15 People Whose Experiences Could Be a True Nightmare

Sometimes, everyday life can be scarier than any horror movie. Strange noises, fleeting shadows, or unexpected moments can turn ordinary days into real nightmares. What seems normal can suddenly feel completely wrong. Each experience on this list is stranger and more unsettling than the last.

• I was playing a video game in the living room around midnight, the only light coming from the TV screen. The house was quiet, and I had my headphones on, completely absorbed in the game. At one point, I caught a glimpse of movement in the reflection of the TV — a shadowy figure standing just behind the couch. My stomach dropped. I turned around and saw a woman with long dark hair just staring at me. My heart stopped for a moment — she looked exactly like one of the characters from the game.
  Turns out, she was a friend of my sister’s who had just arrived late and decided to surprise her. She’d apparently been standing there for several minutes, watching me play in total silence before I noticed.

• In college, I used to sneak into the campus theater at night and play the piano, which was next to the stage. One night, I had been playing for 30 minutes when I heard a loud crash coming from behind the curtains. It startled me, but I thought maybe the props were haphazardly stacked and had fallen, so I went right back to playing. A few minutes later, I felt something tap my shoulder and blow into my ear. I jumped up and ran back to my dorm room across campus.
  © summeringseventy8 / Reddit

• My husband had gone on a business trip, and I was home alone with the baby.
  I went to the bathroom, and suddenly, the door handle started moving up and down, as if someone on the other side was trying to open it.
  I called out, “I’m coming!” thinking the baby had woken up, and my husband was jiggling the handle to get my attention.
  When I came out, the baby was still asleep — or rather, had rolled over and was face-down on the mattress. I quickly turned him over.
  And then it hit me: I was completely alone in the apartment.
  In that instant, any trace of sleep vanished.
  Actually, all I wanted to do was run out of the apartment right away. © greensvet / Pikabu

• A couple of weeks ago, I was abroad and using a dating app to meet people, get recommendations, etc. A guy started messaging me, and we talked a bit, discussing maybe meeting up. The next day, I was in line for a tourist attraction and received a message that was a picture of me in line! Turns out he worked at the attraction, but it was still very creepy to receive a picture of yourself. © PuzzleheadedShow5680 / Reddit

• I was on a hike, and my dog suddenly froze up and basically dragged me back to our camper. When we got back, I heard a pack of wolves howling VERY close to our site. I feel like if we were still out on the trail, they would have found us pretty easily. © To_Fight_The_Night / Reddit

• I moved into a house that is almost 100 years old, and after about a year of living there, one day I was sitting alone painting some figurines when Alexa blurted out, ’Yes, Diana. It is Jimmy’s favorite song,’ and then proceeded to play Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. Diana is the name of the lady who previously owned the house and had been dead for about 5 years. Jimmy was her cello-playing husband who, after Diana died, moved into a senior assisted living community.
  © Traxe33 / Reddit

• I was under 5 years old when I used to see a man sitting in the corner of my room. He had blue eyes and was quiet; all he ever did was look over me. He was kind and felt like a guardian angel or something. Then one night, he wasn’t there anymore, and I remember hearing voices in my closet telling me to stay away. It felt... wrong. I felt stuck to my bed and couldn’t sleep because I felt something standing over me that didn’t belong there. I couldn’t see it, but I could feel it. I made my mom sleep next to me for weeks after that. © bahumbug_ / Reddit

• On my wedding day, I was nervous but happy. But as I was about to walk into the hall for the ceremony, I tripped on my heel and fell to my knees. The hem of my dress tore, and luckily it didn’t get any worse. Some people tried to pretend they hadn’t seen it, but I noticed phones recording. In that moment, I just wanted to disappear. Later I managed to laugh about it, but on the day it didn’t feel funny at all.

• I was working at my desk by the window when I heard my sister calling from the porch. Her voice was soft, almost strained, so I asked what she was doing out there.
  Still sounding anxious, she told me to open the door.
  I got up and started toward the front door—when my sister appeared in the hallway, yawning and stretching, just coming out of her bedroom.
  Whoever had been calling me from the porch, it wasn’t her.

• Everyone was in the living room one night when, all of a sudden, the hairdryer in the bathroom turned on. I may have been about 11 at the time. I went to investigate, and as soon as I turned the corner into the bathroom, I saw the hairdryer drop from a spot a bit higher and away from the counter, like it had been floating, and then it turned off. That was a strange one.
  Also, around the same time, our cat, in the middle of the night, was screaming and clawing at the air. It scared me and my sister so badly that we crawled into bed with my mom, who I could tell was also a bit freaked out. © HalfSoul30 / Reddit

• We were visiting family years ago in an old addition to the house that was a one-room school classroom. It was just storage and a spare bed; that’s where we were going to sleep. All the lights were off, and we were watching an old television on a dresser across the room. It was the only thing lighting up the room.
  Suddenly, BANG! The room went black. I felt my way over to the light switch, turned it on, and saw that the TV was unplugged. I grabbed the cord to plug it in, and the cord was 6 inches too short. The TV had slid forward somehow, pulling the cord out of the socket.
  © HugeA**lBeads / Reddit

• Right before I moved out of my parent’s house, my mom decided it was a good idea to teach me some cooking and other household skills. She started telling me what to do if the stove eye ever caught on fire and showed me precisely in detail.
  
  Immediately after she showed me, the stove eye caught on fire. I’ve never seen a stove eye catch on fire at any other time in my entire life. © WhiskTheSofa / Reddit

• When I was about 4 years old and my sister was 9, she picked me up from kindergarten. She told me I had to be quiet, and we were going home a different route, through some bushes, hiding and looking around. It was weird, so I asked what was going on. She said there was a man following her to the kindergarten. He was very weird, and she didn’t know him, so we had to get home fast and unseen. That’s what we did. I don’t remember if she told our parents, but since then, only our parents have come to pick me up. © myopenheart / Reddit

• When my son was 7, he came running toward me, crying and saying, “Grandma said you’re not my real mom!” I was stunned. He’s my biological son, the one I carried and raised. When I confronted my mother-in-law, she looked me in the eyes and said, “I thought you’d told him the truth by now.” I asked what she meant, and she calmly replied that we had adopted him — that I’d faked my pregnancy. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. She even insisted on a DNA test to “prove it.”
  I expected my husband to defend me, but he said maybe we should do the test “just to settle things.” That hurt more than I can explain — but I agreed.
  The results? 99.999% match. He’s mine. End of story.
  My husband cut contact with her for months. When she finally apologized, she said she’d only done it “out of concern.” But how do you forgive someone for making your child doubt who his mother is?

• I worked in an old hospital late at night and noticed the elevator doors open behind me. I then heard the clip-clop of hard-soled shoes take a few steps my way. When I turned around, no one was there. A linen cart sat across the hallway, so I thought this person was hiding behind it. I knelt and looked underneath, only to see two shiny, old-fashioned, pointy nurse’s shoes pointed my way. I eased my way around the cart to scare the person who was trying to scare me, but no one was there. I looked down and could no longer see what I thought were shoes. © bandi*k77 / Reddit
  

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