When I was about 7 or 8, I was staying at my stepmother’s apartment. While everyone had their on rooms, I slept in the living room floor between the sectional and the ottoman. Not sure what time it was, but I knew it was late. I was lying on the floor, and in the kitchen, which was separated by a wall that had an arch way on either side of it, I heard the sound of a drawer being flung open. Like, aggressively flung open. I heard the wheels slam against the metal, and all of whatever was inside of it clank. Scared the crap out of me. But immediately after this, I heard a knife being pulled out of the drawer. It was like a sound effect had been played on a speaker. A very distinct “shing” sound, like, a sword being pulled out of a sheath. I then heard two knifes being scraped against each other. Loudly. Like, two chef’s knife’s blades just going at it. I don’t remember how long it went on for, but I know I eventually I started crying. Not loud enough to wake anyone up from their bed, but enough for my older stepsister to notice when she had gotten up to use the restroom. I told her what I had been hearing, but by that point, it had stopped. She checked the kitchen, turning on the lights, but nothing was there. All the drawers were closed—no one was present. My step mom woke up and cussed at me really badly—she was really a piece of work, but that’s a story for another time. I was allowed to sleep on a pallet in my younger half-sister’s room, which made me nearly cry from relieve. And even then, I heard the knives after a moment. Eventually I did fall asleep.

I’m 28 years old, and still, to this day, have no idea what happened that night. I know it wasn’t a dream. And I also know people may call me a liar, but I swear on everything, this did happen. I don’t think anyone there was trying to scare me, and even if they felt like doing that, there was no way for them to get to the kitchen without me noticing in some way. And my stepsister and I had seen the kitchen. No one was in there. It’s something I’ve thought about often, but I don’t think I’ll ever really be able to explain.

This happened about 11 years ago. My dad was going through his final day's so we had him at home per his wishes. He was in a hospital bed set up in our front room with baby monitors set up so we could hear him.

My wife and my self were up on the 2nd floor, and heard some movement coming through the monitor as I got to the stairs I looked out the window that looked over the back yard, and witnessed a very big shadowy mass. I say it like that because I could see through it. As I stood staring at it I called my wife over to see if she could see it, she did.

We watched as it raised its head and could see red eyes staring at us. We both felt cold chills before it moved towards the house. I flew down the stairs, there was nothing I checked everywhere.

A few days later I was in the car with my little brother, heading to the store as we went around the house, on the back porch was the mass again this time outside the door. By the time we pulled back into the driveway it was gone. It was the next day my dad died. The last experience we had in that house after Dad died and we moving, was the baby monitors, we had them unplugged but clearly head my dad yelling for us to help. I was half way down the stairs when I remembered he wasn't gonna be there.

There are too many situations that I cannot find a rational and logical explanation.

This post has been brought about by a recurring experience at the same location, my storage unit place. It used to be an old wool mill and knowing how dangerous those places could be, it would be no surprise if there were fatal accidents there.

I was just there 20 minutes ago as I type this, and I could hear very distinct footsteps nearby. I was in the corridor outside my own unit, I was hearing them in the next row or two of units over. Very distinct and there was someone or SOMETHING on the move as the footsteps would traveling in one direction perpendicular to my location. So I went to investigate and there was nothing. More footsteps could be heard elsewhere, again nothing. I made sure that there was no other vehicles indicating another person, and I am confident that I was the only person physically on site at the time. There is no security patrols and staff aren't onsite outside office hours. The thing is, this isn't the first, second, or third time this has happened either. I'm tempted to go in and ask the staff what they know.

Around 2008-2009 I was working for a security company and we monitored a university campus. The guys in the control room overlooking the cameras would occasionally spot things in certain buildings. Things that cannot be explained, were often investigated immediately and always came up empty. I was involved in one of those instances. I was doing an after hours check on one of the older buildings, making sure doors were locked and the building was secure. The guy in the control room asked me to go and check out a specific area because he spotted someone inside walking down a hallway and disappeared out of sight. According to the access logs, there shouldn't be ANYONE in there. I go inside, down to where the person was spotted, checked EVERY single room down the dead end hallway and found nobody, with all windows secured. When I relayed that information the guy in the control room started freaking out. He played it back while I was still there. There is a 38 second gap from when the person goes out of shot to when I appear in shot on the same camera. Naturally I start freaking out too so I bolt out of there really fast. I unfortunately wasn't able to see the the recording, university was really strict on who could access CCTV footage. I do know that I wasn't the first or last person to have a similar experience in that particular building. Control room staff would see dark shadows move across wide open spaces on multiple cameras, figures in lecture theatres, locked doors randomly swinging open, the list goes on.

In 2019 and 2020, I lived in a 6 bedroom house with other people. During that time it was common to hear people walking about in the bedrooms and hallway directly above my head. Despite the fact that I knew with 100% certainty that I was the only person home at the time. It was often happening at around the same time every day, approximately 3-4pm. It had been heard at other times too, but I would often hear it between 3-4pm. The first week I had moved in, there was one evening where myself and my flatmates genuinely thought someone has broken in and was walking around our kitchen. The house had squeaky and noisy hardwood floors so it's almost impossible to move around silently. The kitchen was empty, lights were off, and the external doors were locked, and all windows were closed and secured. We all just accepted that there was some weird shit going on and lived with it.

This incidrnt happened some years ago, I believe it was 2014, and I don't know why it still bothers me Avery now and then. Maybe for the fact that I haven't got any understanding of what happened, how, or why. If there is anyone who has experienced anything similar to this, please feel free to share. Well , like I stated ,in 2014, my boyfriend purchased this huge mobile home , which had coming handy being the fact that we had been kind of homeless at the time. Our beautiful daughter had been three at the time, and we were grateful for our new home. The mobile home consisted of a small kitchen ,and dining area, which opened u into a bed which was behind the driver seat, then there was another bed towards the back, where there was also a small bathroom, and sink and even a small shower.. this is the bed that we slept in all together....well one day my boyfriend's cousin , P was visiting us from our of town and he'd decided to send the night with us...we offered him the pull it bed near the front.He loved the ladies I invited my girlfriend " T" over to meet him and they hit off! We had some drinks and we all decided to go to bed around 7 am.My girlfriend " T " decided to sleep with P in the pull out bed up front.She had to be at work around ten am, so they both fell asleep quickly. My boyfriend and our daughter were already fast asleep too, so the only one left awake was me, but I wasn't quite ready to turn in just yet. I left to go up the street quickly to grab some cigarettes from the corner store that was just a block away . When I returned everyone was still knocked out so I quickly smoked my cigarette, and then quietly crawled into bed with my daughter and boyfriend. Now this is where it gets weird.. I must've woke up around eleven or twelve and I couldn't believe that I was in the pull out bed up in the front with " P"! Wtf! P was a pretty big guy and he looked just as confused as I did. How the hell did I end up in the bed with him,also I was on the other side of him near the window, nestled down in the covers?? My boy friend gave me a sly look, butt he knows that is not the way I get down...I don't understand what happened I KNOW that I got in the bed with my family, why would I get in the bed with my friend and her date??? It wouldn't happen? I've never sleptwalk in my life either, in broad day light? Didn't go to the restroom, and sleepily crawled into the wrong bed either, so later in I called my girlfriend T who was at work. I asked her where was I at when she left for work around nineish, and she said that I wAs in the bed with my family, so whatever happened had to occur between the time she left and when I woke up around eleven something, but what?? I still have no ezxplanations. And it still creeps me out to this day, thoughts??

Okay so last night I was about to go to sleep when I started to get anxiety. I happened to glance up when I saw like a black flash. Naturally I thought my mind was just messing with me. But something told me to take a picture. So I did. My camera took 5 burst pics in the dark. WITHOUT any editing you can clearly see two shiny dots. When I use the dynamic filter + brighten it as much as I can, you see a bunch of them. In all 5 pics it's different, the first one only a couple of dots, the second one has the most, and the third and 4th one have a black mass on the left. I can't remember if that was my leg or not. But it wasnt there in the last photo.

Essentially please tell me if these are just reflective dust particles or something ? Thank you 🙂

Hello.

A few years ago, I was crossing the road. A car stopped besides me and I turned to thank the driver, but what I saw will forever stay stuck in my head. In that car, there were five people, two parents and three kids, all of them had a really weird smile…. Not the smile you have after you heard something funny. A smile that made me feel uneasy (a bit like the smiles from the movie Smile)

Couldve stopped there, I tried to forget about it, but since that happened, a lot of paranormal things have been happening to me, for examples weird noises in my house, the constant feeling of not being alone even when I am, really weird and disturbing nightmares…

Well, if anyone had a similar experience, could you tell me what it is?

I’m going on here on behalf of my mother and also because I‘m super interested in finding more things out about this. My mother grew up in a very small village between mountains with a big history. There’s a lot of folklore and old tales taking place there. If you keep driving after passing through the village, there’s just nature… maybe some buildings, but left and right to the street there’s only a river and forests. When my mother was a teenager, the rumor went around that when you walk down that street at night, you will see three small lights on the other side of the river, because apparently three people took their own lives there. My mother was too afraid so she dropped her friends off in the outskirts and drove back. She told me that her friends said they did in fact see the three small lights and that the lights "followed" them. When they stopped, the lights stopped as well. My mom was waiting for them in the spot that they agreed on meeting at. My mom said her friends told her that they were sitting there the whole time and my mom just drove by them the whole time. My mom did not see them until after a little while.

If you’ve had similar experiences or know what these lights could be, please let me and my mom know!

I was going through some old pictures of mine and noticed what I believe to be a home or some little person. I was by myself on this day and don’t remember anyone being near the area I was hiking at. I’m not sure what to think really.

I’m almost certain it is a gnome. People don’t really dress like that. And his little blue hat looks like it has a feather??

I have experienced a few things that nobody beleives so I'ma tell you guys

One time I saw a man walk behind me behind a tree into the road and then he didnt come out from behind the tree he vanished. He wasnt behind the tree. He had a black hat on old school style didnt look modern... This the only human iv seen in this way.

But I'm not particularly bothered about that . I want to share this experience as its more personal and happened in my childhood home

I have had 3 cats. One from age 2. Died 10 year ago. I have 2 remaining

one time heard my cat run down the stairs. I ran down playfully following the cat to see what mischief she was upto..And the footsteps or should i say paw steps, ran behind the chair, but no cat was there. And my 2 cats was upstairs sitting asleep on the window..

This was few years ago

I went back to visit this childhood home last year and slept there as I was experiencing abuse from everybody .

When I was sleeping I could hear a cat purring in my ear as if it was under the bed. It was very close. It was so loud it started to annoy me and sounded louder than if an actual cat was purring in my ear. so I got out of bed to check which cats were there but the 2 cats were outside in my parents room.. Also as soon as my foot stepped outside the bed. The purring stopped. Which was strange

I also one time heard a bee buzzing when I slept there and my mum said I was imagining it...

Another time I heard a helicopter type noise above my window. I got out of bed to see what it was and no helicopter was there and it stopped randomly and I asked if anyone heard it but everyone was confused. It also was very loud and distinct. Sounded like a ufo or something.

Am I insane

In my flat I recently saw a black silhouette in my bathroom with pointy cat ears. It was a big black fat hunched over figure.

A few years ago before I ended my abusive relationship my family were stressing me out.

I saw a hunched over troll lookin thing just floating in the air right infront of me staring and it had very light blue eyes and a pointy nose.

I told my ex and he said he saw it and chased it out for me..idk if he was tryna reassure me but when I described it to him I had to describe it first so the fact he didn't describe it first made me think he was trying to Comfort me or something, and pretend that he also saw it but maybe he didn't and wanted me to feel safe.

Anyone able to shed light on this?

Hi so I am (f 28) writing this has soon as this has happened and I am shaken to my core. Right now it’s around 6 am in the morning and I am on my bed sleeping with my husband (m 29). Well I am not exactly sleeping right now but he is. Never in my life I have ever experienced anything paranormal. Not that I don’t believe in it but it is something that never happens to me.

I am pretty sure I was dreaming and I suddenly woke up due an unsettling feeling. I looked over to my husband to check if everything was alright but I saw him sitting up on the bed. I was about to ask him what happened but I could feel his body is still right next to mine which shouldn’t be if he is sitting on the bed. I kept staring at him for a second thinking how could this happen because I can feel him slightly snoring in my ear. Then I realised the shadow sitting right up is not him it is someone else and believe me or not the shadow which looked like the side profile of my husband turned into another man of completely different ethnicity probably Asian. The shadow slowly turned its head at me as if he could see that I am staring at him. The guy looked like he was Asian mafia/gang member probably. I got shit scared.

I have only heard about this stuff or seen in movies so this happening was really scary. I quickly took blanket over my head and leaned into my husband’s side checking for his body with hands and assuring myself he’s there. This is probably just a dream. I kept praying to all the gods I could think of 😭 I took off the blanket hoping that the shadow is not there and it was not. I sighed in relief.

But my heart is still racing from the unsettling feeling I have. This is nothing like I have experienced anything before. I refuse to accept that this was a trick that was played by my brain (I don’t know what for as this has never happened before in my life). I am pretty sure it was not a dream. I know what dreams look like when we feel it’s actual happening in real life. I was completely awake. I am not the person who usually imagines shadows of random things as person or ghosts. The guy was not sitting in the place of my husband. It looked at if he was slightly over on the other side of my husband.

Can someone please tell me what is this? I keep thinking about it is a part of sleeping paralysis but I was able to move my muscles quickly within seconds. Is some entity living in my house? Is someone piggybacking my husband? What other signs I should look for? I am not even sure what I am typing at this point. I’d appreciate any help/advice/analysis on this?

In 2024, I woke up super early on a weekend, which was super unusual for me. I had always slept in on weekends. But anyways I woke up around 7:30 AM. Without moving or turning on any lights, I see a tall, thick shadow, looked like a man, and had its head tilted slightly. Behind it was my curtains, which had a gap of light flooding in. So I was confused and concerned how a shadow could be there. Without getting up I turned on my light, I didn’t move anything or even get out of bed. Then I turned my light back off and it was gone. And my family has had spirit experiences in my house, the first time my mother saw something like it was in my bedroom.

Any explanations? Because I still have no other idea what it could have been other than an actual spirit.

I wanna know if there’s any reason I’ve missed to explain this.

Hello everyone,

I am not sure if this is the right sub to share what I have witnessed.

Me and my gf have been together since four about years now. During this time, it happened 3 times that I was awoken in the middle of the night, usually 2 or 3 hours after we going to sleep, by hearing her speaking in a language which is to me totally unknown and I would say... feels like an ancient language?

We are Italian and she is a traslator and interpreter, she speaks spanish (mother languege levels), french and english (very high professional level), but she has zero knowledge of ancient or exotic idioms.

She speaks that weird language so fluently that is feels like someone making an actual argument, perfectly knowing whatever she is saying, and I swear this scared me. But whenever it happens I am barely able to listen for a few seconds and then i fall back asleep, so I was never able to actually record her. Also, this happened so rarely (3 times in 4 years) that I am not expecting this to happen and never thought about arranging an overnight recording.

I must also specify that she suffered some sleep problems, like she used to have sonnambulism episodes (also very rare) and more often she woke up very scared or speaks while sleeping (but in our common language or the langueges she uses for work).

I need to specify that she is totally unaware of these episodes, whenever I tell her she says she have not noticed anything. She don't seem to be worried about it.

I am not into any paranormal or spiritic stuff , but the last episode (two days ago) motivated me to check for an answer or at least investigate what could be causing this.

I wonder if anyone here had similar experiences or knows any "expert" who could help?

Thank you very much!

I am curious to know. I used to be skeptical. Too much weird things has occurred to me to question the unseen. Please share your stories. I seen Hat man during the daylight, sleep paralysis, leg pulled in the middle of the night, sudden random chills during a hot day.

My wife and I have twin boys. One of which is named after my late great uncle who never got to meet them. When they were 2, every night after bath I’d lay them on their towels in their room to dry them off and put on diapers. Every night, the son named after my late uncle would stare up in the corner ceiling of his room point and say “Hi baby!”, laugh, wave, play peekaboo, and just interact with…well…nothing.

This freaked me out more than it freaked my wife out who passed it off as him being a weird little kid. Eventually, I started asking him about what he was seeing while he was doing it. He would say things like “baby sleeping”, “baby funny”, “baby eyes black”, or sometimes “baby sad”, “baby crying” etc. This didn’t help ease my mind.

One day I asked him what the baby’s name was. He said “Rory”. This stopped me dead in my tracks. A few months prior, we tried to implant our last IVF embryo but the pregnancy failed. We had already decided on a name for this baby and it was…you guessed it…Rory. We never once mentioned anything about the pregnancy, babies, or uttered the word “Rory” to the twins nor to any family members they interact with. After this embryo, the doctors gave us about a 1% chance of ever getting pregnant naturally.

Fast forward to a couple weeks later. My wife wasn’t feeling too well and on a whim took a pregnancy test. She came out to tell me she took a test and before she even said anything to me, my son walked over to her, kissed her belly, and said “baby mommy’s belly”. He didn’t know anything about her taking a test or anything about pregnancies in general. That’s how I found out she was pregnant. Once we found out we were pregnant, the baby sightings in his room stopped completely.

Fast forward again a couple weeks. My son has never seen a picture of my uncle who he is named after. We were visiting my parents and I decided to find a picture of this uncle, tell my son how he was named after him, and tell him about him a bit. Before I said anything he points to the picture and says “ohhh! Baby! Hi baby!” Just like he did with the corner of his room. My consensus is that my uncle watches over my kids, was with the child that we lost, and that’s who he was seeing in his room. With their mission complete and our family whole, they are at peace now and don’t appear to him anymore.

Now this same son keeps telling me he sees a black owl at night. I don’t have the nerve to ask him about that one. I’m hoping that just means he’s been chosen for Hogwarts.

I have had prophetic dreams at different points in my life but I have not had one in quite a while, until last night I think. I had a dream about the murder of a woman and it felt as if I was there watching what was going on before and after it. It shook me hard and I had a hard time letting it go and falling back asleep.

This morning I get a weird message on my health ap connected to my smart watch. During the time of the dream I have absolutely no biomarkers. No heartbeat, respiration, sleep tracking, blood oxygen, any of it.

As I said, I haven't had a prophetic dream in a very long time and we didn't have fancy smart things back then. I'm super curious if anyone else has had this happen.

So last night me and my fiance went to a restaurant for a date night and while we were there she had a strange moment. When I asked her a question, her eyes rolled all the way to the back of her head and she made a very weird twitch with her hand. When I asked her what the hell was that she acted confused and asked "what?" And I asked what she just did and she said "what, me shrugging?" This was giving me a very bad feeling so I grabbed her hands and noticed the three rings on her left hand were gone and when I asked her where they went she just looked down and said "huh, I don't know" and that's not normal because last time she lost her engagement ring she had me going up and down a dirt road where we rode bikes earlier for 3 hours just to find it and it ended up being in my car. I would love to hear everyone's opinions on this because I'm honestly scared of her rn.

I was lying in bed last night and the bed definitely went down with the weight of something sitting on it! No idea what it could be, but very cool!

So for some context my 2 friends have been getting pretty into ouija boards and were told by demons that the 3 of us are special (about a group of 5 of us that play the other 2 are supposedly normal) supposedly my guy friend is Adonis, the girl friend is nova, and I am narciss (all people from Greek mythology) My friend said I have a demon named karma attached to me and he was told he has to fight it. Supposedly they have both spoken with the devil. I feel like its a trap though. Now supposedly all the demons hate me and they have written my name down on paper and crossed it out before and they refuse to talk to me when I try Ouija they either don't respond or say goodbye immediately. I feel like my friends are being tricked though, they were told they need to get a near death experience involving drugs and that my guy friend must fight karma. It's all a little strange to me, maybe I think it's a trick simply because all the underworld supposedly hates me but I do believe my friends believe these things due to reasons I won't discuss. What are y'all's thoughts?

So a week ago at school my friend was telling me and three other girls about how she was on facetime with her boyfriend and she hung up early to take a shower well around 7:17 am her boyfriend got a facetime from her and when he answered she just blinked at him and didnt answer so he took a ss and she hung up. Well when that happened she was still in the shower, she didnt even have her phone it was in her bedroom. Her leds were not that color amd she never set her phone up like that. She also said the same thing happened with her and her cousin, but when she facetimed her couin her cousin took a ss and lightened the picture and her eyes were black and there was an indent in her pillow like someone had been laying there but nobody had been. And both times you could tell it was her but she looked off like she didnt look like herself but you could tell it was her. And i made a joke that its gonna start happening to everyone at the table but i didnt think it would start happening to other girls at the table, Last night my boyfriend tried facetiming me and he said i picked up but i never got it, i asked him if i was talking and he said no and i asked him if my camera was on and he said no but then he was i did turn my camera on and he saw me but i wasnt even connected to the facetime. So i texted my friend that was also at the table when our other friend told us and she said that something similar happened to her the other day, she was of facetime with her boyfriend and they were doing their own thing and she heard him say her name, like loud and clear but he never said anything at all. I think its a mimic but i just need answers and i need to know if its dangerous or not.

Shakchunni is a well-known spirit in Bengali folklore-often described as the ghost of a married woman who died before fulfilling her desires. She is said to wear a red or white saree with shankha-pola (traditional Bengali bangles) and haunts villages, especially targeting newlywed or young women.

But what if the stories we were told only scratched the surface? What if the truth is far worse?

What if Shakchunnis are not just "restless spirits" but something far more ancient-creatures that never truly belonged to this world in the first place? What if they aren't merely haunting the living out of regret but are actively stealing life itself to reclaim their lost existence?

Imagine this: The women who die tragically -whether by suicide, murder, or accidents -are merely the ones chosen to become Shakchunnis. But their transformation is not immediate. It is slow, painful, like being pulled from reality into something darker. At first, they appear normal. A grieving husband, a mourning family-they feel an eerie presence but dismiss it as sorrow playing tricks on their mind. Then, one night, she comes back.

She stands in the doorway, dressed in her wedding attire, her bangles clinking softly as she moves. The husband, paralyzed between fear and longing, calls out her name. She doesn't answer. Her face is shadowed, her features blurred as if she is not fully here.

Then, as he steps closer, he sees it.

Her face is not her own.

Her skin shifts, her eyes-once familiar-become bottomless pits. And before he can scream, she whispers in a voice that is not hers:

"You let me die. Now, I will live again." And then, the screaming starts. The next morning, the husband is found, his face twisted in terror, his body ice-cold as if something had drained him of warmth, of life itself. And somewhere, in another village, a newlywed woman wakes up... with a strange, unfamiliar hunger. What if a Shakchunni is not just a ghost? What if she is a parasite, hopping from one body to another, wearing them like a disguise?

Hello! I'm curious as to anyone's experience using a laser grid for Paranormal Investigations? I'm looking into testing one out and wasn't sure if there were any specific ones I should look out for or if they were even worth getting in the first place? Anyone's opinion/thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

So years ago my dad’s friend got in a very bad car accident, they were all sad and I of course felt bad he was a really nice guy and he was loved , now ever since. He died on Christmas which is even more sadder , I felt really bad. Ever since he died , my friend has had dreams about him in the car he was in when he did died.

His mom caught like an orb on video in his funeral when they believe it was him. They believe that he is looking after him.

Now here comes the other chilling and interesting part, my friend and his mom went on the security cameras and saw like a ghostly figure of him , it looked exactly like him , wore the clothes he was in when he died then. They caught it and he recorded on his phone and posted it. I actually want to share the video here but I feel like it is an invasion of their privacy and stuff. Also I still dream of him for some reason time to time sometimes.

A friend of mine sent me this picture, and it has never been seen online before. It was taken in Northern Norway, in Mo i Rana, two years ago. They were on a trip with a lavvu (a traditional Sami tent) and were trying to take a photo of the lavvu. The next day, when they looked at the photo, they noticed that there was a girl sitting beside the lavvu. The people who took the photo had never believed in the paranormal. They showed the picture to the National Library, and it hasn't been tampered with

Cam motion detected. Cam light manually turned on because we just went through a full power outage and our AI integration wasn't fully up.

The one in the middle is one of our regs. The rectangle is a bathroom window, approximately 10 ft above the toilet. The bathroom light is off, this is light you see is from the Cam being manually turned on and showing the image on the deck. The two shadows on either side of the middle reg are window treatments (curtains).

As you know, I don't share any images, sounds, or videos because certain things spread like that. However this one is a garden variety harmless one that lots of people come across and often ask about. Coincidentally, it was just there this time. It feels like the right time to share.

This is what they look like.

Howdy! I've been living in Colorado for just over 4 years now and I haven't encountered many spooky or haunted locations. Anyone here know of any I can look into?

Please, don't say the Stanely Hotel or Cheesman Park. Thanks!