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Unexplained Paranormal Encounters That Defy Logic
Whether or not you believe in the paranormal, some spooky stories just can't be explained by science.
In a Reddit thread (which you can see here), people shared their creepiest and most mysterious experiences with ghosts and other entities, and they're eerie enough to make you sleep with the lights on for the next few weeks.
Here are 11 of the most chilling stories:
"When I was in elementary school, I shared a queen-size bed with my older sister, and our family dog (a mutt that looked like a short-haired Lassie) would sleep at the foot of our bed every night. When I was about 6 years old, I woke up one night around midnight and saw a dark figure standing at the foot of the bed."
"The figure was entirely in black without any eyes or a face. I tried to wake my sister up, but she rolled over to go back to sleep. My sister must have accidentally kicked the dog, because the dog woke up and raised her head, and started growling at the figure at the foot of the bed. The growling then woke my sister up, and she saw the figure and started screaming. When my parents came into the room and turned the light on, nothing was there. To this day, both my sister and I are adamant that we saw a ghost or other demon in our room. We know we aren't crazy because the dog saw it too."–KimJongFunk
"When I was around 12, my mother had to go out of town for a bit, and she left me home alone for a few days. She refused to give me a mobile phone because she figured she could just call me on the landline if anything came up. She told me the date she'd be back, and that was that."
"When I was growing up, I was tight with this girl named Lisa. We grew much closer as teenagers. Anyway, we wised up a little and went our separate ways when it was time for college. A few years passed, and I had moved on. One night I got up to pee. I didn't bother to turn on the lights. I was washing my hands and glanced in the mirror. There she was. Lisa was standing in the doorway behind me."
"Not me, but a friend of mine told me about a dream she had years ago about a decrepit old man who was being chased by wolves. In the dream, he kept referring to himself in the third person as 'Old Skin' ('Old Skin's gotta get away from the wolves.')"
"I saw my deceased ex-husband in my kitchen. I was watching TV in my living room (in the middle of the day) and kept hearing this sound, like someone was jiggling their change around. And it was loud, as if it were in the room with me. I paused my TV. Yet the sound persisted."
"We used to live in a battered women's and children's shelter when I was young, because my father was looking for us (ugly divorce, Alabama gave him custody, mom took us to Washington). One night, I looked in the mirror and saw a hairy demon looking back at me."
"Not creepy but kind of cool. My mother split and transplanted a rosebush from my grandfather's farm about 40 years ago. It took, but never bloomed. At that point, she only kept it because it grew into the fence nicely and kept us kids from climbing it. My grandfather died about five years after she transplanted it, and that spring it bloomed red roses. A few years after that, my grandmother died, and the spring after it bloomed white roses. These are the only two years it has ever bloomed."
–TheTrueLordHumungous
"I had just gotten done working out in my basement and was too lazy to go upstairs and use my normal shower, so I decided to use the one in the basement. As I was shampooing my hair, I heard a little girl singing outside of the bathroom door (mind you, I was home alone)."
"When I was about 16 years old, I encountered something that still bugs me to this day. I woke up around 6 a.m. on a normal weekday and went downstairs to get ready for school. No one else in my family had woken up at this point. I got in the shower, still sleepy, and could barely hold my eyes open. After a few minutes of showering, someone tried to get in, and I told whoever it was that I was in the shower."
"The 'person' then proceeded to aggressively try to open the door. I saw the door handle going up and down like crazy, and he/she/whatever knocked on the door harder and harder. And then it suddenly stopped. Didn't think that much about it, but when I got out of the shower, I realized that nobody was up yet. I proceeded with eating breakfast. And after a while, my dad came down the stairs, so I asked him if it was he who had wanted to use the bathroom earlier. He said no, and that both my mom and younger brother were still asleep, so it couldn't have been them either. And even if it had been any family member, they would not have tried to open the door so aggressively at 6 in the morning."–dogglass
"When I was a young teenager, my father and my stepmother got married. This forced me and my little brother to move into her home and share the same bedroom for quite some time. Three weeks before we moved in. My stepmother's mom had died where I slept for most of my childhood."
"I was home last year during a break from university with a friend, and we decided to go see a friend in a different city at his university. It was a small city with rivers, hills, and forests. At night, we decided to go to a nearby forest to smoke and drink by a river, but still on the main road. So, we were standing with our car parked, and I was drinking, and both of them were making joints and smoking. It was about 11 at night and dead dark with no lights or people for several kilometers."
"We had been standing there for about an hour when a 26-year-old guy came out of the tree line and came to me, talked to me, and said, 'This place is not safe at night. You guys should go.' My friend who used to study there heard me talking to someone and started walking towards me, but stopped right there. His face went white, and he told me to get in the car and that we were going. I told the guy thanks and goodbye, and turned the car around. For 10 minutes, my friend didn't talk, and when we were out of the forest, he finally broke his silence and told me that the guy who was talking to me was a boy from his university who died on the same road two years back in an accident. We were so scared that we didn't go home that night and spent the rest of the night getting high near a river close by."–BATM4NN
Have you ever had a paranormal experience? Let me know in the comments!
If you enjoyed this, you'll love the upcoming horror film The Ritual! Based on the real notes and findings of a real-life exorcist and the multiple exorcisms of Emma Schmidt, it's sure to horrify you, and is now playing in theaters. Check out the trailer here:
