23 Eerie, Paranormal Stories That Honestly Scared The Dickens Out Of Me

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3. "On aggregate occasions, successful 2004, erstwhile I was astir 15, I'd abruptly aftermath up astir 3:00 a.m. to find each azygous airy connected successful the house. My ma worked nights, dada didn't unrecorded with us, and my member and sister were inactive retired acold erstwhile I checked. On 1 of those nights, each the lights were turned on, the bathtub faucet was blasting, the tub was astir overflowing, and the bath descend and room faucets were besides moving afloat blast. The h2o and lights astatine nighttime terrified maine truthful overmuch that I ran and shook my older sister awake, yelling, 'Did you bash this?!' She shrugged maine disconnected and had nary thought what I was talking about. Same with my younger brother. After a mates of nights of it, I started yelling for whoever was determination to delight stop. I said I acknowledged their beingness and present needed them to leave. It ne'er happened again."

Curiousiwonder

4. "My sister and I moved successful unneurotic successful our mid-20s. She had the ensuite upstairs, portion I had a country down the hallway from the open-plan kitchen/lounge/dining room. One night, soon aft heading to bed, we some heard a sound successful the room and instantly texted each other, 'Was that you?' Nope. Then we some heard giggling. Fucking GIGGLING. We met successful the kitchen, turned each the lights on, and determination was…nothing. We spent astir 3 hours sitting connected the patio, chain-smoking cigarettes (we had agelong stopped smoking astatine that point) to calm ourselves. We were excessively frightened to spell backmost inside."

"A mates of nights later, we were watching TV connected the couch. We had a instrumentality connected successful the halfway of the room counter, not remotely adjacent to the edge, and it abruptly flew off, the plug pulled retired of the socket, and it landed connected the floor. Neither of america was adjacent adjacent to it. There was nary breeze, nothing. It was a dense metallic fan."

Born-Guard3733

5. "I person a member who is 8 years older than I am. My ma utilized to speech astir a creepy, grinning mentation of my member that she and a babysitter saw erstwhile helium was little. It seemed to property with him, and my ma saw him aggregate times. The babysitter saw him erstwhile and freaked the fuck out. I saw him erstwhile I was successful precocious school. My member worked aggregate jobs and was gone a lot. To assistance him marque immoderate other cash, I would cleanable his country and bash his laundry each week. I usually stayed up precocious Saturday nights to ticker Mad TV and SNL portion folding laundry. I started feeling similar I was being watched, but my member was astatine enactment and everyone other was asleep. When I turned to look, my member was peeking astir the hallway partition astatine maine with a ace creepy grin connected his face. All I could spot were his hands holding the partition and his caput sticking retired astir the corner, but that grin was freaky."

"I instantly thought my member was messing with me, truthful I said thing on the lines of, 'Ugh. Fuck off,' and looked backmost astatine the TV. Then I remembered that helium wasn't adjacent home, and the hairs connected my arms stood up. I looked back, and helium was gone. But the adjacent morning, I told my ma what I had seen, and she conscionable nodded successful understanding."

Katemonster89

7. "I was driving location from enactment and got struck by different car. I person nary representation of the clang itself; I conscionable callback waking up connected the broadside of the road. As I was lying there, I noticed question successful a basal of trees a ways disconnected from the road. I couldn't marque retired thing initially, but movement, until it stepped into the beams of my vehicle's headlights. Picture a werewolf with achromatic fur, nary disposable ears, and a wolf's skull for a head, and that's astir what I saw. The happening walked implicit to the different car and seemed to snoop astir similar it was looking for something, but it didn't find it, truthful it made its mode implicit to my vehicle. And erstwhile it saw me, I could spot its eyes airy up. But each it ended up doing was lasting implicit maine and looking down astatine maine arsenic I stared up astatine it, excessively frightened to truthful overmuch arsenic blink."

"But aft what felt similar hours, the happening yet blinked, and adjacent happening I know, I'm being loaded into the backmost of an ambulance."

Strange_Stage1311

10. "When my lad was 5 (he is present 20), he, my present ex-wife, my babe daughter, and I were traveling backmost from my parents' location aft dark. They unrecorded astir 2 hours away. My aunt 'R' had precocious passed away, possibly 2 months earlier. My lad randomly said, 'I spot Aunt R!' We asked him where, and helium said she was up connected the elevation watching us. There was a elevation astatine this peculiar location, but determination weren't immoderate lights connected it for him to spot a idiosyncratic connected it. Then, a mates of months ago, I was visiting my mom, and she mentioned that astir this time, she was watching my lad astatine their house, and helium was playing successful the backyard. She heard him talking to someone, carrying connected a conversation, and erstwhile she asked whom helium was taking to, helium said it was Aunt R."

Kahless-1

11. "When I was successful precocious school, my ma had a nightmare and we shared the experience. The mode our location was acceptable up, my chamber was the archetypal successful the hallway, past my brother's, the bathroom, the laundry room, and my ma was astatine the extremity of the hallway. While we were each successful furniture (I slumber with my doorway unfastened due to the fact that of the pets), I heard her gasp, but didn't truly deliberation thing of it. A fewer moments later, a shadiness arsenic gangly arsenic my doorframe walked past my door. I got up and instantly started flicking connected lights and asking if she had walked up the hallway. Of course, my ma saw since she was awake, and we walked done the house. I went to get into furniture with her aft we recovered nothing, and she was telling maine astir her nightmare, which was that a gangly antheral successful a wife-beater was astatine the extremity of her furniture with an axe, swinging it towards her (which is wherefore she gasped awake successful the archetypal place)."

"While lying there, we heard and felt knocking connected the bed's footboard. We conscionable sat determination successful silence, holding each other's hands, until it stopped, and asked 1 different if we some heard it. My member stayed dormant passim the full thing, and thing other ever happened, but boy, that was a scary ass night. I decidedly don't look astatine my doorway for excessively agelong astatine nighttime if I tin assistance it, and I person fairy lights successful my room, truthful it's ne'er wholly dark."

chickpeadawg

12. "My sister and I were walking, and I said, 'Hey, let's instrumentality a detour done the woods for a change.' We get astir one-third of the mode through, and I perceive idiosyncratic shouting my sanction heavy into the woods to my right. I freak retired for a 2nd and look astatine my sister, who is to my left. She is looking down her, incredibly terrified. I look down america but spot nothing. I determine to distract my sister by talking astir my day. We permission the woods, and I prevarication connected the grass. She looks astatine maine and tells maine successful a frightened voice, 'I heard idiosyncratic outcry my sanction down maine and it sounded similar our older brother, but arsenic if helium was young.' We some heard a dependable of our older member saying our names, but separately, successful antithetic places. For me, to my right, for my sister, it was down her. We speculated for fun, said we went done immoderate portal oregon something, and lightly laughed. But we are scarred for life. Since then, I cognize I volition ne'er ever instrumentality that way again."

NatzoXavier

15. "My sister and I saw Santa Claus successful the surviving country successful our house. What should've been a magical acquisition was really terrifying. I was 3 and my sister was 5. We awoke to loud, hard shuffling and thumping noises connected our roof. We wondered what it was, past we noticed idiosyncratic was successful our surviving room. Our country was down a skinny hall, and from our room, we looked into the surviving country and saw him. We saw a robust antheral dressed successful reddish with his backmost turned to america successful beforehand of our Christmas tree. He wasn't putting the presents down; helium was sprinkling gold, shimmering particulate onto them. Santa Claus, dressed successful his reddish and achromatic velvet suit, hat, achromatic beard, everything. It was precise evident who it was. It was weird, though; helium looked similar an aged schoolhouse movie projection with fuzzy edges and static. Like a ghost."

"We instantly looked successful our parents' room. Our parents were asleep, and we could spot them sleeping successful furniture from our country down the hallway due to the fact that they had the doorway open. We adjacent heard our dada snoring, truthful it wasn't him. Santa Claus stood up straight, turned around, looked close astatine us, and with a twinkle successful his eye, went 'shhhh' 🤫. He disintegrated into that fine, shimmering golden particulate arsenic helium did that gesture. That was erstwhile we screamed bloody murder, ran into our parents' room, and woke them up. 

My dada saw however terrified we were and ran into the surviving room. The doorway was open. Eerily enough, bedewed snowfall was connected the surviving country level and good golden glitter everywhere. There were footprints successful the snow. My dad, suspecting my uncle was playing a instrumentality connected us, angrily called him connected the telephone and demanded to cognize wherefore helium would bash specified a happening to scare us. My dad's telephone telephone woke my uncle up; helium was inactive dormant astatine his house. He had nary thought what my dada was talking about.

My parents called the cops and everything. I inactive retrieve the reddish and bluish lights flooding our surviving country erstwhile they filed a constabulary report. The cops didn't instrumentality my sister and maine earnestly until my dada showed them the snowfall connected the ground, the footprints, and the weird golden glitter each implicit the room.

I'm 32 now, and my sister is 34, and we inactive retrieve the greeting we saw Santa Claus. It was downright chilling, and I can't judge that happened to us. Nothing this overtly paranormal has ever happened to maine since then."

2short4-a-hihorse

16. "I utilized to person weird and creepy experiences astatine location erstwhile I was a kid. It was crossed the thoroughfare from an unfastened tract with a religion connected the acold close of the lot. It was a large religion with a large doorbell that you would perceive each time astatine noon. It had an vigor that I can't explicate arsenic an adult. When I was little, my furniture was on the acold partition successful the room. Depending connected which mode I was facing, I would beryllium looking astatine the partition oregon down the hallway each the mode to the different broadside of the house. I retrieve perpetually forcing myself to look the partition due to the fact that I often saw a fig astatine the different broadside of the location successful the mediate of the night. It was tall, masculine, had reddish eyes, and wore a apical hat. I curse to god. No features could beryllium made retired different than the agleam reddish eyes and the signifier of the apical hat."

"It would ne'er participate my country oregon marque a sound. It would conscionable basal astatine the different broadside of the location and dilatory marque its mode down the hallway until it stopped astatine my door. I could consciousness it staring astatine maine adjacent erstwhile I wasn't facing the door. I retrieve galore nights conscionable lying successful furniture facing the achromatic partition successful my room, waiting until I was excessively bushed to enactment awake.

There were different times erstwhile I retrieve proceeding household members calling retired from passim the location oregon basement erstwhile they weren't there. They were ever saying 'help!' oregon 'come here!' I was told to ne'er perceive unless they responded, which they ne'er did, oregon astatine slightest I don't remember. My sisters and ma said they heard the aforesaid happening arsenic adults.

My parents divorced erstwhile I wasn't overmuch older, truthful I ne'er got to analyse it. The full household talks astir it now, arsenic we're each older and person each had unusual experiences. But those weird memories ne'er left, and reasoning backmost arsenic a 28-year-old, they inactive springiness maine the chills."

SlippyMcDibbons

17. "When I was astir 4 years old, I retrieve looking retired of my chamber model and seeing cars driving done our broadside yard. Instead of looking similar our yard, it looked similar an existent road, and the cars looked old-fashioned, similar they were from the 1940s (this was successful the 1970s). Our location was successful a program of homes with beauteous ample lots, and the done thoroughfare ran successful a wholly antithetic area. Naturally, I was frightened by what I saw and ran to archer my parent and older sister. They dismissed it and said I was either dreaming oregon making things up. I conjecture I can't truly blasted them for that. My sister occasionally would tease maine astir it implicit the years, and for immoderate reason, each clip I was successful that portion of the yard, I would get a creepy feeling that I shouldn't beryllium there."

"I indispensable person been astir 12 oregon 13, and my grandma was visiting. She told my sister and maine that erstwhile she was a young girl, our vicinity was portion of a farm, and the main roadworthy utilized to tally close done our broadside yard. The roadworthy was moved erstwhile the workplace was breached up into lodging lots. My sister and I looked astatine each other. All I could accidental was, 'Yes, I know...' Years later, I recovered aerials and maps online that proved the roadworthy was determination until the 1940s."

Dull-State-2457

18. "One night, erstwhile I was a kid, I woke up successful the mediate of the night. I would permission my chamber doorway unfastened arsenic a kid, and my parents' country was to the close of mine, down the hallway. Suddenly, a fig appeared successful the acheronian doorway, and it looked similar my mom. I was conscionable looking astatine her from my bed, confused wherefore she was conscionable lasting there. Then retired of nowhere, she screamed arsenic large arsenic she could and stepped backmost retired of my doorway. I retrieve conscionable lying successful bed, freaked out, for a agelong portion earlier I yet fell backmost asleep. I've mentioned it to her respective times since then, but she knows thing astir it. A fewer creepy things happened successful that house, but that is the 1 that sticks retired the astir successful my head."

Flat-Success9471

20. "I unrecorded successful a decently sized metropolis successful occidental Indiana surrounded by workplace land. One evening, arsenic the prima had begun to set, my member and I were driving backmost location connected the confederate broadside of town, wherever it turns from your mean outlet buying areas into cornfields. It had started to get acheronian capable that the car's headlights turned on, but you could inactive spot the scenery reasonably well. We approached the crossroad that we lived connected and started to crook right. As we turned, the headlights illuminated this gangly humanoid carnal resembling a cervid lasting connected its hind legs, full-on sprinting distant into the cornfield. The stalks were lone astir shin tallness astatine the time, truthful I could spot it for possibly 3 seconds. Judging by the region it travelled crossed the tract successful that time, it had to person been moving faster than immoderate regular idiosyncratic could run."

"Immediately, I was disturbed by what I had seen, but I thought it was conscionable immoderate benignant of instrumentality of the light. I didn't accidental anything. My brother, however, confirmed my fears by asking if I had conscionable witnessed what helium had. Every clip I spot the field, I'm reminded of immoderate it was. The worst portion is knowing it was little than a fewer 100 feet from my house."

Nurkk

21. "When my lad was 2 years old, we lived successful a location with interior doors (living room, eating room, kitchen, etc.). The doors besides had handles alternatively than knobs. My lad was napping, and I was sitting astatine my table successful the surviving country with the doorway closed. The table was straight adjacent to the door. While sitting there, I watched the doorway grip wholly depress, arsenic if idiosyncratic was astir to unfastened it. Then the grip went backmost up, slowly, and the doorway ne'er opened. I figured my lad was being cheeky, and got up to unfastened the doorway myself. No 1 was connected the different side. I checked connected my lad immediately, and helium was dependable dormant successful bed. His country was connected the other extremity of the location and connected a antithetic floor."

timewasty

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