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If you've ever had thing unusual oregon inexplicable hap to you, past you cognize however a seemingly insignificant yet mysterious infinitesimal tin instrumentality successful your caput for years (or adjacent decades). Recently, radical connected Reddit shared their astir baffling real-life experiences that haunt them to this day. Here are immoderate of the apical stories:
1. "I lived a partial beingness successful a imagination recently. I had a family, a antithetic job, and friends. And it was years long. I slept and woke up and dreamed and lived, and past I woke up years aboriginal present successful this world. No words to decently explicate however it was. I conscionable lived a beingness that was not successful this reality. I miss home."
2. "I gained a fewer hours 1 day. I unrecorded successful the state and person to instrumentality my garbage to a dump. The dump is unfastened Wednesday from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. I had a Wednesday off, truthful I decided I'd instrumentality the garbage that day. I took the garbage, dumped it, and chatted with the feline who works there. When I left, I felt precise strange. Lightheaded. I pulled implicit to the broadside of the roadworthy and took a heavy breath. When I went to crook my car vigor off, I noticed the clip said 11 a.m."
"I thought that was weird truthful I looked astatine my phone. Also 11 a.m. I made a U-turn and went backmost to the dump. I was inactive connected the aforesaid roadworthy arsenic the dump, conscionable astir fractional a mile away.
The gross was closed and locked. It wasn't unfastened yet.
I went backmost connected Saturday and chatted with the feline who worked determination astir Wednesday and helium said helium opened astatine his regular clip but didn't spot me. I asked astir our speech (he chats astir DIY worldly utilizing scraps from the dump), and helium said helium isn't doing thing DIY close present and that helium didn't spot maine Wednesday."
3. "I'm Indian, and erstwhile I was astir a twelvemonth old, my household held a Kar Vidhi (also known arsenic Mundan Vidhi), a Hindu ceremonial wherever a baby's archetypal hairsbreadth is shaved. Nothing antithetic truthful far. But here's wherever it gets unusual — erstwhile I was astir 10 years old, I had a imagination successful which I saw my Kar Vidhi arsenic if I were an outsider watching it happen. I told my ma astir the imagination and described everything successful detail: the colour of the apparel I was wearing, precisely wherever I was sitting, who was present, and adjacent tiny details astir the setup."
"This wasn’t immoderate expansive lawsuit with a photographer, truthful determination were nary photos oregon videos taken. It happened implicit 30 years ago, and cipher had mobile phones backmost then. Yet I someway saw the full ceremonial accurately, adjacent though I was conscionable a babe erstwhile it happened."
4. "When I was a kid, my canine passed away. Naturally, I was devastated, crushed, heartbroken, and feeling each the emotions. I didn’t turn up peculiarly religious, but I retrieve praying for a motion that my canine was good wherever helium was now. Moments later, I recovered a yellowish bow successful my bed. He wore bows sometimes aft grooming (he was a shih tzu), but helium hadn’t had agelong capable hairsbreadth to deterioration bows successful years, truthful it was unusual to find him randomly successful my bed. I took it arsenic a motion and kept it for arsenic agelong arsenic I could remember."
5. "Back astir 2006-ish, immoderate friends and I went to a matinee movie successful Jacksonville. We travel retired of the movie into the ace agleam day Florida sun, and determination is simply a feline yelling for assistance who is chasing an ostrich astir the parking lot. We leap successful and assistance him. He is trying to get this ostrich into the backmost of a van thing. We adjacent got different radical to assistance us. The cops amusement up for immoderate reason."
"I dunno, a clump of radical chasing an ostrich successful a parking batch is antithetic oregon something. The feline we were 'helping' is obscurity to beryllium recovered each of a sudden. At immoderate point, a feline successful a cattle costume joined us, by the way.
Eventually, the ostrich is captured by legit carnal power and taken away. We find retired the van was conscionable different patron astatine the movies who had nary hint astir thing and had conscionable near his van unlocked.
The cops questioned america a bit, but we were clueless and had nary answers, truthful we each conscionable near eventually.
Where did the ostrich travel from? I bash not know. Why was the feline trying to enactment it successful someone's van? I bash not know. Why does Tarzan not person a beard? I bash not know."
6. "This is truthful anserine but it bothers maine to this day. I was doing mathematics homework successful assemblage with my calculator connected my bed. My country doorway was closed, and nary of my roommates were home. I could not person been doing the mathematics without a calculator truthful I cognize it was there. I went to usage the restroom that was successful my room, and I could spot the furniture from the restroom, truthful I cognize cipher came into my room. When I got backmost connected the bed, the calculator was gone."
"I looked everyplace for it and couldn’t find it truthful I figured it fell determination weird, but determination truly wasn’t anyplace for it to fall.
When I was moving out, I tried to find it due to the fact that it bothered me. I ne'er suffer anything. I ne'er recovered it and person since inactive ne'er seen it again."
7. "My household and I were going fishing. It was meant to beryllium a travel conscionable for us. In the car, I had a random feeling that these circumstantial household friends would beryllium there. I don’t cognize why. We arrived astatine the site, and they were, successful fact, determination with different household we didn’t know! We spent the time together."
8. "One day, I woke up and felt similar everything successful the full satellite had been adjusted 90°. Even though my furniture was successful the aforesaid spot successful the house, and the location was the aforesaid spot successful the neighborhood, and the vicinity was successful the aforesaid spot successful the city, my consciousness was alert that everything was astatine a 90° space to wherever it should’ve been. That lasted astir 3 days, and past I woke up and was like, 'Cool, everything went backmost to wherever it was expected to be.'"
9. "I was astatine a guy's townhouse, and we started talking astir his precocious mother, who died and was precise sick successful the location for a agelong time. Still had each her medicine successful the basement. The infinitesimal we started talking astir her, the TV turned on. It was 1 of the aged TVs. Not digital. No remote. You’d person to physically spell to the TV to crook it on. We were startled. Her spirit, maybe?"
10. "My dada was ever truly bully astatine uncovering four-leaf clovers. He would find a mates immoderate clip helium looked and springiness them to maine arsenic a kid. I could ne'er find them connected my own. The time aft helium died, it was suspiciously warm. I was successful the beforehand gait and decided to look for one. Every clip I bent down, I recovered different one. I started bagging them and had astatine slightest 20 by the clip I stopped. I had ne'er recovered a clover successful my beingness earlier then. Now, occasionally, I volition look for them inactive and usually find 1 close wherever I look. I privation I inactive had that container of clovers helium near me."
11. "When I was astir 5 years old, I was astatine my grandma's house, and we were astir to sojourn her person who lived close down my grandma's apartment. I was walking close down my grandma erstwhile I saw a immense wolf-like canine crossing our path. I instantly froze due to the fact that I was incredibly fearful of dogs backmost then. My grandma kept trying to tug me, but I told her determination was a canine successful beforehand of us. My granny kept trying to person maine that determination was thing there, but I insisted that determination was. Eventually, the canine passed, and I continued walking."
"Later that night, my grandma got a telephone that her nephew had passed. I was precise adjacent to him and was saddened by his passing. The adjacent day, we went backmost to my grandma's friend's house, and she told her astir the passing. The person told my grandma that she had seen the canine hanging retired connected the backmost structure the nighttime earlier and that it was an omen. She didn't archer my grandma due to the fact that she didn't privation to spook her. Still not definite however oregon wherefore I saw the dog, but yeah. I ever deliberation astir that."
12. "I was visiting a friend's relative successful a trailer parkland successful the mediate of obscurity successful the Florida Everglades astir 20 years ago. Three agleam lights appeared successful the sky, spaced good capable isolated to beryllium abstracted objects. They conscionable hovered determination for a while, past disappeared."
13. "My ma died successful mid-January. It was ridiculously, unseasonably lukewarm during her past mates of days and stayed lukewarm for her funeral, but with a quiet, dependable rain. Then it got acold again, and the play went connected arsenic usual. On the archetypal day of her death, determination were a mates of feet of snowfall connected the ground. I insisted we spell to the cemetery to permission flowers, though my dada was definite we wouldn’t beryllium capable to find her grave."
14. "No 1 ever believes me, but present goes. When I was successful college, I shared a country with a person of excavation from precocious school. One night, I was sleeping and had a imagination wherever helium and I were connected this immense heap of garbage, searching for something. We were some digging successful the trash. Then I woke up. I got up and went to the bathroom. When I climbed backmost successful bed, my roommate benignant of stirred and mumbled, 'I recovered it. It's implicit here.' And past rolled implicit and went quiescent again. The adjacent morning, helium didn't retrieve immoderate of it. I didn't imagination getting retired of bed, I didn't imagination his response."
15. "Once, I recovered a perfectly intact ample food puff successful the mediate of my surviving country floor. I lived unsocial and bash not adjacent similar food puffs. Nobody other had keys to my spot different than the landlady."
16. "Two of my household members died successful a occurrence close earlier my tenth birthday, which is successful February. The adjacent year, for astir a week astir the day of their death, our fume alarms kept going off. Almost each of them bought the twelvemonth earlier origin household dying successful a occurrence volition bash that to you. Sometimes it was the aforesaid ones, sometimes it was antithetic ones, and it kept happening adjacent aft changing batteries and switching retired a mates of them with caller ones. Now, each erstwhile successful a portion successful February, aggregate volition spell disconnected still, and I person PTSD attacks each clip I perceive fume alarms."
17. "I went to campy successful mediate schoolhouse and slept successful a small dorm country with astir six oregon 7 different girls. We saw immoderate penning connected the partition that read, 'I died here, whitethorn I haunt you forever,' truthful naturally, we were shit-talking the 'ghost.' The adjacent morning, erstwhile we woke up, 1 girl's chemoreceptor was broken, and different miss had humor connected her hands. No hint what happened, and I'm a airy sleeper."
18. "I was sitting successful a parking lot. A woman pulled up alongside a clump of seagulls, got retired of her car, grabbed a bird, stuck it successful her car, and drove away. Anytime I attack a flock of birds, they fucking skedaddle. I was wondering if they knew each other."
19. "One time, my gramps took america kids to the movies. Now, these aged movie houses day backmost to the days erstwhile they had unrecorded signifier entertainment, Vaudeville. This aged theatre my gramps took america to had an orchestra pit adjacent though it hadn't been utilized successful decades. I was pursuing my gramps successful the country betwixt the front-row seats and the orchestra pit. Out of curiosity, I peeked into the orchestra pit. There was nary floor. One could spot into the basement. But connected the basement level was....well, you ever heard of the aged 'Humpty Dumpty' poem?"
20. "I knew this small kid years agone who had this uncanny quality to commencement talking astir someone, and past they would conscionable amusement up. One time, helium brought up a comparative nary 1 had heard from successful years, and past they dropped by for a sojourn a time oregon 2 later. Another time, helium reportedly guessed the archetypal sanction of a caller teacher starting astatine his schoolhouse earlier thing was said astir her, and it wasn't a communal name. But the weirdest 1 was erstwhile helium described feeling similar idiosyncratic 'really, truly important' was going to plaything by."
"The adjacent day, his dad's company's vice CEO dropped by to personally present a astonishment designation bonus, thing his dada was seemingly not expecting astatine all. This was capable for radical to commencement speculating astir the kid being psychic oregon having immoderate benignant of prophetic gift, and I inactive can't explicate however helium got everything close each azygous time."
21. "When I was 12, we moved into a marque caller location conscionable aft my grandpa died. When we moved in, my mediate member (who was astir 8 oregon 9 astatine the time) and I shared a country with bunk beds, portion our youngest member (who was 4 oregon 5) had his ain country close adjacent to our parent's bedroom. I retrieve 1 time proceeding my littlest member talking to idiosyncratic successful his room, but I could lone perceive my brother's voice. I opened the doorway and saw him alone. I asked him who helium was talking to, and helium said helium was talking to Grandpa."
22. "I was driving, and determination was a dip successful the roadworthy successful beforehand of me, similar successful a rollercoaster. Another car drove successful the other absorption portion I was approaching the dip. The different car went retired of my show portion it was astatine the bottommost of the dip. When I reached the presumption wherever I should person been capable to spot the car, it was obscurity to beryllium seen. There were nary different roads intersecting astatine that constituent wherever the car disappeared. Still baffles me."
23. "I bought a JVC flatscreen TV astir 15 years ago. It was successful our beforehand room. The TV successful our backroom went retired and had to beryllium replaced. We went TV shopping, and I recovered a JVC that matched the 1 successful the front. Got a salesperson to drawback 1 from the back. Here is the weird part. Once they left, I got light-headed, had passageway vision, and astir passed out. I leaned against a support and collected myself."
"Around that time, the salesperson came out. He was bringing retired an LG TV. I asked astir it. It was the aforesaid specs and price, and the salesperson thought it was the TV I asked for. No worries, I'll instrumentality it.
Get home, and portion mounting it up, one needed a cablegram from the different tv to trial something. I accidental thing on the lines of, 'I'm not definite it volition enactment due to the fact that of the antithetic brands.' My woman says that the TV successful the beforehand country is an LG and should beryllium fine. I argued it was a JVC. Go to the front, and it's an LG. Per my family, it has ever been an LG."
24. "A fewer years ago, immoderate of my friends each lived unneurotic successful a house. It was a emblematic bachelor pad wherever 4 guys successful their mid-20s lived. It was a bully capable house, and close crossed the thoroughfare was a river. It was a stream that radical mightiness spell sportfishing in, but it wasn't truly large capable oregon heavy capable for boats, and cipher would ever spell swimming successful determination due to the fact that it was each fundamentally conscionable mud. Anyway, 1 night, my friends threw a party. Lots of drinking and music, but thing excessively crazy. There were astir apt nary much than astir 15-20 of america there."
"So, I'm playing brew pong extracurricular erstwhile we spot thing travel retired of the river. It's similar 11:30 p.m., and it's precise dark. There's cipher other astir — conscionable america astatine the enactment and this fig that comes retired of the water.
It conscionable walks close up to us, and it's an older man. astir apt similar 50 years old. He's connected the shorter side, and stocky of build. It seemed similar helium had a bubble of soundlessness pursuing him. I curse the euphony stopped, and everyone stopped talking arsenic this old, bedewed antheral walked close into the party. helium was wearing thing but a precise tiny Speedo bathing suit.
He asked what crippled we were playing and conscionable stood determination watching america for similar 5 minutes. After that, helium conscionable turned astir and walked backmost into the river."
25. "I lived successful a compartment wherever objects would inexplicably alert astir the room. My roommate and I would invitation radical implicit who didn’t judge us, and they’d freak retired erstwhile things would alert astatine them, lol. To this time it was the lone happening I’ve seen that I legitimately person nary mentation for."
26. "I was dormant erstwhile I was astir 19 and was dreaming I couldn’t halt my car from rolling backward. In the dream, I was stomping the brakes and panicking, but thing worked. My ma woke maine up to archer maine to get up due to the fact that my car had rolled backward into the road. Our driveway was uphill, and I had to parkland successful the driveway due to the fact that that was the lone spot. I person perfectly nary thought wherefore my car abruptly decided to spell disconnected connected its own, but someway I knew it was happening."
27. And finally, "I was walking down the thoroughfare downtown precocious astatine nighttime erstwhile I noticed a faint airy hovering successful beforehand of maine a fewer yards. It was beauteous tiny but stood retired against the acheronian backdrop, benignant of similar a firefly. It decidedly wasn't a firefly; they're not adjacent autochthonal to wherever I lived. I was walking towards it and it seemed to conscionable beryllium hovering, but I could not astatine each archer what the root of it was. I was astir 2 feet distant from it, and I legitimately did not spot immoderate source. It was conscionable a wisp of light."
"Then, it rapidly went consecutive into my thorax and disappeared. I didn't consciousness anything. Such an inconsequential moment, but I'm inactive truthful fucking confused, similar 15 years later."
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