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30 Unexplainable Situations That Happened In Broad Daylight And Caught People Off Guard, As Shared By Folks Online
If you ever thought that life is boring and that it, in the end, doesn’t amount to anything in the grand scheme of things, you probably haven’t ever seen anything so creepy, it stuck with you for life as an unexplainable phenomenon that demands answers to questions best not asked.
This is surely the case for a number of Redditors who have been sharing their creepy or unexplainable experiences of things they witnessed in broad daylight.
The now viral thread amassed over 43,100 upvotes and 13,400 comments sharing some of the most out of this world instances of absolute eeriness that is hard to wrap your head around.
But you can always try by scrolling down and reading through the chilling stories that internauts have left for other internauts to enjoy, and while you’re at it, tells us your thoughts or share your stories in the comment section!
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#1
I believe there is a name for this phenomena, but I would never know how to go about googling such a thing. But this was around 2013 or so, and I was having a smoke in front of my apartment on the front steps in the middle of the day— around noon or so. I got up to head back, and just for a few fleeting seconds while looking at the building, it looked totally unfamiliar. I knew I lived there, I knew it was my home, I knew I had just stepped outside only five minutes previously, but my brain was giving me some kind of indication that I had never seen this place before and that there was danger inherent. I just kind of violently wagged my head back and forth— like an aggressive “no” gesture— and was immediately back to normal. But I’ll never forget that moment, it was like my concept of reality had very momentarily just cracked.
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#2
My dad, brother, and I went to a movie theater one day in Florida, was around 4ish, so it was getting darker but still light out. We went up to the front where you buy tickets and when we looked around there was absolutely no one in the movie theater at all, no employees, no other guests. We simply walked in, looking all around to try to find anyone we could to purchase a movie ticket, but could find no one else. All the movies in each of the theaters we checked were running but with no one else inside. So we just sat down and watched a movie, then left without seeing anyone else the whole time, it was very surreal.
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
My friend stopped for gas on an interstate highway in the early morning, about 4 am. He was a long haul trucker. He walked in to the cafe... no one was there, but coffee was on, and nothing looked wrong, but no one answered when he called. Then he went back to the pumps and filled up and left. He was creeped out, and called 911 from the road. Later, he found out that the guy who was working that night had vanished, and foul play was suspected.
#3
When I was young me and my cousins found a bloody shirt in our woods. My cousins and their parents hunted so we thought maybe it was from that. But then we found a ziploc bag with shoes and shorts, all had to be from an extremely petite woman or an older kid. When we told our uncle about it, we got punished and weren’t allowed to talk about it. I don’t speak to them anymore but really makes you wonder.
Rage of Aquarius 2 years ago
Uh, yeah, you should look into missing persons/cold cases in the area at that time.
#4
When I was a teenager, I was at a friends house when his parents and family were not home.
I was on his back porch tying my shoes then I went back into his house.
Tying my shoes, a 20 second action. NO! I walk inside and his entire family is back home and they’re sitting at the kitchen table eating dinner and they ask me what I am doing here?! They’re staring at me like I am crazy and asking why I just walked into their house.
I ask for the time, they tell me it is 6:30 PM. I lost an entire hour doing a 20 second action.
To this day I still have no clue what happened or where the time went.
Jo Choto 2 years ago
A possible explanation is that being young and growing, possibly had a blood pressure drop when you bent over to tie the shoes and actually passed out for an hour. You would then come round and might still be holding the laces and just not aware of it. Or it's also possible that you had an absent seizure.
#5
2008 mountain bike race in The mid-west. It was 100 degrees that day. Almost no oxygen on the woods. It was a hot day.
Three of us were well ahead of the pack. We were about to lap another racer when he just rode off the trail and down a steep ravine. All three of us stopped. The ravine was steep and very deep. We found his bike half way down. We never found the racer. They sent search party and found nothing. To this day he’s never been found.
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
It is very troubling to me that his bike was found. Was there blood? Was the bike damaged?
#6
I saw a zombie.
Naked man, ashy dirty skin, eyes rolled up in his head, stiff limbs sort of lurching through traffic in Jamaica.
I was working in Kingston Jamaica at the time in the late 80's. I asked my Jamaican crew and they said yes it was a "zombie", but it is a drug not magic. They said people do this to people for revenge.
A few weeks later I saw another one. An old woman this time.
Otter 2 years ago (edited)
There was a best-selling book about this back in the 90s. There's a plant that grows in Jamaica called "zombie cucumber", and it contains a horrible neurotoxin that knocks out half the brain, leaving the person alive but unable to think clearly or make decisions. The "zombies" are allegedly created when someone commits an offense against community standards, who knows what offense, and the people who know how to work this stuff first give the victim a dose of blowfish toxin so they appear dead, and when they're buried they dig them up, wait for the blowfish toxin to wear off, and start giving doses of zombie cucumber. The person is legally dead, and is then rendered half-dead and helpless with zombie cucumber, they're used as slaves, and a lesson to the community. I have no idea how real any of this stuff is, and I don't *want* to know... but it's absolutely true that blowfish toxin can slow down the metabolism enough that a person can be apparently dead for 2-3 days. That part at least has been well-studied in Japan, where people eat blowfish (look up "fugu").
#7
My father and I are window cleaners. We were doing a vacant home from the "roaring 20s" Era, and I mean giant chandelier with the wrap around spiral staircase checker board flooring with the fancy carved golden trim. I could write paragraphs on this home; it was big, bold, and beautiful. Well, my father is upstairs doing master bedroom windows listening to music through a speaker (once again vacant home). It's something from the '70s and I am coming upstairs when the sun through a window hits the chandelier and I am momentarily blinded, like flashbang stunned for just a second when I recover there is no more music and the whole house feels different like it almost the same but there is some small thing that I would never notice that has changed. I asked my dad if he was listening to music, and he told me " no but that's a great idea" and started playing some music from his phone. It is the same song I was hearing when coming up the stairs but from the beginning. There is this small part of me that is convinced that when I am on my death bed I will look out the window and see the thing I know is off and realize I am in a different world then I was when going up those stairs. Also my father doesn't remember the house.
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
Parallel universe. I was once in a canoe on the river, and I heard music... juke joint kind of music, but a long way away. No one else could hear it, and I always wondered if it was just a trick of the wind, or my imagination, or what.
Anne Reid 2 years ago
Fun fact: there’s a type of migraine where instead of pain, you hear music. I get them and so did my husband. We found out when we both thought a neighbor’s music was too loud. Except I heard a hard rock song and he was hearing classical music!
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Quaumsy 2 years ago
(Pt 1) My father and I are window cleaners. We were doing a "roaring 20's" era vacant house, and I mean the giant chandelier with the checkerboard floor of the wraparound spiral staircase with the fancy carved gold trim. I could write paragraphs about this house; she was big, bold and beautiful. Well my dad is upstairs doing the windows in the master bedroom listening to music through a speaker (once again empty house). It's something from the 70's and I'm walking upstairs when the sun through a window hits the chandelier and I'm momentarily blinded, like a flashbang stunned for just a second when I recover there's no more music and the whole house feels different like if it were almost the same but there is some little thing that you would never notice has changed. I asked my dad if he was listening to music and he said "no, but it's a great idea" and he started playing music from his phone. It's the same song he was listening to going upstairs but from the beginning. (Pt 1.)
K Witmer 2 years ago
Meat bags. that made me laugh. I'm going to use that if you don't mind lol
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Bubs623 2 years ago
Ok um, several of these stories are in a different Language as the comments. Is this my out of body experience or.... I'm so confused.
Wren Hard 2 years ago
i just copied into google translate, this one is really cool
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David Brown 2 years ago
I had a somewhat similar thing happen a little over 10 years ago. We lived in a pretty rural part of our state and decided to move further out just to have a little more piece and quite as well as complete privacy. It was late in the evening almost dark and almost completely quite except for the crickets. Out of nowhere I could hear music that sounded close but muffled. No one with me could hear it. Grabbed a flashlight a started walking to find the source. No matter how far I walked the sound level never changed and could never find where it was coming from. To this day my family still believes me to be crazy. Oddly I still hear that same music from time to time but now I just ignore it to keep from looking like I'm nuts.
Mikey Kliss 2 years ago
I was walking thru the woods with my brother and cousin once as kids. We went slightly off trail but after coming back, said trail was overgrown and no longer traversable. After trying to exit the woods we ended up on the other side of town. It was weird
Legend_Trooper 2 years ago
I always heard my dad calling to me when he was away on business trips.
Cass Malone 2 years ago
Used to live in a house that used to be a bar. Would always hear music coming from what was my room. It was more modern music too. Stuff I didn't listen to but knew some of (like Black Eyed Peas n Taylor Swift. I'm a metal head so..) I have a feeling that's where the jukebox was
Who Panda 420 2 years ago
He said his father doesn't remember the house but his father was there when he said he came around again. He said his father started playing music from his phone?
K Witmer 2 years ago
Yeah makes it even weirder that his father doesn't remember being there. Did he dream the whole thing?
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Debbie Diskey 2 years ago
The you from this world and the you from your original world have accidentally switched places by walking through a momentarily week spot in the veil that separates this version of earth and the one you came from. When you and your alternate pass away your souls will go back to your original worlds.
Insert Generic Username 2 years ago
OP straight up walked through the veil that separates our dimension from the InBetween...
Courtney Lunsford 2 years ago
I've had moments like this. I went to see a therapist once. I never got a bill from her. I only saw her once. I was never able to find her again online. I honestly don't know if she was real but she lead me to seek treatment elsewhere.
BreeBrog 2 years ago
This would actually be a good premise for a Cora suspense type movie someone posing as a online therapist but really is a stalker / serial killer and use a fake online therapy to gain information and access into different people lives that they want to stalk
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There weren't any mobile phones in 1984 that would've played music. It could conceivably been a Walkman. Either that or the timeline's off by about 20-25 years.
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago
Um...where are you getting that date from? I have read the post twice now...it does not mention anything about 1984???
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Bacony Cakes 2 years ago (edited)
The 20's house of multiversal travel. It exists in every universe, and yet, none of them.
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Anne Edwards 2 years ago
No. The music playing was from the 70s. I think it was a dream.
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#8
When I was 4 and my brother was 10, he stayed home from school and my mom left him to babysit me. She left numbers on the fridge and stuff and off to work. I don’t know how much longer after she left it happened but we heard our dog barking viciously which was completely out of character for her. At this point my brother and I are in the kitchen waiting for our biscuits in the oven and the sound of Fluffy barking gets incredibly louder which meant she was in the front lawn around the side of the kitchen entrance. The gate that lead to the back was a little further down the side of the house and whoever was outside was in the gap in between out of Fluffy’s reach. My brother opens the kitchen curtains to see if he could get a view as to what’s going on. Right as he opened the curtains there was a man looking right down at us, almost like he expected my brother to open the curtains. The doorknob began to rattle and my brother ran to the living room and grabbed the phone, taking me with him. As soon as he got on the phone, the rattle stopped. My mom came home and at the same time the police showed up for a statement. They never found the guy.
My brother remembers it as vividly as I do and it’s the creepiest thing I’ve ever lived through
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
This must have been terrifying. My mom worked nights, starting when I was 11, and I stayed by myself at home until my brother and sister got home from work. I was never nervous or worried, until one night a guy came rattling the front door. I ran up and locked it, and tried to get a good look at him, but it was too dark. The cops came and saw footprints, but he was long gone, and I learned a valuable lesson about always locking the door!
#9
When I was a little girl, I was playing in my room one morning with my sister. I looked out my window and saw a man staring in at us. I told my sister to leave my room and ran to get my father. He didn't believe me and thought I was crazy.
Needless to say, I had an awful hard time sleeping that night.
Throughout my childhood, I'd hear what sounded like footsteps outside at night, or my parent's car doors opening long after they had went to sleep.
Several years later, I looked at our house on Google maps. I always assumed we lived by ourselves in the woods, far from anyone else. It turns out there was a small house that looked like it was being lived in only a few hundred yards in the woods from us.
My family was less skeptical of my "crazy stories" after I showed them that.
Cecily Holland 2 years ago
When a Kid says there was man staring in my window take them seriously until proven otherwise Breeders
#10
Something that happened to me rather than saw, I was about four and I was waiting for my dad and uncle (they're up at our apartment) down on the street and some dude (don't even think I looked at his face) came and told me my dad was waiting for me on another street, I just said no he's not and he legit grabbed my arm and said come on he told me to come get you. I f*****g let out the most blood curdling scream you ever heard and kept yelling for my dad as loud as I could and he stopped grabbing me and ran. I shudder to think what would have happened if he didn't...
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
I'm glad you got away. Two guys in a car tried to kidnap my niece when she was about that age... she was riding her tricycle on the driveway, right in front of the screen door. My sister went inside for just a minute to get something, and the car stopped, a guy jumped out and tried to grab her. My sister and two neighbors came on the run, and they left, but my niece was never allowed to play outside in the front yard ever again.
#11
I used to live on a farm and one morning there was a full horse leg on our driveway. Like still had part of the hip attached and was fresh. We sprinted down to our horse paddock to find all our horses completely fine. We disposed of the leg and never got an explanation! Very creepy!
Ps. This happened in Canberra, Australia so there’s no mountain lions or bears around here
#12
I was driving through an empty park in broad daylight, made a u-turn, and suddenly people everywhere, walking their dogs, riding bikes, a kid skating in a spot that I would have had to actively avoid him, joggers… like ~30 people spawned while I was turned away for what was probably ~4 seconds. I did a lot of thinking that night. Who was “real”? Am I “real”? Is my family real? I try not to think about it too much, really.
#13
It was 1984, I was 15 years old and was alone at my older sister's house. It was late morning, I had just got out of the shower, still wrapped in a towel when I heard a noise outside. I looked out a window and watched a complete stranger tying the doorknob of the main entrance to the railing of the deck with a rope I used to walk the dog with. He then leaned a mop, that was on the deck, against the door. I called my sister, told her what happened, got dressed, got the heck out of the house through a different door and hid in the bushes until police arrived. The house was somewhat remote with no close neighbors. Found out later the door he tied up was unlocked! No clue how long he had been lurking around before I knew of his presence.
To this day we have no idea who that was and what his motives were.. beyond creepy definitely unexplained.
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
I don't know if I would have been brave enough to wait outside for the cops? I'm pretty brave, but in a rural setting especially, these are some troubling events.
#14
Creepy but explainable. My dad is a paramedic, and one call took him to an SUV that had driven into the river and was being towed out. The car was obviously not working and the two guys inside had already passed away. As they're pulling the dead guys out of the car, suddenly all the lights flash on, the windshield wipers start going on full speed, and the car starts blaring the radio at max volume. Freaked everyone right out.
#15
Back on Jan 28, 1986 the space shuttle Challenger exploded. My family was watching the live launch coverage as it happened. At the same time we heard a loud sound from my room. We went to see what the sound was and a poster of a space shuttle we had fell off the wall.
#16
I was maybe 14-15 years old and I would frequently sleep on the couch in our living room. We lived in a typical suburban colonial where the couch faced the front door. Since I could remember, we NEVER locked our doors, as we lived in a pretty decent city.
I remember one night I was still awake at 3-4am listening to music, when I saw a car quickly pull up our driveway. I then saw a very skinny, tall man open our front door, stand in the hallway for 20-30 seconds facing my direction, then leave the house and drive away quickly.
I remember telling my parents and entire family this in the morning, and they did not believe me. My dad insisted it was him, as he’d leave for work in the early hours of the morning. I know I was young, but I also know that was NOT my dad, as my dad was stockier and shorter than this man.
Freaks me out to this day to think what this man was going to do.
#17
Cruzar en un cruce muy concurrido y ver a mi doble perfecto caminando hacia mí. Nos quedamos mirando hasta que nos cruzamos. Una total mente de mierda. Aún más perturbador. En lugar de detenerme a charlar y divertirme con toda la coincidencia biológica. Mi reacción subconsciente inmediata fue un aumento masivo de la rabia interna de que alguien, de alguna manera, había "robado mi cara". Muy, muy raro.
Quaumsy 2 years ago
Translated to english ‘ Crossing at a busy intersection and seeing my perfect double walking towards me. We stared at each other until we met. A total mindf**k. Even more disturbing. Instead of stopping to chat and have fun with all the biological coincidence, my immediate subconscious reaction was a massive surge of internal rage that someone had somehow "stolen my face." Very, very rare.’
#18
I was walking past a church one day when I was about 15 and standing in front of one of the graves was a cowboy dressed head to toe in pure white. He looked straight out of a movie. His hat, shirt, waistcoat, trousers and boots were all so white, like an incredibly clean white as if he’d only just put them on. He was white, had short brown hair, stubble and was an average looking guy. I kept staring at him, blinked and then he was just f*****g gone. I live in the UK so it was weird to see anyone resembling a cowboy anyway. I don’t know if it was my mind playing tricks on me but I could swear he was there. He looked so real.
Cecily Holland 2 years ago
Upsides of being a Ghost: Teleporting, eaves dropping and scaring people witless
#19
My high-school girlfriend and her family all talked about the ghost in their house and always said that it sounded like a man wearing boots walking down the hallway. We were all very close and one day when they weren't home I just walked in and went to my g/fs room and laid on her bed while I waited for them to get back. A man in boots walked slowly right down the hall and right past the door to g/fs room where I was laying. I did the next logical thing thing and just climbed out of her bedroom window. They showed up a few minutes later and asked why i was just standing around in the front yard and why I hadn't just gone in. I told them that I heard the ghost and climbed out of the window to escape. They laughed their freaking heads off. Broad daylight totally creepy and very unexplained
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
I wonder if they're reliving an event, or just wandering around, living their ghost lives.
#20
A man with freshly exposed bone on his arm and missing a substantial amount of skin and muscle walked up to me in a parking lot asking me calmly for cigarettes. It really freaked me out, and told him I was calling 911 for him. He immediately ran off and I gave his description to 911. There wasn't much blood but the guy clearly needed immediate medical attention. This was in San Jose on an afternoon about 5-6 years ago. Still have that image giving me nightmares to this day.
Cecily Holland 2 years ago
Chick on Reddit did this by picking compulsively at her legs until she got septicaemia several times. You could see through her legs. She recently got them amputated and seems to be doing well after. She had a condition that made her want her legs gone
#21
This is my dad's story, not mine:
In the 80s, my dad was in the Peace Corps and lived in Sierra Leone for 3 years.
He had a motorcycle (or some sort of motorbike at least at one point) and would ride around the roads when he had free time.
One day he's riding a dirt road that snakes around a small mountainside or hillside past some construction works.
About half a mile after the roadwork, he sees a man on the side of this dirt road on the mountain/hillside just laughing his butt off. And he was blue. Not like painted blue, but blue.
At first my dad rode on, thinking nothing of it. And then it sunk in...that he saw a blue dude sitting on the side of a dirt road laughing wildly.
He turned around and rode back to where he saw the blue dude and there was nothing there. He kept retracing his path beyond the roadwork and never saw the blue guy again.
Later that day he went back to the village he was living in at the time and told the locals about what he had seen.
The locals all laughed and said, essentially, "No you didn't. White men can't see devils."
Edit: beyond the color of his skin, what made this even more spooky to my dad was the way the guy just completely disappeared when he backtracked. There was nowhere for him to go off the road, due to it being on a hillside and he never found him again on the road making it seem as if the blue man simply vanished off the face of the earth.
Edit 2: talked to my dad more about this one this afternoon. He said the color of his skin was, like, bright blue, like unnaturally blue, bright blue. He also said he could hear the voice of the guy in his head like he was talking directly into my dad's mind, telepathy-style.
#22
Not me, but my Dad. He was outside at the far end of the yard and saw me standing on the stairs, whistling for him to come back to the house. When he got back inside he asked what was up and why I changed my shirt. I hadn't been outside, didn't hear any whistling, and was wearing the same black shirt I'd been wearing all day, not the white shirt he saw "me" wearing when he saw me outside a few minutes earlier.
#23
An older man watching me at a gas station and then literally following me for miles around town. Like if I turned into a parking lot and started driving another road he still followed me. I got on a 4 lane road in the left lane and got beside someone, then sped up and merged while taking an exit so the guy was blocked by the pickup truck in the right lane. That’s probably the scariest thing I’ve ever had happen in broad daylight.
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
We used to have teenagers in my area who thought it was hilarious to find a woman driving alone and chase her all over. I always went straight to the police station, and that usually made them leave.
#24
When I was 15, my family went on a cross country trip and one night we camped in the Grand Canyon. We went to a ranger lecture around 6pm (this is summer) so it was still pretty light when we were walking back. We went off the trail as a shortcut and after walking a ways noticed a light up ahead. As we drew closer there was a man sitting at a desk in the woods with a lantern. Just a full wood office-sized desk in the middle of the woods. I distinctly remember he had long sideburns and feeling like he was dressed like a man from the 1800s. My dad backed us down towards the trail and we went on our way. The man never made a peep or looked up or acknowledged us. There were two adults and three teenagers and we all remember the event really clearly. I don't believe in ghosts or spirits but have no explanation for what I saw. As I got older I figured I was misremembering but everyone else in my family says they saw the same thing.
#25
On a trip to gulf shores Alabama. Stopped to gas up at some run down gas station that was also a truck stop in Mississippi. Went to the bathroom and as I'm standing at the urinal I had the strangest feeling that something was off. This strange feeling overwhelmed the entire left side of my body. I don't claim to be supernatural or have any weird feelings/premonitions and I have never experienced that feeling before that day or since. Anyways, I get up on my tippy toes to look to my left where the stalls were located. There was this deranged looking white guy with nasty, greasy hair and a f****d up scowl on his face staring directly at me. The most typical looking psycho killer you could imagine. He had to have been standing on the toilet because I could see his whole face and the upper part of his shoulders. Immediately zipped up and got the f**k out of dodge. Didn't even wash my hands.
#26
Aunque esto se puede explicar, la imagen me sigue dando escalofríos hasta el día de hoy. Fue más o menos en la época de la moda de los tablones. No tenía ni idea de lo que era y no había oído nada al respecto. Cogí un taxi para ir a la ciudad y estaba caminando por el centro de la ciudad y la vida era normal. Entonces, giré hacia la plaza de la ciudad y había unas 200 personas haciendo planking por todas partes, en todo. No sé qué estaba pasando. Pensé que tal vez había disparos o una bomba. O quizás se estaba acabando el mundo. Entonces pregunté a alguien que estaba a mi lado y me lo explicaron y nos reímos, pero durante ese breve momento nunca olvidaré esa sensación de inquietud.
Quaumsy 2 years ago
(Translated to english) Although this can be explained, the image still gives me the creeps to this day. It was more or less around the time of the fashion for planks. I had no idea what it was and hadn't heard anything about it. I took a taxi to go to the city and I was walking around the city center and life was normal. So, I turned into the town square and there were about 200 people planking everywhere, in everything. I don't know what was going on. I thought maybe there was gunshots or a bomb. Or maybe the world was ending. So I asked someone who was next to me and they explained it to me and we laughed, but for that brief moment I will never forget that feeling of uneasiness.
#27
When I was about 8, my parents, my brother and me were hiking somewhere in Austria when we came across the ruins of a medieval castle on a hilltop. A sign said that there was a cafe near the ruins so we went up.
The cafe was deserted, all the tables and chairs were toppled, and next to the building stood a brand new big Mercedes with a lot of bullet holes in the trunk and the rear window.
The car was heavily armored, the rear window was so thick that the bullets hadn't even penetrated it.
We turned around on the spot and got out of there as fast as we could. Back in the hotel, my dad reported to the police but they dismissed it. Never knew what came of it.
Edit: Since so many commenters suggested it was a movie set: That could very well be an explanation, but still it was scary and we didn't want to stick around to maybe find out the hard way that it was NOT a movie set after all. Also, why wasn't anything cordoned off, and why wasn't anybody around?Concerning the police dismissing it: When my dad called them, they said they were going to investigate. The next day he called again to ask what came from it, but they said it was nothing, the holes in the car had been caused by children throwing rocks. Unless those children were able to throw very small rocks at very high speed, that was obviously BS but we got the message that they didn't want to tell us and we weren't supposed to keep asking.
Edit 2: A lot of people asked when (1984) and where exactly this was, so I asked my dad and he told me it wasn't in Carinthia (Kärnten) where we spent the vacation the year after, but in Lower Austria, in the valley of the river Krems. The only castle there is Castle Hartenstein (Latitude, longitude: 48.446252424125696, 15.39679893866418) and when I see the photos online I remember that it looks exactly like that place. It's not accessible to the public now but it may have been 38 years ago.
Henry Russell 2 years ago
once me and my family was walking through the woods i we saw a pickup truck in the middle of no where there were holes that looked like bullet holes ( im not sure i was young) through a cardboard on the back and also the back of the car was dented. it was so weird we just bturned around and went the other path
#28
Oh this just happened!
Middle of the day, I'm driving home from running some errands. I'm on one of those roads that's sort of a highway but still goes through a lot of back country and outlying neighborhoods. (I live in a major city in the US). The road cuts through some not nice areas. I'm at a stop light when I see emerge from the brush on the side of the road a person wearing from head to toe trash bags. I mean HEAD TO TOE, two little holes cut for eyes, but otherwise no skin exposed. He had a walking stick also with trash bags tied to it. Before I could even process what I was seeing the light turned green and I was off. The last 15 min of my drive were me muttering, "what the actual f**k?" And for the days following all I could hear in my head is danny diveto saying "I'm the trash man".
Wild.
#29
One time me and my mate were walking to our bus and we both look ahead to see a big centipede crawling on a girls head just for it to disappear when it got on the front of her face me and my mate told her but she always swears up and down it never happened
#30
Me, my 2 brothers and our uncle were running down the lake in his boat on a beautiful summers day. Blue sky as far as the eye can see.
Until we looked towards the north shore line, and saw a smallish passenger jet flying low. Until it went below the tree line and disappeared. We were flabbergasted, because our family has been in the area for over 100 years and there is NOT an airstrip in that direction, anywhere.
There was no loud bang. No fire ball, nothing. No way it had crashed. We still don't know how it was possible, that it did what it did.
What do you think ?
Susie Elle 2 years ago
I once woke up in the middle of the night with a hand on my arm. I freaked out, absolutely convinced someone was touching me. Turns out it was my own goddamn hand on my other arm, but somehow my brain had entirely erased my possession of two arms and replaced it for the logical option that I suddenly had only one arm >:(
MiriPanda 2 years ago
Lol. I once woke up in a panic because a hand was closed around my throat. Yep - it was mine, I was trying to strangle myself...
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Bacony Cakes 2 years ago
I was in the back garden, and all of a sudden i look up this yellow biplane flies super low overhead, directly into where my house would be. I turn around, and the plane's gone. In the same house, there was a curved staircase thing, and i was sitting at the top of it, and i see these three shadows that look like the spoon pictured below. human-spoo...d995ff.jpg 
Izzy Curer 2 years ago
I love it when people see something that nobody else has ever seen before, and so they have to find random pictures of things on the internet to sort of describe what it looked like. That's pretty creepy, my dude
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
I am fairly certain I've met people whose bodies don't contain *human* souls. Not anything... I'm not alone in this, re: which people, either. Eyes are windows to the soul, and those weren't *human* ones, is all I can say of it.
An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago
Yeah, I've seen people like that. Or I notice someone and my first instinct is to run
Load More Replies... Will I Will-Ham 2 years ago
Hm those stories with time jumps, feeling of delusion or reality having changed could also be explainde by schizophrenia or conversion disorder
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Maybe, but our neurons getting glitched up is common ---- think of deja vu! ---- and a few could be absence seizures, or plain exhaustion frying circuits. We're weird creatures.
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Rickie 2 years ago
when I was 18 I moved out into a shared house with two friends of mine and almost immediately strange things started happening in the house, on one of the first nights I was in my friends room chatting to him and a CD flew across the room and hit the wall next to us. As time went on more and more weird stuff started to happen, we would get random banging on the front door (it sounded like someone was kicking it) but you'd go and there would be nobody there - as soon as you sat down it would start again! also the washing machine used to turn itself on at 3am every morning - at first we all assumed that the one of us had put on a delayed cycle but when we realised none of us had we decided to unplug it - that night at 3am like clockwork the washing machine turned itself on again even though we had unplugged it.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I was on the bus one day when two women pushing prams got on. Except both prams had a life-sized doll in place of an actual baby. They had all the paraphernalia - nappy bags, wipes, etc - but no actual babies. And both women were sporting a nasty case of Meth Mouth. I still have no idea what the hell that was about.
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
There is a whole subculture of those people. They spend exorbitant amounts of money on their realistic babies, and even more on their wardrobes. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/26/reborn-doll-baby-lifelike-collecting-women
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Friend Kelli 2 years ago
I liked this one. My weird thing - I really resented someone my entire life and about ten years ago I heard in my head, "Your fight is over. You don't have to worry about him anymore." Then my mom called to say he died that day.
Elizabeth Sundby 2 years ago
not me but a friend of mines grandma. she was about 6 (the grandma) and was playing in the park. suddenly 2 men grabbed her and were dragging her away. she kicked and screamed but nothing helped. suddenly, like out of a freaking book, an angel picked her up and took her back to her parents. she hugged her parents (the grandma) and when she looked back to thank the angel, she was gone. now, pls no hate, but I don't believe in that kinda stuff, but I think what happened is beyond another explanation. it's been 4 years, and I'm still trying to find a more logical explanation. but honestly? I don't like to think about what would have happened if those men had taken her.....
Rannveig Ess 2 years ago
I've often wondered why things are endlessly reposted from Reddit and FB here when all that needs to be done is find the topic elsewhere and ask the bP users to tell the stories. Every time there's a weird story/ghost/creepy thing articles, our stories are so much better than reading old posts, twice reposted already.
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Emmett O'Brian 2 years ago
I was a teen and had an old clock radio that would just turn on in the middle of the night, but at a really low volume so all you'd hear was muffled voices. Happened a few times. It was off. I had to turn it on at regular volume to get It to stop. It freaked me out so I unplugged it and the next night it did it again. I checked and it was still unplugged. I put it down in my basement.
Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)
One night, I was driving home in my car. It was a wooded area with a few scattered houses, and there was a few feet of flat grass on either side like where a ditch would be. I was going slow because I would have to turn off in a minute. The road was narrow and twisty, and I top a slight ridge before going down into a shallow pan of the road. I can see something black moving slowly on the other side of this 'pan', maybe 300 feet ahead of me. I thought it might be a dark colored animal crossing the road, but my headlights were just barely hitting it at that point. I keep my eye out, but it's moved off the road by the time I get close enough to see anything. Once I reach that point in the road, there is no animal anywhere in sight, but instead there is a road sign just to the left of my car, and my headlights are casting its shadow across the flat 'ditch'. The only problem with this is that the shadow wasn't in the shape of the sign. The sign just had a small thing on top of a skinny metal stick. The shadow, however, was massive, like that of a person standing in my headlights, or a tree. The weirdest part was that even as I was staring right at it, trying to make sense of what I was seeing as I slowly drive past, my brain sort of went numb, and I wrote it off as 'everything is normal'. It wasn't until later that night when I was lying in bed that I sort of snapped out of it and suddenly remembered seeing that big shadow standing right next to me out there in the woods. I knew that it wasn't normal at all and I started freakin out. I'm normally a pretty anxious person, and so it was weird to have this artificial sense of calm just come over me upon seeing something like that, and having it linger for the rest of the evening. It felt a little like I wasn't entirely in control of my brain. Tldr, a shadow jedi-mind tricked me into thinking everything was okay
BookCrazyTeen 2 years ago
Not so much unexplained, just a ghost encounter: My mom, dad, and their friend were going to a concert recently and since it was out of town they stayed in a hotel. Little did they know, the hotel they were staying at was one of the top 10 most haunted places in the world or something and there is the ghost of a girl (I’m pretty sure) that haunts the halls (my mom researched this afterward) the hotel room was really big so their friend slept on the couch. She said that all night she was restless and she had the utmost feeling that someone was watching her, she felt really strange all night, but she said that she didn’t feel as if the thing watching her was malevolent or had any bad intentions. After the stay and my mom was researching, she found out that the spirit’s favored floor was the one they were staying on, and the most haunted room in the hotel happened to be the room like 3 rooms from theirs. My mom is still freaked out about it. Now I really wanna stay there.
A Jones 2 years ago
Few years ago I was crossing an 8 lane crosswalk (one of the safest in the area). I had the crosswalk indicator blinking to allow me to pass. It was on a countdown from 45 seconds. I turned around to check if any cars were going to turn right while crossing (It's legal, but makes me miffed if people don't let pedestrians go). Okay, so nobody was turning. I turned around at the 35 second mark. When I turned back around to continue my path a second later it was at 0 and I booked it to the middle part (that had another crossing request pole). I don't know what happened, I only looked back for a second. I mentally thought that either there was a glitch in the countdown or I had a mini blackout. I was standing up the whole time, no health issues at the time, but nothing else was irregular.
Jason Marin 2 years ago
A few years ago, I had finished my Saturday night shift and as I was walking towards my car, I suddenly felt something completely covering my face. I could still see where I was going so clearly whatever it was must have been transparent. I began rubbing my face and when I looked around for what it was, I saw absolutely nothing.
Karina H 2 years ago
I've got a weird one, too. I live in a ground floor apartment on a busy street. A front lawn and hedge separating the house from the sidewalk. One evening I was sitting on my sofa reading a book or playing with my phone or whatever, when I saw someone looking through the window from outside. In this pose, where you put your hands next to your eyes to get a better look. As I was sitting quite still, I had a second till the person saw me sitting there, watching him. And gone he was. What creeped me out: I only saw him as a shadow. just a black shadow. like a person with a black hoodie on, but I couldn't see a face or discern the color of his skin or other features like eyes. so I asked my boyfriend to check the front lawn, that I saw someone there. My bf went outside, didn't see anyone and looked through the window to confirm that there is no one there. I could see my bf clearly. His face, his hands and everything. it really freaked me out. I mean, it probably was one of the friends of our neighbours teenage son, who lived 3 stories above us and sometimes dropped stuff into the front lawn when he was too lazy to come down and meet his friends. but still...
Mark Karol-Chik 2 years ago
SHADOW PEOPLE. Seriously one of the creepiest things I have ever seen.
Isle_of_stressed_pilots 2 years ago
A couple days ago I decided to have a walk in the forest to try and find animal bones. Now, in the forest near my house, there is a very defined bike path that goes straight for a couple of miles. So, Despite walking deeper in the forest and not on the path, I still made sure that i was walking parallel to the bike path so it was constantly on my right. Well after about an hour I decided I wanted to head back. So i walked towards the path so I could head the other way. Well before I started walking back where I came from, I checked google maps and apparently I was WAYY behind the spot I started at?? Idk how to explain it, but it was like I went thru a portal that deposited behind the entrance of the forest?? So to get back to the entrance, I had to continue walking the same direction I was initially going. And I wanna mention that this forest bike path isn't a circle whatsoever. It's literally straight line that goes on for many kilometres.
MzFitz1215 2 years ago
I bought my house 2 years ago, it's the only house I've ever lived in that wasn't haunted. It's not the dead you should be afraid of, it's the living.
Susie Elle 2 years ago
I once woke up in the middle of the night with a hand on my arm. I freaked out, absolutely convinced someone was touching me. Turns out it was my own goddamn hand on my other arm, but somehow my brain had entirely erased my possession of two arms and replaced it for the logical option that I suddenly had only one arm >:(
MiriPanda 2 years ago
Lol. I once woke up in a panic because a hand was closed around my throat. Yep - it was mine, I was trying to strangle myself...
Load More Replies... Bacony Cakes 2 years ago
I was in the back garden, and all of a sudden i look up this yellow biplane flies super low overhead, directly into where my house would be. I turn around, and the plane's gone. In the same house, there was a curved staircase thing, and i was sitting at the top of it, and i see these three shadows that look like the spoon pictured below. human-spoo...d995ff.jpg
Izzy Curer 2 years ago
I love it when people see something that nobody else has ever seen before, and so they have to find random pictures of things on the internet to sort of describe what it looked like. That's pretty creepy, my dude
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
I am fairly certain I've met people whose bodies don't contain *human* souls. Not anything... I'm not alone in this, re: which people, either. Eyes are windows to the soul, and those weren't *human* ones, is all I can say of it.
An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago
Yeah, I've seen people like that. Or I notice someone and my first instinct is to run
Load More Replies... Will I Will-Ham 2 years ago
Hm those stories with time jumps, feeling of delusion or reality having changed could also be explainde by schizophrenia or conversion disorder
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Maybe, but our neurons getting glitched up is common ---- think of deja vu! ---- and a few could be absence seizures, or plain exhaustion frying circuits. We're weird creatures.
Load More Replies... Rickie 2 years ago
when I was 18 I moved out into a shared house with two friends of mine and almost immediately strange things started happening in the house, on one of the first nights I was in my friends room chatting to him and a CD flew across the room and hit the wall next to us. As time went on more and more weird stuff started to happen, we would get random banging on the front door (it sounded like someone was kicking it) but you'd go and there would be nobody there - as soon as you sat down it would start again! also the washing machine used to turn itself on at 3am every morning - at first we all assumed that the one of us had put on a delayed cycle but when we realised none of us had we decided to unplug it - that night at 3am like clockwork the washing machine turned itself on again even though we had unplugged it.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I was on the bus one day when two women pushing prams got on. Except both prams had a life-sized doll in place of an actual baby. They had all the paraphernalia - nappy bags, wipes, etc - but no actual babies. And both women were sporting a nasty case of Meth Mouth. I still have no idea what the hell that was about.
GoddessOdd 2 years ago
There is a whole subculture of those people. They spend exorbitant amounts of money on their realistic babies, and even more on their wardrobes. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/26/reborn-doll-baby-lifelike-collecting-women
Load More Replies... Friend Kelli 2 years ago
I liked this one. My weird thing - I really resented someone my entire life and about ten years ago I heard in my head, "Your fight is over. You don't have to worry about him anymore." Then my mom called to say he died that day.
Elizabeth Sundby 2 years ago
not me but a friend of mines grandma. she was about 6 (the grandma) and was playing in the park. suddenly 2 men grabbed her and were dragging her away. she kicked and screamed but nothing helped. suddenly, like out of a freaking book, an angel picked her up and took her back to her parents. she hugged her parents (the grandma) and when she looked back to thank the angel, she was gone. now, pls no hate, but I don't believe in that kinda stuff, but I think what happened is beyond another explanation. it's been 4 years, and I'm still trying to find a more logical explanation. but honestly? I don't like to think about what would have happened if those men had taken her.....
Rannveig Ess 2 years ago
I've often wondered why things are endlessly reposted from Reddit and FB here when all that needs to be done is find the topic elsewhere and ask the bP users to tell the stories. Every time there's a weird story/ghost/creepy thing articles, our stories are so much better than reading old posts, twice reposted already.
Load More Replies... Emmett O'Brian 2 years ago
I was a teen and had an old clock radio that would just turn on in the middle of the night, but at a really low volume so all you'd hear was muffled voices. Happened a few times. It was off. I had to turn it on at regular volume to get It to stop. It freaked me out so I unplugged it and the next night it did it again. I checked and it was still unplugged. I put it down in my basement.
Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)
One night, I was driving home in my car. It was a wooded area with a few scattered houses, and there was a few feet of flat grass on either side like where a ditch would be. I was going slow because I would have to turn off in a minute. The road was narrow and twisty, and I top a slight ridge before going down into a shallow pan of the road. I can see something black moving slowly on the other side of this 'pan', maybe 300 feet ahead of me. I thought it might be a dark colored animal crossing the road, but my headlights were just barely hitting it at that point. I keep my eye out, but it's moved off the road by the time I get close enough to see anything. Once I reach that point in the road, there is no animal anywhere in sight, but instead there is a road sign just to the left of my car, and my headlights are casting its shadow across the flat 'ditch'. The only problem with this is that the shadow wasn't in the shape of the sign. The sign just had a small thing on top of a skinny metal stick. The shadow, however, was massive, like that of a person standing in my headlights, or a tree. The weirdest part was that even as I was staring right at it, trying to make sense of what I was seeing as I slowly drive past, my brain sort of went numb, and I wrote it off as 'everything is normal'. It wasn't until later that night when I was lying in bed that I sort of snapped out of it and suddenly remembered seeing that big shadow standing right next to me out there in the woods. I knew that it wasn't normal at all and I started freakin out. I'm normally a pretty anxious person, and so it was weird to have this artificial sense of calm just come over me upon seeing something like that, and having it linger for the rest of the evening. It felt a little like I wasn't entirely in control of my brain. Tldr, a shadow jedi-mind tricked me into thinking everything was okay
BookCrazyTeen 2 years ago
Not so much unexplained, just a ghost encounter: My mom, dad, and their friend were going to a concert recently and since it was out of town they stayed in a hotel. Little did they know, the hotel they were staying at was one of the top 10 most haunted places in the world or something and there is the ghost of a girl (I’m pretty sure) that haunts the halls (my mom researched this afterward) the hotel room was really big so their friend slept on the couch. She said that all night she was restless and she had the utmost feeling that someone was watching her, she felt really strange all night, but she said that she didn’t feel as if the thing watching her was malevolent or had any bad intentions. After the stay and my mom was researching, she found out that the spirit’s favored floor was the one they were staying on, and the most haunted room in the hotel happened to be the room like 3 rooms from theirs. My mom is still freaked out about it. Now I really wanna stay there.
A Jones 2 years ago
Few years ago I was crossing an 8 lane crosswalk (one of the safest in the area). I had the crosswalk indicator blinking to allow me to pass. It was on a countdown from 45 seconds. I turned around to check if any cars were going to turn right while crossing (It's legal, but makes me miffed if people don't let pedestrians go). Okay, so nobody was turning. I turned around at the 35 second mark. When I turned back around to continue my path a second later it was at 0 and I booked it to the middle part (that had another crossing request pole). I don't know what happened, I only looked back for a second. I mentally thought that either there was a glitch in the countdown or I had a mini blackout. I was standing up the whole time, no health issues at the time, but nothing else was irregular.
Jason Marin 2 years ago
A few years ago, I had finished my Saturday night shift and as I was walking towards my car, I suddenly felt something completely covering my face. I could still see where I was going so clearly whatever it was must have been transparent. I began rubbing my face and when I looked around for what it was, I saw absolutely nothing.
Karina H 2 years ago
I've got a weird one, too. I live in a ground floor apartment on a busy street. A front lawn and hedge separating the house from the sidewalk. One evening I was sitting on my sofa reading a book or playing with my phone or whatever, when I saw someone looking through the window from outside. In this pose, where you put your hands next to your eyes to get a better look. As I was sitting quite still, I had a second till the person saw me sitting there, watching him. And gone he was. What creeped me out: I only saw him as a shadow. just a black shadow. like a person with a black hoodie on, but I couldn't see a face or discern the color of his skin or other features like eyes. so I asked my boyfriend to check the front lawn, that I saw someone there. My bf went outside, didn't see anyone and looked through the window to confirm that there is no one there. I could see my bf clearly. His face, his hands and everything. it really freaked me out. I mean, it probably was one of the friends of our neighbours teenage son, who lived 3 stories above us and sometimes dropped stuff into the front lawn when he was too lazy to come down and meet his friends. but still...
Mark Karol-Chik 2 years ago
SHADOW PEOPLE. Seriously one of the creepiest things I have ever seen.
Isle_of_stressed_pilots 2 years ago
A couple days ago I decided to have a walk in the forest to try and find animal bones. Now, in the forest near my house, there is a very defined bike path that goes straight for a couple of miles. So, Despite walking deeper in the forest and not on the path, I still made sure that i was walking parallel to the bike path so it was constantly on my right. Well after about an hour I decided I wanted to head back. So i walked towards the path so I could head the other way. Well before I started walking back where I came from, I checked google maps and apparently I was WAYY behind the spot I started at?? Idk how to explain it, but it was like I went thru a portal that deposited behind the entrance of the forest?? So to get back to the entrance, I had to continue walking the same direction I was initially going. And I wanna mention that this forest bike path isn't a circle whatsoever. It's literally straight line that goes on for many kilometres.
MzFitz1215 2 years ago
I bought my house 2 years ago, it's the only house I've ever lived in that wasn't haunted. It's not the dead you should be afraid of, it's the living.
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