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43 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
For every person who staunchly believes that “ghosts aren’t real,” there are folks who insist that they’ve had paranormal experiences. Humans do love to “explain” things they don’t entirely understand and spirits are, for some, a useful explanation.
We’ve gathered stories from people who insist they’ve had a “paranormal” experience. Do any of them seem real? You be the judge. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the best examples and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments section down below.
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#1
When I was 10 a horse told me his name was Blackjack so I could put it on the pic I drew of him. The owner saw the pic I left on the fence and asked how I knew his name and I said he told me.
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#2
My partner woke up to someone holding his finger and saw that there was a baby between us with their other hand on my stomach. That was the first night we were able to sleep after losing our baby
#3
This isn’t really scary but I was pregnant, one night I had a dream my grandmother who passed was holding a baby boy they both had a big smile on their face. I miscarried the next day
#4
I've had some pretty odd experiences and have assisted some or know people who've had some CRAZY experiences. It's late so I'll just post one that's not all that spoopy, then come back tomorrow to tell more. There was a time where I was at my lowest in my life as a teen and had been waiting by the train tracks. I sat there for a good few hours and watched several trains pass; the moment that I decided that it was it I went to jump into it's path and a man bear hugged me. I cried and fought but he never gave up that embrace. Once I calmed down he sat with me for a while and talked about my tribulations. He walked with me until we had reached the break of the field the tracks were in. When I turned around to say goodbye he wasn't there. I've searched for his face in crowds everywhere I go but have never ran into him again. To this day I believe that he was either a guardian angel, or the remnants of someone who had previously passed in similar feelings/emotions.
#5
I have a ghost that leaves me money I’ll be fully broke and just find 20 dollar bills laid out for me around the house💀
#6
When my granny passed, I wasn’t allowed back right away, so I peeked into the room and saw my granny’s spirit standing next to her body, with her late husband’s spirit standing next to her
#7
I was sitting with a confused elderly patient during a night shift on a unit I’ve never worked on before. Patient starts pointing next to me and says “whose that little girl”…and proceeds to watch something move across the room and then starts leaning over the railing to look under her bed…then she starts giggling and goes “she wants to play hide and seek under my bed”. I mentioned it to the staff who usually work on this floor and they go “oh that happens all the time, all of our elderly patients talk about little kids running around the halls and in their rooms”…
#8
Woke up in the middle of the night & looked at the clock. Not time to get up. Rolled over. Saw a see-through lady. She touched my hand & said it’s OK Im a friend of your moms. My mom had died.
#9
A few weeks after my 16 year old passed away suddenly, I was doing yoga to pull myself out of my depression. Heard her voice loud and clear “Mom, get up RIGHT NOW.” Industrial steel fan crashed down
#10
Not scary but one day when I was lying down alone, I felt a small animal jump onto my bed and little footsteps approaching me, I didn't move because something felt different. The footsteps stopped and then I felt something press against my side, a very familiar shape and weight and the exact spot my old dog used to lay.
#11
my daughter died.. I heard a baby crying every night.. never told anyone.. my mom came to help during my sadness.. I found her on the couch terrified hearing the baby cry.. I never seen her so scared
#12
My old porcelain doll turned its head and looked straight at me. I was 13 and still believe what I saw really did happen.
#13
I was supposed to be a twin, growing up i used to have an “imaginary friend” who would pick on me and she looked like me (i didn’t know at the time i was supposed to be a twin). I remember sometimes crying and being mad and the one time i said “samantha stop!” And my mom said my twins name was supposed to be Samantha. So this girl haunted me as a kid
#14
My non verbal autistic daughter is clairvoyant… and she used her communication device to tell me my dad died before I received the call from my mom
#15
I was sleeping with my daughter in her room. My husband had Covid. I think I was getting it myself but didn’t know it till the next day. Anyways I’m having a hard time sleeping. Sweeting in bed and all. Then all of a sudden I feel the urge to sit up. It felt like someone else was in the room. I just sit up and say no, go away, get out of here. I could tell something was there. I could hear my husband get up to us the bathroom so I got up to check on him. This was late like 1-3am idk. He looks at me and goes my dad just pasted away. He was sick in the hospital for the last 2 weeks. I think it was him coming to check on our daughter then his son in the next room.
#16
Xmas morning, opening gifts with my husband and I heard in my head loud and clear, "Enjoy, this is your last Christmas together," and it was. he was caught cheating by a family friend who told my brother who told me. when I was told it gave me the strength to leave, bc I was warned. I divorced him and found out his whole life was lies.
#17
As a child I had an imaginary friend named Grandpa Rufus. My mom was convinced it was a ghost in the house but didn’t have proof. We moved shortly after. 20 years later I’m in a whole different country at work and a new coworker comes up to me straight faced and says “Grandpa Rufus wanted me to tell you hello.” He said “you’re followed by the spirits” when I asked him what he was talking about and then never said anything about it again.
#18
i’d like to give a real one ☝️. my mom, me, my sister, and aunt were playing an ouija board to contact passed away family members. this was in like 2018 when it was a “trend” anyways we contacted a spirit who said he was related to us. they said their initials were KM. we asked if he was on my grandpas side of the family (my moms dad) and they said no, which didn’t make sense because no one else in our family had the last name starting with M besides my moms’ dads side, and her siblings(whom were all well alive). we asked how they died, they said “crash. motorcycle”. we apologized and said that we believed they contacted the wrong family, and disconnected with them. me, my siblings and aunt would all sleep in the living room and have family sleepovers. the next morning outside the living room window my mom was on the phone sobbing. she got a call that her cousin with the initials KM died the night before in a motorcycle accident. (the night we played the ouija board). we put it away and i’ve never played it since. i was always skeptical about ouija boards but that 1000% confirmed it for me.
#19
So, this is one of my scariest experiences ever. I was in my apartment and little things were starting to be relocated in a different place. (I lived alone) I came home from work one evening to every single cabinet door being wide open, and drawers were all open as well. That same night I could hear running from my bedroom door all the way to the other side of my house. This went on the whole night. I could feel the energy. It was negative energy!! That heavy feeling you get when a spirit/demon/entity (whatever you want to call them) is next to you. I called my mom the next morning and told her what was happening. I was sitting on my bed talking and all of a sudden, my bedroom door slams closed. (Shortening this) My mom came quickly, and so did my preacher. While he was cleansing my apartment, my front window shattered and it was immediately peaceful. I later found out that there was a triple homicide in my apartment!!!!
#20
I was laying in bed with a new boyfriend and felt a weird scary energy behind me in the corner. He woke up from having sleep paralysis and said there was something standing in the corner.. the next day I had a bruise on my wrist that clearly looked like someone grabbed me really hard
#21
My roomate called my name from downstairs. I called back out to her and got no response. A few minutes later she SCREAMED my name. “KAYLAAAAAAA” I called back out to her and again no response. I couldn’t find her anywhere. I called her phone and asked her where she was and why she was screaming my name. She said “I’m at the beach, you’re home alone right now”
#22
i use a sleep recorder app to hear what I say in my sleep because I yap alot and a man started telling me to calm down when I was being restless. I was the only person in the house 😅
#23
Cops busted a hs party & we ran thru the woods. Something with glowing red eyes chased us. I assumed it was a prank but I woke up the next morning w a deer skull sat perfectly on my porch 😭
#24
The guitar in my closet started playing the same strings over and over again. I looked inside and nothing was there.
#25
I’m 46 now, but when I was 4 years old I jumped down the stairs about 15 steps and floated in the air down to the ground to this day my parents don’t believe me, but I still remember it to this day.
#26
Saw a black mist in a rental house 3 times. House sold. Talking to new owners and the daughter asks “did you ever see the black mist?” Goosebumps even today
#27
One month after my dad died I was laying in bed and heard Siri go off. I looked at my phone and it started typing “I love you and miss you “ I got scared and threw my phone lol
#28
there was a ‘haunted’ room where every patient that went in there died. Had a lady who was in perfect condition stay in there. Next day she wasn’t able to talk, eat, move. She would randomly talk to people she was "seeing" and I was the only one who was like this is [nonsense]. Until her bible flew off her dresser and hit the wall for no reason- she had bruises on her as well and would randomly bleed from her legs. She died in 2 weeks. For unknown reasons. Her family sued the facility.
#29
My PLUGGED IN alexa threw itself at me in the middle of the night i was by myself that night 💔
#30
Had a ghost girl tell me to come play in the water with her and try to drown me in a pond behind my apartment complex when I was like 4 unsupervised and my mom came in just in time before I jumped in. My mom never seen the little girl around anywhere and it was a big open field
#31
I spent 29 years thinking I was hallucinating people. I assumed it was stress-induced and would "reset" myself when Id see one by leaving the room. And one day my mom followed me and asked "did you see him too? you looked right at him"
#32
i have so many, but my grandpa loves to whistle and he lives with me. i thought he was home one time bc i heard movement in his room so i whistled and i got a whistle back and continued doing my own thing. my grandpa walked in 10 mins later he was at the store.
#33
Heard 3 different things fall in the kitchen, then something flew across the room, and then I looked in the closet and saw someone peak their head out. I was with someone and they saw all of this to..
#34
I had a lalaloopsy doll growing up that literally moved and talked by itself! ☺️Oh and after throwing it away (outside mind you) it showed back in my room a day later
#35
TV in my room as a kid had closed captions that would pop up randomly in error (problem with the TV). One day home alone, my nickname appeared with a question mark in the closed captions.
#36
Sometimes from the corner of my vision I see a suited man walking towards me but when I look there’s nothing there
#37
My entire childhood I would have nightmares about a boy who lived in my closet. He would open my closet door and jump on my bed. Or open the closet door and call me by my name. Years later after I moved out, my parents finally told me that the last owners son hung himself in my closet.
#39
stayed at an airbnb in fhis older couples upstairs. my mom had a noise activated light up phone charger. 2:30am woke up to a dark figure crawling in the door and the charger lighting up. no noise.
#41
The hat man came every night in my room when i had issues to sleep. When he came in my room i had to be quiet and not breathe and close my eyes until he was gone under my bed. Like he came from a long workday home and i had do be quiet that he can rest. When i did breathe to early he would come and stare at me again and made sure i am not breathing.
#42
The hat man followed me from childhood to each house I moved into including the one I live in now with my husband and children ☠️🫣
#43
Wasn’t scary but last month i give a random lady a ride somewhere and this was on the first of month…I go try to pay my rent hours later and they tell me my rent is paid for the month.
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