10+ People Share Their Creepy Real-Life Paranormal Experiences

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Ada Elder
Jun 19, 2022 11:00 AM EDT

The paranormal world is a pretty big part of pop culture. It overlaps with the horror genre (the unexplainable, to most people, is pretty damn terrifying), and has been the basis for (or a topic on) sixty eight reality television series. People live for ghost stories, tales of UFO sightings and abductions, and somehow, are really interested in Bigfoot. I know some folks who shell out hundreds of dollars on psychics, and hold seances in earnest. If I hadn't heard a ghost story from an entire family, I would definitely be a staunch skeptic in this area. Since then I suspend that disbelief, which makes enjoying paranormal media or accounts a lot more fun. 

While I enjoy television related to ghosts, aliens, or witchcraft, I've always preferred hearing creepy and unexplainable stories from real people, in person. There are, however, some exceptions to this. This thread from redditor u/Otherwise-Recover-57 is a good example. OP asked users to share real life paranormal experiences, and people did not hold back. They shared tales of precognition, communicating with the dead, and other eerie happenings that a lot of people would find hard to believe. We may never know if these people are telling the truth, but their stories are incredibly detailed, interesting, and certainly make us wonder WTF is out there. See for yourself.

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    Font - ? r/AskReddit u/Otherwise-Recover-57 • 12h 18 NSFW Redditors, what is your real life paranormal story? 4476 478 ↑ Share BEST COMMENTS Paradigm6790 · 11h Not paranormal, but being in the deep wilderness at night when all the wildlife suddenly goes quiet is a big "oh shit oh shit" moment. Reply 385 ↓ |+B
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    Font - enghost • 10h When I was 17 I started to see a woman out of the corner of my eye and it started happening more frequently. I should note that I had lived in that house since I was 5 and in particular I always felt something in the basement and would absolutely bolt up the stairs every time I was leaving it. Back to the woman. I started seeing her more and more frequently but any time I turned to get a good look she was gone. Then one random night I was sitting on the couch long after ever
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    Font - I had to sleep with every light in my room on that night and slept completely underneath the covers because I just knew that whatever was in the basement was now under my bed. I slept with the lights on every night for a week because I was convinced if I didn't it would kill me. The paranoia and lights on for days happened a few more times over the years but only ever in that house nowhere else. Honestly very possible it was just a psychotic break cause the shadow figures in my vision sti
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    Font - Vurdelio 10h I beg thee pardon I was at work and walked into empty theater and heard my dad call my name ..hes been dead for 5 years ... ← Reply 197
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    Font - 00 JsDaFax. 6h My dad told me a story about when he was working at a furniture company. The shop was quiet and he was the only on there. He heard his dad call his name. He turned to look but no one was there. He got a call the next day saying his father had passed away that night. 106
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    Font - Spoonfulof You. 1h Speaking of dad's and name calling... I once was sleeping at an airport and I was really scared and paranoid about someone attacking me in my sleep so I would wake up every so often in a panic (that was my mom's energy I know it). In the midst of one of those violent awakenings, I shout, "Daddy" and then immediately go back to sleep. In the middle of sleeping I saw a text from my dad but didn't think much of it. Went back for for round 20 of sleep. When I was situated t
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    Font - Diamond Boi309.9h I don't usually respond to these but I actually have one. My family on my dad's side owns a senior care home, and we are convinced it is haunted. There are 2 big houses to the business, house 1 and 2, and we think house 1 is extremely haunted and it is currently empty of people for renovation reasons. Last summer me and my brother were moving furniture out of house 1 and filling more rooms in house 2 so we were in and out of both houses all day long. One day, we were pas
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    Font - In each room there's a string attached to the wall and if pulled it would play an alarm type noise and a light above the door would light up. One day my cousin was in there (Alone apparently), and one room's alarm had been pulled. Reminder: it is currently empty of people for renovation reasons so no one could have pulled it. She freaked out and bolted out. My aunt has seen FLOATING kitchenware. Some residences have reported kids playing outside their window or in the hallway, no children
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    Font - Thin_Host 11h ● Posted this before, but when I was 6, my mom and I moved into a run-down basement apartment in a crappy building downtown. I remember the first night we spent there, an old woman came and sat on the edge of my bed and started singing softly in a language I didn't understand. I wasn't scared of her but I did feel like she wanted me to do something or go somewhere with her and I did not want to. I told my mom who said it was just a dream, but the old lady kept coming back. E
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    Font - KeohaneGaveMeAnxiety. 7h I spent my late childhood-early adulthood in this house situated in a nature reserve in Brazil. Several weird things happened here and there like a snake mysteriously showing up in my fully closed room, missing objects here and there, trees that seemed misplaced from one day to the next. But one thing kinda stands out. Now I should start off by saying I'm pretty cynical. I'm an atheist, and I don't really believe in paranormal stuff myself. I usually explain away
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    Font - This one night I was just staring up at the stars (a benefit of living in a nature reserve is the lack of public lighting) and my dogs started barking. Now it was a new moon night so it was particularly dark so I couldn't see much. But the dogs really rarely barked unprompted. I got up from where I sat to go check on what they were barking at. To my mind it was probably just one of the little creatures we sometimes got visits from, armadillos, mice, opossums. I was wrong. At the edge of t
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    Font - OSUJillyBean • 11h As a kid, had multiple recurring dreams of standing in my grandparents' backyard and looking at the back of their house. Nothing was visually "off" but something just felt horribly wrong. Had that same dream for years but never mentioned it to anyone because it was so bland. I'm 2018, my dad walked out to that spot in the yard and killed himself. Haven't had the dream since. Reply 408
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    Font - GuyMansworth • 9h I have 2. There's an urban legend somewhat near my house that was passed on through a generation or so about an old bridge. My bro, friend and I went out there a couple times and one night we got really ballsy and went out there and walked down the road. Super creepy road, thick woods. Dilapidated houses. We walk passed a house where a kid supposedly murdered his parents and went to the bridge and decided to keep going after not seeing anything. We get to this long drive
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    Font - This next story will make me cry so I saved it for the second one. My mom died in 2018. She was in the hospital a while and my dad burst into my room (I was staying with them at the time helping out because of my moms extended hospital visit) and said the hospital called and that her heart stopped and they couldn't revive her. We talked for a few minutes then he left to go tell my brother. I sat, numb in a chair for a few minutes. I started thinking about how I've heard stories about how
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    Font - pokemonhegemon. 8h I was in the USAF stationed in Italy in 1986. My wife and I lived off base, (no home phone) and cel phones weren't a real thing for most people. We'd been asleep for a couple of hours when my wife wakes up shaking. "something's happened to my brother". She was so upset I drove her down to a payphone down the street where she made a collect call to her mother who lived in Virginia. Her brother had been shot. Her mom had contacted the red cross to get a message to us over
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    Font - Same_Juice2689 · 8h Idk if this is paranormal or not but, my grandmother passed away from eye cancer (this is important later) When i got home from her funeral, in her old room i saw a lizard, but what was special about this lizard were 3 things, 1. We had never seen this lizard and our house was usually infested with them but this lizard just popped out of nowhere, 2. It only hanged around in my grandmothers room, it never leaves. And 3. Due to her cancer she lost her left eye, and this
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    Font - Significant_Dust_355. 9h I was sleeping in my own room and woke up in the middle of the night for no reason until I realised someone was standing next to my bed. It was dark so I only saw a figure but once my eyes got used to the darkness I saw it was a human figure wearing a white dress of some shirt and its head was bending down towards me a little, as if it was watching me sleep. I couldn't see its face. I thought it was my little sister so I asked "what are you doing in my room". No a
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