22 Creepy, Real

Feb 14, 2024

"Now I'm a mom and I always check when my kids tell me there’s a monster in their room."

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—darlingcath

"Years later, my parents admitted that what we saw was a full-blown UFO, but I was already having nightmares from watching The X-Files, so they reasoned that ignoring the UFO was the best call. I still wish to this day that they had stopped."

—BigDingo

"The next morning, she was already gone to class when I woke up. Later that afternoon when I saw her, I asked what time she got home last night. She said she hadn't been there that night at all. In fact, she wasn’t even in the STATE that night! She was visiting her mom and had just gotten back that morning. She showed me the pictures to prove it. I don’t know who or what was in her bed that night, but it certainly wasn’t my roommate!"

—Lalalace1640

—lunallee212

"We looked at each other, and right at that moment, a big pickup truck turned on its lights from down the street and started barreling toward us. We both ran as fast as we could back up the driveway and hid behind a bush. We watched the truck turn around and speed off in the direction it had come and was gone. It was like a scene from a horror movie, and we were absolutely terrified!"

—Anonymous

"Startled, we went back the way we came to lock everything up, but we had to go back in to turn the alarm on before we could leave. As we were walking toward the front, we heard things in multiple offices that lined the hallway connected to the prep room. We started running toward the double swinging doors and could hear someone CHASING us. We ran out the side door to catch our breath, and the look on my then-boyfriend's face was of absolute horror. I had to go back in to turn the alarm on, and he reluctantly went too. As we were standing there while I punched in the code, the double doors started swinging wildly. We hurried out, and as I was locking the doors, we heard a man talking and getting louder.

"I stupidly stayed at that job for another six months after that but refused night transports completely."

—Anonymous

"A day or two later, Carol went to visit her friend. As sick as she was, she immediately told Carol that she had the strangest dream. She had been walking down the street when a bus stopped in front of her, and she was told to get on. The bus driver was Carol’s deceased husband. But that wasn’t the strangest part. Carol's niece was also on the bus, telling her to get on! She told Carol that she just couldn’t figure out why it was Carol’s husband and niece together, it was just so random! Of course, Carol knew it wasn’t random at all, but kept that to herself. Her friend passed away within hours of her relaying her dream."

—Anonymous

—Anonymous

"THEN, a few years later, two other students and I stayed late to practice a scene in one of the upstairs classrooms above the giant theater. We all heard, clear as day, someone playing the grand piano that was stored on the main stage unless a play was in progress. The sound was very loud. We thought we were all alone in the building, as it was around 11 p.m., so we decided to take a break and go see who else was in the building.

"We made our way down the main stairs, talking and laughing, and then approached the main theater double doors. The whole time, we could still hear the music playing. However...the moment we opened the doors, the sound stopped. The massive theater was pitch black and empty, not a soul in sight. It was dead quiet. We were all spooked, but we went back upstairs to finish our work. About 20 minutes later, we heard it begin again.

"We assumed someone was messing with us, so we decided to quit rehearsing for the night and sneak down to the stage doors and scare whoever was on stage. We made our way silently down the back staircase and tiptoed up to the backstage doors that led directly onto the stage. The sound of the grand piano was so loud, we couldn't hear each other whispering. All three of us smiled as we opened the door and yelled, 'Gotcha!'...only to once again find a pitch-black stage, an empty piano bench, and the immediate ceasing of all music. We were the ONLY people in that building, but we had ALL heard that music as plain as day behind the closed door. The now-visible piano was only like 15 feet in front of us as we entered the stage doors, so there was NO WAY anyone would have had time to jump, much less hide. We left in a hot second, and I don't think any of us ever stayed by ourselves for rehearsal past 8 ever again."

—Anonymous

"A chill ran down my spine as my brain tried to make sense of the situation and think of a logical explanation for the shadow. I was paralyzed with fear for what seemed like an eternity, until I noticed the shadow growing bigger, as if it were getting closer to me. That's when I broke out of my paralysis and managed to get up from the floor. I was too scared to run, so I did some weird walk to my brother's bedroom, got a pillow from him, and just lay on the floor until morning came.

"I didn't sleep in my room for another two years. From then on, I was always in the living room with the TV turned on. It freaked me out then, and it still gives me the creeps thinking about it today, seven years later."

—Anonymous

"I remember crying as silently as I could and thinking I was going to die. Luckily, my friend's parents got home just in time, scaring him out the door. I’ll never forget how terrified I was."

—Anonymous

"So I went back and pleaded with her. She grabbed me and dragged me back to my room. She whipped open the door and yanked back my clothes. Let's just say it was an exciting night in my little town with all the police cruisers and even a helicopter that followed her discovery. Now I'm a mom and I always check when my kids tell me there’s a monster in their room."

—Anonymous

"I remember the dread of walking in to see that none of my roommates were there. At some point, I started waking up in the middle of the night with the feeling of someone pushing on my chest. It kind of felt like I was being crushed, and I couldn't move or breathe or open my eyes. When I was finally able to come out of it, I would run to the bathroom and sit under freezing water to snap myself out of it or call my mom so she could calm me down.

"At some point I told my roommates about everything. The following day, my roommate got back from class and told me about a student she overheard wondering what students had moved into our dorm room number because she wanted to talk to us. About half an hour later, this really petite girl showed up at our dorm room asking if anything weird had been happening, all while staring intently at me. Obviously I said yes, and then she proceeded to tell me what happened the year prior.

"Apparently, the group of people who lived in our room the year before us used a Ouija board and accidentally ended up drawing a malevolent spirit to the room. She explained that she was in touch with the spirit realm and didn’t think the entity was still there, but its energy remained, along with some others that were drawn to it. Then she focused all her attention on me again and said, 'It's been picking on you, hasn’t it?'"

—Anonymous

"I couldn’t shake the feeling of dread for the rest of the day. My boyfriend even commented on how weird it was that the guy was wearing a leather jacket, because it was the dead of summer and like 100 degrees out. I never saw him again in my small town and really wonder if he was even real, or just something haunting me."

—Anonymous

"I was at at the pool bar and listening to a scuba lesson, where I learned that that particular species of snake — the sea snake — is one of the deadliest snakes and only comes on land to lay its eggs. That dog saved me from a deadly snake bite from a territorial mama snake with venom that would have killed me in less time than it would have taken to get aid. Phew!"

—Anonymous

"Later, my mom came into my room and wanted to show me something. She was rubbing her neck, and it sounded like Rice Krispies rattling together in the box. Her doctor called a few minutes after that and told her to come in right away. Turns out, the hole in her colon was not repaired, and she was leaking air into her body. She would have very much died had that not been caught. I told her years later about the dream, and she believed me."

—Anonymous

"One night, we were having TV dinners in the living room when we heard noises from the kitchen. We brushed it off. Then my brother, 5, asked to go to his room to play. Minutes later, we heard him screaming, 'It took my car! It took my car!' all while pointing at the wall. We ran to his room and looked up the same moment a Hot Wheels car came falling to the ground. My dad ushered us all back to the living room. My parents started talking about what could've happened while trying to calm my brother down. Suddenly, all the furniture in our dining room slid to the other side of the room. It happened so fast, we didn't even have time to grasp the situation.

"My dad, trying to rationalize everything, said to sit and finish our food, and we would stay at my grandparents' for the night. We tried to start eating again, but my mom started randomly laughing. It was a super-creepy, not-herself kind of laugh. She was gripping her steak knife tightly. My brother touched her arm and said, 'Mommy.' That must've woken up whatever it was.

"She looked at him with full-blown possessed eyes. She laughed and it sounded so inhuman. She lunged at him with the knife, and I somehow managed to pull him up and over the armrest the same time my dad cleared the space between the couches to stop her. I remember her shaking on the ground in almost a seizurelike manner for a moment while he held her down. Then it all stopped. We left the house shortly after she woke up and came back with a priest to bless the home. We didn't live there too long after. To this day, it is constantly put up for sale, purchased, and quickly resold. I believe it is an evil home."

—Anonymous

—Anonymous

"I got up and slept on the couch that night. I didn't say anything to my husband because I knew it sounded wild and unbelievable.

"A couple of weeks later, my husband was working an overnight shift. My youngest son, 4, wanted to sleep in my bed with me. His older brother, 7, who shares a room with him, didn't want to sleep alone in their room but was reluctant to sleep in my bedroom. I tucked them in, promising to come back in about an hour after I got ready for bed.

"My 7-year-old looked at me and said he didn't want to sleep in my room because he saw something when he napped in there a couple of days before. He was sick at the time and wanted to rest in my bed and watch TV. I told him that he must have been dreaming. He described seeing 'legs dancing like a ballerina that came in the door and danced to the closet.' I told him again he must have been dreaming. What he said next made my skin crawl. He said, 'I don't think I was sleeping. The legs looked like a rainbow.'

"I calmly gathered their pillows and we left the room. I really hope no one else sees it ever again."

—username1987

"A few days later, I got the courage to check the spare room, which had the attic access. The attic was empty except for a folding chair that was open facing the door."

—Anonymous

"My mom and best friend confirmed what happened. He just disappeared. There was no door behind the cart for him to go through. I even opened the cart because I couldn’t believe my eyes, but he wasn’t there anymore. It creeps us out whenever we remember it.

"Some hours after I had my operation, I was lying in a room by myself. I wasn’t sleeping, but I was in pain and just closed my eyes. I felt someone behind me, stroking my hair softly. I felt weak, so I didn’t open my eyes to see who it was, but I thought maybe a nurse had come in. Whoever it was kept stroking my hair for about two minutes, then suddenly, I felt the hand tug at my hair, hard. I immediately turned back to see who it was, and nobody else was in the room."

—Anonymous

"What my husband and his other cousin saw was unreal, unlike anything I've ever heard of. He came home at about 5:30 a.m. after he got the car going again. He told me he'd seen something, and when I asked what it was, he said he didn't know, but he knows he wasn't imagining things, because he wasn't the only one to see it. When I asked again what it was, he screamed at me that he didn't know. Confused and scared, I asked him to describe it. Once again, he screamed that he didn't know. I stopped talking to him. He never acts like this, and I was getting scared.

"About 10 minutes later, he came back in our bedroom and said that he'd seen human legs all connected together like a spider coming out of the ground. I was baffled. I'd never heard such a thing in my life. He said he saw a man in the ground as well, just buried in the dirt up to his waist, and a young child sitting on the side of the road, crying. He also saw shadow people running back and forth across the road and crawling in the dark. And no, none of them were on any drugs at all.

"My husband won't talk about it anymore. I've always wondered if they somehow entered another world or just saw some things that they weren't ever supposed to see. He won't walk out in the dark yet and doesn't like looking out the windows after dark. I'm terrified and I didn't even see it. I'll always wonder what in the world went on that night. I hope if anyone out there reads this and has had the same experience, they will get in contact with me somehow."

—Anonymous

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