Curiosities
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Rosa N.
Some stories haunt you because they don’t make sense—and that’s what makes them terrifying. These real-life encounters with the unexplainable will crawl under your skin and stay there. Dare to read them?
- We checked in, and my 5-year-old son went to the bathroom. He giggled loudly and returned with a bright red bra in his hand. "Mom, look what I found!" I snatched it from him and rushed into the bathroom. I couldn’t believe it when I saw a man's jacket there. To my horror, a voice coughed from inside the shower: "Uh… housekeeping?" I screamed, grabbed my son, and ran out of the room. Turns out, the hotel double-booked our room, and we had just walked in on another guest! The front desk profusely apologized, upgrading us to a suite.
- Iwas outside playing with friends one afternoon...we were around 9or 10. Welived inaquiet area. Aswewere playing, wenoticed aman inatruck drive byover and over again. Each time hepassed myfriends yard, hewould drive slowly. Wethen realized that this man was recordingus with one ofthose old hand held recorders. Itfreakedus out. Weran inside their house and called his mom. She told them they needed tostay inside and thatI should gohome. Itried explaining that mymom wasn’t home atthe moment..but she still made meleave. Ilived about amile ortwo down the road. I’ve never ran sofast inmylife. Iwas terrified that man was going tofind measI was running back home. When mymom found out what happened...she was super pissed off myfriends mom hadn’t allowed metostay attheir house until she could come pick meup.©heylookitsatyler/ Reddit
- One timeI was coming infrom seeing amovie, and mydad called meover toour computer. Hesaid, “When did you gotoCosta Rica with your school? They just posted agroup picture with you init.” Ihadn’t gone onthe trip with the community collegeI was attending and had noidea what hewas talking about.
But nojoke, the guy hewas referring tolooked just likeme, down tothe white Polo thatI was wearing alot atthe time. Itwas the most surreal experience I’ve ever had.©Capt_GingerBeard93/ Reddit
- Iwas alone inthe house and decided toadjust the temperature onmywater heater. Isat down infront ofthe water heater and removed the gray plate covering the thermostat. This plate ismetal and about half the size ofasheet ofcopier paper.
Iset the plate down next tomeand adjusted the thermostat. When Iwent toput the metal plate backon, itwas gone. Inever saw that metal plate again. There isliterally nowhere itcould have gone, but itdid.©GameVoid/ Reddit
- Not sure if this is considered paranormal, but when I get fevers as a child, I would always, in my fugue and pain-infused state, hear a man counting in a very deep voice. He would count from 1 and up; as the numbers get larger, the voice gets louder and more intense. It started to get less frequent as I grew older and now I do not experience it anymore. I've brushed it aside as a recurring nightmare but only recently, I've learned that my sister would experience the exact same thing when she was younger as well. © sherpaderpaderp / Reddit
- Iwas about16, inthe car with mymom, and wewere just chatting while she was driving. Afterwards, westopped talking, andI kind ofzoned out. All ofasudden, animage came into myhead, sort oflike amemory ofmeorsomeone asachild getting onto the bus.
Itwas sovivid thatI thought mymom had said something. When Iasked her, “Hey, did you say something about abus stop?” she replied, “No, butI was just thinking that this area here iswhereI used toget onthe bus togotoschool whenI was akid.”
SUPER strange.©CluelessCanary/ Reddit
- Afew years ago one night ataround 3AM mywife andI were sleeping andI feel myself slowly waking upfrom areally deep sleep. Myeyes started lifting upand assoon asthey focused onthe lamp onmydresser itslid off and shattered onthe floor. Mywife andI quickly sat upand looked ateach other horrified atthe startling noise. Weagreed wewould clean itinthe morning and went back tosleep. The next morning when wewoke upthe lamp was atthe foot ofthe bed (about 5feet from where itfell) completely intact and not broken atall. Weare still trying tomake sense ofit.©nedflandersz/ Reddit
- Wewere ina150-year-old family house onCape Cod that mysister-in-law had refurbished. She was talking about how she heard music there when she was akid and couldn’t gotosleep. Just atthat moment, alight bulb from achandelier fell onto the kitchen table right infront ofher.©sosorrynoname/ Reddit
- This lasted for ayear whenI was 9years old. Whenever myhome telephone rang, Icould always tell whether itwas one ofmyspecific friends calling ornot, even thoughI didn’t know she was about tocall that day.
Myhome telephone was one ofthe older models that didn’t show whose number was calling. Sowhen itrang, andI got the premonition itwas her, I’d always tell the rest ofmyfamily that itwas her for sure. Inever guessed nor got itwrong.©Waitwhyyyyyyy/ Reddit
- I’d been living alone for less than aweek. Igot some Chinese take-out and was eating infront ofthe TV. Ifinished mymeal and cracked open the fortune cookie. Itread “You will have avisitor tonight, lock your door.” There were novisitors that night, but the memory still hauntsme.©captainklaus/ Reddit
- Ilive inanapartment complex, and one day myneighbor andI took the kids tothe pool toswim for awhile. For whatever reason, Ihad the random thought about how much itwould beterrible ifI came home tomyapartment being flooded byaleak orsomething.
Weleft the pool, went into our own apartments, and afew minutes later, Isaw her outside calling emergency maintenance because apipe had leaked inher apartment, soaking her bedroom and bathroom.©dekuthered/ Reddit
- This happened inthe ’90s when mydaughter was 16. She went onaroad trip with her dad’s new family. Onthe 5th day, Igot apostcard from her saying they’d bestaying anextra 2days. When she got back, she apologized for not tellingme.
Isaid, “But you did! Igot your postcard!” She lost all color inher face and said, “Wedidn’t send anything. Wedecided not tobecause itwould’ve taken more than 2days toreach you anyway.” Iwas soconfused.
Iwent tograb the postcard from mycloset, butI couldn’t findit. Iwas 100% sure I’d placed itinmypink box whereI keep all mypostcards, but that one wasn’t there. After all these years, Istill get goosebumps wheneverI think aboutit. I’m certainI saw the postcard and her handwriting—I can even remember the details onthe card very clearly.
Shared by real people online, these stories aren’t urban legends. And they’re the kind of thing that makes you check your locks twice.
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