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30 Situations That Happened At Night And Caught People Off Guard, As Revealed By Users Of This Online Group
We all have some things that we are afraid of or situations in which we wouldn't want to take part. There are some common fears that people have: fear of heights, closed or open spaces, fear of certain animals, fear of flying, etc. And many can agree, especially those who are afraid of the dark, that at night things seem to be even more suspicious. Having this in mind, the Reddit user @Cartisayslatt777 asked people online to share what were some of the strangest and weirdest things they witnessed at night. The question soon was answered by thousands of people who decided to share their creepy stories and experiences.
Which one of these do you find most interesting? Maybe you also have a story to share? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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#1
I’m going to preface this with the important detail that all of the garages in the neighborhood that I grew up in were detached from the houses.
Until I was about 12, my bedroom was on the ground floor of our house and my parents’ room was right across the hall. We had a dog, Oreo, that we adopted when I was 2. When she was about 5 and I was about 7, she went blind. Around that time, she became the world’s best watchdog and this is why I believe that.
It was the middle of winter when I was maybe 9 or 10, and there was snow on the ground. It was a quiet night. Oreo was restless, and we didn’t know why. Her hearing seemed to improve immensely since she lost her vision and she would bark at kids playing down the road or the mailman two houses down. But it was close to midnight at this point, and the neighborhood was asleep. Oreo wasn’t. She barked at our back door and scratched at it like someone was taunting her. Oreo paced from my room, to my parents’ room, to the back door, again and again and again. It woke me and my mom up, and my mom finally got up and followed Oreo to the back door and coaxed her back to bed.
The following morning, we wake up to some terrifying news. Our neighbors across the street lost their garage in a fire. The empty house for sale behind them completely burned down. The grown ups around me are throwing around the word “arson,” and my mom explains to me that someone burned down the empty house, then our neighbors’ garage. The police were following footprints in the snow. They never found who did it.
Years later, my mom told me the rest. The footprints weren’t lost after my neighbors’ house. The footprints continued across the street, past our backdoor, and right through the narrow walkway between our garage and my room. Then they back-track to the street and disappear.
I don’t know if the arsonist would have burnt our house or our garage that night, but either way, Oreo woke us up and I think they knew that. She passed away last year at 16 and I miss her every day. She was my best friend and she never let anything happen to us, ever.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
We don't deserve any of the beautiful animals we have.
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RIP Oreo... good baby girl! They do say that losing vision improves scenting and hearing in dogs. I cared for a blind end of life dog, a Lhasa Apso. One of the rescue vets told me that Lhasas were bred originally by Tibetan monks. The breed has a lot of eye issues, because the monks never tried to breed that out, they wanted the dogs to listen more than look for danger. If you look at old Lhasa images, a lot of them have eyes barely visible in all that hair... the better to hear you with m'dear.
Sophie Leon 3 years ago
When I was 10 we had a cat named Kimba, and he was the most loving and sweet cat. One night around 2 am he started meowing like crazy in front of my parent's bedroom door, eventually my mom woke up and followed him downstairs to the kitchen, and when she opened the door it reeked of gas, turns out the stove's pilot light had turn off and the gas was leaking through it. I don't think I'd be able to tell this story if our fluffy hero hadn't saved us that night. He crossed the rainbow bridge 5 years later due to kidney failure
Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
Please accept my deepest condolences on the passing of your dear Oreo.
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#2
A bears nose pressed against my tent.
I politely asked him to go away, and he did.
I slept the rest of the night in my car.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
Everyone asks "Where's the bear?!" but no one asks "How's the bear?"
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Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago
His name was Paddington, he just wanted to politely ask if you had any marmalade 😂
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Yeah, it always puts me off my dinner too when my food starts to talk to me.
#3
Didn't see it but heard it, for years after midnight I would always hear children playing in the distance. Couldn't ever see them but I could hear them. A couple years back was walking my dog on a late night stroll and I heard it closer than I ever have before. Like right next to me. Looked around and there was about 3 coyote about 100 ft away from. Apparently they sound like small children.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago (edited)
And cats' cries sound like babies crying! [Edit: I had forgotten this, but the sound is called yowling]
Fabian Meresse 3 years ago
Yeah! Studies says it's part of their evolution : cat discovered baby cries tend to make human empathize and giving food, so they did! Cats don't need to meow at each others to communicate, it's a skill used only towards humans
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Boudica 3 years ago
Yes they do, especially when they're having a bit of hanky panky - which they regularly do at the back of my house!
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Otter 3 years ago (edited)
I once lived in a converted stable, the last house on the edge of some high hills. When I left my windows open at night, I could hear the coyotes up in the hills every night. It sounded like humans having a GREAT time! Like coyotes are the party animals of the world!
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Baby raccoons also sound like human babies, particularly when they are hungry.
aaaggg hhh 3 years ago
If you had foxes nearby it would sound like someone's being brutally murdered.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Fisher cats sound like a woman screaming. It's alarming to be woken up by this in the middle of the night.
Chris Scritchfield 3 years ago
People gotta get psyche evals working at mutton processing plants apparently the screams when they die are to much like a human females....I would insert a lonely farmer joke but this is dark enough
Clarissa Stahler 3 years ago
There used to be a stray cat that would always cry in the middle of the night when I was little.
UW UniFrog The 12Th 3 years ago
My window is perfectly open and I hear them every night, I ear 5hem during mating season too...
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Weirdest animal I have heard at night is koalas. First time I heard it I was lying in my tent wracking my brain as to whether it was human or animal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq74aS4irmc
#4
I live in a ground-level studio. My bed is near the window. I reached to turn off the bedside lamp and saw someone in a white hoodie through the gap in the blinds. I went “what the hell” and moved closer to get a better look and hopefully scare the creeper off. The person in the hoodie aggressively moved closer and put his face directly into the blind gap. I jumped back and he ran away. Installed a security camera the next day.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago (edited)
One night my mom woke up between 2-3am and saw a silhouette outside our window. She woke me and dad up and asked what we saw at a place she was pointing. My dad went straight into protective mode and screamed "Leave, you bastard, or I'mma give you a good ass-whooping!" I swear to god, that person sat there like a stone and continued to stare. LMAO just as my father opened the main door he took off at a lightning speed into the darkness. There was no point following him, but there was no sleeping that night too!
Jānis Meiers 3 years ago
Plot twist: author of the story was wearing a white hoodie and saw their own reflection in the window...
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My brother had overnight carers due to being on a bipap machine etc. One night the carer Came out of his bedroom at the front of the house and into the kitchen and saw a young guy on the other side of the flyscreen of the open kitchen window, trying to cut it open. He saw her and took off and she woke my mum up, as she was so freaked out. They reported it to the police but heard nothing else about it. That carer didn't do an overnight shift again for quite a while.
#5
When I was 18 I got my first apartment and I had to be at work by 7 am and always took a thermos of black coffee with me.
I come home from work one day and find coffee creamer in my fridge. I live alone and I know I didn't buy it. Then I find the toilet seat up in my bathroom.
After several times coming home to find the toilet seat up and pleading with the landlord to change my locks, turns out the maintenance man was a drug addict and had been fired, and he had been enjoying my coffee maker while I was at work. Very weird.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
That is so creepy. I've always been nervous in apartments because someone else always has a key
Courtney Lunsford 3 years ago
Creepy as hell... this is why all women should take self defense courses and have concealed carry.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
At least he had the courtesy to leave some creamer. Coulda put the seat down though
#6
F**king laundry on a chair can be terrifying
Summer Mason 3 years ago
Every now and then my robes scare the s**t out of me.
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Vic 3 years ago
Please rephrase that. Coz f*****g laundry anywhere can be terrifying and also disgusting..
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
Oh goodness, I re-read the whole thing, and damn that sounds really weird 😂
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I had really bad vision until very recently, and everything in the dark gives me the heebies, but clothing on a chair and some potted plants have freaked me out completely.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago (edited)
I used to swear I saw things moving around my room as a kid. The nightlight just made the shadows worse. Now as an adult I can believe it away on the shadows and the air condition blowing things around but it's still scared the crap out of me.
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
My grandparents used to have a set of skis set up as coat racks when not used. Pile enough jackets on them and they look like a bloody bear in the middle of the night and gives you an incredible heart attack.
#7
Got up to use the bathroom. I saw the shadow of a cat sprint down the hallway. Our cat had died over a year before that happened.
Kookamunga 3 years ago
We've always had a ton of dogs growing up, my mom was always taking in dogs no one wanted. She's had many ghost dog experiences in our house. I've never seen them. Ghost-Dog-...ff3ee7.jpg 
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I had a very beloved cat die unexpectedly, and I was completely heartbroken. I've fostered and had a lot of cats, but this one was very special, and he died suddenly from a heart condition. I was inconsolable. The night after he died, I was in bed almost asleep, when I swear he jumped on the bed and settled into his normal spot beside me. It took a few seconds for my brain to process, but I sat up and turned on the light, his spot was empty of course. I keep telling myself it was just a memory or a dream, but part of me really believes he came to say goodbye. RIP Robert.
Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
Please accept my deepest condolences on the passing of your dear sweet Robert. It was his spirit saying goodbye to you and to let you know that he is okay.
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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
My cat had recently died. I was sitting in the rocker with a throw over my lap and felt the tug as she curled up at my feet. Doesn't matter if you believe, she came back for a visit.
Bec Jac 3 years ago
My parents have wood floors and their dog always made like a clicking noise when she walked on the floors. Shes been gone for over 10 years now and we still hear the clicking at night.
Courtney Lunsford 3 years ago
Animals have souls too. Just because they can't talk doesn't mean they don't have emotions.
Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
Please accept my deepest condolences on the passing of your dear Bean. Your dear Bean's spirit is watching out for you.
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HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
My neighbor gave me a large area rug that was dearly loved by her recently deceased dog. Winnie still comes to play with my cat.
Sophie Leon 3 years ago
A couple of months after I moved out of my parents' house, my dad called me to let me know my cat Cloe had passed away. I was in shock because we were very close and I had just seen her 2 days before & she seemed perfectly fine. Almost a year later I spent the night at my parents' place for the 1st time since I'd moved out, it was late at night and I was scrolling through my phone when I felt something jump on my bed, I stayed very still and I don’t know why I whispered "Cloe?” and I heard her purr in response (she had a very unique purr), just to make sure I wasn't dreaming I texted my mom asking her if she was awake and she yelled from across the hallway: stop texting & go to sleep! I couldn't believe (and I still can't) my Cloe was laying next to me in the same spot she used to sleep for 12 years. I'm not sure for how long she stayed with me, but I could still feel her when I finally fell asleep. I'm very grateful she came back to say goodbye, I think we both needed it
Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
Please accept my deepest condolences on the passing of your dear sweet Cloe. Her spirit came back to say goodbye and to not to worry about her.
Load More Replies... Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I've seen ghost cats several times but never had a cat. Sometimes my dog freaks out tracking something I can't see. Sometimes he's so scared staring at nothing and I don't know how to help him. I don't know whether he's really seeing things that I can't or if he's schizophrenic.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
I swear I’ve seen some of our cats for a good long while after they died, and in similar ways to the OP’s. Always either see them out of the corner of my eye but they’re not there when I turn my head to see them, or I hear them doing their own particularly distinctive and familiar nighttime activities after I’ve turned the light off to go to sleep. I’ve also felt their weight next to me wherever they preferred to sleep on the bed at night (you know, some like the bottom of the bed, some sleep at your stomach, etc). But it all stops when I turn the light on. Not scary in the least, it’s actually quite comforting. It’s really diffito adjust after a pet dies, so having them hanging around for a while helps. I hope my husband does the same thing (I come from a family that lives to 100 and beyond, and he doesn’t)..
Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
Please accept my deepest condolences on the passing of your dear sweet kitties. They are watching over you.
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Saw a guy ... with a shotgun... in my house. My brother and I were sleeping in the TV lounge. Woke up and saw a guy with shotgun near the front door. Thought it was a dream. But, just in case I woke my bro up and asked him who is that. The guy heard us and ran out. We were 7 and 8 years old at the time.
It was June. We (2 bros 1 sis) just had summer vacations and we were planing a trip to my aunts house in some other city. We were not rich but relative to the area we lived in we were considered quite wealthy. (Both of our parents were Govt. Officials)
At the time we used to sleep in the same room as our parents (because of Air Conditioner). But this particular day we decided to be rebellious and sleep in the TV lounge while watching the TV. To the right of the TV lounge was the main entrance and the sofa was placed in such a way that the guy entering would not see if someone was laying on it. We watched a scooby doo movie and while watching it we went to sleep. Our parents decided its probably best to leave us boys there.
Now I used to be a light sleeper. As soon as there was even a little sound I would wake up. And arround about 1-2 am I heard some sounds and woke up. The sound was from our main gate. I craned my neck to look at the door.
When I looked towards the source of the sound I saw a guy standing inside the house, near the door. He was wearing all black and covered his face with a black cloth so that only his eyes were visible.
My first thoughts were "wtf is dad doing so late". My father used to lock the doors at night before we went to bed. But then I saw the most important detail... he had a black pump action shotgun in his hands.
This guy probably heard me move (he definitely didnt see me) so he just stopped there as a statue.
Then my thought was "its a dream" because why would there be a guy with a shotgun in our house at night?.. right? I woke my bro up and said "look at what's dad is doing". He got up... looked at the guy... then towards the centre of the room. Then he told me "dad is sleeping in the middle of the room".
At that point we both looked at the guy and said "thief". As soon as the guy heard that he bailed out. Got out and closed the door. We stayed up for a few more minutes and then got back to sleep. Because we were stupid little kids.
The next day however I told my parents what I saw but they didn't believe me at first saying that it was probably just your imagination. Thankfully I had my bro to back me up. Once he told the same story both the parents freaked out.
Next day we had better locks on our doors and a German Shephard named Jacky (best pet ever... also RIP).
Tips to take from this: Listen to your kids. Tell your kids to tell you immediately if they see something out of the ordinary or if they feel threatened.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago (edited)
I felt the light tremors of a pre-earthquake, told my parents, both laughed it off. 3 mins later the house was shaking and everyone was rushing out of the house
#9
I was about 5 and had just moved. I was in my bed, looking up waiting to fall asleep when two eye peered from the AIR VENT right at me. I was told it was just my imagination. 10 years later, when we replaced the air conditioning unit, one of the guys found a snake skin shedding in the old air shaft.
𝙸'𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚘𝚋!(new account) 3 years ago
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Sarah Sparkles 3 years ago
I always believe my kids. When my son was three he said he kept seeing a nice ghost out his bedroom window who waved at him and made funny faces. I waited one night in his room to see the ghost. It turns out it was our neighbor with down syndrome. He loved my boys and loved to make them laugh. He was sneaking out at night to say goodnight to them. So wholesome and innocent. Still miss him and that house.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
My sister saw a man looking in her bedroom window when she was about 6. She told my parents, and of course they didn't believe her. We're old women now, and she is still bothered by the fact that they thought she was making it up.
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#10
My sister screamed one night in our rented apartment because she saw her phone floating right above her face. Then she screamed some more because she saw a man at the window. A thief coated a long stick with really sticky goo and was using it to steal stuff. We did not call the police but alerted the landlady. She did not do anything. Guess who got her phone stolen a month later? The landlady.
#11
My parents were driving us home through a suburban area of Buffalo NY in the early 1980s. It was late spring I think. The windows of the car were open a little. I heard a woman scream "help me!!!!!" Noone in my family heard it. It happened again. I started crying but noone else heard it. Still haunts me 40 years later.
Henry Russell 3 years ago
i was in my house when i was 7 and i heard a scream a high pitch scream i slept with my mom that night
Karasi Mills 3 years ago
Not sure if you were in an area with rabbits but when they get caught by a predator they scream just like a woman's voice. We had a forest behind our house and it was terrifying when they're get caught at night!
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Aaricia 3 years ago
Probably because it's a 50/50 chance it will be a set up.
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Susie Elle 3 years ago (edited)
When I was in Jasper National Park in 2018 I swore I heard a child screaming and begging for help in the distance, as if he'd been mauled by an animal or something. Like, actual gut-wrenching pleas for help. My boyfriend heard too, but aside from us, nobody in the campground even looked up. We went to look but found nobody.
Sarah Sparkles 3 years ago
Peacocks also sound like a human screaming. Though I doubt that's what this was.
Gail Huddleston 3 years ago
My first night in college, I woke up to the sound of someone screaming. It sounded like someone yelling "Help!" Found out later that the monastery next door kept peacocks. They sound like someone yelling "Help!"!
/bored_as_heck/ 3 years ago
What could they do? Probably by the time they did or got help from the police the victim and the assailant would be long gone.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
I was always taught to scream FIRE!, because no one responds to "Help" anymore. Sad.
John Paul Wells 3 years ago
The photo was taken on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain, probably coming off of the Causeway from New Orleans, my hometown.
#12
When I was around 13 I woke up to what sounded like someone knocking on a glass window, I look at the clock and it’s around 4 am. I get out my bed and walk out into the hallway where I could now tell the knocking was coming from the front door, which had two large glass windows on both sides of it. My dad wasn’t home and my mom was asleep so I decided to check it out, I turned the light on, slowly crept down the stairs just enough to see the front door. The first thing I saw was a bloody mess on the entire window, and on the floor was a man all bloodied up and slowly knocking on the window. I immediately ran upstairs and woke up my mom who called the police. It ended up being a drunk driver who flipped his car near my house.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
At least this poor kid didn't just disappear under his blankets and closes eyes. He may have saved that guy's life
#13
A mountain lion glaring at me right against my window
GoddessOdd 3 years ago (edited)
We have Florida panthers where I live, we almost never see them because their range is so depleted these days, but one day I was hiking in the mid morning, alone. I entered a clearing, and saw what looked like a foot... a dog I thought, but turned out to be little goat. I was trying to process what I was looking at when I heard this sound like a deep rumble above me, and that's when I learned that I can actually fly.
Mushroomlover 3 years ago
They say the area of the USA I live in hasn’t had mountain lions in over 100 years but during the late 90s I saw one. I would’ve thought maybe it was the weed my young 16/17 year old mind was smoking if it wasn’t for the 2 other people who were with me seeing it also. We were driving slowly on backroads on a burn run and all of a sudden saw a large animal run across the road and into the brush. As we got closer you could see what we’re distinct ‘cat’ eyes staring from the brush on the side of the road so we stopped to get a good look out the car window and it straight up started walking towards the car. We left immediately but there’s absolutely nothing else it could’ve been!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Where I live in Australia there have been rumours for the last 50 years or so of a panther out in the hills. People try to see it or shoot it, but there has never been actual proof its there (because they aren't native to the area so why would it). A friends dad swears he saw it though.
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Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I was walking early one morning and heard something in the woods next to me on the right. I turned to look and a gigantic moose was staring at me not even a foot from me in the shrubs. We just scared the crap out of each other and went her own way LOL.
#14
There was a cigarette butt floating in my toilet bowl. I don’t smoke, and I lived alone.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
if it was in an apartment building, my money is on maintenance man or super
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
I live in apt townhouses, each house is exactly the same layout, so the downstairs bathroom is next to the neighbors, so this has happened to us, sometimes if our toilet is filling up and they flush something like a cig/bag of weed! {thankfully not poop but physical items}, the toilet will "cough" it back to ours {cause the ones that live there goes for secret smokes, we knock on the wall and tell them, stop smoking because his wife told us to tell if he is lol}
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
If you lived in an apartment it was probably maintenance people, but in a house I would start thinking about people living in the attic like I've read about.
#15
Woke one night when I was about 5 years old. Was gazing around the room for a bit. I looked at the window and there, staring wide eyed at me was a man. Hands pressed against the window just staring with his head cocked to the side. Didn't even flinch when I noticed him. I hid under the covers, then peeked out to see if he moved. He was still there. I decided to just stay under the covers. I don't know why I didn't scream.
Sam rice 3 years ago
A lot of people's natural reactions are to freeze, make no noise, or hide, etc to scary things.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I've done that myself to a sound at the window... it's probably the worst defense mechanism ever, but I suppose it does buy a little time to think about what to do next.
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Terri Rimmer 3 years ago
When I was 6, something made me walk to the kitchen from my bed early in the A.M. Looking out the kitchen window I saw a girl my age wearing a pink dress sitting in a tree, which we didn't have. She had the most evil grin and was motioning me in a scary way to come join her. I freaked out, ran down the hall and woke my parents up. When I tried to show them the girl she was gone and they said it must have been my imagination. But she was real!
Demonz Halo 3 years ago
I probably would’ve just went to bed and then talk about it as a “dream” a week later
malenchki 3 years ago
Because hiding is our automatic defense mechanism. Hide make no noise and freeze. Fight or flight that kinda thing
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I woke up one morning at 3.30, got on my bike and started riding to work. I was pedalling up a hill where there was no lights except for my bike and there was fog. I could see something in the middle of the road. It looked like a person. As I got closer I could see it was moving toward me and it was over 7 foot tall. I turned and sped home.
I called in sick, told my wife I was sick and haven't told anyone the truth.
I wish there was someone there to see it with me
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
oh no..... I like to wander during the night, around that time, I'm actually 7'4 and albino, and I usually freak people out, I always read these and think "Oh god, was this me? I'm sorry, I'm a Gentle Giant T_T" If this was in AZ, IM SORRY!
Gabby M 3 years ago
OMG I want to be your Midnight Hour Bud.... I love walking at night!!!
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I would love to have seen it with you. I want more information . . . could you see any details, besides how tall? Was it thin, fat, solid or too cloaked in fog to see? Did it look clothed? So many questions. I volunteer to go look with you.
#17
Actually made me reach for my gun. My dog was standing on my bed growling into barks at something and I saw it move.
Hit the light and it was his reflection in my TV, what a f**king dope
Milady Blue 3 years ago
When we were looking after my cousin's dog, we had to close the curtain over the sliding glass door, because the silly critter would bark at his reflection.
Just me, myself, and I 3 years ago
The dog isn't a dope - he was half asleep and having a nightmare!
Gabrielle B. Marcelo 3 years ago (edited)
wow this sounds like my dog except she barks at everything around her
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
And you could have very easily shot it, or your dog ,or yourself. We love our guns, more than each other !
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
When I was a kid I saw a face staring at me from my window. I was so scared I couldn't move for like 15 minutes and then I realized it was the reflection of my ceiling light on the window. 🤭
Nikki Hilton 3 years ago
The most afraid I've ever been was when our dog stood at the corner of our bed growling at the door that leads into the living room. While my husband was asleep next to me.
#18
This happened when I was maybe 12-13ish. It was recently enough for cellphones, but they were bricks. I grew up surrounded mostly by farmland in a rural area. Not far from the suburbs and nearest city, but far enough that traffic was pretty sparse and foot traffic was basically nonexistent. We could see our neighbors houses on either side (maybe 1/4 mile down the street each direction), but the nearest house behind was around a mile or more through pretty dense woods. Nobody lived across the street for maybe 1/2 mile or more in either direction. Now that you have a feeling for the setting, on to the story.
My parents and sister went to eat dinner in town one night and I stayed home. Our living room was all windows facing out of the back and since we didn’t exactly have neighbors out there, we didn’t close the curtains. I was sitting on the couch watching TV in the living room, looked outside, and saw someone walking through the back yard. He was walking across the property parallel to the street, and stopped about dead center of the yard and just looked at the house. The lights were off, but the TV was on, so he could very likely see me seeing him. He just stood there.
After what felt like an hour, but was probably 30 seconds, I jumped up, grabbed the phone, and booked it to my parents bedroom (also the location of the gun safe). As I was opening the safe, I called my mom and told her what was up. My dad grabbed the phone from her, told me to stay in the bedroom, load the 12 gauge, and wait for them to call back. He told me that if I heard a person and it wasn’t them yelling telling me they were home, to shoot. They were maybe 5 minutes from home and would call when they were in the driveway. They got home, swept the whole backyard with the headlights when they pulled in, and nobody was to be seen.
I, of course, never found out who it was or what they were doing, but they didn’t belong where they were. That experience scared the living s**t out of me then, and probably still would now.
RedstonewolfX 3 years ago
This is why the US is trusted with guns, not... collecting, and other dumb s.t that us Americans do with guns
Helen Haley 3 years ago
Kid was way more likely to shoot themselves or get themselves shot than actually pull the trigger on an intruder. This is why you panic rooms should be standard, not guns.
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ChimeraBubbles 3 years ago
Okay, see, all those "amazing architecture" houses with the huge glass windows...not a great idea even if you are fairly isolated.
Whowhatwherewhy? 3 years ago (edited)
I would have some thug would see you as a possible target. Not a threat. But an easy easy target. Never go anywhere without your phone and it would be a good idea to have the location finder turned on. Carry a weapon for self defense. I always carry a pocket knife. Your keys can be a weapon for protection. They are nice and pointy. Walk like a mountain not a mouse. Scan 360 degrees.
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MimSorensson 3 years ago (edited)
Is this for real? What if this dude was simply goddamned confused, for instance? There are thousands of medical issues that could cause that - and that’s just one teeny tiny potential explanation out of millions - but the reasonable response, they felt, was to instruct their TEEN to blindly murder another person, no questions asked, no context, no explanations listened to? What if a neighbour, or family member, happened to knock on the door before the parents got home? A girl scout selling cookies, being rewarded with having her brains splashed out from inside her skull by a bullet fired by a teenager? Someone who made the mistake of surviving a car wreck and committing the horrendous crime of trying to get help? What the actual fúck did I just read? See, this is why I’m infinitely grateful to live in a place where guns are outlawed. Saves lives every day, keeps murder statistics on rock bottom. Yes, even if there are criminals who have guns anyway. Yes, even though crimes sometimes happens. Yes, even though this, that and what ever, yes, yes, yes.
Cody Downs 3 years ago
love how ppl downvote using the gun as a protection, lot of naive people
Summer Mason 3 years ago
I have a hand gun for this reason. And as a mommy with two beautiful little girls if it's just us I open carry to scare the creeps off. I do not trust random strangers alot. We live in an area with high human trafficking.
#19
I was driving to one of my buddies houses back in high-school. The road I would take to get there ran through some dense woods for a few miles and was very dark. On my way there, I saw a man just standing on the side of the road, just staring into the darkness with a blank look on his face. Not walking, staring at nothing. There isn't anything but woods for several miles. On my way back home, at least 4 hours later he was still there. In the same spot. Staring at nothing. Maybe not scary, but super weird and creepy.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I would have called the cops I think. I would like to stop and help him, but that's just too creepy!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I would have called the cops for a welfare check, but if this was in the US it sounds like they would shoot first, check welfare second :(
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KC Lancaster 3 years ago
May have been dementia or some medical emergency that ambulance paramedics could have helped him with.
#20
Beautiful clear night in the suburbs of Baltimore in the 70's. I was a kid chasing lightening bugs, then I noticed a blue sphere in the sky. Small at first. A fraction of the diameter of the moon, but it grew larger in size. As it grew, I could see dark and light sections. The dark sections looked like craters. It kept grow and was many times larger than the moon. My father was drunk and couldn't tell me what it was. That was before the Internet. All I could imagine was that a planet was rapidly approaching earth and that we were all going to die.
I fell asleep scared to death under my bed. And woke up the next morning just fine.
My teacher in school explained that NASA had launched a rocket into the atmosphere that released a dye that allowed observers to see how the atmosphere moved. In the end, it wasn't scary at all. But while it was happening, I was sure I was going to die.
#21
It was the middle of the night and I crawled to the end of my bed and looked out the second story window in our farm house, maybe 40 feet away and 20 feet up, was a light blue, electric looking ball of light about 6ft by 6ft, it slowly arched from left to right untill it went behind my barn. The only thing I can think is it was is ball lightning, or I was dreaming but I doubt it.
Courtney Lunsford 3 years ago
So many things we don't know about electricity.. our brain impulses are a series of electricity running through the coding of the structures of our neural networks.
James Hardin 3 years ago
i once had lightning strike right in front of my house. scared the s**t out of me but was real cool at the same time.
Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago
Same kind of thing happened when I was staying at my great-aunt's house. Was asleep but something woke me up, noticed it was way too light out the window, got up, shoved the curtains aside, and in the wooded area beyond the back yard there was this massive area-wide and high "ethereal" blue light - no idea what it was, where it came from, nothing. Wasn't a stormy night, either.
#22
Not something I saw exactly but felt. I was maybe 10 and I woke in the middle of the night to something whooshing past my head. When I turned on the light, my pillow was on top of my dresser. I’m sure I must have thrown it in my sleep but it scared the crap out of 10-yo me!
ThEboRedEsTpANdA 3 years ago
Some random Panda: Hay pandas, what weird condition do you have?..........MammmaJanny(OP): Sleep yeeting
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#23
My cat screams at night. And not just any type of scream, like she sounds like a human baby when she screams. Anyway the night this happened, it was also during a power outage, so the lights were flickering, and my sister is freaking out. We go and find the cat looking possessed and trying to attack us. Weird because normally she is very affectionate towards us.
Otter 3 years ago
I had a half-Siamese cat when I lived in a cheap apartment with thin walls. When a couple with a baby moved in next door, he'd run to the wall and sometimes paw at it, he thought another Siamese cat was in there.
Kate 3 years ago
Yeah, we had a black cat and realized he must be part Siamese on the way home, when he started criticizing my driving.
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Both my cats howl at night, it's their way of seeing if anyone's awake, if you respond they'll come barrelling in for strokes.
Banana Vic 3 years ago
Awwww, I had a senior cat that woutaldo do this. It sounded horrendous and I felt so bad for her because she must've had some sort of feline dementia. During the day she'd be fine, but at night the screams would start. Kind of like a phenomenon that happens with some human dementia patients called sundowners
#24
One night when we were in the fifth grade, my sister and I were hanging out in my bed with the lights out before we went to sleep in our separate rooms. We would do this sometimes and goof around/chat after we were supposed to be asleep.
There was a parking lot with streetlights about 20 feet from my windows and it cast quite a bit of light on my wall every night. Never thought anything of it until this night. As we were laying in bed chatting, one of us noticed that the silhouette of a man’s head was suddenly prominent against the wall. The best way I can describe the visual is when you see old bits where they have a sheet hanging in front of a light and do silly things with shadows, except this was just a shadow cast on my wall from a man looking into my bedroom window!
Obviously, were freaked the f**k out and both crept into the corner of the bed under the covers. The shadow stayed there for what felt like forever.
We eventually tried to calm ourselves down and convinced each other that it was just our stepdad trying to mess with us. So we ran out of the room to see what was up anddd there he was, just sitting in the living room. It wasn’t him outside. He would have had to run around the house in a split second to make it to the living room.
We told him what was happening and he came to the room to see. The shadow was gone. He thought WE were trying to prank HIM with our story before he saw how scared we were.
Never figured out who was outside my window that night, but it still freaks me out just to think about it.
#25
Oh man I actually had forgotten about this, but my original xbox scared the ever living s**t out of me once. As an adult.
I left my original xbox plugged in and idling on the home screen, and went to sleep. I woke up later to hear ghostly voices mumbling and talking to each other coming from the tv. It sounded just like EVP from those crappy ghost shows, where you can hear it's voices but not what it's really saying. And to top it all off, over the voices were scary mechanical sound effects and spooky music. I have never, and I mean never, left an xbox idling since.
The explanation is Microsoft thought it would be neat to use some free astronaut transmissions for their "futuristic" console, and wanted space music to go with it.
otplus 3 years ago
i had a stereo system that would without any warning turn itself on at random times in the night, the kicker is that it dint have any timer function, the third time it happened and scared the crap of me i disconnected it and trew it in a closet. Still dont have an explanation even completing a degree in electrical engineering, and still cannot explain the damm situation.
Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
At the time my VCR was connected to my stereo system so I could use the speakers for sound instead the ones from the television. One night I was in bed reading when all of a sudden I heard a man's voice, a deep voice. followed by ticking sounds. Then I heard the deep voice again and then the ticking. It scared the heeby jeebies out of me. Turns out I had programmed something on my VCR after midnight on BBC and the snooker had run longer than programmed; the ticking was the snooker balls hitting eachother and the voice was the commentator guy and I had forgotten to switch off my stereo system.
#26
About 3am on a deserted highway I drove by what looked like a body wrapped in a white sheet, discarded on the median.
I took the next exit, drove back and took that exit, and came back. Passed it and parked a little ways up. It still looked like a body wrapped in a sheet. Got out to go look closer when I heard loud rustling in the scrub/trees of the median, so jumped in my truck and drove off.
Pre-cell phone so I didn’t call police. I looked in the papers but never saw anything.
[When I’ve posted this before I got chastised about being reckless. I know.]
Emerald Ocean 3 years ago
I would’ve kept driving and tried to convince myself it was my imagination
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
That's when you pull off at the next exit and ask the cashier at the gas station to call the police. It was really dumb of you to go back.
rabbit 3 years ago
Southbound on I81 in VA. I see a tractor trailer in the median. I call it in. Didn't have the mile marker but did have the nearest exit number. Discussion. Person at the other end said they had a report of a white tractor trailer in the median, blah blah blah. Said that I should be near the border with TN. No, I'm looking to get to Roanoke. More discussion. He figured out before I did that at my last stop I got back on the highway going northbound instead of southbound. So, while I felt more than a little silly in that I didn't know where I was or what direction I was going, the tractor trailer incident had been handled, I needed to get off at the next exit and take a nap before heading south.
#27
A few weeks ago, my older cousin was sitting on the toilet with the lights off so she didn’t wake anyone up. So I have to go pee and I walk into the bathroom and she was tired so she sounded like some ghost girl and it scared the hell out of me.
Flare 3 years ago
Similar story: For context, my hair was and still does look similar to the hair of the girl in Ring. So this was in approximately 2013, I was about 10 that point. My dad had always wanted to see the movie Ring, so he goes to watch it. So about a few days after he saw the movie, he goes up the stairs to go to bed. He hears footsteps and looks up and sees me standing there, with my hair draped over my face. Needless to say, I nearly gave him a heart attack. This is basically what both my parents told me when we were discussing horror films about 3 weeks ago.
#28
We were driving home after visting family that lived about 7 hours away. We had left late, so it was about midnight when we were still about an hour away from home. Coming up to an overpass on the highway, I noticed movement from the right side of the embankment, which was closest to me since I was sitting in the passenger seat. As we got closer, I realized it looked like a person, laying on their stomach on the ground. I thought maybe someone had gotten hit by a car and was hurt, but before I started to say anything to my dad, we got closer and I fully saw what was happening. It was a woman, wearing a tattered dress or longish tunic shirt. She was on her hands and feet, and was quickly crawling up the embankment towards the concrete underside of the overpass. Something about the way her limbs were moving and crawling freaked me out, so I just stared in shock and horror as we passed by her, as she continued to jerkily climb upwards into the darkness of the overpass. Freaking terrified me, and I closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep until we got home. I don't like driving out that way past town anymore.
#29
Walking out of Taos canyon from the hot springs with my buddies around midnight during a new moon. It’s about 40degrees so pretty chilly, and we hear this mumbling in the dark ahead. As we approach this scraggly man comes shuffling in bare feet down the trail. He had no flashlight, wearing filthy pinstripe blue pajamas and talking to himself incoherently. As my friend and I back up to the side of the narrow trail I asked “how’s it going man?”. “Another beautiful day!” He said in a super cheery voice, and went right back to taking to himself. He continued down the trail into darkness. We hauled ass back to the cars where Our other buddy was. She said she had watched him walk in off the mess.
Mushroomlover 3 years ago
Sound like he maybe has dementia and wandered away from home. When people with dementia start roaming they can say and do some strange things that you would mistake as ‘crazy’.
#30
I’ve never had an explanation for this, but when I was about 10 I woke up in the middle of the night to what I thought was my dad watching something about trains which was turned up loud. There were lights and shadows, and again just the sound of like a train coming and going. It wasn’t sleep paralysis I’ve had that and I could move. Bright white light, and just a noise, i hid under the covers scared. I asked the next day and nobody was up or heard what I did.
Paige Snelgrove 3 years ago
Living in Chicago on Irving Park Road and Broadway. Dog woke me up at 2am to go outside. Homeless man was sleeping on my front doorstep. Wtf.
JASH80 3 years ago
I hope this "Wtf" refers to your shock about people not having a home and being forced to sleep on your doorsteps..
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Chris Scritchfield 3 years ago
Want so much scary but we did an overnight camp in the scouts. In the middle of the night something decided to share my tent and I look over and it was a very large bobcat. She growled so I let her have the tent and slept on at a table by the pavilions. Scout leader asked me why I wasn't in my tent and I said it was in use. He went and peeked in a made a scream I didn't think possible with male vocal cords. Turns out she dropped a litter of 3 kittens.
Bex 3 years ago
When I was 3 and my sister was 8 we were visiting my aunt and uncle in a remote part of Vermont. We were sharing a bed, she woke me up in the middle of the night, freaking out because she had gotten up to pee and had seen a UFO outside the window. I don't remember if (or what) I saw anything, but I did spontaneously get a nosebleed right after looking out the window. She's 50 now and still swears she saw a UFO.
Fiona Parky 3 years ago
I grew up in a tiny village. It’s the sort of place where we all know each other and if someone sneezes, they’re going to be offered a hanky every 5 yds. I was asked to walk our 12 yr old collie because dad’s back was a bit bad. No problem! We usually just walked him down the lane a ways and then back again. It’s 9 o clock at night and pitch black. You can see the Milky Way overhead and I’m enjoying the frosty air and the exercise. Oopie the dog is enjoying himself too. Suddenly Oopie bristled. I mean his fur stood up, his lips roll back and this deep rumbling starts. He’s a dog that’s never growled before and is basically the biggest softie but now his hackles are up and he’s definitely not happy. Suddenly there’s a man in front of me. I hadn’t seen him at all because it’s dark, there’s no streetlights, I was using my night vision rather than a torch, and he’s entirely dressed in black. I said “step back or the dog will attack you” then bolted home.
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 3 years ago
My house is haunted and all the time as a kid the TV in the living room would turn off and on in the middle of the night. I would see shadow figures in my room. I woke up one morning and all my dolls were staring at my bed. I've had many experiences in my room. Not so much now since I've gotten rid of a lot of the dolls because the activity escalated.
Apollo Brackady 3 years ago
I have sleep paralysis 2-3 times a week and it’s SO FUN. I’m practically used to it by now.
leah 3 years ago
I don't have it 2-3 times a week, but I've never been scared by it. I always see funny stuff--like a little person running around the house in my husband's pajama bottoms and a feather boa--and just go back to sleep. The problem is that doesn't end it for me and the next part is actually terrifying because I wake back up 2 or 3 time unable to breathe and pass out.
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cheryl wagoner 3 years ago
I live in a trailer park. The manager threw some squatters out. They were living in the woods behind me. One night, I was woke up by someone looking in my bedroom window. I grabbed the cat laser, and lit their face up with it. I said " click, click, boom, mother funeral. I now am the proud owner of a 45. Try it again. All three of my cats were growling that night. I listen to my babies, now
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Scariest thing ever seen in the dark IMHO? Stealth aircraft popping up (and it did) the night of 9/12/2001 (or 12 Sept 2001) right behind us as we sat on the mountain looking at a sky empty (we thought!) of aircraft.... Yes, we screamed. Pretty sure we hit an octave only dogs could hear.
Juno French 3 years ago
My dad once saw a really bright light in the sky at sunset when he was young. When he went to tell his parents, it was gone. He's still not sure if it was a dream or not, but I'd like to pretend it was a UFO.
Chris Scritchfield 3 years ago
Want so much scary but we did an overnight camp in the scouts. In the middle of the night something decided to share my tent and I look over and it was a very large bobcat. She growled so I let her have the tent and slept on at a table by the pavilions. Scout leader asked me why I wasn't in my tent and I said it was in use. He went and peeked in a made a scream I didn't think possible with male vocal cords. Turns out she dropped a litter of 3 kittens.
Bex 3 years ago
When I was 3 and my sister was 8 we were visiting my aunt and uncle in a remote part of Vermont. We were sharing a bed, she woke me up in the middle of the night, freaking out because she had gotten up to pee and had seen a UFO outside the window. I don't remember if (or what) I saw anything, but I did spontaneously get a nosebleed right after looking out the window. She's 50 now and still swears she saw a UFO.
Fiona Parky 3 years ago
I grew up in a tiny village. It’s the sort of place where we all know each other and if someone sneezes, they’re going to be offered a hanky every 5 yds. I was asked to walk our 12 yr old collie because dad’s back was a bit bad. No problem! We usually just walked him down the lane a ways and then back again. It’s 9 o clock at night and pitch black. You can see the Milky Way overhead and I’m enjoying the frosty air and the exercise. Oopie the dog is enjoying himself too. Suddenly Oopie bristled. I mean his fur stood up, his lips roll back and this deep rumbling starts. He’s a dog that’s never growled before and is basically the biggest softie but now his hackles are up and he’s definitely not happy. Suddenly there’s a man in front of me. I hadn’t seen him at all because it’s dark, there’s no streetlights, I was using my night vision rather than a torch, and he’s entirely dressed in black. I said “step back or the dog will attack you” then bolted home.
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 3 years ago
My house is haunted and all the time as a kid the TV in the living room would turn off and on in the middle of the night. I would see shadow figures in my room. I woke up one morning and all my dolls were staring at my bed. I've had many experiences in my room. Not so much now since I've gotten rid of a lot of the dolls because the activity escalated.
Apollo Brackady 3 years ago
I have sleep paralysis 2-3 times a week and it’s SO FUN. I’m practically used to it by now.
leah 3 years ago
I don't have it 2-3 times a week, but I've never been scared by it. I always see funny stuff--like a little person running around the house in my husband's pajama bottoms and a feather boa--and just go back to sleep. The problem is that doesn't end it for me and the next part is actually terrifying because I wake back up 2 or 3 time unable to breathe and pass out.
Load More Replies... cheryl wagoner 3 years ago
I live in a trailer park. The manager threw some squatters out. They were living in the woods behind me. One night, I was woke up by someone looking in my bedroom window. I grabbed the cat laser, and lit their face up with it. I said " click, click, boom, mother funeral. I now am the proud owner of a 45. Try it again. All three of my cats were growling that night. I listen to my babies, now
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Scariest thing ever seen in the dark IMHO? Stealth aircraft popping up (and it did) the night of 9/12/2001 (or 12 Sept 2001) right behind us as we sat on the mountain looking at a sky empty (we thought!) of aircraft.... Yes, we screamed. Pretty sure we hit an octave only dogs could hear.
Juno French 3 years ago
My dad once saw a really bright light in the sky at sunset when he was young. When he went to tell his parents, it was gone. He's still not sure if it was a dream or not, but I'd like to pretend it was a UFO.
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