17 People Who Have Encountered Truly Eerie Things

You don’t have to look far for creepy stories to feel uneasy — life often delivers its own brand of chills. While some strange occurrences can be rationalized, others defy explanation, making you question the reality of your experience. The unsettling tales we’ve compiled here will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading.

• Staying in an old hotel somewhere in Spain, Catalonian mountains, alone half asleep, I felt someone tickling my ankles and heard female giggling. Being half asleep I moaned about it and told them to quit it. I woke up in the morning and realised I was alone in a locked room and who... What... © Unknown author / 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

• My friend and I were sharing an apartment. An old soda bottle was lying on the sofa on the other side of the room, nestled between two pillows. As we were talking, I noticed my friend staring, so I turned to look, and the bottle had rotated 90 degrees out of the crack between the pillows, and then rotated back down. We looked at each other, and he said, ’’Please tell me you saw that,’’ and I replied, ’’Yeah, I did!’’ © The_mingthing / 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
• 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

• I was home by myself, reading the paper on the couch. All of a sudden, a brass ashtray on the coffee table in front of me started spinning slowly, then it wobbled up and down. Just as suddenly, it stopped, almost like an invisible hand grabbed it. It lasted about 45 seconds or so. I got up and went into the garage and waited until my parents came home. I never told them.
  © VirginiaLuthier / Reddit
• I was working at that time, and my workstation was close to the window. My sister was calling me from outside. She was mumbling, so I didn’t hear what she said, so I asked why she was outside. Still crying, she asked me to open the door. As I was about to go outside my room, ready to open our house’s door, my sister came out of her room.
  The one who called out to me was not my sister. © FailureSpecialiste / 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.

• I went to the bathroom one night and heard scrabbling from behind the wall of my shower. It sounded too big to be a mouse... more like an oversized rat or something.I thought I was hearing things, but when I went back to my room, I could still hear it. I peeked out the window, and there was nothing outside clinging to the side paneling or anything. It wasn’t the upstairs neighbors doing anything, either.
  To this day, I have no idea what it was. But it was terrifying as someone who lived alone.
  © Unknown author / Reddit
• My husband worked night shifts, and one evening, I heard the front door creak open. I called out, expecting him, but there was only silence. I felt a chill, grabbed a heavy flashlight, and slowly walked downstairs. In the dim light, I could see a figure standing in the living room, back turned. Heart pounding, I asked, “Who are you?” The figure turned, and it was... my husband, still in his work clothes. Only then did I hear his voice behind me: “Babe? Why are you down here in the dark?”
• 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

• I was playing hide and seek with my sister in our house. It was pretty dark, and I went into my parents’ room and looked in the built-in wardrobe. I could hear breathing, and when I reached in, something touched my arm. I shouted, ’Found you!’ and my sister from downstairs shouted, ’No, you haven’t!’ I ran screaming downstairs and told my mom, who went up to look, but nothing was there.
  In the same house, I saw a face in the mirror, and when I was in the basement, I heard footsteps in the house when nobody was home. © Unknown author / 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
• 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

• 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
• 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.
  © HugeAn***eads / Reddit
• When I was 10, my mom started locking my door at night. I’d wake up to her whispering, “Stay in bed, no matter what.” One night, I heard footsteps outside and the sound of scratching at my door. Terrified, I stayed still, listening to heavy breathing just inches away.
  In the morning, I asked her why she locked me in. She looked at me, dead serious, and said, “Because you sleepwalk.”

As children, we often encounter mysterious events that stick with us into adulthood, sparking a lasting intrigue with the unknown. From eerie encounters to unexplainable feelings, these memories endure, encouraging conversations online where people can share their experiences without fear of judgment.