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TheUnnamedPoet
Used to live in a house that was a century old. Used to be a rail worker's house, and had been split into two suites. Was dog sitting for the other people one night while they were on vacation, and while we were downstairs with the dogs, you could hear footsteps running across the wood floors overhead, and we KNEW the house was otherwise empty. The only place I've ever been in that I would believe is truly haunted.
poorwegian
JinxRocks
December of 2023, I got the urge to go buy a ball cap with a specific logo on it for a business that has been defunct for 25 years off eBay from someone in Texas. When it arrived, it had a name tag on it of someone knew from when I worked for them in NC. The person named on the tag had passed away the same day it arrived. I messaged the seller and he swore there was no tag on the hat and it wasn’t in the photos either.
murderhobbit
In college, I was just playing games and suddenly I had my one and only panic attack with full-on racking sobs and complete inability to stay still, about 5 minutes before my mother called saying my uncle had killed himself. It was very odd.
Sarcastus
Sleeping over at my aunt's home. Stayed in little artic room. Mom was there for a while, checked on me to see me sleeping. Told her the next day all about my new friend, a boy who hid in the attic entrance in that room. I was 5 and she wasn't sure if I told truth. My aunt pulls a picture of former owner who died there from somewhere. I had never seen it, but I had described him as a boy in perfect detail. I remember the room, not the kid. Weird, huh?
ecoterrorpriest
A ghost co-authored a math paper in 1990: Robert Thomason and Thomas Trobaugh, “Higher Algebraic K-Theory of Schemes and of Derived Categories,” in P. Cartier et al., eds., The Grothendieck Festschrift Volume III, 1990.
AbelardSnazz
My great Aunt Mary had dementia so we didn't tell her when her brother passed, she would have just got upset then forgotten it. A few days later my dad visited her and she said "What's our Bobby playing at? He came to see me the other day but didn't say anything, just sat there and stared at me"
JapaneseGeneticists
Most of the weird stuff happens to other family members, but I did see something one time at a restaurant I worked at. Kitchens have that window that connects to the server area, servers were having their meeting and I thought I saw our manager with them. Blonde hair, wearing a white shirt. But later, manager walks by wearing a black and blue shirt. Ask servers who was with them in the white shirt and they told me there was no one wearing that with them.
Ohdearthesearemymonkeys
Christmas years ago. Was staying at grandparent’s in a room with older brother. A car drove by and I saw silhouettes on the window shades. Outside the window was the roof to the porch. I told my brother and he said it was just Santa’s elves. I believed him but think about it a lot.
rossonerinho
my parents told when I was still an infant in a crib, I woke them up babbling and giggling standing in my crib. later during the day they received a telegram from Sweden that said my great grandmother had passed away. she didn't get a chance to see me after I was born. my parents were convinced she visited me.
Snooj
OMG a baby making noises that wakes up parents. Stuff like that never happens.
RayneOfSalt
Weirdest thing that ever happened to me is either the time I was moving house and a tv that I know was unplugged at the time turned on and cranked the volume; or the time I was visiting a friend down in melbourne and I was walking back to my hotel at night from the bus stop. It was cold, slightly foggy and as I was walking a guy perched on a tree branch, a guy I had never met or seen before, called out to me and said "hurry up, , bad things can happen at night."
MKUltraMega
I mean, if it was Frankston like, yeah
Acdkatie
When my son was about 6 months old I had put some banana bread in the oven, then went to put the little guy down for a nap. Well I fell asleep, out cold, all of a sudden felt something grab my leg and yank it. Woke me up so I didn’t burn the bread. Not sure how long the timer had been going off but I couldn’t hear it from my son’s room.
wibbIywobbIytimeywimey
Sounds kinda like one of those falling dreams you wake up from right before hitting the ground
SoberAndBored
I run around the same park as my dad, at different times of the day because I work and he's retired. One time in the hundreds of times I've done it, I heard someone running behind me who was gradually catching up to me. As the sound got level with me, it just stopped. I looked around, no one there. A couple of weeks later dad asked if I'd ever heard a runner who wasn't there. We've both only heard it the once, different days, different times of day, same place.
IIikethecutofyourjib
Some kind of strange latent echo? Sound can really play tricks on people. If it's the same place and it stops when you stop, I'll bet it's your own running. It might be that the wind has to be just right or something
SoberAndBored
Possibly, but I run the same route all the time and only ever heard it once - could be time of year conditions: heat, humidity, number of leaves on the trees, that kind of thing, but I also have a very set breathing pattern, and the one I heard didn't.
CardeasIV
I just remember waking up during one night in my teens, for no particular reason, just to feel...super calm? Warm? Cozy? Dunno, just really nice feeling. Fell asleep fast again. In the morning i was told my grandma died in her sleep that night, so i am pretty sure she just stopped by on her way
BobJones786
The best description of ghosts I ever heard, was this:
Guy 1: Ghosts aren't real. And if they are real, they cannot hurt us.
Guy 2: How do you know?
Guy 1: Because there are too many white people alive.
warriorofdiscord
You're right, only white people have done heinous things to others before 🙄
thesmelge
"Lived in a house near Devon and Cornwall".
So it was either in Devon or Cornwall, or it was floating about in the sea because the only county bordering Cornwall is Devon.
InfocalypseRising
The only thing I've got like this was one time visiting my mom's house we were watching TV and there was suddenly the sound of a door being slammed, HARD, from upstairs. We both heard it. I went up and none of the doors were closed. I even went up to the attic to see if there was a raccoon up there or something. Nada. I still don't think it was a ghost or anything but I remember it sometimes and it still fucks with me.
IWantToSpaceBattleYou
I've had this. Sounded like all the doors in the house being slammed at once. Mum and I freaked out, only one door was closed.. Turned out there was a minor earthquake not far away, just a single jolt.
kanybal
I've had my bedroom door slam so hard it just bounced back open. Always when the bedroom window+ another were open though
warriorofdiscord
There's plenty of things that can make a sound rather similar to a door slam, especially if you weren't paying very close attention. Water hammer, something hitting the side of your house, etc.
wibbIywobbIytimeywimey
Branch or something falling on the roof?
Necromartian
I used to live in a old school building. Two floors and an attic. The wooden floors would creak like someone taking steps, especially when the seasons change. No one ever went to the attic, because it was just empty space, but every now and then we could hear footsteps coming from there.
LiquidSunshine
That’s one of the experiences I had, just footsteps walking back and forth right in front of me even though no one was there. I could feel a presence too
myotheralt
Sometimes my grandparents visit my dreams, and I have to double check with someone else in the dream that they are in fact dead, but they are ok now.
CyberWizard252
I have a friend who grew up in a creepy old 3-storey mansion. They had several exorcisms attempted to rid themselves of the sound of children giggling and running on the 3rd floor. No affect. One summer her brother flopped down in the sunroom to watch TV. The couch faced both entrances to the room and his back was to a corner. When he put his hands behind his head "someone" grabbed his elbows and yanked him over the back of the couch. He turned, saw no one, and threw up on the floor.
lolactiq
I had a ghost cat for a while. My 3 cats all have certain spots to sleep with me and one night I felt a cat jump up on the bed and lay on my legs, I looked up to see which cat it was but found all 3 of my living cats in their normal spots. From then on, Pickles became a part of the family and would join the other 3 cats for bedtime
SeeMyVests
I have a ghost cat, too! I’ll see him walk into the living room while I’m watching TV, and both living cats are fast asleep on the sofa with me.
Av8rgrl
About 12 hours before my dad passed, he said he saw Mister and Missy, our two cats who both passed nearly 15 years ago, walk in to his hospital room and jump up on his bed while I was there. Later, at the moment of his passing, I was telling him I loved him when I started rattling off a roll call of relatives who had also passed and I told him they were all there to receive him. I don’t know where that came from. Just fell from my lips as I told him I loved him. I hope he found peace then.
sarahsaurroar
In October 2024, I lost my grandmother. I was in her house helping her through her last days along with my mom and in the dead silence, I would often hear someone call my name. 'Sarah'.
I knew it wasn't mom because she was always asleep and I knew it wasn't Grandma Nan because she was dying and couldn't speak. The house HAD been built in the 1900s, no TELLING how many people had passed away in it.
nosimpleway
As creepy as it is to have some disembodied voice calling your name, that you have it included in your username here has me imagining someone calling for "@sarahsaurroar", including pronouncing the @, from beyond the grave. I can't explain why.
sarahsaurroar
XD AHAHA AHA! I love it. In Bulbasaur's voice too.
redditturnedagainstus
The northern lights do not make noise. I've seen them from the ground at 70 degrees North latitude in Alaska several times, 30 miles from anything that makes noise or light.
Av8rgrl
I’ve heard them crackle and pop and sometimes the sandpaper sound.
ecoterrorpriest
According to [this talk](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcef943eoiQ), they "make noise" if you have a radio nearby.
ecoterrorpriest
On the other hand, high voltage power lines sometimes make sounds on their own too (from the current, not winds), and I could imagine that northern lights sometimes, maybe rarely, make sounds that are hearable with bare ears in a similar fashion.
ecoterrorpriest
An overview on the science why, when and if at all auroras make noise can be found at https://www.astronomy.com/science/do-northern-lights-make-sound/. Seems inconclusive as to the why, when and how, but strongly hints at yes, they sometimes make noise somehow.
JustAnotherVictimOfAmbientMorality
One of the biggest arguments I have against telepathy and dream communication (apart from the lack of evidence) that if it really was achievable, we'd sure as hell have evolved it into an everyday skill, not a fluke, that some people experience maybe 3 times in their life. Instant, interference-resistant communication clearer and more information-dense than speech by orders of magnitude sounds like something for which natural selection would gladly fuck at least 3 other organs as a tradeoff.
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JustAnotherVictimOfAmbientMorality
That's exactly what I'm saying. If it existed, and most people had it, natural selection would have jumped on it so hard by today it would be as normal and voluntarily controlled as holding your breath. Which, incidentally is an ability all apes can do to some extent but humans evolved extreme voluntary control over it. //
JustAnotherVictimOfAmbientMorality
Also, yes CIA did research fringe topics. The reason they declassified theses documents is because they discovered no useful applications or even verify their existence. Do you think CIA would be declassifying clues to its secret mind control and remote sensing network?
RipThemUpRatchet
#2 Did this card game ever get released?!
ElbowDeepInUserSub
Plot twist, it's Cards Against Humanity.
RipThemUpRatchet
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Balatro
Pseudobatrachotoxin
-1 ante, -1 hand size Joker
KoomietheFool
I went to Job Corps - and there's one in Montana outside of Ronan. This one is considered on Native Tribal Lands and Is KNOWN to have at least two Spirits there. The Little Girl and the Rez Man. The Little Girl was more or less harmless unless you spoke badly to her, and she stayed in the Girl's Dorms. The Rez Man stayed with the boys side. My only -known- experience with the little girl came when I was sleeping off a migraine in the Bay. I woke to a soft clattering noise. 1/?
KoomietheFool
and I sat up a little bit to look around the semi-dark room. (it was a bit after 2-3 PM) and what I saw was all the Dial locks (the ones you used to get in High school where you had to know the Code, Turn right-left-right) ALL 6 of them, Spinning at the same time. I just remember thinking to myself. 'Ah, she must be bored to tears' I spoke into the room "I know playing with the Locks is fun and all, but would you please stop? My head hurts really bad and I need more sleep. 1/?
KoomietheFool
The locks all stopped spinning at once and made small clacking noises when they hit the wood of the door they were attached to. It was a weird experience. One of the girls in the Dorms talked some mad smack about the little girl and woke up with Long scratches down her legs. 3/3
TheDreadPirateBoberts
sometime in 2011 a friend and i were settling into bed really late, the room was quiet, until slowly outside a horrible, awful noise started, like all the animals within miles were screaming. we were out in the country in utah. it honestly sounded like the apocalypse, so we checked twitter to unironically see if there was a zombie outbreak happening, a found nothing amiss. we texted a friend, 'if everything is dead in the morning, we knew it first' and then we went to bed. the next morning 1/2
TheDreadPirateBoberts
the next morning we checked the news and realized that, on the other side of the world, at the same time as the horrible sound, the 2011 tsunamis had hit japan. 2/2
Av8rgrl
This! This same event happened to me too! Not the screaming, but I woke up from a deep sleep that night, grabbed a pen and paper, and started writing a 9 verse poem as fast as I could get the words down. It was about a Tsunami and everyone turning in to ghosts and flying up in to the sky with the help of magical birds. I’m not a writer. Or a poet. It just happened. I fell asleep again after. I still have the poem. Like you, I saw the news in the morning.
TapiocaMartini
What was the poem?
Totallyscrewedinaustin
What was the poem?!?!
andydicktracymorganfairchild
If you play that card game one of you will die.
PatronSaintofKillers
HandoB4Javert
Jlh19
... of fun
ArgentXero
die = be sent to the shadow realm.
NightOwlRally
I want Jimmy Neutron's dad to do it.
"Yer goin to the Shadow Realm, Jimbo!"
RipThemUpRatchet
Not always! Sometimes you just get chased by monkeys & everything is FINE after
andydicktracymorganfairchild
I feel like I'm missing an important reference here
RipThemUpRatchet
Jumanji!
andydicktracymorganfairchild
Yes, hello. I don't speak french I'm afraid. Anyway can you tell me what the reference is to?
RipThemUpRatchet
A movie called Jumanji, they find an old board game but it’s cursed and they have to win to survive. I forget the details, but they get chased by monkeys at one point & in the end all the main characters survive
tallyhoho
Our house was built in the early 1900s and we used to hear footsteps in the attic all the time during the day but nothing bad happened so we just ignored them. When we renovated, we gutted the house down to the studs and found in the walls a handful of small black and white lithographs of people. After the renovation we never heard the footsteps again and I'd like to think we freed those people that were trapped here
Snooj
Maybe you rebuilt the walls well enough that they didn't make noises.
tallyhoho
Enough insulation to muffle the sound of the steps so they're still up there? Don't make me sad
Snooj
No, enough structural support or getting rid of enough nails that the house no longer makes noises that sound like footsteps. I bought one of those "haunted" houses long ago that people said had cupboard doors that opened all on their own. And they did! Because they were hung for shit and the kitchen was adjacent to a long hallway and when the window at the end of the hall was open the slightest breeze would open them.
tallyhoho
Old houses do creak. These were distinct footsteps though from one end of the house to the other. So much so we would think the other was up there until we realized they weren't even home. Don't believe in the supernatural but these were definitely footsteps
Kirj4v4
Also I don't think houses can draw
Snooj
Did you ever send someone up there to walk across the floor to see what actual footsteps sound like?
mksu
Coincidences, misinterpretations, people making shit up, and other people uncritically believing whatever they're told.
ArchaeoEejit
Impressionable kids. I saw a ghost when I was a kid, we were driving through a mountain road at night and I saw 2 people standing outside their house, they were looking in the window but up at the ceiling. I saw the ghost they were looking at ...but it was basically one of the uncles from Casper because that's what I thought ghosts looked like.
Salticido
Yup. As a kid I remember coming face to face with a snapping turtle that was taller than me. As an adult, I learned snapping turtles don't get that tall and my childhood imagination exaggerated or made up the mental image I had. Memory is very fallible and suggestible. It's why witness testimony isn't always reliable.
BeesechurgerProductions
Entertainers and comedians make up/exaggerate funny/spooky/weird stories? People laugh and cheer and ask for more, even if they don't believe them.
Do the exact same thing on the internet? Suddenly you're in the No Fun Allowed zone where anything even remotely unbelievable needs to be treated like it was written out of either malice or stupidity.
mksu
I don't have an issue with fiction, but trying to claim that the bulk of these are intended as fiction and not people who believe this shit sharing stories of things they believe happened as they have always done is a pretty bold position.
Snooj
Any dream that comes true or is somehow related to true events is the worst offender. You dream literally every night. Does every single one come true? Or do you get to pick one that coincides with reality and say it's supernatural?
InTheBeginningWasTheNerd
Look, one day when I was a kid, I had a dream we were driving home from somewhere, suddenly stopped in the middle of the street, and walked the rest of the way home, leaving the car behind. I never learnt to drive. That can't be a coincidence.
FartsSmellBad
That one chick did fuck a ghost though
BeaverOnFire
LoveWarriorPrincess
I agree.
At the same time… once I stayed over at a friend house, we were in our late twenties. We were chatting in the bedroom when I started to hear the whole kitchen being scrambled, pot and pans rumbles.
I thought a a shelve fall down and told her to go to check up. She laugh and said it was nothing, the gnomes in the house, that I could check it by myself.
Everything it was in order.
A moment later the sounds came back again, it was like if someone drunk wet looking for things in the pantry
LoveWarriorPrincess
being careless. Again, I called her attention and she says it happens all the time.
At some point the door started to be visible shaken, like if someone was trying to enter. It was super scary. She was calm. I grabbed the rod from the curtains and went to check with her, convinced someone wanted to enter. Again, there was nothing. This went all night long and wasn’t subtle.
LoveWarriorPrincess
I never spoke about that night and blocked it for more than 10 years. A while ago it came to my mind all together and asked her, do you remember when… yeah, that house was so haunted - was her only response.
theshopliftingseagull
how do you know? surely you don't think you have solely and personally sussed out every mystery of life, the universe, and consciousness?
dreammer243
You can't prove a negative. That's not how it works. But I do like the stories anyway.
mksu
The only evidence we have of such things comes from the accounts of people who are particularly credulous and desperate to believe there's more to this world.
AnalFistingPornstarLegendWolverine
That simply isn't true. Plenty of skeptics have had experiences they couldn't quantify or explain. Most simply refrained from attributing them to ghosts or the supernatural in the absence of a more grounded explanation, but that doesn't negate that they HAD the experiences.
LiquidSunshine
As much as I understand skepticism and not believing due to lack of evidence, it’s more amazing to me that there are people who have never experience “other” things before. You don’t HAVE to believe in something to FEEL that there is so much science (yes, I believe it’s all science) that we have not discovered yet
WarlockWithNoPatron
Sure, but we don't need new science to explain most of these things. The human eye is an incredibly faulty organ, designed poorly. The brain has developed several mechanisms for filling in the many gaps in the eye's capabilities. Most of these work only slightly better than asking your local LLM AI bot questions about history. That's why optical illusions work. Your eyes miss a lot and your brain just guesses what might be there.
vorodar
Sole witness accounts are NOTORIOUSLY unreliable. Memory is fickle. People backfill details based on later information, for example. Or simply don't remember all that well. Their mood can colour the memory in different light.
We can absolutely say somebody has had an experience. But very hard to say it is the exact experience they described. This happens all the time with not even any hint of supernatural.
Back in my teens, late-ish evening, 5 of us were playing cards and chatting. We decided
vorodar
to play a prank on another friend of ours (A). We called him, pretending to be from the police, and explained that B (who A didn't like) was beaten up and A was the prime suspect. And that A needed to be questioned, so wait to be picked up. 10-15 minutes later we called and said no need for questioning, the perpetrator has been caught. Short, believable. Bit mean to A, perhaps. The next day, he was telling us of the call he got. And in his story there were details that simply didn't happen.