15 People Whose Misfortunes Could Be a Horror Movie Plot

We’ve all had those moments where something just didn’t feel right or gave us the chills. Whether it’s a strange noise in the night or an unexplainable feeling, these stories take things a step further. Here’s a collection of eerie, mysterious tales that might make you wonder if there’s more to the world than meets the eye.

• 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.
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• 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

• I’m home with my 2-year-old. I come out of the bathroom and walk down the hall to where he’s sitting. He looks at me and smiles, and my heart melts.
  Then he looks just over my shoulder, past me, into the darkness of the hallway, and says, “Hi.” I spun around so quickly—it’s just the two of us. I had all the lights on for the rest of the night. My skin crawls as I type this. © theblackestelvis / Reddit

• A few months after I was born, my parents bought a house. The lady who sold it was an old widow, and she sold it with all her old furniture. My parents got rid of most of this stuff.
  Every night at the same hour, they could hear a rocking chair downstairs and the lid of a trash can slamming (objects they had gotten rid of). This lasted for a few weeks until my aunt came to babysit me. She was unaware of the phenomenon and freaked out.
  She yelled, “You don’t live here anymore, you don’t belong in this world. Don’t come back!” After that, my parents never heard those sounds again. © CatF***sForBreakfast / Reddit

• We had a “computer room” in our house at the end of a hallway. One day, I went down the hall to use the bathroom and noticed the glow from the computer screen dimly lighting up the room. Then it looked like someone walked in front of it and cast a shadow on the wall.
  I jumped and then started laughing, saying, “Oh, you scared me.” I looked in, and there was no one in the room. I booked it out of there and avoided that bathroom for weeks. © benneluke / Reddit

• When I was in fifth grade, I was walking to the bus just as dawn was breaking. I had to walk about half a mile down a back road with woods lining either side. About halfway down, I was surrounded by eight or nine dogs—not wolves, but different breeds of domestic dogs. They didn’t make a sound but blocked my path in a half circle.
  I was terrified and ran back home, and when I looked back, they were gone. When I think back on it, I hope they were protecting me from some unknown danger down the road that morning. Who knows? © MrJigz / Reddit

• My roommate and I lived in a 100+ year-old farmhouse. Many strange things happened there, but there is one story I tell the most.
  One day, we were watching TV in the living room on the main floor when suddenly we heard a loud crash, glass breaking, and felt the floor shake in the ceiling above us. We both ran upstairs and could not find one thing out of place. © Unknown author / Reddit

• My friend always jokes that his house is haunted. I was on a video call with him one time when the door behind him swung open. It was completely locked and remained locked after opening. When I slept over, I saw this happen too.
  Last week, I stayed at his house, and he talked a lot in his sleep. He started giggling, sat up, pointed to nothing in the room, and said, “Look, they’re all here.” I slapped him because I got too creeped out. © irobot202 / Reddit

• Years ago, my ex-boyfriend got out of bed and started his morning workout, but for once, he was doing it in the bedroom. My eyes were still closed, but I could hear his breathing getting heavy and strange. It became so loud that it made me angry. I turned over and opened my eyes to tell him to shut up, only to find nobody in the room.
  The breathing suddenly stopped, but I froze in terror when I saw he wasn’t in the room, even though it all sounded so real. Then I stepped out to find he had been upstairs in the shower. © catsanda***hol13 / Reddit

• I got a letter in the mail addressed to my college campus mailbox, with my full name and mailbox number written on it. It was a Christmas envelope with the address written in purple marker, stamped from Nebraska, where I know no one, and with no return address. Inside was a single coupon for a free Wendy’s Frosty. © tacobellquesaritos / Reddit

• I got a phone call from a private number. I missed the call and received a voicemail. It was my brother (who was in prison at the time and calling from the prison phone) and my mom having part of a conversation.
  So I texted my mom and said I was sorry I missed the phone call but hoped she and my brother were well. She had no clue what I was talking about; she hadn’t spoken to my brother at all that day.
  To this day, I have no idea why a private number called me and left an old recording of my brother and mother speaking. I get really weirded out thinking about who would have been on the other end if I had answered. I even still have the voicemail. © SkrodLaDa / Reddit

• I woke up around 3 a.m. one night to loud tapping outside my bedroom window (my bedroom was in the basement of our house). I assumed it was raccoons or something trying to get into our neighbor’s shed. After listening for a while longer, I managed to fall back asleep.
  In the morning, I brought up the noise to my mom, who said she had heard a similar noise coming from that same side of the house; only she got out of bed and went to the front living room window to investigate. What she saw was a man emerge from between our house and our neighbor’s place.
  He stopped in front of our home, took a long look, removed a pair of latex gloves, and then proceeded to walk down our street. I assume he was testing for weak spots or something, and luckily he didn’t manage to make it inside that night. © littlemisspringfield / Reddit

• A few years ago, when I still lived at my parents’ house, I was woken up almost every night for about 5 or 6 months by constant, loud meowing. I’d look out the window to see two all-white cats sitting on the wall in the front yard right in front of my window, talking to each other. Once I opened the shade, they would stop and just stare at me. I found them so creepy. © JohnnyRootb**r / Reddit

• I went to a friend’s summer home in Italy and was asked to get out of his vehicle and check the mailbox before heading into the gated drive. I opened the mailbox, completely oblivious to the fact that it had a nest of bees inside.
  I was immediately swarmed and stung many, many times, including inside my nose, eyelids, and even my gums and tongue. Instead of a night of delicious pasta, I got a rushed visit to the emergency room. © Unknown author / Reddit

• My father had a heart attack, and I rushed to the hospital at 2 a.m. They wouldn’t let me into the ICU, but hours later, a kind nurse let me see him. Months later, my father called, urging me
  to turn on the news. Turns out that the nurse wasn’t a nurse at all.
  
  She had been arrested for pretending to be one, and some patients had even worsened under her care. Investigators found out she had a serious mental condition, and although she attended nursing school, she never graduated. Years later, she somehow managed to infiltrate a hospital and deceive everyone. Thankfully, she was caught, and I’m relieved she never treated my father directly.

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