Curiosity is a great trait for humans to have. It’s led to countless discoveries and advancements, and without it, we would know very little about this crazy world that we call home. But unfortunately, asking questions doesn’t always lead to answers. In fact, sometimes our wondering can lead to even more questions.
Below, you’ll find some stories of creepy and mysterious experiences people have shared on Reddit that they’ve never been able to explain. From strangers suddenly vanishing to seeing things that were never to be found again, we hope you enjoy scrolling through this inexplicable list, pandas. Keep reading to also find a conversation with the hosts of the All Things – Unexplained podcast, and be sure to upvote the stories that you find particularly bizarre!
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When I was a young man in my twenties I would go camping by myself often. On this particular time I had set up a tent in a small patch of grass not far from a creek. I was just walking to the creek with my pot to fill with water when I heard a strange squealing and went to investigate. I got to a steep bank and halfway down tangled in barbwire was a bear cub hanging by its neck and front leg squealing loudly. I looked and at the top of the bank was the mother and she was in distress calling and grunt/chirping ( the best way I can describe the sound.) My eyes met with the mother's and I was caught off guard. I looked at her and held my arms out palms out fingers pointed down. I somehow knew it would be ok to help the cub. I walked up to the bear cub and held it by the scruff of the neck with one hand and quickly unwrapped the wire with the other and set the cub on the ground and backed away. When I got far enough away to feel safe I couldn't see the bears anymore because of the bend in the creek and the bushes. It was nearly dark and I couldn't move my camp so I just stayed the night. The next morning as I was packing up my tent a bear came from the creekside with a large fish in its mouth. It was about forty feet from me before I noticed it. It looked at me, dropped the fish, grunted and turned and walked away.
To gain more insight into the world of the bizarre and mysterious, we reached out to the hosts of All Things – Unexplained. All Things – Unexplained is a top-25, People’s Choice Award-nominated podcast that explores mysterious topics from Bigfoot to UFOs to astrophysics and everything in between. And lucky for us, the show’s hosts, CJ Dearinger, Smitty Neaves, and Dr. Mounce, were kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda.
First, we wanted to know how the hosts became interested in unexplainable phenomena. “I grew up without knowledge of the paranormal, cryptid, or unexplainable world. I lived a relatively sheltered life where most of what I concerned myself with revolved around the tiny world I inhabited,” CJ shared. “It wasn't until I met my co-host for the All Things - Unexplained podcast, Dr. Tim Mounce, that I learned many people believed in what I always considered lore.”
About 2018ish our at the time roommate asked if we would drive her to the next town over to meet some dude. My wife and I were kind of apprehensive just due to some of the stuff this guy was saying, but we decided we'd go, she even convinced us to stay and watch a movie with them, so f**k it, we started driving. We decided to stop for gas on the way out, grab a drink for the road, but as we were coming around the corner to the gas station, we saw a woman in a white sundress, no shoes, just strolling down the side of the road. She was so close to the middle of the road that I swerved to miss her then hammered on the brakes, got out and went to check if I had hit her. Nowhere to be found. No woman, no nothing, and there was nowhere she could have gone to the left or right. I checked under the car, nothing. We were all pretty rattled, but decided we'd keep going. As soon as we pulled into the gas station, the TPMS went off saying the two passenger sides tires were flat, sure enough, both valve stems had sheared off. We got the car towed, went home, called it a night. While later we found out the guy whose house we were supposed to go to got arrested after a search warrant was executed on the property and they found human remains. I still believe we were saved by the dark haired woman in the sundress.
Perhaps she was the spirit of one of the guy’s victims, trying to warn OP and their roommate!
CJ says she was then brought onto the podcast as the resident skeptic. “It was supposed to be my job to question everything and trust nothing,” she explained. “After our first interview with a gentleman who had a UFO experience in Mississippi back in the 70s, something inside me shifted that could never be reset.”
“This man believed every word of what he said, and even more shocking was that I believed him, too,” CJ continued. “Since then, I have opened my mind to the limitless possibilities in this universe and had life-changing conversations with firsthand experiencers and some of the greatest minds in science. The blindfold has been taken off my eyes, and I now experience the universe in all its glory.”
I was living in my last apartment back in the 90s.
I walked down the hall, turned to go to the bathroom, and got hit in the back with a penny.
Nobody else was in the apartment.
When I was at chess tournaments as a kid, I would always hang out with this one kid. My dad was friends with his dad.
All was good, until one day.
When we were walking out to the parking lot after a tournament, we were talking, and laughing. My family was to the left side of them, and him and his dad were to the right side of us (the distance was a couple meters from each other).
I remember looking at them, looking the other way for a split second, and then looking back at them-just to see that they have vanished.
It may sound weird, but they actually *vanished*. My family was flabbergasted. My dad even went up the stairs to quickly search the building for them. No sign at all. To this day, that mystery has become unexplained.
I never saw them after that. There is evidence that they have existed though, as there is a picture of that same kid in the academy where I used to go as a kid.
It creeps me out everytime.
Dr. Mounce shared that he had a slightly different experience, noting that because he was born on Halloween, his “interest in unexplainable (anomalous) phenomena probably began at birth!”
“I was raised by a strict father who had served in the Army during World War II, and a religious, superstitious mother who played piano at the Baptist Church,” the host told Bored Panda. “We were at church every time the doors were open, and so I became intimately familiar with all the Bible stories, which just so happen to feature a lot of miracles, otherworldly beings, and yes, even UFOs.” He referenced Zechariah 5 verses 1-4 which speak about “a flying scroll, 30 feet long and 15 feet wide.”
Dr. Mounce also noted that his mother’s side of the family had Native American relatives, and she always believed their bloodline enhanced her family’s sensitivity to dreams and paranormal intuitions. “She told us about many dreams she and her sisters had that came to pass, including one by my Aunt Hazel that foreshadowed the actual discovery of a deceased body near their home,” the host shared.
saw a friendly looking cat that I didn't recognize coming up to me, like it was looking for attention, in the hallway of my house. Right when it got close, it disappeared. Years later, I got a kitten, which grew into a cat that reminded me of that cat
I once saw a clipboard fly off of the hook it hung on and land around 3 feet away. The room was totally still beforehand, no breeze or earthquake or anything. Just hanging up where it always was, then flung across the room for no reason at all.
Most boring poltergeist ever.
Once I sat with a group of friends discussing paranormal activity. At some point, the guy at the head of the table declared loudly that all this ghost stuff is b******t. And at that exact moment all the bookshelves right behind him came crashing down the wall with an immense bang. We were stunned to silence for a while.
Dr. Mounce also shared that one of the things he loved to do as a young teen was listen to the radio late at night. “I would scan the AM dial for whatever I could find. Often it was a hell and brimstone preacher or a Major League Baseball game, usually the Cardinals or the Braves,” he noted.
“One night in 1988, however, my life changed forever. That was when Coast to Coast AM, hosted by Art Bell, first hit the national radio airwaves. Airing on more than 500 radio stations with a weekly listening audience over 10 million strong, they would host guest experts on a wide range of unexplainable topics as well as regular folks with unusual experiences,” Dr. Mounce explained.
“In one of my favorite episodes, a man called in to the show as he was purportedly flying his airplane into the mysterious Area 51, where top-secret UFO reverse engineering was rumored to be taking place. Listening to the man talk about this situation live on the air for all the world to hear was more dramatic and tense than anything you could find on television or the movie theaters,” the host shared.
Family was on holiday at a resort in Vietnam.
My sister and I took an elevator in the hotel and it stopped and opened up on the top floor, where nothing was built. Just bricks laying about, a wheelbarrow, no fence or wall around the edge of the building, and there was a single small tree growing out of the ground in front of the elevator doors a few feet out.
There was also this impenetrable fog that was floating around, obscuring the sight of what would be the rest of the resort below and it was quite windy.
We both agreed it was weird and looked dangerous to be up here - we clearly weren't meant to have access to the top floor since it wasn't fully constructed.
We went back down to the ground floor and noticed that it was actually a sunny and clear day all round. We wondered where that fog and wind went to.
So we decided to go back to the unfinished rooftop level to check again, but when we did it was perfectly fine and fully built. We couldn't explain it and couldn't find that half-built top floor again afterwards.
A snorkel mouth piece at the pool. No other parts , no one else around. The exact piece that my brother used to carry around when he was 2. What he was reaching for (we think) when he fell in and almost drowned. About 25 years later, he OD’d. And the morning we spread his ashes, later that day we went to my sister’s pool to get our minds off it. And we found that f*****g snorkel mouth piece. Miss you, Chicken.
Smitty shared that, growing up in North Mississippi, he heard many stories of ghosts, cryptids, and other paranormal experiences that piqued his curiosity. “One of the stories from my childhood that stands out in my mind (a story that both Dr. Mounce and I heard before we ever met) is the story of Possumhead Man,” he told Bored Panda.
“With an abundance of opossums in the state, there was a rumor that a cryptid, known as Possumhead Man, roamed the woods with the head of a possum and the body of a man,” the host shared. “For the local kids, the story of Possumhead Man was both frightening and intriguing. This is why later in life I started to investigate not only Possumhead Man, but Bigfoot and other cryptids from around the world.”
My grandmother swears I was saved by an Angel at the beach when I was a baby. Obviously I was way too young to remember but the way the story goes is we were floating around in the ocean and a wave knocked lil 6 month me off of a raft and away from my grandma.
She claims she panicked and that I was nowhere to be seen, but as she ran to the shore a freakishly tall old man with wispy grey hair caught her and handed me over. After checking to see if I was okay she turned to thank him but says he had vanished completely.
Okay, but who puts a 6-month-old baby on ANY sort of “raft” in the OCEAN?! I know you can teach infants to roll face up/float in water, but that’s in a pool situation, NOT an ocean situation!
I was hanging out on the sidewalk in front of a drugstore when some dude walked by, stopped, looked at me, and asked me to think of a card, any card. Then he said ”you’re picturing the five of clubs!” I was amazed. That’s the card I was thinking of. ”Holy s**t, that’s right!” I said. The dude just winked and walked away.
That’s the best magic trick I’ve ever seen, and it was some rando on the street that I never saw again. I have no clue how he did it, other than some form of subliminal planting of the image in my mind, but that’s unreliable. It was a card trick that involved no cards at all. That was the most inexplicable thing I’ve ever seen.
We also asked the hosts about any unexplainable experiences they’ve had themselves. Dr. Mounce shared that when he was young, he developed a tremendous fear of public speaking. So when he ended up in a Public Speaking course his first semester of college and was required to give a demonstration speech, he decided to do it on something he was quite comfortable with: cleaning a catfish.
“However, I knew there was no way I could stand up in front of a class of college students and my professor and do any demonstration, much less talk about it,” Dr. Mounce noted. “To say I was mortified is a major understatement. Out of sheer desperation, I told my mother about my speech and asked her to please say a prayer for me.”
When I was about 13 or 14 years old myself and two friends found a house in the middle of the woods that just didn't make sense. We were all neighbors, and along all three of our houses was a very large wooded area. It runs a few miles back and becomes a state forest. We had run around these woods plenty of times and even had areas we'd recognize as we went. This particular day we followed this ravine that was sometimes a stream, but was dry at this time. That part is important, because we followed that same ravine several times after that and never could find the house again.
When I say the house didn't make sense, I mean it. It was a white trailer. I'd say a double-wide. There was white underpinning along the bottom. It was a poor country area, so that's not uncommon. But it was unusually clean. Like, brand new, perfectly white. But that's still not the weird part.
It didn't have doors. Or windows. Or a driveway. We were in the middle of the woods. The entire walk through the woods is full of bushes, thorns, spiderwebs, bugs, vines, logs. Woods stuff. But this was a clearing of flat grass like someone mowed this area. We weren't afraid or anything while we were there. There really wasn't anything remarkable about it, and that's honestly what makes it so weird to think about to this day. We just walked around it for a bit, said it was kinda weird, and we went back on our adventure. Eventually we all just went home.
I'm still friends with both of the other kids. We're in our 30s and I'm even going to a wedding for one of them this weekend. We've talked about it since, and the story still just doesn't add up. My parents still live in that house, and we spent years after that day exploring the woods all the time. Never found it again.
“The day of my speech, I walked up in front of the class. My heart was beating so fast I could not speak,” Dr. Mounce continued. “It felt like it would explode through my chest. I was sweating, shaking, and my mouth wouldn’t open. My eyes closed at the front of the classroom. No doubt about it, I was doomed.”
“Suddenly, something entered my body: a presence, a spirit. My pounding heart calmed down to an unnoticeable normal beat,” the host shared. “Fresh air filled my lungs. My body stopped shaking, and a breeze wafted across my sweaty skin. My eyes opened, and something happened. I do not recall anything I said or did the rest of that day, but I got an A on the speech. Unbeknownst to me, 40 miles away at the Ecru shirt factory, my mother and a group of co-workers had joined together in a prayer circle at the exact time of my speech. I fully believe their prayers lifted me up and allowed me to perform an impossible task that I never would have been able to do on my own.”
I worked at a pet store. I closed one night and part of the duties were to close all the lids on the fish tanks (no way for anything to get out. I opened the next morning and found 6 fish dead on the floor, on their bellies, an inch apart, perfectly in line.
Wasnt the only thing weird that happened there...
I wanna believe the entity was fishing out the already dead fish 🐟 💕 poor fishies
when i was 22 and my gf was 18 we were driving on a rainy night after dark and saw a young lady on the side of the road. as we drove past my gf asked me to stop and see if she needed a ride so i did.
when she climbed in she was a little old lady.
we drove her to her destination and after dropping her off and driving in silence for a bit my gf looks at me and goes, "Did you see a pretty young girl when we passed her the first time?"
i said yes that i had thought she was 18ish and was definitely not a wrinkley old lady.
we both saw the woman in both forms. f**king shapeshifter!
Smitty also shared that he grew up down the road from a genuine haunted house that some of his friends lived in. “When they were doing the dirt-work to pour the foundation of their house, they unearthed a young male Native American skeleton whose ankle had been badly damaged, or he had been born with a deformity,” he explained.
“The house, which was built in the 1950s began to experience strange happenings such as paintings being removed from the wall and laid on the opposite side of the room during the night, pots and pans banging, rocking chairs rocking without anyone in them, doors being opened without anyone claiming to have done it, and the sound of the young Native American, who they dubbed Slough Foot, dragging his damaged foot across their hardwood floors,” the host continued. “Luckily for the family, Slough Foot was not a malevolent entity, just a mischievous one.”
My sister and I both saw the same (or similar) floating white figure out of the same window of the house 6 months apart without having discussed it till about 8 years after each witnessing it. Our eldest sister claimed to have seen the same thing in front of our house after we both came clean to her. There was about a year long period when I would hear a phantom calling my name to the front yard but there was no one or nothing out there when I’d look outside.
I shared this several years ago. Our house seemed to be haunted for a while. We had two small kids at the time. Shortly after we moved in, we noticed that the kids' electronic toys would sometimes turn on and make noises by themselves. Some would start moving around or flashing with nobody nearby. It didn't happen too often. Sometimes we would go days without an event. Our slightly tongue-in-cheek hypothesis was that a ghost of a child had moved in, attracted to the new kids in the house, and liked playing with the toys. The skeptic in me said it was some kind of electrical interference, even though I knew deep down that powering up toys with just some interference wasn't likely. Plus none of the other electronics in the house were affected. Only the toys. One night I fell asleep on the couch. A growling sound woke me and there was a red glow that went out just as I opened my eyes. I sat straight up, wide awake and heart pounding in the dark room. The light switch was across the room and I couldn't get up the courage to walk over there in the dark. While sitting there and trying to remain calm, the growl came again and the darkness lit up from two red dots... I instantly jumped, and then saw that the lights were the tail lights of a toy race car. The growl was an engine noise coming from the car. This was a car that would make noise as you rolled it on the floor. I turned on the light, grabbed the car, and turned it over to switch it off. The power switch was already off. The events persisted for a year or two, and then tapered off. Nothing strange has happened for several years.
I swear to christ my childhood/current home has gnomes.
When I was 13 or so I lost my wallet- a *super cool* Vans one with a chain and everything, peak style for the new millennium- along with the $30 and middle school ID that were inside it. My dad and I searched for three days and turned up nothing.
Freshman year of college, the first morning I was home for winter break, I come downstairs. Right there, on the goddamn coffee table, was my wallet. $30, middle school ID, and all.
I asked my dad where he found it, he had no idea what I was talking about. If my dad is messing with me, it would be so heinously out of character I'd literally be worried about his mental health. That kind of screwing around just isn't his style, so I genuinely believe him.
But I have no f*****g clue what happened. We've never hired a cleaning service and hadn't had any guests for months beforehand. But I have no f*****g clue *what did* happen, then.
*And that's not all.*
I'm living in the same house now, and just a few months ago, while I was living alone, I woke up one morning to find that my glasses were goddamned *nowhere.* Not in the usual spot (on the windowsill), not in usual wrong spots (where I toss 'em haphazardly when I'm sleepy or lazy), not on the floor...
After a few hours of searching I gave up and wore my spare pair for the day. They're an old prescription but they work well enough, and after failing to find my regular glasses again on day two, I honestly totally forgot I'd lost them.
Until after about a month I started to get headaches from the wrong prescription. I figured out what it was quick enough, and started tearing my room up looking- moved the bed, moved out the bookshelf, went through all my drawers, no stone unturned.
After a few hours, I stood in the wreckage of my bedroom, surrounded by clothes, out of breath and frustrated.
And then I saw them.
On the windowsill. Right where I always put them. Right where I *not only* looked several times, but literally *ran my hand along* (as if they'd be invisible or something).
Gnomes.
Had that happen with my glasses and my keys. I’ve found that saying “give it back!” works sometimes..or I have some kind of weird poltergeist 😁
We were also curious about the hosts’ favorite stories that they’ve ever discussed on All Things - Unexplained. “The legendary Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most significant locations we have discussed,” CJ shared. “While there are endless fascinating stories that we have heard, the anomalies of Skinwalker Ranch were a turning point for me.”
“I was once again reminded that the ongoings of the universe are not just urban legends told by campfires but natural and current phenomena being researched by the most intelligent and respected names in science,” she continued. “Each of these individuals is attempting to answer the unexplained. Isn't that what science is all about? Many people who have owned and occupied Skinwalker Ranch have experienced everything from crop circles, UFO sightings, portals, electromagnetic anomalies, mysterious creatures, and apparitions.”
My dad has a custom apparel business, they put logos on shirts, hats, pants, you name it. His office is in an old cotton mill from the late 1800s that had the top couple floors ripped off by a tornado in the early 1900s, k*****g all the children working up there. All the mill windows have since been bricked over, just a brick wall in the shape of a window. Growing up, he’d occasionally pick up hat contracts like the NBA Championship or Super Bowl that would require a team of us to stay up until the game was over to see who won, before cranking out 40,000 hats by the next morning. After the 2008 Super Bowl, another fella and I were hauling boxes of finished product out to the loading dock to be picked up. It was 1:17 am, I’ll never forget checking my watch as I wheeled a load outside. After sliding the boxes off the hand truck, I looked up at the old building across the alley from the loading dock, and noticed blue light shining through a couple of the bricked over windows with silhouettes of people walking back and forth inside. Like, these things were opaque, it’s brick. Yet I was watching a bustling factory inside through the window. I stopped in my tracks, just staring for a minute or two until the other guy hauling boxes came out the door. I asked “hey, am I tripping or do you see this?” Absolutely unbothered, he replied “ya, I noticed that last load. We used to see weird stuff back in Mexico all the time tho.” I took a picture on my old moto rzr and went back to work. The light shone through for a couple more trips, but by 2 o’clock it was back to being brick. I still have that photo on a hard drive somewhere.
Had (apparently) a sleep hallucination (different from a night terror) and saw a black ichor monster with a crown made of flesh. It ran at me all herky jerky when it noticed I was awake. I screamed and put the blanket over my head. My mom woke up and ran into the room. It was gone.
Looked as real as real life, just a few feet from me. It was seamless with real life.
20 years later and haven't experienced anything like that before or after.
Mom later said she saw a moving shadow in the room before she turned on the light.
I used to live in a camper in my parent's driveway in the middle of abso-f*****g-lutely nowhere NS CA. Now yes, of course I know there are plenty of things that *could* have done these, but it just, doesn't, feel right. Had to be there.
Every other night I would hear rustling in the foliage around the camper, usually it was normal but sometimes I could tell whatever was out there was moving on two feet. Like, not reaching up for something above them or sauntering around, but I mean full on sprinting at break neck speeds with the unmistakable "thump, pause, thump, pause" of a bipedal animal. And it would knock, too. Every now and then on my door, but usually on the side I sleep on. Regularly intervalled, evenly spaced knocks of three every couple of minutes for an hour or so. Moaning and groaning, far enough you could miss it but close enough to be ominous. Quiet cackling. Blood curtling screams cut of suddenly. Sometimes there was a *stench*. The classic putrid rotting musk you hear about in stories like these. It wasn't always present with other things though unlike most of the other things (most things would coincide) so I'm hesitant to call it a wendigo even though it *is* the Appalachian mountains.
One time while having a bonfire with my sister there were some animalistic noises coming from the tree line on the bank of a little river in front of us (river starts about 5m from the fire pit and is a m or so across). A wheezy, wet, low snarl backed up by labored breathing. With a *plunck, kersplash,* whatever it was just dropped into the water and is walking towards us. **We only heard two splashes.** Noped the f**k out, went back inside the cottage and watched the fire from the window to make sure it went out. And as we were walking away, I shined my light over, and neither of us could see anything. There was a tree and a small bank it could have hidden behind though.
And our dog would bug the f**k out all the time. She's one the best behaved dogs I've ever seen but sometimes she just *would not move*. Hair standing up, legs tensing into 3rd gear, **staring** into the woods with intent. When you finally managed to get her attention, she'd turn her head back agonizingly slowly with the most confused, innocent, and dreadful look on her face. You'd have to pull her for a few steps to pull her out of whatever it was. And no, I really don't think it was another dog, she usually just runs away from or barks at other dogs but would be silent here. And not a squirrel or something either, she's only mildly interested in them, still listens to us around them, and looks excited and happy when she sees them.
I hated that place, always carried my sword for the 3m walk from my camper to the cottage. Thanks for the opportunity to tell this though, don't think I have yet. I have more stories of similar happenings, and a sighting or two of something I think is the same kind of creature if not the same creature and it followed me, if anyone would like to hear more.
Dr. Mounce says that one of his favorite guest stories that they’ve featured came directly from one of the most famous UFO abductees in history– Travis Walton. He noted that there are two things he finds particularly interesting about Travis’ story. “First, it’s how the movie Fire in the Sky sensationalized his experience on the ship into an incredibly frightening scene more akin to a horror movie than what Travis described to us,” the host explained. “Fire in the Sky portrayed the abduction as a very malevolent event, with abductors who were to be feared. Travis said he believed his incident outside the craft was an accident, and the aliens brought him on board to help. They had no cruel intentions whatsoever.”
This goes along with other stories but it’s the one that stuck out -
When I was probably 11, I was at home with my mom and dad. The way our house was set up, the office opened into the living room from a very wide door, and the kitchen was next to the living room, fairly open concept. I was in the office on my computer, my dad was on the couch watching tv, we were probably 10 feet apart at most within view of one another. It was like 7 at night and was pretty much totally dark out.
What we saw I can only describe as the most intense camera flash you could imagine. Think about how lightning lights up the dark sky so much it looks like daylight for a second, it was that but indoors. It wasn’t lighting outside, sky was clear and somehow you could just tell it originated inside.
Dad and I looked at each other. We both saw the same thing, and we both sat there a little freaked out. We’ve talked about it dozens of times and our stories are still identical, but we can’t figure it out.
Dad and I both saw it, one big flash, just as quick as a camera flash. Completely overtook both rooms.
Sudden power surge resulting in ceiling light flash momentarily?
“Second, civilian UFO – UAP encounters, particularly abductions, are a part of the UFO phenomena that continues to be ignored by certain groups studying UFOs – UAPs, such as NASA and the AARO (the All-domain Anomalous Resolution Office),” Dr. Mounce continued. “We must keep in mind that behind the sensational headlines of military encounters and government inquiries lies a realm of deeply personal stories that have long yearned to be taken seriously. Travis Walton’s is just one story out of countless ordinary individuals who found themselves thrust into extraordinary circumstances.”
There have been a few weird, unexplainable things happen to me, but one that really sticks out is from when I as living in this small 1br apt. You know how when you live somewhere for a while, you basically have the place memorized and can walk around in the dark? Well, I had lived in this place for almost 5 years, and my routine before bed was basically turning lights off in the living room, going into the bathroom to brush my teeth, turn bathroom light off and walk across the hall and get into my bed, without turning the light on in my bedroom. I always did this. Well, one night , I walk into my bedroom and right as I'm about to climb into bed, "SPIDER" pops into my head, as if someone said it to me. I thought, "hmm, that's weird", but I turned around and turned on the light, pulled the comforter and sheet back , and there was this big spider in my bed. I got the chills wondering why the word "SPIDER" popped into my head like that. I didn't have a spider problem in my apartment. I didn't find spiders in my apt. all the time or anything. It was really weird.
I’m breaking the rules because I only *heard* this, but it’s spooky and true.
My parents would leave for work an hour before my bus came, so I got an hour to watch cartoons. I loved it. One morning I heard the distinct click of the basement door closing (so I assumed someone got in a basement window and thought nobody was home).
I screamed out “I haven’t seen you, please don’t hurt me! I’ll leave right now and I promise I won’t tell anyone” and ran out the front door with my backpack.
We lived in a rural area and had a long driveway, but I heard plates and glasses shattering because it was May and the kitchen window was partly open. That was a *long* wait for my bus lol. I didn’t tell anyone, and when I got home…nothing was broken or missing.
It had never occurred to me to be scared of being home alone in the morning, so there was no real reason I’d convince myself I heard something. But that basement door had a very loud click that echoed up the stairs. And it’s hard to mistake other sounds for glasses and plates being thrown on the ground.
I like how the kid was just like “I haven’t seen you, please don’t hurt me! I’ll leave right now and I promise I won’t tell anyone”. That's pretty quick thinking and kinda smart. Although I think if someone ever broke into the house when I am home alone I am gonna grab my dad's gun and then escape through the basement enterance.
“Believe it or not, our very first official interview has always been my favorite tale and most puzzling,” Smitty told Bored Panda. “The man we interviewed, who we only referred to as Mr. Billy, was a law enforcement officer who witnessed one of the most viewed UFO - UAP sightings in United States History.” If you’d like to listen to the episode, you can find it right here!
I was traveling with my family in the middle of nowhere, VA, and we stopped at a chain restaurant to eat. I went to the bathroom, and it was completely empty. I was washing my hands when the door opened. In the mirror was an odd-looking kid with almond-shaped eyes. He looked super young — maybe 5 years old. Nobody was with him. He came in and just stood and stared at me. I think I said something like, 'Do you need help?' and he turned toward the stalls and straight-up disappeared. I didn’t believe my eyes, and actually checked the stalls (all the doors were open), popped my head out the door, and even checked under the sink. Nobody was there. He couldn’t have ran back through the door that fast because 1. it did not open again, and 2. he didn’t go back that way anyway. I always wondered what it was. Ghost? Alien? Some sort of weird brain fart?
My older brother and I were probably 10 and 13 at the time this happened. We used to watch the history channel and saw the shows about UFOs and what not. People talking about seeing actual triangles just floating in the sky with no sound. My brother and I watched them just to poke fun at the witnesses because we thought it was so far fetched and ridiculous.
One night, just after sun down, we were outside feeding our dogs. My brother looks up and notices something in the sky. I look up with him and I'll be damned, a hovering triangular object, making no noise was hovering over our heads. What made it so eerie was that it was hovering not much higher than the tree tops but still, no noise. My brother shined the flashlight at it which scared me even more lol.
We instantly ran inside and told our parents but of course they're not going to believe the kids and honestly, I don't blame them. Ever since that night, I've always looked up in the sky, hoping to see something like it again but I have yet to. I'll never forget it.
As far as whether or not there will always be unexplainable phenomena, CJ says there will always be more questions. “As one phenomenon is explained, we will be left to ponder another,” she told Bored Panda. “The worlds of science and religion have worked endlessly to uncover where we came from and where we are going. Could UFOs be our answer to these questions, or would they simply open the door to new questions?"
"As a species, we don't like loose ends. We want answers, and sometimes life feels like a page-turner that keeps ending with a cliffhanger," CJ continued. "We must keep turning pages, and as we learn more, we realize there is always more to learn. The greatest benefit of being part of the All Things - Unexplained podcast is that I get to continue searching for answers with the most fascinating people.”
this happened around 10 years ago, right after my grandpa died. I was 10 years old and trying to fall asleep in my room on my back when I heard whispering. I didn’t think anything of it, maybe it was mums TV in the next room but it got louder and settled right above me. I was completely lucid, able to move so it wasn’t sleep paralysis.
It was two voices, a female and a male, and I had the sense they were talking AT me if that makes sense? the strangest thing was, I could very clearly make out syllables but I couldn’t understand what was being said. I knew it wasn’t in a language I couldn’t understand, I just… couldn’t understand what they were saying, like it was muffled, but so clear at the same time?
I was horrified understandably, and after about 10 minutes of just talking, I called out “stop please” and it stopped immediately and I never heard anything like this again. I can only attribute it to my pop dying a couple days before this, but in saying that it doesn’t explain the female voice at all
I was on a pretty secluded beach one time and it was boiling hot (36 C or so) I was sitting in the shade when I noticed a weird figure by the water bending down. The figure looked like a person that was covered in very heavy clothing that would literally end someone in this weather. I haven't seen this figure approach from anywhere and from where I was sitting I could see all sides of the beach. Anyway, I felt this horrible sense of dread like something horrible is going to happen to me but I literally blinked and it disappeared. Now I don't believe in ghosts or the paranormal even though I had some slightly creepy stuff happen in a couple of old places. I don't drink/take any meds legal or otherwise but maybe it was the heat that made me momentarily delirious? I have no idea...
Sound's like a drowned old sailor or even sailors wife waiting for his return....
“I do not believe that there is an explanation for everything nor will there ever be,” Smitty shared. “If the world is spinning, there will be unexplained phenomena. And if Dr. Mounce, CJ, and myself are alive, we will continue to investigate the unexplainable. So, we hope all of you stay happy, stay strange, and listen to All Things - Unexplained!”
On a super dark road in farmland with corn on both sides a weird human shaped thing with wings was crouched in the road and it did a weird jump and took off flying above the corn. Everyone in the car screamed like lunatics. We were on the way to a party and everyone there thought we were messing with them but we were legitimately terrified. It was big, like the size of an average man. This was over ten years ago and we still randomly message each other about it.
Edit: I just did some googling and it appears people have reported seeing the same think even hunched over at first like I saw in PA and NJ so I guess maybe we have something unexplainable going on or at least we did. All the websites I found had this info put out around the same time I saw it years ago.
To discuss whether or not we’ll always have questions, Dr. Mounce compared the theories of Albert Einstein and Erik Bard, the principal investigator and chief scientist at Skinwalker Ranch in rural Utah. “Einstein was a scientist on a search to unite everything, but he was thrown off by the observation of spooky events that became a part of quantum mechanics,” the host explained. “Erik Bard, on the other hand, is a scientist on a search to find the one thing that would unite everything spooky.”
“However, mysterious events are not limited to ranches in rural Utah or the puzzling quantum realm,” the host pointed out. “There are spooky, paranormal events that are experienced around the globe, and conceivably, around the universe. It is only with open minds and open hearts– and generous portions of observation, data collection, and analysis– that we will give ourselves a chance to arrive at the crossroads of the unexplained.”
I’ve had a towel fly off a shelf at a hotel I frequented. It happened on two separate occasions. Both times, I was in the middle of a shower, and suddenly, the towel that was sitting perfectly still on a shelf flew out about a foot away. No one else was with me in the room, and both the bathroom and room were locked. Still have no logical explanation for it.
This was about 8-10 years ago. I was on my way to work for an early morning shift. To get to work I had to drive down this long dark road which the speed limit was about 80km. Now on this road there is a stretch for about 2 minutes where there is pure darkness except for your headlights. While driving I looked up and saw an orb of light directly above my car which was travelling a bit quicker than me. Never seen anything like it, the light followed me for as long as 30 seconds than shot to the side into the bushland. I was intrigued and wanted to follow it but there was no road that lead towards it. It slowly disappeared into the trees. I've never told anyone except for my girlfriend this story as I don't know what to make of it.
“These stories paint a broader picture of the paranormal— one that transcends the boundaries of skepticism and belief,” Dr. Mounce says. “It is through these unexplained tales that we gain a renewed appreciation for the complexities of human experience and the mysteries that continue to beckon us beyond the boundaries of our understanding.”
“As we continue to ponder the dark mysterious realms of our planet and the vast uncharted territories of the cosmos, let us not forget the people who have these experiences, because their lives have been changed forever,” the host continued. “Their whispers of truth contribute to the timeless saga of humanity's quest for meaning in the face of the unknown, and next time, the encounter of high strangeness could arrive for you.”
If you’d like to delve deeper into the world of mysterious and fascinating stories, be sure to check out All Things - Unexplained!
On a road trip, I saw a pale dot in the sky. It looked like it split into pieces suddenly and disappeared.
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just to put it into perspective, when i was 22 i left my abusive ex & after a short stint in a shelter for battered women, found a job & a small one bedroom house for me & my 18 mos old son. the house was located in kind of an isolated area surrounded by woods. it appealed to me bc i was concerned my ex would find me if i lived in town. anyway, first time i walked in the place it just felt welcoming & homey so i rented it. many things happened that i couldn't explain but the weirdest one was when i couldn't find my keys before i was going to leave. i always put them in a specific place & now they were gone. looked everywhere-nothing! i knew that 'something' was in the house but it never did anything to make me uncomfortable. on the occasion of the missing keys i was getting late for work and finally stood in the kitchen and said out loud 'i really need to go so give them back'. a second later i heard a sound behind me and there they were on the floor as if they had been tossed there.
When I was a child (2000 to 2005), I used to stay with my parents at their company (a photo store). I don't remember exactly how old I was at the time, but the following happened: under a staircase there was a deposit of materials and old things, so I was playing there, looking around, when I saw a very old computer (later I discovered it was a 286, it was the first one my father bought there in the 80s). I started playing with it, pressing the buttons, then the only thing I remember was that something appeared on the monitor that scared me a lot, I remember running away screaming in absolute despair. I never touched it again, a few years ago, we were cleaning it, when I saw the computer and asked my father what its history was and so on, he said he bought it in the 80s, used it in the store, but after a while he retired it. because of one reason: all the people he hired to operate it at the time died in tragic accidents. This always give me goosebumps.
1. One time i was on a road trip and saw a pale humanoid figure out the window. It screeched and disappeared. 2. As a kid i tried to do the bloody mary thing in the bathroom and I actually saw some sort of other girl in the bathroom with me, pale and so not human. 3. When i was reading a scary novel, in the dark, with dubstep in my headphones, i saw a tall shadowy figure in the corner. I freaked out but when i looked back there was nothing. ALL OF THESE ACTUALLY HAPPENED
just to put it into perspective, when i was 22 i left my abusive ex & after a short stint in a shelter for battered women, found a job & a small one bedroom house for me & my 18 mos old son. the house was located in kind of an isolated area surrounded by woods. it appealed to me bc i was concerned my ex would find me if i lived in town. anyway, first time i walked in the place it just felt welcoming & homey so i rented it. many things happened that i couldn't explain but the weirdest one was when i couldn't find my keys before i was going to leave. i always put them in a specific place & now they were gone. looked everywhere-nothing! i knew that 'something' was in the house but it never did anything to make me uncomfortable. on the occasion of the missing keys i was getting late for work and finally stood in the kitchen and said out loud 'i really need to go so give them back'. a second later i heard a sound behind me and there they were on the floor as if they had been tossed there.
When I was a child (2000 to 2005), I used to stay with my parents at their company (a photo store). I don't remember exactly how old I was at the time, but the following happened: under a staircase there was a deposit of materials and old things, so I was playing there, looking around, when I saw a very old computer (later I discovered it was a 286, it was the first one my father bought there in the 80s). I started playing with it, pressing the buttons, then the only thing I remember was that something appeared on the monitor that scared me a lot, I remember running away screaming in absolute despair. I never touched it again, a few years ago, we were cleaning it, when I saw the computer and asked my father what its history was and so on, he said he bought it in the 80s, used it in the store, but after a while he retired it. because of one reason: all the people he hired to operate it at the time died in tragic accidents. This always give me goosebumps.
1. One time i was on a road trip and saw a pale humanoid figure out the window. It screeched and disappeared. 2. As a kid i tried to do the bloody mary thing in the bathroom and I actually saw some sort of other girl in the bathroom with me, pale and so not human. 3. When i was reading a scary novel, in the dark, with dubstep in my headphones, i saw a tall shadowy figure in the corner. I freaked out but when i looked back there was nothing. ALL OF THESE ACTUALLY HAPPENED
