby there's someone in the room ...looking at us!!!"

Grabs my arm and stares into my eyes and whispers... "Who is this?"

I am fully prepared to wake up calm in the event of a home invasion or zombie apocalypse.

etothepowerof3 · 3 points · Posted at 22:41:37 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

I do this to my boyfriend and unfortunately remember at least half of them, much to my later embarrassment.

Here's the worst case though:

We only have an air conditioner in the living room, so in the summer he sleeps on the couch while I sleep in the bed. There have been several occasions where I've had a night terror in bed and have to walk to to the living room to either save him from or make him kill the giant spider. Usually in the amount of time it takes to walk from the bedroom to the living room, I'll "come-to" and realize that whatever thing was trying to kill me that night was a figment of my imagination. But this means that I'm left standing in the middle of the living room... in the dark... just staring at him, debating whether or not to wake him up. It's gotta seem like something straight out of Paranormal Activity.

I would absolutely flip my shit if the roles were reversed and I woke up and saw him looming over me. Sorry, boyfriend!

Nataliyana · 2 points · Posted at 22:48:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My fiancé did this a couple of times, he slammed his hand against the wall behind the bed then threw something to the floor sitting bolt upright. I asked him what the fuck he was doing and apparently there was a 'huge spider, huge spider a spider", i asked him if he was asleep "i don't know" was his response. the heart attacks he has given me over the years, i tell you.

FancyOctopusHat · 2 points · Posted at 00:27:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's our ninja training!

[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 19:16:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not really creepy, but horrible. When I was a kid, fourth grade, I had a friend that lived in the nastiest part of town but at the time, all I thought was that it was just a neighborhood with cracked streets. Pretty effin' common around California, certain areas just get no road maintenance.

Anyway, I'm sleeping over and all of the sudden at like 2 in the morning, I hear this woman shouting in the alley behind the house. I could hear her running down and as she got closer to the house, I could hear her shouting things like "No!" and "Get away from me!" Well, her attacker caught her right near the house because I essentially got premium audio of a woman being attacked and raped for at least fifteen minutes. It scared the fucking shit out of me and I remember wanting to call the police so bad I was almost in tears, but my friend's mother wouldn't allow it, saying it was best to not get involved with the police.

Fuck that shit! I call the goddamn police all the time now. I was talking to a friend recently too who made a comment about not getting involved because I might get killed. I'm not running into fights left and right like some wannabe superhero, but if I hear a pretty nasty-sounding altercation (or worst case scenario, some person being savagely attacked asking for help) I'm going to at least call the police. I can't just not act anymore.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 21:28:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is so messed up she wouldn't even anonymously get that woman some help.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:03:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tell me about it.

iamstar · 12 points · Posted at 00:44:42 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)*

The scariest event in my life (aside from nightmares) is the few months that I rented an old condo (creaky stairs, old wallpaper, and cupboards) in Phoenix with my husband. The first week was fine, just a kind of eerie unfamiliar feeling, then at night actually every night I would hear foot steps coming up the stairs and stop at my bedroom door. Our bedroom was the first room at the top of the stairs... I told my husband and he shook it off and thought I was just hearing things. Every night I would stay awake and wait for the steps, I was in constant fear that one night they would continue on into our room and that hell would follow. i told my mother about my problem and she gave me a claddagh ring made of malachite (supposedly wards off evil), and it comforted me quite a bit when home alone. One day I was getting ready for a shower and I took my ring off and placed it on my tv (huge projection screen) and took my showering thinking nothing of it. After I was dry and clothed I went down stairs to retrieve my ring and it had vanished! I freaked out and started searching everywhere thinking maybe one of my large dogs had knocked it down. I frantically searched for about an hr then i sat on my floor and cried. When i stopped crying i called my mom and told her what had happened and when i turned around towards my tv what i saw made my blood run cold. There my ring was, just where i had left it prior to my shower. I reached for it and dropped to my knees and put it on no sooner did I hear my toilet seat upstairs slam down terribly hard. I was horrified. I wanted to move, but sadly we didn't have the funds to break our lease. Things were fairly calm for a while (except the footsteps) until one day my sister came to visit me. We stayed up late watching movies and snacking, I got up to go to the bathroom and as I was walking up the stairs I heard and FELT someone say 'fucking slut' into my ear as clear as bells. I screamed and crumpled down, my sister asked what happened (obviously thinking I had fell). I asked her what someone on the tv had just said thinking maybe I heard that but it was no where close to what I heard... And when I say I felt it, I mean I felt someone ls breath on my face when I heard those words, as it someone had leaned in and whispered harshly... I moved soon after, I felt depressed and paranoid constantly. Much happier away from that place. Never could find any records of abnormalities at the condo. Still, im glad to be rid of it.

[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 16:34:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nobody has posted this yet... so here you go. Ever hear of Ted the Caver?

Sleep tight.

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/

cannibalistic_duck · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It.. It stopped at page 10.. What happened? What's going on? I need answers..

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2100573/

ZK419 · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Well that was a huge disappointment. Did I really just read all of that for nothing? D:

Edit: Aw junk. Just found this on google. http://grahamjw.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/ted-the-caver-mystery/

champ999 · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well crap. I live in Provo, and I've been invited to hike Timpanogos a few times. Not sure I want to now.

Teslok · 2 points · Posted at 21:14:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for posting this; I had been looking for this story again.

Super_Pie · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did not want to click there

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what the actual fuck

zeroX90 · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The most terrifying thing, IMO, was the detailed description and pictures of that tight crawl space. NOPE

Starklet · 14 points · Posted at 15:31:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This may not get too noticed but ill tell it anyway.

Once I took some melatonin before bed to help me sleep. I guess I took to much because I was hallucinating all night. I woke up once and looked to the feet of my bed... To see a short hooded figure standing there. I think "wtf is that?".

All of the Sudden this thing grabs my feet from under the covers and starts pulling me off the bed. I'm laying there in disbelief as this creature pulls me farther and farther; I can hear the cracking of bones in my feet as his grip tightens. There's this high pitch screeching noise that get louder and louder. "This can't be happening" I say to myself over and over.

And just before he drags me into who knows what terrible abyss, I wake up.

Another story:

I was going to the bathroom to brush my teeth, I was maybe 12 years old. This was in the middle of the night; everyone was sleeping. On the way to the bathroom I look out the window to see this small animal-like figure walk across the view of the window. It kinda freaked me out.

I went into the bathroom nonetheless. As I was brushing my teeth, something starts clawing the window screen from the outside viciously, like its trying to get into my house and take me to the horrible dimension it came from. It scares me half to death. I run out of the bathroom so fast I thought I had teleported.

I soon build up the courage to look out the door in the back yard... And my cat comes slinking in.

These are both true and bring back shivers as I write this.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:26:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In college, right before I graduated, I lived in a house with a couple other people, but on this one particular night I was the only one home. Set up: Because I was going to be moving soon I had lots of boxes around my room. I also have a cat.

So I was alone in the house one night, already asleep when something wakes me and I hear a thump one of the boxes in my room. I just assumed it was the cat playing and started to drift back to sleep. Then I felt the cat on the bed next to me. She was crawling onto me. But as she kept crawling I started to think "this is too heavy to be my cat." So I opened my eyes and saw an arm across me. I turned my head and looked up into a face staring down at mine. My fight-of-flight instinct failed me and all I did was say "What the hell. Who are you?" And he/she calmly got up and walked out my bedroom door. I called the police but they didn't find anyone and weren't able to determine how someone got in.

Some people have suggested that it was a nightmare, but I know that it actually happened because I had to get out of bed to close bedroom door after he/she walked out, and I always slept with the door closed. To this day I can never be sure if this was a legit bedroom intruder or a ghost. But I never slept in that room again.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 3 points · Posted at 02:32:09 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I would have actually died from fear.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:27 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd have started swinging

Kaylie14 · 12 points · Posted at 04:50:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is my dad's story. He was sleeping with my step mom and had a dream that he was naked, alone, and in the fetal position in the same bed. In his dream he kept rocking back and forth saying, "please God just get it away from me. Please just make it go away." He woke up and thought 'get what away from me?' After a few seconds, he heard in what he described the most deep, dark voice coming from the back of his bed that drew out the word 'god' and said, "who are you to say that God is real".. He said he froze there and just waited for morning. While my step mom was cooking, he was sitting at the table and asked her as casually as he could, "did you hear anything strange last night?" Wondering if it was his imagination. She turned around with tears running down her face saying she heard it too.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:54:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ay caramba!

Defengar · 10 points · Posted at 07:19:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

My great grandfather was an American army medic in WW1. He told me once that he became buddies with a British soldier who had been fighting since the beginning of the war.

Apparently the British guy told my great grandfather that once during the battle of the Somme (a three month battle in 1916 that resulted in over 1,000,000 casualties) during an unusually quiet night him and his squad mates had been keeping watch in the trenches when they saw something moving out in the no mans land. It was something tall, thin, and completely shrouded in dark material. He said it seemed to glide across the ground, and ever so often it would stop, and kneel (he was pretty sure it must have been stopping at dead soldiers). After only a minute or two he said it seemed to fade into the darkness like it had never existed. He, and the rest of the men around him were all to terrified to call out or take a shot at it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:12 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

At this point I would have signaled to the other trench with a very emphatic "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?"

dumdum1 · 10 points · Posted at 09:30:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I found a sex tape of my parents once.

kieranjane · 0 points · Posted at 09:38:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh god! was it pretty out there?

Penguinsaretheshit · 13 points · Posted at 11:25:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was never a scary or creepy memory, but for those who I have told they have all been freaked out by it.

It happened back when I was young maybe about 6 or 7 and I live in East London in a council house. One day my mum and my aunt were in the living room and I went upstairs. All my other siblings and father was out so it was just us three. Anyways I went up stairs to my sisters room and she had one of those high beds with a desk underneath and me being short I couldn't see very well on the bed but I could see a a figure of a girl laying down. Thinking it was my sister I called her name, I called her name a couple of times and she didn't answer so I thought she was asleep. So I carried into my room blah blah anyways 30 min later our dog Jack was going crazy so I came out my room and saw that he was in my sisters room growling and going crazy at the bed. So my mum and my aunt run upstairs with a bat and a knife, and I went "mum he's probably growling at Alex" (my sister) but then she said "no, Alex is out with your dad". When I look in that bed there wasn't anyone there.

So yeah creepy for some but when I look back on it, it isn't for me. Also I've written this on my phone, so bad grammar, formatting you know why.

drteq · 22 points · Posted at 15:16:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up near a pretty massive storm drainage system that ran through the city. We would ride our bikes (flash lights taped to handle bars) all through these systems. Occasionally we would explore upstream (areas of the tunnel that didn't seem to go anywhere or make sense). It was easy to get lost for awhile, but as long as you rode 'down stream', you could usually find your way out pretty easily.. and worse case scenario you could pop open a manhole and hope nobody ran you over. Although the manholes were often miles apart, so a quick exit was never assured.

We found graffiti that read 'Turn back or die!' We kept following and found a room where many tunnels ran together with all kinds of 'Satanic' worship, bones and altars, candles and such. It mostly seemed like a sham, as I'd seen a lot of 'pretend' stuff and over the top wanna be goth kids so that didn't scare me much.

We heard something coming from a connecting tunnel, looked over and it was 3 or 4 guys in robes running towards us waving machetes.

I have never ridden a bike faster than that day. It was like playing F-Zero.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:01:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck...

chickensoup90 · 3 points · Posted at 19:58:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seriously?! That would give me a heart attack!

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 13:20:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was sitting in my room the other day and all of a sudden, I hear what sounds like a bookcase falling over on the other side of the house. I went to look for it, couldn't find it. I looked for the dog and cat, but they were in the bathroom across from my room, nowhere close to the sound. I figured I would ask my mom, who was outside near the room it sounded like the sound came from and my sister, who was near my room; neither of them had any idea what I was talking about. I was on edge for the rest of the day

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:17:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exploding head syndrome?

GeekAndDestroy · 7 points · Posted at 14:58:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The night I saw the tooth fairy.

When I was a kid, I woke up one night after being jostled by the tooth fairy retrieving her prize. I took a peak as she walked out of the room. What I saw was the back of a woman with long brown hair. She was completely naked, and had wings made of skin, like something out of a horror movie. Almost like the skin was wax that had been melted over the bone, and dripping off. My mom had/has short blonde hair and a different physique, and no other woman in the household.

To this day, I still believe in the tooth fairy, and I know to be scared. My pillow is always booby trapped, just in case she returns.

HenriVolney · 6 points · Posted at 16:01:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, I studied human history for several years and pretty much everything I learned was scarier than any horror movie.

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:07 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is unbelievable/horrifying/outrageous what people can dream up to do to each other. My husband has a theory that when shit like this happens, the perpetrator doesn't see the victim as a person, but as an object.

Deadbreeze · 2 points · Posted at 03:05:44 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what happens when people start to feel entitled. The rich man doesn't see the homeless man as a fellow human. He sees him as a bum. Lazy, good for nothing, leech on society. Never mind that this man lost his mind fighting for this mans "freedoms," or that he just couldn't flex to societies standards like everyone else did, and therefore "cracked," or maybe just has a sickness (addiction) that our system fails to handle properly. We relay negativity through the wire, creating horrible, fear mongering stereotypes of people from different cultures, religious sects or countries. Our fears our being exemplified and played on, so that soon, we will not see people as people, but monsters in human form, all too eager to unknowingly aid in our own entrapment, and someday, finally, our own destruction.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:16:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 8 years old my mom brought my brother and I back to her home village in the Philippines. As kids the first thing we noticed was a female dog and its male offspring and we played with the two with our cousin. A few days later I wake up one morning and I hear crying and I go outside to see the mother dog hanging from a tree. I was so shocked the image is still in my head. I asked my mom why? Who would do this? They said they did because its what's for dinner (made me realize what is poor and how spoiled we were as kids in north america) but I still heard the crying. I found my cousin hiding under the house. He found the male offspring burrowed himself in the ground and he was holding the dog crying. I've never seen so much compassion and sadness in my life.

PurpleParasite · 7 points · Posted at 16:33:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Picture the scene: I've just had my wisdom teeth out, I'm a solid [8] on all the shit they put me on. I'm in a full on fuck the system high, Pepsi out of Coke glasses, taking pictures with flash in museums mode. My mom is like, no you gotta lay down and put these sandpaper cotton balls in your mouth here's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Now I don't know if you've ever watched that movie on drugs but it is the scariest thing I've ever seen. I literally shit myself. That ghost voice shit with the cat blood or whatever everywhere Shudders

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:47:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When I was 12, my 8-year-old sister and I visited my grandparents' ranch house in west Texas for a week or so in the summer. We slept in the spare bedroom which had a HUGE 4 poster king-sized bed, which my sister and I shared. Across from the foot of the bed was a dresser-type thing with a mirror attached up against the wall. One night, a rather loud thunderstorm came upon us. It didn't really bother me. I always liked falling asleep to the sound of rain and thunder. So, I drifted off to sleep and was rudely awoken by my sister covering my mouth. I was about to yell at her to cut the shit when I saw the look of absolute horror in her eyes and the tears on her face. I was confused. Was she scared of the storm? Did she have a bad dream? Just confused at this point. The storm was still raging outside and intermittent lighting would flash through the window, illuminating the whole room. She put a finger to her lips and pointed to the foot of the bed. The bed was REALLY tall, so at first I saw nothing. Then I noticed the mirror attached to the dresser. It was old and decrepit, and the mirror had a slight forward tilt. As my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I began to see something on the floor at the foot of the bed. Then came the lightning, Illuminating the room just long enough to show me a man, lying in the fetal position on the floor. His back was to the mirror, and he was somewhat underneath the bed. Well, I thought. This is how I'm going to die. Adrenaline kicked in and I grabbed my sister and flew out the door, shutting it, and ran into my grandparents' room. Trying my best to remain calm, I explained what I saw. Then immediately, my grandfather grabbed his revolver off the bedside table (fuckin' Texas) and told us to stay there. We heard through the wall, him busting into our room only to find it empty. He searched the house to find nobody, except water was all over the floor. His verdict was that the man we saw was a borderjumper taking refuge in the house to avoid the storm. My grandparents' ranch was in Texas about 2 hours from the border, so they have had a few run-ins with illegals in their time. But shit man. As a 12-year-old, I was certain this vato was going to shank me. Even now as a grown man, revisiting that house gives me chills.

TL;DR An illegal immigrant snuck into my bedroom during a thunderstorm, thus freaking me the fuck out.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 13:19:28 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

This seems both legitimate and freaky as fuck. I can only hope my upvote helps get the word out.

coheedcollapse · 7 points · Posted at 17:49:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Well known here - but the Jonestown Death Tape always freaks me out. The final 44 minutes before Jim Jones and over 900 members of his cult commit suicide. The worst is hearing those kids crying in the background and knowing that their parents have willfully fed them deadly poison. Second worst is hearing all of those people clapping, applauding, amen-ing, and cursing dissenters when it's becoming more and more obvious what Jones is leading up to.

I made the mistake of listening to it alone in a dark room. I don't think I've ever been so sad/scared/disturbed in my life.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:39:20 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I can hear when the kids start to feel sick. I distintcly heard a kid say "I don't want to," then the fucker who is talking says "go tell him he's setting an example, sit him down and tell him. " I have two kids, this is really beyond words disgusting :-<

littlehobbit · 6 points · Posted at 18:20:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few years ago, my uncle was dying from pancreatic cancer. The day that he died, I was woken up by the a loud crash coming from the living room at about 4 am. Not a minute after the crash, my phone rang. It was my mom telling me her brother had just died.

When the phone call was over, I headed over to the living room to find someone had thrown a rather large stone through the window.

At 4 am. The moment my uncle died.

CabooseMSG · 5 points · Posted at 19:17:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't my story, but one of my friend's. Me and my friend work at a local grocery store that used to be the local hospital. He's a manager, and one night he was closing up. The back storage area and freezer is scary enough as it is, but being in the store, all alone, at night is the icing on the scary cake. So he was in the back, turning off the lights and locking the doors, when he saw something block the reflection on this watermelon cart. So this cart is super bright yellow, bright enough to see blurry reflections in, but the reflection was blocked by something, so he turned around to see if any of the employees came back for some reason or if a customer wandered in to the back. He saw nothing though, so he opened to door back into the store area, and as he walked out into the aisles he heard banging on the freezer. The freezer he just locked. He opened the freezer door, saw nothing, and said he noped the fuck out of there without even locking it back up. Old hospitals man...

NothingButBooty · 6 points · Posted at 19:57:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not me, but a friend of mine witnessed a vicious stabbing.

It was late at night and most (if not all) people that lived in the townhouses where my friend lived had gone to sleep. My friend was still awake watching a TV show. Out of nowhere he heard tires squeal, car doors slam and then a bunch of yelling outside. He got up to see what was going on and he saw five or six guys, all wielding knives, stabbing another guy. Amazingly the guy that got stabbed was still alive. He began banging on peoples doors, but everyone was presumably asleep. When he got to my friends door, my friends father was afraid to open it (in case the assailants were still around) so he simply yelled through the door that an ambulance was on the way. After a few minutes my friend's father did go outside to help the man. The ambulance showed up minutes later and the guy survived the whole ordeal.

Kinnison · 8 points · Posted at 20:00:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking love threads like this, here's my story: Leaving a friend's party who lives out in the country about 20 miles from the city, complete darkness in the middle of winter, I was not drunk or tipsy but feeling happy from a couple drinks over a 6 hour period. I got in my car and started driving home, when this sudden feeling that something was wrong hit me. There was someone in the backseat of my car. I was the first one to leave so I knew it wasn't one of the other guests. As I was driving I just felt this almost immobilizing fear, I could NOT look in the rear view mirror, I knew if I did I would see something I that I would never forget, that I didn't want to see. I finally made it home, I pulled up in to the driveway, turned the car off and sat there for a couple seconds which felt like an eternity. Heard and felt the rear passenger side door open and close, I was pretty sure I was going to die but nothing happened. I eventually went inside and this flood or relief came over still, I have no idea who that person was or what it was.

house_clouds · 8 points · Posted at 00:24:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This will be buried. I posted this quite awhile ago and besides a few other occurances, this one sticks out.

About five years ago I was living in NYC and was walking home pretty late. There were some dudes that got on and off the same subway stops I did and were walking behind me, far enough away but close enough that I picked up my step. I could hear them yelling to me/talking about me/catcalling. I finally got close to my complex's main door (even though I never had trouble with them again, looking back I wish I was smart enough to not show them where I lived) and was blindly reaching around my purse for my keys and I couldn't find them. The guys were getting closer and I was starting to panic a bit. On one hand, I didn't want to stop at my building and have nowhere to go and on the other hand, I didn't want to keep walking and have nowhere to go.

Literally walking up to my building, my roommate opens the main door. Without saying a word I slide in and shut the door, which locks. I asked him if he was leaving and he said "No, I thought I heard you calling* from out front. I found your keys."

*we had a busted call box by the entrance that had never worked. I explained what happened, not to mention he saw me practically run inside, so we tested the box later and it was still broken.

TLDR: roommate unknowingly saved me from some pervs because he thought I called our apt via a broken call box.

levv18 · 7 points · Posted at 01:49:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One early summer in high school, I found an old book from the 1930s my stepdad had brought with him from the US. I decided to take it into my room and read it before I went to sleep.

Settling in, the book seemed alright. An intelligent discussion of evolution, God and man. As dusk progressed, I began to feel oddly cold. Then colder. My sheets weren't enough. I had to get a blanket. The sky outside became dark. I was freezing. I reluctantly grabbed my comforter out of the closet, and it helped. Eventually, groggy and ready to dream, I put the book down and went to sleep.

I woke up boiling hot. I looked at the clock. It had barely been an hour since I went to sleep. I frustratedly threw the comforter off the bed and closed my eyes.

This happened every night I read the book. Whenever I would read Harry Potter, Inkheart, nothing but sheets. But the moment I would pick up that book, open its worn, faded covers and grasp the thick pages, I would begin to freeze.

How do I know it wasn't just the house? My window couldn't open, and our older house had no air conditioning.

messy_jesse · 5 points · Posted at 02:51:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is one of the scariest things I have ever heard in my life. I hope you all understand.

I had an abusive father when I was younger and the only way my mother could get the courts to not make me live with him every weekend was to limit the child support to as low as the courts would go. I have since tried to get a better relationship with him but he has never admitted anything he has ever done to anyone. He likes to pit my half-sibblings against me by saying things like "You dont love any of us and you are hateful and pathetic." He sent me an email over winter break, on christmas eve, that was four pages long telling me i was a bad son and man in general. This time I called him on the phone and reamed him a new one and belittled him to the point where he started crying. after a hour of me telling him off for all the shit he has ever done, there is silence. I remain silent and just before I hang up the phone, I hear him quietly, almost breathe "I am so sorry Jesse. I am so sorry for everything." I had no clue how to enter this new chapter in my life and it terrified me.

fates_fury · 3 points · Posted at 06:47:56 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

My father was a lot like this.

Good for you. Stand up for yourself, and take control of your life. <3

Howdy_McGee · 6 points · Posted at 06:17:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

There was an audio on Youtube of a 911 call from an elderly lady talking about someone stalking around outside her house. Suddenly you hear her say that he's in the house and then silence.

Still don't know if there was an explanation or something on it or whether it was real / fake.

I'll see if I can find the video.

EDIT: Here it is

cmrudy · 1 points · Posted at 08:44:29 on October 22, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's worked to scare the hell out of me

kodiackjack · 8 points · Posted at 17:40:37 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Two stories... I saw a post on here that was talking about tornadoes and another that was talking about sleep paralysis, and I have some scary/creepy stories about both of those..

First story is about my experience with "sleep paralysis". I set those words in parenthesis because even though that is what I was told was happening to me, I have a feeling that this may not be all that is to this...

I was in the military, living in the barracks at Fort Riley, KS. This night was like any other night, either watching TV or playing Call of Duty before drifting off to sleep at around 10:00. I had woken up at about 11:00 11:30 pm and I had felt something pressing me down onto my bed. I was laying on my side so I tried to roll over to see what it was that was on me, and I could not move. I do remember seeing out of the corner of my peripheral vision some large creepy eyes, and all I wanted to do was scream. Finally I could move, and I bolted up and turned on the lights.. Nothing. My heart and mind were both racing, so it took me awhile to get back to sleep. 2:00 am comes around, and the same thing happens again. Same creepy eyes, same not being able to move or scream feeling. After that, I did not go back to sleep.. This had happened to me many times before, but this instance was the most recent, and the ones I can remember most clearly...

Second story....

I had just came back from Iraq. It was 2008, at the hight of the housing bubble crash, and there wasn't any work where I was from. My brother had been looking for work for months with no luck, and was told by my older step brother that he could find work in Indiana. The problem was that he had no way to get there. Well, I had a butt-load of cash, and enough time to drive him myself, call it a well deserved road-trip. Anyway, it was me, my brother and a friend of ours driving from KS to Indiana. We took I-70 for the trip, since it is a straight shot from KS to Indiana. Half of the time I couldn't see 5 ft in front of me due to massive winds, hail and torrential rain. There was debris all on the highway, and no cars in sight for most of the trip. There was even animal carcasses , some deer, some I swear were cows. Our friend pleaded with me to stop at a truck stop or something until the storms passed and we could get on our way afterwards. I decided to drive through anyway, and made it to Indiana at about 3 am the next morning. When I had pulled up to my step-brother's apartment, he came running out, screaming at us to get inside. Come to find out, he was in a tornado warning, and according to the news reports that night, we had drove through a massive outbreak of tornadoes throughout the midwest. This trip was in late May of that year.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 23:27:36 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad was deployed in Afghanistan and a few hours after everyone went to sleep, they were suddenly woken up by someone screaming. In a terrified voice, he kept screaming "No! Stay away from me! Stay away from me, NOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

The next morning, they were asking around about it. Apparently, someone forgot to inform the new crew that came in about the guy who had night terrors. My dad asked why no one checked on him. Apparently, they all just laid in their beds with their guns pointed at the doors, waiting for someone to break into their room.

hydrographene · 7 points · Posted at 04:23:00 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bit of a long one, but 100% true and worth the read.

It was around 3am in a smallish town in the UK when a strange sound outside woke me up. It was a mix between a helicopter/train/the afterburners on a jet aircraft. So, as you do, I opened my curtains to a lot of nothingness (you know, being that late), except a bunch of ever-so-slightly moving lights. I think they were red lights, but there were about 5 of them, about 20 feet from each other floating about 50 stories high. I thought at first it was a helicopter, but then they moved apart and together again, really sporadic and then calm. It was fucking weird. They started to remind me of quadrocopters but anyway, I got up, turned on my lights, and was ready to sort some shit out and get to the bottom of it. Turned on my room lights, and these things are getting closer, and this sound is getting louder. I don't know if you've ever been near a helicopter/train, but that shit is scary, far worse when it's a mix of the two with something else combined.

So at this point, I'm shitting bricks. I'm about to wake up my mum/sister then decide not to in case these things come for me, at least this way my family will be safe (weird thought pattern I know but it felt like a real, immanent threat). Anyway, I get back into bed and close my eyes preying these fucking thing will go away and just before I go to sleep, I think that I should write down somewhere or make a marking in my room so that the next day I would know that I was not dreaming. Then I was just thinking I want this shit to be over, so I didn't do the markings/note in the hope that the next morning, I would kind of have plausible deniability in a senes so that I would not know if I saw that freaky shit for real and therefore wouldn't be a target of whatever was behind the flying stuff. To this day, I'm pretty sure I did.

So the next day, I get to school and get on somebody else's computer (so these flying bastards with eerily sounds can't track me) and start to lookup what the fuck is going on. I find out that I live pretty close to an old air base, now thought to be used for some sort of testing, but all sort of hush hush government style. Saw that, and never looked to follow it up again. Few months later, more shit happened. Here is the kicker..

About midnight a few months later, I am walking home from a friends house and I hear this sound. I don't know if you've heard an electricity generator, but that's what it sounded like. But this thing is loud, like, REALLY FUCKING LOUD. I'm walking down the road to investigate the source of this sound, asking random people if they an hear it and it isn't just me and they said they could. I walked at least 2 miles before I knew i was close to it. Some weird lights were behind a bunch of tree, really bright search lights not like before it seemed. Anyway, I get closer and closer to this sound and at this point I'm thinking anything this loud has got to be noticeable by the police etc. Some random neighbourhood in pitch black is in front of me with this huge fucking light and sound but nobody seems to care, because nobody is there. So I'm thinking somebody is about to come out of a house who is involved in the whole thing and kidnap me, so I get on the phone to a friend, tell them where I am etc and run home. I ran two miles non-stop, seriously, things were not adding up. (Note that the closest I got was seeing the massive lights behind trees, but didn't see what it was) Next day I walk back over to the place, only to find an empty field, and the houses that were so vacent that night. I knock on the doors and your typical person comes out, but they say they heard nothing. Seriously, this sound could have broken fucking windows so if they didn't hear it then something is strange. Ask a few people, and they start looking at me like I know something I shouldn't... Back on the phone to a friend, get a few down there, and investigate this field. It's got some weird tunnel/drainage covers all over the place and signs saying you're not allowed to be there. Weird little paths and stuff all over, but since nobody should be there, why are they needed? Right, so now I'm content with what I know, decide to go back with my friends thinking it was just a helicopter with some really big speakers and everybody in these houses are deaf as fuck seeing as a random passer by 2 miles away could hear it. We are walking out of this field, and there is an official walking past with radio equipment. The kind that looks as though it is used for measuring signal strength or something. I look at him, he looks at us. I leave, he goes about his business.

Not a clue what was going on, but I'm going to assume a chopper had to do some kind of emergency landing and the folk in those houses were used to loud noises. I don't know if I want to know the truth, but to this day I'm a little scared to go down those parts.

The town this happened in is Kenilworth, in the UK, famous for its castle. If you want more information, just let me know.

PointsOfView · 6 points · Posted at 22:09:52 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dont want to come out as a little off, or anything, but I have had a few weird experiences throughout my life.

Once I woke up in the middle of the night, floating in the air. Might have been a dream, but it certainly did not feel like one. I turned my head and looked down at my bed, and as people often say in similar stories, they look down on their body. I did not.

All I saw down there was my bed. For some reason floating in the air did not occur to be any strange to me at that moment in my drowsed and peculiar state, so I just turned my head back upwards and fell asleep again.

lilbriggsy · 2 points · Posted at 22:41:01 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had that and I saw my bed and I got dropped I can't recall dreaming because when I reached full consciousness I was bouncing on my bed still in the same position

jezzerat · 6 points · Posted at 02:14:23 on June 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have two creepy things that happened to me. When I was little, I would go every summer to spend a week at my grandmother's house. At the time, I had a small collection of hand puppets I really liked to play with, so I took them with me when I went to my grandmother's. My grandfather had died and she lived alone now, so it was just her and me in the house. The room I slept in had a huge, four-post double bed. I had four puppets, so I came up with the idea of mounting them on the bed posts when I went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, it kind of bothered me that they were facing the bed, like they were watching me while I slept, so the next night I made sure to turn them all facing away from the bed before I went to sleep. The next morning, I woke up, they were facing the bed again. I tried it one more night, double-checking their facing, and woke up to find them turned towards me again. They spent the rest of the week locked inside my suitcase.

There was no way I accidentally brushed against them and turned them. The bed posts were high enough that I had to stand up to reach them, and it was a big double bed. I would have to have been turning gymnastic flips up and down the bed to accidentally brush all four posts. I had never known my grandmother to play a prank in her life, and if she had, I would think at some point she would have hinted about it or brought up the topic of the puppets to gauge my reaction, but I never said anything about them to her, and she never brought them up herself. About the only "logical" explanation I can come up with was maybe I was getting out of the bed and adjusting the puppets myself in my sleep.

The other thing that happened was when I was working at a small Pizza Hut in a strip mall. People that worked there swore the place was haunted and that they heard weird things at night, but I just assumed it was break room talk and didn't pay it any mind. Late one night, the manager and I were the only ones left after closing. She was finishing up the paperwork, and I had just finished locking up the back. The back door of the restaurant was this huge, heavy metal door that locked with a padlocked crossbar. When it was locked, there was no moving it, and there was no way to unlock it from the outside. My boss had finished the paper work, and we were at the front getting ready to go out when we heard it: the back door swinging shut and slamming closed. That door had a very distinctive sound, kind of like a dungeon door in a movie, all squeaking hinges and tomb-like slam; no other door in the building sounded like it, and the sound was clearly coming from the back. And I had just locked it in place a few minutes before. My boss: "Did you hear that?" Me: "No. Did you?" Her: "No. Let's get the fuck out of here." We rushed out, locked the front, set the alarm, and went home. The next day, the whole place was locked up like it was supposed to be. I have absolutely zero explanation for that one, and it still creeps me out to this day.

nutellauncicorn · 5 points · Posted at 13:32:24 on July 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

when i was in 7th grade, i was never good at art. But somehow, i managed to make a fox head out of clay which i thought was really good. When i got home, i went to my room, put my foxhead on the floor and went to lay on my bed, reading some book. about half an hour in, i heard a loud 'snap' noise. i jumped up, and looked at my foxhead. both it's ears had been snapped off. It lay by the end of my bed, about 10 incches from where i put it originally. I am sure no-one came in. this still haunts me to this day.

Sigma-Enigma · 6 points · Posted at 18:57:02 on October 18, 2013 · (Permalink)

About 2 years ago, my father passed away due to illness. In the days following his death and leading up to the funeral we had family from all over the country come to our house and pay respects while also staying the night. One night we were all eating dinner and talking about him, laughing about something. Suddenly, the lights begin to flicker and we all freeze. After about a minute of this happening my uncle turns to me and whispers "Dad says hello."

ShadowRancher · 13 points · Posted at 14:34:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes creepy pasta has gold....this one seriously stuck with me. The Strangers

MoonPark · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepypasta is awesome! My favourite is the Dionaea House, still gives me the heebie-jeebies...

Deadbreeze · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:12 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

And just like that I'm a fan of creepy pasta.

redkat9614 · 11 points · Posted at 15:53:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About a month ago, I was having a terrible day at school. Just one of those days and after I got out, I drove straight home. When I got home, I remembered my housecleaner had come today so I went through the front door as to not let the dog out. When I walked in the front door, I heard the carbon monoxide meter going off, and remembering how it freaks my dog out when she hears it, I go upstairs and turn it off. I started to notice something was wrong when I walked in the door but didnt think anything of it. When I walked downstairs and opened the door to the garage, my dog wasnt there. Remembering that she sometimes sunbathed out on the patio, I walk into the backyard from the garage and start calling her name. Nothing happened so I ventured farther into my backyard. Finally I turn the corner that leads to my pool and see her laying there. At this time I start patting my legs calling for her to come over to me only to notice she is not responding. I walk over to her and find that her toungue is black and she is stiff as a rock. To my worst fears she was dead and had been dead for a while. Before then, she was perfectly healthy and happy. It appeared that she had died while barking at the pool due to a heart attack. I still remember the vivid details that happened that day when I found my 4 year old dog dead in the backyard. It was one of the worst days of my life.

TL:DR Walked into my backyard to find my 4 year old dog dead.

MrDeadSea · 5 points · Posted at 23:42:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I walked in the front door, I heard the carbon monoxide meter going off

This happens on a regular basis? WHAT?

I walk over to her and find that her toungue is black and she is stiff as a rock. To my worst fears she was dead and had been dead for a while. Before then, she was perfectly healthy and happy. It appeared that she had died while barking at the pool due to a heart attack.

I think the carbon monoxide detector going off had something to do with a healthy 4 year old dog dying, not a random heart attack.

redkat9614 · 3 points · Posted at 18:31:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I see where your confusion is coming from. The Carbon Monoxide detector was going off because my house cleaner had come and taken it out of the socket. When she put it back in,the battery fell out and that was why it was going off. This happens each time she comes over and it had nothing to do with my dog dying, as she was outside the whole day. When we talked with the vet, they said that sometimes, dogs have heart defects that aren't detectable and there was nothing that we could have done.

Fortunato5678 · 2 points · Posted at 00:26:46 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Glad to see I'm not the only one to notice that. Something's not right here.

mskerryedwards · 2 points · Posted at 19:31:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's terrible :( Poor doggy

weliketobass · 13 points · Posted at 16:13:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in a deserted parking lot one night on the phone (long story; irrelevant)...around 11:30. There were a bunch of semi-trailer trucks but just the trailer parts. Anyways, I was on the phone, out of the corner of my vision, I saw the shadow of someone or something hunched down under a trailer in a Gollum-like stance. It was probably 50-75 ft. away and when I tried walking towards it, it had scurried away down a hill and I never heard/saw from it again. I've always been a skeptical person, but this is probably one thing in my life that I have absolutely no explanation for.

thewhaler · 6 points · Posted at 19:41:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

meth

weliketobass · 4 points · Posted at 21:37:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seriously though, didn't cross my mind until now...but it would make sense.

ruthi · 9 points · Posted at 18:27:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Grew up on a very old farm, and when my brother left for college I inherited his old room. We have a motion detecting flood light outside by one of our barns which you can see from this new room which helps during the 1/4 mile walk up the driveway. After my first few nights staying in this room, I woke up at around 3ish and notice 2 things: 1. The floodlight outside is on, and 2. my bed is shaking very violently. My immediate assumption was that there was an earthquake, but since we live in the PA countryside this was unlikely. My second assumption was that this must be some form of sleep paralysis, but I quickly nixed that idea when I got up out of bed. I figured that maybe I was coming out of some really vivid dream and was just really shaken, but I put my hand on the bed again and, sure enough, it was moving back and forth. After a moment the shaking stopped, and simultaneously the light outside turned off.

Never happened again, though when I brought it up to my brother he shrugged and said "Yeah, that room's pretty fucked up."

allergictoyourcat · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your brother sounds like a badass.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 18:35:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

not me but my brother. he was taking out the trash and when he came in he had such a sad look on his face. I asked what happened and he said "when I was rolling the trash out I felt a thud and then heard a tiny screech. I looked down and there was a baby bird that looked like it'd fallen from a nest. I accidentally rolled over it with the trash can and the last thing I saw it do was open it's tiny mouth as it tried to take it's last breath and then died." he said the image of the little, crushed, featherless bird with its mouth all open haunted him for days.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I accidentally scuffed my foot and my toe kicked a baby bird that had fallen out of its nest. The thud my foot made against it brings tears to my eyes thinking about it, and this happened in 2004/2005. :(

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

yeah this was about a year ago and he still brings it up every now and then when he's taking out the trash. There was nothing he could do for it and even though it was an accident he feels horribly guilty. Little stuff like that can really mess with you :/

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:06:34 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh idk if he likes hugs but I'm sending an internet one his way. I know the feels :(

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:02 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

he appreciates your internet hug. he is a manly little guy who thinks he's tough, but he can't deny a good internet hug. Sending one your way as well

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:28 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you!

BIGMc_LARGEHUGE · 11 points · Posted at 21:10:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is going to get burried but here I go:

I grew up in hudson county NJ. If you don't know where that is: if you go to Manhattan and go to the hudson river on 42nd street and look across into NJ, you can see the building I grew up in. Well that area has a set of cliffs named The Palisades. The rise about 175 feet from River Road, which is literally right next to the hudson river. There's spots that are accessable by climbing over fences or walls that we used to go drinking on/smoke spots.

So its the summer after freshman year/before sophmore year in high school and a group of us would rotate drinking between each others houses and then go to the cliffs when it was around time for our parents to come home. No major drinking just 40s and Mad Dog 20/20 and Ciscos.

One day a group of 6 of us head there around 430pm and continue to drink. So we're all chillin having a good time. Our friend Kenny C is leaning against a tree when I heard a noise and turned but it was too late. The tree(a small skinny one) snapped and I turned just in time to see Kenny go tumbling off the cliff. Me and my friend Joe run to the edge hoping to see Kenny holding on, but he wasn't. We saw him land at the bottom of a 175 foot drop.

So me and Joe find a path that leads most of the way down and then have to climb down about 30feet to the bottom where there is thick thorny bushes. We get to Kenny but it was too late. He mustve hit his head on the way down, because it was twisted and at an ungodly angle. Still nonetheless I tried to perform CPR on him till the medics got there. The shitty part is where he landed was maybe 3 blocks from Palisades Hospital in North Bergen, but it took them 40mins to get through the brush to us. I tried for 40 mins to revive him, but to no luck. Also me and Joe wound up having to go to the hospital cuz the thorns sliced our legs so bad we required stitches.

His family didn't have money, and his casket looked like it was too small for him. His little sister (6 at the time) walked upto the casket and says"That's not Kenny. He doesn't have his smile so it can't be him" and his mother let out the most ungodly scream/wail/cry I've ever heard.

To this day I can still hear what the tree sounded like when it snapped, and the wail his mom let out upon hearing what his sister says. Seeing him falling down the cliff is something that is etched into my mind forever. And the feeling like I could've done more to help him is something I still live with to this day, 16 years later.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 4 points · Posted at 22:24:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm so sorry that happened to you. I can't imagine losing a friend that way.

BIGMc_LARGEHUGE · 4 points · Posted at 22:51:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks man. Yea it sucked. It wasn't the first friend I lost and it won't be the last. Such is life.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 11:59:52 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you ever need to hear from another person just msg me dude for real!!! <3

BIGMc_LARGEHUGE · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:01 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks man(or lady). In about a month and a half it will be 16 years to the day. I may take you up on the offer

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:16:10 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sadly that sounds like the time of my birthday. I've been through some sick stuff so I can understand the pain surrounding those dates though I usually deny that it affects me I usually turn into a basketcase around those times. Recently, to look to brighter times, I have started growing a squash plant using a starter plant. I also have started making cloth diapers. Baby steps. I'm a lady, I assume you're a dude but feel free to correct me :-) Have a good evening peace xoxo

kawaiifiveoh · 11 points · Posted at 10:29:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to come back to this thread. I started reading it in bed last night and quickly realised that was a terrible idea.

d1dOnly · 10 points · Posted at 14:30:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My first job out of college I worked in the IT department of a construction company. The company headquarters at the time was based in an old mansion which had belonged to the original company owner. In all the time I worked in that building nothing strange every happened.

After I had been with the company for about 9 months, it was announced that we would be moving to a new building. Being in IT, I had a pretty big hand in the move, tracing cables and ordering upgraded replacements, setting up the plan for getting new user computers online, all that jazz. On of my biggest roles though was getting the new phone system ready. As part of this, I worked with the phone company and, on the day of the move, they severed phone service to the old building and moved it to the new building. When this happened, the phones in the old building went offline.

Cut to 1am the night of the move, and we realize that the company that we ordered fibre cables from ordered the wrong cables. I leave my boss and the level 1 support guy in the new building and swing back to the old place to pick up the old fibre cables. As I'm in the old server room trying to free the old cables from the rats nest we left behind, I think I hear a phone ring somewhere in the building. At the time, I just disregard the thought and keep working. It takes about an hour to get all the cables free and then I head back.

A week after the move, my boss tells me to go back to the old building and do an inventory of all the phones we left behind, something about selling them off cheap. I swing over and start on the bottom floor, going room to room marking each phone I find and the type. I walk out of the old staff lounge (a converted kitchen) and into the IT Department, when I distinctly hear the kitchen phone ring. There was no way I could deny this. I froze, there was no way that phone could be ringing, the phone system was offline and we had no outside lines going to the building. I step out of the IT Department and the ringing stops. I'm more than a little freaked out, but I keep going, the sooner I get done, the sooner I can get out. I head to the 2nd floor and, while I'm in the stairwell, I hear a phone downstairs start to ring again. I freeze again and all I can think is that I want to get out of this building. However, I still had 2 floors to go and would be sent back anyway if I didn't finish.

Going onto the second floor, I open the door and immediately one of the phones starts to ring. At this point, I noped out and ran to my car, sat for about 5 minutes shaking before writing down a rough estimate from what I could remember. I refused to ever go back to that building again after that, even with people with me.

DickBaggins · 6 points · Posted at 15:59:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you have a PBX in the building? My guess is these are phones that were off the PBX in case of a fire or a power outage, they'd still work. They could have been setup to receive alarms if devices lost power.

d1dOnly · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

We did, but as part of the move we removed all power to the entire phone system. When I was in the kitchen looking at that phone, it had no power going to it.

DickBaggins · 3 points · Posted at 16:05:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thats the point of these off line phones, they are powered over the analog wires and dont go to your PBX, they go directly out to the phone company. They are usually in safe areas away from windows incase of large storms and what not. Probably the reason one was in the kitchen.

d1dOnly · 4 points · Posted at 16:09:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kitchen opened up onto the back patio of the building and had an entire wall that was almost nothing but glass.

Not saying your wrong, just pointing out why I was freaked the fuck out.

DickBaggins · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I'm sure it was creepy

sweetd00d · 11 points · Posted at 04:38:45 on July 24, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When I was around 11, my mom and I moved into an apartment in south Carolina where I'm from. We had moved around a lot and it was a nice little apartment;I had my own bathroom for once. The apartments themselves were newish,I have no idea what was there before then, but my apartment was literally a five minute walk through the woods that led up to it from the catawba river, named after the native American tribe local to the area. A few months into living there I began seeing a shadow in my dark room at night on the opposite side of my room. I was unsure how I could be seeing a shadow in the dark, and it was quite unnerving. It looked to be around 5'7" and out scared the shit out of me. It would appear every night in that corner and just seem to watch me. After a few weeks of this, one night,I heard my mom get into an argument with her boyfriend at the time. He was yelling very loudly and I'm still unclear to this day as to what the argument was about or how it started(I had never heard them argue before) but I heard him scream at my mother that he would kill my mother and I both and bury us in the woods beside the river. As I said, to this day, no fucking idea what brought that on. Needless to say my mom never saw him again. But the night that happened I saw the shadow again just as before. But this time it moved. It moved so fast across my room that as soon as I realized what happened I screamed and started crying and my mom came in to check on me. I figured she'd think I was crazy so I said nothing about it. After that I would leave the light on in my room and I began to have insomnia over time. We moved to another apartment, this time in Charlotte,nc. It followed me. It even stayed with me when I moved to Atlanta with my dad. But I had gotten on medication to help me sleep so I would take it until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore and turn the light off and Sprint/dive into my bed. It wasn't until I graduated high school and moved back in with my mother, this time in Greenville,sc, that I got off the medication for lack of insurance and saw it again. This time it was different. It stood there in the corner watching me again. I closed my eyes and when I opened them it had moved directly in front of my face beside my bed and leered over me as if to say it was pissed I had been avoiding it for so long. It smelled awful and seemed to be pure fucking darkness. I screamed and when I blinked it was gone. I broke down and told my mom all about it that night. My mom has had supernatural experiences herself and she watches all those ghost Hunter shows and what not, so I thought she'd understand. She did, but not the way I'd hoped. She told me that it was nothing to be afraid of, that it was probably just a normal, friendly ghost trying to communicate with me because I could see it. I still can't understand how someone who watches those ghost shows could possibly think that what I'm describing is friendly, but I digress. This thing did that every night for a week until I started simply keeping my light on again and not sleeping again. We went to the flea market one day and I fell in love with a puppy and brought him home. He was 8 weeks old and was very timid and sweet, not at all like most puppies who are all over the place and extremely hyper. I always kept the light on and he would stay up with me. One night a few months later my mom saw the light on in my room and yelled at me about raising the electric bill and staying up all night, and told me that was it I needed to go to sleep like a normal person. Caesar(my puppy, around 4 months old at this point and about 20 pounds) got into bed with me as I turned out the light. With no sign of the shadow,I somehow managed to doze off after a couple of hours. I woke up to Caesar standing on my chest growling and snarling into the darkness. I had never heard him even bark, much less growl the way he was. I was worried the shadow was getting angry because although I couldn't see it,I could smell it's rotten fucking stench in my room. I was terrified of it hurting my dog and I tried to pull him back towards me but he wouldn't budge and instead stepped over me closer to the edge of the bed, snarling at the darkness. And all of the sudden it all stopped. Caesar sat down and stared, but stopped growling, and it was like a vacuum sucked the stench out of the air. To this day I have not seen or smelled anything like it again. Caesar is now a very happy, healthy,4 year old, 95 pound doggie who is basically my child. I feel as though I owe my life to him. He still sleeps in the bed with me. If anyone can offer any explanation for what happened to me or has a similar story I would love to hear it.

Tl;dr saw and smelled creepy shadow figure, dog ran it off.

[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 14:04:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is more a creepy-oriented story.

One day, when I was about 10 years old, I was shopping at a Woodman's with my parents, which is a local grocery store in my area. While they're checking out their food and what not, I wander off alone towards the front of the store. There's a large section with just carts, as you would see in Walmart, but in Woodman's, the area is much more secluded, if that makes sense. So I walk by the cart area, and an employee whispers, "Hey, kid.", calling me over to the cart section. I walk over to the carts and stop in my tracks because this (Mexican) employee has his entire penis out and is staring at me with a blank face. I immediately run away, tell my parents, and next thing I know I'm at the police station explaining what happened. The employee was fired of course, after trying to explain that his belt was "malfunctioning". Now I forever have the image of a Mexican guy's dick in my mind, and I have no idea why a person would do feel compelled to do that in the first place.

dana_niels · 19 points · Posted at 01:05:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, LittleKidLoverr.

lokitheinane · 3 points · Posted at 03:30:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

you were in a shop called "woodmans" but you were afraid of a little man wood? shame on you

anyothercity · 18 points · Posted at 21:45:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

“...when she looked in the back of her car, she saw that - even though it was her own private property - she would be forced to take it in…FOR A STATE INSPECTION!”

BMan84 · 7 points · Posted at 03:46:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

A friend told me a similar story once. As he was telling it I saw a bunch of crazy lights dancing through the woods and got absolutely terrified. Turns out it was just the city manager on a late night jog wearing his safety lights.

404feelings · 24 points · Posted at 13:10:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm just gonna camp here. Someone bring a flashlight!

keith_HUGECOCK · 6 points · Posted at 16:27:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fleshlight?

agoligh89 · 9 points · Posted at 14:24:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Audio of an interview of a British guy who's car broke down on a road that shouldn't be traveled on at night. He talks about be abducted by a creature and taken to its lair where peoples body parts were hanging. The reason he survived was because he wasn't bow-legged or something and throughout the interview you can hear him shake in his inflections and then at the end he goes crazy. Anyone know what I am talking about, or have a link?

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:07:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Dude, I wanna see that, link it if you find it

Edit: http://bitey.com/2010/07/pilliga/, found it!

michaeljane · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love this thread

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 07:43:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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MermaidPassion · 2 points · Posted at 10:16:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've had the same thing, loud crash but looks like nothing happened. Really scared the crap out of me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:10:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could it be Exploding Head Syndrome?

topps_chrome · 5 points · Posted at 13:50:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've had paranormal experiences that were unsettling but the image that will forever haunt me is seeing a drunk driving a moped down my street in the late morning not wearing a helmet. Hit a pothole going no faster than 25mph, probably less. He flipped over the handlebars and hit his head on the concrete. It split his skull open, scattering blood and brain material everywhere.

zombiesurfer · 4 points · Posted at 15:26:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For me it has to be The Goatman

mastigia · 5 points · Posted at 15:26:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goatman is pretty good:

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Goatman

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:16:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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mastigia · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So is what I linked one of your stories?

Hootinger · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just skimmed it, didnt read it fully. Ill go back through and let you know.

AGoodRuleOfThumb · 7 points · Posted at 15:36:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you love creepy/scary stuff try /r/creepy and /r/nosleep :)

honeybadga · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

both subs have gone waay downhill

AGoodRuleOfThumb · 2 points · Posted at 03:51:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh yeah, true true

JakeMeAway · 6 points · Posted at 16:14:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The fucking Silence

CraftyCaprid · 3 points · Posted at 21:29:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hello darkness my old friend.

TrafficConeofSilence · 6 points · Posted at 17:07:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I give you... The Abimor

AdmiralWeiner · 6 points · Posted at 18:24:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Heavy breathing coming from the end of my bed one night. I mean...literally out of thin air. It would stop as soon as I raised my head off of the pillow....and start again as soon as I laid down. I also had the feeling someone (or something) was staring at me, and could pinpoint the area it was coming from. I spent a good hour checking to make sure it wasn't some elaborate prank being played on me.....as far as I could tell it was legit.

To this day it was the scariest thing I ever experienced

Reasonslave · 6 points · Posted at 18:30:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When i was in primary school around 12 years old my rugby team went to watch a provincial game at a stadium. We all had to wait in the stands for the teacher to fetch us after the game so soon it was just the 15 or so of us kids in the empty stadium. The stadium takes 60 000 people so this was something in itself. The next moment there's this massive boom. I looked up and saw the glass panels in front of the vip boxes vibrate in slow motion like it was liquid. The boom had turned into a kind of drone now. I was quite religious then and thought this was the end of the world. It was only when tyres and bricks and pieces of metal came flying over the stands and landed in the pitch that i realised it must have been a bomb. Turned out someone planted a car bomb timed for people leaving the stadium.

3tinAtaco · 7 points · Posted at 18:36:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once drove by a horrible car accident. All the glass was shattered; the car itself didn't look much like a car anymore. Anyway, as I passed by, I saw two people were still in the car. Their faces were covered in blood and their expressions were terrifying. I'll never forget the look on their faces.

Tonxasaur · 7 points · Posted at 18:42:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess it's not the creepiest (since I still live here) but when I moved into this house I was pretty creeped out.

First off, this is an OLD house. I don't know how old exactly, but given where I live, it's safe to say its pretty old.

This first picture is the ceiling of the closet of the room I'm currently in on the 2nd floor that is below the room in the third picture coming up. I believe the drippy stuff/stain on the ceiling is some kind of water damage? (or at least I'm hoping someone will confirm it is so I'm less weirded out by it. I know nothing about this kind of stuff).

On the door frame here is this which looks like it says "za ch ded" which I read as "Zach Ded(dead)". I'm hoping this is just an abbreviation for something. I will note that this was definitely a kids room because when we moved the walls were green (still are because I'm a lazy painter) and there was a Hot Wheels border around the top of the walls.

Above it is this, (mind the paint, it was an ex-gf's room I've yet to repaint) a crawl space in my bedroom that has a lock on the outside, and when we moved in, we found childrens' toys and empty bottles of booze under one of the boards inside it. This is when I decided NOPE, stopped investigating what was in there, and sealed it shut (the 2nd part of the lock has been missing since we moved in so it was painted shut and then taped over). It is no longer sealed and occasionally pops open, so I started putting things in front of it.

I still don't know what else is in the space, nor will I find out. I probably should do something though if that IS water damage, but it's never seemed to get worse or anything, and there's never been any leaking.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have never understood how people could move into a house without either first checking it thoroughly, or without exploring it thoroughly after. You need to go through every inch of that house and check it out. There may not be anything supernaturally scary, but you need to know if there's a leak, or electrical wiring that needs maintenance.

Tonxasaur · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, as I said, I've never had any leaking problem, the spot has never got worse (and believe me, I checked it plenty of times) so I just passed it off. The whole place was apparently checked by the landlord before hand (Even if he did check it, he probably just didn't check under the boards where we found the toys and booze bottles.), whether or not that's true is up for grabs. Though he is quite protective of this house and has been fixing every problem his can find with it for a while now(more than likely to sell it later on at higher value). So I figured if there WAS an issue, I'd have heard about it, or he'd have done something about it. Regardless, I'm not going in there. I've been here maybe 4 years now without issue. So I'll let him do that.

trainsounds · 5 points · Posted at 18:44:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually, I'm not sure if this counts as scary, but it was really unsettling and makes me worry about my mental health a bit.

A few weeks ago, at around 11pm when almost everyone would be asleep (I like in a town full of old people) I was sitting on the couch playing video games with all the windows open. I got kinda tired after a while, turned everything off and was walking to the door to lock it when I heard a weird sorta "shhhhhh" noise coming from the window. I went out on the balcony on the other side of the house, and realised that the noise was like that white noise your TV makes when you change it to an unused channel, and the screen fills with "snow."

I thought for a second that it was someones sprinkler, but when I went out into the street to check it out, it was coming from the middle of the intersection, nowhere else. It was actually insanely loud, too- gave me a really bad headache. But I couldn't hear it at all once I closed the windows. A friend of mine said it might have been the storm drains, but it had been dry as a bone for about a week, and I haven't heard it any other time.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Could have been a busted water main or worse yet a gas line. Either one would make similar noises.

trainsounds · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it had been, there would be work crews/the noise would still be there in the morning.

Nethrix · 7 points · Posted at 18:47:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was about five to seven years old, I walked downstairs at night while the rest of my family was upstairs and let in our cat from outside. I proceed to walk into the kitchen and get a snack, I turn around and my cat is on the table. I walk directly into the living room and my cat is sitting on the chair in front of me. I then rush back to the kitchen and see my cat walking up the stairs. I then run back to the living room and find my cat in the same place again. At this point I break down into tears, scream out "Satan" really fucking loud and run upstairs to my mom. Turns out that my cat was already home and I let in a stray that looked just like him. Yayy!

AmbystomaMexicanum · 2 points · Posted at 00:49:44 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Satan!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Back in the Matrix again... It's kind of like the deja vu scene.

DoktorZ · 6 points · Posted at 18:55:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh shit. I had forgotten about this until I read this thread. Thanks a lot, Blagosphere, for bringing this memory to light.

One random summer night when I was about 18, I had come back to my room after using the bathroom to find a voicemail on my phone. I checked my missed calls to determine who left the message, only to discover that there was no missed call. Already freaked out a bit by this, I decide to listen to the message. What followed was the strangest thing I have ever heard.

It was 10 seconds of silence, followed by a horrible cacophony of what sounded like something heavy banging on something metal, something chewing very loudly and miscellaneous garbled static. This went on for about 20 more seconds and was followed by more silence that was abruptly cut by a bloodcurdling scream that appeared to be saying "Please help!". I listened to it again and again trying to determine what I had just heard, and even had my parents listen to it. To this day I have no idea what called me that night, but I have a feeling the origin point is a place many call "Hell".

vi1987 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If it helps anything, I think you can leave reply voicemails from your own voicemail system. I never check my voicemails but I remember the feature from a few years ago.

i_save_robots · 4 points · Posted at 18:57:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Working as a patient transporter, years ago, I was taking a body to the morgue and was waiting on Security to come unlock it. So I'm waiting in the morgue hallway sitting on a chair, minding my business, surfing my phone.. Out of nowhere comes this ghastly moan from the body, the shit you hear in old horror movies. I jumped the fuck outa my chair and scrambled away to the adjoining hallway.

Turns out it was gases being expelled from the lungs of the body. Doesn't happen often, but if you ever encounter it you'll be checking you underwear for surprises as well.

honeybadga · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like that episode of futurama where Bender becomes human.

slightly_imperfect · 5 points · Posted at 19:01:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandfather's death rattle. I'm not sure if it's related, but he had a deep voice and a barrel chest, so it was a very deep, room-filling, almost mechanical sound.

xXXTGPxXX · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The actual experience of a dying person does not bother me. To me it's almost a peaceful release from suffering for the dying. However that rattle is so damn terrifying, especially when it becomes further and further spaced apart.

pajmahal · 5 points · Posted at 19:10:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a little kid, I thought some kind of nightmarish version of Cookie Monster was lurking around my bed. This would be standard monster-under-the-bed bullshit, except one time I saw him and used my hands to shove him back under the bed. Now I think I may have actually been experiencing night terrors or something when I was little, but still, that shit will scare you for years.

NewTeethThatsWeird · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:59 on August 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thats what you get for eating in bed.

Demonthehusky · 7 points · Posted at 19:21:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I moved into my first home, I got an anonymous letter in the mail with an old newspaper clipping of the home I was currently living in. No return address or letter at all just a cutout of over a 100 year old paper. I still have the clipping frames in my new house

Mcready · 6 points · Posted at 20:15:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tell us more, what was the article about?

Demonthehusky · 3 points · Posted at 20:18:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It wasn't an article. It was just a picture of the house and a caption underneath it saying how a doctor and his wife build the house decades ago. That's what made it so weird. Just a picture with a caption and nothing else. I never found out who sent it

speedyracecarx · 6 points · Posted at 19:55:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I totally saw an old guy in a rocking chair staring at me from woods. Friend did not see. Freaky shit.

spinal_jellyfish · 5 points · Posted at 19:57:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was renting a room in a house with a married couple. One day I was home alone and taking a shower. Due to the crawl space that extended beneath my bathroom, bedroom, and the hallway between the two, I could hear amplified footsteps going down the hall towards the couple's room. As I got out of the shower, thinking "I should save them some hot water," I heard the steps run back down the hall. I opened the door to find that they had not come home. I mentioned it to them when they did return. "You're just hearing things." A week later I come home from a trip. My roommate says, "So, late last night I went to the backyard with my gun. I found the outside hatch to the crawl space under your room unlocked and opened. We heard coughing and a bunch of other noises..." Now, I had heard it too, but assumed it was my roommates when they were in the office, right next to my room. Couple weeks later, I come home to find someone had broken in and stolen some of the canned food. I called the police, and they told me they believed a homeless person had been living beneath my room in the crawl space. A thousand other random events rushed to my mind, and I realized they had to be right. This person had been merely inches from me, with nothing but a creaky wooden floor and carpet between us as I slept, and had been outside of the door as I showered.

Buddha_Jr · 4 points · Posted at 20:26:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. All I can think about is a woman tearing off her skin and crawling around the room; creepy.

Snarkysandwiches · 5 points · Posted at 20:41:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have five kids - two young sets of twins and a teenager. About four years ago, all five of them woke up screaming from a nightmare at precisely the same time. It took hours to get everyone calmed down. Never figured out what caused it.

off_to_the_races · 5 points · Posted at 20:42:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The story by Joyce Carol Oates entitled-Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been

If you read the Biblical passage that corresponds to the numbers on Arnold Friend's car(Judges 19:17-29) you learn the third of three things he plans to do to the girl.

Seriously freaks me out.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 2 points · Posted at 04:00:04 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yessss. Southern Gothic literature is my favorite. I had to read this two years in a row for high school classes. So creepy.

BadWolfBella · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:34 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Still the scariest thing I have ever read.

slooots · 6 points · Posted at 21:20:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, I'm rather late to this comment thread, but for any Redditors who sort by "new", this is for you.

I was backpacking in Chile with a small group of people, 5 of us with one Chilean mountain guide. Because you had to carry everything you brought, we packed very light. We slept in nylon hammocks, strung up between trees.

One night, when we stopped at a very remote clearing, one guy in our group started to put up his hammock. The mountain guide yelled at him, said to not put his hammock there because between those two trees there was a path walked by the Spirits.

The guy shrugged off our guide's warnings, and strung it up anyways. Our guide pleaded with him to move his hammock, but eventually gave up.

To pause the story-- I'm not very spiritual myself, nor were any of us, but I would have just respected our guide's request. This guy was just an insolent douchebag. Anyways, continuing:

That night, we had dinner and went to sleep. I awoke abruptly in the depth of night hearing the screams of something being killed. We all jumped up and turned on our headlamps, only to find that guy who had strung up his hammock laying on the ground, screaming in pain "Kill the fucking savages, they broke my arms. The savages broke my fucking arms". His arms were snapped backward at the elbow.

I carried this man on a manmade stretcher for three hours to get him to a village, where he was then driven on a dirtbike for four hours by our guide to a hospital.

Make of this what you will, but here's my outlook: I didn't believe in spirits. I do now.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 21:33:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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ReverendPoopyPants · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:23 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is this the same 7/11 with the disappearing blonde girl working there?

MasonSAS3 · 4 points · Posted at 22:14:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

2 stories. I'll start with one that isn't so creepy. But as a child, I was an avid watcher of the show Courage, The Cowardly Dog. I'm not sure how many of you recall the episode called "Hothead", where Eustese applies to be a guinea pig for an experimental hair growth product that upon using makes things that the user gets angry, mad or upset at to explode. I had a re-occurring dream in which my dad, being bald, applied to be test the product featured in the show. It was a strange feeling in my dreams, I felt so terrified knowing that if I upset him I would explode. Also the fact that I was only 9 or 10 when it first aired. Okay, so that wasn't so bad, now for the story I get a little scared even telling. About 2-3 years ago, My brother, Dad and I had been recruited to help my aunt's and uncle's clear out my recently deceased Grandmothers house. I'd only been to her house a few times, and was too young to remember any of my visits. But upon returning nearly 7 years since the last time I had been there I was shocked when I saw that the front and side yard was littered with bikes. Literally bikes were fucking everywhere, all kinds too. New, old, broken, pristine, you name it. I had wondered why they needed so many people to help clear out my grandmother's house, but I had just got my answer. So after spending 3 days clearing out the front, side and back lawns of all these bikes, we finally began to clear out furniture and other things she had in her house that no one cared to keep. My brother and I being 19 & 24 at the time got bored fast, so we were routing through our grandma's stuff. And after about half an hour of searching, we found a little hatch on the ceiling in her room with a lock on it. We snipped the lock and pulled the cord attached to the hatch, causing the access staircase as well as what seemed like years of dust to fall down at us. Both of us too scared to venture any further, the typical brotherly, "you're a pussy", "do it bitch" ensued, causing me to eventually give in and take a flashlight and investigate. I swear to you all, this is not a word of a lie, I wouldn't believe it if I didn't experience it for myself, but when I peered into what seemed like an empty attic, there was nothing but an 18th century tricycle, and a book which I later found out was bible that had been set on fire and all that was left was the leather covers and charred pages. That wasn't too bad, but when I reached to touch the book and further investigate, the tricycle started to creep across the attic, causing an eery squeak like someone walking across the floor. I've never been able to logically explain what I saw that day, and I know I never will be. Thanks for reading, I hope you found it as creepy as I did.

Jameydog · 4 points · Posted at 22:26:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 10 or so I was playing in the front yard and heard a loud pick up truck heading up our road. As I watched him go by I saw his dog (some kind of hunting dog) on a chain tied to his bumper being dragged, but still trying to run, and trying to keep up with the truck. I tried yelling at him but his truck was too loud and the music was blasting. I could still hear the dogs screams over the truck and music. There was a trail of blood all the way down the street. Dumb fucker forgot he tied his dog to his truck and took off for a drive. It sticks with me still to this day 25 years later

sat52 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:21 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh my god that is one of the saddest things I have ever read

J3sse · 4 points · Posted at 23:05:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

October 2002. My family and I live in Ivory Coast, a country on the brink of civil war. the most horrific thing I saw was an on my way home from school on the 'bus'.

On the highway traveling at high speed in the opposite direction was an APC. This particular stretch of road had dense markets on either side. The speeding APC suddenly took a turn directly into the market running several people over and collapsing a couple shanty tents. Screams began to erupt from the crowd as people scatter in all direction. Armed men spill out of the armored personnel carrier and burst from the masses holding a single person. They take him into the highway where traffic had stopped in both directions because of all the people fleeing the scene. Militant men wrap the single person in a tire trapping his arms along his side. The screams become louder and hauntingly shrill (I will never forget the sound) as flame bursts from the tire and the man is consumed by fire. He runs for a brief moment before falling to his knees then limps to the ground: dead.

The sounds, smells and image will be with me forever.

Hickesy · 3 points · Posted at 00:02:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Necklacing. Always thought that must be the most terrible death. Horrific story.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 23:26:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was August 2001, and me (10 yrs old) and my family were redoing the wooden floors in the house. My sister's birthday came up and we decided not to have the big usual gathering since everything was still scattered about. So my grandmother was pretty persistent about celebrating and came over for dinner. After dinner she invited me and my sister to go stay with her at my aunts house, but only I left with my grandmother.

When I got to my aunts house, I was eager to play with my newborn cousin and I really wanted to play with her new computer. I stayed up late playing Neopets, and around midnight, my aunt said I should go to bed, so I shut everything down and went to bed. I remember tossing and turning, and couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching me. My grandmother and my cousin were in the room sleeping, and my aunt and uncle were passed out in another room. I clearly remember hearing someone walk up the stairs and turn the bathroom light on and off at least 3 times. I didn't question it and tried to sleep it off. Then around 1am in the morning, I hear a loud explosion, and I hear a woman screaming out the window, "oh my god, what did you do?!" I thought it was some random crime occurring on the street and tried to ignore it. Then as I watched the window, I saw the glow of the fire and smoke starting to pour in the window. I immediately try to wake up my grandmother, aunt and uncle. My grandmother looks out the window and realizes its a fire and we leave the house immediately.

After calling 911, we could only stand there and watch because we did not have access to any hose. We stood there with the woman screaming out the window, "help! do something!!" Her cries for help were useless and neighbors started to come out and watch. My knees were shaking uncontrollably as I watched people attempt to help but efforts were futile. What pissed me off was when we finally got access to a hose before the firefighters arrived, was that the neighbor got greedy about using his water. Eventually, the woman stopped coming out of the window and succumb to the smoke. A few minutes later, firefighters pulled the woman out and her 14 yr old son from the 3rd floor. Later I found out that both had passed away at the hospital from smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire was her father attempting to use the kitchen stove as a light for his cigarette while the place was still under construction; i guess there was a gas leak.

When discussing the event with family, I found out that everyone was asleep that night and no one used the bathroom after I went to bed. I still find it creepy but I'm thankful for hearing that noise. I'm also still haunted by that poor woman and her son, sometimes I wish we could have done more to help.

TL;DR: Went to my aunts house randomly and heard weird noises from the bathroom at night. No one was awake, and a fire broke out next door. Woman screamed for help but couldn't be saved in time. She and her son passed away at the hospital from smoke inhalation.

ButtercupCooks · 6 points · Posted at 23:53:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened a couple of weeks ago.

I am a baker and work ridiculous hours. At 4:30 in the morning I'm wandering to work and I hear loud groaning and cursing. So I start slowing down my pace and looking for whatever is making that sound. There is a guy in the middle of the crosswalk half a block away from me yelling and cursing. Losing his absolute shit. So I back away, kind of moonwalking back towards home so I don't have to interact with this guy. He starts moving slowly and when I thought he was a safe distance away I started walking. Guy hears me and stops walking and just keeps yelling louder. This time about how he is from Kindersley Saskatchewan and how much he loves Bruno Mars. Okay, the dudes drunk time to keep walking to work.

This is when I notice the blood. So much blood. I have my phone out and ready to dial 911 when he starts screaming at me how much it sucks to get stabbed and wants to know where the nearest hospital was. I tell him I was going to call and ambulance when he starts to rush me screaming that he doesn't want help. At this point I bolt to work and spend the rest of the day in shock.

Walking to work now causes me horrible anxiety every morning.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:02 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you call an ambulance?

ButtercupCooks · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:57 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did call 911 once I was secure at work. Don't know what happened after that.

hissxywife · 4 points · Posted at 01:14:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My aunt called me to tell me what had happened to her the day before. She was getting getting ready to paint her bathroom and was taking down the switch covers and stuff. She must have passed out and woke up in the tub with cold water running on her. She said she was the only one home and has no idea who turned the water on for her.

squashedfrog462 · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeahhhhh that is pretty creepy : /

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:58 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Either during the fall or in a half-conscious attempt to pull herself upright she turned on the cold water. Apparently this is somewhat common as there are a couple posts in this thread that are similar, and I surmise this is the cause.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 07:06:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

bumped the faucet on her way down, turned it on cold. Case closed.

Sandy_Emm · 4 points · Posted at 02:42:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ok no one might see this but here it goes.

Two and a half years ago, one of my friends passed away. Her death hit me harder than anything in my life. At her wake, her dad played only her favorite songs, mostly stuff on the radio at the time. One of the songs was "Coming Home" by P Diddy. I started listening to that song and I really liked it because of the message and I felt more connected to my friend while I listened to it.

Anyway, a couple of weeks or a month after she died, i was asleep but had left my TV on on MTV but with no sound, like i usually did because I couldn't sleep without the TV on at night. After 12am, MTV decides to do what their name suggests and they play some music videos. It was around 2 or 3 am and i was sound asleep. Suddenly, it's as if someone yelled into my mind, not into my ear, "WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP!!!"

My eyes opened up with no hesitation, and the music video for coming home had just started. Like, there was no music playing yet. To this day, I believe that my friend was the one who woke me up so we could watch the video and bond. Needless to say, i didn't sleep for the rest of the night. I couldn't shake off the feeling for a while. Her dad also told me how one night he just woke up and saw a light and it lead to her room. He followed it and of course, there was nothing but her belongings, but he felt like it was her who was calling him around the same time this happened.

gypsycamptrash · 2 points · Posted at 11:15:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is really awesome, not creepy at all to me.

Noggin-a-Floggin · 5 points · Posted at 03:38:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm on alien blue right now so I can't link the video because it will kill my data plan to view it. But there was a video posted on reddit that simulates what it's like to hear auditory hallucinations if you were schizophrenic. It's damn creepy to hear and made me more empathetic to real life schizophrenics.

brumbz · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Noooo thank you.

quintopolis098 · 6 points · Posted at 04:00:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reading these stories, all I can think of is that the night is dark, and full of terrors.

tubetalkerx · 3 points · Posted at 08:18:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Day is too, if you know where to look.

Professer_Awesome · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was very poetic have an upvote

fates_fury · 3 points · Posted at 06:52:47 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Praise be to the Lord of Light.

quintopolis098 · 3 points · Posted at 07:04:54 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your Fires burn high, my child.

pttymcgee · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in Eugene, OR. Most of the terrors are the homeless people during the day.

jodplostor · 4 points · Posted at 04:55:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not me but a teammate told me. Before I came into college, two upperclassmen from my hockey team were driving back from practice late one night down the back roads. It takes about 5 minutes of a windy road through the woods to get to the highway. The guy driving was a bodybuilder on the side and was pretty much like Brucie from GTA 4 (except not gay). They came around a bend in the road and said the headlights of the car caught a 12 foot tall dark figure just stepping into the woods on the side of the road. The driver floored it and just before they got to the highway stopped the car and sat there shaking for 5 minutes. If it scared a juice head like that, it must have been something creepy.

pttymcgee · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This wasn't in Vermont by chance, was it?

jodplostor · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, central New Jersey

NewTeethThatsWeird · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:40 on August 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why? Whats in Vermont?

pttymcgee · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:44 on August 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

It sounds like the Bennington Monster.

TheChadmania · 6 points · Posted at 05:08:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just want everyone to know that it's 10pm here and I'm just sitting in the dark laughing at some fun posts in Reddit when I came upon this. Now I'm not going to fucking sleep. Thanks.

TheDidact118 · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's a fix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU7X5X-wu54

TheChadmania · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There is good in the world. Thank you. For everything.

TheDidact118 · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're very welcome.

HitchSlap92 · 6 points · Posted at 05:08:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

god damn it, it's 2 am and I'm reading this in bed.... well, wish me luck!

TheDidact118 · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

DOn't worry, if you need something to cure you watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU7X5X-wu54

HitchSlap92 · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was beautiful. Thank you :P

TheDidact118 · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're welcome

corgeous · 5 points · Posted at 06:46:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reading this before bed was a huge mistake.

i_like_salad · 5 points · Posted at 08:06:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every story is a courage the cowardly dog episode. And every smiling man mentioned in this thread makes me think of something... Naaaauuughty.

GormBerry · 3 points · Posted at 16:58:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you should return the slab

RonanKarr · 5 points · Posted at 18:30:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok... Idk if I'd say it was a ghost story or what but my grandparents lived up in a swampy area in Michigan. When I was probably about 8, I woke up in the middle of the night. My bed was a pull out sofa near a glass sliding door that looked into the yard and pat that the swamp. I looked over and saw what I swore was a little girl in like a white kids night gown. I went to get up and get a closer look and she was gone. Scared me shitless to the point I never wanted to go into the swamp after that.

Fast forward about a decade, I had never told any one about it. Me and my sister, who is 5 years older of me a chatting about ghosts for whatever reason and I bring up that I had an experience at our grandparents'. She got a serious look on her face and when I asked she said you mean a little girl in the swamp. We both just sat there for a bit.

Idk if it was over active child minds or what but I still don't know what the fuck we were seeing. I have heard that I small child died in the lake next to the swamp but I have no evidence.

VigilantInfidel · 5 points · Posted at 20:38:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was a stocker at a retail store, working in an area all by myself before the store opened. There were a couple of other people in the store, just no where near where I happened to be.

Someone started whispering in my right ear while I was looking down and to the left at some bags on the floor. For a split-second, I was kind of mad because it was one of those heavy, breathy whispers--the kind that move the hairs in your ears and feels uncomfortable--so I turned angrily to snap at whoever thought it was funny to invade my personal space. Except there was no one there.

I ran around looking for whoever it was that might be playing a joke on me but there wasn't anyone hiding anywhere nearby and besides that, there was no way anyone could have ran off so quickly after whispering so close to me like that. All in all, it took about a second to go from normal to mad to freaked out. Yet no one believes me when I tell them about it.

ethannever · 4 points · Posted at 14:39:52 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alright, this one might be a doozy for people who don't believe in ghosts or other worldly things but when I was 5 (yes i remember this even though I was so young, in fact its my earliest memory I can recall) I lived out in the North Carolina boondocks. Way out in the sticks. So I was taking a bath on day and my mother was in the room. The phone rang and she left to go answer it in the other room. It must have been only a few moments later that I noticed there was someone else in the bathroom. I saw it in my peripheral vision and slowly looked over to the corner of the room where the toilet was. There was this person wearing really ragged clothing and he had really dark skin, like almost purplish black and the eyes on this guy. Gawd. they were bright yellow iris with tiny black pupils. He almost looked exactly like Night-crawler from the X men 2 movie. Mind you this is a whole decade before that film came out and at that time I was unfamiliar with the xmen series at all. But he just stared at me. I was standing up in the bath and I could hear my mom talking on the phone somewhere in the house but me and that thing just were staring at each other. After my mind finally registered a WTF signal I just let out a blood curteling scream in which my mom immediately ran back into the room and i saw her come in and i pointed at the man and as I glanced back over, he was just gone. She never saw anything but she, to this day, believes 100% that I was telling the truth. I've never seen it since thank god.

anonymous3073 · 6 points · Posted at 05:18:31 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well..... I was reading through this thread, and I heard something tapping the wall EXACTLY to the beat of my clock. It is 1:15 AM, and it keeps going on and off. I'm scared.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 13:56:26 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night, when I was about 4-5 years old, I was sleeping in my parents' bed soundly when in the middle of the night randomly I just woke up, wide awake too. I sat up in bed and looked around the room, for some reason not wondering why I woke up at this time. As I was looking around the room, I spotted something out of the corner of my eye that looked to be some sort of floating ball or orb-type thing. When I saw it, I just froze up. I was probably sitting there for about 5 min staring at it until I finally decided to stop, it was like I wanted to keep staring at it but my common sense finally spoke up from inside and yelled, "GET THE FUCK OUTTA THERE!" But I ended up quickly tossing the sheets over my head and closing my eyes because my mom had always told me that when you close your eyes, everything around you just dissappears, helping me to fall back asleep. I honestly to this day have no idea what I saw, but whatever it was, it was sure as shit floating off the ground and had a very bright white glow to it, without lighting up the room. The next morning I told my mom and she said I shoul've tried talking to it but I was pretty much like "Fuck that." She has had many experiences with various paranormal happenings like kitchen utensils flying at her and her friends when they would cook something, the lights flickering on and off, or even a phantom whispering her name in her ear. If anyone would like to hear these stories, just comment and I will gladly ask her so I can get it on here.

Phaex · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:04 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a glowy ball experience when I was young. I was laying in bed, the popped awake, so I laid on my back so I could look around the room. Then I looked at the wall and either a ball of light (but not lighting up the room) was coming through the wall, or poped into existance then began to grow to about the size of a cantaloupe. I was scared, and I remember saying in my head "Go away!" and it shrunk out of existance or went back through the wall. I couldn't tell which happened because it was at eye level so I had no angle on it. After that I tried to call it back, but it never showed.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:15:40 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's pretty cool to learn that somebody else had that same experience! I also have another story I will put on here when I get time, and again, if anyone wants me to, I will be happy to get those stories from my mom if you are interested. (Living and growing up with paranormal things, ex: pots and pans flying at her and her friends, something whispering in her ear while she is trying to sleep, lights flickering, etc.)

chimpcheng · 1 points · Posted at 11:28:24 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have loads of pictures where there are 'orbs' all over the place, as do my friends. You usually take it as lens flare or trick of the light or some such, but one picture a friend has is of his, then, new born niece being held by him. The kid is clearly looking at the ball of mist or orb or whatever that is directly over his shoulder...

A little creepy, but, it is somewhat of a comfort to my friend and his family as they claim that it is his dad who passed away a long time ago, checking in on his grand daughter...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:24 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should upload that picture because I would very much like to see it!

sat52 · 5 points · Posted at 21:27:23 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not really scary but creepy... My grandmother is 95 and lives in a separate house but on the same property as my uncle and his family. They live in the country and have a lot of stray cats that come around. In the past my grandmother had always put out scraps for them. One day my mom, sister and I were at her house visiting and it comes to light that my uncle had shot one of the cats because it was pregnant. My sister and I were horrified and my mom told us that our grandmother had asked him to because there were too many strays. So we are all sitting on the front porch just in shock that she asked him to do this and that he did it and then my grandmother gets up to go inside and says kind of under her breath, "there's not going to be any kittens anymore."

Throwy27 · 8 points · Posted at 13:08:11 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate both your grandma and your uncle.

sat52 · 3 points · Posted at 13:30:02 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't blame you!! It was totally out of character for them, that's why we were so shocked.

xcalypsox42 · 4 points · Posted at 19:38:01 on June 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad had to start doing the same thing when we lived in the country. Mum wouldn't let us take any of the dozens (not exaggerating) of cats we'd accumulated at our property throughout the years to an animal shelter saying they'd just be killed and making us all feel guilty. But they were ruining our yard, barn, and the outside of our house. Our garden was like a giant litter box and in the summer everything stank. Having people come to the house was embarrassing.
Although it killed him to do it, if he knew one of the cats was pregnant or had had kittens, he would kill it/them very discretely so mum never found out. He didn't enjoy doing it as I'm sure your uncle didn't either. But sometimes, there are just too many cats. :(
Edit: I should add that over the years the cats became progressively more inbred, being born with physical or mental retardation in many cases and living in constant competition with each other for food and mates. It was an all-around bad time.

chimpcheng · 6 points · Posted at 11:13:08 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

The labs that used to work in, when I lived in Nottingham, were based in an old Victorian something or other (I want to say mill, but I'm not entirely sure that it was).

Anyway, the cutting and staining labs were downstairs in the basement, and, although I never personally saw or heard anything during my time there, it was always a little creepy down there. This was especially so when you were alone and the lights turned off - they were automatic and after a period of not detecting motion the corridor lights would turn off.

Others would claim they were being watched or felt something brush by, but I never experienced any of that.

However, one lady who used to work there, was usually the first one in the building. She'd unlock everything and turn off the security alarm. So, one morning she did this, as per usual, and sat at her desk. The phone rang. It was coming from an internal line, which was odd, as she was the only one in, and she had just opened up the building and no one else was there.

She answered the phone, and apparently, just heard someone laughing on the other end. She left the building and stood outside until more people came...

They never did find out who made the call, if it was indeed a prank.

The same woman also claimed to have left a glass of orange juice on her desk, one night, as she locked up. In the morning, when she opened up the office, the juice was gone...

Imagination? I don't know, but during my time there I never did see anything or feel anything of particular note...

tmarie32 · 7 points · Posted at 17:03:53 on August 26, 2013 · (Permalink)

I need to know if this has ever happened to anyone else, and it was a pretty puzzling/creepy moment for my family, so I thought what the hell.

For Christmas last year, my mom had gotten my dad a really nice watch. By March, he had lost it for a few days, but found it in the cushions of the chair in the living room. Then, in early June, he lost it again (he's totally scatterbrained). He thought he probably lost it in cushions again, so he looked in the couch and the chair and couldn't find it. My brother, my dad, and I decided to look a little harder and completely tore apart the house looking for it. We had flipped every cushion, checked every drawer, closet, purse, gym bag, beds etc in the entire house - we looked everywhere and left no stone unturned, so to speak. We still couldn't find it. My dad checked his car, his work, the gym, my grandparent's house, and asked everyone he came across if they had seen his watch. It was a really expensive and nice watch, which is obviously why he was so committed to finding it. Finally, after a few weeks of diligently searching, he kind of gave up and accepted the fact that maybe someone at his work or his gym stole it, or that he had maybe left it at a doctor's office or something like that. Basically, he had assumed that he would never see it again.

Fast forward to the middle of July. My dad works really bizarre hours, and, on this particular day, he had to leave for work at 3:30 a.m. When he woke up, my mom and brother were asleep, and I was staying the night at my best friend's house. When he came downstairs, he found the lost watch just sitting on the kitchen counter, face-down, as if he had taken it off the night before and set it there. He assumed that one of us had found it after he went to bed the night before, so he texted my mom thanking her for finding the watch. She responded to his text saying that neither she nor my brother had found it, and there was no way I found it and put it there since I was staying elsewhere for the night. My mom had cleaned the kitchen before she went to bed, and there was no watch on the counter, but when my dad woke up, the watch that had been missing for over a month had simply reappeared. No one knows how the watch got there, and my dad still thinks that maybe everyone is fucking with him and that one of us took it and replaced it as a joke.

These are my four most logical explanations for what happened: 1. My mom or brother sleepwalks and no one knows. Whoever the sleepwalker is took the watch during an episode, hid it while they were asleep, and then retrieved it during another sleepwalking episode over a month later. 2. Someone broke into our house, stole the watch, felt guilty about it, and broke back in in the night to replace it. 3. Someone else lives in our house, unbeknownst to us. 4. GHOSTS

No matter what the scenario, it's really creepy to think about how that watch came out from wherever it was and ended up on the kitchen counter.

quezlar · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:56 on August 28, 2013 · (Permalink)

you forgot "Aliens"

kelpsong · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:25 on September 26, 2013 · (Permalink)

maybe someone used it as collateral for a loan or at a pawn shop, and when such an uproar was made to find it, they quickly returned it?

moogledo · 5 points · Posted at 01:04:38 on September 25, 2013 · (Permalink)

I moved with my family into a new home a couple years ago. From the start some creepy stuff happened. We had the usual weird stuff happening, things going missing, hanging living room lights rocking, doors opening by themselves and other odd sounds. Anyway there's been a few events happen to just about everyone in my family. I have a younger sister, 6 at the time this happened. She was watching TV downstairs while my mother was upstairs collecting the clothes hamper. My mum told me that my younger sister ran upstairs and told my mum that "daddy was home". My mum thought it was odd considering he wasn't due home from work for another few hours. She asked my sister what happened and she said she saw daddy run past her into the kitchen and out the back door. She checked the kitchen. All the doors and windows were still locked, no one was there. A similar situation happened with my father and my sister too. They were playing on the bed in his room, laying there talking and she says "look daddy can you see the little man?" and points to the corner of the room. He can't see anything there but she clearly can. Another thing with my mother. She was in the bathroom bathing my sister and she comes out the bathroom afterwards and asks me if I was outside the bathroom upstairs laughing. I say I never went upstairs and she says she could hear deep laughing outside the bathroom door and she thought it was me. Another situation occured with my mother when she was sleeping in my younger sisters bedroom for the night. She was laying there and she was woken up by a door banging. She thought nothing of it and tried to sleep again. A few minutes later she heard a woman's voice in the room next to her ear. She told us it had said "Im home now. Don't be afraid" Some of my own experiences are on one occasion when I was sat on the floor near my bedroom door. It was late at night and everyone was in bed. I could hear what sounded like feet moving on the other side of the door and breathing sounds. I thought it might be a family member walking around but the footsteps didn't go away or continue. They just stopped and never made any other noise. Another time I was walking along the upstairs hallway and the door at the end which is my parents bedroom swung open and something in the room fell off this sideboard and onto the floor. Recently we had some workmen in putting insulation up in the loft. They were pulling up the floorboards and found this tiny box. Inside it is this golden leaf necklace. It didn't belong to anyone in our house and there's no way it could have simply fallen underneath the rooms floorboards.

goswimmingly · 5 points · Posted at 21:39:40 on September 25, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scene in Sinister when the creepy Bagul demon is at the bottom of the pool and looks up to the camera slowly.

FredTheFerret · 4 points · Posted at 06:18:05 on October 16, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid, I used to see a black figure standing over my bed every once and a while ( like every few months or so ) but since it was black, and my room was pitch black as well, I never got to see any details of it. But when I was eight, I saw small bits of details of the face and hair, I stared at it, remembered each and every detail. In the morning I described the figure's details to my mother, details of the person by the way were of an old woman's, no hair, very pail, and she had told me that was what my grandmother had looked like, she had died from cancer when I was a baby so I never got to know her, later that day, I say in the reflection of her in the mirror in my living room, but this time she had hair, and looked much more happier and less sick. I ran and told my mother and she show'd me a picture of her before and after she started chemo therapy ( spelling? ) and they looked exactly the same as the spirit I was seeing during my childhood. That night I silently talked to myself before I fell asleep, saying I knew whom it was, and that I wished I could have met her. And after that night, I never saw the figure again. I know that wasn't very scary, but as a kid, the black figure horrified me and it took me a very long time before I got the guts to tell my mother.

Fraghax · 27 points · Posted at 15:28:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I called someone after blocking my number. They answered and said, "it's done, but there's blood everywhere", then hung up.

funkyb · 8 points · Posted at 18:30:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome, now I have something new to do with unlisted numbers.

DickBaggins · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm going to start answering my phone this way

BGYeti · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was mentioned in a different thread where we should start answering blocked numbers that way.

Deskjetprinter · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw this suggested on Reddit earlier today as a neat thing to say when someone calls you by mistake, after dialling a wrong number.

wonderwomanx · 11 points · Posted at 16:10:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh boy its this thread again. i wasnt planning on sleeping anyways. grabs popcorn

IndianChai · 11 points · Posted at 00:01:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is 1:01 am here. Nope. Nopenopenope.

AkitheFrivolicious · 14 points · Posted at 01:15:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This will never be read but I want to play 'ask reddit'.

I remember once when I was six years old being very, very sick. My parents were going through a divorce, so my dad and brother were no longer living with my mom and I in our now very empty house. It was a ranch style, elongated and not very wide, and the only way to get downstairs was through the stairwell at the opposite end of the house from my room.

I woke up suddenly from a deep sleep at three in the morning because I heard the basement bathroom door creak open, which was directly below my room and connected to my brother's room.

Except my brother didn't live down there anymore.

I remember laying in bed, listening to the humidifier hum on my dresser, to the sound of my mom snoring two rooms away, and to the very soft and distinct sounds of footsteps moving across the floor in the basement. They were painfully slow, but I could hear them moving. First through the laundry room. Then up the stairs. I heard each step creak ever so softly, and I remember sinking down into my bed and pulling my blanket up to my chin.

They reached the upstairs landing, now just a kitchen and hallway away from my room. And still they continued, the boards creaking softly every few seconds, closer and closer. I had to have been dreaming. It had to be the fever. My imagination was getting the best of me.

The creaking was right outside my closed bedroom door now. I was shaking. I pulled the blanket over my head, knowing it was just my imagination. It HAD to be.

I heard the door scraping on the carpet. No. Then came the creak right next to my bed. This is how I die. I nearly pissed myself from fear, working up the courage to reach over and flick on the light, convinced that once I did whatever was outside my bed would reach out and grab me and that would be the end.

I waited a solid minute before I finally got the courage to grab my lamp and push in the lightswitch, throwing back the covers.

My room was empty. The humidifier still hummed, I could still hear my mom snoring.

And my door was open.

I didn't sleep anymore that night. Maybe it was just the fever. Probably my imagination. But to this day I have no explanation to the door being open when nobody else was home. And the carpet in my room was high enough that you had to PUSH the door open to get in. And we had no pets.

Still get chills whenever I think I hear someone opening the door or rattling around in my house. I'm now 23.

The other story I have to tell is when I was five years old I heard a noise outside my bedroom window, opened the blinds, and a barn owl swooped down from the tree below and smacked into the window. I had to sleep in my parents' room for about a week after that. I will never forget his big yellow eyes as he came in like some bird of death or something.

itripandfall · 3 points · Posted at 01:20:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Congrats. I read this, in bed, as it has started thundering. Great details, you made my heart race!

AkitheFrivolicious · 3 points · Posted at 01:26:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whoa @D I didn't know if anyone would actually get to read it!

I really have a dozen more stories I can think to tell. Our house was built in 1913 and had two deaths happen within it (both from natural causes) so I was pretty convinced growing up my house was haunted. It was not the only time I heard the footsteps. They continued until I moved out at age 18.

squashedfrog462 · 4 points · Posted at 02:44:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I too, read and got scared by your story. So freaky I would have been packing it! Tell us more!

AkitheFrivolicious · 3 points · Posted at 02:53:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well I was only six/seven years old so I was a little young to be packing XD If you look at the comments off this thread, I left another story about the man I saw standing in our driveway! That one still gets me going whenever I think about it.

Thank you for reading! I still have a hard time sleeping at my mom's house. Give me a bit to work on another creepy bit that happened... but this time, at my dad and step-mom's house. C:|

visualizinq · 3 points · Posted at 02:01:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Please tell more stories!

AkitheFrivolicious · 6 points · Posted at 02:31:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

...Aww. I've never had someone ask me on Reddit to tell stories before, so, OKAY, I've got another one for you. Sohappy to do so. I didn't want to tell too many in the first post because of ramblingness, but here goes:

Our house shares a very long driveway with our neighbors, so our houses are pretty much parallel to one another. They're an older Italian couple, who have always been good friends with us. The wife had an older brother who went to Vietnam and wound up returning pretty messed up in the head and suffering from PTSD. You could tell something was off with him, the way he talked and stammered, but he was nevertheless harmless. I always talked to him whenever he came to visit his sister, which was about twice a week. I was a friendly kid.

It was the middle of winter, and we were having a pretty severe blizzard that night. I was ten years old at the time when I woke up again randomly at three in the morning. My bed was bordered by two windows, one facing the street, the other facing the neighbors, so normally I just look out the street view to see the status of the weather. I didn't want to go to school - who would?

I'm not sure what possessed me that night, but I actually rolled over and could see a light on through the driveway window. It was snowing, big, fat, slow falling flakes that made it sort of hard to see... but I peeled back the blinds and looked.

The neighbor's back door motion light was on. And standing about a foot away from the corner of their house stood a solitary figure. He was backlit from the motion light, but I could TELL he was looking in my direction. At my window.

I just KNEW he was looking at me, and I was looking at him. I remember his arms were slightly separated from his sides, but he wasn't wearing a coat, and he was perfectly motionless. I wasn't scared - a little startled, yes, but unafraid. I leaned back a little so I could actually climb out of bed to get a better look, but in the three seconds I spent doing this, I looked, and the figure was gone. And there was no sign of him either. The light was still on as if someone HAD been there, but he was just gone.

I didn't wind up falling back asleep. As soon as my mom was awake I told her about it, and she insisted it was me dreaming. I wanted to check for evidence of footprints, but it was still snowing, and I had school to go to.

When I got back from school, my mom sat me down to talk to me. About an hour after I left, my mom got a call from our neighbor, whom she was good friends with. She called to say that she had found her brother dead in his apartment early that morning from a fatal brain aneurysm, and that he had been dead for a couple days.

I never found out who the figure was. It could have been our neighbors, but the way he stood there so perfectly still was so... surreal. And I still, to this day, have not forgotten that silhouette standing in the blizzard, lit by the soft yellow light of my neighbor's motion detector. I can probably draw it if I get the chance.

Thanks for reading C:

TacoMagic · 1 points · Posted at 01:30:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Read! Interesting.

AkitheFrivolicious · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you @v@!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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AkitheFrivolicious · 2 points · Posted at 02:32:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well thank you for reading anyway C:

cheepasskid · 18 points · Posted at 16:11:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

wow! what a coincidence; i was going to post this story yesterday as it's own page but this is even better!

Ok, so, let me clear myself of whackjob status by saying, I'm not religious, not a believer in ghosts, demons, goblins or any of that. I basically need to see the evidence before i even consider it.

One night when i was living in Austin, Tx I had this girlfriend I was dating and that night Austin got hit really bad with an intense storm with high winds. I'm talking really high winds; the kind that howls.

She was scared so we went to her place before it escalated and the power goes out and she just starts freaking out. You can't see anything and twigs and leaves and debris is hitting the window, and then all of a sudden the door opens to the balcony on the third floor. This was followed by a constant banging from the door swinging back and forth. She just went into panic mode as i calmed her down and said, "it's okay, elisabeth, it's just the wind." she then followed me by holding my hand as i walked into the next room to shut the door. I push it close, lock it, and we go back to her room to lay on the bed. Two minutes later it flies open again and is banging against the wall. This time she's freaking out so much it's kind of making me edgy, but my logical mind kicked in and said..."well, maybe i didn't turn the lock the whole way (until it clicks), therefore gradually opening it again from the pressure.

Ok, so here's where it gets weird for me. She follows me again and this time i shut it really hard and make sure the lock clicks. It doesn't open again. Now we're laying back in bed just listening wide-eyed to the storm happening outside. Remember the wind is howling at a certain continuous pitch. That was all you could hear. So, it was a steady wave up and down of wind sort of like a drone. The occasional debris would hit the window so that had a distinct sound. Then all of a sudden, in the middle of this wave of sound from the wind, i hear something completely offset that sound, it's a voice, a distinct devil voice. A voice so audible and clear it stopped me in my tracks and my heart sunk into my stomach. It said, "rashaaaaad" (my name's rashad). The voice was so off from the pitch of the wind and the crap flying around outside. It was like it was created by some other source.

So, i'm sitting there for 30 seconds (thinking i'm the only person going crazy) and not wanting to scare my gf by telling her what i heard, I said, "did you hear that?" and she said, "OMG! IT SAID YOUR NAME?! OMGOMGOMG I DIDN'T THINK YOU HEARD AND I THOUGHT IT'D SCARE YOU!?". She had about lost it right then and there, because she is a little gullible. At that point I was at a lost for words and by far one of the strangest things i've ever witnessed. It sounded so real. I'm not embellishing this at all to make it seem more believable. We both her the same distinct voice say my name. I'm not going to say it was anything of that sort but it was definitely a crazy coincidence at the very least.

Ps. sorry for all the grammar error. I'm too lazy to go up and review.

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 13:38:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I woke up in the middle of the night once to the sound of scratching at my bedroom door. I know it wasn't my dog because I would have heard her collar jingle. It scared the shit out of me. To this day I do not know what it was.

Cat_Fart · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

raccoons man, they're crazy.

Chongling · 0 points · Posted at 15:34:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe, just maybe, your dog grew 6 arms, created a vortex which summoned satan, and after calling all fellow raccoon pups into your pool to drown, he ate his dog food.

Trax123 · 9 points · Posted at 13:57:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was a poor sleeper my whole life and suffered from sleepwalking and night terrors all the time as a kid. I have a bunch of terrifying experiences from that time period, but the one that sticks out the most was one night when I was around 17.

My bedroom was pitch black, being a long basement room with only one tiny window that got no streetlight at all. In the middle of the night one night, I got a chill that ran up my spine. Something else was in the room with me. I sat bolt upright in bed and scanned the darkness. There, standing right under the window was a girl. She was probably 15 or 16 years old, with curly blonde hair and wearing a sleeveless red plaid shirt. I was sure this was one of my sleepwalking episodes, so I did what I normally do in those situations, shook my head back and forth, threw my covers off and rubbed my eyes....shit, she's still there.

We locked eyes for what seemed like a minute, neither of us moving. Then, the girl took a couple steps backwards, which took her out of the minimal beam of light coming through the window and into the inky blackness. Terrified, I leaped out of bed and turned the light on in my bathroom right next to the bed. Nothing...she was gone.

I'm sure I was just having another night terror or sleepwalking episode, but I never shook that night. 18 or 19 years later and I can still remember her face.

FuneralBell · 9 points · Posted at 14:44:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE I'm gone from this post after reading about Robert the doll. Don't do that.

efro4472 · 4 points · Posted at 17:22:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude. I practice vodoo regularly. When I read this comment, I got a strange feeling all over my body. It was like my body tingled but in a shaky kind of way. Like my body received a text message. That's the best way to describe it. I have felt this sensation once before in my life. A few minutes after I felt it, something violently moved and thrashed in my closet and then stopped. When I went to check it out, nothing was in there that could've caused the ruckus. But there was a bit of dirt and foot prints. The thing that shocked me most, was that there was a little doll shoe in the corner of my closet. It couldn't have come from any of my little sisters dolls because I checked. They all had their shoes and my sister had never seen that shoe before. It was scary as fuck. For some reason, when I felt this sensation for the second time, I was relieved. Relieved because I knew it was more for you than me. You'll know what I'm talking about when you try to sleep tonight. Just don't forget that you read this. When you feel the tingling, DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES. Good luck pal.

FuneralBell · 3 points · Posted at 18:34:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THANKS!

janeyk · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like you.

AllegedlyMe · 2 points · Posted at 22:45:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

See, that's where I should of stopped. You're a much smarter person than I, my friend

FuneralBell · 1 points · Posted at 12:29:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well after reading a comment answering mine I almost couldn't sleep. Some guy that thinks he can do voodoo. Didin't happen anything though.

real_life_corgi · 10 points · Posted at 21:23:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This thread is interesting to me in that, for Americans, what's scary is .. real things. that doesn't require another explanation or doubt. As for me, it's something supernatural.

I am from Korea and story of ghost...is very much everywhere, people believe it, some people are skeptical of it, but growing up, you can never hear enough of it even if it means you can't sleep at night without worrying about something staring at you through the dark.

I grew up as a little kid who was skeptical but absolutely fascinated by those ghost stories, supernatrual things and what not. I always dreamed of seeing a ghost myself, but was never lucky or unlucky enough - until my 5th grade camping trip.

Korean camping trip is......weird. We are basically sent off to this camping site..which is a redesigned abandoned/closed school, with big fucking shed built as a sleeping place. This was in the middle of woods, school was closed long ago because there were not enough students, and since then it was redesigned to be a camping place. The sheds....or sleeping ground, was basically a wall and a roof, nothing more. Wind still came through so even though it was middle of May, it was still chilly at night time.

Nothing major really happened, except for some minor accidents here and there. Comes two days before the day of return, we had fun little activity, test of fortitude, they called it. We were paired in two, and given one flashlight. Then we were asked to go through very narrow mountain path. Along the way, teachers dressed up as a ghost will come out and scare us, grab our ankles while hidden, etc. It wasn't...honestly, scary. We got to the end where it was an open field between two mountains. We had to wait until all the teachers and students get there so that we can return as a group. So i was looking at the path that we just came in from.

That's when I felt it, something odd, something strange. In Korean school, there's a belief. If the room, the whole room, goes completely quiet in the middle of everyone is talking, it means the ghost is passing through the room. That's what happened. EVERYONE there, out in the open field in the dead of night was talking. and simultaneously, we all went quiet for split second. I felt cold chill in my back. And while everyone resumed talking and laughed about how we all went silent for a second, I looked behind me to the hill.

I saw it, I still remember how it was moving.

It was white...cloth of sort, moving, flocking around as if it was a flag in a very windy day. I remember being creeped out by it...because there wasn't that much wind to begin with. It's movement....like a ghost flare, was stationary..

I thought, it must be a piece of plastic tarp hung on the tree. It had to be. It was close to farms, and vinyl greenhouse was plenty around us.. but then, it happened.

It started moving,

moving away from its place.

It was now obvious its not something that was stuck in the tree. The movement itself...was fluid. Even though hill was bit far away from me. I could see it so well.... which should have been something I should've been aware before..but just as I am writing this, im realizing now. If it was in fact, a tarp or some shit, even if it was white, i should have hard time seeing it. but...I could see it so well, as if it was glowing on its own.

Anywho, I saw it moving through the woods now.. from right to left. The movement was...fluid... not too fast, but fast enough. And I thought it must be one of the teachers dressed up, trying to scare us. That's when some of other kids noticed it too. We all thought it was one of the teachers. and that's when I heard our head teacher saying this.

"alright, all of us are here, let's head back."

and I looked around. He was right. all of our homeroom teachers, all of our students, all of our camp managers were there. No one missing.

I looked back to the hill, and the white.....thing was gone. However, that night, is something that I can't forget 13 years later.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:01:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't speak for all of us, but as an American, I can explain my views on scary things. When I was a child, I was terrified of the supernatural. There was a TV show for children called Are You Afraid of the Dark? and it wasn't even that scary, but it still gave me nightmares. I was afraid of ghosts, monsters, and urban legends.

As I got older, that stuff became less scary because it's not something I personally encountered and usually the stories have no proof. However, you see TV shows about criminals that are based on real people doing horrible things to each other, and those have evidence. You also hear sad stories on the news about people getting kidnapped, raped, or murdered. You wonder why someone would do that to another person. Then you think what if someone did that to you or to someone you love.

I think that's why most of the stories from Americans in this thread are about close encounters with crazy people. For example, if I heard an unfamiliar voice coming from inside my house, I would think it was a burglar before I thought it was a ghost, just because that seems more likely. If I find that there isn't anyone in my house, but I still hear the voice talking, then I would think maybe it's a ghost. I would still be really scared even though I'm an adult now.

real_life_corgi · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ahhhh, yea. Things that are real, or something that might just happen to you is the new fad. Paranormal activity comes to mind....because it just might happen to you and yet its superstitious. perfect combo

in any case, i agree with you. but im still fond of ghost stories, cant get enough of them during the summer session

Ganglere · 9 points · Posted at 23:58:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 19 or so, I drove from Toronto to Quebec City to see a friend. It was winter and so I knew snow would be an issue during the drive. I don't like driving on the big Highways so I set a pace that meant I'd drive carefully, and make the drive in 2 days, just to be safe.

As I'm driving along I'm feeling pretty good. Its snowing quite a bit, and its dark, but I wasn't bothered, I had my music, a full tank of gas and brand new tires on my car.

I'm on what I would describe as a long, straight country road, surrounded by farms, when this feeling just comes over me. I know, for a fact, that I am going to die. There is no lead up to this feeling, imminent doom is how I would describe it. I am definitely going to crash my car any second. Its oppressive, I can't catch my breath, I am full on weeping.

In the back of my mind, I can hear this high pitched sound that is very unnerving. I pull my car to the side of the road when I realize that its coming from me. For about 10 minutes I am pulled over on the side of the road, with my car seat tilted back, lying in the fetal position, biting my balled up fists, weeping and attempting to strangle a scream that won't stop coming out of me.

Then it stopped, I was fine, if shaken, and I collected myself. I had to wrap my hand in a t-shirt because I'd bitten it so hard I'd broken the skin. I found the nearest motel and had trouble checking in because I'd blown my voice out during the event.

I had never experienced that before, nor have I experienced it since. I was calm and relaxed. I was not stressed out about anything, and was looking forward to the visit.

When I made it to my friends house, I told her about what had happened, but perhaps not about the depth of terror I'd felt. She suggested, as a lark, that we check local papers or something like that to see if anyone had died on that stretch of road. I am a total skeptic but I declined the offer just because I totally didn't want to know.

You can bet I chose a different route for my return trip though.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 09:48:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like a panic attack. Not sure if that makes you feel any better.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I second this. I dated a guy who had panic attacks frequently. He described it as a sudden onset of sheer, irrational terror. He would get scared that he would just freak out and then pass out and sleep for hours, sometimes waking up and discovering that he'd scratched his own face. His friends saw it a few times.

haylizz · 9 points · Posted at 06:37:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Isn't terribly frightening, but it's the creepiest thing to happen to me in my short 20ish years of life.

I work in an adult store that is inside a really old building. The original hardwood floors are in there, over a century old. No one who works there has been able to find info on it from before the early 1920s, back when it was a junk store. There's an apartment complex upstairs that has had a history of suicides and natural deaths. The residents are mainly old alcoholics.

We have a basement, but it has an alarm on the entry. There has been some incidents of homeless people breaking into the basement. One day, our company's maintenance guy was in the back break room (where the entrance of the basement is) when he felt like someone walked into the room. He turned around and saw some redheaded woman walking down the stairs into the basement. He started after her, asking who she was and what the hell she was doing, but when he looked down the basement stairs, it was empty. The motion alarm was set, but didn't go off like it should have.

Many of my coworkers claim to have had various experiences with the redheaded lady. When I started working there, I worked the graveyard (12 a.m. to 8 a.m.) shift. Weird stuff happened to me fairly often. One of the front doors swung open on its own pretty regularly, weird footsteps in the back all the time, and quite often products would fall off the walls/shelves. I'd go to put them back and they'd be a good foot from the wall. The thing that made it really eerie was something my coworker (who also worked the grave shift) said. She had been working grave at this store for about three years and said that the redheaded lady had never been this active until I started.

After 6 months on graveyard, I moved to day shifts (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) Repeat the weird ghost lady shit. My day coworkers said she had never done anything during the day before I came to the shift. The past two or so weeks, I've been covering some 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. shifts due to a lack of staff. Again, she has been fucking with everyone way more than before. One of our new girls has seen some of the freaky shit I have. Seems she's latched on to the two of us.

fallbackinyourarms · 9 points · Posted at 09:15:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This story is more creepy than it is scary.

This happened about a month ago. I was walking with my brother around a different neighbourhood at night time, just some bonding time. It was fairly dark except for the street lights that were on. No one was on the streets. My brother and I stop to look at a garage that was open that had a whole collection of guitars. We both thought it was pretty cool. I started walking again and was a few metres ahead of him when I noticed I heard a sound coming from the street that was connected to the one we were walking beside. I didn't really care about it. About 20 seconds later, I start to hear a sound again, only this time it seems to be a man laughing, but it seemed like it was getting closer. I tell my brother and he stares at the street trying to see if there was anyone there. Eventually, we see a man emerge out of the darkness on the street, only he is riding what seems to be a tricycle. At this point he is still laughing to himself, and he is riding right in the middle of the road towards where we were, though, I don't think he had actually seen us. I shit you not for this next part. He looked EXACTLY like pennywise the dancing clown. Same face makeup, hair, costume. He was still laughing to himself, riding this tricycle in the middle of the road. I was very, very relieved when he took a turn on the street away from us. I honestly just wanted to get away, so I told my brother to hurry up and walk. Very thankfully nothing happened after that but I told my brother I would not be getting out of the car again until we got home.

GormBerry · 3 points · Posted at 16:56:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That dude sounds like a troll among trolls

ssanneliese · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No bro, that's pretty scary.

Cervix-Pounder · 9 points · Posted at 10:07:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure how old i was, 5, 6 or maybe 7 but i woke up in the night, not sure what time but my parents were asleep. I could hear this noise coming from downstairs, i think in the living room. I could hear a boy about my age cryin, i knelt on the floor looking throught the bannisters upstairs but couldnt see anyone. The boy kept crying and wimpered the words "help me, please help me" a few times and kept crying, the TV wasnt on, no radio, nothing. Pitch black and scary as fuck i ran into my bedroom and went to sleep some how.

Another time i woke in the night and saw a dark blue figure of an old lady, she had shoulder legnth hair, a cardigan and a long skirt. She was sat on my chair. I described her to my dad and he said she sounded like his grandmother.

Last story, i woke up again a different time, i was facing away from the wall, looking out to my room and there was a black figure of an old man standing there, slightly slouched. He was wearing a flat cap, had a walking stick and was twiddling his thumbs whilst looking at my fish in their tank. I didnt actually feel scared, kind of felt friendly and safe. Again i described him to my dad and he said he sounds like his grandfather, he even used to twiddle his thumbs.

Orangedeuce · 11 points · Posted at 10:11:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest thing that I've ever experienced was maybe a year ago in my parent's house. I was asleep and jolted up from my bed. I immediately knew I was in sleep paralysis because I could not move at all. Except, the weird thing was, instead of just laying down not being able to move, I sat half way up, back arched, head to the ceiling, with my mouth wide open. It was probably 7am, because the sun was shining bright through my window. It had to have been the longest minute of my life. I immediately dropped down into my bed and fell back asleep. I can't explain it at all

manapana · 7 points · Posted at 14:59:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't remember any of this at all but my mom and grandparents have told me that when I was around two or three there was a towel cabinet right outside of my room and on some nights they'd hear the doors slam shut even though they were already shut when they went to sleep, they'd check on me just to make sure the sound didn't wake me up and they'd find my baby blanket spread across the floor even though it was supposed to be on the bed with me, then in the mornings I'd wake up and tell them that a lady sat on the end of my bed with me all night. We moved pretty fast haha, I have no recollection of any of this but scares the fuck out of me every time they tell me. Especially since I was only two, it's kind of hard for a two/three year old to make something like that up.

StrangeLoveNebula · 3 points · Posted at 17:23:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Punctuation.

krunnky · 14 points · Posted at 19:05:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Punctuation is there. They are just ghost periods. So you can only see them at 3AM :)

Glescaboy2402 · 15 points · Posted at 15:14:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I now pronounce you man and wife."

FluxxyDub · 21 points · Posted at 14:03:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Do any of you believe in being possessed? I do to an extent... When I was younger, probably around the age of 9 or 10 I was really ill with the flu or something. This 'flu' enabled me to have nightmares every time I fell asleep and whatever I was looking at before I fell asleep would be the topic of the nightmare. I remember one of the nightmares being about the Sky box (satellite tv) being alive and eating my dog right in front of me, it sounds stupid but was very vivid and very graphic and I can still remember it to this day. Another night, I fell asleep and when I woke up the next day, my parents and brothers sat me down and asked me if I remembered anything from last night, I replied 'no'. It seemed as if I had been screaming in my sleep, when my brothers came to check on me, I told them to fuck off in a really deep voice... When my dad came in to check on me, I sat up with my eyes wide open, told him that 'I don't want to play anymore' and I told him to 'put the fucking knife down'. All I remember from that night was the nightmare of seeing my dad run around my room with a large kitchen knife... So yeah, to a certain extent, I believe in possession because of that night

KB310 · 12 points · Posted at 16:07:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What you just described is nearly every symptom of a night terror, which can be triggered when body temperature is raised, whether it be from too many blankets or an illness such as the flu. As a kid I shared a room with a brother who suffered from night terrors and would sleep on the couch when he was sick for this very reason. He would sit straight up, eyes wide open, screaming and yelling nonsense. In the morning he would have no recollection. I too thought he was possessed.

whowatawhat4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother used to get this all the time. They are called night terrors. You aren't awake and you aren't asleep. He never remembered them and would scream and do other stuff. It's an actual thing though not being possessed.

Its_Phobos · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hallucinations due to high fevers in children are quite common. There's nothing supernatural about what happened.

StrawberryFieldsFrvr · 1 points · Posted at 08:06:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You were having "Night Terrors." They're more common among boys around the ages of 8 to 10, and are often triggered by high fevers. Nothing but out-growing them can stop them from happening. They are some times more haunting for parents because the children often wake up with no recollection of the incidents. Almost all of them happen an hour after the you fall asleep and can cause you to sweat, pace the room, flail your arms, and scream. They warn parents not to console the child because whatever it is that they are afraid of is completely real to them and they could actually harm you trying to save themselves. They are terrifying.

Edit: Sorry, didn't see that someone had already explained it.

rexchirot · 0 points · Posted at 16:37:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just wanted to say how much I empathize with this. I still vaguely remember my flu nightmares and the best thing I can compare them to is the Stephen King book: IT. In the book these kids have to fight off a kind of psychic invasion from an otherworldly/lovecraftian nightmare that could change its form to an evil clown, or a mass of spiders, or whatever your darkest fear was.

I read it a few years after my night terrors and fever dream episodes and it was shockingly validating. In my fever wracked mind, those visions seemed to really be some primal, external force of evil that was attacking my brain in my moment of weakness.

I know the science tells me I'm wrong, but its locked in my gut that I really did experience an assault from a kind of alien/demonic consciousness. It chills me to this day.

I've never really had an experience like those again in my life and even though it defies all reason, I'll never be able to be 100% certain wether it was the fever alone, because in my heart and in the pit of my stomach I can't stop feeling like the more nightmarish mystical explanation is what really happend.

So, no you are not alone, and now neither am I. This has been a bit cathartic for me, writing this out. I'm not a believer in the paranormal and I accept the scientific explanation for my experiences, but I'll never fully be able to actually believe them. Just as I don't think I'll ever be able to shake the slight PTSD ( hope I'm not diminishing the term by applying it here) that its left me with. Thank you for sharing your experience here, and for allowing me to share my own.

TL;DR: My fever dreams also haunt me to the point I can never fully believe I wasn't being possesed

[deleted] · 34 points · Posted at 15:02:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

went camping once alone. first time i had tried this and i went to a familiar spot. (i know it is dumb, but i notified some people of where i would be ahead of time.) I brought my camera with me so i could take landscapes and other artsy bullshit. whatever, the trip is going great and i decide to make camp.

I go to bed pretty much as the sun went down. i was on the shore of a lake, so i kept my camera in my tent so i could take some nice shots as the sun rises over the lake. it should be noted that this is my camera. there is no flash, it is a bare bones fully manual film camera.

i wake up as the sun rises and take some good shots. the trip is pretty uneventful and i pack up and head home. a few weeks later i develop the film in my darkroom. as i squeegee off the film i notice a weird sequence of frames right before the shots i took in the morning. it is color negative film so it is a little difficult to actually see what the picture is. they were a little blurry too, but it looks like it was someones face.

i dry the film off with the other rolls and proceed to make some contact sheets. (a page that shows me each photo on the roll, just printed the size of the negative). I pull the sheet out of the machine and immediately drop it. the pictures were of me. sleeping in my tent.

my hands are shaking and i pick the page back up. the final image in the sequence was just a blurry mess. but i could make out a wide smile, and a knife being held over me.

I burned those negatives and the one existing contact sheet. I have never been back to that area, and will never return.

cabot364 · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest one yet!

bemblu · 17 points · Posted at 17:00:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

because it's a campfire story.

leighlarox · 15 points · Posted at 21:22:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in Mexico picking up some cheap medication for extreme dry skin, and met an older couple handing out fliers. Their daughter had gone to Mexico for a class trip, but had disappeared. They were so distressed, so I offered to help them look for the next few days. When we couldn't find her and were driving back (were at the border, where everyone is checked for drugs and such), suddenly the woman freaked out and began pointing at a car filled with men and one girl a few cars down. The border patrol stopped the car, and sure enough her daughter was in it, but she appeared fast asleep. When the guy next to her got out, she slumped over instead of waking up. Turns out they had gutted her and filled her with drugs. I'll never forget the sight or her mother's screams, and never went back to Mexico after that

goodtwitch · 6 points · Posted at 21:27:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you win

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:50:04 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

is this for real........

jezzerat · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:35 on June 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

Urban legend. The version I've heard is from the p.o.v. of a couple in Mexico whose baby gets snatched and is later found being carried across the border, hollowed out and filled with drugs.

champ999 · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

honeybadga · 1 points · Posted at 04:41:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

JazzyNyancat · 2 points · Posted at 14:39:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

ProfDee · 11 points · Posted at 14:14:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

4:00 AM I roll over in my bed, and open my eyes because I had a weird feeling. My gay nudist room mate is drunk and ass naked (obviously), has his hands on his hips and is hunched over staring at me from my now open doorway. It took him about 10 seconds to realize that I was looking at him and he jumped and ran away. I could hear gay porn for the rest of the morning.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Either your desperate or your bullshitting.

ProfDee · 2 points · Posted at 23:30:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I bullshit you not.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well i aint afraid to say but i wouldnt have that shit in my house.

sassatron · 10 points · Posted at 14:47:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went to my best friend's funeral. It was closed-casket, because she had fallen & laid face down for 3 days before her mom found her. I wanted to see her. They opened her coffin & her face was so bloated & distorted, it didn't look anything like her, barely human. That night as I was trying to go to sleep every time I closed my eyes I saw her dead bloated face inches away from mine. EVERY TIME. I stayed awake all night.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm so sorry. :(

sassatron · 2 points · Posted at 02:23:40 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you. I actually felt really guilty. it was a strange feeling.

NaturesWanderer · 10 points · Posted at 15:22:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Glad I found a thread to keep me occupied for today's work day. It'll be 5:00 before I know it! Thanks reddit!

BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This

NoravAlis · 12 points · Posted at 17:28:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry for the wall of text, the story isn't short, but it is creepy as fuck.

Context: A popular history teacher at my old high school takes a group of kids on a backpacking trip through the national parks in southern Utah/northern Arizona every spring, and the year I went, he dropped this story on us at the camp fire, while we were camping on Navajo Mountain, where the story takes place.

Btw, this teacher is very sensible, well-liked, and equipped with a keen bullshit detector. He assures us that while he doesn't normally believe 'ghost' stories and the like, he's convinced the man who told him this story is for real.

The tale: Navajo Mountain, which sits on a reservation in northern Arizona is reputed to be under the patrol of several skin-walker spirits, creatures also known as Native American shape shifters.

Unlike shape shifter lore attributed to other tribes or locations, the skin-walkers of Navajo mountain are bloodthirsty beings, whose purpose, it seems, is to protect the cultural relics which can be found at ancient sites around and throughout the mountain. Because the site hosts a plethora of ancient artifacts such as arrowheads, pottery shards and artwork on rock faces, in great abundance (I saw lots of these artifacts when we camped there, and we were strictly warned to touch none of it,) the site attracts merchants looking for items to gather and then sell to tourists, it is said that the skin-walkers of Navajo Mountain have taken to killing hikers who disturb the artifacts, and then taken on the "shape", or skin of the victim. Here's my teacher's story, which happened about ten years prior to my class trip in 2001:

My teacher traveled to Navajo mountain on his own to do some hiking and visiting the sites of the rock drawings for his summer vacation. He had been on the mountain a couple of days when a summer storm rolled through, and the lightning got too close to his campsite for comfort. He was only about a mile from his rented car, so he hiked down and headed in to the nearby town to wait out the storm and restock on food and water. While he was in town, he took refuge in the local bar, and was approached by a man who he said, 'had dead eyes.' The man sat down near my teacher and looked at him for a minute before asking, 'doing some camping around here?'

My teacher looked at him and said that yes, he was spending some time on Navajo mountain, but was waiting out the storm with a beer. The man nodded, and said, I've seen some crazy shit on that mountain. Intrigued, my teacher asked him what he'd seen, and the man told him his story.

The man used to be a roadside merchant, who had a reservation-issued permit to pick up common artifacts from the area, such as pottery shards and small stone tools, granted to him due to some Navajo ancestry in his family. The man had two brothers - one older and one younger, who would often comb the mountain for objects they could sell at their stand, to tourists driving through. Once day, the man asked his younger brother to head up to the mountain and see if he could find some artifacts to restock the stand, and told him he would be by in a few hours with the truck, to pick him up. The brother said sure, and set out to hitch a ride to the site.

A couple hours later, business was drying up for the day, so the man set out to find his brother, and see what he had been able to salvage from the mountain. He drove up to the dirt lot and parked his truck, and started calling for his brother. As he wandered up the path, calling out, he heard a voice, snickering. The voice sounded like his little brother, and as he continued up the trail, calling his brother's name with growing unease, the snickering grew to a very deep laugh. According to the man, the laugh froze his blood, as he was certain it sounded like his brother, except that his brother never laughed like that. After about 100 yards, the laughter had grown quite loud. The man described it as 'humorless and dead.' Rounding a rock outcropping, he saw his younger brother standing, about 50 feet up on a cliff, his throat slit and his eyes glowing, staring at him and laughing. When it saw the man, it stopped laughing, turned its head to the sky, and howled. The man turned and ran as fast as he could, back to his truck. He could hear the creature that used to be his brother in pursuit, and later came to realize he was only saved by the fact that it had been up on a rock face, and had to get down to give the man proper chase.

The man made it to his truck, and high-tailed it out of the park. Looking in his rear-view mirror, the man saw the creature chasing him down the road, pacing the truck about 50 feet back, and running on all fours. The creature never stopped grinning for the entire, short drive to the man's house. The man made it inside and locked the door. Looking out the window to his front yard, the creature sat in the middle of his lawn, grinning at the window, and still dripping blood from where his brother's throat had been ripped open.

This continued for two days, and the man was unable to leave his house. Occasionally, the creature would laugh its horrible laugh, or howl at the moon.

On the third day, the man called the local medicine man for advice. The town's shaman was highly disturbed by this news, and advised the man to stay in his house until the moon started its waning phase. At that point, he advised, the Skinwalker should become bored, and return to it's patrol at the mountain. The shaman expressed his sympathies for the loss of the man's brother, and assured him he would chant and pray for the spirit to move on.

Fortunately, the man had enough food and water to wait the five or so days for the moon to pass it's full phase and start to wane. On the second night of waning, the man went to his window and saw that the Skin-walker was, indeed, gone.

Giddy with relief, the man called the shaman to tell him the good news. The shaman asked the man if he had seen his older brother recently, as nobody in the town had seen him in a few days, and there was no one running the brothers' roadside stand. The man said he had not heard from him, but that he was going to head back up and check out the mountain, as he had a sudden feeling of certainty that that is where he would find his older brother.

The man got in his truck and headed up to the dirt lot. Upon parking his truck and swinging open the door, he heard a familiar sound, that laughing. Except this time around, it sounded like two voices. This time, he didn't even have to get out of his truck to find what he had come up to the mountain for - his two brothers were standing on top of a rock face, visible from the truck, both grinning at the human that used to be their brother, and staring, both dripping blood from their gaping necks.

The man jumped in his truck and floored it back to town. He didn't even look in his rear-view until he got to the edge of town, and when he checked, nothing was following him, only his memories of his brothers' dead laughter.

TL/DR Don't fuck with Native American spirits.

champ999 · 2 points · Posted at 00:13:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a Utahn dweller, these are the creepy stories that get passed around the most. Most people won't think them plausible, but reservation land is one of the few wild places still in the states, and if crazy stuff like that happens, it would be there.

rezhead · 2 points · Posted at 00:17:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Navajo guy here. Cool story, but doesn't really match up with what I know about skinwalkers. I've never heard of them being guardians of relics, or really messing with non-dine. Might have been something else.

NoravAlis · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, it seemed a bit 'off' to me, too. I've read some Native American and Navajo lore, but had never heard of skinwalkers or vengeful type spirits..

However, the story was enough to pretty much guarantee I didn't sleep that night. I've looked around the annals of the interwebs but haven't found any similar stories online.

rezhead · 2 points · Posted at 04:03:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Skinwalkers are almost always driven by jealousy, and are actually a sort of witch. They could be someone you know in regular daily life, but at night they transform and travel. If a skinwalkers true identity is found out, the person will usually be found dead the next day. There are a lot of missing time episodes attributed to skinwalkers since they can "freeze" you up.

NoravAlis · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wonder, if the story is true, if the locals may have misidentified the entities as skinwalkers, when they were actually ghosts, or another kind of supernatural being.

rezhead · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably not the locals misidentifying anything, most Navajos living on the reservation would know enough from this story to know it doesn't sound like a skinwalker, let alone a medicine man.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:54 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe they were just "inventive" skin walkers, knowing to to protect their land in a crazy and exciting ways.

rezhead · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:40 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the only "inventive" being in this story is the guy in the bar that the teacher ran into. If you know navajos, or lived on the rez for any amount of time, the story has several things that don't sound right.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:30:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sure the guarding the relics is something I have never heard of and by many assertions no one else has either, but that does not mean the story is complete bullshit, it may have just gotten muddled in this guy's recollection, remember this is not his story, but one that has been told to someone that was told to him.

My main point being, if beings like this were to exist, they would not stay stagnant in their ways, some would possibly go insane, or become civilized in some way. The concept of them sticking to one way of constantly acting takes away any sense of realism that a story could have and removes plausibility, organisms either change or die.

krunnky · 9 points · Posted at 14:26:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I'm probably too late to the party. But, just in case, I've got a non-ghost story, but still managed to creep me out a bit. A few months ago, I was working from home on a Friday so I could finish up a presentation for the owners of my company without the distractions of the office. I had my remote desktop session open to my work server, Netflix, Steam (pre-downloading Bioshock Infinite I think), and probably some other random stuff all running on my computer. I had been working on a report for several hours and was watching Futurama on netflix as I finished up editing/formatting some of the excel files. Once I was happy with it, I saved/closed it. I hadn't quite closed out my Remote session when I noticed that there was more sound coming from my speakers than just Futurama. I assumed it was an ad on a webpage that auto-refreshed or something (I had a ton of bookmarks opened). So, I alt-tabbed to chrome cycled through all my open tabs. Nothing. There was a guy with an English-sounding accent talking. I paused Netflix and could hear it more clearly. It was clearly a guy chatting and playing a shooter. I could hear explosions and gunshots in the background. I could hear the one English accent guy talking to someone or maybe a few others. He was describing the game, like he was introducing friends to it.

Figuring that it was some glitch, I sat there listening to it for a minute. I pulled out my phone and tried to record video of it. Of course, my phone was being a POS and it would only record for 1 second and crash. So I have 2 1 second vids of it. After that, I became more interested in HOW this could happen. So, I took closed every running program on my computer, one at a time. I closed Remote Desktop, still there. Then, Netflix, Chrome, Excel, Word, logged out of steam. And it's still here.

At this point, it dawns on me "maybe this could be 2-way?". I pickup my headphones and ask in the mic "hello? Can you hear me?". The English accent guy says: "yeah mate, we hear you? Who is this? Please keep this channel clear." I ask "what game are you playing? I didn't join this chat room and your voices just started coming out of my speakers!" He says that they are playing Modern Warfare 3 and asks how I joined their private chat. I tell him that I didn't do anything and explain that I was just sitting here and suddenly could hear them in my speakers.

I'm not logged into steam, all running apps on my desktop are closed. I figured I'd go into Task Manager and start shutting things down there. When I ended the task for Steam, it stopped. BINGO, steam error. I sent them a support ticket and got the default "delete everything but steam apps folder, roboot, and try to re-produce the error".

Re-reading it just now, it's not that creepy now. But, at the time, it sort of freaked me out that suddenly I was connected to a random online chat. It felt pretty invasive.

moridin66 · 4 points · Posted at 14:42:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I read this it reminded me of the first time I built a computer. I had it all setup and then added a 5 speaker set (logitech). As soon as I plugged the speakers into the power outlet, I started hearing static and the faint talking that sounded like commentary on a baseball game. I turned up the volume and it came through clearer - I hadn't plugged them into the computer yet, so all they had was power.

Thankfully I remembered a physics class in high school when we discussed this phenomenon. It has the potential to be super creepy if you've got the right thing playing on the other end. After I got over the initial "WTF?!" and then "Oh, that's neat - fun w/ physics!" reactions I got bored and exchanged them for a set of magnetically shielded speakers so it wouldn't happen again.

krunnky · 3 points · Posted at 14:56:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually, that crossed my mind initially. I dismissed it when I realized that my speakers were not only on, but also playing Futurama sounds at the same time :) Obviously, this was a steam bug.

throwawaycarol · 11 points · Posted at 15:10:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A friend of mine is somewhat of a medium, she uses a different word to describe it though, I just can't remember.

She only told me this recently, it's been a lifelong thing she's had where she can communicate with spirits. While drinking together in my parents' basement, she said "not gonna lie, you guys do have someone in your house." As she began to describe him, I got a little suspicious about who it might be, but she asked not to guess because it might sway her opinion.

I'm not sure what she said that made me figure it out, but I eventually told her that I thought it could be my dad's dad, who died when I was 4. She froze in her seat (coincidentally one that had been in his house at one point) and said "yupp, it's him" and proceeded to tell me things about him that she couldn't have possibly known.

this isn't as scary as some of the other stories, but I figured I could retell it here.

she's also told me some effed things about seeing imps and dark spirits in her house. if it's true, i'm not going back there any time soon.

sherlickington · 4 points · Posted at 15:16:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A clairvoyant?

PureEureka · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:22 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

A channeler?

alpakin · 8 points · Posted at 13:56:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a little kid, I had a birthday party. There was this one decoration hanging on my lamp. I don't know what it's called but I, as a little kid, thought it was kind of scary and felt like it was looking at me. It was not a figure or a face, just a normal party decoration but i still felt like it was staring at me. I told my mom about it and she said it was not a big deal and when my dad comes he would take it out. That night, as i was trying to sleep, I was staring at that thing and it was staring at me. I started to say "you can't hurt me, you aren't alive" and stuff like that and BAM it fell to the ground. I screamed and my mom came calmed me down and took that thing out.

UnitedPlayztation · 8 points · Posted at 14:21:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've posted this in another thread, but oh well...

After coming home late one night, watching a midnight showing, I pulled up to my apartment parking lot around 4am. It was a mid-fall like night, perfect hoodie weather, and the leaves were still hanging on to branches. The familiar light that illuminates the area begins to flicker as I pull up to my assigned spot. I turn off the engine and see a man with his back turned on the corner of my eye. He is standing behind, I assume, his vehicle with the empty trunk open. Thinking nothing of it, I get out of my car and head towards the opening area of my apartment.

I stop by the mail box, as I have not been home all day. Struggling to find the correct key, I start to hear it. Soft at first, then progressively got louder the more I listened: What could only be described as a trashbag full of garbage being dragged across the wooden deck. The sound would stop every other second, then begin again slightly louder than before, as if carrier did not have the energy to drag it nonstop.

Having mail in hand, I quickly shut the mail box and walked briskly towards my door on the bottom floor. As I was walking towards the door I could faintly see the source of the sound. Looking up through the centimeter gap of the two-by-fours, I saw a figure on the 2nd level deck, dragging a large trashbag, only it looked a lot bulkier than your everyday trash.

Fear finally hit as I nearly sprinted the last few steps towards my door. Having key-in-hand ready, I opened the door as fast as humanly possible without drawing too much attention to myself. I locked the door and looked through the peep-hole and just listened and waited.

Silence...

No sound of dragging, nor footsteps...

Then my cat jumped on my side wanting food, scarring the shit out of me.

[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 16:12:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I started a subreddit for these stories, believe it or not, there wasn't one already: r/realcreepy

bethanyj · 5 points · Posted at 17:55:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/Thetruthishere ?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:57:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome!!! Thanks so much, I have been searching for a place like this on Reddit, didn't know it existed.

insidethetardis · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THAAAAANK YOU

Forcefedlies · 10 points · Posted at 18:13:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's is a picture I took of my two nephews at my parents house, we were the only ones in the room. Anyone see it?

http://imgur.com/iWbXjWG

MarkTwainsSpittoon · 3 points · Posted at 18:16:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes. I see it. The little baby is flipping you the bird. That is dang creepy

Forcefedlies · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Check the window...

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:25:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for making me shit.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 2 points · Posted at 22:17:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's terrifying is it looks like it's inside your house. It'd be less creepy if it looked like someone outside.

thedrinkmonster · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You mean that's not your reflection?? 2 spooky m8

Forcefedlies · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not me, or my mom, or dad, or brother, or brothers wife.

mightyneonfraa · 3 points · Posted at 04:22:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If the camera had a flash maybe it was somebody walking by the window and glancing in at just the right time. Taking a shortcut or something?

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 03:19:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In Staten Island where I live, there is a place called Old Richmond Town. One night around 3am, a friend and I were driving around and we stop right in the middle of the town at a three way intersection. We are facing this house wating for the light to change. I'm rambling on about some story while sitting in the passenger side when all of a sudden my friend Tevin says to me "hold up, is someone watching us in that house?" He points at the second floor and I see in the window the curtain is lifted by a pale hand and half of a face that looks like a girl with long black hair. I immediately freak out and tell him to just drive through the light cause fuck that.

This is not the freaky part though. Fast forward about two years and I'm back from college hanging out with another group of totally different friends. Again, we are driving around but it's only about 8pm. We drive by Old Richmond town and that's when I start telling my friends the story of the creepy girl hand. I only manage to get through the first two sentences of my story explaining what I was doing there when another friend of mine said "let me guess, you saw a hand pull back the curtain of the white house." I instantly got the goosebumps and was in disbelief. I didn't believe him at first and thought it was a lucky guess but that's when he called another mutual friend of ours and put him on speaker. He told him to retell what happened in Richmond Town and it was almost the exact same story as mine. Suffice to say, I try to avoid that place at night.

If anyone actually reads this and is also from Staten Island please let me know if you've experienced something similar from that house. I'd like to know.

rinser86 · 8 points · Posted at 03:36:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Kind of a wall of text story, but definitely worth it because even 8 years later I still get goosebumps thinking about it.

I worked in a summer camp in the US one time. It was a big thing to start off my 'round the world trip' - and being all of 19 at the time, I was super excited to see how a real life American Summer Camp lived up to my expectations from all the films I'd seen...

The camp was in the south east and really gorgeous. We were surrounded by dense woods & amazing bluffs & cliffs. The closest town was 20 miles and there was nothing but trees and canyons surrounding the camp & its lake. There were 4 sessions in the season, each going for between 2-3 weeks. We (as counselors) would get 1 night off a week, and 2 days off between sessions. On scheduled nights off we'd either chill in the staff lounge and watch movies, or hang in our designated cabin upstairs from the kids and read/listen to music - whatever. So one night, towards the end of the camp when everyone's in a groove and comfy, after everyone's turned in and sleeping soundly, I woke up at something like 1am. It was one of those times where you wake up and you instantly know something's up. My heart was immediately racing and for no apparent reason, so I lay there quietly, listening intently. That's when I heard it: a very muted cry for help, coming from outside my window towards the woods. The whole cabin was wooden, with fly screen windows, so even among the sound of crickets and other night noises, I could easily tell it was the cry of a young girl somewhere out in the woods. I got up quickly, awoke the counselor I shared quarters with and told him to listen. Once we both heard the cry again, we got outside with our flashlights and headed for the sound. It was intermittent, but you could hear her saying "help" or "I'm lost" quite regularly, and quite a way into the woods. She was clearly distressed, so the quicker we found her and got her back safely, the better for everyone. Meanwhile, we're both shitting ourselves because it's dark as hell, we have puny flashlights and she's out there somewhere with no way of seeing/navigating.

As we both cross a small playing field where the kids used to play football/baseball and stuff, we ran into a female counselor. She heard the cries while on a night walk around from her side of camp (boys & girls were at opposite areas) and was investigating too - shit just felt real. We form a line of 3 and head into the woods with our torches calling out for the girl. She was in more than we would want, but not too far that we didn't feel we'd take long to recover her. We were in about 5 mins into the woods, calling out and hearing her responses, when we heard her sniffling and crying so we knew were were close. We'd found her! She was only 20 feet away and we could hear her saying "I'm scared, where am I?" in a low voice. We kept reassuring her and just when we felt we were going to stumble upon her, she went stone silent. We called out "where are you? call out! we're here honey!" but nothing. Then, in the distance: "Help me! I'm lost! Come quick". So again, we started toward her calling out. When we felt that we were almost on top of her again, she went silent. We called. We waited. Nothing. Then, from farther away still: "Help! Can't you guys help me!?". We all chatted and agreed. 'Fuck this, we're gonna get lost in here, we have to go back to main camp and assemble everyone for a search'. We called out to her that we were going to get help and come back with everyone, and for her to sit tight cause we'll be back soon. We could still get faint whimpers and crying sounds from her, so we told her to stay where she was, we'll be back. We all sprinted back to camp, rang the big bell at the main office (reserved for emergencies only) and the whole camp was put on alert.

The camp heads put on all the flood lights and we all met in the quad for a role call/head count. All the counselors were present, all the campers and kids were present. Absolutely every single person that was meant to be at that camp, was checked off and present. With that all confirmed, we still had a question about the little girl. We had come back from the woods the same way we went in, and rang the bell & assembled everyone for inspection. In that time, we all know that no little girl without a flashlight had retraced the steps back to the camp - she was a good 15 minutes into the woods with no light, and we had a hard enough time as it was. All accounted for, everyone went back to their cabins and back to bed. The heads felt it was a false alarm and that what we'd heard were echoes of our own voices etc. We all knew that was bullshit but we couldn't rock the boat. It was creepy as hell the way the voice kept leading us into the woods further and further, and while everyone had their versions of camp ghost stories, this was by far the creepiest, real scary thing I and the other 2 had ever had happen. We chatted about it towards the end of the session, and both myself and the female counselor were confident it was something paranormal and we both couldn't explain it. The male counselor I went with refused it defiantly, and whenever we brought it up about being a ghost/creepy story he would say it was just voices echoing and that it didn't really happen... every time he defended it, I could see in his eyes that he was shit scared, and probably just wanted to convince himself it didn't happen.

NewTeethThatsWeird · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:15 on August 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wendigo lore says they can imitate human voices to lure people away from their groups.

martininkorea · -1 points · Posted at 05:36:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy fuck dude! I know this will come off as a little rude, but please work on your formatting. This giant block of text makes it difficult to read your story. I only aim to help, so that my eyes don't strain themselves any more than they have to.

SmoSays · 3 points · Posted at 07:00:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Let me edit this for everyone

Kind of a wall of text story, but definitely worth it because even 8 years later I still get goosebumps thinking about it.

I worked in a summer camp in the US one time. It was a big thing to start off my 'round the world trip' - and being all of 19 at the time, I was super excited to see how a real life American Summer Camp lived up to my expectations from all the films I'd seen...

The camp was in the south east and really gorgeous. We were surrounded by dense woods & amazing bluffs & cliffs. The closest town was 20 miles and there was nothing but trees and canyons surrounding the camp & its lake.

There were 4 sessions in the season, each going for between 2-3 weeks. We (as counselors) would get 1 night off a week, and 2 days off between sessions. On scheduled nights off we'd either chill in the staff lounge and watch movies, or hang in our designated cabin upstairs from the kids and read/listen to music - whatever.

So one night, towards the end of the camp when everyone's in a groove and comfy, after everyone's turned in and sleeping soundly, I woke up at something like 1 am. It was one of those times where you wake up and you instantly know something's up. My heart was immediately racing and for no apparent reason, so I lay there quietly, listening intently.

That's when I heard it: a very muted cry for help, coming from outside my window towards the woods.

The whole cabin was wooden, with fly screen windows, so even among the sound of crickets and other night noises, I could easily tell it was the cry of a young girl somewhere out in the woods. I got up quickly, awoke the counselor I shared quarters with and told him to listen. Once we both heard the cry again, we got outside with our flashlights and headed for the sound. It was intermittent, but you could hear her saying "help" or "I'm lost" quite regularly, and quite a way into the woods. She was clearly distressed, so the quicker we found her and got her back safely, the better for everyone.

Meanwhile, we're both shitting ourselves because it's dark as hell, we have puny flashlights and she's out there somewhere with no way of seeing/navigating.

As we both cross a small playing field where the kids used to play football/baseball and stuff, we ran into a female counselor. She heard the cries while on a night walk around from her side of camp (boys & girls were at opposite areas) and was investigating too - shit just felt real. We form a line of 3 and head into the woods with our torches calling out for the girl.

She was in more than we would want, but not too far that we didn't feel we'd take long to recover her. We were in about 5 mins into the woods, calling out and hearing her responses, when we heard her sniffling and crying so we knew were were close. We'd found her! She was only 20 feet away and we could hear her saying "I'm scared, where am I?" in a low voice. We kept reassuring her and just when we felt we were going to stumble upon her, she went stone silent.

We called out "where are you? call out! we're here honey!" but nothing.

Then, in the distance: "Help me! I'm lost! Come quick".

So again, we started toward her calling out. When we felt that we were almost on top of her again, she went silent. We called. We waited. Nothing.

Then, from farther away still: "Help! Can't you guys help me!?".

We all chatted and agreed. 'Fuck this, we're gonna get lost in here, we have to go back to main camp and assemble everyone for a search'. We called out to her that we were going to get help and come back with everyone, and for her to sit tight cause we'll be back soon. We could still get faint whimpers and crying sounds from her, so we told her to stay where she was, we'll be back.

We all sprinted back to camp, rang the big bell at the main office (reserved for emergencies only) and the whole camp was put on alert. The camp heads put on all the flood lights and we all met in the quad for a role call/head count. All the counselors were present, all the campers and kids were present. Absolutely every single person that was meant to be at that camp, was checked off and present. With that all confirmed, we still had a question about the little girl. We had come back from the woods the same way we went in, and rang the bell & assembled everyone for inspection. In that time, we all know that no little girl without a flashlight had retraced the steps back to the camp - she was a good 15 minutes into the woods with no light, and we had a hard enough time as it was.

All accounted for, everyone went back to their cabins and back to bed. The heads felt it was a false alarm and that what we'd heard were echoes of our own voices etc. We all knew that was bullshit but we couldn't rock the boat.

It was creepy as hell the way the voice kept leading us into the woods further and further, and while everyone had their versions of camp ghost stories, this was by far the creepiest, real scary thing I and the other 2 had ever had happen. We chatted about it towards the end of the session, and both myself and the female counselor were confident it was something paranormal and we both couldn't explain it.

The male counselor I went with refused it defiantly, and whenever we brought it up about being a ghost/creepy story he would say it was just voices echoing and that it didn't really happen... every time he defended it, I could see in his eyes that he was shit scared, and probably just wanted to convince himself it didn't happen.

rinser86 · 2 points · Posted at 06:57:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry man, I was in struggle-town just to get it down pat. My next posts will be spaced out better. I hate double clicking words just to keep place when I read stories!! Duly noted.

martininkorea · 3 points · Posted at 08:26:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No worries, sorry if my comment came off as rude. I didn't intend for it, so my apologies. The easiest way is to break your story up into paragraphs with a blank line in between each one.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:53:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's OK--was a truly creepy story, scary as all heck. I'm just glad that nothing happened to you or the fellow searchers. Thank you for taking the time to type it all out. Phew, that is frightening. shudders

faijp002 · 8 points · Posted at 10:27:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was hanging out with my friend late one night and he had brought one of his Mars Volta records which also served as an Ouija board. We decided we would use the Ouija board, but not in or near my house to avoid getting the joint haunted. So we went to a park and bought some typical Ouija board paraphernalia to set the good vibes, candles and all that stuff. When we first used it nothing happened so we moved to another park and waited around for abit. 15 minutes later we heard this tremendously loud deep growling sound come from behind us in the darkness of the park. We jumped out of skins and nearly sprinted for the road, but then realized it was just a possum or a koala or something. About 5 minutes later the Ouija board began to work its magic. We asked the spirit if it was good or bad and it replied good, so we continued the communion. The spirit told us that its name was GODJ and that it lived a long time ago, hundreds of year, i cant quite remember. The peculiar thing about this experience was that the ghost said its age was 1 which was confusing. This led us to think maybe we misinterpreted it or maybe spirits have no age. It said that it died of SIDS which rectified the previous confusion. After asking more questions we decided it was time to head for home. When we got home we told a friend of the family who was staying at my house what had happened and he was intrigued. Later that night when my friend was asleep I woke up in the middle of night and couldnt get back to sleep. I just lay there reflecting about the strange string of events. Then it happened. I started hearing these scratching sounds on the wall next to where I sleep. like a finger was moving in circles on the opposite side of the wall where I rest my head. I tried waking my friend up but I could barely make a sound I was so scared. I think i threw something at him to wake him up. But he was in a deep sleep and could barely remember it the next day. So much more using the ouija board out of home to avoid the bad vibes

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 11:10:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mars Volta made me think you were Aussie. Koala confirmed it.

Nickelass069 · 18 points · Posted at 13:38:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night my mom asked me if I wanted to watch a movie.

"No," I said. And I walked into to my room.

A few minutes pass, and I hear some shuffling.

I shrug it off, but it's persistent. Next thing I know, something is breathing, an inch or two from my right ear.

I freaked out. Turn around, room is empty.

Needless to say, I watched a movie one time.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 15:03:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You mom was screwing with you, she really wanted to watch that movie with you.

ChangoBango · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whatever it was wanted you to watch that movie with your mother lol

fabionte · 5 points · Posted at 15:15:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at my grandma's home and it was raining, so a little sparrow came to rest under the roof. But my grandma's 10 chickens suddenly surrounded the sparrow and they started to peck it. I tried to help, but they kept pecking and in the end the bones of the sparrow was literally pecked clean. Man that was a bad day for 8 year old me. :(

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:19:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The underwater scene in Dear Esther. That was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.

Fronkenstorm · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember playing that game, but not the underwater scene. Care to re-enlighten me?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, at one point you plunge down a pit and when you hit the water everything goes black and when you can see again, you're at least 200 feet underwater in a city. It's creepy, Here's a pic

Exulted · 3 points · Posted at 15:20:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Walking to my car in the morning and the neighbors horses began "screaming" is the best I can describe it. I've never heard something that made me so primordially afraid in my life.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:22:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a teenager some girlfriends and I decided to have a seance. We decided to contact my friend Sara's grandmother who had passed maybe a decade before. So we're in her bedroom, lights off, about 5 of us hand in hand sitting around a candle.

We ask the spirits to answer our questions by making the candle flame hold still for "yes" and continue to flicker for "no". So we start asking questions and it's actually working. Even with the five of us breathing towards the candle it's holding still. We suddenly hear the bed start creaking as if someone is sitting on it and ask if the spirit is doing that and get a "yes".

A minute later the closet door directly behind Sara and I starts to creak and we ask the spirit again if it is doing that and get a "yes". Then Sara says sarcastically "come sit next to me".

At that moment, at the very same time the both of us felt like what was an ice cold hand wrap around our two clasped hands. We both jump and screamed at the same time and just sat there for a moment staring at each other in shock. I turned on the lights immediately and she blew out the candle. That was our last time screwing around in the spirit world.

rjimmy · 4 points · Posted at 15:27:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a dude's jaw get blown off in a Syrian video again. I haven't watched one since.

b_normal_y · 3 points · Posted at 15:32:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my husband and I moved across the country we lived with his mom and siblings for awhile until we got on our feet. Well one particularly early morning (because we weren't used to the time difference) my husband and I were up talking quietly. His mom worked the graveyard shift and we heard the garage door go up, and go down. Then slow steps up to the kitchen. (This was a new hurry up and build it house, so the walls were paper thin even in a three level,, we could hear everything). We hear the fridge open up and close. Then more slow steps up to the third floor. Whatever, his mom just got home. Fuckin' WRONG. Maybe about 45 minutes later the garage opens up again, steps again, more steps. We actually open the door this time. His mom just got home from work. And we did ask his siblings the next day, everyone was asleep and no one heard anything. Creepiest thing that's every happened to us (though there was the one time a homeless person standing in the middle of the street, at night, with a 2x4 trying to attack the hood of our car). Other weird shit happened during our brief stay there as well.

soyentist · 6 points · Posted at 15:44:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had this not so much of a recurring dream, but more of a recurring scenario in my dreams for years.

I'm in a room of my house all alone. Everything still until I begin to feel a malevolent presence. I can't see anyone or hear anyone, I just get this feeling all over my body and deep in my mind that there's something around me that wants to hurt me. I immediately panic. I can't speak, I can't move, I just stand there and try to call out for help, but the presence grows. Usually, by that point I wake up.

One night, I dreamt I walked into my childhood hallway in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and it happened. The difference with this dream was that it seemed more like a memory. I was in the hallway, when I suddenly feel that presence. I collapse to the ground against the wall, paralyzed. I look over to my mom's bedroom door and try to call out to her, but I can't speak. When I woke up, I asked my mom if anything like that had happened to me, but she said no.

I had that type of dream now and again for years after that. When I was a bit older, I asked my mom again about that dream and she finally admitted it to me. That had happened to me twice as a child. She found me in the hallway, paralyzed with fear, trying to call out to her. It was apparently so terrifying that I suppressed the memory.

I haven't had one of those dreams for years.

Swampfox2002 · 2 points · Posted at 15:49:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a Psych patient jump head first from the 3rd floor into a concrete plaza and he just folded into a clump of clothes and a big ring of blood started circling him. It didn't look like a human being after the hit.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:15:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn, I was worried seven stories might not be enough when I was planning on doing that. Luckily I couldn't do it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:08:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jeeesus, you alright now?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:12:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not so bad now. I was hearing tons of voices say terrible things for days without sleep and the hallucinations kept getting worse and I couldn't take it anymore.

Actually I guess I knew a header from that high would do me in, I was worried I would fail at getting myself into a dive with no water. People have survived similar falls and I wanted to be sure.

Finally stuck with medication through the side effects and it works for the most part.

yourlocalwerecat · 3 points · Posted at 15:50:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sure that this is nothing compared to most stories here, but I was sitting on a school bus going home, and the one of the two girls behind me was looking through the pictures in the other's phone; the girl looking through pictures goes, "Why do you have these on here?" The other girl--not a senior, maybe not even a junior--proceeds to tell her about how she drugged her little sister's drink, then took off her sister's clothing and took pictures in compromising positions. Maybe it's just because I have a younger sister and younger brother, but that someone would be so cruel to someone they grew up with just...I dunno, man. Fucked with me.

Also, yesterday I read on an AskReddit about a video where some Russian teenagers really brutally tortured an old man. Like, stabbed him in the chest a couple of times, before he died picked out his eyes...creepy shit, man.

birdsmith88 · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should have publicly shamed that chick right then and there. Public shaming works great on animals like that.

_i_man · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was younger, my parents left my sister and I at home when they went over to a friend's house. Before they left, they locked all of the doors and windows on the first floor, as there had been a few robberies on nearby houses. My sister and I were passing the time watching some movies and playing legos in our playroom, which was on the first floor, when we heard a sound from upstairs. Our house was built in two parts, one in 1820, and the other in 1795, and between the two parts, the doors tend to creak and make a lot of noise. We heard one of the doors between the two sides creak and then slam, and my sister and I went dead quiet. She turned off the TV, and I grabbed my whiffle ball bat. We went into the bathroom, and closed and locked the door. After about twenty minutes or so, we decided to come out of the bathroom. As soon as we opened the door, though, we heard heavy footsteps, like someone was wearing boots, running back and forth on the floor above us. We retreated back to the bathroom, and stayed there until our parents came home.

I don't think I slept well in my house for about a year after that.

TheBakercist · 4 points · Posted at 16:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened a few years ago when I was still living in California.

In the town I lived in, Santa Clarita/Canyon Country, there was a stretch of road that was just... freaky. A lot of people in the area raced, and there were more deaths by car crashes than I could count, usually stupid kids or whatever. Trying to impress each other on prom night.

ANYWAY. A friend and I were driving that road, late at night, and just out of nowhere this black... thing crosses the road in front of us. It was huge. It wasn't an animal, there are no big wild animals in that area, just coyotes and shit. It kind of looked like something was crab crawling/floating across the road.

It freaked up the fuck out. Mainly because after we passed where it had been, we slowed to look off the side of the road, and there was nothing.

That wasn't our only freaky thing in that area.

A couple nights later, we were in the same area, around the same time of night, when this big ass white thing just wooshes over us. Could have been a barn owl or something, but good god. It just came out of nowhere.

The last weird thing that happened, right before I moved, I was out with a different friend, in the day time, same areaish, when while driving, something hit the roof of our car. A serious WTF moment. We stopped, got out, looked around. There was nothing. Road was clear, no mark on the car roof, nothing laying on the side of the road.

Those are my weird California happenings. I have more, now that I've moved to Maryland.

Billpayment · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you really want to feel uncomfortable, look for 'the nightcrawler' videos on youtube. They are california based, and REALLY weird. To make it worse, the indians in that area have been carving statues of these things forever before anyone ever captured one on video.

TheBakercist · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I might have to check this out.

I'll wait until it's night. I love being creeped out.

California is one weird place.

twixplease · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up in Santa Clarita. Which road are you talking about? I went to Saugus High School.

TheBakercist · 1 points · Posted at 01:38:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lived in Saugus.

I believe the road is called Bouquet Canyon. It's all secluded and shit. I haven't been in California for a few years, but I think that's it.

Even the area where I lived in Saugus was creepy. I would see black shadowy masses off to the side of the streets, or darting across the roads.

twixplease · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I took Bouquet canyon all the time- it gets to a point where it is curves and in the middle of nowhere.

karlthebaer · 4 points · Posted at 16:13:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The sound of a frozen lake in the dead of winter. Not that scary on face, but it sounds like nothing you've ever heard before. Very unnerving.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 16:25:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

my deceased father's corpse. He had a heart attack in the middle of the night when he got up to pee. Worst day of my life.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:04 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm so sorry you had to go through that.

D-compose · 6 points · Posted at 16:34:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alright heres one for you. Me and my friends were getting high in this village in england...we parked up the road from this church listening to music, generally chilling. I was driving, a mate next to me and one in the back. I suddnely see movement off in the distance, but by this time its pitch black and i couldnt be sure if i was just baaked or really did see something. So i asked my friends, did you see something moving over there? Nahh, naahhh you just fucked up...they replied. I wasnt convinced so i kept an eye on it...then less than 15 seconds later i see more movement, this time my friend in the passenger sees it. So he says turn your half lights on. I do this, and see that there is deffiently someone out there...so i turn my lights on full. And what only can be described as a woman in black was creeping in the bushes walking towards the car. As soon as i had turned the lights on she stopped and tried hiding in to the bush. As you can imagine we were freaking out...so without a seconds hesitation i started the engine, then she starts legging it running away...but in a weird way. By the time we pulled away after her she was gone...to this day i still get scared thinking about what she would have done if she had got to my window. My freakiest story.

p_iynx · 3 points · Posted at 16:49:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

So, this happened this week. I don't know why it happened. It's never happened before, and it may not sound so creepy but I've had nightmares since it happened.

I have fibromyalgia. It's a chronic pain condition that is partially caused by over active pain centers in the brain. I have damaged nerves, and I feel pain everywhere for no reason.

I was having a bad flare (the pain was everywhere and it was driving me nuts) so my boyfriend's roommate offered me a "dab". It's hash oil basically vaporized on a titanium nail in a bong. Kinda cracky, but definitely still just THC. I'd done it before and thought nothing of it. I just wanted the pain to go away.

So I'm sitting on the couch, getting progressively happier and the shivery pleasure sets in. Boyfriend is drumming his fingers on my leg, music is playing, people are talking and laughing and I'm just sitting there taking it all in. It started off nice; every sound was a physical sensation, all the physical sensations were causing little throbs of color.

But soon the drumming started to hurt. The noises started to hurt. I couldn't talk for some reason, but I wanted it to stop. All of the noises were affecting me physically and it hurt so fucking bad. The room turned red and was throbbing, and I was still silent. I'm not quite sure what the transition was, but very soon after my brain started registering every stimuli as pain. At some point, it appeared: I had a line down the center of my body that burned white-hot and throbbed with every noise and sensation. The room was flashing through reds and whites and blacks with bright spots of light and soon I couldn't see anything but a thick line of red that throbbed and had a center of black. It hurt, it hurt so fucking badly. The black was coming closer, and the pain built and built with an impossible pressure. It seemed like I was going to be torn in two if the black got to me, because that ripping feeling intensified as it got closer. Boyfriend and his friend started asking if I was okay, and I started quietly apologizing. I felt so awful for being out of control. I guess tears were running down my cheeks for a while, but I don't remember crying. All I remember is the walls turning blood red as I cried silently in pain at the sound of their voices.

I asked for the sounds to be turned off, so boyfriend and friends ran around turning off all the various electronics in the house. The sound of my own voice was the most painful thing I've ever heard. I sucked it up, and whispered, "Bedroom, please." It was like getting my head bashed in. Boyfriend had to carry me into the room because I was basically paralyzed from the waist down; my legs didn't work at all, I could barely feel them.

I laid down on his white sheets in his blue room and cried as I realized that I could still hear my heartbeat and the blood in my veins. At this point, I had been in the most pain I've ever experienced for over two hours. I started thinking, "What if it never stops?" I wanted to tell him to kill me out of mercy, that I couldn't take this any longer. I was also pretty sure that my heart was going to stop if the blackness got any closer. I tried to breathe slowly to slow my heart, I tried to think happy thoughts. Nothing made it stop, and we were reaching the three hour mark. I started to think it was never going to end, that that one hit somehow broke me. I laid there and breathed and focused on the blue until I passed out from sheer exhaustion, sadness, and pain.

Woke up, felt shivery and overwhelmed and my insides ached. It was like I had a third degree burn on my stomach and my heart and down into my organs. But it was nothing compared to before. I was so relieved and scared and horrified at what just happened. Cried for a bit more, couldn't stop asking why it happened and couldn't stop apologizing for being such a pain. I felt so guilty and awful for being a burden on everyone.

But mostly, I haven't been able to get that pain out of my head. Nothing in this world ever hurt so much. Someone once jumped on my arm backwards and broke it in half at the elbow; that was nothing compared to this. I've gotten burned by hot oils and thick soup, cut my arm open to the point where I could see what was inside, have been in car accidents and fell down multiple flights of stairs. I had anorexia to the point where I ate less than 200 calories for almost a month, and the pain of that level of hunger doesn't even come close.

I haven't been able to stop jumping and cringing at noises or to relax in cars because I'm constantly terrified of sudden stimuli. Since then, I feel uncomfortable around certain loud and energetic people because I remember how much it hurt to be around them.

I don't know why it happened, but I sincerely hope it never does again.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:40:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I haven't finished reading, but glanced down to see you don't know why it happened. Probably simply took too much, combined with your fibromyalgia. People that dab get used to serving sizes and sometimes give a little too much to people who aren't as heavy of a pothead.

I used to have nights of sheer terror when I took too much weed smoke. Every sound amplified and scary, but not pain.

onemadcat · 4 points · Posted at 17:07:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My boyfriend and I went to an old, abandoned town that is rumored to be haunted (Livermore, for those who know of it). A few of my friends had been then and bragged about all the "cool/scary" stuff that happened, so I'd been wanting to check it out and finally convinced my man to go with me. We wandered around for a bit, but couldn't go into the center of the town because it was flooded; the town floods after the lightest shower, hence why it is no longer occupied. Anyways, we were standing on the edge of the waterline, ready to leave, when my boyfriend mentions that something "skittered" up the tree really fast. I'd had my camera and had been snapping pictures in hopes of catching something, so I took a picture of the tree as soon as he said that. He said it didn't seem weird, but he just caught fast movement outta the corner of his eye. Discontented and un-spooked, we went home. Then I looked at the pictures. The last picture is the one I have a hard time looking at: it's of the tree my bf "saw something" scurry up it and we can't explain what it is. http://imgur.com/feBjNO9

I have a dslr camera so, nope, not my finger unfortunately. I tried to replicate this photo with no success. I want to go back, but I can't talk him into it..

honeybadga · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really can't see anything besides some trees and a shrubbery or two. EDIT: nevermind, large black spot. Gotcha.

onemadcat · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:49 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha, that's what I said when I first looked at it, too..

Jevanmanny · 5 points · Posted at 17:18:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to physically stop my sister from committing suicide by pills. She had been self mutilating right before. Struggling with my sister to save her life was the most horrifying thing I've ever encountered. She is a lot better now.

jkonine · 4 points · Posted at 17:31:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Coming home from work late one night on the subway.

I'm 6-3 230 pounds. A former division one athlete. I generally feel pretty safe in most situations.

So it isn't an abandoned car. There are about 10-20 people in there. I'm standing because my stop was next.

Some disheveled guy gets up from his seat, walks right up in front of me, pulls out a gun and jams it into my chest. No expression. I thought I was dead.

He doesn't ask for money. He says one word.

"Scared?"

I reply, "Yeah!"

Dude puts his gun away and walks back to his seat.

I fucking sprinted away from the train when we got to my stop all the way to my apartment.

Since then, whenever I have to come home late, I carry a huge craftsmen wrench in the inside of my jacket. Scariest fucking thing thats ever happened to me.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:05:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember about a year ago, I was working late with a co-worker and had to walk like 5 or 6 blocks to the bus stop that runs late nights. I work in the office district of my town's downtown, so by now the entire district was deserted. I was standing and waiting for the late bus, when the tallest, thinnest man I had ever seen walked out of the darkness of the parking garage across from my bus stop. He was unnaturally pale completely bald, lacking even eyebrows. I jumped at first, then felt bad, because he was probably born with some kind of disease to make him look that way. He kept starting at me from across the street and I thought it was because I offended him, but then he slowly raised his pole-like arm and pointed at me. His eyes rolled back and his jaw opened lower than I had ever seen. I was about to shit myself and run, when the bus finally came, so I scrambled onto it. When I looked out the window of the bus he was gone. I often think about that night and wonder why he was pointing at me. I hope to god I never see him ag

cjwakef · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SLENDERMAN.

lalaemi · 3 points · Posted at 18:22:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in a pretty decent neighborhood and as I was streaming some movie on my laptop I heard a gunshot. I thought it was in the movie and thought to myself "wouldnt it be crazy if someone was actually getting shot outside and I did nothing?" and just went back to the movie. Turns out some crackheads abducted my neighbor downstairs while he was walking into the apartment building and made him and his roommates sit in the tub while they were looking for money and were so high they let a few gunshots rip. My roommate saw them while they were walking him to the building with a gun in his hand and called the police. They tried to run upstairs to our top apartment but thank goodness the door was locked ( sometimes my roommates forget to lock it) They ran out the back to the alley and one of them shot themselves in the foot by mistake. Funniest thing was probably the cops calling them dumbass #1 and dumbass #2.

ShootTheBull · 4 points · Posted at 18:30:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was 7 and taking a bath at my grandmother's house. My mom and I were the only ones in the large house. Right before I was going to get out of the water, a dry, raspy voice said my name. I froze and the hair stood up on my neck... Then, it said my name AGAIN. Clear as day. By that time I was screaming for mommy. I heard her come from all the way down the hall, kind of annoyed with my yelling. My first thought was it had to have been my brother pranking me but he was out with my dad... It was just my mother and I... and something else. I have never been able to explain this nor have I ever experienced anything of this magnitude EVER again. I don't want to, either. I'm not a believer in the paranormal nor am I crazy but because of this I am a skeptic and open to the possibility of "the other side".

One interesting thing about the bathroom this happened in: there is a powder room connecting the bedroom and the bathroom that you have to walk through to get to the bath. In this powder room there are 2 big mirrors facing each other. I've heard that 2 mirrors facing each other can cause weird stuff to happen. That's the only information that can really begin to explain why.

soul2squeeze15 · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just got full on goosebumps!

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:21 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Supposedly witches can get caught between two mirrors.

ShootTheBull · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:39 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Interesting. Thank you. Where did you hear this?

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:41 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's a folk superstition from the hills of TN. My great grandmother (born 1886) told me this as a child.

ShootTheBull · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:59 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

I will definitely look into this.

I was convinced that my grandma was a witch once. She has a small room full of antique books dating back to the 1870s including a fascinating old civil war book from the 1890s... Anyways, in that room she had some keepsakes and pictures. A brass boot, a picture of a baby owl that she rescued, and a picture of herself dressed as a witch at a halloween party. She looked quite serious in it. It was weird. Earlier that night she had showed me a family of bats that were living behind one of those big outdoor dial thermometers on her patio. From what I've heard, it's difficult to attract bats and they like quiet, discreet locations. I thought it was pretty cool that they settled on her patio in a high traffic location... After I had told her about the experience that I had at her house, she told me about some encounters that she had. So now I'm coming off as a crazy, haha. Maybe it runs in the family.

I could tell you about some of her experiences if you care to hear. If not, have a good day :)

Liv-Julia · 2 points · Posted at 02:55:07 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd love to hear. I'm a descendant of the only man ever tried for witchcraft in Tennessee. (Mr. Stout, 1835. source: http://bookofthedarned.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/witches-may-come-in-through-your-keyhole-and-break-your-heater/)

ShootTheBull · 1 points · Posted at 06:42:45 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, what a story. It's insane what mob frenzy will make people believe.

My grandma told me about the night after her husband died. She was restlessly laying awake in bed when a large ball of light came into her room and hovered her. She wasn't afraid but felt comforted by it. After a while the orb made its way out of the room and went through the windowed door that lead to the balcony and floated off. Maybe she was dreaming or it was ball lightning. Maybe it was my grandpa's spirit. Maybe it was an angel or some kind of cosmic energy?

Another story she told me happened in an old hotel her and my step grandpa were staying at. I can't remember which one but it was quite old and had antique photos in the hallways. She walked ahead of her husband a bit while he was doing something else and looked at the photos. She then felt something to the side of her and turned to look. It was a white, wispy apparition that passed her. She said that it felt like it brushed up against her.

There are so many things that we cannot explain. I'm skeptical about what she saw on those days. But after having my experience, I will never doubt or discredit other peoples' stories.

As much as I love science, I don't like the mindset of the mainstream scientific community. The paranormal, metaphysical, spiritual, or whatever you want to call it is just another term for the unexplained. We are afraid of the unknown. Just look at what happened to your relative as a result of fear.

I heard a great argument against mainstream science: Science can only prove what it does not dismiss... Very true.

UncleCoyote · 4 points · Posted at 18:31:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Non-supernatural:

I work an early morning shift, so I'm usually on the road by 6:00am. I was getting gas in a small, nothing little town in the middle of nowhere when a school bus ran a stop sign and hit a guy on a Harley. Bike went to pieces with most of the guy still riding it, tumbled off the road into a ditch.

It was literally me, the guy on the bike, the girl at the gas station and the driver of the bus. I went into Grown-Up mode, and checked on the guy, (He was alive, but an ungodly shade of grey and shaking in shock), told the girl to call 911 and stayed with him until the police showed up a few minutes later.

They had me find his hand, and his boot which contained his foot and cover them with towels that I had in my car.

I did everything without question, and when more official people showed up, I gave my statement and went to work. I was literally NUMB all day, like I was walking in a fog.

Guy lived, but is pretty disfigured now. Lost his right eye, hand, and leg.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:32:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

First: At my old apartment my cat was scared of the spare bedroom. Every now and then he would look at the door and his hair would stand on end. I was chasing him around one time like I always do and he ran into the room so I ran after him. He jumped at me with his back arched and hair on end then ran out of the room. It scared the shit out of me. I was also pregnant and that was the babys room.

Second story: Moved into a new apartment last year. same cat won't go into the babys room. He's scared of it just like the last room. The other night I went in there because my daughter woke up. When I went in there she was standing in her crib pointing at the closet saying her version of "what's that?" I picked her up and she kept pointing. She has never done that to anything in her room before. I had her sleep in the bed with us that night.

The_edref · 4 points · Posted at 18:37:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ok, so it's probably too late anyway but ill tell you. I lived in the outskirts of a city growing up, and we lived like 2 minutes from some small woods. One time, when I was like 12, me and my cousins went for a walk through the woods, and we got to a small open area. i'd walked through these woods regularly most of my life, so we were walking along pretty happily. Anyway, we get to the clearing and there's a tall guy standing at the edge. He looks at us, but I couldn't see his face, and he says calmly "get the fuck out of my woods now". We just shat it and ran home, but i still wonder what he was doing there.

Zobos · 4 points · Posted at 18:38:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a little lengthy, but very interesting, it still creeps me out from time to time. It's called The Watchers and can be found here

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Watchers

I highly suggest you read! Let me know what you think if you do.

Deadbreeze · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:23 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read that story, due to a previous post, but it was called "The Strangers." I must've been in another dimension.

Zobos · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:26 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

We're all just visitors here.

philosofik · 4 points · Posted at 18:40:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lived in an on-campus apartment at a university as a graduate student. Most of my neighbors were foreign-born, and most kept to themselves. There was a friendly, if reclusive, couple living in the apartment directly above me. Every night, usually around 11:00 pm, give or take a half-hour, there would be a tremendous commotion coming from my ceiling/their floor. I can't describe the noises precisely. They were mechanical, like an old printing press, but with a weird, low-frequency drone that I can't forget. Whatever was making the noise had to be huge. I had a friend over one night who speculated that they were binding books. I never found out. Anyway, it would go on for just a minute or two, always long enough for me to consider going upstairs to ask them to quiet down, but never long enough for me to actually do it.

Near the end of the semester, when I was pretty stressed out over exams and papers, the noise started up again. I had finally had enough, so I marched upstairs. Of course, by the time I got to their door, the noise had stopped. I knocked anyway. The woman opened the door, just wide enough for her body to block most of the view into the apartment. I asked if she could keep the noise down, I was trying to study, blah blah blah. She apologized profusely, promised to be quieter and I thanked her. As she turned to close her door, I got a glimpse inside. The apartment was practically empty. There was no furniture, no decorations, no belongings that I could observe except a single folding card table and a pair of sleeping bags on the floor. I cannot begin to imagine what was making the noise, but I moved out at after exams and never looked back.

vi1987 · 5 points · Posted at 18:41:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A little over a year ago I had surgery at a hospital on an army base. Apparently after the surgery finished there were issues with my breathing and waking up went from an hour process to 3-4 hours. But when I woke up I could remember vividly the dream I had been having as a civil war/old time era soldier recovering in an army hospital with screaming soldiers around me. Creeped me the fuck out.

jakerivett · 4 points · Posted at 18:42:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wanted to post a creepypasta I red on a deepweb ask Reddit thread last night, but the original thread seems to have vanished. Congratulations Reddit,mI am now paranoid and terrified.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Explain?

jakerivett · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Found a creepypasta that was on a thread about the deepweb about all these weird sexual fucked up horrific things that ends up with a video of a woman getting torn apart by a monkey, it was horrific and it mentioned in it that whenever it's posted or talked about it mysteriously disappears, today, I can't find it. I'll describe a regular occurring dream of mine whilst I'm here too. I am in bed, next to my SO and all is well, until I discover my limbs are like LEAD. I can move them but ridiculously slowly. Then I notice HER. Corner of my room, cloaked old lady, tiny, hunched over, huge cloak, I begin asking for help from my SO, nothing, she doesn't hear me and my limbs won't move to her. A strobelight effect begins and the old lady ever so gently begins to float towards me. I'm screaming. Above my door is a piece of glass leading out to the hall with the light on, a spider, a huge fist sized spider dangles on a piece of silk silhouetted in front of it. She's getting closer, I am freaking, crying, trying to wake my SO up, she. Will. Not. Hear. Me. Old lady is at he foot of the bed, looking over me. I wake up covered in sweat. Was a regular thing until recently. This is an actual reoccurring dream i had.

Fortunato5678 · 2 points · Posted at 05:02:07 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

It sounds like this thread and the story in question is about a website that was called Normal Porn for Normal People and it's confirmed as nothing more than a creepypasta.

jakerivett · 2 points · Posted at 05:11:26 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's it! Thank you!

Fortunato5678 · 2 points · Posted at 05:39:03 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

No problem, had it bookmarked to read when I finally finished this thread.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sound's like sleep paralysis, you need to try to remember in the dream to immediately close your eyes, because you can have nightmares "IRL"

TheManRJB · 4 points · Posted at 18:46:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a creepy story to tell you guys... From the ages of about 11 to 13 or 14 I would always see things in the darkness of my room, I would always hold on to my big plush dog as I thought it would protect me against nightmares, demons, aliens, and everything else! So you bet I treated that thing like my best friend. Well some nights when I didint have my plush dog next to me in bed my mind would drift off into the depths of creepy thoughs and "what if's". If I started thinking of this certain thing, it would literally actually appear at night near my bed for minutes at a time. Im getting goosebumps just writing all this because I swear to you it's true and I have never told anyone until now. But anyway, when I would think hard about this "little dark haired man" I would actually see him soon after I thought about him. It was so real to me I developed a llegit fear of thinking about it. I still try not to think about him as I don't know if he will ever come back.

I remember some nights I would see a small figure crouching, with long black hair, near my closet. I could see the outline of him but not its face or too many details. He would never say anything, I would never say anything, we would just kinda stare at eachother. The moment I started thinking about something else, likes puppies, sports, videogames. He would dissapear when I looked over to where he last was. This thing was so real to me, whenever I was alone in a dark somewhere he would always appear. Sometimes I would expect him to come and I would simply wait it out for him to go away. Many many sleepless nights as a kid because of that man thing.

rj_inthe412 · 4 points · Posted at 18:47:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was pumping gas one night around midnight in my college town. The way the gas station was set up there are pumps on either side of a convience store. This woman came out of the store and was finishing her conversation with the attendant about how to pump gas and use her rewards card. So obviously she was new to this whole "put gas in your car yourself" deal.

Just as I'm about done filling I notice this car pull up between her jeep and the store. The driver gets out, opens the woman's passenger door and takes her purse.

He then looks up, sees that I've been watching him and puts his index finger to his mouth in a SHHHHHHH motion before getting in his car and speeding off.

At this point I'm freaking out. I get the first 3 of his plate. By now I'm done filling so I put the pump back and think how I'm gonna tell this woman her purse was stolen. At the time I couldn't believe this was real so I just got in my car, pulled around and told her that I just saw her purse stolen, the first 3 letters were XYZ of the plate, and maybe the attendants can use the security cams to get the rest then I drove back to my dorm.

scampbe999 · 5 points · Posted at 18:47:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Normal Porn for Normal People. God dammit.

Real_Riskers · 3 points · Posted at 18:48:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Girlfriend told me about this one.

When she was a kid, her and her kid sister would sleep in the same room/bed. One night she said she woke up because she felt like someone or something was in the room with them. She noticed her kid sister was awake also and had the same feeling of uneasiness. She said suddenly this thing appeared at the foot of their bed and began laughing meniacly really loud. They both hugged and cried out for their parents or older siblings. Her dad and brothers ran into the room to see what was happening and so she told them. Nobody was in the room or had snuck into the room. Nobody but them heard the laughing. There were no signs that anyone had been there or had left. My girlfriend and her sister have no idea wtf that was but they were mortified. To this day they both tell the story and are still terrified of what happened.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:50:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple years ago I was taking my dog out on the lawn for her to do her business at night. It was pretty dark, no moon and my front porch lights weren't working.

While shes squatting she perks up and stares and her hair stands. This freaks me the hell out. I'm standing there when I hear EXTREMELY heavy breathing coming from the woods. Think of when you get out of breath, amplified by a good 50x. I swear I have NEVER run as fast in my life. I know they say stand your ground, but fuck that. My front door was 50 feet away. My dog knew too and she bolted with me.

I have no clue what the fuck it was and I never will know. It probably was a bear but I've no clue. It scared the ever loving shit out of me.

danimarie82 · 4 points · Posted at 18:51:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not my story, but it happened to a friend of mine in the mid-70's when she was about 11 or 12 years old. So she was walking home from school with a couple of friends, and somehow she ended up lagging behind a bit. As she turned the corner pass by a side street, there was a pick-up truck sitting on the side of the road a little further down. She is kind of just standing there looking when a guy gets out wearing a ratty old wig long wig and combat boots. He looks at her for a minute, and then starts walking pretty fast towards her. She said it was one of those moments where you think that you would take off running, but she was just kind of stuck there. Luckily her friends had come back to see where she was and yelled her name and it snapped her out of it. She ran towards them, and when she looked back, the guy was gone. She said that she doesn't even like to think about what would have happened if she had been walking alone.

This was also the same person who lived in California at the time that Night Stalker killer was around (I think his name was Richard Ramirez). A woman was actually killed 3 houses down from where she and her brother lived. That shit is too creepy for me to handle...

svenGhoulie · 3 points · Posted at 18:51:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I worked for a linen service, delivering to clients 3rd shift. One account was a bitch... Cobble stone parking lot, no freight elevator. I grumbled and groused about it a lot. I had to lug the linen down a flight of stairs, across a landing and up another flight of stairs, putting the stuff on a set of shelves. It was 3 PM. There was NO one in the kitchen. I lugged the first load in and was returning with the second when I got to the shelves I found eveything I had carried in was thrown to the four corners. I gathered everything up and went to the front desk to get my invoice signed. I commented to the night clerk that "Your Ghost is Active Tonight". He asked what I meant and I told him my story. He went white. The man who designed the hotel has died in ithe hotel one year ago to the day. The clerk knew because he was the one who had found him.

MmBuddha · 4 points · Posted at 18:54:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When I was little I was walking in the woods (in broad daylight) down the lane from my house. My parents and a friend were somewhere behind me, but I had run ahead and they were at least 2 minutes back along the path. I walked out of the mouth of the woods and there was a guy standing there, it looked like his car was parked 10 meters away and the doors were open. I was quite trusting and not used to feeling suspicious of anybody, but immediately I got a very bad feeling about this guy. I can recall the 'atmosphere' of the moment more than specifically what he looked like, but I remember feeling like I'd never met anyone who seemed so suspicious and creepy. He asked me "where are your parents" and I said "they're just coming". He had a look on his face like he was contemplating what he was going to do. Then he got back into his car a drove off.

On reflection I can't help suspecting that I was almost kidnapped, whatever moment of doubt that crossed his mind while he was standing there, thank fucking christ for that.

PoiesisPraxis · 3 points · Posted at 18:55:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not so long ago me and some other friends decide to trip on magic mushrooms. As an experienced psychonaut I feel I earned my stripes to guide people into this new world. One of friends was new to the whole experience but he looked like he could take it. We started to trip and we where standing next to a fire talking about philosophical subjects. I noticed my friend who was new to the circle was very quiet (not like he normally is). I asked him 'everything okay?' he answered 'yes but I have nothing to think about'. I told him the following 'Do you believe someone who tells you he always lies?'. He stared saying nothing when he suddenly started to shake like uncontrollable tremors and just smacked down on the ground. I picked him up and immediately he got purple under his eyes which were completely rolled back in his head. After some minutes he got up still mumbling when seated and seemingly being back okay. He was quit for another 10 minutes when he sprang up and said 'I forgot I fell'. After this ordeal he was a nice person to have a trip with.

Anonazon2 · 4 points · Posted at 18:57:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lived in a house where a kid killed himself. We got a great deal on it, they even dropped the price after we agreed to buy it.

Anyway, I never had any creepy experiences there, but my electrical skills were put to use scaring the living crap out of my little brother. Like broadcasting on stations he was listening to or setting his strobe light to go off in the middle of the night, really slowly. Anyway..

The one thing that does bother me about it was a hidden message scribbled in the daughters room. (there were 3 kids living there, iirc) Inside the closet on the outside wall between the door ledge and wall where just a thin strip of drywall was a message scrawled "I hate my mom". Apparent, this combined with the stories I heard about the family, the kid that killed himself was the scapegoat for the whole family and none of the kids liked the parents anyway either.

Theungry · 5 points · Posted at 18:58:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This just came up in another /r/movies, so i may as well tell the full story. When I was an undergrad I was a PA on the production crew for Session 9 which was primarily filmed at the abandoned Danvers, MA mental hospital. It's a huge building up on a hilly campus overlooking the surrounding area, and it's been largely untouched for decades since (parallel to the plot of the movie) it's filled floor to ceiling with asbestos fixtures. There is no power in the building. The campus is full of underground tunnels. We filmed a number of scenes overnight.

This place was creepy enough in full daylight. It's the kind of old abandoned building where you come around a corner into a long dark hallway and there is a single child's shoe just there in the middle of the floor. All your willpower cannot stop you from telling yourself the horrific story of the poor mentally damaged little girl who lived in this terrible place of shock treatments and ice baths. Her entire painful life story that led up to this one shoe being abandoned here creates itself in your mind, and you can't even speak. You just have to get OUT of the building to save your sanity in that moment and hopefully the sun is shining and the air is clear because otherwise the crazy might infect you.

The building is full of these places and scenes that remind you what sort of facility it was, and how tortured the lives of the patients clearly were. Again, parallel to the plot of the movie, you could find stacks and stacks of patient files... and you did not want to read them.

So that being the setting...

The scariest moment of my life was scouting around a rundown tower in this complex at night trying to keep up with a group of 3 or 4 other people. We had flashlights, but outside there was a giant floating light bright enough to film by. So, anytime you passed a window your dark vision was totally wiped out for the next 30 seconds. At one point I lost the group around a corner I didn't know was there (because depth perception in the dark), and suddenly I was alone there.

I didn't have a walkie on me. I couldn't make sound anyway because I wasn't sure if sound was rolling for a take nearby or not, and I was so turned around I couldn't have found my way out.

I tried to move as quickly toward the last place i knew other people were as seemed safe without tripping and falling into a pit fill of rusty metal and crumbling asbestos tiles coated in lead paint dust. The physical danger was a distant second from the traumatic thought of being stuck helpless in a pitch black building rich with the memories of suffering of the sick and deranged ... there was this feeling that if you died there, your story and your memory might be tied to that place forever. It was nearly paralyzing.

After one of those terrifying minutes that has more than 60 seconds by an exponential factor, I made it a spot where I could see the light of the group's flashlights and catch up to them and did my best to pretend I hadn't just flirted with the edge of gibbering madness.

I had repressed that memory until someone brought up Session 9. I feel fortunate to have not soiled my underwear that day.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds terrifying. I would have crapped myself.

Session 9 is one of my favorite horror movies. It's psychologically disturbing. Far more frightening than some guy in a mask with a chainsaw.

LazyLemur · 5 points · Posted at 19:09:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have two real experience that still haunt me to this day.

The first one happened to me when I was very young. When i was younger I always called my dad into my room before bed, he would "check for monsters" etc. Well,one night I was calling him and he yelled from the main floor, "I will be up in a little bit". Immediately when he yelled that I saw someone - or something walk into my doorway, he looked a lot like my father except something was off. He was a little shorter and a odd shaped head if i remember correctly, he said (in a strange higher pitch voice) "I'll be back soon,I have to make sure your mother is ok". Since I was so young I just nodded, I knew something was off but I thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me. Then what made my heart jump is my dad walking in the doorway a little bit after. I told him what happened, he said the EXACT same thing that thing said, "I'll be back soon,I must make sure your mother is ok", she was fine and he still thinks i was just dreaming, but that things face still sticks with me.

The second story is more recent. My sister and I use to babysat this little kid (lets call him Irving, he was 4 at the time), every weekday in the summer. One day we were playing hide and go seek, my sister was hiding and Irving and I were looking for her. We had started counting in her bedroom, adjacent to her room was a bathroom with a bathtub at the other side. Right as we walked out of the room i could see a girls hair sticking out of the tub. Then the girl lifted her head,I could just see her eyes and I nonchalantly nodded at her thinking it was her and wanting to prolong the game, for Irving's sake. We walked around downstairs, and then Irving yelled something that still gives me goosebumps, he yelled "I found her!'. My sister then walked out of the closet she was hiding in the basement. I flipped shit, I said "Hey lets play catch outside!", I knew i saw someone upstairs and i was trying to get everyone out of the house in case it was a criminal. We ran outside and I told my sister was happened I grabbed a knife and went upstairs to investigate while my sister distracted Irving. There was no one up there, I though i was going insane, until my sister yelled for me to come outside. My sister said, "Irving, tell Anon what you told me", Irving then said, "Can we play with the lady in the window?" I looked up at the upstairs window (which is for the room right next to the bathroom) and there was no one there, we called our parents and we all searched the house and we found no one. It was the scariest thing I have ever experienced. I drew a sketch of my upstairs to help explain the stories. http://imgur.com/2krprQW

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:09:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have plenty of scary stories (fortunately? unfortunately?) but this is one I haven't talked about for a while.

When I was a kid, my brother, my sister, my cousin and I got lost in the woods one summer. Really lost. My brother insisted on taking this trail that wasn't marked on the map and it didn't work out so well for us. We had to stay overnight in a heavily forested, deep gorge. We built a huge fire and huddled in a circle around it.

The darkness was something I'd only read about in books. There was the light that the fire made, and past that tiny sphere of light about three feet out from the fire, it was pitch black. You could put your hand out and sink it into the blackness and it would just vanish like you were putting your hand into black water. It was terrifying.

And then there were the eyes reflecting the light of the fire in the darkness. A lot of eyes that glowed green and yellow. Eyes at every conceivable level - on the ground, in the bushes, at head level, up in the trees... we're talking tens of pairs of eyes, small eyes and big eyes. We were being watched all around by a multitude of unknown animals out there in the pitch black.

At one point all the eyes just vanished and a minute or two after there was a crashing thudding sound in the underbrush. And then there were big orange-red eyes staring at us. They winked out on one side and appeared on another side, so close that I'm convinced that if we reached out into that blackness we would have touched that animal. There was a low growling and heavy huffing noise. The eyes were fairly close to the ground at one point, but another time they were very high up, maybe seven or so feet. It circled us for at least forty minutes but it felt like hours.

Then those eyes went away and about a half hour later all the other eyes came back. I can't describe how scary it was. I understand why ancient peoples were so afraid of the dark.

We somehow all managed to fall asleep in front of that fire and woke up in the morning to the embers of the fire slowly dying in front of us. We later found tracks in the mud of the nearby stream that looked like these.

Needless to say, my brother never chose the trail we hiked from then on. Actually, I don't think I ever went hiking with him ever again.

RamonaBetances · 3 points · Posted at 19:11:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a short stay at a mental institution about a decade or so ago. I was one of those young adults who had a bad reaction to anti depressant medications. After spending a few days in the high risk area, i was admitted into the lower risk area. The 2nd day of my time in the lower risk area i come back to find a very pretty girl as my roommate. Just luminescent. No more then just over five feet and just under 100 pounds, about 20 years old. She looked quite a bit like jessica alba or jennifer lopez, but tiny like alba. She wore a light blue cardigan, a cross necklace, and a severe bun. She was holding a bible in her hand and by the look on her face it was clear she did not feel she belonged here. After a few minutes of me attempting to awkwardly make some small talk with her, i invited her to go with me to the rec room for movie time. She declined and said she just wanted to read her bible.

When i came back, she was asleep with the lights on, bible still in hand. I turned the lights off and went to sleep myself.

Around 4 am, i was shaken awake by this girl. She drags me into the bathroom and closes the door. She is terrified. She says "say this with me: Jesus is in my heart, Jesus is in my soul. Jesus is in my heart, Jesus is in my soul." I repeat this with her a couple of times. After a little while a calm her down and put her back to bed. I go to sleep. I wasn't frightened. I was in a 'looney bin" after all, i should expect to meet some colorful people.

At 7 am i am awoken with the rest of the floor for our morning meds and breakfast. After I come to get my meds, i return to the room to see a nurse over by the girls bed and a small crowd of 2-3 other patients. My roommate is in an odd state. She is clearly awake, but unable to move. Just paralyzed. The tech said to for us to all get our breakfast, that she would come out of it soon and join the rest of us.

I return with others after an hour or two, and she is still is this paralyzed state. Her ayes are moving. She sees us. She is clearly afraid, but can not move. She is not in a relaxed position, her muscles are clearly tense. you can see her struggling to move, but just cannot.

Agin the tech says something along the lines about how this is part of her disorder, and she will come out of it. The other patients, along with me, don't like this answer. We start to protest that something needs to be done. I look to two of the other patients and say "Get the priest. She is religious and maybe the presence of a priest will calm her down. Go get him." (There was a priest who had hours at the hospital a few times a week- the incident happen to coincide with the time the priest was at the hospital)

The priest finally shows up, and looks at us like what do you want me to do. He seemed annoyed by this whole show. I asked the priest if he could just sit down and read to the girl in bed from the bible. I explained that she was religious, and that this might help her get out of her state. He sits on my bed opens the bible to what seems like nothing in particular and starts reading. the girls eyes fixed on the priest. After a few moments of reading, i see her finger is starting to move, then another finger. Its working! I am very pleased with myself, and my doctoring.

I start to gather my things as it was time for group session, convinced my roommate will be ok soon. I was not prepared for what happened next.

She leaps out of her bed, from a paralyzed to full force and screams the most unnatural scream i have ever heard. one that would come from something five times her size and something with far more testosterone. She grabs the beds she was sleeping on and hurls it against the wall. Not the mattress, the entire bed, frame and all, like it weighed two pounds, all in one swift motion. the tech shove me out of the room and close the door, another comes in with tranquilizer. i never see this girl again.

Adrxone · 4 points · Posted at 19:14:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My toilet flushed by itself this one time.

FinickyMouse540 · 5 points · Posted at 19:15:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

First, my grandfather died a few years ago; 4 years on last valentines day. The day before my birthday. The night of my birthday. He died roughly midnight on valentines day. So roughly 44 hours after he died, 10PM on my birthday. I woke up for no reason. I fell asleep around 7PM, I heard thumping in the kitchen so I thought one of my parents were walking around. I went out there and my grandfather was sitting in a chair, staring at me as I walked in. I greeted him with a smile and he got up and I hugged him. He gave me a present and said "when you pass, cobe, Wayne, dot and I will be there" I stared at him with a confused face and said "what are you talking about?" "You'll know in 70 years." So I went back to my room and opened the present. It was a big metal fighting falcon model jet. Thunderbird paint. I went out to say thanks but he was gone and the lights were off. I realized what happened after I was laying in bed. I could feel him, the present is still on the shelf. But he is gone. And FYI the names are relatives of mine and an old pet if his

daarkfall · 5 points · Posted at 19:16:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a little bit of a TL;DR but this is the only time in my life, where i genuinely thought I was going to die.

I work in a venue which hosts lots of weddings in the upstairs function suites with a restaurant down the stairs. One Saturday night at closing up time we had some trouble trying to get people out of the door, so needless to say as soon as the last persons foot left the door i slammed it shut and locked it.

After maybe about ten minutes we heard banging on the door which we assumed was just some drunkards asking to use the toilet so we carried on our end of night routine. I went into the restaurant to make sure everything in there was all locked up, as i got to the bar (side note all the lights were off) i heard a small person foot steps coming from the furthest away section. I froze for a second. I started to walk towards that section when a little girl appeared in this beautiful white dress. She turned to me and said "can you help me find my mum?". Now instead of being a responsible adult and taking her to the front door to look for her parents. I stood still and screamed at the top of my lungs until someone appeared. Turns out the "drunks" were the little girls parents who had let her go to the toilet saying they would wait outside for her.

TL;DR if i where in a horror movie i would die, also young girl got locked in my work, scared the crap out of me.

plqinxter · 3 points · Posted at 19:18:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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TheladyEl · 4 points · Posted at 19:18:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Since I've had a bit of a rough night and I should probably get it off my chest anyways, I'll tell you about one of the most horrific nights of my life.

I've mentioned before that my mother died and my father is an alcoholic. He is not a happy drunk. He is a mean, vicious, demonic drunk. When I was really young I thought he was just having fun in the living room. He'd blast his music and practically howl the words to the song. He would constantly call the radio stations, request songs and go bat shit crazy if they mentioned his name. I learned, after trying to stay up with him one night, that he was not "having fun" in the living room. I began to hate nights when he would do this and for a while they were often. Different things happened during these nights. One time he even called the cops on himself which I thought was kind of funny. The last night he got drunk and blasted his music was the worst. I remember waking up to a song that sounded really scary. It was blasting throughout the house. I don't remember the exact song, just that it sounded really ominous and after just waking up to it it scared the shit out me. So I wake up my sisters mom. We don't get along to this day because of how she treated me as a child but I still regret waking her up that night. I should have just stayed in my room and kept my mouth shut. I remember I told her that that song was scaring me and I started crying. So she went out to the living room and asked him to turn it down. She didn't ask though. She barked at him and he didn't take that well. I could hear more yelling and then scuffling. She screamed and I ran into my sisters room. I shut all the doors, told them to not peep a word and I just stood there in front of their bunk bed. At some point my sisters mom was crying for me to call 911 and I was going to but then I heard my father rip out the phone. I was too scared to run into the other room and make the call. The timing is still a bit hazy. I remember the sun was coming up when he came into my sisters room. He said, "Sometimes adults do things that children don't understand." I think I said something along the lines of, "Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you get to do those things." and I immediately shut my mouth and was mentally kicking myself for saying that. He took a step closer. He made a fist and said something about how children shouldn't talk to adults that way or something I can't remember. I just remember the immediate relief when he walked out of the room. I went back to bed and when I woke up there was a policeman in our house and our parents were nowhere to be found. I guess my sisters mom had gone to neighbors, leaving us alone with my dad wtf?, and my dad had actually gone to work that day. I guess they picked him there and even impounded his car. Probably because he left it parked there. After that my life changed drastically. I was stuck with my sisters mom who would leave us alone all night. My dogs were given away. Our birds and plants died. My lizard that I didn't even get to name died. I remember having a birthday party and a big group of kids showed up...and then they left after seeing the kitchen.

tl:dr My father scared the shit out of me and my sisters as children one night after beating the crap out of their mother. He even chopped some of her hair off.

DnB_Pulse · 4 points · Posted at 19:19:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was a story I saw on here once that must've gotten deleted or something because I couldn't find it again.

So a guy checks into a hotel, the receptionist gives him his keys and tells him that there is a room next to his that does not have a room number on it, and to leave it alone. So he proceeds to his room where he sees the room the receptionist was talking about. It looks completely ordinary other than the missing number. He peeks through the keyhole and all he can see is an ordinary woman sitting on a bed with her back to the door. He goes into his room, and later falls asleep. He wakes up in the middle of the night, and is still curious about the room, so he gets up and has another look through the keyhole, and all he can see is red. Not blood, just red. He thought they must've been hanging something like a red shirt on the door handle. He dismissed it and went back to bed. The next morning he is still curious about the room, so he goes to the receptionist and asks what the deal is with the room. The receptionist says that there was a murder in that room a few years ago, and some say it is haunted by the victim. He explains that the ghost looks like a human, not white or see-through. The only thing that is odd about the ghost is her red eyes..... I couldn't stop thinking about just how disturbing that is. I told some of my friends this story, and it took them a while to get it. God, the look on their faces when they did though

omnivorewhore · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard this same creepy pasta but the girl died in the room, and her family had a rare genetic disorder that made their eyes red.

UnderwaterPianos · 4 points · Posted at 19:27:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was working at 5am and I went out to the sales floor alone, dropped off some merch and was making my way back to the stockroom when I heard crying in the bathroom, I got so scared I ran out with teary eyes. It wasn't any of my coworkers because there was only 3 of us at the time and they were busy outside opening merch, Shit gave me nightmares

mr_midnight · 4 points · Posted at 19:33:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Not supernatural, or anything, but a couple months ago some friends and I went on a kayak/camping trip by ourselves in Arkansas. It was the first time most of us had been camping in about 10 years.

Anyway, one night we all went to bed and had been asleep for about 4 hours. I think it was about 3am. I was sound asleep, when through my dream I hear someone shouting my name. I wake myself up and hear, "SHIT!! WHAT THE FUCK, GET THE FUCK OFF ME!! MR_MIDNIGHT, HELP!! HELP! MR_MIDNIGHT!!"

It was my best friend a couple tents away, he was screaming like he was being attacked. I bolted up and threw on my flip flops and started shouting back, "I'm coming, Adam! I'm coming dude!" I wasn't sure what the fuck I was going to find once I got out my tent... My friend Adam is 5'9" and about 230lbs of muscle, works out all the time. I'm 6'2" and 175lbs soaking wet, if HE can't handle it, what am I gonna be able to do?

I grabbed my heavy MagLite and a machete and ran out my tent.

Poor Adam had had a night terror and was totally confused, still half asleep, begging me to 'Let me out of here! Where am I!' He'd stood up in his tent and run around a bit, like a hamster in a ball. To make matters worse, he broke his glasses in the ruckus, and he's blind as a bat.

By now a few other of our friends had gotten up and we opened his tent and calmed him down. One of my friends just ran off into the woods by himself when he heard the commotion, that damn coward!

It was definitely enough to kind of freak all of us out for the rest of the night.

omnivorewhore · 3 points · Posted at 19:41:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude what the hell he just left you guys? Harsh.

mr_midnight · 2 points · Posted at 01:22:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha, he's an old friend but not one you might call 'reliable'

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 19:35:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother has told me this story a couple times. I actually wrote about it on no sleep, but I'll give a quick jist.

Him and his friends take a road trip out to a cabin in the middle nowhere in Hope, BC. There are four of them including my brother and when they get there they realize they forgot to get booze - so they all loaded back into the car to take the hour drive back into town and my brother stays back to unpack and start dinner. His goofball friends end up staying in town and getting drunk and leave Jody there for 6 hours. Over those 6 hours he kept seeing a big, ashen white face press itself against the windows in the house. He said the face looked Asian and had big black eyes. At one point he worked up the nerve to go outside and look for footprints to see if someone was fucking with him or to see if maybe it was a wolf or something and his eyes were playing tricks on him. No footprints. The final time it happened he saw the face pressed against one of the windows at the top of the 30 foot ceiling. He locked himself in the bathroom for the rest of the night until his friends returned.

Reagansmash1994 · 5 points · Posted at 19:43:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 12 years old, a teacher of mine from Newfoundland, teaching in the UK, told me and the rest of my class this little, short, horror story.

There was a girl who had just had her birthday, she was 13 and her parents, thinking that she is now old enough to trust, got her to house sit for one night. Baring in mind she had never slept in a house on her own, this was scary enough, but she had her dog and felt safe.

Well, as you would expect, as night drew she became more worried and anxious. Every bump she heard, she thought it was a thief or ghost. So after watching TV, she turned all the lights up and ran to bed as quick as she could, the safest place in the mind of child.

Like all of us, she still felt uneasy. But, every night since she was even younger, her dog as laid by her bed, sometimes licking her hand. This made her feel safe, feel protected. So she dozed off to sleep without a care in the world.

Later, she woke up. It was still dark out. She heard a mysterious noise coming from her bathroom, a dripping noise that she couldn't quell. She rested her arm over the left side of the bed, her dog licked her to let her know she is safe and without a care in the world, she got up on the right side and went to check the bathroom to see if she left her tap on.

Usually when she gets up, he dog follows. This time it didn't.

She entered the bathroom, the taps were off. No drips. How about the shower? She opened the curtains and there she saw her dog soaked in blood, dripping one drop at a time into the shower.

She ran as fast as she could to her room, thinking it was safe, she rang her parents and explained that something has happened to her dog and for them to come home.

They told her not to worry and to await their swift return. They told her to rest. So she went back to bed, put her arm to the left side of the bed and immediately felt another lick and the warm pulse of a mans breath.

He parents returned to find their daughter besides their dog, in the shower, slaughtered.

philliperod · 3 points · Posted at 19:54:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to a major airport to pick up a friend flying back home around midnight. The drive itself is an hour commute into the city from a small town. On our way back, I took a back-road for a shorter route to get home quicker (quick note: this back-road was notorious for car accidents and deaths. Was named "Death highway" for a period of time and they would paint white X's on the road to mark where each death occurred and there was an overwhelming amount at that too).

I was driving a 99' green Taurus at the time. Approaching this uphill, there was a car behind me. I told myself I guess I didn't see him before because my friend and I was talking. I was doing the speed limit and this car decided to speed up and pass me in the opposite lane. As Yue car was pulling up my left I noticed it was the same model and color as mine. Didn't think too much of it but he stayed next to me for a bit going on this uphill. I tried to look in his car but it was too dark to see anyone. My friend and i were asking what the hell is wrong with this person. Well, he sped up to pass over. As his car was moving up enough to pull back in the lane I looked at his license plate just in case this fool thinks of doing anything that could cause us off the road. Read his license plate and it was fucking familiar. It was the same license plate as mine. I told my friend, actually screaming at him, that his license plate is exactly like mine and his car is obviously the same as well. As we reached the top of the hill and start the descend, that car disappeared in front of us. Just gone. And there was a pretty good stretch of a straight road to not be able to spot a car. We're both freaking out and trying to state that maybe we're too tired and we're seeing things. Dumb move after: I sped all the way home. We both sat silent the rest of the way. No sleep that night. Too creepy.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude chills, I was expecting you to say you witnessed a bad car accident. I've never got chills while reading something before; you win.

olexa · 4 points · Posted at 19:54:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid, a tornado hit my neighborhood. Some of my family members got home and crammed into the closet with us sheer moments before the tornado hit our house. The sound was horrible. I heard the windows shaking violently but somehow the house was okay - some speculate it was a "jumping" tornado. When we walked outside, the entire neighborhood was demolished. A woman down the street thought she and her kids would be safe in their car. I don't think I need to explain what happened to them. There were terrified, violent dogs roaming the area and I was almost attacked by one. Definitely one of the scariest moments of my life. It's safe to say I have a deep fear of tornadoes and dogs.

Raptorj10 · 2 points · Posted at 19:54:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night, after I finished working, I went back home and notice that there were many police cars park in front of my house. Filled with anger and worry, I ran to the house thinking someone called the cops for a misunderstanding and blamed it on my family. When I went inside I ask my sister what happened, she and my brother had a shocked look on their face and told me to ask my friend what happened. Then my friend told me that he found a dead body in woods in the backyard and the police are looking for evidence and what happen to this women that died back there, though they didn't ask much from us and all they found with the body was makeup and a bible. A few weeks later, before we moved out of the house, our neighbor came to our house and told us that the person that they found dead was his girlfriend and left. Afterwards the police never came back and my neighbor stayed in his house, and we never knew what happened to her or how she died.

AdmiralMoonshine · 5 points · Posted at 19:55:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened about a week ago. I get nervous every time, thinking it's going to happen again.

I live in a large city without a car. Instead I bike everywhere. The city is pretty cycle friendly so it's not really that big a hassle. The only annoying part are the many hills, especially in my neighborhood. I work all day and usually go out afterward so I'm often biking home late at night alone on the road.

So one night I'm riding home from the bar at about 2am. I'm almost home, about to go over the last hill before I get to my house. This hill is a particular pain in the ass because there's a red light intersection right in front of it. The hill's steep so if you miss the light and stop you loose all your momentum. Instead of riding up the hill you have to get off and push. Sure enough, as I'm racing to get the green, the light changes. There are no other vehicles on the road, but I dutifully stop anyway. Cars often come flying around turns here and I don't feel like getting surprised. As I'm sitting there waiting for the light my eyes wander past the intersection and up the hill. Immediately, my heart starts pounding.

At the top, coming down towards me is the creepiest person I have ever seen in my life. He was about 6'5" with long, greasy blond hair. Kind of shambling down the street. He wore all black including a long trench coat, even though it was about 75 degrees out. He also carried a half full black garbage bag, which somehow made him even scarier. Obviously, in my mind, it was full of organs/mutilated babies/decapitated heads. Seriously, this guy was spot on for the serial killing hitchhiker of urban legend. Now this wouldn't be that bad if I was riding by him, but to my dismay I realize I'm not going to have enough speed to make it past him. I'm going to be walking my bike when we pass each other.

I'm nervous when the light turns green, but not yet terrified, so I ride towards him. I keep watching the figure as I start up the hill. Soon enough, I run out of speed and have to swing my leg around to start walking. The guy is about twenty feet away at this point. As soon as my feet hit pavement, he stops dead in his tracks.
Now I'm terrified. Shaking, I force myself to keep moving towards him. I can see his face and it's just as frightening as the rest of him. Think a gaunt, long-faced Gary Busey. Dead, gray eyes wide and staring straight at me, mouth half opened with mangled teeth, not moving a muscle, all yellowing skin. With every step that this-is-how-I-die feeling gets stronger. He keeps staring straight at my eyes and as I pass within a foot of him his head slowly lolls to the side to follow me. I've never been more terrified of another human being. I fully expected him to lash at my neck with a hook hand or pull out a machete.

I get past him and start breathing again. Without looking though I can feel that he hasn't moved. Finally, I glance behind me and sure as hell he's standing frozen were I passed him, head still to the side and everything. This was the creepiest part. He stayed like that until I got to the top of the hill. As soon as I could ride I jumped on my bike and tore off home, glancing behind me the entire way. I haven't seen him again, but every time I come to that intersection now I start sweating.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:57:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was being babysat by my older brother when I was five and he was thirteen we thought we heard someone walking on our deck and five minutes later hear pounding running along the exterior wall until it got to the window which shattered. We freaked and called our neighbors who lived behind us I remember the sheer panic of running out of the back of our house meeting our neighbor who was a 300 lb high school wrestler grabbed me by my collar and hoisted me over their fence to get to his yard. It was terrifying and that same neighbor and his brother went over to our house with a gun to see what was up and all they found was a hammer they figured it was some kids. About a year later a string of home invasions/murders occurred in the surrounding sub divisions we weren't sure if it was the same person but I remember for like a year my older brother would sleep fully clothed with his shoes still on just in case we had to make another quick escape. To this day home invasion movies creep me out the most.

yolotrillswagfagbag · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 9 or 10 I rember it being pretty late at night, i wasn't asleep, I don't even think I was in my bed. I was kneeling by the side of my bed for whatever reason and suddenly when I blinked or just closed my eyes for a few seconds all I could picture was me sitting in someones house and not being able to move. Anytime I closed my eyes at all this would happen. The bad part was that I was so tired so my eyes kept shutting. It might have been a relatives house but I could just sense that It was completely empty in every way. I just felt really negative and soul less in there but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't move in the scenario or get the scenario out of my mind. It felt so real like I was just moving from that world and back every second. This happened for at least 5 minutes and I've never felt so trapped in my life. It may just be me but that feeling of being trapped and helpless Is one of the worst feeling ever.

CookieExplorer · 5 points · Posted at 20:00:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Happened to me a couple months ago actually. So, my mother, my brother and I moved into a new house and the first night there is fine but the second night there was a nightmare for me I was up almost the whole night. I was up because I could hear footsteps outside my door at 2 in the morning and the only bedroom close to me is the guest room and no one slept in there that night. Then I kept hearing scratching on my window and there's no trees near my window and I could also hear faint whispers outside my door.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:03:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was once masterbating in my room. I turned around to see an arm slam my bedroom door shut......I live alone.

TheCorruptableDream · 4 points · Posted at 20:04:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Here you go!

And, just in case someone doesn't realize this (I guess the foreign language confused my boyfriend), you do have to scroll down. It's quite entertaining.

edit: And, fuck, it still works on me. Yikes. I'm going to go have a cigarette on my nice, sunny porch now.

Atheist_Redditor · 4 points · Posted at 20:04:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest thing I have ever seen? I remember when I was a kid, we were walking up to the check out line at the store and I saw a magazine cover that scared me so bad I couldn't eat for two weeks. It was Weekly World News. Now, I had no idea what this magazine was at the time, but it had a picture of Jesus on the Cross and flames behind it and it said "The world is ending" or something a long those lines. I was scared shitless for about two weeks that the world was coming to an end. I wasn't eating. I was depressed. Finally, my mom and family asked what was up at dinner, and I told them. They laughed at me so hard. They spent an hour telling me about the silly stuff in that magazine, and my big brother bought a magazine the next day with a picture of a dinosaur attacking a city to prove his point.

Stupid Weekly World News.

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fates_fury · 3 points · Posted at 23:56:20 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's still a good thing to hear. :)

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nothief · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This fucking story man. If this is really, really true, then I'm tapping out. I'm done. midget things made of scribbles charging people is where I draw the goddamn line.

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:24:38 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

someone else wrote about this little guy...the op was in a house and dude ran at him. described it as concentrted angry chaotic energy...

kimber1911 · 3 points · Posted at 20:41:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was working at walmart in produce. I was getting some stuff out of the cooler with the door shut and someone called in a bomb threat. They paged overhead and evacuated the store but I didnt hear it. I went out to start stocking and there were all of these shooping carts full of groceries but no people. I freaked out for about a minute and walked over to the front doors and saw everyone outside. Pretty creepy to think youre the last person alive.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 20:48:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know this is going to get buried as all hell but my old house was haunted as fuck. Footsteps in the attic every single night, faucets turning on by themselves five seconds after you walked by the bathroom, picture frames slamming down at random etc.

I was upstairs getting dressed for a zero period one morning (only me and my mom were ever up at that hour, about 4:30 AM) and barely saw my mom walk around the hallway corner in the blue robe she wears while getting dressed. She always irons before work so I didn't think anything of it and said "Hey Mom!". She didn't answer, which I thought was weird but maybe she didn't hear me, until I heard her close the garage door downstairs. All I saw was the trail of the robe but I definitely saw someone.

Another time my dad was adamant that he had heard my sister or I crying in the living room from where he was sitting downstairs, but neither of us knew what he was talking about. Weird stuff.

canisdormit · 5 points · Posted at 20:51:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Children screaming as they burned to death in a housefire. The parents were not home and the thug uncle entrusted with their care was "round da corna" buying smack or crack at the time. And of course, the house had burglar bars, probably so nobody could break in and steal their drugs. So, even some of the neighbors got burns on their arms having a go at the bars. And the children burned alive...to death.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 20:55:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in college, I lived in an older building with 3 other roommates. When I went to sleep, I always had to lock my door or I would leave myself vulnerable to pranks and whatever.

I went to bed one night and something woke me up. Now anyone that knows me knows that I absolutely cannot go to sleep with any lights on. What woke me up was a light coming on. But it wasn't just one light. My floor lamp and my desk lamp were both on. I was confused for awhile. I looked around my room and on one of my posters, I swear I saw the face of a woman, so vividly that I can still see her face. She was looking at something, then her eyes met mine, and she got this look of 'oh shit' and disappeared.

I had to get up and check things out. My door was still locked, all my roommates were asleep and the house was completely quiet. I still to this day have no idea what went on. Before this, I'd strain myself rolling my eyes so hard at the mention of ghosts or strange encounters. To be honest, the rational side of my brain keeps rejecting the notion of anything paranormal. But I still can't shake what I saw. And who the fuck turned on my lights? (for the record, I was 100% sober...had class the next morning).

Lizziloo87 · 3 points · Posted at 20:55:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I have another one!! This one happened personally to me and my roommate. Around three in the morning I woke up and went to the bathroom, I lived in a townhome at the time and my roommate was dating this guy who, swear to god, never slept. They were always awake. I heard male voices (my roomie is a girl) coming from downstairs and figured it was her and her boyfriends and perhaps a few friends of theirs. I knew that she had said she was going to bed earlier, but hey, plans change. I went back to bed and thought nothing of it after that.

The next day we found out that we were robbed. Someone came into our place, while my roomie was sleeping on the couch, and robbed the crap out of us...all the while my roomie was sound asleep (thank god) on the couch in the same room they were rampaging in.

guywhoeatsblindnuns · 4 points · Posted at 20:56:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Before my dad had passed away he would always joke around with me and my mom saying how he's going to pull our legs if when he dies or he's gonna haunt me until i get straight A's.

Anyhow, a year after his passing i was up late late one night playing fallout 3 and i was laying on my stomach on the floor with my under the bed. ( it felt warm). Im playing when suddenly i feel two cold hands grab me by my ankles and pull me under my bed up to my thighs... I noped the fuck to the top of my bed and turned on the light. I cussed at my brother thinking it was him. When i looked There was no one there... I told my mom the next morning and she smiled at me and said " don't worry, He just wanted to scare you"

My dad always was a kidder.

FloridaMullet · 5 points · Posted at 20:57:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About 12 years ago, in college, I lived in a large house where 20 years prior, a student living there had fallen off a balcony to his death. The house was rumored to be haunted and other people I knew who had lived there prior reported having weird experiences. I had two very strange experiences while living there:

1) One night, I was studying for finals in the dining room. I was the only one home. The floor of the dining room was ceramic tile. There was a long hallway to my left that ended with a metal door (with one of those large horizontal press latches to open the door) which led outside. I could see the entire hallway and metal door from where I was sitting. I heard the metal door open, but paid no attention to it b/c I think it's just one of my roommates. I heard the distinct sound of someone walking with leather soled dress shoes, down the hall towards me. As the sound of the footsteps became louder/closer, I look up from my book to see who it is....no one is there. I find this weird, but didn't I go back to studying. About 20 minutes later, a sound comes from the door like someone had pressed the latch to open it. I immediately looked at the door and no one was in the hallway. A few seconds later, from the basement comes a sound like someone was beating the washing machine with a baseball bat. I jumped out of my chair and ran out of the house.

2) I came home late one night. Again, no one was home. I was walking through the small, ground floor hallway to my room. My room was very close to where the student had fallen and died. The house did not have any air conditioning. All of a sudden, the air temperature in the hallway seems to drop from about 75 to 50 degrees. I could feel goosebumps rise over my entire body and I look down at my arms and all of my arm hair was standing straight up, like it was being charged with static electricity. And then I felt this presence, like something was in the hallway with me, watching me. So scary.

mbeason1977 · 4 points · Posted at 21:00:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend and I were sitting out on his porch one warm summer night in Louisiana. It was a Saturday night, and we had been drinking and smoking. He lived in a townhouse that had a field in front of the house. As the night got late, I heard out of nowhere this sound that chilled me to the bone. It literally sounded like someone had dropped off a newborn baby in the field. It was terrible. I looked at my friend, he was looking at me, we both had this look of terror on our face. My first instinct was to run into the field and get this baby from whatever was attacking it, because I thought something or someone was out there harming a child. As I jump up to run into the field I see this huge cat run across the field. It wasn't a domestic cat, I could tell that for sure. It looked black and stood about a foot almost to the shoulder. I stopped in my tracks and slowly started walking backwards. At this point, I knew it wasn't a baby making this noise. It was a Louisiana panther in heat. A lot of people don't believe that there are panthers in Louisiana. I didn't either, until I heard it that night and saw it with my own eyes. One of the most terrifying noises I have ever heard. I will never forget that sound.

CySeesYou · 3 points · Posted at 21:01:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Two years ago my parents set up security cameras around the outside of our house since we live in a neighborhood filled with break ins. One of the cameras faces our fence gate, and there is a bench next to the gate. For three days in a row, when my nana (godmother) went outside to go to work, she noticed that the bench was always flipped back. She thought that there was some kid trying to get into our yard and messing things up so she told my mom to check the camera footage to catch the kid. So we're all sitting around the tv trying to find the time when the kid came. Then, at around 2:30 am, we saw the gate, which has a lock that is sometimes hard for myself to unlock, open all the way, the bench flipped over, then the gate slammed shut. Nothing was there, there was no wind. We checked and this occured for three days straight. Gate open, bench fall, slam shut. Freaked me out

Marzhan · 3 points · Posted at 21:15:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Between the ages of 5 and 10 I lived in a creepy old house. From the outside, and even from the inside, it was pretty nice, if not a little beat up. For some reason it always scared me though. Before I moved there, and after I moved out, I never got any nightmares. Not. Ever. But when I lived in that house I had horrible recurring nightmares every fucking night. They all had a common theme too; things aren't what they appear to be. It became so bad that I had to sleep with the lights on and music practically blaring. I also had to block the door to my creepy closet that had a set of stairs leading to nowhere. Even when I was awake I was constantly afraid, but only in that house.

About two years after I had moved away and had come to actually enjoy sleeping, I suddenly got extremely vivid nightmares again. I was living in a modern apartment in a completely different country, and yet somehow I had that same feeling I had when I was younger. I was constantly afraid, but only when I was at home, and in the hallway I had this horrible sense of being watched. I couldn't understand why, after all that time, I was reverting back to being that scared little kid. Then my parents told me something that chilled me to my very soul.

Apparently, my old house had a cistern beneath it that had been covered for years. One of our family friends had been doing construction on the house since we had moved away, and in an attempt to even out the driveway, he had uncovered it. He was a nice guy and so would sometimes bring his daughter to work with him so he could spend more time with her and give her mom a break. After he uncovered the cistern though, her behavior changed. She became more quiet and withdrawn and began to ask if she could go play on the porch with "the girl with no legs."

The people living in our house at the time also told us about some strange things that had been happening to them. The lights had been flickering and they had been feeling like they were being watched. Sometimes it was as bad as seeing something move at the corner of their vision or even feeling a hand in their hair. These were the exact same things I had experienced at that house and then in my new house 2 years later.

Then, suddenly, as quick as they had come, the feelings disappeared and I was sleeping easy again. I didn't really question it, because it was just so nice to be comfortable in my own home. Turns out though, that the family and the man working on the house eventually just got so freaked out that they re-covered the cistern. That was when everything stopped. Since then I haven't had a single nightmare, and I actually enjoy my incredibly vivid dreams.

I've actually become someone who rarely gets scared, and I enjoy horror stories/movies. Not much rattles me anymore. I did go back about a year ago to visit the house though, and as soon as I stepped in the door the horrible feelings were back. I know there is something wrong with that house, I just don't know what it is. And, to be honest, I'm not sure I want to find out.

LucidBrain · 6 points · Posted at 22:37:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So I live in the basement of my house. Aside from being in the kill room (the room where if a murderer were to enter my house, I would be the first to kill), it wasn't all that creepy...except at night when it was pitch black.

So I was sleeping - dreaming about sitting in my computer chair, browsing the internet, when suddenly my friend came in. I turned around to greet him, and as I turned around, i realised his face was covered in blood and i could see the hilt of an axe sticking out the back of his head. He collapsed on the ground to reveal two girls staring at me - kind of like the shining. I knew I was dreaming. I had been practicing lucid dreaming to combat nighmares, and so far it was working. But that's not the scary part.

As soon as i realised I was dreaming, I tried to wake myself from the nightmare. I awoke in my bed, in the dark, and attempted to assure myself that it was over. After about a minute, I finally said to myself, "I'm glad that's over." As soon as I said that, a loud whisper rang in my ear, "IT'S NOT OVER." At that moment, I felt someone grab my legs and begin pulling me out of my bed, stabbing at my torso with a knife.

I suddenly woke up - for real this time- in the dark. I tell you, that 5 seconds where I got up, and ran to turn the lights on were the scariest 5 seconds of my life. I swear, I could see the outline of the two girls at the foot of my bed., staring at me.

So yeah, more of a nightmare that a real story. But still creepy as fuck.

ca178858 · 2 points · Posted at 00:09:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

False awakenings can be horrifying...

goggris · 3 points · Posted at 22:51:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid I would hear moving and scratching noises coming from the attic above my ceiling as I went to bed every night. Every few hours, scratch scratch scratch scratch. I put pillows over my head and stayed completely under the covers so that whatever it was couldn't find me (kid logic, right?). This goes on for months, but it wasn't 100% of the time, and every time I would mention something to my parents it would never happen in front of them. Obviously to them I was probably just a kid freaking out over nothing, but this just went on and on and on to the point that I was terrified to go to bed at night.

Eventually one day my dad is doing some yardwork and he notices a hole in the side of the house that leads directly into the attic above my room, hidden behind a tree. Turns out I had a family of squirrels living above me for the better part of a year.

saysomethingdumb · 5 points · Posted at 22:54:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 10 years old I was walking home from my friend's house around 12am, the street lighting was not brilliant near his house which often made the journey home quite nerve racking.

A few minutes into the walk I heard someone behind me, I turned around to see a figure walking down the path about 25 feet behind me. I couldn't make out his face but he was thin and very tall, his tracksuit pants were making a swish/swoosh sound as the fabric passed the opposite leg creating a rhythmical march like sound.

I carried on walking and didn't look back but before I could put it out of my mind the swish swoosh sound got a bit faster, almost as though the walk turned into a speed work.

I refused to look behind me and instead picked up the pace. Now going at a semi jog, I heard the swish swoosh sound once again pick up speed, I was terrified but couldn't look back out of fear. A corner was approaching and I had decided that the second I was out of view I was going to sprint as hard as I ever had.

The sound of his tracksuit pants suddenly went from a jog to a run, at this point I passed around the corner and fled at a speed I didn't think I was capable of.

I sprinted for 15 minutes non stop and arrived at my house both completely broken and gasping for my inhaler. I'd somehow lost him on the way to my house but having no been able to make out his face it's always scared me to think what it was he was trying to do.

Averagekody · 3 points · Posted at 23:10:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember back when I was maybe 11. I was pissing at a stall in a walmart bathroom. Then, this man, scary as hell, comes and begins to urinate next to me. Out of about 9 open stalls, he goes right next to me. Trying to keep my cool, I stare foward and ignore him. I decide to turn my head and see if he's looking, and he's staring me right in my tiny, innocent eyes. I was frightened as fucking hell. "Did you know that legally, urinals need to be atleast three feet away? So, technically right now, we're breaking the law" he snickers a fucking horrible laugh I mutter "Yeah." as I walk-ran away. Forgot to put my dick back in my pants and walked out with my willy hanging out. Which only made it worse.

PassionMonster · 4 points · Posted at 23:12:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few months ago, I was on /r/nosleep and read the story "The Soul Game". In the story, if you hear a boom it means you will die, among various other things happening meaning you are about to. I then got some brain bleach out and forgot about it. That is until 11 when, as I'm watching television in the living room, there is a huge BOOM upstairs. I was scared shitless, turned on every light, still no answer.

ilovemypossum · 3 points · Posted at 23:48:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm probably way late to the party, but I'm gonna tell my story anyway. Hopefully at least one person will get to read it.

I've seen/heard/read some creepy stuff in my life, most of it on the internet and whatnot. But as for the creepiest story I've ever been told firsthand that may or may not be true, this is the one.

When I was in college, I dated this guy who lived in an old house that had been turned into three apartments. All the houses on his street were like that. One of the houses (next door to his) was empty. It was a small two-story brick house with a concrete driveway and a chain-link fence partly surrounding it. It was obviously abandoned, with vines and moss growing all over it. Every time I walked past it, I imagined it being haunted or something, having a dark and mysterious past.

One day, I decided to ask my then-boyfriend about the house. I was honestly expecting a boring answer. I think I asked, "Does anyone own that house?" He replied, "Well, so-and-so owns the house and property now, but they don't go in it anymore." When I asked why, he said there were two reasons. The first reason was simple enough: The foundation of the house was cracked, and the house was condemned. It wasn't apparent from the outside, but if you stood in just the right spot, you could actually see daylight coming through the crack down the middle of the house. It remained standing, but obviously was not safe to enter.

The second reason was a bit more disturbing. The previous tenant was a seemingly normal and kindly old man. He liked cats. He had several cats inside and outside his home. Eventually he died in his home. It was from old age; nothing out of the ordinary there. The strangeness came when the paramedics (or whoever comes to collect a dead body) looked around the house.

There were a lot of dead cats. Not just dead cats; dead mutilated cats. I don't know if he was killing them, or just cutting them up after they would die naturally. Either way, there was a shitload of dead cut-up cats. My then-boyfriend's exact words were, "He was performing unnecessary surgeries on the cats."

It's possible my ex was messing with me. It's also possible the story was somewhat of an urban legend that he believed was true. It's also possible that the whole thing was 100% truth. I never found out for certain. Regardless, I was very uncomfortable any time I had to walk by that house from that point on.

Wintersocks · 3 points · Posted at 00:00:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at a thrift store looking to score a sweet jacket for the winter (because I'm cheap and Minot is cold) and while walking around I saw that they had an alarm clock for $2. Apparently I thought this was a bargain and being that I didn't already have an alarm clock I went ahead and bought it.

Fast forward to that night. I need to be up at 8 am (two hours before I usually wake up) so I set the alarm and went to sleep without worry. Some good dreams are happening when suddenly I found myself in a dark warehouse with meat hanging on hooks. Okay, cool, no big deal. Then I hear this terrible, evil, (I don't want to call it a screech but I don't know how to describe it) screeching noise and my immediate in dream reaction is to look up at the ceiling. There, about twenty feet high, nestled in the rafters was this dark, menacing figure staring straight at me. I couldn't make anything out except, at least I don't remember, these piercing red eyes and a basic outline of the thing. Terrified, it seemed like I was locking eyes with it forever before I finally woke up. It was 8:10 and my alarm was going off.

Within thirty minutes the alarm clock was in the trash and I was creeping my roommate out with my dream. Oh, and I didn't get an awesome, warm jacket from that thrift store.

Bikinii · 5 points · Posted at 00:19:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I use to work as a traffic officer up at this quaint town called Brimmingham, and on a particular week we started receiving multiple calls of people hearing loud noises outside one of our mountain roads. They all said it sounded like a car crash, which was not surprising considering the road was next to a pretty steep hill and was pretty narrow. Officers were dispatched to the site every time, with no avail. The fences were always intact and there was never any skid marks. We started to just think it was folks playing a prank or something until one time, one of our officers called in and said he actually found something. When we got to the site he was pretty far down the hill and waved us over. There, we saw a car, completely totaled but the wreck has definitely taken place way longer than a week ago because vines were already growing around the car and the corpse in it is pretty much done decomposing. The weirdest part is that there was no record of anyone going missing from the town or anywhere near the 5 mile radius, and there were no matching dentals. The guy was never identified. Strangest thing I've ever witnessed.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Weeping angels sent him back in time a week, and in the confusion he drove off the road.

dana_niels · 4 points · Posted at 00:26:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not a very good story, but it's all I have. I was 15 years old and I was in the downtown area of my city at around 9 PM. I was with a friend (let's call him John) and we were just walking down the street looking for something to do. Background: John was 17 and he was a heavy smoker and he drank, but whatever. Ok, so we came across these homeless men who had cigarettes. John wanted one (like I said, he couldn't go 20 minutes without one) and the homeless man asked if I was his girlfriend. John responded with "no, she's my sister." The man asked what my name was, how old I am, and how much for an hour. My friend didn't know how to respond, so he just said some incoherent "uhhhghhhh" sound. The homeless man gets up and grabs me and starts pulling me into an alley. I started to scream and kick him and then my friend punched him in the face (and took his cigarettes) and we took off running. As I was running all I could think about how sinister their laughs were. I sometimes think how I was almost raped (or, y'know, worse).

TL/DR: Almost raped.

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adgal617 · 1 points · Posted at 01:44:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is creepy!! Antique house?

squashedfrog462 · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Alive or dead, alive or dead?!?!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:17:31 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

"through the door" literally?!

adgal617 · 3 points · Posted at 01:50:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My boyfriend and I are renting an antique house. Several things have happened that scare the crap out of me.

In the middle of the night while we're sleeping, the tv in the living room turns on with the volume at full blast.

Appliances in our bedroom turn on and off for no reason.

We've awakened to items like the tv clicker flying across the room and hitting the wall that's about 10 feet from our bed.

What really gets me though, the front door keeps flying open in the middle of the night. Ill wake up to use the bathroom or go out I he kitchen for a glass of water and the front door will be wide open, rocking in the breeze.

Our landlord has claimed to see "orbs" traveling through the apt. Haven't seen any of that but am pumped to be moving in two weeks (to another antique in the historic section of our town... Yikes!)

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 02:06:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Set up cameras and record! That sounds awesome!

Pishy_Troosers · 4 points · Posted at 02:02:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 7, my older brother and I were playing in the garden. He opened up the shed to get a football or whatever and then began frantically calling me over. When I ran into the shed he pointed out a huge active wasp's nest that had been built underneath an old wooden table.

We had never seen anything like it and crept slowly up to the nest for a better look. When I bent down to see under the table, my asshole brother thought it would be hilarious to push me towards it. I tripped and fell forwards, my hand demolishing part of the nest and knocking it hard against the wall of the shed. He then ran outside and held the door shut as I screamed like a little girl for about three minutes until my father ran out to see what was going on and rescued me.

Afterwards, I was practically catatonic and had to go to hospital to make sure I was ok. I had been stung just about everywhere including my mouth and my whole body was swollen. The Doctor estimated that I'd been stung over 40 times.

To this day I still get freaked out by confined spaces and most flying insects. On a side note, when my mother took me home from the doctors, my 11 year old brother was nursing a cut lip, where it turned out my father had been so pissed off that he'd punched him square in the face for what he'd done.

Or1g1nOfDeath · 5 points · Posted at 02:27:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's a story from my old US History teacher, AKA Coach Bradley.

So, Coach Bradley was driving to a family reunion/wedding (can't remember which one it is) and sees a wrecked car on the side of the road. After looking at it for a minute, he notices there's a man lying on the ground, and it looks like he's breathing. After he gets out of his truck to investigate, he lifts up the man by the shoulder to get a look at his face, and his skin is just not there. He has an eye hanging out of his head the other one crushed and smushed in its socket. His lips and all of his teeth are gone, and in an attempt to speak he just mutters "Grbgrbrbgrbbrb". Coach Bradley booked his ass back into his truck and called the police. Once they got there the man had apparently died, police said he was probably drunk and crashed, flying out of the car.

Just the thought of that mans face hanging off and in pieces always terrifies me...

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 03:02:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night when I was about 14 or 15 me and a group of 5 or so friends decided we would go camping. One of our friends' parents were having a new house built way out west of town, (as a note, The foundation of the house was done, the roofs and walls were all put up but it didn't have any doors so it was pretty open). First off, this house was extremely secluded, it took multiple dirt roads to get to it and was right on a small lake. You could see some neighbors in the distance but basically just surrounded by land, they had some cows and stuff.

Anyways we had a fire going out behind the house next to the lake and hung out for a while and everything was going fine. Then we decided we'd move inside since they're were lights inside. My one friend fell behind to take a piss, and then regroups with us inside and seemed very distraught and says "I saw somebody out there", at first we're like "bullshit bro" but he insisted. So then we start getting a little worried, and grab "weapons" or whatever we could find. We then decide to go outside toward the front of the house and start talking about how we'll kick the shit out of someone if they're really was someone, and at this point I'm holding some sort of long metal pole ready to activate kick-ass mode. Then as we're out front we here this commotion coming from inside the house so naturally we're like "what the fuck is going on?". We all move back into the living room and one of the guys and myself decide that we'll go down the hall and scope out the rest of the house. We go down the hall and end up about to walk into the master bathroom at the same time. The shower in this bathroom had a wall facing the door and you could walk into it from two sides. So my friend who is holding the flashlight decides he'll walk through the left side and I'll go on the right side. Just before I peak my head around the corner I could see the light coming from the other side and a shadow on the wall, so I jumped around the corner and locked eyes with some man I had never seen in my life. Mind you I was still holding this long metal pole that I could've beat the shit out of him with. But I yelled at the top of my lungs and was out the door before the pole hit the ground. I regrouped with my other friends and explained what happened, all freaking out and sorts, and I start to wonder where my friend from the bathroom is. He then comes out with his sister and his older male cousin who were trying to scare us needless to say they succeeded.

That was by fart the most scared I'd ever been in my entire life.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:37:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

By fart I tell you!

honeybadga · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's going too fart

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 09:09:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Zdzislaw Beksinski - Polish Painter who will give you the willies.

airborne_tortoise · 2 points · Posted at 04:19:07 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's just art, how bad can it -- OH HOLY FUCK, WHY DID I CLICK THAT

everythingispancakes · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:26 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read that he hated his paintings and named them all "untitled". Apparently he would have dreams of hell and when he woke up he would paint his dream. scary shit.

MsLippy · 1 points · Posted at 07:51:10 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

And he was murdered.

Preebos · 5 points · Posted at 21:57:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not a fan of horror movies. At all. I simply refuse to watch them most of the time because I get pretty bad nightmares and/or can't sleep. But this time my boyfriend had convinced me to watch The Ring with him. We were in the basement, so there were no windows. During a very suspenseful moment leading up to what was clearly going to be freaky, the power suddenly went out. I ended up screaming in this pitch black basement and when the lights came back on it was the biggest feeling of relief ever.

LogeeBare · 4 points · Posted at 06:09:08 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Russian sleep experiment.

Camberella · 0 points · Posted at 00:39:02 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was scarier than most if the things I've read on this post.

monkeyflyer · 4 points · Posted at 17:51:32 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought it was creepy when this happened to me.

It was summer 2001, my friends and I flew to Boston to go see a Red Sox game at Fenway. We managed to find a Holiday Inn that was a block away from the ballpark and stayed there for two nights. The first night we were there, I was sleeping in one bed while my friends were sleeping in the other. I remember suddenly waking up in my bed and sitting up, I then saw a dark figure in the corner of the room staring at me. I thought it was one of my friends just goofing around so I looked over at the other bed, but both were still there and asleep. I wanted to yell out, I opened my mouth and tried to yell "Go away" or "Knock it off", but I had no voice. I panicked and noped myself under the sheets and forced myself back to sleep.

It was only years later I discovered I experienced an instance of sleep paralysis. It is the only episode I remember vividly.

Kirsel · 3 points · Posted at 19:38:28 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

If that was sleep paralysis, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have been able to move.

monkeyflyer · 4 points · Posted at 21:25:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's the only logical thing I can think of. It explains the dark figure and why I had no voice. I definitely remember the no voice and dark figure, but I may be not remembering correctly if I sat up and stared or stared at the figure while lying down. I'm refusing to believe I saw a Boston boogeyman that night. NOPE!

Camphikefishbike · 3 points · Posted at 22:05:32 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had sleep paralysis once, it's what you would call locked in syndrome actually. So maybe not sleep paralysis, I kept waking up in my lucid nightmare over and over, large creepy freaky spider creatchers (sp) kept chasing my friends and I. As soon as they caught me and killed me I would wake up into the nightmare over and over believing I was awake, but no. I thought I was dead and this was my hell. I hope that never happens again.

TheW1ldcard · 3 points · Posted at 20:23:05 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had this experience not once but twice actually, years ago, cant remember when exactly but lets say around 2007. It was in my dads house and we lived way out in the middle of nowhere, there was nothing ever creepy or even remotely weird about our house or the area. But I used to stay up really late into the night, 3am or so, and one night as I'm laying in bed watching a movie what feel like someone punching the bed right next to my face happens, and I mean it was extremely forceful to the point I jumped up and thought something had fallen from the ceiling. I looked around and....nothing. I sat there for a few minutes trying to figure out if I imagined it or what. I moved on and kind of forgot about it, didnt mention it to my dad. Then one night months later the SAME thing happened again, something punched or slammed down on the area of my bed right by my face again. This time I was much more freaked out about it and just stayed up all night because I remembered the first time it happened and I thought 2 times isnt a coincidence. I didnt know what else to do and it never happened again while I was living there but it really did freak me out and I never knew what it was.

LD1996 · 5 points · Posted at 14:39:07 on August 27, 2013 · (Permalink)

Look up Holmewood Bothy, there are good YouTube videos

Basically it's a cabin with a huge lake in front of it, and it surrounded by mountains and forest. We go every year, and have barbecues and such on the 'beach' infront if the lake.

One night after going to sleep in the bothy, my dad realised that we had left some things outside.

He looked out the window, and saw a woman with either dark hair or a hood, stood looking out into the water from the beach. Considering its very secluded, (about an hours by car from any villages) the fact that she was there in the middle of the night was very strange.

My dad went to go and check she was OK, it only takes a few seconds to go from the door of the cabin to where you can see the beach, but by the time he got there she was nowhere to be seen.

I'm going back tomorrow, it was about three years about since my dad saw the woman, and since that time we have learned that the mounds on the forest are mass burial grounds for plague victims.

tuuurdle · 4 points · Posted at 16:10:23 on October 11, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't have any super creepy stories, but this one really freaked me out. When I was about 14, I was at my grandma's new house visiting for thanksgiving. At this point it had been about 2 years since my grandpa (her husband of 64 years) died. She had always had a habit of talking to herself but everyone was used to it, but this time when I was at her house I was listening to her talk and she was laughing, there were pauses as if she was listening to someone else. She speaks Italian so I could hardly understand her but she was staring off into space and it genuinely sounded like she was having a conversation, compared to her normal chattering about random things she was doing, some of which I could usually understand. This time I thought it was really weird, and apparently my dad did too because he was just looking at her strangely so I asked him what she was talking about. He understands italian but he didn't know either so he asked her who she was talking to and apparently she said "Eugenio is here, he visited me yesterday too and hit me in the head with a broom." 'Eugenio' is my grandpa's name. I don't think she was actually seeing his ghost but it was chilling to hear that, being in the room and everything :P

edit; I also have no idea what the broom thing was about but apparently that's what she said xD

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 13:42:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Smiling Man.

Gastronomicus · 2 points · Posted at 14:44:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Already posted above in detail.

rambles_off_topic · 1963 points · Posted at 13:26:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing happened to me in an old house I used to rent back in 2008. I came home from work one day and heard a bloodcurdling scream come from my crawl space. The entrance to my crawl space was in my coat closet in the foyer. The hatch to get in was still shut, but there was a trail of blood leading up to it, and bloody scratch marks all over it. I knew there was nobody else in the house because my roommate was in Atlanta on a business trip all week. If he had been home, I wouldn't put it past him to have injured himself dicking around down there. He constantly had to go down there because he would disconnect the speaker wires running from my receiver to the outdoor speakers. Whenever he pulled the receiver out to plug his laptop in, the wires would yank out of their ports and fall through the hole we drilled in the floor. They didn't have any slack because the idiot at Home Depot that cut them for me didn't know what the hell he was doing. I asked him for 100 ft of 8 gauge speaker wire and he started cutting me CAT5 cable. How the fuck do you confuse Ethernet with speaker wire? That was the last straw with Home Depot. They already screwed me twice with that shitty Ryobi brand of tools they carry. I bought a Ryobi leaf blower and weed wacker and neither of them ever started. I think Ryobi is Japan's way of getting us back for nuking them. Fuck Ryobi and fuck Home Depot.

anotherbaldguy · 1798 points · Posted at 14:27:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

every.fucking.time.

I kept reading the home depot shit and im like GET BACK TO THE FUCKING STORY

Statcat2017 · 103 points · Posted at 15:34:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Rambles Off Topic is pretty much the only novelty account that I fall for, time after time EVERY FUCKING TIME.

nrbartman · 11 points · Posted at 20:35:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's because of how patient he/she is. Its like one comment every couple days or so. Well executed.

Shitty_Human_Being · 5 points · Posted at 20:08:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to have him tagged in a loooooooooooooooooong line of words in fuchsia. But that just ruined it so I removed it.

elevul · 5 points · Posted at 21:33:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have him tagged in pure red, for the blood I lose every time I read his stories.

ttslprime · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:24 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's funny, because I have you tagged in red saying you love twilight. I think we have a winner!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The false statements guy got me a couple of times but I'm wise to it now. The starts true then false guy is great as well.

captncraig · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tag him in RES as OFF_TOPIC!!!! so I am sure to see it.

FreIus · 9 points · Posted at 16:02:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But that ruins the surprise...

ItsNeverSunnyInCleve · 8 points · Posted at 16:57:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The best part is that "rolling of eyes" you give yourself for falling for it.

FreIus · 5 points · Posted at 18:24:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly.
Same for Nessi jokes.

Statcat2017 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That spoils the fun.

benartmao · 17 points · Posted at 20:09:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ahhahah i read half way and i was like... NOT TODAY SIR NOT AGAIN. FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME 50 TIMES, SHAME ON ME

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:23 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lol'ed thanks for that haha

lieutenanthearn · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:04 on June 5, 2013 · (Permalink)

I too lol'd. Excellent.

veggiter · 9 points · Posted at 20:43:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I totally forgot what the comment was originally about by the time I got to the end. I was all like, "yeah, fuck Ryobi, whatever that is!"

jigga19 · 9 points · Posted at 15:49:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm getting better at this. I only got halfway through before I thought to check the user name.

KFCConspiracy · 1 points · Posted at 01:44:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just have him friended... I see him in red. I usually read what he writes anyway because it's always amazing.

GiveMeACake · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:25 on October 14, 2013 · (Permalink)

You can friend people on reddit? TIL.

jwang7284 · 7 points · Posted at 19:26:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once I read "disconnect the speaker wires," I was like MF'ING RAMBLES!!

Nrksbullet · 3 points · Posted at 16:35:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I make it a point to read the name and skim through the last sentence of top posts like this.

yeahthatswhatisaid · 2 points · Posted at 22:17:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That stuff got right on top of you, didn't it?

catchphish · 2 points · Posted at 16:06:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As soon as it seemed suspicious I skipped to the end. It's been a while but I've been rambled_off_topic a few too many times. Still fuckin' hilarious though.

Thehyperbalist · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

His name is rambles off topic

aManHasSaid · -1 points · Posted at 17:40:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

RES has an ignore feature. I just used it.

🎙️ Youdonotsay · 1465 points · Posted at 13:32:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuckkk.

I read it, I didn't look at your username. Well done, well done.

[deleted] · 883 points · Posted at 14:50:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

[deleted]

cuntking · 112 points · Posted at 15:36:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who reads the comments below before reading the actual thing? Like you need a review on what you're about to do for the next 30 seconds.

[deleted] · 71 points · Posted at 16:01:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

People with short attention spans.

So 90% of reddit

TheRedGerund · 11 points · Posted at 17:59:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or people with upside down laptops.

THIS_IS_OVERUSED · 2 points · Posted at 18:01:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No we don... squirrels, squirrels gotta find tha... ooooh a butterfly

TruStory2426 · 27 points · Posted at 16:25:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

when it's a long comment, followed by a short one...I usually read the short one first to see his reaction. it helps me determine whether or not it's a good read....

OptimumWaste · 0 points · Posted at 16:31:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I do that with movies, books, music everything

hooah212002 · 4 points · Posted at 16:18:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's reddit.....

yadoya · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i just did

tmtreat · 17 points · Posted at 15:18:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You start at the bottom and work your way up?

everyoneknowsabanana · 41 points · Posted at 15:50:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's how your mom likes it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Often I'll scan past a big block of text like that, or, like in this case, something prompted me to read comments further down the page beforehand, so I was making my passage upwards beforehand anyway.

SamWilber · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I typically read the comments under it first before reading a chunk of text to see how worthwhile it is.

tmtreat · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fair enough. I usually find that 1k+ upvotes are sufficient to establish quality, tho.

0RPH · 12 points · Posted at 16:27:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This account really annoys me actually. Those comments, when I notice them, save my ass.

QueasyDolphin · 3 points · Posted at 18:50:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

With RES you can ignore him!

caee · 4 points · Posted at 19:10:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like being fooled like this, it's a nice laugh in the middle of a dark thread like this

1boytoy1 · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Comments like your ruin it for positive people like me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ya don't have to get pissed about it

JesusofBorg · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

no one fucking cares what you think

...says the guy posting his opinion to a site designed to allow people to express their opinions.

iPlunder · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's your own fault if you're reading the replies before the comment.

sentimentalpirate · 3 points · Posted at 15:51:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Naw, they save everyone else. I can't stand these stupid novelty posts that don't actually have to do with the question at hand. If I can be saved from another "...need about three fiddy" or rambling post, I appreciate it.

kingsley3870 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or they could just look at the username..

jkboyer07 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually, OP's comment made me read the story.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

same. but it was still ruined.

nss68 · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

just dont read ahead and youll be fine.

Scuttlebutt91 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think that I like the color green more than anything else

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

how else are people supposed to respond to posts like this without giving away anything?

"yeah, fuck home depot! damn. good story man."

TheDangerBone · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have you tagged as "Reddit Celebrity".

caee · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reddit celebrity? Erh... No? People just agree on your opinion on this topic, that's all!

bluemountain20 · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So humble! Lets give him honorary Reddit celebrity status

MasterBullshitter · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tagged as Reddit Celebrity

thermal_socks · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your edit makes you such a wolfganger

AJreborn · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He's so humble! Drown him in upvotes! :D

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too late.

MildewMan · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Encore! Encore!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not with that attitude.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are now a massive celebrity and i am your biggest fan. you're like the Arena Champion, except you can't push me off a cliff.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I scrolled too far and saw his first. Not even going to bother reading it now.

MagwiseTheBrave · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

upvote for reluctance!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Faggot

Kibbles_and_crits · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well you're a grumpy one, aren't you?

virusjoe · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You may not be a Reddit celebrity, but you're still an asshole.

swookilla · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tagged as Reddit Celebrity

infoterror · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

comment.

Casban · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you. Have an upvote.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN

mshab356 · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is that you, Wolfgang Gartner?

TalonIII · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thems' fightin' words

AnonMattymous · 1 points · Posted at 01:30:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvoted out of spite.

RipinLip · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Standing o for the rambling man

GrayIceWater · 1 points · Posted at 13:48:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No shit. I don't understand why op feels the need to make some petty reply after every comment. Stop being a fag op.

1boytoy1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:06 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Having 800 up-votes doesn't make you a Reddit-celebrity. Hahaha.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

that was satire.

1boytoy1 · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:35 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Perhaps in your world.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If by ruin it you mean save 50 seconds for a lot of busy redditors, then yes.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:23:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

busy redditors, lol. Hurry up, I saw a pressing cat picture thread I wanna get to next!!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:38:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pressing cat picture for the lazy.

Kinetic_Waffle · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got to the really good part, and was like, "Bullshit, no story is this good, checks title."

Thank fuck it wasn't some tree fiddy bullshit at least, I hope that meme dies.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The fucking retarded novelty accounts ruin it for everyone else.

-steezy_wunda_bred- · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

comments like these ruin it for everyone else.

Megalox · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Youdonotsay

Weritomexican · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Crazy idea, read the first comment and then the second.

insectopod · -2 points · Posted at 15:48:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I agree. /u/rambles_off_topic is possibly the worst novelty account because he literally hijacks every thread he possibly can and it annoys me to know end.

I came to read actual answers to the question, fuck me, right?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He wasn't taking about him. He was taking about how the reply under it gave it away that it was him and not a real story.

insectopod · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, well. My point still stands. I dislike novelties that hijack threads and turn them into an all you can eat karma buffet with no regard for the question at all.

xatefroggg · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

*no

Tom_Zarek · 0 points · Posted at 16:10:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for pointing this out.

Well Done...

well done.

jakman912 · 0 points · Posted at 17:29:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't tell me what to do!

Edit: Fuck you wolfganger.

BurningKarma · 0 points · Posted at 18:15:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i never wanted to be a reddit celebrity.

You... you aren't

oyezoyez · 0 points · Posted at 18:21:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I never asked for this.

Duhya · 0 points · Posted at 18:23:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its okay noone will remember you.

chrisdelbosque · 0 points · Posted at 18:31:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't tell me what to do!

FRIENDLY_KNIFE_RUB · 0 points · Posted at 18:38:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey can I have your e-tograph

Kvothe24 · 0 points · Posted at 19:34:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You know your edit is just going to get more upvotes and comments. Might as well just delete your account.

tajwon90 · 0 points · Posted at 10:52:01 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're weird.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 10:52:42 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

thank you.

CoCo26 · -1 points · Posted at 18:36:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

never wanted to be a reddit celebrity

Settle down tiger you have 483 points

AmerikanInfidel · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i actually read it twice trying to figure it out.

Andrawr · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I caught it at getting ethernet confused with speaker wire.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually stopped reading your comment after the first line, to avoid SPOILERS, then went ahead and read the whole ramble of OP. Oh god...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He posts just sparsely enough for my paranoia to subside. Genius.

Scaledown · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Half way! Wooooo in learning!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK. read this comment first, ruined the whole thing.

mrbaryonyx · 1 points · Posted at 07:58:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got halfway through and I was like "wait is this....oh FUCK IT IS!"

Andrewpruka · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

He got me once. read it over and over confused as fuck. Now i expect him because he consistently gets upvoted to the top of the charts.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

1) Get RES

2) Set rambles_off_topic to ignored.

3) Still downvote when you see them.

swiftb3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't ignore him, but I did put a bright red tag on him.

Saucey · 0 points · Posted at 15:55:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tag him with "Watch Out". I kinda wish I didn't have him tagged as it's always a fun twist.

Lillibeth · 0 points · Posted at 15:58:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I stopped at the trail of blood and went back up to his username and then moved on.

WhenKeepinItRealGoes · 0 points · Posted at 16:13:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Youdonotsay

Fuckkk

http://imgur.com/gallery/wjANVCD

fairlyCertain · 0 points · Posted at 17:29:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You, i don't like you.

betreyal · 0 points · Posted at 20:02:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I checked his name after the sentence about always disconnecting the speakers. Because he was already getting so far off topic, I figured he was either a woman or a troll.

[deleted] · 331 points · Posted at 13:27:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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mrfishycrackers · 37 points · Posted at 15:10:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

hey OP i found a creepy guy for you! ^ :D

Magtheridon2000 · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any other users we should stalk?

Oblong_Cobra · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wish I had a stalker. It's hard being the one stalking...

MajorLeeScrewed · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It defeats the purpose when you know the story is from him. I prefer to keep myself in the dark until I realise I have no idea wtf is going on and I check his username.

mattsapopsicle1901 · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stalk much?

stiick · 0 points · Posted at 15:24:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Many of his/her comments are on posts that make the front page. And based on the amount of upvotes he/she gets, his/her comment is typically made during the onset of the post before it hits the front page. Considering a very small percentage of posts make the front page, does anyone have any theories to how this happens?

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:35:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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stiick · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gotcha...I only browse front page, so I really don't know any better.

Qumpers · -1 points · Posted at 15:48:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're creepy

lizlegit000 · 3 points · Posted at 15:02:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you! Ugh.

ImOnlySuperHuman · 3 points · Posted at 14:57:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got to the part with the no slack and the idiot at Home Depot before I realized what's going on. Good on you. You almost got me, but not today.

Pogrebnyak · 3 points · Posted at 15:16:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I fall for it every time

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:22:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was such a good story in the beginning.. Why did it have to be rambles_off_topic to tell it? You win again...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:58:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh it's this guy

weirdfb · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am so conflicted. I don't know whether to hate you or love you. Fuck you and Ryobi.

fingerblast69 · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is pretty much my dad in real life

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:20:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this would be a novelty account I can get behind

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:22:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You magnificent sonofabitch! I hate you for this but it was very well done.

Brutalganja · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I skim pretty fast, and my TL;DR of your scary story went something like this "I came home from work one day and heard a bloodcurdling scream come from my crawl space. I wouldn't put it past him to have injured himself dicking around down there. I think Ryobi is Japan's way of getting us back for nuking them. Fuck Ryobi and fuck Home Depot."

Which led me to believe that your friend was killed by a Ryobi product in your basement.

Then I read your username.

Fuck.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:38:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Halfway through I thought, "wait a minute. I know this guy..." God dammit rambles_off_topic

BuffyPilotKnob · 2 points · Posted at 15:44:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm SO onto you. As soon as I read that there was a scream from the crawl space, I thought that was WAY too scary to be real so I checked your user name. This is the third time I've caught you before reading your post. You're losing your touch, man. Gotta be more subtle. I look forward to the days when I am once again caught off guard by good ol' rambles_off_topic.

ONESIXEIGHTTERD · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read the second half with a scrunched up forehead about five times thinking I had missed it some how, then I read the second comment and looked at your username. Hahaha, fuck sakes.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man, I have ADD. do you know how hard it was to understand what was going on? I thought I kept getting distracted and skipping lines. UGH! Nice one though. UGHHH

Magnets_Are_Magic · 2 points · Posted at 18:13:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're my favorite account. I never read usernames and I always hope to get sucked into one of your stories; I fall for it every single time. Thanks for brightening my day :)

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 14:35:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You took me on a journey man, a very confused journey.

guywithacomment · 3 points · Posted at 14:23:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God dammit. I need to start reading usernames before the comments

Noivis · 5 points · Posted at 15:09:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dont, believe me , its way funnier like this

this_raccoon · 0 points · Posted at 15:37:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I agree! I don't RES-tag him on purpose, because I want to preserve the fun of reading his comments.

sayw00tw00t · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not this time rambles.... Not this time

BreakfastBurrito · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ugh. Got me.

aareyes12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha! Only read half!

gandalfv31415 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I haven't seen you in awhile....I missed you

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes! Saw the username before I read to the end. It's sad how this makes my day.

CummingYurMouth · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yep, every time.

HuskyLuke · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw the username, read anyway and was not disappointed. Nothing more infuriating than when people in "hardware" stores don't know their trade; it's not even that difficult a job (I should know, I worked in one for several years). Given the choice of finding out about what exactly happened to cause a trail of blood to the crawl space and hearing more ranting about how HomeDepot suck, I would chose the latter.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I haven't seen you around in a while. I sure did miss you.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For once you didn't get me ha.I feel like I should win something.

Dutchbags · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Screw you. When I were at the speaker part I thought "ah no, it can't be.." Yep. Got me again.

renbo · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh I know. I used to work at lowes, that place was shitty. I remember our guy who cuts wire, he was pretty cool, I bought some lamp wire once, and a power thing for fluorescent lighting. I bought brown, but wished I got black, everything else on the aquarium was black, I know it went down the wall but it made a difference to me. I had to go back there to grab change the co2. I wanted my plants to be bigger so I needed co2 but couldn't afford a system so I used an old soda bottle sugar water yeast and a tube. Works great. It was a beautiful tank. I got it at goodwill for 20 bucks. A 20 gal long stand and filter. I knew nothing about tanks and got about 600 dollars deep into them in about three months and had a beautiful tank full of lots of plants and some fish schools and shrimp. I had to get rid of the tank though. I gave the lights to my brother and hope he will try to grow some weed with them, they are pretty powerfull, I built em myself. Last time we hung out we designed a hydrophobic system that would use buckets and a pump. Grow a few clones for fun. I wish I could grow a few plants where I am living now, but I cant. It's ok though I live in wa and just have to stop by the store to buy some, it just sounds fun to grow. I would go all organic. Make some yummy shit. Cook some butter with the trimmings. Hell yeah.

userbelowisamonster · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You got me again.

gaarasgourd · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sad thing is, I know people (more than one!) who ramble like this in real life

magicalypse · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Started reading... Looked at the user name. Finished reading even more hyped.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The moment you started talking about the cable is fucking knew it was you!

I won this time!

But seriously keep it up!

NYKyle610 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HA! YOURE ALREADY TAGGED SO YOU CAN'T FOOL ME AGAIN!!!!!

Threedawg · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The second I started reading it seemed too perfect, so I checked the username. First time I caught myself!

ShaggyMaxaimus · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Checked username after the blood, still read it.

modestmunky · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You get me every time, but I refuse to mark you in any way; I relish these surprise trollspiels.

hugallama · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw the user name, still read it.

obradshaw08 · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As I am stoned, this comment royally made me so fucking sad and happy at the same time.

bobmuluga · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Didn't get me this time, mother fucker.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not this time dirt bag!

badguyfedora · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOT THIS TIME! Well I read it anyway to see what you had to say.

HanaNotBanana · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ryobi's small power tools are pretty nice

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn it! Half-way through!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha I caught that one you fucker

azraelz · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I learned to always look at usernames because of this asshole of a poet

ChazHollywood · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Almost every time, but you didn't get me this time. Caught you at "trail of blood," got suspicious.

chunklemcdunkle · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man you suck.

That was about to be the scariest thing here.

CMHex · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You got me, old sport. You got me.

PatriotsFTW · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And you keep the spot as my favorite novelty account

Truth_in_Parenting · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Success Kid: Read up to "laptop" and instantly looked at name before continuing.

vheissu417 · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I laughed a lot. Thanks. I needed that.

bmcnult19 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God dammit.

winplease · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was wondering when you would strike again

dawnwastaken · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a very proud time for me. After the second sentence I checked your username and didn't read the whole post. I am growing stronger and wiser. I hope it scares you that your grip on my life is loosening.

sims86 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Finally for the first time in many many posts I noticed it was you...than decided to read your post anyhow

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ryobi is a shitty brand huh? Thanks for the heads up I was almost going to buy a circular saw.

IWillBeWatching · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i saw the 1000 upvotes and thought "This is gotta be a good one". i need to start reading usernames

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Best response ever lol

SwaggerMonster · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Im fucking terrified

EpicGoats · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow. Simply terrifying.

crystaljae · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha! You only got me half the time this time! (Shakes fist at screen)

NeoShader · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Highest voted story is a troll story. Reddit wins again.

Hotshot2k4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ha! I checked your username about 2/5ths in. I remember seeing you in some other thread a month or two ago. Good exposition though.

mrcosmo · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always ruin it for myself by looking at the username first :(

alexr20061 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I NEVER READ YOUR GODDAMNED NAME

SpooneyLove · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm on to you now. As soon you started talking about a trail of blood and scratch marks I knew it was BS and checked your name. Continued to read anyway...

zombiechris · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/homedepot is offended.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"this speaker wire stuff doesn't really seem like it could possibly be releva....wait a minute!" -me

submuloc_j · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well done. This is the first time I checked a username before finishing the entire post haha.

asciibutts · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's been a while, old friend. Nailed it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you for not contributing to answering the question and just posting meaningless shit. Your username is no justification.

Answerinwrongthread · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How do you people fall for this shit?

Just read the fucking username. It's not goddamn rocket science!

ellgee · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I checked to see if it was a Loch Ness Monster story but didn't check for you.....

TheRealBabyCave · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HaHA!

I LOOKED FIRST!

NOT TODAY, RAMBLES. NOT TODAY!

returnkey · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm proud to say that I saw this coming and checked the username far earlier than normal.

Harowan · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scanned for tree fiddy, got busted by rambling off topic.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not only is this clever but hilarious aswell. Ryobi is shit.

Carosello · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got to the part about outside speakers and I knew. I just knew.

Jamzkurl · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not this time bitch.

DarthLotonic · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've started to look at usernames simply because you exist.

benk4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I did it! I actually checked the username first! That's never happened before...

majnus · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YES, I didn't fall for this, finally! I've 'friended' you and you're the only red username, so now I will always see your username first, ha!

fventricle · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you are def my favorite redditor

SauceBause · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

PLEASE do an AMA

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As soon as i got to the speaker part, i scrolled up.

M3X1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This never gets old. Hahaha

haus77 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You didnt get me this time. Nice try!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Get some masking tape, wrap it around the wire so its to wide to fall through the floor

sk8ter10121 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

mother fucker...You had me at speaker wire

SonicSerene · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like you. Once again, I admit defeat.

Vaeb41 · 11 points · Posted at 17:00:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This story has always found a way to creep me out:

A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that on the way to his room, there was a door with no number that was locked and no one was allowed in there. Especially no one should look inside the room, under any circumstances. So he followed the instructions of the woman at the front desk, going straight to his room, and going to bed.

The next night his curiosity would not leave him alone about the room with no number on the door. He walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough it was locked. He bent down and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling his eye. What he saw was a hotel bedroom, like his, and in the corner was a woman whose skin was completely white. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. He stared in confusion for a while. He almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity, but decided not to.

This disinclination saved his life. He crept away from the door and walked back to his room. The next day, he returned to the door and looked through the wide keyhole. This time, all he saw was redness. He couldn't make anything out besides a distinct red color, unmoving. Perhaps the inhabitants of the room knew he was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red.

At this point he decided to consult the woman at the front desk for more information. She sighed and said, "Did you look through the keyhole?" The man told her that he had and she said, "Well, I might as well tell you the story. A long time ago, a man murdered his wife in that room, and her ghost haunts it. But these people were not ordinary. They were white all over, except for their eyes, which were red.

Nataliyana · 3 points · Posted at 22:19:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn, that's a good short story!

scubadog2000 · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Of all the stories, while this one seemed pretty made up, it freaked me out the most.

AmbystomaMexicanum · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:32 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is made up. :)

sallydreams · 7 points · Posted at 16:10:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad shot a cat ten times.

For a couple weeks there was a stray cat that had made a home in the bushes under my parents bedroom windows. It meowed and whined all night, I guess. The poor thing was keeping my parents up. Instead of helping the cat my drunkard redneck father did what any other miserable bastard would do: he stayed up all night on our back porch waiting for the cat. At first he had my airsoft gun that had plastic bullets. "Imma scare that fucker." He says.

Night one, he shoots and misses but the cat scampers off. He decides to go to bed and a few hours later the meows happen.

Night two, he's moved up to a BB gun that has aluminum pellets. He gets him but the cat still runs off. My father had shot the cat in the eye leaving this gnarly black hole. The cat was scrawny, matted and with the hole in his head reminded me off of a bad omen in the scariest movie you've ever seen. Just thinking about the cat made me get shivers and a lump in my throat.

A week goes by, we hear nothing of the cat but the entire extended family hears about it and takes to calling him "ghost cat" my uncle even comes by a couple times hoping to rescue the thing from my asshole father. We all decide that the poor thing is dead and try to move on with our lives.

The meows creep in and we don't see the cat during the day anymore but mom says they still hear him. Like the beating heart in that Edgar Allen Poe story.

One more week goes by and I'm sitting by the window when I see my sister pull up on the driveway. The phone rings, its my sister, "The cat is staring at me. I'm not getting out while that thing is out there." I yell through the house at dad. He barrels through the house like there was an axe murderer outside. He has a very low gage shotgun.

I watch as the cat causally struts to my sister's car. My dad shoots him once, my sister covers her face and I hold my breath. The cat wavers only a little and continues its stride. Pop, pop, pop. Dad shoots him three more times. My sister is now sobbing in the car and I am trying to look away. Dad tells my sister its okay, the cat is laying down now. As dad picks him up by the tail I see the cat start pawing at him. He shoots him again, still holding the tail. The cat screams, I swear it was a scream and then weakly keeps pawing at dad with all his might. Then dad tosses the feline into the wooded area between us and the abandoned house next door. He pops off a few more rounds, "I shot that fucker for every life he had... And then one more for good measure."

I had nightmares for weeks after that and refused to be outside after dark. I was convinced the soul of that cat haunted our yard.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 17:55:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well as i said before there is a special place in hell for those who abuse animals.

sallydreams · 4 points · Posted at 19:33:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad is my least favorite person. I hope that hell is especially gruesome.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:40 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wouldn't have told your dad if i were in your situation. I would have done something myself.

sallydreams · 1 points · Posted at 11:52:54 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was really young, I didn't think it through.

Koldekurt · 6 points · Posted at 16:15:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://i.imgur.com/asmerZr.jpg

Smashreddit · 4 points · Posted at 16:21:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Any time I click on a link to a picture with no description in a thread about creepy or scary experiences the anticipation is always the worst part.

Havel_the_Rock · 8 points · Posted at 17:59:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night at summer camp, I couldn't sleep. I remember lying awake in the cabin, staring at the ceiling. We slept on bunk beds, and I had the top bunk. I heard someone under their blanket kind of whispering to themselves and laughing. He was sitting up ,but kind of hunched over, and his blanket was covering his face and body. The room was completely dark aside from the moonlight shining through the dusty windows and he was on the top bunk in the corner of the room. Slowly his blanket slid down his back and his head seemed to perk up. Sitting straight up, back facing me, his head, very slowly, begins to turn around. I could feel a slight tension in the room, and my vision seemed to hone in on him, I knew something was off about this. It felt like minutes ticked by, and I felt he could feel my eyes on him, I couldn't look away. His head is nearly completely turned around now, contorted in a very unnatural way. He slowly cracks a smile, then suddenly his face and eyes light up with a brimming demonic smile. I immediately panic, and rather loudly blurt out "WHATTHEFUCK" He throws the blanket back over himself and slams into the pillow, at the same time the blanket sinks back into the bed. That bed was empty...

Styroman57 · 7 points · Posted at 22:53:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was listening to Anthrax's song "Fight til you can't" one fantastic night. it's probably close to 12am. My iTunes was on shuffle and the song came on. I was watching a lot of scary movies that night and I had this coming to me I guess. As the song starts, I hear him say "City authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living" as soon as the last word is said, my house's power shuts off. I grab my gun, run to my living room "IT HAS BEGUN". Power comes back on. Family is scared and confused. It was just a coincidence, but I WAS READY TO GET DOWN

inflames797 · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good story, have an upvote.

silvernarnia · 8 points · Posted at 06:18:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a story I told in another thread, but it will fit here very well. I apologize in advance for the length.

Background:

While I was looking at colleges, my dad graciously agreed to take me to Louisiana State University for a tour. We made a vacation out of it, and stopped in New Orleans for several days. We stayed in this hotel, the Lamothe, which is supposedly haunted by several little kids and their mother. That's part of the reason my dad picked it, he knows I love the paranormal and am a full believer in spirits and ghosts. Anyway, I know realistically that the stories are probably made up to generate business (it's NOLA, after all), but I'm still loving the place. We get to our room and it's set up pretty neat - you walk in and you're standing in a small living area that has a bathroom off it, and you walk around a sort of half-wall to get to the main bedroom. There's a tiny second bedroom about the size of a walk-in closet behind a slatted door. This is where I slept (pertinent information).

First incident:

The first night, we're all setting up our stuff in the bathroom. There's a little table thing with a drawer that we decide to put some stuff in, but when we try to open it, we realize it's painted shut. Oh well. We get settled in and decide to sit out by the pool a while. We come back an hour or two later and my then nine year old, easily spooked brother goes to the bathroom and discovers this drawer pulled all the way out. Dad ends up telling brother that his opened the drawer before we went to the pool and left it open as a joke. Dad pulls me aside later and nervously explains that he did no such thing and has no idea how the drawer came to be open. Gives me goosebumps, but I think it's cool more than scary.

Second incident:

Our second and last night there. Dad goes to get ice from the ice machine for our ice bucket for tea or whatever, but the machine was empty except for a recently-used crack pipe, which my dad (a cop at the time) confiscated. Oh well, we drink warm tea and go to bed soon after, leaving the bathroom light on for my brother. At exactly three-fucking-AM, I wake up, for no good reason. I look at my door and see a vague outline of a person through the slats, but the light's too dim to really make out any details. "Dad?" No answer. It's way too tall, but, "Gabriel?" Nothing. I keep staring at this thing and I get the odd feeling that it's staring back, though I have no reason to think it's even facing me. I get this feeling of pure hatred directed toward me, and I start shaking, but I stay in bed. A terror I haven't felt since the time I thought my stepdad killed my mom creeps over me, all because of this black, human-looking mass. I try to talk myself down in my head, try to calm down, because I'm on the verge of an all-out panic attack. It kinda works, and I start to think I'm overreacting and maybe it's a weird shadow or something, because it didn't move for several minutes, when suddenly it just drops to the floor, faster than I've ever seen anything fall. Before I have a chance to do anything, I hear the unmistakable sound of ice being shaken in a plastic bucket and a wet sort of sliding sound. I briefly consider going to investigate, but decide "nope fuck that" and roll over and go back to sleep. The next morning, I wake up with MASSIVE bruises up and down my legs. I bust out of the room and show my dad, and I'm telling him what I saw the night before (brother's in the shower, so I'm not scaring him) when I notice the ice bucket is on the opposite end of the dresser from where it had been and there's a line of water behind it all the way to where it had been sitting originally. I feel the blood drain from my face and ask my dad if he went and got ice finally. He tells me no, looks and sees what I see, and goes white. We didn't even look to see if there was anything in the bucket, we just packed all our shit and hustled Gabe out of the shower so we could check out early.

TL;DR Went to New Orleans, stayed in a haunted hotel, hotel is haunted by something way more sinister than they advertise.

sat52 · 2 points · Posted at 21:32:31 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was waiting for a New Orleans story on this thread! Note to self, never stay at Lamothe.

champ999 · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

As someone who grew up in Louisiana, weird stuff will happen in New Orleans. I'm glad I never spent the night there, both for safety reasons and creepy reasons. Pre-Katrina New Orleans would be one of my last choices for "places to spend a night on the streets".

silvernarnia · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I love Louisiana, but I definitely had more creepy things happen to me in the few days I've spent there than in the rest of my life put together. My second time down to New Orleans, my aunt and I went on one of those cheesy swamp tours where the guide basically just looks for alligators to throw marshmallows at. It was fun, and we got to see some beautiful wildlife, but at one point our engine cut out and we were forced to drift with the current for a bit. We got into some pretty back country bayou scary-ass areas. My aunt was convinced we were gonna get shot by "some crazy voodoo cajun."

Ctpdreams · 9 points · Posted at 07:26:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was younger my dad lived in an old house, one of the first ones built in our town. Well I would go visit him on the weekends. I got the room across the hall from his on the second floor and slept in it when I was seven to about ten. Every night that'd I slept in the room I would have a nightmare no matter what. The room it self always had a creepy feeling to it. My friend had an experience were he would sleep in my closet (I had a lot of stuffed animals in there and he found it comfortable to sleep in) and he got locked in. He said he banged on the door and yelled for me for about an hour. I'm not a heavy sleeper either well since I never woke up he kept yelling asking to be let out. My sister finally heard him and let him out and she was in the room below mine so it was a shock I didn't hear him first. The thing that really scared me of the room before I left was one night I was watching ren and stimpy in the living room which was also below my room and the connecting hallway. My dad told me he was going to sleep so I decided to stay up a little later to watch the show. Well my dad went to bed and I was minding my business when I hear heavy steps going into my room and they never came out. Yes while my house was old with creaks nothing compared to the heavy steps I heard go into my room. I instantly freaked out and had to run to my dad's room across the hall of mine. I switched off the lights downstairs and ran up the stairs to his room never glancing at my room too scared to see anything. I closed my dad's room door and slept on his floor scared the footsteps would come back to the room I was in. I quickly fell asleep, but I was never really comfortable in my room again.

StillVirginxP · 6 points · Posted at 09:00:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When i was 11 i was skateboarding near a train station. I heard a train comming so i sit down because my mum said it was dangeourus. Just when train was 20m away some guy ran onto the rails and the train killed him. i couldnt sleep normal for about a year and now i still sometimes have nightmares and im 16.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:28:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

that sucks major balls I'm really sorry about this

StillVirginxP · 2 points · Posted at 15:19:54 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

yea i fucking hate that guy

9GAGGERSGOTOHELL · 5 points · Posted at 06:02:32 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really need to stop reading these type of threads at 1am

writer1981 · 7 points · Posted at 06:40:09 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Back in 2003 I was about 23 and I don't scare easily at all. However one night I'm lying in bed and I can't sleep. Not unusual for me as I always have trouble sleeping.

It is about 2am in summer when I suddenly hear his freaky very deep growling noise that sounds like a cat growling when it is really agitated or angry but it sounded far more guttural and deeper in tone. I've experienced things about as strange as this before so I get out of bed and take a look around in the dark with just a near full moon outside to light my room through the gap in my curtains.

Just as I am walking around I see as best as I can describe a dark shrouded humanoid floating about a foot off the ground and you could not see it's face due to this weird black veil obstructing it's features.

I imagine it had to have a face and not being able to see it's face freaked me out more than it following me around the room as I try to walk to it.

I then either did something very foolish or very brave. I punched it in what I thought was it's stomach to see how solid it was. That's when I freaked a bit more. As my fist went through it's abdomen it did not go through easily and it felt like my fist was passing through a thick icy fluid. I freaked and pulled my hand back and I seemed to pull some of whatever that stuff was it was made out of with me and the thing then came apart only to reform itself.

I then quickly and quietly went back to bed. I then heard it make that awful inhuman growling noise again even louder this time and closer. It then zoomed right up close to my face to the point where it had it's face about an inch from mine.

At this point I didn't need to see it's face to know it was really angry at me for messing up it's stomach with my fist. That was when I closed my eyes tightly and threw the doona over my head and said you are not really here, you not really here, when I open my eyes you will be gone.

I open my eyes and I can just make out it's shape staring at me through the thin summer doona and trying to get at me through the doona while still growling loudly. I then believe very soon after that I fainted from shock.

I woke up the next morning shaking and the bed was drenched in sweat. Although it was summer it was not hot all that week and quite cold at night through to the early hours of the mornings.

martininkorea · 2 points · Posted at 10:22:04 on June 13, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like a really vivid nightmare.

writer1981 · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:21 on June 20, 2013 · (Permalink)

If only it was just a nightmare. Unfortunately it was not and very real, terrifyingly so.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:46 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hmm r u sure it was sweat?

writer1981 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:18 on June 20, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes although I am surprised I did not not expel that other bodily fluid after that nightmarish and freaky event.

chimpcheng · 8 points · Posted at 07:54:22 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

This thread is awesome and I kinda wish that I wasn't reading it all alone, but reading through the stories have reminded me of something that a friend told me, so you'll have to forgive me if it doesn't make sense as I'm trying to recall the details from years ago.

Anyway, over drinks we started on ghost stories (it's either that or football and I hate football) and my friend told us, how, when he was a child his mum would despair because in one particular bedroom in the house they were living in, he would scream and scream and scream each night. In his mum's room he was fine.

She took him to the doctors who could find nothing 'wrong' with him despite, when asked what was wrong, he claimed that old women are in his room. Out of desperation, she took him to see a spiritualist, who said that his 'third eye' was wide open and he was seeing things that he shouldn't be seeing. What he was seeing, each night, was two old women appearing in the corner of his room and moving towards him - which as I'm sure you'll all agree contributed to the screaming.

Anyway, the spiritualist closed his third eye saying that, when he was older, it could be re-opened if he wanted - quite why anyone would have it re-opened, if such a thing exists, is beyond me... That night, my friend was in his room, waiting to begin screaming, when the two women appeared but, get this, from under his bed, the spiritualist appeared and told the old women that they weren't welcome. All supernatural beings then vanished and he never saw the old women again...

BlueROFL1 · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:47 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude that's fucking nuts.

chimpcheng · 4 points · Posted at 11:31:31 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tell me about it man. He swears that it's all true.

The shivers that went down my spine when he told this story, and the look on his face as he spoke, just chilled me. It was made worse by the fact that I was going to be home alone that night. Man, I tell ya, I've never had my eyes screwed so tightly.

flightrulez · 747 points · Posted at 12:57:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

So I’m from small country in central Europe. Loads of people have probably never heard of it. It combines small patch of Adriatic Sea and Alps, but landscape is mostly small green hills, each with a little church on top. Almost two thirds of land is covered with forests and capitol is famous for its middle age architecture. It is an adorable country in which most of the time nothing really happens.

Like most of the population I live in the countryside, few hundred meters apart from closest neighbour, right next to the forest. I spend most of my childhood in that forest. I can still remember which the best trees for climbing were and where certain flowers grew. But the thing I will never forget happened in the summer of 2001. I was just around twelve back then and I was spending my whole afternoons in the forest. Most of the times I was roaming around with my best friend, but that day I was alone. As I said before, most of the land around here isn’t flat. The hill behind our house is quite steep, right above our house is old orchard my great-granddad planted and when you come on the top of the hill you can almost see the capitol city in the distance. Then there is big forest that extends across the karst landscape practically right to the Italian border with a few smaller towns and villages in between. I never really went very far because I mostly stayed in the area my family owned, but that day I decided I want to see some more.

I didn’t have much with me and I didn’t tell my parents I was going anywhere far. I always felt very safe in the woods even though bears were often seen in the area. In reality the most dangerous thing you can bump into are drunken hunters. Forest is pretty in the summer, leaves and tall trunks made me feel like I’m in a big cathedral. I started to sing a tune I have heard on the radio some time ago. At that point I was about hour and a half walking distance away from home.

I decided to stray away from the main road that leads through the forest in big curves and to take the shortcut. Sun was setting and light was making leaves glowing in sharp colours. But soon all the light disappeared and I find myself wandering in the twilight on territory unknown to me. Wind was blowing and dry branches were making weird noises. I started to feel uncomfortable. And in one sheer moment I discovered I am lost. I could feel the panic in form of adrenaline that started to flow through my veins. My instincts were screaming to run away, but I forced myself to focus and tried to get orientation. It was all pointless; I had no idea where I was. I started to walk around aimlessly, hoping to at least find the road. Suddenly I saw a small figure standing far off in the distance. From what I saw it could only be a small child, with a long slender neck, scaly but smooth skin and deep red eyes. I started walking towards it, but the figure noticed me and ran away. I chased figure in forest for quite a long time, I never came enough close to actually distinguish any of its features, but it looked like I small girl, no older than I was at the time.

In one moment I was running and in the next the floor under me disappeared. I felt that dreadful feeling of falling, similar to one in very bad nightmare when everything feels like slow motion. Then that awful sound of body hitting the floor, a moment later also came the pain. For moment I motionless lied on the ground, finally I pulled myself together and opened my eyes, waiting for them to adjust the thick darkness in the cave, where I landed.

First everything was pitch blackness. And then I saw. There was a single pair of eyes staring at me, for less than a few inches in front of my face. I quickly backed away, until I hit something dry and crumbly. Somewhere in the back, fires were lit. First there was one, and then more and more, until chamber was fully lit. There were thousands and thousands of eyes watching me. Dead eyes in dry sockets, skin that was stretched over the bones, mouths hanging open like in big shock, but that was only because lips rot in the time that passed.

I stared, I wasn’t able to move or scream. I am not even sure I was able to breath. I blinked, hoping for dreadful image in front of me to disappear. As I opened my eyes all otherwise motionless copses moved. In the matter of fact, I didn’t really see them move, but when I blinked it was like everything got one step closer. I felt cold sweat slipping down my neck and my eyes began to water. I could help myself I blinked again. This time, I was completely surrounded. I simply closed my eyes, wishing for all to be just a bad dream. I didn’t hear a single sound; I smiled thinking that soon I will wake up. When I opened my eyes, there was a face, almost touching my face. I could clearly see dried and rotten face, eyes filled with numbness. I started to feel dizzy, I felt something like dust and bones grabbing my hair and tearing my clothes. I felt it and I didn’t feel it, because I became so damn dizzy and sick. I tried so hard to stay conscious, to fight, but I couldn’t move a single muscle. And then it was again pitch blackness all around me.

I opened my eyes, trying to adjust to the lack of light. I was lying on the forest ground, not so far away from home. In that exact moment all my body started to function normally, I ran home like a wind. I had no idea how I got there and I just tried to forget about whole thing, but my peace didn’t last very long. Next night I dreamed about people I saw back there. I woke up to the face looking at me from the window. It was the face of a little girl, she was also dead, and her empty eyes watched me with wild anger as she was clawing the window, trying to get in. I am having the same nightmare for the past twelve years. It that time I visited many different therapists. They say it is just stress from school and job; that I should try to relax. But how can I relax, when every night as I open my eyes, a girl is one step closer to me? One night she finally got close enough to mutter just one sentence to me, "Ima need about tree fiddy."

It was at that moment that I realized this creepy female figure off in the distance was 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era.

tl;dr Some scary shit happens when you witness a genocide

Gollem265 · 390 points · Posted at 14:24:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God fucking dammit

ArtVandelayInd · 4 points · Posted at 14:52:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every time a post seems too good to be true I read the last few sentences just in case. Usually doesn't fail me.

tombradyrulz · 0 points · Posted at 19:08:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!

🎙️ Youdonotsay · 587 points · Posted at 13:04:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck that.

emoness88 · 129 points · Posted at 13:20:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I agree. Dunno why I came this far down the comments anyway but just fuck everything about that.

On the plus side, (s)he should propose his/her story to a movie maker of some kind (idk how that works) and share the nightmare while making millions!

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 15:13:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You read the last 2 sentences, right?

emoness88 · 7 points · Posted at 15:32:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait...that...that wasn't there before...I swear it wasn't there first time I read it!!!!!!!

[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 16:55:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't worry, I saw the post before it was edited too. It ended by saying it was a friend's cousin's story and she fell into a mass grave as a little girl and she's seen a bunch of therapists but she's still scarred for life.

flightrulez · 6 points · Posted at 23:00:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone asked me to change the story into a nessy' tree fiddy story and obliged. I am ever so sorry. Karma is just too goddamn awesome.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:05:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No worries, I just didn't want emoness88 (or anyone else that read the original version) to think they had imagined it and then start doubting their sanity.

emoness88 · 3 points · Posted at 18:24:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Gawt demn lock-nedss mondstah!!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 18:29:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This time it didn't just take your tree fiddy and make you read an interesting story that you thought was true. It made other redditors think you don't know how to read. Nessie is getting to be a bitch.

emoness88 · 3 points · Posted at 18:34:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now dat I gave in a little it always gointah be comin back askin fo tree fiddy. Maybe even mo.....

throwsIOExceptions · 4 points · Posted at 20:11:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought it was going to end up being a Latvian joke... Is this any better?

emoness88 · 6 points · Posted at 02:14:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No. Only sadness. Also cold.

Puppier · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was bound to happen eventually. This thread is like monster bait.

PenetratedCheeks · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sometimes when I'm half way through and I know it's too good to be true, I realize I shouldn't get my hopes up. Haven't been wrong yet.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:59:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pro tip: always check the end first

Kinkodoyle · 114 points · Posted at 14:35:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Got about half way through before deciding to check. Fuck you so much

StayPuffGoomba · 7 points · Posted at 18:45:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The tl;dr and lack of the "Fuck you" comment chain tricked me.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:23:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read two sentences, saw the length of the submission, and skipped to the bottom.

I feel like my corneas should flash "ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED" or something.

petenu · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I checked straight away. I'm doing a smug little dance around the room right now.

dano8801 · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I skipped to the TLDR and was like "Oh ok, this shit be mad real!"

Fuck me.

[deleted] · 283 points · Posted at 14:04:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I expected the girl to be in need of money. Tree fiddy to be exact.

CommunismCake · 3 points · Posted at 15:44:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Moment I saw "long neck and scales", I knew better.

flightrulez · 10 points · Posted at 14:15:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're welcome.

_vargas_ · 2 points · Posted at 14:39:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit. You didn't.

the_pissedoff_walrus · 2 points · Posted at 14:48:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I even checked then two times! You little ninja bastard

karimr · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I scrolled down to this comment and then scrolled back up thinking this meant that this is not going to happen.

Redhot128 · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You asshole! I went back and read that whole thing because of you!

kitten_king · 1 points · Posted at 12:29:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

At the beginning I expected hunger games...

mealinja · 71 points · Posted at 14:09:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

im sure a lot more people would have heard of the country if you actually said it

AmrothDin · 24 points · Posted at 14:50:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't be so sure. After all he's talking about Slovenia

HMJ87 · 4 points · Posted at 16:15:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You guys have Metalcamp. Therefore Slovenia ranks as one of the best countries in Europe ;)

AmrothDin · 2 points · Posted at 16:41:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

People like you are always welcome here :D

HMJ87 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha thanks dude! A friend of mine goes every year, and always stays longer and travels around your beautiful country! Hopefully one year soon I shall go with him.... :P

nickvicious · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Def Slovenia.

suprr_monkey · 0 points · Posted at 16:07:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or Liechtenstein.

AmrothDin · 3 points · Posted at 16:25:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm afraid not :) he did say the country's bordering on the Alps, Italy and the Adriatic Sea.

Parker_I · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is Ljubljana known for Medieval Architecture? I mean, Slovenja is the only place it can practically be by the geographic description.

AmrothDin · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ljubljana's older district and castle have a distinct medieval feel to them. But much of it have undergone restoration so I don't really know if you can call it medieval architecture anymore.

suprr_monkey · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, I was hung up on the "small country in Central Europe" bit.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 15:22:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And there are more who would have recognized the joke if they read the last sentence.

[deleted] · 44 points · Posted at 13:30:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Slovenija?

VikaWiklet · 2 points · Posted at 14:05:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Or maybe Crna Gora?

[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 14:11:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ma gdje je CG u Alpama? hahaha

AmrothDin · 7 points · Posted at 14:48:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Plus, he mentioned the italian border. There's only one country in that region that borders on italy, the alps and the adriatic sea. Lep pozdrav iz Ljubljane

VikaWiklet · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I missed the whole Italian border part :) just saw mountains and Adriatic and thought it could be either. I guess they don't count as alps that far south, though. edit: also, I didn't think there had been any mass graves in Slovenija, but I just read there were some from the WWII era, if not from any other time. So is this an old story?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:27:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes. If he'd copied the entire post from the blog he got this from, it would have said that in the last paragraph.

http://www.crappypasta.com/the-lost/

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought Croatia. This might work as well.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:18:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

As someone who lives in Croatia, I can assure you we don't have the alps OR the italian border here (except for a patch in the adriatic sea, so it's not on land)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:55:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait, really?

Well, back to third grade geography for me I guess...

JackOscar · 49 points · Posted at 13:57:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.crappypasta.com/the-lost/ This is your friends cousins post?

_vargas_ · 2 points · Posted at 14:09:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get why this is being downvoted.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:35:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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_vargas_ · 2 points · Posted at 14:38:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My setting hide comments below -1. His was hidden so I checked it out only to find that it was very relevant, hence my confusion over it having been downvoted at least twice.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bowling?

[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 14:48:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD DAM IT LOCHNESS MONSTER I AIN'T GIVIN' YOU NO TREE FIDDY.

_vargas_ · 21 points · Posted at 13:13:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

psydelem · 4 points · Posted at 17:03:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck your tl;dr. I stopped half way, read that, and kept going.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:43:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was only a matter of time really

Strictly_chronic · 2 points · Posted at 22:34:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This seems pretty long better scroll to the bottom to check it out. Victory for the first time ever and it feels great.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:13:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really am starting to hate these tree fiddy posts, but at least this one didn't suck.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:17:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Three_Headed_Monkey · 1 points · Posted at 14:20:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

0_0

q8p · 1 points · Posted at 14:33:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like this new ending better.

MiddleInTheMalcolm · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God. Dammnit.

Scrofl · 1 points · Posted at 14:43:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goddamnit.

keko191 · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Surely your not serious, dafaq man

jpesich · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I felt like I just went on a roller coaster. But it wasn't fun at all. Nice imagery

ssnistfajen · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one had a tree fiddy vibe since the beginning...

TSparklez · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God damnit.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are a fantastic descriptive writer.... But I still hate you for sucking me in, you magnificent bastard...

Asderil · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uff, that´s a tough one!

throwaway03042013 · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hah I was waiting for that. Good story though

notoriousstranger · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

oh fucking hell

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whenever its this long I scroll down for the TL;DR... then the last word was "paleolithic era."

Nice try. But not this time!

ssrabto2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Albania?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I knew it. Totally fucking knew it.

In7meanFlavors · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wasn't there a Dr. Who episode about monsters that get closer to you when you're not looking? Either way, great concept.

mrfishycrackers · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I seriously read that whole thing. damn it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God. Damn. It.

brasehr · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why am I laughing so hard oh god help

DamnYouWaffles · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God fucking dammit! I knew it was going to end that way! I was actually thinking halfway through the story about how funny it would be if the dead bodies asked for tree fiddy.

AfroKing23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, what country? I wanna know, damnit!!

flightrulez · 2 points · Posted at 15:34:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Former Yugoslavia :)

MsAnnThrope · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ahhh, you suck. :)

Farabee · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can we stop upvoting this shit in every thread?

ThePrevailer · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't blink. Blink and you're dead.

Ataraxis420 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How many more times will I fall for this? Well done.

ASKSABOUTPENISSIZE · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm disappointed I had to scroll this far. I was expecting one of these much earlier.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you're gonna nessie people, you need to make them want to read the whole thing. I wrote it of as shittypasta by the time you started talking about the girl.

flightrulez · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was my first try at it, I'll try harder next time :)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You actually wrote that? Not too bad then, for a short story. But creepypasta actually has it's own sort of unofficial rules to it, which are easier to understand if you read a bunch of good (and bad) ones. Other than that, keep at it!

userbelowisamonster · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too much reading. I read the tl;dr and decided to go where I left off.

I'm glad I made it to the end, reading the whole story.

PatriotsFTW · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A million fucks to you

Rommel79 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You son of a bitch.

oneofthethreebest · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know iv'e been in reddit to long when I saw that coming from the beginning.

toomanynamesaretook · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Extremely well written, I take my hat off to you sir.

kayla1234 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HA! I didn't fall for that.

drgigantor · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You. Mother. Fucker.

NicholasSparksVagina · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Slovenia!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too fake.

hamsterwheel · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Slovenia? Great country. My grandpa took me there to show me his hometown.

king_samwich · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been scrolling to the bottom of all the long storys looking for one like this.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is like a Stephen King novel. Endless, unnecessary details that detract from the story. All the creepy feelings I've built up in this post are gone from trying to read this.

blobber109 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You. Piece. Of. Shit..

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!

OC4815162342 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, you live in Armenia?

OC4815162342 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was great, gave me a great laugh, thank you

fukuaneveryoneuknow · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate you!!!!

Antebios · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Damn you to hell! You go to hell! You go to hell and YOU die!

Schnitzelmann7 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

SDFHKLSGJLdgcjhö

Felttrip · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Worth.

zjm555 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I definitely thought that was going to end up being about a potato.

eriiica · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I knew half way through.. But was so caught up in the suspense I had to finish reading it.

NaturesWanderer · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mother FUCKER!

jacybear · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

And I find myself not pissed off about tricking me, but wondering if you're actually from Slovenia.

GTAIVisbest · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Hervatski

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm glad I skimmed.

speedracr226 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I've been there before. You have to go to the back of the cave - it's the entrance of Wiley Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Admission is $3.50. Makes sense now. Next time I would give her the $3.50. If you happen to have an some extra, accompany her. There's a wicked sweet elevator.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I could see that coming from miles away

Destinyjr · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I knew it was gonna say that buy I kept reading cause that story kicked ass

Poozer62 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw this earlier, no tree fiddy joke, y u do dis OP? Y

boxerej22 · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't know the Loch Ness monster lived in Slovenia...

Silent002 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate you, but at least Slovenia sounds pretty.

zelen · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

DM;SP

NCWV · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This "joke" is so fucking stupid.

Meows_at_cats · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That european "accent" was quite realistic.

CaptainReallyObvious · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD DAMMNIT

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD DAMNIT

DazedCake · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get this

ItsBobLoblawsLawBlog · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You sonofabitch Lochness Monster

lamar5559 · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God damn. When I was reading this, the huge dog I'm watching for a friend decided to go on a barking fit.

I never been this scared and startled in my life.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

First time ever I'm glad to see those words in a comment on reddit.

throwsIOExceptions · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I will never write anything that sounds as awesome as "Dead eyes in dry sockets." Props, man

ladymanatee · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THIS HAD ME IN TEARS GODDAMMIT

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck you.

kwall24 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD DAMMIT

Wojwo · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bravo

tommyvodka · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still dont know what happened

MuttonTheChops · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God Fucking Damnit! I scrolled past the wall of text and saw OP commented and I looked at the TL;DR and was like "oh shit, I gotta read this. Must be scary as shit." Nope.

baritone-boy · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was incredibly well done. Great job.

McDragan · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought you were /u/ramblesofftopic or something for a second, then you do that?

Shafer1212 · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Can someone explain what the hell happened?

flyotw · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude… please explain this some more. Is this real or imaginary! What the fuck was in that forest and why is this shit happening

dirtebeats · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK.

HampeMannen · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lichenstein? Or what country? There aren't really all that many...

flightrulez · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Former Yugoslavia

HampeMannen · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...now?

flightrulez · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Canada

HampeMannen · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Funny! ...

unknownpoltroon · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HA. MISSED ME THAT TIME!!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Liechtenstein?

aftli · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God damn it before I finished reading I had this awesome "dude she was totally DTF" joke lined up in response.

Also, I should add that it was masterful - when you mentioned the obscure country in Europe, I scrolled down to the replies to see if anybody said what country it was. Nobody did, and scrolling back up my eyes glanced at the TL;DR, which prompted me to continue reading in a "oh dis gon' be good" way.

You magnificent bastard.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU BITCH

Manofwood · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get it?

Purple_Furry_Carpet · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

thelastblackredditor · 10 points · Posted at 04:32:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing that has ever happened to me was about 5 years ago. It was something that didn't scare me much until I got older ald realized the dangers of the situation I was in.

My mother and father seperated long ago and me and my sister were over my mothers house for our vacation. My mom's car was in the auto shop so we took city buses everywhere. On this particular day we got groceries from a nearby Walmart and were carrying the bags home.

When we left the walmart it was around 8-9pm I think because it was dark. I wasn't scared though because I had my mom & sister nearby to protect me (keep in mind I was the youngest).

Anyway we started walking to the bus stop and it was just us and some weird guy we didn't know. The bus didn't come until another 10 minutes so we all stood there quiet. Occasionally I would glance over at him being the nosy little boy I was. He would just stare at us. I never payed it much attention though.

The bus finally came but because of the weird location of my mom's apartment it wouldn't be the only bus we rode to get home. When we got on the bus that sketchy guy sat behind us. I can't remember where he sat exactly because I didn't pay much attention to him. We were on the bus for several stops and he still stayed on as long as us. When we got off the bus he did too. Heres where things get weird. The stop we got off was like this place where lots of buses came for their last stop and took breaks. When we got off we waited until our bus arrived and sat on a bench.

He was at the same bench as us but he was maybe 10 feet away. Not too close so I just assumed he was getting on the same bus. When the bus came my mom told me to get on and follow her. I didn't know why but I did what she told me. We got on the bus and so did he.

When we got close to our stop we got off just before it and the man did too but before the bus doors closed we hopped back on. I was really confused as to why we did what we did but I didn't really care. He walked away for a moment then turned back toward the bus (this was just after he followed us off). He looked as if he was looking for someone. We were at the window seat and he stared at our window at us.

After that we never saw him again but wheen we got off at the correct spot I asked my mom why we didn't just wait instead of wasting our time getting on and off at the previous stop. She told me it was because we were being followed by the man from Walmart and she did that to test him and avoid him. I'm glad it worked. Back when it happened I didn't really understand but now when I think about it things could've gone really bad had my mom not acted when she did. This story probably isn't as scary to you as it is to me thinking about it now.

TL;DR- If I could write this with my phone, you could certainly take the time out of your day to read it dammit.

nousername_thanks · 0 points · Posted at 05:06:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck your TL;DR.

thelastblackredditor · 7 points · Posted at 05:19:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

YOU DONT KNOW MY STRUGGLES!

nousername_thanks · -1 points · Posted at 05:35:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What...?

SmoSays · 8 points · Posted at 06:47:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, he's the last black redditor. Have a little sympathy.

rape_me_with_ape · 12 points · Posted at 16:06:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Everybody knows that if you surf the web long enough, you'll see some sick shit. This is especially true if you intentionally dwell into the dark underbelly of the internet. I've seen quite a few things I don't care to admit to, but one thing that I'll always remember is a site called "normalpornfornormalpeople.com".

The first strange thing about the site, was that I didn't find it by actually looking for it. It was e-mailed to me by someone I didn't know. The e-mail was as follows:

"Hi there

found this site is very nice thought u might like

normalpornfornormalpeople.com

pass it on, for the good of mankind"

Pretty standard issue chain letter, although the url and the last remark really piqued my curiosity. I was having a very boring day when I got this, so I made sure my anti-virus was working and then I clicked on it.

It was a very average, very generic looking site. It gave the impression that the creators just BARELY gave a shit about making it look professional. The author seemed to have a very tenuous grasp on English, and on the front page was a long, boring, and incoherent rant that I don't remember or have saved.

The site had a strange tagline (which even today people haven't figured out the meaning of), which was;

"Normal Porn for Normal People, A Website Dedicated To The Eradication of Abnormal Sexuality"

And from the sound of that, I wasn't sure whether I was here to watch porn or if I had stumbled onto some kind of eugenics program. But I was here now, and I was very, very curious to see what "Normal People" get their rocks off to. So I scrolled down through the rant and...nothing. The page didn't seem to link to anywhere else, and I was about to leave when I noticed every word of the rant was it's own hyperlink.

So I clicked one of them, and was sent to a white page with very long list of links in the form of:

"normalpornfornormalpeople.com/ (random letters)"

So I stopped for a minute and asked myself if I really wanted to waste God knows how much time clicking random links that will likely give me a virus that will rape my computer. I figured I'd just try it for maybe 5 minutes, just to see if anything came up. I clicked one of the links, and was sent to another page. This page apparently had totally different urls than the last one.

I was just about to say "Fuck this" when I clicked on the 3rd link, and a video download came up. It was called "peanut.avi". It was a 30 minute video of a man, a woman and a dog in a kitchen. The woman would make a peanut butter sandwich, and the man would set it down for the dog to eat. This was all that happened, for 30 minutes. It was obvious that the cameraman had to stop filming and wait until the dog was ready to eat again, and the dog seemed rather sick by the end of it.

I know what you're thinking: "What the hell does that have to do with porn?" I have no clue. I've seen a little over two dozen videos from this site, and the majority had no sexual activity at all.

After watching peanut.avi, I went on a certain image board I frequent to play online show and tell, like I always do with weird shit like this. But someone had already made a thread about it, some guy who had received the same chain letter I did. The image board thread got lots of people with nothing better to do to dig through the site, and that's how I saw other videos.

Most of those two dozen videos where very uneventful, and consisted of people talking to the cameraman in a room with nothing in it but a desk and a few chairs. I mean literally nothing on the walls, or in terms of furniture. The whole room had a very cold, sterile feel to it.

The conversations where just idle banter about previous jobs or embarrassing childhood moments. I kept expecting some kind of discussion about what the people where filming or what the site was about, but of course, nothing. You would never know these videos had anything to do with porn if you saw it out of context. I will say one thing though, the people who appeared in these videos where quite attractive.

However, the other videos that actually did feature content which I suppose could be called "sexual" is where things got weird.

I'll give brief descriptions of the stranger videos, if you're really eaten up with curiosity you can try to hunt them down on a torrent site.

lickedclean.avi

A 10 minute video filmed by a hidden camera in which we see a repairman working on a washing machine for the first 2 minutes. When it's fixed, the repairman talks to the owner briefly, and then leaves. The owner checks to make sure the repairman is gone, and he begins to lick all over the top of the washing machine. This goes on for 7 minutes.

jimbo.avi

A 5 minute video of a obese mime performing his act. It was actually pretty funny, particularly one part where he pretends to pull up a chair, then pretends that it breaks because of his weight. In the last 30 seconds of the video, the camera cuts to static briefly and cuts back to the man sobbing quietly, still wearing mime outfit and makeup. Some kind of obscure fetish?

dianna.avi

4 minute video in which the camerman talks to a woman in a room different than the "interview room". This room looks like one you'd find in a normal person's house. Exactly where they are is never specified, as Dianna only talks about her violin playing. She obviously plays her violin, but she keeps getting distracted by something.

I didn't notice this until someone on the image board thread pointed it out, but if you look at a mirror in the background, you can see a fat man in a chicken mask masturbating.

jessica.avi

Another 4 minute cameraman video. This time he's outside a house, talking to another young woman. They talk about canoe rides. The camera zooms out to reveal the city streets behind them occasionally.

The strange thing is: No one so far has been able to identify where this street is. Guesses have ranged everywhere from Europe to Australia to The Philippines, but there's yet to be a match for the street shown in the video.

tounguetied.avi

10 minute video. The first 5 minutes consist of an elderly woman making out with a mannequin. The video cuts out like it did in jimbo.avi halfway through, and the scene is now a group of mannequins huddled together in a circle around the camera. The lights have been dimmed, and the elderly woman is nowhere to be seen. From this point on, there is no sound.

stumps.avi

5 minute long video where a man with no legs is attempting to breakdance on a DDR mat in what looks like the kitchen from peanut.avi, but much dirtier. There's a radio playing music unseen in the background, but it stops at the 4 minute mark when the man collapses on the mat in exhaustion.

He breathes heavily and pleads with someone off-screen to let him rest. This off-screen person becomes terrifyingly enraged and yells at him to keep dancing, which he does. You can hear this off-screen person begin to scream as the video ends abruptly.

privacy.avi

The woman from dianna.avi is masturbating on a mattress in the "interview room", while the man from stumps.avi walks around on his hands while wearing some kind of goblin mask.

The door in this room was always closed in other videos, but it's now open. In this video the only light is in the room, and the hallway is dark. Near the end of the video, you can see an animal quickly run through the hallway.

And finally the last video we uncovered, which was useless.avi

In this 18 minute video, a blond woman from one of the previous interview videos is tied down to a mattress in the interview room. She attempts to scream but her mouth is taped over. After 7 minutes, a man in a black suit and mask opens the door, but he does not enter.

He holds the door open for the animal that was running in the hall in the previous video. It's revealed to be an adult chimpanzee, it's hair shaved and it's entire body painted red. It seemed to be starved and abused, with several wounds along it's shoulders and back.

When the chimp enters the room, the masked man closes the door behind it. The chimpanzee sniffs the air for a moment (it may have been blind), and notices the woman tied to the mattress. It goes into a frenzy, and begins to maul her.

The assault goes on for a grueling 7 minutes, until the woman finally dies. The chimp eats flesh from her corpse for 4 minutes as the video ends.

The thread exploded with activity after this video was uncovered, and people discussed it long into the night. When I came back to the image board the next day I found that the thread was deleted. I tried to start another one, and they banned me. I tried e-mailing the guy who sent me the chain letter with the site's url, sent him 5 messages and never got a response.

I have tried to discuss this website on various places, and I got banned frequently. The site itself was also deleted about 3 days after useless.avi was uncovered, likely because someone contacted the authorities about it.

The only proof that normalpornfornormalpeople.com ever existed was a few screencaps people took, and videos from the site that people saved and uploaded on torrents. The most popular of which being useless.avi, which found it's way onto a few gore sites.

Wherever you upload them to, all of the videos from normalpornfornormalpeople.com get deleted after a while.

mrmacky · 6 points · Posted at 18:32:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What. The. Fuck.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This is screwed up enough that I'm almost willing to believe it was some bizarre art project and isn't just another made up story. Had to catch myself before searching for more info while I'm at work.

Edit: Did a quick search using a paragraph of this post. Tons of hits. Screwed up story though.

GrandFrame · 22 points · Posted at 13:20:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watching "Spirited Away" while high was pretty messed up..

danrennt98 · 5 points · Posted at 13:28:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHAT?! That would be awesome! eh ehh ehh

GrandFrame · 0 points · Posted at 16:25:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was awesome but scary at the same time because of all the weird demons and stuff haha. You should watch it, it is an awesome movie!

tomatotank · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The worst is Princess Monoke. That... scares me.

Username0010 · 2 points · Posted at 15:05:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've only ever watched the second half of Spirited Away, I cried in confusion.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The first and only time I ever watched that movie was when I was tripping on acid with some friends, the movie was in Japanese, and we had no subtitles. Every so often 2 of my friends who had seen the movie would give us an idea of what has happened and it always ended with "and your parents are still pigs". I haven't watched the movie since. I'm not sure I want to. It was really good though.

[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 19:19:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was a young nurse, working the night shift on a cardiac ward. One of my patients was a fairly young woman. She rang the call bell at around 2am, said she was having trouble with nausea and couldn't sleep. I got her a dose of phenergan, an anti-nausea medication that is pretty harmless, though it does kind of mess with people's heads sometimes. Most people just get sleepy.

So I gave the woman her medicine, she thanked me, and I left the room. No sooner had I stepped out the door, then he call light went off again. Puzzled, I turned around and went back in.

The patient was sitting bolt upright in bed. I asked if anything was wrong. She looked at me with big eyes and exclaimed, "You were just here!"

"....Yes, I gave you your medicine and left the room."

"NO!" she said even louder. "You left, but then you were standing at the end of my bed, and would you PLEASE tell those children to get off the cieling!"

OK, so, bad phenergan reaction. It happens. I explained it to her, and planned on a long night. (It was; she rang the call bell constantly for almost an hour before finally falling asleep.) When she woke up, she had no memory of any of this.

Here's the creepy part: that section of the hospital used to be the pediatric ward. So as much as I know that she was having drug-induced hallucinations, I've always kind of wondered......were there children on the cieling?

MisterJibeto · 7 points · Posted at 14:03:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in an old, renovated church and there is.... nothing. Perfectly, disappointingly normal.

That_Urks_Me · 5 points · Posted at 15:24:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night a few weeks back my girlfriend and I came back from a friends house close to midnight. When we walked in the door she started back towards our room and quickly turned around and said "Someone is in our shower!."

Me, half buzzing called bullshit until I got down the hallway and could clearly hear the shower running. I freaked out at that point because all of the guns are kept in our room.

After a quick huddle in the living room I decided that iPhone flashlight and bum rushing the fucking room was the best idea. I was scared shitless, but it turned out to be the water line going to the bottom of the toilet tank ruptured and was spraying a geezer of water into our bedroom/bathroom.

The floors got fucked and I nearly had a heart attack at the time.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 15:43:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was drinking at a friend of friends house once. He lived in a very old home that was being renovated. After arriving at the house I used his bathroom that was in the basement. I sat down and noticed love letters to this guys dad from his boyfriend. Being 17 and dumb, I found it hilarious reading gay guys love notes. All of a sudden the door knob started jiggling. I said, "fuck off, I'm in here." my friends like to harass me about my IBS. The door opened about six inches and I could see the face if a little boy looking in at me, And softly closed the door. After I went upstairs I asked if they had a nephew or little brother or something. He got very excited and told me that I had seen a ghost. They informed me that they see him periodically, and researched the history of the home and found that a 5 year old boy died in a house fire in the 30s. They had his name and old newspaper article about it. Easily the creepiest thing that ever happened to me.

namesRhard1 · 7 points · Posted at 15:53:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The apartment block I was living in in Japan had only recently been built, about two years prior, but a good few people were talking about ghosts and unexplainable things happening like bathroom doors locking when nobody was in there. I don't believe in ghosts, so I didn't give it any second thoughts, but on two occasions I was in bed and saw people standing in my room. Light blue, translucent Asian people to be precise. The first time around it was a child in the corner, not moving, just minding his own business. I was kinda high so I just put it down to that and tried to sleep (despite being creeped out). The second time I came home drunk from a party down the hall and hopped into bed. I was facing the wall (which my bed was up against) when I rolled over, and my room was full of the same translucent blue Asian people, but this lot were far more active, chatting to each other and moving around the room as if it were a social event. I was fucking terrified, and for some reason the best solution would be to roll back around and hope it all goes away. So I rolled back towards the wall, where an Asian girl was standing on my bed, leaning down so that her face was almost parallel with mine - her hollow, expressionless face staring me right in the eyes.

That was probably the creepiest thing that's ever happened to me, and still sticks with me. I don't believe in ghosts, and I've experienced a similar kind of hypnagogic hallucinations during sleep paralysis so that's not really going to change. But given the circumstances; I was completely free to move, the 'ghosts' were quite clearly Asian people and I was living in Asia, and the building was recently built in this old neighbourhood with at least two graveyards within walking distance, I wouldn't be surprised if people jumped to the conclusion of ghosts.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 11:53:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Popular party practice in Japan for future people: Fucking with people in the past.

ProtonMorph · 7 points · Posted at 17:06:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have posted this to another subreddit before and this will probably get buried but here is mine.

My story did not happen to me, i was there but just watched it happened to my parents and my brother when I was younger.

My brother was about 14 or 15, he suffered from what the doctors called "night terrors". Basically in the middle of the night he would get out of bed, still asleep, and start walking around the house talking. Now this would be normal sleep walking but he was having nightmares the whole time.

Normally he would wonder around the house sweating profusely shaking and mumbling to himself. My parents would follow him around and make sure he did not hurt himself but they never woke him up. But this one night he stood up out of bed and went straight to the middle of our living room and sat down. He started sweating again and mumbling to himself things like "Leave me alone" and "Get out of here". My parents did not even know he was out there until my dad got a weird feeling and went to check it out.

Now my parents being very religious, my dad is a Presbyterian pastor, my mom started praying profusely and my dad was sitting next to my brother rubbing his back. My brother suddenly stood up eyes wide open darting around the room like it was on fire or full of the scariest thing his mind could imagine. You could see the terror in his eyes, like he thought he was dead and woke up in hell. All the sudden they snapped shut and he started shaking. (Literally the scariest moment of my life) My dad immediately grabbed him and held him as close as to his chest as he could. While my mom started praying out loud right as she said "LORD JESUS HELP HIM" my brother opened his eyes again his head snapped towards my mom like he was possessed and screamed at the top of his lungs "STOP!!! I HAVE HIM NOW!" My dad and mom both started praying as loud and hard as possible, my dad never once letting go of him, until he just dropped. My brother has never had those night terrors sense.

I have literally never been that scared in my life, I still get goose bumps and scared shitless just typing this out.

Please excuse my bad grammar and spelling :(. I am not very good at either of those.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 18:08:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up in a large house that will turn 100 next year, in a very rural town. It was originally the home of the only doctor for many miles. A nearby town is actually named after his father. Him and his wife and daughters lived in a tent for four years up on the hill overlooking the site, while he hand built it from a Sears "kit house" which was delivered on the local train, in between treating local farmers. My grandmother was delivered by this doctor, and in a strange twist of fate, after moving all over the country, died in our care in the house.

That's not the creepy part.

Over the years my parents did several renovations on this house, and early on we discovered a secret area behind the main fireplace behind a wall. In it we found many old newspapers, one of the doctor's medicine bags, a woman's hat, two men's straw hats, in perfect shape, and strangest of all, a beat to hell french horn.

Soon after uncovering these things, my mother donated two of the hats and the doctor's bag to the local town museum. The bag was locked, though I remember trying to open it and failing before we donated it. It had some stuff in it, but mostly it was empty. I remember seeing a bandage through the small crack in the opening. She kept one of the straw hats. The French horn went missing soon we found it and though I didn't know it at the time as I was still very young, it had gone missing before we donated the other objects.

A few years later we went to look at the display in the tiny local museum and I noticed the french horn was not in the display. I asked her about it. She told me only that she felt it was "evil" and that it needed to be out of the house. She had placed it for sale in a flea market for a dollar. Now, my mother has always claimed to be very psychic, and I never really knew what to think about it, being more like my father and trusting in things I can see, not feel. So I don't take many of her stories very seriously having never seen anything myself.

For example, she claims that when she first looked at the house (I wasn't present for this.) she went upstairs and saw a little girl sitting in the corner of one of the rooms, and that occasionally she can feel or hear people moving from room to room, and on occasion sees them. If I were to believe her stories, I suppose it might make sense, as this house served as both his family home and his office.

Essentially it was a frontier hospital in it's early days and I know of at least one story of someone dying in the house besides my grandmother, though I'm sure there were many others as he performed surgeries there. The only one I know for a fact was a soldier who had just finished basic training and was about to leave for active duty during WWII but drowned in the lake just outside our front door. He was brought up to the house by his fellow soldiers after they discovered him floating face down in the lake, and the doctor tried to resuscitate him but was unable to and declared him dead.

The doctor himself was known as a bit of a sucker for people down on their luck, and during the depression took many people in, often children, and was known to have a legion of dogs that were mostly strays he cared for. He was a nice guy by all accounts. Which is why it was quite a surprise when we heard from one of the elderly neighbors some years later, the doctor in his twilight years had become addicted to morphine. After he died, our kitchen, a room that was built later by his son-in-law, had been found littered with glass morphine bottles stacked waste high. We actually found a couple of these bottles stuffed in to the walls in various parts of the house.

Now the creepy part.

So it turned out, the house next to ours was actually built by the doctor and his son-in-law a few years after one of his daughters married the guy. I ever so briefly visited this house soon after we moved in to ours, and had playdates with the boy next door. The house itself had to have been only a few years younger than ours.

Well, at first it was a rumor we heard, but we later found the newspaper article that confirmed it. Originally the story went that this son-in-law, had gone missing and was found many miles from his house, along a country road. The official newspaper story we saw said he appeared to have been killed by a car, in a hit and run, and that he had been intoxicated. A sad, cautionary tale about the dangers of drinking.

The stories we heard from older locals who apparently had seen the body, were far more chilling. He appeared to have been beaten to death by a blunt heavy object. But it doesn't stop there. According to a few of the old timers, this all happened soon after the doctor had found out his daughter was being beaten on a regular basis in the house next to his, by his drunkard son-in-law.

I could of course have it all wrong, and it all may be entirely innocent. No one will ever know, as all potential suspects are long dead and buried. But my theory? The french horn was beat to hell, because it was the murder weapon. The doctor seems to have murdered his abusive step son. It would make some sense, as the time this all happened was around the same era the hats were from. Perhaps his later addiction to morphine was a way to release the pain of guilt he felt. Maybe he took in all those other people later on, to make up for the murder?

Last little creepy bit for you.

Remember the doctor had been very fond of dogs? Not even a year ago my wife and I were living briefly with my parents while we closed on a new house. (There was an issue with the length of the driveway. Stupid B.S. zoning laws.) We had sold our previous house already, so staying there was the only option besides renting a place while we waited.

One day while we were out, my mother's very old dog ran away. We came home unaware that my parents had spent the better part of the day searching for him. They never did find him, and they for some reason neglected to mention it to us. We retired early for some sleep. In the middle of the night my wife went to use the bathroom. The same room we found the secret area behind one of the walls actually. I woke up to hear her calling me from the bathroom and went to see what the problem was.

She had a spooked look on her face and proceeded to tell me she had just heard a rather loud male voice say to her, "Where is the dog?" which she assumed was my father's voice through the locked door. Long story short, it wasn't my father. We told my mother later, and she explained that the dog had run away. My wife was very adamant about getting out the house after that.

TL;DR I grew up in a possibly haunted house, and we think we found a murder weapon behind a wall.

cjwakef · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well fuck. That is SO creepy. You should record yourself telling the story and have someone animate it. That would be rad.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I actually need to see if the display is still in the local museum or not. It's barely a museum really, as it was inside one of the older stores in town, and it's been so many years since I last visited it, I honestly don't know if they left it in there or not. It would be a pity if that stuff wound up being thrown out or sold.

The hat my mother kept is still in the house, and if I remember to, the next time I visit I should take a picture. Some of the local history about the doctor and the house was published in a small book about the town, which I believe my parents have a copy of somewhere in the house.

Sad to say, most of the folks who told us the juicer parts of the story have since passed away. We do have a couple of photos of the doctor which relatives and neighbors gave us. We also recently were given a photo of the house when it was new. It looks very different now. I can't remember how many times locals came up to the house and asked about the doctor's family and the house. His only living grand-daughter tried to buy the place from us a few times.

I hesitate to say the name of the doctor, as a Google search actually brings up an obituary that mentions his niece who was buried just over the hill from the house, and it's a very small town.

conpermiso · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

But why use a french horn?

NewTeethThatsWeird · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:25 on September 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's how he met his kids' mother.

Bogey_Kingston · 5 points · Posted at 18:20:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Looks like I got here a little too late, but I'll share anyway.

I had just moved to a new city and was feeling homesick, so I took a trip back and visited some friends. I stayed with a buddy who had a big dog, since I also have a big dog and nobody in the house would be bothered by him since he's a pitbull. The first night I slept on the couch at the end of the a hallway. On the other end of the hallway were 4 bedrooms. One for his mom, one for my buddy, and one for his brother. The fourth room had the door shut, and he always referred to it as his grandma's room, but I knew she had died a few years back. I'm sleeping on the couch, kinda drunk, kinda high when I hear a loud banging noise on one of the doors. My buddy was a drummer for a metal band, and his whole family was a rugged group who would raise a ruckus for no reason. I chalked it up to someone being in the bathroom too long. When I woke up, I asked his mom if the bathroom door didnt close right, and offered to fix it. She said "Oh, did you hear banging last night?" Yes, I responded. "It was just mom. Just ask her nicely to stop and she will." Assuming she was kidding I laughed it off. The second night I slept in his brothers room since he was out of town. In the middle of the night, once again, I heard a door being banged only this time it was my door. The weirdest part is that my dog would have normally been growling or at least standing at the door, but he was on the floor asleep. Creeped out, I remembered what his mom had told me. "Please stop banging on my door." It stopped. I fell back asleep thinking my friend played a prank on me. The next morning I woke up. I asked my buddy about if, and he said it was just his grandma. You're fucking with me, I said. "Nope. She die in 08, but never really left the house." You're so full of shit, I don't believe in ghosts, I said. "Just open the door to her room" he told me. Expecting his brother to jump out, I swung the door open and stepped to the side. A cold, frigid air swept out of the room and dried my eyes. I closed the door and asked why they left the vents open in there. He showed me the AC was off... I've never felt so creeped out. I don't believe in ghosts, but I can't deny them after that night. I never slept over again.

Onolicious · 7 points · Posted at 19:33:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's around 2:40am and I lay in bed trying to go to sleep. I click off the T.V. and start to doze off. The front door to my house opened (we have a door alarm that echoes throughout the house) and it was my dad who came home from the bar.

"Cool," I thought, I get to sleep knowing someone's home. As I close my eyes, dad goes into the bathroom, closes the door and starts to shower. He is a prankster, so I'm always expecting him to check on me to see if I'm asleep.

Then, I feel the bunk bed shaking. I was thinking something along the lines of "Ok, he's gonna scare me." Then the shower turned on. Now I'm frantically thinking, "Dad just scare me already!" The shaking continued. The bunk bed continued to rattle and squeak as I try to force myself to sleep.

There was no way in hell that I would be going to sleep with this uncomfortable vibe. 15 minutes later the shower turned off and the shaking still continued. In denial, I kept thinking it was my dad. I hoped he would come in my room to check up on me, but no. The bathroom door opened, followed by the locking of his bedroom and the continuation of this demonic shaking.

3:30am, fuck it. I stood up like a man, turned on my light and quickly turned around as my heart dropped. It was my brother's cat. The cat was licking and scratching herself clean for almost an hour. I could not be more stupefied. I kicked her off my bed and out of my room and was finally able to sleep.

risexile · 5 points · Posted at 00:43:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So x-post. I actually just posted this one to another thread like this, but here.

Okay so about five or six years ago, my older cousin Nira took me out shopping as a "sorry I forgot your birthday" type thing. She was in college at the time and barely spoke to me much after she moved in. It was her junior year and she recently started working as a receptionist for this big company and was pretty well off. I don't want to say where, considering she recently got her job back after she was discharged, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Okay so she had a lot of money and figured she'd apologize to me by getting me shit. I was fourteen then. We were getting ready to leave, when Nira's boyfriend Joshua asked her to pick up something and bring it to his mom's house. We said hi to him and they discussed some vacation they had planned for the end of the semester.

Along the way to his mom's house, Nira and I got on the wrong train and ended up at this pretty vacant subway station. There were about twelve or so other people there, spaced out about fifty feet apart. I remember feeling a cold hand on my shoulder and turning around to see a cute seven year old running away from me. I figured she was just rejoining her parents, so I paid no mind. Then as the train approached Nira began frantically screaming. She had this really frightened look on her face and kept looking down at her clothes and hands before breaking out into this wailing sob. Everyone else ran up to see what was wrong and all she kept asking was if we had seen the little girl jump and why we didn't notice the blood on our clothes.

At this point I was afraid and really wanted to nope out of there. She screamed like that for fifteen minutes straight before someone finally found a police officer. He managed to calm her down, but she kept crying and was on the floor, cradling her knees and rocking back and forth. I was crying as well, but more so to the fact that I had no idea what the fuck was going on and that she was freaking out and seemingly in pain. It didn't take long for them to get someone down there to sedate her and take her to the hospital.

After about a week or so of tests and psych evaluations, Nira was committed to what the doctor referred to as a "rehabilitation center". Nira stayed there for three years and then was discharged but advised to see a psychiatrist four times a week for the next two years. It was then that Nira finally told me what she saw. This part really fucking bothers me in a bugs crawling underneath your skin sort of way and I haven’t told a soul about this.

She said that she noticed when the girl tapped my shoulder and watched her as she ran away. Like me, she didn't pay too much mind to the little girl as she was headed towards an older couple that was looking at a map. Nira started crying quietly and then told me that the little girl appeared next to me, smiling up at her and giggling. She said that my apparent indifference to that is was freaked her out at first, but that the longer she stared at the little girl, the sadder she actually appeared.

After what seemed like a few minutes, the girl apparently hung her head low and jumped in front of the train as it was arriving at the station. Her blood and guts splattered on everyone's faces and clothes. Nira said she started screaming madly when she noticed that no one else even flinched. It’s really fucked up, because after that experience she was forced to leave college and her job and everyone in our family was convinced she was a nutjob. But I feel like it’s partially my fault. Granted, I didn’t see anyone jump in front of the train, but I did see the exact girl she described, and had I fessed up to that maybe they wouldn’t have automatically shipped her away. Or maybe I’d be there myself.

coyestofkoi · 6 points · Posted at 04:53:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was younger (probably about 8 or so) we lived in Sedalia, CO in this house tucked away in the mountains. Our kitchen had this wall of glass, that was framed into small boxes by wood panels, that my mom frequently used as shelves for knick-knacks and heirlooms. We have this small glass piano music box, that plays "raindrops keep falling", from my grandma Jane (dad's mom) and it always intrigued me in some way that I consistently bothered my mom to allow me to wind it up and play the song.

My younger sister (5 at the time) was finishing eating her dinner next to me, when we both sat looking out at the onslaught of snow from the blizzard. Mom was wandering in the kitchen, and I asked again if I could wind the music box up, which got me my usual answer;NO. I sighed in defeat and finished my food, but as I got up to take my plate to my mother, the music box began playing. But it wasn't the song that it was supposed to play, it was more like the cylinder was jumping to the loudest notes and playing them at full force. I began to shake when my mom screamed at me for touching it despite her telling me not to. I just remember pointing at the music box, and crying out that I was not touching it.

My mom threw my sister and I into our warmest coats and packed us into her small ford escort, and all she kept saying was that "dad's in trouble." Lo and behold, my dad had spun his chevy s10 and lodged it horizontally into the wall of the long upward climb to our house. Had he kept pushing on the gas, he would've driven over the cliff and rolled about 50 feet into the heavily wooded area.

We still have the music box, and strangely enough it doesn't even wind anymore, but I'm sure that if my dad's in trouble, that box will sound off.

TL;DR: music box went off playing a myriad of strange notes instead of it's song, leading us to find my dad had almost died.

kksuck2 · 4 points · Posted at 05:15:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't remember a lot from my childhood which is probably a good thing. One vivid memory that still haunts me was when I was probably around 4 or 5. My dad had a pretty rough life before I was born serving in WW2 then falling in to drugs and crime when he came back. By the time I was born in 1976 he had served two stints in prison and was a pretty bad alcoholic. He also still maintained connections to some biker gangs in our area. By the time my older sister and I were a few years old my mother had cleaned him up enough that he stopped drinking and could hold down a steady job. But I guess things from his past must have still bubbled up every now and then.

All I remember about this one incident was that my mom put my sister and I in her car and drove us to this park in the city we lived in. She took us out and started walking to a group of mean looking men who were sitting/standing around a park bench. I realized that my dad was one of the guys sitting on the bench. My mom started yelling at the guys who were standing around him, something about his car. The entire time they argued my dad never made eye contact with us.

The one thing that stuck out to me the most, and still brings chills to me, was when this burly looking biker told my mom:

"If he gets up we're going to saw off his ass."

That's really all I remember aside form this visual in my head of this guy sawing my dad's butt off with a chainsaw. Nice stuff for a 5 year old to witness.

Edit: They had taken my dad's car (77 Skylark) for some reason and my mom had the cojones to face them off to try and get it back. As far as I know it worked since he had a Skylark for most of my childhood after that.

AAA1374 · 8 points · Posted at 06:37:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few months ago I went to England and France on a tour. It was a nice tour, we stayed in London a few days, but were about to leave for France. We stayed our last night at a Victorian era hotel by the channel. Sounds nice so far right? Wrong-o.

See- the hotel wasn't where we were supposed to stay, we had changed last minute. Not so bad so far, but when we get in, the overwhelming scent of must filled my lungs. I however, love history, and embrace the scent of it! I continued onwards to get my room and key. 318.

Now, for those of you that don't know how hotels work, rooms have 3-4 numbers on them. The first (on the left) represents which floor you're on. The others- which room.

So I grab my luggage and drag it all up 3 flights of stairs when... 310, 311, 312...

No 318. Everyone was settling in, but the atmosphere suddenly chilled for me. That's when I noticed the tarnished handles, the dark corridors, the yellowed whites and lightbulbs. It all overcame me quickly; I spent 30 minutes searching for a nonexistent room to no avail. Nobody could find this room. Nobody.

By chance I stumbled upon a doorway leading to another staircase that led to the rest of the 300s. I climb the last set of stairs and enter my room, which was nice. Cozy, but there were several unexplained things.

There was a thin wall between me and the rest of the 300s... Why?

Why was the hall, specifically my hall, so musty and dark?

What is that door across me?

I hadn't noticed it when I passed it, but there it was. A plain white door with no lock. My roommate and I decided to open it. We did.

Inside there was a collection of ruined furniture, misplaced items, dilapidated tools, rusty things, and a general disregard for organization. It was creepy. Especially when you pulled the chain to turn the light on.

That's when you notice the reddened walls, the red hole in the ceiling, the cracks in the wallpaper. Everything about this place screamed, "Get the fuck out."

Of course my roommate and I showed it to everyone- who all ran of like the beta bitches they are.

That entire hotel, and it's antique elevator that I won't even go into detail on, was reminiscent of a certain death trap hotel from a world fair. I don't remember the murderer or the name of the hotel, but there was a book Devil in The White City.

TL;DR creepy hotel, portal to hell, murderer.

pttymcgee · 3 points · Posted at 16:32:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're thinking of H.H. Holmes. I don't believe there's an actual name for the hotel. I think it was referred to as the "Murder Castle."

AAA1374 · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you very much!

pigPlatform · 6 points · Posted at 16:18:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Baa.

PUT_YOUR_PENIS_IN_IT · -1 points · Posted at 19:12:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saving for later sorry on my phone.

Have an up vote

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krunnky · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is that where you got your Reddit username? :)

MsLippy · 1 points · Posted at 07:16:14 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh shite. The tears of fear welled up in my eyes on this one. I'm a rational atheist dammit!

xJaybirdx · 5 points · Posted at 16:50:58 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't super creepy, but enough to cause someone to feel nervous.

Last year on July fourth, my grandmother passed away suddenly. My family isn't very emotional save for my mom, so we all just kind of went on with our lives.

A few months after my grandma passed, my mom was in the bathroom by herself, and a roll of toilet paper hits her in the back of the knee as she was heading towards the door to exit the bathroom. The roll was on the back of the toilet, at least two feet away from her. There were no cats in the bathroom.

Another time, she was in the bathroom by herself - no animals in the bathroom, nothing - and as she was stepping into the bathtub to take a shower, a hair tie flew across the room and hit her on her shoulder.

About a month ago, mom was pouring herself a drink from a pitcher in the kitchen. All of a sudden I heard her shriek and I went in there to see if she was okay. She was covered in kool-aid, and the drink was everywhere. When I asked her what happened, she said she felt something PUSH down on the pitcher, causing it to slam onto the counter and spill kool-aid everywhere.

Now, keep in mind, I sort of believed my mom, but on the other hand, I was skeptical, until I had a strange experience.

I was in the bathroom, about to step into the bathtub, when I heard a faint tapping and hissing. It sounded like it was coming from inside of the tub, but there was nothing that could have caused it. It was creeping me out so I started to leave the bathroom when a bar of soap flew across the room and almost hit me. I booked it out of there and almost ran out of the house.

Nothing has happened since, but I have a feeling it was my grandma. Even after death she torments us.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 15:08:32 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)

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hugothenerd · 5 points · Posted at 10:12:35 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably Sleep Paralysis, look it up!

killing4cookies · 7 points · Posted at 18:09:36 on October 6, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This one time i was just browsing the internet, you know when you sort of get lost, like every link is a doorway and you cant really remember how you got there because you've been through so many. Well it was one of those nights. So anyway I'm on some really dodgy websites, not porn but the typical "would you like a virus with that, sir. Well your fucking getting one anyway!" Kind of website and looks like it was done in 1 hour, black background with red outlines for tables and text. It appeared to be some kind of forum, with only one user as far as i could see. I cant remember his user name but all the posts appeared to be by him, some with comment on his own posts! They were all dated back to like 2005. He appeared to be documenting his satanic shit, it was just insane. It was like browsing someones Facebook wall except all they update is about how satan shall rise and stuff. So he's saying stuff like "cut my wounds for him" with a picture of him self harming and weird stuff like "accept me overlord". One thing is you never saw his face in his pictures (not that there were many), it was always of something he was doing but you could tell (by his hands) that he was white and male. He spoke english though everything was full of typos. Grammar nazies would be all on his ass if anyone else posted there.

So I'm thinking this is pretty sick, i mean this guy is clearly wrong in the head. Thats when i clicked the link titled "i did it"

It took me instantly to a picture, just like anything else. You could see his hand stroking some kind of sack, then I clicked the next. It was of the same thing but from a bigger distance. At this distance i could make out what he was stroking in the previous picture. A dead body of a woman. And lying next to her was a little girl who looked no older than 7. Both just lying there, both with sacks over their heads. I felt sick, i wanted to throw my computer across the room, but curiosity got the better of me and i clicked the next post, his final post. Titled "today i join him" It was the same picture as before only the two bodies were on fire. The (what I'm guessing) mother, the 7 year old girl. Burning. Hadn't moved since the last picture, implying they were already dead. I looked in horror for about 5 seconds before cutting the power on my computer. What was the worst is the build up to it. He had so many posts, like over 500 at least of just crazy shit. Not really pictures, just crazy satanic speak. It must have been a long, slow process before he must have finally snapped. I don't think il ever find out if he got caught, though considering that was his last post I'm guessing he is either dead or in crazy prison. But i do not know, nothing is certain and no i have no idea how to get back to that forum. This happened a good two years ago and i couldn't possibly remember how i got there. For all i know that website is shutdown by now. Please dont go looking for it.

TL;DR went on some forum, only one user with 500 satanic posts, shows pictures of him burning his victims in order to "join him" in his last 3 posts.

Buckleybuckley · 5 points · Posted at 01:41:32 on October 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you save any of this? Seems like the police would want to know about it.

PlatypusPerson · 2 points · Posted at 03:00:28 on November 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Woah that's messed up.

ken1030 · 8 points · Posted at 13:55:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dead father of my friend calls his mother in front of us. The body was still in their room. We found the cellphone later with no record of the call.

thisidiotsays · 3 points · Posted at 16:24:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did she answer?

Lemesos · 3 points · Posted at 19:14:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

THEN WHO WAS PHONE?!

gus2144 · 3 points · Posted at 13:39:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not really scary but odd. I woke up in the middle od the night once, and I see something hovering over my bed. I think it was my sleepy eyes, but still, it's odd.

CarnationVamp · 3 points · Posted at 14:12:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw a woman getting stabbed to death when I was 14. Was pretty scary.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So... no details here? I'm going to assume you saw this on television.

CarnationVamp · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:17 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

I mean what is there to tell, lady was on the stairwell of the apartments I was living in at the time smoking a cigarette, then a big black guy comes up and stabs her a few times and walks away.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:15:43 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, that's more details than you had. So. You could tell those details next time.

CarnationVamp · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:26 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well the thread didn't say to go into detail and I assumed we could all imagine what a woman being stabbed to death would look like.

Handeatingcat · 3 points · Posted at 14:45:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went camping with my best friend during the week in a campground waaaaay deep in the Oregon woods when we heard the most terrifying scream/yell come from the pitch black woods around 1 AM. The entire campground was empty as it was May and on a Wednesday, we were about 5 miles down some logging trails and camped near the river with about 40 feet of thick brush between the river and campsite. We were sitting around the fire and out of nowhere we here this scream, it was like a yell but a scream at the same time, it sounded completely human and not like any wolf/coyote/cougar I've ever heard. We just froze up and stared at each other with a look of "Holyfuckignshitdidyouhearthat" on our faces. We just sat in silence waiting, listening. No sound of a car before or after, no sounds of crunching twigs or brush. And then we heard it again, closer. Much closer. And much more disturbingly human sounding, almost like a laughing maniacal scream. At that point we decided the best plan of action was to fire off my shotgun a few times and yell and scream back. I guess it worked. I don't know how I managed to fall asleep that night but I did, the next day we looked around the river but found no tracks, nothing. Still not sure what it was, who knows I guess, I hope an animal. I still camp there and I always think of that night as I'm laying in my tent trying to sleep.

austen_rain · 3 points · Posted at 01:54:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

maybe a bobcat? The screech of a bobcat is creepy as hell.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:47:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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honeybadga · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Points for consistency

IHatloWomen · 3 points · Posted at 14:49:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was a story I read about a really creepy house that was apparently alive. It was written in the perspective of a dude that knew a friend that dissappeard after living in the house. The story is about what his friend told about the house and how the curiousity of the guy writing gets to him and he tries to find out. I can't for the life of me remember where I read it or how to find it, but by god was that some creepy shit. Every noise I heard in the house the next days were like torture.

dflatline · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dionea House.

MoonPark · 2 points · Posted at 20:59:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.dionaea-house.com/

IHatloWomen · 2 points · Posted at 01:25:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thankyou!

Nuggetfist · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

1st post-had to comment, this book freaked me right the fuck out. The style of writing is so confusing but god damn the house is seriously scary.

WhisperingDark · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:29 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's exactly what I thought the OP was talking about.

Fantastic book. Really want to reread now.

tinyjumper · 3 points · Posted at 14:53:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up going to church, attending a Christian school, the works. Stories about demons and possession were common, but one story my friends' mom told me always stuck out.

Firstly, this woman was not an overly religious type, so this story was not something I wrote off, and she seemed genuinely scared/uncomfortable telling it. She was not the type to tell tall tales. Anyway, onwards. When my friends' older brother was about 3, they had recently moved into a new home. The mom was getting concerned because her son would walk around the house and randomly take a couple steps to the left/right and keep walking. She noticed he often had a look of terror on his face as well. This went on for some time, before the mom began to get really concerned. Finally, she asked her son, "What do you keep walking around? There's nothing there." Her son replied, "I'm trying to get around all of the people." Um.

Of course, the mom flipped out. The house was a side-by-side, and she went to the neighbour to see if she could get more information on the house's history. Turns out, it used to be a small funeral home, so tons of bodies were in and out. I guess some never left. She ended up calling their pastor, who came over and blessed the son with holy water, and prayed over the house. After that, the son never spoke of it, or walked around invisible entities, again.

Ugh. The hair on my arms is standing up just thinking about this.

TL;DR son sees dead people, blessed with holy water, ta-da!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:54:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I found a cat head on the golf course I work at just chilling in the middle of the fairway. Not like another animal chewed it off, it was clearly decapitated with a clean cut. This being said, I work on a golf course where a future serial killer resides.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You don't live in Florida do you? There was a report of a dismembered cat in downtown tampa a couple of days ago.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I live in Orlando! We have some fucked up shit in Florida.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah...I just wonder really, those are kind of close. Seriously, I hope these people don't graduate to killing people.

americanInsurgent · 3 points · Posted at 15:09:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Posted a while ago, so heres the repost complete with picture! As a kid I used to hear random voices/shouts in my house when I was completely alone. I didn't tell people for a while because I didn't want to seem crazy but once Id mentioned it other family members told stories of my rocking chair I had as a baby rocking by itself at night, stopping only once someone came over the staircase to see why I was awake only to find an empty chair. Other times I'd lose an object, the strangest case a ski mask, for months at a time. After coming back from dinner as a family the mask was inexplicably sitting at the doorway to my room. Everyone in my family swears they didn't put it there and had no clue where it was. Fast forward four years ago and my sister ends up dreaming about our house's little friend. He said his name was Ben so that's what we called him whenever we'd notice weird things going on. Now the weirdest thing to happen was when my dog would get up, look at the front door and just growl for no reason. One day we took a picture of our staircase and looking back at it you can pretty clearly see a shadow of a man walking up the stairs even though no one was there. I'll link to the picture if people want later, but I'm on my phone now in a long car ride so it may take some time. Yay ghosts!

Ben the Ghost

Firefighter87TO · 3 points · Posted at 15:15:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to school for firefighting. We trained with the cities fire department on regular basis as well as paramedics. We always heard lots of stories but this one stands out the most.

Our paramedics instructor told us a story about a flatbed truck that was carrying a large tube of some sort.. Must have been at least 6 feet in diameter and 12+ feet long. Anyway the straps holding this thing down somehow came loose allowing the tu to come loose and roll right overtop of a car driving beside it. Inside the car was a Mom, Dad and three kids in the back. Everyone except for a four year old girl in the back passenger side was crushed and killed immediantly, she didn't have a scratch. When our instructor got on scene(he is/was an active paramedic), there was a hells angel biker bulled off to the side of the accident, leaning right into the car next to the little girl, talking to her and trying to keep her calm. Our instructor told us that the utter look of calmness on the biker gave him chills, what could someone have seen or done in tgeir life that would leave them so calm and collected in this situation. When our instructor approached the biker, the angel just asked if there was anything he could do to help, turned, walked back to his bike and left.

The thing that still gives me goosebumps everytime I think about the story is that whatever desensitized this biker to the point that this was no big deal for him, left him with enough of a heart to still try to help a little girl who just lost everything.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

nam vet maybe?

thedude8591 · 3 points · Posted at 15:16:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watched a couple of beheading videos out of boredom. Two sounds will forever be burned in my mind because of that shit. One is the screams as the victim is being beheaded and two is just the sound of the decapitation in progress. Hearing the person breathing through their trachea is just gross. Sounds like a wet Kazoo.

vi1987 · 2 points · Posted at 22:02:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some friends convinced me to watch one when I was 17. But I only agreed to do it if the sound was muted. Thank God. I don't think I could handle the sounds.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 10:04:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You need some new friends man.

Five5ign · 3 points · Posted at 15:32:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was painting a gray wall in the corner of a new condo alone at night when two dark red streaks (think blood red) appeared during a brush stroke. They were borrowed brushes but I did not use any red paint there nor were they used for the last few weeks.

I painted over them (no more red) and left for the night.

It's not much but we still live there, and I pretty much am on the fence of completely denying it happened for peace of mind.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If there was dried red paint in the brushes, it might have taken a while to moisten with the new paint.

Or perhaps there was some red powder not fully dissolved in the grey.

trueslashcrack · 3 points · Posted at 15:34:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest dream I ever had: I was standing somewhere in my sleeping room hiding behind a chair and watching a monster eating my body.

ScreamingSkull · 3 points · Posted at 15:36:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It doesn't matter where you are in the world, these kinds of reddit posts only show up on front page when its past midnight, local time. 3am here, i swear this is true. ohgodwhy.jpeg

CrackheadSally · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

True. It's 1:00 am here.

deathbyclown · 3 points · Posted at 15:50:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a baby brother. Back when he was 5 years old, he was already into drawing stuffs, mostly military settings. I remembered he drew something unsettling in that white A4 during our airport trip.

A few months after that, my elder cousin died from an accident. His motor bike skidded on a deserted road back in the county. We had a funeral at his home, stayed there until he was buried.

It was kind of forgotten this day, but I still remember how clear his childish drawing etched in my mind since the first time mom showed it to me.

It was a drawing of a young man, eyes closed, in an open casket, with candles, flowers and a crucifix.

chooseyourwords · 3 points · Posted at 16:04:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been saving this story for a while, waiting for one of these types of posts. I'm sorry its so long. I like details.

I went on vacation with my SO and her family when we were teenagers to visit her aunt and uncle who lived in an old turn of the century mansion in rural michigan. My SO was the middle child of 3 sisters. And all 3 boyfriends were along for this trip. We arrive, have a barbeque, hang out with her aunt and uncle and then get the low down on our sleeping quarters.

It might be good at this point to give you some background on the house. The house was built in the mid 1800's. It looks like any typical old American style house, with the front wrap around porch, large living/sitting areas with sunken floors, white wood sided exterior with the typical red white and blue banners adorning the outside facets. The house is connected by one main long hallway that goes from front door to back door and the rooms and stairways branch off of it. The upper part of the house is divided into two separate sections. One part is the main bedrooms, which are spacious and nicely renovated. The other part of the second floor, again, totally separate from the first part, was formerly the maids quarters. It was a small 20ft by 20ft area divided into 3 rooms. One of those rooms was an old bathroom that had not been updated or working in years. This was also the only area that did not have a window air conditioner and the reason was the windows were far too small. This area had the oddest placement for windows I had ever seen. 1ft by 1/2ft glass pane windows with no opening mechanism were placed about knee high and neck high with this big solid gap in between them. The whole area just elicited a claustrophobic feeling and a need to escape.

So as I was saying, at the end of the day we were told that our sleeping quarters would be, of course, the maids area. My SO's parents were pretty strict and had requested that her uncle separate the girls and the boys for the night so that there wasn't any funny business. Her uncle is kind of dick, so he decided to stuff us up in the maids quarters to mess with us. We all grab our sleeping bags and pillows and head upstairs at around midnight. The youngest of the 3 boyfriends, Ben, decides he want's no part of sleeping in the maids quarters and bolts back downstairs and sets up his sleeping bag on the back lawn. This leaves Andy and I to decide on who is sleeping where. The room/landing at the top of the stairs has an old couch with its back to the stairwell. Andy takes the rickety old bed in the adjacent room. Andy goes in and flicks on the lights. "chooseyourwords.... you better come here"

I walk in to the room and I notice all these reflective hand prints all over the walls. They look like someone had put down an oil based paint(or something) with their hands and then painted a latex paint of them. When the light hit them just right, you could see the entire hand print glisten under the paint. Of course this freaked us both the fuck out. I step back into the landing area with the couch, hit the light and the exact same thing is on the walls there. They seem to concentrate around the doors and windows.

We try to forget about it and settle into our sleeping bags. Did I mention it was August? Well it was hot as balls outside and as I said, this area had no air conditioning and the windows did not open. I joked with Andy that if there was a fire up there, we'd never get out alive because neither of us could fit through the windows. We both joked that it'd be nice if the place was haunted because at least a ghost would drop the temperature a few degrees for us. It was swelteringly hot as I laid there on top of my sleeping bag trying to get to sleep. A few hours pass and I can hear Andy snoring in the other room. It starts to creep into my mind that I'm alone now technically.

Then I hear a snap and a bang as the door at the base of the stairs snaps shut. It scares the absolute shit out of me and I scramble inside my sleeping bag. "Andy?..... Andy? did you hear that?". Andy is just snoring away. I'm thinking to myself, no one could possibly be cruel enough to shut that door at 3:30am, that was our only fresh cool air up here. We'll both end up baking to death if I dont go open it back up. I laid still for a few minutes mustering up my courage to rise from the couch and go open the door. But as soon as I sat up I heard the creak of the first step. Someone was on the stairs. I laid back down and pulled the sleeping bag tight over my head. I heard another creak. In my head I'm trying to remember how many stairs I'll hear before whatever is coming up those stairs is standing right over top of me. Three, four, five steps. My heart was racing, my hair standing on end. I'm cooking in my own sweaty sleeping bag and trembling, while cursing Andy for falling asleep and Ben for being outside and safe. Six, seven creaks and now I can just feel it over top of me. I can feel someone or something looming over my soon to be corpse. It felt like minutes, but it must have been only a few seconds that I felt like someone was standing there. Either the feeling and whatever it was went away or I had just accepted my demise, so I pulled back the sleeping bag and looked up and there was nothing. All was silent, there was no one at the top of the stairs and no one in either of the two other rooms. I quickly ran down and re-opened the door. Then I sat at the top of the stairs for 3 hours and waited for the sun to rise.

When Andy got up I asked him if he heard anything weird during the night and he said no. I told my SO and her mom the story the next morning and they clearly didn't believe me. But at the following Christmas my story came up again and her uncle told me that around 1900 the maids quarters had a small fire, which did very little damage but killed the maid, her husband and children because of smoke inhalation. He said the hand prints on the walls were actually dirt/oil hand prints from the maids husband who was the gardener and he was trying to find his way out before he died. The previous owners had all just painted over the hand prints and they started showing through the paint over the years.

And that was the most terrifying moment of my life.

TL;DR I spent the night in a creepy old room where a family died and heard some strange noises.

urbanaut · 3 points · Posted at 16:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was at a family diner one night with my in-laws. They tend to invite different people all the time, whether it be a friend of one of the family, or a college student from the school my mother-in-law teaches at.

This particular night there was a guy I had never met before (nor have I ever seen since) that showed me a picture supposedly taken on a friend's phone that I have never forgotten, and creeps me out to this day.

He told me that this friend of his had misplaced her phone, and it was lost for a few days until her 4 year old kid surfaced with it.

Apparently within the time the phone was lost a new picture had been taken on it. This is the picture that was forwarded to this guy I met. What he showed me looked like some possessed puppet from the Dark Crystal or Labyrinth movies. It had this freaky grin and short black static-like hair with wide little eyes.

After noticing the picture she asked her kid if he knew anything about the picture. When he saw it, he replied that it was a picture of the monster in his toy box.

...It may have been a hoax, but the image of that picture, whatever it was, has stuck in my memory ever since. If this is a hoax and someone has heard this before, I would love to see that picture again knowing it wasn't real.

It was the last picture taken

BristoLee27 · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About 8 years ago I was working in London doing a bit of work experience for a well known kids TV channel, unpaid-so had to stay at a nearby bed and breakfast. The place itself was ok, in a decent area of London.

I stayed at this place about six or seven times, and in different rooms. One night in one of these rooms, I was woken up by the sound of a bloodcurdling scream. Looked outside to see nothing, and nobody else seemed to bat any eyelid. I suppose it could have been anything.

Went back to sleep, a little shaken but was pretty exhausted. The next wake up call I received that night was a furious banging at the door telling me to "Get Out!!". Again, jumping up in that semi-asleep state, you never know for sure what's going on. My first thoughts was some drunk nutcase had found the wrong room. No peephole on the door meant I just had to go for it and open the door, at this point I was so tired I just wanted to find out what the hell was going on. Only I open the door, and the hallway is empty. Lovely night that.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wish I had gotten here sooner. The creepiest things that have ever happened to me have all happened at my friend Mark's house in the Pasadena area. Totally. Haunted.

I won't waste anyone's time with long, drawn out explanations but here is a smattering of occurrences:

Mark had a mohawk for a while and I routinely saw an arm appear behind him and playfully smack the back of his mohawk. Mark would turn and see nothing there, and I would confirm that yes, an arm appeared and did that. I wasn't the only one who had seen this.

The ghosts are very respectful and stop haunting a room (you can feel them or hear footsteps) you are in if you ask them politely. You will hear a "goodbye" or "goodnight" and then no longer feel them or hear their footsteps. He once said "I have a final tomorrow and would like to sleep well tonight, would you please leave?" They told him goodnight. I was visiting from another state (done with the semester before he was) and the ghosts came to the guest room I was in afterwards. We exchanged details and the timeline of events was about when he stopped feeling haunted and I started feeling it.

The ghosts get upset if you are fearful or scared of them. I went there all the time to experience the ghosts, but one time I got scared and asked them to leave "because I'm scared." They left, but not before throwing a Danish trinket off of the dresser.

Billpayment · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should get together with the phantom hand guy. Search the posts for 'phantom'.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't give it much thought but in retrospect it was pretty suspicious. My brother and I were at a mall and my mom went to grab food for us while we sat at a table at the food court. Two older men sat down with us and were chatting, getting to know us. I want to say this happened when I was in kindergarten or something but I don't remember the time frame.

It was just harmles conversation but when my mom showed up with the food, the two men excused themselves pretty abruptly. That's the part that sketches me out.

Asderil · 3 points · Posted at 16:25:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I am 28 years old, 2 meters tall, weigh over 100 kilos, and I work out. You could say that I am a quite big fella. Due to my height and size overall, I have never had any troubles with anyone in any way shape or form. That didn´t help me much though, when I was running and yelling like a little girl in following story:

One night I was out drinking. As always, it got quite late. It must have been somewhat around 3 am or so when I started to get on my way back home. I am living in an apartment building, and there is a little enclosed park (rather a big front yard) which I have to cross in order to get to the entrance of said building.

So I am quite tipsy and in a good mood while starting to enter the front yard. I always have my keys ready before entering the front yard, because there is no real light source in the yard itself, so I am always using the light of the last street lamp to find the right key on the keyring.

The entrance of my building is about 10-20 meters around a corner in the back of that yard, so not straight up ahead.

Suddenly, like 3 or 5 meters before turning around that corner, I hear a scream. The scream sounded like it came from close by, at the most 30 meters away from me. It was not your normal scream or yelling you are used or expected to hear from a human being. The closest I can describe it is the following: It sounded like a person yelling from the absolute top of his lungs, like his life was endangered and there is no way out of this situation but sure death. At the same time though, it was mixed with an extreme aggressive undertone! It wasn´t though just a single scream that only lasted for say 5 seconds or so, NO. It was a scream that instantly started, lasted (there was no interruption to it), and which came noticeable closer; Quickly!

Ok, so I am still 3 or 5 meters away from turning around the corner, and then still have the 10-20 meters ahead of me before standing in front of the door, and this shit happens. I shat myself, and instantly started sprinting towards the entrance. My heart was pumping like a motherfucker, you know that kind of hard pumping when your whole body shakes with.

Thank god I still had the right key already in my hand, and thank god it was one of those one in a billion situations, when you get lucky and thrust the key towards the keyhole and it magically slides in with no resistance and on the first try.

At this point I heard that disgusting and utterly frightening scream (what or whoever it belonged to) turning around the corner, which I just had passed a few seconds ago myself. Not daring to look over my shoulder, wasting any so precious split of a second to get a glance of what was coming towards me, I opened the door, smashed it behind me, and sprinted to the 4th floor where my apartment is, all in a record breaking time. I have never in my life moved that fast and swiftly, and I probably never will again.

Once I had locked myself into my apartment, I called the police. When they arrived I went back down again, the heavy glass door which is the entrance was smashed open on 4 different spots. It is one of those glasses, which don´t just fucking break. It takes some effort to bruise it, let alone ram holes into it.

It took me 20 minutes to get my heartbeat and breathing under slight control again, the shaking took way over an hour.

It was the single most frightening experience I have encountered in my life so far.

TL;DR: something comparable to the kamikaze bombers from serious sam popped a few meters away from me into existence, and ran towards me.

Billpayment · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

3am is the start of the so called 'devil's hour'. The 'witching hour' thought commonly to be from midnight to 1, is really supposed to be from 2-3am, when the vast majority are asleep.

In certain circles, it's believed you're not supposed to be out at this time for these kinds of reasons.

KingWithNoLand · 3 points · Posted at 16:27:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not really scary, but kinda of creepy here... My best friend and I had gym one time, we had just stretched and were just talking at this point. She said that one time she was in her kindergarden gym (like) class and she and this boy were messing around. He was tickling her, then she tried to tickle him but to no avail. Then he says "Im only ticklish down there, thats where my daddy tickles me" while pointing to his junk. No after she told me this, i will not lie i laughed to to the point of tears, but then i guess it finally hit me he was getting secually assaulted, so after school, we spent a good hour trtying to find him on facebook, but we couldnt.

TL;DR Kinder boy daddys tickled his junk

Luca20 · 3 points · Posted at 16:29:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw a guy get curb stomped. Me and a friend were on Auburn Ave. in Atlanta (pretty bad area) going to a rave. It wasn't a very loud argument, the two guys were probably arguing with the victim over a drug deal most likely. It was so surreal. We had never seen a person die before.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:33:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not wake up. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren’t being tortured. The only way that they realized they needed to wake up was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to wake up. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and PLEASE WAKE UP.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:35:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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birdsmith88 · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

you should sell him adderall...

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:40:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NSFL for sure, but.,.

the station

This is footage for an assignment piece for a RI tv news show about nightclub safety. It goes very wrong when an indoor pyrotechnic catches the wall and ceiling on fire.

the station nightclub fire wiki page

The sound of the folks outside as the people in the doorway scream and moan haunts me occasionally on sleepless nights.

mitchellsauce · 3 points · Posted at 16:42:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I posted my story to /r/nosleep but this picture was found on my dads camera a few years back. The info for the picture showed that it was taken around 3:30 AM at a time it was in it's case inside of the bedroom closet. We don't who/what it is or how it got there (and no it doesn't look like anyone in my family).

http://imgur.com/P5m4c

noxstreak · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was maybe 4 years old and was being dropped off by a friends family to my house. I do not remember why I was with them just remember pulling into the drive way. We said good bye and I got out. They drove away. I went to the door and it was locked. I knocked. No answer. I wondered what was going on. My mother new I would be home late, my brother should have been home. It was a dark moonless night and the only light on the street was on that front porch.

The backdoor was always open and I knew that. I grabbed my blanky and started to move to the side of the house. As I reached the side a light breeze startled our giant oak tree sending some dead leaves past my head. I clutch my blanket tighter and took one step onto the over grown grass. "HEHEHEHE" a high pitch sound came out from the darkness. Not quite laughter not quite human.

I immediately jumped back into the light of the front porch and peered into the darkness. I wrapped my blanky tightly around me and after a few minutes decided to try to communicate.

"Hello..." I whispered in my child voice. Nothing. At this point I thought it was a monster but I was told they where not real. It was cold and I knew warmth was just around the corner. I needed to reach that backdoor.

I again took a step into the darkness and waited. No noise came. I began slowly walking. After a couple of minutes of stepping and stopping I reached the corner of the backyard. I looked around slowly and got my nerve up to look past the corner of the house.

As i peeked my head around the side a huge gust of wind hit me. Behind our backyard past the fence was a giant cornfield and the wind had made the corn stalks bend low. Then I saw it flying just above the corn. Flying right at me. It was the size of a full man huge in comparison to me. It came up fast and hit our fence floating above the ground. I regain my mind at this point and saw the hollow face staring me. I ran.

I made it back to front porch in the safety of the light put my blanky over my head and cried. Listening the shuffling all around me, waiting to be taken.

I think about 30 minutes went by of that terror when my mother pulled into the driveway with my brother. I jumped into her arms and cried for hours and refused to let go. That was my scariest day.

2greeneyes · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the most scary creepy awful thing I have ever since was the Nick Berg beheading. I was in a class and we were watching live in college. No one expected them to kill him on camera, we only thought we were going to see a bunch of nutjobs with their machine guns yelling their threats and demands. Those images will forever stain my youth. The videos are still out there but I wouldn't wish that on anyone so I won't post the links here. Stuff of nightmares.

cmrudy · 1 points · Posted at 07:52:15 on October 24, 2013 · (Permalink)

I spent months trying to forget that video. I hated being alone, couldn't take a shower with the curtain closed... It was awful, I will never forget the sound of him screaming

judithpriest · 3 points · Posted at 16:51:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sitting in the closet last night holding my kid while a tornado passed over us.. the eardrum shattering roar from the wind and hail while sitting in total darkness was unreal... i have never been that scared as an adult before.

DrewBlood · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I imagine having a child changes that drastically. I was out playing in it :P

judithpriest · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wanted to play in it... having a kid makes dying a lot scarier... it's weird.

Wyboth · 3 points · Posted at 16:56:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably the No End House.

Deadbreeze · 2 points · Posted at 09:21:30 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Indeed....

dkode80 · 3 points · Posted at 17:01:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I started reading /r/nosleep and someone on the subreddit indicated the more scary stories you read on there, the more paranormal energy seems to be attracted to you. That same night I heard noises coming from the kitchen in the middle of the night. I went out to take a look and found nothing.

Last time I have ever visited /r/nosleep

danileigh · 3 points · Posted at 17:01:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My parents are foster parents and last Summer we had my nieces and nephews living with me. I shared a room with the 2 girls when I was home from college. We have those stow away beds; so I took the lower one and Betsy and Nekole took the higher one. Right before I started sleeping in there my 31 year old sister told me that she thought something was "off" in the room as whenever she slept in there she got terrible nightmares. She said the kids were getting nightmares too. I brushed it off and went to bed and literally prayed that we would sleep well and have good dreams. A few weeks went by and everything was fine.

One night, Nekole decided to sleep with my sister instead of in the room with me. At about 3 am I woke up to one of the girls crying, which wasn't odd; they often kicked each other or got too close to each other and would cry. So, I woke up told them to stop crying and pulled the two girls apart so they wouldn't kick each other. I turned over and started to fall back asleep then thought, "Wait... Nekole isn't in here right?" But decided not to look. 6am roles around and I wake up and look and low and behold, Nekole isn't sleeping in the room with us. But I swear I pulled two little girls apart and laid them away from each other.

DrGrizzley · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Real life creepiness?

When I was 18 I was working for a rental company. A family booked it in the middle of the night before they were evicted for not paying their rent. When we went to clean it out we found naked pictures of little girls being abused and incest magazines hidden in the master bedroom's closet. I've never felt so unclean and creeped out and there's not enough bleach in the world to make that clean.

dawkholiday · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When I was younger my mother had a cocaine addiction. My father really is the one who raised me from about 5th grade up. She never did it in front of me and I never knew about it until she had to go into a halfway house. For those that don't know what a halfway house is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfway_house My mother has had a rough life but it is mostly her fault and she knows it. She is a fun person to be around and I will forever love her and take care of her. She is a great mom to me and always has been when I was with her. She just had her own demons in her younger years that affect her to this day.

My scary story, not a horror story

So at one point in time my mother pulled into a gas station so her friend could use a pay phone. This was way back when people used pay phones. Most likely late 80s or early 90s. Well, while she was waiting in the car for her friend to use the phone two guys showed up and attempted to steal her car. Since my mom is a fighter she did what she did best and attempted to fight them back.

While fighting them off, and no one coming to help, they tried to pull her out of her car. She refused to let go of the steering wheel and the brutally beat her on her back and spine. Since this time, I have never been able to enjoy time like I could have with her. She has been through countless surgeries. She can't walk around without hurting after a while. I can't tickle her because it makes her jerk her back.

The story:

So, one day my father and I come home. My mother no longer lives with us as they are legally separated. So I'm excited to see her but have no clue how she would have gotten in the house. My father and I look around and can't find her.

We go into the backyard and there is my mother face down in the grass. My dog circling her and if I remember right, licking her hand. She is out cold and I freak out of course. My dad tries to pick her up/wake her up and she won't move. I think she is dead because I'm a kid. My father tries to comfort me as he is waking her up from whatever happened.

At that point she does open her eyes and is really groggy. Well, I guess she had taken pain killers and alcohol together and she hit the floor. Problem now is she has a flash back of her brutal beating. Instead of seeing my father she sees her attacker and flips. She begins to attack my father and sees me screaming for me to run away.

Confused, myself and my father are trying to talk to her. He yells for me to run inside and I do. She comes in after me and my father runs after her. In all of this she is yelling at him to get out of the house, he has no business there, that she not be touched, and where is her son! (me). My father had me go into my room while all this yelling was going on. I hear him trying to explain to her who he is, that is it him, and that she is seeing whatever she is seeing.

I hide, I hear her screaming for me. Yelling out my name to come to her. She's demanding her "attacker" tell her where I am and the he needs to get the fuck out. Meanwhile, I'm hiding and for some reason laugh. I'm so young I thought it was mom just being silly. After a while though it does hit me and I'm scared.

I come out and yell for my mother and she runs to me holding me. Protecting me from my father as if he was someone else. I tell her its ok, its dad, I swear mom its dad. Just listen. Please! Please! During this time I start crying and tearing up. Something is wrong with my mother and I'm too young to figure out what is going on.

I remember my father pleading. I got loose from my mom and ran outside into my father's truck. I can hear her still, screaming for me. Yelling at him to get away and tell her where her son is. An ambulance arrives and they begin talking with her. Meanwhile I'm crying my eyes out in the truck....confused.

I'll never forget that day. I'll never forget what cocaine did to my mother to get her where she is today. My mother lives in constant pain in her back and her health issues that doctors still cant figure out what is wrong with her. She thinks she won't out live her mother she told me. She is miserable. She can't get certain drugs/prescriptions because of her drug use in the past that is on record. She is in tons of pain in her back and can't even get a proper pain killer because of her history.

TL:DR My mother was beaten into disability by a car jacker, had a huge cocaine problem, took pain killers and alcohol for her back pain and was found face first in the grass in my backyard. She had a flashback of the beating and thought my father was her attacker. I cried a lot

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So about 2 years ago me and a few mates decided to climb Ben Nevis in Scotland. Due to an extremely long game of poker, we ended up messing our timing up and starting our ascent at 5pm in the evening, when its about a 5hour ascent/descent.

Needless to say we reached the peak with literally 10 minutes before sunset (just after 9pm, this was in august). Realizing we were stupid shits, we figured we had better get down quickly, or it would get pretty cold, pretty quick.

Starting our descent, visibility fell really quickly, and within about half an hour it was near pitch black. Add to that we had to go into the shaded side of the mountain to continue, and visibility was about 10 feet at most.

So with the four of us in single file, with the front 2 lighting the way, we continued slowly on, right until our lead guy stopped dead. We all looked up and saw it just ahead. A pair of glowing red eyes. I think i was the first person to scream and start to panic, thinking that this was how i would die, looking like a rambler raped by the demon of the highlands. As we all screamed, the lead guys torch must have shook about and lit up the beast, so that we knew what we faced.

It was a sheep.

Tl;dr climbing down a mountain, 4 grown men scared shitless by a demon sheep

qyll · 3 points · Posted at 17:11:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ah, I wish I'd saved the thread. It was a story with an actual happy ending, and it was from a similar askreddit thread, and I remember a few details:

A husband and wife were driving to Las Vegas and it was starting to get dark, so they pulled into the nearest motel they could find. It was a sleazy place with only a few rooms, all vacant, of course.

The bedroom was in bad shape. Some paint flaking off, and the single light above the bed was dim. Just a pretty dingy place in general. Like one of those rooms you see in Urban Legends where there would be a dead body under the bed.

Wife cracks a joke about how maybe the receptionist was into voyeurism and that there was a hole in the wall with a camera. Not even a minute later, she gets a text that simply says, "hole in the wall". She freaks out, heaves the phone across the room, and almost begins to cry.

The husband talks to the receptionist, but he knew nothing of it. He ended up dailing the number, and it turns out that it was a friend who'd accidentally sent a text to the wrong number. The friend was at a bar and was responding to someone else asking what the place was like.

mdski89 · 3 points · Posted at 17:17:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not legitimately scary, but it was terrifying at the time. I was in my apartment over Christmas break a couple of years ago. My roommate left for the break, but I remained because I had to work. I spent my spare time watching episode upon episode of the X-files on Netflix. Some of that shit is creepy. I went to my room for something and when I went through my door into the hall I saw something out of the corner of my eye following me at about knee height. It looked like a black dog and of course thinking of the grim I freaked right the fuck out - only I realized it was a mylar balloon that I had gotten for my birthday three months prior. You better believe I got the scissors and stabbed that fucker.

wpgjetsgirl05 · 3 points · Posted at 17:18:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 8 years old, I was walking home from school when a man in a pick up truck pulled over and said "Hey, how are you?" And I replied "Good." And he said "That's good. Listen, I have this bag of suckers and I can't possibly have them all, would you like one?" He was sucking on one himself so.. I agreed to take one. He seemed friendly after all. Then he said "Well, you have a nice day." And he winked and drove off.

I think about this now and then. It didn't strike me as weird until I was older. Was he really a nice and genuine guy? Was he a pedophile feeling things out? Was he taking notes seeing how many children would take the candy?

cockpussydickasscum · 3 points · Posted at 18:58:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw this here on Reddit.

You ever notice how you've closed your closet door more times than you've opened it?

Sizlack668 · 3 points · Posted at 19:03:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About a month ago on our way to a Sevendust concert we came upon a traffic jam. We were only a few cars back from the accident and came through as some bystander was pulling a tarp over a body that was strewn all down the highway. From first look I though motorcycle accident, but never actually saw an motorcycle just random body parts. As we pulled away from the scene I could see the guys car parked at the top of the overpass we just passed under.
Apparently a month prior the guy had killed his wife and was awaiting trial for the murder. Had my friend not taken his sweet ass time in the store we stopped at just prior to this we could have hit the guy. It had only happened a minute or two before we came upon it.

NWFPSFW · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"About a month ago on our way to a Sevendust concert"

So you mean "about a month ago 10 years ago," right? Sevendust? In 2013?

Sizlack668 · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"About a month ago on our way to a Sevendust concert"

So you mean "about a month ago 10 years ago," right? Sevendust? In 2013?

Yea about a month ago april 28th to be exact...with coal chamber as well. Sevendust is still alive and kicking and still puts on a killer show.

Killhouse · 3 points · Posted at 19:14:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My fiancé lost her dad and her brother within just a couple months of each other, and she never really recovered from it. She worked at a bank, but spent most of her free time sewing, and would do it around the house when I would play on the computer or watch movies beside her.

She liked to collect bits of cloth for her sewing projects. No discarded rag or tattered old t-shirt was safe. She would clip out small bits of each item and stick them in her pocket, to be used on whatever her next project might be. She had a whole collection of patches of all kinds of colors and patterns she kept near her sewing machine—a contraption she called a serger.

She bounced happily between projects, but rarely finished anything. We bought an old thrift store couch together when we moved in with a wonderfully ornate wooden trim along the back like a piece of old doll furniture, and two years later her half finished upholstering was still falling off every time we sat down.

I thought our relationship was really good, but as time went on she grew more and more distant. She spoke less, and had less energy. She really just didn’t want to do anything. She continued collecting bits of cloth, but rarely sewed. Her sewing had gone from daily to weekly, weekly to monthly, and then finally not at all. She cried a lot, and spent more time in our bedroom alone than with me.

I tried everything I could, but she complained about stomach pains and always just asked to lie down and be left alone. She started to look pale, and became really sick. She would lash out at me when I tried to help, and pushed me away. I finally gave up.

I spent a weekend at my friend’s place down state. We mostly drank Mountain Dew and played video games, and I thought it was a much needed relief for me. I thought it might be good for her too, to finally get the time alone she had been asking for.

When I got home the entire place reeked like hot, raw sewage. The smell was absolutely rancid, and made my eyes burn and I had to cover my mouth just not to throw up. It was so offensive I felt physically weak, and my knees buckled. I didn’t call out because I didn’t want to breath in, and I made my way to the bedroom, knees shaking, and having trouble walking.

There she was, lying on the bed. She was covered in flies and other buzzing insects and her skin was exceptionally pale. She tilted her head towards me, and I saw that her face was filthy. Brown stains ran down her chin and the skin around her mouth had turned black. She started vomiting. It came first as a yellow bile, then in large brown chunks. It poured in a thick viscous flood over her chin and onto her already stained sheets. I watched her like that, for just a few minutes, and then she died.

She had continued to collect bits of cloth, and had been swallowing them, but she kept eating normally so I wouldn’t find out. They had clogged up her intestinal tract, and she had been vomiting feces for weeks in secret. Her body had eventually gone septic, and her organs began to fail. Her black lips, covered in bile and shit, fell open breathlessly. I batted away the flies on her lips and held her cheek. I started to cry, but only because she finally looked content after months of so much sadness and depression.

I leaned in and kissed her lips one last time.

sat52 · 2 points · Posted at 21:21:31 on June 7, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have to say this is probably the most disturbing story I have read on this thread, and I have read a lot. And so very sad.

twoworldsin1 · 3 points · Posted at 19:28:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's my story: One night in college I had a few drinks with a friend who had graduated and set up his own small basement bar. I crashed on his couch after everyone else had gone to bed. Later on that night I woke up and my gaze wandered to the bar, and I could've sworn I saw out of the corner of my eye a man's silhouette in the bar mirror, toasting me and grinning. Now, astute readers will point out, how could I tell if he was grinning if it was his reflection in the mirror and, thus, he would've had his back to me? To that, I do not know. All I can say is that somehow I saw his shadow in the mirror--not the person, just his shadow--and that despite it being only a shadow, he was not only lifting a toast to my sleeping form, but also grinning from ear to spectral ear.

Styrofoam_Zoots · 3 points · Posted at 19:30:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Only 'creepy'/supernatural thing that has happened to me:

I was 12 years old. Back then (2002) I used to play videogames, and at that time the GameCube - God rest its merry soul - was located in my parent's bedroom. It was around 6pm, it was October, it was a schoolnight. I'd gotten home from school and fired up the Nintendo while my brother and sister were watching TV downstairs. After I'd had my fill of Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3, I turned off the console and stood up and stretched. Videogames can be exhausting.

It's dark now, with only the last vestiges of twilight peeking through the curtains. And then I see something. On my mother's bedside table, just behind the lamp, something is imprinted onto the wall. I move closer. A shadow in the shape of a hand is there. That's funny, I thought. And without a second thought, I stepped towards the table and place the palm of my hand on the shadow, like a high-five.

Before I can so much as register the cool wallpaper on my fingertips, the blue curtains behind me billow furiously, as if there is a hurricane outside, lifting off the ground and into the air. Like an animated cartoon character, I leap off the ground and fly out of the room, hauling my body down the stairs foyur at a time until I burst into the kitchen to my family.

The windows were closed: it was a typical October evening. To this day, I cannot understand what caused the curatins - which had previously been perfectly still and lifeless - to billow enormously the moment I absent-mindedly met that shadow.

yodude3234 · 3 points · Posted at 20:02:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:06:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A woman (apparently) killing herself by stabbing herself in the chest.

On a streetcar station.

In the late afternoon of a Saturday in '09.

Prophet_Muhammad_phd · 3 points · Posted at 20:08:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well in one thread, I forgot which one but it was on r/wtf but someone posted a video of Sasquatch recordings. Now I don't know if they're real or not. The point is is that they're scary as fuck. Here is the link for those of you who are interested

PUT_YOUR_PENIS_IN_IT · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Replying to save for later.

On my phone sorry.

Prophet_Muhammad_phd · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't worry man, it's all good =]

BlumeKraft · 3 points · Posted at 20:15:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably that gif on the front page today of the man biting the other man over a bus seat. Made me sick...

cosmoboy · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, if that's real...I lost a little faith in humanity.

sjrenard · 3 points · Posted at 20:25:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in high school I lived in a house that had a very large backyard. My sister's room was at the end of the ranch-style house and faced the backyard. One night she had just gotten out of the shower and walked into her room and went to close the blinds and saw a man staring in. She screamed and my dad ran outside to catch the guy but he was gone.

A couple weeks later, I was home alone around 9pm. My sister had gone out on a date with her boyfriend and I was waiting for her to get home before going to sleep. I was watching tv in the living room, which also faced the backyard, when I heard a strange, quiet scratching noise. I immediately froze. The shades on the windows were up, the lights in the house were on, and everything outside was pitch black. I knew someone was watching me, I could feel it.

I decided to act normal and not acknowledge that I heard anything and slowly walked to the bathroom. Once in there I peered through the window (I didn't turn the light on) and I saw a figure walking past toward the back door. I panicked and ran to the other end of the house to my parents room, grabbed the cordless phone (yes we still has house phones then) and hid in my parents closet. My dads gun was in there, so I grabbed it even though I had no idea how to shoot it I called 911 and the dispatcher came on as I heard the back door opening. I told her someone was breaking into my house and only a second later I heard my sisters voice screaming for me.

My sister and her boyfriend had walked into the backyard right as the man was trying to get in. Her boyfriend chased him around to the other side of the yard and over the fence and down the street but wasn't able to catch him. The dispatcher sent police to my house just in case but nothing happened. Still to this day I think about how incredibly lucky I am that my sister came home at that moment, that her boyfriend walked her in, that I am alive.

We never had another incident with the peeping Tom ever again.

TL;DR - peeping Tom tried to break into my house but was caught when my sister and her boyfriend came home at the perfect moment.

randomperson1a · 3 points · Posted at 20:32:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Creepiest thing i've seen would be this short web comic

And the story of the Enigma of Amigara Fault, you can read the 1 chapter long manga yourself or here's it narrated by a semi-popular youtuber along with the images

Oh there's also this one, the puppet, but specifically with this youtuber's it's just especially creepy

If you have time these will also creep you the hell out

heyavalanche · 3 points · Posted at 20:34:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

my wife is a flight attendant, and sometimes she gets called in to work around 3:30 am. one morning, after she kisses me goodbye and heads out the door, i get up to take a leak. my master bathroom is in the front part of my house, so the window is facing the street. the window is about head height and to the side of my toilet, so as i am peeing i can actually stare out. i watch my wife back out of the driveway and head off. not even 10 seconds after she has pulled off, an old SUV slowly creeps up to the front of my house. i can see the driver, a man, staring directly at house. then all of a sudden he turns on the dome light, and i see that in the back seat he has a small baby in a carseat. it looks like he's determining if someone else is home/how to get in. i get really freaked out, but somehow decide to turn on the light and start waving and pointing at him. he notices me, and floors it out of my neighborhood. i didn't know whether or not to call the cops, especially since i didn't have any good information to give them. i also didn't know what to expect after that, so i grabbed my phone and the biggest knife i had and pretty much stayed awake the rest of the night.

anelida · 3 points · Posted at 20:44:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely Earthlings

www.earthlings.com

LionheadGeek · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I clicked that feeling hungry, but now I just feel empty inside.

Compasguy · 1 points · Posted at 12:22:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

wow, I just finnished watching this Eartlings movie! What can I say? I feel shocked and blank. I have to do a lot of thinking after this.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd honestly have to say the time I saw someone just casually shooting heroin.

tkkei · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Basically when i was 16-17 I had tough time at school (exams and stuff)...

And umm, one day, err, night, after i had closed my eyes and wanted to go to sleep..I saw a certain older woman with straight long dark hair smirking at me. I freaked out of course... And after that night i started seeing her all the time when I was exhausted (and had closed my eyes)... I remember going to the shower and closing the glass doors... and i started washing my hair and closed my eyes and there she was... leaning against the glass doors, smirking... Other times when i went to bed i saw her lying beside me, like 20cm away from me... She was always in black&white

Anyway I contacted a psychologist and apparently I had locked all my bad memories/depression into a certain place and that took the shape... Why smirking woman? I have no idea... So the psychologist recommended me to talk to the ...phenomena? and tell it that I understand what she tried to explain to me(that I should get those bad feelings etc out) and that was the last of it. I can still kind of remember the shape of the women.. at least the evil smirk..

thegreatmisdirector · 3 points · Posted at 20:48:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

An orange

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:53:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Today I walked past my neighbor's porch and saw a large, handwritten sign on her door that says "I am very sorry for what I did 30 years ago (It will never be forgotten)".

What do you think this means? I do not have the balls to ask.

saracuda · 3 points · Posted at 20:56:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Gateway of the Mind, Creepypasta

In 1983, a team of deeply pious scientists conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility. The scientists had theorized that a human without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli would be able to perceive the presence of God. They believed that the five senses clouded our awareness of eternity, and without them, a human could actually establish contact with God by thought. An elderly man who claimed to have “nothing to left to live for” was the only test subject to volunteer. To purge him of all his senses, the scientists performed a complex operation in which every sensory nerve connection to the brain was surgically severed. Although the test subject retained full muscular function, he could not see, hear, taste, smell, or feel. With no possible way to communicate with or even sense the outside world, he was alone with his thoughts.

Scientists monitored him as he spoke aloud about his state of mind in jumbled, slurred sentences that he couldn’t even hear. After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in his head. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientists paid little attention to the man’s concerns.

Two days later, the man cried that he could hear his dead wife speaking with him, and even more, he could communicate back. The scientists were intrigued, but were not convinced until the subject started naming dead relatives of the scientists. He repeated personal information to the scientists that only their dead spouses and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable portion of scientists left the study.

After a week of conversing with the deceased through his thoughts, the subject became distressed, saying the voices were overwhelming. In every waking moment, his consciousness was bombarded by hundreds of voices that refused to leave him alone. He frequently threw himself against the wall, trying to elicit a pain response. He begged the scientists for sedatives, so he could escape the voices by sleeping. This tactic worked for three days, until he started having severe night terrors. The subject repeatedly said that he could see and hear the deceased in his dreams.

Only a day later, the subject began to scream and claw at his nonfunctional eyes, hoping to sense something in the physical world. The hysterical subject now said the voices of the dead were deafening and hostile, speaking of hell and the end of the world. At one point, he yelled “No heaven, no forgiveness” for five hours straight. He continually begged to be killed, but the scientists were convinced that he was close to establishing contact with God.

After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences. Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh from his arm. The scientists rushed into the test chamber and restrained him to a table so he could not kill himself. After a few hours of being tied down, the subject halted his struggling and screaming. He stared blankly at the ceiling as teardrops silently streaked across his face. For two weeks, the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the constant crying. Eventually, he turned his head and, despite his blindness, made focused eye contact with a scientist for the first time in the study. He whispered “I have spoken with God, and he has abandoned us” and his vital signs stopped. There was no apparent cause of death.

SkyRider59 · 2 points · Posted at 20:59:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not even reading this in broad daylight stopped me from getting creeped out...

webzsci · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

looked at the image...wtf! (I get a good laugh from being spooked :)

saracuda · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The story behind the image is pretty cool, as are most of the SCP's, if you have time and like creepy shit =)

webzsci · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I will have to read it later tonight. Thanks for sharing.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:05:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About 10 year ago I remember waking up in a strange woman's bed. I don't know how I got there, when I got there or why. When she finally woke up, rolled over and what she said shit a brick: "Morning Todd" to which she proceeds to smile and kiss me. MY NAME ISN'T TODD. Story goes that she met me at a bar 45 minutes from my house. We hit it off and we went back to her place. I didn't have my phone or wallet to after I left I trekked home and finally checked my phone. There was a message: 'Don't ever speak to anyone about this, or I'll kill you - Todd'

Going to sleep is a concerning activity for me now.

mastershakesupercup · 3 points · Posted at 21:10:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When i was younger me and my older sister would go to visit our mom on the weekends for her custody so we got dropped off back at home one weekend and my dad told us to run upstairs and drop off our overnight clothes and come back down for a bike ride, so we walk past our younger sisters room who had a different mom and shes sitting on the bed facing away from us so my older sister yells at her to come on, but she didn't move or anything even after we yelled for her a couple times, but we just figured she was pissed off or something since we just got home so we dropped our shit off and ran back downstairs and just then my little sister and my step mom come through the front door, its the creepiest shit that ever happened to me and i'm just glad i went through it with someone so i know i am not crazy, we still bring it up every family event

YaUsedMeSkinner · 3 points · Posted at 21:10:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Sleep paralysis, man. Fucking sleep paralysis.

I decided to go to bed early one night (I think it was 10pm) and slept for about 8 hours. When I woke up, I wasn't tired so I went downstairs to watch half an hour of TV. I decide that I ought to try get back to sleep.

Here's where things got creepy.

I felt like I was lying down on my bed but I wasn't asleep. I had my eyes closed, my breathing was deep and if you saw me, I looked sound asleep.

I was anything but asleep. In fact, I was silently screaming. I had sleep paralysis. I couldn't move a muscle or open my eyes no matter how much I wanted to. It felt like I had somehow become a quadriplegic while I slept.

Then, I started to panic. My heart rate shot up and it felt like there was someone in the room with me. It felt like there was a woman with really long hair standing in my doorway. I thought I was dreaming but it felt so vivid and real. She turned around and revealed finger nails that were the length of my arm and she started clawing at the foot of my bed as she climbed onto my bed where she started very slowly crawling towards me. I nearly had a heart attack.

And then, I could move again. I sat up straight and gasped as if I was drowning. I burst into tears and started shaking uncontrollably. Sleep paralysis is the scariest thing I've ever experienced. I thought sleep was a place of safety and serenity. Fuck no. Every time I get a hypnic jerk, I get the same sense of fear I had that night.

Not cool.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:24:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This will probably never get seen as I'm coming into this thread way late, but it's one of the few things that still gives me the willies. So, a group of young-ish people in my hometown are currently working to purchase and restore an old vaudeville/movie house located downtown. It's sat unused since about 1999. There have some business investors that have walked through the building, but other than its locked up tight.

Naturally, its covered a shittons of dust and mold is everywhere. There's a balcony in the theater that hasn't been used since the 1980s when they stopped allowing people up there. About a month ago I was going through the theater counting chairs because we couldn't seem to find any really accurate numbers on how many the theater could seat. Naturally, only a few of the lights are still working, so I'm doing this counting with a flashlight.

As I'm heading through the balcony, I send my flashlight down one of the rows and see, very clearly in the dust, child's bare footprints. Running down one side only. Next row, same thing - one set of barefoot child's footprints going one way. I can only imagine that a business investor had one of their children with them and they were running around.

But, in a pitch-black theater that was built in the 1920s, all by myself, it was enough.

It was enough.

Shinbiku · 3 points · Posted at 21:34:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

During a tour Iraq I was stationed in F.O.B. Rustamiyah. It was notorious for being bombarded with mortars so often. It was a rare day when we didnt see at least two mortars. Usually the insurgents aim was so far off you could barley tell that it was a mortar, never the less, the sirens would always go off and we would have to jam into these little 4 by 10 cement bunkers with 30 other people and sit for an hour.

About 9 months in i was laying on my bunk watching an episode of smallville and i heard a mortar land way off in the distance. So we started headed for the bunker, annoyed that we would have to sit in the bunker again. As i turned into the hallway the air exploded around me. I felt as if every hair was standing around me. Took me a minute to realize that our barracks had taken a direct hit. (Our barracks was a cinder block building with a tin roof). I immediately turned around and grabbed my IBA (armor) and sprinted for the bathroom (the only part of our barracks that had a cement roof, oddly enough.) Me and a couple others waited until the mortars stopped (No others hit our barracks again) and then sprinted to the bunkers.

After we were released they told us to go into the barracks grab only what was necessary and come back out, that we wouldnt be staying in the barracks that night because of repairs. So as we went inside, all the lights were out and the floor was slick. I figured because we had lost power because of the direct hit. Later we found out that one of our company mates PFC Seig had taken shrapnel to the neck and had bled out as they carried him out. They had cleaned the floor before they let us through, but they turned out the lights just to make sure we didnt see anything.) I wasnt exactly friends with the guy. But because his name was so closed to mine, if we had any drug tests, or flue shots, or anything like that we were next to eachother in line and always chatted back and forth. I learned a strong lesson about complacency that day as well as losing a fellow brother at arms.

TLDR: Had a very close call with a incoming mortar and lost a friend to it.

stealyourfacia · 3 points · Posted at 21:38:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This probably isn't the scariest thing I've seen but definitely the goriest. Working EMS one night in the shittiest town in my state when we get a call that wakes me up at 0400 for the unknown the the shittiest part of the town. We roll up to an abandoned warehouse, there's probably 200 of them around the area. It's a huge warehouse with lots of different hidden areas so we have to go around with our flashlights yelling "EMS" etc. PD is not going to be able to assist for at least an hour, which won't fly if something goes down and we don't have a great excuse not to do this. After about 5 minutes we hear a groan coming from down a hallway. I'm scared shitless by this point, which most of the cops in the area would laugh at, but my partner and I venture down the sketchy hallway through the sketchy door into the most blood I have ever seen.

In the corner of the room lies a man who has been bisected by a metal pipe about 2ft in diameter and weighing upwards of 400lbs. What had happened was a portion of the pipe had gotten so rusted in two parts that it had finally had enough and fell as a 4ft long segment on top of the sleeping squatter.

When I started the job I never thought I'd wish so vehemently that my patient die more quickly than they were currently, but despite my wishes he groaned again and looked directly at me (at least i thought he did) - the look of a man who knew he was going to die but simply couldn't care about that because of how much pain he was in. We had called for ALS/paramedics and a fire rescue squad to extricate him but we knew they wouldn't be there for another seven to ten minutes (it's really understaffed, don't start) and my partner was adamant about getting this guy to a hospital even though I really just wanted the medic to show up and accidentally euthanize him or something.

What I did in the end was find two thick pieces of wood to wedge underneath the pipe (it was ~1in. off the ground, suspended ever so slightly by his internal organs and musculature) and rolled it onto the rods while pulling him onto a backboard. The worst part in my opinion is that he died in the ambulance (crush syndrome/traumatic rhabdo, actually interesting so look it up) and survived about two more minutes after we had removed him from being pinned. The fire department/medics got there as we were leaving and although we aren't supposed to "extricate" people in the sense that we did with this guy, they weren't about to argue with two guys drenched in blood carrying a person basically in two parts into their truck. We took one of their medics with us, he was unhappy in general about the entire situation but that's his problem.

TL;DR sketchy warehouse, homeless guy gets crushed in half by pipe, lives to die from bleeding out/muscle electrolytes becoming not-fun cardiac electrolytes

joejmz · 3 points · Posted at 22:04:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

In November of '83 I was 16 years old. One late afternoon, I was playing touch football on the street with my 12 year old brother and his 13 year old friend. I was getting ready to "kick off" to them (We were playing with a Nerf football so kicking off consisted of a long pass since those things were absolutely worthless for punting or kicking) The infield was the street, the end zones were marked by our mailbox and the mailbox of the house four houses down the street from our house. I was standing in the middle of the street, maybe 10 feet in front of our mailbox and they were about 10 to 15 feet in front of the mailbox that was their end zone. I was facing toward the sunset, but the sun was setting behind the houses to the south and so it was not in my eyes. It was so quiet I could hear my brother and his friend planning what they would do when they received the ball, "If you catch it, hand it off to me and try to block him..." Out of the corner of my eye I saw a green light turn on in the yard of the house to my right. It didn't really catch my attention until I started hearing snapping and sizzling sounds. When I turned to look at the source of the sounds I saw that the light was inside the foliage of the tree planted in the middle of that yard. I've never been interested enough in trees and plants to learn names, all I know is that this was a smallish tree, maybe 10 feet tall, more like a bush that got out of hand. The snapping sound was small branches breaking, and it turned out the sizzling sound was leaves and branches being burned. As I watched, the "light" floated out of the top of the tree and began to drift towards the street. My brother and his friend suddenly stopped talking; they were seeing this too! The "light' floated across the street right in front of me. At one point it was no more than 20 feet in front of me and maybe 12 feet off the ground. It was bigger than a basketball and seemed to be made of glass or something transparent because I could see a thick green liquid moving turbulently inside the ball. The glass was about 3 inches thick. Around the ball there was a green fog that extended maybe 2 feet from the ball's surface and there were little green lightning bolts dancing along the surface of the ball to the edge of the fog. When the ball was almost directly in front of me, I suddenly had the stupid thought that I could easily hit it with the Nerf ball, it was right in front of me! I even cocked my arm back, but then I really paid attention to all the little lightning bolts flashing around it and decided I might be in it's range too. The ball floated across our next-door neighbors front yard and then when it came about 3 feet from the front of their house it slowed down, floated up until it was about three feet above the roof and then followed the slope of the roof up and over to their backyard until we lost it from sight.

I don't know how long I stood there still looking at where I got the last glimpse of it, but eventually I turned and looked down the street to where my brother and his friend were and I "kicked off" to them. We played like nothing out of the ordinary had happened for about 5 minutes when my brother asked me, "What was that?"

"I don't know," I told him.

"I'm scared, let's go home."

So we ran home.

Prtyvacant · 3 points · Posted at 22:15:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Does being 13 years old, walking in on a group of adults raping a high school girl, and then being threatened with torture and a slow death count? I was too afraid to tell my parents or any other adult, didn't tell anyone until I was in my twenties. I tried to talk to the girl about it when I saw her in school a year or so later and she denied it. The only guy I knew from the group had died in a drunken/high gasoline fire/theft incident by the time I was in 12th grade.

heyitsaubrey · 3 points · Posted at 22:26:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nine skiiers were found dead after they ripped their tents open from the inside and ran out in the snow barefoot. Some died of exposure and others of various internal injuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:44:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last summer, I worked as an assistant counselor for 7 to 10-year-olds. The camps was and outdoor/wilderness camp and we took the kids out on 2 and 3 day trips to the surrounding mountains.

One night on one of the 3-day trips, we're all in the tent, the kids are asleep and I'm reading a book. Out of nowhere, one of the kids just sits up, rigid as a board and stares at me, his eyes wide open. I'm extremely creeped out but I figure the kid just had a bad dream and woke up, so I ask quietly if he's alright. He continues to just stare at me, eyes not moving, not making a sound. This goes on for a minute and I am seriously getting scared now. I ask a couple more times if he's okay, what's wrong, etc etc. Still no response.

I ask one final time and the kid just starts screaming bloody murder. Imagine the loudest, shrillest, most spine-chilling scream you have ever heard. Everyone wakes up and the kid is still just sitting in his sleeping bag, eyes wide open, staring at me, screaming his head off.

I jump out of my sleeping bag and crawl over to him, but I have no clue what to do. Another counselor comes over and tries to get the kid to calm down, but nothing works. A few of the other kids start to cry because they're getting scared but the rest are silent, just watching this kid scream an scream and scream.

Finally, after a couple minutes, the kid is gasping for breath between screams and he just slumps in his sleeping bad, unconscious. The other counselor and I are just staring at each other, both freaking the fuck out, before the kid opens his eyes, still gasping for breath, and starts crying.

After a lot of discussion with the nurse that worked at the camp, we decided it was something like a night terror, but it was honestly the most freaked out I have ever been in my life, remembering that kid staring at me before just screaming bloody murder.

apawnintoaqueen · 3 points · Posted at 23:26:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

One night, at around 3am, I was driving home from visiting a friend. He had been house sitting for some people that had a house in the country, set back in the woods. I was the only car on this little back road. As I was heading home, on the side of the road coming towards me was this woman dressed in a long white dress, riding a brown horse. She was just slowly going along on the horse, staring straight ahead. In her hand she was holding a flagpole with a Confederate flag on it (I live in the South). There was a kind of aura around her, making her look hazy (but it was also really foggy). Out of shock and disbelief, I hit the brakes and stopped the car on the road. I watched as she slowly rode past me. She never acknowledged me. Even as I started to drive away, I could see her in my rear-view mirror.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:39:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:58:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds like sleep paralysis. Has it happened more than once?

Trcymcgrdy1 · 2 points · Posted at 01:48:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is called sleep paralysis. Should read about it. i have had this hapen but not the figures. Most people report seeing and hearing things. i just was half way between sleep and awake and couldn't move.

TheCrazedInsomniac · 3 points · Posted at 23:58:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened not very long ago, and I still haven't figured out what it was. So I was sitting in my room at my aunts house at about ten talking to myself, which isn't really unusual for me. Then I hear this loud knocking on my window. My room is on the second floor, way to high up for a human to do it, and there are no trees nearby to tap the window. So I proceed to freak out and run to the bathroom down the hall. I sit on the toilet, and I hear the same knocking on that window. At this point, I'm pretty weirded out. I leave the bathroom and head to the basement and spend the night down there.

The next morning I go outside and check out the windows, trying to figure out what the noise was. Like I said earlier, there were no trees nearby, and it was too high up for someone to reach the window.

And then there was that time I saw a man in an orange jumpsuit that apparently no one else could see... Yeah, weird things happen.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:06:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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adgal617 · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kids are so creepy.

newbewts · 3 points · Posted at 00:18:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

We were driving to California and stopped at a gas station in Arizona at like 3am. There was no one around and it was windy as fuck.

The only lights on were the random neon lights hanging inside the store, the giant sign, and the gas pumps. I was pumping gas and jumping up and down to get the blood flowing. My sister was also walking around the car and throwing some stuff away to kill some time. I had a feeling people were staring at us but there was no vehicles around and we were miles away from the next town. The gas pump clicked that it was done and I put the gas cap back on and got in the car. While I was slowly driving away we saw 15-20 people huddling in the corner trying to keep out of the wind. I floored it so god damn hard.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Corner of wat...

newbewts · 1 points · Posted at 04:46:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Of the gas station and a fence.

Alektruon · 3 points · Posted at 00:19:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dogs attempt to commit suicide at theis bridge. http://rarelyknown.org/2010/11/09/overtoun-bridge-the-bridge-where-dogs-commit-suicide/

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 01:16:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Read some reddit posts before bed...what was I thinking

sparta981 · 3 points · Posted at 01:28:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at a robotics club meeting and we were moving some batteries around on the robot. We always referred to the thing as being possessed because it would hiss and such without being provoked at all. It especially had it in for this guy named Kevin. At one point, it nearly fell on him and he caught it with his shoulder at the last instant and pushed it back. Jokingly, I told him it just wanted to love him. Then it we heard a snap of electricity when two free battery cords happened to touch the metal frame. It burned a tiny heart-shaped spot onto itself.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 01:38:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

None of you have experienced true fear until one of the pictures on your wall randomly falls down in the middle of the night.

Healthorbust · 3 points · Posted at 02:49:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was volunteering in the Dominican Republic, and after my first day of work, and a humid night of little sleep, I was barely awake for my second day. The site had showers, so I decided to get a brisk shower in and breath some life into my brain. I open the door, walk in, and as the door shuts my brain clicks in that the floor and shower wall are moving.

Covered in dozens of these: http://www.reptilesalive.com/animals/animalstwo/hatiantarantula.html

That morning I discovered that the Speed Force was a thing.

AshenKilljoy · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ugh this gives me the goosebumps. I traveled to the Amazon in Peru and stayed in literal huts. There were spiders and tarantulas everywhere. Needless to say the natives had a fun time watching my panic attacks.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:01:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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fates_fury · 1 points · Posted at 06:50:19 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like you should seriously invest in a spiritual cleansing. SAGE. Lots of sage and sweetgrass.

highpressuresodium · 3 points · Posted at 03:02:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

see this is all why i have cats. if my cats are freaked, i know its not in my mind and some shit is about to go down

vi1987 · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

same here with my two dogs.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:22:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

plus your dogs can and will protect you

kirastorm · 3 points · Posted at 03:17:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Plane crashes. The shriek of metal, the impact, the boom when the gas tank goes. The hellish shrieking of the flames. I saw three first hand, and heard one more from the woods by the runway and then watched the aftermath. Two single plane crashes and one 2 plane crash.

The first one I heard a weird noise first, and turned to look. Just in time to see the impact. It was the canopy opening for the ejecting pilots.

The worst was one where it crashed, and the flames were billowing, and my friend said "the pilots not out yet." Then the gas tank went. Luckily, dude had climbed out the other side. He got tossed by the explosion, but ended up with a couple broken bones, and some medium burns. The flames sounded hellish, and we thought we had just witnessed a death.

TLDR grew up on an airforce base, plane crashes sound bad.

moridin66 · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have two that come to mind, but definitely not on the same level as some of you...

First, when I was 16/17 I got really into Nirvana for a while and loved listening to their album nevermind. I wasn't fond of all their music and tended to skip around between different tracks on the CD all the time. One night it was pretty late (after midnight) and I was reading a book with the album playing and I was really tired, so my eyelids fell closed and I drifted off into a half sleep. If you own this album, then you're probably aware that after the 12th track (Something in the Way) there's about 10-15 minutes of silence and then a hidden 13th track called "Endless, Namelss" which is about the most fucked up recording Kurt Cobain ever made. It's mostly a lot of noise with a vague rhythm/pattern and it's creepy as hell. So, as you can imagine, I drifted off to sleep listening to regular music, then as I half-wake up to near silence, this track starts playing and I just freeze as andrenaline rushes through my body for about 5 seconds. I'd never played the album all the way through, so this was the first time I'd come across the hidden track.

Second story was much more recently. My girlfriend at the time and I had moved into a two bedroom apartment together, but we slept in one room and used the second room for storage while we sorted out our stuff and started buying furniture. One night we had a fight and I decided not to sleep in the same bed as her, so I tried sleeping on the floor in the second room, but couldn't get comfortable. I had a very vague, creepy feeling because it was an old apartment building, very plain and there was a lot of junk in this room with shadows from the moonlight. The thing that was most unsettling is that I felt like there was something old shaped on part of the ceiling and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was. Then my girlfriend walked in demanding to know why I didn't come to bed and I agree to go back to our room. Flash forward a month later, we've added a bed to this second room and she's decided she wants it to be her room because she's tired of my snoring. So she spent 2-3 hours that evening cleaning up the room, making it tidy, and making it her own. At the end of the night, I'm in the bathroom down the hall brushing my teeth while she acts all proud of her new room and says good night, closes the door, and turns off the light. In less than 3 seconds I hear her scream and rush out of the room towards me saying she saw a ghost. This immediatly sparks the memory of the creepy feeling I'd had the one time I'd tried to sleep in the room so I agree to go back in with her. I walk in and she, being a brave soldier, closes the door behind me and turns off the light, then immediatly starts asking, "Do you see it?!"

Scawled on the ceiling above the head of her bed were the words "I'M UNDER THE BED" glowing in green.

Somebody had obviously done this as a prank a long time ago and having never had the light on in the room, we'd never charged it properly until she was cleaning the room. I told her what was written and she decided my snoring wasn't that bad. In less than two months I ended up having to break our lease and move into a different apartment because she refused to be in that apartment by herself and definitely wouldn't go into that room by herself.

JakesGunReviews · 3 points · Posted at 04:07:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://imgur.com/a/pXtX1

Yes, those are cages for people.

InstyKim · 3 points · Posted at 14:36:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whaaa??? Where were these pictures taken?

JakesGunReviews · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Across from where I bank.

It is an old hotel (my father used to live there when it was briefly turned into apartments in the '60s) that pretty much sat abandoned for ten or so years, likely more. One year, a Native-American Indian bought the place. Turns out he was the leader of a sex "cult" and was cool with leading his women around town leashed. Anyway, one of my friends came up to me one day with a, "You're never going to believe this!" story. The "leader" had abandoned the building a couple years prior, and my friend told me that he went in to this again-abandoned (I think the city retook possession of it and just let it sit?) hotel a couple days before. He had asked his mother what the building used to be, she told him, he investigated. He told me there was some weird chairs, cages for people, "laying boxes" (as I refer to them), and a shit ton of knife boxes in the upstairs hallway (did not photograph: the upstairs rooms were pretty odd, at that). I called bullshit, of course, because that's what I do. He offered to take me, so we made the arrangements.

I go there with a flashlight and my camera. The "Blow Me" door was actually the back door we entered through, and the front door has "ASS" painted on it. Anyway, we went in and he showed me all of this weird stuff, and it didn't quite sit right with any of us when there was evidence of people having moved things since the last time he had been in there. He said he didn't touch anything, and aside from initially disbelieving his story of weird sex-cult things inside this building, I have no reason to believe he is/was lying.

We went through the ground floor, which is where the duck graffiti and computers were, then we went downstairs into the basement. This is where the homemade cages were, as well as the forks and medicine. Also, that second-to-last photo with the car battery and cables? That is taken through a shaft from the ground floor, looking into the basement. Not visible is the metal chair directly under the ceiling/floor and the clamps on said cables. There was also a ton of five gallon buckets full of something I couldn't quite identify (spouted lids, but no real odor: can't recall the color of the liquid at the moment) filling an entire room. We also found some old cinnamon rolls in a Ziplock bag.

The upstairs is where the majority of their BDSM equipment was, as well as "the chain gang," the stirrup chair, and, interestingly enough, a Christmas tree and a whole bunch of mattresses.

I had planned on taking my girlfriend there sometime with us since she, too, does not believe the stories we've told her 100%, but the guy has since moved back. He just shows up at random times, and things outside can be seen shifted from place every once in a while, so I don't really feel like risking going there on the wrong day.

TL;DR: Indian sex hotel.

FAKE EDIT: I Googled their cult name, and apparently people hate their service. Also, fellow says that, supposedly, the guy is CIA/DEA/throwyourassinFedPen, has been written up on animal abuse charges, etc., etc., etc.

I'd link, but it gives details I'd prefer to keep private (addresses, towns, etc.,).

EDIT FOR REAL: Everyone else is 100% certain he's just a con-artist dick.

EDIT AGAIN: Reading some more on it, this guy steals peoples' animals, likely for dog-fights (I'm assuming here 100%, but there have been two dog fighting busts around here within the past few years while he was present), steals regular items (explains parted computers), and is generally just a fraud with multiple identities.

InstyKim · 2 points · Posted at 16:43:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh. Wow. This is awfully creepy.

Be careful.

Savis117 · 3 points · Posted at 04:18:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember being sucked out into a tide when i was young, around 8 or 9. I was around 200m out when i noticed as i was doing the starfish thing and floating, i called to my dad and he wasnt there. i flipped the fuck out. I started to look for a place I could swim to, while doing this, the scariest thing in my life to date happened. I felt something, large, rub against my leg. if i was freaking the fuck out before i certainly was now. I SWAM THE FUCK BACK TO SHORE. later I found out that a shark killed someone 2 hours later at the same beach. fucking creepy shit.

seimutsu · 3 points · Posted at 04:47:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So I used to live out in the countryside, about a 15 minute walk from the nearest train station (this was not in the US, so there was lots of public transportation and few cars). Right out the station there were usually a dozen or so people walking, but by the time I got to my neighborhood, there was always just me and this one woman. I always assumed she must get off the train nearer to the exit, and she kept a brisk pace, so she was always 30 seconds or so ahead of me - I'd never seen her face. I never really thought about the situation at the time, but after two weeks of walking home behind this woman, I had the fright of my life. We're walking along as usual when she suddenly stops in her tracks in the middle of the sidewalk. Surprised, I stop too - getting a little nervous. After what seemed like awhile, I figured Its just best to head on home, start walking again. I get right up behind her, about to go around, and she whips around to face me. She has this twisted, furious look on her face. And she screams.

It was both the most terrified and angry sound I'd ever heard. I must have jumped two meters backwards, and probably screamed myself. I must have been white as a sheet.

I never saw her again after that night.

******spoiler****** After screaming, she told me she'd call the cops if I didn't stop following her home. Turns out she though I was stalking her. I explained I just lived a block further away, and she got really embarrassed and apologized.

I imagine she started taking a different route home after that out of embarrassment, which is why I never saw her again.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:04:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reminds me of something that happened to my friend; we lived in Montreal where there are loads of skunks, they're like raccoons in most other cities, literally everywhere all night long. So anyway, he's walking home, and notices two girls on the other side of the street walking toward him a block or so away, and as he looks down, boom skunk. Usually skunks give a lot of warning before spraying and they're way more likely to just run away than to spray you, but this one happened to be cornered by a gardened fence, and in the city they can be a little more defensive than in nature documentaries. So he sees the skunk, and he freezes. The two girls freeze too. He hears one of them whisper to the other one "oh my god" and he starts to sidestep around the skunk like a cartoon villain sneaking up on somebody, slowly and daintily. Just as he thinks he's gonna make it, the damn skunk lets loose, and he bolts... toward the girls. They do not see the skunk, the just see him running. They scream and start running for their lives. The home owner starts yelling out the window "you leave those girls alone, creep!!... what the hell?!?!?!" presumable the last part being about the skunk aroma permeating the whole block.

jokersblow · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once when I was driving home at night, I thought this Ute with a trailor was following me, I was sure of it. My block is a crescent so I thought instead of going the quick way to my house, I'd loop the way round to see if this Ute would take any of the numerous other turns. Nope, follows me the long way round. I felt really stupid when they stopped a few houses before mine. They wanted to be parking in that direction which, with a trailor is quite difficult...

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:41:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Made it half way through this thread and thought I was all good until my phone rang (WTF! it's past midnight!) and I let out the most awkward scream/ugh sound.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:54:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

why am i reading this at 2 am

TheDidact118 · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i don't know. Same here. If you need something to help you otu after reading these, watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU7X5X-wu54

NDominator · 3 points · Posted at 11:48:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Easily the scariest thing I learned on the internet was how to make nerve gas. Considering it was on 4chan it'd probably kill you just like the stuff from the "edited" Anarchist's cookbook.

iratam · 3 points · Posted at 07:30:30 on August 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

With my first wife, we went to see the movie 'The Exorcist' that had just came out. My impressionable wife was terrified by the Devil voice. So, we had to leave after about 3/4 of the movie. On our way home she excused herself profusely and I kept making fun of how she got scared like a little kitty cat... Until we reached our house. It was only about 20:30 and we lived on a street where there was practically no traffic but we did pass a mother and her son walking on the sidewalk just before getting to our house. As I put the key in the lock and started turning it we hear the same devil voice then at the theatre. My heart skips quite a few beats and my wife turn entirely white as a sheet. I managed to get out of my torpor just in time to catch her because she had fainted. After a short while we came back to our senses because we realized that it was the little guy with his mother who was making funny noises and voices........ We didn't sleep all night !!!

Godrick2012 · 3 points · Posted at 12:37:45 on October 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is one of the creepiest videos I have ever seen.

http://youtu.be/ZQYMaICotLk

Dath-Roth · 7 points · Posted at 14:13:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Midnight Game, look it up it's scary as fuck.

Edit: Here's a link to the instructions. http://www.justmegawatt.com/tutorials/midnightgame.html

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:34:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A game of make-believe is scary as fuck?

PinkStarr55 · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

yea, nope not playing that.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 14:42:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

These quotes from Michele Bachmann gave me the shivers:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/michele_bachmann.html

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:27:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Thatguymorganwall · 7 points · Posted at 15:30:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in my basement one time and was about to sleep on my couch. I left my phone charging on a near by out let, and when I woke up it was gone. The phone wasn't anywhere in sight. I emptied out my pockets, checked every inch of my basement, and I asked my parents if they took my phone. My parents said they didn't take it, and at this point I was sure someone broke into my house. I called my phone and a very smart allec guy answered. I asked "what the f*ck are you doing with my phone, and he replied "it's not your phone it's the companys phone budy" then I threatened to call the police. Than I went to go take a nap on the same couch and when I woke up my phone was in my pocket with no battery.

broggers · 5 points · Posted at 15:30:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So, it was my girlfriends birthday and we got the train back from a meal in town. When we got to the train station where I was parked we both decided it would be a good idea to have sex in my car for the first time. I thought that the best place for us to go would be a secluded car park next to a local school (bearing in mind it is almost midnight so no one is about.)

So we get to the car park and things get a little freaky so to speak and we are both naked in the back of my car. Fast forward 10 minutes and we are in the middle of having sex and I notice something in the window next to me, assuming it was a bird flying past in my peripheral vision, I think nothing of it. A couple of minutes later I turn around again and there is a man staring through my back windscreen at me and my girlfriend having sex. Almost suffering from a heart attack I tell my girlfriend to put her underwear on and I jump into the front and turn around to drive off, as I drive away, I catch the man in my vision and he is staring at my car, trousers by his ankles and furiously masturbating at what he just saw.

Safe to say I'm never having sex in my car again.

GianSeehra · 3 points · Posted at 15:55:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

shit man, that must have been so scary !

ekpezza · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am in tears at this no way

angloexile · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you own a light blue VW by any chance?

broggers · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait a second...

BattlefieldBastard · 8 points · Posted at 22:03:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This will probably get lost in the comments but I'll post it anyways:

The first time I was in New York, a buddy of mine there showed me a great time, we partied all night and got completely shitfaced.

Next morning I wake up, hung over like shit. I call my buddy, he's not answering. I walk through the hotel and it's dead silent, I only see a few people and they're completely expressionless. like they've seen a ghost.

I go outside and look up: few blocks away, the Twin Towers are burning.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 22:13:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow. That made my heart sink. What an awful thing to wake up to in such a disoriented state :(

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 12:01:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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GormBerry · 6 points · Posted at 16:44:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Raining blood, from a lacerated sky, bleeding its horror. Creating my structure, now I shall REIGN IN BLOOD!

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 14:28:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Laying in bed on night; trying to get to sleep for school the next day. I was doing the usual - slowly relaxing every muscle in my body while trying to move my mind away from thinking about the homework I hadn't finished. My room was completely dark, with only the residual light from the hallway to reveal the most bold features. Then, from behind my closed closet doors I hear several really loud bangs. I sit, bolt upright and watch my closet. Just after those bangs, the doors started bulging in and out in rapid succession. I heard things falling over and lots of scratching. Finally, there was one last, loud thud, and the door opened just enough for my cat to squeeze out. I still don't know how she got in there..

I thought I was going to get sucked into my closet a la Poltergeist.

wanderingthisearth · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

that movie is the reason that everywhere i go, the closet door MUST be closed when I go to bed

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 14:30:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest things I've seen are my sent text messages after a night of drinking.

Kyyni · 5 points · Posted at 14:45:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not probably the most scariest thing ever, but this just happened to me.

I was sitting in my room, with my headphones on, only the computer screen and a small lamp on my desk. I was playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a custom story called Fekete Keres. My character was wading through a basement, soaked in knee deep water. I spotted a key on the shelf and thought myself "that's got to be just a normal trigger, the moment I take it, there will be a jumpscare." I braced myself and took it. A horrendous loud scream blared on the headphones, but then it was cut abruptly, and the whole room went dark and silent. My whole room, not the game. The computer, the lamp, all noises.

Thanks to the Finnish nature, a really well timed power outage. I just sat there for a moment, extremely creeped out, and then I just had to laugh out loud for the incredible coincidence.

Atheist_Redditor · 7 points · Posted at 14:46:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at an awards ceremony in my old home town. It had a historic downtown district and the awards ceremony was at this historic theatre as well, probably around 100 years old. I had to poop. I left the ceremony and went downstairs to the bathroom. It was musty and badly lit. The lights flickered with a dull yellow color. I will never forget these details. As I pooped, a man entered the bathroom. I assume he was a large man and I could hear him breathing. He sounded overweight. He walked loudly up to my stall, and I saw his large combat style boots standing directly outside my stall. He was so close, his toes were sticking out under the door. He was just standing there....

I said "Dude, there is someone in this stall."

No response.

"What do you need."

No response. Just breathing.

I sloppily wiped my ass and got up as quick as I could. The doors on the stalls open inwards so I had to practically sit on the toilet to open the door. There was no one there. There were a pair of boots sitting directly outside the stall. I hopped over the boots, running the fuck out of there. I sat scared shitless, with an itchy ass through that award ceremony that night.

diannakitty08 · 5 points · Posted at 14:50:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Original artwork for "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark"

Ineedauniqueusername · 2 points · Posted at 14:09:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Holy Jesus, stories? Not even remotely creepy...

That cover art? Holy fuck. Had to turn that shit over before I went to sleep

MrFreeLiving · 5 points · Posted at 15:05:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nigga, I ain't clicking on SHIT.

DeathSpinner · 5 points · Posted at 15:10:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the house I lived in for 15 years growing up. My room was right near the front door. At least once a night, the front door deadbolt would unlock. The door would open then close and lock itself again.

P.S. I know it was not my parents as you could hear any footstep in that house.

Nataliyana · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had something similar, my bedroom used to be above the kitchen, (house was remodelled so it's not now) and at night when I new everyone was in bed I could hear stuff moving, switches being switched, things being dragged across the counter. If the cat had ever gotten up on the counter I would say it was him although I'm reluctant to call it supernatural it always made my mind race.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seems like you could have recorded this unless it was a very long time ago.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 15:31:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my cousin was young (maybe 3 or 4) he was very ill. He was bed bound with a high fever for a few days and when his mum asked him if he was feeling better he said "I'm fine mummy, the man in the corner is looking after me" his mum looked and there was nobody there. Obviously thinking the fever had made him hallucinate, she carried on without even thinking about. some time later they were looking through some old family photos and my cousin pointed to a man in a photo and said "thats him, the man that looked after me when I was ill". the photo was of my cousins grandfather who had passed away but had promised, as he was dying, that he would look over them.

Gurbles · 4 points · Posted at 15:50:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was a hunter in the woods, who, after a long day hunting, was in the middle of an immense forest. It was getting dark, and having lost his bearings, he decided to head in one direction until he was clear of the increasingly oppressive foliage. After what seemed like hours, he came across a cabin in a small clearing. Realizing how dark it had grown, he decided to see if he could stay there for the night. He approached, and found the door ajar. Nobody was inside. The hunter flopped down on the single bed, deciding to explain himself to the owner in the morning. As he looked around the inside of the cabin, he was surprised to see the walls adorned by several portraits, all painted in incredible detail. Without exception, they appeared to be staring down at him, their features twisted into looks of hatred and malice. Staring back, he grew increasingly uncomfortable. Making a concerted effort to ignore the many hateful faces, he turned to face the wall, and exhausted, he fell into a restless sleep. The next morning, the hunter awoke — he turned, blinking in unexpected sunlight. Looking up, he discovered that the cabin had no portraits, only windows.

fates_fury · 1 points · Posted at 09:22:04 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE. Old creepypasta, but NOOOOOPE.

limabeanns · 5 points · Posted at 15:52:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a 7 foot tall deep black shadow/mass with red eyes in the hallway of an old apartment I lived in (in Chicago). Up to that point, I had been creeped out in that apartment but didn't know why, so I dismissed the feeling. The building wasn't brand new--it was a four-plus-one likely built in the 70s--but it was new enough for me to think that I wasn't justified in being creeped out by the place.

One night I went to bed late, as usual, but could not fall asleep. My cats usually went to bed with me but they did not on that night, which kind of bothered me—I was accustomed to falling asleep with a cat or two on me. So I sat up in bed and looked out into the hallway and waited for my eyes to adjust to the dark, intending to hopefully see and call out to the cats. It was dark but not pitch black so it wasn't long before shapes became clear in the dark. That was when I saw it.

It was in the hallway just past my bedroom door; it was so tall that it was about level with the top of the bedroom doorframe. It was deepest, darkest black I’ve ever seen in my life—blacker than black. It had a vague head/shoulder/torso shape, and the bottom of it kind of faded away. Not believing my eyes, I leaned forward in bed to get a better look at this “thing”. I was positive it had to be a trick of the light until it appeared to ‘turn’ and two red eyes came into view. The eyes had no pupils but I just knew that it was looking directly at me. I suddenly felt how a prey animal must feel when the eyes of a predator lock upon it—a deep, primal fear. Then without warning, it swooped into the bedroom towards me.

Without even thinking about it, I ducked beneath the covers like a kid hiding from the boogeyman and remained there until I couldn’t breathe. My husband was sleeping next to me so I decided to elbow him hard enough to make him wake up and ask me what the heck I was doing. I figured that if he didn’t freak out next to me, then the shadow thing was gone. So I did exactly that, and it was indeed gone.

I hated sleeping there over the next several months. I never again saw the shadow thing like that, but two separate times both my husband (the biggest skeptic ever up to that point) and I saw it again, although it was smaller and non-threatening in both occasions. Nevertheless, I was glad to move out of that place.

Kaptain_Obviou5 · 6 points · Posted at 15:59:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my friends had lots of weird stuff happen to him when he was alone or with a small group of friends in his house. He said it had all started after he used a ouija board, which he eventually got rid of. We were in his house one night watching football when we heard loud pounding footsteps from his basement. These shook the whole house, and his basement had concrete floors so these "footsteps" were coming down with a lot of force. My friend told me this was normal so we just ignored it until every chair at his kitchen table moved across the room while we watched, scraping across the wood floor with an ungodly noise. We decide to go to the basement to watch TV as the ground floor left us feeling exposed. The lights go out and the TV turns on when we get to the bottom of the stairs. Boxes stacked against the walls start falling down. Terrified, we sprinted out of his house.

TL;DR- Ouija board demon haunts my friend and scares us shitless

AllegedlyMe · 3 points · Posted at 23:09:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ouija boards are a stupid toy to play with. I mean, it can open you up to all sorts of weird stuff

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:15:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That audio clip when the russians dropped that microphone into the deep hole and it sounds like people screaming and stuff.. Supposedly "Hell".. Pretty creepy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbrbx0ApQ8k&t=30s

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:44:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax

RamonaBetances · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you have any more background on that?

dclutter1 · 4 points · Posted at 16:32:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I'm pregnant".

Krozard · 4 points · Posted at 18:48:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was a story I read awhile ago, that really, really creeped me out. (names and wording are different naturally).

Jill was on her way to babysit for a family for the first time. As she turned into the driveway she had to double check the address to make sure she was at the right place. The house was beautiful, almost a mansion, with property big enough to match. Although snow had fallen just the night before, there was already a snowman in the front lawn. She got out of her car and knocked on the door. Mrs. Wilson invited her in and gave her a brief tour of the house before introducing her to the kids, Tim and Maggie.

Mrs. Wilson left Jill the number where her and Mr. Wilson could be reached, said the kids need to be in bed by 10, and left. Tim and Maggie were extremely well behaved, and mostly kept to their rooms playing with their toys, so Jill decided to watch some T.V. She turned on her favorite game show. At around 10:00 she went upstairs to put the kids to bed before going back to watching more T.V. When she got back downstairs, she saw that her gameshow was interrupted by breaking news...a serial killer had recently escaped from prison and was expected to be in the area. They showed his picture and warned everyone to be extremely careful around him, and expect him to be armed and dangerous.

Jill shivered a little out of fear and went to make sure the doors and windows were locked before watching more T.V. As she sat down though, she noticed something in the large window behind the T.V...she saw the escaped killer standing outside the house holding a large knife. She screamed and called the police who sent 10 squad cars over immediately. They searched the grounds outside the window, but determined that there was no possible way he could have been standing there, as there were no footprints in the fresh snow. After searching the house, they found him in the kids room, just staring at them.

She didn't see him standing outside the window, the saw his reflection in the window...he was in the house standing behind her.

socolover14 · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE.

Hannahbellector3388 · 5 points · Posted at 23:31:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So a friend and I had recently moved into a place together out in the middle of nowhere. We were the only house around, plus a few old abandoned buildings. One night around 1 a.m. her and I are out on our porch smoking cigarettes. Surrounding our house were some hedges and a walk way leading to our porch. She happens to look out and ask "what is that?" I look over to see a figure appear, then a flashlight clicks on, just on his face to reveal a giant clown approaching us. We scream, run into the house immediately call the police. At first the dispatcher thought we were on drugs, but finally agreed to send an officer out. He spoke to us then drove away. No searching the property, just a statement. A week later we found a butcher knife stabbed into one door of an abandoned building. Then a few months later, read in the newspaper about a guy breaking into houses dressed as a clown, and had actually killed a few people not far from us. Yeah, I don't like clowns.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:49:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fucking clowns man...

Hannahbellector3388 · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I hated them to begin with. Now I have a legit reason to.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:08:00 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is terrifying in so so many ways

Hannahbellector3388 · 2 points · Posted at 03:10:29 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah. The worst part is, you know how dumb girls in horror movies always trip and stumble? Yeah, that happens in reality. After the shock wore off and we felt a little better, we couldn't believe what morons we were.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:25:57 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Considering your comment is the only one that mentions real life psychotic clowns, and that you were chillin on your porch, I say good job on screaming and tripping---I think I would have died in that situation LOL!! But in all honesty you have an awesomely chilling story that you can now tell kids you survived crazy stuff. This is exactly what I secretly fear everytime I am outside a house at night :-/

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 23:37:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was traveling in Bucharest a few months ago. I arrived in the city at 1 am and was couchsurfing with a guy after being on the train for 9 hours. I was totally out of it and hadn't sleep in 2 days straight because I had to catch a really early train the night before. I got to the kids place and he fed me and whatnot, then I was trying to sleep. I couldn't sleep for some reason, so I just told him we'd meet up in the morning and decided to wander around city. (I was in North Bucharest which was kind of a sketchy area at about 2 am, which was when I left). I was trying to get to the old city and had no idea where I was going, so I got some directions from a cop towards the center. It was about an hour away and it was December and the snow was coming down hard so I just started wandering off. As I came to a highway underpass, there were all these stray dogs hanging out, then they saw me and got up and every one of them started barking at me and moving closer. I was surrounded by about 10 stray dogs barking at me and growling and they were slowly getting closer, so I kept walking quicker. One of them ended up charging at me barking and jumped at me trying to attack me, so I ended up kicking it in the face and it yelped and fell to the ground, then the rest of them scampered off.

I kept walked and bumped into this old teenage Romanian kid who was randomly out in the middle of the night. I asked him for directions and he told me the old city was super far, then ended with "Well...good luck my friend...be careful..." I turned away for a second then looked back and he was gone.

About fifteen minutes later, I felt like I was getting lost and saw an old dude shambling along and asked him for directions. He stared at me for about 30 seconds, then just started cackling the most maniacal laughter I've ever heard, staring at me. I just kinda slinked away and kept walking.

Again, I bumped into another dude who asked me for a cigarette, asking him for directions as well. We had a cigarette and he explained where to go then, again said the exact same words as the kid "Good luck to you my friend..." I turned my head and he disappeared as well.

I finally make it to the old city, where I grabbed a coffee from a coffee machine and was sitting on the street corner smoking and this young girl comes up to me and says "You're not from Bucharest are you?" We talked for a second, then she asked for some money for a coffee, so I gave her some, then she says, "Be careful out here, its a very strange place. Good luck to you my friend..." then she disappeared in a matter of seconds.

I don't really know what it was, maybe because I was delirious and tired, but that whole night was fucking creepy as hell.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:41:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep deprivation...

fuckedupfive · 5 points · Posted at 23:37:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my friends told me this story. According to his parents (who told him about it) it's true. So my friends parents were invited to dinner by another couple that had just moved in to a new house. After the dinner they played a game, I don't know what game they played, but they decided that the loser should go upstairs and check out a creepy closet that they hadn't looked into yet. They played the game, and the girl of the couple lost. She went upstairs alone while the others stayed downstairs. All of a sudden they heard the girl scream. They ran upstairs and the girl was sitting in a corner, pale white and just staring in front of her. There was nothing in the closet that could have frightened her. She has been in a mental asylum for the past 15 years, coming home maybe two or three weeks every six months. She is apparently doing better now, but if she gets reminded of that night she freaks out and have to be locked in again for a couple of months.

Sorry for the bad english.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

right wtf

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the fuck? That's straight up... weird.

CrotchFungus · 5 points · Posted at 02:19:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Godfucking damnit reddit I just wanted to sleep.

njpasta · 6 points · Posted at 02:25:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend told me this story awhile back. Still unsure if it's true but still scary nonetheless.

His family was good friends with another family in the neighborhood that had a daughter in her 20's. She recently started seeing this guy, invited him to a family event, got drunk, and they started to hook up. He asked her to come back to his place that night but she wanted to take things slow so she respectfully declined until a later time.

Fast forward a few days and the girl starts to develop this rash on her lips and neck. She goes to the doctor to find out what it was but they couldn't figure it out. She leaves the doctor and a few more days pass before she gets a call from her doctor to come back in.

She returns to the doctor the next day with her mom and is seated in a room. The mother is called out of the room by the doctor. The doctor tells her that the rash was caused a bacteria (or virus?) found in decomposing human flesh. The daughter is informed and she immediately calls the guy she is seeing, leaves a voicemail, and never hears back from him.

Police get a warrant to search his house and they find multiple corpses of girls in the daughter's age group and him hunched over and eating one of them...shivers

electrobolt · 3 points · Posted at 02:06:15 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Comfort yourself with the fact that it is most certainly not true. http://www.snopes.com/risque/juvenile/corpse.asp

Otherwise I would NOT be sleeping tonight, heh.

AshenKilljoy · 3 points · Posted at 04:21:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There are a lot of creepy ones on this thread, but this one for me takes the cake. Glad that girl didn't end up back at the necrophiliacs place. Terrifying.

gypsycamptrash · 2 points · Posted at 11:18:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sounds familiar..

AllegedlyMe · 2 points · Posted at 13:25:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure this is a popular urban legend, I've heard it before. But creepy nonetheless.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:07:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You might remember something about "numbers" and "number stations" from CodBlops. They are real.

If you poke around the long range shortwave band with a good antenna, you'll mostly just hear some third-world talk shows and music and a few amateur broadcasts. Occasionally, though, you'll find something that doesn't seem to be from a live DJ. After a few loops of creepy ice-cream truck nursery tunes, you'll something that will steal your sleep: "five. three. three. six. one. eight. five." in a monotone robotic voice. Over, and over, and over, and the number patterns change with every loop. That, or incessant buzzing patterns and screeching noises.

The most famous number station is UVB-76 in Russia. Other recordings are available here. Number stations are still unexplained. Many believe that they're used by intelligence agencies to send messages to spies; I think that they're used by demons to send nightmares to evil atheists :P

brumbz · 6 points · Posted at 05:34:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been reading this thread off and on all day and finally realized I have something to add... Doubt anyone will read it now. I digress. I moved to Columbia, SC in the early 2000s when I was in high school. I quickly became friends with a couple of girls who lived in the same neighborhood which was kind of old and had small houses that backed up to a set of train tracks. One girl's backyard had a small line of trees and a busted up chain link fence behind them as a barrier between their property line and the tracks. We were having a sleepover at her house one night when a train goes by around 3am. I commented on it because I never knew the tracks were there before and it was pretty loud, however, brief. The girls proceed to tell me this story about how a certified insane, elderly and hermited woman from down the block once left her house for the first time in years. She walked down the street and through my friend's yard to the back of the house and crawled through a hole in the fence to lay on the tracks and kill herself. They totally had me freaked out and I got a little mad at them for fucking with me, but didn't make a big stink because they were new friends. The next day I tell my dad about what they said and how it pissed me off - I didn't like being the butt of their joke. He turns to look at me and says "Oh damn. No, that totally happened a couple years ago, it was all over the local news. Her backyard? Daaaamn." He pulled up the news article on the internet to prove it to me, as I called bullshit on him too. Nope, totally happened.

Will try to update with proof.

civiii · 6 points · Posted at 14:20:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

vampiric scream http://youtu.be/qAT0S3bVSNw

watch at night in the dark or put on your friends cell as a ring tone and call them when they're in bed great times had by all

PUT_YOUR_PENIS_IN_IT · -7 points · Posted at 19:21:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saving for future use, I am on my phone sorry.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 21:02:41 on July 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay i have about ~~three~~ four TRUE stories that are creepy, freaky and scary as HELL! happening to me, and/or my family. Lets start with my personal experiences...oh god, my hairs are standing up even thinking about these....

So the setting is in my old house we lived in last year (i was 16 at the time). Not many wierd stuff would happen, but when it did, we were kinda used to it and ignored it or made stories out of it (i know its wierd but hey, dominican family xD)...on more than one occasions, my bedroom door would open on its own, and the skeptical me telling myself "the wind is retarted today" and just ignored it. BUT on one instance, it was UNEXPLAINABLE ; it was about 4 am, i was in my room, my sister sleeping in the next, and mother out partying on a saturday night. the houes was dark because i was about to go to bed, being the only one awake. OUT OF NOWHERE i went from watching tv to quickly staring down my door as if something was pulling my attention to it. it was quiet. my doorknob SLOWLY turned (to my surprise because i always lock my door) and slowly opened. i waited for the door to completely open thinking that my mom was opening it. NOPE! it opened completely and all i saw was darkness. i tried not to pay much attention but as soon as i slightly moved to close it, the door slammed shut on me. I JUMPED UP grabbed my knife from under my bed (just in case shit goes down even though im a pussy) and swung open the door thinking somebody was in my house. i ran through all the rooms and turned on the lights...nothing. i went in my sisters room and she was sound asleep (even if it was her, she couldnt have moved fast enough to get to her room, im a fast runner)...that scared me shitless and i went back into my room and didnt sleep till my mother came home.
The second story is from my uncles side of the family. It's him, his wife, son (19), and two daughters (17, 11)...the scary part?...there seems to be a little girl between the ages of 5-10 who follows them...haunting them occasionally. one night at my old house from the previous story, the wife got up at about 3 am and went to the bathroom. in the hallway to the bathroom, she noticed a small girl just sitting in fetal position next to the bathroom door. being half asleep, she payed no attention and went to the bathroom, she came out, and the girl was still there. she assumed it was her daughter (face was hidden by her hair) and asked if she was hungry or something...the girl didnt answer...she asked her to go back to sleep...no answer. the mom got mad and told her to go to bed when she wanted then, and continued back to my room (they were sleeping in my room) to her surprise, she found her husband AND HER DAUGHTER asleep on the bed. she looked back to the hallway were the girl was sitting...she was gone.
Another instance about this wierd girl ghost is what happened to my cousin alone, and then my cousin and I in the living room of my old home (same home from previous...)...Him alone; so he was in his home in new york, and went to bed. he in the middle of the night, only to have sleep paralysis...it was a scary experience yes...BUT as he turned his head to the corner of his bed...he saw a girl..THE GIRL. unable to breath, speak, or scream, he could only watch as she slowly got up and turned to him....she disappeared. but he was still paralyze. 3 seconds later he saw/felt footsteps pressure on his bed, getting closer and closer...almost running. when the steps got to him, she shot up and gasped...awoken in a pool of sweat, he went to sleep with his sister. Both of ours experience with this girl...so we were sleeping in my living room for all the bedrooms were full one night. we stayed up until like 4 am...we turned off the lights to sleep, and about 3 mins later we heard it..."AAAAHAAAHAHA" we heard this scream/laugh from a small girl. we knew it wasnt his little sister, this sounded much younger, also, it sounded like it was literally within 5 ft from both of us, as i heard it i shot up and just stared into the darkness. i thought i was the only one who heard it until i flashed my cellphone light at my cousin, he was almost out of the couch just staring with me...we went to sleep without a second though...
This is perhaps one of the scariest. my uncle was sleeping in my room and cousin in the living room (me with my mother)...quick backstory my uncle used to live on top of a seafood place in an apartment...he knew the lady who owned it, she's long deceased. he hated the smell of constant fish in his house back to the story he was sleeping with his wife in my room. in the middle of the night, he was awoken by a phone call...he looked at the caller ID..it read "Rosa"...his wifes name....BUT? his wife is right next to him? CORRECT. he figured somebody had her phone in another room, but quickly found her phone on the counter untouched...my confused uncle picked up the call...silence on the other end. he suddenly explained having this strong...and i mean STRONG fish smell all around him. he opened the window and went back to bed. the door gradually opened on its own and my uncle was frozen in shock as he saw this dark shadow person shaped thing walk by slowly towards the kitchen. he didnt tell anybody about this, until the next afternoon...when my cousin who was sleeping in the living room...explained a tall..dark....shadowy human staring at him...standing in the corner of the kitchen...

[deleted] · 74 points · Posted at 13:37:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Once I heard a creak in the living room when it was pitch black downstairs at night while I was getting a drink.

They were facing me and it was like they WERE expecting me to suddenly blow the damn door down and threaten them with a fully loaded shotgun. They made no reaction to it however.

Well I asked them who the they were and told them to get the fuck out otherwise I would blow their faces off.

They didn't say a word.

One of them picked up the picture of me and my mother on the table and fucking pointed at it with his shiny white gloved hand.

He then took off his mask-

edit: .....well he didn't get the chance because I blew it off. Then did off the other two.

Called the police, they came in droves. Like 3 police cars with two Black Sedans. They took these bodies in sorted it out. I found out there were no records of these three in the database. Like they were three humans who had never existed. Their size and appearances weren't compatible with anything. It still creeps me out how they were essentially strangers and had never had any record of existing on this planet before this event.

Apparently this went down deep and big too. I ruined my chance of getting involved by killing these invaders. I still regret doing such a stupid act.

It was 3 tapes in total.

I still wonder what was on those tapes, why the invaders were carrying them and if they were at my house to show them to me.

Well I know - should not have killed three human beings like that. But I was fucking SCARED. And it was more of a reflex than a decision.

chaserawlinson · 104 points · Posted at 15:30:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good read, but I call bullshit.

[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 16:48:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You don't say

Erzsabet · 59 points · Posted at 15:47:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The clearest sign that it's fake is all the details you have about how they weren't in any database or whatever. No one would have told you that. They never would have told you that their higher ups had them drop the case. They don't tell civilians that.

thisidiotsays · 21 points · Posted at 16:17:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Also, no one questioned him killing three unarmed men?

EDIT: I'm Australian, made assumptions about U.S. law.

nekotripp · 6 points · Posted at 18:22:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In many US states, what is known as castle doctrine basically makes it legal to use lethal force against anyone on your property IF you feel threatened.

akai_ferret · 8 points · Posted at 20:12:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

They'll still question the hell out of you.

They don't just say:
"... oh ... you felt threatened? OK THEN!"
And drop the case.

They're going to want to find out if you knew those people.
Whether they actually broke in or if you invited them in.
Etc.

Castle doctrine is not a free pass to kill anyone in your house.
Anyone that pretends otherwise is full of shit.

It is a specific set of protections to keep people who defended themselves at home from being subject to unnecessary legal troubles and lawsuits.

nekotripp · 3 points · Posted at 20:39:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think that OPs story would definitely fit those criteria, though.

TheModernEgg · 8 points · Posted at 18:12:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That had broken into his house and were completely masked? To me, that would be cause for some blasting.

Erzsabet · 5 points · Posted at 16:28:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Right?

basisvector · 10 points · Posted at 17:05:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not to mention the fact that the authorities don't have fingerprints and dna samples of every human being on file. I doubt you'd have to look too far to find someone that you couldn't find in any 'databases' if they didn't hand you their ID.

Erzsabet · 2 points · Posted at 17:06:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Exactly!

[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 17:01:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got told at the station in the first night by a newer cop who was nice to talk to, however he seemed less inclined to give me such details later on - dont think he was let on who these guys were.

Erzsabet · 6 points · Posted at 17:07:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No. They are not ALLOWED to give out case details until the case is solved.

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 17:10:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I suppose you were there then? I was told and that's all I can say. I also asked a lot of questions and demanded them - seeing as three creepy masked men had broken into my house.

Erzsabet · 3 points · Posted at 17:17:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"All they could say" was that there was no trace of these guys in any database in the world, and that the bodies mysteriously disappeared? Yeah right. First of all, as someone else said, a lot of people aren't in any database. The only reason I'm in any database in the US is because they had to fingerprint me when I got denied at the border for not being able to prove I intended to return home at any point.

That's not how the real world works.

It's an interesting premise for a story, but you definitely need to work on the details better, because it's totally not believable as it is.

[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 17:29:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's just what I was told man, remember that.

Erzsabet · 3 points · Posted at 17:32:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah ok.

[deleted] · 59 points · Posted at 14:24:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

and said, "Do you have battle toads?"

NEVER_CLEANED_COMP · 27 points · Posted at 15:40:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice read, not very believable. 5/10.

Kull44 · 17 points · Posted at 15:07:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was expecting Loch Ness Monster

[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:29:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same. Am disappoint.

CPTNBob46 · 5 points · Posted at 15:52:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

would have been more believable if he did

Lasercat77 · 16 points · Posted at 15:59:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Plot twist: Two of them were your parents.

ceejiesqueejie · 11 points · Posted at 13:53:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?!

Edit: Wuht. The. Fuck.

[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 14:14:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't say because I blew his face off before he got the chance.

[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 13:59:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:40:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Refresh to read.

thedrinkmonster · 9 points · Posted at 14:43:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did everybody walk the dinosaur?

FuneralBell · 5 points · Posted at 14:37:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lika a Bane kind of voice? Bane from Batman: The dark knight rises.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:39:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Almost but more growly. It wasn't as British or eloquent.

FuneralBell · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I can almost picture me the voice now. Creepy stuff dude.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

picture the voice?

Damadawf · 7 points · Posted at 16:18:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your story was interesting, but don't use so much bold font next time because I feel that it draws the gaze of the reader and can break the mood for them.

Hoody711 · 3 points · Posted at 15:24:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This should be a lot higher up in this thread. That was fucking creepy

672 · 2 points · Posted at 15:58:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wait, what? Seems like it could be the script for a movie or something.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:18:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:19:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

O.o

I always thought it was some government conspiracy thing but your is possible too...

unclepj60 · 2 points · Posted at 16:54:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't blame you. If anyone came in my house with those masks, I'd blow their fucking heads off as well.

reliantk10 · 1 points · Posted at 14:28:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TELL US PLEASE!!!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:29:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've edited it...

votedh · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:40:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've completed the event. Refresh to read it all.

LinkRazr · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What in the hell?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where can i get that mask?

BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Killing them was a very, very bad idea.

AlmightyB · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

With the greatest respect, what scared me more was the fact you killed them with so little thought.

SockBasket · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wat

SeaMenOnTheRocks · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, really, really creative and good story. I don't believe it, but I can almost see this sort of thing happening in secret. Some sort of deep rooted government conspiracy, the sort of secret assassins or workers the government employs to keep things quiet, sort of like the secret police from V for Vendetta.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I wish this was real...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:25:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...holy fuckin shit.

Intergalactic_ranger · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hmmmm...questioning the truth in this one

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:25:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It happened man :/

Intergalactic_ranger · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Then that shit is FUCKED UP!!

junjus · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am having a seriously hard time believing this

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not my problem, it's the truth. Take it or leave it.

Drunken__Dwarf · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:21 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I believe you Danny.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:26 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who the FUCK are you and how do you know my nickname?!

I'm half inclined to call the police.

Drunken__Dwarf · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:45 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm just a random person who is on a lot of the same subs as you.

You seem like a good fella but it makes me sad that you speak to people the way you do online sometimes, don't be so mean to people, love not hate man:)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:45 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay that is bullshit.

You created your account a month ago and your (4) only comments are to me.

And how the hell do you know my fucking name? I haven't said my name on Reddit anywhere.

This is really creepy....

Also most of my comments that I write in that manner aren't written in a serious manner, I just do it to be a jerk.

Drunken__Dwarf · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:37 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry for making you feel paranoid, 'twas not my intention.

I genuinely do not know you irl though.

You do need to be more careful with your personal info though, once it's out there it's out there. If someone intended you harm you could be in trouble. I'd suggest deleting this account and starting over.

As for your comments, I'm a firm believer that you should conduct yourself online as you would irl, I bet you're a decent human being in person. Maybe you should ask yourself why you feel to vent in this way?

السلام عليكم

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:42 on July 23, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why the hell are your only comments to me?! and where did you get my name from?

which someone...? Please elaborate. Should I delete my account because you know something...?

I believe that too btw, I mostly do it except sometimes I act like an idiot.

I bet you're a decent human being in person

Why would you make this sort of damn assumption? you can't possibly know this (unless you knew otherwise...).

And what the fuck?!!?!

Why did you post that in Arabic?! I'm a Muslim so that creeps me out....

This is absolutely creepy as hell.

darrenfromutah · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I want to beleive

akai_ferret · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This suffers from the same crap that afflicts most the shitty stories in nosleep.

One of the biggest offenders, and the most annoying to me, is how you guys keep throwing in more and more elaborate details as afterthoughts. It sounds exactly like a child telling a story that he's making up as he goes along ... but it wasn't just a gun IT WAS A LASER. AND THEY HAD TAPES. Uh. THREE TAPES .... AND THE TAPES WERE OLD AND SHIT! ... AND ... UH ... DID I MENTION THE ALIENS!? AND THE POLICE SAID ...

If you come up with more ideas, restructure your fucking story and work them in properly. You also might want to stop and consider if you're adding too many outlandish details.
Maybe it was better off without them. (It was.)

genuinesavage · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thats some crazy shit man. Is your mom connected to any suspicious stuff?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My Mom worked in the government office all her life. I never knew what job in particular because I never bothered to ask(being 15 yrs old and stupid). My Father was military and was a very soft+well spoken man. He was a good father and a contrast to my mother's stern manner.

He died in action those 7 years ago and mom died 3 days before in a petrol leak explosion with her car.

junjus · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So how old were you when this happened?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

junjus · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Somebody call the karma police this guy is a phony! A big fat phony! He posted 31 days ago about him being a 16 year old British Muslim! Call the karma police!

CockRagesOn · 0 points · Posted at 15:57:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is there any kind of news story or verification for this?

fossilizedscat · 0 points · Posted at 16:52:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why isn't this higher up?!? This is one of the creepiest comments in this thread!

caliginous4 · 0 points · Posted at 17:36:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Excellent story

olijackson64 · 0 points · Posted at 17:41:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I want to believe

DOWNVOTECOLLECTOR2 · 0 points · Posted at 19:12:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

shitthatneverhappened.txt

diarmada · 0 points · Posted at 19:19:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You are an idiot and anyone who believes this stupid story is an idiot. Go back to r/NoSleepwith this crap...on second thought, those stories can at least be plausible, so nevermind.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is real, it happened to me. I'm not forcing you to believe it though.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 14:24:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

AND DID GANGNAM STYLE.

EMMA_WATSONS_CLIT · 7 points · Posted at 14:38:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone passed me a note once that said "Don't say Candlejack. If you do h

JokerGoesHmHm · 6 points · Posted at 14:16:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me and a couple roommates (I live in a fraternity house) were watching a movie in my basement a few months ago. I don't remember what movie it was, but whatever. We were all sitting on couches, and we were using an overhead projector that's attached to a ceiling. Midway through the movie, all of a sudden, there was this black silhouette of a person that just appeared on the screen, as if someone were standing in the way of the screen and projector. Again, we were all sitting down. Then, this silhouette turned around, so we knew it was facing us now. While facing us, it started to turn its head, as if it was looking at each of us. We told it to leave, and the silhouette just stood there for a second, and vanished, into thin air. We knew it was our house ghost, who probably wanted to just watch the movie with us.

honeybadga · 2 points · Posted at 22:09:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably just wanted you to scootch over to make room for it on your couch.

CanadianDave · 5 points · Posted at 20:03:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last week I checked my right pocket to see if my phone was there; it was not. I then checked my left pocket and there it was. Scarriest moment of my life.

frothyneko · 7 points · Posted at 09:49:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friends and i used to explore abandond places in the city we lived in. Most of the time we just went and took photos of the inside of these places. One of these places was a house just down the road from where i was living. We went in and wandered around. Taking photos of the graffiti and the degraded state of the building. My friend, Ethan kicked a bottle of champagne through a door and it came rolling out of another door behind us. There was no way it could have done that. So i tried it again and same result. It was cool but we didnt have much time to work it out cos all these books came flying out of the door behind us. I belive we may have collectivly shat ourself and bolted from there. Didn't see what books they were but they sounded heavy. Never went near that place again.

pttymcgee · 6 points · Posted at 19:33:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The paranormal stuff is definitely creepy. But the stuff that's really getting me is posts of actual events. Especially that one with the guy tip toeing slowly towards OP while out for a walk. I'll never be able to walk alone at night without thinking this now.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 14:12:04 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:01:58 on July 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get what makes this seemingly homeless person a paedophile. Seems like he was just trying to get a pumpkin. Maybe we wanted to fuck it, but more likely, he promised his kids he would get one and couldn't afford it.

Chocolate_Ice · 9 points · Posted at 14:08:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everyone has an anus. Even your mother

Blacky31 · 3 points · Posted at 13:52:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Death rattle

RenegadeMuso · 5 points · Posted at 14:17:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i saw a man possessed by a demon once. not the most religious man, but i believed that encounter.

Hermish94 · 4 points · Posted at 14:36:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seen: probably the story(?) on an asian site where this lady went: KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE (can't remember name of site or anything sorry. Props to those who can find it) Heard: Probably the article I read about a gay HIV+ community planning to spread it

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:40:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

just google bug chasing

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 14:45:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was watching some commercial that used those little letter blocks on a fridge and it kept spelling out words for the guy. i had similiar letters on my fridge that were my younger sisters, but she never used them. I walked over to the fridge and right in the middle was the phrase 'I'd run' right in the middle of a bunch of random letters. scared the shit out of me for weeks

gboy198 · 4 points · Posted at 15:24:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That pop up video on YouTube with the car driving then a clown pops out of nowhere

wvwvwvwvwvw · 3 points · Posted at 15:32:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was working in Haiti a teenage girl arrived at our hospital who was supposedly 19 but looked more like 15 or 16, because she had been mysteriously wasting away for weeks. She wouldn't eat or talk, just stared into space with this vague look of pain and sadness on her face. We thought she might be HIV+ like a third of Haiti's population, but after running blood and platelet tests it was found that her levels were close to normal, so if she was HIV+ she had been recently infected, more recently than her wasting started. She herself was confusing as a medical case, but the creepy part was her father. Since she wouldn't talk, we asked him questions about her: was she in a relationship, did she have unprotected sex, did he have an idea of her whereabouts most of the time. He changed his answers several times and had to be directed strongly to give us straight answers. We suspected potential abuse and suggested that she go for a psychiatric evaluation, in a building across the courtyard from the emergency room. When we got back from the psych ward to move her, they were both gone. She didn't walk out of there on her own, and her father made no mention to anyone that they were leaving. He must have just wheeled her out of there knowing what we might find out by having a professional ask her those questions. I hope she's ok.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:33:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was younger, I went to a Jesuit boarding school in the foothills of the Kathmandu Valley. Grades 1-4 all roomed together in a huge, long building but grades 5 and 6 got their own little bungalows to sleep in. The Grade 5 bungalow was really cozy, beautiful to look at and quite old. Although it was called a bungalow, it had two floors and an attic with our beds on the second floor.

Now a lot of our seniors had told us scary stories about the bungalow but they were just stories, or so I thought. One time, I woke up in the middle of the night and realised I needed to take a shit. Now this was terrible news as the actual bathrooms were way on the ground floor and off to one side of the building. I would have to make my way down some stairs, past the solitary urinal for peeing, through our locker room and into the dark, musty, damp bathroom.

I tried to hold it as much as I could but I couldn't do it anymore so I ran down, as fast as I could, turning on as many lights as I could and leaving them on. I made it to the bathroom and was doing my business when suddenly, the lights went off. It was pitch black, no moonlight, no ambient light, nothing. I felt around and managed to clean myself and got out of the bathroom. The taps were near the toilet so I felt my way around and even managed to wash my hands.

At this point, I was already scared shitless. I was a little kid and all those stories I had been told were running around my brain like ravenous wild rats. But swallowing my fear, I felt my way to the bathroom light switch and tried it, no luck. Didn't turn on. In the locker room, I tried the switch and this one turned on in a flash. Now the light switch was right next to a rectangular face mirror and I was staring right at the mirror when the light came on. And there, in the mirror, I saw a Sister (a Jesuit nun) in her traditional blue headscarf standing behind me. I screamed and turned around and as expected, there was no one there. I ran as fast as I could and behind me, the lights turned off again. I didn't touch it, it just went off.

I couldn't sleep all night. I was literally trembling with fear and anxiety and hiding my head under the covers brought no relief. The next morning, I wanted to tell our resident Sister about the incident. This Sister, Agnes, was a old, Indian lady with gray hair, chubby and quite tall. The Sister I saw in the mirror had been just a little taller than me, black hair that showed from underneath a headscarf that was pushed back on her head and quite young too. She also had a bone white rosary around her neck. All our other Sisters carried sky blue rosaries. But I was kind of afraid of Sister Agnes as she was quite moody and mean and I thought she would simply pooh-poohed my story. I didn't tell anyone because it was an all boys hostel and I was afraid my friends would tease the crap out of me for being a sissy. But I very clearly remember that Sister and what she looked like.

And you know the funny, scary thing? A few weeks later, a friend told me the exact same story. Same with the lights, same with the Sister in the mirror and even described what she was like, down to the black hair and the white rosary. For some reason, I didn't tell him that I had seen her too. But then again, I hadn't told anyone my story.

ATmotoman · 4 points · Posted at 16:00:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

TL;DR Don't fuck around with skin-walkers. Ever.

Okay well I'll share this story even though anything I ever say on this damn site gets unheard. So I had just learned about the old Native American legend of skin-walkers and not being afraid or knowing that you're not supposed to talk about them, especially at night, I told literally everyone I knew. I would read all about them, read every story I could find, and this became a fascination of mine for a few weeks, until one night. So I just got into bed after moving back from college and I start to hear a tap on the window. Thinking its just a tree branch from a window that is just outside I just brush it off. But the tapping keeps going and it gets louder and louder, almost sounding like someone is banging on my window. Then I hear my little brother let out a horrifying scream and I almost shit myself jumping out of bed running to my little brothers room. When I get about the same time my parents do and hes sobbing and saying there he saw men outside the house looking in my window. Okay, so about this time I'm freaked the fuck out, like I just wanna sit in the corner with a shotgun the whole night. My dad grabs his gun that he keeps under his bed and does a search all around the house for these men but doesn't find any trace or sign of them. After that everything quieted down for the night. About a week later my buddy from high-school, that went to a different college, came over and we wanted to go get some McDonald's. My little brother, who is seven and I should have mentioned that earlier, tagged along for the trip. So after we get done eating my friend asked my little brother if he saw those guys outside the window anymore. To which he replied "Yeah I'm use to seeing them now. They said they wont hurt me and that they are just waiting on ATmotoman. They're outside looking in his window every night."

Edit: Just a quick edit, I never told anything about skin-walkers to my brother at all. He's way to young for me to be telling scary Indian demon shit too. And hes never had any ghost encounters before this happened.

fufu487 · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

you....you should probably look into doing something about that. Good luck.

charliesan180 · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"You ARE the FATHER!!!"

-Apple-Porn- · 3 points · Posted at 18:44:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read a really creepy story here on reddit once, can't find it so I'll try to type it. There was a guy hiking in the woods when he got lost. He tried to find a way out but couldn't and it was turning night. He came across a cabin and knocked but no one answered. He tried knocking on the door again but nothing. He realised how dark it was so he figured he would go in and if anybody came he would deal with the consequences later. He went in and saw a bed so he decided to sleep in it. While lying down under the covers he looked around the cabin to check it out. He was really creeped out by five pictures of people staring right at the bed he was in. He decided to turn towards the wall, ignore them and sleep. When he woke up in the morning, he decided to get a better look at the pictures he saw form last night. He turned around to look at the pictures and that';s when he realised... they weren't pictures, they were windows

LFBR · 4 points · Posted at 19:08:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

White with Red, the creepypasta:

A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that on the way to his room, there was a door with no number that was locked and no one was allowed in there. Especially no one should look inside the room, under any circumstances. So he followed the instructions of the woman at the front desk, going straight to his room, and going to bed.

The next night his curiosity would not leave him alone about the room with no number on the door. He walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough it was locked. He bent down and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling his eye. What he saw was a hotel bedroom, like his, and in the corner was a woman whose skin was completely white. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. He stared in confusion for a while. He almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity, but decided not to.

This disinclination saved his life. He crept away from the door and walked back to his room. The next day, he returned to the door and looked through the wide keyhole. This time, all he saw was redness. He couldn’t make anything out besides a distinct red color, unmoving. Perhaps the inhabitants of the room knew he was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red.

At this point he decided to consult the woman at the front desk for more information. She sighed and said, “Did you look through the keyhole?” The man told her that he had and she said, “Well, I might as well tell you the story. A long time ago, a man murdered his wife in that room, and her ghost haunts it. But these people were not ordinary. They were white all over, except for their eyes, which were red.”

megamanxero · 4 points · Posted at 19:31:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scary. I rescued my best friend after a suicide attempt. The scariest part is that there may be people in my life who don't understand how important they are to me. That's tough to live with every waking moment.

poolwater · 4 points · Posted at 21:21:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest thing i have ever seen was about the mentally ill lady. The back story is, this lady is crazy, we regularly pick her up and have her committed, but since mental health in america is so lacking, the hospital just boots her out, as she is not a danger to herself or others.

Well she goes to the ER one day, saying that a large black man without a head attacked her and tried to kill her. Now she has long gashes on her forearms that look self inflicted. Of course, we need to investigate this, she states that the man is in her house.

My Lt. and I entered through her front door into her formal sitting room. Every was neat and covered in plastic with a lot of old china dolls. Kind of stepford wivesish, except for the layer of dust. Step into the hall and you see the kitchen. Inside the kitchen is full of dirty dishes, piled near the ceiling, a refrigerator standing with the door open and rotting food inside. On the counter top i remember a fairly new, but standing open jar of mayonnaise. The floor is black with filth. Oh btw there is no power in the house. Step into the bedroom, and the walls are covered in her writings 2 things jump to memory "the children are here" and "they can see!" Making our way into the bathroom, the toilet is gone. When I say gone, i mean gone, just a 3x3 hole directly to the crawl space.

what we can piece together is that she physically ripped her toilet out of the floor and then removed all of the copper pipes by hand, causing the gashes as she bent and snapped them off.

Now I no longer work as a cop, but when i left I would still see her walking around the city, because the hospital would it keep her.

TL:DR Mental Health in america is near non-existent, and there are a lot of ill people out there.

rocketboy53 · 2 points · Posted at 21:41:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In 1969, My parents rented a house while a new one was being built. It was a standard suburban home, except it was set somewhat back from a busy street with a lot of businesses and there were no homes near it within a few blocks on either side. The basement was kind of odd in that it had a lot of little rooms off the main room, just freestanding walls separating one little room from the other. They were full of trunks and old furniture and other belongings of the home's elderly owner.

At night, after everyone had gone to bed, I would lie in my own bed and hear the porch furniture we stored in the basement being moved around on the concrete floor. Just a kind of shove-drag sound of metal on concrete. Whenever I was in the basement I felt like I was being watched. Despite this, it didn't feel like there was anything bad, and nothing bad happened to me there. But one thing did that completely unnerved me.

One day I was walking down the hallway to go into the basement. My sister was in the bathroom and she cracked the door and held out a bottle of something and asked me to put it on her nightstand. I said okay but I didn't take the bottle. I just walked past the door, went down into the basement and out the back door to play outside. When I came back in, my sister asked me what I had done with the bottle. I told her I didn't take it. She said I had. I said no, I didn't. We found it in her room on her nightstand. Whatever was there, had a sense of humor.

Greetz · 4 points · Posted at 23:18:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I suffered from a severe case of "Batshit afraid of the dark". I would make up all kinds of rules that i would have to adhere to, if i wanted to survive. Some were signs i would make when going to sleep in a new bed. Like enchantments of a sort. Other rules were; Never run, always look ahead, close eyes and then turn off the light. These are just to name a few. One particular were, if outside, do not go outside the light.

When i was about 15 i had just gotten my first real job. But as the job were in the city, and we lived on the country side, i got a Scooter as a gift. The drive was about 15 min and five of those were in the city, the rest out on farmland. The long stretch home did have some lightposts, but most of them had malfunctioned in someway, so much of the way home it was completely dark. Also the road home was always very deserted, only people using this road were the ones with business at the "Horse-riding-school-thing".

Then one night while driving home at about 22:00, i had carelessly forgotten to check the gasoline left in the scooter. So in the middle of nowhere i ran out of gas. Complete darkness enveloped me. Pitch black. I was immediately stricken with a huge panic attack. Heart racing and adrenalin pumping through my body, i forget the first rule, NEVER run. I threw my scooter to aphsfalt and ran for the nearest light. Doing this only made the panic root deeper into my already fear stricken mind. I had broken a rule. So i stood there in the light, just waiting. I told my self to only stare ahead, never glance out the side of my eye. Slowly turning, as to scout out any threat in the night. And then i just stood there, inside the light, for almost twelve hours. Just waiting for sunrise. And worst of all? If i had walked, i would have been home in a couple of minutes.

yourfavoriteblackguy · 3 points · Posted at 23:24:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE.

yourfavoriteblackguy · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

First time?

Alektruon · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

YUP.

masquerade_wolf · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:06 on July 16, 2013 · (Permalink)

Son of a bitch- gets me every time.

iloveapiano · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:08 on September 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

GOD DAMMIT I KNEW I WOULD REGRET THAT.

yourfavoriteblackguy · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:53 on September 18, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everyone does.

Smokee_Robinson · 3 points · Posted at 23:46:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad used to work the night shift at a graveyard in college. He said the single creepiest moment of his life happened one night while working there. He was doing his usual rounds, which required that he punch in at different stations around the yard. He was halfway through a shift and punching in at the central station. As he is doing this he starts to hear a squealing or faint shrieking of some sort. He walks outside of the station and looks in the direction its coming from and what does he see...a man. Not just any man. A man, dressed up like a highlander, in full outfit, kilt and all, playing the bagpipes, surrounded by fog. It was 3 am, there was 10 foot high fences around the entire graveyard and no way this man could have gotten in without being seen on a security tape or having another worker spot him. My dad was required to sit at this station for a full hour before leaving. He ended up locking the doors and watched this mysterious person play from 3 until 330. Once he was done he walked off into the night and the next morning there was no report or proof on tape of anyone getting in or out of the graveyard. My dad quit that job a week later.

ilovemypossum · 2 points · Posted at 00:11:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, at least the ghost was nice enough to play music for him.

Alterego14 · 4 points · Posted at 03:39:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So a girl that I worked with told me that this happened to her, and the idea of it still gives me chills.

My friend was driving home on a dark, rainy night in October, when she decided to stop and grab some gas at a gas station out West Bajeezus Ville. After pumping her gas she went inside to pay, and after paying got back in her car and started back home. As she pulled out of the gas station she noticed a car following her, and as she continued this car began tailgating her and trying to cut her off and my friend got all sorts of pissed off until she pulled over to confront the driver of the car behind her. As she walked up to the driver, another woman, and began to scream the other driver frantically told her that at the gas station someone had gotten into her car, and just as the crazy-driver turned life-saver said this a dark, hooded figure burst from my friend's car and off into the woods. My coworker and I may never have worked together.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:47:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same exact thing happened to a friend of a friend of mine, only a hook was hanging from the door handle, the sweater was folded on the grave, the knife was pinning her dress to the ground, the cockroach laid eggs inside the guy's tongue, and the people in the video... was them!

Pennypacking · 4 points · Posted at 06:04:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't forget the guy that called was calling from inside the HOUSE!

jacquelynjoy · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Upvote purely for West Bajeezus Ville. I went to high school there for sure.

endelikt · 4 points · Posted at 06:34:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a festival near me that's very popular; Lounge on the Farm.

During the second night, me and my friends started partying with the group camping next to us, and we're having a lot of fun. We go see a few different gigs, get some good vibes and then come back to the tents to get shit faced throughout the night.

One of the guys (lets call him Shaun) from the group next to us goes off to pick up some bud from some guy he knew on the other side of the camp. He comes back about half an hour later with some great bud, and things start getting awesome (I'm rolling hard anyway at this point). About an hour later, we're all comfortably fucked, the tunes are blasting and everyone in the camp is having a great time. It's around now that Shaun sidles up to me, and tells me that he's got 5 tabs of acid in his wallet from his dealer and did I want one? I say no, because I'm already blitzed, and he's totally cool with it. He offers it to a few others, but nobody is in the mood for trip town. We forget all about it, and go on through the night.

At about 5 AM we call it a night and start to retire to our respective tents. I go to my tent, and I could make out an outline of someone inside. Dubiously curious, and also tired as fuck, I open up the zipper to tell whoever it was to get their own damn tent. Inside, crouching over all my camping gear, is a totally naked, totally fucking obliterated Shaun.

We make eye contact, and right then I knew he was gone. As in, he'd totally fucking lost it. He had that crazy, semi-vacant stare of someone seriously tripping balls. I'm about to tell him to fuck off, but he locks into eye contact with me. There's total silence. And then he lets out the loudest, most bloodcurdling scream I've ever heard. I'll never forget it, it was the sound of pure, adrenal, primeval fear. He looked like a man who was stuck in a living, breathing hell. Fuck knows what he saw when I looked at him. I run off to get his mates, and after about two hours, we coax him out of my tent.

As Shaun emerged into the early morning sun, we start to see him more clearly. The raw terror he must have felt was wrought in every line of his face, every muscle in his body and it was clear that he was 11/10 on the fucked up trip scale. His friends guide him, still totally naked, back to their group of tents, and they try to make him comfy. I go through my stuff, make sure it's all as it should be, and I go to sleep.

I wake up in the early afternoon, and go and check on how everyone is doing from the party. Shaun is sitting, cross legged, in the middle of his friends family sized tent. Apparently he sat like that the whole day, and he hadn't moved or spoken once. We called for an ambulance and later discovered (but already assumed) that he took all of the acid after nobody else wanted it. It was a total mood killer, and we spent the rest of the festival in a blue state.

That was one of the creepiest experiences in my whole life, and it taught me that if you don't have respect for psychedelics, they can seriously fuck your shit up. Apparently Shaun was OK, but it took a few months for him to start becoming his regular self again.

TL;DR: Guy at a festival severely over estimates his ability to handle a strong acid trip, creeps the shit out of everyone present.

On a more positive note, I met some of those guys (without Shaun) at WOMAD last year, and we had a fucking great time!

A_Cave_Man · 2 points · Posted at 07:30:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It is amazing, the horrors we can create for ourselves, in our own minds...

My friend took to many mushrooms one time. He told me that he kept seeing himself dying, over and over again, hanging himself, jumping out of the window, slitting his wrists. He had to keep reminding himself over and over again that this was just a bad trip, it wasn't really happening.

RoundersBat · 4 points · Posted at 15:09:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not as bad as other stories on here, so I'll just do a Tl;dr.

Tl;dr: Older man whispers "Boo." in my ear while I'm having an asthma attack. Having a terrible memory, I wouldn't be able to pick him out in a crowd and will never know if I've seen him again. Or if he's seen me...

Chivalryisntdead · 6 points · Posted at 18:59:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Might be a little late, but Pokemon Black This isn't the new game that came out a couple of years ago, but a hack off of Red and Blue.

PUT_YOUR_PENIS_IN_IT · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Replying to save for later.

I am on my phone sorry. Have an up vote

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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awesomeshittywaraxe · 1 points · Posted at 12:02:22 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, that's the same for me, too!

Winter_S · 4 points · Posted at 23:29:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck this thread.

It's 12:28am, and this is making me paranoid.

xcalypsox42 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:49 on June 26, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I have a rule about this thread and /r/nosleep: never after dark, never when alone at the office

Browneyedgirl89 · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:47 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same thing happened to me last night :/

MsLippy · 7 points · Posted at 06:58:56 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm on night two of this thread. It's like my own creepy story, how much these stories have ahold of me.

Greenmonster71 · 8 points · Posted at 16:50:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend's older sister hiked a small stretch of the appalachian trail with a small group of friends about 2 years ago, basically taking a two week camping trip. She said throughout the two weeks they infrequently got the sensation that someone was watching them, but didn't pay it much mind. When they returned home and got the pictures from their camera developed, half of them were pictures of them sleeping..

scritore · 5 points · Posted at 11:03:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't believe in ghosts but I would be lying if I said these things didn't make me believe for awhile.

[Everything happened in the same house]

We had just moved into a house after moving to Texas and so we has some cable people setting up everything. The kitchen was a separate room but instead of a door was an open arch leading inside. My room was right next to the kitchen. I got hungry or thirsty or something and got up to go to the kitchen. One of the workers was going into the kitchen too and I ended up behind him. He turned into the kitchen before I did and when I got into it there was no one in there. The only exit was what I had just walked through and he was in there for maybe two seconds before me. I didn't even think it was weird at first, I just brushed it off and grabbed something.
I was sitting in my bedroom watching disney and a little in between shows (not really a commercial) thing came on that showed you how to short sheet someone. (It was around april fools day, and short sheeting someone is where you fold the sheets so that when they try to get under their covers they can't all the way because it's folded and they can't see why) My sister wasn't in her room so I decided it was the perfect time to do this simple 'prank'. I sneak into her room and climb up the bunk bed ladder and start doing this. About 20 seconds after I started doing this the door slams shut. These weren't just your average doors, for some reason they were exceptionally big and much heavier than ones that I have had in other houses. It wasn't just a little nudge to close it either (the door was wide open) it SLAMMED shut and made a very loud noise. I just stared at it for a moment and then jumped off the ladder and ran out of her room.
I'm not sure if this counts or not but one time when I was laying down in my bed I saw this big black bird fly out of one wall at the very top and right through the other wall. My sleeping schedule was horribly messed up then so I'm not sure if that was a hallucination or not.

PAroots · 6 points · Posted at 18:51:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Buddy of mine often goes hiking/camping alone. A few years ago (before digital cameras), he was camping in New Hampshire, went to bed in his tent, woke up, packed his things and went home. When he had his film developed a few weeks later, there was a picture of him sleeping in his tent. fuck that.

EatYourPain · 3 points · Posted at 04:30:29 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll post summaries, since I have a lot of material. If you want to hear stories, let me know. I have a few good ones, some that I didn't even mention here. (experienced urban explorer, outdoorsman and thrill seeker)

TL;DR: abandoned mental institution voices, friend sees ghosts on abandoned mental institution trip and doesn't tell until after, sister touched by ghosts, sounds/screams in the woods at night, suicide scares, to top it off: why I'm that asshole (halloween edition)

Walking through an abandoned mental institution, no one is there but me and my best friend, and suddenly we hear footsteps, voices, or other sounds. (I'm a very active urban explorer, this happens to me pretty often.) Bonus points: When we don't find the cause.
Walking through an abandoned mental institution with just two friends who at one point sprint out of the hallway. Lost in confusion, I follow them out. On the drive home, I find out that one of my friends sees ghosts and he's been seeing them the entire day. At this point, they were all around us.
My sister claims to have been touched by a ghost in one of the asylums we frequent. I wasn't there, and I don't believe in ghosts (but I wish I did) but seeing her reaction to the event scares me. She won't return, and for a month after that she needed someone to walk with her everywhere.
I like to take walks at night, sometimes through a nearby preserve. This preserve, Welwyn, used to be the wealthy Pratt family's estate, but it has since decayed into ruin (with the exception of the main building and a guest house, which were turned into a museum and security station, respectively). There are numerous abandoned buildings on site, all severely overgrown by nature. I always walk here alone, normally around sunset. First few times I had no flashlight, so I would end up walking back in pitch darkness, in the middle of the woods. Like my first post above, many times I've heard noises in there with me. Sometimes I see shadows moving around.

4a. Once I went in there with my little sister. On the way out, I was making weird noises just to be a jackass. What I didn't expect was the response. From somewhere behind us, we were answered by bloodcurdling, almost animalistic shrieks. As we were walking along the road back to the car (the road is adjacent to the edge of the park. it's dark and barely lit) the sounds stopped, but I saw figures moving in the woods, just beyond the light. Kids messing around, just like me.

I think my scariest has nothing to do with any of my crazy exploits. It was actually in college. Pretty much, a (very depressed) friend of mine was unreachable and unresponsive, locked in her room for the whole day, and we thought she may have committed suicide. (Ended up that she just overslept and turned all electronics off) The scariest moment was opening the door to her room with the masterkey, not knowing what to expect, all sorts of thoughts running through my mind.

5a. Another similar story with my sister. Thank God both ended up all right.

Last one wasn't for me, but everyone around me. I was at the movies watching the new Scream movie. 3/4 the way through, all the lights go out. entire city block had no power. everyone's freaking out. I started making demonic screeches.
6a. I work at a haunted clown house during Halloween time. I've made numerous people piss their pants. It's an amazing feeling, especially those who have a phobia of clowns, because I barely have to do anything to make them cry. I'm an asshole, I know.

-oh, i snuck into a partially abandoned castle at night. the castle is on a cliff in the middle of the woods. in slovakia. (slovakia woods are full of bears, wolves, man eating wild boars, and gypsies). we trekked through the woods in pitch darkness, rock climbed the wall and snuck in.

Camphikefishbike · 5 points · Posted at 05:29:56 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fuck yeah, thanks for starting this post. I've been reading it for the last 2 days and LOVING every minute of it! (minus the tree fiddy refs:( fucks. (damn you south-park!!!) I love south-park though.

Gingerschnappz · 7 points · Posted at 16:23:59 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't stop reading either! I never used reddit and my husband was telling me I really need to. (He stays on Reddit) So, I just decided to and I am glued! I love creepy/scary shit.

Camphikefishbike · 5 points · Posted at 19:21:03 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too bad the thread didn't last longer, I could read that stuff all day. And I did for two days, I was glued. I love that goosebumps shudder feeling:) Can someone suggest a subreddit where I can find stuff like this?

evil_boo_berry · 2 points · Posted at 02:18:04 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

Fatmanhammer · 12 points · Posted at 13:53:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's one that you might lose sleep over, here I go.

clicking the button on my flashlight and facing it upwards, towards my face

A friend of mine had a kid.

reppinplannel · 2 points · Posted at 15:31:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Still coming to terms with the fact that people I went to high school with are getting married because they want to, not because they're knocked up.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I'm pregnant but will still make it to prom."

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN

Yodoggy9 · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

...and he was never heard from again...and always had some excuse or other to not hang out, the son of a bitch...oooOOOOOoooo...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:02:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

not the creepiest but on nights where I don't have long dreams I have these short dreams that something/someone is in my room. Last night I had 3. The first I dreamed there was a snake on the edge of my bed crawling up it so I jumped out of bed and ran into my living room and stared in the darkness towards my bedroom until I was aware it was a dream. Second was a bug. I immediately threw a blanket over it and got up and ran out again. The third is a little creepier. It was a man standing right in front of my bedroom window.I could see him out of the corner of my eye. He wasn't moving just standing. Instead of getting up and panicking, it was almost a soothing feeling watching him. Eventually he faded away as I came into consciousness and I went back to bed.

IamSnuggie · 2 points · Posted at 14:05:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Christmas night, sleeping on the couch next to the christmas tree, heard footsteps. Thought it was santa, I hid under those blankets like I was the ground after blizzard. I was having trouble breathing I was so deep in covers, Eventually heard the footsteps get right next to the tree, then I felt hands roll me over towards them, pull the covers up. Mom.

TL;DR Thought mom was santa on christmas night

SlothFart · 2 points · Posted at 14:06:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watching an organ harvesting of a dead body. When they skin it. Meh.

dorianrose · 2 points · Posted at 14:14:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kinda a funny story now, but when I was young I went to see Jurassic Park in theaters. I loved it, but some parts kinda scared me. I woke up that night from a nightmare and heard these awful thumping sounds and I thought there was a T-Rex outside our house. I lay there for I don't know how long and finally realized it was my own heartbeat I was hearing.

Puredemise · 2 points · Posted at 14:30:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So last year some random girl decided to start messaging me in Facebook. Now I'm completely fine with this because the pics she had, she looked really fucking good in. Well, she tells me her number and we start texting.

Well, about a week in we're having deep ass conversations and its going pretty good. One night, she starts to get all serious and tell me how much she loves me and shit. Now this starts freaking me out a bit, but I go with it because I actually started liking her. We get into talking about our lives and I tell her some stories about me. She opens her story with the fact that she has a kid. Holy fucking shit, this girl has a kid and is only in high school, how does she do it? Well, she's a model and makes huge bank from this shit and lives on her own and has friends babysit the kid, or her aunt or something like that.

But then the biggest bomb gets dropped. She then tells me that her daughter is a rape baby. Yeah, this girl got raped and kept the baby. No problem with that though because now I have more respect. But, she wants me to ask her out and I'm like ehhhh because I've never even seem the girl in real life. Well, time goes on and I start liking this new girl that moved to my school. Now the other girl( let's name her Hailey), Hailey doesn't particularly like the fact that I'm interested in this other girl.

So Hailey does the only obvious reasonable thing and starts telling me that if I don't stop liking this girl, she's going to kill herself. This is the point where I really wanted to nope the fuck out of this, but I stayed with it because I couldn't feel right if I knew I was the cause for some girl to kill herself. Now, my friend is with me at the time of this, and he's also trying to get her to not do it. We're on the phone for about 30 mins trying to convince her I'm not worth shit, especially her life(m friend might've been jokin but I was dead serious) when she hangs up.

Fast forward about an hour and I get a text from her aunt and apparently Hailey is in the hospital and they're looking to sue me because I was the cause of her accident. Hailey ended up fine, but now I'm getting harassed by her supposed aunt, and then I counter with some bullshit lawsuit that I never would've acted on, but she stopped texting me for a while.

I soon discover this Hailey girl actually does exist, but has been using pictures of this one girl I actually went to middle school with and has been lying about everything. The creepiest part though is how she joked about commiting suicide if I didn't stop liking another girl.

Andman17 · 2 points · Posted at 14:36:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The ending to the video game; Metal Gear Solid 2: sons of liberty. for those of you who had played the game, you might be able to relate to how i felt. Knowing that everything up until that point had been a lie just scared the shit out of me. Not just in the game but in real life as well. it made me think that perhaps life could all be an illusion, which at least for me was really scary.

skinandbones2 · 2 points · Posted at 14:38:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Dyatlov pass incident.

syberphunk · 2 points · Posted at 14:45:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was woken up in the middle of the night to my hi-fi playing static from the radio at full volume.

It was last physically set (by sliding switch) to CD and the remote control had no batteries in it.

beepborpimajorp · 2 points · Posted at 14:47:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The other day I was at my parents' house for a birthday dinner. My mom and I were standing in the kitchen talking while the neighbor was outside mowing his lawn and my stepdad was down in the basement. As we're talking I hear my stepdad yelling my mom's name. It was muffled and sounded like it came from the laundry room area of our basement and it sounded like he was in trouble. I went, "Shh, do you hear that? It's "stepdadsname". And then while we were listening it happened a second time. This time my mom bolted downstairs and I clearly remember thinking to myself, "Oh god what if he has fallen down or something, how do I explain it to my brother?" It was THAT real.

My mom comes back up and says my stepdad is on the couch just chillin' and watching TV. Obviously nothing was wrong and he didn't hear anything. And the neighbor outside was still mowing, so it's not like we could have heard our neighbors through that noise.

I've been rationalizing it since it happened since I don't believe in the paranormal but damn was it a creepy thing to go through. After we heard the yell I do distinctly remember it being so real sounding that I wondered if we were going to be spending the evening at the hospital.

vocalizationmachine · 2 points · Posted at 14:49:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Woke up at around 5 AM, was home alone and it was summer. I hear someone screaming "Help me! I'm burning". So i raise the blinds and there i see this guy in the street. Bald, in his underwear, perfectly fine i might add. Cars are driving around him and he is screaming. Now those screams have were horrible, like he was really on fire and was dying. It kept sending shivers up my spine. So as i was about to pick up the phone to call the cops a patrol car pulls up and the screaming dude finds a massive brick and throws it at the cops yelling he'll kill himself. The cops manage to wrestle him to the ground and an ambulance van rolls up and they put him in. I couldn't sleep for days cause those screams were stuck in my head. I was 12 at the time btw.

CALM_REDDIT_MOLESTOR · 2 points · Posted at 14:49:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jeff the Killer.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes that fucking thing gets me a lot its a swf file but i have seen it be disguised as a jpeg.

Nataliyana · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what's Jeff the Killer? (please just words, no links, it's far too late and I get far too tempted)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well its a creepy pasta *creepy pasta

*jeff the killer

harpeir · 2 points · Posted at 14:52:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ted the Caver http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/

yahtz33 · 2 points · Posted at 14:53:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The North Korea EAS Broadcast

mibikin · 2 points · Posted at 14:53:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Normal Porn for Normal People. This story always makes me so scared. http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Normal_Porn_for_Normal_People Labeled as NSFW on that site.

Plippet · 2 points · Posted at 14:53:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read a story that a guy was driving through Colorado and he was going through a bad area known for satanic cults and dark worshipping. He drives past a car crash in the middle of nowhere and notices two dead bodies laying around the car. He decided he would drive past it because it was just too scary, and as he went by he saw the 2 bodies get up and like 20 people crawl out of the bushes. Almost pissed my pants thinking about that.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:58:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my gosh. Gifura would be on the top of my list for sure. If you dont know what it is i would HIGHLY suggest youtubeing reaction videos first before you go scout around on google looking for it.

As far as stories? i got one from my childhood. It was me, mom, and my little brother. we had just moved into a new house. it was about 2 blocks away from our previous house. there was nothing special about this house. pourch, patio, 3 bedroom 2 bathroom. the works. i was about i would say either 6 or 7. one of those. about the time where i would comprehend shit and know whats real and not. anyway. it was about the third or so month where i started to notice small things that i could just not put my finger on. i would see shadows from the corner of my eye. not like lamp/light shadows im talking human figure shadows. this is usually whenever i would tell me mom about it and she would never believe me what so ever. i would tell her every time when i would see it. "there is it, look!" but by the time she would look over nothing was there making me look like a fool. after that little more things would happen. like i would leave my room and turn off my light. when i would come back in my room my light would be turned on and things would be in a different order. for example i remember one day i had got home from school and i put my backpack by the door to go get a snack. i got inside, took off my backpack, left it by the door, went get a snack and went in my room. when i walked in my room loe and behold...my backpack. but i think the worst thing that i had ever experienced would have to be this. one night i was up late watching adult swim [had to wait till like fuckin 11 foe it to come on back in da day] and i decided to go to bed. as i went to turn off the tv i muted to cause i thought i heard talking. i began to listen closer and it was talking. the only way i can describe what it sounded like that it was deep, slow speaking but smooth. i couldnt understand a word of it. it was something ive never heard of before. i then began to hear the phone dial as if someone was punching in numbers, after that i ran to my moms room and told her someone is in the house trying to stay as calm as i possibly can. again she told me that i was just making it all up but i kept tugging at her and yelling for her to go see. by this time i was balling my eyes out scared shitless for what i had heard already and plus everything on top of that. we walked in the living room into the kitchen and the voice stopped talking and whenever she turned on the light all of the cabinets and utensil drawers were open. pretty much after that night my mom belived me everytime i saw that shadow/figure again. she even seen it one night and she told me she belives me now. we moved from that house in 2003 and everytime i tell her i see something or i hear something she belives me. just no one else can hear it or see it. it makes me feel like im crazy at sometimes.

TL;DR haunted house.

MY_HARD_BOILED_EGGS · 2 points · Posted at 14:58:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live near a town called Atco, home of the supposed Atco Ghost, and my friends and I have gone down that road multiple times. Back in 2007 we drove to the place (Burnt Mill Rd.) and parked the car at the only entrance/exit to the street. Two of my pals stayed in the car while the rest of us decided to take a walk down the long stretch of road in the middle of the night. About halfway I grew bored since nothing remotely scary had happened, so I jokingly yelled, "Okay Atco Ghost, we've been here a hundred times and nothing has happened, just give us something." I shit you not, as soon as I finish, two headlights turn on at the very end of the road (the street ends at a forest). They blinked a few times and we took off running like the pansies that we were. We hid behind some bushes lining the side of the street and waited for the car to pass before going back onto the road to head back to our car. On the way, another goddamn car appeared out of nowhere and started following us. We ran, but ultimately our car was too far, so we stopped, accepting our fates. Turns out the car following us was just a fellow who lived on the road, wondering why we were on his field (which was behind the bushes). We told him a car had been following us and he shrugged it off and told us to stay off his property.

Long story still pretty long, we got back to the car and told our two friends everything that had happened. And halfway through telling the story, my buddy stops me, and says "You said you hid in the bushes while that first car went by?" I told him, yeah, why? Both of the friends who had stayed behind in the car informed us that no car had passed them while they waited. Apart from the neighbor's car, they didn't see a single vehicle on Burnt Mill Road that night.

So what the fuck happened to the one that chased us?

notoriousstranger · 2 points · Posted at 15:00:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ITT: potential for "tree-fiddy" in every story

Kudamaman · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was deployed to Camp Bucca back when it was open. One of the tif's lost a detainee and couldn't find him for two weeks. Finally a proper search was conducted (with an insider tip as a lead). We found him buried under 8 feet of sand. We have no idea how they dug an 8 foot hole in the ground with little to no tools under constant surveillance from 4+ watch towers manned 24hours a day. However, his state of decomposition was absolutely nothing like I've ever seen before. No monster movie make up can ever be as real...I remember most his eye...

UncleVicVic · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Slender man

nelsonmavrick · 2 points · Posted at 15:02:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember this guy on reddit said was going through is pictures of backpacking through Europe, and found a picture of him in his tent asleep. He was backpacking alone, and doesn't know who or how the picture was taken.

wilcoxinthehouse · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i saw a murderer jump of a cliff of the Grand Canyon

kieferbolsworth · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok. It's the year 2000 and I'm at Toys R Us with my family. We are at check out and i see this old, decrepid woman on her way out of the store. She was easily the oldest woman i had ever seen at the age of 7. She had flabby, wan skin and the thin black hair that barely made it over her ears. She was using a cane, and upon further inspection, i noticed she was missing her right leg. She wasn't with anyone, and I'm not sure if she was even real. The whole time she was walking past me I remember thinking, 'don't have one eye, don't have one eye..' As she was passing through the sliding double doors, she looked back at me, smiled a partially toothless grin, WITH ONE FUCKING EYE. Scared the shit out of me and still does to this day.

tomime · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Scariest: This is a story from a friend of mine. My friend's brother was doing some dumb shit and bought candles, book for summoning dead/demons, etc. Then at their home in Texas around 6-7pm he got down and started a stupid ritual, chanting from the book. Soon my friend felt something is really off and she asked her brother to stop. This lead to increased chanting volume as he was deliberately messing with her at this point. Suddenly all the light bulbs in the house just explodes and glad to say everyone bolted out of the house. All the items were burned shortly after and lesson learned.

TLDR: Friend's brother bought demon summoning things and light bulbs burst

Creepiest: I had a paranormal experience at my aunt's home when I was around 12-13. For some reason though, at the time I was lead to believe this ghost is my sister and followed behind her and calling to her as 'sister'. I followed her to a small living room that was added at one point to the house. Shortly after my cousin poked me in the back wondering why I am just standing alone in front of this living room. Messed with my head and still does to this day. My sister is does not wear a night gown and does not have hair down to the waist....

TLDR: As a kid a ghost brainwashed me into thinking she's my sister

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 5, my god brother and I were totally convinced of these large feathered monsters called "thunderbirds." Think vultures, but about four times as big and ready to carry away and eat any unsuspecting infant!

Well, late one afternoon, we were in his backyard, jumping on the trampoline and discussing the finer subtleties of this avian beast, when lo and behold, we actually SEE four of five of these motherfuckers fly past the dying sun! Their cries were the unmistakable cry of the thunderbird, and their imposing silhouette further proved their existence to us.

Needless to say, we shot out of there like a bat out of hell, and promised to never leave one another alone in the company of such ferocious animals again.

Now, were these evil thunderbirds actually real, or just the fabrication of an overly-active five-year-old's imagination? Well, I choose to believe.

Elphabeth · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My freshman year of college, my boyfriend (who I'd been dating since high school), his friends, and I all received an extremely creepy series of phone calls that originated from a relay service. For those of you who don't know, a relay service allows deaf-mutes to talk on the phone. The person making the call types whatever they want to say into a computer and then a live operator reads their words to the person receiving the call. It's completely anonymous; the relay service will only read whatever the person types, so if they choose not to reveal who they are, then tough shit.

So imagine receiving a phone call from a person who says things like "please tell me about your relationship with "Alex." Do you know about what he has planned? Look, bitch, just tell us what we want to know and you'll never have to hear from us again." All read by the relay service operator in a voice completely devoid of emotion.

The phone calls happened off and on for more than two months, always after dark and usually between 10 pm and 2 am. Sometimes there'd be an added layer of creepiness, like when one guy got a call to a crappy motel room when he'd paid cash and hadn't told anyone where he was staying while he was out of town. Or when I'd hang up and turn my phone off out of fear, and turn it back on in the morning to see I had 300+ missed calls from the relay service. Or when a girl got a call on her aunt's unlisted landline while she was out of town visiting.

One night, we were all hanging out together watching a movie and we all got phone calls within about 5 minutes of one another. There's a chance that someone was just fucking with us, but it had to be someone with a lot of extra money lying around (relay services aren't free), and a lot of free time on their hands. The longest phone call lasted for 3 hours--pretty long for a practical joke. And then out of nowhere, it just stopped.

It still gives me chills when I think about it.

wosyny · 2 points · Posted at 15:06:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

when I was a kid, I had one of those old school stereos. One night, music started playing out of nowhere and I heard a creepy cackling laugh. I looked around my room and saw the stereo was turned on. I went over to it and the display pad said "S O R R Y" and turned off. that thing was gone the next morning

MoonPark · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jesus. Sleep is overrated anyway. X___X

Jpage0024 · 2 points · Posted at 15:06:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was one of the most unnerving early mornings I ever had. True story. I was at a friend’s house one night in my senior year of high school. My friend’s family lives in a 250 year old home in Maryland. The home is surrounded by wooded forest, however their property backs up against a major highway about two hundred yards up a steep hill. On really nice nights we would hang outside his front porch, because the moon would light up most of his front yard. This particular night we got bored with watching TV and video games and decided to take his large trigger-operated flashlight outside to illuminate the woods. What we didn’t know at the time was that this would attract attention.

For the first few minutes we joked around and tested the distance of this powerful flashlight. It could illuminate quite large areas of the distant forest. As we were joking around we heard a small amount of limb snapping coming from the hill that backed up against the major highway. You could always hear cars traveling along with the shuttering sound of 18 wheelers. We thought maybe their was a deer nearby wandering, and so we continued joking around and talking. About thirty seconds later we heard a voice. “Hey” it screamed.

We froze. This was not an area that people simple walked around in, especially at 4 am. I told my friend to cut the light off. The limbs cracked some more and we realized that someone was walking down the hill from the highway. Even worse, my friend asked me to look closer. Who ever this person was, they too had a flashlight. It was a cheap one and it barely glowed orange in the distance. But it was moving towards us. I grabbed our flashlight and flashed it once towards the person walking and yelled, “What?” in order to answer the “Hey” they had yelled. 30 seconds passed with no response, but the person continued closer to the house.

This was our sign to get back inside. I grabbed a short 2x4 from his foyer area and he grabbed a baseball bat. We ran into all the first level rooms with windows and locked them as well as all the doors. Then as we entered the living room which gave the best view of all the outside property we clicked the final set of lights off and immediately noticed the person had crossed the small creek and was probably 30 yards from the house. My friend immediately whispered that he wasn’t sure if he locked the basement sliding door. The light was also on there and shown into the yard.

The person came into view as they made their way to the lighted basement sliding door. All we could make out was that it looked to be a man in his early 20’s. He was wearing a black hoodie and had the hood up. This made it hard to see his face clearly, which unnerved us. He began to knock on the basement door fairly loud. I told my friend to go get his parents up quietly. He ran upstairs and woke them up and explained what was going on while I kept my eye on the man outside who just continued knocking in three knock successions. A minute later my friend and his parents came down quietly and his dad has his pistol in hand.

The man then stopped knocking and moved his way around to the front of the house and my friend took this moment to bravely run downstairs, turn off the light and lock the sliding door. When he returned we could now hear the man knocking on the front door loudly. We all moved slowly into the front office room, which had a window beside the door. We watched in silence as he knocked for about another minute, until he then stopped, walked over to a window on the other side of the door and appeared to look in with cupped hands around his eyes. Ten seconds later he was walking up the long driveway back to the small wooded country road my friend lived off of.

The thing that I have asked myself for years when I think about that night is why a man would possibly have car trouble on a major highway and decide rather than to walk back to the rest stop that he would have had to pass only a mile before, to just head down into the woods towards a random house where a flashlight can be seen? And if he’s going to walk down a 200 yard steep hill in the woods and cross a creek, why yell “Hey!” and then not respond when we flash a light on him and yell back? Everything about that night was unusual on his part. We are very helping people when someone needs help, but this was a very scary way to try and ask for help (assuming his intentions were good). It’s never added up and till this day I can only imagine what would have happened if he decided to open that basement sliding door.

TL;DR: Suspicious and unknown man enters friend’s wooded property from highway, knocks on all doors of the house, disappears up the driveway.

TheTallStrangeMan · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to live in the lower portion of a split level house. Rent was cheap, and the family I shared the home with let me use the entire downstairs space as I pleased. However, since I was a struggling college student, I had little furniture and kept mostly to my own room. The place was rather dilapidated, and a slow leak from the water heater required that a space heater be pointed at a spot on the floor in the living room to dry out the moist carpet. The space heater essentially ran at all times of day, but since it was naturally colder downstairs, I never minded it. I could normally see the little red status light of the space heater in the living room from my room at the end of the hallway.

After taking a hiatus from occult things, I decided that I was comfortable enough in my new residence to start meddling again, so meddle I did. After talking to some of my paranormal friends on IRC and chatting with my shaman-healer friend over IM about how to take up practice again, I decided to do something foolish to try and bring out the lurkers on the paranormal forum.

I boasted quite naively about the coming storm, the thinning veil, the key players and the aftermath. It was all fairly vague terminology, but it was an effective "Come at me, bro' to anyone of similar interests. I merrily went to bed, satisfied that my bait would draw fish overnight.

The next day, I saw that I had a few responders. Mostly new folk asking for details, also a few cryptic folk warning me not to openly talk about such things. One or two persons asking insistently who I was and how I knew anything. Being a cocky young lad, I avoided direct questioning and tried to take the more interesting posts to private lines of communication. I noticed that night that the house felt slightly off. Though I could see the little red light on the space heater in the living room from my bedroom door, there was no other illumination that I would expect. The street light outside and the curtainless windows of the living room seemed obscured.

The next day, I found no new activity on the paranormal forum. My attempts at private discussion had gone unanswered. I spoke to my shaman friend about the situation, and she too thought it was unwise to be boasting vaguely about having insight. I agreed, but I was convinced that the excitement of finding new contacts outweighed the negatives. I was oblivious to the concept of consequences for some reason, despite past experiences.

That night, I could not see the little red light of the space heater. I could hear its faithful whrring sound, still diligently blowing at that damp spot on the floor, but now it seemed a significant darkness had overtaken the downstairs living room. Where once I could plainly see moonlit details of the breakfast bar, far wall and the space heater sitting on the floor, the hallway now seemed to open up into a void. This made me feel anxious, but as I didn't do any business in the living room area, I simply kept to my room and fortified my personal defenses.

On the third day, my posting of boasting had slipped to the inactive section of the board. I decided to bump it up for visibility, questioning where the other aware people were.

That night, the darkness had grown closer. Ordinarily, there were two lights in the hallway and together they sufficiently lit all the way to the living room. One near my bedroom door, and one about half way down toward the living room. The clear end of the hallway opening into the living room had now been overcome. There was no discernable point where the hallway structurally ended. The steep dropoff of darkness was a mere three feet from the middle hallway light fixture. My anxiety was becoming dread. I hadn't yet connected the idea that my online boasting had stirred something local.

As I went to bed that night, switching off the light switch and tucking under the comforter, I realized the absence of light in my room. The dull glow of the alarm clock digits, the status light atop the tower fan, the dull glow behind my desk of a power strip. All absent.

And then something terrible happened.

When my encounter with the living dark ended, I flung myself out of bed and turned on the lights. Immediately I went to the computer and went straight to the forum. I rescinded everything. I meekly and futily confessed that I didn't know nearly as much as I might have eluded to. As I had pleaded with the entity that had stared me down in bed, I knew nothing important, nothing more than any other aware human did. I apologized for my arrogance, and I closed the thread.

Though I had to piss, I waited for my fluttering heart to settle a good half hour or so before I dared to open my bedroom door and check the state of the hallway.

It had returned to normal. The light of the space heater was plainly visible once more, as were all the moonlit details of the otherwise empty living room.

I had bargained my way out of a terrible fate, and learned the value of being humble when it comes to the supernatural.

diba_ · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A fishercat at night makes a pretty fucking creepy noise

Dangotron · 2 points · Posted at 15:09:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just yesterday I woke up at 5 in the morning to the sound of my alarm being put on. It does a series of beeps once the correct code is put in and that is what I heard. I had put on the alarm when I went to bed. So, not only did my alarm get taken off, but someone or something had rearmed it. So much for sleeping the rest of the night.

smthingcleverhere · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This post appeared after this http://i.imgur.com/jrImXfx.jpg which is def. in my top 3

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest thing I have ever seen was when I was 18. I was delivering pizza late at night. It hits 2AM and everyone is leaving the bars. I was driving with traffic and I remember thinking, "Man, someone is going to get in a crash." I pulled into my store. Went in, got another few orders to make another run. I come back out and there are tons of cops near the outside of my store. So of course, being the curious person I am I take a small detour after delivering my orders. In the middle of an intersection was just a body on the ground. It was very surreal. The limbs were all positioned in very weird ways and there were 4 people standing around the body just talking. It was the first time I had seen a dead body like that. I thought I was very desensitized from going to 4chan all the time when I was younger. I was wrong though. It's way different to see things in real life and it gave me a weird feeling in my stomach. However, I did get over it pretty fast.

Edit:

A drunk driver hopped a curb and hit a homeless man into the street, then another drunk driver behind the first ran over him. They both fled the scene but were eventually caught that night.

RoFlOvErLoAd · 2 points · Posted at 15:19:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It must have been a few months ago by now but one night... I swear to some fucking higher being something screamed/roared into my ear from a couple of centimeters away just as I was going to sleep and all I could do was go NOPE, NOT GONNA FUCKING OPEN MY EYES and then proceeded to sleep like a baby.

Otherwise its just imagining/halucinating figures in the dark.

Sgt_Peppper · 2 points · Posted at 15:19:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This scares me every time I read it not a screamer,just violently frightening.

JesusCantPlay_Rugby · 2 points · Posted at 15:19:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

damn I think we need a goosebumps subreddit

CakeInTheTub · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I was at a friends house playing video games and having a few beers when I had to go to the bathroom. The bathroom was right next to the room we were hanging out in. I sat down and started peeing when there was a very audible CLICK. I looked over and smiled, thinking my friend was messing with me by locking the door on me.
I unlocked the door and exited, not really paying attention to the lock.
I go into the room like "Ha-Ha Guys. Very funny. You can do better than that.". They all look at me like WTF is she talking about.
"You locked the bathroom door on me.". "No. We couldn't have possibly done that considering the door only locks from the inside."
I went back to check and there it was - only One lock on the inside of the bathroom door. It still freaks me out that that door locked itself.

iDreamOfReddit · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, so I walk home from school and my sister usually comes about 10 minutes after I get home. So one day I get home and go to my room with my door closed. I hear the front door open and I yell out my sisters name but there is no response. So I think she probably doesnt wanna talk so I just sit in my room for a few more minutes before going to greet her. I walk around but I dont see her anywhere! So I go back to my room thinking shes trying to play a trick on me or something. After about 5 minutes I hear the faucet running in my moms room so i go to check it out. There is no one in my moms room. My parents are at work. Getting creeped out, I go out and play basketball for little while. And finally, I see my sister walking around the corner of my street coming from school. Im not sure what opened my front door and used the sink in my house, but it still creeps me out whenever I think about it!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:25:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

for me its this auditory hallucinations of what a schizophrenic hears....its thought of always hearing those voices scares me. http://youtu.be/0vvU-Ajwbok

m_saunders · 2 points · Posted at 15:26:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My Dad told me about a creepy experience he had when he was in his mid twenties. He was out with my uncle hunting, my Dad was walking along one side of a very thick hedge with a deep ditch in the middle, and my Uncle was walking along the other side. After about 2/3 minutes of walking along this hedge line looking for pheasants, my dad noticed a very old man about 30 feet in front of him wearing a long, black coat of some kind. (bearing in mind that this is in the middle of the English countryside with no footpaths or houses around for miles) My dad, being curious and slightly concerned, wished the old man a good morning. The elderly man completely ignored him, and continued walking towards the hedge. My dad watched in astonishment as the old man disappeared into the hedge. After jogging up to where the old man was stood, my dad shouted through to my Uncle on the other side of the hedge "did you just see that old man walk past?" to which my Uncle replied "what old man".

EDIT: spelling

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

1) After my mother died when I was a young kid I would have nightmares and would be stuck in sleep paralysis when I awoke and tried to move. That happened on and off (frequently) for about 5 years.

2) Also I used to have a cat when I was a kid and this cat was an asshole. It would sneak into my closet at night and i would routinely see my closet door moving in the dark, but it was just this asshole cat. Still got me every time though.

3) The house I moved into with my family when I was a teenager used to be a converted/weird funeral home 120 years prior. When we were doing construction tearing down walls in the kitchen we found lots of littler prayers written by hand and enclosed in plaster decorative containers. The majority of them we found in the wall shared by my bedroom.

Smitheh · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Something that always freaks me out at night is the sounds of foxes, their cry is awful and when I hear it I think someone is getting raped or killed nearby...

IdunnoLXG · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I dreamed my husky pup was getting attacked by zerglings from starcraft. She would always fight valiantly but slowly lose more and more strength until she was finally overcome.

I woke up terrified only to see my husky in her kennel sleeping next to me. Although it seemed silly I realized my husky requires more of my time than my silly video games. Next day I took her out for a long walk and got her a scoop of ice cream as well. Ever since then she's legit one of my best friends.

So I guess, it wasn't that scary after all.

chluaid · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I first heard the "Bongo" phonecall at about 10:30 one morning.. i.e broad daylight and it still scared the shit out of me. There's audio embedded on that page. I've subtitled it for those who don't understand Australian.

hellomrpervert · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure that's a prank, but if so it is well done.

TezRoll · 2 points · Posted at 15:37:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A fox screaming. In a forest. At night. Alone.

PhilSeven · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard we all are going to die someday.

Maxfunky · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've spent some time at a local swamp (work-related--I'll let you wonder how) in my area and right in the middle of it someone has dumped a huge pile of severed doll heads. They just sit there floating in that one spot--no doll bodies in sight. It definitely creates an atmosphere.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Billpayment · 3 points · Posted at 17:30:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like an abduction ploy. Easy way to get a woman alone by herself to stop, and possibly get out of her car. There are always predators in the world. ALWAYS. Remember to tell your children to always look critically at such a situation before they act.

UMNfratboy · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Friends used to use me as a crisis line. It was not a good time. Once, a friend hung up on me. Her mom found her in the garage with a chain about to step off the stool. I called the cops previous to that, nothing matches that feeling of utter helplessness when they say they cant help you.

Another friend skyped me up one day having a rough time. I notice her arm is covered in blood. Strange, but ive seen worse. Next shes holding something. Because skype, I cant tell really what it is until she holds it to her neck. Its a 7 inch long kitchen knife. Took 10 minutes to convince her not to do it. After she promised not to (cops wouldnt help again), she hung up. Didnt hear from her for 2 days. Had a few panic attacks in class and.flashbacks for a month or two. On a funny note, my roommates decided to watch Sweeney Todd the next week. Being a good movie, I joined in. I remember the first and last 5 minutes, absolutely 0 in between.

icspn · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was this abandoned dorm on my campus that was about to be torn down. So naturally, my friends and I decide we are going to break in and have a look around. It's super creepy when we get there, with all the windows knocked out and the front railing and twisted and rusty. It's pitch black in there. So one of my friends got freaked out, and decided she was just going to wait on the front lawn. So just as we are getting into the building she starts screaming. When I run out she was just pointing at one of the windows on the second floor where, I kid you not, Slender Man is staring at us. He steps backwards into the shadows just as my other friends come running, and can't figure out why we are freaking out. After that, I couldn't go into the building either. (Of course, it turned out to be a set up, a sort of real-life version of Slender complete with pages, but not knowing that in advance?! Damn.)

zealotlee · 2 points · Posted at 15:58:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at my fiance's old house and her mother was standing in the doorway. Tensions were a little heated that night (not my doing) so as I was staring at her mother while she was talking a 6' tall shadow figure darted past her down the hallway into my fiance's sister's bedroom. I didn't know what I saw at first, but it shook me like I never expected to feel. I had my doubts about paranormal occurrences but over the past few years my doubts have diminished significantly.

There were a few occurrences of hearing disembodied voices which both my fiance and I heard and stuff getting forcefully knocked off of shelves out of nowhere but nothing came close to that shadow figure.

Billpayment · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I posted my own shadow story as well. Once you see one, it completely dismisses any doubt. They are very solid, and as I noted in my own little story, stand completely at odds with every other shadow in the room, it really jumps out at you how wrong it looks.

Carvinrawks · 2 points · Posted at 15:59:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend, after dropping out of college, was back living with his folks for a couple years. One spring break, a few of us were over there. He was looking after his brother's dog.

We used to smoke and drink out on his back screened in porch that faced the 15 acres of woods that was his family's property. We had gone out there to smoke some weed and play ping-pong, when all of the sudden, the dog (Husky/shepherd) got REAL serious (normally a goofy, playful dog). She got up on her hind legs and put her front paws on the banister, and started staring out into the distance. It was foggy out, really humid, and raining lightly.

We, stoned and curious, got a little sketched, and decided to look on with the dog in bemusement, when we heard a fucking human-like scream screaming like no human ever would.

Whatever this thing was came RIGHT to the porch. It was too dark or foggy to see what it was. It was about dog-sized, screamed like a human with half it's throat cut, and scampered around underneath the porch as though it were frantically looking for a small hole in the ground to escape from.

All it did was scream, and scamper, and rustle leaves. The dog was going NUTS. Stamping the floorboards above the thing, and barking/snarling.

We were all a bit terrified.

It eventually went away and the dog calmed down. My friend (who doesn't smoke), was as freaked out as we were, but he wanted to know more. So, he went outside and started calling the thing back in his best blood-curdling scream rendition. The fucking the came back. It heard him, and came back to find him.

We're all a little more amused than scared at this point, but the dog isn't.

It leaves again, and we go back in. Next time we come out, the dog stays in, and my friend calls it again. It answered, far off into the woods. It was the last we ever heard it. Still no fucking clue what that chupacabra beast was...

NerakanDrac · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably a fox, looking for its mate with a vixen call. Youtube it, it sounds like a woman screaming.

Carvinrawks · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This very well could be it. Although, the drop-out in question was studying wildlife ecology, and the only thing he actually retained was animal calls. I'll run it by him!

CrackheadSally · 2 points · Posted at 16:00:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was playing with an Ouija board with two friends. I asked who was speaking to me, and it said Cthulhu. I was 12 or so, and I'm 100% positive none of friends had ever heard of Cthulhu. Cthulhu also said that I would have his son.

I didn't think about this happening until I was 25 and pregnant with a boy. I told my husband the story, and he informed me of the significance of the name.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ITT: stories that will scare you even in the day time.

Smuggins · 2 points · Posted at 16:09:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HOLY FUCK balls. I literally just made an account to share this, I earlier clicked on that demon gif thing, this; http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8tztryQHJ1qa1p6xo1_500.gif, but in a different window, and was like, thats not that scary but then whilst reading a post it fucking just came up! WHY WOULD IT DO THAT?! Shit my pants.

YotaIamYourDriver · 2 points · Posted at 16:09:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have 2

1: We used to stay at my Grandma's house for a week every summer, it was a double wide in las vegas but in a nice neighborhood. One night she wanted to go grocery shopping and my cousin and brother went with her and I stayed home to watch a movie, I was 12. I was sitting on the couch in the living room and look up to see a big dude standing in the door way of the bedroom immediately off of the living room. He was decked out in 70's clothes, had long hair and huge sideburns and was slightly overweight, in fact he looked a lot like fat elvis. Anyways I stared at him and he stared at me, never said anything and I never felt threatened or scared just creeped out, I looked down and looked back up and he was gone. I never told anyone and just finished the movie and went to bed.

2 I was 21 and had just moved home after living in Chile for 2 years as a Mormon missionary. With my new freedom I tended to stay up late and would usually end up falling asleep on the couch in the living room. One night I was asleep on that couch when all of a sudden one of my mom's snow globes starts playing music super loud and out of nowhere, which is impossible without winding it, besides the fact that it was way louder than it should have been. As evidenced above, not much rattles me and I don't get scared by much but as a sat there staring at this snow globe I felt the presence of evil incarnate, pure and simple and I get chills now just thinking about it. It is hard to describe but it was cold and gripping, holding me there until I had the presence of mind to jump my 6'5" arse out of that couch and hoof it to my parents room. I was literally so scared that I crawled in to bed between my mom and dad and slept in their room. Got up the next morning afraid to go in the family room, went anyway, checked all the snowglobes and nothing was amiss. Never happened again and hasn't happened since, I slept in my own bed for a few weeks after that.

Hotwir3 · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a creepy guy I run into every week. I work for an ambulance transport. We transport people to dialysis or doctors appointments who are to debilitated to get there themselves.

There is an old lady who lives out in the middle of nowhere. We have to go pick her up regularly for dialysis. She has a guy with her who I guess is her son. Every time we pull into her driveway her so is just standing there in front of the door staring at us. When we hop out and get the stretcher out of the ambulance he opens the door and just stands there on his porch staring at us. I've tried to greet and make small talk but he doesn't speak to us. We go inside to pick her up and he doesn't leave the porch. He just stares at us through the front door. We leave with her on the stretcher and he just stares. I've never heard him speak.

I'm just waiting for the day when he comes in from the porch while we are helping his mother and guns us down.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:12:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, I haven't seen anythign truly creepy. But I did hear of the Kelly-Hopkinsville incident. I used to think a lot of UFO sightings and things of that nature could always be explained, but not this one. I wonder what the fuck actually happened.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

the damn clown story! This is not the worst here, but still fucking scary. http://www.torn.com/sendcash.php

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:17:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOSEYBONK!

Saddyy · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Blue Waffle.

afcagroo · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It.

Nasicus · 2 points · Posted at 16:32:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 12, my neighbor had an old tortie cat called Zoe, about 20 years old with dementia. Towards the end, she would often go missing, and I would help my neighbor find her again.

Now, Zoe had a very distinct meow, and a very loud one. You'd often hear her out in the street, shouting her head off because she'd gone for a snooze under a car and woken up only to forget where she was. The meow was a strange 'uuuwwWWAAAWWwUH' noise that I'll never forget.

Anyway, in time, she passed away. But for about a year afterwards, I would occassionally hear that exact 'uuuwwWWAAAWWwUH' cry coming from the street, despite there being no cats around, and my neighbor would hear it too.

vortigaunt64 · 2 points · Posted at 16:32:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was hunting in White Rock forest with my dad. We were set up behind a log and a clump of trees. All of a sudden we heard a loud shriek. This sound was like nothing I had ever heard. It didnt sound like a human or any bord native to the area. A minute later we heard it again, louder, closer. My dad told me to chamber a round. (Mind you, he was VERY strict about firearms safety, and would get mad if you chambered a round without a clear shot) so I could tell he was spooked. Later we were walking back to the car and heard it again from what seemed to be right behind us. My dad yelled: "Run!" I never saw what it was, but I don' want to know.

notahipster2874 · 2 points · Posted at 16:36:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once when I had finished watching a dvd at home , and had taken the disc out of the dvd player and shut it down i tried to use the remote to turn off the amplifier that was hooked up to the dvd player. Instead of shutting down, the amplifier turns the volume up and out come with a booming and commanding voice, sounding neither female nor male, the words: "Bow your heads". I press the on/off button again, but with no effect. At this point I charge to the amplifier and press the power button on the front, finally shutting the thing down. I have no idea what caused this to happen

nookie-monster · 2 points · Posted at 16:37:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not scary but creepy and mild in comparison to many others here.

Sat behind a girl in high school. Very attractive, etc. One day, she wore stockings, heels, a skirt to school. Not slutty but super hot.

HS teacher talked to her, like he did all the students and said how nice she looked. Just creeped me out. Even as a teenager, I thought "No way I'd risk being accused of impropriety by saying something like that". Something about the way he said made it come across less like "You're so dressed up" and more like "Wanna' play OB-GYN and patient?"

Went about my life but the crystal clear memory remained.

Couple years ago-guess who is in the local news about in inappropriate relationship with a student?

rageman96 · 2 points · Posted at 16:37:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest story I've heard of is The Lost Cosmonauts. It's sort of a confirmed hoax type issue, although nobodies entirely sure whether it's true or not.

Basically a lot of people claimed that they had heard or knew of Russian space missions during the cold war which went disasterously wrong. And the most of famous of these is a set of recordings known as the torre bert recordings. 2 Italian brothers listened in to and recorded space flights from both the russians and americans. Except some of these flights didn't go exactly to plan. Out of all of these, 1 sticks out as particularly creepy. They apparently recorded a flight during which the couple on board urgently began to contact the russian space agency, claiming something was wrong. The communications then went dead and all that was being broadcast was the sos signal in morse code, except it was moving away from the earth, getting fainter and fainter until disappearing. Hoax or otherwise, the idea of being trapped on a spaceship that was doomed to drift forever, with no way to return to, or even contact Earth, is really fucking creepy.

Rokujou · 2 points · Posted at 16:38:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid, I walked with my mom on the street. There was an old factory. There was a door. And the door had a square size hole. I looked in, and I swear to god, I saw a tied women. I told my mom what I saw, but she just laughed.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last fall, I was tired so I decided to go to bed early around 8 or 9pm. It was already dark outside so my room was pitch black and completely silent. I had my eyes shut and I was just about to fall asleep when I heard my closet door open...

I know it was my closet because 1) the direction of where the sound came from and 2) my closet made this creaking noise every time it was opened or closed.

I was startled, and felt very uneasy uncomfortable like I was being watched. I felt dread but I didn't open my eyes or move... Maybe because I was too tired. 20 seconds may have passed and I was trying to figure out what would have caused the door to creak like that (falling clothes?) when the door creaked again.

I said fuck it and opened my eyes only to find nothing but darkness as in i couldn't see shit. This caused me to go into wtf panic mode ran for the door.

When I opened the light, the closet door was closed :/.

knowq · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That A man who lied about passing his second year of university, pretended to continue his study, crafting an elaborate lie until everyone he knew thought he was a medical doctor. No one found out for 18 years, until he killed his entire family to avoid being revealed.

Meowmeowrawrr · 2 points · Posted at 16:41:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a person slit their throat because the cops had them surrounded and they wouldn't escape. He said yelled "If I kill myself will it make it right?! If I kill myself, I will have paid for my sins!." He slit his throat, looked me in the eyes. I saw the expression of regret while he grabbed his throat to stop the bleeding, but I backed away. He died a rapist on toilet.

bannedlol · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once got a call from a girl crying ''MOM?!?! THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE! I'M BURNING!!!!!'' I though immediately about my sister who was at a sleep over close buy and got there as soon as I could, panicking and crying.

When I got there no house was burning. I received a call from another phone. Called back panicking. No one answered.

Coloneljesus · 2 points · Posted at 16:43:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

My fucking heart was racing!

ElderCunningham · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My parents loudly singing off-key while having sex

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

lol love this.

JonnyBravoII · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About 4 years ago, I drove far out into the suburbs (20 miles?) to go to a specialty store to buy something for my new apartment. On the way back, I was waiting in the parking lot to pull into traffic when I looked into my rear view mirror and noticed an older couple in the car behind me. I don't remember what they looked like exactly but I just recall thinking that they seemed very strange looking and they definitely stuck in my mind. So I pull into traffic and I head to the freeway for the trip home. Side note: I am a very fast driver and I'm the guy in the left lane who gets a hard on driving in Germany. So you've got to move quickly to keep pace with me on the road.

So I exit the freeway near my apartment and am waiting at the light when I look in the rear view and there behind me, is the same couple. So that freaked me out a little bit, but not too much. But wait, there's more.

I get home and by now it's probably 2:00 or 2:30. I am home all afternoon and plan on meeting a friend at 7:00 for dinner. About 6:45 I go out to the elevators (I lived in a high rise) and the doors open and guess who's inside? It totally freaked me out and I'm not easily freaked out at all. I should add that I know they didn't live in the building because the floor they had selected on the elevator was the one for visitor parking. In addition, I was on one of the top floors with only 5 more above me.

I drank like crazy that night.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is definitely in the top 10 next to Dahmer's wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

wetterdew · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At a friend's house at 3:30 AM, we were alone. He got a text message from an unknown source that said that his garage was open. We went to check, and it was. After that we had trouble sleeping...

Nihiliste · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ignoring documentaries on things like the Holocaust or the US' atomic bombings in WWII, for me it's probably the bout of sleep paralysis I had as a child. I woke in the middle of the night, but couldn't move any of my limbs. After a while I started to panic; I tried to scream for my mom, but all I saw was hallucinated steam emerging from my mouth. I may have also had the vague feeling of a "presence" in the house, but it's been so long that I'm not sure. I can't remember when the paralysis stopped, or how and when I got back to sleep.

From what I've learned since, I lucked out. A lot of people who suffer from sleep paralysis will see a menacing figure at the end of their bed, which would've sent my young Christian self into freak-out mode. I probably would've assumed it was Satan.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I lost my job on a Friday afternoon and my buddy and I decided to take a random road trip to a town called Prescott in the middle of the Arizona desert. Part of the reason we decided on such a random destination was because it would take us through some desolate stretches of desert. We were driving through the desert at 4am, probably 25 miles from any sign of civilization (other than the paved road) and all of the sudden we see something in the distance coming towards us. As it got closer we realized it was two people on a BMX bicycle, one standing up on the back pegs. I still have no idea why anyone would be out there riding a bike at 4am, that far out in the middle of the desert.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis combined with a bad nightmare.

I'd been having a variety of more normal nightmares, but they never really scared me much, then my subconscious got creative I guess.

In the dream I was some kind of wizard, frantically working on something (not sure what) that was vitally important/for the greater good that involved extreme pain to some innocent people I was holding prisoner. I was summoning Death for part of it, but in doing so I made a mistake and killed Death. My Dream-self immediately realized how bad this was as it entailed immortality for everything including microbes and individual cells. This resulted in everyone, everywhere being doomed to agonizing paralysis. At this point I woke/semi-woke, unable to move while my brain was still trying to insert elements of the dream into my waking reality.

The instant after I woke was the most terrifying second of my life; not being able to move and believing that I had just doomed everyone to an eternity of agony. The confusion a bit longer, but for that first moment I believed it. :/

the_international1 · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was on a vacation with my family in the Caribbean. We stayed at a top notch resort and I loved it. One day my parents told me and my sister that they hired some natives to show us around the island-throught the poor parts, villages, and jungle. The native were wicked nice and friendly and we helped them out with some projects they had going on at their village. We took dune buggies around. We eventually had to return to the resort however the rain storm turned out path into a river. So the native showed us a path through the forest. He told my family not to touch anything, move fast, and not to stop. He said we had to cross through the "spider village". I thought that was the name of a type of people... I was wrong. So we are moving quickly and I have my head down because we are moving quickly. Pamerson, the native's, buggie stalled and stop me and my dad from moving forward as well. In a panic he started his buggie back up and looked up and saw the most terrifying thing I ever saw. Thick webs filled with eggs sacks, spiders, dead birds, dead animals just hanging around above us. The webs were so thick the entire forest was nearly white! I freaking could not speak, scream, cry, all I did was stay still. In front of me a spider the size of a basketball came down and pamerson knocked it away. Some of the spiders could jump!!! I never saw that before either.

We made it through the area and he made us all jump into the river just in case any spiders latched onto us. We got back to the resort and I became afraid of spiders lol.

adamduke88 · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to live in a really old house when I was around 15. The way it was set up was in order to get to the bathroom I had to go downstairs and thru a large dining room with a large glass sliding door. In the entire time we lived there we never put up blinds or anything to cover them, we just left them exposed. I have kind of a fear of large windows especially when it looks out to the woods and you cant see anything, So I would avoid looking out the door at night if I had to pass it. One night in the dead of winter I had to go so I head downstairs and in the kitchen. My heart sinks as I get that familiar feeling that someone's watching me. I don't dare look to the door, and make my way to the bathroom and back to my room. The next morning I awake to the sound of my mother freaking out and I run downstairs. In the snow outside the door there were these massive boot prints and what appeared to be hand marks on the glass, we lived in the country at least a mile from our closest neighbor. I realized that this person was watching me as I passed thru the kitchen. Did they leave because they saw me? Was this the first time they had peered into the glass? What would this person have done if I just turned my head to left and saw them standing there hands on the glass staring into my home? Still freaks me out when I think about it 10 years later.

Spacedoubt · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, that is creepy as fuck. I hate that feeling that you're being watched and that is exactly what I feel in my own house.

Stab_n_Jab · 2 points · Posted at 19:11:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Same here. My girlfriend thinks that it is irrational that I have to close all the curtains/blinds when it gets dark outside. I don't like the fact that you can look in the house but you can't see what's outside.

Spacedoubt · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's funny, Stab. Same exact deal at my house. I have TOO many windows and gf leaves them wide open when she goes to bed. I know it's silly, but if I have to go downstairs at night for anything, and those windows are open, i'm always afraid that there is going to be someone looking into my house through the windows.

I remember one time last year, my GF went to France because her brother was getting married. I stayed home to look after the house, and the animals. Before living with my gf, I lived with my mom....so I had never actually lived somewhere totally by myself before. For two weeks, I was all by myself in my creepy ass house. I slept with a sword every night, as if that would help me.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:54:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was babysitting 2 kids and we were playing in the living room. Suddenly I heard the TV in the basement turn on. It was a really old TV so it couldn't have been a timer or anything. I tried to not panic in front of the kids but I was pretty freaked out and casually asked the older child if that ever happened before. She just kinda shrugged and said not really.

Then, with absolute seriousness, the younger one looked me dead in the eye and said "don't worry, it's just Ollie".

EvrydayImAmpersandin · 3 points · Posted at 17:16:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stray EMF/RFI/Electrical signals can trigger remote controllable devices. I remember being a kid and discovering I could open my neighbor's garage door with my walkie talkie.

Twist: The walkie talkie was named Ollie and it was murdered 20 years ago.

LeapYearFriend · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been through a lot of scary and creepy things but I feel silly posting them because they're all "paranormal" and a small part of me knows they're all just in my head, no matter how real they may feel...

EvrydayImAmpersandin · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good on you, sir.

octoCase · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep /r/letsnotmeet /r/creepy

threeninetysix · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The sound of people hitting the ground outside the WTC on 9/11. You could hear the screams for a second before they impacted the ground. The shoes bouncing after the body had kind of disintegrated made a very surreal sound.

superbuckley123 · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Has anyoneelse ever read the Spiral Obsession?

DrowningFish101 · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Anguished Man painting. http://whofortedblog.com/2012/11/27/mail-bag-torturous-cries-the-anguished-man/

charlesmann · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in the Dominican Republic doing some humanitarian stuff and our group was taking a bus through the middle of the back country, we passed through a Gov. Checkpoint and to the side I saw a man being asked a few questions by a soldier. At some point he said something that made the soldier angry and so the soldier pistol whipped him, put his boot to the man's neck and then shot him in the skull. Not particularly creepy, but the sound of that gunshot will stay in my head forever. Being a well-off white kid from preppy CT, this was the most terrifying act of violence I had ever seen and made me feel frightened for the month we were in the DR.

Billpayment · 0 points · Posted at 18:01:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why you don't go to darkie hell holes like the Dominican Republic. Black people are savage.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to hallucinate when I was younger and have "nightmares" though I had them as long as I can remember so I was never really phased. Though small child me(3-4 age range) used to tell my family member about my "dreams" and everyone knows it's really fuckin' creepy when a small child tells you genuinely freaky/fucked up things.

One night I "met" a boy with no hands. I recall the sensation of falling, falling straight through my bed hard onto the floor below. I rolled onto my stomach and looked around myself with a bit of shock, fear taking hold. I became certain I was alone and relaxed yet as I went to crawl out from under my bed, some sort of fleshy weight was pressed onto my arm, pinning me.

My gaze shifted quickly to what it was. It was a bandaged forearm, nothing but a nub where a hand should have been. My eyes locked upon that of a small male child and he gave me a kind smile with rotten teeth that didn't hit his dead yellow eyes. I went to scream, but nothing came out. The floor boards beneath me began to break away and I fell once more, this time landing in a grassy yard of a small home beside a large stump.

Suddenly a man was dragging a small child from the house, yelling and screaming at him. The child looked horrified and woman chased after but quickly was thrown to the ground by the man she was perusing. The boy's hands were then severed off in two quick chops from a hatchet before the boy with the dead eyes appeared next to me again.

He was still smiling, just smiling at me. I heard a smack and returned my gaze to the "living" people and watched as the man began to beat the child's face in. I looked to the dead boy and suddenly his face began to fall apart...no, smash apart. His teeth flew out of his mouth, his nose broke, then his eye sockets, his jaw, all followed by this pus, blood, and sludge substance.

I woke up...I was terrified, of course. I kept having dreams about this boy. I saw his short life, I saw him take revenge on his father, yet killing his mother by accident then snapping and haunting and killing plenty of other people.

I was a weird kid.

MissBelly · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

The music from the Siren fight in Bioshock. It sounds like the scariest thing in the world to me.

fatnerdyjesus · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't mine, I ran across it on twitter. (i think it's a good one though) http://imgur.com/GpbZ1uc.jpg

Fever0 · 2 points · Posted at 17:12:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not scary, but was VERY creepy at the time. I heard a strange noise in my neighborhood that was very loud and very eerie. After listening to it off and on for a few minutes I decided to go try and track it down, which you can watch here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFL6cg7uJik

InstyKim · 3 points · Posted at 18:11:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's pretty eerie. It really does sound like someone burning out in a car or doing donuts or something....right?? I hope.....

Fever0 · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

While I'll never know for sure, this is my current lead hypothesis as well. Only things I'll probably never be sure of are

1) The pitch was very high 2) It was LOUD. You could hear it throughout my whole neighborhood and there had to have been some distance between the source and the neighborhood on top of it. Both of these might be explained to the way echoes were playing with the noise. 3) Past a fence on the dead end street I walked to is just a mostly empty field, with a highway well past that (I'm pretty sure whatever it was wasn't coming from the highway though). So...yeah. Again it might have been echoes messing with me again, and might not have even been coming from that direction, although I'm pretty sure it was.

But yeah, despite the fact that it was most likely some kids doing doughnuts somewhere I still like the video. I still get chills sometimes listening to it. Weird noise.

InstyKim · 2 points · Posted at 13:17:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Loud noises from unknown origin always frighten me. I live in a rural area and sometimes, just before midnight, we hear a series of noises that sound similar to fireworks. Think of a 4th of July finale type noise. This type of noise in the area where I live is...odd, to say the least. So, I can understand being unnerved. The sound in your video makes me uneasy.

Gagnostopoulos · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think you take the cake, sir. Did you ever try to find out what it was?

rumbrave55 · 2 points · Posted at 17:12:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_qfFuucvQE

This isn't my story by any means, but it's know as the "Kimberly Story." It's a "true story" told by a teacher in Chandler AZ. The link isn't mine, so I can't take credit/blame for the audio quality. I haven't listened to the full thing, but the length of the video tells me it's the full story.

I will say I have listened to the story live, and it is very creepy. He does say you can find stories about the city and events online, but I've never found anything to substantiate what he's said.

The only thing I can personally add to this, is the part about the girl in white coming and writing on the chalk board. I lived in Gilbert Az, which neighbors Chandler, and I have family that went to the high school where he teaches. A friend of my cousin was in the room when it happened and even now, ten years removed from school, swears that the a girl did come into the class room and write on the board, and that the teacher was freaked out. He doesn't really have any interested in keeping up a lie, so I give him the benefit of the doubt. It probably was just a friend the teacher got to come in and write on the board, but kudos to him for his dedication.

pass_the_flask · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Earth's population doubles every 40 years. Fucking terrifying.

Billpayment · 0 points · Posted at 17:52:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scarier: many of them are black, and/or muslim.

wvdan · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We were a young married couple and bought our house in 1985. I had grown up in the neighborhood and was familiar with the house and it's prior occupants but had never been inside. It needed some work but the price was right and we were tired of paying rent. So when the University that owned it put it on the market we jumped on it.

I was employed as a coal miner and worked evening shift, my wife Julie worked dayshift as a secretary at a local hospital. As a result our working schedules often conflicted during the week. I would arrive home late at night,usually around 1:00 to 1:30 am, and she would already be in bed upstairs.

I would usually need some time to wind down after my shift and after arriving home on this particular night I was standing in the kitchen fixing something to eat. At that time we had no children, it was just the two of us. The TV was not on, and Julie was asleep. As I was standing there I heard a voice distinctly say the name " Eugene ". It was a deep masculine voice and the word was spoken just as clearly as if someone was standing right beside me. I wasn't frightened but I did walk to the front door and looked out, convinced that someone was walking down the street and talking loudly. There was no one there. I didn't hear anything else so I kind of forgot about it.

That weekend Julie and I were relaxing and watching a movie on Saturday night. A commercial came on and I casually mentioned what had happened to me in the kitchen. She didn't say a word, she just stared at me with a shocked look on her face. Then she began to cry. THAT's when I got nervous. I asked her what was wrong and after a few moments she was finally able to tell me. She had the exact same experience with the voice and the name Eugene, and it happened to her in the kitchen as well.

I guess the part that ties it all together is what happened a couple of months later. The previous tenant of the house ( a university professor ) called us and said that she had lost a ring which had sentimental value, and if we found it to please call her. Julie agreed, of course, and then said that she would like to ask the tenant a question about the house. The tenant replied that Julie didn't have to ask, it was the kitchen....right? Whoa....

The tenant explained that she had experienced a presence in the kitchen several times when they lived there, never anything threatening but a presence nonetheless.

Over the years " Eugene " eventually became sort of a member of the family. Whenever we would hear a noise that we couldn't explain we would always credit Eugene. ( It's an old house and settling noises are not uncommon.)

Neither of us were particularly convinced that what we had experienced was of the paranormal variety and we certainly never felt threatened. There are a couple of side notes however. At one time during some deed research the name " Eugenia " was listed as a member of the family that may have built the house. Also, during this same time frame, Julie and I were experiencing dreams with the same characters. There was a woman with short blond hair in a nightgown, and a small boy, in dreams that we both had. Strangely enough, Julie and I having dreams with the same characters in them was more disturbing than the Eugene episode. I was not comfortable at all with the dreams, something about them just wasn't right.

Sadly, it seems as though Eugene may have moved on. We still hear the typical old house noises but the vibe doesn't seem to be there like it used to. We've told our story to a number of friends and family members and everyone gets a kick out of it but no one can explain it. It is indeed a mystery that I probably will never be able to rationalize or explain.

ActivistZen · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to take an exam in a part of town I usually don’t get over to, as it’s quite out of my way. The bus route I required to take home was a route I’d never been on. It was probably about 8pm in the middle of winter; so, pitch black out. A bus pulls up and I get on. It’s one of those shorter buses because the route isn’t a popular one. No one is on the bus aside from myself and the bus driver – who had curly, greasy hair down to his shoulders and eyed me oddly. I hand him a ticket from a pass book and request a transfer, as I decide that I might want to get off a couple stops from my house and grab groceries. The following is our dialogue:

Myself: Can I have a transfer, please? Driver: [rips off transfer then hesitates to pass it to me] Can I keep it? Myself: What? Driver: Can I keep it? Myself: Uh. No. I need it to transfer to a different bus? Driver: …Because I’m collecting them Myself: What? You’re collecting bus transfer stubs? Driver: Yes… I’m creating a life sized papier-mâché bus from transfers [dead serious face] Myself: [speechless, trying to comprehend wtf is happening] Driver: You could ride in it someday… [looks at me expectantly] Myself: Uh. No. I’ll take my transfer, please. Driver: [looks sad, hands me the transfer] Myself: [I walk to the back of the bus, thinking to myself that is guy is 10,000 on the creepy scale and I really hope he doesn’t decide to off me while we’re driving alone through suburbia]

No one else got on the bus in 20 minutes of travel through dark suburban streets. Needless to say, as a tiny female, I was QUITE relieved to get off that bus.

nrrrdgrrl · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I'm reposting this from a while ago, because it's still incredibly relevant.

TL;DR--Great-grandmother was terrorized by an entity, and months later, house-guests described being terrorized by same entity. The description of this entity was NEVER discussed among them beforehand.

My grandmother used to live in this tiny apartment in Maryland. One weekend, her mother came to visit (she was getting old, and was beginning to need help doing daily activities). On the first night, she insisted to sleep on the couch, even though my grandmother offered her bedroom.

As it got late, my grandmother turned in, and got ready for bed. While she was laying in bed reading, she heard her mother screaming for help in the living room. She bolted up, and ran to her aid. She flipped on the lights to see her mother, pale and terrified, sitting upright and shaking. She asked her mother, "What happened?" to which her mother replied, "THERE WAS A MAN! He tried to strangle me with a belt!"

My grandmother proceeded to get a description of the man (A light-colored shirt, and dark pants), and search the apartment for signs of him. As the search came up empty, she decided it was her mother's old mind playing tricks on her and went back to bed.

Not five minutes after laying down, she again heard her mother screaming. This time, she grabbed her pistol and went into the living room ready to defend herself and her mother. This time her mother was crouched in the corner, and pointed at the door which my grandmother was standing in front of.

"HE'S BEHIND THE DOOR!" She screamed.

Startled, my grandmother swung the door closed, ready to shoot, only to find no one there. Relieved, she put her mother back to bed after another thorough search came up empty, and blamed it on a bad dream.

It turned out that my great-grandmother was suffering from critically high blood-pressure, which can sometimes cause hallucinations.

However, three months later, my grandmother had guests over to house-sit while she was out of the country. When she returned, they all went out to dinner as a welcome home. During the dinner, my grandmother asked how their stay was, when her friend replied, "Oh, it was great. Except...the strangest thing happened. One night, I woke up to a man standing over me trying to strangle me with a belt. I was able to get away, and as I turned on the lights, he was gone. He had on a light-colored shirt, and dark pants."

Also, here's a picture of my grandmother and sister a few years later right outside Antietam Battlefield. And no, it's not cigarette smoke. They are non-smokers. Right after this was taken, the horse they were riding got spooked and bucked my grandma off, almost breaking her arm.

Disguised_Hitler · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm on the swim team at my school and there was this one time at the pool about half a year ago, where a 5 year old was about to jump off of the 3 meter high dive for the first time. The boy climbed the ladder of the diving board and took merely two steps before he lost his footing, reached for the railing, and slipped right under it falling face first into the concrete. It wasn't the sound he made when he hit the floor that scarred me, although bone chilling, but the scream of his mother who was watching from across the pool. I have never heard a sound so deafening before... The young boy was airlifted to a hospital and sadly died a few days later. Currently my school is taking down all of their diving boards because of this incident and my coach suggested that some of my team members see a therapist.

Creighton_Beryll · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've always wondered what therapists and grief counselors actually do. What could they possibly say to lessen the impact of a traumatic experience? Ultimately the individual has to come to terms with it on his own.

Marine08902 · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Didn't happen to me but still quite freaky.

(Background)

I grew up in one of many small villages sporadically dotted around the outskirts of a large town in England. These villages are small, having at most only a small shop or pub in each and a few dozen houses. As such all the village kids would attend the large school in the town centre which was often the only time many of them got to see each other because of their houses being spread out across the rural area. Each village is fairly isolated but connected by a series of narrow winding country lanes with high bushes and a ditch lining the farmer's fields on either side of the road.

Anyway, my friend's father (this is taking place during 1970's) was aged around 15 and had a girlfriend that he'd met in school, who lived in the next village. Nearly every day he would cycle along the lanes to see her after school and hang out together until dusk, when he would then travel the roughly 3-4 mile route back home. Bare in mind this was before the days of mass transportation and cars were nowhere near as common as they are now. The lanes are completely unlit and there are no street lamps.

Sometimes they would lose track of time (as young lovers do) and he'd stay extra late, having to ride back in darkness, this wasn't usually a problem however if the sky was clear as the moonlight and stars were sufficient to provide enough light to see without too much difficulty.

One particular night after overstaying his welcome, the weather had turned overcast which drowned out any remaining light from sky making the journey even more arduous than usual. Any more than a few meters ahead at eye level was just inky blackness and he would have to use the tree-line of the hedge-rows against the sky to make out his route.

As he was nonchalantly travelling down the lane as he had many times before, roughly just past the half way point, a dark blur suddenly rushed from the hedge row and shoved him hard in an attempt to knock him from his bike. Despite severely swerving and nearly ending up in the drainage ditch, by some miracle he managed to stay upright and recover his bike. Peddling furiously as the figure grasped at his clothes and gave chase, however he was too quick and broke away, riding on listening to the sound of the footsteps and panting receding behind him.

He described it as "the fastest I'd ever gone in my life" and was "practically having a heart attack" by the time he got home. It was reported but nobody was ever brought forward as a suspect or even found to be any evidence someone had been waiting on the road that night.

The other weird thing was my friend's dad hadn't passed any parked cars during the entire journey over miles either way so it was likely the attacker was someone from either his or the next village, possibly even someone he knew, that had walked to the ambush spot.

There were no other reported attacks in the area and nobody has gone missing to my knowledge in the area since, so it appears to be a one time incident, but who knows what would have happened to him if the assailant had been successful in pushing him off. Maybe he would have just took his bike, maybe something much worse. We'll never know.

Believe it or not he actually continued travelling that route for some months afterwards and never encountered him again, I think it would have been enough to put me off for life!

lilhurt38 · 2 points · Posted at 21:58:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not me, but my mom. Her boyfriend's neighbors had a schizophrenic son. He was older, but he couldn't really function on his own. One night my mom found her tires slashed. The guy had done it to a few cars on the street. After that people started getting upset with the neighbor and told them to put their son into a mental institution. A few nights later my mom was over at her boyfriend's house and woke up to the smell of something burning. She says that it smelled like something burning, but she couldn't figure out what was burning. A few days later they found the neighbor's chopped up and burned bodies.

GiraffesLoveHam · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend just told me a story about a Japanese man with a conjoined twin on the back of his head and he committed suicide because he claimed it was whispering to him in his sleep to kill his family. Anyone else heard of this? I couldn't find anything about it online.

Alektruon · 2 points · Posted at 00:13:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's true but he wasn't Japanese. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mordake

tcain5188 · 2 points · Posted at 22:07:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This thread is getting old so people probably won't see this. Ah well, anyways, the creepiest thing that ever happened to me came in the form of dreams. Not just my own dreams either. Let me begin. One night while my cousin, who is a year older than me, 16/17, was staying over at our house for a few weeks over summer, we decide to hit the hay around 12:30 or 1:00 am. My dad comes in wishes us goodnight and we both just casually drift off to sleep. My dream occurs and it is an exact replica of what had just happened before my cousin and I had fallen asleep. I was on my bed, my cousin was on the floor, my lamp was on, and my dad opens the door to tell us goodnight. This was a dream that I could not tell was a dream. Anyways, as my dad is talking to us for a short time I notice something different. You know those roofing tiles in a lot of schools and stuff that you can kinda push up and into the roof with your hand? It's basically so you can reach maintenance up there. Well my roof in my bedroom (in the dream, not in real life) was made of that. What I notice is some movement in the roof. I look up and notice something is holding the one of the roof tiles up from up above it. I meet eyes with this small, black, imp creature with big yellow eyes staring at me. As soon as we see each other it drops the tile and i here it scurry off through the roof. I screamed in the dream and woke up.

Two days later my cousin and I are going to sleep one night again, this time my cousin is laying at the foot of my bed on the ground right next to my closet door which was cracked open about ten inches. I had a spare bass drum for my set sitting in there. Lights out we both try to fall asleep. I am awake for a good thirty minutes without falling asleep; my cousin had fallen asleep within five minutes. As I lay there with my eyes closed I all of a sudden hear: "tcain5188!" "What," i reply. "Dude I just had the scariest dream," he says. "uuuuh what happened man? he describes it verbatim: "well basically we were both laying down just how we are now, and we were talking about something when I noticed movement in your closet. When I looked there was this little imp thingy with big yellow eyes sitting on top of your bass drum just staring at me. As soon as I tried to say something it jumped at me and I woke up."

The best comparison to this creature that me or my cousin could come up with is the imp summon from world of warcraft, which looks like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mprnb0C4Oi8/SxaL71xvRUI/AAAAAAAAAlk/s8Oa8ESnEyw/s400/imp.jpg

fuck

chaoticneutral · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Candle Cove.

http://www.ichorfalls.com/2009/03/15/candle-cove/

spanqueques · 2 points · Posted at 22:14:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, when I was younger I used to have a lot of sleep paralysis episodes.

One night I was dreaming that I was in a field and actually realized in the dream that I was in fact asleep, so I tried to force myself to wake up and remember squeezing my fists real tight until I finally woke up.

I was standing in my driveway in the dark and it was raining. My mother came outside and starting yelling at me, asking me why I was outside. Then all of a sudden I started noticing my mother acting odd, she had a blank stare and I knew it wasn't actually my mother, I was still dreaming. Then I looked towards the street and saw a horrific dark demon like presence. I was so scared and got in the fetal position and began screaming and crying until I woke up.

I was experiencing sleep paralysis and laid there on my side in fear, I could feel the hand of the presence pressing on my back and I pushed and pushed inside until I broke free.

I know I was just hallucinating and all, but that was the scariest shit that has ever happened. The brain is really fucked up sometimes.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis is the worst. I still get episodes now and then and it's awful. I get the creeping hand sensation too. But most of the time, it's just a big, dark mass sitting on my chest or pushing down on my shoulders.

Interestingly though, when I was a kid, it wasn't too unpleasant. Apart from the not being able to move or speak, the things I'd "see" were always quite nice. The most vivid episode was when I was about 7 and on holiday in the countryside with my family. I woke up to see my bed surrounded with animals. Nice animals, mind you. We're talking deers, rabbits, squirrels...proper Disney-type shit. They were all just standing totally still, looking at me. I think being in the countryside evoked these thoughts of woodland animals and made me see them.

mrmhm · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is why I hope to never have to experience sleep paralysis...

sink620 · 2 points · Posted at 22:16:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't necessarily have a creepy story but this was one of my favorite ask reddit's to date. I killed a solid hour and a half at work when I had plenty of work I should have been doing.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:17:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a few short ones i thought were pretty scary happening to me.these all happened in a short time frame. My brothers used to play with ouji boards in cemetarys all the time and steal things off peoples graves when then take them home. First off they had taken a pinwheel from someones grave and taken it home and it would spin 24/7 no matter what. A short time later I was watching tv in my room and all of a sudden the tv started turning on and off really quick along with the light in my room the hall light and my door was slamming repeatedly. Scared the shit out of me especially around the age of 8 I didn't know what had happened. Needless to say a few things happened to them as well so they took all the stuff back.

A few years after that had happened my brothers moved out and my parents gave me their room. The first night I slept in there I got woken up at 2am to the sounds of running and a little girl screaming help at the top of her lungs outside my window. It progressively got louder and faster until it was directly outside the window then it just stopped. I moved back in my old room the next day.

This last one was more creepy than scary. For some reason in the air vents to our house every once in a while music from what sounded like the 30's would be playing with glasses chiming and people talking but you couldn't understand what they were saying. It would go on for about 30 minutes then stop. I told my parents about it and neither of them believed me until they heard it themselves. At first it was scary But after a while it was just soothing more than anything.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:22:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The sound in the opening theme of The Hitchhiker scared the crap out of me every time as a kid, and I knew it was coming. Still gets a couple of good heart beats just thinking about it.

kwhiggs8 · 2 points · Posted at 22:22:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 11, my mom and I went to Kmart at around 8:00 at night to get buy a quick present for a wedding we were going to the next morning. I decided to stay in the car as usual to listen to the radio and hear those talk shows where people call in and complain about everything. The parking lot was mostly empty except for a couple of the cars for the people that work there. Our car was parked in one of the first parking spaces near the front entrance and after about 5 minutes of sitting there, listening to the radio, a piece of shit Honda Civic pulls through the parking lot entrance and coast through the parking lot. The guy who was in the car looked like he was in his mid 50's and he had a blank expression on his face. The car coast right by me and I just stared at him. The car stops mid coast and he turns on the light in his car and turns his head towards me. He gave me that blank expression and smiled in the creepiest most insane way I have ever seen. He had a few teeth that were a dark yellow and his eyes were widening a little. I just sat there, frozen with my jaw half open. I was freakin scared out of my little my mind I was praying he wouldn't pull up next to me. He then puts that blank expression back on his face and starts to coast the car back around. When he starts coasting away, I bolt my little ass out of the car crying hysterically, screaming "MOMMY!" The store clerks didn't give two shits but when I explained to my mom what happened, she told management about it the next day when they were in, but they didn't give a shit either. We couldn't tell the police about it because he wasn't doing anything illegal. Just being the scariest person I have ever seen. 9 years later, those crooked yellow teeth with that smile still scares the living hell out of me.

benlostonce · 2 points · Posted at 22:26:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandpa told me a story that happened when I was just a few years old. He and my grandma used to live on a curvy one lane, rural road. Late one night they were coming home from the city and the rounded the bend to find two teenage girls, hacked to death with a cleaver or butcher knife. They were both naked, and sliced into bits. The uber-creepy part of the story is that their clothes were perfectly folded and hanging over a fence next to the bodies. The murders have never been solved.

My grandpa promptly backed the car outta there and drove down the road and called the police, then led them back up the road. Every time I drove up to their house, and I mean for decades, I couldn't help but think of those girls at the spot my grandpa found them.

dootherighthing · 2 points · Posted at 22:31:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is kind of creepy, happened last year. I've never experienced any weirdness like this before so I didn't know how to explain it.

I was staying at a friends house, interstate. It's a really old house with heaps of rooms and hallways. It's not scary but when you're alone in there, it is deafeningly quiet with the occasional noise from the grandfather clock which added to the creepiness.

I came in one day and once I got in the back door and walked to the kitchen, I shouted out "Heyyyy!" to my friend. I was expecting only her to be home. I hear a very profound "Hii-iii" back, from upstairs. It was definitely her voice, it's the same way she always says hi to me. I opened a beer and filled a glass while saying back to her, "How are ya?" or "Hows it goin?" she replied back "I'm upstairs". Okay, I shrug. I went outside with my beer and had a cigarette for about 10-15 minutes, expecting her to come down cause she knew I was bringing us beers.

After she didn't come down I headed upstairs to her room to say hi. I had two beers in my hands as I walked up the stairs. The lights were all off. I thought that was weird. I get to her door which was shut, also weird. I opened the door and the room was empty. I called out. Then I put the beers down and frantically started checking every room, running around the house. No one was fucking home.

Then I call her and no answer. I text her "Where are you? I thought you were home?? WTF?!"

She didn't get back to me til 7. I stayed in the kitchen, drinking all the beers until she got home at 8, convincing myself I wasn't crazy.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:32:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in the Adirondack park of Upstate New York. I was 17, and my boyfriend at the time lived in the woods, up a mountain with very windy roads.

I had gone up to his parents house for dinner that night and ended up staying until after midnight playing games and enjoying a bonfire and such. There was a full moon that night and the skies were clear so it was very bright as I drove down the windy mountain roads.

There is a bend in the road that has been nick named "blood curve" because of how many accident have occurred there. That part of the road always freaked me out no matter what time of the day it was.

So I was just rounding that curve, when what looked like a person walked into the middle of the road. Being an inexperienced driver in a standard I slammed on my brakes but forgot the clutch stalling out in the middle of the road sort of at an angle. I scanned the road and didn't see anything, just as I started to catch my breath there was a huge bang on the passenger side window, like someone ran into the side of my car. I looked over and there was a huge shadow clear as day, banging on the window to my car. I could see the light from the house behind it and the smoke coming up from their chimney. It looked like a large man, except it was just kinda, black and transparent. It started pulling on my door handle when I finally snapped back into reality and started my car. thankfully I'm super paranoid about my doors being locked so they always are. I literally flew the rest of the way down the mountain. The second I pulled into my driveway I just burst into tears.

The next day my boyfriend and I checked my car out and there were scratches all over the passenger side of my car. All the way down the whole thing. Creepiest thing ever. I refuse to drive up there at night now.

ElMangosto · 2 points · Posted at 22:34:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was driving from Chicago to Michigan late at night one Sunday. I stopped at a rest stop to pee. When I went in, there was a guy standing at a mirror, seemingly looking at his pants. The first thought that crossed my mind was that he had spilled something on himself and was cleaning it off. The mirror he was using was across from the stall I went into to pee.

When I exited the stall, I saw that he was actually holding his junk in his hands. He asked me, almost like he was embarrassed "Do you want a blowjob?" and I just scooted out of there as quick as I could.

I was making this drive a lot that summer, and I swear I saw his truck there again a few weekends later. Didn't stop that time.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:34:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a job interview in a city far away from my home. I missed the last bus to that city, so I hitchhiked for a ride. I came across a young businessman who happened to know the company I had interview with. The road was mountainous with lots of bridges over gaps and waterways. In the midst of pure darkness, while watching outside, for a flash of a second I saw a face of a woman. And a face only. It was bloodied.

I didn't make much out of it. I actually thought it was a hallucination. After a mile, the driver says that he felt like he saw a bloodied face of a man. I acknowledged that I saw a similar thing. We slowed down, arguing if we should go back and check it out.

We agreed to pass by quickly. And we did. we saw a man and a woman, covered in blood. I mean covered. All blood.

Pass again, this time slower, to see if there was anything suspicious. We came back again and asked them what was going on while slowly moving and ready to flee. Their minibus had jumped under the bridge. With many other people trapped in it.

We had to do something. We called the police and ambulance, but they would take ages to arrive, we were very far from anything. We went down to the crashed minibus. Looking around with a torch I clearly remember I could not distinguish one body from another. People were piled up in a horrific way on top of each other and tangled together. All looked dead. Then I saw a little foot hanging out from that pile. I pulled the foot, assuming the worst. I'm not making this up, I pulled out a kid, still asleep! She was about 3 years old, asked me where her mom was. Her mom was dead.

We pulled another kid alive. The driver was dead, some of the passengers were making random movements. Absolutely horrific.

Magnetrolia · 2 points · Posted at 22:40:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nowhere near on par with the rest of yours, but here we go:

Growing up on Air Force bases, I've always lived close to an airfield - usually within a couple miles from the airplanes (we had bad luck with housing, apparently). We also spent six years in North Dakota, AKA the very tip of tornado alley and home to some of the scariest thunderstorms you've never seen.

But that's not the scary part.

The scary part is when you wake up at two in the morning to an explosion. You, being fourteen years old and knowing that the planes are less than three miles away, think that a plane has exploded. It's 2002, 9/11 was less than a year ago, this used to be a missile base, what if the terrorists still think it's a missile base?

You know you're being bombed.

Then you look outside and see the rain and the lightning and your heart is beating a million times a second and you expect to see fire. And you slowly realise that it was lightning, likely hitting the street not too far from the house, loud enough to wake you and make you think that something three miles away had exploded.

Either that or the day my mother came in crying while my father was TDY in Saudi. I expected the announcement that he was dead. He was not, but another friend was.

They could both be the scariest things I've heard/assumed.

clark848 · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sure this has already been posted, but if not... http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue

Taszee · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not the worst but for a kid this was bad. When I was a child the rest of my family was leaving town. Being old enough to stay home alone finally I was all happy to be on my own for 4 days. The day my parents and brother left there was a knock on the door. We have windows next to the door and I could see the police at the door and I was a little confused. When I answered they asked if anyone else was home and I told them no. They told me that there was a criminal nearby that had been breaking into houses and may be violent and to call a number they gave me if I saw anything strange. I locked every door and window after they left. Not even 30 minutes later I saw a man jump over my back fence through my kitchen window and sneak around a bit. He left but I assume this was the guy they wanted and in my child brain this is horrifying. I called the number and told them what happened but I never found out if they caught him. I have never been so glad as when my family got home.

cbfw86 · 2 points · Posted at 22:44:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That one story from /r/nosleep a few years back. "She found a way into our home." I didn't sleep for two days. Fortunately I was a student.

JungleOrAfk · 2 points · Posted at 22:47:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Time for bedditing? Better read a scary thread.

darksomos · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When Hurricane Ike came through Texas, my father and I rode it out at our house. The wind noise was terribly unsettling. When the eye of the hurricane was right on top of us, we went outside to see how our house and neighborhood were holding up.

The sky was vomit green. Pale, otherworldly, unnatural green. It was so freakishly surreal, like this was the same neighborhood but on the wrong planet. It may not sound that creepy, but once you experience it, you don't forget how unnerving it can be to walk out your front door into a completely different world. Kind of like all the most jarring aspects and feelings of time travel Marty experienced in Back to the Future, but far, far more gut-wrenching dread.

Soulcle · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I decided to be a rebel at the age of 15 and stay up on my pc playing Warcraft 3 at 1-2am (My pc at the time was downstairs at the front of the lounge, next to the bay windows). I then heard a sound which, I can only explain as a baby being raped - right next to, on the other side off the window. I later found out it was just the screeching of foxes, but I will never forget how big the brick that I shat was.

scruffyroche · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work in this really old building, imagine narrow slits for windows maybe 6 inches wide. One day, in a store room about 80ft long with a staircase leading up to it, I wasn't aware that my boss' 6 yr old daughter was in the room. I walk up the stairs carrying some boxes, drop them and look down the aisle. 80ft away, wearing a white dress was a little dark haired girl illuminated by a shat of light with dust particles floating through. I almost shit. She never spoke. She never moved. She just smiled and started humming some childrens song.

Khenir · 2 points · Posted at 22:54:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a bit of history of bad thinga happening over Christmas, mostly just me being ill. One year, at my grandmothers house, I get up from the table in the middle of Christmas dinner and walk into the living room and lie down on the sofa. Now I have to say, staring at floral wallpaper is really fucking boring and after an indescribable amount of time I start trying to find something else to look at, however, just as I'm about to move my head around I notice, in the corner of the room a little white and blue (mostly white) figure of a lady who, in my mind looked a bit Asian, kneeling in front of another object (can't remember, I think it may have just been a box) which I presume to made of China and as I move my eyes to focus on this figurine I realised that...

IT...

IS...

WAVING...

AT...

ME...

underpaidorphan · 2 points · Posted at 22:55:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to live in a big, two story house with my aunt and uncle. A very lovely house with lots of bedrooms and closets, two sets of staircases, and plenty of places to hide.

My aunt and uncle always believed we had/have a ghost in this house. At the time, the new "ghost" event of the month was this faint heartbeat inside the walls. It would change daily or hourly. I don't believe in ghosts, or at least I try not to, but this has always been the weirdest thing to experience.

Imagine putting you ear to a wall, almost like an ear to a seashell. The house is silent. The heartbeat is faint, like a water drop slowly leaking out of a leaking pipe (which is what I thought it was). But the the heartbeat becomes more elaborate and louder. Eventually, the heartbeat sounds as if it's directly on the other side of the wall. As if this "ghost" is standing only inches away from me. Creepiest shit ever.

Fast forward a couple weeks later. I wake up around mid day. The house is silent and I didn't realize it at the time, but I was home alone. I hear the heartbeat upstairs (which is where I woke up), which is unusual, because normally you can't hear it without putting your ear to the wall. Like a dumbass, I slowly walk up to the wall it seems to be emulating from, and put my ear to it. The heartbeat stops instantly. I take my ear off the wall And just immediately feel numb. Just a chillness throughout my whole body.

I think nothing of it, as I'm just creeping myself out. I hear some clicking away on a keyboard downstairs, which is probably my aunt. I walk downstairs and turn the corner to arrive on the first floor. Straight ahead, my uncle is in the room, sitting at the computer. He was wearing a thick grey hoodie, with the hood on, which was only slightly unusual. I don't remember why, but I didn't say anything.

This room is conjoined with the kitchen, so I don't lose sight of him as I stroll over to grab a bite of cereal. As I grab a bowl for my cereal, I hear the garage door start to open. I turn around, instinctively, and my uncle is gone. Once again, think nothing of it. He had been on my aunt's computer and if my aunt walked in and saw him, she would flip shit.

The garage door closes and the door leading from the garage to the kitchen opens. It's my uncle. I'm not scared, I'm dumbfounded. I ask him simply, "How did you do that?". He doesn't understand. After explaining the situation, I slowly become scared.

I don't remember if it's a movie or real life story (I don't really want to know), but there is the story of a guy who sneaks into a family's house while they are at church. He hides in the children's closet the entire day. The family comes home and goes about their day, before finally turning in for sleep. The man exits the closet and murders the entire family.

Basically, that story had always scared me. Worried someone was hiding in the house, my uncle and I searched every room/closet/dark space in the house. It was the most disturbing hour or so of my life. Every door that we opened, I expected someone to attack.

I still don't believe in ghosts and convinced a homeless guy snuck in and simply exited when the garage door opened and didn't realize I was there.

sparklebiscuit · 2 points · Posted at 22:59:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have two; one that I've posted on here before, and another I thought of. Even though this will probably get buried, whatever.

So there was this haunted road about 45 minutes away from me called Paradise road. It's a road surrounded by really thick, tall and looming woods on both sides. Rumor was that there used to be a satanic cult that would practice in those woods, and occassionally you could see black, hooded figures and a decapitated racoon. In highschool, my boyfriend, his 3 guy friends and I decided to make a trip to the road. Long story short, we got lost and ended up finally finding it at 3:30 AM, and decided to drive along the road to get a feel for it. I remember being so scared and closing my eyes, but the one time I went to open them all I saw were these scattered, floating orbs inbetween the trees. They looked almost like christmas lights, just hovering. I yelled "did you guys see that?" And one of my guyfriends said he saw it too. To give you and idea, it was pitch black and cloudy outside, and you couldn't see anything past your hand without car lights... so seeing those lights was unreal. I looked away freaked out, and when I looked back they were gone. Later, the guys went to look around the woods, and I stayed in the car. My boyfriend believed in ghosts, having some experiences himself and also stayed in the car, scared shitless. His friends came running back yelling "HOLY SHIT GUYS, YOU HAVE TO COME OUT HERE" and reported that they could hear this woman wailing and another voice whispering in their ear. Of course, I backed even farther into my car and they joined. After one of the guys claimed they saw a face, we decided to book it. Afterwards I got one picture of one of the "orbs," and this creepy, mask-like/skull looking face.

My second story was also in highshool, after I snuck out. I drove my car back to my parents house, parked it on the side of the road and sat there for a while. I have this habit of picking my split ends and thinking about life, and I ended up doing so at like 4AM. I remember this weird, eerie sound I've never heard before slowly approach my car. The best way I could describe it, was this crackily, grudge/bird like chirping that seemed to be crawling towards me from under my car. I remember freezing, using all my effort to lock the doors and wait for what seemed like 30 minutes until the sound went away. It wasn't until 10 minutes after the sound went away that I sprinted for my life to my house and attempted to fall asleep.

fledgar · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

long shot, but do you still have those pics? I love seeing pics of things/events like this :)

Wannagoplease · 2 points · Posted at 23:01:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This dude at a recycling center in Portland just found a dead baby

http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/may/28/police-dead-baby-found-portland-recycling-center/

CallMeDoc24 · 2 points · Posted at 23:03:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sitting hear reading these responses and pissing myself, literally. Well one that I have was when I was in grade six, and I can actually verify this sine I had a friends but anyways.... It was after school and I live nearby so I decided to invite my friend over to play some PS2 since no one was at home at the time. So we go upstairs and put "Need for Speed" in and start playing. In the middle of a race, my friends and I hear a loud sound....almost exactly like a person slamming a door closed. At this point, we get up and look towards the basement door(where the sound seemed to come from) from upstairs. Being little kids and scared out of our minds, we decided to run out of the house as quick as we could. I ended up going to my neighbour's house and my friend went home. The odd thing is, all the doors and windows in my house were closed and the basement is quite isolated from any other room which makes me think it was someone. I waited until my brother came home to check the basement but there were no signs of anything or anyone to cause the sound. Also, if I may add, my house has made a lot of disturbing noises in the past, but this definitely being the most nerve-wracking.

DayOfDingus · 2 points · Posted at 23:04:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So I was watching Black Swan on a long flight to San Francisco, which to me was a pretty trippy movie to begin with. I was watching as Natalie portman slides into insanity when I feel something rub up against my leg. I got startled and look down to see this black rope of fur wrap around my leg and I start freaking out. It took me a few moments to realize that it was a cat but I was still kind of worried I was still hallucinating until the person next to me asked if that was a cat. This kinda freaked me out but its nothing compared to a most of the stories already posted.

Shaarox · 2 points · Posted at 23:04:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue

This gave introduced me to a whole new level of scared. I've never had my body feel the way it did during some parts of this, and I never want to feel it again. Seriously, I know what's in it and I REFUSE to read it again.

Alektruon · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I LOVE those feels!

gonzo123100 · 2 points · Posted at 23:04:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing I've ever seen was watching a gun pointed at my dad. Twice.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:08:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No story here, but this thread is convincing me to carry some kind of weapon wherever I go!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:14:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In retrospect, I suppose I was kind of asking for this one. Here goes.

One of the elementary schools in my town is very old, over a hundred if I'm not mistaken. It's built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, columns, arches, gargoyles, I shit you not. Last summer, both that school and the attached junior high school were undergoing renovations, and being myself I decided to sneak in while it was under construction. At night. Alone.

I actually attended this school between second and fifth grade. As the school is very old, of course there was the obligatory creepy story. According to this particular tale, the school partially burned out shortly after 1900, and it was said that a student (or students) was trapped on an upper floor and perished in the fire. Naturally, the attic of the school was widely considered by the student body to be haunted. I never made it into the attic while I attended there.

That night, I skirted the fence and gained entry through a hole in the wall where they were putting on an addition. The inside of the school honestly gave me chills. Elementary schools are so often decorated in bright colors and are well lit, as I remembered the building. In its current state, the floors were old exposed hardwood, the walls were bare, and the only light came from hanging bulbs. The halls were deathly quiet, except for some quiet, insistent buzzing, which I took to be the electricity. After wandering around a bit, visiting some of my old classrooms and such, It crossed my mind that I had never been in the attic before. Most of the interior doors were gone, and the remaining ones weren't locked, so I figured that it'd be easy to pop up there and take a look around.

As it turned out, while the majority of the rest of the building was at least dimly lit, the attic was not. There is a short flight of stairs leading to a small landing, and then a second stairway leading up to the attic proper. By this time I was fairly comfortable with my surroundings, but the fact that I was entering a total, silent darkness gave me a bit of a pause. Having foolishly neglected to bring a flashlight, I took out my phone to light the way and began to climb the stairs.

I was halfway up when I heard, directly ahead of me, a loud bang, a door slamming shut.

I absolutely panicked. Fight-or-flight immediately kicked in, and I don't think I've ever moved so fast in my life as I did as I ran back down the stairs. As I hid in a classroom on the second floor, my very first thought was that maybe there was still a worker in the building, who I somehow hadn't noticed.

Then I remembered that it was eleven o'clock at night.

I immediately noped the fuck out of there. It wasn't until I was safe at home in my pajamas that I remembered the stories that I'd last heard almost a decade previously. In the comfort and privacy of my bedroom, I shat my pants in fear.

Jeeez135 · 2 points · Posted at 23:40:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obviously no relation to me, but the Dyatlov Pass Incident is an interesting read.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

pinealrob · 2 points · Posted at 23:43:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

It was a late night when I was 13-14 and Titanic the movie was on TV. My mom and dad slept in 2nd floor while I was alone by myself in 1st. I dragged myself through the first 2 hours of the movie since I wanted to see the ending when all goes to hell. I got this sensation that something were wrong and I suddenly get this goosebumps feeling from top of my neck and down to my lower spine. I just didn't want to be there anymore, something was wrong. I went up to bed and was trying to sleep. My room was right over our hallway downstairs and we had wooden platting. Suddenly I could hear these small footsteps on the platting, walking from the living room and towards our stair and outer hallway. It sounded like the footsteps stopped in front of the stairs. Apparently a woman died in the house before we moved in, but that was 13 years ago before I experienced this. I remember me and my sister got always these bad vibes when we were alone in 2nd floor. I don't know, just creeped me out a bit:)

shadowsog95 · 2 points · Posted at 23:51:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to live in a wooded area in southeast Texas, orange to be exact. The neighborhood I lived in was beat up houses, almost trailers in the front but as you get further in the houses get older and bigger, but they are all in really good shape. In the spring the woods would flood and become more swampy than woods. The house I lived in was one of the oldest ones in the whole neighborhood. Which means it was one of the biggest. It wasn't a mansion but it was still pretty big. This house was really cool 2 stories seperate building for the garage. There was nothing weird for a long time but then my brother found a secret passageway in my mothers closet. A tiny door about three feet tall. It was on the second floor. If you followed it you would get to the garage (there was a small bit of roof connecting the garage and house). The night after he found the passage everyone heard people running up and down the stairs. I was in the room and looking at the stairs. Bump bump bump bump. Up and down over and over again. Then our cats went missing. They were inside cats and never went outside. Found them dead on our back porch a couple dayNot a scratch on them. There were cabinets that would open and slam shut and doors that wouldn't stay closed. Whatever it was never touched my dog, just cats. When we went outside at night anywhere in the neighborhood. I would see eyes in the woods, red eyes and hear animal noises like a large monkey. Nothing that would cause us to move away because my parents thought that the cats snick out and got.killed by bobcats or something. Here is a google maps picture https://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?panoid=0lBgi7H6iGBGjiYmAfa5qw&cbp=0,289.9831065248716,,0,0 it is the one with the for sale sign. Go forward twice and your right in front of it.

MikeOrtiz · 2 points · Posted at 23:55:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandfather was hit by a motorcycle and died a few years ago after falling into a coma and eventually succumbing to his injuries. Fast forward a few years later, months ago actually. It's midnight and pouring rain outside, my dog is going crazy by now and he has to go outside. I let him out and start watching from the window when he starts barking - he's normally a quiet dog and only really reacts to other noise. Near the fence there's something hanging on a tree, almost glowing, but I can't really see and it's raining so I'm hesitant to go outside. I eventually let my dog back in and go to sleep. In the morning my mother reminds me that today would have been my grandfather's birthday. When the rain finally stops and the sun is coming out I go to check on what I saw and see what it is: a balloon that says, "Happy birthday".

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:03:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Years ago I lived in the same house two separate times. Once with my mom and dad until they divorced, and then again when my mom bought it and we moved in with my stepdad. The house was about 150 years old, and to our knowledge used to be a road tavern, with the rooms upstairs to rent for the night.

My room was fine during the day, but at night it had a totally different feel. Not just being dark and shadowy, but it seemed like there were eyes on me constantly. Looking back, I chalk that up to weird electrical wiring in an old house. However, the house itself felt off everywhere. I'd switch rooms and hear noises. Like full-blown boot steps in the hallway. My doorknob used to turn constantly. I'll never forget the sound of the crystal and metal scratching. Our dog used to bark at empty corners- angry, growling barks from a dopey, happy-go-lucky dog. I was never happy there. It was like living with dementors. Scary stuff for a ten year-old.

Mom and my stepdad divorced within a year. So did the next couples that lived there. When I was 20 or so I visited home and found out that the man that had lived there after them shot himself in the garage because of marriage troubles.

It's not anything that I could prove, but I wouldn't ever go back there. Fuck ever living there again.

Faz517xx13 · 2 points · Posted at 00:09:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When me and my best friend were 8, we use to jump fences to sneak into peoples backyards. One night we saw a person dressed as a clown climbing through a window in the backyard, but out of being scared we would get caught for jumping fences we stayed quiet and ran back to our houses.

....3 days later...

There was a 61 year old man from the psychiatric hospital that had gone missing. He had been last spotted dressed as a clown leaving the local mart and the local cops started searching backyards and neighborhoods.

.....4 days later....

Neighbor calls the cops after walking into basement and seeing a man dressed as a clown hiding in the corner of their basement. I wasn't the one who walked into the basement or even led to the catching, but looking back at it now I easily could have.

Walking into a dark lit basement that is used for storage to see a 61 year old man dressed as a clown could easily be the most fucked up thing I can think of.

TL;DR - 61 year old man dressed as a clown found by homeowner in their basement after a 4 day search.

Nostalgialoves · 2 points · Posted at 00:23:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was about 7 years old and just decided to move my twin bed so it would be closer to the window and I'd be able to look outside while in bed. The only way to do this was to nudge it into a corner next to the window, the foot of the bed flush to the wall and the headboard in the middle of the room. It was the dumbest setup, but I was thrilled with the view (fence and neighbor's house). I was asleep and woke to a voice I'd never heard before. I couldn't make out what was being said, but it was a deep, masculine voice and the creepiest, raspy tone I had ever heard. I open my eyes to see a black shadow in the corner the foot of my bed was in. It did not have a human form, just long, vertical, and the darkest black abyss. I couldn't move, scream, nothing. It called my name, laughed menacingly, "We're going to play." I felt disgusted, dirty, and scared out of my mind. I don't know what happened after that, just know that in the morning, moved the bed the fuck away from there!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:27:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you suppose it may have been sleep paralysis?

Ferdinavn · 2 points · Posted at 00:37:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's cool y'all, I didnt want to sleep anyways ;_;

LocoCoopermar · 2 points · Posted at 00:37:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once when I was like ten my brother and I got walkie talkies that were real not the crappy toy ones. Well we were playing around and I was upstairs he was downstairs and we were talking on them about stupid stuff. Right in the middle of one of my sentences I hear an inhumanly deep voice say "Hello little boy". I dropped it and ran downstairs as fast as I could. My brother said he just heard me talking then it was cut off with a loud screech. We were both thoroughly freaked the fuck out.

wheatjus · 2 points · Posted at 00:39:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This place scares more than the hell out of me.

Its my best friends house i could chat about this until im blue in the face. She has some scary shit. One night she was going up the stairs in her house that was built in 1903 she gets to the top and she looks in her room to find it is filled with people with clothing from the early 1900's with skeletal faces they are speaking in tounges that were unfamiliar with her all of a sudden they threw a knife at her and it just flew to her hand they then started laughing and before she could stop herself she plunged the knife into her stomach and repeated to stab herself against her will. She did that for a solid hour until she fell to the floor and cried for hours. She still cries thinking about it. Another instance i was over also we were walking around in the ancient barn that is also on her property the most haunted place in wisconsin at least in my opinion. All of a sudden all the doors in the barn slam shut and 3 pigeons fall out of the air, dead. We found it hard to breath as we stumbled to the door. We got out and i swear I thought that would be my dying day. Last story, her sister just got home and she was alone she was going to go up the creaky stairs and she called the 2 dogs and 2 cats to go with they all refused the would whine and let out moans that she didnt think animals could make but despite these signs she still went up the stairs. At the stop she turned the corner and say a huge cloud of black smoke it screamed and served into the floor and she heard it hit the concrete floor in the basement and as it hit the floor the entire house shook. This house is fucking disturbing. The faces and people we see there will stay with me my entire life.

insidethetardis · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

so she stabbed herself in the stomach... repeatedly... for an hour. Is she some kind of superhero?

obliviousmousepad · 2 points · Posted at 00:47:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Replying way too late so this will get buried, but this is for you people who sort by new. I went to a friend's small get together last summer, roughly ten people or so there. I wasn't drinking, had to drive home, but most people were. At one point during the evening we decided to go down through the woods in his backyard (takes about 10 minutes) to a small piece of waterfront he had on his property. Some people went swimming in the river, and others (myself included) stayed on shore (it was about 5 degrees Celsius out so really cold). I checked the time on my cell phone (it was dark and I needed the backlight since I couldn't read my watch) and it was exactly 1:00 AM (is relevant after).

Anyways our friends finish swimming, they are freezing, and we head back up to the house. On the walk back up my one friend and I heard a loud jingling sound (sounded like a dog tag or similar on a large animal running right at us). My buddy and I asked if anybody else heard that, and everyone just looked at us mystified and asked what the hell we were talking about. Anyways we get back to the house uneventfully and things seem OK. I check the time on my watch and I see 1:00AM. I think huh that makes no sense it was 1 when we were at the water. I check the time on my cell phone and it was 1:15 AM. I thought even though my watch was brand new maybe the battery was dying, not that weird. I mentioned this to my friend who I had heard the jingling noise with. He checked his watch (analog just like mine was) and it was the exact same time, 15 minutes behind the current time. I can't think of any way to explain this other than battery problems, but a year later I'm still using the same battery without ever having to set the time again after that. (I set it back to the proper time the next day). All I can think of is a strong magnetic field caused the watches to screw up. That or Aliens.

TL;DR: Friend and I heard a mysterious jingling noise in the middle of the night, both our watches are exactly 15 minutes behind.

Afterburned · 2 points · Posted at 00:50:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This is probably going to get buried at this point, but I had the second most terrifying experience of my life last night. It's a bit fuzzy but I'll try to fill in the details as best I can.

It was about 2am and I was having trouble getting to sleep. I don't know why, it was just one of those nights, you know? Anyways, eventually I crawled into bed and buried myself in the blankets to try to block everything else out and get to sleep. I finally succeed.

However, I then decided to dream. Now, I almost never remember my dreams, so the simple fact I can even recount this to you is rather surprising to me right now. Usually sleep is like blinking for me.

Not last night though. My dream is still a bit fuzzy to me but a few points were as vivid as the day is bright, and the night is dark. I was driving in a vehicle of some sort, a car or a bus or something. And sitting alongside me was a beautiful girl. I was in love with her, that much I knew, but I didn't recognize her at all. There was a strange sense of familiarity with her, as though I had known her my whole life, even though her face was completely foreign to me.

I was happy, because here I was with this person I loved, and we were going on a nice pleasant drive.Suddenly the vehicle went completely out of control. It was all sort of in slow motion for me, and as the thing went flipping out of control, I tried to somehow maintain control. Nothing I did worked, and eventually we came crashing to a halt.

I looked over to find where my love had gone, only to find her body lying twisted in a heap next to me. I began to openly weep for this person I had never actually known as I was forced to lay there and watch them die.

Eventually I woke up, but the terror didn't end there. I woke up into a bout of sleep paralysis. It felt like there was some sort of shadow hanging over me, staring into my eyes. I couldn't open them, I couldn't move my arms, I couldn't do anything, but I knew all the same that I was awake. So after being paralyzed with fear and pain in my dream, I woke up into actual paralysis.

Eventually it ended and I could open my eyes again. I quickly grabbed my phone to check the time and see, somewhat irrationally, if there were any important messages. No messages were received, and it was only 3:30 am. I laid back down and tried to get to sleep. Luckily at this point I remembered a previous bout of sleep paralysis I had when I was younger, so I was able to sort that part of the experience out in my head, but the dream still haunted me. Eventually I blinked and woke up this morning not remembering a thing about last night.

Finally, just an hour or so ago I told my friend a story about dreams of some sort, and it was like a key had been turned and that nightmare jumped back into the front of my mind, bringing me here to tell it to you.

NightLox · 2 points · Posted at 00:57:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not my experience, but my girlfriend has always had nightmares of a child. Pale white with black vains all over his body, The child is in most of her dreams, Everything from killing her bullys in school, to sitting in the room watching us as we have sex. I've always spoke to her about it all being in her head, and that its from stress and whatnot, never really believed she was haunted or anything. Anyways, she lives in a house with her sister who has a 4 year old child, my girlfriend's niece. one night me, Her, and her niece were messing around playing. When her niece opens the door to the bedroom and goes "Oh no there's a ghost out there!" and closes the door again, Me and my girlfriend laugh and pretend like its nothing. Again she opens the door, closes it and turns to us and says "shhh! the ghost is out there!" At This point me and my Girlfriend get a little nervous, and after a bit of silence my Girlfriend asks "What does the ghost look like?" and her niece says "A little boy with black marks", Also when my girlfriend stays in my house, or her friends house she never has the nightmares. Only in her own house. Scariest thing so far anyways :)

Nberdy · 2 points · Posted at 00:58:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of the scariest things that happened to me was when I went hunting in the mountains with my friend to shoot birds with bb guns and slingshots. We were kids maybe 12 or 13, but his great Danes came along. So while we were skulking through some bushes to get some birds; within about 200 yards (this a guess from memory) we spotted a mountain lion. Mountain lions were hardly ever seen here. We both paused, and figured we need to get the fuck out of here. (Luckily his dogs didn't see or sense it, and decide to attack it.) We ended up gaining some distance from it, because we were afraid it would hear us when we tried to call up my friends dad whom brought his truck extracted us, and the dogs from the area.

Maybe not that scary for some people, but for us as kids we prepared for the worst, and thought it would stalk us till it killed us. And maybe we were decently safe, but we did not take any chances. We were obviously out gunned us being small, and having shitty weapons. Our only hope if we were spotted were the dogs whom were very loyal.

BITCHING_ANGEL · 2 points · Posted at 01:09:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not the creepiest, but this reminded me of something that happened to me recently.

A couple months ago I got a phone call.

I didn't recognize the number but I picked it up anyway. I heard the voice of an old woman say, "Is this number from Snack Factory?" I said no, the woman apologized, hung up and I forgot about it. But five minutes later I get another call from the same number. I pick it up and the same old woman asks, "Are you SURE that this isn't the Snack Factory?"

A little bit pissed off, I say, on a slightly angrier tone, "No, this is NOT the Snack Factory. Please stop calling." Before the woman hung up, I hear her scream "I TOLD YOU THIS WASN'T THE SNACK FACTORY" then some weird male grumbling that I couldn't understand. Then, five minutes later, I get ANOTHER call from the exact same number. I picked it up, now very pissed off, but before I could say anything, I heard screaming coming from the other side of the line. Just hysterical, female-sounding screaming for a good ten seconds, with more male grumbling on the background. I was scared shitless so I hung up before I heard anything else.

To this day I have no idea of what happened and I never got another call from this number again. I still get chills from thinking about it.

squashedfrog462 · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah this would have scared me shitless too, I must say.

martininkorea · 0 points · Posted at 02:26:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It sounds like some shitty attempt at a prank call.

Metroplexico · 2 points · Posted at 01:12:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I was taking out the garbage to my garbage can in my garage. Then I heard the giggle from one of my sisters old dolls, and I'm talking at least ten years old, and this doll always creeped me, my sister, and my parents, the hell out. It giggled when nobody touched it or was even near it, just as I was when I was taking out the garbage. I finally threw the doll out after that.

shaqfearsyao · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate dolls that make noises when touched. My niece had a toy where sometimes it'll just go off by itself for no reason and nobody's touching it.

x3tripleace3x · 2 points · Posted at 01:14:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nothing special, really. I just took my dog outside to let him go to the bathroom and while I'm out there I hear the loudest, most methodical soft-banging I've ever heard coming from the woods. It sounded exactly like the background music from any Slender man game. I listened to it in shock for about five seconds before making the connection, and then I grabbed my dog and ran inside. Couldn't sleep the entire night.

DonZulo · 2 points · Posted at 01:20:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was younger, a figure would always stand next to my bed. I couldn't touch it, couldn't focus on it and it scared the shit out of me. Don't know if it caused my paranoia or if the figure was caused by my paranoia.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:30:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night after seeing a movie with my girlfriend I decided to go get some coffee and drive up to a great scenic overview of a big city. The weather got really bad on the drive up the mountain but that didn't stop us. We finally got to to top and there was only one other truck, nothing out of the ordinary, it was Friday night. We couldn't see anything because of the storm but figured we'd just cuddle up and drink our coffee and have a nice long talk. As I turned my truck off the other truck cranked up. We were about 20 parking spaces apart and he pulls up RIGHT next to us. Doesn't get out. I handed my girlfriend my coffee and said "Hold this". She freaked out assuming I was about to go confront him when I said "LEAVING." Still raining, I tore out of the parking lot down the mountain when I see that he's following us. I was not ok. We lost him, but I still wonder to this day what the heck was going on.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:18:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:50:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Doggers?

falconfarter · 2 points · Posted at 01:31:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thisll probably get buried but hey what the hell. A couple weeks ago I was walking at 11ish with some friends. We noticed a car pulled out and had started going noticeably slow by us. So I realized he started driving faster... And he popped a uey, so I realized "this is how it ends?". So me and my buddies took off running, hiding then ran home. A little while later we saw him searching up and down all the streets, (which we later found out some kids had broken into his car so he decided to play mr. Officer)

fancymustard · 2 points · Posted at 01:37:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Browsing on phone. When I read the story about 'Grandma Shaver' the music to thenicestplaceonthrinter.net started playing on its own. Page wasnt up and I had force closed dolphin

letmegetinmyzone · 2 points · Posted at 01:37:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a train station across from where I go to school, and at night the trains move at night to their respective destinations, but slowly. And the wheels grind on the rails and everything. My dorm being across the street from the station, the distance makes the grinding squeaks really revert and echoey. Definitely makes my hair stand up at night when I'm out for a walk.

pttymcgee · 0 points · Posted at 01:55:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

at night the trains move at night to their respective destinations

WTF?

SamanthaLynne · 2 points · Posted at 01:42:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My sister lives in a rooming house, so basically everyone has their own rooms but all share a bathroom. Well at 2 am i went downstairs to use the bathroom, as i walked towards the stairs something caught my eye so i turned. To the left of the stair case my sisters schizophrenic, mentally unstable, neighbor was standing on one foot, with his arms out and his eyes rolled back. he looked like he was being possessed. I ran like hell back to my sisers room and couldnt sleep that night

Spaggs · 2 points · Posted at 02:05:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last year in October, my cats were acting crazy. They were indoor cats their whole life. I wasn't sure why they were running to all the doors of the house that led outside. they done this for about 30 minutes then an earthquake happened. I was already terrified of earthquakes since the one that happened in Japan a few years ago, adrenaline was pumping through my veins and i almost started crying. My cats stopped dead in their tracks when the earthquake happened, they were nice enough to come come comfort me afterwards. Now I freak out when my cats hangout near the door. If anyone was wondering what earthquake I'm talking about, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Haida_Gwaii_earthquake

xdaisyhill · 2 points · Posted at 02:05:48 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few years ago me and 3 friends went to a relatively small abandoned hospital. It wasn't long abandoned, around 2004 I believe. One of the wards, the furthest from the entrance, was for psychiatric male patients and the rest of the buildings housed regular patients. Upon being abandoned, there was a whole lot of stuff left there, wheelchairs etc, all of which can be seen whilst peering through the windows. Anyway, naturally we went up at night, about midnight or so, with just a few torches. Even wandering around is a little eerie, the grass is out of control long, weeds growing over the roads with their withered markings just barely visible. We went with no purpose really, just curious. Making our way around the place, we snoop around the building prior to the psych ward. Whilst you can't actually get into the buildings (the entrances have all been boarded up) you can easily look in through the windows. Me and friend 1 are looking inside while our other 2 friends are further along from us, near the corner of the building. We'd been here for about half an hour by this point, hadn't seen a single other person. Standing in complete darkness, our friends near the corner shout along to us "did you hear that?"... blowing it off as some sort of stupid shit he would do, we thought not much of it, although he did look slightly alarmed. We neared closer to them, in absolute silence, all 4 of us now at the corner of the building. I pulled down my hood, slightly nervous in the uneasy atmosphere. Nobody said a word. Within a few seconds, a very distinct and loud inhale/exhale was heard from what sounded like a few steps around the corner. This was some deep, angry devilish shit. Panicked, we split, no-one said a thing. We all heard it and our first reaction was all to run like little fucking girls. Scattering, we all ran separate ways. I swear, I heard that shit, something was there. A few footsteps away. Since that night, we have been back to the same spot, approaching it from the opposite way and going back to where we heard the noise. We've never heard it again. There is literally nothing there that makes any similar noise. There's no electricity, no fans. The whole place is completely silent. It was one of those moments, an absolute feeling of sheer terror. Fuck that shit. BONUS FACT: Told my mum about this, her explanation was that it was a hedgehog. A fucking cute as fuck hedgehog. It wasn't a hedgehog. It's never the hedgehogs. BONUS FACT 2: The film "the Jacket" was filmed at this location!

BOMBNOM · 2 points · Posted at 02:17:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine was a dream, more depressing from your POV but scary in mine. Well, you see, I have cancer, so my dream consisted of a few things.

Being at the doctor's office.
Having a test done.
Being told I have nine months to live.

It was the worst dream ever.

7777773 · 2 points · Posted at 02:20:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was little, I remember staying at my grandma's house one time and not being able to sleep during a big thunderstorm in the middle of the night because the lightning was so bright. It was summer, so I had the window open and the wind was blowing the curtains, so I'd see them move around like a strobe as the lightning flashed. One flash, there was a face looking inside the room - but not a person; it was like a hairy face like maybe a goat mixed with a dog with big teeth but the mouth was mostly closed. It was gone in the next flash but I never got up to look out the window, I just kept staring at that window and I don't think I blinked after that. Needless to say, I didn't sleep the rest of the night. I convinced myself that was a dream or my imagination, but I can still remember that moment with absolute clarity, every detail. Those eyes...

JohnWayneBlast · 2 points · Posted at 02:32:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This has happened to me twice. Both times late at night when all is quite. I’m lying in bed sleeping when I’m awakened by what sounds like two jumbo jets colliding above my house. I run out of the house in a panic expecting to find a flaming plane wreck or a mushroom cloud. …Only to find silence. …..What is even stranger is that no one else seems to hear the explosions except me. No one else wakes up much less runs into the street in their underwear

martininkorea · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That sounds like the "head explosion" syndrome, where a person hears an extremely loud noise go off, but it comes from within their head. It's not harmful in anyway, so don't worry.

http://www.sleepassociation.org/index.php?p=explodingheadsyndrome

Relic510 · 2 points · Posted at 02:39:23 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

About 6-7 years ago, I was in Jr. high school. I live in a pretty ghetto neighborhood, (Oakland, CA). It was Halloween and we were going to walk around town. I was with a few of my friends and we were trying to get candy. (Candy is necessary for all ages!)

Suddenly, there was a man dressed up as a gorilla riding a bike with no hands. He bikes past us and points a bat at us. He then bikes around us and points a machete at us and laughs. Then he bikes away.

adgal617 · 2 points · Posted at 02:51:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No shit, my house just lost power. It's going to be a long night!!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:16:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeahhhh, after reading a few posts, it seems like a better idea to just go to bed.

jorellh · 2 points · Posted at 03:22:09 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://russiansleepexperiment.com/

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was walking around some deserted streets in NYC circa 1995 on Halloween around 2am and a block a way we see this guy dressed up like Jason from Friday the 13th with a hockey mask and he's standing by himself and it's a little foggy and about every ten seconds he hits the lightpole he's standing by with a wrench.

I was with a group of eight people and we were all like....dude...let's get the fuck outta here.

zpearett · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was younger i used to get night terrors, horrible dreams, and could never really remember them when I woke up except for a couple that occurred often; one of them is complete nonsense, the other, still weirds me out. Set the scene, my family(sister, mother, father) and I are walking across a large road, about the size of a freeway. About halfway across, my father gets his leg stuck in a bear trap that appears out of nowhere. we all start panicking, trying to get it unstuck, nothing works. all of a sudden a huge fucking mack truck starts barreling at us from a distance, and we still can't get my father's leg out of the trap, the truck is getting closer and closer, picking up speed with nothing in-between us and it. As it nears with speed, i tel my mother and sister to run off, and i use the chainsaw that appears to start cutting. i start cutting my father's leg thats stuck in the trap, not the trap itself, and the 18 wheeler is still coming closer. i keep cutting, it looks like hamburg with blood everywhere, i get about 2/3 of the way through and look up at the truck, it's close, 100 feet. i drop the saw, leave my father, and start running and catch up with my mother and sister, then wake up. its screwed up, illogical, but its one of the scariest things that ever happened to me that i can remember, i love my father, and it still fucks with me that my mind can come up with shit like this.

rmtaylo4 · 2 points · Posted at 03:45:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know I'm a little late to this thread and I apologize, but back in 1999 I was living in North Carolina and there was this wooded area down the street from where we lived. It was a neighborhood hangout spot and all of my friends would go there to hang out. Well one afternoon I was walking around the woods with my friends and we came upon a sneaker. It threw us for a loop because we were there the day before so we knew it had to have been from the previous night. About 10 feet further down the path we found a torn up shirt covered in blood. I was 8 at the time and I later found out that two teenage boys had gotten into a heated argument and one had gotten stabbed repeatedly and nearly died. I won't ever forget seeing it.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:20:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest thing I saw was when I was driving home at about 2am and I was about 5 miles away from home on a 5 lane freeway. It was cold out and there was some patches of dense fog here and there, and as I was driving home from a night of fun with friends, I see something..well, I should clarify..someone standing with their back to the traffic in the middle of the freeway. I was luckily in the farthest right lane, but it is just terrifying that someone just wandered out into a freeway, most likely either tweaked out of their minds or to kill themselves.

As far as creepiest thing I've heard, I came home one night to the sound of my grandma in the middle of a psychotic break (she was bipolar and had anxiety issues) caused by her refusing to take her medication for over a week. She was crying, screaming, laughing, praying and going from Spanish to English at the drop of a hat. She said a lot of fucked up shit but the only thing I can remember is her miserably mumbling "Nobody cares about the old bitch, not a single person cared..ever". Creeped me the fuck out.

Nighthorder · 2 points · Posted at 04:24:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well this one is a tad paranormal (at least that's my only explanation). It really stuck with me.

When I was a kid (about 6/7) I shared a bunk bed with my little brother. We were playing and jumping on the bed and stuff and the top bunk just collapsed. We were terrified. Of course, being the big brother and not wanting to face my dad and tell him that we broke the bed, I demanded that my little bro tell him. He ran off to tell him and I heard this horrible yell, like someone was seriously PISSED THE FUCK OFF. It sounded so close that I could've sworn they were behind me. Being a kid, though, I didn't think that and just thought dad was really mad. My brother came back and I kinda laughed hysterically saying something along the lines of "Wow. We really made him mad, didn't we? We aren't grounded, are we?"

Here's what got me. My little bro said he was fine. He was actually just glad we were okay. Apparently he was really calm about the whole thing. The next day I started seeing weird shit happening all the time around that house. Thankfully we moved a year or two later. Haven't experienced anything along the lines of what I did in that house since. I still don't know where the yell came from, I just know that I never want to go back there.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:28:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

OK so we're about two thousand in, but I have to tell you about my childhood house in Houston. It was old and large and I have never stopped dreaming about that feeling I had when I was there. It was comforting actually, I think because I was raised there, to feel so surrounded by things that were just beyond corporeal description . Anyway, the first incident happened when my parents went out and left my aunt to baby sit me andy baby sister. She had her back to the large marble entryway playing with us when she heard what sounded like squeaky wet boots walking. She turned around and saw nothing. We went through the whole house opening doors and looking around to see if anyone was there( obviously a bad idea now that I think about it) nut found no one and went about our business. She was weirded out and told my parents who endlesslu teased her about it until the second incident. My mom had just put us to bed and was on the phone with a friend when she heard the sound of what she described as wet sneakers walking across the entryway floor and they stopped when they got to the stairs( carpeted). She freaked out thinking that someone was on their way up to the children and called 911. A swat team came and searched the house. Nothing. I'm not sure how that one was played off as she kept it a secret from us till we moved, but the third incident happened when one of us had left our toy keyboard face down at the bottom of the stairs. It was in the middle of the night and it started playing one key over and over. She came out thinking one of us was messing around and seeing no one, froze, and backed slowly into her room. So my parents are hard core atheists and could not accept the prospect of ghosts so very casually my motherade plans yo get rid of the very old chandelier that had come with the entryway. They took it down, sold it in a garage sale, and replaced it with a large glass one that day. That night the entryway was quiet. The following morning my mom got us up for preschool and had just finished carrying the last kid( me) down the stairs and through the entry way when we heard a huge roar behind us. We turned around to see the entire chandelier had simply dropped out of the ceiling, scattered glass everywhere and the dented marble where it had crashed not 5 feet from us. The stories go on, but this one was the most explainable...

Tldr: ghost of haunted chandelier not happy to be ignored.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where was this? Are there ravens in your area? Ravens can sound a lot like an eerie screaming woman or child sometimes, so much so that I have also been running through the woods yelling "are you alright? where are you??" only to realize there was no one but a couple big beautiful black passerines probably having a good laugh at my expense.

Ruttin_Mudder · 1 points · Posted at 14:11:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

A fox's call sounds like a woman screaming as well.

ButterDrums · 2 points · Posted at 04:33:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's not a long story, it's actually pretty damn short, but when I was a little kid around 6 or 7 I was in bed one night I heard a deep demonic sounding voice call me and start talking to me. Needless to say I ran out of there quicker than over ever run before or since.

beaver11 · 2 points · Posted at 04:38:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

my grades. har har har

CouchMangler · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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jokersblow · 2 points · Posted at 04:53:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was staying in a small country town Robe with mt then boyfriend, celebrating an anniversary. We were staying in a cottage which was actually pretty big especially for just the two of us. It was a fairly new cottage and not creepy at all, the first 3 nights were quiet and rather uneventful.

The day before we had to leave, I wanted to go to the historical cemetery there, I like reading headstones. To get to the older part you walked through the new part, with all the shiny coloured marble stones with gold or silver trimmings. The older part was what interested me, there were graves as old as 1850 IIRC, there were 'gun accidents' and whatnot, but the most interesting part was the tiny headstones that were really only the size of a single brick. A family of at least 7 or so all died within a few days of eachother, many of them young children, and no cause was listed.

Later on that night, my boyfriend and I were trying to get a good sleep as we had to make the long drive home in the morning. We had the bedroom door shut as usual, and I kept hearing noises just outside in the living room. It sounded like the cds we had laid on the table had fallen off onto the tiles, and there were some other bumps too. I kept trying to ignore it, thinking that noise would be the last one and I can sleep now... Nope. Eventually it occurs to me that there might be someone in the cottage. I wake my boyfriend and ask him to go check. He leaves the lights off but goes out into the living room, and checks all the rooms and doors. Nothing was out of place, the cds weren't on the floor, the doors were locked, no explanation for the noises.

Tl;Dr cemeteries make me go something something

EDIT: Typed on my phone. Lots of issues there

GormBerry · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

failed attempt at a simpsons parody of the shining reference... that's a paddlin'

xxdiabolikalxx · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went camping one year with my dad and a big group of people at a camp ground that also had a lake for jet skis and what not. I was probably around 12 years old at the time. I was never a fan of camping so naturally I had a hard time going to sleep. It was probably around two in the morning everything was dead quiet and out of no where I hear a blood curdling scream...sounded like a girl was being murdered. I was frozen with fear. I asked the next morning if anyone else had heard it and no one else had heard a thing. Sound still scares me to this day.

Ruttin_Mudder · 2 points · Posted at 13:48:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was a fox.

xxdiabolikalxx · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well that fox was being tortured

xXXTGPxXX · 2 points · Posted at 16:21:54 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you were in the southern US, it could have been a big cat. Jaguars and cougars, and to a smaller degree bobcats and lynxes, sound exactly like a screaming woman who is being viciously attacked/murdered. Nothing prepares you for that kind of sound in the night.

xxdiabolikalxx · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It wad traumatizing to say the least.

Cr1m · 2 points · Posted at 06:02:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

For me, it's always the things I don't see or hear. When I try to sleep, I always roll around checking the corners of the room; whenever I take a shower, I imagine that someone already broke into my house and I couldn't hear him.

Last August though, I moved into a Japanese apartment, complete with sliding doors and tatami mats. I had the most difficult time falling asleep after having flashbacks of The Grudge.

elliot148 · 2 points · Posted at 13:34:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This picture on rotten.com I saw when I was 11. It was called "Patho38" and it was of a murdered child. I don't know why it bothered me so me so much but I couldn't sleep for three days after seeing it. You can google it and find it at your own risk, my friends have said they didn't think it was that bad, but it freaked me the fuck out.

Forestalfawn · 2 points · Posted at 01:55:57 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

We had swimming class in 8th grade and we shared the same shower room as the guys working out. I was the last one left in the showers and this 40 something guy shows up. I had just put shampoo in my hair and I saw the bloke staring into my eyes, out of fucking nowhere he starts screaming and shaking, he then fell and slammed his head in the shower floor which was a pretty hard fall and blood was everywhere. I stood there for 5 seconds wondering what just happened, then I panicked and yelled for help, my classmates were pretty shocked as well. What had happened was that he had a seizure, the bloke turned out to be fine. I did not get my towel back though.

FasteningKhan · 2 points · Posted at 10:09:50 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was very little my family moved into a house that had two fireplaces in it; one in the basement and one one the main floor. To keep the kids out of the one in the basement my dad put up two sheets of drywall to close it off. As we grew older the basement quickly became the kids area to play and do whatever. When I was about 7-8 I started to hear these noises in the basement coming from behind the pieces of drywall. Being that young there was only one explanation GHOSTS. I can't remember how long the noises were going on for, it was either a couple of days or a few weeks. Sometimes the sounds were so soft you couldn't be sure if you hear them or not but you always heard something when you turned off the lights at night. Of course we had told our parents about the noises but they didn't believe any of it, saying it's the house settling or something else One night I was trying to watch something on TV and the noises were getting louder and louder. There was no question that something was moving in the old fireplace. Scared as hell I tell my parents about it again, and finally convince them to come downstairs to check it out. We get down there and it's just quiet. My dad tells me it was just the TV, and as soon as he stops talking everyone hears something moving from behind the drywall. My mom and dad quickly go from 'it's nothing' to 'what the hell was that?!'. About five minutes later my dad is taking down one of the sheets of drywall to find out what's causing the noise. Turns out that a pair of pidgeons had somehow fallen down the chimney and were trying to get out. What we'd been hearing was them trying to fly out. It was a relief to find out what was causing the noise and the birds were let go no worse for wear.

TL:DR: heard noises from behind a boarded up fireplace as a kid and thought it was ghosts, turned out to be some trapped pidgeons.

[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 04:43:00 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

If anywhere, I guess this would be the place to post it, long story short I'm an ex addict who went to a treatment center in Claresholm, Alberta, Canada and while I was there, when we were allowed to go out of the center for an hour or two we would always walk by this building on the mental health grounds, right by the entrance. On our way back this one time, a few of us decided to see what the hell it actually was. When we get to the door, there are chains around the handles and I don't remember exactly what the sign said, but it was something to the effect of do not enter, but for some reason I think it was phrased differently. Either way, we thought it was kind of odd, so being the adventurous addicts we were, we decided to check the place out a bit more. We walked up to the windows of one of the rooms, and everything in the room was still there, much like the rooms in the building we were staying in, all seeming to be in livable conditions. The next room was the same thing, except I believe there was white sheets draped over all the furnishings. One of the other guys we were with was ahead of us looking in the other Window and he said someone was in there, and they were walking down the hall towards the room we were at. He figured it was a cleaner or something, but we didn't see anyone walk by the room we were at. I know there isn't much climax to the story I have here, but I'm wondering if there's anyone on reddit reading this that might know the story behind this building, why it got shut down and locked up?

Lasercat77 · 5 points · Posted at 22:53:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was staring at my self in the mirror for no particular reason, and my face started to distort. My chin and nose because narrower and sharper, and my eyes just looked wrong in some way. I didn't stick around to see what else changed.

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 00:51:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That is an illusion, very common, that happens when you stare at yourself in the mirror for too long. Trust me, it can get so much worse.

savvisweetheart · 4 points · Posted at 21:39:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last summer, I frequently spent the night at my boyfriends house. At one point in the summer he was complaining about a reoccuring dream of a black reaper like figure haunting him. Not thinking too much of it, we just assumed it was nightmares. One night we were both sleeping, when I suddenly abruptly woke up terrified, but unsure why. I shook my boyfriend awake asking if he was having the nightmares, and he said the reaper just entered his dream. A little scared, I just tried to brush it off and we both fell back asleep. An hour or so later, after falling back into a deep sleep, I awake suddenly and even more terrified again. I go to shake my boyfriend awake but he just sits up and grabs my neck and starts choking me, holding me down on to the bed, speaking fast and fluently in a language I have never heard before. Crying and screaming for him to stop, he shows no emotions but continues to choke me and hold me down while speaking in the creepiest tone of voice and language I have ever heard. I was able to push myself off the side of the bed and release myself. He immediately collapses and falls back to what appeared to be a deep sleep. Still crying and completely shaken, I grab every blanket and hide myself under them at the end of the bed unable to sleep and too scared to move. The next morning he woke up and asked why i was sleeping at the end of the bed. When I explained what happened, a look of horror crossed his face. He had no recollection of waking up the second time and choking me or speaking in a language he doesn't know, but he did know the reaper was haunting his dreams. He later looked up what the figure in his dream meant, and it stood for "the angel of death". It took me a few weeks to comfortably sleep next to him again, and fortunately there weren't any more incidences of this occurring, but its safe to say I still get frightened when I think back on that night.

113mac113 · 0 points · Posted at 23:06:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should write a novel.

CyborgWalrus · 4 points · Posted at 13:48:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My bed is close to the door that leads to our balcony. When I was little I was afraid that aliens or the boogeyman from moomin riding a flaming charriot came trough the door to abduct me so I always made sure it was locked. One evening I had my back towards the door and didn't hear my father coming to my room. He went to check if the door was locked by trying to turn the handle...

porqtanserio · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What?!

Gengar0 · 2 points · Posted at 14:14:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 8, I was visiting my Mum's family in England with my family (We're from Australia). We went to her Aunty's place, who was in her late 80s. She lived in what I presume is a typically small elderly lady house. Small driveway, no garage, front door opens to kitchen then to dining room, living room, staircase, few smallish bedrooms upstairs and bathroom. I shared a room with my brother, who was a year older than me.

He's the usual older brother, always fucking with me - all fairness I was insanely naive and gullible, even for an 8 year old. He's always had problems breathing while asleep, it sounds like he has a semi blocked nose.

So anyway, one night everyone's asleep. It must have been around midnight I woke up. I could hear what sounded like someone down on hands and knees crawling below the foot of my bed. Freaks me the shit out. I can remember hearing carpet and everything. I decide it's just my brother screwing with me, so I say something like "Stop it, I want to sleep!", then I realise I can hear my brother breathing away in the bed across from me. Then, the crawling noise comes up next to my bed. Freak the shit out, wake up my brother and we turn on the light, nothing there. I run to where Mum and Dad are sleeping. They say it's just the hot water system, or the heating or something, I can't remember. But damnit, the carpet noise..... I don't believe in paranormal stuff today, having never SEEN anything convincing, but that was enough for 8 year old me.

A week later, we leave my Aunt's place and stay over at another Uncle and Aunty's place. Once again my brother and I are sharing a room. First night we're falling asleep, 8 year old me doesn't like having moved around so much and can't fall asleep. Brother's breathing loudly, there's some loud ass clock, so I go down to where Mum and Dad are having a drink with my Aunt and Uncle. I tell them I can't sleep, my brother's snoring pretty much and there's this damn clock. Uncle tells me there is a clock in there but it hasn't worked for years. Eventually I go back to bed, clock isn't ticking anymore. Fucking what.. Fall asleep eventually and we go to some cousin's place a couple of days later. Visit tower of london, london dungeon, some other castles (still love medieval stuff) meet some cool cousins, have a fairly good time, good memories.

DashingForth · 3 points · Posted at 14:21:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Literally just happened over the weekend.

Was at a music festival in Ireland and we had just taken some acid. The venue was a castle grounds with a lake and a forest, so just as we were coming up we decided to go on an adventure. Walking through the forest we were giggling and tripping balls, so we decided to climb trees and flake.

A friend of mine decided to keep going higher and higher, ignoring the cracks of the dead branches and our increasingly frantic calls to stop him. At about 30 feet up the branch under his feet gave way and he fell, managing to grab hold of a branch directly above him. This held for all of 2 seconds and the branch took it upon itself to also snap. He plummeted 30 feet onto the ground, landing on his back.

Very nearly died, but got off lightly with his wrist severely broken in two places, fore-arm snapped, elbow dislocated and fractured a bone in his back. Not to mention he had to spend the rest of his acid trip in the horrible, sterile environment of the hospital being poked at with sticks.

Still get flashes of that branch breaking and him just dropping.

Scary as hell.

Keiserwillhelm · 4 points · Posted at 14:52:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This made me second guess my late-night trip to the grocery every night since.

grova13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FUCK that comic.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:53:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stayed in a Cabin for 2 days while travelling. I stayed in the room with only a single bed, I was travelling with friends who brought their partners so it was the natural thing to do.

The room used to be a childs room, still had lots of kid things in it. I was bored one night and couldn't sleep so I went through all the cupboards and found a huge stack of books. One was a diary, standard diary nothing really exciting. Flipping through the pages when suddenly fear grips me.

The word "H E L P" written so it was covering the entire page with an aura of blackness surrounding the red writing.

Every single page for 50 or so pages had the exact same thing until the last one had a drawing of a little girl curled up in a ball facing away from the reader.

Scared the fuck out of me and to this day I almost cry thinking about it for some reason. Really creeps me out.

Edit: . . On that note.. going to try get some sleep. If there's any questions i'll reply when I wake up, Australian here so the timezones are a bit out.

Ethereal-Cicada · 3 points · Posted at 15:01:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I once had a Vivid dream which left me in shock for days. It was at a point in my life where I was really fascinated with Lucid Dreaming (I was never very good at it, but I was eager to practice). I had had a few successes followed by weeks of failures when I stopped trying one night. The details of that night were hazy but the experience is still very much engrained into my memory.

At 2:30 A.M I awoke to a man sitting by my bedside stroking my hair and smiling at me. The man was a fat dirty looking clown resembling something of Ringmaster at a Carnival. He wore the traditional Ringmaster Red robes but struck me as a clown who was out of work and was not wearing his face-paint.

I was paralyzed in fear at the sight of him and could only shiver as he asked me how I slept. He spoke in a playful tone which carried an eerie undertone. I couldn't muster a response in my fear, acknowledging this he instead took out a small red box, upon his opening of the box I saw two rows of pills neatly lined up, two red, two orange. "These are Minhs and Muhns and its your lucky night to take them!, I'm a very busy man and have lots of children to see, so please take them in a hurry." I felt blood starting to rush to my head and closed my hoping to wake up when he grabbed my shoulder and said in a dry and sinister voice "You're not asleep you know...at least not yet." I spat out my breath in a feverish manner hoping this things wasn't right but was unable to wake up. He stared at me with an intense look in his eyes for a minute before suddenly snapping back into his playful self. "If you take the Red Minhs you'll have a wonderful dream full of your carnal sexual desires in the Orange Muhns you'll find yourself helpless in Nightmares which you will frighten you in ways you wont understand, although I have to admit I always get the two mixed up." He laughed a terrible laugh and proceeded to forcibly stuff handfuls of pills down my throat. what followed was precisely what he described.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have fucked up dreams sometimes. That's a good one, as far as fucked-upness.

hosinthishouse · 3 points · Posted at 15:17:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went out to the desert one weekend with my friends for a camping trip. I had just gotten a new camcorder and brought it along because; hey, a bunch of drunk kids in the desert seemed like something I should probably film. So were dancing around, getting drunk and being silly and just generally having a good time; and i'm filming all of it. The night is winding down and everyone is going off to sleep and i'm just reviewing the footage of everything I filmed that day. I started noticing these orbs in the video bur I just brushed it off as reflection from the various lights and fires that were going on at the time until one point in the video when my friend was filming me dance and suddenly, all these orbs just popped up outta no where and it looked like literally I was walking through a snow storm there were so many orbs surrounding me. So I think....that's strange and continue watching the playback. A couple minutes later in the video, I take the camera from my friend and continue filming. At this point, I notice all these blue streaks begin to appear in the video. I slow it down to get a better look and that's when I notice the blue streaks are in the shape of claws that are reaching for the camera and one was the shape of this demonic face twisted in an horribly exgaggerated expression of joy. When the realization hit me that what I was looking at was some sort of paranormal shit, my cell phone abruptly rings like, really loud with an unknown number. So I answer say hello and this impossibly deep voice says 'hello' back but in a way that it sounded as if someone had pressed fast forward on a VCR. I say 'who is this' again, a deep voice repeats in an exaggerated sped up deep voice. I hang up, turn off the camera and try to sleep. At this point, I notice a low buzzing noise on the ground, but brush it off and drift into sleep. Hours later, im awoken and it sounds like theres a 747 underneath the ground me and my friends were sleeping on, but oddly, all of my friends are still asleep as if they don't notice it. I remember going to try to wake someone up and ask wtf is going on but I was suddenly paralyzed with this overwhelming fear and exhaustion and within a minute I had gone back to sleep. Woke up the next day, asked if anyone had heard the jet underground, no one had...showed them the creepy video and we were all throughly freaked the fuck out!

currently-online · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should post a link to the video

Cyridius · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was a year ago.

I was studying for my final exams, sitting up in my room as you do, going through the usual procrastination routine. I closed my eyes, did a stretch, and decided to get to work. I see this wee spider crawling across my books. Usually, I'm terrified of spider, but this one was tiny, really harmless. I was like "Awwww, that's kind of sort of cute". I got it onto my finger and played with it, then put down further away.

I open my book. Another spider crawls over it. Rince and repeat. Thought nothing of it. But now I was distracted again. I did a nice stretch...

The ceiling. Spiders. Everywhere. Hundreds of them. And I'm scared of spiders. I let out the most blood curdling scream ever. My entire room was crawling with spiders. On my ceiling, on my bed, on my desk, there was even a few in my hair that had fallen from the ceiling.

Turns out, few spider eggs hatched at the same time. There were a few bigger spiders amongst the babies, though, dunno what they were doing there.

While they were babies, but it felt like this.

I ended up fleeing my room, getting in the shower with clothes on, then proceeded to turn my room into a gas chamber for a few hours.

Polite_Insults · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I fucking hate spiders. Tell me where you live so I can never go there.

Cyridius · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was a pretty rare occasion, to say the least. Spiders are generally rarely seen and are entirely harmless around here(Ireland). I'd say the biggest one I've ever seen was the size of the palm of my hand, but that's only been a few times.

Polite_Insults · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in Ireland. Fuck, I'm never leaving the house again.

Which county?

Cyridius · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Louth, yerself my fellow Irishman?

Polite_Insults · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Co. Wicklow.

bubblemonkey42 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh. God. No. The itching. Make it stop.

effthatNonsense · 3 points · Posted at 15:32:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Little brainwashed kids acting like they were filled with Jesus and rolling their eyes and trembling. I blame the parents.

thewhaler · 4 points · Posted at 15:36:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to fly a lot for work and now that I am in a long distance relationship I tend to fly every two months. I always fly alone too. I used to really like the window seat. I'd watch the ground from above, sometimes taking aerial photos. Suburban settlements and huge farms can actually look really cool from above, making all sorts of neat geometric patterns. Got a cool pic of the pentagon from above too. You just get a scale for how big the country is too on a cross country flight. You can go for minutes without seeing evidence of a human over some states.

I liked watching the descent home the best, I got good at figuring out what towns we were above and then seeing things like the citgo sign (go sox!). However one time on the way home as we were descending and I saw different cranberry bogs and fields and different places, it just all felt deeply unsettling it just didn't look familiar. I had this horrifying feeling that I was landing in the wrong Boston. I got more and more uncomfortable until the plane landed and I got off and everything was normal but it was such a disturbing feeling.

Anyway I always sit in the Aisle now.

TheReasonableCamel · 3 points · Posted at 15:45:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I realize this is very long but it's worth the read, I promise

Psychosis

Sunday I’m not sure why I’m writing this down on paper and not on my computer. I guess I’ve just noticed some odd things. It’s not that I don’t trust the computer… I just… need to organize my thoughts. I need to get down all the details somewhere objective, somewhere I know that what I write can’t be deleted or… changed… not that that’s happened. It’s just… everything blurs together here, and the fog of memory lends a strange cast to things…

I’m starting to feel cramped in this small apartment. Maybe that’s the problem. I just had to go and choose the cheapest apartment, the only one in the basement. The lack of windows down here makes day and night seem to slip by seamlessly. I haven’t been out in a few days because I’ve been working on this programming project so intensively. I suppose I just wanted to get it done. Hours of sitting and staring at a monitor can make anyone feel strange, I know, but I don’t think that’s it.

I’m not sure when I first started to feel like something was odd. I can’t even define what it is. Maybe I just haven’t talked to anyone in awhile. That’s the first thing that crept up on me. Everyone I normally talk to online while I program has been idle, or they’ve simply not logged on at all. My instant messages go unanswered. The last e-mail I got from anybody was a friend saying he’d talk to me when he got back from the store, and that was yesterday. I’d call with my cell phone, but reception’s terrible down here. Yeah, that’s it. I just need to call someone. I’m going to go outside.

—

Well, that didn’t work so well. As the tingle of fear fades, I’m feeling a little ridiculous for being scared at all. I looked in the mirror before I went out, but I didn’t shave the two-day stubble I’ve grown. I figured I was just going out for a quick cell phone call. I did change my shirt, though, because it was lunchtime, and I guessed that I’d run into at least one person I knew. That didn’t end up happening. I wish it did.

When I went out, I opened the door to my small apartment slowly. A small feeling of apprehension had somehow already lodged itself in me, for some indefinable reason. I chalked it up to having not spoken to anyone but myself for a day or two. I peered down the dingy grey hallway, made dingier by the fact that it was a basement hallway. On one end, a large metal door led to the building’s furnace room. It was locked, of course. Two dreary soda machines stood by it; I bought a soda from one the first day I moved in, but it had a two year old expiration date. I’m fairly sure nobody knows those machines are even down here, or my cheap landlady just doesn’t care to get them restocked.

I closed my door softly, and walked the other direction, taking care not to make a sound. I have no idea why I chose to do that, but it was fun giving in to the strange impulse not to break the droning hum of the soda machines, at least for the moment. I got to the stairwell, and took the stairs up to the building’s front door. I looked through the heavy door’s small square window, and received quite the shock: it was definitely not lunchtime. City-gloom hung over the dark street outside, and the traffic lights at the intersection in the distance blinked yellow. Dim clouds, purple and black from the glow of the city, hung overhead. Nothing moved, save the few sidewalk trees that shifted in the wind. I remember shivering, though I wasn’t cold. Maybe it was the wind outside. I could vaguely hear it through the heavy metal door, and I knew it was that unique kind of late-night wind, the kind that was constant, cold, and quiet, save for the rhythmic music it made as it passed through countless unseen tree leaves.

I decided not to go outside.

Instead, I lifted my cell phone to the door’s little window, and checked the signal meter. The bars filled up the meter, and I smiled. Time to hear someone else’s voice, I remember thinking, relieved. It was such a strange thing, to be afraid of nothing. I shook my head, laughing at myself silently. I hit speed-dial for my best friend Amy’s number, and held the phone up to my ear. It rang once… but then it stopped. Nothing happened. I listened to silence for a good twenty seconds, then hung up. I frowned, and looked at the signal meter again – still full. I went to dial her number again, but then my phone rang in my hand, startling me. I put it up to my ear.

“Hello?” I asked, immediately fighting down a small shock at hearing the first spoken voice in days, even if it was my own. I had gotten used to the droning hum of the building’s inner workings, my computer, and the soda machines in the hallway. There was no response to my greeting at first, but then, finally, a voice came.

“Hey,” said a clear male voice, obviously of college age, like me. “Who’s this?”

“John,” I replied, confused.

“Oh, sorry, wrong number,” he replied, then hung up.

I lowered the phone slowly and leaned against the thick brick wall of the stairwell. That was strange. I looked at my received calls list, but the number was unfamiliar. Before I could think on it further, the phone rang loudly, shocking me yet again. This time, I looked at the caller before I answered. It was another unfamiliar number. This time, I held the phone up to my ear, but said nothing. I heard nothing but the general background noise of a phone. Then, a familiar voice broke my tension.

“John?” was the single word, in Amy’s voice.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

“Hey, it’s you,” I replied.

“Who else would it be?” she responded. “Oh, the number. I’m at a party on Seventh Street, and my phone died just as you called me. This is someone else’s phone, obviously.”

“Oh, ok,” I said.

“Where are you?” she asked.

My eyes glanced over the drab white-washed cylinder block walls and the heavy metal door with its small window.

“At my building,” I sighed. “Just feeling cooped up. I didn’t realize it was so late.”

“You should come here,” she said, laughing.

“Nah, I don’t feel like looking for some strange place by myself in the middle of the night,” I said, looking out the window at the silent windy street that secretly scared me just a tiny bit. “I think I’m just going to keep working or go to bed.”

“Nonsense!” she replied. “I can come get you! Your building is close to Seventh Street, right?”

“How drunk are you?” I asked lightheartedly. “You know where I live.”

“Oh, of course,” she said abruptly. “I guess I can’t get there by walking, huh?”

“You could if you wanted to waste half an hour,” I told her.

“Right,” she said. “Ok, have to go, good luck with your work!”

I lowered the phone once more, looking at the numbers flash as the call ended. Then, the droning silence suddenly reasserted itself in my ears. The two strange calls and the eerie street outside just drove home my aloneness in this empty stairwell. Perhaps from having seen too many scary movies, I had the sudden inexplicable idea that something could look in the door’s window and see me, some sort of horrible entity that hovered at the edge of aloneness, just waiting to creep up on unsuspecting people that strayed too far from other human beings. I knew the fear was irrational, but nobody else was around, so… I jumped down the stairs, ran down the hallway into my room, and closed the door as swiftly as I could while still staying silent. Like I said, I feel a little ridiculous for being scared of nothing, and the fear has already faded. Writing this down helps a lot – it makes me realize that nothing is wrong. It filters out half-formed thoughts and fears and leaves only cold, hard facts. It’s late, I got a call from a wrong number, and Amy’s phone died, so she called me back from another number. Nothing strange is happening.

Still, there was something a little off about that conversation. I know it could have just been the alcohol she’d had… or was it even her that seemed off to me? Or was it… yes, that was it! I didn’t realize it until this moment, writing these things down. I knew writing things down would help. She said she was at a party, but I only heard silence in the background! Of course, that doesn’t mean anything in particular, as she could have just gone outside to make the call. No… that couldn’t be it either. I didn’t hear the wind! I need to see if the wind is still blowing!

TheReasonableCamel · 2 points · Posted at 15:45:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Monday

I forgot to finish writing last night. I’m not sure what I expected to see when I ran up the stairwell and looked out the heavy metal door’s window. I’m feeling ridiculous. Last night’s fear seems hazy and unreasonable to me now. I can’t wait to go out into the sunlight. I’m going to check my email, shave, shower, and finally get out of here! Wait… I think I heard something.

—

It was thunder. That whole sunlight and fresh air thing didn’t happen. I went out into the stairwell and up the stairs, only to find disappointment. The heavy metal door’s little window showed only flowing water, as torrential rain slammed against it. Only a very dim, gloomy light filtered in through the rain, but at least I knew it was daytime, even if it was a grey, sickly, wet day. I tried looking out the window and waiting for lightning to illuminate the gloom, but the rain was too heavy and I couldn’t make out anything more than vague weird shapes moving at odd angles in the waves washing down the window. Disappointed, I turned around, but I didn’t want to go back to my room. Instead, I wandered further up the stairs, past the first floor, and the second. The stairs ended at the third floor, the highest floor in the building. I looked through the glass that ran up the outer wall of the stairwell, but it was that warped, thick kind that scatters the light, not that there was much to see through the rain to begin with.

I opened the stairwell door and wandered down the hallway. The ten or so thick wooden doors, painted blue a long time ago, were all closed. I listened as I walked, but it was the middle of the day, so I wasn’t surprised that I heard nothing but the rain outside. As I stood there in the dim hallway, listening to the rain, I had the strange fleeting impression that the doors were standing like silent granite monoliths erected by some ancient forgotten civilization for some unfathomable guardian purpose. Lightning flashed, and I could have sworn that, for just a moment, the old grainy blue wood looked just like rough stone. I laughed at myself for letting my imagination get the best of me, but then it occurred to me that the dim gloom and lightning must mean there was a window somewhere in the hallway. A vague memory surfaced, and I suddenly recalled that the third floor had an alcove and an inset window halfway down the floor’s hallway.

Excited to look out into the rain and possibly see another human being, I quickly walked over to the alcove, finding the large thin glass window. Rain washed down it, as with the front door’s window, but I could open this one. I reached a hand out to slide it open, but hesitated. I had the strangest feeling that if I opened that window, I would see something absolutely horrifying on the other side. Everything’s been so odd lately… so I came up with a plan, and I came back here to get what I needed. I don’t seriously think anything will come of it, but I’m bored, it’s raining, and I’m going stir crazy. I came back to get my webcam. The cord isn’t long enough to reach the third floor by any means, so instead I’m going to hide it between the two soda machines in the dark end of my basement hallway, run the wire along the wall and under my door, and put black duct tape over the wire to blend it in with the black plastic strip that runs along the base of the hallway’s walls. I know this is silly, but I don’t have anything better to do…

Well, nothing happened. I propped open the hallway-to-stairwell door, steeled myself, then flung the heavy front door wide open and ran like hell down the stairs to my room and slammed the door. I watched the webcam on my computer intently, seeing the hallway outside my door and most of the stairwell. I’m watching it right now, and I don’t see anything interesting. I just wish the camera’s position was different, so that I could see out the front door. Hey! Somebody’s online!

—

I got out an older, less functional webcam that I had in my closet to video chat with my friend online. I couldn’t really explain to him why I wanted to video chat, but it felt good to see another person’s face. He couldn’t talk very long, and we didn’t talk about anything meaningful, but I feel much better. My strange fear has almost passed. I would feel completely better, but there was something… odd… about our conversation. I know that I’ve said that everything has seemed odd, but… still, he was very vague in his responses. I can’t recall one specific thing that he said… no particular name, or place, or event… but he did ask for my email address to keep in touch. Wait, I just got an email.

I’m about to go out. I just got an email from Amy that asked me to meet her for dinner at ‘the place we usually go to.’ I do love pizza, and I’ve just been eating random food from my poorly stocked fridge for days, so I can’t wait. Again, I feel ridiculous about the odd couple of days I’ve been having. I should destroy this journal when I get back. Oh, another email.

TheReasonableCamel · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh my god. I almost left the email and opened the door. I almost opened the door. I almost opened the door, but I read the email first! It was from a friend I hadn’t heard from in a long time, and it was sent to a huge number of emails that must have been every person he had saved in his address list. It had no subject, and it said, simply:

"seen with your own eyes don’t trust them they"

What the hell is that supposed to mean? The words shock me, and I keep going over and over them. Is it a desperate email sent just as… something happened? The words are obviously cut off without finishing! On any other day I would have dismissed this as spam from a computer virus or something, but the words… seen with your own eyes! I can’t help but read over this journal and think back on the last few days and realize that I have not seen another person with my own eyes or talked to another person face to face. The webcam conversation with my friend was so strange, so vague, so… eerie, now that I think about it. Was it eerie? Or is the fear clouding my memory? My mind toys with the progression of events I’ve written here, pointing out that I have not been presented with one single fact that I did not specifically give out unsuspectingly. The random ‘wrong number’ that got my name and the subsequent strange return call from Amy, the friend that asked for my email address… I messaged him first when I saw him online! And then I got my first email a few minutes after that conversation! Oh my god! That phone call with Amy! I said over the phone – I said that I was within half an hour’s walk of Seventh Street! They know I’m near there! What if they’re trying to find me?! Where is everyone else? Why haven’t I seen or heard anyone else in days?

No, no, this is crazy. This is absolutely crazy. I need to calm down. This madness needs to end.

—

I don’t know what to think. I ran about my apartment furiously, holding my cell phone up to every corner to see if it got a signal through the heavy walls. Finally, in the tiny bathroom, near one ceiling corner, I got a single bar. Holding my phone there, I sent a text message to every number in my list. Not wanting to betray anything about my unfounded fears, I simply sent:

You seen anyone face to face lately?

At that point, I just wanted any reply back. I didn’t care what the reply was, or if I embarrassed myself. I tried to call someone a few times, but I couldn’t get my head up high enough, and if I brought my cell phone down even an inch, it lost signal. Then I remembered the computer, and rushed over to it, instant messaging everyone online. Most were idle or away from their computer. Nobody responded. My messages grew more frantic, and I started telling people where I was and to stop by in person for a host of barely passable reasons. I didn’t care about anything by that point. I just needed to see another person!

I also tore apart my apartment looking for something that I might have missed; some way to contact another human being without opening the door. I know it’s crazy, I know it’s unfounded, but what if? WHAT IF? I just need to be sure! I taped the phone to the ceiling in case

TheReasonableCamel · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tuesday

THE PHONE RANG! Exhausted from last night’s rampage, I must have fallen asleep. I woke up to the phone ringing, and ran into the bathroom, stood on the toilet, and flipped open the phone taped to the ceiling. It was Amy, and I feel so much better. She was really worried about me, and apparently had been trying to contact me since the last time I talked to her. She’s coming over now, and, yes, she knows where I am without me telling her. I feel so embarrassed. I am definitely throwing this journal away before anyone sees it. I don’t even know why I’m writing in it now. Maybe it’s just because it’s the only communication I’ve had at all since… god knows when. I look like hell, too. I looked in the mirror before I came back in here. My eyes are sunken, my stubble is thicker, and I just look generally unhealthy.

My apartment is trashed, but I’m not going to clean it up. I think I need someone else to see what I’ve been through. These past few days have NOT been normal. I am not one to imagine things. I know I have been the victim of extreme probability. I probably missed seeing another person a dozen times. I just happened to go out when it was late at night, or the middle of the day when everyone was gone. Everything’s perfectly fine, I know this now. Plus, I found something in the closet last night that has helped me tremendously: a television! I set it up just before I wrote this, and it’s on in the background. Television has always been an escape for me, and it reminds me that there’s a world beyond these dingy brick walls.

I’m glad Amy’s the only one that responded to me after last night’s frantic pestering of everyone I could contact. She’s been my best friend for years. She doesn’t know it, but I count the day that I met her among one of the few moments of true happiness in my life. I remember that warm summer day fondly. It seems a different reality from this dark, rainy, lonely place. I feel like I spent days sitting in that playground, much too old to play, just talking with her and hanging around doing nothing at all. I still feel like I can go back to that moment sometimes, and it reminds me that this damn place is not all that there is… finally, a knock on the door!

—

I thought it was odd that I couldn’t see her through the camera I hid between the two soda machines. I figured that it was bad positioning, like when I couldn’t see out the front door. I should have known. I should have known! After the knock, I yelled through the door jokingly that I had a camera between the soda machines, because I was embarrassed myself that I had taken this paranoia so far. After I did that, I saw her image walk over to the camera and look down at it. She smiled and waved.

“Hey!” she said to the camera brightly, giving it a wry look.

“It’s weird, I know,” I said into the mic attached to my computer. “I’ve had a weird few days.”

“Must have,” she replied. “Open the door, John.”

I hesitated. How could I be sure?

“Hey, humor me a second here,” I told her through the mic. “Tell me one thing about us. Just prove to me you’re you.”

She gave the camera a weird look.

“Um, alright,” she said slowly, thinking. “We met randomly at a playground when we were both way too old to be there?”

I sighed deeply as reality returned and fear faded. God, I’d been so ridiculous. Of course it was Amy! That day wasn’t anywhere in the world except in my memory. I’d never even mentioned it to anyone, not out of embarrassment, but out of a strange secret nostalgia and a longing for those days to return. If there was some unknown force at work trying to trick me, as I feared, there was no way they could know about that day.

“Haha, alright, I’ll explain everything,” I told her. “Be right there.”

I ran to my small bathroom and fixed my hair as best I could. I looked like hell, but she would understand. Snickering at my own unbelievable behavior and the mess I’d made of the place, I walked to the door. I put my hand on the doorknob and gave the mess one last look. So ridiculous, I thought. My eyes traced over the half-eaten food lying on the ground, the overflowing trash bin, and the bed I’d tipped to the side looking for… God knows what. I almost turned to the door and opened it, but my eyes fell on one last thing: the old webcam, the one I used for that eerily vacant chat with my friend.

Its silent black sphere lay haphazardly tossed to the side, its lens pointed at the table where this journal lay. An overwhelming terror took me as I realized that if something could see through that camera, it would have seen what I just wrote about that day. I asked her for any one thing about us, and she chose the only thing in the world that I thought they or it did not know… but IT DID! IT DID KNOW! IT COULD HAVE BEEN WATCHING ME THE WHOLE TIME!

I didn’t open the door. I screamed. I screamed in uncontrollable terror. I stomped on the old webcam on the floor. The door shook, and the doorknob tried to turn, but I didn’t hear Amy’s voice through the door. Was the basement door, made to keep out drafts, too thick? Or was Amy not outside? What could have been trying to get in, if not her? What the hell is out there?! I saw her on my computer through the camera outside, I heard her on the speakers through the camera outside, but was it real?! How can I know?! She’s gone now – I screamed, and shouted for help! I piled up everything in my apartment against the front door –

TheReasonableCamel · 2 points · Posted at 15:47:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Friday

At least I think that it’s Friday. I broke everything electronic. I smashed my computer to pieces. Every single thing on there could have been accessed by network access, or worse, altered. I’m a programmer, I know. Every little piece of information I gave out since this started – my name, my email, my location – none of it came back from outside until I gave it out. I’ve been going over and over what I wrote. I’ve been pacing back and forth, alternating between stark terror and overpowering disbelief. Sometimes I’m absolutely certain some phantom entity is dead set on the simple goal of getting me to go outside. Back to the beginning, with the phone call from Amy, she was effectively asking me to open the door and go outside.

I keep running through it in my head. One point of view says I’ve acted like a madman, and all of this is the extreme convergence of probability – never going outside at the right times by pure luck, never seeing another person by pure chance, getting a random nonsense email from some computer virus at just the right time. The other point of view says that extreme convergence of probability is the reason that whatever’s out there hasn’t gotten me already. I keep thinking: I never opened the window on the third floor. I never opened the front door, until that incredibly stupid stunt with the hidden camera after which I ran straight to my room and slammed the door. I haven’t opened my own solid door since I flung open the front door of the building. Whatever’s out there – if anything’s out there – never made an ‘appearance’ in the building before I opened the front door. Maybe the reason it wasn’t in the building already was that it was elsewhere getting everyone else… and then it waited, until I betrayed my existence by trying to call Amy… a call which didn’t work, until it called me and asked me my name…

Terror literally overwhelms me every time I try to fit the pieces of this nightmare together. That email – short, cut off – was it from someone trying to get word out? Some friendly voice desperately trying to warn me before it came? Seen with my own eyes, don’t trust them – exactly what I’ve been so suspicious of. It could have masterful control of all things electronic, practicing its insidious deception to trick me into coming outside. Why can’t it get in? It knocked on the door – it must have some solid presence… the door… the image of those doors in the upper hallway as guardian monoliths flashes back in my mind every time I trace this path of thoughts. If there is some phantom entity trying to get me to go outside, maybe it can’t get through doors. I keep thinking back over all the books I’ve read or movies I’ve seen, trying to generate some explanation for this. Doors have always been such intense foci of human imagination, always seen as wards or portals of special importance. Or perhaps the door is just too thick? I know that I couldn’t bash through any of the doors in this building, let alone the heavy basement ones. Aside from that, the real question is, why does it even want me? If it just wanted to kill me, it could do it any number of ways, including just waiting until I starve to death. What if it doesn’t want to kill me? What if it has some far more horrific fate in store for me? God, what can I do to escape this nightmare?!

A knock on the door…

—

I told the people on the other side of the door I need a minute to think and I’ll come out. I’m really just writing this down so I can figure out what to do. At least this time I heard their voices. My paranoia – and yes, I recognize I’m being paranoid – has me thinking of all sorts of ways that their voices could be faked electronically. There could be nothing but speakers outside, simulating human voices. Did it really take them three days to come talk to me? Amy is supposedly out there, along with two policemen and a psychiatrist. Maybe it took them three days to think of what to say to me – the psychiatrist’s claim could be pretty convincing, if I decided to think this has all been a crazy misunderstanding, and not some entity trying to trick me into opening the door.

The psychiatrist had an older voice, authoritarian but still caring. I liked it. I’m desperate just to see someone with my own eyes! He said I have something called cyber-psychosis, and I’m just one of a nationwide epidemic of thousands of people having breakdowns triggered by a suggestive email that ‘got through somehow.’ I swear he said ‘got through somehow.’ I think he means spread throughout the country inexplicably, but I’m incredibly suspicious that the entity slipped up and revealed something. He said I am part of a wave of ‘emergent behavior’, that a lot of other people are having the same problem with the same fears, even though we’ve never communicated.

That neatly explains the strange email about eyes that I got. I didn’t get the original triggering email. I got a descendant of it - my friend could have broken down too, and tried to warn everyone he knew against his paranoid fears. That’s how the problem spreads, the psychiatrist claims. I could have spread it, too, with my texts and instant messages online to everybody I know. One of those people might be melting down right now, after being triggered by something I sent them, something they might interpret any way that they want, something like a text saying seen anyone face to face lately? The psychiatrist told me that he didn’t want to ‘lose another one’, that people like me are intelligent, and that’s our downfall. We draw connections so well that we draw them even when they shouldn’t be there. He said it’s easy to get caught up in paranoia in our fast paced world, a constantly changing place where more and more of our interaction is simulated…

I have to give him one thing. It’s a great explanation. It neatly explains everything. It perfectly explains everything, in fact. I have every reason to shake off this nightmarish fear that some thing or consciousness or being out there wants me to open the door so it can capture me for some horrible fate worse than death. It would be foolish, after hearing that explanation, to stay in here until I starve to death just to spite the entity that might have got everyone else. It would be foolish to think that, after hearing that explanation, I might be one of the last people left alive on an empty world, hiding in my secure basement room, spiting some unthinkable deceptive entity just by refusing to be captured. It’s a perfect explanation for every single strange thing I’ve seen or heard, and I have every reason in the world to let all of my fears go, and open the door.

That’s exactly why I’m not going to.

How can I be sure?! How can I know what’s real and what’s deception? All of these damn things with their wires and their signals that originate from some unseen origin! They’re not real, I can’t be sure! Signals through a camera, faked video, deceptive phone calls, emails! Even the television, lying broken on the floor – how can I possibly know it’s real? It’s just signals, waves, light… the door! It’s bashing on the door! It’s trying to get in! What insane mechanical contrivance could it be using to simulate the sound of men attacking the heavy wood so well?! At least I’ll finally see it with my own eyes… there’s nothing left in here for it to deceive me with, I’ve ripped apart everything else! It can’t deceive my eyes, can it? Seen with your own eyes don’t trust them they… wait… was that desperate message telling me to trust my eyes, or warning me about my eyes too?! Oh my god, what’s the difference between a camera and my eyes? They both turn light into electrical signals – they’re the same! I can’t be deceived! I have to be sure! I have to be sure!

TheReasonableCamel · 2 points · Posted at 15:47:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Date Unknown

I calmly asked for paper and a pen, day in and day out, until it finally gave them to me. Not that it matters. What am I going to do? Poke my eyes out? The bandages feel like part of me now. The pain is gone. I figure this will be one of my last chances to write legibly, as, without my sight to correct mistakes, my hands will slowly forget the motions involved. This is a sort of self-indulgence, this writing… it’s a relic of another time, because I’m certain everyone left in the world is dead… or something far worse.

I sit against the padded wall day in and day out. The entity brings me food and water. It masks itself as a kind nurse, as an unsympathetic doctor. I think it knows that my hearing has sharpened considerably now that I live in darkness. It fakes conversations in the hallways, on the off chance that I might overhear. One of the nurses talks about having a baby soon. One of the doctors lost his wife in a car accident. None of it matters, none of it is real. None of it gets to me, not like she does.

That’s the worst part, the part I almost can’t handle. The thing comes to me, masquerading as Amy. Its recreation is perfect. It sounds exactly like Amy, feels exactly like her. It even produces a reasonable facsimile of tears that it makes me feel on its lifelike cheeks. When it first dragged me here, it told me all the things I wanted to hear. It told me that she loved me, that she had always loved me, that it didn’t understand why I did this, that we could still have a life together, if only I would stop insisting that I was being deceived. It wanted me to believe… no, it needed me to believe that she was real.

I almost fell for it. I really did. I doubted myself for the longest time. In the end, though, it was all too perfect, too flawless, and too real. The false Amy used to come every day, and then every week, and finally stopped coming altogether… but I don’t think the entity will give up. I think the waiting game is just another one of its gambits. I will resist it for the rest of my life, if I have to. I don’t know what happened to the rest of the world, but I do know that this thing needs me to fall for its deceptions. If it needs that, then maybe, just maybe, I am a thorn in its agenda. Maybe Amy is still alive out there somewhere, kept alive only by my will to resist the deceiver. I hold on to that hope, rocking back and forth in my cell to pass the time. I will never give in. I will never break. I am… a hero!

The doctor read the paper the patient had scribbled on. It was barely readable, written in the shaky script of one who could not see. He wanted to smile at the man’s steadfast resolve, a reminder of the human will to survive, but he knew that the patient was completely delusional.

After all, a sane man would have fallen for the deception long ago.

The doctor wanted to smile. He wanted to whisper words of encouragement to the delusional man. He wanted to scream, but the nerve filaments wrapped around his head and into his eyes made him do otherwise. His body walked into the cell like a puppet, and told the patient, once more, that he was wrong, and that there was nobody trying to deceive him.

BashfulTurtle · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Way too long for comments. Just post a link to your r/nosleep story. This is pathetic annoying and, honestly, kind of cliche.

Jaq404 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awesome.

i_am_sad · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest thing: I was up late in the living room, sitting at the computer talking on AIM and playing runescape or n+ or whatever godawful game I was addicted to at the time. I was thirsty as all hell so I got up to get a drink. I was in the very corner of the house, and the kitchen was all the way across the house, through this room, then the dining room and then finally the kitchen. The house is built into a hill, it's called a bi-level house, where the back room (where I was) was ground floor, and has a door to walk out into the back yard, but the kitchen which is on the same level as the room I was in, is on the second story, because of the hill. This is important to know.

So, I'm walking towards the dining room, and when I round the corner to almost be in the open doorway, I see the dining room window, and there is the brightest light I've ever seen in my life. It was almost blinding, and it was red, but it did not light up the house, or the yard, or anything. It was blindingly bright, looking at it, but it did not give off light. That still to this day confuses me. It was round, most probably a sphere roughly the size of a softball, maybe a little bigger, and it appeared solid, but the closer to the center it got, the brighter it got to the point that the middle was nearly white. It shimmered, and glowed, kind of like a street light does through a wet window. It looked wet, if that makes any sense. It doesn't, but I'm almost certain it was wet, because it just looked that way, however that works. So this wet, softball sized light that doesn't produce light is in the window. It's floating by, towards the kitchen, and is going in a slightly upwards motion as well, and is kind of listing around lazily, hovery/floaty like. I see it, and I stop. I just dead fucking stop, and I don't even breathe. I'm too scared to breathe, to move, to blink. I just stare at it, and listen to my heart racing as if it were war drums singing the song of my death. I know that seems theatrical, but it was theatrical. The main character turns around to be nose to nose with the main villain for the first time. The alien from signs walks out from behind that wall during the birthday party. Bruce Willis is a ghost. She doesn't really love you, and you have an inoperable tumor. It was dramatic, it was theatrical, it put every single horror movie combined to shame. Time stands still, and life itself ceases to exist while this thing passes out of my view. It's been like 7 years and still to this day I am starting to shake thinking about it. -10 san is how I can explain it, for those familiar with the call of cthulhu. I lost sleep over this thing, I lost sanity over it. I cannot fathom what it was. I tried to play it off as a taillight in the neighbors driveway or anything at all, but I just can't. I stood there frozen in fear for what seemed like eternity, and then it was gone and I turned right the fuck around and got back in my chair and begged my friend on AIM to not go to sleep until the sun came up, because I was too afraid to go past that window again to wake up my parents and tell them that I severely needed to be held and comforted.

A few hours later, when the sun was good and up, and people were awake, and I wasn't alone and it wasn't dark but I was still afraid, I mustered up enough courage to go look out that window again, already hating myself for not going outside to see what it was, I look and I see, from where I was standing, it was either literally outside the window, or it was 30 feet in the air in the neighbors yard. I've stood there again, over the years, watching the neighbors leave for work. I cannot see their car, or the taillights or anything from where I was standing. Whatever it was, it was not ordinary and I've got chills just thinking about it.

That was the scary.

Now for the creepy: Same house, different year. Sit out with my brother and a friend of ours who is very religious. We watch the stars, see shooting stars and satellites moving across the sky, and occasionally other things that I also cannot explain, and also have no idea what are, but that's for another time. We're talking, and Mr. Religious brings up religion. He talks about his god, and all of his glory, and how, if you really just sit and listen, and watch, you can see god and feel his presence and hear him, which is nice and all but he also prayed for the clouds to leave and begged god to show us his power by making the stars more visible when it was foggy, and other silly things that aren't very christian. Anyways, he says this to us right as he leaves, and he stayed outside the whole time so I know he didn't have anything to do with it, but after he leaves we go in and my brother and I are just sitting in the kitchen working on some model kits to pass the time. It's probably 2 am, and I hear something. I ask him if he does, and we listen, and we both hear it. It's faint, but not so quiet that we cannot understand it. It's a harp, almost as loud as elevator music, playing in our kitchen from seemingly nowhere and everywhere. We go outside, and cannot hear the music outside, so we come back in and still we hear it. Go down in the basement, go in our bedrooms, go in the living room. Everywhere we go in the house, we hear the most beautiful harp music being played. It never gets louder, and it never gets quieter, no matter where in the house we go... it's just there, and it's very soothing and melodic. It's beautiful. I can't explain it, I have no idea what it was or how it happened, but for hours we sat there listening to the soft sounds of a beautiful harp being played as we worked on our model kits, until suddenly it fades away. "I can't hear it anymore, can you?" kind of fades away. My life will never be as pleasant as it was in those few hours as I sat in silence listening to that harp, but damn if it wasn't creepy.

I might have one more (as if anyone will even see this) if I can find it in an old post of mine. A couple maybe, from all the nights I sat watching the stars.

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natepip · -1 points · Posted at 16:21:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The boy cried and ran across the road before the green man came on the sign.

boringNerd · 4 points · Posted at 16:10:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was conscripted into the army a few years back. I didn't encounter anything creepy personally but there were enough stories floating around back then that freak me out.

Someone from the room next door saw some white figure near the window of my room. The thing is, every single person in the entire company was to fall in to the parade ground for some briefing before lights out. That dude went pale immediately and he only spoke after we nearly slapped him out of his trance. No one in my room slept well that night. One of my section mate who happened to sleep near that window didn't even dare to go to the toilet in the middle of the night. He pee-ed right beside his bed. All of us screwed him up the next morning because we had room inspections every morning.
I was on duty a couple of times in a pretty deserted guard post. There is a toilet there with no mirrors. Apparently whenever they installed a mirror, folks started seeing something in the mirror. One officer decided to just remove the mirror from there permanently. Thank god I was only there in the day.
One time while I was on a vehicle travelling towards some checkpoint, a fellow soldier was telling me just a day ago, another dude was in the vehicle smoking and chatting with his friends when all of a sudden he fell silent. His sergeant noticed it and asked him what's wrong. He said he saw a white figure "chasing" after the vehicle. No one else saw it, but then they did notice a stench filling up the entire vehicle when they passed by the area when the guy saw something. It was 5.30am when I heard that story. And I was passing by that exact same area where everyone's excited about.
One of my friend told me he saw a "head" hovering around a security camera he was monitoring. The room he was in at that time was only a few steps away from that camera. Once again, I was at the exact same room when he told me that story.
I was participating in a military exercise once, patrolling the perimeters with a dog handler. These dudes does patrol in the middle of the night when most of us are asleep. Any way, he told me there has been many situations when their portable radio will automatically switched channel when they patrol past certain area. No one is able to switch it back. Then the dogs will start going crazy, barking towards the same direction. Every thing went back to normal after they continued pass that area.

TL;DR I heard many creepy stories in my military days that still bring up my goosebumps whenever I think about it.

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Its4ForScience · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepy.

Fishfold · 3 points · Posted at 17:52:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few weeks ago I stayed at my parents after a long family trip. I slept in the room which had been the same room I grew up in. It was 4am and I wasn't able to fall asleep. Then I head a knocking on the door so I got up to open it. There wasn't anyone there so I payed back down leaving the door cracked. After I had gotten back in bed I heard the knocking again. When I looked at the crack in the door I saw a black figure staring at me. I just payed there paralyzed and then a demonic voice say something and then the door opened all the way and I layed there staring at this figure until the sun came up and it faded into nothing. I can honestly say I have never so scared in my life. I belive in spirits and demons and that's what I assume I saw. After asking my parents the next day none of them were up that night.

gct1016 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've made a huge mistake. I know I'll hate myself for this later, BUT, what did it say?! You can't leave me hanging like this!

Fishfold · 0 points · Posted at 17:36:31 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I have something to show you"

gct1016 · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:38 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just died a little inside. Never sleeping again. GOD DAMN YOU PAST SELF!

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honeybadga · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:36 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck.

fates_fury · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:00 on June 3, 2013 · (Permalink)

Boy, you better have beat his monkey -ass-.

birdisthewird · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Does anybody remember the response to a similar ask Reddit post about a year ago about the guy who was hiking alone for a week in Canada? It was in the nineties so he brought several disposal cameras with him. Anyhow apparently the place he was hiking was super remote and he didn't see anybody the entire time he was hiking. when he gets home, he gets his film developed and is looking through his pictures. In the pictures there are two that are taken at night, of him sleeping pin his tent.

Man, if live to have the link to that story. It scared the shit out of me when I read it...it may be the only time I've ever physically reacted to something when I read it by pushing my computer away. Creepiest thing ever, and there's no way I can do justice to it with my summary.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 19:08:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"After college, I went backpacking in the Canadian wilderness for a few weeks, by myself. To put this in perspective, I was in the middle of fucking nowhere (North of Atikokan, Ontario). The nearest "town" was a 3 hour bus ride away, and I only saw one other person (from a distance; he was in a canoe) during the entire 17 days. I brought a a few disposable cameras with me, as this was before digital cameras were too widespread, and took a lot of pictures. When I got home, I had them developed and took a look at them. The pictures were standard nature shots until I got about halfway through my first camera. There were 2 pictures of me, asleep in my tent, in my sleeping bag. I literally freaked out when I saw it, and had a complete breakdown. To this day, I have no idea how those pictures got taken. I haven't been camping since, and I sleep with my door locked and my curtains shut. TL;DR: Went camping by myself in the middle of nowhere. Pictures of me in my sleeping bag were found on my disposable camera. It really messed me up."

As quoted from: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uluh1/what_is_the_creepiest_most_inexplicable_thing/

birdisthewird · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you so much for finding this

Deadric1989 · 3 points · Posted at 19:29:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At a ordinary thursday we (4 friends) decided to take some hasj cookies. What we didnt know was that there was an electricity outfall coming. When it happend we convinced a friend there was a tsunami on the way and that the covernment denied usnacces to the television so we could die in peace( hasjcookies make you paranoid as shit) while the three of us were saying stuff like better wake your brother to say your last goodbye. But after time went by we started to believe it aswell, I have never seen 4 paranoid parrots as parranoid as that. Phones were down we had no internet. We almost called our closest friends to say goodbye, but we didnt cause we wanted them to die in peace instead of in feat and paranoia. We started to eat all the food we could get just to have the feeling of being alive. After 4 ours the lights turned on and the shortage was over. We were still stunned for like 1 hour. After that we laughed for many many hours.

Hasjcookies are fucking awsome.

LonelyJuiceBox · 3 points · Posted at 19:32:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother in law told me a story about his mother. One time she was preparing a BBQ out in her backyard before a family party. She poured charcoal onto the grill and a 3 inch man wearing a white suite rolled out of the bag, got up while still on the grill and dusted himself off. She immediately fainted and fell to the ground, she woke up a couple of minutes later not knowing how to explain what just happened.

TLDR; a 3 inch man fell out of a bag of charcoal, dusted himself off and the woman fainted

Edit: spelling mistakes

Mcready · 2 points · Posted at 19:48:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whaaaat?!?! A man...an actual little man...?!

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:33:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Walking in NYC late night, saw a mouse walking down the street. About 1/4 of his fur peeled off but was still attached to his body, probably due to escaping out of a mouse trap. Underneath this fur flap you could see the bright red skin exposed.

Hello, rat race!

uncanny_valley_girl · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Poor Fieval :(

IhateDonkeys · 3 points · Posted at 20:55:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm kinda late to the thread, but hey, why not:

So last summer, my ex and I wanted to find a place where we could smoke, have sex, etc. Our mutual friend lived in a neighborhood with a lot of woods, so we decided to give it a shot, and it was very secluded, and a nice place to go. So after using it a couple of times, we decided it was an awesome place to go. Then it all happened. We went back there at dusk one day, and we started doing our normal routine in there, no problems. The whole time during foreplay, we could hear rustling in the more wooded areas behind us. It was distant, so we didn't think anything of it. At this point, it's almost completely dark out, and it's hard to see a lot around us. I stand up to put on a condom, and I look out to where I'm hearing the noise, and it's getting louder. I start telling my girlfriend to be quiet, and she is getting scared too. That's when I look out, and see what seemed to be an albino Kangaroo hopping towards us through the forest in the middle of Pennsylvania. As soon as I look at it in the black of night, the thing turns away (about 10 feet from us) and hops away. I seriously thought I was about to be killed by some alien albino kangaroo while putting on a condom. I noped the fuck out of there, and I didn't go back until recently. I didn't notice anything weird when I went back, but our friend, the only person we told, went into the same spot one day, and he said a white dog like thing got up on all 4, and started growling at him. I have no idea if this was the same thing, but all I know is that that was the scariest moment of my life.

TL;DR: I almost got abducted by an albino Kangaroo.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:14:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not sure if this is true or not but my friend told me something that freaked me the hell out. Somewhere out there in the world, there are two people participating in consensual sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation.

llewllew · 3 points · Posted at 23:03:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I missed my period again"

iIStheKirk · 3 points · Posted at 23:19:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been told that whenever your sleep is interupted(meaning you suddenly wake up) in the middle of the night without any disturbance, that 90% of the time is because someone/something is watching you sleep.

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Trcymcgrdy1 · 2 points · Posted at 02:06:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

now thats some crazy shit. Right around a murderrrrrr.

FindingFire · 4 points · Posted at 03:50:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am currently hearing my neighbors have sex. If you could see them, you'd understand why I'm scared.

wpgjetsgirl05 · 3 points · Posted at 04:04:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The paranormal ones do not scare me as much as a real life creeper, especially the "man in the window" It is a huge fear of mine. When I was 14, I was laying on the couch in the basement of my grandma's house when the curtain fell off the window on the door for no reason. Never mind anything paranormal, I was paralyzed by worry that a figure would appear. I was stuck on that spot on the couch all night, trying to avoid looking in that general direction. Finally at 4am, I got the courage to run upstairs where my family was sleeping and every window I passed, my heart stopped. I couldn't sleep till there was light outside. After reading about actual experiences and also discovering the Slender Man, it feels like sleep is out of the question for tonight. Why do I do this to myself?

Anremy · 4 points · Posted at 04:12:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a dream not-too-long-ago where myself and my dad were driving up this curved road to try and get on the highway in the oddly green-tinted daytime of a west-texas landscape.

It must have been like 10 a.m. in the dream, and there was like a post-rain haze that reminded me of how storm drains in a city had steam rise out of them at night, only the entire landscape was basically covered in this haze. There was this fresh, 5-6 a.m. feeling you get when you just wake up and have to do something important that early in the morning, and part of my old neighborhood sort of visually blended into the road we were driving up.

We began to pick up speed and then we sort of just stopped and got out, but the car kept driving, my actions seemed to reflect what it was my dad was interested in, and even though it didn't make any sense, I obeyed willingly. We walked up the hill a little ways and stood at this grassy cliff-side next to the road, and looking off to the right, there is a huge chasm - like grand-canyon huge, only more winding and complex, and there are enormous slabs of patterned, mossy stone that stick out of this chasm like giant green-tinted shards. I remember my mind sort of playing with the idea of sliding down one and feeling the momentum of not being able to control myself on the slick, mossy face of the stone, and feeling the hazy moisture build against my cheeks, and the panic of sliding faster and faster, but like a checkpoint in a video game, my mind brought me back to this cliff-side where we continued to overlook the scenery. Like it never happened, we got up and scanned the chasm right-to-left. Once we were looking far left, we noticed a kind of stone-brick bridge in the center of the chasm leading under the road we were driving up, (perpendicular to it.) It was pretty grand, but it seemed to slowly descend down into the chasm to the right behind one of the massive shards, (which is why we didn't initially see it.) We proceeded to walk up the road to get directly above the bridge to see exactly where it led and to get a better view of it.

Once we arrived at the peak of the road, we looked down and saw about 30 feet below us the actual bridge itself, and walking up the bridge was a naked old man, alone, with thin white hair hanging below his ears, but a massive bald spot on top. He looked really malnourished and in need of help as he was moaning loudly in a stereotypical "senior's voice" you might hear on something like the simpsons. We ran to the other side of the road (left) and descended from the top of the bridge down below the road closer and closer to the old man. The gradual incline took us deeper into the chasm and we could no longer see the landscape above once we were out from under the bridge-like road that we were standing above a few seconds prior. My dad, being a heavier guy, couldn't keep up with me as we quickly ran to help the old man and he said "be careful" in the most distinct and paranoid way. I kept running down the damp, sun-exposed, old, stone steps agilely until I was about 20 feet away from the old man who, during the time, was hobbling down the steps away from us like he was trying to escape; he probably only made it around 20 feet down, himself. I began to get closer. He had his back turned to me, still whaling. I looked up the steps to see if I could see my dad, but he wasn't in sight; the steps were too steep and my vision was blocked, I walked forward cautiously, now about 15 feet from the old man who was whimpering and crying to himself, standing, yet curled up. I tried to audibly entice him, saying "are you alright? do you need help? we can help you" and he still was non-reactant to my words. I crept closer and held my hand out around five feet from him now, and he turned to look me in the eye and uncurled himself. I could tell he was blind from his milky, unsaturated eyes, yet his stare was focused, like he could "see me" without actually seeing me. He turned away again, and I said "hey, everything's going to be fine," and reached my hand closer to turn him around when he frighteningly swung around.

As he did so, time slowed down dramatically in-unison with the angle of degrees that he was turning, and as the time slowed, and he turned to face my direction more gradually, his face, neck, chest and arms all began to melt into blood, like that scene in the raiders of the lost ark where the nazi's faces melted. The sky in the background turned stormy almost impossibly quick, it happened also in-unison with the angle at which he was facing me, (as he turned, the turn became progressively slower, and so would his face-meltage and the stormy-cloud transformation.) The sky also turned red from the far horizon, getting increasingly closer as he turned to face me. His hand reaching out during all of this - I could feel his wet skeleton hand pressed against my armpit region soaking my shirt. Everything was oddly silent, no moaning or noise or anything, it was all visual.

Then I felt the visuals transition; I was no longer in the dream. I woke up facing down on the leather couch I was asleep on and felt a total sense of relief. It was around noon when I woke up, or somewhere around that time.

rageface56 · 2 points · Posted at 04:23:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time when I was watching The Soup, I sneezed and Joel McHale blessed me 0_0 I turned off my TV and ran .. Scariest thing I've ever experienced on while watching television.

SmoSays · 0 points · Posted at 06:48:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The soup has been off the air for 12 years since Joel McHale murderkillsuicided everyone in the studio including himself.

[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:40:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY THE FUCK DO I ALWAYS CLICK THESE FUCKING STORIES AT NIGHT. GOD DAMNIT ME.

ILL_GRL · 2 points · Posted at 05:05:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok...we'll go with creepy.

I had been hanging out at my friend's place, I bike so when I was leaving I walked around to the back of her building were the bike rack was outside. As I unlock my bike and start to leave I notice from the window of the building directly infront of me ( we're talking eight feet away tops ) A man is staring at me through his frosted glass window.

Dead. At me. I stop in my tracks and stare right back at him. His blinds are as such that I can only see from his forehead down to just below his nose. He doesn't move, has probably been watching me, and now that I've made eye contact, he doesn't blink, he doesn't look away.

I'm freaked but I make a "What are you looking at?" face. He doesn't flinch, he's just looking at me with a stare that makes me feel like the boogie man was deciding how I'd taste.

TheCucumberKid · 5 points · Posted at 20:05:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was crawling into be one night and my bed felt like there was something in it but obviously there wasn't because I couldn't see anything so I just ignored it and fell asleep. Then at 1:30 in the morning I woke up freezing with no blankets on. I looked every where in my room but my blanket wast there so I went upstairs to get another and I swear my bedroom door shut when I was upstairs. It didn't latch shut but it defanitly wasn't in the same position as when I left. When I got back down in my room I noticed that the door wasn't open and I asked my brother about it (We share a room) was all confused cause he didn't understand why I had just woke him up. So obviously he didn't do it. The next night at 1:30 in the morning the same thing happened except my blanket was hanging on my dresser. Now I'm starting to get a weird feeling but ignore it and go to sleep anyway. The next night I thought I'd be smart and stay up till 2 and maybe catch my brother in the act or something and pretend to be sleeping. But nothing happened until about a month later when again at 1:30 I was woken up. But it wasn't from no blanket thief. This time my bed was violently shaking and I couldn't move. I tried running but I was so scared my legs felt like jello. No body believes me but I also suffer from really bad dreams or night terrors, so I could just be remembering a really really vivid dream

Holovoid · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:21 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah this was definitely dream paralysis. It's pretty vivid and terrifying, I used to get it all the time as a kid and still occasionally get a few instances every now and again.

TheCucumberKid · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:04 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well then that's good.. In a way

pvtsnowball82 · -5 points · Posted at 00:44:51 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleep paralysis. You're welcome.

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MsLippy · 1 points · Posted at 06:56:17 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ummm, you're a great storyteller. You managed to freak me out pretty bad with just a simple sleep paralysis type dream story. The details are really scary.

BushmanVonAztec · 4 points · Posted at 01:43:48 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Buried as hell at this point, but why not. Me and my two friends were in my backyard pool some evening last year, just floating around talking. I was looking up into the sky and noticed a light traveling through the sky, but we live somewhat close to an Air Force base so those kinds of things were a common sight. While I was watching it, sort of zoned out and listening to my friends, it suddenly reversed direction. Knowing that planes can't change course that quick and wanting to make sure I wasn't seeing things, I pointed it out to my friends. We watched it make a sharp turn right, then kind of a curve, then it just blinked out. Needless to say, we jumped the hell out of the pool and ran inside. To this day none of us have ever seen anything in the sky do that, and we still joke around about "the time we saw the aliens".

TL;DR: Me and my friends saw a weird light in the sky that moved erratically and blinked out.

dash-cunning · 3 points · Posted at 16:33:40 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Take this with a grain of salt, I was just a kid (around 7-8 years old when it happened) to this day I can't explain it...

I was sleeping in the top bunk of my brother and my bunk-beds. The side of the bed was against the wall with the "head" resting right next to the door. Because I had fallen asleep in the living-room earlier that night my dad had dutifully carried me to my bed and left the door open after he'd gone.

So, there I am blissfully asleep when I'm woken by the sound of what I can best describe as a small (read: short) person's footsteps running up and down the hall. Better yet, it would be the sound a toddler makes when they're trying their best to run... except 1. it was the middle of the night and 2. my little brother (youngest in the house), who was around 5 at the time was sleeping peacefully below. I was terrified, especially because the "Child's Play" movies had traumatized me, but I managed to venture a glance. Nothing. I could still hear the steps moving away, but there was nothing to be seen. When I heard them moving back towards my room, I slammed the door shut, locked it (cheap button locks a toothpick could open), and pulled the covers tightly over my head.

Oddly enough, that's not the last strange thing that happened to me in that house...

SquirrelLock · 3 points · Posted at 19:29:16 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

And then..

alexn2000 · 3 points · Posted at 23:36:49 on August 15, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was watching tv and the connection usally geos out and when it froze i saw a face that didnt belong to anyone.

MyFakePlastic · 4 points · Posted at 15:02:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mitt Romney get 47% of the popular vote.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So I posted this many times before, but nobody ever seems to believe me, it was a strange experience to say the least.

Alright so this happened to me when I was younger in my teens, I lived in this really old house that my dad made additions to. I remember for years I would hear sounds at night, things like footsteps, creaks, and moaning, but I always assumed it was people in my family in the night. Sometimes I would see a shadowy figure around, but once again I assumed it was just something else, like my sleep deprived mind playing tricks on me. (I routinely stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. playing video games). Anyways one night its like around 5 a.m. and im just about to get a glass of water before I go to bed, then I see this pale girl in a dress. At first I think its one of my sisters trying to scare me, so I try to call her out on it, but I got no response the woman just stared at me, then I reasoned that I just had to go to bed, because im seeing things. Then she opened her mouth and let out a blood curdling scream, I was completely paralyzed with fear, then she approached me slowly, then she grabbed my arm and started pulling at me. At this point I dont even know what happened, whether it was pure animal instinct, or I was just a sexually deprived teenage boy. But I grabbed her and tore off her long dress and inserted myself in her. I dont even know how I maintained an erection, she felt as cold as ice but I kept going. She let me I dont think the spirit or whatever she was expected this. When I was done she looked at me with the saddest and most broken face ive ever seen in my life, then she vanished. To this day whenever I visit my home I think he still hear her, but instead the sound of footsteps, and the creaking of wood, I hear a soft crying, but the strangest thing is whenever I hear that tortured cry, my penis tingles in excitement.

TL;DR: I raped a ghost.

SchindlersFist712 · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is one of the most fucked up things I've ever heard. Upvote.

Krussian · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bravo! Best ending to a ghost story I've ever heard.

tomx312 · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/wtf

honeybadga · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:15 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I..you...wat

Sneaky_Rafiki · 3 points · Posted at 20:45:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I found your throwaway account."

dariusz2k · 4 points · Posted at 19:56:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now I'm not one for telling this story very often as it still bothers me,

everyone should know that before I start. It was about midnight and

very cold outside. I was watching my sisters that night because

everyone in my extended family was working that night. I grew up

really poor, since we were Polish immigrants, so we lived in a bad town.

Going on with this story it's important for me to mention that crime

over where I live is pretty common so hearing gunshots in the distance

now and then is a usual occurance. Tonight though it was really silent,

never before had I had such an eerie calm where I was. I was watching

a television show when suddenly I heard a loud THUMP in the basement.

God nor anyone could have prepared me for this moment. I checked

in on my siblings who were asleep. I heard another loud thump in the

very dark confines of the cellar. We didn't have phone service since

every now and then my parents couldn't pay the bill.So I had no choice.

You never really know what the hell to do in a situation like this. Who

other than robber or burglar would be downstairs. Nothing could help me

unsee what I was about to that night. I open the door and peek down,

unparalleled fear entered me as I saw a man's figure moving around. He

pronounced after a few drumbeats to read the first letter of every line.

Chivalryisntdead · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bravo good sir on the indirect Rick roll.

Ablack_smith · 4 points · Posted at 15:50:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

420yolo.com It's pretty scary what this generation has become.

X_Cody · 3 points · Posted at 18:48:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope you die a slow painful death you fucking bastard

Kevin_ke · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You...bastard. You son of bitch.

mypenexploded · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

touche

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tell me what it is im a wuss

Mouseicle · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Urban Dictionary page on it - I am also a wuss so I googled it!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=420yolo.com

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:06 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

thank you, i screamed so hard i almost fractured my rib

smk201p · 4 points · Posted at 14:34:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother was dating this chick.. They went out one night and got shit faced. She woke up naked to go to the bathroom(it was in the basement so no one saw anything). When she left the bathroom she went the wrong direction and walked into my grandfathers room and got into bed with him. She realized it was the wrong room apologized and ran out. The next morning when my brother left for work, the girl was still at the house and my grandfather knocked on the door to show her his junk and shake it at her. She doesn't come over anymore. I think she got mad at me cause every time she walked in I grabbed a banana and shook it around.

GormBerry · 3 points · Posted at 16:29:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once read a story on creepypasta about a kid who, when he is in bed, gets sort of attacked by some creature in the wall every night until his parents switch bedrooms with him, prompting them to move a few days later. Cannot remember the name of it though

dixiegirl13 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:38 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bedtime. It's on /r/nosleep too. That story is so creepy.

GormBerry · 1 points · Posted at 11:50:12 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you .... I.... I luv you :')

dixiegirl13 · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:19 on June 6, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're welcome :) You don't forget a story like that too quickly

MarkWalburg · 4 points · Posted at 15:00:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is it too late to mention Amy from Amy's baking co, or are we over that?

Mouseicle · 3 points · Posted at 21:58:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I WILL NEVER BE OVER THAT.

Bradsmiley · 2 points · Posted at 14:02:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I woke up one night a few years ago when I thought my dog was in my room. I have hard wood floors and can usually hear her moving around when he nails drag, so I was going to open the door so she could leave. When I opened my eyes I saw a black mass on my ground that I thought was Cujo, my dog, but then it suddenly stood up. All I could see was a silhouette of it but it was about the height and shape of a normal man and I didn't know what to think. I just laid there frozen in fear and it suddenly raised its hand and pointed at me. I freaked the hell out and covered my head up with my blanket and just laid there wide awake until morning, when I finally felt safe to go back to sleep.

approximatesunlight · 2 points · Posted at 14:05:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few years ago we were visiting my step dad's best friends house for Boxing Day. Their house is 1930's detached, and the Living Room is an L-Shape. I was sat on the sofa at the end of the L, and for some reason it was really cold, despite the rest of the house being warm. As I was sat on the sofa, I saw a branch move on the Christmas tree out of the corner of my eye, a bit like when you walk past a branch and then it pings back, but I didn't think much of it at the time. When it came to dinner time I was sat opposite the door to the living room at the other end of the L, which was a door with glass panes looking out onto the stairs. It was quite dark at this point, but we had low lighting and candles, and all of a sudden I saw something move around the corner and up the stairs- not a figure as such, but almost like a grey/white cloud, which is the best way I could describe it. As soon as I saw this it felt like someone had poured ice down my back, and I felt like I was about to burst into tears, it was one of the most awful feelings ever.

Soon after that I found out that their house is supposedly haunted. The kitchen used to be at the lower point of the L shape, which is now the living room, and the cold corner is where the oven used to be that the old lady who lived there previously had gassed herself with. Apparently they see her walking around a lot and she is harmless.

edeneleven11 · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So my wife and I used to live on the bottom floor of an old house-turned-apartment complex. The owner had told us stories of how an old woman had died there some years before but I don't believe in ghosts so we moved in. A few creepy things happened there, and most of them I chalked up to natural occurrences: the knocking on the windows at night, the doorknobs suddenly opening by themselves, things that sounded like footsteps... But one night my wife wakes me up sounding really upset and when I came to I was standing in the middle of the bed just swaying there. We go back to sleep but as the week goes on we begin to notice weird things on the wall. It was like the wall was being covered in white powder. Finally we decide to clean the whole mess up only to discover that the wall was covered with hand prints. We tried washing them off and were able to remove the powder but the handprints didn't disappear. Needless to say after that we moved out after that.

TLDR: Creepy ghost hands... Everywhere!

Anonymous206 · 2 points · Posted at 14:25:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few nights ago I was awakened by a dream I had of someone watching me while I was sleeping. The next morning while I was getting ready to leave for work, I noticed my front door was unlocked....

GaryGibbon · 2 points · Posted at 14:32:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, when I first moved to my new house at the age of 8, my family decided to meet the neighbours. The house on our right contained a sweet elderly couple who were innocent and so nice they couldn’t melt butter in their mouths, and their house was as ordinary as you would imagine. The house on our left (it was semi-detached to ours) contained an deathly white woman and her two middle-aged sons, who looked so dishevelled and dirty that I thought they were tramps at first, and their house’s front garden was so overrun with weeds, bushes, flowers that it looked like the forest the city was built over had never left it. The house itself was filthy, with mildewed curtains, off-white walls and a dilapidated fence that had been broken.

The deathly white woman was gentle and sweet, but the sons...They never spoke. They only looked at each other, sharing glances as if they knew something we didn’t. When they left, I went up to the balcony, and I remembered seeing that nature had taken over their back garden as well, and it made the front garden look like a cricket pitch. A month later, the mother of the men died, suddenly and quickly. When we asked the sons about it, they said it was a heart attack brought about by her age (she was pretty old). But one day, soon after her death, I heard rustling and the slam of a door outside, and opened the living room curtains to have a look. What I saw shared the shit out of me.

I saw the men taking rubbish outside. Hear me out.

They each carried a small shopping bag full of rubbish, and they walked over to the nearby park, depositing their rubbish in that bin. While they were doing this, they were constantly looking over their shoulder and they had the guiltiest expression you ever saw on a man. They had the expression you only see on repenting murderers.

When they went inside, I closed the curtains and ran up to my room, which overlooked their garden. I began to write notes down about their behaviour, so that I could remember what had happened, when I saw the two men again in their back garden. They were carrying ornate black bowls filled with water and were wearing clothes that were a brilliant green, and they were throwing this water on the mass of plants and mushrooms in wide circles. I could make out them muttering something, although to this day I do not know what they said. They continued this behaviour for three weeks, and every day, at 4 o'clock, they would take a filled carrier bag to the park bin looking as if they had committed some awful crime, then they would go out back and ritually throw the bowls of water over the mass of plants. When they stopped, I noticed this, before thinking nothing of it. I thought nothing of this until now. Recently, on the 9th, the 15th, and on the 21st of every month, I hear howling that slowly increases in volume and pitch until it is cut off in a crescendo of shrieking noises. I always assumed it was the foxes that had taken up residence in next door’s garden (which has now become impossible to even approach, such is the mass of plants and thorns that have taken root inside it) hunting and mating, but a couple of months ago it was a hot night, and I decided to open my window.

I had the worst nightmare in all my life that night.

I was in a forest of some sorts, and it was night. It was almost impossible to see where I was, and the forest was filled with the calls of wild animals and birds. I began to hear a deep man’s voice whisper in Latin, and I felt eyes watching me. I turned around, and almost screamed. I saw a mossy eroded statue of a man with a sort of wooden mask on him shaped in a smile, like a theatre comedy mask. The whispering grew in volume, and the statue vanished. For some reason I followed it. It would keep appearing, and every time it did so the volume increased. Eventually, I found myself in a clearing filled with stone ruins. The Latin muttering was very loud now, as if it were in my ear, and it had begun to shift to some old undecipherable language, it might have been Celtic for all I know. Once again, the statue appeared right in front of me, and it looked upset. Very upset. Suddenly there was a burst of noise, and the statue said something, before I woke up. All I remember was that the statue said something that scared me to my basest levels.

But this is only the most recent of creepy goings on in my house. Throughout the time I’ve lived here I have always seen faces in the walls, always heard people say my name when no one does so, always seen shadows and reflections move out of the corner of my eye. As I type this, I feel that something’s watching me. This is not an uncommon occurrence, and thanks to last night’s incident, I think I know what it is. All these things that I see in the house are unique to me, though what my elder relatives on my mother’s side say does little to help me with the things I see. An overactive imagination, just like mine, says my mother. A sixth sense, just like mine, says my uncle.

PuppetOfFate · 2 points · Posted at 15:05:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Paradoxes creep me the fuck out. Example:

If Pinocchio says "This is a lie", what would happen.

If you went back in time and killed yourself what would happen?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:30:58 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

The time travel paradox has several answers. The first and most pedantic answer is: Time travel isn't possible and is likely to never be possible or else we would see evidence of it today as people from the future would inevitably screw something up or be stuck in our time or some past time. Therefore the question is nonsense similar to asking "What sound does blue make?"

Secondly, a less shitty answer would be: Assuming it is possible to do, chances are you would be stuck in a loop and very likely the entire universe would be stuck as well. You would die, but then the person who killed you (older 'you') never existed and wouldn't have been there to pull the trigger, and thus you would have lived. The effective end of all things in reality could/should ensue. Not in some fireball of destruction, but in a simple ending of time at that point. From the moment the time machine is turned on, there is no future time.

A third possibility which actually allows the universe to continue: The multiple universe/branching universe suggestion. Much like Doc explains to Marty in Back to the Future 2, once a traveler goes back in time, a new universe is 'created' (some might say the traveler doesn't travel through time so much as he travels to a different universe altogether. These have more or less the same effects). In this universe everything up until the traveler arrives in the past is identical to the universe the traveler left behind. But once he arrives, this universe differs because there is a person in it that wasn't in the travelers original universe: the traveler himself.

This last theory is my personal favorite simply because of the freedom it allows the traveler. He can change things, he can interact with people, and even an earlier version of himself at some point if he wishes. There is no universe ending paradox because he is actually a different physical person than this universe's version of his younger self. So if he wished, he could kill his younger self without consequence, or he could help his younger self become rich like Biff does. And from the perspective of the traveler there is only one hitch. He can never go home. There is no chance of him ever getting back to his home universe because travelling forward in time would travel along the timeline of the new universe he inhabits, and travelling to the past would create an even more divergent universe than the one he was originally from. His original universe cannot have a traveler, so by traveling he is leaving his home forever.

tl;dr Lots of words about time travel.

Arty6060 · 2 points · Posted at 15:21:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A creepypasta called FunnyMouth. Shit...

Naavi · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The whole thing had me intrigued! Didn't love the ending, but all in all... pretty damn creepy!

tonenine · 2 points · Posted at 15:22:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had to x-ray almost all the premies that didn't make it moments after death, the women in the department concluded as a man it would not bother me. Our anatomy lab had many "that's so memorable it belongs in a jar" deceased babies. The adjacent room contained around forty cadavers.

Xombie95 · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This post.

I_knowa_guy · 2 points · Posted at 15:37:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

So I went to school at Ohio University which is ranked as one of the most haunted places on earth (no idea who makes these lists or how they are based, but whatever). I was never a believer in ghosts, demons, spirits, etc. but it seemed like everyone had a story of someone they knew having something creepy happen. Some older stories are more well known and were featured on Scariest Places on Earth which can be found here if anyone wants to take a look (part two)

Anyways by the time I got there the insane asylum was locked up and only open on Halloween for tours. When I first got there as a freshman, some friends and I decided to go check out this haunted place we had heard about. There was a creepy, abandoned tuberculosis hospital which was about the only place you could break into.

When we got inside we realized no one had a flashlight and it was pitch black so we had to settle for phones as light (this was before smart phone flashlight apps). So we are walking around and this place is just plain eerie. There are empty beds in rooms, what looks like blood on walls, creepy graffiti and a creepy basement with tiny doors and tunnels.

While I am walking around I start to hear a sound come from upstairs that sounds like a single note of a piano play. I dismiss it and keep walking until I hear it again, this time it goes ding ding ding. We all stop as we heard it that time. We walk up the stairs and hear it again, the same note, much louder but just once ding. We turn the corner and are in a children's play room with a shuffle board on the floor, a rusted tricycle missing a wheel and in the corner, a piano facing us. We walk up to the piano to check it out and this thing has no keys; not a single one left nor a piano string with enough tension to play that high pitched of a note.

We were confused and talking and didn't know what to think. One of the guys noticed a long hallway with a locked door but the top window was busted out. We decided to check it out and see what was down that way so we pulled a little wood toy box in there over to the door to help climb through the broken window. I decided to go first and was peeking my head through the window to see what was on the other side. Right as my head went through the window, at the end of the hallway was a very distinct, "Leave!" I quickly pulled my head out and turned around and looked at my friends who had shocked looks on their faces. I asked, "Did you guys hear that?" To which they replied yes. I asked them what they thought it sounded like and they said someone telling us to leave. We turned around and noped the hell right out of there.

In hindsight it very could have easily been a bum squatting in there or someone playing a prank as lots of people go there. But the feeling was unlike any other.

Album with some pics

TL;DR went to haunted school. Broke into TB ward. Heard piano with no keys play and a creepy voice yell, "Leave!"

Hootinger · 2 points · Posted at 15:53:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

The Ridges!!!

We used to go up there and, well, relax in stereotypical Athens fashion.

stridernfs · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pretty much anything on /r/nosleep

peace_in_death · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you ever noticed... You close your closet door more than you open it?...

Billpayment · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

sounds like you have a problem. set up a camera.

eblumrich · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That the oceans are dying.

And it's unfortunately true.

MesMeMe · 2 points · Posted at 16:45:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some people wipe standing up

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Spacedoubt · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I feel your pain, Tunacans. There is a really bad vibe or some kind of negative energy about my living room too. I live in a really old house and something just doesn't feel right in there. The doorway into the livingroom, in particular. My animals are also weirded out by it. I always catch them with a weird look on their face, just gawking at the empty doorway.

_invalidusername · 2 points · Posted at 17:17:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

--WARNING, CREEPY--

This GIF freaks the shit out of me. You are warned

redjimdit · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My wife and I recently attended a guest-list sex party. Checking in IDs, we saw a guy carrying a suitcase with two black eyes.

Later as we were leaving, we saw him strung up with two girls beating the everloving fuck out of him. Not being gentle, actually kicking him in the kidneys, punching him in the face, really wailing on him.

That's when I knew we wanted to go back.

LessLikeYou · 2 points · Posted at 18:13:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I am late.

From a woman

Luckily Aunt Flow was just stuck in traffic and everything worked out.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read One Second After.

justmeinSF · 2 points · Posted at 18:26:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bush got re-elected

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ITT: people make outrageous claims with no proof.

waffle_brain · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to be good friends with a girl whose family was a bit unusual. Being young I thought nothing of the little things but now it all seems weird. They had satanic bibles on their family book shelves and her dad had satanic tattoos all over, things like that. Her mom is mentally insane and addicted to pain killers and shes the type of lady to you could picture laughing as someones dying. Lemme paint you a picture; she had skin issues so her face was always looking like she was burnt except for white circles around her eyes which were set deep into her head and were bright white and blue. She had an upturned nose and brownish green reeceding gums. And she was just saggy. She was just scary looking. She had a white rocking chair on her porch she would sit and rock on for hours. Her satanic dad was bald and short with small black beety eyes and had a creepy nasaly laugh. Together they were a scary looking couple. I was extrememly close with their family so it wasnt uncommon if I was at their house when no one was home. After a blow up between mom and daughter that landed daughter in the mental hospital that night, I was left at home alone. (Her dad worked the night shift). I felt like something was watching me all night and just felt weird vibes. Little things freaked me out, the dog was barking at the basement door and I kept hearing slamming from down there etc. Figured I was just paranoid. I had fallen asleep watching tv but woke up to dog scratching wildly at the basement door. I mean he was butting his face against it because his paws were too bloody and torn up to use. This scared me to death already and being a 13 year old I grabbed something along the lines of a weapon or shank and started down the stairs. it took me a few tries to get down there because the slamming doors scared me and such. When I made it far enough down I saw every satanic bible in the house in a line leading up to something. On my final try I made it to the bottom of the stairs and the carpet was soaking wet. I heard what sounded like hysterical crying that kept turning into evil laughing. I fucking lost my breath when I saw the line of bibles leading up to Insane Mother herself rocking in her white rocking chair. I was in shock and God knows why I didnt just turn right back around and run. She stopped mid laugh and looked me dead in the eye and said my name in a low monotone voice that sounded of one in a demonic movie. I noticed the blue in her eyes was gone and she only had pupils. The lights were burnt out but the moon was full enough and came through the window so I could see her details like that. She laughed that god dammed creepy laugh again and kept motioning for me to come to her. Being in shock and not wanting to admit what was going on was really happening, considering she was gone and at the hospital, I must have been dreaming, I moved toward her. I kind of nervously laugh and I noticed she was extremely sweaty. When I got close enough to her, she grabbed my wrist and stood up extremely fast. She looked down on me and that same demonic voice started laughing loudly and I was scared shitless. She got litterally nose to nose with me and through her gritted teeth said 'I need tree fiddy.'

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:23:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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ThrowawayYeah10 · 2 points · Posted at 23:44:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Twist: Your dad was trolling you lolol. Just kidding.

But yeah, I hate going back to my house during break (I'm at uni.) We live in the middle of the country and creepy shit happens all the time that makes me want to run to my parents, and I'm 22 lmao. One time, my cat was next to me, and I was about to fall asleep, and she suddenly stood straight up, waiting a second, then dashed out of the room. At the exact same time, my dog, who lives on the back porch started barking like... with INTENT. Not just a little half-asleep noise or something. We're talking the barks where you can hear a little bit of growl in it. The weird thing is, that couldn't have just been a reaction to my cat, because there was no way they each animal could have seen each other from where they were. Again, 22 years old here, but I started lightly knocking on my parent's door like a little bitch and my dad got up to patrol outside for a few minutes. :(

Sorry, that was supposed to be shorter. Haha. Was just trying to say that I still do that shit if its bad enough, and I'm 22.

BabyPandaaa · 2 points · Posted at 23:39:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watched Paranormal Activity 1-4 at my ex's house. Said goodbye and then left, and got back to my crib at about 2am.

As soon as I walk in, (all lights are off), I look left and see something darting towards me down the corridor, with these green eyes. I SHIT my pants, and leg it to my room, closing the door behind me. I then realise that it was my dog, (great dane), wanting to say hello.

Anyways, I get into bed, and am about to go to sleep, when I hear this really low-pitched, bassy sound. At this point, I'm saying to myself 'fuck fuck fuck nope nope nope I'm gon' die'. I put my head under the covers, and block the sound out so that I can't hear it. After about 10 minutes or so, I remove my hands and the noise has stopped.

Fast forward 5 minutes, I realise that I left my blind open. I get up, and as I get to the window, sheet lightning comes out of nowhere, and lights up my whole garden, and I swear that I saw the shadow of a figure on the patio. Then there's an almighty clap of thunder that lasts like 30 seconds, and then silence again.

At this point, I'm actually very fucking scared. It all becomes peaceful again, so I try to get to sleep, and then boom. At 3:00AM on the dot, my computer roars into life, and sets my adrenaline off faster than a fat man running to an ice-cream truck. My room lights up red, (Red LED Fans in the computer), and I feel like I'm about to be exorcised.

I jump out of bed, pull the plug out of the wall, jump back into bed, bury myself under the covers and get about one hour of sleep.

TL;DR; Watched Paranormal Activity 1-4, went to bed, heard the noise, shat myself, shat myself more, went to bed

sakurashinken · 2 points · Posted at 23:52:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

how many of you pulled this stuff right out your butts?

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 23:55:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

many

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

To be honest, I don't really care. The stories are awesome anyway.

KeyAdams · 2 points · Posted at 23:59:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A spider

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

...not to downplay the terror of arachnid encounters, but reading through these comments, I'm glad to know I'm not the only with a life that seems rather uneventful in this area.

Browneyedgirl89 · 2 points · Posted at 00:51:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This might just get buried (kinda funny) but I'm gonna comment anyway.

When I was in college I worked for a pathologist. He was older and did autopsies on the side for extra (about 3500 each) money. One day a lady called and said she wanted us to perform an autopsy on her son. Her son had passed away almost two years before. Just to save the privacy of the family ill just say it was pretty creepy to perform an autopsy on a body that died two years ago.

squashedfrog462 · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It sounds to me like "doing autopsies on the side" is the creepiest part : /

Browneyedgirl89 · 2 points · Posted at 03:25:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

He was retired from his hospital job. Most pathologist look at biopsies and other test results to determine diagnosis. Most do an autopsy here and there but of course most don't like doing them. It would literally only take us 2 hours tops so 3500 for two hours worth of work is pretty dang good. It was really interesting. But I totally understand how people think its creepy :/

DrTrollface · 2 points · Posted at 03:35:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Coming home to a broken in home. I was in 8th grade. It's fucking creepy looking at your overturned room knowing some stranger has been in here.

jokersblow · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I came home once and all our fly screens were cut, not the mesh, but the metal edging was cut with wire cutters or something. That felt creepy, and the dumb fucks didn't even get inside...

gravylovers · 1 points · Posted at 10:29:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah that feeling is awful. It's like you don't want to touch anything.

*polhold02077 · 2 points · Posted at 03:37:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to work at movie theater in the town where I grew up. The building was...not old, it was built in the late 70's/early 80's but it seemed a lot older inside. After working there for several years I had come to realize that the building was haunted. This was a tough realization for me because I consider myself rational and generally don't believe in supernatural shit. It seems to me there is always an explanation for weird stories. I started to realize it after having quite a few events that I couldn't explain. Well it was to the point where I just didn't care anymore. She had been fucking with me for several years and I was over it. For the most part nothing weird had happened for a couple months.
Well one night I was walking out to my car close to midnight after closing. Fuck, I said. I had left my deposits in office upstairs. So I go back in and using my phone as a flashlight, I head upstairs. As I'm unlocking the office door I get the feeling that someone is behind me. At this point I figure she is around cause that's what she did. So I go in get my deposits and flip the lights off before heading downstairs. I realize here that my nametag is gone, but the backing (it was magnetic) is in the bottom of my shirt. So I stop and stoop to look for it on the stairs. Suddenly I got super uneasy and decided to nope the fuck out and look for it the next day; this is unusual for me because I spent so much time alone in the projection booth. As I'm closing the door to the stairs I someone or something puts a hand on my shoulder and whispers in my ear. I straight up ran out that bitch. Had to go to work there the next day.

martininkorea · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Who is "she"? You bring in another character without any point of reference prior to when you first mentioned her towards the end of your first paragraph.

*polhold02077 · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well I don't know her name. She's a ghost or something. I don't know.

UnchbackOfNotreDoom · 2 points · Posted at 03:54:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well I planned on watching a horror film tonight but, after reading this thread for 3+hours my horror lust may be satiated... Nawp!

P.s. This has been one great thread. <3

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:01:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've told this before, and I'm late to the party, but here we go.

It started with my family and a family of our friends on vacation to a beach. We were renting a house right next door to our friend's house. All of us kids (we were 8-9 at this point) were told to go watch a movie at the rental house. We only had a portable DVD player, so we hooked it up to the TV in the main room, and fired up The Ring. It was fine. I wasn't scared, or so I thought. There was an option on the DVD that said 'Don't Watch This', so naturally, we did. From what I think it was, I believe it was the scenes shown on the videotape from the movie. We only got to the part where the Ring slide came up, we said it was stupid, and turned it off. One of the friends went up to the player, accidentally moved it around so the cord came unplugged, and fell out. The screen went black, yet still on. The phone in the rental house rings. I panic. I know we're going to die. Needless to say, it was simply one of the adults from next door calling to see if the movie was over. I still hate that movie to this day.

brindlebrat · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I must have been eleven or twelve at the time, I can't remember exactly. My bedroom was in the basement of an older house, 1930s I think. Our family only lived there for a few years but the whole time I lived there I was absolutely petrified. I couldn't really understand at the time what scared me so much but all I know is I could not stand to be in that house alone.

I had a few very strange experiences there but after years I can sort of write them off as having an overactive imagination, or I was dreaming...whatever. Except for one incident which was experienced with a friend of mine. It was the middle of the afternoon, bright summer day and my friend and I were in my basement bedroom trading baseball cards. We were the only ones in the house at the time. I had expected my mom and little brother to be home at any minute, so when my friend and I heard a door open upstairs and footsteps walking across the hallway into the master bedroom, which was directly above my bedroom, we didn't really think twice. The floors on the upper level of the house were old, creaky hardwood and I had heard my family members walk across it many times. I called up to my mom saying something to the effect "Hi Mom, we are downstairs!" But when I didn't get an answer my friend and I looked at each other confused and I called out again, "Hello? Mom?" and nothing. After this we both freaked out. Obviously someone had just entered the house upstairs. We had both heard loud footsteps from one end of the house to the other. No question. Halfway up the flight of stairs to the main floor of the house was the entrance to the garage, so instead of investigating who may be walking around the top level, we ran into the garage and found weapons. I have no clue why we thought this was the best idea at that time instead of just escaping through the garage, but I guess in our TV saturated adolescent minds this was what we were supposed to do. So I grabbed a hammer and I honestly do not remember what my friend grabbed but I want to say it was a hacksaw or something ridiculous like that. We were pretty terrified and not thinking clearly. We slowly walked up to the main level and looked around. No sounds, nothing out of the ordinary. I called out to whoever must be inside to come out, we are calling the police (my friend was near the phone at this point), and I began to check all the rooms and closets, hammer poised to attack. Of course no one was there.

This was not the only time something like this happened in that house except the other times I was alone so nobody else could vouch for what happened. So creepy, I was very happy when we moved!

A_Cave_Man · 2 points · Posted at 07:36:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My aunt was at home with her son one day, the rest of the family was at work/school. That is when she hears him talking to someone, so of course, she goes to investigate. She rounds the corner to see him looking up, talking and nodding in understanding.

"Who are you talking to?" she asks. The boy gives her a puzzled look, looks back towards the direction he was just looking and replies "He says he's Jesus"

A year or two goes by since this incident, when all of a sudden she hears a tremendous crash and shattering of glass. She finds her son in the same room holding a frying pan. "What on earth is going on in here?!" she demands.

"There was a fly on the window, but I got him!" he enthusiastically replies

tubetalkerx · 2 points · Posted at 08:04:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

DAMN! I'm reading this page at 3am and suddenly I hear a loud moaning sound coming from upstairs. My 20-month old wants milk.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Two things. One was when I was young and lived in Michigan. It was a perfectly spherical black "ball" that was floating through the air, never changing altitude or speed. Everyone in the neighborhood saw it. It terrified me in some way I can't explain.

Second time I was in the football field at the high school, hanging with some friends. They were a couple of hundred feet away on the concrete, practicing their skateboard tricks and stuff. So I'm laying there, looking at the stars since it's a particularly clear night, and this... white and purple star shaped thing, zooms by about half a mile up. It was huge, it wasn't even a shooting star, it definitely looked man (?) made.

MsLippy · 3 points · Posted at 07:18:41 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do you know there are at least two other hovering-globe-floaty-thing stories on this thread? Somewhere...deep in the middle. I've been here too long.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 09:44:11 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a bad habit of not reading too far into threads before posting my own stories, it's my biggest flaw.

MsLippy · 3 points · Posted at 19:01:04 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't mean that you shouldnt have posted, my brain just clicked that there was a recurring theme and thought you might be interested to know. I appreciate everyone's replies- gave me reading material for two days straight!

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:02:58 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm gonna have to scrub through the topic now to try to find what you're talking about. :)

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:33:18 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was driving my car through the middle of a small town in Kentucky with 3 other people. We were chatting and joking around when suddenly some sort of music (think it was some sort of hip-hop) started to fade into the speakers then faded back out in about a 3 or 4 second period. It got loud enough that we all stopped talking until it faded out, where I then blurted out 'what the fuck was that, tell me you guys heard that?'

We argued about it being the radio for a bit, but it was clearly off. We were by an abandoned gas station and a tractor supply building, nothing else in sight, and its probably about 1 or 2am. It came from the car speakers as the windows were up, anything loud enough to do that could have been heard for longer since I was only doing about 25mph.

Had us freaked out for a good while.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A true story about a female babysitter in my hometown. She was caring about the baby for several times, but at that specific evening he was crying everytime she left him alone for sleeping. After being upstairs several times, holding him in her arms to get sleepy she called the parents and asked for some tricks. By some kind of randomness she said to the father, that she couldn't sleep too with a huge scary clown doll like the one she recognized in the baby's room. It was a hard hit when he said they never bought a clown doll for his baby, neither his wife did. In fact it was a guy with a mental disease, who climbed into the room by an open window. He wokes the baby up everytime when the babysitter left the room. When she came back he just sat there pretending to be a huge doll. No one was hurt, but I think this is a pretty scary evening.

theset3 · 6 points · Posted at 16:16:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is bullshit. You edited a common Copy-pasta.

TheFundleBunny · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's actually a scene from a horrible horror movie. Like, word for word. It's almost hilarious.

Here it is!

MsAnnThrope · 2 points · Posted at 16:10:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure this is an urban legend...

idejmcd · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

your grammar and spelling were scarier than the story.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

100% total bullshit. Has to be the oldest piece of chain mail known to man.

TheFundleBunny · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fake as fuck.

Taken from a movie called Amusement

Here's the scene, described on Wiki:

After that, Tabitha goes into the guest bedroom upstairs and sees that the entire room is decorated with clown toys. One doll in particular scares her, a life-sized one sitting in the rocking chair. Her feeling of unease only intensifies as the television turns on without warning and the remote is in the clown's lap. She goes to bed, but the thunderstorm wakes her up.

Still spooked by the clown, she turns around and faces her head away from it. Unbeknownst to her, the clown's head turns to see her. Later, the phone rings. Tabitha walks to answer, not knowing that the clown had been watching her all along. The caller is her aunt, checking on the children. Tabitha assures that every thing is fine and compliments her on her new house. She does however express anxiety at the clown in her room. When her aunt asks which one, Tabitha says, "The one bigger than me". Behind her, the clown rises and walks towards her.

On the phone, her aunt says that she has no such doll. Tabitha panicks and drops the phone, turning around to see the rocking chair empty. Terrified, she slips into the boys room and locks it. Tabitha whispers to wake up and hide, as a very bad man is in the house. The boys say that it is just Owen wanting to play, only increasing her terror.

BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's fucking terrifying. I'm carrying a knife if I ever see a clown in my house.

Hard_at_it · 2 points · Posted at 14:04:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

6 inches of my tibia protruding from my leg, what remains of the scar: http://i.imgur.com/24pTeXL.jpg

Troll_Man24 · 3 points · Posted at 14:45:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

that there were 666 comments on here

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've posted this story before.

I came home around 3 in the morning after playing Texas Hold 'Em with some friends. My mom was in the shower after a late night cleaning session, and I remember just being relieved that she was okay. This cold dread filled me the whole walk home, and though everything looked normal, I still felt like some unseen ghoul was watching me from the shadows. I shrugged it off to a late cold night and went to hang up my coat by the window.

And that's when I saw it.

A park lay bathed in streetlight, across from my apartment building. Flowing over the down sloping hill of the park was a hooded figure blacker than the surrounding shadows. It was a wraith of tattered night, hovering closer to the building, moving through - not around - a tree and onward.

I froze. My voice caught. All things that were terrible and wrong were manifest in this coming emissary of darkness. I snapped back into myself and shut the blind and curled under the covers until sleep came.

The next afternoon, a friend stopped by. He told me there were cops downstairs. We went to see what was going on. They wouldn't say. I told my friend about the night before. He laughed it off. We went to get food and ran into a reporter looking for a certain apartment. He told us a police officer killed his girlfriend and killed himself. My friend looked at me dumfounded. But I felt no vindication. Only empty.

Billpayment · 5 points · Posted at 17:15:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"It was a wraith of tattered night" and such doesn't make me put much faith in this story.

biglegspluskarate · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once saw a coworker leave the bathroom without washing his hands after taking a shit.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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Intergalactic_ranger · 6 points · Posted at 19:18:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What am I supposed to be seeing in the picture?

InstyKim · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm with you on this one, Intergalactic_ranger. I'm getting nothing.

Intergalactic_ranger · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just went on my laptop to take a look at it. I think there's something that resembles a face in the middle of the shot

MyVoyeurThrowaway · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, uh ... what's in this picture, exactly?

Karma given, so answer expected.

Not_Joking · 2 points · Posted at 23:00:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here's the first thing that came to mind. In 1993 I has access to Usenet through my University. For a few months I was reading first and second hand information coming from attorneys, reporters, and witnesses of the siege and extermination of all the men women and children trapped in the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas. This wasn't perpetrated by a drug gang or south american guerrillas (popular bad guys of the 80's and 90's), or by a Russian or Chinese communist sleeper cell for that matter. Nope. The torture and murder was the handiwork of my Uncle Sam. As it was happening, few people knew about it. They were not allowing any press. Or humanitarian aid. Once it was over, the press was awash in terrifyingly predictable, paper thin propaganda. Nobody cared. The public never got the joke, and the jokes on them. And then I knew. "They" have now seen that they can get away with seemingly unthinkably obvious atrocities, and as long as people still consume their media, they will get away with it.

That kinda creeped me out, and it was the first thing I thought of when I read the post. Come to think of it though, that was when things just started to get weird. Has it gotten weird enough for you yet?

tldr; Found out the machine works so well that "they" can torture and murder an entire village of people in the middle of the US and then spin it so that the public at large has no problem with that.

Almighty_Egg · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last year I was camping in Scotland near Inverness with two friends from school. We'd had one of those really nice days where everything goes well and you just feel great about life.

After exploring the local area and pinpointing our nearest village, we decided to hide all our valuable stuff (you know what Scots are like), zip up our tents and trek to the pub.

We got a few rounds in, chatted to the landlord and a few of the locals, but all the while I couldn't help notice one chap who just didn't quite look right. I don't know what it was to this day, but something about him drew my gaze and I just couldn't help but stare at him as he sat at the bar on his own, ordering whisky after whisky.

As I proceeded to get more and more boozed, I began to ignore him. Anyhoo, last orders were done and we were all kicked out the front into the car park. At this point, one of my buddies, who will remain nameless (you know who you are Will), was finding it very hard to stand and/or talk (God knows why), and so hiking back to the campsite was proving difficult.

Seeing that we were having trouble leaving the pub car park, the same lone stranger from the bar came over and offered to give us a lift in his landy. To this day, I wish I'd never gotten in that car, but I did. Not only was he drunk, but there was something very off about him. Now that he was standing, I realised just how tall he was. What's more, his skin seemed to be wet. Not his clothes, just his skin.

Anyway, we got in the car and I noticed that he was driving extremely fast. I asked him to slow down, but he didn't reply. Instead he just stared at me with hollow eyes and a vacant expression. I asked him to pull over, and he obliged. We all got out and watched him speed away. It was at this point that we realised that we were on the banks of a huge lake, and he'd purposefully plowed right in.

Panicking, I ran over to see if there was any hope in rescuing him. Just as I got to the lake, he emerged from the water, not flustered, with that same vacant expression. Shocked, I asked "do you need help?". He replied: "I need something from you first..." Confused, I replied, "What do you need?" "I need about tree fiddy." It was around this time I realized that this guy was about 8 stories tall and a crustacean from the paleozoic era. That damned Loch Ness Monster had gotten me again, "Damnit Monstah, I ain't givin' you no tree fiddy!" I yelled as he swam away into the distance.

TL;DR: creepy guy gives us a ride, and ends up trying to killing himself right in front of us.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:16:30 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I want to up vote this a thousand times. Well played sir

rickybobby516 · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Classic

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Good stuff. You had me going for a little while.

g000dn · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

well i've got a really cool story to tell that has actually been reinforced after a few google searches that revealed I'm not alone in my sighting, but this thread has 3100 replies and there's no way I'm typing it all up for it to go completely unnoticed.

[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:33:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Type it up. I'm reading new first.

g000dn · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I may type it up shortly. Still have a feeling it will go completely unseen.

mypenexploded · 3 points · Posted at 18:42:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

same!

funwithgoats · 3 points · Posted at 17:14:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, I want to know!!!

Kronos1337 · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In this thread I learned a site full of atheists are still afraid of ghosts.

Quiles · 5 points · Posted at 19:03:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Generalize much

JustTryingToFunction · 4 points · Posted at 00:30:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

World's shortest horror story. The last human on earth sat in a room. He heard a knock at the door.

Trcymcgrdy1 · 3 points · Posted at 01:04:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

lawl

nintynineninjas · 1 points · Posted at 14:00:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Torchwood's depiction of death.

mageezbeats · 1 points · Posted at 14:10:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This past halloween i was woken up at 5:30AM to a man covered in blood playing on my piano. i had never seen this man before in my life, and it took me a second to realize that he was a drunk man who wandered into my apartment from the costume party upstairs, and he was dressed like a mad scientist. i kicked him out of my house and couldnt go back to sleep.

still gives me chills.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:25:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There were a noise of an animal outside of my window in the night. It sounded a bit like cough made by a dog, but different. In the first time it scared the fuck out of me. I layed in my bed frozen and with open eyes. After some time I yould sleep just because the noise didn't change. Since then I heard it some time after. I don't what kind of animal this is, I think a badger or something.

(Sorry if bad English)

joereiter · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fainting goats screaming at 3AM on a farm in rural massachussetts. because they sound like babies being slaughtered and city boys like me find this to be an infinitely worse sound to be woken up to than police sirens.

Jesus_is_mah_nigga · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple years ago, I was hiking with my friend and we came up next to this waterfall. We decided to hike up the side on the really steep rock thing. So as we're climbing he says "Who's playing drums?" So we stop climbing and hear these tribal drums and a girl singing, but it sound very low-pitched. (The first thing that comes to mind is the singing sampled in the background of this song http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3UhjblIwfFM). So the singing and drumming keeps going on, and being the pussies that we are, we run the fuck down that hill. We drive back to his apartment in dead silence. God that was scary.

xnerdyxrealistx · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was home alone in my house that we had just moved into and was still pretty empty, just some furniture down, my sister had left her New Found Glory CD on in her room on full volume before she left. At this point the CD ended, but that CD has ~10 or so minutes of silence then a bonus track which starts with a scream. It was night and my house was pitch black. It scared the shit out of me. I thought someone had been murdered. You can imagine the relief when I realized it was the CD.

Here's the bonus track I heard

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Even though it's probably a hoax or a misinterpretation, the lost cosmonauts.

hoitjancker · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A video which cropped up on a similar Reddit thread a few months ago of the Station nightclub fire, in which 100 people were killed in 2003. The video is amateur footage, firstly of the band playing at the venue, followed by about 10 minutes of pretty disturbing footage of the fire itself. What I find most unsettling is the contrast of the casual setting of people simply enjoying a show, unaware that in minutes many of them will be dead. The video serves as stark reminder of the danger of fire, and the fatal results of not having sufficient emergency exits/procedures.

birdsmith88 · 2 points · Posted at 10:13:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think the video is a better reminder of the fact the you never know where you're going to be in twenty minutes.

Superdewper · 1 points · Posted at 14:28:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey OP. Aussie unite. I'm sure these stories will help you get to sleep ;)

1) Apparently some real shit happens on the interstate routes. Stretching road in front of you. Only red sand to the left and right.

I've heard of some trucker stories. On some quiet roads in the untravelled hours people try to rob you. Although how are you going to stop a semi? They'll usually lie there pretending to be knocked out or asking for help. Then when you stop. They shank ya!

I hear that instead of stopping they'll just go straight through. Either you or them...

Cant write anymore. Getting the heebie jeebies.

Thx OP

slipknot6477 · 1 points · Posted at 14:29:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This might not sound creepy, but while I am trying to fall asleep I hear strange voices in my head. They say random things/noises, but the weird part about it is the voices are a lot louder than my thoughts are.

GoodGuyGlenn · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You may have mild schizophrenia

PerfectlyDarkTails · 2 points · Posted at 23:31:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's safe to say its not... I have the same phenomena as skipknot6477. It's jus that the mind is unable to filter out noise without crossing the hearing senses first, I also have the odd visual hallucination as well, it happens during the semi-conscious state of the mind and its normal and/or part of my ASD.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:30:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My small farm was raided by 2 dogs in the night, I had to search my property, picking up the corpses of my sheep. By the end of the day I was covered in blood, and still had to grab one body out of the lake.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:30:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I found my best friend's body in the forest less than 15 minutes after he shot himself in the head.

dexxin · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember I saw a subreddit a long time ago that had a lot of short, creepy stories. Anyone know what it's called?

princesssaoirse · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last year I woke up in the middle of the night to a sharp pain on my leg. It didn't hurt that much so I just rubbed it and tried to get back to sleep, but as I did that it felt like something had pierced my hand. I threw back my covers to see between my legs five wasps crawling around. I dunno why I wasn't freaking out yet because I am girl-scared of all insects, I just got out of bed and saw that around my lamp in the corner were like a dozen wasps flying around the bulb. Before running to my dad for help I decided to shut the window because I knew he'd lecture me about not shutting the window and that's why wasps would be in, but as I opened the curtains the windows were both shut and all up the window were around twenty wasps crawling and flying around. That's when I lost it and suddenly realised how loud their disgusting buzzing was and ran downstairs screaming - had to run back up again for dad though, kinda ruined the vibe. Turns out my neighbours had a wasp nest problem, fuck wasps.

Ilikebeerandgirls · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my buddies and I walked into his house one Sunday night, it'll actually be one year this coming Monday. We were in a meeting that one of his roommates and both of our really good friend was supposed to attend but he hadn't came out of his room all day so we figured he was sick or just still hungover from the night before. At about 7pm we cracked open a beer and sat down to watch the Indians game. We decided to knock on his door and see if he wanted to come out and join. After no answer we walked into his room, and there he was hanging from his closet by a wire. You never get that picture out of your head.

TL;DR my friend and I found the body of one of our best friends who hung himself

TillPizzaSetUsApart · 1 points · Posted at 14:32:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember visiting my mom's new house and as I walked through the stairs going upstairs, the family stayed at the kitchen, I could smell perfume like someone just passed through me... Might not be the creepiest thing ever but I hate to visit that house since..

Foxless · 1 points · Posted at 14:33:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Driving home down a dark, winding road with no street lights, a man dressed in a black suit and a top hat, with a pale white, expressionless face was walking down the middle of the road. He didn't flinch at our car driving straight at him so we had to swerve to avoid hitting him.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Looking down at my legs after being struck by a car going 60 MPH.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to live downtown in a big old house with a bunch of friends. We had a couple cats, but no other pets. One night I went into my room to go to bed. I set the alarm clock, turned off the light, and settled into my blankets. Then I got grabbed. Lightly, on my shoulder, it was definitely a grab. I leapt out of bed and flipped on the light, no one was there, no cats, no friends, no one. I searched the room and every so slowly settled back down. Weeks later, all the doors upstairs opened at once one night when no one was up there. I'm glad I don't live in that house anymore.

Osprey_UOENO · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its gotta be the sounds recorded when they drilled into the earth and dropped a microphone into "hell"

goldendecorations · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Messed around with a Ouija board in my teens alone and I swear that a spirit visited me that night and spoke right into my ear. Right before it happened, a creepy cold chill passed over my body (there were no drafts or windows open). I didn't sleep that night...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

3 men getting shot execution style.

thebigmack · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Fun ufo story! I saw this in the sky over the city. Roughly around mid April, 2011. I was out on a date with my girlfriend at a downtown pub, having dinner with her friends whom I was meeting for the first time. We left and we all parted ways. My girlfriend and I started walking north towards one of the busiest streets in the city to catch a street car, only to have something very strange catch my eye. I've seen hundreds of planes and helicopters farting about in the sky but I instantly knew this was something different. There were three stationary, horizontal ovals in the sky that glowed and undulated with a firey streetlamp orange. I immediately stopped and stared. My thoughts went to aliens first but I kept a clear mind and stared at intensely watched few 2-4 minutes while my girlfriend wanted to keep moving. Especially when the lights in the sky started to move themselves. #2 and #3 softly started gliding towards #1 in different slow speeds. #2 stopped while #3 cought up and faded away below it. Moments passed and #2 continued its way toward #1, stopping just under it and faded away. The remaining oval #1 began to move left and disappear behind the clouds. I heard no helicopters in the sky and planes don't glide and stop. I caught a picture of the 3 ovals but surprise surprise, it was taken on my shitty 2 megapixel camera phone. You can only see 1 of the ovals and its a grainy dot at best. I feel like one of those cliche people with a lame UFO story and no proof to back it up.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:38:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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chronsar · 2 points · Posted at 14:46:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like Sleep Paralysis.

Rag318oy · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

something similar happened to me I will post the story

Afrikhan · 1 points · Posted at 14:38:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A friend of mine had told me about this drainpipe system underneath a nearby park, and I immediately made him take us in. It was around midnight, we had a few torches and we could make our way slowly through the pipes if we crouched and avoided all the moss. We got a few hundred meters in and reached a flooded junction, so we decided to sit down and relax for a bit before heading back. After being there for a few minutes, we heard what sounded like a far off deep growl from one tunnel, essentially a long dark abyss as far as I was concerned. I'm not a believer in the paranormal so I was still calm, but my friend was starting to get a bit jumpy. I convinced him to stay, and a few minutes later we heard another sounds, exactly the same, but louder. Closer. A primal instinct in the more ancient parts of my brain started to tell me something was wrong, but there couldn't have been anything making that noise, I still wasn't sure what it was, so I decided to make my friend stay and enjoy the pipe. A minute or two later, the growl sounded again, but MUCH louder and MUCH closer. My friend, not even waiting for me to react, got up and started to run back down the tunnel. I was already scared, and my friend running set me off. I panicked and followed him out as fast as I could, shining my light behind me into the pitch black whenever not knowing if anything was following me became too much. After a few minutes we eventually made it out of the pipes and back to civilisation. We walked back to my friends house in silence, sat down, and watched the least scary movie we could find in the house.

I'm still not sure what it was. I don't think it was a monster or anything, I still think there is a good explanation, but I have never heard anything more terrifying in my life then what sounded like a dangerous beast making its way towards me in tiny, pitch black pipes fairly far underground with absolutely no means of protection.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well besides being shot at, held at gun point twice, or seeing a mans head crushed by a rock. probably seeing someone being burnt by the community using tyres.

shaneisneato · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where do you live?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:44:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

South Africa, durban, township called Kwa-Mashu H

Ineedauniqueusername · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like you need to move...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this gary busey gif http://imgur.com/wu8B6Rw

sascottie11 · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night my friend and I were going to leave my house and go to my neighbors. We were both in the laundry room and you can see the living room from there. I was waiting for him to put on his shoes and all of a sudden the TV turned on and had an extremely high volume. I ran in there, turned it down, then bolted out of the house

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched a man commit suicide by throwing himself in front of a speeding freight train.

The_happy_buffalo · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This might be a little childish, but when I was little I had a dream about a certain mask. The only thing in the dream was this mask staring at me, I could just feel it staring into me with its eyes full of evil. I actually woke up in a cold sweat and hyperventilating, my eyes felt like they were about to pop out of my head. I actually couldn't sleep for several days after that. After I completely forgot about it, about 2 months ago I had the dream again, it was terrifying. I woke in a cold sweat and hyperventilating again but this time I was grabbing my face when I woke up, I don't know why.

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:RED_Noh_Mercy.png ^ picture of the mask (yes I know it's from a video game, but that's what the mask exactly looked like.)

VigilantInfidel · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did you ever consider that it might have just been Steam trying out their time-traveling dream advertisement technology?

The_happy_buffalo · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, they were gonna announce that at E3, thanks a lot man.

tigerevoke4 · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if you've heard of smile.jpg, it's a creepypasta thing. Can't link it right now but it's not hard to find.

sstansfi · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

someone did this to me
I almost shit my pants

ForeSet · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So we had just been in are new house for the past 2 months so being 8 i was still getting used to the house. Now my mother liked to scare the shit out of me to the point i would cry. So back to the story anyways one night it was storming out and so i went upstairs yo view the lightning. After enjoying the show the lights went out. Now my mother is being herself had snuck down the stairs and was waiting in the room which sits under our stairs and is also across from my room. As i procceed down the stairs to my room the storm starts to roar again as i franticly start slapping for lights to turn on i slowly give up and make my way down stairs. I go to try tbe switch at the bottom of the stairs when i hear noises coming from the room across so i go check it out as i walk in the door closes behind me and asni go to cry i cant i cant speak,scream or cry. After my mom notices she hugs me laughing and telling me its ok..

TL;DR Power goes out during a storm mother takes the chance to scare the fuck out of me.

manateeinsanity · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About three years ago a wasp nest had taken up residence between the walls of my parents house. My bedroom was in the basement, closest to where the wasps flew in and out through a hole in the homes siding. My dad found the hole and sealed it up with some sort of sealant, hoping that the wasps would eventually die out.

The next day I woke to hundreds of extremely angry wasps flying around my bedroom, crawling all over my face and legs. They had found a way to escape the walls by going through a vent that led directly to my room. Obviously panicked, I ran screaming from the room, all while being stung repeatedly (thankfully, I'm not allergic). I called my dad to tell him what had happened and he told me to "just raid 'em ". I kindly told him to fuck off. To this day, I still have a violent reaction if I see or hear a wasp.

Walrusjim · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was riding down a trail after breaking my elbow. I had broken it about 6 miles from the trailhead. It was getting late, about 5:30, and since it was fall, the sun was going down somewhat fast. On top of it all a fog had set in pretty thick. I was riding along when i heard something that gives me shivers even to this day. A fox screaming. It sounded like a child in agony until it drifted into something inhuman. It made me pause because it sounded like someone needed help, but when it transformed into something monstrous i put all my weight into my pedals and nearly flew home.

engelMaybe · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read this in a thread like this a couple of months back:

When I had just moved in to my own plave I had a walk-in closet door that I had to close a lot more often than I opened it.

Still gives me chills just reading that sentence

somedude456 · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My cousin's childhood house built in the late 1800s. Everything in the house from the floors to doors made all sorts of scary sounds when it's dark and you're ten years old.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.sfgate.com/local/article/FBI-shared-child-porn-to-nab-pedophiles-4552044.php

silverbackjack · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not entirely sure that this counts but by far the scariest thing that ever happened to me was when I suffered from a sever case of sleep paralysis.

I was lying down on my Dad's couch and slowly drifting off to sleep, suddenly the room seemed to change, it stretched out in front of me and some weird plants started growing on things. I tried to get up but I couldn't move at all, there was this awful pulling sensation that made me feel like I was being sucked into the ground and couldn't breathe. Suddenly the coffee table flew up into the air and started crushing me, I could feel it, it hurt like mad and I couldn't seem to breathe. I lay there helpless trying to move, struggling like mad against this weird force pulling me down, my mind wasn't functioning properly, it couldn't comprehend what was going on and I didn't know it was a dream, I can't really remember exactly what was running through my head only the crippling force crushing me. I started to try move different parts of my body, I noticed I could slightly wiggle my finger so I kept doing it until I could move my hand, then I could move my arm and I let it slip off the edge of the couch and suddenly everything changed back to normal but there was still this weight on me. I stood up and one of my Dads cats was sitting on my chest, It ran off across the room and made me jump a mile.

Still not sure what the hell caused it. I assume I was dreaming with my eyes still open or something because it wasn't as though everything suddenly changed, I just sort of faded out of reality and into a sort of lucid dream state in the same room I was in and then it disappeared.

TL:DR Sleep paralysis is scary as hell and extremely hard to describe

Edit: Please ignore my punctuation, I skipped a lot of school =d

TehManicMan · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was this website my friends introduced me to called sfogs.com. It had a lot of scary stuff like pictures (normal ones or .gifs) and creepy stories, and as a kid I got curious about it.

My friends and I would look at the site at school whenever we were on recess and we would scream in horror and fear at anything particularly scary like a white lady suddenly appearing in a normal picture. Plus, the homepage of the site was The Grudge kid.

Though now I don't know if that's still on in the internet right now.

hoobsher · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

had a dream in which a few of my friends (and my ex, for good measure) were trying to kill me in an empty and quiet shopping mall. not like chasing me; we were all hanging out and they all just slowly started to walk toward me with a look in their eyes that they wanted to do horrible things to me. with their bare hands, no less. it was terrifying. i awoke from my nap in a dark room with a computer on my torso. i was terrified from the dream, and waking up in a room with no light didn't help. i tried to turn on the computer and i could feel, in my mind, my hand running over the board toward the power button, but my hand wouldn't move. it was sleep paralysis. i've had that numb feeling before but i've never had full on paralysis.

then the hallucination started. didn't see anything, but i heard a high pitched, constant scream. it dominated my senses and i felt like something was coming to get me. i shut my eyes again and i was right back in the dream--friends and ex trying to murder me. open my eyes, the screaming comes back to the forefront of my perception.

about a minute later, the paralysis wore off as i woke up completely. that was the scariest dream i've had.

eddieg037 · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last Thursday, i was at a red light and I saw how a car impacted a pedestrian that was crossing the street. The guy that was hit literally flew like 8 feet in the air and landed with a hard thud. I knew the guy was dead the moment he got hit. I keep hearing in my head the hard thud of the car and then another when the guy landed. And I keep seeing his friend shouting in disbelief at what just happened to his friend. It was horrible.

canofpotatoes · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to be terrified of Chucky, that fucking doll that casually murders people and can't be killed, when I was at the age of 5. My mom, lovely woman, would sometimes change the channel to a Chucky movie if she knew it was on while I was watching TV becaue I probably would if I had children, too. I'm in bed after she basically committed an minor act of child torture, these scenarios start playing through my head. Chucky is probably under the bed. In my mind at the time it was very possible and you have to keep an open mind. Another scenario, he was on the top bunk and would jump down and slit my throat. Last scenario, he's at the end of my bed about to start shaking it back and forth just to fuck with me.

The bed starts shaking. I do not shit you when I say the bed started shaking. If I had not gone to the bathroom before bed it would have happened at that moment and at wide open throttle.

I ran into the living room, the whole house is shaking. Earthquake. This was in Washington across the bay from Seattle about 15 years ago.

To this day I check the fucking bed and no closets are left open. Fuck Chucky.

TL;DR: Terrified of Chucky the killer doll, 5 years old, went to bed and thought he would start shaking my bed, bed starts shaking, dry heave my already empty bowels, Earthquake.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Video from the Station nightclub fire.

Extremely NSFL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqvWxS719W8

TitaniumShovel · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't have the stomach to look it up again, but there's a dashcam video of a brick flying off a truck and smashing through the windshield, killing the woman in the passenger seat. You don't see it - you just hear the screams of all the people in the car.

Horrifying.

johnlandes · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in an apartment complex that was built over a former mental institution. The bodies of the former patients (over 3000) are still buried in a memorial garden less than 100 feet from our building

A few months after moving into the apartment, my wife was in the living room nursing our newborn, when she came into the bedroom in a panic that the electric fireplace had turned on. I went out to check, assuming that she must have bumped the remote without realizing it, but I found it in a far corner of the apaprtment. I took out the batteries and told her that it must have been a malfunction and that I'd look at it when I got a chance and threw it in a drawer. Two weeks later, my wife is prepping dinner and I'm playning with my daughter and the fireplace came on again. I asks my wife why she touched the remote before I looked at it, but of course she got mad and denied it. I checked the drawer and sure enough, there was the remote with the batteries sitting next to it. I had to put them back into the remote to turn the fireplace off. This time, I had to physically unplug it to calm my wife down.

That was 2 years ago. Since then, we are regularly encountering our daughter engaged in conversations with the man and the lady in her bedroom window

TheAquamen · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw an SUV T-bone a school bus.

sodabuns · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few years ago I was walking home with some friends late at night. We were passing through a neighborhood when something caught my eye. There was this thing standing in front of someone's house. It was baby powder white and glowing. It turned around. It's were just black holes and it's mouth was this wide black O shape with white teeth pointing inwards. It stared at us the entire time we were on that street. Only one other person noticed it though. We don't drink or smoke or do any drugs so I really don't know what it was.

thurg · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

another thread where my logic and curiosity battle it out for whether i should open and read all comments.

TheFost · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought I found a dead body, turned out it was a homeless guy who offered me some of his whiskey.

manifoldr · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

While riding on my way to elementary school one morning I saw a doe whose hindquarters had been rendered inert by a car. It was attempting to drag itself across the road by its two front legs as my mother and I passed by.

plegronease · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my good friends was renting a house, and in the basement of this house was a room inside the middle of it. You could clearly walk around the perimeter of this room there were no windows allowing you to see in or out of this room. The room was split down the middle by a wall and each room had a door that only locked from the outside. The 2 rooms were decorated with children's wall paper one blue with ducks and the other pink with some kind of design. aside from the wall paper both rooms were unfinished, no carpet no ceiling aside from the wooden beams and a single light in the middle of each room. It was the most chilling place i've ever seen. Maybe they were just ordinary kids rooms built in the middle of a basement. But the thought of what they might have been is mildly terrifying.

fuzzyluke · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/trypophobia

abitlazy · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in high school, I watched a play in a university for my english class. When it was over I walked to the direction where I came. Strangely enough the shuttles that roam around the university was no where to be found. So I walked some more but for about 10 minutes I didn't see any cars, shuttles or other people except for a rugged looking guy at a distance. It seems that I am lost even though I remembered the way. another 10 minutes of me walking aimlessly has passed and still no other people and vehicle in sight but the rugged looking guy. I finally got close to him and asked him directions. He pointed out the same direction I was planning to go toward to but this time there was people walking and vehicles on the road.

anras · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Growing up I would occasionally hear faint breathing in my otherwise quiet and empty room. It was probably just one of our cats but at the time it froze me shitless. I had a very messy room there were certainly places for one of them to hide.

nyshotgun05 · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't want to believe in the paranormal but this is one of my childhood experiences that still bother me today.

1-2 hours before, in the next door building, there was a man shot dead in an elevator. As a gamer, I would have two televisions in my living room, one of top of the other. The top would have cable while the bottom would have the game I'm playing. I remember playing Socom 2 for the PS2 sitting in front of the TV, and I was home alone. After a few online matches, I've decided to switch the AV cables of both TVs so I can sit on a chair and look up. As soon as I disconnect the cable TV’s AV cable, I felt a cold breeze and a man yelling/shrieking to turn the TV back on. Scared shitless, I ran into my room, leaving the TVs on and woke up the next morning scared to play games at night.

Side-note: My Kill-to-death ratio plummeted that night since I was in a match dying all night. So pissed.

tommypickels · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I worked in the hospital as a transporter (patient transport) and have seen so many dead bodies in varying degrees of goss / creepy. I have seen knee surgeries as well as bowel surgeries which are pretty horrific (knees and hips especially because they have to hammer and bang the shit in there).

But by far the worst thing I experienced there was being in the elevator when a dead body farted. I kid you not. Most people are aware that there is air still in your body that can escape when moved after you die. Nothing can prepare you, however, for the surprise / fright / and horror of a dead body fart in an enclosed space.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Martyrs

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seen someone die. And the fact that i didn't feel anything in that situation, just no emotion, emptiness. Its kind of weird how we just die and there's nothing we can do about it except to embrace the fact that you were born to die.

Reminds me of something from Persona 3

'No one can escape time.

It delivers us all to the same end.

You can't plug your ears and cover your eyes.'

wosyny · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a creepy ass furby as a kid. I tried so hard to get rid of it but it kept coming back. I would throw it in my camps lake, and it was sitting on my bed, soaking wet, the next morning

atcoyou · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I forget where, but it was a description of what will happen to the universe over the next X^X years. (not that it matters as I will be long gone, but seems very sad to read about the last energy in the universe dissapating... I can't read about that stuff, as I get a little depressed)

I suppose that is not what the OP was looking for...

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

are you talking about future timeline

atcoyou · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't think it was from here. I have read similar articles a few times about theories of what will happen 1,000,000^N years in the future.

I suppose the one plus side, is you can't get too stressed out about any mistake you make, as it truly will not matter in the long run.

Ninlink · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just moved with my family into a new house and had to stay at the new house alone while my family went back that night to go get more furniture and stuff.

I woke up that night to screaming at the end of my hallway at about 1 AM and a door slamming shut.

My family didn't come back until 8.

vocaltalentz · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not one to believe in paranormal activities, but here is my story.

I lived in this small blue apartment on a dead end road with both my parents; we lived there for about 10 years. During that time, I've had strange things happen to me that I never told my parents about.

I used to hear scratching and clawing in the middle of the night. Every. Single. Night. I attributed that to squirrels in the walls or something. That could be it.
I used to wake up and see a woman standing over me. Just standing, slightly hunched over, unmoving. I believed that those were hallucinations or sleep paralysis (I couldn't move).
The thing that bothered me most, is that I felt something in that house. It never felt right, from the point we moved in up until we left. It's this feeling of dread that blankets over you as you lay in bed at night. I began to sleep with the lights on every night for years.

When we moved into our new apartment a few years back, those feelings washed away completely. At the new apartment, I felt something I hadn't felt in years, comfort. I slept soundly, and I still do.

Some other notes:

My dad passed away as soon as we moved to the new apartment. My mom thinks it's a bad omen; but I think it's just a strange coincidence.
I finally confronted my mom about the old house and she told me she had similar experiences. She would wake up seeing someone choke her as she lied there, unable to move. There was a point when she felt her ankles pulled down and she ended up falling off the bed.

There were a lot of other weird things happening, but to this day I truly believe it was all coincidence/mental problems on my part (and my mom's). But the strangest part was that all of it vanished when we left that house.

Vehudur · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest? Waking up inside a burning building.

Creepiest? Well...

My BF and I were driving to one of our friend's houses way in the northern part of Wisconsin. A half mile from his driveway the car broke down. We were pulling his boat and going up a hill and the car just couldn't do it. Fuck. Well, it's only a half mile to the driveway and another quarter mile to his house. What could go wrong.We later discovered the engine problems were from the alternator.

It was late evening and the sun had set but there was still a bit of light - no matter, as I'm one of those crazy paranoid people and had three flashlights anyways. We started walking, the last of the sunlight vanished quickly and there was only a sliver of moon. You know that feeling you get when you know something isn't right? Yea I had that feeling. I dismissed it as I thought it was just due to the dark and creepy woods around us.

We got to the driveway and started going down it when suddenly, bear. It was just like that. Fortunately, it was "only" a black bear. One moment we were walking down a downward sloping curve in the driveway, and the next there was a bear in front of us not twenty feet away. The bear ran off into the woods, and I nearly shat myself. We got to his house with no physical harm done to us and an interesting story. But I will never look at a forest the same again..

twohoundtown · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This actually happened to me over the last two days, and I didn't realize it until now that this is the second time it's happened.

I was taking a nap when I heard a loud bang, then water started pouring from the ceiling outside my room. I ran down into the creepy basement, it was solid spider webs all the way to the shut off valve. After turning off the water I went upstairs to check the bathroom. The sink was full but not overflowing, the sides and underneath were dry, but there was a wet spot in front of it on the floor. I drained the sink and called a plumber. Several months earlier the toilet had leaked in a similar fashion, a different plumber said it had a crack somewhere. I looked at the toilet (which was already turned off) and saw just a hairline crack above one of the bolts. That didn't make much sense.

So, the plumber shows up, I had torn up the floor in the bathroom and exposed most of the pies, we turn the water back on. Turn the toilet back on. Run, flush, fill, drain everything multiple times. Tear out the ceiling from downstairs so all the pipes are exposed, at this point the water has been back on for over an hour. Bone dry, not a drip in sight. I talk about the toilet and the crack and we both agree it wouldn't leak like that even if it had been turned on. They both think I'm crazy at this point. Eventually they leave not having anything to fix. the water has been on over 24 hrs and it's still dry as a bone. I live alone and don't ever go upstairs unless I have to. So, how did the sink get filled up, and where did the gallons of water that poured through my ceiling come from?

jimmbozo · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was about 14 when this happened to me. I was upstairs in the bathroom brushing my teeth, when I felt the hair on the left side of my body stand up and caught a glimpse of something in my peripheral view. I didn't want to look thinking someone was trying to scare. But I man'd up and slowly turned to see what was there. It was an old man who was pale as snow with long stringy hair. He cocked his head to the side and smiled at me, literally from ear to ear, and then walked into my closet. This was not a walk-in closet by any means. I looked and he just went through the wall. I let out a blood curdling scream. My mom went upstairs and said the mirrors were fogged up and had toothpaste splatter all over it. I'm shitting my pants writing this just thinking of it.

NoApollonia · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Probably the first time I ever saw a house centipede - super speed kicked in and managed to not even start screaming before I had leapt up and scrambled across the room. Now they just get a nice dose of bug spray since they both have far too many legs than necessary and are too creepy to live.

Edit: Or the fact almost anytime I'm in the bathroom alone showering I will hear noises like someone is opening and closing the cabinets. It only happens to me, not the husband and he's already sworn on most everyone he knows lives it's not him. Simply put, I shower very, very quickly.

YodaYogurt · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a house in Spain with ghostly faces in the floor tiles. http://mysteriesunsolvedstory.blogspot.ca/2010/10/faces-on-floor-house-ghosts-in-spain.html?m=1

whaddupmarge · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was around 16 or 17, I was trying to fall asleep when all of a sudden a city-wide siren went off. It went on for at least 10 minutes. We live by a nuclear power plant so I thought maybe something devastating was about to happen or maybe we were under attack.

My parents and my brother were in their beds too. We all just stayed in our own beds scared as fuck.

bat_dragon · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in a pretty good neighborhood so I freaked out when I heard a scream (my neighbor who is 16 yr old) and banging on doors from inside as if someone was struggling.

I called the cops, turns out she was doing drugs and drinking...WITH HER MOM!

Ag_in_China · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in middle school I didn't really do much after school, but my parents worked late and my siblings had their after school activities. Essentially, I had the whole house to myself for a couple hours every day. I would only sit in the living room with the TV blaring. Why? Because if the TV was off I could hear voices through the air ducts. If other people were in the house and it was quiet, no voices. No one in the house except me? Voices.

Creeped the shit out of me. I'm glad we only lived there a year.

TLDR: House talked to me.

Fenderr0xx · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About ten years ago I was on vacation in a jersey shore town with my family. We were at a small deli shop grabbing a few items on a particularly rainy day. Being a rebellious nine year old, I began to get into an argument with my mom because she wouldn't get me a whistle pop (god damn, i love those). Anyway, she told me to go sit outside on the curb of the store...so I did. I see an old white car pull up in front of the shop, an old man gets out of the car and opens his umbrella as he ascended the flight of steps to enter the store. However, instead of going in, he turns to me and says "today's a perfect day for a murder, isn't it little boy?". Between almost pissing myself and crying, I jumped up and ran as fast as I could. All I could hear in the background is the sound of the rain hitting the ground and a haunting "mwahahahahamwwwwaaahaha" taunt as I ran. Looking back as I ran, the old man got back into his car and drove away. I will never understand that event. Scary stuff.

CaptainCupcakez · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My school had annual ski trips to various parts of Europe. As a kid whose parents had a lot of money (or so I thought, my dad was in tons of debt and didn't tell anyone, eventually leading to his divorce, but that's another story) so I'd go on these trips every year. The second year I went the rooms were rooms of 8 and were really huge.

The room had an upstairs section and a downstairs section, the upstairs part looking over the other sort of like a balcony. In the corner of the upstairs part there was a small door, about the same size as a trapdoor, but on the wall. Through here was a small crawl space and then a room about 4 metres cubed. Nothing was in here. Just blank walls, perfect white, cleaner and more freshly painted than the walls in the actual room.

We thought this was a little creepy, but not too bad. That night however as we were going to sleep we heard the toilet flush. Assuming it was one of our friends we thought nothing of it, until it happened 3 times more. At this point me and my friend went down to check. The regular flushing stopped. We just assumed it was a faulty toilet or something until we went back upstairs and it continued again at regular intervals. Basically everytime we went downstairs the toilet would stop flushing, and then continue when we went upstairs again.

The worst part (ironically the only part we have a rational explanation for) was the second to last night of the trip. That night, we heard a knocking noise. This went on for about 10 minutes at a regular "knock knock.......knock........knock knock.......knock....... knock knock......knock......." pattern, sounding like it was coming from the small door with the creepy room.

We managed to build up the courage to check the room, to find that the noise wasn't coming from there, but the wall at the back of the room.

The next morning we found out that the knocking noise was the elevator stuck trying to move and repeatedly attempting to move at regular intervals, but the rest remains unexplained...

Ambiguous_About_It · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lavender town song from pokemon.

Chivalryisntdead · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I made the mistake of listening to the original version at night with headphones on and being the only one in the house. Every creak of the house made me jump the rest of that night.

omnirack · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched in horror as this drunk seeming guy stumbled across our dark hostel room it was 3 am. He trudged slowly and questionably towards another bed that was on the ground level. I hear a zipper doing its action and then can hear the sound of tinkling piss mixed with liberal amounts of swearing, as I come to realize that this dude just got pissed on by another dude. tldr drunk dude takes a piss

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

when i told my sister that if she find something like a creep pale child sitting in some dark corner inside our home, it would not dissapear.

Starky357 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Had to sleep in the living room while half the house was being extended. So laying on the floor watching some mild TV all the lights were out, doors we're locked, people asleep. No storms, or wind, or anything outside, just a full moon. The kind of full moon you can see goddamn everything, just like it's day time. Anyway the kitchen door (10ft. away just in front of me) creeks open, not swing, not slow, like someone was entering the house. I have never gasped before always thought it was Hollywood fake shit. Nope that shit only comes out for real terror. I live in the back woods of NH, no one around for miles. Still don't know how that locked door opened.

OxXoR · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

zairian · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So far today, this.

awesomeperson451 · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night about a year ago, around 1 in the morning, I was walking to my house from my friend's. About a third through the two mile walk, I started to hear this really weird noise coming from up the road. It was this odd, quiet but audible, intermittent beeping that could only be described as what you would hear if you listened to one of those iDoser binurial sound thingies. I walked further, and the beeping just kept getting louder. When I was about 2/3 of the way to my house, the road ended at an intersection and I found that the noise was coming from this huge swath of undeveloped land that ended at the highway about 5 miles from where I was standing. It was louder at this point, yet I couldn't see any lights or any structures where it could be coming from. I figure it still must have been far away, seeing as how when I walked perpendicular to the road I was just on, the direction the sound was coming from didn't change, even when I had walked another quarter of a mile down the road. To cover that amount of distance, the sound must have been extraordinarily loud.

Now, you may be wondering why I didn't just walk back and investigate this myself. Well, you know that really shitty part of your brain that just thinks things without you telling it to? That part that keeps you up at night, thinking about things like "There must be something that rhymes with 'orange', besides 'doorhinge'... Let's never stop thinking random words until we find it!". Well, everyone has that part, and mine just thought "Huh, it would be really shitty if it turned out aliens were real and you, the lone person in this neighborhood who is awake right now, got abducted". I, scared shitless at this point, sprinted the rest of the way home as fast as I could. Even weirder was the fact that when I got to my house, the noise had gotten louder that it had been when I was at the end of the first road. I, now wheezing from the half mile sprint I just ran, quickly closed and locked every window and door in the house, then gathered up every possible self-defense weapon I had. I panicked for a while, then fell into an alcohol-induced slumber next to my arsenal of weapons, which included two katanas, 6 airsoft guns, 2 paintball guns, and a 2x4 with 3 nails stuck into it at one end, and the name "Destructor 2000" spraypainted on it (before you jump to conclusions, I was 18 at the time).

as-we-speak · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in uni for two years in Tokyo. After the first semester, I decided to move out of the dorms and into an apartment. I had moved all my stuff and was settled in by midday. Everything seemed great until late that night. Between 2:30 and 3:00 am, from out on the streets, I heard a terrifying scream from what sounded like a young woman. Just one, shrill scream of absolute terror, and then... Nothing. No altercations, no footsteps, no reactions from anybody, nothing. All that remained was an enveloping silence. Once my testicles descended back out my body, I just dismissed it as somebody arguing or just being an ass. I calmed down pretty quickly after viewing it as a random occurrence. Unfortunately, my testicles would be clutching to my body in fear for the foreseeable future as the same woman screamed at the same time every night for the next month. And just as mysteriously as it started, it stopped, and I never heard her since. Definitely not the welcoming party I had in mind.

TL;DR moved to a new apartment in Tokyo only to hear single, terrifying, inexplicable scream at the same time ever night for a month.

TheOutOfStyle · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

The scariest thing I have ever heard is the voice of the Devil.

I was around 12 years old and my cousin was sleeping over for the weekend. We spent a lot of time playing video games. Late one night we decided to take a break from a marathon session of Phantasy Star 2, and pop in Altered Beast. We wanted to try out a secret code we found in a video game magazine that let you play all the various sound effects from the game from a hidden menu.

We thought this was so cool! We got quite a kick playing around and making various rhythms, like when you'd screw around with a synthesizer at Best Buy. We got the idea to hook up a cassette recorder to the headphone jack from the TV and record some of these "beats".

So we record ourselves "jamming" out to the Altered Beast sound FX for like 15 minutes. We can't hear as we're recording, so we are getting really psyched to play this back and enjoy our little sonic experiment. Now it's got to be like 2 am, everyone in the house is sound asleep, we are excited from the illicit thrill of "hacking" a Sega Genesis. We can't wait to play the recording! Rewind, press play, and what we hear we were NOT expecting!

"AAAAaaaaaahHHHHHHH..... EEEEEeeeeOOOOO!!!! MmMMMmmnNNNNnnnn....AAAARRRRrrrr....!!!"

A loud, extremely deep, sinister sounding voice comes out of the speaker, apparently speaking in tongues. We glance up at each other in fearful confusion. I press stop to stem the tide of mounting panic. We can feel our collective pulses starting to race. "That didn't sound like Altered Beast.... " one of us says weakly. "Must be a malfunction...." Fast forward the tape a little bit. Now try play again. This time slowly pressing play...

"SSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssss...OOOOOooooooooooooo..TTTTrRRRRRR..AAAaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! HHHAAAaaaaaHHHHHHhhhhhAAAaaaaaaHHHHaaaaaaa!!!!! HHHhhhhAAAAaaaaHHHHhhhaaaaHHHHhhhaaaHHHaaaa!!!!!"

Our eyes widen in sheer terror as we listen again to the demonic voice possessing the tape player. This time, we can clearly make out evil laughter! I feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck, my mouth feels dry, and my eyes are slightly watering up. This time I smash down the STOP button and eject the tape.

"Dude, we recorded the Devil!!!"

Barely suppressing screams, we flee my room and run to the downstairs kitchen and turn on all the lights to try to calm ourselves down, and not wake up the whole house. We feel like we are in a scene from a horror movie. Our only defense against total freak-out is to rationalize what's happening. After maybe 10 minutes spent on the verge of heart attack we figure it out...

The tape I grabbed was one I had used before to record digitized video on a early toy video camera called the PXL 2000. The PXL used audio cassettes as its media, but recorded at about 10x normal speed, so you got like 5 minutes of video per side of cassette. We must have made some mistake setting up the tape recorder, and it had not been recording our Altered Beast session. So we realized - and then confirmed by playing another PXL cassette in the tape player - is that we were listening to our own voices slowed to nearly 10 times!

pinkuniverse · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At the University of Washington a couple of years ago, some dude decided to kill himself by lighting himself on fire in the middle of red square (which is a part of campus where everyone passes through). Tons of students saw him and were really traumatized by it. Thankfully I was in my dorm room and missed it but I heard about it from some friends.

melokku · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a very scary moment of my life that happened about eight years ago. We had just arrived to the United States and I still were living with my parents and my brother and sister. I shared the room with my brother and this night I was sleeping like usual, but all of a sudden I feel something grab my head and whisper to my ear something I couldn't understand. I remember trying to call my brother for help but he couldn't hear me. I was trying to move and wake up but nothing. I remember beginning to suffocate. All of a sudden I jump up getting a huge breath of air in and soaked from head to toes. I wake up my brother and ask him if he heard me calling him or asking for help, but he said he didn't hear anything.

So anyways I thought it was one of those nights that the body freezes and you feel you can't move, so I didn't give it much attention, but I still wanted to share it with my parents. So as I was saying what happened to me, my sister just looked at me with her eyes wide open and her face just turned pale white. I asked her what happened, and she said she heard footsteps walking into my room and she said "dad?", thinking that it might of been my dad walking in the room, but she saw my parents' room closed so she dismissed it and went back to sleep.

So I know something went in my room and "attacked" me because it wasn't just me feeling it, but also my sister heard a presence coming in. Up to this day I don't know what was it and it really freaks me out just to live that thought again.

tunderchark · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ahem! Make sure you have headphones on.

UllrichFromGeldeland · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One summer my buddies and I get this great idea that we should start ghost hunting. Being the cynic that I am I had absolutely no wish to go on these ghost hunts but when your friends decide to do something, you just roll with it sometimes. It starts out with us driving back in the deep woods and taking random pictures of the night. Every few pictures we would see what they swore was an orb (which was most likely the reflection of the flash on some drop of dew somewhere) and they would be like "holy shit guys we got one". It developed from taking pictures in the woods to walking around the restored area of Colonial Williamsburg (I'm from Va) and taking pictures of the buildings and following the people on the ghost tours. After a night of not really seeing anything we go up to the Capitol Building at the end of the street and start snapping pictures of the windows. There is a wall that circles around the entire building which is locked at night (and this was about ~11 pm) so the closest you can get to the actual building is about 100 ft and most of the pictures we were taking were already zoomed with the camera lens and up on the second floor of the building. As we are walking back to the car one of my buddies is looking through the pictures and he just stops in the middle of the road. He had zoomed in on one of the pictures of the top most corner window to the point where you could barely make out the window panes. But clear as day, there was face. A Ghostly like semi-transparent face. Shit was creepy as fuck

NewTeethThatsWeird · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:50 on September 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should go to Matthews county if you're from around here.

UllrichFromGeldeland · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:14 on September 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah a few of my buddies parents have river houses out in mathews. Its a shit load of fun, and a shit load of drinking. Didnt do much ghost hunting there though.

Aml1577 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not sure if this really counts but my parents told me some spooky stuff from when we lived in a really old house around the time i was about 6-8 months old. Apparently cupboard doors would open by them selves. The sink would turn on and off. Just really weird stuff like that. One night when everyone was asleep my mom said she was having some real trouble falling asleep because it was so cold in the room. So she went over to the window to get rid of the breeze. Turns out the window was closed so she just grabbed a few more blankets and tried to go back to sleep. A few minutes after my mom had laid down she said she heard crying in my nursery. But a weird type of crying, not baby-like, she said it was like a little girl sobbing. So she checked my nursery. I was sound asleep and no one else in sight. My parents moved out a few weeks after that. Thank god I have no memory of this.

LewisKiniski · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

inb4 "the bloop"

mivy19cool · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This comic made me shit my pants (figuratively), also the story "footsteps" in /r/nosleep is quite creepy.

Polite_Insults · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope NOPE NOPE. I'm not even letting the fucker load. If it is the auto scroll page? NOPE.

mivy19cool · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah I couldn't get past the bit where the head turns, I NOPED my way out of there, and was sweating profusely for ages.

Polite_Insults · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Awww unfortunately I went all the way through it one night. SO SCARY. Seriously. Never again.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 8 years old I was sleeping over at a friend's house for the weekend. We had stayed up all Friday night and finally decided to go to sleep in the wee hours of Sunday morning. I was on the couch, my brain trying to figure out how the fuck to get back to sleep again. I was getting tired when I felt light pressure on the couch, like someone or maybe an animal had climbed onto it. I figure it was my friend's cat, but when I looked, there was no cat. I rationalized it by saying "maybe the cat just jumped on for a moment and got off." It was still a bit weird, though, but I eventually managed to get to sleep after ~20 minutes.

In the morning, the first thing my friend's mom did was to let the cat inside to feed it.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Baby in the drain pipe recently is pretty creepy! http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/05/29/abandoned-newborn-rescued-from-drainpipe-in-china/

noraamitt · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry for the poor formatting/editing, had to type this quickly at work.

Three or four years ago, myself and two friends took some LSD, hopped on our bikes and rode away into the night down a bike trail leading away from our college campus. A couple miles out, the trail dumps off into a road, and on the other side is a small mountain with an old, defunct radio tower at the top. Now, I had been up there before with friends to drink beer around a campfire. It was far enough away from everything, and still close enough to bike to. So we ditch our bikes at the foot of the hill and start hiking up with a couple of head lamps and portable speakers playing music. I distinctively remember Animal Collective's Doggy playing through the shitty, distorted speakers and blending perfectly with the pine tree branches swaying in the wind.

Everything was perfect at that time; I was with two good friends, we were in good spirits, the acid had just started fully kicking in. So we made our way up and above the top. On the other side was a huge boulder where we had been before, so we all climbed onto it and started a small fire. We relaxed for about an hour and slowly fed kindling and small sticks into the fire. At its apex, it was no larger than a foot or two tall.

So at that time, my friend mentions his buddy from home in Massachusetts had gotten into trouble for starting a fire in a state forest. The forest rangers showed up and fined him. It wasn't a couple minutes later when we saw a helicopter fly above us. We instantly put the fire out which didn't take long because it wasn't very big. We turned on our headlamps, hopped off the boulder, and carried on around the side of the mountain to explore, not really thinking much of the helicopter.

A few minutes later we all heard a strange noise filter through the trees from the base of the mountain. We immediately turned off our lights and froze in terror. There we were, standing in the wind in the middle of the night on the side of a mountain with heads full of acid. It was one of the most scared I've ever been. As my blood and adrenaline began to rush, I was absolutely paralyzed with fear and I found it hard to move. We kept hearing these sounds and were confused. My other friend said "Guys...doesn't that sound like a loudspeaker?" And it did. We thought the helicopter called into the police/fire dept. about a small fire in the woods, and they were at the foot of the mountain calling up for us through the loudspeaker. I can still remember how it sounded to this day, and it was absolutely pants shittingly terrifying. I thought I was going to jail for starting a fire in the woods, and being on acid didn't help the situation.

So we finally muster up enough courage to trek up and over the mountain again, back to the other side to where our bikes were waiting at the base...all the while still hearing this distorted noises we thought were authoritative voices thrown from a loudspeaker.

We collectively decide to book it down the hill to our bikes and ride as fast as we could down and across the backwoods street to the bike trail and high tail it back to town. So we hoof it down to our bikes, get on the road, and without even looking, pedal as fast as we could for the trail. I noticed there weren't any police or fire personnel waiting at the bottom, and just as we turned onto the trail I heard the noise again, but up close and not distorted through lsd/wind/trees. It was a dog kennel. Dogs were periodically barking from the property at the bottom of the mountain and the sounds drifted up into the hills and to our acid soaked paranoid ears, it sounded like police. I yelled for them to stop, explained to them what had happened. I have never experienced such an immensely satisfying collective sigh of relief before or since.

TL;DR: Tripping on acid with friends in the middle of the night on a mountain, mistook barking dogs for police officers talking through loudspeakers.

Wicked_Garden · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of the creepiest things to happen to me happened just the other night. I live in Eastern Kansas, just outside of Kansas City where there is hilly thick woodland and wide meadows placed here and there. My house is across this main road from the town and near the hidden small developments and neighborhoods underneath loads of trees. My back yard is literally along the border of a 150-acre woodland that also connects to an old, old town called Monticello. That some people still live in, but is mostly forgotten and hidden by time. This includes the Monticello Graveyard. Now, infamous characters used to live there, such as the first town constable Wild Bill Hicock who went on to become a folk hero and left shortly after the beginning of the civil war. The town had seen many tragedies. Border ruffians and even jay hawkers burning some buildings to the ground, tornados, hangings on the grounds of what is now a school even. So with the back story out of the way I will continue on. 3 nights ago I was driving from a friends house about 12 in the morning, it was raining and I was fucked because I was going to be in trouble because I didn't respect the curfew my parents had given me. I was speeding and accidentally took a wrong turn down into the dark road that led straight to the Monticello graveyard. I was freaking out, so i slowed the car down and then took a deep breath. The narrow road was too small for me to u-turn on so i carried on, my heart was racing but i would not let myself panic under this kind of weather where things could go south quickly. I slowly drove, my speed never exceeding 20 mphSomebody had forgot to close the gate, so I breathed a half terrified sigh of relief. As creepy as the circumstance was, he graveyard was a full circle, meaning I was able to turn right back around. I've never been afraid of graveyards. They hold sadness but that's it. I was about 60 percent all the way around the circle when my car began to skid, narrowly missing a few gravestones. It was a gravel path, which meant no hydroplaning. So WTF. I looked ahead calmly and saw it. Across the bad wire and into the dark woodland Stared reflective eyes. I heard a hoarse howl and its greyish faced peered beyond the oak and pines. I fucking lost it. I powered my car out of the graveyard and sped going no slower than 60 down the shitty roads to my home, where I promptly locked all doors and went to sleep.

My only guess as to what it was? A diseased deer. We have a load of deer over here and the thin mangey thing had probably lost a fuck ton of hair. I still can't come up with much of an explanation as to why it was missing antlers though.

ThrowawayHesAFake · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

420yolo.com

Good luck.

iwfh · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The candle cove story was pretty creepy.

notoriousjb87 · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time, a few years back i was living with my mom at my current place I live now. It was winter and my heat had broke, i think the pipes had frozen. We had a few heaters, so I took one. When I took one my mom said "DON'T PLUG IT INTO THE EXTENSION CHORD". I should have listened to her.. I plugged it in the extension chord and the power went out. Mind you this is 2 in the morning cause I'm not a very good sleep so I insisted my mom go Down and fix it. My breaker box was in my basement which is already creepy enough, I'm sitting there waiting with my dog and all of the sudden I hear my house phone ring...? The first thing I think of is what the hell is going on I thought the phone doesn't even work with the power off? So I go answer it and all I hear is static almost like a old dial up connection. Already creeped the fuck out in the pitch dark I go sit down again. I shit you not 10 seconds later! IT RINGS AGAIN. completely scared I go up to the phone in a rage and answer but don't say anything and just listen. It was the same noise than I blurted out WHO THE FUCK IS THIS? All of a sudden the noise stopped.. And I listened to the most eerie silence. As I'm listening my mom fixes it down in the basement the lights turn on and the phone cuts out. I go to my mom did you not here the phone ring? And it's almost like she was like wtf are you talking about as if she was sleep walking the whole time. There is no crazy end to the story but that was one of the freakiest things everrrrrrrr I feel like I was being followed by a demon. The next day my friend comes over I tell him the story he is freaked out, wanting to get out of the house and get some grub at quick check I go to my car. IT IS THE WINTER so this part makes sense a little but although eerie. I go to start my car and it is just not turning and it ends up being straight dead. I turn my key back and my friend starts bugging out just cause we were already bugged out. We get out of the car he's like dude lets just take mine fuck this. He forgets his keys in the house and as we walk back into the house we hear a loud sound. I turn around my car radio is BLASTING, lights on, engine turned on. There is seriously no logical explanation. We took his car and got food anyway but I was literally scared for a few days haha. It still gives me the creeps telling this story. I obviously have no pictures but all this is 100 %.

OnlyNununu · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL I don't want to live in a house

Senor_Poopo · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest: I was around seven and taking swim lessons at the local university. Everyone was required to shower off before getting in the pool. I ran into the locker room showers and found a guy with a massive erection, beating one out, while staring at me.

Creepy/Scary: I went to confession the day before my wedding and watched a guy have a seizure and die. He had just finished his penance when he had the seizure and bit the back of the pew. The priest came out and tried to help, but there was nothing that could be done except call 911 and administer his last rights.

slender_mang · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Fisher cats. One of these fucks woke me up yesterday and I thought it was a child being murder for a few moments.

If you don't know what they sound like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrvdzCGjbzw

Aborts_withplunger · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I walked out of my house around 11:30 at night, while I lived out in the boonies. As soon as I opened the door I heard this bloodcurdling scream from the woods behind my house. I noped and turned around back into my house, locked and blockaded all the doors, and slept with my gun that night.

sikamikanica · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was 10 or 11 and I was playing with my little brother in my bedroom. My bedroom door opened outwards into my room so from where we were playing the open door blocked our view of the doorway. Without any prior noise I hear a scratching noise coming from behind the door, as if someone was scratching at the wood with their fingernails. I look at my brother and he's stopped playing and looking at me, he's obviously hearing it too.

My parents are not the type to pull pranks and I hadn't heard anyone walk up our wooden, creaky staircase and along the hallway. I call out to my mum and sure enough, she answers me from downstairs. The scratching noise is still happening and I'm too scared to move and look. I ask her where my dad is and my dad himself responds from downstairs.

The biggest sense of dread washes over me and the scratching noise is giving me a headache. We both scream and bolt it out of my room and downstairs where we freak out and explain everything to our parents. My dad goes upstairs but he doesn't hear the scratching and can't find anything which could've made that noise. I didn't sleep easy in that room for a few weeks and always had the hallway light on whenever I was there at night.

There was also that time when I was babysitting my brother and cousin in my aunt's and uncle's house in the country. My parents had just left with them to go out to dinner and we decided to watch a scary movie (I remember it was 'It', bad choice). Twenty minutes into the movie we hear wheels on the private, gated, gravel driveway. Thinking they've forgotten their wallet or something I pause the movie and wait for the front door to open. Nothing. My cousin gets up to look through the windows next to the door and there's no one there.

TL;DR The kids in my family hear creepy phantom noises.

Polite_Insults · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Second one can be explained by someone turning around in the driveway

bigmreese · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Night terrors. When I was a kid I would always get night terrors. The worst was when I would fall asleep in the car there would be this huge guerrilla that wud jump from car to car and finally reach our car. Then he would stare at me threw the window for a minute with a blank stare on his face. He would then open up the car door, come in our car and sit in the seat next to me and just stare at me the whole way home. And when we got home he would open up the door, get out and walk away like it was nothing. Scared the shit outa me every time.

Ken_Wood · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a dead kid on my first day of university.

I wasn't the first there, the residence (or food servcies, didn't know who was who) staff saw him just before I did. He fell out of his room's window from the sixth floor sometime in the night/early morning and landed in the parking lot. I couldn't sleep long because I was excited for my first class (or maybe I was covering up my nervousness). Decided when I woke up early to go for an early walk. About 100m into my walk I came across the scene. The police were just arriving as I got there, but they didn't exactly cover it up for the next hour.

When my floor mates (now friends) woke up later on, they kept asking if I knew why the forensics identification van was outside the residence. I just said I had no clue. Still not sure what I felt about the situation.

The next kid that fell to his death that year did so while I was in the building. He fell through a skylight. I heard a lot of commotion coming from the room, but didn't rush over there. It was creepy knowing what happened when I heard the news the next day.

Hootinger · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dayton?

Ken_Wood · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Like in Ohio? Nope, I'm in Canada.

Hootinger · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

cool cool.

thismayhelp · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After a long day of flying, I was exhausted. I dont remember where I was flying from but I had been awake for a long time (close to 20 hours). Finally I got home late at night and laid down on my coach to sleep (I don’t remember why I go to sleep on my bed). The lights were off and the room was draped in shadow cast by the orange street lights outside. Instantly, I fell asleep. After a few fleeting dreamy images, I suddenly felt a powerful force pushing on my body, as if I was on a roller coaster ascending a steep hill. I opened my eyes. The room was just as I'd left it however something was wrong. I couldnt move my body. I had sleep paralysis. And the force hadn’t stopped. I felt it all over my body, something powerful weighing me down; a suffocating feeling that covered my body. And then, ahead of me at the end of the couch, I saw something. Its difficult to describe what it was but it was some shadowy figure, like a demon. Or like the smoke monster from Lost only smaller. Formless yet occasionally the random clouds of smoke would align in such a form that it would resemble a beast with a head and a body. I could sense its presence and suddenly I realized that this thing was causing this force on me, like it was attacking me. It moved closer. I tried to move but I was still paralyzed. I panicked and forced all my conscious effort into my limps, trying to wake them up. The thing kept moving closer and the force grew stronger. At this point, I would have been flailing my body around wildly if I hadn’t been paralyzed. That was the scope of the effort I pushed to make my limbs move. The feeling was like being buried in sand and trying to free yourself and gradually regaining movement as the sand around you weakened and shifted. Just as the shadow was on top of me, I finally freed my body and just as I did so, everything went away. The shadow disappeared, the force was gone, and my body felt normal. I checked the time and only 15 or so minutes had passed since I’d fallen asleep. I’ve had sleep paralysis before but never to this extent. I thought it was just a crazy dream when I saw on wiki that this feeling of a “demon” attacking you is actually a known phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis The whole thing was terrifying in the moment but pretty cool thinking back on it and I hope to experience it again sometime.

Guttermouth11111 · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Someone once decribed the noise as a half a cow being slammed down on a carton of 24 eggs. My husband agrees that that is an accurate description.

senor_blake · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

From ages 3-5 I had awful nightmares about a large pig man. It almost looked like the pigs from Duke Nukem only without the shirts.

anxiousbadger · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NSFW

Rubber Johnny

"mama"

shudders

rangerjello · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&seq=31

This

mcsestretch · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I know what this is without clicking the link.

Nope NOpe NOPE NOPE NOEP NOEPO NOEPNOEPNOENEONE

Burplessfart · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The mirror The horror that thing showed me was unspeakable

lardparty · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=20&weekday=tue

aros102 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Marble Hornets... :)

PoonJaguar · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My great uncle was a priest who was also an exorcist (the ones that cast out demons). He would always write down the stories from his exorcisms. Some of the scariest things I have ever read. They even made one of them into a movie.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

These are my favourite AskReddit threads. There's also some insane/cool/awesome stories in here.

bigedthebad · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We have a small creek behind our house and there is all kinds of wildlife that comes in and out of the creek. For a few months, we would wake up in the dead of night and hear these really weird horror movie like sounds, impossible to describe. My guess was that it was either coyotes or cats, fighting, having sex, whatever. We never did figure out exactly what it was and it hasn't happened since.

chrisadler · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

did it sound like this ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ8BY521EoI

bigedthebad · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No, I live in Central Texas and I don't think we have any foxes in this area. Plenty of racoons and coyote but no foxes.

r3cluse · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My ex girlfriend used to tell me about spirits she would see at her grandmother's house. We were just sitting in her oldsmobile at like 1230 at night and she just started trying to convince me of this woman in the barn across the yard. We eventually broke up, but I still remember how concerned she was about seeing stuff like this. Still freaks me out considering I don't believe in ghosts at all.

wrong-hole · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My parents and grandparents told me that when I was a baby I could talk really early. Full conversations when my parent's friend's kids could only say short words. They would hear me over the monitor talking away to a girl (I don't remember the name of her) and it really really scared them.

My grandparents didnt want to babysit me because they said I was talking to a ghost or something. My parents aren't in to the whole ghost thing but my dad says it was so real. I would pause for her answers and then when my mother asked who I was talking to I would say her name and act like it was obvious.

I just stopped one day.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I saw the letter "A" being scratched into my ceiling. "A" is the first letter of my first name.It was surreal. Nobody was doing it, I just heard scratching, looked up, and saw it. Scared the shit out of me. Lots of other things happened in that house. In all honesty, ghosts would have been the best explanation.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Karl Pilkington and the 3000 dead flies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrh4-5K9jwA

coral225 · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

read the whole saga by /u/bloodstains from the start to finish. it takes a while, but i seriously now keep my blinds closed at night now bc of that fucking story

armavque · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This, the picture at the end will be in your dreams.

Flaccidboi · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

How about I one up you http://i.imgur.com/Hwnpw.gif !

stengebt · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

New Year's Eve/Day I woke up in the bathroom of my hotel with all of the lights off, frantically trying to turn the door handle to get out. After falling asleep in the bed I had sleepwalked into the bathroom and then got hopelessly lost in there, so much so that I woke up.

GIRAFFE_IN_MY_RECTUM · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lavender Town song

donut771 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my best friends witnessed these 2 cars racing down the street, next to the park. It was pretty late at night though, so no kids or anything. One of the cars swerved and went on the curb and then hit a tree, then the car caught fire with the 2 people in it. The other car sped away, so my friend and the person he was with ran to try to help the people out of the car.

When they got there, they tried opening the door but it was stuck. They saw a girl in the passenger seat, not moving or making a sound. They assumed she died on impact. There was a guy driving, still alive. He was trying to scream but making this nasty gurgling sound, waving his burning arms around, and his eyeballs were also gone. By the time the cops arrived, it was too late to save him.

All they could recall from that night is the gurgling sound of the boy trying to escape the car and the smell/sound of the flesh burning.

stearnsy13 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For what its worth, my three year old daughter got up on the couch with me yesterday, put her arms around me, held her head down and pressed it against me and said, "Mom. I don't want you to die." She watches Nick Jr all day and we don't talk about "death" around her. Creeped me out a bit.

Daperate · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This?

DjnastyJizz25 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once my friend and I were tripping on 2c-b. pretty much acid, and we had an edible and some alcohol. He had some fat chick over cuz he was trying to bang her to scratch it off the bucket list. Anyway he wanted me to pretend to leave then just hop the fence and chill in the back. So I leave and drive down the street while seeing birds with red eyes fly everywhere. I go to the fence and hear rustling on the other side, I grab the top to hop it and here a tapping. So I tap and here a tap back and I see a long haired pale girl on all fours tapping on the other, so I screamed and ran in the house then watched Vince Vaughn's Wild West comedy tour

killhimalready · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was driving to work just as the sun was coming up on a major freeway in Minneapolis. I was humming along to music and sipping some coffee when I saw a person walking very slowly across the entire 5-lane highway. I was going 65 at the time, so she came up incredibly fast. I blew right by her, not having enough time or space to stop or swerve. She was about 4 feet from my passenger door.

I watched her from my rearview mirror. She laid down in traffic and got ran over by an SUV. I got to work and it was all over the news.

Sigh.

patefacio · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was out in Kananaskis, AB with a friend, and we were going to try shooting some star trail photos. The new moon and clear skies provided ideal conditions. We pulled up to the side of a lake and started walking around to find a suitable place to set up. That's when we heard a big sploosh sound from the water. It sounded completely unlike someone splashing around, and more like a massive rock being thrown in. We thought it was kinda weird, and called out, but didn't hear anything back.

Not thinking much of it, we continued walking for another 20 seconds or so before hearing the same noise again, but seemingly from a different place. That was when we decided to get the fuck out.

I try to be a rational person in my life, and I believe that you can find an explanation for just about anything. But I can't explain those strange splooshing noises. We tried to think of a possible cause, but got nothing. I've never been more creeped out in my life, except for the time my buddies and I found an abandoned house full of weapons, ammo, and what looked like bloodstains off the shore of British Columbia in the middle of absolutely nowhere. But that's a story for another time.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd just bought a bunch of camping gear for a cross country motorcycle trip and I wanted to test it all out before hitting the road, so I went on a camping trip alone.

My family has a cabin deep in Virginia, and from there I hiked to this place we call the Meadowgrounds. It's this gorgeous natural orchard just crawling with wildlife. There also happens to be a series of caves nearby where bear hibernate. It was early Spring and I was expecting them to still be in hibernation.

So anyway, there I am in my tiny one-man tent, trying to get some sleep. It's absolutely dark. No moon, no light pollution. I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. Suddenly I hear this loud crunch like something enormous is stomping around my tent and then

wiscondinavian · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I stumbled across a story that was linked to on Reddit.

Basically, it was a story of how to create and take care of a living sex doll. Not a prostitute. A living sex doll. Gouge out eyes, take out vocal cords, cut off arms and legs, feed it baby food.

It was quite disturbing.

Soapium · 0 points · Posted at 16:35:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's the scariest thing I've seen

Hootinger · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

used to work at a car museum that was an old dealership back in the teens and 20's. The mechanics said there were ghost but I figured they were messing with me. Here are two weird things.

I am upstairs in the office. A small dinner party is downstairs. I am the only employee there. Only way to get upstairs is the hallway right by the office. In the attic directly above me I hear footsteps going back and forth right above my location. Only way to get to the attic is through a door in the very office I am in. Again no one there but me, all the guests are downstairs.

Second weird thing. The museum had two buildings separated by about a 15 foot gated alleyway. When people rent the musuem for parties we unlock both buildings so they can tour the whole place. Well this one evening I was, again, the only employee working at the dinner party. I knew I was going to get out of there late anyway and I really didnt want to spend extra time cleaning up the second building. So I just left it locked and told the guests it wasnt open (yeah Im a jerk). Its about midnight when the part ends. I clean up a bit in the main building and then go to the other to shut off the lights and set the alarm. The next day was a sunday and I am open on sundays. So I get there at about noon and go to open up the second building. We have locked display cases with informational cards for every artifact. The cards were all turned around backwards. Just the cards. Nothing else was touched. I checked the alarm record and I was the last one out and the first one in. Somehow these cards located in a locked cabinet in a locked and alarmed room were all perfectly turned around.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My wife has night terrors. She will wake up screaming and crying. Or panicking, trying to get away from some unseen thing. She always says its a black thing on the ceiling. It took me a while to get used to, but now it doesn't bother me.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 12 or 13 I was in my bed trying to fall asleep and then all of the sudden, as if someone was right next to my ear, I heard someone whisper my name. No one was in my room. Needless to say my young self was freaked out.

A few days later I was in bed again and I heard someone whistling extremely loudly at the foot of my bed. I can remember the tune to this day. I ran upstairs and my brothers were asking why I was all shaken up and I couldn't even explain what happened to them without trembling.

I have maaaany more stories like this if you guys are interested.

enrodude · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was visiting a friend that moved to the US in Washington DC. Went sight seeing while he worked for the day and was near the Monument walking somewhere else when all of a sudden I saw a lady with her pants down squatting and wiping her ass.

This was mid afternoon in August on a Friday before Civic holiday so there were people walking the streets.

Camerandom · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cool story a history teacher @ a HS I went to talked about.

The Kimberly Story. Who knows if its true, always freaked me out.

http://davidfaux.com/Kimberly_Web_Site/evidence.html

302HO · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Found a weird hidden room in a mostly unused church hall when I was a kid. It was wallpapered differently (much older and yellowed) than the room it was "in" and the only contents were a light fixture with a string hanging from the ceiling, and a chair.

The only way you could access the room was through the back of a bottom cupboard, a "wall" of which concealed the room. Floor to ceiling cupboards and shelved and a counter. Had to open the cupboard, move the stuff inside, and push open the back.

Curious.

InternetTourGuide · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watched a guy off himself via subway train.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few buddies of mine are in this band called Fall City Fall. They are a local hardcore band from Calgary. They all lived in this one house that was over 100 years old. Some of the stories they would tell were unsettling... Especially since there were more than one witness.

The bassist and one of the vocalists were in their rooms. Both were in bed trying to get some sleep. All of a sudden loud banging comes from one of the walls in the bassists room where the vocalists room was. He told him to cut it out, thinking it was Nathan (the vocalist). Apparently Nathan heard the same noise and thought it was the bassist. They were really spooked from then on.

There are more stories of the house. They used to refer to this one part of the house 'The Room'. And never went In there because one of the roommates said she heard voices in there. It's a completely abandoned and boarded up part of the house.

They based their experience on their lyrics for their album 1629 (which was the house number) and refer to the house as the 'House of Sin'.

TheSmashPosterGuy · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The trailer for Portal 2 comes to mind immediately. The ends just makes me shake.

5ub1im3 · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Squidward's Suicide. Sounds silly, but it's a story of an intern who witnessed some creepy shit while working at nickelodean.

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Squidward%27s_Suicide

silkydecember · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went out to this lake with a friend one time after dark, and we were just sitting on the dock watching the water. We did this often. But then suddenly, we heard the distinct sound of a baby crying. We were the only ones out there. We were both struck with this incredible sense of dread, and we immediately ran to the car and got out of there.

The next day, I was talking to my Native American friend about the story, and she told me that there's this Native American folk spirit thing called a Stigini. It's basically an evil spirit that hangs out near bodies of water and imitates the sound of a baby crying to lure people in, then it kills them.

I don't know what it really was, but it was pretty creepy.

thascarecro · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

We were on the back of a "Gumby Truck" getting ready for a parade for our baseball team when i was little. A lady got on the truck before we started to get a picture of all of us. She sat on the tailgate while we bunched up behind the cab. Told us to say cheese and she flipped backwards off the truck. Broke her neck and the ambulance came. After that we had to go through the parade, smile and throw candy.

indoctrinatenot · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Tyler by the Toadies is the creepiest song I know of.

NiceFormBro · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

While on a business trip, I stayed in an apartment of a relative who's mother died in it. It still was furnished just as she'd left it. When I laid down, all I could hear was the sound of the radiator. Just as I was falling asleep, I heard and felt someone whisper loudly in my ear "what are you doing!?". The feeling of the breath really got me. I instinctively shot up in my bed but kept my eyes shut tight for the fear of someone actually being next to me. I immediately went in to a fetal position with the covers over my head, gripping my pillow like it was the only thing that could protect me. Eventually I drifted back to sleep. I'll never forget that as long as I live.

markko79 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Had a woman wake up while doing CPR on her. She talked to us. Stopped CPR and she'd "die" again. Start CPR and she'd wake up again.

justkiddin6 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So I was camping out near a lake in NC with my university gym group who were total strangers. The camp site was accessible only by a canoe and we were the only group there. We had tents pretty close by and went to sleep. At about 3 am or so I hear a loud scream. I was scared shitless, the thought of someone being murdered or a wild animal outside had me paralyzed. I lay in silence for the next 5 mins or so and went back to sleep. In the morning, I found out one of the guys had a habit of screaming in his sleep

Kayel41 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That goddess bunny video..

Fish2391 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I took my girlfriend in high school to see some movie at the Moorestown Mall in NJ. The theater was pretty empty; we were probably two of about 7 people in the whole place. We sat in the back so if the movie got boring we could fool around. Our fooling around was halted when a guy came in half way through the movie and decided to sit in our row. Out of the whole place, he sat just a few seats from where we were. I didn't pay it much mind at the time, I was just kind of pissed. When the movie was over, we decided to theater hop and see what was playing in the theater next to us. Just as the credits are coming on, the same guy shows up again. Sits in our row...again. Only this time, every couple of minutes, he was inching closer and closer to us. He literally would move one seat closer to us every time. He was about two seats away when I had had enough, and I grabbed my girlfriends hand and took her out of the theater. We went down the hall and we both had to pee extremely bad, so we went to the bathrooms. I get done pissing, wash my hands, and as I open the door, the fucking guy is coming in the door. I looked right through him and kept walking. A second later my girlfriend came out and I noted that we should get the fuck out of here. I don't think I've been to a movie there since.

TL;DR: Probably almost got butt raped or attacked at the Moorestown Mall.

SecretiveHitman · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just this weekend I was playing on my computer in my appartement, alone. All of a sudden this insanely loud knocking comes from the front door. I get up to investigate but as soon as I look through the peep hole everything stops. I walk out and ask the doorman down the hall if there was any construction or if anyone knocked on my door but he says no. Still have no idea what it was.

Wynter_born · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One morning when I was living in an apartment in the downtown area of a large city, I woke up from a restless sleep.

The first thing I noticed when I blearily looked around was an eerie reddish light coming through the closed blinds. It was unusually hot, and I was drenched in sweat.

There was also this intense humming and vibration in the air that started to penetrate the sleep fog. Everything was vibrating, the bed, the walls, the items on my desk - not a tremble like an earthquake, but extremely fast like a high voltage conduit or generator. The extremely loud humming noise only intensified this feeling.

In my semi-delirious state I knew that this was it - that the light, heat, and vibration were the precursor to a nuclear blast. I was waiting in my bed to die. I lay back down and waited for the end.

The end came when the giant power company cherry picker outside cut its engine and the vibration stopped. It was hot because the power had gone out. And apparently it was like 4AM and the sky was a deep red color that morning, shining right into my window.

MetaphorsBeWithYou · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stephen King was on Fresh Air on NPR yesterday and Terry Gross quoted a teaser line on the hardcover version of "Joyland", "Beyond the lights, there is only darkness."

That just creeped me out. I hadn''t thought of it like that.

Siniroth · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I've posted this before. One day I had gotten home from work and took a little longer to get to bed than I normally do. We have a combination deadbolt on the door instead of a lock, opens with key or right combo pressed. Right before I went to bed I heard half of the combination go in, then nothing, went to check it out thinking my sister forgot combination again, the bolt was half open, no one was outside, but I hadn't heard the motor running, and I was absolutely certain I bolted it all the way.

I took the batteries out before I went to sleep.

PrayForTheTroops · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This thread from WTF is the creepiest thing I've seen all year. It's not gross...it's creepy and it's scary:

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1f6c3x/my_bro_and_i_went_on_a_hike_found_a_creepy_sex/

amazingasian22 · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

probably ever single time that I leave my basement after I turn off my lights. I just sprint up the stairs after the lights are off.

MrBiscuitOGravy · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure if this counts but it was the most scared I have ever been in my life. When I was 11 I was sleeping over at my best friends house, I was on the bottom bunk in a sleeping bag, and totally sound asleep when I had the freakiest dream of my life. It's worth noting at this point that my friends Mother had died when he was 8, a few years before I met him, and he had recently shown me the cupboard where her ashes were kept which just happened to be outside his bedroom door.

So, back to the dream, I was in a church at a funeral for a woman I had never met before. The service was going on and I was looking around for somebody I knew but all I could see were adults I had never met before. At this point the priest said "Let us pray" and everyone, myself included, knelt down and bowed our heads. It was here that I felt my legs go completely numb and I woke up. Kneeling at the side of the bed, head bowed, hands clasped in prayer. I can't tell you how scared I was at this point, knelt facing the wall, completely terrified to even look behind me. I must have stayed like that for at least ten minutes before I worked up the courage to scramble back on the bed and bury my head into the pillows. Looking back I know I was just acting out my dream, I often woke myself up kicking walls etc, but still, that was a terrifying experience!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ITT: home alone stories

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here you go. Ben drowned, a scary creepypasta of majoras mask.

Zeptaz · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

For the League of Legends players out there: DARKNESS

MissJodles · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to suffer from sleep paralysis a lot when I was really young. I often had a reoccurring hallucination, probably starting when I was about eight, where I would look at my bedroom mirror and see a man standing in my doorway, but I could never move or look away. Another nightmare I once had involved looking at my reflection and seeing some sort of demonic version of myself. Creepy stuff.

^I'm ^terrified ^of ^looking ^at ^mirrors ⁱⁿ ^the ^dark, ^now...

Edit: Formatting is difficult.

FoxRoDah · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Would it be wrong to say /r/spacedicks ?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes that place is vile.

IIxSARGExII · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Normalpornfornormalpeople.com

Hatmadeofpoo · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Salad Fingers has always sufficiently creeped me out...

http://youtu.be/cuCw5k-Lph0

pumper911 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Late to the game, but when I was 11 I went to the hospital for a broken finger. My mother was at the counter, taking care of insurance / payment and I was just standing with her waiting to leave.

Behind me, I see a gurney with a young lady laying down on it. She appeared to be in her early 20's. What was odd about it, was that she was looked like she was just sleeping on it, and not a patient. She was in regular clothes and curled up in a fetal position with her eyes closed. I stared at her for about 2 minutes just because I found it to be unusual. Picture seeing someone in their street clothes, on a gurney, appearing to be sleeping, with no one around her.

I turn back around eventually to see what aws going on with my mom. I turn back to the gurney about 10 seconds later and the girl was gone. The gurney was there, in the same spot, but there was no girl there anymore.

I don't believe in ghosts or anything like that, but was super freaky.

squeegep · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Hey, are you that young guy at the bottleshop? Wanna fuck? I'll break your arm like I just broke my boyfriend's/husband's" (can't recall which).

Imagine that said in a rank 2 pack a day voice.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard my parents going at it once.

teto14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was 14 years old having a camping trip with some friends in Maine for four days. Since we were three and only had two tents I decided to sleep in one tent by myself. The first two nights were OK, but the events of the third one still give me chills. It was about midnight and I was almost falling asleep when I hear a bloodcurdling scream that sounded like someone with a very low voice dying. I shrugged it off and decided to fall asleep again. I woke up at about two in the morning to take a piss outside. While I was pissing I started to hear leaves rustling and started to panic. Then I saw something move in the distance and I froze. I was looking at a large human looking animal, with light brown hair standing about 7 feet tall, looking straight at me with pure black eyes reflected in the moonlight. I slowly walked back in to my tent, scared shitless, and went to sleep. The next morning I told my friends and was told I just had a bad dream, but I can still remember those eyes staring at me through the darkness.

Doomy22 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At night walking home from the bar with a friend when I noticed a girl running across the street in our direction. She seemed drunk, and I saw a car coming up the road. I threw out my hand in a "stop" motion and yelled - but it was too late. The girl was mangled by the car - it seemed to happen in slow motion. Her head bounced off the windshield and her body twisted over the top of the car before landing a sickening THUD after the car slammed on its brakes. Her twisted body laid there motionless about ten feet away from where I was standing. That image will be there forever. Horrible.

skyriot · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Had a knife pulled on me Memorial Day. Although I kept my posture and handled it well I still puked when I got home..

Serae · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In college I did a lab course in forensic anthropology, which also lead to a semester internship with the local morgue. I have a few creepy moments to speak of.

Not that it is any surprise to anyone, but corpses occasional moving, gasping, farting, burping groaning was pretty common. That was always something generally creepy. This one in particular.

There was a child/toddler who came in who was hit by a truck. This was a country area, which meant that the truck was barreling down a generally empty road at very high speeds. This kid was hit and literally dismembered into a half dozen pieces or so.

The other student I and I were observing him securing the body parts together once we figure out what went where. This was the first week so we weren't allowed to do anything hands on quite yet.

The torso was reasonable intact as well as about half of the head. He sewed them together and then lifted the parts a little as he was working around the neck and part of the cheek. Apparently there was some air left in the torso that gurgled through the kid's neck and a little through the mouth. It definitely sounded like a child. I remember getting a distinct shiver up my spine.

Other story: if you have a cat and you die...a few hours after your cat runs out of food, your cat probably is going to start eating you. I saw, over 3 months, perhaps 25 people whose cats started eating them. And they are going to start with your face. That's at least marginally creepy for me, and makes me glad I have a rabbit. It probably confirms some people's suspicions that their cat wants them dead.

TLDR: Coronor/professor stitched child's head back on to their torso. Excess air caused the child to groan through their mouth and neck. Sounded like a child and was creepy. Also, when you die the moment you cat runs out of food...your cat will start eating you face first.

I'm an archaeologist now and only work with bones these days. Halleluiah. Skeletons never gasp.

Dovakhiin_Girl · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my early teens I worked as a housekeeper in a hotel in a small mining town in Colorado. The hotel had been built in the 1800's, and was originally a hospital that doubled as an orphanage for the children who lost their parents to the mines.

I grew up being told that the place was haunted, and I believed it to a point, but it was mostly for amusement and storytelling.

My mom worked there throughout my childhood as a bartender, and I would often stay in the employee room across from the bar. As a child, I can't remember anything out of the ordinary happening aside from the occasional fire alarm going off at 2 or 3 in the morning. But once I got older, things got weirder. However, the one thing that stayed consistent was that I would NOT go up to the second or third floor after dark. I had tried on numerous occasions, but there was just this...feeling.

There was one instance a morning I was working where some guests were at the front desk complaining. I was on my way up to clean some rooms, but figured I'd hold up and listen to what they were saying. The couple was adamantly complaining to my supervisor that she needed to tell the other guests to keep their children in the rooms and keep them quiet, as they had heard children laughing and running up the hallways all hours of the night. The conversation got interesting when my supervisor sheepishly told them that they hadn't had any guests with children that night. That was when I decided to get on with my job and stop listening. Though later when I confronted my supervisor about this, she mentioned that it was a frequent complaint among guests.

There was only one big occurrence that happened that I couldn't explain, and may not have even been paranormal. But it still bothers me to this day: I had just gotten to work and was heading to the third floor to start, and another of my coworkers, Candace, was already up there cleaning. I walked towards the room she was working in to ask what room I should start cleaning, and I was hit with this smell...A smell left me gagging and gasping for fresh air. I've never smelled a dead body, but that was the first thing that came to mind when that stench hit my nose. I had half a mind to ask Candace to check under the bed for a carcass. She heard the commotion and walked out of the room and asked me what was wrong. I stared at her in disbelief and asked if she could smell that awful stench. She looked confused and then nervously asked if it was her, because she "hadn't bathed in a few days". I was standing close enough to her to know that she was not the culprit, but was still astonished that I was the only one noticing the GODDAMN SMELL! I proceeded to tell her that I was going to work on the second floor instead. A couple hours later the smell was gone. What bothered me most was the prospect of a dead body somewhere on that floor..

Here's some pictures of the hotel: Pics

Arbusto · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In my final year of law school, I lived in a studio about 2 blocks from the school and university that it was part of. It wasn't the greatest neighborhood, but I never thought it was that bad. I'd walked outside at night during the three years I'd been there without ever encountering any issues.

I had my windows open one night because it was nice out. About 2 a.m., I awake to yelling. "I want my shit. Gimme my shit. I WANT MY SHIT, FUCKER. GIVE IT TO ME!! IMA GONNA SKULLFUCK YOU IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME MY SHIT. I FUCKING WANT MY SHIT. GONNA SKULLFUCK YOU!"

It was right outside my window. I want to peak, but I figured I'd get shot or something. It was terrifying. I began to look at the neighborhood in a whole new light. I got out of there a few months later after finishing the bar.

StaleCanole · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well there goes my work for the day. These threads are amazing.

latitude51 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just yesterday evening, watching TV, I happened to glance down and there was a pool of blood surrounding my left foot on our Spanish tiled floor. Took my sandal off, blood all over the inner sole. I cleaned up my bloodied foot and there was no lesion and no blood flow. The cats licked up the blood and cleaned the floor for us. Hmmm.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every now and then I suffer from sleep paralysis. It's horrible. For those who have dealt with it, you know how it goes.

The two scenarios are usually like this.

• I'll wake up and everything looks as it should. My room is my room, my shit is where it should be. I'm awake - but... not. Something is weird. I'm having a nightmare - but, my room is too accurate to be a dream. Whatever is happening in my nightmare seems to be in my room. So, having a nightmare about ghosts? They're in your room. Best part? You can't fucking move. It's hard as hell to wake up and lasts what feels like forever.

• I'll be dreaming - doesn't matter what I'm doing, let's say talking to people, and then I start falling asleep. I'm falling asleep in my dream and can't wake up out of it. I'll go through weird phases of me passing out in my dreams. It's really scary and stressful. It might not even be sleep paralysis, but... it's something.

OC4815162342 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My girlfriend and I are heading back to our uni after going out on a dinner/movie date. We always pick up chocolate frosties from Wendy's right before we get on the public city bus to go 'home'. Tghis night was different. The bus station, usually packed with college kids our age on a friday night, was strangely sparse, and quiet. We get on the bus with the 2 other people at the stop and sit in the front, by the driver, on the seat that are parallel with the wheels. Across from us was the very old lady. We didn't pay much attention at first because we were preoccupied with our frosties and the movie (Cloud Atlas, amazing, maybe my favorite movie ever) She was quite plump, wore a trench coat and had a bowler type hat on. Every time either my girlfriend or I ate a spoonful of frosty she would get this very sexual grin on her face. After a few minutes we both took notice. me, being army reserves and very self defense oriented, took out my knife and gave it to my girlfriend, just incase anything happens (I was much stronger than this woman, Im 6'6" and 240lbs, but my girlfriend was not, so I'd rather her have the weapon) Our stop finally arrived after about 15 minutes of this continually escalating creepiness. We, my girlfriend and I, disembarked the bus and began speedily walking to my dorm. About 100 feet after getting off the bus we look back and notice the woman following us. My dorm was on the corner of one of the quads, so trying to evade this woman, I go into another dorm, and start making evasive actions; climbing different stairs, taking the tunnels between dorms, etc. We come out of a side door and end up right next to my dorm, we think we lost her. We quickly get ip stairs into my room and lock the door. I looked out of the window onto the road and I see her, on the bus again, riding away from the school. That was the last time we ever got frosities heading home again.

eivomlive · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

my husband (due to medical issues) sometimes wakes up in a fugue state, where he doesn't remember who he is, who I am, who our kids are, or where he is. It's very creepy for both him and me.

bumreaper · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was driving home from practice and I was driving through a forest preserve. (I always drive through it because it is so nice and never busy. There are a few lakes throughout the preserve and people are always fishing.) But one night me and my sister were going through it and saw something in the water. We saw break lights from a car sinking into the lake. Like just going deeper into the water. It was the creepiest thing I have seen. I was not sure if someone was killed and they pushed the car into the lake or something. There was no car accident either since there was a small opening then a barrier. To get the car between it would take some skills. So it was on purpose the car was there for some reason. We called 911 and was told someone called in already. But me and my sister just kept driving. Did not want to see if there was a killer in the woods still or something.

Living_with_Lazette · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A throwaway account...

Lazette lived, and died, somewhere around 1940 in a small town in Wisconsin. We learned of her after my father spoke to some of the old residents that lived and grew up in the neighborhood. She lived in the house alone, and was found dead after she didn't pick up her milk that was delivered from the previous week.

That is where the story begins. My parents bought the house in the early 70's. It was the biggest house that they could afford, and they had a growing family. There were four of us kids, and my parents worked hard to provide for the family the best that they could. On retrospect, I asked my parents why they didn't move out, and they stated "We never could afford to". I get ahead of myself.

The typical spooky house stuff happened. Footsteps upstairs when nobody else was home. Doors that open and closed by themselves at all times of the night. Lights that would turn on and off in front of you. The whole kit and caboodle. That wasn't the scary stuff, though.

Stuff moved around. Not a little, but allot. A vase with water and a rose from a boyfriend flew off the dresser and landed at my sister's feet. The top of your dresser would have things moved around, while you slept, or pretended to sleep. Bitterly cold spots in the middle of the room. The bed that would sag down next to you while you were "asleep" that tends to be about the size of a person's butt.

The worst we had it was when there were changes in the house, or "disturbances". You want to refinish a room? Prepare to have a hard time sleeping from all the noises that happen at 1 am. The house would.... feel wrong. The hairs on your neck would stand up, you would get an uneasy feeling, and you would want to leave asap. She did not appreciate "change".

We didn't see her more than once. When my sister was walking home from work, she looked up into her bedroom window and saw a woman that looked like our aunt standing and waving at her from near her bed. Her room seconded as a guest bedroom, but my sister wasn't aware of a visit. She walked up to the back door, and no lights were on. The door was locked. Her room light was off. There was no aunt, nor anyone home.

We sold the place and moved out when my parents decided to build a retirement house for themselves. I was the last sibling still living at the house. I felt like we lived together for 16 years, and she was part of the family.

The house has been owned and resold more times than I care to admit after we moved out. My father knew a realtor who refused to show the house after she did a floor layout and measurement. Apparently, she was in the house alone and measuring the square footage, looked up, and was staring at a stern looking old woman in an old dress staring right back at her. She left her paperwork and all of her items in the house and refused to go back in and get them.

One of the stories passed down from an old neighbor involved a newlywed couple. The wife, after living in the house for a month, told her husband it is either the house or her, she would not live there. He asked her parents to intervene on his behalf, and the wife made a bet with her parents. If they would spend three nights in the house by themselves, she would stay and they wouldn't hear another peep out of her about the house again. They left at 3 am on the first night. Packed the car, and left. The house was up for sale within a week.

I warned my wife, when we first met, that she would hear stories about Lazette. The topic always comes up when we are all together. She gave me a reassuring nod, and said "no problem, I believe you". I always wondered if she did, until I got a call from my father. He told us the old house was up for sale (again). Since he was a realtor, he could show us the house if we used my wife's maiden name. We agreed and walked through the old place. Everything was fine until we walked into, what we call the "yellow room". It was the most active. We stood there together looking around, and from behind us we all three felt someone walk up behind us. The carpet indented as though someone was standing there. We decided the tour was over.

I feel really bad for the next tenants. They have no idea what kind of trials they are going to go through if they decide to stick it out.

Thanks for hearing me ramble on, reddit.

sloppies · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a nightmare of this 2-3 foot tall figure that stalks me in my dreams every couple of years, each time I see it, it gets closer to me and shoots an arrow I manage to dodge and wake up. It wears a black robe, but has a white, faceless mask on. I would say it is female, but I don`t know. The dreams are never focused around it, I'll just be dreaming about something random and it will appear in the background somewhere watching me with it's blank face, and when I shout out to it, it lets loose the arrow. Scares the FUCK out of me, don't know what's going to happen when it gets close enough to actually hit me...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What the fuck...?

hyrulegangsta · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Sorry for the long post, Im new! On my first day of my new job as a mall cop during the graveyard shift, the other guard who I'll be working with introduce me to the other employees at the mall. When I met the valet guy he told my coworker have you told him about the ghost stories? my coworker said yeah we have ghosts and I immediately cut him off and told him I didn't believe in that stuff. Bout a month goes by and I'm driving by myself in the security suv, while my partner was inside the lobby taking a nap. We had just gotten a new GMC truck so I was test driving it on the roof parking structure which is surrounded by a.c units behind gates. I stopped the car and reved it to see how the truck sounds when I see this lady with long black hair come running out of the a.c..units through the gate they're behind of and run in front of the truck, her legs weren't bending while she ran and she was barely touching the floor she ran back inside without turning her body it was like 2d how Mario turns around in super Mario. I was shocked and I attempted to recreate the scene. I drive up to the valet guy who was the only person still in the mall besides me and my partner and asked him " OK what are the ghost stories here?". He went through a list and finally said "oh and there's a lady on the roof parking lot with a white gown and long curly black hair" exactly what I saw . I know believe in ghosts

OneWayOfLife · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Welcome to Reddit! :D

HeRodeaBlazingSaddle · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one happened to my sister. She was home from college for winter break and working at a Hallmark store in the next town over. She was working the late shift one night and so closed up and walked out to her car. As she started to drive out of the parking lot, she glanced in the rear view just as a person sat up in the back seat. She screamed, slammed the car into park and jumped out of the car screaming "GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!". Out of the back seat climbed this grungy homeless woman who muttered something about how she thought the car was abandoned. My sister rode back home that night with the windows down despite the fact that it was freezing (apparently the woman left a terrible BO/Cigarettes smell) and just sobbed the whole way home. She was a mess when she got home and so freaked out that my dad had to drive her to work for the next week. After that story, I couldn't stop checking my backseat. So freaky...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once worked with a guy at a grocery store who was kinda creepy. The rumor was that he and another guy raped a mentally handicapped girl a year or two ago but somehow didn't get convicted.

Anyway, I was running the U-Scan machines, and a very hot girl walks by. He comes up beside me as she's walking away and in a very creepy, serious tone he says to me: "Yeahh... She'd be worth it."

abryson7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That mouse game where you have to put your cursor through a very tight maze and you concentrate extremely hard at the end only to fail and have a screaming witch bolt onto screen. Pretty sure I fell for that. And it was scary

jabberwonk · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just before Christmas in 2006 I saw the last 50 feet or so of a 400+ foot suicide jump onto the sidewalk. The sound of the body hitting and echoing down 12th Street (Philadelphia) is something I'll never forget. Also the shoes - both shoes flew about 25' in opposite directions.

Turns out he was a 20-something year old former state wrestling champion who suffered from severe depression. The state had cut off his funding for psychiatric care earlier in the year. I went to the top of the Lowes hotel, busted out a window and jumped (nearly missing a pedestrian with a baby carriage).

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened when I was about 9 and my sister was 7. We both had phones at this stage and one night my sister stumbles into my room about 2 am in the morning and said "he wants to talk to you". So she handed me the phone and this breathing came down the phone with like whines but i was like "who's this?!" And then my mum came in and started screaming down the phone at him shouting "Pervert." The next day we rang the phone company to get the number blocked but we haven't had any calls since. Also, around the same time my sister started her sleep walking phase and liked to come into our rooms at night. In the middle of the night she came in whispered my name at which point i woke up to find her standing at the bottom of my bed only seeing her shadow. She then screamed "BOO!" And proceeded to fall down onto the floor. I have never been so terrified in my life..

insomniax20 · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a true story that happenned a few year ago on New Years Eve.

We'd been out and partied and ended up at my friends house. He'd been showing off this remote controlled car that he'd received for christmas and had set the remote down for a few minutes when the car started driving about the room on its own.

We thought this was freaky at first then settled into the fact that it was probably a bad contact or stray radio waves or something of the sort, but he laughed and said that apparently there was someone killed in the house when it was first built and that his mom had seen things that she couldn't explain. Again, being drunk, we laughed and carried on.

Now this is where I got freaked out.

He has a corner sofa in his hiving room with cusions spread evenly out along the length of it and I had decided to take four of them to make arm rests for myself. My mate got a call from another friend and they took off in his car to meet him (This guy's sober btw) and I decided to watch whatever it was on TV.

About 15 mins later I heard a noise in the hall and went out to have a look but nothing was there. When I came back in, the cushions I had arranged into armrests were all neatly back aligned round the sofa the way they were when I first got there.

I'm such a pussy, I walked out of the house and waited for them to get back before I went into the house again.

Gyarados1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/othwh/gurgles_bugman/

Scared the muda shit out of me

insidethetardis · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why would you do this to me?! WHY?!

mangletron · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest thing I've ever seen was while mopping up after a forest fire. IT was in the early morning and mist was clinging to the ground and there was smoke in the air. We were moving west putting out spot fires and digging out smouldering roots when we came across an old aboriginal graveyard that had been partially spared by the fire. My parter picked up one of the crosses and put it on his back to do a Jesus impression. I told him to put it down, which he eventually did, and as we walked past, all but one of the remaining upright crosses burst into flames.

Definitely creepy.

leach_im · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some time ago there was a lunar eclipse, so my friend texts me to go outside to see it. I live in a apartment complex facing the street so when I go outside I look at the moon and then I look to my left and I see a big white furry thing that was at least 8-10 feet, at the bus stop. It was weird because it was like 2 am and there's no busses at that time, no cars, no anything. At first I thought it was a bum but it didn't look like it when I took a closer look. It moved very slowly but it stayed right in front of the bus stop. I kept looking at it trying to figure out what it was but I just couldn't figure it out. I was hesitant to go downstairs to look at it because I was kinda creeped out. So I went inside to get my camera and when I went back outside it disappeared...

Billpayment · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Where do you live?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few years back a friend and i were driving around in the country near Salem Michigan late at night. The road was dark no lights and there was a heavy canopy of trees blocking out any moon light. I saw above us what appeared to be a ton of shoes hanging from a tree. So I asked my friend if he had seen the same, he did, so we turn around, stop the car and get out to check it out. There was at least 500 pairs of shoes dangling from the tree blowing in the wind. All sorts, there were some shoes that appeared from the 1920's even. And an old sign that read shoes .50 cents. Very eerie and creepy we looked and got the fuck out. So later on I read up on this tree and legend has it that a serial killer used to abduct children murder them and throw their shoes in the tree. And the tree has been since cut down.

naturallyfrozen · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL stay away from everything. Even your own home.

Runfatman · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I'll just read these for a hour... (5 hours later) Welp Guess it's time for bed... If I could sleep now.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was maybe 10-12 I can't remember and I had the house to myself for a few days so being a kid I stayed up to play video games every night. I hadn't gotten any sleep for over 36 hours for sure, possibly even more, and while playing i decided to turn around for some reason and saw this naked old woman zombie thing. I stared at it for maybe 2 seconds and looked back to the tv for minutes, when I looked back it was gone. I've chalked it up to the lack of sleep but nithing has ever come close to being that scary in my life.

insomniax20 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Another time, it was Boxing Day (The day after Christmas for those who don't know) and my mom, dad and myself were sitting in the living room watching TV.

This being Christmas, we had a string pinned against the wall with christmas cards we'd received hanging from it and at around 9.30 that night, the cards fell from the wall, throwing them about our floor.

About a half hour later, we received a call from the nursing home my Grandmother was staying in had died at 9.30.

It was probably nothing of course but it still freaks me out, thinking about it 20 years later.

Nyemenya · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I sleep facing the wall. One night I feel my daughter (about 6 at the time) climb into bed as she sometimes does. I turn halfway and see her head on the pillow. I turn back around and tell her goodnight. When she fails to respond i try to pat her back and i cant find her. I turn all the way over and no one is there. I jump up and go into the rest of the house to see where she is and she is peacefully sleeping in her bed. This all happened within the span of 2 minutes from the time I felt her get in the bed.

InYourUterus · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Ted the caver story. At one point I started crying because I was so freaked out

fistymcbuttpuncher · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

That comic of the mountainside that has people shaped holes in it and people climb into them only to be trapped and stretched as they die.

Fucking creepy.

This one: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1f9i14/what_is_the_scariestcreepiest_thing_you_have/ca83rv6

Darksing · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue#

To this day, I can't bring myself to finish watching this. Best read on a computer.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was possibly the scariest thing I've ever seen...

t_m · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The music from the movie Sinister when the family gets burned alive in the garage. Sweet mother of god. Gets me every time.

AIbase · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Simply that we, you (especially) and I, every last one of us, 100% of redditors and 4chan and everyone ... will die.

splendy · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple years ago during an assembly I got bored and started leaning back in my chair looking around. While I was looking around I saw a black figure outside the window walk right into the entrance door with out the door opening. Never saw it again. :(

Vocabularri · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was thirteen and home alone. Now, I think you should know that I live in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nothing but trees. The closest neighbor is at least half a mile away. I fell asleep on my bed while watching a movie. I woke up and the house was dark. I walked into the kitchen and looked at the clock on the microwave. The numbers glowed 7:48. This isn't really significant, but sometimes you just remember the weirdest shit when things scare you. I flipped on the kitchen light and looked up to see the back door wide open. That in itself was terrifying to wake up to, but there also happened to be a black cat just rubbing against shit and purring. We didn't have a cat. Immediately kicked the cat out the door, closed it, and called my grandpa who was the local sheriff. He came over and searched the house but found no one and no evidence of anyone having forced entry. Doors often slam shut on their own in this house, but that was the only time I ever found a door had opened on its own. And that cat, man.

Billpayment · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I've seen a 'shadow' in my living room, like you hear people talk about on the ghost hunting shows. I used to wonder what they meant, but no longer do.

It was during the day and I looked from my kitchen through my dining room into the living room and saw a shadow, totally disconnected from anything that should be casting it, seemingly 'standing' at odd relation to every other shadow in the room. It was extremely solid and moved across my field of view and was gone.

We've had some minor sounds and such around that house that lead to thinking that we probably have some activity, but that was the first (and thankfully, so far only time) that I've ever seen such a thing in my life.

It wasn't so incredibly frightening as the initial impression is 'What the hell?', then it's gone before it can be terrifying. I try to think of such things as just people anyway, which makes it less (but still) creepy.

keylimesoda · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/fearme

therealodayaka · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

While I was still in the hospital after having my son, I was sitting reading or something when I heard an odd gagging sound coming from my son's bassinet. I look over and see he is struggling to breathe and I immediately slam on the nurse call button while my husband picks up our son and starts trying to see if anything is in his mouth.

It felt like forever until the nurse got there and he still wasn't breathing and making struggling faces. The nurse came in and very calmly took the bulb syringe in his bassinet and cleared his mouth and nose with it quick as you please and he started to cry.

Apparently he still had some fluid or mucous in his nose from being born and had aspirated it. The nurse calmly explained that it happens sometimes. Meanwhile it was the most terrifying 2 minutes I had ever experienced.

DKmann · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pretty much my same story - we were in post partum and had friends visiting and the baby turned blue. Pretty much died right there in front of us for a second or two. Needless to say I stared at that baby for what seem three days straight without sleep. She's now almost three and I check on her all the time. My boy is only eight weeks and I'm no better - always checking.

therealodayaka · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes, I cannot sleep at night unless I go in and check to make sure they are both still breathing. My son is four now and my daughter is six.

I do remember him turning blue while he struggled to breathe, that was the horrible part. I remember after the nurse cleared his airway I was dumbstruck like... "Why didn't I think to use that?" I'm normally very collected under emergencies, but I just remember feeling so helpless...

fleetfonzies · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple times while watching the evening news there was a bloodcurdling scream somewhere in the background of the broadcast. None of the anchors seemed to hear it and I only know of one other person who has experienced this. Google doesn't turn up anything relevant. I'm not so much scared by it as incredibly bewildered, though.

PooFactor · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not the scariest thing I've ever seen - but I think most Sydney redditors will agree with me that waking up to this was quite unnerving... http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/sydney-turns-red-dust-storm-blankets-city-20090923-g0so.html

BoozeoisPig · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A Serbian Film, Uncut.

asforus · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a door slam on me while I watched it in the mirror brushing my teeth. This was at an old haunted hotel in new Hampshire.

keylimesoda · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/45thworldproblems

MattPH1218 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

taking_a_deuce · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This. Wat?!

Owen-Wilsons-Nose · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend was once driving home alone through a country lane at night when he noticed a pile of boxes and bits of burned furniture blocking the road. He slowed down, confused, and suddenly eight or nine men jumped out from the woods either side and tried to break into his car, wielding bats and knives. He reversed as quickly as he could up the narrow lane, and managed to get away as they attacked the car from behind. Terrifying.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest thing I've ever seen or heard would probably be an encounter I had with an old coworker. He had a fetish for Asian women that was full on psychotic. That isn't hyperbole, either - he found out I had a friend who was an Asian girl, found out her name, address, the names of her family, where she worked and went to college and "casually" brought that information up in his first conversation with her. None of her friends know how he got this information.

There are two things he said that rank as the creepiest. I don't really remember the context, but one day at work, he grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me while yelling "ASIAN WOMEN ARE THE BEST THINGS EVER CREATED!" Another time, commenting on a girl he knew, he told her "If I can't have you, nobody can."

He violated a restraining order and on more than one occasion threatened to castrate himself.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure if this is what you were looking for but here goes:

I was standing on the platform as a my train to Boston was pulling in. I noticed to my right, about a car length away, an old blind woman and her seeing eye dog waiting as well. I noticed that the dog was unusually small, and shaped like a Corgi, just a little bigger. And I noticed that the dog was just barely longer than the length of the gap between the train and the edge of the platform... I realize that I'm the only one who's noticed this lady at all. But I figure, this is the kind of thing seeing eye dogs are for. She's frail and the dog will refuse if it can't make it. Right? Nothing to worry about... The lady feels around for the open train door with her cane and yanks the dog forward who stumbles and falls down the gap! BUT! By this time I had run up right behind her and lunged landing belly first on the platform to grab the dog's vest as he was plummeting. I literally just reached down the darkness of the gab and grabbed and somehow got the falling pooch. I pull this little thing up, the woman is screaming when someone tells her what happened she said, "Thank you so much! This dog means everything to me!" And I just said you're welcome and disappeared into the train and found a seat as quick as possible. I could hear a guy from Amtrak getting reamed out in the background. I never tell the story because I always imagine if I had been a step too late...

Spartan11752 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to have these nightmares (Sleep Paralysis i think) when I were younger, where I would be sleeping then all of a sudden I would feel hands around my throat and it would feel like I was getting choked, but the thing is I couldnt remove the "hands" in any way, I would wail around with my arms, and where the fore-arm would be there was nothing, absolutely nothing. Gladly it has stopped in recent days, but i always fear that it will come back...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The sound a possum makes. Heard it whilst camping for the first time, had no fucking clue what it was.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Toby is the Scranton Strangler. Gave me chills.

Spacedoubt · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My girlfriend and I recently started renting a house. It's very nice, but very old. It seems to be a good arrangement right now, considering were paying about as much as we'd be paying to rent an appartment.

There is just something "off" about this place though. I felt it from the day we first moved in. I didn't say anything to gf until recently. She said she feels something too. Like some other people, I feel like I have seen shadows but just chalk it up to tired eyes or something.

I don't know why though but late at night....I just can't shake the feeling that someone is behind me, watching me. We have 4 cats at home too. They don't freak out or hiss or anything, but I always catch them staring at "nothing." All of them, just sitting beside eachother, gawking at the very doorway that gives me the heeby jeebies.

El_Piso_Mojado · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just last week I found a lady lying in the median out front of the fbi building. I could see she was still breathing so I pulled up to check if she was ok or passed out from hear or something. I jump out next to her to find a gun at her feet and gun shot wound to the side of her head. She was alive but unresponsive, taking small breaths. I'll never forget the look on her face. Could barely keep it together as I called 911. Turns out it was suicide and she died the next day. Really shocked me and I will never forget. If you don't believe me I'll provide a link to an article later

TheProphecyIsNigh · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was very young, I had a hernia (It happened at Disneyland!), but that wasn't the scary part. They overdosed me dramatically on the knockout gas and I had to stay in the hospital for another week. During that week, I was constantly throwing up and would lose/gain consciousness.

The hallucinations I saw in that hospital room during that week haunt me to this day. I can't even accurately describe most of it. Basically, black masses and shapes everywhere mixed with anger in the air all trying to get to me.

DrWobstaCwaw · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was staying in downtown Pittsburgh last March for a work conference and had a room to myself. I was on the 12th floor, which was the first floor of the upper part of the hotel, above the conference rooms and offices and such, so my window was level with the roof for this part. Being 21, I decided to undo the safety lock and go out onto the roof and take pictures.

Now flash forward to the next morning.

I get up at ~7am to shower. The bathroom doesn't have a fan so I leave the door open to the room, no big deal. It's not a big room so I steam up the windows and when I get out and walk into the room, there is a full handprint in the middle of the big center window.

No other marks on the window. I immediately think it's from me the night before. Normally I don't touch the glass parts of things, windows, doors, etc., but I still just assume it was mine. I get dressed and packed, taking about 5-10 minutes all while this handprint still looks fresh, not fading at all.

So I'm ready leave, and I decided I'll put my hand next to it to compare sizes and put my mind at ease that it's mine. My hand is significantly larger.

I nope'd out as soon as I took a picture of both handprints.

Edit: Formatting.

Edit 2: Here's the picture http://imgur.com/o8Zy70y
My handprint is the left one, which was done no more than one minute before the picture was taken. This was ~10-15 minutes after I originally got out of the shower.

In_the_cross_hair · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Post pic?

DrWobstaCwaw · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Got it.

beekee · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had my 4yr old niece over for the weekend & one morning, she points to the water sprinkler above my bed & tells me that there was a "black thing" up there that spoke to her the night before. I asked her what it said & she told me she didn't know b/c it spoke quietly & then she tells me that it laid next to me while I was asleep. I was just a teeny bit freaked out, but then the night after she said that, I woke up from my sleep b/c I felt something getting into bed w/ me. I turned to look but of course there was nothing there. :(

p.s. why are kids kind of creepy sometimes?

dreary_leary · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not too long ago, a few friends and I decided to have a little adventure out at a local "haunted" spot called third bridge. Supposedly there was a Indian village massacre in the fields and those who sit on the bridge will hear drums and see a ghostly man on a horse. After a long drive, we reached the dirt road on which the bridge is located. The road was long and eerie; no street lights, no houses, just us and the unknown feeling of the surrounding fields. Finally arriving at the bridge, we hesitantly stepped out approaching the bridge. At first, not too much happened, but we drove too long to turn back. My friend and I being the thrill seekers of the group went off to explore the fields. We aimlessly wandered until we ended up in a perfect circle of trees filled with an odd pattern of stones. We sat waiting for something when we heard a baby cry. A very distinct, distressed cry. We turned around to be greeted by a tall shadowy figure standing off in the distance. I felt as if time stopped, until the figure began dashing towards us. Terrified, we ran as fast as we could, the figure swiftly pursuing us. Finally reaching the bridge, we looked back to see nothing but twisted cottonwood trees and our own dust hanging in the air. Stopping to catch our breath, we peered off in the distance, expecting to see our ghostly stalker. Instead, we saw two people dressed in black robes with hoods saunter out from the bushes and go under the bridge. Realizing it was almost dead time and the bridge was known for some cultish action, we knew it was time to leave for we weren't in the mood to be sacrifices. Needless to say, we didn't sleep that night.

got86ed · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This happened last weekend while in bed asleep next to my dog and wife, in that order.

Normally a light sleeper, I tend to wake up every few hours to look around and promptly fall back asleep but this night was different. Very different.

Now sound asleep away in dream land when all of a sudden something completely innate told me to get out of bed, emergency! Emergency! I was out from under the covers and flat footed on our cold wooden floors faster than I have moved in years. As the adrenaline poured over my body, I instantly focused on an open window directly across from the bed and behind my wife. I was in fight or flight mode and flight was never an option, I had a Pomeranian to protect.

Face-to-face with what had put the five-alarm on my spidey-senses, (this is giving me goosebumps even as I write this) a vision of a phantasm flowing from the open window with stretched open arms draped in a heavy white robe and a face that had been long melted away by the hottest of flames Hell could muster. I was in the midst of a demon from the underworld and if for only a moment, my own world ceased to exist.

Poised to defend myself but my body was frozen, unable to comprehend what I was seeing with my own eyes. Impossible. This was not happening. The buzzing in my ears quiets only for a moment and just long enough to hear my wife calling out to me. Whats wrong? What is it? She only sees a half naked man staring coldly into the nights sky, but if she could only see what I saw that night, it would be a completely different ending.

As soon as the words left her mouth, the vision was gone and left me stumbling for words. What was it I just saw? Why am I so worked up? Still standing, near motionless I tell her, " I saw a ghost." My wife watches all of those Ghost Stories, encounters, hauntings shows that I have dismissed as crap from day one but this does not help my position much. I just experienced one of the most horrifying 1.5 minutes of my life with no evidence of it ever happening. From what my wife tells me, I then promptly laid back in bed and fell back asleep leaving her all alone in the dark with a mind full of ghosts. She did not sleep at all that night and never left a part of her body open to the nights air. She knew I was visited by something evil.

Fast forward to the next night. After an entire day of reasoning out my actions we came to the conclusion that I was just dreaming and awoke just as this entity was about to grab me, hence why I believed I saw it in real life. Justifiable. But this is where it gets weird.

As we both lay down to sleep with dog in tow, our little black Pom begins to pace the bed. She never does this. Without anything provoking her she then scampers behind our pillows shaking like a leaf looking at the same window I saw the Ghost in. Convinced our dog can sense things we humans cannot, our only assumption is that we were visited again. We did not get any sleep that night but never saw or heard the melted face ghost again. Thank goodness, that shit was scary.

trublwithnorml · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well, I had a coworker who, if the subject of incest came up in conversation, when we were discussing the day's news during a break, would say, "If she's old enough to pee, she's old enough for me!", and laugh. That was incredibly creepy, and he said it more than once. I was glad I knew his wife, who would have castrated him in a heartbeat if he ever tried anything like that.

peterjswift · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This will likely get buried, but many years ago I watched "Arlington Road" late at night with some friends in town. At the time, I lived in the middle of nowhere. The movie is great (Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins...) and I really enjoyed it except for the opening scene which is a child walking along a road with blood dripping from his hands. The opening would make you think the movie is going to be straight horror (but it is more "psychological thriller), and I'm not a fan of horror. At the end of the movie, you might actually begin to question more about the opening scene which makes it a little more frightening.

Anyhow, the opening scene was pretty rough. After the movie, I drove home in silence...thinking about the opening scene of that movie. It is about 2 AM and I live miles from anything in the country. I get about a mile and a half from my house, and there's a guy walking along the road at 2AM. No cars in sight, no houses nearby, on a road that NEVER sees pedestrians.

I floored it, got home, locked all the doors and turned on all the lights. Still no idea why this guy was out there....and it probably would have freaked me out any night...but it was especially bad after watching that movie.

bitz4444 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I refuse to post it, but the factory scene in Cloud Atlas. It was without a doubt the most disgusting thing I have ever scene.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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bitz4444 · 0 points · Posted at 16:58:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I won't spoil the movie for you because it is a good movie. Just have a strong stomach and brace yourself going in.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Couldn't get through the movie in its entirety.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Seven years ago I was driving through Kentucky and stopped at a typical highway truckstop motel for the night. It was an ordinary looking room, with relatively new furniture, and no causes for alarm. I showered before going to bed and as I'm standing, soaping up and contemplating life, I look up to see the word 'kill' deeply carved into the ceiling hundreds of times. I was awake most of the night wondering if someone got murdered or killed themselves in that tub.

GeekIsAWayOfLife · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sort of kind of late but this is the scariest thing I've ever heard. It didnt help that I have hallucinations at night. http://youtu.be/u163wC6mP2A

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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bitchbecraycray · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At my grandmas house (which I have seen/heard a lot of creepy stuff in) I was going to throw something away. I had to open the door to the basement and lean in to get to the trash can. Out of the corner of my eye I saw what looked like a woman with brown hair wearing a red dress. I got out of there pretty fast but figured it was just my imagination so I didn't tell anyone. A few months later I heard somebody else describe the exact same woman, and since I never told anyone I was pretty freaked out! So many weird things have happened in that house, I refuse to ever be alone there and I will NEVER go into that basement.

DavidlikesPeace · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

right next to this post on Reddit

TIL A man who lied about passing his second year of university, pretended to continue his study, crafting an elaborate lie until everyone he knew thought he was a medical doctor. No one found out for 18 years, until he killed his entire family to avoid being revealed.

personally, that creeped me out

hekickedmydog · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That smiling man story is terrifying!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Most of the shit on r/letsnotmeet is pretty good if you like that stuff. some of the stories on there are pretty fucking creepy

diddywc · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I think I am allergic to your semen."

Brofessor101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My girlfriend and I slept in the basement one night. We were watching a movie on my LCD monitor with one of our big fat glass tv sitting behind it (the one where you can see your reflection in it). When all of a sudden she looked up at the tv and did a full 360 to look at a corner of the room. All of a sudden I had chills everywhere behind my back. Goosebumps all over... my hair was literally trying to escape (I'm getting some chills while I type this). Anyway she was locked in this empty stare like she had just seen a ghost. Her face pale as ever just creep me the hell out. The worst part she was like that for what felt like a full two minutes. I quickly got her up, grabbed our blankets and pillows and made a dash for the stairs but then she just kept looking at the corner saying she sees the little girl in her dream (I'll explain this later). When got up to my room and I realized I left my HDMI cord down there lmao. So we both went down there and she sat on the stairs... I ran down and got the cord... my girlfriend had one of those dumb looks actor do during scary movies where they just heard something creepy and want to do investigate. She blocked my path and at the same time when she looked right behind me I got an ice cold chill behind my back which creep me the hell out. I picked her ass up and ran for the hills.

The little girl in the dream: My girlfriend (I'll call her Stacy) has said this girl has been in her dreams a few times sleeping over at my place. Stacy said in her dream the little girl came and made a welcoming gesture to come upstairs and play... another time was that Stacy and I were making out and she came out of nowhere and started to choke me. The last one creeps me out the most. The walls in my house originally was some sort of yellow- vanilla color. Stacy had a dream where the girl was in my room all decorated out for a little girl of her age (the same colored walls) ... Stacy was braiding her hair when the girl asked, "How old are you?" "19" "How is living to 19? I never got to get to that age" and that was so creepy I had to nervously laugh it off.

But yea... that was creepy to me. Sorry for the lack of structure and organization haha.

TL;DR Little girl in basement that only my girlfriend can see

crack-a-lacking · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_(unidentified_sound)

There are other creepy sounds of the deep that are unexplained but this one creeps me the most.

psiborg1812 · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have two.

One was when i was a little kid and had bad pneumonia. I was on some strong antibiotics and they made me hallucinate. I was lying on the couch thinking the Christmas tree was talking to me. It was sayingthat when i fell asleep it would eat me and spitout my bones and shit.

The second i find a bit odder. Growing up i had stuffed toy mouse named ralph. I could describhim in great detail, from his red bowtie to his frayed tail. He was a favorite toy of mine, and i kept him around all through high schoo on a bookshelf. Fast forward to me visiting home from college, i notice he's not on the shelf. I ask my mom about it and she tells me she doesn't remember me having a stuffed toy mouse at all, ever. My dad and brother also don't remember ralph. Weirds me out to this day.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at the Love Parade in Berlin, back in 2000 I think, and I was getting the S-Bahn (metro that runs above the streets) into the city centre to meet some friends. I was seated at the back of the carriage and the top window was open, I heard some banging and all of a sudden I was sprayed with some red liquid with bits of white stuff in it. I was trying to figure out what it was when the driver made an announcement in German, I understood enough to know that he was saying everybody had to get off at the next stop. When I got off I saw that the side of the train was covered in this red stuff and I realised it was blood! I later met up with my friends and it turns out one of them was in the carriage in front of me and saw what happened. Some dude, very out of his head on something, was S-Bahn surfing (forcing the doors open and hanging out) but on the wrong side of the train, another train passed going the other way and he never had a chance to get out of the way.

The whole incident wasn't particularly scary or creepy, except for that moment when I get off the train and realised I was covered in what was up until a few minutes ago a living, breathing person.

lavastoviglie · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I occasionally have problems with sleep paralysis, which is sometimes accompanied by hallucinations. Luckily, I've never experienced the visual hallucinations, which are the most common, but I do experience audio hallucinations. I'll hear people walking around the house and going in all the rooms, and sometimes I'll hear things getting knocked over. It's terrifying.

Hans109 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

threw a rock at a giant hairy spider on its web. Spider fell down and came running towards me.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NOPE.

stormtide311 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sleeping one night in my farm house alone. My farm house is from the 1900's roughly. I was in a deep sleep at the time when I was woken up by a dog barking. Now my property is out in the middle of no where, the nearest neighbor is 10 miles away type of alone.

Anyways this dog is barking like crazy. I awoke, got out of bed shaking because omg hell hound/dream has come true finally. I grabbed a shot gun I had in my closet and went to the front porch.

This dog was a border colley that was stuck on my sun porch between my closed front door and wide open porch door. I of course braved it and freed the dog.

I couldn't sleep the rest of the night.

Come to find out the upstairs apartment of the farm house was rented out a few weeks before my visit. I wasn't told of anyone up stairs and this was my way of meeting the new neighbor.

Turns out the neighbor upstairs was a cool hippie type and we got along great. It made it easier for me to adjust to the creepy farm house that summer because I was alone in it for about three months.

Daperate · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest:

I grew up my whole life overseas in Chile. One Friday night (this was during my junior year of high school) I'd gone to bed at around 2:30am after a night of light drinking/partying. At around 3:30 my world exploded.

I awoke, more confused than I'd ever been, to the most incredibly loud, indistinguishable cacophony of noise. More car alarms than I could hope to count went off all at once. I was so terrified/a bit drunk that I just gripped my blankets hard and laid frozen in my bed. Essentially all sources of light had gone out and I could see the moonlight steaming through my window, which sounded like it was about to shatter.

Still confused, I started to hear something over the sounds of alarms/breaking glass. I could hear my Mother, screaming. She was yelling my name, the way only a person terrified for someones life would yell. My window exploded, and all the sounds I'd been hearing suddenly got much louder, including my mother screaming.

I still had absolutely no idea what was going on. I thought the world was ending. Maybe a nuke. I really had no fucking clear thoughts other and how incredibly afraid I was. I realized my mom was outside in the back yard, and I got out of my bed, and moved towards the window (I cut my feet at this point on the glass, but didn't really realize at the time). I tried to gather myself to yell back, to try and figure out what was going on. All I could muster was a, "MOM?!".

She was screaming back but I was having trouble hearing her. I'm embarrassed it took me this long, but this is about when I finally realized what was going on. Living in Chile my whole life I'd been in my fair share of tremors, but this was a full blown fucking mind shattering earthquake.

I turned to run out of my room (which was on the second floor) and essentially sprinted out, to my stairs and eventually out the front door. I stumbled many times, unable to keep my balance, running into stuff, etc. Basically anything and everything I owned was falling over/breaking all around me.

I got to where my Mom and Sister were outside, in the center of our yard away from anything that could fall on us; you know, where one SHOULD be during a fucking massive earthquake. My Mom just grabbed me and my sister and hugged us both close.

The earthquake lasted about a minute and a half in total, and over a minute of that was full blown 8.8 magnitude shaking (closer to 8.6 where I was). Laying in my bed at the begining of all that, I have never in my been that terrified. It's hard to explain what it's like when everything around you is suddenly alive with movement and making that much noise.

The rest of the night consisted of aftershocks ever 1-2 hours that shook me awake with a renewed sense of panic. One of the aftershocks was over a 7.0 (as in larger than the earthquake in Haiti). A few of them were over a 6.0. Needless to say I didn't really sleep that night.

So yea, not supernatural or anything, but super fucking scaring haha.

lolfacedog100 · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow... took me way too long to figure out what the hell was going on. I'd be fucking terrified.

zagazaga · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in an apartment building. One day I woke up to a loud metal bang. My apartment is right by the stairs and I thought something was collapsing. I went to my living room, my family there, we were wondering what had happened, the fire alarm started ringing. I open the door only to find thick black smoke on the ceiling of the really long hallway and this fucked up burnt smell. Something was burning and I couldn't place it exactly, but it was disgusting and made me wanna vomit.

I don't exactly remember how it all went down, but I know after some deliberation (not knowing where the fire was coming from) we all decided to put on some clothes quickly and leave through the stairs (it was December in Canada, kinda cold).

I don't know if my family saw anything, and I don't have a memory of them leaving, but I know I was the last one out of my apartment, but when I opened the door to leave, right in front I saw a man sitting across my door (he had made hid way down) head hanging down, longish hair covering his face, snot hanging from his nose (about 6 inches down), he was shaking a little, it was very fine shaking/trembling, hard to notice if you weren't paying attention.

He was all black and reeked of that smell I mentioned above. I don't know how to describe the smell, you can't compare it to anything else, you'd have to have smelled it yourself to know what I'm talking about, but man it instills fear in you because you know right away that whatever is burning that's giving off that smell should not be burning.

I closed the door behind me, crouched down to look at the man's face...the snot was a melted plastic tube hanging off his nostril, his face and hands were BLACK/CHARRED, he was out of it as he didn't acknowledge my presence. I just remember a black face, can't remember his eyes, not sure if it's a repressed memory or if his eyes were burned out or he had closed his eyelids.

I remember wanting to help him but feeling powerless and this feeling like I didn't know what to do. I asked him if he was ok (thought of touching him but didn't) and at that moment I got up and a firefighter opens the stairwell door and comes through, tells me to leave. As I left, I turned back, opened the door and asked the firefighter if he needed any help, but he told me to go down the stairs and leave.

When I went outside I saw fire SHOOTING out of a balcony. I realized it was the apartment where a sister and a brother lived, both smoked and both had lung cancer I think because both had oxygen tanks on wheels with tubes and shit. It was the tanks exploding that made the bang. It was the man burning that I smelled. He was black because he was charred...

I had to go to the police station to give an interview/statement in a recorded room. I was smiling when I was telling my story, it was this weird feeling wanting to laugh but I felt wrong about it. Since then when I think of memorable experiences I've had, I never remember this unless someone starts talking about creepy shit, or disasters and freak accidents. I'm not even sure how, if at all, I've been scarred by this as a lot of it is hazy. Oh well.

But the smell, I can't forget the smell...

Edit: the man died within the hour. He was in shock when I talked to him apparently.

tallzeez · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://imgur.com/lBLFEYz

This would scare me pretty bad if i saw it in my house

SoundslikeDaftPunk · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mermaids.

Bonefield · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a senior in high school, I went to stay for a week with a friend whose parents worked at what was, at the time, John Woolman School (a Quaker boarding school; great place, sad that it closed). This was pretty far out in the country. Her parents were driving us back to the school one night when the truck had trouble and we had to stop to make a phone call. There was only one place open: a little convenience store in the middle of nowhere.

It was right next to an alfalfa field, and was the only source of bright light for miles. When I say that this place was literally swarming with insects, I'm not shitting you. They were everywhere. We couldn't walk to the phone without stepping on a carpet of them. For some reason we had to go inside, and every single surface was covered with all kinds of flying bugs. A family was minding the store--two little kids and their parents. The kids just looked dead-eyed, and they were covered in flies and other bugs. It was like a scene from a horror movie.

The reasonable explanation is, of course, that the light from the store attracted the bugs at night. But it always stuck with me, and I imagined how horrible it would have to be to work through that, or for the kids to have to stay there while the bugs crawled all over them. It was terrible.

Phoneseer · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was once in a really cool art museum in Seoul with my friend. The bottom floor was sort of generic so we went upstairs to the single most disturbing sight of my life.

It's difficult for me to put into exact words what the exhibit showed, but I'll try. It was three walls full of small individual pictures drawn in, I think, charcoal. They depicted a visualization of insanity, despair, and violence embodied in a life. Each image was unique, and they ranged from fellatio with severed heads to demon rape to incest to inhuman beasts commuting incestual rape-murder on disfigured children. In totality, the extremity of emotion the piece instilled in me has been unmatched in the rest of my life.

I purposefully didn't write down the artist's name because I didn't want to expose myself to such imagery again. However, in the years since I felt haunted by the memory of the extreme emotions that the piece brought out in me, and I tried to track down the artist. The gallery didn't know, the website doesn't list it, and my hours of web searches have been in vain. If anyone has an idea of who it might be, please let me know.

The most similar art I've found have been the works of Peter Booth.

VJamz · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I was home alone at night and playing video games. Suddenly, I hear these demonic sounding growls and they sounded like they were right next to me. I looked around the house and peaked outside to no avail. Freakist thing I've ever heard.

-donuts- · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some guy on the escalator behind me told me asked me

"Do you know what is mostly thrown in between these two escalators?"

"What?"

"My shit."

I think I'm using the stairs now.

HappyScienceNerd · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of the houses I lived in when I was younger definitely qualifies as creepy. Nothing major ever happened but there were lots of little things that made it a really unpleasant house to live in. Things would fall over for no reason and I was forever seeing something move out of the corner of my eye, then I'd turn around only to realise there was nothing and nobody there. Rooms had funny smells or would have cold spots... Basically all the usual 'haunted house' stuff. The thing that really scared me though was that occasionally I would feel as if there was someone watching me fall asleep at night. This would be accompanied by the sound of someone breathing and it always felt as if it was at the foot of my bed. In the end I begged for bunk beds as my 9yo self felt this was much safer but I never told anyone else in my family why at the time.

After we moved EVERYONE in the family had their own weird stories that they'd been keeping to themselves so as not to frighten anyone else! Most notably my brother had been woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of someone pacing on the landing. When he'd gone to investigate there hadn't been anyone there. In most houses that could easily be explained away as pipes creaking etc, but one of the floorboards made a really distinctive noise when stepped on.

The family we sold the house to had a son in my year at school who came up to me about a month later and asked if the house was haunted. They had gone out for the day and when they had come home the clothes had all been thrown out of the wardrobes in his mum and dad's room.

So. Glad. We moved.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was living in Chicago in my own apartment, my girlfriend was sleeping over and it was around 3am when we were woken up by someone pounding on my back door (thats what she said) in the middle of the night. I lived in a 1br in Logan Square, Chicago and the backdoor was in my kitchen which led out to a balcony down to the alley.

Anyhow, whoever was knocking on my door kept doing so for at least 10 minutes, perhaps the longest 10 minutes of my life.

The timing was impeccable, we had just watched The Strangers earlier that day. My back door had a thing to bar it with a 2x4, and the windows had bars on them, so I wasn't about to go look and see WTF. My conclusion was it was a house guest of my downstairs neighbor who liked to party now and then.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Depressing a baby's soft spot to the first segment of his finger.

agentfortyfour · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why would you do that?

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:45 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've seen it. Not Done that.

delicious_tomacco · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

having someone tell you they are going to hire a person to kill you is pretty scary

isitoriginal · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a boat hit a hill, barrel roll upwards, and throw every single person out of it.

darthbart · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My scariest experience was in South Sudan, in the December of 2011, some 5 months after its independence from Sudan.

Basically, the country has zero resources, extremely poor, and everything has to be imported in, food, energy, etc.

I was in Juba, the capital, for work, for two weeks. The hotel that I stayed at had to generate it's own electricity, and every night at around 2am, there is a total blackout, from them shutting down the generator I suppose. The room that I stayed in only has a window and it's facing the corridor. When there's a blackout, my room is totally pitch black, since there isn't any external light (street light or whatever) getting in.

This one night, I was woken up by a noise in my room. It sounded like someone was rummaging through my stuff. Now, this is a worn-torn, piss-poor country, where almost everyone has an AK-47 or something. That moment in time, I was freaked out of my mind and I can't see anything in the pitch dark, at the same time thinking "This is it... I'm gonna get murdered in some third world country..." I scrambled for my torchlight, shined it at the source of the noise and... There was nothing!

Turned out, it was a mouse rummaging through my foodstuff... The rest of the night I had trouble sleeping from the adrenaline rush...

Another experience was a creepy one.

This time it was in Manila, Philippines. The TV in my hotel room will switch on by itself every night at around 1am. I'm aware of some TV having a timer to auto switch off but I not aware of any auto on feature. I tried going through the TV menu look for any auto on function, but nope, no such feature.

And I didn't dare to unplug the power, what if it still switched on by itself while unplugged.

EvrydayImAmpersandin · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Stray EMF/RFI/Electrical signals can trigger remote controllable devices. I remember being a kid and discovering I could open my neighbor's garage door with my walkie talkie.

ADifferentUsrname · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

guy posted a crazy story in /r/nosleep and the audio he posted was definitely the creepiest shit ive ever heard http://soundcloud.com/whatisdubstepp/noise-removed-amplified-pitch

ludicrousmuffin · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't a gory story or anything but it still freaks me out to this day. One night when I was in high school I had this really vivid nightmare. It was one of those that I knew I'd had before, though after I woke up I couldn't tell you what the dream was about. The sense of deja vu was freaky enough, but what really got me was that I woke up with a piece of paper crumpled in my hand; it looked like a really low quality printer image, but I had never seen it before, not even online. The picture was of an old 30's/40's band with a female lead singer in a blue dress with dark hair, but the weird thing about her was that it looked like a face was really sloppily photoshopped over hers before the image was printed. Crazy thing was, it looked like /my/ face, from a certain angle, and the angle of the face didn't match the angle of the head. I still have no fucking clue where the picture came from; I tried looking it up and asking my friends about it, but they've never seen it before.

Greg1987 · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The guy on the other side of the mirror is fucking creepy.

blitzkrieger17 · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

when i was about 4 or 5 (mid 80s), my bed was against the outside wall, with the window towards the foot of my bed. i remember it was winter, because it was cold and windy. there was a "no parking" sign on a utility pole at the end of the driveway next door, that i could hear rattling. being a curious little kid, i sat up in bed and peaked out the window. what i saw was a tall lanky figure (tall enough to be at eye level with my window, a good 10 feet from the ground) with large, glowing red eyes. of course at the time i assumed it was rudolph the red nosed reindeer, and went back to sleep.

it wasn't until much later in life (like 18/19 years old) that i started reading about things like the Mothman... it instantly triggered that memory of that figure i saw, like clear as day. of course the Mothman Prophecy stuff took place in the late 60s, down near the West Virgina/Ohio border, and my story took place in the 80s, but in northern Ohio... maybe he just took his time getting up there, who knows. still a bit creeped out by it nearly 30 years later!

BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure I had a shadow person in my old, 1800s house. I'm not superstitious, don't believe in the supernatural and rely heavily on. Logic and rationale in my line of work.

I still can't explain what I saw and I want to write it off, but I saw this figure for years on, at least, a weekly basis. Rarely would it come down from the attic, where my playroom was located.

I didn't know shadow people were a thing until I googled what I saw.

Stab_n_Jab · 2 points · Posted at 18:46:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not superstitious

So you're just a little sitious?

BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Word. Up.

Dallasdrew · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest thing I have ever seen were the god damn oompa loompas from Willy wonka and the chocolate factory. They scare the hell out of me

scooby4219 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scary/Weird: When I was little I used to have nightmares about the "Hamburgler" from Mcdonalds. I would have tug-of-war matches with him in my sleep over hamburgers... I always woke up with a death grip on the side of my bed.

TLDR: Hamburgler is a dick and won't give up his burgers.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

No picture but I saw a guy get into a fight and like half his face tore off. At first I thought he was wearing a getup or something but I found out later half his face tore off.

ennemity · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I transfered to a new college a few years ago. CSU Channel Islands they called it but it is in the middle of pretty much nowhere (15 minutes to town) and surrounded by farm fields (and not on the islands). The school used to be an old mental institution but was converted into a school over 10 years ago. Naturally, some parts of the school were not cleaned up when I first got there. There are still buildings that aren't in use and haven't been touched since the mental institution closed. There's broken windows everywhere and the doors to abandoned parts are often not locked. In my 2 & 1/2 years of living there I encountered a lot of strange things.

I was pretty much convinced that my dorm room was haunted. I would often wake up with red hand prints on my body in which there's no way that I could have replicated (or have slept in such weird positions). In the middle of the night I would hear something like papers shuffling on my desk or papers falling onto the floor, only to wake up in the morning with no papers around. We could hear footprints in our living room late at night. Lights would turn out/on without anyone doing anything. Doors would slam shut with no one around (everyone would be out of the dorm, we'd come back with all our rooms shut). Weird things had happened so often that we named our dorm ghost Charlie.

Then theres the general school creepiness. Every day when I would walk home from the art building (at about 9pm) clanking noises could be heard in one of the abandoned buildings. Pretty much without fail every time I walked by that building. We had a part of the school which was an old smokestack that went underneath one of the mountains. We called it the well because it looked like the well from the Ring.

One night I went ghost hunting with my group of friends. They had gone before so I decided to join them on the second trip as to not look like a weenie hut jr. We went into the abandoned building above the police station. There were old monitoring stations from before it was converted. We found a blood trail and a dead rat leading up to an old dedication to a patient that died. It was just generally creepy because it hadn't been cleaned or dusted in forever and there were rusted pipes everywhere. Creepiest part was a building that was closed off. It was the old place were the children would play. You could see into the small windows that the toys and stuffed animals were still out and spread around the floor.

Weirdest image I still have with me is when I walked in the courtyard of the art building and I saw a face in one of the basement windows of a creepy woman. I lated faced my fear and went into the basement to get supplies by myself.

That's pretty much it for what I experienced at the school. There's lots of ghost stories about it. I've never been but there's a morgue under the school library that still has the old equipment in it. There's also gated tunnels that seem to go to nowhere.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was camping in Colorado with my parents, a mountain lion got stuck in the dumpster. Crazy screaming wildcat was heard throughout the night.

leftyguitarist · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was seriously creeped out recently by John Stewart making fun of the administration's wiretapping of the AP. The audience were whooping it up.

The Executive government. Wiretapping the press.

dnkylips · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Walked through a unit of the hospital I work at one time and heard a dementia patient repeating "Pray for the dead" over and over again. It raised the hairs on the back of my neck.

bloo_regard · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Talking to my Grandfather on the phone a couple months before he died, and realizing he had dementia. He called me and told me to come downstairs, because my Grandmother was cooking dinner and I should set the table for dinner. He said that he could hear my Grandmother calling my name as she made meatloaf . . . He lived alone in a single level apartment, 1,000 miles away from me, and my Grandmother had been dead for 8 years.

D18 · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened in my state, so I followed it pretty closely. Basically a family with two young sons doesn't show up to their respective jobs/school. The police are called and force entry into the house because there is worry of a carbon monoxide leak. The police find wet patches of freshly cleaned carpet with fans blowing them dry. A few hours later the husband and boys come home but without the mother. The husband claims his wife ran away, (without her purse, cellphone, change of clothes) and he claimed he was just taking his boys camping overnight (in the middle of winter).

As I understand it, the police can't use the evidence they found in the house because they entered without a warrant, so the husband isn't arrested. The husband is a web developer by trade, and a few weeks later this website pops up- http://susanpowell.org (sfw)

One of the only times I've ever actually had the sensation of my blood running cold was looking at this website. This is the killer in his own words, trying to make his wife look like someone who would run out on her family, and trying to make himself look like a victim.

Anyway, the police never really had a case against the husband so a year or so after the website went up he murdered his two boys with a hatchet and then burnt his house down with him inside as well.

haukurh · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I´ll break my "beerporn" only comment rules and share one here..

about 20 years ago I worked at an old cinema. My first night there the main hall was packed, the house was full (about 1,600 people in all auditoriums).

There was a day shift that only popped popcorn. They often did it by day and went home when the regular office day ended. Sometimes it was done at evenings but not this particular night. We, the kids working nights, would have to get to another floor which that room was on,open a door into a long empty corridor and to this room where all the the popcorn was popped.

This first night I was running up and down those stairs, to that empty floor where the popcorn room was. In one of my runs I passed and old man in the corridor. He was a bit fat, had a red cardigan on, grey haired, grey beard, glasses and was just looking at some posters. I ran passed him into the popcorn room and back passed him, he noticed me but I did not say "hi" or anything. I closed the door to the corridor and when I was about to go down the stairs I thought to myself "hey, this corridor is staff only, nobody should be there"...

I opened the door and the man was gone. Not so horrible but that corridor ONLY leads to the popcorn room, there is no other exit. There is a hatch inside the popcorn room which is a fire escape but it´s quite a drop and it takes some time to pull the fire stairs out and back in. Dont believe in anything supernatural but still today I´m like WTF when I think about this..

to add to this story, a few years later I was closing up the place late at night and when I got outside I saw that the hatch was open and light inside. When I got back into the house and walked down that corridor I could only think about that man. I did not see him then but I was scared shitless just thinking about him..

sleeplessparanoia · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well pardon me if my memory is rusty this happened awhile ago back when I was still in grade school I believe. Well it was a typical weekend in my small town in Texas and i was spending the night at my friends like I would usually do back then, so we are doing the typical teenagers stuff dipping in my friends parents liquor cabinet getting drunk and smoking weed with what ever we could make with the given material around us. We finally make shift a pipe out of a old coke can and walk to the elementary school which has a big park...so we are there to smoke which everyone knows you have to do incognito not cause we are young but in my small town cops jump at any chance to bash some heads, it's about 1 am and we started lighting up on the swing set there is four sets of swings lined up next to each other each set has about 3 swings on them. This is where it gets weird...we are on our fourth bowl getting ready to head back when out of no where this little girl I mean no older than 4 years old comes walking right by us in this old white gown that was obviously outdated and hasn't been worn in this century..she had blonde hair that kind of covered her face, my buddies and I just look at each other in disbelief as she sits on the swing and just starts swinging like nothing without even acknowledging us. I then look to my right cause I hear a car coming and it wasn't for more then 10 seconds I look back to where the girl was and she was gone..us being the young and inquiring minds we were we run to the other side of the park to check if she is over there..she wasn't, she had completely vanished in a park that had a fence all the around it and we were smack Dab in the middle there is no way a human can ever be that fast to this day me and my friends don't like to discuss this..we ran to my friends and called it a night( I live in deer park,Texas less than a mile away from the San jacinto monument and the school me and my friends were at was Sam jacinto elementary..I told my grandmother about it and she said its not too far fetched considering that side of town was a battle field during the war against general Santa Anna during the Texas revolution)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All right, I got one.

Back in high school my friends and I were pretty experimental with drugs. We also often lacked a place to do them. It just so happened that one of our friends had had his home in the foothills foreclosed on, and the house was abandoned. It was around Halloween so one of my crazier friends insisted we have a seance.

The house is high on a ridge with no others nearby. When we show up, something is very off. There is literally a flood of water pouring out from under the garage door. A pipe had burst, and when we went inside everything in the lowest level had a foot of water and was making those echoing dripping sounds. We do our drugs, have our Seance. One friend swears he sees a moving red light (we all sort of see the light and have trouble attributing it to anything, but I'm not sure I saw it move).

Anyway, its time to go home and somehow most of us ended walking back down these winding mountain roads to the city. This is the creepy part. Around one bend we see two cars. One is parked on the side of the road shining its brights on the second. The second has its hood completely wrapped around a tree trunk. We can see from where we are that there is absolutely no one in the crashed car. As we walk by the first one, we shine a flashlight on the parked car. Inside is a woman sitting perfectly still (like not even blinking) staring straight ahead at the car. She doesn't turn her head when we go by or even acknowledge being illuminated by the beam.

I wonder if she saw it happen, if the people in the wreck had died, or what. She was the only person I've ever seen that I could truly describe as statuesque.

BetaSoul · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one and that, shall count the days. This one and that, so many ways.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was actually last night. I went to bed before my gf since i have to get up early. i fall asleep right away. sometime around midnight i woke up and noticed my gf wasnt in bed. no big deal, sometimes she falls asleep on the couch. i turn on the light and i go to the restroom and then come back to my empty bed. i lay down and close my eyes. trying to get comfy i stretch my legs only to bump into my gf who was laying next to me. it scared the shit out of me. i know i was groggy, but i swear she was not in my bed when i woke up.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Walking home from the bar one night the tire on my bike goes flat. I'm about two blocks from my house when I hear the screeching of tires. As I turn around I see a car in midair flipping over and onto a brick wall. I immediately call 911 as a crowd starts to gather on the street. One man emerges from the flipped over car screaming, "They were shooting! They were trying to kill me." I turn my back for FIVE SECONDS as I'm on the phone with dispatch when someone grabs me. The bloodied dude who was just screaming is clutching to me. He's screaming, "HELP ME HELP ME!", and I'm threatening him to let go of me or I'll start swinging with my U-lock. Luckily a friend lived right in front of the wreck and let me in to scald my skin.

Never did find out why it what happened to the crazy man. I did lose a really nice J Crew shirt though. Pictures later if I remember after work.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Japanese Slot Machines on Shortwave Radio

What are they communicating?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did some research on number stations a few years ago. The government would have you believe they are test stations for jamming technology or the like.

The government would have you believe a lot of things

desquamation · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few months ago my girlfriend and I were watching TV in my living room when I heard a few noises coming from the kitchen which I had initially dismissed as the cat being an asshole like usual.

Minutes later I heard what sounded like soft knocking on the kitchen door (main door I use for the house). Which again I dismissed as the cat until I noticed he was camped out by the TV.

I get up to take look. When I part my blinds, to my shock, there's this woman (of the faces of meth variety) in between my storm door and main door with her hand on the door knob trying to open it.

The sound I had first heard was not the cat, but her attempt to enter my home. Thankfully I had remembered to lock the door.

After I tried to shoo her away she sunk down and balled herself up on my porch... At this point I decided the best course of action would be to call the cops. The woman zombie-shambled her way across the street where the police picked her up in a neighbor's drive way.

The part of this whole encounter that creeps me out isn't that there was some random drunk/high person apparently confused about where they live... It's the thought of what would have happened if I hadn't remembered to lock my door.

Death_or_Exile · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In November of last year, I was housesitting for my parents who were visiting my aunt, who lives four hours away from them. I only stayed the nights since I worked. I don't recall which day it was but it was about 10 in the evening. I was laying on the sofa in the living room watching TV. I had my right arm behind my head while holding the remote in the other. Suddenly, I felt something rub against my arm behind my head. At first I thought it was my mom's cat who sometimes sleeps on the lamp table in between the sofa and the loveseat. Thinking it was him, I reached back without looking to pet him. I felt nothing. I turned around expecting to see him but he wasn't there. Then I heard him scooping in his litter box. There was no way he could have brushed up against my arm, jumped down, and walked to the litter box in the laundry room in the span of 2 seconds or so. I still can't explain it.

Shan_tyler · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dont have any contributions but for you all who love scary/creepy things, I recommend you check out /r/nosleep and /r/scaredshitless

JayToTheMo · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepy: When I was around 7 or 8, my family and I were about to leave the house to go out shopping or something like that. My parents had already gone out the door when I told them I needed to pee first. I go pee and just before I use the handle to flush, the shower curtain right next to me moved and made a sound like someone backhand slapped it. Didn't flush, didn't wash. I ran to the car and kept my mouth shut because I couldn't explain what just happened.

Scary: There I was, 4 years ago, sitting on the sofa in my shared apartment after work. I was watching tv and waiting for my friend/roommate to get home so we could partake in our nightly ritual. (think Harold and Kumar) I had been home for about 30 minutes and he was going to be back any second. Another half-hour passed and he still wasn't there. I went ahead and enjoyed a little without him. Back on the sofa, I checked my phone. No texts or calls, "where is this dude!?" We both worked 10 minutes from home so he should have been back by then. I start to feel good and something on the tv catches my attention. Just as I settle my mind into watching what's on, the LOUDEST, SHRILLEST, demonic sound filled my ear canals. It was disorienting because it sounded like it came from everywhere. I don't think I've ever moved that fast in my life. I ran out the door and down the stairs. Once I gained control of my confusion, I slowly ventured back into my apartment and stood in the kitchen, which was located to the left as soon as you walked in. I cautiously looked through the cutout which allowed you to see into the living room and down the hallway. I waited and waited..then the demon returned! I realized what it was. Smoke alarm batteries were low. I ran out of my apartment like Drew Barrymore in Scream because of a smoke alarm.

skynectar · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This Rubber Johnny video.

GoodGuyArnold · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nothing will give me a truer fear than not understanding what an elk call sounds like at 3AM in the middle of a pitch black woods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xok_YbIwzTk

jas1111 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About a month ago i was battling a hangover at my friends place in a nearby town. Just as i went to take a piss i hear a familiar sound i haven't heard in over a decade. It was the air raid siren, and of course my first thought in my alcohol-fucked brain is that North Korea launched a nuclear missile. I know that their rockets suck, but in that moment memories of air raid sirens during the 90s came through my head and i honestly thought for a minute that the world war 3 has started. Turns out it's just a normal siren test that they do every month in this town.

k8jennings · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad has an old radio from the 30s. We had no idea if it worked our not, I don't think anyone had turned it on for awhile. I was home from school for the weekend and I think we were having a dinner party because we were all cleaning. I was scrubbing the bathroom and my dad was dusting in the living room. And he started messing with the radio and it turned on, and just static for a second. Then a radio address from Eleanor Roosevelt. Then the address ended. And back to static. We were all just standing there, stunned.

A lot of weird stuff goes on in that house. Slamming doors (like they slam in front of you), footsteps, things getting thrown across the room. There's also a little boy and a man in black that everyone in my family has seen separately and then separately described to people. Identical descriptions.

thick-freakness · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was younger, I remember getting up in the middle of the night to go get some medicine for my stomach. As I was walking downstairs, for some reason I turned my head to the left to look into my dad's office. We had a really old Gateway computer and for some reason it was turned on but not on our home screen. It was streaming bright green lines of code.

I was seriously freaked so I just whispered "Dad?" And his office chair spun around on its own. I've never run to my parents room faster in my life.

Slow_to_Speak · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So here I was, sitting in my room. Skyping away with one of my close friends. We decide to start a call, and at first, it goes well, we have a small conversation and the sun goes down. Right around 9 pm, I hear my voice briefly, in a cut and static tone. I listen ad turn up the volume, pressing the headphones against my ear curious as to whether it was an echo and I asked him if he was outside because I'd heard him shut his back door. Suddenly, the searching for a signal sound came on and I couldn't hear him. I glanced at the screen and saw tht clearly, there was an issue in connecting. So I quit Skype and reopened it, opened up the tab of the private chat and typed "/golive" the call still seemed to be going.

This had never happened before and for me it was eerie and creepy to me. It's also the most recent sound that's scared me awake. I heard my voice cut over and over again with the repeated sound of his back door shutting and his dog Anita barking and moaning, static occasionally cutting the sounds that were being made even further. I typed to him, and he heard somewhat similar sounds. He recorded it and posted it on Youtube.

Now, maybe this isn't such a scary sound, but it really freaked me out. It scared us both so bad that after it stopped, we left the call going and slept together.

Tl;dr: Skype call history glitches into ongoing call, Microsoft watches your every move

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I worked next to the Mariott Hotel in Atlanta and used to go to the sports bar often to grab lunch. One day I heard a yell from above to see a person who had jumped from the 40th floor land about 10 feet away from me head first. I had to throw away my pants because apparently brain matter stains never come out.

Razarex · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That thread in the another similar post about 'shadow people'.

It's basically a random hallucination that can happen to anyone when your somewhere (inside I think) with little lighting. You see a shadowy human-ish outline that will stare at you and then run at you or something similarly scary.

agentfortyfour · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was about ten, and outside of my second floor bedroom was the wood shed that had a tin roof. My cousin the weekend before had told me a scary story that on a rainy night, a skeleton would climb on the tin roof, walk to my window scraping his bones on the tin roof, open my window, step onto my bed which was underneath the window, and kill me in my sleep... We laughed it off, cause it was a pretty stupid story. Well on this one night a week later, I'm almost asleep and I hear this scraping noise outside on the tin roof, and yes it's raining buckets. I assume it's one of our cats, or a raccoon, and don't make much of it, but about ten minutes later my window slides open, and at this point of FREAKING out and I freeze under my covers. I'm literally paralyzed with fear, and then the end of my bed depresses, and something steps down onto the corner of my bed, and at this time I react, I scream at the top of my lungs and throw back my covers and jump out of bed...... My dad screams back, I scared the crap out of him. He had noticed we had a small chimney fire, and had thrown the hose ontop of the wood shed, then opened my window and stepped on my bed to climb out the window to put out the fire since the chimney was outside of my room. I never sleep the rest of the night....

Crapiforgotmypasswrd · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was a little kid and I had this night mare in which I was standing in my living room in the middle of the day and my little sisters toy stroller started flipping around and a deep voice said "a dead man rises, a dead man falls". The next day I'm standing in my living room and the stroller was in the same place and the light was coming in the window the exact same way. I noped the fuck out and walked around my yard til my mom came home. I was always convinced that house was haunted. The only time I actually saw anything was once in the middle of the night I was walking down the hall to the bathroom and a tall grey figure was coming towards me. At first I thought it was just my dad in the dark but then the shape melted away before my eyes.

General_DisarrayHoot · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So I heard this story from a friend awhile back. It would happen sporadically at night they would hear from the kitchen the sounds of glass dishes being shattered, like being thrown around and when they went to check there was nothing there. Just creeps me out cuz I've heads bumps n shit in the night at my old house, but the attic was cluttered with crap and I just assumed it was stuff falling from being unstable.

flamkis · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

grifter.avi

Tatorhead · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My family and I used to live out in the country. My house was on top of a hill surrounded by forests and corn fields, so there were a lot of wild animals that would go through our yard. However, there were these two wild dogs that would always freak my family. They were HUGe completely white German shepherd dogs. One night my mom and dad were on the porch swing just chatting when my mom looked over and saw both of the dogs 20 feet away slowly crawling towards them like they were lions hunting a gazelle. My mom freaked out and they ran away. Apparently those two dogs wouldn't let our neighbor out of his house and they got shot by the evironmental protection agency.

Nalenthi · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night I was at school around 8pm doing coursework in the Resistant Materials workshops. The rest of the school was empty, it was only the RM students who were there. We all had our earphones in and were listening to music as we worked, so the only sounds were the loud machinery and the thunder and rain outside. Now the two workshops are on either side of a corridor, that is eternally covered in distinct sawdust shoeprints from people walking between them. I was working as usual, hammering some nails into wood or whatever, when we heard the loudest clap of thunder of the night. Then the lights went out, only for a couple of seconds and there were light, scratchy footsteps out in the corridor. There were wet footprints. Not shoeprints, footprints, going along the corridor.

We all gave a collective "NOPE" and went back into the workshops to continue working.

owlsayshoot · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A baby crying in the theater during the movie 8mm. It was a far worse moment than anything suggested or done in the movie itself.

triplep85 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think we are jumping to conclusions here, some people might just be really happy.....

Ubercritic · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hitlers post above you makes this look like a pun

seriousbusines · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went to a summer camp years back with my brother. One of the events during the week is camping outside. So we go up to the 'overlook' which is a massive fire pit with the road up on one side and a cliff on the other. My brother and I slept in our sleeping bags under a picnic tabel because it was raining a little bit. Woke up with a dire sense of urgency in the middle of the night and started feeling around. My brother was no longer laying next to me under the table. Freaked out and started searching for him. Look at the cliff and see the top of his sleeping bag. He had moved a bunch in his sleep and started to slip off the edge down the cliff side.

ryochan11189 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was middle school, I used to sleep with my younger brother in a bunk bed. I would sleep in the top bunk, and he would sleep in the bottom bunk.

One night, we had just gone to bed, and I was trying to fall asleep. I hear my little brother moving around in the bunk below, so I open my eyes to see what he was doing. I see my brother's eyes peering over the edge of my top bunk, with his hands on the edge to support himself. I too shocked to say anything for a good 5 seconds, during which time my brother just stared at me.

I finally ask him, "Wh-what are you doing...?" He replies, "...Where is it?" Having no idea what the fuck he was talking about I ask him, "Where's what...?" He continues to stare at me, with half of his face hidden by the bed, "I can't find it. Where is it?" Starting to get really scared, I tell him, "I don't know what you're talking about..."

He stares at me for 10 more seconds before suddenly turning around and leaving the room. I was too shocked to follow him, and just heard him running down the stairs to the living room, where my parents were watching TV. I hear my mother talking with my brother, and after a few moments she comes into our room with my brother and takes him back to bed. He was quiet for the rest of the night.

The next morning, I asked him what he was looking for last night, and he responded with a very confused face. Turns out, he had absolutely no memory of the whole exchange and had probably been sleepwalking/talking. I still remember those eyes peering over the edge...

Jmac0585 · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a gun pointed at my head. The kid holding it puled the hammer back. Loudest/scariest "click" ever heard. The only thing close to it was the "click" the same gun had made a few seconds before when I had pulled the trigger pointing it at the same kid.

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a hospice nurse, I had an elderly patient who insisted his poker buddy came and talked to him at night, getting him ready to go to the next world (or oblivion, for the atheist element). It is very common for the dying to see, hear and talk to people who have died, saying the dead have come to prepare them and will be back for them in a few days/hours. However, his poker buddy was 3 towns over, presumably living it up. The patient was so insistent and agitated at our disbelief his wife called the poker buddy to tell him the funny story that he must be astral projecting at night. For you see, he couldn't have been a dying visitation since he was living.

They hadn't seen this guy for ~6 months due to the pressures of the patient's illness and treatment. I watched her phone and chat briefly with poker buddy's wife and her face fell and the blood drained out of it. She said she was sorry and put the phone down. The poker buddy had died suddenly about 5 weeks before this. PB's wife hadn't called, figuring the patient and family had enough on their hands.

I saw a lot of other weird stuff as a hospice nurse: an infant's face glowed right before he took his last breath, a nun looked right through me to someone I couldn't see standing behind me and broke into a big smile, saying "Oh wonderful! You're here." and then keeled over, hearing someone breathe when there was only me and the dead woman in the room and so on.

TL;DR: weird shit goes on when people die.

Billpayment · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Message me, I used to work in a nursing home. I'm very interested in the glowing child story.

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm getting to go to work, but if it's slow, I will.

Window_is_a_Ladder · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You should do an AMA.

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:11 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey thanks! That's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me on reddit. You made my day!

BlithHoggin · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you like creepypasta, but creepier, check out The Little Fears youtube channel. It's full of genuinely creepy stuff. Sorry if it's already been posted, I just figure it's good enough that I need to be sure it's seen.

Killm360 · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was sleeping in my living room once,i had a nightmare where is a very white face was staring at me face to face with his pupils so tiny and smiling i can't even move but i struggled until i broke free from the nightmare i can't forget that face ever again

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple years back there was a 5 or 6 day span where I had the same type of recurring dream, or rather a slightly different dream with the same haunting figure. I was always in a dark room or on a dark street with the only visible light stretching down the length of a wall with strange writings. I remember vividly in my dream trying to interpret the words but could never quite make them out. The dream always ended with a small figure in the shape of what can only be described as a Russian Matryoshka doll with very tiny wiry limbs and stringy hair that covered the face. It didn't necessarily look evil or scary but as it slowly limped side to side waddling towards me I would get a sense of sheer terror that would consume me... then I would wake up. I never had that type of recurring dream either before or after. I don't even know how my brain formed that crazy shit.

bagelpirate · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't have a story, I just want to say this post made me discover 3 new awesome subs. Thanks!

puffinbluntz · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was probably about 16, I spent the night at a friend of mine's house and we snuck out after dark to go smoke at the park. We enjoyed a joint at the playground before we got paranoid and started walking further down the trails. It was about 2 AM and we crossed a bridge, a little farther walk and we crossed another. We came up on another one, and my friend suddenly starts saying that we should turn around and go home. I didn't understand what the big deal was, he said that the 3rd bridge is like crossing into the hood, and it's just not a good idea to go into that part of town this late. Me, being 16 and hard headed said... FUCK IT LET'S GO! and skipped across. The path is noticeabley narrower and darker once we turned the corner on the other side of the bridge, there's a pretty dense area of trees and bushes and other wildlife to our left, and on the right fences. My friend is following me like he's trying to make sure there's nothing behind us which is making me kinda nervous, we come around a bend in the sidewalk and there's a streetlight on the side next to someones fence, we hadn't seen any lights for a while now so we kept walking towards it. As we came closer I looked at my friend, he looked at me and we both looked back at the light to now see a man standing directly under the light. He had on a plain grey sweatshirt, and black sweat pants with running shoes as he looked down at the ground. We stared and ddint' move we didn't know what to do, this dude just kinda appeared. Was he a ghost, was he a rapist, or just a late night jogger we didnt' hear approaching from around the bend? he looked up at us and his face was still dark, I couldn't identify a feature at all it was just black, so we started kind of backing away slowly, keeping our eyes on him and he stayed in place, not moving an inch. We made it around the corner and started running. I looked behind me and he was walking behind us like super slow. We kept running, and next time I turned my head he was closer, and again closer. No matter how far away we got, or how fast we ran, or how slow he was going, he always seemed to be close enough just to be seen until we got to the end of the path back to the 3rd bridge where we started, I looked back and he was right behind me, I lifted my leg up like I was about to kick him, but I guess I missed. We got to the other side of the bridge and looked back, he stood there, his face still empty. We didn't spend much more time waiting around after that, we just ran home. We still have no idea what happened that night, but I'm scarred for life.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I opened a sliding glass door to my porch and saw a big-ass spider hanging in front of my face. A few moments later, an egg nest exploded above my head. I was covered in baby spiders, mostly in my hair. I jumped into the shower with my clothes on.

yumcax · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This 911 call as a woman watches her chimp eat her friend.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here are some comics that have kept me up at night, some NSFW:

https://www.box.com/shared/bg9erz5nic

http://redmuseum.net/comics/cut/?id=1

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Another-I was staying in a shitty hotel to take a certification exam the next day. Watching TV, I was perplexed to see bright pink type crawl across the top of the screen like a text. It typed out letter by letter "I can see you". I shot off the bed, turned it off and closed all the blinds. Creeped the shit out of me.

I called my husband who told me it was impossible to do that and I was seeing things. I know I saw it.

constantlytired · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't nearly as creepy as a lot of the stories on here but it was pretty scary at the time. My best friend and I were out night hunting for raccoons in some woods near his house. It was pitch black as it was overcast and the nearest town was on the other side of a mountain so we couldn't see anything. We set up in a group of trees maybe 30 feet from the road we sat there for about an hour before we decided to move to another spot to try our luck and about 30 seconds after we got up we heard branches snapping and a loud crash. We looked back with our spotlights and a very large tree had fallen right where we were sitting. The crash scared us initially but thinking if we had sat there just a little bit longer it would have fallen on us and possibly killed us both. After that we decided to call it a night.

TLDR. Your own mortality is pretty scary sometimes.

Edit. Phone formating is annoying.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in like 4th grade and had just watched some Alien movie. All of a sudden certain things turned off in our house and then this giant ass noise filled my whole house. From every room and direction. My heart raced and I grabbed my baseball bat and a kitchen knife. It was only me and my brother. He said it was aliens and not to go outside and he was acting scared too. I shat bricks till the noise stopped running around the whole house looking out of every window.

Eventually I found out my asshole brother set off our fire alarm. I beat his ass once when older and I swear this crossed into my mind. Good memory though.

ejiv · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One nighy me and a group of friends were walking around Georgetown DC looking at all the graffiti. We stopped to take a break and this guy who looks like a ninja wearing a bandana over his mouth and sunglasses passes us along the sidewalk. I said something and he quickly turns around and does the sign of the cross. We were all kind of in shock at how weird that was.

namedan · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reading this just past midnight is really not a good idea. Not entirely sure if the shadows on the corner of my eyes is my head trying to shut itself off or from an unrecognized entity finally getting acknowledgement of my belief.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some old dude came to me when I was around 15 and walking in a park, and asked me whether I wanted to join him in his hotel room. As we walked (or : as he walked next to me) he looked at two big dogs that were here and said something like "beautiful dogs, big, beautiful dogs".

I called the police after that

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was trick or treating one Halloween and while I was walking toward the next house, someone grabbed me by the neck and started rubbing a knife against it. I found out that it was just my friend pranking me but at the time I was scared shitless.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a very awful, evil grandmother who I refused to allow into my life. She was dying of numerous diseases topped with cancer and my family forced me to go and visit her at the hospital before she passed. I went into the room to see her, or what was left of her (she weighed about 80lbs at that point), crawling on the floor, blind and crying for help. I asked the nurses why the hell they let her crawl around and they said no matter what they did, she somehow wound up back on the floor. She died two days after I saw her...I still remember that smell of disease in the room.

Robo-Connery · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A friend of mine moved into this old tenement flat and there was an access hatch to the attic in the ceiling of a cupboard, we were a bit drunk and decided to find out what was in it.

Getting to this thing wasn't easy the ceilings were about 12ft high and we had no ladder, what we did have though was a CCTV system (that we had been playing with) that he had taken when his work discarded it. It was basically just a camera attached to a small monitor by a wire.

The masterplan was hatched, the camera was attached along with a headlamp and some torches to the top of a broom with tape. Getting a view of the hatch was still a challenge though, had to straddle between the walls halfway up whilst holding up this broom.

I think we were already creeped out a little by the darkness, the way the torchlight looked and the black and white grainy video monitor. The initial view was just some boxes but as the camera panned around, in the corner of the loft was a single mattress with an open book and a ragged doll sitting ontop.

I fell off the wall and we noped our way to never looking again.

robman1123 · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

An infant dying due to malnutrition and neglect. Sickened me to my very core.

bousinou · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in a house with three guys that I have been playing in a band with for the last 4 years. I've come to know them all very well. Joseph in particular is a pretty stand up guy when it comes to putting your trust in his word. He doesn't exaggerate and as far as I know he has never lied to me. About anything. About a year and a half ago one of my mates, Ryan, and I had gone down to Atlanta for a music festival. Joseph was at home alone in our house for a couple of nights with just his dog, Tux. On the night that we had returned from the music festival we didn't go straight home. We went to hang with some friends on the other side of town when round about midnight I received a call from Joe. He was calm, as his phone demeanor usually is. He asked where we were, and if I wouldn't mind coming home. I hung up and asked Ryan if he was ready to leave, but he wanted to stay a bit longer. So I took off for home by myself. When I pulled in the driveway Joe and Tux were sitting on the front porch. The usual. As I walked up he stood up slowly and i noticed an odd a wide-eyed look on his face. He immediately started telling me something odd that he had experienced while we were gone. The night previous, while watching movies on his laptop in bed, he had seen out of the corner of his vision something pass his door. Several times. With Tux in bed with him, and no one at home. After witnessing this a few times he got up and shut the door and went to bed. The next night (tonight) before he had called me, he was making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in our kitchen. The kitchen connects to a dining room which we use for listening to records. Again, seeing something pass the doorway out of his peripheral, he turned around butter knife in hand. An elderly woman had found her way into the house. She was standing in the 'vinyl' room about 10ft away from him. Dark hair and light clothing. She looked startled and lost. Joe then explained to me how he had been sitting on the porch and had come in to make a sandwich leaving the front door wide open. This is common practice for us as our neighborhood is quite safe. He was stunned. Second after second went by as he scrambled to figure out why this woman had come inside without knocking. Perhaps there had been a wreck and she was looking for a telephone? Maybe she was senile and had been out for a walk and gotten confused. Before he could say anything he realized the knife in his hand couldn't be making the situation any better. He turned back to the counter to set it down. Finally, catching his breath to speak, he turned back around and she was nowhere to be found. Confused, he called me to come home. Joe had never seen a ghost, angel, spirit or whatever else could be considered a supernatural occurrence. He was very shaken up. Months later it became a story we would tell at parties and to our friends when they would come over. Reenacting Joe's encounter to sort of freak out our guests. The goosebumps faded as nothing else like it happened and the woman wasn't seen again. Through a chance meeting with our landlord Joe had decided to start a conversation with what he had experienced moths prior. Starting off with prefacing that he, "just had to tell her what he had seen in the house..." Our landlord, frightened of any such scary story interrupted him and said "It better not be some ghost story! The previous tenants had tried to freak her out with mentioning odd noises in the house constantly." Before he could tell her anything that he had seen, she explained to him how the wife of the man who had built the home had suffered a heart attack and passed in the dinning room. OUR VINYL ROOM. Since then we have found an old photo of the couple in our basement. Mr. and Mrs, Young. Joe confirmed that from his memory of that night, it was a very similar looking visitor. The photo now is always on display in the vinyl room out of respect for the Youngs...she hasn't been seen again.

wtftrollol · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was a child when my Aunt told me this. My grandmother was very religious and had prayer groups and stuff at the house. My aunt was always skeptical and kept her distance when they held stuff like that. -- My family and visitors were telling us of the noises and overall bad vibes they would get in the down stairs bathroom( not poop vibes). I was young and found myself scared to go anywhere near it. A lot was going on with our family, mostly bad and its stories fell to the way side. Until one of the younger kids got locked in this bathroom. It has two doors and only one locks, so needless to say it should be impossible to get "locked" in. My cousin was now screaming at this point and no one knew why, but it came down to my family breaking down the door with force. My cousin was fine and no one ever figured out what had happened. My grandma was convinced something was wrong with there house or bathroom and decided to invite many of her friends and pastor to come pray at the house. My aunt wasn't participating and was walking through the house as they prayed. She was walking by the bathroom when she suddenly stopped and was met by a set of devilish eyes, and she froze. She told me she watched this figure slowly rise with a face so angry and evil, flipping her off as he rose out of sight. Needless to say she became much more involved in the church and still is today. Scared the shit out of me to ever go into that bathroom.

Shwuest · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my neighbors used to go out of town I would dog sit/ watch their house while they were gone. I went over every day multiple times and always locked the door while I was inside and when I left. One day I went over with my mom and I noticed the pantry door slightly open. I told my mom I thought I had closed it before but she told me I had probably just forgotten and left it open. I made sure to close that door before we left that day. Well the next night I went over to my neighbors alone. It was pretty late and I made sure to lock the front door while I was inside. I was there for awhile before I noticed the pantry door was open again.. I closed it and checked around the house but found nothing. While I was in another room feeding the dogs I hear a noise in the front room. Just as I'm walking into the room I see the front door handle turn and the door slowly open. The door I had locked. I couldn't move or say anything so I just stood there and a second later a woman I had never seen before steps into the kitchen. We both stare at each other for what seemed like forever and it was the scariest money of my life not being able to even move. But then of course I find out that this woman is a friend of my neighbors who happened to have a spare key and was told to occasionally check on the house as well. Still, scared the crap out of me.

ermahgerdertsmer · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My nightmares/night terrors/sleepwalking provide the majority of creepy/scary things in my life. I have watched people die, tried to save them from accidents. Tried to pull people that were burning in a crashed plane, its normally a mother and child and the look of horror and the smell of their flesh burning is awful. I've been in violent accidents myself, sometimes I die, sometimes I don't. I've been kidnapped and repeatedly raped over a month long period in my dreams. But for some reason the ones that really get to me are the ones where I think someone is in my room. Lately its been a boy with curly blonde hair. I've been waking up and I see him standing there in the dark, so clearly, and then when I turn the light on he's not their anymore. There used to be an older man in a blue suit, but he has stopped coming. I have to get up and look everywhere to make sure there isn't someone there.
When I was a kid I went through a phase where I refused to go to sleep because I kept getting murdered in a canyon every night. Sleeping is pretty horrifying.

internetpanda · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm pretty sure my house is somewhat haunted. The day we moved in,I was in the backyard sitting on a picnic table that came with the home. Out of the corner of my eye,I swore I saw something moving,but figured it was a squirrel or something. And then shit started happening. I heard my name being called,by a voice completely unfamiliar to me,asking for help. I finally turned around to look,and a little girl,around 9 or so,was standing there in a torn up white night gown with a matching headdress thing (a bonnet?) and long black hair. She looked like she was from the 1800's. I nope'd and ran inside and never spoke of it. 8 years later I still live here,and my mom brought up the girl after seeing her and asked if I saw her before. I spilled everything and we both freaked out. I still see her sometimes. We think the house was built over burial grounds.

sm41 · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was working under my Mustang when I heard my dad gasp loudly, followed by a bang. He had slipped, dropping a heavy crate five or six feet off a shelf. Scared the shit out of me because I thought the car was coming down on me.

bc2229 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have two that are very different.

First was just scary, and something no one should have to see. I was driving down an interestate near where I live, a person tried to dash across the high way, only to be met by a Lincoln Navigator at full tilt(I was doing 70, she had passed me). Three cars ahead, less than a second in real time/distance... he was reduced to a red cloud, and mostly chunks of human meat. His shoe hit my windshield. I was obviously in shock, as I don't recall much after that, but a friend and her boyfriend came to pick me up because I got off the highway, and was just too shaken to drive.

Now, moving on from scary to creepy...

One of the houses I grew up in was very very old in US terms. Mid-1700s. At the time it was built, it was the only house on the road, and only two others in the next 150 years would pop up around it. The only other thing in the area was a small produce farm, and a Civil War era graveyard(still takes new "residents" to this day, but I digress...).

Now, the house was somewhat creepy in it's own right. But nothing strange or anything like that, just old, and to my 6-9 year old self, the creeks and groans could have been any number of monstrosities hiding in the rafters. But there were none, just an old, settling house.

No... the creepiness came from that mother fuckin' graveyard. For the entire time we lived there, it wasn't uncommon to hear two noises. Day or night, didn't matter. They were simple. 1)Drums. As in muster rolls. and 2)the distinct noise of horses. Whinnys, clomping/stamping, etc. And not one horse, or two.. but many. There was not, and still isn't, a single horse farm, barn or stable within 4mi of that area.

I didn't find out until I was much older that the cemetery was created to bury those civil war dead, and that the muster area was not far from the house, either. I used to think I was hearing things, or just being a scardy cat kid. But no, my entire family heard this. My old lady neighbor, who lived in the house nextdoor her entire life(at the time, 70 something years, her father and uncle built the house)said it was normal. To the point that she didn't even notice it much anymore. It was a nearly nightly occurrence.

So yeah. I don't really buy into all of it now, at the age of 32. But it's very difficult to consign what I, my family, and neighbors have heard for years and years. Still strikes me as very creepy to this day. I love cemeteries for a variety of reasons(peaceful, etc), but I tend to still stay away from that one in particular.

aj305 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

hearing Foxes doing it. i was like 13 at a sleep over and me and my mate were just about to fall sleep then we heard screams from the bottom of the garden. We almost called the police it sounded like a girl being raped or murdered

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just recently (October) my friend was involved in a fatal car accident and, looking for closure, i went to visit the wreck site. The first creepy part was that it was just down the road from where i was, the worst part was when i got there however, the road was stained with blood and glass, the whole place wreaked of iron (from the blood i assume), but the worst part was the i saw bits of bone and brain laying on the ground.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Does anyone remember the "static people" stories another thread was all about?

A bunch of people had stories about seeing a similar humanoid type figure, apparently made out of jagged staticy darkness. They seemed to "absorb" any light that was around them.

the_cox · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest thing that ever happened to me: I had a dream in third person. I was 5 or 6, and for the first time ever I had a room to myself. I had a bunk bed, and I was a little worried about rolling over the edge, but not enough to keep me from sleeping there. One night, I dreamt in third person, watching myself sleep from the top corner of my room. That was it, for 15 minutes, I watched myself sleeping, rolling around on my bed. Then, I rolled over the edge. I watched myself roll over the edge, and then the dream ended. I woke up the next morning on the floor.

Never understood it, but I always thought that it was a little creepy.

Twagstir · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On the phone right now so no link. Youtube search "Don't Hug Me Im Scared" ... Yea

Lilstewbeans · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well when I was about 12 years old I was watching a movie with the family on a Friday night. Typical night nothing out of the ordinary. We're about half way through the movie when I glimpse a ghost of a man walk from my front door down my hallway toward the bedrooms. Needless to say this scared the shit out of me and I instantly began crying.

I decided to sleep on my parents floor that night with my little brother who was also scared. I finally fall asleep and a little after 2 A.M. I wake up from a dead sleep screaming bloody murder. I don't exactly know what caused the screaming or even why I woke up. I only know after I woke up I just experience pitch black darkness. But not the kind of darkness where you just can't see but the kind where you can feel it smothering you. I felt as if I was fighting something off of me. My step dad grabbed me and yanked me on the bed and I somehow got to sleep. I found out a few years later that my step dad told my mom he had seen shapes swirling around me.

After that night I have never been the same. There have been other experiences I've had such as whispers in the ear, or movement from the corner of my eye. My mom and brother had seen things in the house as well The thing that still haunts me the most is the night terrors I have. Sometimes it's spiders or snakes in the bed but then every now and then there's nights where I feel someone holding me down strangling me. Most people blew my story off until I slept over at a buddies house. It had been a perfectly in eventful night again until I woke up screaming bloody murder that someone needed to get off of me and to stop. Since I have had these experiences before I fell back asleep about a half hour later. My buddy wasn't so lucky. He told me in the morning that after that had happened his speakers started making static noises although they were unplugged and the master power was off. He ended up clipping the wire with toenail clippers.

I'm not sure why this happens to me but I hate it more than anything. I'm deathly terrified of ghosts yet for some reason I'm constantly having experiences. Well there's my story. Scared the shit out of me and I will probably be traumatized forever.

lille45 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

one night, i heard a noise outside my window and turned on the ligts (not so smart if it was a murderer when i think about it now). then, when i had turned on the light it stopped, after a few seconds i turned it off again, and the noise returned. i did this a couple of times and i was sure i was going to die all alone in a cold room in the middle of the night. then it turned out it was just a moth that was stuck behind my curtain - i dont think i have ever been more relieved to have bugs in my house

cavemanbud · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My own intestines.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well I'm not sleeping tonight now.

M0nsterRain · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Growing up in the country we'd get animals that would come pretty close to our house, especially at night. Deer were the biggest offenders. They would walk right up to the house in the middle of the night and start eating flowers, shrubs, etc...

This really isn't a problem, except that you could hear them breathing somtimes. Imagine waking up from a dead sleep to hear heavy breathing right outside the window that is right beside your bed. Because you are still half asleep your mind is unable to connect the sound to the fact that it's a deer outside. Creepy as fuck.

We also had a neighbor that had a couple of peacocks. If you've ever heard them cry they sound just like children screaming. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to that noise...

sammyhere · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

r/spacedicks

EdgHG · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know what I will be doing during my lunch break.

serenevalue · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The night we stumbled upon an albino village in NJ... Not really scary, but definitely very creepy.

One year around Halloween when I was much younger, a family friend offered to take my brother and I to a Halloween hayride down in Jackson, NJ. After driving 40 minutes south to Jackson, we wound up getting lost trying to find this place. Our family friend had been there before, but that was years earlier, and took a random dirt road that led deep into the woods. As we drove deeper into the woods, we could see lights in the distance. Thinking this must be the place, we continued to drive toward the lights. Up ahead there was a run down gate house with a woman standing outside of it. She waved at us, gesturing to continue forward. At this point we are all thinking, "this must be it!" But as we passed through the gate, we realized how wrong we were.

We had ventured into some sort of settlement. There were shacks and beaten up trailers sprawled throughout the woods with fires burning and people scattered throughout the shadows. They were all watching us, some of them stood up and started to walk toward the car. At this point we realized we were definitely NOT at the hay ride. Furthermore, these people didn't look... right. After reading Weird NJ for years, I speculated that we must have come across one of NJ's infamous albino villages. Looping around the campsite, we sped out of there and didn't look back.

They didn't try to stop us, and I don't think we were in danger really, but it was pretty creepy regardless... There's lots of eerie things to stumble upon in NJ forests...

jhill89 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

there used to be this kids TV show in the UK in the early 90's or late 80's that freaked me out. I can't remember what is was called but I think puppets were used and a lot of the backdrop was yellow, memory is hazy but if anyone remembers it then please comment!

TheKiefer · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uzumaki by Junji Ito, read the whole series in a day, so disturbing >_>

Here's the whole series for free

127001y · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I witnessed a man getting hit by a passing car doing 70 mph. A car that was in front of me hit the guy while he was changing his tire on side of the 170 in N.Hollywood,CA. Brutal. Chopped in half and rolling on the freeway. That still sticks with me. Poor guy stumbled backwards into traffic while getting up from taking the tire off..

davidguygc · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night when I was sleeping, I woke up and saw a couple of kids with pale white faces from the storage shelf in my closet staring at me and screaming without making any sound. Just a vacuous black hole of a mouth. I saw The Grudge later and the kid in it looked a lot like what I saw that night

I have night terrors like that pretty frequently so I finally got used to dealing with that shit.

The worst part is my bedside light is an old fluorescent that takes about five seconds to turn on. Hellish five seconds. I need to get around to getting a new one

rachel_soup · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dad is from Spain and we went back to visit my family there when I was about 13 (I'm 22 now). My grandpa played professional jai alai in Spain before coming to the United States and playing here, so they were very wealthy when they lived there. They bought a house that had originally been a hospital. The first floor was the kitchen, living rooms, sun room, etc. The second floor had been converted to bedrooms and the third floor was still hospital rooms. There was nothing on the third floor at all, just empty rooms. The bedrooms on the second floor were quite large, as they had knocked down walls to make more space per bedroom. My cousins and I had picked rooms next to each other, closest to the staircase so we could play our video games downstairs and then have the closest accessible rooms. While we were sleeping I woke up to a dragging sound that sounded like someone pulling a heavy table across the floor. It went all the way from one side of my room to the other. I turned on my light and opened my door and went to my cousins room and opened his door. He was sitting up in his bed looking up at the ceiling. We went upstairs to the third floor, but there was nothing up there. No furniture or anything. Still to this day gives me chills thinking about the fact that nonexistent furniture traveled through walls.

TL;DR: Creepy ass hospital house in BFE Spain, ghosts. Ghosts everywhere.

GingerYorkieBar · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 7 I was on a carousel in the centre of my city. Then I heard a sickening moan and turned my head. As it happened it was and old lady who had got too close to the carousel and it had sliced her knee open so you could see the bone. That sickening sight and the joyful music of the carousel still creeps me out to this day.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've only got a few massively G-rated things in comparison to the grue that you grizzled old bastards have seen.

When I was 8, I saw this kid in my 3rd grade class have a seizure. All the kids were freaking out and no one knew what to do. Same thing happened when I was 11 and a kid in my Boy Scout Troop's dad had a seizure and fell over when we were selling Christmas trees. Both of 'em turned out fine, but when you're a youngster that kind of stuff sticks with you.

When I was a sophomore in College I saw a dog get hit by a car. It ran off, but as a dog lover, that's something really unsettling. The fact that we were in a horribly impoverished part of West Virginia filled with pretty shitty people (I saw some folks on the side of the road laughing and the driver just drove off like nothing happened) made it feel so much worse.

Yeas, I'm a puss.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/1f9dpu/at_the_station_the_inspector_forced_my_penis_into/

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night I was woken out of a dead sleep by a mountain lion screaming in my window.

When I was 12 and home alone at night there was someone running around outside with a chainsaw. I'm sure it was some neighborhood boys, but it scared me to death.

One unexplainable thing was a red light that I would see in the same place in the sky every few nights. I'm not sure what it was. It looked like a lightning flash, but red. Had several people see it.

monkey804 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friends and I just came back from a rave one morning and they decided to put on Donny Darko movie. I was high off of my ass and all I remember is it was tripping out when the scene with some guy looking like he has a donkey head. My friends were telling me it was a rabbit mask. To this day whenever I hear the "It's a mad mad world" song, it sends chills down my spine.

ThinWildMercury1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was walking back from a friends house in Manchester, UK a few years back at around 1am. Unfortunately no one else at my friends house lived near me so I had to walk back alone. The area I was in was residential and it given the time I was pretty much the only guy on the streets, that is until I saw a figure on the other side of the road walking in my direction. As he (I'm pretty sure it was a he) got closer to me he crossed the road and came into the light of a street light, at which point I could see his face. Only I couldn't see his face as he was wearing a WW2 gas mask and had his hood up. He walked towards me and stopped and just stared at me in the face, at which point I was pretty sure this was the end. I just kept on walking so only briefly caught his eye and just went on past him at which point he continued to walk on down the street in the opposite direction. I have no idea what the guys deal was but it scared the crap out of me.
TL;DR a guy wearing a gas WW2 mask walked up to me and stared at me whilst I was walking home late at night.

coolchameleon · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Are... are you his mummy?

ThinWildMercury1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That episode was on not too long after this happened, I could relate

coolchameleon · 1 points · Posted at 01:09:39 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh no! That was terrifying enough not having experienced it face-to-face. My heart bleeds for you .

phreakanimal · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This guy.

designerdad · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A lot of crazy life changing events were happening to me and I really felt like I fell into another dimension. I took my daughter(3) to breakfast one day and as we were eating she ask, "Is this still the same Earth". I found it really odd thing for her to say but it made me wonder.

ohmygahdmahm · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Early this morning I fell asleep listening to the podcast Mysterious Universe. I woke up to this (no video, audio only, so there was no context): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeIgu3BQS7w&feature=player_embedded

His laugh made my skin crawl and also woke my six year old who proceeded to freak out. I was honestly scared.

GhostlyFireCunt · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend telling me how he's seen "shadow people" and what they looked like. The fact I was hanging out with him in his room where he's seen them freaked me out. I don't know if I believe in ghosts or spirits but every since I was a kid I've always been terrified of seeing one or something.

My friend explained the shadow people in extremely vivid detail like how they moved and what they would do. I almost pissed myself literally because I was too scared to use his bathroom and I had to pee since before I got to his house.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just got out of yoga at the gym (im a guy). About to walk down the stairs and this guy walks past me. Under his breath he whispers "...gorgeous" in my ear and keeps walking. Chills radiated down my spine as I cringed in my horrified flattery.

beat_juice · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was this one time when my brother and I were watching tv in my room around midnight. We had the tv really low so our parents didn't know we were up watching tv because (we weren't supposed to be awake that late). Anyways, a commercial was on and I put it on mute. Then it got really cold and I heard a little girl muttering and singing. I turned to my brother and his face was pale as hell and he looked scared out of his mind. I asked if he heard the singing, and he said he had. We then ran full speed to our parents room and slept on their floor. It was the creepiest thing that's ever happened to me.

cRaZyDaVe23 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The other possibilities are: 1) a lower budget movie, designed to win over people who liked Fast & Furious 6. 2) (in reference of what they might do with the next startrek movie)

StripRip · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in a relatively rural area, but I have people around. Last night I was in bed, about to fall asleep, when I heard a red fox start screaming. Scariest wake-up call I've had in awhile.

speaminti · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Mine isn't that great compared to these but I'll tell y'all anyway.

Towards the end of last summer, I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep. It was really hot and humid so I was having trouble drifting off. I was lying on my side with my eyes closed when I feel the heat of something next to the side of my face - you know that feeling you get when someone's almost touching you? Being in a sort of semi-conscious state I didn't think much of it until I heard, literally right next to my ear, what sounded like somebody whispering 'spearminti'.

I bolted upright, on the verge of filling my bed with my own excrement, to see that there were two small dents on the bottom half of my bed like the ones left by someone kneeling.

Didn't sleep for a while.

Blake_I_Is · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

Byleland · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Anytime there's an American election

eggsgrainey · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

backpacking in the sierras, we had been hearing wolves all night. they were far away at first, maybe 5 miles away. We set up camp for the night, and just as we were about to doze off we hear them, maybe 300 yards from our camp. wolf howls are LOUD. you could hear them panting and yipping. we were far away from any one, no cell service, just my buddy and i. i don't remember how we got to sleep, but maybe dozed off sometime in the early morning. damn nature, you scary.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was a kid, we used to stop round our nans old house during the summer holidays. The bottom floor I felt absolutely comfortable on and at total ease. If I was on the middle floor, I always used to feel like I was being watched by something or hear little creeks, but that was to be expected it's a old house. But the top floor man,that top fucking floor, scared the shit out of me and my mum always used to make me sleep in the room with the creepiest fucking dolls I've ever seen, I used to turn them around so they wouldn't look at me. Anyway, this one time I was on the top floor, I was playing in a room above the opening to the attic, when all of a sudden, I heard banging on the wood panel covering, I have never ran so fast in my life. I'm getting creeped out thinking about it ;(

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I posted this on /r/thetruthishere awhile ago:

This happened my senior year of college, Christmas break 2006. I worked for a professor that asked me to house/dog sit for him while he was outta town to see the bowl game that we were in. He was gone for three days and had a huge piece of land in the middle of nowhere. I invited my gf at the time. He had horses and fishing and a gator to ride around on, etc etc.

so the first two nights went down with no incident, but the last night, his little foofy dog is having a fit. She keeps barking at the back door. At first we blow it off, but decide to lock the dog inside in case of a coyote or something. After awhile we start to get a little creeped out. I keep saying it's probably an animal and we'll be fine. My gf (not too bright) wants to go investigate to see what's outside, so I lock the door behind her (hehe, just kidding). She goes outside and says she saw something small and grey (probably a coyote) and it ran off. So, just an animal, no worries. but by this time, we're pretty spooked.

The dog now starts barking at the window on the other side of the house, we're still trying to ignore it, but a little worried. We decide to get into bed... awkward silence... then i hear it..... it sounds like a young girl singing a soft, eerie lullaby. I don't say anything, hoping that my mind is playing tricks on me. My gf says, "Let's get the fuck outta here." I say "Why?" she says, "You didn't hear that little girl singing?" "Ok, let's get the fuck out." and we got the fuck out. I even called someone to talk to me while we walked out to my car. Next morning, went to clean up the house and such.

Most scared i've ever been. Ever.

Philivory · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Off the top of my head there was this one night a few months ago that really creeped me out.

Now, i'm not really a night person, sometimes when I try to sleep I swear I'm not able to stop my mind from filling what i can't see in the darkness with abominations, silly i know.

Well one night I went to be and for no reason at all, i just wake up at about 3 AM. I don't remember having a vivid dream or anything im just up for some inexplicable reason. I decide to just get up and take a piss and when i come back i notice there's headlights in my driveway. At first I thought they were just using my driveway to get turned around but the car stayed like that for a good long while. This is where my mind just starts becoming filled with horrid and scary explanations for why the car is there, like "Is my house about to be broken into?", Eventually i see 2 figures get out of the car and walk a short ways behind the car and i cant see what they're doing because of the darkness. The whole time this is happening the question that kept sticking to my brain was, "Why did I wake up as soon as this began to happen?". Eventually the people gt back in the car and drive off and i still have no idea what they were doing. This probably isn't the scariest story, it's just at the time my mind hyped it up to be something more terrifying than it actually was.

croissantella · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obviously all this happened at nighttime :

Hearing the "boum boum boum" of some party going on the neighborhood without knowing there is a party, after watching Jumanji.

Hearing some cats in the garden during their "intimidation mode" before they fight, and thinking it is a baby.

Hearing a noise in my closet before seeing light from the inside of it. The flashlight inside it felt in the switch.

Kexintechex · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went jogging about a year ago, when i came around a bend, i noticed something lying on the ground. It was a ski mask and a rag.

I quickly turned back and ran the other way.

Truck_Thunders · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 8 I had a bedroom in the basement, it wasn't gross or anything, it was a nice basement, but basements are still scary when you're 8. Anyways, one night I hear my mom doing laundry outside my bedroom, the laundry room was right outside. I can't remember what I wanted, it was probably water or some shit, but I do remember asking for her, I just said "Moooooooooooooom?" in that loud little kid voice to see if it was her or my dad, and of course she says "yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees?" in an equally loud sarcastically mocking me voice (I come from a sarcastic family) so I go out and this is where it gets freaky, NO ONE'S OUT THERE, NO ONE'S DOING LAUNDRY, so I lose my shit and sprint upstairs and think maybe she was in the kitchen? Nope. I continue running up to the second floor and she's reading in her room, I ask if she heard me call for her and she says no. Turns out I just suffer from auditory hallucinations stemming from depression, because apparently that's a thing, who knew?

theivingbullet · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a black light in my room as teen. During some private time with my girlfriend at the time, we got the idea to turn the black light on. We flipped it on and where having fun.

I moved the sheet on my bed and underneath was a large hand print in a bloodstain color. It even had a slight drag to it.

Immediately we jumped off the bed;flipped the black light off. There was no trace of the print but whenever I flipped the switch it came back.

This happened around the time where I would see steam-like shapes appear suddenly in font of me when walking down my hallway.

TLDR

I think my house was haunted at some point.

WamZz · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The movie VHS. Watch it. Now.

Skoll-Hati · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was working with a chaplain one summer when I was in college. He woke me up and took me along on a middle of the night call to the scene of an auto accident. A van had been totally smashed by an 18 wheeler. We were looking for the body somewhere in the van. I saw the victim's hand. I took hold of it, yelling for the chaplain to join me. I pulled on it, lightly, but the entire hand came off and I was holding the hand with about half the forearm still attached. I spent the rest of that chaplain-call puking my guts out.

Pch666 · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

BooBahs

fool-of-a-took · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, to lighten the mood, this was terrifying to me, but funny in hindsight.

Back before I had a roku and I had to watch hulu on my laptop like a chump, I was watching the movie "Wise Blood." I was in my office and my wife was in the living room. It was night. I fall asleep during movies, so I drifted off. But suddenly I'm awakened by blood-curling screams. My laptop is off, and in my half asleep state I think that someone has broken into the house and is attacking my wife.

So I go fully into fight-or-flight mode and rush out to the living room. My wife is reading and blithely looks up in a bemused sort of way. I have no idea what I said, but I could still hear the screams. So I figured it was coming from outside. She just kept looking at me quizzically. I finally asked...where is that screaming coming from??!!! She casually says...sounds like your laptop.

Yep. The screen went to sleep and the movie kept playing. If you ever watch that movie, enjoy the screaming at the end and remember my moment of terror.

It wasn't funny that night though, I literally sat down and wept because I was so worked up and ready for anything. Had a little bit of post-tramatic stress to get out.

kryonik · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The "Footsteps" stories over at /r/nosleep.

The Dionaea House.

The Noend House.

The Candle Cove story.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

captainxenu · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

From another similar thread:

I stayed over at my friends house one night, drinking and playing his Playstation in the lounge room. We heard a large thud sound and metal hitting the ground in the kitchen. Go out and find a knife that had been sitting in the sink, on the ground, spinning around.

Shortly after, the back door starts shaking and sounds like someone is starting to knock on it. Faster and faster. We get up the nerve to go check and as it is still banging and knocking and shaking, we open it, and there is nothing there. It's not even windy.

We freaked out, went back to the lounge room and tried to keep drinking. Couldn't and decided to go to bed. My friend put me in the spare bedroom they had, and I went to sleep after trying for about 2 hours.

My friend later told me that he never ever went into that room because it always felt like someone was watching him in there. And to be honest, it really did. It was really unsettling.

Freaky ass house.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uluh1/what_is_the_creepiest_most_inexplicable_thing/c4wiai2

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Randomly my parents decided to buy a chicken farm when I was 8 and brother was 6. We were there for 10 years. The farm had 4 barns roughly 50' wide by 300' long. Basically the length of a football field. Each barn had 15,000 birds in them from being hours old when they were delivered to 45 days old when they were picked up for processing.

Anyways as they got to the end of 45 days old the chickens filled the 4 barns and you had to shuffle your feet to get them to move. My brother and I would split up and do chores in separate barns as we grew up to make them go faster. No matter what time of day or year this always happened where I would make it all the way back to the end of the barn and work my way back to the front either picking up dead birds or other maintenance in the barns. I would hear my name being called from the front of the barn. It was distinct but faint. I would either stand up or turn around and look to see who was calling and there was never anyone there. Even when in the barns with no birds and the front doors open so you could see all the way down through it I would hear the calling. And again never see anyone.t wasn't a happy calling it was a very faint serious type of help me calling. I even remember once when the barn was empty I heard it and I ignored it and it kept calling. I never saw anyone. So it kept up and finally I ran to the front expecting to see anyone who was calling me. No one was there so I ran to the house and my mom was there while my dad was in a different barn and brother in a seperate barn.

Turns out my dad, aunt, and mom also said they heard people calling them and no one ever there.

Also I now live on the east coast in NE in an old old house. We use an iPad mini to play music to get our son to sleep. His crib is on one side of the m and the iPad is on his changing table plugged in charging on the opposite side of the room. One night t he wasn't going to sleep I walked in rather frustrated he was standing up in his crib. I walked through the door and got to arms length to him and heard a loud thud behind me. I turned and the iPad was on the floor. The next week my wife were in his room fixing the curtains when we noticed the pins we had in the bottom of the curtains to keep off the baseboard heaters during the winter were missing in the curtains. (yes we know it wasn't smart or safe and the curtains are now sewn). My son was sitting in his crib and playing with his bunny blanket. Basically a small silk blankly with a bunny head. He started mentioning with his thumb and pointer like he was pinching. I turned the bunny over to face me and there was 4 pins in each goddamn eye. they were pushed in Wll the way and we're very hard to take out. It was keeper as shit. e got a new bunny as fast as we could.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In Highschool (1998 and 1999) I had a friend that had alot of woods behind his house. He and his dad were walking around exploring back there and found an abandoned house. There was an indoor pool, a seven story tower that had scaffolding as if it were going to be built higher, and master bedroom had to be 1500 sq feet on its own. We found evidence of Horses and toys from the early 90s. There were lots of toys and it seemed like it had been left in a hurry but by the time we found it it had been abandoned for at least 8 years. The main power still worked as well. Its creepy to think why would you abandon a house so quickly that you put so much money and personal work into. I just new some family tragedy had happened and this was the last echos of their life.

xist92 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Barbershop Haircut.

Listen with headphones and wait for the end.

KimmyKAOS · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

when i was younger, my parents left me home alone for a couple hours while they went grocery shopping with my younger sister. so i did what most normal children did, i was watching tv to pass the time. so i was in the basement, watching tv and slowly the sun was setting from late afternoon to early evening and i was wondering where my parents were. it was as if they heard my thoughts, i heard one of the chairs in the dining room scrape back from upstairs ( the basement was directly under it). so i ran upstairs to see if they needed help putting stuff away. just as i got upstairs i noticed there were no bags in the kitchen, no shoes at the front door, the door was locked, even the chairs in the dining room were all perfectly tucked away. i was confused. i could have sworn i heard the chair move back. so i go back downstairs, confused out of my little 10 year old mind. After about 10 minutes, again i hear what sounded like a chair from the dining room scrape out on the hardwood floor beneath it. i went back upstairs and once again, everything was as it was before. no one was home yet, nothing had been moved. By now i'm actually getting creeped out so i went back downstairs and kept the cordless with me, just in case. i literally just get back into watching my show when suddenly hear 3 footsteps and the heavy front door to my house slamming shut. Now i jumped up and ran upstairs so i could witness if someone was trying to freak me out, but once again there was no sign of life in my house besides me. Part of me wanted to run out of the house and wait till my parent got home, but i decided to stop being stupid and i went to investigate the house, and sure enough, no one was home.

when my parents came home, i told them about it and they just laughed in my face. i'm still terrified of being home alone and that was over 10 years ago.

kulwean · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

About almost ten years ago a (now) Ex and I were living with my grandmother, one night while laying in bed watching tv we heard the door to our room start randomly shaking, we shrugged it off thinking it was either the train running (there are tracks about a quarter mile from the house) or the dryer or maybe we were that stoned that we "thought" we heard it. Anyways a couple nights later it happened again I jokingly said something to the ex like "that ghost is fucking with our door again" we both laughed about it and went on with whatever the hell we were doing. This goes on for a couple more nights but one night, and here's where shit starts to get weird, door starts shaking like usual but about half way through the ex yells "we can hear you, cut it out" and it instantly stopped. We're both freaked the fuck out at this point so the next morning I say something to my grandmother about it, thinking she's going to say I'm crazy or something, but she just looks at me and says shes going to talk to one of the girls (this chick calmed she was a psychic or some shit) at work about it. So she comes home and said she discussed it with the chick and she said we have a spirit in the house and its trying to get to either the ex and I or the room so we have to do an exorcism, lol ok cool whatever Im high and bored this could be fun. So she tells us what we got to do, open both the front and back doors, open the window in our room, and say a "prayer". Keep in mind the ex and I both are atheist/agnostic so we're both doing this thinking its going to be bullshit. So I go up stairs, open the window and pry a flat head screwdriver in between the stile and the channel (grandma's house is older with those wooden windows that wouldn't stay open by themselves, this was the only way to keep it open). I go back down stairs and we start the prayer/exorcism grandma reads the prayer and says something like 'you may now leave, your not welcomed here' or something along those lines, right after she said that our window slams shut, all three of us are setting there looking at each other shocked and finally I say Ill go check it out. I go in our room and the first thing I notice is the screwdriver I had used to jam the window is all the way on the other side of the room (it couldn't have fell and rolled, there was a love seat and a bed in between where it was setting and the window). I go down stairs to tell them about the screwdriver and when I get to the living room a fucking random cat walks into the house and jets straight to our room (we still had the doors open at this point). We're all like this shit is too weird by now and decide to just leave this shit alone for the night, the ex and I go to our room smoke a joint, play everquest, and chill with our new buddy that just barged into our room. The next morning we let the cat out and he just runs off, we never saw him again and the door never shook after that night.

TL;DR: got stoned, did an exorcism with my grandmother, some weird shit happens, gained a random cat for a night and a totally unbelievable story.

circusdawn13 · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok this isn't really scary when you know the whole story but as a kid it scared the shit out of me. So I was about seven or eight and had seen Jaws and other such scary movies. So my family took a vacation to Sarasota, Florida and go to the beach. I took a boogie board and started swimming. On accident I drifted pretty far out from the shore and only realized when I was out by one of those buoys, you know the ones that you can barely see from the shore. Well first I see that and look back at the shore and realize how far out I am, next I do the natural little kid thing I looked down. I looked down into the water and I could see pretty far down when I noticed a very dark oval shaped thing floating up towards me. I could tell pretty quickly that it was bigger than me and it was alive. I froze up thinking naturally that this thing was a shark and I was about to die. I kept watching as it rose up and up...coming closer and closer until it emerged just to the right of me. It was big gray and wrinkly, that's right it was just a manatee. So I unfroze and swam as fast as I fucking could back to shore.

kingxero1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been on a train while someone has been run over. You feel the mass under the car. I was stuck in the car as people in the station were in all sorts of chaos (crying, freaking out, some in shock). They let us out after 15 minutes of staff/police tried to bring order to the thing.

Mr_Murdoc · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandmother died and she used to live with my dad in his spare room. After she passed I stayed the night at my dads and he let me stay in the spare room, but I could not sleep knowing this was the room my dead nan stayed in.

I eventually fell asleep but was eruptly awoken by the voice of a woman saying my name in a very gentle fashion, as I turned in the bed I saw my grandmother standing their but she was glowing blue? The next thing I remembered was waking up drenched in sweat.

I am a strong atheist and usually laugh at these type of things but every since that night I haven't been to sure...

pvtdbjackson · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in school, I played the cello. Since you need to sit down to play it and I shared a small room with my brother, I always practiced in my parents bedroom. One time near the end of my practice, I finished playing a song but heard something strange. The faucet in the bathroom attached to my parents bedroom was turned on. The only door connects directly to their bedroom and was in sight the entire time. It wasn't on when I started practicing.

Years later I mentioned this to my family. My dad said that he always had an uneasy feeling there (we no longer live there).

TheManRJB · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The movie Shrooms on Netflix is fucking disturbing, weak acting but if you can get past that it's a pretty decent horror movie. At one point a dude is shoving his dick in a demons mouth recieving a blowjob before the demon bites that shit off. And the end is also a trip, don't want to reveal too much. But it's pretty disturbing and weird.

RobFword · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A story I heard when I was in elementary school.

A lady licked an envelope and apparently there was a cockroach egg on it and the egg went in her throat. Later the egg hatched and the cockroach was in her throat and every time she talked the cockroach tried to escape.

Now I realized it was just bullshit. But when your 8 or 9 you believe anything. Still 10 or 11 years later I still think of that story every time I lick an envelope.

Krandallsfury · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest thing ever for me was...

12 y ears ago. I was a sophomore in high school. I was on my way into school bright and early. (First car. 85' Plymouth Gran Fury monster sound system in it). I had the radio blaring limp bizkit. fyea. I was coming up to a set of train tracks I have to cross. At this time there was no crossing guard arms. In front of the tracks, there was a gravel frontage road that ran parallel with the tracks. coming up to the tracks, you could 99% of the time see if a train was coming up. There were dump trucks hauling and kicking up dust so I couldn't see. I crossed the tracks, heard a train whistle, I looked back, and the train was already across the crossing. My stomach sunk, won't ever forget that. Scarriest thing Ive had happen to me.

ovoKOS7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I missed school one day, was alone home. I went to the shower, then right when I got out, my kitchen cabinets were all opened, fridge door too

hunnicutt · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I'm really bad at taking my birth control."

Ahhh, so a few weeks ago, when you said "I take birth control," you actually forgot to end the sentence with "sometimes?" Good to know.

DtownMaverick · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Taken in Hollywood

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh I should have added this to my previous comment, but I just remembered it. I've slept with the TV on ever since I was 14. I'm 24 now, and still terrified of the dark from this one incident.

The condo I grew up in had a couple of silly paranormal things happen. Lights turning off and on, water turning off and on. Playful things that never scared me much. This is the one thing that scared the living piss out of me. I was watching TV late with the lights on in my room. At that moment every light shut off, TV shut off. I hear this thing breathing in my ear loudly and really heavily. Deep heavy rapid breaths right in my ear. I freaked out and hid under the covers like any other rational person and started to pray. I grew up really religious. Once I felt like it was safe to get out of bed and try to turn the lights on from the circuit breaker, I got up. The breaker was in my room behind my door and sometimes when the power was out I'd go jiggle the controls and the lights would work. When I got up I noticed no one elses condo's had the lights out, just ours. As I'm walking towards the breaker all the lights turn back on by themselves. Mind you I'm the only one awake. My grandfather was the only person in the house and he was passed the fuck out. I've been scared of the dark ever since. Fuck that.

ShadowSun07 · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was running through the night saw something in some reeds. Turned out it was a creeper scary as man....

Proiler · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest moment- when my mom walks up behind me when i have headphones on and a shadow casts over me.

cizziah · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once I was sitting in my room at like ten o'clock about to go to bed when I heard this bloodcurdling scream that sounded like It was coming from right out my window. I ran into my brothers room right beside mine and woke him up. We were both sitting there and we heard it again right outside his window this time. The scream sounded like a women who was being attacked. After a while we went back to bed, but that was so nerve racking for me. In the morning I asked my stepdad about it and he said it was probably a coyote.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I sleep in the basement of my house, one night I woke up in the middle of the night for no reason and glanced at my door. Standing there was a grayish white figure, I layed back down for a second and bolted back up as soon as what I saw registered in my brain. It was gone. Not sure if my mind was just fucking with me or what, but I didn't sleep much after that. Another time after this I heard a loud whisper saying my name, I was the only one in the house so I ran up the stairs.

blackflag6 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard a lot of screaming and shouting in the night when I was eight, I thought it was just random drunken activities. In the morning, there were news crews all over our estate, and there'd been a stabbing.

I think I should find this creepy and disturbing, but I honesty never get scared by the thought.

ProffesorBongsworth · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have a scary one which I've told before. My friends and I were driving in the mountains in Colorado one summer and it was super late, like 3 am. The windy road we were on was dark as hell and we were basically in the middle of nowhere going up and down the winding mountain rd. At least 20 miles to the nearest town. Anyways, as we're driving we see some people on the side of the road wearing long robed clothes, quite a distance in front of us. We were amazed, especially 3 ppl were out. So We get closer and slow down and we all simultaneously get the goosebumps,my hair on my neck stood... We slow down slightly to get a better look at the People/figures and their wearing their robes AND THEY HAD NO FACES. they had heads but no eyes, noses or mouths. There was 3 of them and they were walking super sllw We literally all start screaming, and freaking the hell out (all guys, all 25+). One of friends starting crying it was soooo scary and crazy. We sped the fuck away and never looked back. Still get nightmares about that today. We have no idea what they were, maybe they were demons? Idk still freaks us all out

kristianwithak · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My older sister is a year older than me and about 4 or 5 wierd things have happened to her...3 of them being unexplainable in my opinion. So ill share the one that gets be the best.

I was in grade 2 and my sister was in grade 3 when we first flew to newfoundland during summer break to meet my fathers dad and his side of the family. My sister immediately grew close to my grandpa and he became her favourite grandpa. Hed let her and my younger sister give him make overs and paint his nails. He never came to our place in Pickering (1 town east of Toronto) and he promised my sister hed come down for her birthday in February. Months passed and she had spoken to him once or twice over the phone. One night during the winter my sister came out of her room anywhere between 2-4am and she was crying. My dad asked her what was wrong and she said grandpas not coming for my birthday. My dad asked if she was talking to him on the phone and she said "hes going to die before my birthday". My dad never had a great relationship with his dad so this made him mad and he sent her back to bed. I woke up and went to school and I was told my dad was already at work and my sister went out with my aunt instead of school. Later that night after hockey practice, my mom told me that my great grandma called around 5 in the morning to tell my dad that his father died early that morning. My dad and my sister flew down there that morning after they found out. For a few years after that id hear my sister talking at night and when I questioned her about it shed tell me grandpa comes and sits on her bed and talks to her. Surprisingly she wasnt comfortable with it, instead it terrified her. Some nights id hear her run out of her room and down the stairs and her answer to that would be "grandpa was acting weird."

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Not creepy but def one of my scariest moments. Back in 2002 when I was living in South Bay (Torrance). At 4am my neighbors house blew up. Nothing was left besides the chimney. Heres a picture.

KILLERBACON · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One word...

/r/WTF

Wilgus_Says_What · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Comment to save

Turbotottle · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was sitting in the car at a gas station (9:00 am in a fairly populated area) my mom was putting gas in the car, look to my left towards the road, see a car pull into the turning lane and stop, man gets out of his car and opens the trunk, looks like he threw a wrench or a knife in the trunk as if somebody was in it. Nobody saw the plate number, now I know that a murderer might live in my area.

_vanmorrison · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a shark in the water about 40 yards from my friends and I at Daytona Beach during the 2012 spring break. Full figured, riding the wave and all.

When we got back home, I look online and apparently Daytona is one of the top shark attack sites in the world.

Zombies_hate_ninjas · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Police in Canada, and I believe in America, are more likely to contract AIDs or Hep B or C than they are likely to get shot. This is due to interacting with drug users and dealers.

ViralBlender · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A fight between some people
One guy shot another to death in front of my eyes
I was watching all of this from my balcony
Came down, locked all the doors of my house
Couldn't mutter a word for a while
I was 14 then and couldn't sleep properly for a long long time!

irascib1e · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one's not mine but a friend's. One time when he was six he was playing in the front yard with a plastic dinosaur. He threw it in the air and it never came back down.

dulcislol · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That creepypasta with the turning head.. ugh, just thinking about it gives me shivers :(

WHAT_DEAD_BODY · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

3 am and this is what I decide to click on :l

Melotonius · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was reading a book by William Gibson in the Borders bookstore in Provo, Utah. There was a motorcycle chase scene in the book. As I read it, I heard a loud thump that shook the building. I found out a girl had gotten on her boyfriend's motorcycle and lost control, slamming into the building. A guy ran inside the women's bathroom to get sanitary napkins to stop the bleeding.

Teriblegramer · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Everyone is going to die.

bleedingheartsurgery · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this dude

http://i.imgur.com/iDLvAYr.jpg

Adamcanfield · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest sound is the sound of a man trying to be silent

kinguzumaki · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ITT

Thatdamage · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm kinda late to the party but my Junior year of HS, I had just gotten a Computer for my room and as soon as we hooked up the Internet I started the usual browsing. espn, pop cap games, normal stuff like that. This was 2005 so I remember there was always TONS of pop up ad games and one was this game that essentially these Middle eastern men would pop up and throw rocks at you and you had to use your mouse as a cross hair and shoot them and once you hit 3 of them you "Win". For whatever reason I found this amusing and would habitually play it whenever I saw it until one day after shooting my 3rd and final assailant rather than the typical "Congratulations you just won blah blah blah" there was a video that popped up that was indeed without a doubt an ACTUAL jihadist propaganda film where in 5 men beheaded a man with a knife. I still see the images in my mind and can remember the screams and gurgles.... Makes me sick.

Edit: I still have no idea how this happened

bluntedaffect · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Unit 731

redwendigo · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is probably old news to Reddit but if you are unfamiliar, Google search "wire therapy" and see if you don't say what the fuck.

SKEETLE5 · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I used to live in a ridiculously big house (think rich asshole Florida big). When we had it built, we put in two HUGE decorative iron-barred doors put in (the type you can see and reach through), one at the entrance to the area where my parents' room was, and one next to our secluded "computer room." When I say huge, I mean it. It would've probably taken 3 people to slide one across the doorways that they were to the left and right of, respectively.

The doors looked like this, but taller and thicker. These doors were NEVER slid shut, as they were just there for decoration, albeit creepy decoration. One day while I was home alone in this fortress of a house, I began to hear a sound like someone stomping every few minutes as I was sitting in the computer room, coming from upstairs. I dismissed it at first as being creaks due to the new house (if you've seen Talladega Nights, you know what I mean). This continued for about 10 minutes, at which point I decided to creep up the stairs, scared as hell, to confirm it was just the house. Once I got up there, there was nothing. As I begin to walk back down the stairs, I hear rapid stamping coming down the hallway upstairs behind me. Scared shitless, I leap down the stairs, and run back towards the computer room.

As I turn the corner leading to the computer room, I come face to face with the iron door, shut across the doorway, for the first time ever. At this point, I'm in overdrive, flipping the fuck out. I turn to run a different route towards the front door, which I couldn't see from this area, and as I'm running this way, I hear a terrible, metal-on-wood sound (we had wooden floors), and as I'm still sprinting to the front door, I notice that my parents' iron door has been shut across their doorway as well (presumably just before I got there, judging by the sound I heard). At this point I'm just about to the front door, and the stamping comes back, but this time down the wooden stairs, which I can't see from the front door.

At this point, I'm sprinting down the front porch steps to the lawn, and down the road to my buddys house. There was never any explanation to what the hell happened, my parents got back in town that night, at which point I returned home, and wasn't taken very seriously.

olinselot · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Watching and hearing a suicidal guy rip the veins and tendons out of his wrist with his own teeth trying to end his life. We stopped him, but that sight is burned in my head.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My roommate and I were sleeping on our respective beds. We talk a bit before we both dose off. Anyways, I was about to dose off when I heard this weird pitched scream that seemed to come from the room. Thing is, it sounded eeriely human - at the same time, the sound cut off immediately when I snapped out of my dosing off. I immediately said 'what the fuck dude' thinking my roommate was fucking with me. He then just said, "dude... did you hear that too?". It wasn't coming from outside but in our room and sounded human, but cut off too suddenly to be real.

Frediscool123123 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL my life lacks scares

badjoedude · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This thread.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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ca178858 · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God those things are horrible sounding. Same as you- windows open dark out. Suddenly that coming from a few feet away from me. At the time I didn't know what it was.

highfructoscornsyrup · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i was on a hike when i stumbled across a pile of deer bones. They were clearly old and bleached, so I took some time examining them. Then I heard the weird hissing/growling/puffing sound a cougar makes.

Scary.

DuhStar · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One day, me and my mom were home alone. We were sitting inside my office, looking over some stuff on her computer. She was sitting on the big comfy computer chair and I was sitting on the edge of the guest bed we have in that room. On the table where our computer was my mom had left a cup there. Suddenly, that cup moved about a foot--it slid accross the table slowly. My first reaction was to stand up and squeal. My mom was rather calm, she believes in ghosts. I don't. I lifted up the cup to check for magnets, strings, anything...The cup had a flat bottom and it was completely empty. No water, no nothing. I even went as far to check the table's angle...It was completely flat.

Still to this day I have no idea what it was, but I hope one day someone will explain to me how that happened. with science. Tl;dr I saw a cup move by itself.

cacaman8 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I watched a cat be ran over. I know, not really "scary" per say, but it was incredibly shocking and depressing.

I was 12, walking home from eating taco bell with my friend, and as we walked by a bush, a cat came sprinting out and darted across the road. It wasn't fast enough though, as a car ran it over and you could hear its bones breaking. I can't help but feel bad; we probably scared it and unintentionally led it to its death.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I always hear voices of people calling me and when I investigate, no one is there. I also see shadow people but only occasionally. Spikes when I'm scared. Nope.

WheiWhei · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have you ever heard a fisher cat kill something? Sometimes it sounds like a screaming demon baby is murdering something in the woods outside my house.

marcusr2013 · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest thing I have ever heard is "what if I told you..." o_O

mantisinmypantis · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This.

chrispankey · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

around the beltway in d.c. especially by bases there are microphones, and on the signs over head that mark exits there are microphones, everything you say is being recorded/heard/listened to.

NotOkayWithThis · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Simple, but terrifying.

Rawrer44307 · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlB1EpEhj4s The Rite of Spring: Nijinksy choreography

Smurfy-Its-You · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This past Christmas Eve I was visiting my parents when this happened. A little back story here is that the prior owner of their house died in what is now their guest bedroom, but which was the master bedroom prior to and addition they've since added to the house. They moved into this house about 10 years or so ago. My mother told me in the first year they lived there that the old man visited her twice, seemingly upset about simple renovations they were making like painting and such. One night she awoke to him standing on the side of the bed and she told him to go away and that he didn't live there anymore, and he did. The other time she was in the bathroom and he passed by the doorway. Now, I'm a skeptic but I do believe people have these mysterious experiences, I'm just not quick to reach conclusions based on them.

So, back to this past Christmas Eve. We all went to bed around midnight or 1am and I was sleeping in what is now the guest bedroom. I was lying there on my stomach, for what felt like about an hour when I was startled by a very loud bang beneath me, as if something struck the box spring directly below me. It was so powerful considering that there's only about a foot between the floor and the bottom of the box spring. Almost immediately the bed started to gently rock as if someone was standing at the foot of the bed pushing on it and I no longer felt alone.

I was very curious and thought, "this is it, I'm about to actually see an apparition" and believe it or not I wasn't scared, I was excited. I felt lucky. So, I decided to prop myself up and look around the room to see the "smoking gun" but nothing was there. The bed stopped shaking after about 15 seconds and all was calm.

SlowTurn · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm late to this party but the story involving the Peeping Tom in a porta potty.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up in a house that was AT LEAST 150 years old, no one really knows how old it is. It stood on the top of a hill surrounded by thick forests, and with that comes the warnings of panthers and cougars that people still claim live in the area (near Cassopolis MI). Beyond that though, the house was pure white except for the cracking of the outside paint, with a big bell over the garage that still works to this day. The house was supposedly part of the Underground Railroad, with many hidden walls and cubbyholes throughout the attic and basement.

Anyways, no matter where you went inside that house it felt like you were being watched. Doors would close, floors would creak, and the while place simply seemed dark and filled with hatred. After my dad died and we were getting ready to sell the house we found out that apparently a long time ago a Native American woman was scalped on the property. It was very creepy to realize that the place I'd called home for long long had such a dark past, but it certainly explained a lot about the place. I miss the house, but I don't miss the feelings that came with it. There was not a lot of happiness there, despite good memories with my family.

punkrawkstar · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have posted this before in another thread, but it fits with this thread as well. In 2004, a couple of friends of mine went to investigate an urban legend about a place called "Spook Light" in the rural Midwest. What you are supposed to do is drive to this church in the middle of nowhere and flash your lights into the woods and then you will see lights flash back at you. I thought that this was a stupid waste of time, but it was 3 a.m. and raining and we needed a break from recording music. The legend is that a child was run over by a horse buggy back in the day and her head sliced off. No one ever found the head, so her father would look for it day in and day out, and you can see his lantern floating out in the woods at night. That is supposed to be the light you see. The reality is, this very rural wooded area is atop some old mines and the light seen in the woods is said to be from some kind of gas that surfaces from these mines, creating small fireballs. Either way, I was skeptical the whole time. I was eating a cheeseburger in the back seat being completely indifferent as we flashed the light into the woods and waited. Of course, nothing happened. We ended up re-positioning the car a few times and flashing the lights a bunch and the results were similarly fruitless. So, we figure we have exhausted to the legend and we decide it's finally time to go home and I am pretty happy about this because it was pretty boring and a waste of time. As we leave and head down this winding dirt road with woods on both sides, my friend in the front passenger seat is like "Holy f***! What's that?" At first I didn't even bother to look because I thought he was just trying to mess with us, but then the driver had the same reaction, so I looked up. What I saw still chills me to this day. I look forward and there is a man in a hooded garment and what looked like dirt smeared all over his face just walking straight out of the woods and right up to the side of the road. He just stared us down and seemed completely unfazed by the rain. We could not (in the moment) explain who this man was or why he was there. But we all agreed (with our screams) that there was indeed a man there. The driver slammed on the gas and we got the hell out of there as fast as possible. As we drove we were trying to rationalize what we saw... maybe he was a survivalist, maybe dealing meth, maybe doing some kind of Springtime rain hunting. We had no idea. But, it was one of the most eerie and odd things I have ever seen to this day. Deep down inside, I kind of hope he was just a guy who goes out into those woods on the weekends to scare the hell out of teens and twenty-somethings. And even deeper down inside I hope that we didn't see a ghost.

TL;DR Spooky, hooded, dirt-faced man in the middle of nowhere saunters out of the woods in the rain at 3am and scares a bunch of people investigating an urban legend.

faleboat · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

Pretty much anything in there.

DethsMistress · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was staying at the Banff Springs Hotel with my mom a couple years ago, she had gone to bed early and I was pretty bored. It was after midnight and I decided to go wander the hotel since it is super old and I love how it feels and looks like a castle. The place was a ghost town since it was so late and I only saw 3 other people, all of whom employees, on my whole wander. After exploring all the main areas I made it back to the second floor above the main lobby and was trying to decide where to go next. I decided to check out the floor I had seen in the elevator with the little gold plaque saying VIP or something like that to see what was so special, if I could even get there without a key-card. I press the button, the elevator comes up from the lobby where it has been sitting waiting the whole time I've been deciding and I get and go to press the button for the floor. It is already lit up. There is literally no one else around other than the desk agent behind the desk and I had been standing in front of the elevator for a good few minutes, there is no way someone could have pressed the button. The doors closed immediately after I got in and went up to the floor. I'm pretty freaked out at this point but decide to see the floor anyway.. I make it almost all the way to the bend in the hallway when I hear footsteps coming towards me. Terrified I turn around and book it back to the elevator, return to my room and hide under the covers the rest of the night.

Sebzor15 · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So I was at a friend's house once, and he asked me if I believe in ghosts. I've never believed in ghosts, but I've always kept an open mind toward the idea of them.

His house is a little odd; their heater would suddenly turn off and on, their dog would suddenly get creeped out by something, et cetera. He's really open minded toward pretty much everything, so he is sure that their house is haunted.

He asked me if I wanted to see something in their basement. I went down to the basement with him, and he told me to look into the room to the right from the stairs. I went into the room, he shut off the lights in the basement and closed the door to the basement so no light would shine in. As darkness crept in, I started to see something; a weak light, really just a flicker of light. Like a newly-lit candle just barely starting to consume oxygen. Barely noticable. But it got brighter and brighter, on this very same spot he had previously described to me.

There really was no way for light to shine in; no windows, basement door is faced the other way and is in the other room. In no concievable way could light ever shine or reflect into that room. Yet there was light in there.

Personally, I'm not scared of the dark, nor have I ever believed in ghosts or any of the like, but the memory of that shit still creeps me out. Seriously can't figure out what it was.

thoughtsaresad · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://regretfulmorning.com/wp-content/gallery/scarys-gifs/creepy-8.gif

themetajon · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My parents old house. It used to be the homestead of an apple orchard on top of a hill, one of the oldest homes in my valley. At night, I would dream of a female presence, not human, old and cold, who would grab me in my bed and try to pull me into the darkness.

Every time I had the dream, she would get more and more aggressive. She eventually managed to pull me, kicking and screaming, off the bed, through the door, and into the hall. The last time it happened, I fought back hard, kicking her and screaming at her to let me go. Never had those dreams again. Never felt unsettled in that room again.

Then I started exercising in the basement. Had a treadmill that faced the far wall. The basement was unfinished, but not necessarily creepy, and the ceiling was so thin I could here everyone above me, so I didn't feel alone. But I did feel her again. Glaring at my back when I ran. Hate masking fear. It always radiated from the same corner, and I would stare back at it for long periods of time, just knowing something was staring back.

Feeling hated in my own house was making me nervous. So I had my Shaman friend over and we saged the shit out of the joint. It didn't go away, but it definitely calmed down. Like it finally agreed to leave me alone. The skeptic in me attributes the whole ordeal to paranoia or a gas leak or some kind of temporary anxiety disorder.

But it wasn't any of those.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Friends were moving out of their old house. They had some stuff in the basement.

Went down there with them to discover bloody handprints on the walls, weird writings, and symbols in one part in the back. They knew it was there, but didn't think anything of it.

I didn't go to my friends house anymore.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

My dad, mom, and their two friends verify this story.

My parents, 25-35 yo at the time, traveled upstate NY with a few friends to stay for a weekend at a family vacation house . It was autumn. The house is located in a very secluded area which is a mix of dense woods and farmland (if you know what upstate NY is like).

It was getting late, around dusk, and my parents and two of their friends decided to go for a stroll. They were following a main unpaved road, but for whatever reason decided to take a detour down a small wooded dirt road.

After walking for a bit, with no houses or the appearance anyone around, they walk past a very small/old cemetery nestled in the woods. A single goat is in the cemetery "baaaing" as they past. They found this odd, but kept walking anyway. Not to much further up the way, they hear a voice calling out a name. At first they were unsure where it was coming from, but upon looking they can see a person in the woods around 30 ft off the trail. They moved closer. It is a fragile looking pale old woman wearing a white dress. She is sitting on a rock, alone in the cold. She asks them if they've seen her cat, and my father says they haven't. They immediately turned around, quite shaken, and walked away. The goat was no longer in the cemetery.

Whatever that was, it scared all four of them shitless. They are intelligent and well educated people, but to this day it gives them the creeps. Later on, my father heard of a well known ghost story from this area called "The White Lady".

CursedCalifornian · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Moral of these stories: Trains fuck people up

hobbycollector · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My brother-in-law died kind of young, like forties. It was a few weeks before Christmas. We all got together for Christmas, and for some reason everyone kept dropping glass and breaking it, and spilling things which happened to spill in the direction of or on his grown daughter (my neice). It was very weird.

roses269 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A story from a website full of similar stories. Warning the story includes some gore and super creepy teddy bears.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1048

jb69029 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll throw this story into the mix. It's a long read but the Ted the Caver Story creeped me out.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read something on here about a guy that was cycling at night, but he had to get off whilst going through this forrest, because the ground was too sandy or something. Anyway, it was pitch black and the guy had been walking for 20 minutes or so when he finally saw someone just sitting there on a wooden bench, but it was so dark he couldn't make out anything about him. I think he walked past him without saying anything, but decided to turn around to ask him if everything was alright. After he asked him the guy sprang to life and started sprinting towards him...

His story is written much better than mine, so I hope someone can post it.

350mck · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Its probably to late for this story to get any attention, but I'll share it anyways.

I was living at my brothers house while I worked through school. My patents lived 30 miles away. My brother had a dog. Okay scene is set.

My brother and I each worked odd hours and we hardly saw each other at his house. I would take care of the dog when he wasn't home. One night, he was gone, I was going to bed. The dog sleeps on the end of my bed and is usually very good about staying there. I laid down and was only just beginning to fall asleep. I was at that point where any little noise would wake me up, but still pretty out of it. I had just gotten off 48 hour shift, so I was physically exhausted.

As I am dozing off I begin to have one of those really odd dreams. At this time I am not sure I'm asleep, so maybe I'm still awake. Either way the dream begins that I am lying in bed, the dog is asleep at the end just like normal. The dream is literally just like what is happening in real life. That is, until my mother walks in the room (remember she lives 30 miles away). My mother is holding a handful of snakes. My mind begins to think, "But mom, you're afraid of snakes.

She smiles and throws the snakes on me.

Remember at this point I'm still only halfway asleep. And this dream is as vivid as anything I've ever seen. It is so vivid I can actually feel the snakes crawling in my face. I freak out. I fly out of bed.

Next I find my self now fully awake. What just happened?

I am now awake standing next to my bed. I don't remember how I got out of bed, but clearly I did. My mind rushes to recreate the events and try to piece together what just happened. Logically I know my mom is nowhere near me. Even if she were here there is zero chance she would be within 20 feet of a snake to begin with. My logic argues with my senses because I know I really felt the snake on my face.

As I become more and more lucid I look around. My heart is pounding. Mom is nowhere near. I see no snakes. But the dog had moved up to the head of the bed. His butt is right by where my head was. I must have felt his tail across my face after he moved.

Now it all makes sense. My dog's tail brushed across my face and that's what I felt. Surely my mind just created the dream of my mother and the snakes to fill in the gaps in some messed up way. Yes. That is exactly what happened. To this day I know that.

But the memories were so real and so vivid. I spent probably an hour that night standing by my bed. Frozen in fear. My mind was racing trying to deny my fears, but to no avail. Even though I logically had it explained 100%, I still could not move. I knew that if I laid down I would find snakes again.

I flipped the sheets off the bed. My dog looked at me confused. Behind every pillow I checked, still sure that there was a real snake there. I lifted the mattress and box spring off the bed frame after my search behind the pillows and sheets turned up empty. No snakes here.

My mind an my imagination have never fought so hard in my life. Logic explained the situation to me clearly. But my imagination just kept pushing me back over the edge.

I spent that night on the couch.

stanstheman · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

most things on thatsphucked.com. some will haunt your soul!

Bdragonsky · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest thing I've heard was from my friend who lived in the Bronx in New York, one day he was walking down the street to go to a restaurant and he passes this guy and they had a short conversation and they decided they were going the same way. As soon as my friend gets to the restaurant the guy he was talking to disappears and so my friend believes that the guy has probably just gone to the bathroom or something. Cut to a few hours later he finishes his meal and leaves to walk home. A few steps out the door he hears screaming and the sound of something falling behind him. Turns out it was the guy he was talking to earlier and he barely just missed him in his suicide jump.

Sorry for spelling and grammar.

thats-how-I-120roll · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work part time in a group home for developmentally challenged adults, and had picked up a graveyard shift one night.

All the residents in the how are immobile and unable to get out of bed on their own. One of the girls called out in the middle of the night for assistance - not uncommon. I go into her room and she is sitting up in bed (VERY rare for her), and pointing off into the darkness saying "boy" over and over again. She had NEVER done that before (she has a very limited vocabulary), however one of the residents who used to live her and had since passed away used to do it all the time, claiming to see a little boy.

This creeped me on, but I am a big skeptic when it comes to anything paranormal so I wrote it off as a fluke, gave her a glass of water and tucked her back into bed. I then returned to the living room where I had been busy folding laundry.

About 15 minutes later I suddenly hear an incredibly loud noise coming from the other end of the house - I run to investigate and find the bathtub faucet was on FULL BLAST... it was literally impossible for this to happen on it's own, not only are these special accesible bathtubs and the faucet handles are very complicated to turn on, but it was also on full blast - eliminating any possibility that it could have been left on slightly and still "trickling".

Clearly someone was in the house - again it was impossible for any of the 5 residents to get out of bed on there own, let alone make it into the bathroom. The ghost thing didn't even cross my skeptical mind - the only logical explanation was that there was an intruder.

The intruder thing is very unlikely on the other hand, because being a group home, there are routine checks that all the doors and windows are locked at each shift change. I had personally gone around with the staff I relieved and checked everything not 3 hours earlier... either way though it was still the only logical explanation and there is no way whoever had turned on the tap had left the house, I had responded way to quickly and there was only one hallway.

I then proceeded to check every last room in the house, each room i entered I was expecting to find whoever i was looking for. It was the most suspensful time of my life but I cared a lot for the residents and I thought they were in danger, so I did not hesitate to check EVERYWHERE.

Nothing. I was convinced someone had to have been there so I did not give up for well over 2 hrs. I'd even called the manager and woken her up and asked if I should call the police regardless of the fact I dident find anyone. Here response was: "Oh, that's just ____" -and named the late resident who used to claim she saw a boy all the time. Apparently it was a well known fact that she haunted the home, and things like this had happened many times before.

I may not have fully believed her - but it definitely sent chills down my spine and made me a hell of a lot less of a skeptic. Last night shift I worked in that house.

Despite scaring the crap out of me though - I still remained generally skeptical of paranormal activity - until this happened:

a few years later on my birthday, I was in the washroom brushing my teeth. My grandma had just passed a way a week earlier. I can't remember exactly how it came to be but I suddenly had the thought of my grandma wishing me a happy birthday. It was unusual for me to do anything like this, but whatever thought I had prompted me to say "thank you Grandma" out loud. I wrote it off as just a part of coping with loss.

I finished brushing my teeth and forgot about the weird grandma thought - a few minutes later the doorbell rang.

It was my Grandpa, who had never been to my apartment before - nore had I seen him since the day my Grandma had died (naturally the poor guy was taking it pretty rough). He had shown up to give me a card - which I could tell for whatever reason was very difficult for him to do. He shook my hand and left as quickly as he came.

On the outside of the card there was my first initial and the number 24 (the age I was turning). I opened it up and got crazy amounts of chills, then cried.

"Happy 24th birthday Thats-how-I-120roll,

Love, Grandma"

Apparently my Grandma had pre purchased cards in advance for each of her grandkids birthdays. She marked the envelopes with our first intial and the age she intended to give it to us.

Every since then, I am convinced there is something very real about peoples energy carrying on after they pass - first the group home thing and then that grandma thing really did it for me. Every since then I've had various weird occurrences, some a lot more unexplainable than others but it all seems to happen more when my mind is open to those kinds of things.

Creeps me the fuck out.

Sledger721 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The movie "Philosophy of a Knife". It has scarred me more than one can comprehend ...

gewill · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend and I were walking through an alley near my house. The alley started smelling bead, real bad, like dead animal. Then we heard a bunch of dogs barking so we looked into this yard and there was a dog's head handing from a coat-hanger. There were flies all over it and some veins/tubes/meat dangling out the neck. The head was hung high from a tree and there were three other dogs in the yard beneath it barking like crazy. It was disturbing

Toxikepo · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Grew up in Northern New Jersey and I remember one night hearing a mountain lion tearing up my neighbor's dog. I don't know if you have ever heard a mountain lion but it sounds like a child being tortured. As a little kid I think I shit myself.

KillerJupe · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was winter vacation of 2nd grade, and I thought I broke my spine.

I was skiing with family friends at Big Bear, it was the last run of the day and we went down the black diamond run.

There was one narrow spot right near the base of the hill where two trails merged around 3 small pine trees.
I could go on the low side and get stuck in the slush or take the high side and go through smoothly. I took the high side for the first time that weekend.

I vividly remember seeing a guy on an orange snowboard coming full speed at me.
I can still feel his hands on my back and head as he pushed me out of the way and right into the trees.

The scariest thing was after I hit the tree, I woke up in the snow and immediately tried to move my toes... I couldn't move anything below my shoulders.

For about 3mi I lay there totally unable to move or do anything; I thought I was paralyzed and wanted to die.

About this time I started shivering and then feeling came back to my toes, I moved them and lay perfectly still worried about being hurt further.

I was so relieved and remember crying the whole helicopter ride, not because it hurt but cause I felt like it was a reprieve from death.

Apparently the accident caused some trauma to my neck and I was pinching something.

The guy never stopped and no one ever found out who it was.

Typing this out now, I realize what a fatalistic few on life I had. People who survive and flourish after life altering injuries are amazing to me... I don't think I have it in me, but honestly I never want to find out.

SonicFlare21 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's around 3am and I'm downstairs eating yogurt and watching infomercials. So I turn off the tv, begin to wash the spoon, and hear footsteps walking towards me. I look up and see no one there. Needless to say I was only down there for a few more seconds.

Miwanik · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time when my mum picked me up from school n we got home I went up to open the front door, when I did I heard a door continuously banging coming from upstairs. I knew something was wrong cause my mum is a freak with perfection, she wouldn't leave a window open that can cause a draft and a door banging. I asked my mum if she left a window open , and she sad no way. I go upstairs to check it out with my mum, we notice a broken balcony door , and then we hear footsteps downstairs and the front door open and slam shut. We realize we were robbed, nothing major stolen , but could have been worse if th burglar got desperate. We now have a German shepherd, and I've learned self defnense, I pray to meet th coward that ran away now

Decyde · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The hands down most creepiest thing I've ever "saw" was taking a piss in the restroom at the park in my town. I went into the last stall to take a piss and some guy came in shortly after I started to pee. He went into the stall next to me and just pooped all over the floor. Once I saw what he was doing, the smell made me gag and I almost threw up so I just left. It sucked to pinch it and leave also having to finish up in the bushes down the track but that was both disgusting and creepy as fuck.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Having a hard time deciding whether or not read this now or at morning.

Catnip_Pyromaniac · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

r/fearme I havent clicked a link because the page creeps me out enough

wow_trees · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This video scares the crap out of me. I refuse to watch it now because I know I'll freak out

hobbycollector · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The first time I watched the exorcist, which was only five or six years ago, I don't remember all the details, but there was a possum or cat or something in the attic, which we started to hear scratching. Someone turned off the movie and the sound was still there, so we let it out. It was very weird timing.

Hobbs54 · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

FTFY: seen/heard/done?

heyjennyy · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was around 10, I was walking my moms best friends dog. Even at this age, I was in love with lifetime and knew not to trust any strangers ever, run away, etc. So this man in one of those huge vans (some people call them "rape vans") comes up to me and starts talking to me about the dog. It's not a busy street at all, so no cars or people were around. I start to back away and he's asking me to come with him so I can meet his dogs. As I'm backing away, he starts to get out of the car, trying to convince me to go with him. One of my friends who lived on the street I was on happened out of her house and started absolutely SCREAMING "STRANGER DANGER! STRANGER DANGER!" Her huge 6 foot something dad comes running out of the house, and they give me and the 60 pound dog a ride home, to the next street over.

firststatejake · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to have recurring lucid dreams as a child (that would have horrific elements that would turn the lucid dreams into night terrors). There were a couple that stood out, but one was terrifying. I would "awake" in my bed (false awakenings), and everything is normal. It's exactly as it would be had I actually woken up. Then I hear a very faint noise. I can barely hear it, as if it were a mile away. Then it starts getting closer, very slowly. Eventually I realize that it's screaming. Like a woman getting stabbed screaming. It keeps getting closer and closer (btw it's continuous, not someone like taking breaths and repeating the scream). And then I hear the front door burst open, and the screaming is so fucking loud it makes my head hurt. Then I hear footsteps coming up the stairs. This is the part where I would always shut my eyes as hard as I could. The screaming hurts so bad. Then whatever is making that noise is in my room. It gets so close to my face, that I can feel the breath coming out of its mouth and hitting my face. The screaming is the loudest thing I've ever heard. And then, instantly, everything just stops, and I'm awake.

This would happen sporadically as a child and sometimes it would last for what felt like anywhere from 5 minutes - an hour. An hour of that fucking voice. I used to be terrified of going to bed when I was younger.

crownlessking · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My blood surrounding me after waking up in an alley, about 10 minutes after I was stabbed.

DonOntario · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Candle Cove

ShortBus_Magee · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to live in an old house that had tons of paranormal stuff goin on in it. My mom was changing my little brother's (who was a baby at the time) diaper and put the powder on him. He was wearing a white shirt and in black cursive letters, the name Anne was spelled out on his shirt from the white powder. A few months later I woke up to piss and when I opened my door there was a lady standing in my hall way wearing a black dress from the 1800s or something. I held my piss that night and my mom said she saw the same lady a few months later. There's not really much of an ending here but we moved away and everything's fine now.

x1expert1x · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Uhm, yeah, reddit, if you can go ahead and stop replacing every fucking URL with your own bullshit, that'd be great.

ChetRipley · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Walking down the street in downtown Chicago pretty late at night when a man in a suit walks up to me and says..... "If I give you say...40 dollars say....would you let me say... lay down on the street here and smell your feet with your shoes off??" I went full sprint while laughing so hard I couldn't see from the tears.

JesusListensToSlayer · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Didn't have to look far

Darknezz19 · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

fuck this im outa here. fuckkkkkkkk now damnit. wtf these chills.

NickSet · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i regret going here...

herpaderpster · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

just a few months ago, i was woken up half an hour earlier than i shouldve been. "get up. your mother needs you." whoever was entering my room looked like my aunt. she spoke like my aunt. but my aunt was in korea. i am in texas. i freak right the fuck out.

i knew that wasnt my aunt.

now im slurring out a "what are you doing" "what is happening"

but it was just our neighbor. my ma called them over because we had caught colds and she had such a horrible fever she couldnt get out of bed. nobody has the decency to give me context for anything in this apartment complex.

tl;dr nyquil: not even once.

zidmon · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

r/letsnotmeet - I discovered this subreddit last night after hitting the random subreddit button numerous times. Creepy encounters.

Angsty_Sentry-25 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This one happened when I was about nine years old. It was during the summer and for some ungodly reason I could not sleep at night. I think it might have been due to the fact that it was humid and my brother, who I shared the room with, never put in the air conditioner.

One night as I laid on the top bunk, sweating to death, I felt the hairs on my neck shoot up. My stomach felt sour. I thought maybe if I opened the window more and pulled back the curtains that I'd feel better. So, I had gotten up, slide off the top bunk (it had no bars) and walked over to the window in the room. My room is on the second story of the house and it faces the trees next to my house. What happens next still confounds me to this day whenever I look back.

I walked over to the window and I opened the damn curtains to see a flash of bright light. Everything after that, in my memory, is just light and a feeling of being afraid. I remember waking up standing in the middle of the hallway in front of my room and my cousin's room (He rented out the room next to mine). I came to when he turned the light on in his room. He was freaked out, scared shitless asking me 'How the fuck I got there?' I asked him if he knew what just happened outside.

I was told that he saw some bright light outside and then I appeared in the hallway an hour later without him noticing. Something had woken him up, when he was trying to turn on his light he just saw me in the hallway and started to freak out since I just appeared out of nowhere.

That was ten years ago, when I saw him last I asked him about what happened and his face goes a bit flushed and he recalls the whole thing but hasn't a fucking clue what happened to me that night.

When I told this all to my brother the next morning, he told me that he did recall seeing me getting out of bed and a flash of light but nothing much after that. This whole thing kind of haunts me, I've told my girlfriend and my friends about it and they've told me that I was dreaming or that I was abducted by aliens or I was taken by a ghost. I honestly feel like it was something entirely different.

savilles_secrets · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My family moved into this really creaky old house about 6 years ago, im talking like 15/1600's. Its a gorgeous house, which is quite big and has wood beams everywhere, very british. Anyway, it was real mess when we first moved in, as a blind senial lady had been living here which only added to the creepyness.

Over the next year we would consistently find things hidden in the walls when we renovated it. In one instance my dad finds this weird wooden scythe looking thing and put it on the desk in his work shop. He goes back in a few days later and finds it hanging high up, out of reach, on one of the wooden beams.

This was just the start, and each member of my family claimed to see something besides me. Although one night I was sat watching tv with my dad when the dog starts growling and we hear a big solid knock on the door. I get up to look, a bit weirded out as its late, and find no one there. This goes on for a few nights. A few months pass and im alone at home watching TV with my dog. My parents are in London and I hear someone come through the front door, walk upstairs and walk around. All the while the dog is growling so I know im not just hearing things. I turn the tv off and cant hear anything and go to explore to find no one. I get into my room and find all my cupboards open.

We stayed in contact with the family of the old lady who lived before, as they were interested in our renovations. Anyway, one letter we recieve they ask if we have seen the ghost of an old lady. Turns out they had been seeing the same things we had. Both my mum and gran have claimed to have seen her, particularly lingering around my room.

Im still a skeptic though, I like to go down the avenue that all these things are very easy to explain, especially in such an old house.

TL;DR An old lady is still in the house we moved in.

talonsting · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest thing is that a Chinese woman would flush her newborn baby down the toilet.

ProtrudingEdifice · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Symmetry

mhmiller · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Today's post about a gif of a 60 year old man biting a teacher in China. Damn

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw a 1foot green fluorescent alien looking man walking along a wall for a few seconds and it disappeared. My best friend saw it too. We tried to look for it to no avail.

veggiter · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This shit about 5 seconds ago in /r/WTF...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Third Bridge in Aurora, CO

My roommate, Fiancé and I all went to a local "Haunted" spot. Here is the story. Everything was fine and then I started to have a panic attack which I get a lot and went to wait in the car. While I was in the car my roommate and fiancé went under the bridge and took some pictures. They caught something on one of the pictures that still creeps us out every time we look at it. This is the picture they took. They weren't smoking at the time and there was no fog anywhere.

freddiepow · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Back when I was a little kid around the age of like 14/15 I used to go to sleep in my room that I just stopped sharing with my brother who had gone to University, and at night when I used to go to sleep just before I fell asleep I'd hear people talking really faintly, but it only ever happened certain nights, I used to get really scared and tell myself it was my parents or someone in the house having a chat, at one point I thought I was schizophrenic, but finally got up to confront it and found that the speakers from my computer were still on but at a low sound and picking up radio signals and it was some kind of talk show that was speaking, I didn't even know that shit could happen.. maybe it can't.

thedrunkmonk · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It can, my speakers did this and spooked me on occasion, too.

jayisforjelly · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to school in Prague for a semester and the hostel I stayed at was actually an old Nazi Aryan breeding facility.

The rooms themselves weren't that creepy but the basement was were all of the actual births took place. This area had been converted to a huge kitchen /dinning area. We had breakfast here every morning and was also the only place that you could get an internet connection.

So a couple weeks into staying there everything was cool, but one night I had an awful night terror. It was the worst I have ever experienced. I hadn't had anything like it since I was a kid. In the dream my family was traveling and attacked by a group of people, then graphically and brutally murdered in front of me. WTF brain!?

I woke up a little after 3 in the morning in a cold sweat and decided to call my family in the US to make sure they were okay (I think there was like an 8 hour time difference)

I went downstairs to connect to the internet to make the call. All the lights were off and only one light was on in the kitchen. The second I stepped on the dinning hall floor some old WWII era music started playing in the kitchen..

I thought I was still asleep and I was having a scary 2-part dream thing. I have never been that freaked out before! I don't believe in ghost or anything like that either. But I was like "fuck this" and went back to my room and tried to go back to sleep.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

morey eels

its the eyes

coroner74 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went into a dead hoarder's house. There was an aquarium with black water in it and bare wires sticking out. We later found a manual on how to make bombs and booby-traps. I walked down some stairs to the basement and when my foot hit the floor something started buzzing loudly. We cleared right after that.

Heybeautifulday · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I was house sitting for a friend for the weekend. Her home was in a small and heavily wooded private community called Sudden Valley - 10 minutes from the nearest city. I was in bed reading a book in the basement when heard a "SLAM" noise from upstairs. I sat up confused, held my breath and listened. Another "SLAM" that I recognized as the front door.

What the fuckidy FUCK? Did I not lock the front door? Nobody else has a key and my friend was out of town for 2 more days. The bedside clock read 1:30 am. FUCK, my cell phone is upstairs.

Then I heard the footsteps and practically shit my brain pants. Clear, slow, heavy footsteps upstairs. Her house was down a 300 ft. private driveway and she had no next door neighbors. This isn't right. Was she expecting someone? It's 1:30 and I'm in the middle of fucking nowhere.

To the right of the bed was a sliding door and a small back porch. I could leap off the porch - a 10 foot drop into bushes, but the sliding door was old and made a loud scraping noise as it opened.

I chose to hide in the room to my right with a baseball bat and wait for the fucker to creep down there, then SURPRISE CONCUSSION like in the movies right?

Floating through a haze of adrenaline, I quickly and quietly grabbed the bat by the TV, crept to the dark room and leaned against the wall in the closet, holding my breath and listening. The footsteps were so fucking creepy. A few heavy steps were taken, then they'd stop, then more shuffling steps, then stop. Did a bear learn how to use fucking doorknobs?

Suddenly, irrational anger bubbled up and I decided: "Fuck this, this asshole can't scare me like this. I'm going upstairs to tell him/her/it what's up." Famous last words?

After sitting silently for another 5 minutes - seemed like a lifetime - I heard no more movement upstairs, then "SLAM." Door again. Goddamnit.

After 30 minutes of silent froggy, solid-snakey-like creeping upstairs I slowly raised my head above the top stair and surveyed the upper floor - Bat in striking position the whole time. The front door was open a few inches. After another hour of searching. I found nothing.

I locked every door and window in the house, and by the time I investigated every possible hiding place, it was dawn and I passed out and slept until 5pm.

TL,DR: Possible home intruder upstairs, I did the stupid horror movie thing and went up with a bat to investigate. Intruder/Ghost/Bear had already vacated the premises.

xiPlayWithCrayons · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last year I stayed home from school one day because I was sick. My dad left for work and I decided to take a nap. It was too hot in my room, so I moved to the living room. I lay down, my cat comes and curls up on my chest like she always does and I start to fall asleep. Just as I'm falling asleep, I hear something come from my hallway. I jump, my eyes shoot open. My cat freaks out and hisses. The only way I could describe the sound is to compare it to rain, but instead of water droplets, it was glass. It sounded exactly like it fucking raining glass in my house. I groaned, thinking one of my other cats must have broken something. I put my cat to the side and go to investigate. I check my dad's room, the bathroom, the closet, and my room and find nothing. Confused, I walk back into the living room and into the kitchen. Nothing broken. I head to the den, but to no avail. I search the laundry room and the second bathroom, but I didn't find any glass. Now I'm really freaked out. I sit back down in the living room and pet my cat, trying to calm her down. I call my dad and tell him about it and he said I was probably just dreaming. I KNOW I wasn't dreaming, because it scared my cat more than it scared me.

If my typing is weird, sorry. I'm on my phone.

0to60in2minutes · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every now and then going up i75 into Michigan and through Detroit, you can hear where "blow job bob" is parked and looking to "wet your whistle" in his van.

Can't say I've ever met blow job bob, but with a name like that, he's gotta be good

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a scaredy-cat, should I go thru these comments or not?

ochristi · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest thing I have ever heard is the sound of a rabbit screaming. When I was in my teens a raccoon got into our rabbit cages and started killing the rabbits. We came out when we heard the rabbits and saved most of them, but the screaming was so creepy. Still gives me chills.

emtemtemtemt · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

while im still on my lunch break at work, ill just take a second and present my creepy story.

soo, it begins with me getting ready to go to bed on a hot summer night about 3-4 years ago. we don't have an a/c, so i would usually get my computer chair and set up an electric fan on it. so i did that, and aimed at my bed. i made sure it wasn't on the setting that made it turn cause i want the fresh constant stream of electric fan goodness. mmmmmmmmmmm

so i did that, turned off the lights, climbed into bed, and fell asleep.

what happened in the middle of the night freaked the fuck out of me... and it still gave me the shivers/goosebumps now.

i had one of those wide awake but paralyzed body things. i can feel the fan blowing, i can look around and see/hear everything. butttt... couldn't move.

well.

for some reason, it stared to get hot. like i was in a damn microwave.

couldnt scream, wanted to scream. couldnt move, still.

then it got weirder. the sleep paralysis was fucking scary, then i felt the fan swaying. like the air flow wasn't a constant stream hitting me, it was going back and forth like the lock came off.

well. freaked out even more, i closed my eyes and just prayed. prayed like a little bitch.

i don't know how long that lasted, but i remember getting up, turning on the lights, my tv, and running to the kitchen for some water and turning every light on the way.

then i went back to my room and found my fan on the floor aimed at my bed and the computer chair pushed into my desk.

fucking mind boggling and fucking scary shit.

i didn't give a shit at that point and i just played COD til i had to "get up" for work.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

sirlolsalot · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At my grandparent's house, and I'm up late one night and go to the kitchen to get a cookie or something. They have a glass sliding door (with no curtains or blinds) that leads to a porch which leads to the woods and it's pitch black out. Well I go in there, and I see a figure on the porch out of the corner of my eye. I freak the fuck out of there, and 5 seconds later realize it was my reflection. Scariest 5 seconds of my life.

Statikkk · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is some weird shit that happened to me about 15 years ago, when I was about 20 years old and living with my parents.

My parents and sister were going on a trip to Seattle, leaving me alone in the house for 3 weeks. Since I had just started university at the time I was usually out of the house, so my parents suggested I set up our answering machine. My parents had an answering machine, but they never used it so it had been stored in the basement for a couple of years. This was one of those old-style machines where everything was recorded to an actual audio tape, which you would record over after the tape filled.

Before they left, I brought the answering machine up to my room and left it on the floor, unplugged, power cord still wrapped around it. I figured I'd set it up later that day, or possibly and more likely procrastinate for 3 weeks and set it up on the last day just to say I did it. I had never used it before, so I wasn't familiar at all with how it worked, but obviously I knew it was a relatively simple process.

That night was the first night I was alone in the house as they had flown out that evening. I went to sleep with the machine still wrapped up in a pile next to my bed.

In the middle of the night, I am woken up by a whirring sound... the sound of an audio tape rewinding and then stopping. I hear the same noise, 2 or 3 times. I turn over and look at the machine and see a green light turning on intermittently with the sound of the whirring. Then it stops. I am freaked the fuck out so I don't get out of bed. I lie there awake, wondering if I was dreaming for a few minutes and then eventually fall asleep.

The next morning I wake up and go about my business, unsure of whether the night's events were real or if I dreamed them. Then the phone rings. I pick it up, and it's my sister:

Sister: Hey! I tried calling you last night to let you know we landed, but I got the machine.

Me: That's impossible, I didn't plug it in, and there's no battery-powered option. The phone line wasn't even plugged into it.

Sister: Huh? But I called twice - both times the answering machine picked up, and it was your voice saying to leave a message.

Me: W. T. F.

boinaguaxy · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was alone at home and it was 10 pm and it was already dark outside. I went on a website with scary things and I clicked on a video. In the video, you could see a guy in front of a webcam and after 30 seconds he pulled out a gun, put it in his mouth and pressed the trigger. After he blew up his brains on tape, a message popped up. The message was something along this lines : " Now that you've seen this video, the light will turn off and I will come after you ". I was thinking : "Sure, this is bullshit". Then every light in my house turned off suddenly. I was terrified. Nothing happened, I managed my way to the fuse box and turned them on again. How convenient, right?

Shreiking_Madness · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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EatThyCorn · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About seven years ago our family moved into our current house, which was built in (I think) the 1730's. It is a large old rectory at the edge of the village opposite the village church (graveyard is about as close to us as our nearest neighbour), and as such has had dozens of rectors (village priests) live and die in it over the years, as recently as about 20 years ago. There is even an old underground secret passage running from one of the cellars that ends up in the church across the lane, although this is now partially blocked and rendered unusable. The house is built on the site of an ancient priory that was violently destroyed in the year 1010, and still has remnants of a moat encircling some of the grounds (though two sides are now shallow and stagnant, one is just a giant ditch, and the other side is filled in). Very interesting place to live, with 'excavations' in the garden revealing the head of a throwing axe, gigantic door hinges (thought to be from a previous structure), and roman coins (at some point we're going to dredge what's left of the moat to see what we can find) - so basically it's a seriously old house with a creepy history and in a pretty creepy location. A LOT of stuff has happened there, most of which I just try to explain away. The following all happened on the first day that we moved into the house.

on the day that we moved in (the first people to do so since it was renovated by the previous owner), I remember it being stormy (dat pathetic fallacy). As we walked up to the front door, a white dove came out of ****ing nowhere and fell dead on the doorsteps in front of us. Pretty odd, but there was a dovecot in the garden and I put it down to chance.
later that same day we went into the drawing room to sit around a fire, since we had yet to figure the heating out. We lit the fire in the bigass fireplace and settled down, but quickly realised that the room was filling with smoke. So we're like "it's an old house, sometimes chimneys get blocked" and go to open the door to let the smoke out of the room since by this time we were starting to choke. We hadn't properly closed it when we came in, but for some reason it was shut tight. Bear in mind this is a huge door, probably about eight feet high, and solid oak.

It was locked.

None of us had even seen a key for this door (many of the old doors within the house have locks with long-lost keys). We managed to put the fire out by spreading it around the grate, and my dad had to call a locksmith to get us out of the room (we didn't want to try and break the door down as we had only just moved in and they are very hard to replace...). Locksmith was baffled as to how it has happened - we assume the lock had just been shaken out. We later found out that the last serving rector to live in the house became incredibly reclusive in his old age and lived entirely in this room. It was also where he died. A bit odd, but probably explainable.

There was a door across the landing from my bedroom. When we opened it, we discovered another set of narrow stairs plunging down into pitch blackness. There was no plaster or anything, and the stairs looked original. There was no light, but we grabbed a torch and looked down. The stairs literally ended in a wall - nothing else. Just spider webs and crumbling stone.
After that first day, it just kept getting stranger. The house has a cellar level, a ground floor level, a first floor where most of the bedrooms and bathrooms are, and a second floor with a couple of small rooms where servants apparently used to live. I would be in my room and hear someone walking heavily up the narrow twisting staircase leading to the servants' room (on the landing next to the downward-leading 'horror stairs'). Thing is, nobody ever came back down, and nobody was up there if I investigated.
There are some loose tiles on the ground floor level, at the top of the cellar stairs. When someone steps on them they make a very distinctive and loud clacking sound. You can hear them from upstairs - more than once I've heard the sound when nobody else has been in the house and tried to rationalise that it was probably a mouse before remembering that they are vast flagstones that don't move if a small child stands on them.
Immense old doors slamming really hard when nobody is near them. No wind.
Hearing breathing from dark and locked cellars which stops as soon as you open the door
I've had the hair on my neck stand up and get the creeps when walking through a dark room, only to have to have the bulb flash and explode as soon as I try to turn the light on. This has happened at least three times.
Have heard a man's voice calmly and flatly say things (sometimes in another room, sometimes right behind me), despite nobody being there and the nearest neighbour being quite far away. Always attributed it to daydreaming since we didn't have a TV for about 5-6 months after moving in and there was nowhere else it could have come from.

These are just some of the things I can remember. My mum eventually got pretty freaked out and the current priest came in and blessed the house. Nothing sinister since then - we love the old place.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

By the love of god man, why did you move in there!? You need to back up these claims with photos..

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandmother tells a story:

She was in town, wanting to go to a dress shop, which was in a 5-6 floor building (this is the late 70's-mid 80's). She goes into said building, walks into the elevator. Now she couldn't remember whether or not the shop was on the 5th floor or the 6th floor, so she just hit 6. She was on the ground floor, so it was quite a shock when the elevator moved downwards. When the doors opened, there was a small room with a steel door on the opposite side. Two huge, burly men in suits stood either side of this door, and immediately one of them stepped into the elevator, hit the ground floor, and walked out. Lift goes up, stops at ground. At that point in time she realised that the shop was on the 5th floor.

simcity18 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I.was 9 and it was around 11 pm. IM TRYINg to fall asleep but cant. I keep thinking I see something in the closet. Finally I go in it and check. Nothing. I turn off my fan thinking maybe its blowing papers. I go back to bed. Suddenly I jolt up. I feel a cold air current going over my face. It les away after maybe 30 seconds. No windows kp n. No fan. Closed door.

callmenoone · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dumb little story, but I met this one creepy kid while helping at an elementary school in a self-contained special education classroom. There were only six kids, all about 8 years old. The teacher told the kids to pull out their reading books and it was pretty much what you'd expect. The girl with Down syndrome had a picture book about animals, the boy with autism had a book on trains, two girls read Hannah Montana books, one boy had a comic book. Then the last girl pulls out a young adult chapter book with shambling zombies on the cover. She was this quiet, awkward child, easily distracted, laughed at odd times, could barely form a coherent sentence when she spoke. From her speech and behavior, I had assumed she was mildly mentally retarded, so I was surprised that she was reading a book for an older audience. But I love horror, so I ask her if she likes scary books and movies. She looks at me and says "Yes. My favorite TV show is The Walking Dead." Then she stops and stares off into space. A huge smile grows on her face and she whispers "I love the blood. So much blood." Creepiest thing I've ever heard a kid say.

JohhnyDamage · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My room had a walk in closet. Inside the closet was a room that led to a boarded up attic.

One day something sounded like it punched the door in the tiny room. I was freaked.

Dad came upstairs and yelled at me for yelling over nothing. Midsentence the door makes another bang sound and the knob rattles.

He stopped and walked away.

Two years later they opened the attic and found some old Native American item he sold.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One day i left the key of my bedroom door in the keyhole and that night i didn't sleep in my room and the next day the door was locked from the inside and there wasn't another way to get in my room. so we had to break the door open. Still don't know why the door was locked.

lukegjpotter · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have three experiences to share.

When I was 17, one night I was dreaming of flames, then the house phone rang, it was my aunt with news that my granddad and other aunt had died in a house fire.
When I was 13, I was playing a football match, then had a first person vision of someone going into my gear bag and robbing my phone. After the match, we discovered that our dressing room had been robbed.
When I was 15 (I think), I was really into F1, a big Kimi fan. He had flat spotted his tyre and he was leading the race (the European GP in Nuremberg). In the middle of watching the race, my dad asked me to help him on the farm. When I was out in the field herding cows, I got a sinking feeling in my entire body, then just all my organs pushing forward. I discovered later that Kimi had crashed out cause his flat spotted tyre had caused his suspension to snap.

I haven't had any other experiences like those since. But my cousin was renting a house in Foster Court, in Galway, Ireland. There was a poltergeist in the house, but it was fine. One night her sister stayed on her couch and was awoken in the night by thuds, books were being dropped onto the floor one at a time.

Carpathicus · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I never really thought about it but I realized the most scariest thing I've ever witnessed were my parents arguing and my mother lying on the floor crying after my father tried to stop her from leaving the apartment. I was six or seven I guess. Never realized that until now.

Bahamutalee · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've never cringed so much than when looking at this skull. Some type of cancer I all I know.

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Bone+Cancer+Skull.+I+thought+it+was+kinda+cool_dd4c26_3636844.jpg

Principal-Buttsavage · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't the creepiest, but it was the first thing to come to mind:

When I was 13, my uncle started his own contracting business. Sometimes real estate companies would hire him to tear down old buildings in order to make room for new developments. Seeing as how I was too young to have a real job, I would frequently ask if I could ever help out with some easy jobs for a little cash in hand. One day, he called and asked if I wanted to help him demolish a place in Napoleonville, LA. I jumped at the opportunity because what 13 year old boy wouldn't want to swing a sledgehammer at a wall, right? Anyway, after he checked out the building to make sure there were no hazards inside, we began the process. As soon as we walked in, I was creeped out. The place had been totally abandoned for decades, but all of the contents were just left to rot. Picture a three story building from the early 20th century, except Silent Hill style, complete with discolored walls, covered furniture, odd trinkets, etc.

At first it was fun, and my cousins and I had a great time exploring and tearing down walls. All of a sudden, out of the ordinary things started popping up.

The first odd happening occurred in the first few days of the job. We had decided to pull some wood from the side of the house because it wasn't as stuffy outside (Louisiana summers can sometimes make you feel like you are breathing more water than air). As we started yanking at the boards and nails, there was this faint humming sound that was getting louder, but in a very subtle way. I guess we all just assumed that it was the nearby transformer reacting to the summer heat (They always seem to be louder in the summer for some reason.) After a while, the buzzing got very loud, and it sounded like bees. We stopped pulling the boards out, and decided to find out where the nest was. It didn't take long to realize that the buzzing was coming from inside the huge wall that we were currently pulling apart. Instead of doing the smart thing and alerting the adults (Remember, 13 years old), we decided to throw rocks at the wall from a distance. Cue the biggest wasp swarm I have ever seen and probably ever will see. I guess the best description would be a black, cartoonish cloud of pure terror. Now, the guys working on this site looked like some of the toughest people I had ever met. The moment that cloud erupted from that wall, the buzzing was immediately overtaken by the sound of a bunch of muscular sweaty guys screaming in high pitch. Luckily no one was hurt (We all made it back to the cars and booked it), but that intense humming coupled with the cloud forming in front of me was one of the most terrifying things I've seen.

That was the first scary/creepy/terrifying thing that happened, but it wasn't the last.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work in an outdoor mall and had to pick up my co-worker boyfriend one day when I was off with his brother. We're in the parking lot listening to music when we heard a child laughing near my window. We looked around and the parking lot was empty.

We turned the music up and heard it again. Still no one was there. My boyfriend finally gets off work and we tell him what happened. We go to the houlihans in the mall for dinner and as we're finished ordering the salt and pepper shakers fly (and I mean full speed) off the table. We were all looking at our phones and not touching the table at all. Dinner has never been the same.

Darushi-chan · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple of months ago I had just woken up in the middle of the night needing to use the bathroom, when my bedroom door rattles. A moment latter it rattles like crazy, like someone on the other side of it is pounding on it to get in. It freaked me out so badly as that afternoon I was watching the movie Sinister on DVD and in the bonus features, there was a house that was the scene of a real-life family murder and was supposedly haunted. In the feature, the caretaker is being interviewed about weird stuff happening in the house when an open door on the side of the man starts to slowly close on its own. I couldn't help but remember that scene.

Of course, I trying to be rational and tell myself it's just the wind, because if the window in the bathroom is open, then the wind will sometimes rattle my door, though it has never done it so violently before to my knowledge.

Still needing to use the bathroom, I get up and open my door (and look around, though I don't really know what I was expecting to see) and go to the bathroom. Of course after I'm done, I have to check if the window is open so I pull back the shower curtain and, nope, the window is shut tight.

Well shit.

So I hightail it back to my room, shut my door, jump in bed and pull my comforter back over me and just remind myself that when my roommate and I moved in, my roommate splashed Holy Water all over the place.

GuruBushHippie · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My great-grandparents (long dead) lived on an inherited southern plantation that was active before/during the civil war. There is even a spot in their barn that a cannonball passed through. I remember being a child and visiting there. Every time I went I saw a number of entities. Most of which were blacks that I now assume were slaves. They all seemed to be very benevolent considering their situation back then. There was one other entity though, and I knew he was a bad,bad man. he was white and dressed in a suit with a "Colonel Sanders" tie. I assume he was the original plantation owner and I would always see him when I went down the long hallway to the bathroom. It was such a dark energy and I felt so much dread when I saw him. It was horrible. They lived just a couple miles from Bentonville Battleground (NC) if anyone is interested in looking it up. I shudder thinking about that man... his glare... just awful.

ChrisFromDetroit · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My fiance and I unexpectedly became parents when we were twenty. Her mother moved in with her partner and kindly let us live in her house not long afterward.

This was the house my fiance had grown up in. She had a history there, and that history included several instances of "ghosts" and "orbs" and all matter of other things that I had always seen as silly bullshit. A few stories she was adamant had happened were times when her old dog, Buddy, (who was a monster in size and had a bad temperament to boot) had begun barking and viciously growling at unoccupied spaces in the house. A corner in her bedroom, the basement stairs, the kitchen, etc. Apparently some of the spots recurred more often than others.

Anyway, I had just sat down to feed my infant son one Saturday evening. It was the middle of winter, so despite it being 6:30-7pm, it was already dark outside. My fiance had to work, so it was just me, my son, and our dog (newer dog, Buddy died several years earlier) home that night.

There was something on TV that I wanted to watch, so I pulled the baby's high chair into the den with me. I sat on the couch while he sat in his chair, facing me.

The couch I was sitting on has its back to a half wall/kitchen counter that separated our kitchen and den; this is somewhat important later in the story.

Someone had called at some point and I muted the TV, so the house fell silent. With the dog sitting next to me on the couch, I carried on with feeding my son after the call ended.

That's when I heard a loud creak in the floor boards in the hallway. At the time, I told myself that it was an old house and all that, but to be honest, it really wasn't. I knew the creak as well; it was a squeaky spot in the floor just outside mine and my fiance's bedroom. I looked over the counter to the other side of the kitchen, where the hallway to the bedrooms began, and it was pitch black.

Sure, the only light on in the house was a lamp in the den, but there didn't even appear to be anything shining through the windows from the streetlights outside; just absolute darkness beyond the threshold of the doorway.

I was a bit spooked, but shrugged it off and turned back around. No sooner had I picked up the spoon to give my son another bite when I heard another creak in the floor, this time closer; I estimated it was near the doorway to the hallway, right where I had just been looking.

I gave it a glance and tried to ignore it, but that's when a feeling of paranoia set in. I felt like I was being watched. It was all in my mind, I told myself, but I could pinpoint where it felt like it was coming from: left shoulder, back toward the corner of the house where the sounds were coming from.

It suddenly got cold. My arms formed goosebumps and I began to shiver. Over the following few minutes, that feeling grew stronger and stronger, to the point where I felt like there was something standing over the kitchen counter behind me, just burning a hole through me. The feeling changed a bit though, that direction I felt I was being watched from; it was alternating now, almost as if there was someone pacing back and forth behind me.

This is where I lost it: I looked up at my son, and he was staring at me, a huge smile on his face. But he wasn't starring at me, he was looking past me. I stared back at him, and then his gaze began to drift back and forth, consistent with the paranoid sensation I was feeling.

Another creak in the floor, this time in the kitchen, much closer than before.

My's son's behavior lasted for a minute or two before he finally fixed his gaze on a specific corner. (Over my right shoulder, opposite of the open side of the step down from the kitchen into the den.)

And then the dog, who I had forgotten about by this point, got up and creeped to the edge of the room and peeked around the counter. The fur on her back was on edge, and she seemed very cautious.

The sensation I was feeling had stopped alternating as well, and again fixed itself to what felt like one side: same corner.

At this point I threw my hands up and said "fuck it!"

I grabbed my son and switched couches so I'd be facing the entire room, turned the remaining lights in the den on, and unmuted the TV.

I grabbed the phone and gave my fiance a ring. It went to voicemail, but she called back moments later. Trying to play it cool, I did a little small talk before working toward her supposed supernatural encounters she had experienced in the house.

I recalled the incidents with her old dog barking and growling at empty corners in the house, citing that she said there were a few spots in particular that he seemed to..."favor."

Sure enough, the corner where everyone's attention had been drawn to, that was the most common spot.

UrethraFranklin13 · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Made an account just for this. The scariest thing I have ever seen was watching a small mail plane crash on Cable Beach. Watching it just fall out of the sky and the sound it made upon impact is something I will never forget.

Beythoven · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably a little late for this, but I used to live in a smallish house, and on the second floor right up the stairs there was a bathroom. I never really used it, even though it was right by my room, just mainly because the downstairs one was closer, but on to my point.

I remember the first day I heard it. I had gone in right before bed to brush my teeth, and I hear what sounds like slow, heavy footsteps in the ceiling above me, like very deliberate walking. They come from the hallway, up above me almost into the mirror then stop. I was home alone and 13 at the time and it freaked me the fuck out. I finished in there and quickly left, when I heard the steps leave the fucking bathroom behind me and follow me to my room at the end of the hall. This continued as long as we were still in the house, for about 4 months.

smith0105 · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in fourth grade, we moved from the house we lived in into a rental while our new house was still being built. The rental was well over a hundred years old, in a tiny town in upstate New York. From the outside it didn't look too bad, and the inside of it was pretty nice considering the house's age. The first night we moved in, Mom was tucking us into bed, and Dad was unpacking things in a room just off the main hallway downstairs. He noticed a woman wearing a nightgown come down the main staircase just off that room and cross the hallway into the living room. Thinking one of us kids was missing something upstairs, he followed her into the living room, which he found totally empty. He called out Mom's name, and she answered from upstairs. Little odd things would keep happening throughout the course of the year that we spent there. Pictures would occasionally come to rest on the floor, leaned up against the wall right below the place they had been hanging. My older sister's homework would disappear and then reappear randomly two days later. Our cats would all simultaneously follow something crossing the room which none of the rest of us could see, and our dog would occasionally freak out barking and chasing something around the house which, again, none of us could see. We chalked up these oddities to "Agnes," the name of our resident ghost. The TV set in the living room worked fine, as long as everyone in the room was attentive to watching it. But as soon as a commercial came on and people left the room to grab food, or use the bathroom, it would shut off. And when it shut off, it was impossible to turn on, as though a breaker had blown, but it was an affliction characteristic only of the TV set. You could plug a different device into the same outlet, or the TV into a different one, and that outlet would work, but the TV still wouldn't. Mom and Dad, on an entirely different night, walked back to their bedroom after tucking us in for the night. As they walked down the hallway, they passed through a sheet of icy air, as if walking through a waterfall. Both of them immediately stopped, turned toward each other, and then went to find the source of what they assumed was a draft, but had no luck despite a ten-minute search. After moving out, Dad got in contact with previous tenants, who told similar stories of things moving around on them, pictures refusing to stay on the walls, etc. The creepiest story was that of an older couple who turned into the driveway on their way home one day to see two young boys staring at them out of the uppermost window in the attic, but were nowhere to be found when they opened it up and looked. While we never felt unsafe or threatened, it was still among the most surreal experiences of my childhood looking back now. TL;DR living with ghosts in one of my childhood homes

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll repost my story from another similar thread.

My wife and I recently moved out of a home that I can only describe as FUCKED UP. The house caused so much anger and hatred. Whatever entity resides in the home is either menacing or pure evil. Even as soon as my wife moved into the home when she was a child. She told me a story of when her and her little brother were playing one night in his room. They were playing with a leapfrog type device. She described in detail about how she was showing her brother how to use it and it began to act strange. Strange sounds came out of it. And then a mans voice began screaming from it. She said it was saying something about a list, something about making mistakes. Screaming and cursing until she turned it off. So let's fast forward some. I met my wife a few years ago and needless to say..she got knocked up. Ha-ha...wear a condom kids. Anyway. We decided that since it was the logical thing to do, I would move in with her. Sweet, no problem. At the time I worked the night shift (10pm-7am). This will come up later. After a few weeks of moving in I noticed something strange about the house. The upstairs where we lived seemed menacing in a way. Like someone was in the other room waiting for you. At first I brushed it off as just being nervous. New house, new life kinda thing. I also thought it was from the pretty much steady insomnia work was causing me. As time went on I began noticing more and more. Whenever the house should have been dead silent, things would happen. Foot steps up and down the hallways, knocks on doors, and sometimes I would swear I heard whispers. Being a avid believer in spirits, I wasn't particularly afraid. Until things started getting dark. One morning as I was lying in bed, watching Netflix and hoping to fall asleep, I heard a rustling from the closet. It was just light enough in the room that you could make everything out, I saw nothing and thought maybe it was just the fan. Something moved out of the corner of my eye and as I looked at the closet, a dark ball moved from the closet to the bedroom door. It was about the size of a softball and moved about as fast as a person could to the door. Later into the week my wife had gotten into the bad habit of sleeping with the closet light on. I blame myself for that one. Should have kept my mouth shut. So were lying there talking about baby stuff...women..and I notice the curtain that covered the closet opening move. My wife was curled into me facing my chest and I was staring at the closet. As I kept watching I saw what I can only describe as a tiny mist like figure, not like WHITE mist but...slightly darker then the rest of the background, move out from the closet. It was MAYBE 3 feet tall and vanished as quick as it appeared. As soon as I began telling my wife what had happened, she had a sharp pinch on her back. She didn't cry out or scream, she calmly turned around and shouted "GET THE FUCK OUT AND LEAVE US THE FUCK ALONE!" To bad it didn't work. Now, let's fast forward. Your probably wondering, what else happened! Well small stuff here and there for awhile. Footsteps were regular. And I know some of you are probably saying "ITS THE HOUSE SETTLING JACKASS!". I would agree, but not only did the footsteps stretch out the entire length of the 20 foot hallway, they sometimes were fast. And the knocks on the doors were very rhythmic, you know, like when you knock on a friends door when their home or something. So lets get to scary stuff. After this recent Christmas things began to spark up to a new level. One day I was sitting on my computer and my wife came into the room asking me what I needed from the store. The computer room was directly across from the bathroom, our daughters door was to the immediate left of that, and the stairs were to the right. I began telling my wife what I wanted when she looked out the door and turned...well...ghost white. Her eyes got big and her mouth dropped. She slowly turned toward me "I...Just saw a man walk into Ellaina's room". She begins describing what it looked like. It was about 6 feet tall, black and only slightly translucent. While shes describing this I walk out into the hallway and go into my daughters room. Have you ever walked into a freezer, like the ones Walmart stocks Ice Cream in? That immediate chill is what I felt when I walked in there. There was nothing of course, but as soon as we began walking out a set of metal bed frames we had laying against the wall (for over a year I might add) slid down and fell to the floor. My wife turned back into the room and told whatever it was to "Get the fuck out of our home!" But it didn't of course. Come January things really picked up before we moved out. The power got knocked out during a sudden storm and we were left in the dark for a night. My wife at this point wanted NOTHING to do with the home at this point and wanted to stay at her dads. So we began packing her things for the night. I went down stairs and got my daughter loaded up in the car and as I started walking back in my wife shot out of the door nearly in tears. I asked her what was wrong and she only said simply "I dont want to talk, close the door, lets go!" The upstairs to the home is PITCH FUCKING BLACK even on the brightest day due to the lay out. So when the powers off during a overcast, you might as well be underground. My wife was in our room gathering her make up and things with only a flashlight. As she was loading things into her bag she heard someone walk from the stairs, down the hallway and right up against her back. She assumed it was me but when she turned around she saw nothing but black. Not like darkness black. Imagine someone holding a black sheet in front of you. Something like that. Even on our moving out day things were happening upstairs. It was the worst I've personally ever felt it. Just dread and sorrow. My wife once again had something walk up on her, and heard knocks on the bedroom door while she was packing. We've gone back a few times to get a thing or two since we left in February. Every time its terrifying walking up the stairs. But I feel as if I should end this on a high note. We moved into a brand new home and it is a completely different experience here. It has helped our relationship and has taken a huge burden off of us.

MoonPark · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not my scariest but still a good creepout moment: was doing washing up in the kitchen of my previous house. Turned round and there was an old man standing to the side of me, wearing a black funeral suit and white shirt, smiling. Then there was nothing there. Things like that happened all the time in that bloody house.

Noncohesive · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few nights ago at a party, after I left, a guy fell backwards 3 stories to the ground, apparently he fell on bikes which saved him from dying.

Ubikk · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest: When I was younger I would have horrible night terrors and wake up screaming my head off, so I would often end up sleeping on the floor in my parents room. Well one night at about 2 or 3am, I'm in my parents room and everyone is asleep, my younger brother (who never had sleep-walked before) walks through the hallway, opens the door, and just stands there laughing hysterically. This continues for a minute of two before he makes his way over to the foot of the bed, stands there still in hysterics. At this point my parents are awake scared shitless. I'm awake scared shitless. Eventually my brother made his way to the side of the bed where my mom was, laughed for a couple minutes, stops laughing, and just walks out of the room. Needless to say I never slept on the floor of my parents room again.

SofaKing65 · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 18, my girlfriend and I had just finished up dinner with my parents and decided to go for a ride. As we were tooling along some back country roads, I decided to take a ride through the grounds of Linden Hall, a grand tudor mansion that years ago was converted into a golf course and resort, and sits on a secluded bluff overlooking the Youghigheny River. Since it was late March, the resort had not opened for the season and we arrived to find it entirely devoid of life, human or otherwise. The grand house silhoutted against the brightly moonlit sky was an image torn from the moodiest of daydreams. We continued past the house and looped back to the front of the hotel, and soon noticed that we were no longer alone. An older model Buick Skylark sat at the intersection in front of us, its white paint casting an odd, irridescent glow in the moonlight. As we approached the intersection, we noticed that the fender was dented and, at the wheel, sat a being with hair as black as pitch that hung lifelessly, utterly obscuring the driver's facial features. I flashed my highbeams to give them permission to proceed. A few seconds passed, and a gaunt, white arm waved us forward. I pressed down on the gas and honked the horn in gratitude, and my girlfriend faced the driver with a wide grin and a cheerful wave. Suddenly, the formerly motionless driver turned toward us, her face a pallid, unhumanly white that shined with the same eerie luminsescence of her car. Her eyes, wild and bulging, were encircled in the blackest of voids, and her mouth opened and contorted into a horrific scream. She raised both hands to the side of her now trembling head, stringy black hair still hauntingly motionless, and began waving them about, as if pleading for help or issuing a fierce warning of an impending terror. Startled, my girlfriend sunk down into her seat and shouted "Drive!" I slammed my foot down on the accelerator and as we sped away, I checked my rearview mirror to find the car a couple of hundred feet behind...following us. In a matter of moments, I watched as the headlights dimmed and slowly faded into nothing.

I'm not sure who or what the mystery woman was, or what she was doing on those dark, desolate country roads that night, but she sure gave us one hell of a scare.

Epidemilk · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got a call once from an unsaved number; usually I disregard these but I was at work and bored so I picked up. Couldn't understand all of what was being said because it's a noisy place, but the voice on the other end was freaking out saying things like "please help me, please don't hang up"

I had to hang up because I couldn't really hear so well, but it HAUNTED me..

nothief · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was hiking in the Transkei (Eastern Cape in South Africa) I was in a valley when I heard the sound of a rock breaking loose and falling down towards my head. The rock missed me but I never forgave that fucking goat. That was scary.

RoKTXn · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I just learned this story about my brother when my mother was telling stories about us as kids at a family gathering. Apparently we were in South Korea visiting some of her family there, and we went to a beach on the East Coast of the peninsula. We were hanging out on these black rocks while the surf was rolling in and out and just being kids and looking around for seashells. Me and my mother were standing up on the rocks while my brother jumps down 1 or 2 feet on to the beach to search around.

The surf is still coming up to the rocks at this point but I guess there was a larger than normal wave that comes up and then sweeps way back out to the ocean. My mom is looking down at my brother while I'm tinkering around on the rocks behind here when she sees the surf pull out and suddenly THOUSANDS of black spider/crab looking bugs emerge from the sand all around my brother. He is so in shock he can't even scream and just stares at my mom as they surge all around his feet. She realizes he's frozen with fear and grabs him and pulls him back up to the rocks.

Yea my brother doesn't like bugs now.

i-abide · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once lived in an apartment complex that used to be a hospital. It was old, and whenever I was standing at the door to my apartment rummaging around for my keys, I would look down the hall and be reminded of the Shining.

At the other end of the hall a few doors away from my apartment was a large chapel area. It had a large platform in the front and a balcony area above it along with tall windows of colored glass depicting the life of Christ. There were no pews inside, instead it had been converted into a local hang out room with some couches, tables, books, board games, and a foosball table. There was also a piano.

I play the piano and jumped at the chance to have somewhere to practice. I was also incredibly depressed at the time and chose very melancholy songs to play. At first I was jumpy being alone in this old chapel, but eventually I got used to it. Sometimes a few of the residents would come in to listen, and they would always clap appreciatively after I finished a song.

I remember I was working through the song "Hallelujah" and it was close to Christmas. As I focused on positioning my hands over the higher octaves, I noticed a figure sitting on the couch out of the corner of my eye. I didn't want to stop playing, so I continued to finish the rest of the song. When I looked over to see who had been watching me, no one was there. I was already on the last stanza, it had only taken a few seconds to reach the end of the song. I would've heard them if they had left, because the couches were right next to the piano and the door was twenty feet away.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

During summer, I like to sleep with my window open to air out the stuffy room. My window faces the backyard, which is dense with garden plants that my mother refuses to trim.

One night, at around 3AM, I awaken to this shrill wailing sound that to me sounds most like a baby crying. At first I'm a little dazed from just being in deep sleep, but then the adrenaline kicks in and I start to shit my pants (not literally). I look outside and I see the plants rustling violently. At this point, I am having a meltdown. I just grab the covers and drape them over my head while screaming obscenities. After about a minute, the crying stops, and there is just silence.

I just sit there expecting something to jump out and murder me, when I realize it was just my neighbor's cats having sex in the bushes. Goddamn cats. At that point I just start laughing uneasily and shut the window, and try to go back to sleep to no avail.

Needless to say I don't sleep with my window open anymore.

slayX · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to high school in a small town with a bunch of even smaller towns surrounding it. One night me and two of my best friends were driving around when we decided to stop at this empty house we knew of from other times driving around. (Yeah, small-town teenagers really don't have much to do.) I remember that it wasn't quite summer yet, but it was still pretty warm outside. It was around 9 pm. You could see the house from the road, but the dirt driveway up to the house was still pretty long. It was completely dark except for our headlights going up to the house. We stopped the car and got out, but we left the car running with the lights on pointing at the front door. We went up to the door to find that it was unlocked, so we open it and walk inside. There was no electricity, so we left the front door open. The headlights did a decent job of lighting up the foyer, but not much else. The house itself was what some people would call a "shotgun" house. Basically, as soon as you walk in, there's a long hallway that runs the length of the house and the rooms were on the sides, except for the kitchen that was located in the very back. The house wasn't even that old. I would say it was built in the 50's or early 60's. I remember that one of my friends and I began walking towards the back of the house, and our other friend stayed behind in the foyer. We were there maybe 2 minutes just cautiously looking around. There was no furniture that we could see, so there really wasn't much to look at. What happened next, though, is something I will never forget. My friend and I were almost to the kitchen, when I remember turning around and looking down the hall at my other friend still at the front of the house, and I noticed something peculiar. We could really only see his silhouette due to the headlights beaming in through the front door. It took me a moment to figure out what was so strange, until I realized that we could see my friends breath as he was talking to us from the front of the house. I looked at the friend who was standing next to me and said something, now realizing that I could also see my own breath and his breath too. And now we were all-of-a-sudden realizing that it had gotten VERY cold VERY quick, and we had no idea what had just happened. We didn't take the time to investigate either. I remember having that realization with my friend and getting this really eerie feeling coming over me. A hallway never looked so long as we ran back out the front door, got into the car, and sped off. I know we drove for like 5 minutes before my friend pulled over at a gas station, and we all just sat there and freaked out for awhile.

Anothertemporary · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The sound of an incoming rpg is pretty fucking scary.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Not sure if it fits as it's written but this is truely creepy : david parker rays audio tape transcript

Very long but I was hypnotized by the horror of that stuff, hoping all the way it's a fake

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Http://www.takethislollypop.com

I know it's not real but it's still creepy.

StanleyMk2 · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A little late, but heres mine. My friends and I went for a hike in the mountains behind our small hometown a few weeks ago. Nothing too creepy (except the skull and spine of something, I'll put up pictures if anyone wants to try figure out what it was) on the way, then we spotted a small clearing of trees. We thought this was odd, so tried to get in. We couldn't get through a thicket in the way, so we climbed a tree towards the outer rim to try spot anything odd, and found two dingy, ramshackle huts facing each other. Now we we're really interested. We dropped in from the treeline, and noticed that the ticket was woven over a pallet on hinges and a latch, a gate of sorts. Odd. The back of one of the huts faced the gate. We checked the other first, and it had two sleeping bags and a dog-bed. Weird, right? They looked like they were in disuse, but were probably habitable at some point.. Then we investigated the second, bigger hut. It was built around a central log that was sawn off at the roof level, and had two areas. One had a picnic bench, and the table was set with plastic plates, cups, and cutlery. The second had a gas barbecue in it, which we didnt test, and a barrel of water, which was filled via a cool drainage system on the roof, which led rainwater into it, aqueduct style. I was sitting at the picnic bench, looking out the door, when I spotted something above the door of the other hut. It was reflecting behind the kitchen. I called to one of my friends, "Hey Dylan, could you go around the way we came, and come in through the gate??". He does, and when he opened the gate, a bell tied to it struck, and lo and behold, I got his face in the mirror over the sleeping hut. I called that out, and we decided that was a good note to GTFO on. SO we're leaving, I duck and try to get out of the hut, when my hood snags something on the outside door frame. I spin to detach myself, and I'm shocked at what I see. A steak-knife, embedded to the hilt, in a tree. I try pull the knife out. No give. I try again. Nothing. Finally, third time, it comes loose. I pocket it and we run for the hills! I snapped this when we stopped. You can see where the metal was exposed and embedded from the rust. Definitely unsettling.

Jinh0o · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

+++not anything i can recall from my own experiences because I was young but my mother told me when I was young, I'd always look at her in the bedroom and tell her that I was seeing faces on the window. She'd then tell me to cut that shit out. We lived in the 4th floor apartment. aint nobody that tall.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A photo of the Elephant man O_O

Dogloversandi106 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh and another from me! When I was in elementary school they were renovating. We had this tiny ancient bathroom for the entire elementary school, and there was a teenage girl who'd just been killed in drug related violence. So I go to the bathroom and I'm standing in there alone after I do my doo, and the girl who'd just been killed a week ago walks in and starts brushing her hair. I didn't know her nor did I know she was dead until later, but looking back on it gives me the creeps.

Gnork · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Man I had something bizarre happen to my cousin and I out in the Palm Springs desert. It had rained the entire week and one of the local washes had been bone dry every other time I'd seen it was blasting like a full on river. We walked out in the dark to have a look at. You could barely see it but the sounds were amazing. The crashing water and debris rushing by pretty much drowned out all sound and we had to yell to hear each other. After awhile we get bored and want to walk back to the cabin when I notice these little lights winking on and off somewhere in the dark. I grab my cousin and he notices too. That's when we realize they seem to be getting closer, and fast. My heart is pounding and I'm stuck somewhere between confusion and panic. I didn't even have time to think about what to do when suddenly there's these loud cracking noises and a huge figure seeming to shoot fire whooshes past us only a few feet away. We both are screaming and he falls back and gets an ass full of cactus. It was some random dude on a fucking horse riding at nearly full speed in the middle of the night like the psychotic ghost of Paul Rivere. The winking lights were sparks from the horse shoes striking the river rocks.

TL;DR: Cousin and I thought we were being attacked by a desert fire monster.

Mocaos · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about 6 I watched Halloween for the first time with my older brothers. That night our dad thought it would be hilarious if he dressed in a Michael Mask, grab the biggest knife from our kitchen, and walk into my bedroom in the middle of the night while I was trying to fall asleep. He just stood in the doorway staring at me while I screamed my head off.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had fallen asleep with my arm above and around my head. I woke up, my arm had fallen asleep and it felt like some strangers hand was holding my face. Freaked out!

Epidemilk · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

On a less serious note: The knowledge that there are people out there with a 3 gig clop folder.

santalos5 · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

After the first Chechen War, the country was in chaos. Shortly before the second started, my parents and I were sleeping in a small apartment on the 4th floor. When we woke up the next day, almost all of our stuff had been taken. Nothing superstitious here, but what makes it creepy too me is that very often, robbers would kidnap, kill or worse. We were lucky none of us woke up.

KeepEmComing · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I was reaching under my grill to turn on the gas and a spider repelled down onto my arm. I nearly fell into the pool and immediately wanted to cut my arm off, alas I didn't, but it was truly terrifying!

JustSomeEngGuy · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Am I too late to submit this nightmare?

Semenslayer · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not a spiritual person and it's hard for me to believe anything with ghosts, so it's hard for me to have scary stories. But for any of you that have touched a dead body before, there is nothing scarier than feeling how cold their hands are. At least, to me.

queenrene · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple creepy things happened while I was living at my last apartment. Early in the morning my room mate and I would both wake up to what sounded like someone running across our attic. Of course it could have been an animal.. But it sounded much more like a human. In addition, one time I was home alone and trying to have a nap but I couldn't fall asleep. I felt my bed sinking beside me, like someone was sitting on it. I was so freaked out that I couldn't move.

_Godless_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Living in Melbourne's gangland, Carlton, outside a known hang out and eatery I heard from a group of guys "That's fucking fine, but if he wants to have a go I'll fucking whack him". Then they went silent, watched me walk by and the down the street.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-8ocnmE0Ts

Bejoty · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've always been really creeped out by the Vice episode where they interview the cannibal from Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BosZxa1bYcE

ManWithYourPlan · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of the craziest strories I've heard was on here a couple years ago

The story

ranquet91 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I worked at a large casino on the Vegas strip, one day a co worker and myself were walking to a service elevator we noticed someone get on the elevator about 25 feet in front of us and watched the door close when we arrived a few moments later we pushed the call button and the door immediately opened (this is only a 2 floor elevator but is extremely slow) both my coworker and I look at each other with dismay and verified we both saw someone get on. Anyhow we go up and there is a group of security personnel on the next floor we asked them if they saw anyone get off they didn't.

TL;DR Possibly saw a ghost/spirit get on an elevator.

quinnclever · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I work at a hospital with the physical fasilitys and was on fire watch after a contractor soldered a copper pipe leak. I was in the mental lock up and heard a doctor call his own phone to record him self. He started off talking about a girl that was troubled mently by what she calls a demon and it tells her to do things like burn things not eat ect. He went on and was talking about bring in a priest to get rid of the demon inside her in the nest two days. I was shitting my self at that point and when he was done i got the hell out of their. And have not been to lock up since.

OutbreakMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creeped me out, still get the goosebumps thinking about this one:

A friend in high school had a bad night.

He was the last one awake, his parents and younger (~6yo) brother had gone to bed.

Just as he was drifting off, his older sister arrived home and was walking about. It woke him up a little, but he managed to fall asleep again.

Just as he fell asleep again, his older sister arrived home and was walking about.

WTF? He got up to see what was going on. He asked her if she'd "been in already?", "No", she'd just arrived. They walked around the house and looked in to his little brother's room and he was gone!

They freak out, wake the parents. Everyone is charging around the house looking for him. Luckily, he's just hiding under his bed.

They ask him what he's "doing under there?" and he says:

"I'm hiding from the man that was here."

the-average-gatsby · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest thing that happened to me was in a dream. I'll keep it brief so as to avoid TL;DR.

Was walking through this huge mansion house in the country, a little run down, damp problems and overgrown garden. Awesome features though, high ceilings, original fireplace etc.

I'm on the phone to my buddy describing the house to him. I go into one room and there's a huge dusty dusty rosewood dresser on my left, on top of this is a massive mirror, not a speck of dust on it.

This room leads to a garden, so I go out and as I pass the mirror I feel a little uneasy but don't stop walking. I talk to my buddy about the garden, putting in a deck etc, put my phone back in my pocket and look around.

Walk back into the room and the dresser is now on my right. I walk past the mirror to leave and again feel uneasy. Walk back and turn left to look at the mirror, there's a face behind me, kind of a lack of face, like one of those old masquerade masks with black eye shadow and a creepy smile. We stare at each other for about half a second. It reaches out to touch my shoulder when...

My girlfriend wakes me up by grabbing my shoulder. I screamed my fucking lungs out, she screamed, I went into panic mode and couldn't stop shaking for about 30-40 seconds. Apparently I was mumbling about dusty rooms and faces in my sleep, she was worried.

Fuck that dream.

LunchBawcks · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This fucking COMIC --> http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31

jessicaxiii · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the attic of my old apartment, "don't meth around" was etched into the wall. You could tell they tried to paint over it, to no avail. Freaked me out

TheRandAaron · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest experience I believe I've ever had was when I was about 12 and living at home. My mom and dad had just bought their first house together, we always lived in apartments around the country.

We were waiting for it to be built, and eventually moved in the second we were allowed to. The first night we stayed, we didn't have much with us in the house. We had mattresses and blankets and that was about it, but we wanted to stay at our new house. Anyways, I went to bed in my new room, and I couldn't sleep (I've always had sleep issues) so I was just looking around my room from my bed.

It was when I was looking around that I felt very still, like everything was paused around me. I was looking around, and the stillness felt kind of comforting to be honest. I looked at my door frame, which was open that night, and I saw peering around the corner of the frame what looked like a small old persons face. It wasn't menacing, it wasn't doing anything but staring at me. I could not tell if it was a male or female, but this person had extremely pale skin, it was very easy to spot in the darkness. I stared at this person who did nothing but stare at me for a good 5-10 seconds, and during this stillness I wasn't exactly scared, but confused as to who it was and why they were just staring at me. I became unsettled because I realized I had no idea who it was and they had an uncharacteristically long, pale-white nose. I then put my head under the covers and I don't remember anything after that of that night.

Anyways, throughout our time living at this house for the next three years or so, our family had each individually experienced the feeling of being watched, and then hearing a deep wheeze-like breathing.

I had experienced it while playing video games on my computer one night. I felt like something was nearby, I could just feel a presence.. it was very odd. I started looking around and then heard the breathing. I ran to my Mother's room and told her, and slept in there that night.

She also experienced this, while I was sleeping one night. She was working from home, late at night, and she too felt something near her and then heard deep wheezing. I woke up to the loud noises of my mother running down our hallway as fast as she could toward my sleeping dad.

My father even experienced it, he said when he went out for a smoke in the garage one night he felt very uneasy. When he walked back in the house, he said he heard a very loud wheeze-like breathing behind him. He told me he was quite nervous to smoke in the garage at night after that.

Not massively scary, and nothing bad ever happened to me or my family, but definitely a strange experience.

haychbee · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The transcripts of the audiotape David Parker Ray would play to his kidnapped victims: LINK

sonic4031 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Also from Fark: I had to call a client regarding some followup. When I dialed her number, it would ring once normally, then again in a different tone. Then a sort of click would signify that the call had been picked up. But nobody was there. I said "hello? hello?" a couple times, but got nothing. I tried again, and still nothing. But it was weird because it was like something was on the other end of the line.

So, I waited quietly, listening and it became apparent that there were other noises on the other end. Distant, echoey sounds that seemed like people in a kitchen. (I say that because you could almost make out the clatter of china and silverware.) There were maybe voices and footsteps, but it all sounded as if the phone was off the hook in an unfinished basement, and there was a dinner on the floor above.

After a couple minutes I hung up and told my coworkers about it. They tried the number again and got the same results. Throughout the day, people were trying the number and getting a little freaked out.

The last time I tried it, I swear, I heard a muffled whimper, souning much "closer" to the phone. I hung up immediately out of terror.

The next day the number was disconnected. And the next time we saw the client, we told her the spooky story regarding the phone number we had for her. She said, rather seriously "Don't use that number." By the way she said it, we didn't ask any further questions...

wtbnewsoul · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My twin having a seizure.

IQBoosterShot · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Back in the mid 70s we would ride around Tampa looking for "spooky" spots, just to see how much we could scare each other. So David, the oldest one of us (and the one driving), took us to a cemetery near downtown Tampa. At first I thought it was no big deal; hell, it was surrounded by city streets and the police station was a block away. A path cut diagonally through the cemetery and we took it. A mist hung in the air. We stopped roughly in the middle and looked around. Movement off to our right caught our attention; something rose from the ground and started walking. We froze in place. Whoever it was walked into a patch of darkness and disappeared.

At this point we were pretty tightly wound, but still not really scared. David pointed to a small mausoleum. Its door was ajar. He dared one of us to pull it open. We walked closer to take a look when the door swung open and someone started to climb out.

My heart leapt up in my chest as someone let out a holler and we all ran like hell. I didn't even take time to look back. We climbed in the car and yelled at David to get us out of there.

Later we found out that the homeless would often sleep in the cemetery and would also climb into "abandoned" mausoleums to sleep. Even though it wasn't the dead rising, it's still creepy to think about those guys sleeping in mausoleums.

zebra_stripe · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Every night for about a year I would hear somebody/something walking next to my bed and around my room. I would just lay there and not move and just try to go to sleep as fast as I could. It happened every night without fail. One day, I was home alone and I was getting ready in my bathroom and I heard my kitchen cabinet slam close. It was way too hard to accidentally be closed and no windows were open. Scared the crap out of me. It continued to happen so I decided to set up a video camera and record while I was sleeping. I didn't catch much, but a faint, painful scream and the sound of someone touching and tapping on the camera. I brought the camera to work after viewing it to show my co-workers what I was talking about. I set down the camera on a desk, far from the edge, and plugged it in. When I turned around to pick the camera up to show them, something flung the camera off the desk and all the footage was lost. Needless to say, he didn't want to be known. Eventually I stopped hearing the ghost and moved. I still can't believe how I slept at night.

Cat_Overlord_Omega · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I must have been around 7-8. I had a nightmare (a recurring one from childhood) where I was being chased by a wolf. I don't know where this idea came from but it used to scare the crap out of me. Anyway I woke up sweating and panting. My bed used to have one side against the wall, the other facing out into my room and when I woke up I saw a figure standing over me. It was my mom and in a very calm and soothing voice asked "I heard you up. Did you have a bad dream?" to which I replied yes and I was sorry for waking her up. I reached out to hug her and felt something cold and flat meet my hands. It was at this moment I realized that the figure was my shadow and I had been facing the wall the entire time. No one was in my room and my mom was fast asleep. Needless to say I didn't get much sleep that week.

freethnkr · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.bestgore.com/beheading/man-fingers-cut-off-beheading-narcos-mexico/

A_Huge_Pancake · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This isn't really as severe as the other stories here but it scared the mighty shit outta' me.

One average night, I was thirsty so I decided to grab the bottle that was in the top draw out of my draws beside my bed. I finished drinking and went to close the draw again and I thought I stuck my hand through the draw. The fuck?! It was closed. I had no recollection of closing that draw in the 10 second gap it was open for. It didn't take much but I was totally freaked out that entire night and the following morning.

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Ice_and_Kamehameha · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Umh ... sorry, but do you possible live in in Iceland? I remember one winter I was visiting a town in Iceland that had around 1200 people in it and was along the coastline. The town was Sand something. Can't remember correctly.

But I remember one night I was walking around town, and all of a sudden there is this small girl in the middle in the street. I was kinda startled at first, but then figured it's just a child who has somehow got lost. But I was kind of confused since it looked like she had been in bed since she was wearing pajamas. I guess she ran from home.

But I decided to see what was wrong. I didn't know any Icelandic, but I tried my best to ask whether or not she was ok. No response. She just kept staring at the street floor. I walked a bit closer, and she stepped back. I guess she was just really scared of me. So I decide the call the police to tell them that there is this lost girl. I end up looking around myself to try to figure out where I am, and I glance back at the spot where the girl was standing. Except this time, she is standing right in front of me, still staring at the floor. First I am like ''OK wtf is this, quit playing''. After a moment of silence she suddenly looks up at me. And I don't know why, but I got this really cold feeling up my spine. First I am thinking ''OK, these fucking Icelandic kids are probably just playing a stupid prank with me'', so I kind of just laugh, hang up, and decide to walk away from her.. But she is follow me now, still looking at me with a blank face. I walk a bit faster, but we are always the constant same distance apart. Then she suddenly starts crying, so I am like ''Ok, she is probably looking for help from me, and is crying because I am walking away''. But then out of nowhere, this man comes walking from the side. I could not see his face because it was pitch black, but all I remember seeing is that she points at me, says something with a crying voice in Icelandic, and the guy begins walking to me.

After that happened, I ran the fuck back to where I was staying. It may have just been her dad and she may have been saying that I made her really scared, but the crying and all of the black figures just made this creepy as fuck.

Vlyn · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I think I forgot a lot of stuff, a bit of a shock was on a school trip though:

First floor on a balcony drinking and playing cards. Another (idiot) schoolfriend managed to go straight over the railing and lands one story down on the dirt floor. He didn't hurt himself (too badly) but that really was a: Oh shit! moment.

zigzag024 · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this is more funny than scary: i was staying late at my school, and people are leaving and coming in as they please (review session) and i happen to be staring out the open door and i see the janitor pass with a very scared facial expression. I didn't think much of it until seconds later one of the students enters the room wearing this creepy white mask. I laughed realizing that the janitor probably thought that this kid was gonna murder him.

Evanpunked · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would say the creepiest thing I've ever experienced was probably about 5 years ago, when I was still in high school. So one day over the summer, I was in my room taking a nap. I think I had came back from a swim meet or something, cause I was exhausted. Anyway, not really sure how long I was asleep for, but when I woke up, I realized I could not move a muscle.

Ok, wasn't the scariest thing to happen in my life, but whatever. The thing that happened next creeped me out like nothing else. I thought I heard someone whisper my name into my ear. Said it a few times too, getting louder each time. Remember, I couldn't move worth a damn at this point. After what seemed like several minutes, and great effort to move anything, I was suddenly able to get up and look around. No one else in the room.

I'm pretty sure my parents and siblings were either out, or busy. I later learned about sleep paralysis, and figured my experience was just a living dream. Still, scariest thing I've experienced.

PineconeShuff · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

definitely sleep paralysis. happens to me occasionally as well and yes, it is one of the scariest fucking things ever

ozzymandez · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This was just eerie. Walking home from a late shift at work one night, I decided to take the quicker route to the bus-station via a street that lead pretty much directly to it. So I walk down and it's dark and there's no one out. There are no cars driving up and down the road and the lights in the houses are all on. But here's the kicker.

I walk past this pram. It's completely empty. It's just there. I can speculate the circumstances and it was probably something completely innocent but I don't know whether it was the quietness of the street or what, but that just really creeped me out.

Bit tame compared to some of the others, but it just...stayed with me.

gabrielbatistuta · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest/creepiest thing I have seen/heard is any noise/movement currently happening in my flat after reading this thread. :-(

FreakleMind · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once went for a romantic movie with my girlfriend. Was halfway of the movie and was thoroughly enjoying it. Suddenly i heard a very creepy shrill sound. it wasnt from the movie. I asked my girlfriend if she heard it too. She din't.I got myself back into the movie.Again i heard the sound and this time differently creepy.And then it kept on coming.I followed and found its coming from the other side of my seat.She was and old lady was farting i don't know for what sake.Trust me the experience is creepiest of all.

Buddha_Jr · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been having this reoccurring dream for a few years now. I'm outside in the late afternoon at a restaurant or cafe watching people and eating/drinking. I am usually with someone too. I take a sip of coffee and look up and see the Moon. The Moon is dark and you can see it's craters. I am being talked to, but I just keep staring at the Moon and it's getting larger and larger. Everyone around us starts panicking, but we remain still. People are running and screaming all around me. The moon is crashing into Earth and I can't look away. Soon the Sun gets blocked out and that's usually when I wake up at 4am sweating.

MissingUmlaut · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I grew up in St. Petersburg, FL. When I was a kid, a tanker hit one span of the two-span Sunshine Skyway bridge that links Pinellas and Manatee counties. The bridge was maybe 7-8 miles long total, and the tanker knocked out the "high" part of the south-bound span, where the roadway was a few hundred feet above the water. The two spans were exactly parallel, and were 100 ft or so apart.

They eventually built a new bridge, but for many years the one remaining span was used for both north- and south-bound traffic. As you crossed the undamaged span and got to the highest part, you could look over 100 ft to the side and see the mangled end of the broken span, with chunks of crumbling roadway and steel supports just sticking out over the water.

Of course the state had the upper part of the damaged span fenced off, but they did allow you to go fishing from the "flat" parts of the bridge closer to the coast on either side. The fence was really high and topped with barbed wire to prevent people from getting up there.

The creepiest thing I ever saw happened one time when I was driving south (placing me closest to the damaged span). I looked over at the damaged span, and I saw a woman inside the restricted area walking toward the end of the bridge. She was wearing some kind of nightgown and I think she had bare feet.

Of course going 60 mph I only saw her for a few seconds. I was probably 17 or 18 at the time, but that sight and the look on her face has haunted me ever since. I am convinced she was either going to commit suicide, or she was the ghost of someone who did commit suicide by jumping from that bridge.

mustachemystery · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Had a dog rip the heads off my pet geese they were both standing with no heads just the bottom bill. It keeps me awake at night

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Were your geese still alive for a while? I've heard of chickens that were still alive but missing parts of their heads.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:12:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's entirely possible they were still alive. Chickens, geese, ducks and such all have pretty simple brains and as long as the brain stem and a specific piece of the brain right above it (I believe it's the "meculla oblongata", in people it is the "medulla oblongata") remain then the vital functions of the body such as heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc will continue to function. The good news is that since the bulk of the rest of the brain is likely missing then they are feeling no pain and are effectively zombie birds.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Pretty interesting! Thanks for the mini biology lesson.

ddogg7864 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have two.

When I was in middle school, maybe 13 or 14yo, I was really into knives. I had made some silhouette targets out of plywood and would practice all the time throwing and sticking knives in them. I also would keep one or my knives on the night stand next to my bed because my room had a door that connected to the garage of our house and I was always kinda scared by that. So, one night I wake up from a dream that a dude had come through the door from the garage into my room and was coming at me. In my dream I had thrown my knife at him and he had run off. I was so scared when I had awoken that I ran upstairs to my parents room and woke them up. When we walked back down to my room, my knife was sticking in the wall next to the door.

Number 2:

My wife and I live in a house on a 1 mile dead end street that runs through the forest. All of the houses on our street are on 2 - 5 acre lots and most are still fully wooded. We cannot even see any of our neighbors houses from our house. One night about 2am my wife wakes me up because she hears a strange noise. I can immediately hear what is the most upsetting shrieking, blood curdling cry I have ever heard in my life. It was not like any sound I have ever heard. I hike and hunt alot and have heard just about every animal sound imaginable. But this is different. We stood on our porch listening for about 5 minutes and it never stops or even lets up. My actual thought was that this could be a bigfoot or something. Finally I tell my wife that I am going to walk up the street in the direction that it is coming from and investigate. I walk about 100 yards down the street and round a corner and there are about 5 police cars and an ambulance. The police tell me that there is a party in the woods and someone called 911 and shat that a person had been shot. Since it is dark and very dense woods, the police had announced on a loud speaker for everyone to walk out of the woods to them. When the people came out, they said that the shooter was a drunk women and that she was still down there. So the police had sent a dog after here and it had her cornered and that she was the shrieking sound that was still going on.

TL;DR Had a dream that may have been real and a women can make very eerie noises when attacked by a police dog in the dark woods.

the_blibinator · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Quite old, but I find it unsettling to say the least.

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MisterQuiver · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My roommate told me this when I got home one night. Him and his girlfriend were downstairs watching TV. His room is upstairs as well as another roommates. From the other roommates room, they heard his computer turn on and start playing a fast forwarded ad. They went upstairs and were confused so they closed the browser. It was like youtube or something. As they began walking down the stairs, they said they heard like quick footsteps run past them on the stairs. As they were questioning the whole thing, they went back to the couch and as soon as they sat down, the same ad started right up again. Our house does things like this frequently, which is why we no longer will be living there next year.

Endulos · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw a Hell Hound.

I've typed this out so many times so heres a tl;dr

came out of room at 3 am. looked down hall. saw black mass in shallow light from bathroom nightlight. its breathing. scared to death. move for the light. second before light comes on see a flash of red eyes. hit light. nothing there. stay in room until morning.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hope I'm not too late but... I was sitting home alone one night and all of a sudden I hear something run up the stairs to my room. My dog was with me and it was too loud to be anything else but then it stops about halfway through and I hear this voice start breathing really heavily and it just breathes for 5 minutes and then gone. I would rather not experience that again. Ever.

Fish_daddy · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing I've ever seen happened when I was about 14 years old. My family was at our cottage for the weekend and my sister and I were the only kids there. Usually later at night on family vacations all the adults get pretty wasted and so my sister and I usually go into another room away from them. Well it was late at night and everyone but us and my grandma were asleep. I heard her going upstairs to bed so I went out and said goodnight to her. Instead of saying anything back to me she just turned and stared at me with a blank face. I have never seen anyone show no emotion like that before. Well I thought maybe she just didn't hear me so I went to back into my room and didn't think too much of it. A couple seconds later though I hear this loud thud. I thought maybe my sister dropped her laptop in the kitchen so I didn't do anything. All of a sudden though I hear my sister yell "Grandma?!" And I rushed out my room. My grandma had fallen down the stairs and was lying there unconscious. She started wheezing and foaming at the mouth. My sister and I were just screaming and we didn't know what to do. Our screams woke up my grandpa who came downstairs and was just in shock. He wouldn't let me call 911 but I ran out and grabbed the phone and dialed anyway. While on the phone with the 911 operator, I soon realized that I didn't know the address of our cottage. I tried asking the rest of the family but they were too drunk to say anything that made sense. We ha to run up the street and figure out the street name and look outside the house to figure everything out. Luckily by the time the paramedics came my grandma had come to. But I'll never forget how hopeless and terrified I felt that night.

elsquire · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not much of a story teller and I'm here late, but here it goes.

It was 2004 or 2003 and my best friend whom I had formed a band at the time started going out with this girl I had introduced to him. He was pretty hung up on her (still is, they got married) so one day they invited me and my then wife with my 5 year old daughter to her house for dinner and to meet her family.

So we go and hang out and had dinner and all, when my kid started getting bored and nagging us to go home, so my friend’s GF tells her if she wants to play with her dolls in her room, to what my daughter gladly says yes. We spent the whole afternoon having a good time and chatting, getting to know everyone, when my daughter comes in with this one particular doll in her hand; nothing out of the ordinary, just a normal rag doll. It did look a little bit up, but it had nothing else to be noticed. She was having so much fun and seemed to like the doll very much, she even told us her name. My friend’s GF said that it was funny, that she had named the doll when she was little but could not remember why and while she was telling us this story, she told my daughter that if she liked the doll so much, that she could have it. It made her day, ‘cause she looked so happy about taking the doll home. It was at this time that we decided to make it a day and started saying our goodbyes, when my daughter stepped outside for what might have been at the most 5 minutes. As we started walking out into the porch comes my daughter with this look on her face that I’ll never forget and do not wish other parents to ever see in their kids’ faces, and without saying a word gave the doll back to her owner. My friend’s GF asked her if she didn’t want it, to what my kid just nodded and got in the car. The girl said that it was funny that she had been trying to get rid of the doll for a while and for some reason, the doll always came back to her.

I was so creeped out, that I did not say anything to my daughter for refusing a gift from someone. Needless to say that she slept in our bed that night.

MrsAtticus · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to have this goofy plastic ice cream scoop shaped like a silly man in a white hat. When you waved it (and you had to wave it aggressively for it to work), it sang, "ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM! Ding-a-ling-a-ling!" It was loud and hilarious, and I brought it out about once a year when I had people over for ice cream. When not in use, I kept it in a remote basket on a shelf in the laundry room. After a few years, I woke up around 3am to "ICE CREAM!" I knew what it was immediately, but the terrifying part is that you have to basically wave the stupid thing in circles for it to sing. I went to the basket and found it undisturbed, and so I moved it to a drawer in the kitchen. The next night at 3am, and every night following that one, I woke up to the sound of that goofy ICE CREAM song until I was freaked out enough to give it to my friend - he, however, reports no bizarre ICE CREAM activity although he has had it for several years now.

TLDR; I had an ice cream demon in my house.

CkSned · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well I feel fairly lucky in comparison to you guys. The worst ive had is my TV turning on by itself in the middle of the night. It happened 3 nights in a row at around 1:30am each time. No idea why, its not like I rolled onto the remote or anything in bed seeing as it sits below my TV close to the other side of the room.

awesomereece123 · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Walking home at 4AM in the morning, I cut through some woods as a short-cut and saw a man with a lamp, shovel and a big black bag digging a hole. I thought it had to be a body, but to this day I can never be 100% sure. I never told anyone about it and I never went through that forest alone again.

casp3r72 · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/ScaryBilbo

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Weirdest thing that ever happened to me was with a friend who also remembers it, which is good because otherwise I would have thought I imagined it.

Around the 7th grade I had a sleepover at my house with 5 or so of my friends. My basement is set up in the following way: all the couches (sleeping area) face the main TV and the "gaming" TV and Computer are behind the couches. The gaming TV had one purpose so it wasn't hooked up to cable and it didn't have a remote. I had two couches in my basement and I was on the biggest one (naturally).

We all went to bed around 1am and around 3am I woke up wide-eyed. I was completely awake, like I had gotten a full nights rest. Because something felt "off" I slowly sat up on my couch, and as I did I noticed my friend on the other couch slowly rose up as well. We didn't say a word to each other but we both knew something strange was happening. We stared at each other in silence for about 15 seconds (which is longer than it seems) and then all of the sudden the gaming TV behind us turned on.

Static.

We both just sat there staring at the TV, more confused than scared, for a solid minute. Finally I got up and turned off the TV and without looking at my friend went right back to bed, though I hardly slept a wink.

I believe in ghosts the same way RZA does: "if there weren't any humans, there wouldn't be any ghosts to be scared of." I saw many "ghosts" as a child (civil war vet, people talking through pictures etc) but have now realized all those supernatural events were my own doing. I would think "wouldn't it be scary if ____ happened" and then of course it would happen. Similar to a Schizophrenic perhaps? Not sure, kids are weird.

But anyways, all I know is that I cannot explain this event because I shared it with someone else who concretely remembers every event that I do, and that may be the most creepiest part of it all.

TL;DR Friend and I wake up at exact same time, stared at each other very confused, TV in back turns on by itself to static

TailwindsFoxy · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know this will get buried but the scariest sound I've ever heard was this eerie bellowing that sounded almost mournful. I lived on a river at the time that was banked by very steep cliffs so the sound echoed off of the banks and amplified the horrific sound. Later I found out it was a truck that was spraying for mosquitoes by the river. It just happened to make this awful sound. But the scariest thing that happened to me of all time was when I was in middle school I got up early, about 5:30am when it was still dark out to get ready for school. My clothes were all in the laundry room in the basement. Mind you, I was still in the house previously mentioned which happens to be old as fuck. like built in the 1930s so the basement is really creepy. I turned the corner from the kitchen to go down the basement stairs. When I flipped the light on I saw a man, clear as day, standing at the bottom of the stairs. He looked old and all the colors were faded from him. He turned and faced me. We made eye contact. Then, this is the part that scarred me for life, he slowly turned toward the back of the basement and darted in a blur so fast I hardly could comprehend what had happened. Then he slowly turned again and darted once more then disappeared. Hands down the freakiest thing ever that I have seen.

nothanksihadaburrito · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

3 nights ago I was taking the dogs outside around 8:30pm. I saw a cluster of 20 or 30 lights. I thought maybe they were fireworks, but they didn't fall and there was no noise. After trying to capture it on my cell phone they went into a line or a "J" shape, then it was gone. Freaked me out.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

During university I lived with couple of roommates in an old house, it was cheaper than new apartments and we liked its garden. once we moved in many of our neighbors told us about the funny stuff going around the house and how it is haunted. but we didn't take any of what they say seriously. On the weekends most of us go back to our parent's houses and usually one or two stay at the house.

One weekend I stayed alone, and in the evening I went to a friend's place to spend sometime, I got back fairly late (around 1pm) and while walking towards the house I noticed the light on the porch is on. I'm not the kind of guy who "forgets" to turn off the light. but I thought I did, couple of steps towards the house the light went off. at that point I got skeptical. I reached the house no one in there. the door is looked and the light switch is inside so there is no way someone turn it on and off. When my roommates got back I mentioned it to them, and almost each one of them had his story. most of them were about a small lamb in the middle of the house turning on and off in the middle of the night.

A month or two later we moved out, some of my friends moved in replacing us. in less than a month they all fled the house. one of them broke his leg in the house. and many sow the light thing.

I've never heard about that house after that and I never wanted to ask in the first place.

NewTeethThatsWeird · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:10 on September 14, 2013 · (Permalink)

Two of your misspellings (lamp, saw) came out as farm animals (lamb, sow). I find that interesting.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a bit late, but it's good.

I was camping with my friend and I couldn't sleep. Around 2 in the morning, I see a light and hear footsteps. I see this guy who came from another campsite. He walks over to our tent and just stops in front of it with a flashlight pointed at us. I'm thinking that maybe this is a camp inspector just lookin around the site, but he doesn't leave. He's not moving and he's just starin at us. I'm pretending to be asleep, but I still saw him. He stood there for a good twenty minutes before going back to his tent and turning off the light. It kinda freaked me out a little.

I_AM_L3G3ND · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once had some sort of nightmare that woke me up, and when I sat up in bed, I saw the fuzzy outlines of hundreds of faces staring back at me in the pitch black. They went away after a second or two, but it freaked me out so much that I had to physically get up, run across my room, and turn the lights on to get the image out of my head. This has happened to me twice in the past 5 months.

Alektruon · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It will happen again.

pixelguru · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I went to a very small elementary school that was housed in a semi-cloistered convent. The operation was 1/3 school and 2/3 an old age home for an ever decreasing population of elderly nuns. Girls would enter the convent as teenagers and live their entire lives without ever leaving the grounds. In the early days, they couldn't even talk to family members unless it was through a screen.

One day we weren't allowed to play on one side of the playground, so naturally 9 year old me went to see why. One of the old nuns had passed away, and the priest and several nuns stood in silence over the coffin as they prepared to seal it inside a hole in the wall. There were no tears or signs of emotion whatsoever. They just silently walled her up. Even in death, nobody left the convent.

parcadecima · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night. I was awake, but with my eyes open I could not see clearly the bedroom, even with the lights from the street. I guess my eyes weren't really open, but it felt like it. I sleep alone, in a single's bed, but I felt like someone was hugging me from behind. The hug was very tight, and I felt a male's breathing on my ear. I couldn't move, I couldn't talk. I had to close and open my eyes repeatedly to really wake up and be able to move.

Fuck that.

mari_who · 3 points · Posted at 22:49:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

I get this occasionally and it suuuuucks.

parcadecima · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Somehow I feel better knowing it's just my brain going asshole on me.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

It was a post on /r/WTF it was about a couple who killed a man and ate him. It still freaks me out even though the last time I saw it was four months ago. Creepy as fuck. I found the photos, they are not for the faint of heart: http://imgur.com/a/RPgry

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live in a house by a golf course, a normal little house. My family (mom, dad, myself) don't venture much towards our dining room or living room, since we only use those for special occasions. My aunt passed when I was about 6. One night I got up for no reason. Outside my door is a way to our second floor, but it's really like an apartment. The door was open. During this time it was always closed since I hadn't moved up there then. So I peek and look at the staircase and I see a tall woman, dressed entirely in black with a veil over her face. I'm standing there freaked out because she wasn't standing, she was floating. She floats up my steps and turns the corner and....was gone. She never did anything else but look at me...her face hidden behind her veil. Fast forward a couple of months and I woke up randomly again and my night light was out. I can't sleep without it so like any kid I got up to go to my parents room. I didn't make it. I was grabbed, thrown back into my bed and was forced there and couldn't move. I'm freaking out and screaming for my father but it's as if a hand was over my mouth and on my throat. My dad didn't hear me until he got up to go to the bathroom, and heard me sobbing and came in and asked me what was wrong. After that, I didn't sleep by myself for years. But since then I hear voices, and have nightmares about something, a demon, just hating me and trying to kill me. All my friends who have spent time over here longer than a day has a experienced some type of weird activity. I don't have nightmares anywhere else except home. It still goes on.

nevermind4790 · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I probably have something better that I can't think of, but this one relates to current news.

Well, probably 8 months ago I had a dream that I remembered pretty vividly. I was released from a prison near a cliff that overhangs an ocean, due to a case of mistaken identity. I exit the building and enter into an abandoned warehouse. I leave without harm.

Next I end up outside again and it's just plain fields, but there's just nothing around. For some reason I thought I was in Oklahoma or Kansas. The only buildings I see are a 7-11 and a hotel across the street. The sky is permanently cloudly like in the "real world" outside of the Matrix, and there's a tornado off in the distance just chillin there.

After reports of the tornado in Oklahoma I remembered this dream and was like "oh fuck this is like my dream".

Also after reading some of your stories and while I was typing this I think I heard some voices from down the hall. Thanks Reddit! Oh great, my dog just jumped on my bed behind me out of nowhere and scared the shit out of me.

topiary320 · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at this electronic music gig where the majority of people were inebriated off mdma, acid or the likes. So walking from one room to the other, I come across this girl sitting in the corner and she looked OUT OF HER MIND fucked up. Then this random dude wearing those gloves which have lights on the fingertips comes over and starts mesmerising her with them. It was like she was in some trance and wasn't even in this dimension, only the lights mattered. I dunno, must have been the situation but I was creeped out by that for the rest of the night

oorkaas · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That story about that secret hidden room in someones basement on /r/nosleep creeped me the fuck out

drose38 · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I won't say anything, ill just let curiosity get the best of you. http://youtu.be/erh2ngRZxs0

inflames797 · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I like the way you think!

drose38 · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thank you!

bruitdefond · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Elisa Lam. Later found dead in the hotel water tank.

http://youtu.be/Zq4LmWiDiC0

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Radiohead's "Exit Music (For a Film)". Pretty happy that a simple song is the creepiest thing I've ever heard.

BadLuckDood · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:38 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Several years ago, a couple of years after my mother died, (I was 10 when this all happened) I was sleeping in my room, and woke up at 2 am. I checked the clock, and then sat there for a few minutes. Then I heard creaking in the wall coming towards me, and breathing. I freaked the fuck out. Then a few years later, after we moved, it was about 11 pm, and I saw my door move, and my swivel chair turn. Again, I was pretty freaked out. Thats my creepy experience.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

College Story:

At my college, there was a kid named shawn that lived right next to me in the dorms. He was an odd one, definitely not a kid you would want to really get close to even though he seemed harmless. Anyway, he would always be pretty borderline sociopath when you would talk to him because I don't think he had the social filter to not be horrifically creepy.

Well I'm in my dorm bathroom (Communal) and I'm brushing my teeth. I was just standing there brushing away, kind of in a weird haze of waking up and I suddenly realize there is someone in the stall behind me peeing. Needless to say there is a huge mirror in front of the sinks and I am watching the person kind of startle and rustle around once he realized I was a presence in the room.

This is where it got creepy, I watched fingers slowly grasp over the top of the stall door. One by one they sort of creeped up and over the door and then with such a slow ease he raised the top part of his head over the door to watch who was there. As my eyes widen from thinking, "What is this kid...doing..." he slowly gazes around the room from left to right then just as easily as he had raised his head, lowers it and stays in the stall until I leave.

Thank god I'm a senior now, there's so many fucked up kids at this college.

DildoBar · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember one night me and my mom and one of her friends were sitting outside and her friend asked us if we wanted to hear something that's a little creepy. keep in mind we were in the edge of the woods behind my mom's friend's house. in the dark around a small fire. she had said that while she was taking her son to his father's house she had to drive through this town that she described as the single most creep town she'd ever been in. she said there were only about five buildings or so and a lot of farms and barns. she recalled passing a park that was rusty and worn down. it had a carousel type of deal, where you sit on it and your friends twirl it and it spins real fast. Anyway she said it just wouldn't stop spinning. She was outside getting gas too. at night. she said she basically did 70 getting out of the town.

halomadeclips · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was little, I used to wake up all the time with my blankets off of me and on the ground next to my bed, I was initially scared that some spirit/ghost thing was the cause, but as time went on it happened less and less so I got more self confident. However, one night I woke up and realized my blankets were off again, I looked down at the side of my bed and there was nothing to be seen, then I looked around and saw it.

My blanket was in the corner of the room, folded up in a neat square. The part about this that maid my skin crawl is that I had my door locked, and I don't know how to fold.

wickedwontons · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i was staying at a friends house one night in year 9, her parents had gone out for the night, so it was just me and her alone, we were watching a movie together, when all the Power in the house went out, she started screaming and as soon as the noise came out of her mouth, i heard a rustle in the garage, a couple of tools had dropped, she had a knife because she believed someone was in there, and i went in first, i saw a shadow running around but i couldn't see a figure, it ran out and i ran after it but couldn't see it in the dark of the night,

Hatafark · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably going to get buried, but I had this creepy ass dream that I had never had before and haven't had since. I posted it on /r/Dreams a while back. Here it is.

"I was sitting in a classroom, but the building was just that, a single class room, when we saw the moon rising in the night time. Right after that we see another moon that is seemingly thrown into the night sky, and it was very clearly a paper moon, so I thought it was a joke until it too started orbiting with the real moon. Then, suddenly the moons started multiplying, everyone was in shock. It was a picture.. brilliant.. moment. There were thousands of moons floating around in the night sky all right past each other, which my class seemed to think was an alien message. It was like looking at a galaxy of moons only, no planets or stars. Soon, the moons started to drop down, and I noticed this. I started screaming "NO! NO! NO! NOOOO!" as I saw my classmates and teachers being burned alive, their skin being torn off by the moons exposing their actual insides. The moons were falling with rules of the atmosphere, as in they got very small and were glowing red and blue with fire. I ran back into the classroom with nowhere else to go, and right when I was for sure about to die, I woke up screaming "NO! NO! NOOOO!""

Edit: I might format this and edit it a little, last time I wrote it I had been awake for about 10 minutes scared shttless.

gav2020 · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A few years back I was going a walk with my dog over in Tentsmuir forest, Scotland. The main walk by the beach was closed off for some reason so we found this other, rather obscure, path through the forest and followed it instead. Around 20 minutes later of following this narrow path we're in the middle of the forest, absolute silence and the trees are so dense its really dark.

We approach this clearing up ahead and as we get closer, notice a fence with dead animals pinned across it and snake carvings all over the ground. We walk on a bit further and two cabins emerge from behind the trees. Both are ancient old things, filthy with smoke coming out of each. To our horror, inside we see a figure, surrounded by hundreds of candles and hunched over a wax, human, model with pins through it. We were in the middle of nowhere, two of us and our dog, no idea where to run or hide. We just got out of there as fast as we could, 8 years later and I have never dared to go back.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

So in downtown Tulsa, OK there's an 11 story building called The Tulsa Club. It has been abandoned for years. My friends and I when we were younger really liked climbing buildings and sometimes going inside to just hang out and feel mischievous. This place though, was the creepiest fucking place I've ever seen. There would be five or so of us anytime we went in, and we immediately grabbed chair legs or any other club-like object we could. You had to climb the fire escape to the roof to get in, because all of the ground floor entrances were boarded up. There's something very unnerving about going deeper into a building while simultaneously getting farther from the exit. The basement is fucking NOPE-city. It's a maze of pipes that not only makes it hard to move quickly, but also makes the shadows move constantly around you. As you go through the various floors you end up startling birds that have come to live there, so they immediately jump out and fly away from you, but sometimes they just kinda keep flying.

Anyway, they have an actual BALLROOM, like fucking princess dances kind of ballroom in this place that takes up two stories. They have little balcony windows too that overlook it. Well, next to the ballroom is a kitchen area, where we found a dead bird submerged in a red gelatinous fluid. It was in a plastic box, and it didn't appear that the bird could have died there accidentally. Next we found a large machine, like the size of a jukebox, but a little shorter and on rollers, same rounded top shape. This thing was old as fuck, and was completely metal and very heavy. The plating on the side described what it was, and while I don't remember exactly what it said I do remember that its purpose was to shock people. It was some kind of electrocution machine. I don't know why it was in a kitchen, we pretty much nope-d out of that area when we realized what it was. Later, my friends and I pranked some people who we heard were going in there. We got there first and waited for them to go into the racquetball court (it was kind of a creepy highlight of the building) and then we closed the door on them, and my 6'4" buddy walk calmly onto the observation platform wearing a gasmask and banged on the plexiglass with a club, slowly. I have never heard such sounds of animalistic terror come from humans beings before.

EDIT: Pics (remember, I always explored this place at night) http://www.abandonedok.com/tulsa-club-building/

inflames797 · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This just happened recently: I was in my office working on my computer. My dad was the only other one home, and he was upstairs asleep. I was just sitting there working when the 2 doors (they were closed at the time) started shaking violently. And when i say violently, I mean like someone was throwing their body at it repeatedly. I had no idea what was going on, until they both flew open. I sprinted upstairs to see if my dad was ok, and he was still sleeping. I then woke him up and asked him if he just tried to open the office doors. He looks at me confusingly and says, completely serious, "No, it was probably just the dog." Our dog died 3 years ago...

Coach_GordonBombay · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ok, so I am sleeping and I am being slightly awoken by a bunch of noise in the middle of the night on the back deck just outside of my room. I keep hearing noises and I am thinking its just my brother and his friends dickin around. But my brother hadn't lived at home for about 4 years, so it couldn't be him, but that's how my tired ass brain was working. So I open my eyes and Im staring into the black when a BRIGHT ASS light starts shining in my eyes... And it's just staying there. Now, I am probably 22 at this point, but I am straight spooked, I just woke up with no idea what was happening... I couldn't move, just shocked staring at this light which is shining into my bedroom from the back deck right into my eyes. I seriously was thinking I was about to be abducted by aliens...

Then I hear BAM BAM BAM, on the back door and I was kinda frightened, but I got up, as something had to be done... I open the door and it's the fucking police on my back deck at 3 in the morning...

They basically were acting like I broke into my own house or something... They said things like "you sure laid still in that bed" and "I recognize you". They were like trying to intimidate me at my own house over nothing I knew going on... My brothers wife came down and talked to them. Turns out they thought our side door was open and they were investigating.... Thing is, you can't even see the side door from the road. Dickheads.

I know it's not the creepiest story or anything, but I was straight shook when the light was blinding me for a full minute.

TL;DR. Bright light in middle of night blinding me makes me think I am being abducted; it's just the police being dickheads.

doctorxdestructo · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NSFL!!!!! http://imgur.com/a/5fCTu/all

this documents the process of raising dogs for meat in South Korea. this is the scariest and most disturbing thing i have ever seen done to an animal.

jjbinx · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I moved into a house all by myself a few months ago. One night I awoke to the sound of a baby crying from behind my headboard. My eyes shot open and I just listened, frozen. The baby crying slowly morphed into the sound of an animal growling/trying to talk. This scared the be-jesus out of me, and nothing was there when I went and looked.

I told my girlfriend if it happens again I'm selling the house, because fuck that.

TheOnlyMeta · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

Rewardingshoe · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I forget get which book this is from , i apologize but basically the main character is living with this old woman as a result of his juvenile crimes and he tries to escape the town he's in using a bike, but no matter which direction he goes he always ends up back in town. For some reason this is one of the creepiest things to me.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this past christmas my mom took a bunch of photos with with her phone and sent them via e-mail. When she opened them it was just a bible song she use to sing with her grandpa, I called bs and checked the phone and e-mail and it all seemed correct and she resent the same message and it was sent fine. All we could figure was that it was parrot grandpa(he had one of those fake parrots that said what you would say) just saying hello and merry christmas.

prozaq · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was ten I saw a dark shadowy figure standing in the middle of the living room where my family and I were sleeping(my room was closed off at the time so my parents slept with me). I woke my mother up and she couldnt see it.

superspud0408 · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In college, studying for finals, and had spent a 12 hour day at the library. I knew it was about to close because a voice had come over the intercom saying we had 30 minutes. So I gathered up my stuff, and headed to the stairwell on the 5th floor. The library was mostly empty and I was the only one I could see on the 5th floor. I approached the door and suddenly a low, growly voice said to me "Step inside..." My heart jumped into my mouth, fear sweat exploded, and I continued to her the voice saying "walk this way, you and me babe...HEY HEY!!" And suddenly the song "Pour Some Sugar on Me" started blaring through the library to wake up the students who had fallen asleep. I was unfortunately just right by a door, and a small speaker was right above it when some employee started the song....bad timing, and since this was at Brigham Young University, perhaps a little out of character? This is the first example I can think of...the rest has to do with when I was a meth addict...so perhaps another time...that stuff is reeeaaaalll scary

infoterror · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest thing that has happened in my house was a window was opened when nobody could have opened it.

RelentlesslyDead · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dont know if this belongs here, but when I was a kid, everytime someone turned on the vacuum cleaner, I would hear voices screaming at me, usually from the other room, but other times right in my ear. My mother told me that I constantly begged her not to use it, but sometimes she had to.

It stopped a few months later, when it broke down and my mother bought a new one.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was halfway asleep in bed, when I noticed a black+white blob sort of thing just outside my window. It made me jump in my bed at first, cause it look almost identical to the girl from "the grudge". I chuckled at the fact that I was spooked by whatever that was. I was curious as to what the blob was though, since I still had no idea what it was, and looked a little closer. The thing that started to really freak me the fuck out was that it still looked like the girl from the grudge, even though my eyes were nice and focused on it. I literally sat there for, like 40 seconds, basically paralysed. I still didn't know what the fuck it was, and it looked like that damned girl. When she opened her bloody eyes, started approaching me and was gurgling/cackling from her throat, that was when I remembered that I have schizophrenia and just went back to sleep =P

Needless to say, I was fine in the morning. Just a little freaky- that's all

popcorncolonel · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

www.reddit.com/u/BLOODWORTH/submitted

moonmermaid · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

My mother and father were divorced so I was at my fathers house for the weekend. He bought a little motorcycle for me to ride up and down the street that weekend. So he's inside the house and I start riding the thing. As im riding, I'm a few feet down the road and look up into a house and a girl was standing there with one hand on the window and he mouth wide open as if she was screaming but she wasn't moving. You could barely see her face, i remember it being just paper white and having very long hair. I was too young to care or think anything of it but it scares me now. ---- another one I have to say is I had sleep paralysis in my old house. I was about 13. One day I'm just sleeping but my eyes are open and I know it's early in the morning so I had to go to school. I can't move. I close my eyes and open them again and a woman ismsmiling and crouching over me. Her hair was covering most of her face, it was ratted and just a mess. I tried so hard to scream but I couldn't. I think I fell asleep for what felt like hours and when I open my eyes again I saw a woman hanging inside my closet. (It had no doors.) I could NOT sleep for weeks.

Trcymcgrdy1 · 0 points · Posted at 02:07:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Too much grudge and the ring shit goin on here. Pale faced lady with dark messy hair covering her face...you can do better.

moonmermaid · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Op asked and I posted. That's nice if you didn't get a scared out of this but I sure as hell did when it happened.

Trcymcgrdy1 · 2 points · Posted at 02:55:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

my bad, I already have the hunch a lot of these stories are made up. The fact these ghosts seem so similar to those movies made me more skeptical. I have been actively ghost hunting for years on oahu, a supposedly very haunted place. Nothing really happened except my friend and I, our soph year of HS, went ghost hunting on our HS campus, which was founded in 1841. Last stop, after nothing, was the second oldest building which has a plethora of haunted basment stories. Anywhoo, we go there and walk to the entrance of the basement, it is locked. I peek inside and see nothing but darkenss, however, my nose just starts gushing a gratuitous amount of blood. We book it. Not sure if coincidence or something else. BEcause I have not had any other experiences, I lean towards coincidence. I really wanna see something or have a for sure moment where its like k, they exist, nope, gtfo.

moonmermaid · 1 points · Posted at 11:59:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm with you on that, my events just as many others can probably be explained or written off as something. I don't believe in the paranormal, my first incident, i was so young so I don't know what it could have been. Probably someone playing a joke, and the second was definitely sleep paralysis, I didn't experience it after and not now years later.

mikoboo · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A week before my grandmother died two years ago, I was laying in bed with my cat. It was around 1 in the morning (I can never sleep early) and I had all the lights off, the only light came from my phone that I was playing with. My house is really old, so creaks and weird noises aren't a big deal to me. It was weird though, because that night I heard a steady stomping up my stairs, like someone was purposely stepping hard enough to be heard. I live in a 5 bedroom house and it's just my parents and me and they rarely come up because of their age so I got a little freaked. We also have a light with a sensor at the top of the stairs which turns on when it senses someone. To freak me out even more, the light kept turning on after the stomping would stop.. then I'd hear the stomping again, then the light.. and it continued for a while. Once it had stopped for a while, I started to hear creaking on the floorboards of my room. I'm pretty fucking scared at that point and I just ignore it and focus on my phone and my cat thats sleeping next to my face. Then out of nowhere I hear a LOUD creak, a sound that's only made when someone puts all their weight in a certain spot, followed by the sound of a man sighing loudly. Paranoid, I keyed 911 on my phone (just to be prepared) and shot up in bed to look around my dark room and there were no figures, nobody there. I turned on the light and woke up my cat hoping that he'd attack whoever was there, if there were anyone there at all... but even in the light, there was nothing. That entire week my parents and I heard people talking in my house in rooms that were unoccupied up until the day my grandmother died. Nothing like that has happened since but I never forgot it and I still get scared that I might hear it again whenever the hallway light turns on.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

nah not believing this now.

mikoboo · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I swear to you, I'm not making this shit up.

moridin66 · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One would almost think that your cat would be aware of this at the time - they tend to be very perceptive animals.

kimbabs · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm probably not the only one, but in situations where things can go potentially and violently wrong, I have flashes of the alternative to the good outcome appear before me. They're very vivid flashes, and I feel my body reacting to what would occur in the flashes.

For example, if I'm in a car and the driver makes a sudden turn to avoid a car, I can see before me the car I'm in making the turn too late and flipping over in a high speed collision. I also will quickly experience a sense of vertigo and feel momentarily like I'm in the accident.

Maybe it doesn't sound scary, but it always freaks me out when it happens. I feel on the verge of death.

apiacuY · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When i was about 17 a couple of my friends and i decided we wanted to have a real Halloween. We wanted to find haunted places and all the ghosts we could. So we looked up local legends and what not to try and find a good place near us. We also decided we needed a Ouija board so we went all around looking for one and finally found one at a toysRus. The sad this is it was glow in the dark so we all figured well its just for fun not gonna matter, not like these things work anyway. (All of us were skeptics) So we went to a few of the supposed haunted places but, they were all duds. We decided finally we were gonna just try the board at this park that is always quite dark and set back in a hilly area. We get to the park and we were all bummed cause it was not the scary Halloween we were hoping for but we were gonna give it one last chance. So we go to one of the picnic tables and get out the Ouija board and decided to just ask some random questions. At first we were all messing with each other by moving it, then we decided lets try this for real. So we asked some crazier questions about the Devil and ghosts (getting chills now remembering this). When we asked if the devil was real we got the answer yes and all of us started saying ok who is moving it this is not cool. Non of us claimed to be moving it and honestly we were all a little freaked. So i decided the next time we would put our hands on and ask the question and then take our hands off the moment it started to move. (I don't remember the question and i don't think i want to remember.) We asked and it started moving and all of us took our hands off and the plastic thing continued and went to 6 three times with none of us touching it. We were all freaked out of our minds and threw the board away at the park and booked it out of there. None of us slept that night and we all talked about it the next day when we saw each other. So that was 13 years ago now. About 2 years ago i moved back to my hometown and one of my friends still lived there. We met up at my moms house (which was where i lived back then). We decided we were gonna hangout and play poker or something. So we went out to the game cabinet and on top of the cabinet was the box of the Ouija board we threw away, its still thee and i am to afraid to touch it. All i know is since that time i will never mess with one of those agains no matter what kind it is(i don't care if it has pink ponies and rainbows on it.) Needless to say i have a bit more belief in supernatural things.

giff24 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was 13 and my mom ran over a kittens head right in front of me. It didn't die instantly but did a series of somersaults and back flips while meowing pitifully before it expired. Haunted me for months.

ilovemypossum · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate seeing animals get run over. It's so awful.

bellatrix_areforkids · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bloody Mary used to scared the shit out of me. Now, that picture of Jeff the Killer. Jesus Christ, it just gets under my skin...

DaBahoo · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Is Jeff the Killer real?

bellatrix_areforkids · 1 points · Posted at 14:20:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Judge for yourself... mwahahaha

DaBahoo · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:31 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

xD I hope not. But I read more into it and I am going to go with a solid maybe.

spon92 · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This pale lady just gave me an orange. I think it might be moldy. Scary shit.

Drummr · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Comment to find this later. I could read these all night!

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

After reading many of these, I'm expecting to be up all night anyway...

todayiswednesday1 · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:36 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My family and I moved into my grandmother's house after she had moved in Ohio. Lots of creepy happenings. The first night (my room was on the top floor) we lived there, my father told me I came down the stairs and told him I couldn't sleep because all of the people standing over my bed and watching me. My father saw what he described as "Death" come out of the wall, starting as nothing more than a black hole on the wall the size of a quarter, to a large column of black floating into his aunt's room, she died two weeks later. Everyday I could hear someone walking up the wooden stairs to our back room (which was a porch until lightning had it's way with our house) and I would walk over to the window, and see no one. My uncle died in the Navy when he was 23 or 24, I assume if anything exists that was him trying to come home. My friend and I were in that same room, playing gamecube one afternoon and heard someone walking around in my house. I figured it was my father, coming home from work using the front door. After he hadn't come in to talk to us, I walked out, seeing the door open to the freezer, closed it. Went to find my dad and saw him pull up in the driveway. My friend and I were in our woods adjacent from my house one afternoon. Building a fort next to a ravine, a fort that was nothing more than a 2x4 nailed to a tree, nevertheless we were working hard, and both turned around to pan the woods for what we heard, then inexplicably to this day, we stood in silence as a large cloud of orange smoke sat in the sunlight, fifteen feet from the ground waiting there, sitting, doing nothing at all. I looked down to grab a stick in defense, blinded by fear and fury, and ants that were on the stick, I ran out of the woods screaming with my friend. My mom made me go back and get my shirt which I threw off from the ants. We've since moved, I've only returned once, for the night. I was extremely uncomfortable the whole night, never returned.

drsamwise503 · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not that scary when compared to some of the stuff on here I guess, but still the scariest that happened to me. Happened a few times.

Anyways, I have trouble sleeping at night, and sometimes I wake up and see stuff in my room. Two of these times will always stick with me.

The first, is I woke up, and there was a figure in my room. A big, tall, black one, in a cloak. Just standing there. Never did anything, and he just disappeared when I turned on my lamp. That happened a few times every month.

The second is I would wake up, and my room would be going crazy. My drawers would be opening and closing, my closet door would be swinging open and closed (which is weird because the door is cut badly and rubs against the floor and it's hard to open/close), and some things on my desk would fall off it. That wouldn't be weird by itself I guess, stopped once I turned my light on, but the weirdest part is that the things would actually be out of place, like it actually happened. Freaked me out for awhile.

There were other things (me waking up with bugs/rats all over me, things in the window, noises), but those two events always freaked me out the most.

PineappleCutter · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was backpacking in New Mexico with a friend. We setup camp several miles from anyone else, on a nice green plateau. There was a creepy feeling of being watched, but we didn't think much of it. We went to sleep, but around 4 in the morning we heard a mule deer running and panting loudly, probably less that 100 feet from our tent. Then we hear a mountain lion let out a roar (if that's what you call a mountain lions noise), it was the classic roar you hear from a movie. Immediately after that we hear a struggle, and the deer lets out an awful, un-describable noise, that I have never heard repeated. Needless to say we were both awake an looming at each other, knowing there is a hunting mountain lion nearby and we have to pack up and leave. I have never been that scared before.

voidsoul22 · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My dog and I were on a late night walk when we heard the most horrid scream, and I would have bet all the money in my account that a woman was under assault. My dog was freaked out too. I eventually saw a red fox opening its mouth at the same time as the accursed sounds - I'd never have noticed it if I hadn't been searching for the source, as I had my phone and wanted to call 911. I eventually confirmed on Youtube that indeed, red foxes are scary shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1mAd77Hr4 - Now imagine hearing that on a dark neighborhood street at 1 in the morning

shadowstorm213 · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

basically, any time I have a nightmare, it is creepy as fuck.

one of my most memorable ones was when I was in (I think) first grade. I was in the playground, for some reason at night, and there were ghosts everywhere, one of them touched me and I suddenly had no control, but I was still aware of everything the ghost made me do, not that it made me do bad stuff, just the thought of losing control like that is one of my biggest fears.

pecoto · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My parents live in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in the California foothills, and that is where I grew up. I was out in the garage using my dad's tools and vise to cut open a golfball. I heard an odd noise and looked to my right at the door. Due to the angle of where I was standing I could see both sides of the doorknob at once through a window over my dad's toolbench and the doorknob TURNED. There was literally nothing there...but it was turning anyway. The door opened....I was kind of frozen in place and then the door slammed super hard. I noped the heck out of there through the half-way open vehicle door in the other side of the garage. I have literally never experienced an event where there was so obviously not a reasonable or rational explanation for it.

TLDR-Did not see a ghost....door opened by itself.

Garbagemn · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night during a thunderstorm and also a particularly dark night, I was struggling dearly to fall asleep. I tried everything from counting sheep to warm milk. As I was laying for hours in bed in my pitch-black room I finally began to fall asleep. Just as I was about to drift off into the land of dreams, I was jolting awake by a terrible terrible feeling. A feeling that a child gets when the closet door is left open in a dark room or when a leg hangs over the edge of a bed. I turned slowly to see a dark figure rising, slowly up above me. I tried to close my eyes and will it away. Then my cat started pawing my face a little because she wanted some water. That dick.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night I was scared so I slept in my parents bed. Later that night I dreamed I walked into the living room. The living room had a wall that was entirely a window, I remember seeing a strange large green light outside. The next morning they said I slept walked into the living room.

Another time I was staying at my friends house and we were both sleeping on her couch. She fell asleep but I couldn't because I was uncomfortable. I went into her room to go sleep on her bed. I felt really creeped out for some reason and I kept picturing in my head a tall dark hooded figure. A few minutes later some books fell from a chair and her computer which was on sleep lit up. I noped out of there as fast as I could.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Trcymcgrdy1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

is that the reasoning behind ur username? Any other stories or was that the only time u saw it?

ilovepanforte · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepy Dungeon

I took this pic in the haunted basement dungeon of the haunted jail in Jim Thorpe PA last year in October. It was pitch black, and when I took this picture with the flash, there were a bunch of orbs. Supposedly this is where they had solitary confinement. The rooms down there were really creepy too. The jail is supposed to be haunted.

beccamorr · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Now, I'm usually an apathetic person. But sleep paralysis was hands down the scariest thing that's ever happened to me. It's much, much more than a nightmare. Picture every fear you’ve ever felt coming to life and surrounding you at once. I couldn’t move. I was stuck. I was hyperventilating and trying to scream, but failed on making any sort of noise. I felt completely helpless. Now I know why people fear satan. He was in my fucking room that night. Satan is an aura of terror. I will swear on anything that I saw the world through the eyes of the devil.

Kdcarrero553 · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is from a creepypasta post called The Guardian Angel:

And I am always with you. I was there from the time you were born. I stood in the delivery room, staring down at you before you could even open your eyes to see me. Your parents, relatives and doctors couldn’t see me there, in the corner, watching you with cloudy eyes, but I was there from the time you were born. And I followed you home. I was with you always, your constant companion. You played with your toys alone while I stared from all angles in nearby mirrors; my matted, clotted hair with oily sweat that hung off my dented forehead like glue. I was always your constant companion, drifting behind your mother’s car on your ride to preschool. You alone in the bathroom, but I was on the other side of the door, wind whistling through the bruised hole in my throat. My arms twisted and hanging in their sockets as I stood hunched on the other side of the shower curtain. I wait and follow you. I follow and drift behind you. I’m not seen. I’m almost not-there in light. You never saw me that morning as I sat across from you at the breakfast table, a shiny red clot hanging from an empty tooth socket as I gaped grotesquely at you. I wonder sometimes if you know I’m there. I think you are aware, but you’ll never understand just how close I am. I spend hours of your day doing nothing more than breathing in your ear. Breathing – gagging, really. I crave to be close to you, to always wrap my crippled arms around your neck. I lie near you ever single night, cloudy eyes staring at your ceiling, underneath your bed, at your sleeping face in the dark. Yes. You caught me staring occasionally. Your parents came running down to your room one night when you screamed. You were just beginning to talk, so you were only able to cry out “Man! Man in my room!” You thought you’d never forget the sight of me, with my collapsed jaw hanging to my chest, swinging back and forth. I sank back into your closet and your mother was unable to see me though you pointed and pointed and pointed. You thought you’d never forget when they left that same night. You saw the closet door crack so softly and me crawling across the floor to your bed on all fours, shambling in jerking movements as I pushed myself under your bed on disjointed limbs. You learned a new word for me: boogeyman. Not quite the monster you thought I was. I’m just waiting and following you always, touching your face with my knotted fingers as you sleep. You’ll see me again soon. Any day now, I’m coming, blunt and brutal. One day you’ll walk across the road and – I believe I’ll plow into you with loud roar and a screech. You rolling on the pavement, rolling under wheels, bluntforce metal fenders and my fingers touching your face again and again. As you stare up from the cold pavement with cloudy eyes; your matted, clotted hair hanging in your face and your jaw unhinged and swinging to your chest. You’ll see me approaching. No one else will see me. You will stare past them into my eyes and I’ll leer down at you. For the first time in our life, something like a smile will come over my face. You’ll swear you’re looking into a mirror as clotted red bubbles from our mouths. I’ll lean down, past the doctors and the ogling people and pick you up in my crooked arms. Our faces will touch. My wings will unfurl. And then you’ll have to follow me. And I am always with you. I am your guardian angel.

Very creepy, but it makes you think.

Lizzimon · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:20 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Years ago these touch sensitive lamps became a thing. If you touched the metal parts of the lamp, it would turn on and you could dim or make the light brighter by tapping it a few times. Sort of like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/24-Inch-Tall-Glass-Panel-Flower-Rose-Theme-Touch-Sensitive-Activated-Lamp-/161012940355

My mom had one by the tv in her room. It was broad daylight and only my parents' VCR was working. So I was sitting in their room on the floor watching thumbelina. (I was about 8-9yo) I've always had this problem where I would think of the worst or creepy things happening. I thought, "what if that lamp started to turn on and off by itself?" And then it happened.. it went through the different brightness about 2 times until I decided to touch it myself. Once I touched it, it stopped and turned off completely. Suddenly I saw a shadow of an adult male walk pass the tv and across the wall to behind the bedroom door. I looked behind me at the window where the sun was shining through. There was no one in the backyard. Then I realized that the window was positioned about 5ft from the ground and the shadow was of someone that was walking right in front of me. Never watched tv by myself in my parents' room again.

Owllette · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to have one of those lamps. It turned off and on by itself all the time.

Markonite · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay this just happen'd no joke So me and my friend were walking up my street and I turned around to see a vacant house lights on just one light at the far left nothing weird has ever happen'd at this house but when we were walking up it was about 9:20 in North Carolina but anyways I saw this light and thought it was weird and then I heard a woman scream twice from down there and we went and to see if there was anything...nothing just he light remained on. I think we may have heard a crime

adgal617 · 7 points · Posted at 01:42:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

How is this one sentence?

SmoSays · 2 points · Posted at 07:24:24 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Translated:

Okay, this just happened, no joke. My friend and I were walking up my street at about 9:20 PM in North Carolina when a light went on in the window of a vacant house. Nothing weird had ever happened there before. Then I heard a woman scream twice from that direction. We went to see what was up but found nothing. The light remained on. I think we may have heard a crime.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

One summer I worked at a camp in PA managing an overnight site in the woods where the kids could stay in these Indian style wigwams overnight. There would be two or three groups of kids from the main camp per week for whom I would cook spaghetti, garlic bread, and pancakes. When there were no kids, I would just be fixing up the wigwams, cleaning up the site, doing dishes. I had my own small tent a few dozen yards away from the wigwams so that I could get some quiet to sleep when the kids were there overnight, as their regular councilors would be responsible for monitoring them.

Late one night when nobody was around, I hear footsteps coming towards my tent. I said "hello?", and the footsteps stopped. They then turned around and started moving away. I got very little sleep that night. The next night, I was out at the campsite myself again. Once again, I hear footsteps moving towards my tent. I've now had a whole day to think of possible scenarios and what might be outside. It's not too far from a road, so I wonder if someone might be trying to go through the campsite at night and steal some stuff. I'm crouched in my tent, terrified. Given that nature of the work, I had a machete for cutting saplings and a Ka-bar knife. Despite the fact that I'm near pissing my pants, I access the situation: I am a 6'3'' 230 lbs male with a machete and knife, I'm going to see what's outside. So I dual-wield the machete and Ka-bar, taking a -4 penalty to dex, and additionally equip a flashlight somehow taking who knows what penalty. I unzip the tent and burst out of the tent as fast as possible, and immediately my flashlight illuminates a deer roughly 15 feet away staring at me...

tldr: Ungulates may cause dirty underwear.

RGDSexOffender · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was about eleven I used to go to this farm by the name of Waupoos, in which you could rent out cabins and take part in activities around the farm such as a haunted hayrides and treasure hunts.

One year I was there with my cousin and several of her friends, who are ten years plus my senior. One night they had decided to go off into the woods and have some fun, leaving me in the cabin to twiddle my thumbs in boredom. So I started listening to music on the boom box we had brought with us. For reasons unknown to this day the volume maxed itself out a few minutes into listening. No matter how much I tried the volume would not lower, and other cabins we're beginning to complain. Finally I just unplugged the system and huddled under my blankets in the fetal position until my cousin and her friends came back. I was scared shitless.

Red_Dawn_2012 · 1 points · Posted at 02:00:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was something with a police man on a disturbance call. It was an insane woman who had an old, ragged baby doll. She was scratching against someone's front door until her nails bled.

SycoJack · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once driving into Austin from Georgetown on (I think) 183 I somehow managed to pass up my exit by about 20 minutes. By the time I realized it I was downtown in the middle of heavy. It was very late at night and I had been driving all day.

I started having waking dreams that seemed very real. I was dozing off. Every single dream was the same: a car crash right in front of my. I didn't realize it right away, but I was hitting my breaks and slowing down. I finally realized what was going on and decided I needed to get off the road. So I pulled over into the far left lane and was looking for an exit. The while dozing off thing didn't last very long at all. Maybe a minute or something. After that I regained my strength and energy.

I still decided it was best to get off the highway ASAP. Finally came to an offramp and got off. It lead up a hill to a gas station. Pulled into a gas station and noticed the reelection of emergency lights.

That's when I saw it, there was a bad wreck on the other side of the highway. The had fire trucks, ambulances and cops. The accident had just happened because emergency personnel were still responding when I noticed it.

Scared the ever loving shit out of me. Last time I ever got behind the wheel while tired.

sazcmc · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 17 I moved out of my mothers house and 250 miles away into a flat with my then serious boyfriend. It was the first time I had ever lived away from home and was this little plain, small ground floor flat in the middle of an estate full of mostly old people and couples.

The stuff that happened wasnt so creepy really but from the day we moved in I just felt constantly on edge there. In the bedroom and the bathroom (which were both on one side of the flat) I always felt like I was being watched, but never in the kitchen or living room. I began to feel really uncomfortable taking a shower or going to the bathroom and it got so bad, the feeling of being watched that I needed my partner to come in and sit while I took a shower so I wasnt alone.

In the bedroom I would sometimes think I could see a figure lying on the bed always in the same position out of the corner of my eye. There were these 2 massive floor length mirrors that were the cupboard doors and slid along to open and close the cupboard and they looked right onto the bed, I kept seeing this figure in the mirror too. Like a dark human figure with no details, and always out of the corner of my eye but when I looked again it would be gone. And they would lie on top of the bed, so if someone was in the bed I would often think I would still see it.

When we had originally moved in we had issues with the draining in the bath, taking a shower the water wouldn't go down the plug hole fast and you would end up ankle deep in water so my partner tried to plunge it and all this dark, almost black fluid came out. It was so strange.

I woke up one morning and the washing machine had broken, the filter door had opened overnight and flooded the place.

We moved out in August the next year due to issues with the agency, and the overall cleanliness of the place but I never felt comfortable there.

Tl;dr: I lived in a creepy flat.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ok this is totally crazy but i FEEL like i know you even though i don't know anyone fitting your story - then i checked your post hist and seen that you live in/ lived in glasgow and now i'm freaking out in case i'm psychic and somehow know you

sazcmc · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:46 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

Do we know each other? I live in Glasgow but I'm moving soon....

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:18 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

probably not but i FELT IT

sazcmc · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:23 on June 1, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you felt it IT MUST BE TRUE

N3G4T1V3_CR33P · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Having a bath in my flat alone one night. Bathroom is adjacent to the kitchen which opens out into the lounge. Reading my book I see a small white shape walk (hover) across the lounge room. Weird shivers and spooky feels.

Flatmate gets home a few hours later, mention what I saw - she nonchalantly replies. "Oh, so you've seen the little girl."

She'd seen her before and even went on to tell me more about the little girl who had supposedly died in our flat years and years ago.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:54:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I see a small white shape walk (hover) across the lounge room

my mum had this happen in her old flat, weirdly. she described it as a white shadow but she only seen it through the glass door and never directly

CountryOrDie · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

TIL to never have kids

skyburnsred · 1 points · Posted at 02:50:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend had taken a cell phone video of this haunted house that belonged to another friend of his.

In the video, they are in the aforementioned haunted room, and out of frame the other guy asked the ghost to give them a sign if it was there. Right after that, you hear a loud bang that reverberates through the room. As my friend pans the camera past the door, you can see a very clear silhouette of a woman with lighter areas where the eyes would be. It was quite distinct and even more creepy.

A few days later, my friend mentioned that he came over to my house when I wasnt there to get a shirt he left there, and swore that something flew off my shelf when he entered the room. All the while, the phone had also been in there. I think nothing of it, assuming he was just trying to scare me after having seen the video.

Two days later, I walk into my room after school and hear this strange sizzling noise, like bacon being cooked, and squealing like the fat being burnt. I looked all over for the source when I realized...it was coming from the phone.

I picked it up and it was so hot that it almost burnt my hand. It was also turned on even though it hadnt been charged in weeks. I could never explain what it was, but I still think that it was the ghost trapped in the phone trying to escape.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:50:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

So one night I was really cold under my blankets cause my parents like to keep the house icy at night. I decide that I should put my blanket over my head to keep warm, and for a while it's nice. My breath keeps it nice and toasty inside and i quickly doze off.

I don't know how long later though, I wake up and i feel like I'm suffocating. panicking I try to throw the sheets off and get out of bed, I realize I can barely move. all the oxygen in the sheets had been used up and I was suffocating because i couldn't throw off the fucking sheets.

In that moment I felt so much panic it's hard to describe. I was facing death and no know knew. I couldn't yell or scream, I couldn't defend myself or go to the doctor, I was dead because of my own stupidity.

The adrenaline gave me just enough energy to move the sheet enough to let some air in and suddenly I could move again, but i didn't sleep that night and I'll probably never forget the fear of dying in such a pathetic way.

oohcomely · 2 points · Posted at 03:28:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sounds kind of like sleep paralysis.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

it wasn't I've had sleep paralysis. I couldn't move because their was no oxygen. as soon as I got oxygen I could move again.

oohcomely · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, damn that's scary, I pull my blankets over my head like that sometimes too.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I stopped period and never did it again.

seriously just deal with the cold :(

goodtwitch · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:10 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I visited my parents at a Florida condo and would stay in a ground floor guest room. Every time I stayed there I'd have the same dream. I'd see pitch darkness and a weird human-like creature staring down at me. I seemed to be illuminated by my body somehow. It looked like it was made from melted candle wax. It would stare down at me and say, "I love your light; I just want to eat it up!" Then I'd wake up with my heart pounding in a state of deep nope, very weird.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Were you afraid of the "creature" at all? Did it give off scary vibes, comforting, or did it make you feel self-conscious and awkwardly flattered like a random stranger paying you an unexpected compliment about something or a feature you thought was undesirable.

I used to (and maybe still do) meet a waxy figure in my dreams who seems to bask in a glow coming from me. it never said anything to me though.

goodtwitch · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, surprised to find someone with a similar experience. It was frightening but not really threatening. It was the grotesque appearance that really scared me. I had a psychic friend in Florida at the time who I spoke to on the phone. He said that his intuition was that the creature wandered the grounds. He also mentioned that he would astral travel and when he looked at himself a physical mirror he could see himself and his body appeared to be glowing. So, if that's what's happening, then I'd speculate that the creature is a human spirit that's very old. It no longer has a self-concept of how it looked when it was alive, so its appearance looks vaguely human but distorted. It sees your astral body's glow and is drawn to it for whatever reason.

Big_Bang_Walker · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:22 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if I should be reading these before bed time.

christ0ph · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

The 2010 movie "The Road"

olliepots · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

the book "The Road"

christ0ph · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Have not read it, why- I'm scared to!

c0ng0k1d · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wasn't the best idea to make this my last visit before bed.

jammy8891 · 1 points · Posted at 08:39:15 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was speaking to someone last night who told me that they used to own a boa constrictor. They wouldn't keep it in a cage, and at night they'd happily let it sleep in the bed between her and her partner. After a while the snake started going off its food and acting strangely, and a few times at night it would wrap itself around her and rest its head on top of hers. They thought it was sick, so they took it to the vet. The vet basically said you need to get rid of this snake now, its been sizing you up and waiting to eat you. Damn.

Awki · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

As a counselor at a camp in the North East, staff camp sight was about a hundred feet from the kitchen and mess hall. Every night we Jr staff would sit in the pavilion of the site and the conversations would get quite loud. On a regular basis we'd have to be shushed. My second year, first week, the kitchen staff were mostly new and getting used to where everything belonged in the store room.

A CIT (counselor in training, usually a 15 year old) returned from the latrine, face completely white. He leaned against a pole, eyes wide in fear, unable to speak. It took us a few moments his presence, but when we did, it creeped the shit out of us. We tried to sit him down and ask what was wrong. He slowly raised a finger to his lips and pointed back at the latrine.

The night completely silent, under a new moon, an eery warbling bounced off the trees. It raised in volume, then quickly went silent. This repeated. Grabbing a few metal circus tent stakes to boost our bravery, a posse of us walked slowly up. It sounded like a screech, a cry, a child talking, white noise. Reaching the latrine where we could hear it easily, we were undecided if it was laughing or crying. A brave older staff member took the biggest re-bar stake and banged on the door. It opened. Peering in, someone provided him a light. I watched as he took each step. I could see the hairs on his neck raise as he reach the bend where the toilet stall was.

As he lowered the toilet seat, we presumed it would muffle the cry. As we were all standing on the wooden platform over the sewage pit, the white noise cry reverberated into our ears as it echoed within, flipping us out. Backpedaling, some ran off into the night. The flashlight had rolled by my boots. Myself, the older staffer, the CIT and two others stayed, stood rooted to the ground. Backing out of the stall, the older staffer moved us out of the latrine. As we walked around the small wooden building, I stepped on something tubular about the side of a branch. The warble cry rang up through my ears again, but this time with renewed vigor; I landed on my back from a panicked jump.

The others investigated and identified it as a plastic pipe. Following it through the woods, the warble grew louder in the air. It echoed out of the pipe, off the trees, within ourselves. Getting into the clearing next to the kitchen, the screeching seemed to emanate from the walls itself. The pipe went into the ground near the foot of the building. Inside, all was quiet. No warble, no screech, no cry, no laugh.

Moving around in the dark, the CIT bumped into the tin waste water sink. Like an alarm, the cry, the laugh, reverberated through the entirety of the kitchen with such a sudden intensity literally pied myself. In the sink sat a pan over something dark and oblong. Lifting it slowly, the screech silenced, replaced by the sound of static from the radio beneath.

Jon76 · -1 points · Posted at 08:30:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's 4 in the morning... I can't sleep... This isn't helping. Why am I here?

birdisaword · 1 points · Posted at 08:46:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

From http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1detli/what_is_the_most_mysteriousparanormal_thing_youve/c9por1z

The day was as boring as it was interesting. That is to say, it was not as interesting as a day that was slightly more interesting than a turnip, and it was not as boring as a day that was slightly less interesting than a turnip. It was a pretty average day all things considered. An average day, that is, until you consider the turnip.

The turnip was as boring as it was interesting...

...That is to say, the turnip was more or less like the other turnips trundling along the conveyor on the loading dock of Intercontinental Turnip Industries.

There, as an ITI representative, it was Dan Joe's job to inspect the turnips. Days blended together as the turnips whizzed by, each just like the other, an endless blur of purple and white. God, he hated turnips almost as much as he hated life itself. Sometimes he would find a defect and grasp the abomination by its wilting green stem. "Fuckin' lil cunt!" he'd mutter, or a similar expletive, as he tossed it into the bin; a metaphor for his life.

Flicking his zippo, he lit up another cigarette and blew smoke at the turnips. Those fucking turnips, flying along the conveyor belt into the truck below. Everything in his life was measured in turnips delivered. A lunch break equalled three tons of turnips. A piss break was just a couple of hundred kilos. The height of each step leading down from the warehouse lunch room was 3.5 average turnips, measured lengthways. He even figured he could build a turnip-masonry wall if he so desired, using smaller turnips to provide stability between the freakishly large ones.

He was jolted from his daydream as a turnip jumped up from the conveyor and fell to the ground with a dead thump. "Sneaky little shits." he mumbled, kicking it away with a worn leather shoe.

It screamed.

He didn't believe his ears, so he walked over to where the turnip lay and raised his boot above it.

"Stop!" it squealed. "Don't hurt me!"

"Why the fuck not?" Dan said to the weird creature.

Amazed he was talking to a turnip, Dan double checked his hearing and eyesight were working okay.

"You know you couldn't do it!" the turnip mocked. "Besides..." its voice lowered as a devilish face appeared on its upturned side, fangs protruding outwards, "you wouldn't dare!"

Now it was Dan's turn to squeal, as he turned heel and attempted to flee. Tragically, the sleeve of his flannelette shirt tangled in the conveyor. Evil turnip laughter cackled at him from behind. The machine, not caring whether he was turnip or man, dragged him slowly inwards as his sleeve twisted around an axle. It only took a minute, but soon his arm was torn from its shoulder socket, at which point he passed out.

Memories from this point forward were hazy. His eyes were closed. Then he'd remember bits like the turnips on the conveyor, or the shiver he felt up his spine when the turnip first spoke. His eyes would open and the turnip would be there with its ugly face staring him down, grinning its evil little turnip grin, brandishing some kind of transmitter in its odd little turnip hands.

As he lay there in the black, struggling to regain consciousness, it whispered dark secrets into his ears. It probed his mind for information. It tore at his psyche and left only a hollow space in its wake.

"What is that smell?" he thought, levitating in some kind of astral void. Focussing, he saw his rotting corpse below him laying on the loading dock, a fallen turnip laying at the tip of the outstretched fingers of his dismembered arm, an extinguished cigarette laying nearby. The turnip was inert, ordinary.

That's when Dan remembered. He'd reached forward to grab a turnip and slipped, losing an arm. He bled out from his injury. The turnip was an ordinary turnip. He died knowing this.

The end.

DickBaggins · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You find that scary/creepy?

adamwizzy · -2 points · Posted at 11:33:56 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

The story of her holding an orange, it is freaky, look it up.

deathcabforlucy · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Link, I can't post the whole story because character limit: http://www.creepypasta.com/tag/the-story-of-her-holding-an-orange/

adamwizzy · 4 points · Posted at 16:33:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, I probably should've posted a link, thank you.

deathcabforlucy · 2 points · Posted at 16:37:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Haha it's fine.

Weritomexican · -1 points · Posted at 17:30:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Commenting so I can read it later

ARedditOfDunces · -1 points · Posted at 13:47:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A Pentecostal worship. Christian Renewalists basically force mental retardation upon their children. The creepy part is knowingly those kids speaking in tongues on the floor will probably grow up and breed.

Mouseicle · 4 points · Posted at 21:57:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What do you mean by 'force retardation' on them? Do they just not teach them anything, or do they actively damage their brain function somehow?

dre_day4 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This just happened to me a couple weeks ago,

Met up with a couple friends downtown around 1am, we went for a walk looking for a park to toke in. We found this old looking school with dimmed lights and we sat on the bench. I was rolling a J when suddenly the cries of a baby could be heard. The sound was coming from a apartment complex at the other end of the field. The crying got more intense to the point where it sounded like it was screaming for its life. At one point, the screams started to sound like a fucked up cat-toddler hybrid. We started to hear a banging noise and then everything went silent. We got the fuck out of there

rex280 · 1 points · Posted at 08:06:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's 1:00 A.M. and I'm a dumbass

Liv-Julia · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:39 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

Ohshit. I just found out my workplace is supposedly haunted. I work nights in a locked ward, often alone and the voices and noises I hear I attributed to a radio somewhere else. Evidently not. I was getting exasperated with myself losing things only to have them turn up in plain sight later. The footsteps and cold areas I thought were due to an old (built 1911) building.

Dammit, I wish they'd never told me. Maybe my coworkers are messing with me.

tyedyeskyes · 0 points · Posted at 08:30:19 on July 25, 2013 · (Permalink)

I got one, not scary just creepy and unsettling is all. Soo I'm 15 at the time and my sister and her fiance moved in with me and my parents, two younger brothers, 11 and 13 at the time. My sister and her fiance shared my old room and at the time, my cousin and her husband and my other cousin also lived here. My family is very helpful so they all lived with us while they looked for houses and stuff. Note that this house is 3 bedroom and kind of small. But w/e. Soo it's like 2 maybe 3 in the morning and I am going to bed and as I walk in to the room, its really really dark. We have curtains up on all the windows and the lights shut off. I walk in and my brother (13) wakes up, points at me and with terror, I mean actual, f**king terror, like I am about to die terror, says "Watch out behind you." Needless to say, I didn't sleep for a week after and never in that room. I got way more stories about that house. I might post them later if this one does good.

alextr0n · 1 points · Posted at 14:06:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing I've seen was at my friends party. He had an RV where drunk people would go use the restroom or lie down for a bit or eat or whatever and I was going to use the restroom. I see a girl about to get off the RV so I move to the side. She missed the steps completely (due to drunkness), falls, and slams her head into the brick wall. She didnt move for about a minute. I honestly thought she had died. Sobered me up quick.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:32:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I walked out of a restaurants bathroom to a 6 year old blond girl... I was just waiting for her to say, "Come play with us..." she had the same look on her face, too... Creepy as hell.

jpesich · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Kevin Ware's leg

babybelly · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

slenderman is scary or this korean comic thingy

somesayso · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Almost a year ago, shortly after moving into our new place, SO and I were out for a walk. Now, you should know, we live in an apartment building in the suburbs and our building sits on a piece of land that's only partially developed. Out behind on the undeveloped and partially developed side are a few paths that run over some hills with tall grass, and some managed wooded areas. At one point, they cross a 'stream' using some pylons that stick up from the water instead of a bridge. We were on the opposite side of the stream from our place, rounding a curve to this crossing, when we stumble upon a children's bike laying in the middle of the path, right next to this stream. No one is in sight, and there are beaten down paths into the woods that could have been game paths, and could have been murderous hobo paths. Hard to say which, but the spine shivers were in full effect.

TL;DR Abandoned children's bicycle in the woods.

dloburns · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Richard Simmons Dancing to the Oldies

^{^So} ^{^many} ^{^bingo} ^{^flaps}

angelkely1213 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

If you like creepy/scary stuff, I suggest /r/nosleep :)

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was hanging out with a friend in what I thought was a not so bad area.. Until we walked by some house and there were about 10 dudes hanging out on a front porch, dressed like gangsters most were Native American some were white, blasting rap music, all drinkin, one had a Machete in his hands and there was a hunting rifle clearly tilted against the stairway

We were just casually walking by when one yelled "hey kids come over here" , we just kept walking by ignoring and then that guy walks down the stairs towards us and says "I said come here yo, you guys here me"

We fucking ran like we were being chased by wolves - the guy and his friends just laughed but considering me and my friend were 14 years old and they were twenty something's that was some scary shitt

Downhill280Z · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was living at home with my mother, I would dabble in the occult. Nothing serious, you know. Shit you could find on the internet on how to invoke things.

Well, one night I gave it a go. Set up my salt and chalk circle, my white candles and my laptop (the most mystical of all books, I assure you), and invoked something or another. And didn't think two things of it when, shockingly, nothing seemed to happen. Being a bit superstitious, I leave the circle in place, just incase, and go to bed.

Nothing odd happens that night, and I don't really think much about it that day. However, when I got home from school the circle had been cleaned away by my mother, who ridiculed me for tempting fate and making a mess at the same time. And I like to believe that's where shit got weird.

The next day, I found handprints in my hallway. Not your average handprints either, as they were larger than mine, and I was the only male living in the house at the time, but not only that, they didn't appear to be made from flesh. The prints themselves were very similar to the outline of bones in the hand you see in x-rays.

So fine, whatever, maybe grandma walked by and put her hands on the wall. That's what I told myself as I painted over the prints, which didn't scrub off, and seemed to have been made with a very heavy oil. I tried not to think anything of it, but I was a bit shaken at this point.

Now imagine an idyllic scene. Your house is clean, the wind is blowing across freshly mowed green grass of your lawn, blue skies for as far as you can see. I was sitting in the living room, reading a book in the dead silence of a perfect Saturday evening. Not a single sound inside the house, and nothing but birds chirping outside. As I flicked one page to another in my book, I heard it. And then I saw it.

My front door had shattered. Take in mind that this was not a cheap, flimsy front door. This was an expensive house with a multi-piece stained glass door, fit together nicely with no metal between the glass. And it didn't simply break in a few places and then fall out. No my friend, it shattered as if each panel had been hit with a baseball bat. But that's not even the scary part... The real kicker, and the part that made me realize I might have goofed, was that the glass didn't fall to the inside of the door. It didn't even all fall on to the front patio. It was blown out around the sidewalk and in to the grass of the front yard. Some force had hit the glass door from the inside so hard, that it exploded outwards.

After explaining this to my mother, who was a devout catholic, she proceeded to replace the front door, cover the interior of the house in decorative crosses, and call it good.

The only thing that remains of my possible-goof is the dreams I have when I sleep in my old room, where I performed the evoking. Terrifying dreams of the house burning down, or huge invisible hands laying on my shoulders and "laughing". Or of me, sitting on the roof, and looking out over what should be my neighborhood, but it's nothing but desolate burnt trees and sand dunes. Just real creepy shit.

Billpayment · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Aaaand this is why you're not even supposed to play with a Ouija board, much less do what you did.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My girlfriend and I both woke up around 4am and could smell something burning. The door to my room was closed and my fan was on, but we knew for sure something bad was going on in the living room. I open the door and smoke instantly fills my room, and there is no visibility. My girlfriend's house burnt down while she was a young girl so she is reliving all the horrible memories and crying and screaming for me to fix the problem. I'm scared shitless at this point. I carefully walk through the smoke, basically thinking I was going to fall through the floor or be trapped inside (3rd story apartment).

My brain finally clicks, my roommate must have gotten drunk and tried cooking and then fell asleep while something was in the oven. I open the oven and there is a pizza that has been burnt beyond recognition.

tl;dr - Roommate got drunk, passed out, tried to burn us alive, scarred gf for life

Camphikefishbike · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Related to this comment, walking home from the bar at 2:30ish AM and nearing my apartment I could hear a faint beeping that got louder as I got closer. Smoke alarm. I saw smoke pouring out a 4 bedroom (shared apartment with communal area) kitchen window. Someone was passed out drunk on the couch and had left god knows what in a large skillet on the electric stove on high, charred as fuck and about to melt down. I tried to wake him up to no avail, so I set the pan outside and opened the windows and left the door open. He might have died from smoke inhalation had I not.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's been around for a while, but it still gets me.

Scroll down slowly and make sure your sound is turned up.. lol

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tu

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was 12 I had a slumber party with some girlfriends of mine. We were sitting in the living room telling scary stories. My parents had a black stone Nefratiri head statue on one of the tables. I looked up and saw that the eyes of the statue were glowing blue (the tv was not on, all the lights were out except a candle, and the curtains were drawn). As I gave a WTF squeal, two of the other girls looked up and saw it. They started screaming and talking loudly so my parents came in to find out what was going on. By the time they came in, the eyes had stopped glowing. We told them what happened and begged them to take the statue away, but they thought we were imagining things. But three of us saw it!

Demea462 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I almost shit my pants reading this because I saw a man with the same description and behavior in Washington D.C. recently when I was there for work and decided to explore the city one night. He didn't follow me like he did you, and I don't know what I would have done if he had.

seadirt · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I would tell you about the scariest thing I've ever seen, but he said I wasn't allowed to tell anyone I don't want hurt.

rdubya · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in an electronics lab in college. I watched my professor fall straight backward like a tree when he passed out (he was fasting for ramadan and was diabetic) Smashed his head on the concrete floor. Instantly blood starting pouring out of his ears and pooled around his head the pool the size of a basketball. The scariest thing was how everyone just stood there in shock and watched him topple like a tree without doing anything.

Thought he was gone for sure, ended up smashing his skull badly, heard he finally returned to school a few years after I graduated.

Edit: proper use of there

DrLawesome · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Your mom.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't get scared easily, but this shit was the worst.

castingshadows · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

holy crap, now that was a good creep...

2muchCoding · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Closed it as soon as I saw the title... NOPE!

Mouseicle · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh christ that thing... saw once, will never see again. It was excellent, but shit scary.

Lil-Red · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One of my close friends got carried away and drowned by a rip tide yesterday at the same beach I was at just the day before. I remember talking to my grandpa about how strangely powerful the current felt that day, even so close to the shore. RIP man.. still hard believe this happened.

delirium98 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in a car, going through one of the worse areas of Chicago. And as we drive by, being the racists that we are, we decide to count the number of non- black people we see. We see one old white woman, who looks like she is a cracked head, not to surprising. We keep going, and are almost out of the area seeing no more than the one white woman and are kind of disappointed, until I look out of the window and see one white man, not moving, on the curb, half in the street, half on the sidewalk, in what looked to be a wheel chair from a hospital. There was still that little baggie full of nutrients, or whatever is in it, that is usually connected to the patient's arm, but it was ripped out. For all I know, he could have been sleeping, but from the uncomfortable angle his head was in, that fact that no one seemed to be trying to help him (not even the cops that were half a block away), and the fact that he was almost in the street, in a bad neighborhood we thought otherwise.

We were ready to get out of that neighborhood by then.

wysiwyg2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw my 70+ year old grandma's birthday suit when I was 5 or 6. Some images just stay with you for the rest of your life.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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2muchCoding · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

da fuq?

ThexEcho · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Expressionless. By far the creepiest most disturbing story ever conceived by man:

In June 1972, a woman appeared in Cedar Senai hospital in nothing but a white, blood-covered gown. Now this, in itself, should not be too surprising as people often have accidents nearby and come to the nearest hospital for medical attention, but there were two things that caused people who saw her to vomit and flee in terror.

The first being that she wasn't exactly human. she resembled something close to a mannequin, but had the dexterity and fluidity of a normal human being. Her face, was as flawless as a mannequins, devoid of eyebrows and smeared in make-up.

There was a kitten clamped in her jaws so unnaturally tight that no teeth could be seen, and the blood was still squirting out over her gown and onto the floor. She then pulled it out of her mouth, tossed it aside and collapsed.

From the moment she stepped through the entrance to when she was taken to a hospital room and cleaned up before being prepped for sedation, she was completely calm, expressionless and motionless. The doctors thought it best to restrain her until the authorities could arrive and she did not protest. They were unable to get any kind of response from her and most staff members felt too uncomfortable to look directly at her for more than a few seconds.

But the second the staff tried to sedate her, she fought back with extreme force. Two members of staff had to hold her down as her body rose up on the bed with that same, blank expression.

She turned her emotionless eyes towards the male doctor and did something unusual. She smiled.

As she did, the female doctor screamed and let go out of shock. In the woman's mouth were not human teeth, but long, sharp spikes. Too long for her mouth to close fully without causing any damage…

The male doctor stared back at her for a moment before asking "What in the hell are you?"

She cracked her neck down to her shoulder to observe him, still smiling.

There was a long pause, the security had been alerted and could be heard coming down the hallway.

As he heard them approach, she darted forward, sinking her teeth into the front of his throat, ripping out his jugular and letting him fall to the floor, gasping for air as he choked on his own blood.

She stood up and leaned over him, her face coming dangerously close to his as the life faded from his eyes.

She leaned closer and whispered in his ear.

"I...am....God...."

The doctor's eyes filled with fear as he watched her calmly walk away to greet the security men. His last ever sight would be watching her feast on them one by one.

The female doctor who survived the incident named her "The Expressionless".

There was never a sighting of her again.

scoundrelTW · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if this qualifies as "scariest" but on shortwave radio there is a "coordinated universal time" broadcast. When I was a kid, it used to creep me out due to the sound of the tones, the "50's news reel" sound of the guy calling out the time and the fact that I was told the station would keep broadcasting in the event of a nuclear war (when everybody is dead).

SilverGhost93 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friend's older sister was driving down to school by herself one evening and she had to stop for gas. She was standing by her car, pumping gas when this total stranger came up to her. He asked her if she was alone. She said that she was and he grabbed her wrist. He led her into the gas station and told her that he saw someone hop into the back of her car. They called the police. It was some kid trying to join Mara Salvatrucha. He was supposed to rape and kill her. It gives me chills and cheers me up that strangers are both trying to kill you and looking out for you.

BudGreen_Cali · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest A four year old being weaned off breast milk. Have you ever seen the fit that can be thrown by a 4 yr old being weaned off a bottle? Imagine that with a set of boobs! The kid was literally ripping buttons off his mothers shirt trying to get at them.

Missus_Nicola · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw a show once with a woman who still breast fed both her kids, one was an 8 year old boy, the other a 14 year old girl, and she also let her husband breast feed. They referred to it as a "milky treat".

BudGreen_Cali · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

okay, I didn't need to hear that. They actually suckled? NO, never mind. I don't want to know.

Missus_Nicola · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw someone that used breast milk as erotica, it was on something called the body shocking show. She let a complete stranger breast feed from her because her husband wouldn't (and yes in this case suckling). Needless to say her marriage failed.

1unholy_confessions · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I moved into my apartment a year ago it's only 300 dollars a month i have a beautiful view of the bay and it's just all around great. Everyone failed to tell me that it's haunted. I just shrugged it off "whatever, not a big deal... people are just being stupid." (I live above a bar by the way) Well to keep a long story short about a few weeks after moving in... i was sleeping in my bed i had a dream where i was physically being moved out of my bed and being dragged across my bedroom floor and me trying to escape. I finally woke up from this dream.. with a loud scream into my ear. I jumped out of my bed in terror.. my cat came to comfort me but there were loud foot steps in my hallway. The bar had closed for hours now so i knew i was alone. My cat ran out of my room and my door slammed shut. The foot steps stopped in front of my door.. i went back into my bed with covers over my head yelling "LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!" door opened quietly and my cat came walking in casually like nothing happened. I still have the same dream that leads to these events. Nothing has happened like that since.

vishalb777 · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Bongcheon Dong Ghost http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31

WhopperNoPickles · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Rubber Johnny video.

Just watch it.

113mac113 · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I only saw 30 seconds and was full of "Nope"

Secret_Squirrel007 · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't look up... it doesn't like to be seen.

Erectile_devastation · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident so yeah I group of Russian ski hikers were camping one night- found dead the next. Investigators say they torn open their tents from within and ran out into the heavy nights snow- bear footed - all of them were found dead, some with crushed skulls and broken ribs and one girl had her tongue cut out.

(sorry if repost)

Chaz69 · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was young and walking around a Japanese supermarket and this old Japanese man kept casually bumping into me. My cousin later pointed out that he had a huge butcher knife

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whatever it was, it was probably on 4Chan.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I used to work at a grocery store in a big city for a few years. I stayed there longer than most people because I lived basically across the street and it was very convenient. I saw plenty of young people like myself come and go. Most people only worked there for a few months. One time this new girl started working there. She was from a small town in the South and had a strong accent. She was a little bit chubby as well, but she had a cute face. She was very friendly and perky. She also seemed so desperate to make friends, but didn't have very many. She came in to work one day when she was not scheduled, and was crying. Her dad had died and she came to the store so we could comfort her. I thought it was very sad. After that day, she was different. She only wore black clothing and dark makeup. She dyed her hair black. She never smiled or anything any more. I felt bad for her but didn't try to comfort her or anything. One night when I was at home asleep I had a dream about her. In the dream, it was just that girl staring at me with a disappointed/sad look on her face. It was strange because I never really thought too much about this girl and suddenly I had a dream about it. It bothered me for a few weeks but eventually got over it.

bunnieg · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I don't know if this belongs here or not, but I have a very creepy ex. We broke up early summer and for months he was calling me and trying to get back together etc etc. But what takes the cake in creepy behavior. Was in October he asked me to come to Thanksgiving dinner at our old place. I obviously refused. He then SNUCK into my parents house while they were out of town and I was home alone with thanksgiving dinner because it was our "first holiday apart" and when I tried to say "thanks, okay bye." He insisted on staying to watch me finish and eat it all so I wouldn't be all by myself. I already had plans with a friend and she ended up coming over and he left. At the time I was eerily calm and collected but looking back it still gives me the heebie jeebies.

Kreisau-Circle · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Me and my friend saw a shadow person. They move in a "Matrix" style fashion, super quick, and look like walking shadows. I knew I wasn't hallucinating when my friend saw it too, and I'm thankful she saw it because I wouldn't have known to this day if I was crazy or not. Shadow people are the most experienced paranormal phenomenon by humans in the world. University research has even been done on the subject, but they go into the rational explanation for it, such as: the shadow person is actually you, time travelling back in time to view it's past self, which is you. The shadow look is to cover up its appearance so it doesn't mess with time. A movie is also being made, or has been made about it. I still talk about it to this day.

ProveItToMe · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I got my first car, my mom told me this story:

A young woman, early twenties, had stayed for the late shift at her job, and ended up driving home much later than she usually did. She was alone in her car, and it was very dark, so she started getting a bit nervous. She turned on the radio and put some music on.

After about ten minutes of completely empty roads, she reached a four way stop. Another car pulled up just after her with its blinker on, and after she passed it turned and drove behind her.

After a few minutes, she noticed that the car behind her was behaving strangely. It was pulled up very close behind her, and it was flashing all its lights on and off. Brights, turn signals, hazard lights, just flashing and flashing. She sped up, but it sped up with her. She recalled stories of carjackers and murderers who waited for people to stop and then jumped out to kill them. She sped up again, and the other car sped up. She slowed down, the other car slowed down. She turned, so did the other car. She started seriously freaking out. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed 9-11.

"9-11, where is your emergency?"

"I'm in my car, on Sherwood Road, and there's a car right behind me that's making me really nervous. It's flashing all its lights."

"Would you please stay on the line while I transfer you to the police?"

"Sure."

There was a beep, and a gruff male voice said, "What's your problem?"

She repeated everything.

The man paused for a moment. "Ma'am, is your license plate [says her license plate]?"

"Yes, it is!" She said. "Why?"

"The car behind you is a plainclothes officer who just signaled for backup. Don't stop driving, there's a man with a knife in your backseat."

That's where the story ends. I never forgave her, I still think of it every time I have to drive at night.

rylopia · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My mum when she was little was always getting into trouble by doing things her imaginary friend told her to do, climbing out of windows onto roofs, pouring fresh milk away that was delivered that morning etc. Not bad stuff but enough to piss off my grandparents. This happened all the time she lived in one paticular house., her imaginary friend being called the Curly Women (due to her hair).

Anyway my mum eventually grew up and the family moved homes, problem solved, no more behavoural issues. Fast forward a few years my mum is working a new job in clothing factory using the sewing machines and she's sat next to older women and they get talking.

My town is pretty small so they talk about people they both know and places they lived. It comes out that this woman used to care for her elderly mother at the same address my mum had the behavious issues due to the Curly Woman. So the woman offers to bring a picture into work the next day to see if they was one and the same......... annnnd it wasnt, 2 totally different women and one of them clearly an imaginary friend. My mum was shitting it all night just incase she did recognise her tho!

ivegotagoldenticket · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a bunch of friends over to watch Paranormal Activity 3. Some of us were drinking, some of us were high, it helped us really get "into" the movie.

So we're reaching the middle of the film, and it's been building up the whole time for that first scare.

Come to the seen in the bedroom, the couple is about to make some shitty sextape and they hear a rumble. So they stop to listen, nothing. They start up again, then another rumble, followed by silence.

Now at this point, everyone's on the edge of their freakin seat cause some shit's about to go down.

So it comes to a quiet part and this low rumbling starts, and the couple looks pretty scared, and then it fades away. (Was that it? that wasn't so bad, phew it's passed)--

then BOOM! the whole house (in the movie) shakes.

But that's not what got us.

With the loud thud from the house, the camera on the tripod knocks over. It hits the floor releasing a loud thud from the bass and our subwoofer. In the movie, this knocks a picture frame off the wall. In my living room, someone placed a beer bottle on the subwoofer, and so it falls off.

The beer and the frame in the movie hit the ground and shatter at the exact same time.

Everyone single person in the room jumped up and screamed.

It was great. Definitely the best scare I've ever had in my life.

One of the girls curled up in a ball and put her head down the rest of the movie. haha

janitorguybass · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A very screwed up VHS educational movie called "It's potty time". The clown in that scarred me for life.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's been around for a while, but it still gets me. Scroll down slowly and make sure your sound is turned up.. lol http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tu

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

NO NONONONONONONO DO NOT CLICK THE FUCKING LINK

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yes! Click the link! haha

Kaiserhawk · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You're in your bed, slowly drifting away to sleep, just as you're almost there the self activating air-freshener in your bedroom kicks in.

I almost had a heart attack the first time that happened.

Kaiserhawk · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was also chased by a wild baboon once.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Large masses of people voting for things, about which, they had no knowledge.

toleran · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Hmmmm well alright, I guess I have a story that's mildly interesting.

I live in the Bay Area in California and there's a really small old "pioneer town" near where I live. It's called Port Costa and used to be a pretty important town when railroads were the primary way of getting stuff around. This town is creepy enough as is and my friends and I used to go there at night to hang and just be out somewhere.

Now that the setting is established. There's only one road going into this town and its a windy creepy as hell forest road with minimal visibility at night. Nothing on this road except a barn kinda thing about halfway through.

We had heard rumors of a ghost that walks down this road between 3:30 and 4:30. Description is that it looks like a woman walking a dog. Red hoodie, grey sweatpants. Naturally my friends and I set off down this road in my car to investigate.

First night nothing happened. Disappointment all around.

Second night we tried this we saw nothing and were pretty much convinced this ghost was just a story. After driving back out of the town we come around a corner (right around 4am) and sure enough right in front of us walking a dog is a woman in a red hoodie with grey sweatpants. Middle of nowhere basically, no flashlight, doesn't even acknowledge us. Naturally we freak out and start screaming and I drive past as I'm too scared to stop and investigate. We immediately pull a u-turn and she's nowhere to be found. Barbed wire on either side of the road. She's simply gone.

We tried this three more times and two of the times we saw the exact same thing and she vanished each time as she always appeared as we were coming around a blind curve and she always managed to disappear by the time I stopped the car. She didn't look like a ghost, but she never acknowledged us and we never saw her face.

To this day I don't know what to think. It's either a ghost or someone walking their dog at 4am in the middle of nowhere at 4am who is deliberately crawling through barbed wire once a car comes in order to freak people out. I think the ghost is more likely.....

We even investigated the area in daylight and even if the person could crawl under barbed wire they'd have to have a very gifted dog that was trained to disappear with them....

Wrote all that on my iPhone so sorry if it seems disjointed or if there's grammar problems.

Edit: I forgot to mention that there was another time we tried to see this ghost but it was crazy insane mega foggy. We were stopped by a police officer who asked why we were out at 4am. We told him we were looking for a ghost believe it or not and he laughed and said something like "oh yea, well you aren't gonna see her tonight in this fog. Try again another night, it's not safe to be driving in this fog." Police man knew what we were talking about, so either more people have seen this ghost or he's heard the stories. I dunno, but it was very unnerving to us at the time hahaha

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hence the saying "My mouth tastes like shit so bad eh, I could eat the ass out of a beaver eh".... Wait, they don't say that.

Fenastus · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was last summer, somewhere in June, I was home alone at the time.

I hadn't taken a shower in a few days and I was starting to stank a bit, so I decided to take one real fast, just because I love that "clean" feeling you have a few hours after a shower. While I was in the shower, I had my eyes closed because I was rinsing my hair and I had my back turned towards the wall where the door of the bathroom is. In the middle of washing my hair I feel something grab and squeeze my shoulder... HARD. It felt deathly cold, it felt like a cold, bony hand had just grabbed my shoulder and even though i've still got shampoo in my hair, I flip my shit, turn around, and punch my fist... directly into a wall. The door was closed and locked just how I had left it, I got out of the shower with soapy hair, naked and checked the alarm... it was still on.

The "grab" or whatever it was left my shoulder incredibly sore for weeks to come (and not to mention, my hand hurt a lot from punching the wall...)

I didn't take a shower home alone for months after that.

Rion5 · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A couple months ago on my birthday this girl I've been talking to draws me this picture of us holding hands and it said "Be my boyfriend?". The two days later of officially being together shes says she late by about a week. She went to get a pregnancy test. Luckily for me the test came back negative but that scared the crap out of me.

gilgameshthehero · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

At my girlfriend's place one night watching a movie. Went to bed and were just laying in silence when a blaring static came on from down the hall in the sitting room. I broke out in a cold sweat from the shear cacaphony of it. I knew it was my job to engage this issue. I told my girlfriend to wait while I checked it out (not in a brave way at all) kind of like the guy who ''I'll do it'' in horror movies.

I went down the hall hesitantly. I turned the corner to the sitting room and tried to flick on a light. I forgot that that light always taken FOREVER to come on. I felt overwhelmed by the blasting static and the the light failure. I kept flicking it; eventually just giving up on it. I turned the corner into the living room and saw the tv white screen and was frozen by it.

Then almost as abruptly as it begin the tv 'phwamped' to a silence. The ringing in my ears and jitters of my muscles made me feel like I was just stunned. I stood there not breathing for like 13seconds. I eventually walked out and back to my girlfriend's room quietly and steadily as I could, with a slight shiver running down my back the entire time.

She was sitting up in the bed and calmly said: "I forgot it does the when the dvd player and tv are left on standby". I chuckled uncertainly and crawled in to bed. I definitely was the little spoon that night. I ain't even ashamed.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In this thread: TLDR

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I dont why, but my hearing becomes really sensitive at night. Unfortunately that enables to hear pretty much everything from my neighbours house above. One day, i woke up to the cries of my neighbour's baby, 3 or 4 minutes before my alarm clock's usual wake up time. While i was dozing off a bit in bed, just waiting for the alarm clock to ring, i kept hearing the soft cries (the normal "im tired", "im cold", "im hungry" baby cries). I also started hearing soft rustling, like something moving on a bed. For a split second, the cries stopped and the rustling stopped, followed by a hollow sound of a baby hiting the floor headfirst. You can show me all the gore, brutality, heinous shit in the internet.... and nothing compares to the sound of a baby dropping on his head, along with the immediate cries of despair. I never got out of bed and out of the house as fast as on that day. Blood curdling sound...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was in my grandma's kitchen at night, making top ramen. Out of nowhere, I suddenly felt a presence behind me, and almost simultaneously came down with the most profound, intense fear that I have ever felt in my life. It beats the fear that I felt when I was in an abusive household for a while, and when my mom nearly killed herself when I was ten. I'm not kidding: this kind of fear is horrible.

It's weird. I get that it's debatable. Even I have a hard time with it today, wondering if what I was feeling was merely a panic attack (the first and only one of my life), or if there really was some evil presence that brought it on. I struggle with the cause today, because it felt like the most real thing to me at the time. Panic attacks usually have no cause, right?

Anyway, so I feel this presence behind me. I turned around-- I couldn't see it. But it was so strong, I could sense where it was standing, and the emotions: it was hateful, and angry. I was so utterly terrified by this thing that I couldn't see. I wanted to run away, but that would have meant running toward it, since there was no other way out of the kitchen. I felt like it could hurt me if it wanted. I was pressing back against the counter, trying to get as far away from this fucking thing as possible. I could feel it getting closer and closer to me, until it was standing straight in front of me. I was crying and shaking so hard. In my panic, I remembered that you can command evil spirits to go away if you command it in the name of Christ. Now, whatever your beliefs are, believe me when I say that I just wanted to escape from this experience as fast as possible. Whether or not it actually worked, it did end up going away.

If you had seen me at that time, redditors, you would have thought I was a raving lunatic. It took a bit, but when it was 'gone', the room lightened immediately, and I felt relief flood my body. It was the single most terrifying and bizarre experience of my life-- and it could all be due to just a panic attack. Everything might have been imagined in your eyes, but in mine, it was the most real thing. I don't know if I'll ever know, but I've not experienced anything like that since and I sure as fuck hope I don't ever again. Scared me shitless, you guys.

Klewg · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

commenting to read later

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Orcus424 · 2 points · Posted at 00:10:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Since when do firefighters take out dead bodies for a murder? Even if the murder was by fire the coroner and cops would deal with the body.

astronaughtman · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:15 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just the thread I needed to read before I go to bed. Yayyyy. . .

nousername_thanks · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obey the walrus. Shit's fucking creepy. Here's a link in case you don't know what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBWmV5sjMA Also, on Youtube, type in "Teletubbies theme song backwards." No sleep for a lifetime...

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:28:49 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest: Twas about 2 in the morning. I'm laying on the top bunk playing on my laptop and I hear this awful fight erupt upstairs between the girl that lived up there and her boyfriend (the walls were pretty much paper thin there. I could literally discern where in the apartment upstairs my neighbors were and hear entire conversations unless whispered). So at first it just sounds like an argument, but then this girl starts shrieking like she's being killed or some shit. Then she starts yelling: "GET OUT GET OUT" over and over. Then I hear her go to the kitchen and then chase this dude out. Some sort of fighting going on in between. I know there was a bit of wrestling going on in the hallway.

10 minutes later I hear the door get kicked down. The boyfriend's back and brought a friend. More yelling/fighting (lots of thumps and cracks and door slams), and then more bloodcurdling screaming. Not good. So I go upstairs cause I'm worried at this point (This girl gets in a lot of fights with her b/f. I'd be calling the cops three times a week if I worry about every tussle I hear, but this one sounds like it got real). I brought a machete my roommate keeps laying around. So I knock like a cop on the door, everything goes silent. I could hear them before I knocked from outside the door but everything stops as soon as I knock. I knock a few more times and then head back downstairs. Now they're arguing a lot quieter. It was hard to make out what they were saying, but I definitely heard that the boyfriend now had 'to get rid of the knife from the kitchen' and the girl was 'covered in blood'. Also the boyfriend's friend seems to have disappeared at this point. No more footsteps from him, and his voice, I remember was a lot higher than the other guys. I didn't hear it after that.

TL;DR: overheard a domestic knife fight in the apartment above mine. It's a stretch, but someone might have gotten stabbed pretty bad. Enough to make a voice and footsteps 'disappear' from upstairs...

olliepots · 6 points · Posted at 14:51:34 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL THE POLICE!?!?

thedrinkmonster · 3 points · Posted at 15:26:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I really hope you are A) Lying or B) called the cops afterwards. If you got the balls to knock on the door then please tell me you called the cops.

[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 15:50:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm totally serious and no I didn't call the cops. By the time it was all done, it was a little after 3 AM. I was tired, and I know I wasn't the only one knocking on the door/aware of the situation. There were at least 3 other people that did so after I went back downstairs.

Also between two drug-addicted roommates and my potheaded self, there were enough drugs in my apartment to put me away for quite some time. I wasn't the biggest fan of that idea.

I did, however, knock on the door the next morning to check up on her. She seemed fine? I guess? She was kinda crazy. Bi-polar at the least.

Plus, cops getting a call from some stoner at 3 AM in the ghetto? They probably wouldn't have shown until morning.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:07 on August 21, 2013 · (Permalink)

KLIKLIKLIKLILIK....

You know what I'm talking about.

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 13:18:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Ctxmetal95 · 2 points · Posted at 13:19:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

What's wrong with it?

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 13:21:00 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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thedrinkmonster · 6 points · Posted at 15:14:07 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

No it doesn't, it looks like IG-88

Mashobi · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:08 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

wut

xXThKillerXx · 0 points · Posted at 22:25:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Adalia Rose talking

Ulumuri · 0 points · Posted at 18:31:31 on November 20, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Anthro-kangaroo-girl-transformation-4-414430721

BigAppleJohnny · -2 points · Posted at 13:13:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The rake is the best creepy pasta ever look it up it'sa great story

[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 13:30:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That guy with the cum box. Cum box always wins.

CH-Rampage · 0 points · Posted at 14:56:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

All rhese stories are neither scary nor creepy they're all just horible accidents.

wbohn1 · 0 points · Posted at 15:27:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Even though I love this movie, this mask always creeps me out to no end.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:26 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

what is it? i am too scared to click the link

wbohn1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:02 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

The mask from V for Vendetta.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:27:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Found a gif of a skinned cow, still alive http://imgur.com/a/TlQ1d#1

FireDylan · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's a dog.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The eye lashes make it more cow-like, the face that we can't tell what animal it is makes it a lot worse

JONO202 · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cows don't have giant ass canine teeth, they are herbivores.

chevtastic88 · 0 points · Posted at 18:34:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That demonic korean comic book.

Death_Star_ · 0 points · Posted at 19:52:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was reading the newspaper with a glass of ice cold water on my dining room table, which has a fiberglass top. The glass of water was near the corner of my eye, but not in focus. As I was reading, I "felt" like it was slowly moving. Upon further inspection, I saw a 3-4 inch trail of condensation from where the glass was initially placed.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:52:01 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

what's the most ambiguous and open-ended question ever asked on Reddit?

fishsticks14 · 0 points · Posted at 22:16:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

this was a dream i was sleepin in the woods in a tent with my grandpa when all of a sudden the sides of the tent start rustling and you hear children giggling woke up with a cold sweat and scared the hell out of myself i will never watch that movie again lol

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:12:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read something somewhere that usually if you wake up between the hours of two and three in the morning that there's an 80% chance it was bc someone was staring at you. I'm not certain on whether or bit this is true or just one of those urban legends but I'm still freaked out by the idea

SmoSays · 3 points · Posted at 06:49:38 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Shit, that explains why I keep getting caught . . .

brumbz · 2 points · Posted at 05:18:04 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I hate you.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:41:46 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't worry, that's just something made up to scare people. There are millions of reasons someone would wake up in the middle of the night, being stared at at a specific time by someone you don't know is probably one of the more rare ones

pttymcgee · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You seriously just had to share this, didn't you?

ice_chariot · 0 points · Posted at 07:02:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

this

maz-o · 0 points · Posted at 21:47:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yo' mama?

Nostrovia70 · -4 points · Posted at 11:11:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nothing elaborate. I was watching In the Mouth of Madness one night when my cell phone rings. It was an unknown number and I rarely answer numbers I don't know or are unknown but I answered. The voice on the other end says:

"The job is done, but there's blood everywhere."

And hangs up. *69 didn't get anything, just a number has been disconnected message.

Needless to say, it left me scratching my head for awhile.

DickBaggins · 3 points · Posted at 16:07:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ahhh the 4th time this has been posted in this thread.

bethanyj · 3 points · Posted at 17:22:02 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm also 100% sure this was a prank that went around. The news even reported on it.

threezee · 0 points · Posted at 18:49:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably Nicki Minaj.

Jewnicorn · -3 points · Posted at 20:35:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well I once saw a ghost.

ThrowawayYeah10 · -1 points · Posted at 23:27:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Friendly warning: do not read this if it's nighttime where you live and you intend to sleep soon.

I don't remember too much from when I was young, but this is an experience that will probably never leave me. I think I was nine or ten. My grandparents lived out-of-state, so, during the summer, my parents would send my little brother and I up to North Carolina to visit them for a week or so. My grandparents weren't particularly wealthy, but they somehow managed to snag somewhere near fifty acres of land at one point, and they now made a profit by renting out the property. It was pretty much a collection of pretty large grassy fields surrounded by woods. At one end, there was a pasture that had a few horses in one area and cows in the other. It was in its own area and was connected by a little wooden bridge over a creek. Since we didn't have our two-player video games at grandma and grandpa's, we would sometimes go out to the pasture after dinner to see the horses, while our grandparents cleaned up from from dinner and took out the trash. I know, lame. Whatever, we were kids.

One evening, at the end of dinner, my grandpa suddenly started cursing and told my grandma that he needed to get up to the store to get some repair supplies so that he could start working. Apparently he had a lot of work ahead of him, though I don't remember ever noticing anything wrong with the house at the time. My grandma suggests that I go with him. I guess it was supposed to be bonding time or something. I get into the truck, but quickly ask my grandpa if I can go back inside for a second to grab something and he tells me to hurry up. So, I grab my gameboy and get back into the old white pickup truck. My younger self wasn't quite interested in boring repair stuff, so I pretty much did my own thing. When we ended up getting back, I remember being super excited because I beat one of the levels that, together with my lil' bro, we'd been trying to beat for at least a few days. I thought I was the shit. I fly into the house and look around for him, but I can't find him. It was a pretty big, sturdy house, so perhaps he was hiding or something I thought. I ask my grandma if she'd seen him. Apparently he'd asked to go outside soon after we left, but she had heard him come inside shortly after and didn't think much more of it. I go around calling his name, and even look outside, but he's just nowhere to be seen. After a few minutes of that, I'm not the only one starting to get worried. It's pretty much dark now and my grandpa comes outside to start looking with me. Meanwhile, my grandma is on the phone with my parents.

At this point, apparently my grandpa hears something, because he tells me to 'shh' and squints his eye for a half-second before calling my brother's at the wooded area near their house. My brother comes running full-speed towards us. At this point, my heart is beating a million beats per minute, until he gets closer and I notice that he's wearing a huge self-satisfied grin on his face. "Idiot..." I laugh and go to mess up his hair, but he flies past me and goes straight for our grandpa. Planting a firm hand on grandpa's side, he exlaims, 'Gotcha! Yer it!" and calls "timeout" (I'm guessing this is a tactic he learned at school.) before collapsing to the ground to recooperate, messing around in the dirt. At first, my grandma just looks kind of dumbfounded. I will never forget the way the expression on her face changed when the gears started to turn in her head. I'm not really thinking- I just think my brother's being an idiot- but then my grandpa suddenly tells me to go inside with my grandma. The next day, my parents are at the house and there are police there as well, talking to my brother. We end up going home earlier than usual and I remember my mom being particularly emotional, moreso than usual. The last vivid memory I have of that house was of a small marking in the dirt. When my brother and I were walking to the car to go home, I noticed something where he had been sitting the day before. It was a small tally chart with two letters at the top, a line down the middle. On one side, the letter "C". On the other, "P". My brother, Corey, often affectionately called our granddad 'papa,' because it was easier to say at a young age. Under each letter, there was exactly one tally.

When I got older, I discovered that the reason my grandfather had been so anxious to get to the store for repair parts, despite their house needing no obvious repairs, was that all of their tenants' contracts were up, and they had been making repairs to the empty mobile homes for the last few months before the next applicants came in that week.

Edit: I know this is a really fucking long reddit post, but I don't know how to tell the story in a more condensed way. The details make it even more creepy in retrospect.

ca178858 · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not sure I get it... The implication is that he was playing tag with someone he thought was your grandpa?

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I honestly still don't know what happened towards the end.... Am I missing something?

ThrowawayYeah10 · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sorry, I'm not a very good writer. Went to visit my grandparents one summer with my little brother. Left my little brother with my grandma while me and gramps went to the store. Couldn't find little brother when we got back. Eventually he comes out of the woods and runs up to my grandfather, tagging him to get himself his one and only 'point'. Someone else (?) already had a point. I don't know how to make sense of this, but something led my brother to believe that it was our grandfather who had started a game of tag with him, before running into the woods (presumable where the tagger fled to). I don't know if it was just too dark outside, if he studied beforehand and dressed like my grandfather, if he turned his back and my brother just never considered that it might not be him... I don't know.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh thanks for clarifying. Everything was fine, but it got a little confusing towards the end. So, did your brother ever say anything about it? Was it just left at that?

ThrowawayYeah10 · -1 points · Posted at 00:11:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Actually, I made this entire story up. I was trying to see how easy it would be to get something upvoted. Apparently it's harder than I thought. I tried with the subtlety thing/leaving part of it up to imagination, and it just came across as confusing it seems. Ah well. Maybe next time.

Edit: I can admit to being a big fat phony now because it's obvious that this isn't going anywhere. ;)

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:36:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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ThrowawayYeah10 · 1 points · Posted at 02:00:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

It couldn't have been half as bad as this vague criticism. <_<

I didn't leave out any crucial details. I downplayed or understated some of them to bring shock value to them later. Subtlety is a legitimate writing style in horror stories, and in other genres. Hell, Ernest fucking Hemingway used something like this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory

Is it something that I would submit for a school assignment? No. I wrote it in about twenty-five minutes. It's not too good, but for other reasons. It doesn't "lack creativity." The tag aspect certainly isn't something we see an overabundance of in these types of stories, nor is any other part of it. What's unoriginal? Messages in the dirt? Gameboys? A non-creative story would involve haunted houses, zombies, grinning psychoes, etc. At the end of the day, you've offered no legitimate criticism. 0/10.

EDIT: Thank God you think this is a bad. Just went through your post history and found this gem:

"Words cannot even begin to describe the harrowing aesthetic of a trip the Job Center in my home town. There is a surreal unsettling atmosphere that can only be generated when worlds collide and a bizarre mixing pot of absurd regulation, redundancy fearing jobsworths and the dissatisfied unemployed peoples comes into being. Simply by going there you risk increasing your levels of cognitive dissonance exponentially. When you go on JSA then if you're very lucky whoever you're assigned as your "Job adviser" will have some semblance of humanity left and perhaps still be capable of seeing a soul staring out from behind those tired eyes across the desk. Otherwise you'll be subjected to an experience that will surely make you think that if you weren't acting like an anti-social scruff beforehand then you may as well do now."

That reeks of pretension and 'thesaurusitis'

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:44:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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ThrowawayYeah10 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:59 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In that comment what you see my friend is facetiousness (have you ever visited /r/BritishProblems ? Nobody ever jokingly acts overly pompous in that sub-reddit...never), and if you need a thesaurus to understand those words then you truly are an idiot. I wasn't trying to offer "valid" criticism I was merely telling you what I thought of what you wrote, it was bad. You absolutely left out crucial details that make up the key elements of a creepy story. But since you ask for critique let's look at them shall we?

Point taken about the BritishProblems subreddit. That being said, nothing about me pointing out his thesaurusitis problem implies that I needed a thesaurus, or that I "couldn't understand those words." That's like saying that someone must have a short attention span if they call someone out on being verbose or long-winded. I'll take a writing course if you agree to take a critical thinking one.

1) Your scene setting was 100% fluff. Sure it's good to throw in some seemingly irrelevant facts and descriptions that don't directly relate to the creepy aspect of the story e.g explaining where you were and why ect. This adds realism and potential red herrings that make people curious, but you're totally abusing that device, everything until the end of the second paragraph is fluff. Gameboys, Grandparents financial status, pick up truck details, horses and cows, bridge, creek = fluff

To an extent, I'll grant you the animals, bridge and creek points. I was originally going to go another way with the story, and those are details I didn't end up removing. However, I don't think that it does any harm to the story, as they help to establish the rural/in-the-middle-of-nowhere/pasture setting. A tiny wooden bridge that leads over a creek into a cow pasture is fitting imagery for the setting I was trying to create. It's very quaint and suits it well. Besides, it's not as if I spent a tremendous amount of time on these details. So while they're largely leftover details, I don't see how it's as bad as you make it sound. You would think I was describing the number of leaves on a branch two miles away or something.

As for the Gameboy, it serves as a perfectly legitimate medium for explaining why the older brother would go looking for the younger one when he returned from the store. This one is really quite simple.

I have no idea what you mean by the pick-up truck details. The narrator uses two adjectives to describe the truck? Referring to the car he got into as an old white pick-up truck? Really? Lmao.

2) Your scene setting is complete devoid of actual creepy content it needs. To make this clear this is how your story goes: Narrator talks irrelevantly about his holiday, brother goes missing, brother is immediately found and apparently brother believed himself to be playing tag with his grandad when they find him which of course he couldn't have been. This belief is later substantiated by tally chart. You didn't do anything subtle to make the setting creepy prior to the main narrative and in honesty the fact that your grandparents rent their land out makes the reader think that your brother was perhaps just playing with a tenant, removing that element later doesn't really have any effect.

Jesus Christ. "Talking irrelevantly about his holiday?" The narrator gives some brief background information about why he and his brother are where they are. It seems like your complaints are getting more and more arbitrary.

Why do you think the brother was immediately found? There are many, many reasons to think that it probably wasn't a super quick trip. First off, it's implied that they live in a very, very rural area. The store probably wouldn't have been in their back yard. Secondly, the narrator ran back inside to get a video game. When I was a kid, I wouldn't bother doing this if my parents and I were just going down the road or something. Next, the fact that it's a pick-up truck and not, say, a 2-door coupe, seems to be compatible with the idea of buying a large quantity of supplies (which might take longer). Construction companies often use white pick-up trucks, so it could be argued that this is a little bit of an attempt at making the reader fill in details subconsciously, too. On top of this, there's a widely-held perception that old people eat early. If the little brother goes missing at about dinner time, and he's not found 'til about dusk, this seems to fit in perfectly.

This is taking forever, I simply don't care anymore. I might try to finish this response at a later date, but it's just taking too long.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I thought so. Well that was a waste of time. At least you were honest...

ThrowawayYeah10 · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:45 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

And out of curiosity, what led you to doubt it? Like, specifically. I can think of two places where I failed as far as consistency is concerned, but I'm not sure that they're immediately obvious.

ca178858 · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:44 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I didn't doubt it (any more than anything else here), but I wasn't sure I got the point of why it was supposed to be creepy.

ThrowawayYeah10 · 0 points · Posted at 02:25:35 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I guess I was assuming too much on the part of the reader. To me, it seems obvious what was being suggested. Tag is an alternating game. One person goes, then the other. This is common knowledge. If there are two points, and the little brother got the last one, then someone OBVIOUSLY got one before that. So, it's implied pretty clearly that someone started the game of tag. It's also clearly implied that the little brother thought it was the grandpa, but the grandpa was at the store. So it was obviously a stranger. If this was a real story, how would a grown-ass stranger coming out of the woods in a and luring a small child into the woods in a secluded area via the childlike game of 'Tag' not be creepy? Am I just a pussy? That seems fucked on so many levels.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:38:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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ThrowawayYeah10 · 0 points · Posted at 19:59:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

...Where did I compare myself to 'Hemmingway'?

ThrowawayYeah10 · 0 points · Posted at 00:17:40 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm not very good at writing, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy it. It wasn't a waste of time for me. As for you, if you care so much about reading true stories, you might consider moving to a medium where there's some level of verification. It seems pretty unlikely that all of the posts here are truthful.

DaddyLongCock · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:04 on June 8, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I can't believe how far you missed the point and then continue to act like you are doing us a favor or something because you wanted to practice writing? This is 9(!) days old and I still had to respond because holy shit bro .. Seriously, the story sucked. Look I'm a teacher so I have SOME qualification .. But even with that I am not saying YOU suck. The story did. Then to go on rants and start asking for specifics or whatever you are KILLING this thread for me. I have sat here for the past 5 freaking days (not even redditing correctly) because I wanted to read every story in this thread. I love shit like this. Some are blatantly made up, copy/creepy pasta .. And when called on it they do the standard delete or just let it go. In all the THOUSANDS of comments and stories in here I get to yours and first of all .. I give it hope because it starts with a cool warning but then just progressively sucks harder and harder. So I'm like whatever .. ONLY TO SEE YOU START SAYING YOU MADE IT UP FOR POINTS (or tried) and how the system is blah blah blah and continue to ask for specific criticism only to argue --- sigh forget it. I really don't wanna e-argue with you.

I just wish you hadn't picked here to do this. I only needed maybe less than 500 more comments/stories to read in this thread to its completion but this whole post saddened me to the point where I don't even care anymore (not saying you should give two fucks about what I am saying either).

I just simply am sitting here thinking "this guy... Really?"

I get the whole troll thing or even the want to improve your writing but this is weird, wrong forum, and just straight up off-putting (and still say WE should look to another place .. Dude think pot and kettle). Again I am not putting YOU down as a person, hell I don't know you. I just really wish I hadn't read this. It was fun till this.

And if you don't see why or can't get what I am saying then just forget it .. Drop it .. And I will too.

Peace

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:51:25 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I read and re-read it 3 times, still don't get it. Can you explain?

sunnydlyte · -7 points · Posted at 22:49:01 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This didn't happen to me but it happened to my friends uncle. He was on a business trip in india, but his flight there landed really late, so he had to stop at an old run down hotel in the middle of nowhere. He got checked into room 121, but was told by the manager not to ever look into room 120. He didn't really think too much of the warning so he just went to his room and tried to sleep. The curiosity of what was in the other room buggef him all night, so in the middle of the night, he got up and looked into the keyhole of room 120 and saw a girl sitting on a chair in the middle of the room. A little confused, he went back to his room. The next morning, he went and checked the room again and only saw the color red. He thought that the keyhole must have just accidentally been painted over, so he just left. Then he went and asked the manager what was wrong with the other room, and the manager said that a girl had died in that very room and now haunts it as a demon, and she could be recognized by her bloodshot red eyes.

EDIT: apparently this story is a fake and my friend lied to me. I didnt know and I apologize for the confusion

dairymeat · 2 points · Posted at 00:11:20 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

wasn't this a pretty old creepypasta?

everythingispancakes · 3 points · Posted at 05:40:18 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

no it still is

Penjach · -1 points · Posted at 22:33:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The horror of realising that it's 12 and that you didn't hear the alarm at 7 o'clock.

only_speaks_piglatin · -1 points · Posted at 01:34:29 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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squashedfrog462 · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:47 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My head hurts.

PixieNurse · -5 points · Posted at 11:14:26 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I wish I knew how to save this wonderful thread so I could come back to it at my leisure...I wish some smart person would come along and educate me on how to do such a thing...

Edit: I just wanted to thank everyone for stopping by and making me feel so special. It is nice to know that you all feel like my puny little post, amid the sea of all of these other posts, is worthy of your votes. They may be downvotes, but it is all the same to me. It still means you are all taking time out of your lives to read whatever crap I am writing here and even feeling compelled to vote on it! Wow. No really...you are all making me blush with all this attention. :)

http://i.imgur.com/DFbFAop.gif

i_know_karate · 5 points · Posted at 14:26:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

There's a save button.

PixieNurse · -2 points · Posted at 21:36:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lol...i know. But thanks.

[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 15:42:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

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BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:28 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

HPV is relegated to a carrier role in men.
Shit, I'm fucked.

Superduperscooper · -16 points · Posted at 15:33:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

i have exactly 6660 comment karma right now.

pigPlatform · 0 points · Posted at 19:15:17 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for tellshut the fuck up.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 13:41:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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IKinectWithUrGF · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

You turned 360 degrees.

And nope-d away... closer to the painting?

GaryGibbon · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wouldn't that send you directly towards the cockroach?

Dreadedjippo · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, never mind. It was a stupid attempt at being funny.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-they-call-it-an-xbox-360

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 13:52:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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Karbear_debonair · 1 points · Posted at 14:13:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The "neck angle" drawing is creepy as hell.

Gastronomicus · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Isn't this just Gollum?

whiskey_love_songs · 0 points · Posted at 14:09:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The creepiest thing that ever happened to me was my friend told me the story of something named Candlejack, later that night my friend just van-

tomx312 · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Heahaheuehahaueueeha

donabro · 0 points · Posted at 14:29:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I still remember the original Saw movie trailer being the scariest thing I've ever seen. The one with the girl who has to dig the key out of her boyfriend's live body. I still refuse to see the movie.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:39:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ITT: don't buy creepy houses

clippabluntz · 0 points · Posted at 14:51:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw an obese woman fall off her slot machine and slam into a tile floor right in the middle of a casino. The pool of blood slowly growing from her head across the tile was fascinating, but the worst part was her husband was right next to her standing over the corpse. though I knew immediately she was dead, he seemed to think she would come out alive.

somedude456 · 0 points · Posted at 14:52:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"I think I'm pregnant."

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:52:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The christmas episode from the first season of Tales From the Crypt is still probably the most genuinely creepy thing I've ever seen.

I don't know from scary in real life. I got into a pretty fucked up accident once and was mugged another time but I didn't have time to be scared maybe? One time on acid I thought that god and the devil were real and of equal power and were actually using our souls to power a war they were having in space and that lesser beings (cats and dogs etc) were their agents, or vessels through which they could directly communicate with us. That was fucking scary, not just because I believed it on its own but also once I started to realize I had been believing such a crazy thing the realization that my brain had let that shit happen scared me like nothing I had ever encountered before or since.

Teh_MadHatter · 0 points · Posted at 14:54:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Note: It's kind of the creepiest thing I've felt, not heard/seen.

So I used to work in a kitchen at a camp. We used to make pineapple upside down cake, which is relatively easy as long as you can flip the pans, and I could. but it required brown sugar, which is like a homing beacon to any animal within a thousand miles. So I went and gathered up all the ingredients, got them together at my station, but when I opened the brown sugar and started pouring it out, I noticed some black bits. Now, we had a mice problem, so I thought that a mouse had gotten into the brown sugar and it was droppings. So I went to our chef, who was smoking out back (the last chef got in a bit of hot water for smoking in the kitchen) and asked him about it. He said that since it was such a huge week at the camp, and because we had already used up most of our other desserts, we had to use the brown sugar to make pineapple upside down cake.

I got his meaning, and went back in. By now I noticed that some of the black dots had moved. And were still moving. There was hundreds of ants in this brown sugar! I picked up the ones that had already gotten out on the counter and threw them to the floor and smashed them with my feet. I felt like the situation had changed enough to make me go back outside and ask chef again. He said that these types of things happen in a kitchen, and every cook has stories like these. I just had to pick the ants out of the brown sugar before making the cake. So I stood there at my station, picking these ants out and throwing them on the floor to be stomped on, feeling them crawl over my arms as I am trying to prepare Pineapple Upside down cake. It was so disgusting that another person switched with me to do all the parts not involving brown sugar, and I worked the dishwasher the rest of the day. I only managed to get a warning out to one other staff at the camp, not telling them why, but saying not to eat the dessert that day.

And while I still go back to the camp as staff (thankfully not in the kitchen) I will never. Ever. Eat pineapple upside down cake there again. Which is a shame since it really does taste great.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 14:57:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A g-g-g-g-ghost! And then a skeleton popped out.

TheFencingCoach · 0 points · Posted at 15:03:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

In Tampa, I witnessed a police officer shoot a homeless schizophrenic man not once, not twice, but six times. I truly hope no one ever has to witness another human being die. I still have nightmares about this ten years after the fact.

LookThereIsATrain · 0 points · Posted at 15:04:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The "blue balls" :((((((

neightdog · 0 points · Posted at 15:05:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

about ten years ago, i broke up with this chick we shall call Mandy. Mandy broke into my house like a week later, cleaned my house very well, then left vaseline handprints on all the glass shit, like my mirrors and TV and oven door, etc. there were no notes or explanations or anything

creeped the fuck out of me

LoveBurstsLP · 0 points · Posted at 15:13:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was 10 or so playing around with the wood in my fireplace when suddenly there's this ungodly whispering noise coming from the entire chimney. The first thing that came to my mind was that it sounded like the Basilisk from Harry Potter and the the snake language they did there. My parents were in another room with some guests and I almost shat myself. It was also very very loud and had no signs of what it could've been (like if it was the wind, the fire would've moved noticeably since it was so loud but nope).

Maslover51 · 0 points · Posted at 15:14:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I sometimes hear sounds in my head. Whispers and screams. A lot of overlapping. Sometimes it gets really loud. It sounds like a freaking horror movie in there!!

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:17:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OP's momma

Ddodds · 0 points · Posted at 15:20:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I live on the second floor of a condo complex. It gets very hot so i leave my sliding glass door open with the screen door closed. One night i had been watching a scary movie. After the movie i ended up falling asleep on the couch. Waking up around 1am in a sweat i walk into my kitchen and found the screen door was completely open. I immediately thought of paranormal activity and something or someone was standing over me watching me sleep. So i figure get the gun...no ammo f$#%ing ammo shortage... Get a hunting knife and proceed to clear all corners in my house(twice) thinking someone could still be in there with me. To this day i have no explaination why the screen door was opened.

Retrix · 0 points · Posted at 15:32:19 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lemongrab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmb9FisSd-c

dmoneypros · 0 points · Posted at 15:36:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Zak Bagans put me in a cell and caught an EVP right in front of me. Bone chilling.

Weedbro · 0 points · Posted at 15:48:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I once heard a story:

There was this girl who had pains in her tummy... She'd been walking for a few weeks with it and after that it hurted her so much she went to the doctor.

The doctor couldn't figure out what was wrong with her since the diagnostics didn't really pointed out towards something in her intestines. So she went on to a hospital to get a scan.

The pains only got worse, within a few hours/days she got the results... Apparently maggots were eating out her insides. And she had no clue how they got there.

There was only one solution. Her boyfriend worked in a morgue. He probably was a necrophiliac.

So she got eaten out from the inside because her bf had sex with dead people...

BashfulTurtle · 0 points · Posted at 17:27:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

So maggots crawled into the guy's penis, stayed there in harmony, waited for him to copulate and somehow got from the cervix to the Stomache.

Yeah okay, bro.

missminicooper · 0 points · Posted at 15:52:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My grandma died when I was 13, she passed away in the morning. That night when I was going to bed my cat refused to stay in my room. She always slept on the foot of my bed and she absolutely refused to stay in my room that night. I could see her sitting at the top of the stairs in the hall staring into my room. I also heard someone walking across the carpet in my room. Whatever the noise was, it sounded exactly like my grandma's shuffling footsteps. That freaked me out so bad that I actually spent the night in my parent's bed.

At the funeral, my aunt told me that my cousin had been visited by grandma that same night and was told to be good and watch over my aunt. My aunt died less than 2 years later and my cousin followed about 3 years after that.

theentlywhale · 0 points · Posted at 15:56:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

www.rightxd.com/666

emkehh · 0 points · Posted at 16:03:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing may have been when I found out about the bombs at the Boston marathon. I was on an overnight train ride from Madrid to Paris with no wifi or anything. My friend was on the phone with her mom and all of a sudden I hear her say "Is everyone okay? How many people died?" When she got off the phone she started crying and told the four people in her little compartment (myself included) what happened. I went to tell half the chaperones and this other girl went to tell the other half. Then all hell broke loose. In a matter of what seemed like seconds the aisle was completely full of high school kids panicking and crying and trying to call their families to see if they were okay. It was just really surreal, and the level of panic in the group may have been what scared me the most about the whole thing. edit: I should probably include the fact that I live about fifteen, twenty minutes from Boston.

Harrysoon · 0 points · Posted at 16:07:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Loads of weird stuff was happening in my house a few years ago. The moment I remember the most was when I went down into the basement where we have dryer to put some clothes in, I then spent a few minutes just tinkering around as it's where we just dump a load of stuff, so there's tools etc. It then all of a sudden got really cold and the draws and cupboards swung open down there.

Also another one I clearly remember was I was in the house alone, with just the dog we had at the time. Went to the toilet and he sat outside the door waiting for me. Starts barking and I hear someone coming up the stairs, but what I found weird is that at the time I didn't think anything was wrong that there's someone walking up the stairs when I know the house is empty. I just stayed in the bathroom listening. This "person" is then outside the bathroom and then says "Shhhh" to the dog, and the dog goes quiet, and I hear whoever it is carry on walking upstairs and I hear my Mum's bedroom door open. It's not until then I realise, "wait, shit...this isn't right" that I go and have a look and find nobody.

mightbedylan · 0 points · Posted at 16:37:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Was playing Amnesia late one night with a few of my friends. Just started a new game because they hadn't seen the game before. So I was just walking through the beginning halls, not really worried about anything because I knew that part of the game so well.

Suddenly a sound happened in game, It was like a door with a chain on it being shook three times in rhythm.

Boom, boom, boom...

But then after the third noise, I heard the sound again. But this time, it came from around me, somewhere. Not the game. I kept playing for a few seconds before I realized what I heard.. I turned and looked at my friends, who were just staring at me silently. I asked if they heard the same noise I heard, and sure enough we all did. We determined that the sound came from a bedroom, but nothing was in there that could have made a noise like the one we heard..

We noped out of Amnesia for the rest of the night.

MisterDonkey · 0 points · Posted at 16:42:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was walking home at around dusk. Nearing 1/4 mile from home, I look back and catch a glimpse of a person dart across the road. I didn't think much strange of it except that it appeared to be in a kind of all-black bodysuit. Like a silhouette.

Turning back toward home, I see another black figure stalking across the road, and I notice there are more. They seem to be coordinating their movement into a formation. Surely my eyes are screwing with me. It's just the darkness. I look back again, thinking to myself, 'Okay, when I turn around I'll see there's nothing there.'

But they were there. Closer. In formation, seemingly choreographed.

Now I get that sinking feeling. Panic setting in.

I turn around again quickly, scanning the road. The figures were frenzied and closing in quickly, swarming. Moving simultaneously with one another. There were maybe a dozen of them.

The last thing I remember was thinking, 'This is real.'

I regained consciousness in some bushes along the side of that road in the spot where I had encountered the shadow people.

I still have no rational explanation for what happened.

Second to that would have to be watching a guy put a loaded single-shot pistol to another guy's head and pull the trigger. Twice.

The cartridge was dented, but it never popped off. That man better appreciate being alive today.

JETEXAS · 0 points · Posted at 16:43:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This clown in a bar on Halloween. I don't think he was dressed up.

Lyrken · 0 points · Posted at 16:46:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was like 7 or 8 when i was walking near a lake when all of a sudden it felt like i got punched in the back like i was hit by God himself.

rsjd · 0 points · Posted at 16:46:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I heard my uncle talking to my pregnant aunt about burying the baby the next weekend after he's born. I was 16 at the time so I thought I understood exactly what he meant, and I thought it was murder. Now that I think about it, it was a pretty silly thing to think seeing how the baby in question was a miscarriage. In my defense, I didn't know the baby was a miscarriage until I talked to my dad about what I heard.

brisingrbrom · 0 points · Posted at 16:47:16 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some cray stuff on TIL today

Weakest · 0 points · Posted at 16:49:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Boyfriend and girlfriend were making out on couch.

Phone rings

Boy answer phone. "Get your hands off my daughter" Phone disconnects

Boy says to girl, "Your dad was on the phone."

Girl says, "My dad died 3 years ago."

THEN WHO, WAS PHONE??!?!!!!

EvrydayImAmpersandin · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Phone was phone.

poprox102 · 0 points · Posted at 17:00:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time, I had to spend the night in a sort of abandoned cemetery for my brothers Eagle project, we were gonna help clean the cemetery up. Now the one thing that you want to know is that this cemetery belonged to the ghost town of Twin Buttes that was an early mining town and had been demolished in the sixties, also part of the cemetery was demolished. So the night that we were there we had a campfire and someone brought dowsing rods. Dowsing rods supposedly help you talk to ghosts or spirits. So me and two other people were messing around with the rods asking questions. I wasn't scared at first, but then we asked the so called spirit where certain graves were that were destroyed when the town was destroyed. So as we stray away from the group me and two other friends keep going into the cemetery. And when we are halfway across, our lights shine on something. It was a tall, pale woman. She wore clothes from the 1800's and had here hair in a bun. But when we saw her face, we realized that she didn't have a face. At that moment one of my friends said, "Lets go back to camp". The next morning I went to see if there was something that played tricks on us like a tree, but the there was nothing. Later on whenever I tell this story to others, they always call the woman Slenderwoman.

fataldarkness · 0 points · Posted at 17:06:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

ITT: people who survived...

analyseforus · 0 points · Posted at 17:07:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

4320 comments, no grifter. You guys aint seen shit.

pinkfloyd873 · 0 points · Posted at 17:09:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

420yolo.com
Headphone users, you've been warned.

Ravelair · 0 points · Posted at 17:10:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Hey, can anyone link that creepy comic where character sees a lady walking and it ends with a surprise?

Volvoviking · 0 points · Posted at 17:11:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Win8 gui.. I will need to use it soon.. Fsck..

Parttimebeliver · 0 points · Posted at 17:11:46 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Probably this thread at 1:11am - At least my assignments going to be done because fuck knows im not going to sleep

christianmm · 0 points · Posted at 17:15:29 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw my boyfriend possesed as satan

Went to the ER

saw my death

Walnutterzz · 0 points · Posted at 17:19:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Had bigfoot living around my house, couldn't play in the woods anymore after that encounter.

polarbearguy · 0 points · Posted at 17:22:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

surprise transvestite!

jules2718 · 0 points · Posted at 18:05:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened about 15 yrs ago and I'm pretty sure it was nothing more than a night terror but still... I was the only one home and we lived in a pretty rundown row house. The door to my room didn't shut all the way and a light touch would push it open. I was in bed, lights turned off trying to fall asleep. I heard my roommate's dog scratch at the door and could hear his nails tapping against the wooden floor as he approached my bed. I felt him jump onto my mattress which was on the floor and felt hot, damp breath against my ear. I thought he was about to lick my face so I went to swat at him and when I did I couldn't move my body. Not like something was holding me but just like no control. I couldn't turn my face around either. I tried to scream but couldn't, finally I got mad and I guess that's when I "woke" up. I got up and went to my roommate's room. She wasn't home, nobody was, not even the dog. UGH...

skkrman10 · 0 points · Posted at 18:12:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Lavender Town from Pokemon

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:21:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

There was a seismic event that happened at your domicile and that caused your shower to turn on.

You're welcome- that will be about tree-fiddy

mocchan · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The limbless woman in "13 Assassins."

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:26:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Cumguy

fingaa · 0 points · Posted at 18:42:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

"Your dog died."

The idea of arriving home and someone telling me this scares the crap out of me.

thejadz · 0 points · Posted at 18:42:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

bigfoot

baileyjbarnes · 0 points · Posted at 18:44:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Went on like a stupid ghost hunting type thing with my friends in the ninth grade to a place called cry-baby bridge. I was suppossed to be haunted by I bunch of children a mother had killed there. Anyway, the bridge proved uneventful so we started going through the woods on the trail (I was driving) and at the end of the trail was an ancient looking abandoned church. Thinking this is way scarier-looking than the bridge (and we came out there to get scared cause we're stupid) we decided to go in. Inside all the pews had been ripped out, the place had trash all over it, and over the alter was a cross turned completely upside-down. I started walking towards it when I looked down and realized I had walked into the center of a pentagram written across the floor. At this point we quickly decided to leave, and as we step out the door another car is pulling up outside beside mine. We just stare at it for a second not knowing what to do when it pulls away onto a side road. (Also to give some context this was deeeeep in the woods all on dirt roads in the south, think deliverance country). We all rush into the car and started driving out of there, until I see the headlights behind me. The car was now following us! It began honking a lot and coming extremely close to the rear of my car. We drove for 15 mins out of the woods and the car was still following us, we got into normal traffic but that didn't deter him. I drove the 45 mins back into my hometown this this guy still on my ass and me and my friends were all freaking the fuck out. In the end I was able to lose him by flooring it to gain some distance and turning onto a road I was familiar with and immidiently turning onto a concealed side road, killing the engine and cutting off the lights. Watched in relief as the car drove by and down the road enough for us to leave without being seen. I have no idea why that beat up chevy was following us and I don't think I really want to know.

Other scariest things on my list would have to be getting a gun pulled on my by a guy who didn't want my money, he was just angry cause he thought I was beating on his door and ended up running away when a cop car pulled up. And also when one of my best friends drowned I had to try and give him CPR by myself a quarter mile off shore in the open water (we were on jet skies and mine floated away when i jumped in to save him), then waiting 30 mins for someone to see me waving my hand in the air to take us into shore. It's also one of my proudest moments because I did successfully get him breathing again and he's fine today.

StudMuffinFarmer · 0 points · Posted at 18:45:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Those books in elementary/middle school with the fucking disturbing pictures. This is what i'm talking about.

lurk_4_lyfe · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Fuck that shit still gives me nightmares.

Zenmaster4 · 0 points · Posted at 18:53:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This terrifies me:

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue#

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:55:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

boo!

Schrute_Facts · 0 points · Posted at 18:57:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This Webcomic

isperfectlycromulent · 0 points · Posted at 19:04:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Scariest thing? let's see, the Korean zombie comic. You know the one.

If you don't, you can read it here. There's moaning too so make sure your sound is on.

laccro · 0 points · Posted at 19:07:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Last night in Michigan, we had a couple of severe thunderstorms with tornado warnings, and this torrential rain, it was insane. So my friend was giving me a lift home after work, and we have to cross train tracks. Right when we get there, the gates go down. Keep in mind that it's pouring rain and foggy and we can barely see. Well we sit there for a couple minutes, no train comes. Couple more, still no train. The only light is the headlights. So we decide to make a U-turn and instead to take a back road home. Well of course this back road leads us through the woods on a super sketchy thin country road. We're going about 10mph due to low visibility. Lightning is flashing above us. I keep picturing a Human Centipede type situation. I'm the man so I had to act unafraid... Luckily the car didn't break down and we made it to the main road but wow was that shit scary.

Nicoleness · 0 points · Posted at 19:22:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in first grade I was watching this girl on the swings. She kept getting as high as she could, then jumping off. I asked her kindly to stop, as there was a curb right in front of her and I got do nervous that she would hurt herself on it. She was mean to me and started cussing me out while she kept doing it. Then, I got angry. The very second I began to hope she would hurt herself, she did. She missed her landing and fell forward, the top of her skull clipping the curb. I felt a hand on my shoulder, which caused me to look away and up at the man who approached me. All I saw was a pale hand and the long black cost he wore. I heard the crack of the skull and looked back, watching silently as her blood soaked into the wood chips. The supervisors quickly tried to help her, and I just sat there and watched her bleed. I turned my head to ask the man if she would die, but he was gone. I still have no idea who he was, but I don't think he was real.

DoGzRuLe99 · 0 points · Posted at 20:07:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

When i was fourteen I went to my friends house for a birthday party sleepover, he was turning fifteen, with a few other guys. Later at night we decided to go out side to play manhunt or something of the like. It was probably 11:30 pm or so on Friday the 13th (his birthday). Some of the guys were chatting up on a hill a little ways up the sidewalk (this is a suburb of Washington D.C., maybe 20 or so years old) and I and another friend were sitting on a curb quietly in the dark, there were not many lights on. All of a sudden, with no wind the bush behind (the entire thing, 15 feet long maybe) lurches forward into our backs. We sprinted away and told our friends and tried to make it happen again. It didn't.

Around the same time, before that I think, we were playing a game where you had to get to the base without getting tagged by the guard, me. I looked over and saw a friend crouching behind a tree in the dark between two rows of houses. All of a sudden he sprints away for no reason. I walk over to where he was to look for him and find that he wasn't there. Then I started to here whispering, things that I couldn't understand. I ran away and found my friend, who told me that the same thing happened to me. I wouldn't be surprised if workers had died and were haunting the place.

Edit: Just going to open my blinds to let some light in after reading other stories.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:17:57 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The oddest thing I have witnessed.

I was about 9 years old, sleeping in my bed, when I awoke to the sound of water from a hose hitting the floor. I sat up straight in the bed, saw a stream of water. I got out and called out to my parents in the next room. My mom came, and there was definitely water on the ground. Her explanation was that I peed on the floor, and the sound of it must have woken me up. It wasn't raining outside, and there were no marks on the roof.

To this day, I am still not sure where the water come from. I know I didn't piss on the floor.

sonic4031 · 0 points · Posted at 20:18:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Goatman.

http://imgur.com/bKJcu7B

cosmoboy · 0 points · Posted at 20:26:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My car stereo doesn't necessarily pick up all the sounds on any given CD. It's where I listen to most of my music. One day I was driving the work van when Queens of the Stone Age 'No One Knows' came on the radio. I love them, but I had no freaking idea that there was a whispering voice in the song. The first time I heard it I freaked the fuck out and nearly drove off the side of the road.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:28:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The entire Sandusky/Penn State Rapefest

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:30:10 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

spacedicks

Calcifer643 · 0 points · Posted at 20:31:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was literally just watching the joe rogan podcast and I had just finished a huge bowl of keef. They were looking at sharks so I googled a couple of images and when I did I felt the most intense feeling like there was a shark floating behind me about to attack. It might just have been the weirdest feeling I have ever had.

Supernemon · 0 points · Posted at 20:32:12 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It's got to be this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo Cannibal Generals! That's definitely creepy.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:37:11 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

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paulfp007 · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds more like a night terror. You should look into the psychology of dreams. Could mean something.

awesomealex · 0 points · Posted at 20:37:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My next door neighbour killed his wife and his 10 year old son lived with his sister so the house next door to me was completely empty at the time. From my bedroom window there's a complete view of their garden. I got home from school one day and looked out of my window to see my neighbour standing completely still in his garden staring right at me. This was a shock to me as he was being held in prison before the trial. Thank god it was just a nightmare, for quite a while after something wasn't quite right.

timthetollman · 0 points · Posted at 20:38:25 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A girl in my city was walking home one night and this guy pulls over asking her does she want a lift, she declines and apparently the guy starts getting more pushy about it. Eventually he drives off in the direction she is walking and a little down the road he pulls over, gets out of his car and opens the trunk. Another guy jumps out and they both drive off in the car.

I don't know if it's true or even when/how I heard it but it's still a freaky story.

Seduz · 0 points · Posted at 20:40:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Couple summers ago, a good friend of mine used to work at a gourmet grocery shop in NYC (Forager's Market in DUMBO for any resident new yorkers). I'd usually stop by around closing time to grab dinner with her and head back home together since we lived relatively close by.

One night on the walk back to the subway, around 10pm or so, we saw something extremely unnerving that we haven't really spoken to each other about since. On the walk back to the subway, we walked underneath one of the Brooklyn Bridge overpasses that offers a "short-cut" to the train we needed. The left wall of the overpass was fenced off as there was construction going on (there's also electrical stuff in there too, so there were warning about voltage etc etc). This fence had always been there and had been opened during the day for the construction workers. That night, however, there was something else behind the fence that we did not expect.

We noticed an extremely shabby looking man with the most piercing grey eyes staring back at us from behind the fence. There could have been no way for him to get behind there unless he had opened the fence and locked himself there on his own. The lighting of the overpass had given him an eerily blue glow. We figured he was a homeless person, but something told us that might not have been true. He stood there motionless, staring at us as we walked by. He didn't move or make a sound. We were stunned for 5 seconds or so and resolved to keep moving.

The next day, we walked by the overpass again and noticed the same old fence. No man to be seen. Construction rubble had been removed. Eerie blue light was no more, just a fluorescent white glow against the wall.

Super weird.

Here's a google maps image of the place for clarity.

papertygur · 0 points · Posted at 20:40:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow, this thread made me realize this house makes a lot of creepy noises when its quiet and I'm alone. Thanks Reddit, you ass!

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:45:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Teletubbies.....

Kubek229 · 0 points · Posted at 20:50:27 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I Just droped my last lays and It disappeard...

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 20:51:30 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Reading about the Toy Box Serial Killer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parker_Ray The tape he played for each victim has also been transcribed and is literally the worst, most horrifying thing I have ever read in the entirety of my life. http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f240/david-parker-ray-toy-box-killings-tape-transcripts-79489/ Prepare to never want to leave the house.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:01:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nobody said it yet? Fine.

Your mom.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 21:17:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I saw Bigfoot. No one is ever going to believe me but I know what I saw and it was fucking huge. Story will be told if enough people want.

Buckelfips · 0 points · Posted at 21:46:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My Grandma died of leukaemia 10 years ago when I was 15. After one visit in the hospital I got a call from an unknown number: I couldn´t understand very much just a of backround noise and "I am through". I didn´t give a shit until my mom called 15 minutes later, telling me that Grandma finally died. I´m an athiest but anyway, it still gives me the creeps.

HvyMetalComrade · 0 points · Posted at 21:54:41 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Jeff the Killer. That face is terrifying. Also heres the creepypasta

Pinto15 · 0 points · Posted at 21:57:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My friends and I were in the woods one night (yeah I know) and we felt an eerie chill in ye gentle breeze. We stopped and all took a few steps outwards and next thing we know our friend Chris has 3 deep claw marks on his neck. The blood trickled down and we heard a growl from the middle of our formation. Our friend Damien is the one that realized, we were standing in a pentagram. We didn't run or scream (surprisingly) we were speechless and we all walked out of the woods, one man watching every direction. We were terrified and have not ventured there since.

Noodles753 · 0 points · Posted at 21:58:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About ten years ago at my old house, I woke up to a massive buzzing sound, such as the things you put on the bottom of the wall to stop the door. So I wake up at about 1:50 am and I hear the twanging sound of the door thing, and a pale, pulsating blue and green light coming from the closet. I tried to wake my wife but she told me to go back to sleep. I slowly walked over to the closet and opened it. There in the middle of the closet is a floating light. I put my hand by it and it felt warm. I tried to touch it and it burned my hand. At that moment the light went through the wall to my newborn sons room, I was so scared that I didn't realize the buzzing was done. I ran into my sons room to check but he was fine and nothing was wrong. Then I heard the buzzing was gone and I felt a sence of peace. So I walked back to my bed room and fell right to sleep. I told my wife and she told me I was crazy... Still creepes me out to this day.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 22:17:49 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISBeBuVKXL0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 22:21:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why do I always end up reading these threads at 1 am!?

Alektruon · 0 points · Posted at 00:06:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Because you like down votes?

AmalgamatedMan · 0 points · Posted at 22:27:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Some schizophrenics sleep with a light on.

TypicalBetaNeckbeard · 0 points · Posted at 22:34:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I remember a similar thread on reddit from about a year ago, and the story that stood out was a guy stuck in a stalled subway car with some insane witch woman creeping closer to him while the lights were out. Took the cake that story did.

N3XANG3LU5 · 0 points · Posted at 22:37:08 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Just now as I nervously clicked on a link...and my vacuum cleaner turned on. My dad had been fixing the plug in the other room, and had plugged it it into check.

Possumbat · 0 points · Posted at 22:41:14 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The movie vhs

death_style · 2 points · Posted at 22:55:24 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

That movie sucks

SandNinjuh · 0 points · Posted at 22:44:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I run a local pawn shop and run it by myself. I have a relative who comes in and helps me on the weekends. But most of the time it is just me who is there all day. I sometimes will imagine in the middle of the night calling the store and then someone picking up. That would creep the fuck out of me.

nubzore · 0 points · Posted at 22:53:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/nosleep

TundieRice · 0 points · Posted at 22:55:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I know it's been basically disproven but if you haven't seen it, go to thisman.org. It's pretty fucking creepy if you take it seriously. Maybe I'm just a pussy.

Blarghith · 0 points · Posted at 23:05:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My basement. I freaking hate my basement. It's filled with dark "barn wood" that was extremely popular in the 70s and even with the tiny windows open, it always feels a little dark. Even with the three big bright lights we have down there. My family thinks I'm nuts, but I really feel like there's something watching me down there. Plus, I hate turning the lights off down there. It feels like the something that's watching me is just waiting for the right moment to spring out and grab me. That's not the absolute worse part, I've had nightmares about this basement, where lights won't turn on and I know something's wrong (besides the lights not turning on), like something is just waiting and watching. The absolute worst part? My work computer is down there.

jibblies, jibblies, jibblies

Viggifox13 · 0 points · Posted at 23:12:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The Scariest 10 Seconds Of My Life: i was in Denmark living with my father and my sister in his below level floor when i was laying in bed trying to sleep when i heard a little crunch sound next to me, i turned around and looked up and then i saw it. A Giant dark person With An Axe Hacking My Stomach Repeatedly And I Just. . . laid there scared shitless i started calling for my sister and begging her to come to me please come here as i laid there crying of fear. that was just a fraction of a second when it happend and now a am afraid to look anywhere else but one spot when i am trying to sleep

LeviGeorgeBoyGenius · 0 points · Posted at 00:49:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a weird one. No ghosts or murderers, or werewolves, just a thing I saw that I have never been able to explain. But I'm sure could be explained pretty easily. Two years ago I was driving to my friends house. It was a very clear night. While driving down a main road, I look at the moon, it's a crescent moon. As I am looking at it the shadow part of the moon completely swallows it up. There was no lunar eclipse expected that night, at least not that I could find information about. What scared me about it was how unexpected it was. Like the moon decided to fuck with me.

TJzzz · 0 points · Posted at 01:30:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFCekWiUGE

NSFL - short video of a chef. a accident happens. screaming is involved. its a commercial.

MatrixPA · 0 points · Posted at 01:38:14 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

My ex-husband. Yikes.

YOURTYPE · 0 points · Posted at 02:25:03 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

This video is pretty fucking creepy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5OhNplEd4

Home_and_Away · 0 points · Posted at 06:09:43 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

When I was in high school a bunch of us were over at a friends house watching scary movies, not my thing but that is what the group decided on. One kid had to leave early so that he wouldn't miss curfew, probably 30 minutes or so before the rest of us. After the movie finished we all said goodnight and walked to our cars as we all drove separately. As I unlock my car I do a quick paranoid check of the back seat and cargo (was an SUV) just to assure myself there was nothing there before I drove home. I was content that there was nothing in the car and was getting in the driver seat ready to head home when someone grab my leg from under my car. Screamed so loud and jumped up and quickly ran from the car back to the house when I heard my friends familiar laugh. Turns out the friend who left early waited 30 minutes or longer outside under my car just to scare and probably see me pee myself.

imriebelow · 0 points · Posted at 19:09:33 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I have to pee and I'm scared to go to the bathroom. Instead, I shall tell you a story my friend told me when we were in middle school. We call this the Demon Story, and I have never been able to forget it, thanks so much, Elissa!

My friend's family were Bible translating missionaries, and were living in Thailand at the time. At one point, her father became frustrated at his parishioners returning to worshiping spirits, etc. He went to a place where there were, I think, spirit houses, and kind of shouted at them to vent his anger. He then went home, and found his oldest child, a boy who had been in perfect health, not breathing, like someone was choking him.

At this part of the story I refused to listen any more, but, yeah, her brother was fine.

As a note, while, yes, this is a religious family, they're not particularly superstitious and are pretty much the least easily-frightened people I've ever met in my life.

tl;dr a demon spirit may or may not have tried to kill my friend's brother when they were little.

S4nguine · -3 points · Posted at 19:32:56 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Well... mi frend wunce sed dat he wus walkin in woods and sudinly a skellington popped out!

Mouseicle · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

WOS THER BLUD?

HelpMeLoseMyFat · -16 points · Posted at 14:00:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was outside, alone. I went camping out in the german countryside. I was at Rammstein AFB at the time, drove out to a remote location with a few friends to camp out for the weekend.

I had randomly awoke aroudn 2-3 AM from my sleep, I figured I would get some fresh air so I put on some pants and left the tent. Zipped it back up and looked up at the moon.

Beautiful full moon, the clear sky I could almost see inside of the craters; I went over to a nearby tree to take a leak and enjoy this very majestic moment.

That is when I heard a sound, off to my right, far beyond where the hillside curved, it sounded sort of like a metal cable being streched beyond it's breaking point, yelling out in sorrow from being pulled appart.

I looked to the three tents, nobody was awake, maybe they did not hear it.

It was a very dark night, inspite of the very bright full moon, I had just decided that the noise was nothing important when it happend again, only this time it was closer.

I could not ignore it again, it turns out I wouldn't be able to even if I wanted.

Right above me the sky began to glow, almost as bright as day, I remember it as if it was yesterday, the dark black sky turned a bright mid-day blue! Right before my eyes, night turned into day, I have never seen this happen, even using the brightest military spotlights for SAM sites.

Right in the massive patch of blue sky that had just opened up above me a very bright light appeared, I remember feeling heat, so much heat that I thought my skin was going to boil. I remember sneezing like I had just looked into the sun, sneezed around 3 times, eyes waterd, this I can never forget.

As I wiped away the tears from the sneeze I see something that will forever be etched into my very soul.

I look around to see if anybody was awake, it turns out my girlfriend at the time woke up and was standing right behind me, staring right up into the sky.

Just to make sure I wasn't having some sort of nightmare, I stepped next to her and asked her if she too could see it. And it was about dat time dat i realized dat this "girl friend" was about eight stories tall and a crustacean from the protozoic era!

I said "God dommit loch ness monster, we ain't got no treefiddy!"

We ended up packing up the tents and calling our camping trip short and heading back to Rammstein early that weekend.

TL:DR : Camping in germany, the last time i've camped.

No_Song_Orpheus · 0 points · Posted at 14:57:18 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

God damnit.

JimboTheGreat · -3 points · Posted at 14:10:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Slenderman O.O

LordMcMutton · 2 points · Posted at 16:30:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Definitely my favorite monster, though his effectiveness is rather lessened these days due to him being all over the place.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What does it say about culture that, while monsters used to be blobs or beasts, the scariest one now is a tall, thin, well-dressed man with no face.

Who kills people brutally, sure, but the blobs and werewolves did that too.

JimboTheGreat · 2 points · Posted at 03:40:55 on June 19, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sure but not only does Slenderman brutally murder people, he tortures them before with his passive aggressive behaviour. Imagine being stalked for years by a man that significantly taller than you with no face.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:54 on June 19, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'd probably go to the police...

Of course, my phone would be disconnected, and when I walked there, only a single light would work. It would be turned on. The doors would be unlocked. Something would compel me to walk in. There is nobody there. The door closes. I walk about 10 paces.

Then the single light flickers and burns out.

Panic begins to set in. I run. All of the doors are locked. Finally, I charge at a window and dive through it.

The moment I make contact, my vision goes dark. I hear glass shattering.

I sit up in a cold sweat, startled. I am in bed. I am fine. So is Slenderman, as he stands over me. He gives me a plate of what is supposed to be food.

I try to scream, but I can't. Looking again, I see why. I am covered in blood. He served me my vocal cords.

Something brushes past my leg...

[deleted] · -11 points · Posted at 15:28:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Freshman year in high school. We're on one of those team building trips at the very beginning of the year. Meet new people. Talk to some ladies. Everything was great until we were about to leave.

It was a pretty decent sized grade, we had three school buses to take back. I got in the one at the rear.

These buses were at the top of a hill, and everyone was loading their stuff into the back of their bus. I was sitting in the back, helping load the stuff on.

Suddenly, the bus I'm on slips out of gear and starts to roll slowly down the hill. Bags get run over and we're picking up speed going down the hill towards a small rock wall with a building behind it.

Keep in mind that I was in the back of the bus and the door was open. We were probably going about 15+ mph at this point.

The worst thing that could possibly happen, happens.

When we hit the low rock wall I fly out the back of the bus while the bus keeps rolling. I landed on a set of stairs and the bus flew over my head and crashed into the building.

Luckily the building was close to the small rock wall and I was on the stairs in between and I was trapped there. I couldn't get out. I thought I was going to die. I had bruises everywhere.

Eventually I was dug out of the rubble and saved. Probably the scariest thing that has ever happened to me; my own personal brush with death.

Oh and by the way I got a shit ton of pussy after that. Fuck yeah.

TL;DR: Almost died in a bus crash, but was worth it for the busloads of pussy I got as a result.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:06 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

But did you get buttloads and or shit tons of pussy after that? I can't quite tell.

Wannabe2good · -3 points · Posted at 16:03:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Obama

Falco1 · -4 points · Posted at 00:11:27 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

After living alone in my house for more than 2 years I've noticed weird noises coming from my attic mainly footsteps. I was always terrified of ghosts so I asked around if anyone has heard some stories about the location of my house. Surprisingly enough my house was built where a cemetery used to be.

The noises come occasionally it isn't a constant thing happening every night, but the noises started to become voices and the voices started to become threatening like "Get out" or "You don't belong here." After several cases of the voices getting more and more threatening and the footsteps getting louder and louder. I knew something had to be done. I tried avoiding my house by staying at my friends house, but it was like I got followed by the ghosts I dreamt every night about the voices and then bodies began to form.

When I knew nothing else can be done I decided it was time to call a priest and get a cleansing on the house. I asked if it was fine if I was to have some friends over when we did the cleansing because my friends helped me keep calm since they knew I was terrified of ghosts. The priest had no problems with that, but as long as they didn't interfere with the cleansing/prayers.

That next day I called my friends to come over to the house so we can be together when the priest gets there. Hours later the priest finally arrives and it started we linked hands we said prayers in the living room in the kitchen everywhere. But when it came to the attic even the priest felt edgy about going in there since he had a bad feeling.

We all inched our way to the door of the attic when we got closer and closer the energy of the spirits were getting stronger and stronger. Finally we Opened up the door, got on the floor and everybody walked the dinosaur.

torquise · -11 points · Posted at 13:22:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The scariest thing was when my friend told me over treebook that there's an image of me floating around the Internet that everyone captions and makes people laugh with. I now have insecurity issues.

I am a sloth.

maxamus · -4 points · Posted at 16:35:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Back in 2008 Obama was elected President. That was kind of scary/creepy.

[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 16:56:32 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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pigPlatform · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Maybe you forgot to shut off your laptop.

Maybe you got a notification.

Maybe someone on facebook messaged you "Bored at 2 am what to do?"

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 14:36:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sticking with the theme of falling people

opposingpuddles · -1 points · Posted at 14:47:43 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

should be on the top 10

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D3iKrv-J3qc/ToHKUNNUgvI/AAAAAAABvgg/Fs3oN6KP0vc/s1600/008.JPG

NSFW or anyone!!!!!

Karl_Cross · -1 points · Posted at 15:01:40 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Whats creepy as fuck is that this question appears on Reddit at least once a week and nobody remembers it

[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:48:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My own reflection...shudders

MeanOfPhidias · -1 points · Posted at 16:54:17 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Death and taxes are certain. At least death doesn't keep getting worse

reposts_and_lies · -1 points · Posted at 18:33:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I cant really remember.

But this comic scared the crap out of me sometime ago on reddit. Enjoy.

Hookerface · -1 points · Posted at 18:34:36 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This scared the shit out me the first time I saw it.

unanymousholdeng · -1 points · Posted at 19:07:47 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Saw this on a subreddit (/r/195 ) the other day. For some reason it's really been fucking with me big time.

katacarbix · -1 points · Posted at 20:38:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One night a few summers ago, I was going on a walk on my own. Now, I'm not the superstitious type, but after that night I believed in monsters. I saw someone else out for a walk.

He bumped into me and said, "Hey, katacarbix, where's my tree fiddy?"

I told him "I have no idea, man. How do you even know my name?"

He started to walk away, but I grabbed him by the shirt and it ripped, revealing his true disguise. Turns out he was the Loch Ness monster all along.

life_is_football · -1 points · Posted at 21:42:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

This is a true story from my town, even made the newspaper and stuff.

Basically, there is this girl that is babysitting a 6 year old. After putting the kid to sleep, she decides to go to bed herself, but as a teenager she decides to check her phone first, while in bed, fully dressed. That is when she heard faint, heavy panting coming from under the bed. She detects danger, and with stone cold nuts of steel she yells for the 6 year old, telling him that she is going to take a shower, just in case something happens. Then she gently walked to the bathroom, locked the door and called the police. Turns out there was a guy under her bed, one of the nations most wanted criminals with multiple rapes on record.

Edit: She called for the 6 year old to trick the uninvited into believing she had not noticed him, therefore being able to get to the bathroom and call the police.

[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:54 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Did she have the 6 year old wait in the bathroom with her?

life_is_football · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:00 on June 9, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nope, he was in his bed all along.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:40 on June 10, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for the reply. Was he okay, and did he ever find out that an intruder was in his house?

life_is_football · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:40 on June 17, 2013 · (Permalink)

I can't really remember, sorry.

mjc7373 · -1 points · Posted at 21:54:55 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sounds like very well-written fiction to me.

Alektruon · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm sure some of it is, but some people really experience some word shit.

Zylvian · -1 points · Posted at 22:06:32 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A nightmare.

josephgordonreddit · -1 points · Posted at 22:12:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

Note to self: always have lighter fluid, matches, and an iron crowbar ready at all times. And possibly a priest.

EDIT: And salt.

MightyPirate88 · -1 points · Posted at 22:31:26 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why am I reading this thread at 11:30pm?

ItHappensAtMidnight · -1 points · Posted at 22:42:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I had a dream where spongebob was flying after me. That was pretty scary.

butades · -1 points · Posted at 23:58:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Dude, just go to /r/nosleep or /r/LetsNotMeet.

DeaconSage · -1 points · Posted at 01:05:39 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I've been told this same story for my whole life. When my mom was younger one of her friends went over to baby sit these too kids. Well everything's going well and it's starting to get dark, not really late, just getting dark. The kids say hey want to play with this clown so she goes looking for a own toy and can't find one, when she comes back they playing around this big toy Colin about the size of a kindergartener. They play around for a while and eventually go to bed, my moms friend goes wandering around he house and watches some tv for a bit, and when she come back the toy clown is gone. She hears a noise come from above her and since she's in a one story house gets nervous and calls the cops. They show up to check it out, and come back down with a clown in handcuffs. Turns out a midget dressed as a clown had been living in that family's attic for years and they never knew. TLDR: Midget clown hides/lives in attic and plays with the kids who live there.

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

...did he keep the makeup on 24/7 and made excursions out of the attic to replenish when he ran out or what?

awesome_pineapple · -6 points · Posted at 12:38:07 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The midnight game

Rocky7072 · 10 points · Posted at 13:19:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

What is the midnight game?

Yami351 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:33 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Go to this link, it has a story and the rules of the midnight game:

http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1e73fy/the_midnight_game_i_played_it_and_i_was_a/

sw1n3flu · -4 points · Posted at 01:37:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I was at a school auction and I walked home at about 9 or 10. I saw this really tall guy about 50 feet behind me, but I didn't think anything of it. A bit later I heard a short screech behind me so I looked and there he was, still pretty far away. I was pretty creeped out by that point so I walked faster, fortunately I was almost home. Then I heard a grunt and turned around, there he was 4 feet behind me. He then took a breath and said "I need about tree fitty."

[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:09:11 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

These tree fitty posts are starting to get annoying now..

martininkorea · 3 points · Posted at 02:19:57 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

They annoy me, too, and I don't even know the reference!

sw1n3flu · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

South Park

martininkorea · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:58 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Oh, I stopped watching South Park after season 3.

SquirrelLock · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:12 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

South park

squashedfrog462 · 2 points · Posted at 02:35:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Especially short crappy ones like this.

Predatorbloodbath · -5 points · Posted at 10:17:55 on July 20, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'm walking around some car park with houses around it and I see this old woman staring at something, she then mouthed "don't turn around" of course I turn around ,and it's night btw, and I see a man on all fours with no knees crawling around, I freaked the fuck out and called the police. Then it disappeared, shat myself that day .Tl;rd some knee less man on all fours crawls around while me and old lady stare at.

OldClunkyRobot · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:25 on January 14, 2014 · (Permalink)

Creepy. No knees like his legs were super short?

dunstan_shlaes · -26 points · Posted at 12:36:20 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

OP's mom.

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 13:56:02 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About 2 years ago. I was house sitting for my uncle. One night me and my wife (gf at the time) were asleep and something woke me. I sat awake for a second and then I heard the sound again. It sounded like a crying baby. I swear to this day that I was fully conscious. I was terrified because we were the only ones in the house. I didn't know why on earth there might be someones infant child in my uncles house so I was legitimately worried as fuck! I tried wake my wife to ask her if she heard it as well. I had no ability to speak. I tried to open my jaw to move my mouth and still nothing. I was then really scared. Next I tried to move my arms to get going but I couldn't move them either. I think I laid there for a few minutes in fear/fatigue and just went back to bed.

In the morning I didn't say a word to my wife about it because I was so scared. I went to work and a few hours in I mentioned it to one of my co-workers.

TL;DR Was sleeping, heard baby crying. Tried to wake up and couldn't. Scared.

Gastronomicus · 2 points · Posted at 15:33:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I tried to open my jaw to move my mouth and still nothing. I was then really scared. Next I tried to move my arms to get going but I couldn't move them either. I think I laid there for a few minutes in fear/fatigue and just went back to bed.

Classic sleep paralysis. You dreamt the noise dude.

BashfulTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:06 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This sounds like sleep paralysis to the T.

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 14:24:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

My wife when she qweefs. Always creeps me out.

Just2Comment · -2 points · Posted at 15:29:35 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

the first time I slept at my GFs house I woke up to her sitting on top of me wanting to fuck...flattered,but kinda creeped me out lol

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

pfft..i wake my boyfriend up with blowjobs all the time. Kind of a power trip

TheGroby · -2 points · Posted at 17:31:03 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A ginger

kenuffff · -2 points · Posted at 20:06:59 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i was on reddit one time, and read all these lame supernatural stories.

KHRZ · -2 points · Posted at 21:59:21 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I asked my sister if she thinks my parents still like each other. She said no; my mother just won't divorse because she can't find someone else, and my father need her money. Then she told me just to stay friendly with them untill we inherit their money. I had long suspected it, and apparently my sister is a sociopath

crocodial · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:05 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

and yet she was considerate enough to let you in on her plan.

[deleted] · -8 points · Posted at 18:23:58 on June 4, 2013 · (Permalink)

Why the fuck am I reading this months later, fuck /u/wil , never checking your comment history again.

(Checked It to see if you only comment to respond to your name)

yip_yip_yip_uh_huh · -5 points · Posted at 14:15:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

/r/creepy. Get this crap off of AskReddit.

[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 06:26:37 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

In the very beginning of 2010 (sequel to 2001: a space odyssey) when the deep ass voice says "my god, it's full of stars!" Always creeps me the fuck out.

RoryGascoigne · -4 points · Posted at 10:14:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

findingjandek

Im_just_one_man · -5 points · Posted at 13:33:58 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Orange

GrayIceWater · -2 points · Posted at 09:10:16 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Thanks for the edits? I'll never understand it.

[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 21:49:42 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:51 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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sunnydlyte · 2 points · Posted at 00:08:50 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

That's what he told me. Maybe he was messing with me

[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:53 on May 31, 2013 · (Permalink)

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sunnydlyte · 2 points · Posted at 04:00:46 on June 2, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wow what a jerk

CallMeSandman · -6 points · Posted at 14:01:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Before I start, I don't have anything against gay or lesbians. Anyways, this is how it started. It was lunch time and I was hanging out with my friend Zachary, he then approaches these two guys (who are twins), and a beautiful blonde girl sitting with them. I'm only a sophomore in high school and they were seniors so I was a bit intimidated. Zachary sits next to the blonde girl, and I sit next to the twins, and one the twins ask Zachary, "who is this little fellow?" Zachary replies, "oh, that's Jorge". So, I smile at them and I make eye contact with the one next to me... He says "I bet your a BIG guy aren't you?".... I then was scared shitless and found out he was gay later that day.... He wanted the D... He wanted the D... I was only a sophomore :(

Ronsaki · -4 points · Posted at 22:14:44 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Here I am coming stoned home, sitting at a table and watching TV while eating. Next to me is my mother sleeping on the couch. I am enjoying the moment, when suddenly I spot weird thing. It looked very weird, like something wiggly small alive? was just chilling there in the mid air, not connected to anything. I am now even considering that I am having a hallucinaton, although I was aware that I smoked weed, and that's not a possibility. I get brave, come closer to it, and touch it. It's very dark, the only light is coming from TV. I am looking straight into it, focusing on it, all of a sudden my mom is awake, and looking at it also. And there was no question about it, it was a fucking worm hanging from the ceiling on some sort of a thin fabric fiber or something, I have no idea. We were in sort of a shock, I was stoned as hell, it was one of the weirdest things that happened to me ever. I still can't come up with a semi-possible story of how that happened, so any scientific or conspiracy theory is welcome.

carltoncarlton · 5 points · Posted at 22:15:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was an insect.

ibetthisisanewname · -7 points · Posted at 06:02:05 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

ITT: People making up stories too short for /r/nosleep. Smh.

adwslayer · -12 points · Posted at 13:30:41 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

I'll just leave this here. You won't see it, but it's there...

[deleted] · -12 points · Posted at 07:06:13 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

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YourNameHere · 3 points · Posted at 13:09:21 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but you really took us down a garden path with one little pronoun.

GormBerry · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:50 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

You shouldn't feed the trolls

adgal617 · 1 points · Posted at 11:10:52 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Wut?

TrustTheDr · 0 points · Posted at 14:31:45 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A lot of the SCPs - This one stuck with me

Joshoc9 · 0 points · Posted at 15:43:00 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

About a year ago I was driving back from Los Angeles to Nashville. I was caravanning with two other friends, trying to make it to the halfway point of Amarillo, Texas to get some sleep. They had long passed me, and I was on I-40 in the middle of nowhere New Mexico.

Anyone who has ever driven across the country knows that there is not much civilization in a lot of those southwestern states outside of the known big cities. At midnight, it seemed even more abandoned than I remembered. Past Albuquerque, it is going to be hard to stop until one reaches Amarillo. But of course, nature called, and I had to pee.

I pulled over at a Shell gas station that is literally on the side of the interstate in the middle of the desert. It looked friendly enough from a distance, even having a Stuckey's on the inside. However, as I pulled in, I saw that it was closed. In fact, it looked as though the inside had not been opened in weeks. But I'm a guy, and I'm in the middle of nowhere, so I can just pee anywhere, right?

As I got out of my car, the wind was howling like a horror movie. I literally thought to myself "If there was ever a place to get away with murder, this is it." I decided to see if the doors were locked, and they were, so I went to the side of the building. I was about to relieve myself on the wall when I noticed a fence in the back with a trailer home behind it. I creepily tiptoed my way to the fence out of (stupid) curiosity, and noticed a flickering light inside the trailer. As I could imagine myself getting murdered mid-pee, I decided to go to the other side of the building.

Already feeling extremely eerie from the wind, the mystery trailer, and the the horrifying gas station music playing overhead ("That's My Daily's," anyone?), I cautiously went to the other side of the gas station. Right as I turned the corner, I stopped in my steps and covered my mouth quicker than I could let out a scream. About twenty feet away from me was a lifeless body lying on the ground. I stared in shock for about three seconds before sprinting back to my car screaming "Oh my god, oh my god."

I jumped in the car, sped off, and decided I could wait a few more hours to relieve myself.

CrzyClowns · 0 points · Posted at 16:29:50 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

i was at a gas station that had a general store, some kid was leaving the store while a SUV was going back, it ran over the kid, the guy came out of the car, took the kid and got him inside the car, i guess he took him to a hospital, the sound the kid's bones made still makes me cringe

UncleCoyote · 0 points · Posted at 16:36:31 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Okay, I finally signed up to Reddit just to post this:

When I was in my early 20's, my wife and 2 year old daughter were living in an apartment complex in Upstate New York that was at one time in its many incarnations: a 20's brothel; a funeral home; and a child's daycare. They were small apartments consisting of a livingroom, small hallway that lead to the kitchen, and an upstair's bathroom / bedroom.

The livingroom was setup in such a way that to get into the kitchen, you had to walk past the end of the old battered couch and angle into the hall. My daughter, being two was a runner, and a fast little shit to boot.

One night, she was making a game of running past me and into the kitchen as I watched TV. I'd yell, go into the kitchen and grab her because I didn't want her whacking her head on the oversized table we had, and carry her back into the livingroom. Kids being kids, she made a game out of doing this every 15 minutes or so.

Watching TV, I hear a giggle, a tuft of blonde hair zips past my eyeline, and makes a b-line for the kitchen. More angry than I should have been at having my television show interrupted yet again, I yelled my daughter's name, jumped up and tore after her into the kitchen.

There was a giggle, one of the kitchen cabinet doors cracked shut and as I stomped towards it, my wife called out behind me, asking me what I was doing.

Rage in my eyes, I turned to face her, and my daughter whom she had been bathing when she heard me yelling, now wrapped in a towel.

I never opened the cabinet, and we moved out a month later.

Nyemenya · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:23 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

When my kids were that age (now 11 & 8) they (mostly just my oldest when she was 2)would just stand in the hall and I would catch the reflection off the tv. All creepy and still. I would freak and she would be a statue till I picked her up and took her back to bed. My youngest, as often as yesterday, loves to creep into a room. I'll see a hand or foot slowly sliding in.

atacms · 0 points · Posted at 17:37:04 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This takes place in Sandhills Gamelands were we conduct our land navigation test (find points on a map using a compass.) Now the land isn't military owned but is actually a huge gaming area in the back woods of North Carolina. The whole area is alive with all sorts of animals, bugs, and snakes and at times you spot you're occasional red-neck in the area.

I'm a few hours into a night test they had us doing, we had zero illumination from the moon so everything is pitch black. Mind you I've been doing this for some time now and I don't really freak out on a lot of the creepiness the woods bring at nights. At some point I was beating a large patch of draw or dense vegetation very hard to move and see through, into a large clearing following my azimuth on my compass I start crossing this grassy field.

Thats when I noticed this strange ghostly shapeless figure in front of me, I was doing bad on time and it was directly in the way of where I had to go so I kept trudging forward with no thought. As I got closer I realized whatever it is, it clearly exists and I felt like I needed to be a bit more cautious before crossing whatever it was so I held up my dummy rifle out in front of me, it passed through easily I followed up shortly after with the same ease.

I kept walking but kept looking over my shoulder back to it in case it would leave, move, or do anything but it just sort of chilled there until my sight was obstructed vegetation again.

LIEK_AN_LSD_TRIP · 0 points · Posted at 17:53:34 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

I took a lot of shrooms once in the easter holidays, I was at home alone and took them at 1 pm. There was a Easter Mass happening near my apartment, and the first hours of the trip was a connection with god thing, hearing that beautiful Easter singing. Then, I saw a inverted pentagram when I closed my eyes that suprised me. After that, I had a very strange need to see horror movies and play any horror game, so I choose to play the Slender Man game while trippin. I played just one game I one lost because I couldn't stop looking to Slender Man when he first appeared, instead I ran to him laughing that he was only a videogame character. Well, after that I watched the new Silent Hill movie and when it was finished I was VERY FUCKING HIGH. Everyplace I looked, anywere, a very fucking disturbing Slender Man was looking at me, with that fucking noface of him. I runned into the kitchen and I saw him, I runned to the living room and I saw him, every fucking place in my apartment I saw him when I stopped and looked a random corner. I runned into my bedroom again and colapsed on the floor and closed my eyes saying: "You motherfucker you won't get me". Then I saw the inverted pentagram again, but this time with a Satan-like figure on it. I screamed: "THE FUCK NOT YOU SON OF A BITCH, MY MIND, MY MIND, MY FUCKING MIND" and I started to sing hindus prayers to scare off demons. After some hours, I was not high anymore and everything was normal again. That made me think I were schizophenic, and NEVER ever again to use shrooms (for some time).

damnburglar · -1 points · Posted at 18:05:42 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A year or three ago I read about a woman who was being creeped on by some guy on the bus. He told her she had beautiful teeth, and then followed that up with "I want them".

She remembers getting off the bus and then waking up n the ground (or something), her teeth pulled from her mouth.

damnburglar · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:55 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Not sure why this is getting down voted, it's pretty Damned creepy...

rezzyboy619 · 0 points · Posted at 18:11:22 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This is a story back when I was a child living in Bangladesh.

I was at my aunt's house and my uncle brought forth pictures of a dead man. Me being only 5 years of age, my mother was hesitant of me seeing the pictures but I still whined and caught a glimpse of it. Boy was I scared at that time. It was a photo of a dead man in his grave being wrapped from head, almost constricted by a giant cobra.

Remember, Bangladesh is a heavily populated Muslim nation so this was the story that we were told. The dead guy was a Muslim who never prayed in his life. When he died, his family members tried to dig up the ground to bury him. Every time they would open up the ground, flocks of snakes would appear hissing. This happened several times until eventually, they found an area where there weren't any snakes. They buried him, said their prayers and went on their way. That night, as the grave keeper was locking up the cemetery, he heard strange hissing noises. It came from the grave that was buried earlier that day. They opened it up and witnessed the cobra, wrapping the dead body and being in the position to eat the dead man's face.

Some say it was a punishment from God. Some say that the snake will be in that position till Judgement day. All I can say is that I was scared shitless after I saw that photo.

sad_lawyer · -1 points · Posted at 19:04:53 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Creepiest: Standing at a bar waiting to order. I've got both elbows on the bar, credit card in one hand. Old dude next to me looks at me, looks at my hands, looks me in the eyes and says, "You got purty hands."

The way it all went down made me feel as though he were imagining my disembodied hands floating around in a jar on his desk.

Kuritos · 0 points · Posted at 19:34:13 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

A guy on /r/nosleep said he hears this at night in his house. Possibly fake but still.

Getzinator · 0 points · Posted at 19:34:52 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This comment on this picture.

[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:43:15 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

One time I was at home alone, laying on my bed. I was 22 years old and had graduated from college the year before. My cats were laying on the bed with me, at this point I had my cat Sydney for 9 years and had gotten her brother Pokey about 1 year before. It was the middle of summer in NJ and we didn't have air conditioning. It was a hot day. All of a sudden the room got ice cold, and the cats who had been sleeping on the bed both work up, raced down to the end up the bed and started hissing and growling at the doorway while their fur stood straight on end. This continued on for about a minute and then the room returned to normal temperature and they went back to bed. I ended up having Sydney for close to 20 years, I have had Pokey for over 10 now, and this was the sole time they did anything like this.

I found out the next day that someone I knew in college had killed themselves the previous day.

captainaubrey · 0 points · Posted at 20:13:48 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

Once when I was a kid in Texas, we were playing capture the flag on the golf course behind our house with all the neighbor kids. It was dark and we were all moving around in various parts of the neighborhood. I was sneaking along by a neighbor's house when I was confronted by a man all in black. I can't recall his name or face. He said "I am the magician, go home, get a pack of cards, pick a card then call this number XXX (I can't remember the number) I'll tell you the card." I was freaked out but ran home grabbed a deck of cards and pulled one. I called this number and this voice said the name of the card then hung up. I tried to tell my mom, and friends, no one believed me. I forgot the number (for some reason I didn't write it down) but have never forgotten the incident. I am convinced I wasn't dreaming (I have lucid dreams and sleep paralysis so I know full well what a semi-waking hallucination feels/looks like), but can't understand or explain why or how this particular memory exists and how it could have actually happened. It confuses me still, more than 40 years later. I honestly can say it is the one completely unexplainable thing that has ever happened to me.

IsItTimeToGoHome · 0 points · Posted at 20:58:09 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

The first thing that comes to mind.... I was sitting down at a local sandwich shop with my girlfriend. Guy sitting alone across from us is on his phone talking loudly (loud enough to hear clear without trying) and says "Ok then fuck it, kill the dog. He loves that fucking dog"...

TedWickerson · 0 points · Posted at 21:16:37 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This happened a couple of years ago when I was in college and living with two friends. There was actually three main incidents that stick with me to this day.

The first incident was early November 2008 and I remember that because Obama had been elected and there was a big celebration in my local community as it was a very liberal city. Anyways, I was doing laundry that morning because I didn't have class until 4. I was the only one at home and was in the basement changing out the washer and putting the clothes in the dryer. When I leaned over I heard a very distinct whisper, "I'm still here."

At first I thought it was my roommate's girlfriend who had a key and would come in whenever and hang out. So I turned around and talk to her and didn't see anyone. I checked the entire house and confirmed I was the only one there. I left the house and drove to school and didn't come home until my roommates were there and we talked about it.

The next year, again in November, I was up late brushing my teeth in the bathroom. My two roommates were in their rooms with the doors closed while I was watching a game on TV while brushing my teeth. As I leaned down to spit out my toothpaste I noticed a figure walk past the open door between the bathroom and the bedroom. At first I thought it was my roommate going to the kitchen. So I walked to the kitchen to talk to him only to be met with an empty, dark kitchen. I immediately went to my roommates bedroom and banged on the door and discussed the issue. Both roommates were slightly freaked, but also skeptical. The third incident freaked me out the most. I was in my room working on my thesis around 3 am. I was completely absorbed in my work as no one else was awake and it was just myself, Tupac playing in the background and my bedside fan on. As I turn from my computer to my desk I look at my door knob. I'm not sure why I looked at it, but I did. As I looked up, my locked door popped open. The handle didn't turn. There was no click. The lock didn't unlock. It literally just popped open and the door opened just an inch or two. This door never did this before or after this incident and there is no explanation as to why it would have. It's a heavy door that closes completely when not propped open. I sat there, frozen in fear.

I detailed the incident the next day with one of my roommates who is an amazing researcher. If there's anything about anyone, he will find it. So he digs into the house records and our landlord's as well. He finds out our landlord first bought the house in 2003 with his wife. Apparently his wife passed away from cancer in 2005. He looks into it further and finds out she was at home at the time of her passing. And to top it all off, I was living in the children's bedroom.

TL;DR - Ghost of my landlord's deceased wife whispers to me, walks to the kitchen, and opens my bedroom door to check in the kid's room in the middle of the night.

TheBubaricPlague · 0 points · Posted at 21:25:51 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)

This fucking video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

BubbleRevolution · 0 points · Posted at 21:43:39 on May 29, 2013 · (Permalink)*

I haven't experienced anything THAT creepy, but there is something I remember from my childhood that freaked me out. Although it sounds pretty stupid now that I think about it.

I was about 6 years old, and was camping with my family. Me and my cousin set out into the woods around the campsite to go exploring. We didn't too far down the trail when we stopped and stared at the brush in between the trees. There were two gigantic white rabbit ears, about the height of tennis racquets, sticking out of the brush. I stared for a few seconds, then looked at my cousin to see if she saw them, too. She did, and screamed "demented bunny rabbit" as we bolted back to the campsite. It doesn't sound that scary, but as a six-year old, it freaked me the fuck out.

Two years later we saw it again. In the same area, we saw something large and white hopping through the bushes. We ran back to camp screaming again. I went back to the campsite when I was 12, hoping to see it again and find out what it was, but I never did.

I honestly have no idea what it was, but I know it wasn't one of our parents/cousins playing a trick on us, as they were all present as we got back to the campsite. I highly doubt it was a giant rabbit, though. It could have possibly been some guy in a rabbit suit camping nearby, but that's an extremely odd thing to have while camping. Seems more logical than a giant rabbit, though.

octoale · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:19 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

It was a furry living out his rabbit dreams.

BubbleRevolution · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:30 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

That was actually something I considered.

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mrrabb · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:28 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Sounds like sleep paralysis. When you sleep, in order for you to not act out your dreams, your brain paralyzes the body. You woke up before the rest of your body could and often times it results in awful hallucinations, auditory and visual. Not to burst your bubble or anything, but that's probably what happened.

broncitoftw2 · 2 points · Posted at 18:56:18 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Yeah, that sounds exactly like most people's experiences with sleep paralysis. Don't sweat it, there's no shadow people! :)

Mischieftess · 7 points · Posted at 22:46:53 on May 30, 2013 · (Permalink)

Nice try, shadowperson!

What is the scariest/creepiest thing you have seen/heard?

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waltz walk?

Not a clue what was going on, but I'm going to assume a chopper had to do some kind of emergency landing and the folk in those houses were used to loud noises. I don't know if I want to know the truth, but to this day I'm a little scared to go down those parts.

Didn't happen to me but still quite freaky.

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