15 Mystical and Spooky Stories After Which It Is Scary to Sleep Without Light

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When we want to tickle our nerves, we turn on a horror movie and enjoy watching it, huddled on the sofa in fear. However, we should not forget that creepy and mystical stories happen in real life as well. And truthfulness makes them even more interesting.

At night I woke up suddenly and saw a strange man standing over me and watching me sleep. I was very frightened and tried not to move, the man stood there for a while and left. I thought it was sleep paralysis, but in the morning I found a stranger’s knife in the kitchen. And then I found out it was a labourer hired to renovate my flat who was sacked. © Sorry_Composer_8043 / Reddit

My brother and I are twins. When I was very little, my father took me to get a haircut and left my brother at home with my mother. Apparently, sometime after we left the house, I kept pulling my dad’s hand and said, “Bob hurt” over and over.
My father thought it was weird, so he called home. Nobody answered, so he got a little suspicious and took me right home. Coming home to an empty house (in the days before cell phones), we just waited. Later, my mother came home with my brother, and we found out that he had fallen and had to get stitches. © stikkit2em / Reddit

When I was younger and visiting a theme park, I ran into a guy who looked just like me. He warned me that I would lose my money that day and told me to watch my pockets. Later that day, I noticed my money had fallen out of my pocket, but luckily it was on the ground nearby. I wouldn’t have noticed if that guy’s comment hadn’t stuck in my mind. © KGhaleon / Reddit

When I was 9 years old, my older sister and I were drawing while nobody else was home, and suddenly we heard our piano keyboard playing upstairs. We listened and recognized the song—it was Fur Elise.
My sister and I slowly went up the stairs. When we were halfway up, the music stopped for about 2 seconds, then started again. Just as we were about to enter the room, it stopped completely.
There was nobody there. We looked around, and my sister noticed that the keyboard wasn’t even on—it had a physical switch. © XxPhantomsxX / Reddit

My boyfriend told me that when he was a kid, he used to hear whispers and have conversations in one of the rooms at night. Intrigued, he entered the room out of curiosity, and someone tapped him on the back so hard that he fell unconscious. When he woke up, there was a big mark on his back, resembling a scratch from large paws, and it’s still there today. It’s really creepy. © ruri7218 / Reddit

I remember one thing that genuinely freaked me out when I was 12. I had awoken and gone to the kitchen to fix myself some breakfast. When I got there, I heard my dad’s snoring coming from the couch in the living room.
I thought it was strange for him to be sleeping since it was 10 AM, and he typically woke up early. But I figured he was taking a nap. As I walked toward there, the snoring got louder and louder to the point where it sounded exaggerated.
Just as I popped my head over the couch to say hi, the sound just stopped. Nobody was on the couch. I called out to my family and nobody answered. They had gone out to get lunch.
I still can’t explain it to this day. © odd110 / Reddit

While I was sleeping in an old hotel in Spain, I felt someone tickling my ankles and heard a woman giggling. In my half-asleep state, I mewled and told them to stop. When I woke up in the morning, I realised that I was alone in a locked room. © Unknown author / Reddit

We were on holiday at a resort. My sister and I were going up in the lift at the hotel, and it stopped and opened on the top floor, which had not yet been completed. There were just bricks lying around, a wheelbarrow, and a tree growing out of the ground in front of the lift doors. There was also an impenetrable fog hanging, hiding the rest of the resort from view. And it was pretty windy out there.
We went down to the ground floor. The sun was shining outside, and the wind and fog were nowhere to be seen. Decided to go back to the unfinished floor, but it was already finished, and everything was fine. Still couldn’t explain it and subsequently couldn’t find this half-built top floor. © lifesnotperfect / Reddit

When I was about 15, I was home alone at night with my three dogs. They were usually very lazy at night, just lounging in their dog beds until bedtime. But that night, they all suddenly became very agitated. They ran into different rooms, growling and barking at empty corners—a behavior they’d never shown before or since.
I checked the entire house but found nothing. I don’t believe in the supernatural, but that night I slept in my parents’ bedroom with the door locked and all three dogs on the bed with me. © letsgoooo90091 / Reddit

I used to have recurring dreams at my sister’s house about a little girl with dark hair and pale skin (which are traits my sister has, by the way) telling me that she was staying there because my sister reminded her of her mother.
Months later, my niece (only two at the time) stopped in the middle of the steps and plainly said to me, “Her mom died here.” © astro-ponies / Reddit

When I was a kid, I had a lava lamp. When it was on, it would get really hot. Since it was yellow, I used it for drawing at night.
So, I was sitting there, drawing, when all of a sudden the lamp turned itself off. I started panicking because I’m really afraid of the dark, and I started calling my mum for help. She came into my room, and when I explained the situation, she said the lamp was never turned on; I had been sitting in the dark the whole time.
I touched the lamp, and it was cold... © Unknown author / Reddit

I had a dream once, and within the next month, everything from that dream happened in real life. For example, in the dream, my wife rearranged our room, which is weird because she hates rearranging stuff, and then the next week she arranged it exactly like a dream. In the dream, I also got promoted, and then, less than a week later, I did in real life. © Unknown author / Reddit

My kids had a toy that would constantly switch on in the playroom at completely random times. I would switch it off and the next day it would go on again. Over and over again. Eventually I got sick of it, so I unscrewed the back cover to get the batteries out and there were no batteries! I threw this toy away forever. © EGgal93 / Reddit

I woke up in the middle of the night to the fact that someone was walking on the bed next to my legs, I turned to my wife, but she was sleeping sweetly. Tried to ignore it and went back to sleep, but then decided to tell my wife about it. When she heard my words, she turned pale as a ghost and suddenly said that she had experienced the same thing several times, but she didn’t want to tell me about it because she thought I would think she was crazy.
We still can’t explain it. It hadn’t happened for a long time, but it was an unnerving experience. © 1980pzx / Reddit

My mum worked as a cleaner in a house on the grounds of a 13th-century castle. Sometimes my brother, dad, and I would go help her, especially late at night.
One evening, the old clock that never worked started ticking. Then, a door that never closed on its own shut itself. When we were driving out of the place, we saw a figure wearing old, wet clothes walking through a brick wall. My whole family saw her.
Mum just stopped the car, and we all looked at each other. I don’t know if it was a ghost or just a trick of the car headlights and being tired. © weirde***us / Reddit