I’m especially interested in experiences where there were actual consequences afterward, rather than just something creepy happening once.

Hey everyone, I'm genuinely scared right now and looking for some advice or anyone who's experienced something similar.

It's around 3 AM, and I'm sleeping in a room next to my brother and sister-in-law. They have a baby who's less than a year old.

A little while ago, I started hearing what sounded like their baby laughing and my sister-in-law talking. The sounds seemed real enough that I checked on them, but they were all asleep.

Here's the strange part: I only seem to hear these sounds when the fan is running. When I switch the fan off, everything goes completely silent.

I'm alone in my room right now, and my mind is going to some pretty scary explanations. I've heard stories about things mimicking human voices, and I'm honestly freaking myself out wondering if something like that could be happening.

I'm not claiming this is paranormal. I genuinely want to understand what might be causing it.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Could the fan be creating sounds that resemble voices, or is there another explanation? I'd really appreciate some honest replies, especially from people who've experienced this themselves.

I'm looking for some reassurance and rational explanations because I'm pretty scared right now.

Hey Reddit, so this happened to me some years ago when I was in middle school, but I still think about it today, because it’s really weird.

So I (16F now, then I think 12) was waiting at my bus stop in the morning and my bus was late. I saw an older man looking to be around 60-70 year old walking his dogs, which were two corgis. This is important for later. He was walking down the sidewalk I was at, and one of the dogs stopped by me and started sniffing my leg, probably since I had a piece of gum in my pocket. We make small talk, talking about the cold ass weather and his dogs, and he let me pet them too. He was very nice, and after a couple minutes he went on his way, saying bye and to have a good day at school(not weird that he said that because I had my backpack on). I noticed that he turned to walk down where my coldesac where I lived, and then my bus arrived.

I got on and when we drove by, passing my coldesac, the man had disappeared. I didnt think much of it of course, as I was a 12 year old with a short attention span and severe ADHD(now diagnosed but then not), so I went along with my day and totally forgot about it. Then I went home after school and my mom asked me how my day was. I told her about school, and then remembered the old man and told her about him and his dogs. My mom then said something along the lines of “thats weird, I didn‘t see anyone walking their dogs down here“. I was a little weirded out. I asked her if she was sure, and she said yeah. For background, she sometimes works from home, and her home office has big windows that show the coldesac, so it was really weird that she didn‘t see him. What was also weird was that I had never seen him before that day. Ive hung out outside with my younger brother and his neighborhood friends, and all of my neighbors have big dogs, usually golden retrievers or yellow labs, never any small dogs.

The next day my bus was late again, and again I saw the man walking down the same sidewalk with his two corgis. He saw me and said hi again, asking how my day was going, saying that the dogs missed me and stuff. I talked to him too, and then decided to ask him something. I asked, “I saw you walking down that coldesac over there. Do you usually walk your dogs down that way, or do you like to try a new path every time?”. He replied, “yeah, I always walk the two fellas down and around there. They never wanna go anywhere else haha!”.

I felt confused and a little scared now. Now I was 12 and a little stupid, so I said, “huh, that’s weird, I’ve never seen you down there when I play with my friends on the weekends“. I didn’t wanna say that I lived there of course, just in case he was dangerous. I was stupid, but not that stupid lol. His friendly smile then suddenly dropped, and he became very serious. It scared me. He then talked in a much lower voice, saying “Bye Aria(not my real name, but he did use my real name when saying this), have a good day”, and then left down the same way towards the coldesac. I had never told him my name.

I was spooked and just went on the bus that just arrived then like 5 seconds after, and texted my mom asking her to look outside and see if she sees him, because I didnt get a chance to look since I was a little scared to. She looked outside, but she didn’t see anyone at all. After that day, I haven’t seen him ever again, except for one time a couple days after that day where I thought I saw him walking outside during the night, but when I looked again he looked to be much taller, like eerily tall, but it was the same exact dogs from before. After that, I’ve seen him again. I’m no schizophrenic, I didn’t have a gas leak in my house at the time, and there was no carbon monoxide poisoning in my house at all either. It was just a very creepy experience, and sometimes I still wonder if I’ll ever see him again, but then again, I‘m a bit glad to have not.

So strange things have been happening at work. I’m a corrections officer and lately we had some wild things happen.

1. I was working as the kitchen officer. Our pantry is in the basement, and I had to go down there with an inmate to pull some stuff up for lunch. To get to the basement, there’s a heavy door at the top of the stairs. So I opened it and it doesn’t move or budge easily when it’s widely open. You have to deliberately move it it’s heavy. But me and the inmate went down the stairs and when we got to the bottom the door SLAMMED shut. We both looked at each other like what the hell… I went upstairs and opened it to see if maybe someone shut it but no one was up there in the kitchen… so we just concluded it must’ve been a ghost. There’s no AC units near it or windows so there couldn’t have been a breeze either.

2. We were opening our recreation room which wasn’t used in 2-3 hours. The heavy punching bag that’s down there was moving on its own. And as we walked closer to investigate, it started swinging even harder and more aggressively.

3. After both of these things happened I told the major at my institution I think this place is haunted and she said oh it definitely is we have security cam footage of the pots and pans flying off the hooks at 3am at night in the kitchen. She showed me the footage and they didn’t just fall off the hooks they like flew outward and fell. Freakiest shit I’ve seen fr.

I just saw a short video about this. Has anyone else ever seen this? Or do they know how to set up their television to do this? All of it happened back in 1984 I think. The man had unbelievable images of his family members that had passed away. I'm just wondering if anyone else is curious about this, or if they have heard of it.

I don't think anyone I've told this to has ever believed me so I thought maybe some people on here might.

So when I was around 10 years old I encountered a figure looking at me through my window, it was nighttime so it was dark outside. I was closing my blinds and when I looked through the window a dark figure with a red face? Mask? Was peering through at me, it had small red horns coming out its head with black markings on its face. I screamed, obviously because I was scared out of my skin. My parents came in and when I went to look at it again it was gone, I hadn't seen it since. But after that encounter I started seeing some sort of shadow figure following me, at school, the shops, at home .. anywhere I went. It wasn't there all the time and sometimes I only saw it in the corner of my eye.

A few years later, I was 13, I had a bookshelf in my room with my large teddy bear collection on it and an inspirational quote that had been framed that was sitting on the very top of the shelf on the far back corner near my wall. I was getting ready to sleep in bed, then out of nowhere the quote went FLYING across my room. My parents tried telling me it was the wind, but there was no window open, my door was closed and my fan was off... There was no way a gust of wind strong enough to make a wooden framed quote go flying across my room.

When I turned 14, more strange things started happening, I'd hear knocking which I would yell at my brother for, thinking he was just trying to annoy me. After awhile, we'd get into arguments about it and I finally believed him that it wasn't him because he was genuinely getting really upset that I was blaming him, in which if he was actually trying to annoy me he'd be smirking and giggling when I confront him.

One afternoon, when I was 15, my radio started turning on by itself, the volume would be turned up and down, up and down until id turn it off. To make myself feel better about it I decided to believe that there's a ghost or spirit or something that's here with me that I named "Bob", I made it very clear that I'm not longer scared. Giving it a name gave me the opportunity to not fear it anymore and turn it more into a joke that my best friend and I now make jokes about whenever something unexplainable happens.

Now, this year at 18 years old, I experienced sleep paralysis, there was this weird creature standing on my wardrobe, it slowly turned its head to me and smiled. It had peachy skin, sharp teeth, elf like ears, wrinkles on its skin, round eyes, no hair at all.. not even eyebrows, it had long fingers with long sharp nails. I had never been so scared. I've had sleep paralysis before and that was different to what I used to have, usually there'd be a black shadow at the end of my bed that slowly started to grow and lean over me but that.. that looked real, like it was actually there, like the other times it's happened with the shadows it looked real but the creature there just felt different, I just don't know how to explain it.

I still think about these quite often, I dont know if I'll ever know what's causing them but it's made me believe in spirits and that anything else could be out there

This happened a long time ago, when I was about 13 or 14 years old. It was a sunny day, around 5:00 PM, and a friend and I were playing near an unfinished building—or rather, just its foundation—not far from my home.

While my friend was picking apples from a tree, I was watching the road; it was a quiet, slightly hilly area where cars rarely passed. Suddenly, I saw something strange: a white object—completely white—appeared on the horizon.

It was moving at a steady speed of about 40–50 km/h (25–30 mph), with no visible change in its pace. In terms of shape, it was a fairly flattened circle. It’s hard to estimate the exact size, but I’d guess it was about a meter long and 50 centimeters (roughly 20 inches) high. I tried to get my friend to look, but he couldn't see it because the tree was in his way.

Years later, I decided to check if it might have been ball lightning, so I looked up the weather records for that time. I don’t recall exactly how I determined the precise date, but the records showed there was no rain in the area that day. Is it even possible to see ball lightning during clear weather? Or could it have been something else?

So let me start out by saying this has been going on for decades so I'm sorry this is going to a long post. My grandmother told us stories when I was young about her experiences. Apparently one day her father came home pale and shaken. When asked what had him so scared he replied that he had seen the Devil. He wouldn't speak of it after that day.

Moving on to my grandmother. She said when her and my grandfather moved into their first home that strange things happened. Once she saw something not human standing at the end of her bed. It just stared and then walked into the bathroom. She of course being the fearless woman she was followed it but found nothing. My grandparents and family that visited all had stories about strange things that happened there. Later they found out that two brothers in the home had gotten into a confrontation and killed each other. They moved out. Even a pastor moved in afterwards and only stayed for 3 months. Eventually it was torn down.

Many years later I was about 5 or 6 years old and was staying with them for the weekend. I was staying in a room with my sister who was 8 years older than myself. I woke up in the middle of the night and was going to the kitchen to get a drink. As I was passing through the living area I saw something in the shadows that scared the hell out of me. I ran back to the room and locked the door because of course that was going to stop it. I jumped into bed and heard something hitting the door. I was young and my mom always told me to pray in the name of Jesus and I would be safe. So I did. At this point my sister woke up from the sound and sleepily said it was probably the cat. Yeah okay maybe if the cat was throwing himself against the door. That was my first experience.

Basically in all the homes we have lived in has had something. Once there was a demon (Pastor's words, not mine) in my childhood home. I saw a doppelganger of my dad. My grandparents moved back to WNC and I was living with them. We experienced electrical issues, heard footsteps in the attic, chains rustling also in the attic. We saw shadow figures etc.

Now I'm 46 with children of my own. We moved often and every single place we lived seemed to be haunted. My youngest daughter, my middle child, is autistic. She has always noticed things and known things she shouldn't have. She would tell us about the spirits she saw and talk to people that she had never met before about their deceased loved ones. Most of this was when she was younger. Now she's 22 and says she tries to cut it off as much as possible.

The point is that we just can't seem to escape this. I married my second husband and moved in with him. And of course now thing are happening here. So does anyone know if something is following us or are we just "lucky" to always live in a haunted house?

Yesterday me and a few friends went out to a concert in downtown portland oregon. As we were standing in this long line along a cement black wall this woman with a black pixie cut, a hoodie, and a garbage bag thrown over her shoulder comes walking very fast over to the people in front of us. She definitely appeared to be homeless. Nobody noticed her as she crouched down near the line of people and gathered herself together with her things. I didn’t really think twice about it and continued my conversation as this is a norm in this city, what was so weird was that she got up and she then literally walked through these people.It was so strange that she was not “translucent” like a typical “ghost” sighting. Complete solid, real person. She then disappeared into the wall with all of her things. It was interesting - she moved fast and she was very determined in nature as well as if she was on a mission. I have never seen anything like it. I kept blinking and then even shifted over to see if the woman with the black hair was there. The next day i brought up to my friends this bizarre story and they said they never saw a homeless woman and I must’ve seen a ghost. I have experienced paranormal events in the past, but I had never seen a ghost in my life so this was extremely trippy. hopefully this is allowed! just thought id share :)

Once, while I was half-asleep on a vehicle, I felt as though I could predict the conversation the women around me were having—what they were saying—and, out of nowhere, the thought struck me that I was going to die at the age of 31.

During my childhood (early 2000's) my dad's side of the family would take an annual summer trip to Lake Powell. We would rent a house boat, go skiing and cliff jumping, roast marshmallows and play card games, ect. It was something I looked forward to every year.

While most of these trips are vague in my memory, there's one moment that I can remember vividly to this day.

One year my parents let my older brother and I sleep on the deck of the house boat. We had an awesome view of the clear starry sky surrounded by the red rock cliffs. As we laid in our sleeping bags, a bright green ball of light slowly descended from the sky before moving behind some cliffs out of view.

It was large, and mostly round, though the borders were undefined and radiated fluidly, almost pulsing with what looked like slow moving green flames? The best way I can describe it is as a big green ball of fire that seems to be descending/landing slowly. It wasn't a comet or shooting star. I've looked for some kind of natural phenomenon that resembles it, but nothing comes close.

For years I summed this up to being a vivid dream, and left it at that. However, recently I brought it up to my older brother and he surprised me by saying he has the same memory. Before explaining my own memory in detail, I asked him to describe the ball to me and he said the same thing I remember seeing. A big, slow moving ball of pulsing green fire. This seriously shocked me and gave me instant goosebumps.

I now feel confident that this memory was not just a dream, but I obviously have no explanation for what it was. I've never been a big UFO or Alien conspiracy girl, but considering the history of the area I feel that there's a possibility I saw something supernatural.

I wonder if any of you have had similar experiences, or even ideas of what I might have seen?

I've had 4 experiences in my life, from 19 to 47. They are different enough that I believe there's something else. Could be an afterlife or alternative existence after we die or multiple universes. I don't pretend to know. I am an atheist which makes these experiences extra odd.

Have you had experiences like these?

1) At 19 I was home from college and transcribing the Overture from Mozart's The Magic Flute into a piano solo. I was home alone with my father. At one point I got frustrated and laid my head on the piano keys. Several seconds later I felt a hand on my left shoulder. Assuming it was my father I said something like "It's okay. I'll figure it out." Turned around and no one was there. I searched the house and no one there either. Found my father in the backyard up a ladder trimming a tree. He swore he was not in the house. To be noted the other four members of my family all say they've seen a small boy of 8 or so years old with brown hair and brown clothes in the house. I never saw him. But maybe I felt him?

2) One of my grandmothers died in my 20s who I was very close to. During a deep depression several months later I can only explain it that I felt her presence. I then smelled her perfume. I said "Grandma?" and felt a warm loving feeling. Then it slowly faded.

3) I lived in a 1920 Victorian in my mid 20s to 30s that had a brick roof deck above us. All original. Countless times I, my husband, and visitors heard clear walking on the deck back and forth like a hard boot heel to toe. After a few years I yelled that this was my house now and whoever it was could continue walking up there just not when I was there. It stopped immediately.

4) At 47 a close friend and colleague died. Randomly one weekend months later I felt her presence clearly and could hear her saying "Oh Sarah...". I called her name and after several minutes it faded away.

It's important to note that none of these presences were negative. Quite the opposite. I've never been scared. Confused, yes.

Somewhere that made you feel uneasy or that you discovered had a dark back story and you was right to feel unsettled - bonus points if you have pictures or can show it on google maps!!!!

29.51088° N, 95.13764° W in Texas at about 7:30pm felt this impending sense of doom. I wasn’t the only one. Anyone else experience this?

I really find It weird how they can look like very hot humanoid women/man but are the cause of the deformed human yokai.

• They just randomly appear expecting someone to tolerate them then run away when caught. But then again their cases where they faint when the husband & even village don't care If their a humanoid fox walking about.

• Do pranks that would give people PTSD or heart attacks that would anger other spirits. Some of the "Pranks" they did were very unhinged like making someone think there eating food but then are suddenly found In a empty area eating shit.

• Have 2 factions with the much nicer ones having to deal with humans being on edge that It trick.

• There are records of them being seen In the UK & USA when no one knew what a Kitsune was.

So, I was in sleeping in hospital and about 4 AM I woke up hearing someone crying, whinging near me... very clearly, not a hallucination. But when I opened my eyes I didn't see anyone near... I got scared and IT stopped crying instantly. I got even more terrified. Like it noticed me accidently caught him crying.

What it could it be honestly? I am not making it up. I usually don't tell it to other people, cause I think they will think I am making the things up and start laughing at me.

I picked up a spirit box off eBay for fun. Been frequenting a local graveyard, a few of the local inhabitants know me by name now. On the very north side of the cemetery there’s a war memorial with some benches. I was sitting there, mindlessly talking seeing if any interesting responses came through. For some reason I kept hearing the word north. Now the only thing more north of me than this memorial was the woods. I keep looking that way and eventually ask if there’s something over there, and clear as day I hear the word demon come through. Is this something I should be worried about? Is it possible there’s been a demon trying to attach itself to me or something? I’m not very in tune with anything spiritual like this, I mainly picked this up to convince myself ghosts are real. Now I’m just a little worried. I don’t want to leave for good though because I’ve admittedly started to care for a few of the spirits that talk to me regularly.

I just saw this subreddit and wanted to just say something I experienced when I was like 12 (21 now) I was sitting in the the living room watching YouTube at night whenever everyone else was asleep or in their room and I was hearing whistling right behind me but it kept like going from one ear to the other (the chair I was sitting in was pushed back against the wall) I remember I had paused whatever I was watching and the sound like continued (but I remember the sound lasting for like 30 second)

Let me start by saying I’m a skeptic, in the truest sense of the word. I believe that paranormal things may exist, but that there is a more logical explanation for the vast majority of phenomena.

I also accept that there are more logical explanations for what I’m about to describe. I simply cannot shake the feeling that this was something else.

I have always been a highly attentive driver. In over a decade of driving, I had one accident for which I was at fault: a very mild fender bender (not even that, really) after sliding at 5mph for an absurdly long time on a sheet of melting ice. No other accidents, no tickets.

I moved to a new state a few years ago. Shit started getting weird. It’s a much busier place, more traffic, so it’s not a surprise that things changed, it was how they changed. It started small. First, some debris on the freeway lodged itself in the undercarriage of my car. Four months later, someone rear-ended me in a parking lot. Four months later, someone slammed into the back of my car while I was sitting at a red light, and then drove off. Four months after that, someone’s spare tire came off their car in front of me on the freeway and I hit it. And on and on it went.

Every four months, almost to the day, each accident worse than the last. Multiple cars totaled, surgery, rehabilitation. Ruled not at fault in every single accident.

I stopped driving for almost two years, because I knew the next accident would kill me.

I’ve been back behind the wheel for about a year now, and everything is fine. I know it is not the logical explanation, but I cannot shake the feeling that something had attached itself to me. I stopped feeding it, so it left.

Car demons? Ridiculous, I know. It was probably just a run of bad luck. But can we call it coincidence when it happens in a clear pattern? What else explains it? It would make perfect sense if I were at fault for even some of these accidents, but the timing and the circumstances are beyond anything I can make any kind of sense of. I grew up watching the Final Destination series and it honestly felt like I had become a main character in those films, it was just specifically car destiny that was out to get me.

Does anyone have similar experiences? What’s your take on what happened to you?

Last night I stayed at an Airbnb in the middle of nowhere with two friends. When we first got to the Airbnb I remarked that it looked odd. Like Stranger movie odd but the night went normal until about midnight.

We were watching/playing the new conjuring game on Netflix. We had moved a couch closer to the tv and behind us was another couch. If you don’t know much about the game it involves a haunted item which is a musical box. Anyways we finish the game. And this is important, I personally exited the app, exited Netflix, and then turned off the tv. When you exit the game the app on your phone exits too.

One of my friends and I got up to go into the hot tub. The second friend was still lying reclined on the couch. They wanted to close their eyes for a little bit. First friend was in front of me on the stairs and I was about halfway up the stairs and then we all heard a music box sound. My friend jumped up from the couch and said he had heard that right behind him.

My other friend and I had heard it in the stairwell with us.

Now I know you’re going to think one of us played it but I was the only one with my phone downstairs. The rest of the phones were charging upstairs. I don’t even know how to explain this. I would love your thoughts.

Hello all , I am a huge Civil War buff and have visited many Civil War battlefields over the years. However I have never encountered anything paranormal on any of these visits. I have always been fascinated by stories people have shared of having paranormal encounters while visiting Civil War Battlefields. Does anyone in this sub have any stories? If so I would love to hear them!

I went out partying in downtown Buffalo, New York. I was at one of the bars down at the local club scene there and the bar had this giant mirror. This smoking hot blond chick was there and she was standing in front of this mirror. Legitimately she did not have a reflection. First time I ever saw something like that. My eyes immediately picked up on her and the No Reflection and I went Nope. No drugs or alcohol in me. I was designed driver that night. It definitely did freak me out. I usually don’t go downtown to party.

Story time, gonna be wordy. So when I was about 19, I worked at a bar and grill. It wasn't a big place and opened at around 11 am, I had to be there around 8 in the morning as kitchen staff. Now, we had three entrances to the restaurant. Two doors were across from each other on different ends of the restaurant but you could easily see both of them. The "front" door led out onto the sidewalk, the "back door" led out into the parking lot. The third door sat behind the kitchen, blocked by an employee only door since it was for employees only and it was one that couldn'tbe slammed because of the mechanism it had (important for later). Now, to get to the restaurant floor, you had to pass through a hallway where we kept coolers for our cold products, meat, dairy, etc. We also would have our food supplier leave our orders in that hallway for convenience. Anyways, I was always on the early shift to open and start our prep. My friend was my manager. Manager at work. Friend outside of it. He lived a whole five minute walk away. He had been drinking with another coworker and let him stay the night since his house was right by work. Well, I get the truck order in with help from the delivery guy. He leaves and I get to work putting up the order. So, as I'm standing in the hallway, putting the meat in the cooler, i hear the front door slamming open and shut, like someone is doing it. As soon as I turn the corner, it stops. I walk to the door and jiggle the handle, its locked. I unlock it and step out trying to see if someone thought we were open and tried the door, its been known to happen. Not a single person walking on the sidewalk or anything. So i go back in, close the door, and lock it again. I go back to the hall to continue working the order. Then it happens again but its the front door and back door slamming hard and fast. I step out of the hall and it stops again. I, again, check to see if someone is messing with me or what. Both doors are locked and not a soul in sight. So, for a third time, I get back to work. Then it starts but now I hear all three doors slamming open and closed. It continues until I step back out onto the dining floor and see my manager and the guy he drank with the previous night walking up from the very end of the parking lot. As soon as they get near the door, I unlock it and open the door. I explained what happened and they instantly went to try recreating it. They tried but they couldn't do it with as much force or speed. The third door was also impossible to slam no matter how hard they tried. None of us could explain it. Other things happened during my time there, mostly minor stuff, except for one other major event shortly before I quit. I'll post that story later.

My family lived at our old home for most of my childhood and every one of my siblings had more than one experience causing us to believe in the paranormal. I was young but my sister is 4 years older and my brother is about 5-6 years older so I was the only one elementary school age. I had nightmares almost the entire time I lived there that ceased as soon as we moved out and nothing has happened to us in our new house (which was built and only lived in by only us and our neighbors) I have about 3 prominent experiences: The first one was watching a drawer in the bathroom slam with extreme force, the second was “dreaming” of my mothers favorite robe seeming to walk down the hall with nothing in it and when I woke I remember my sister asking me how my moms robe got in her room, and the third was a nail file seeming to fling into the air and across the room at my head during a fight with my sister. My sister experienced things such as loud banging above her while home alone and once saw her door open and widen with nothing there before slammimg shut. My brother wont tell me much of what he experienced but said that he once awoke to a shadow figure standing at the end of his bed. There was also a time where me and my sister were home alone with her friend and we heard banging downstairs sort of like stomping or cabinets being slammed while our dogs barked at the stairs. Being home alone we were nervous and her friend grabbed a weapon and walked downstairs thinking it might be an intruder but when we got downstairs no one was there. My parents think we’re crazy but my mom is also religious and believes we invited demons into our home through youtube videos and scary movies😂 I wonder sometimes were these real experiences or could they be explained by paranoid imaginative kids and nightmares?