The Wall of Weird: Spooky Stories of People Seeing Strange Stuff That No One Else Believed

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Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer
Oct 23, 2026 6:35 PM EDT

What better time of the year to talk about all of our spooky stories than Spooky Week itself? 

There's only a week left until Halloween, and our decorations are up, the party invitations are already sent (or received, if you're not hosting), and our costumes are hanging in our closets until it's time to put them on. The jack-o'-lanterns are carved, the candies to give to the kids trick-or-treating are already bought, and all that's left is to sit down and wait until the day finally comes. But what do we do in the meantime? After all, we're already filled with the spooky spirit, and we don't want it to get cold, so how do we keep the scary adrenaline in our systems until next Saturday? Well, there are a few options.

First, and an old-time favourite: horror movies! There are so many classics we can turn to to keep our scary moods up. No matter how many times we've seen them, we always fall for the jump scares. And if you're not a fan af true horror, that's no problem! We can scale down a little bit and choose something along the suspense lines. The Haunting of Bly Manor is a favourite of mine, and yes, it could be qualified as horror, but don't worry; what scares you is the anticipation; there is nothing too graphic. We can always turn to Disney's Halloween movies; they have quite a few and are really good. 

Or, if you prefer, telling your own weird and spooky stories will keep us all interested. It doesn't even have to be scary; all things weird and unusual are welcome! 

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  • What is something you 100% saw that nobody else believed you saw?

  • I will go first - during an outside movie night event, an incoming major thunderstorm hit my town, the part of my country i lived in was wel known for heavy thunderstorms and massive amounts of rain. From where
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  • I sat, I noticed how dramatic the thunderstorm was and suddenly a comet like bolt flew around the thunder storm, it wasnt a comet but looked like a ball of lighting with a trial of lighting falling behind it..it only lasted for 2 seconds
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  • before disappearing, I tried searching it up anywhere I couldnt find it, the closet thing i can see it representing is was ball lighting, a rare phenomenon where a sphere glowing made from pure electrical or plasma processes...but yet again its not it for those only occur near ground level and they dont create a streak like tail
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    A lightning storm. 

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  • Dismal_Nobody_1755 I believe I seen a ball of energy/lightning in my home. It even made light crackling sounds. It hoverered a few feet above the concrete floor for about 5seconds then descended straight down
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  • through it. I still to this day don't know if was real or I imagined it as I have no proof. It didn't leave a burn or any trace. I've never had any other experiences where I have questioned if what I seen was real.
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  • Stereo_Jungle_Child I saw a ghost at an old bar I used to work at 30 years ago. We had just closed. The doors were locked. I was wiping down tables and suddenly I saw this guy standing in front of me with his back
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  • turned to me. I looked right at it for several seconds and then it just disappeared right in front of me. I worked there for 22 years and that was the first and last time that ever happened to me. I still have no explanation.
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    A ghost in the bedroom. 

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  • Now, I've never seen a ghost myself, and I hope I never do. I'm definitely not cut out to have regular encounters with the paranormal. However, a friend of mine actually said he lived with a ghost in his apartment for a few months. He had moved into a new place, and people said the spirit of its previous owner was still there. He's a really skeptical person, so he never believed it until he started running into the ghost. He would see it in the hallways, getting in and out of rooms, but my friend refused to move out. One day, he had enough of this so-called ghost invading his home and decided to take matters into his own hands. He stepped in the center of the living room and said out loud: “Ghost, you have two options now: either you help me pay rent, or you leave me the heck alone.”  Guess what? My friend never saw the ghost again. Even in the great beyond, people have issues with showing up unannounced and paying rent on time. 

  • CalypsoDreaming1 I saw a ghost in the corner of my bedroom. She had long, flowing hair, was a solid shade a white with a glowing purple outline. She was trying to talk to me but it's like the sound was muted. It lasted a good three minutes. I had insomnia and was wide awake.
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  • poplafuze Two UFOs flying in synchrony, I can't say no one believes me because a friend down the road mentioned seeing the same thing years later. I never mentioned it to him and he told me the story and the time frame checked out to be the same occurrence I saw.
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  • The other two were a grey crossing the road in front of me and the other was a witch on a broom flying in front of my car. These two I don't believe myself, I'm assuming the witch was an owl I don't know about
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  • the grey. The UFO, I can't come up with an explanation. Movements a plane couldn't make and before drones were really a thing. It looked like two stars dancing in broad daylight
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  • Honey_Broad a UFO. I was kidding and I was with my parents when we were driving, we lived in the country and there was strange lights like on the ground. A whole bunch of cars had pulled over and then it disappeared
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  • dunfuktup1990 I was at the Gettysburg battleground when I was ten, and I could swear I saw the faint images of men running out of the tree line for a moment. My mom chocked it up to childhood imagination, but I
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  • saw a video about a year ago from the same place that appeared to capture the exact same thing on camera. I was completely shocked when I saw that clip, it felt so vindicating. I'll do some digging and see if I can find it.
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    A UFO over the desert. 

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  • Again, never seen anything remotely similar to a UFO. I guess the uncanny just avoids me, and truly, it is for the best, not just because I don't deal well with it, but because I'm too obstinate and skeptical myself. Seriously, I would argue that a UFO is some kind of drone some kids are playing with to scare their neighbors, or that the ghost you saw in the mirror was just the angle and the reflection of light. It would take the fun out of the spooky. So I just stick to hearing everybody elses's stories, and it works wonders for me! Next time, we can do it all together in front of a fire while roasting marshmellows. 

  • The_Implicationll An orb floated across my bedroom, husband does not believe me
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  • Forward_Purchase_622 As a kid on the drive to the Grandparents at night I swear that I saw a ball of fire in the sky. No one believed me but years later I
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  • met a man who lived along that road, and he remembered seeing the same thing. The thinking is that it was a satellite falling out of orbit
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