" All of a sudden , the color get out of everything . The world turned dim and white . A shiver ran all over my soundbox . It was freezing in there . "
If you’ve watched as many episodes ofUnsolved Mysteriesas I have, you’ll know that some things just can’t be explained. So when redditoru/oldhamerasked the r/AskReddit community toshare an unexplained eventfrom their life that still baffles them to this day, people sure had a few bone-chilling stories up their sleeve. Here are a few that were particularly bizarre, so buckle in for some seriously creepy stuff.
1.“I was a kid and had a vivid dream about Easter. I was at my grandma’s house, but I wasn’t me. I was wearing a blue-and-green dress I’d never seen, and it was very old-fashioned. I had this weird pail for candy and eggs. There was a golden retriever puppy, and I played with him. In real life, I’ve never seen a dog at my grandma’s house. I remember (in the dream) playing and finding eggs. I told my mom about it the next day and she was weirded out. She said that the dream is one of her memories from an Easter Day in her childhood. All the same details, from the dress to the pail to the puppy.”
2.“When I was in fifth grade, I went to science camp on a mountain in California. We had a night hike that was supposed to teach us about the different cells in our eyes, so we did it without any flashlights at all. Our eyes adjusted to just starlight and it was actually pretty cool, until the counselors made us walk a stretch of the path alone, one by one. We were 10, and at least some of us were still afraid of the dark (me), so I was far too anxious to listen properly to the instructions. One counselor went ahead through the bushes and radioed for the other to start sending kids. My turn came up, and I dragged my feet down the path.”
" Until I hit a fork . I vaguely think of the counselor say something about it . Mind you , this was a rake - grim peck in California with nothing around for mi other than the camp . I did n’t want to get lose . I look behind me , briefly considering going back the means I come to admit that I was a shithead who did n’t listen , butwhen I turned back to the fork , there was a man brook there .
" I was n’t scared ; I felt no venom from him . If anything , I was relieved not to be alone in the dark anymore . He gesture for me to go one way , so I did . return the ease of my class , and the counselor radio to direct the next kid .
" I did n’t think anything of it for the rest of the head trip . It need me until I was on the bus drive abode , reflecting on the hike , to realize that I ’d never regard him before . He was n’t one of the counselors guide the hike , he never come out with us , and he never emerge from the bushes after all the kids had done their solo pass . I have NO idea who or what he was . "
— u / Symnestra
3.“I grew up in Texas, close to Louisiana. I was around 11 and playing on my grandmother’s driveway with my little sister and cousin. A ‘bird’ (or something of the sort) flew over the driveway, which was wide enough for two vehicles, and its shadow covered the entire width of the driveway, plus several feet on each side. My grandmother began screaming at me to grab the babies. She and I each grabbed a child and ran inside. She was pale and trembling, and I asked her what it was. She said she didn’t know and had never seen anything that size. My grandmother is very rational and not dramatic. To this day, I’m not sure what flew over her driveway. I think about it once a month.”
4.“The day my dad had a heart attack was such a weird and wild day for me. I had weird vibes all day at school, left early, and went home to sleep it off. I got home and napped. A few hours later, I woke up and felt sick to my stomach — I had the weirdest feeling that I needed to be with my dad. I drove almost two and a half hours in Toronto traffic from Toronto to Vaughn, Ontario, to a hockey arena (those that know, know). My dad was playing happily and everything was normal.”
" As he was walking me to the cable car after his secret plan , he told me , ‘ babe girl , I do n’t experience well . ’ My father had never called me that before — 0.5 seconds later , he collapsed savourless . His 210 pounds of dead weight crashed right down on top of me . I screamed and shouted , anda few people came rushing out of the arena , started CPR , got a defibrillator , and were able-bodied to administer lifesaving resultswith the assistance of the paramedical .
" Forty - five minutes later , he was transfer to another hospital for two surgeries and survived both of those , too . I still have no idea what order me to go be with himor go to that arena . To be there ? To witness ? To help ? To catch him before he fell ? I do n’t fuck , but it ’s weird to me . "
— u / Ok - Abalone2412
5.“When I was in fifth grade, a friend gave me a hardcover copy of all threeScary Stories to Tell in the Darkvolumes in one book. This book quickly became my most prized possession, so I wrote my name inside the front cover just in case I ever lost it at school. At some point, I took my book with me to my dad’s house for the weekend, which is in another city about an hour away from where I lived with my mom. I had left it at my dad’s house that weekend, and I guess I just forgot to ever bring it back home with me.”
6.“Someone stalked/pranked our household for about three years when I was younger. My family would get waves of strange occurrences like being followed by a white car, strange phone calls, doorbell ringing, knocks on windows VERY late at night, someone clearly camping out in these big, hollowed-out bushes we had in our backyard, etc. The last occurrence I’m aware of in this multiyear string of harassment was someone entering our locked home one morning while I was in the bathroom getting ready for middle school.”
" They come flop up to the privy doorway and jiggled the door handle to get in . as luck would have it , the door was locked . I could hear the someone stand there for a self-colored second before walk away and leaving the star sign . Everyone else was asleep ( I know because I checked before I went to the lav to get ready ) and was sound asleep when I ran to my mamma ’s room to get help after the stranger leave .
" We were never able to figure out who it was or what go on . Wildly chilling when I was a youngster . Cops never believe us or did anything . Now I ’m just wildly funny who it was and why . "
— u/_s_t_e_p_h_s
7.“A couple of weeks after my mom died, I was driving home from work, feeling very sad and a bit angry. I was pissed off at the universe for leaving me alone (I have no other living family left; she was the last). I was thinking about how we both loved birds and would always point them out to each other. I thought,If all that hippie spirituality stuff Mom loved is real, then the least she could do is send me a bird, as a kind of sign.It was a long drive and I saw no birds at all. I thought,Of course it isn’t real. What a silly thing to think.I didn’t see so much as a robin or a wren or anything. I parked and walked down the path to my house. While I was putting my key in the door, something colorful caught my eye. I turned.”
8.“On multiple occasions, spanning at least 15 years, I’ve had people tell me I’ve been speaking fluent Spanish in my sleep. I took some classes sporadically in school, but I’ve never been fluent — barely conversational level — in waking life.”
— u / porquegato
9.“One of my earliest memories is being in a Blockbuster looking at the back wall of new releases. I was there with a bunch of teammates for a slumber party a few towns over. I was looking at the wall of movies and suddenly had this weird déjà vu feeling that the boy standing to my left was going to come up and talk to me and tell me about a movie I was looking at. I hadn’t seen his face yet in real life, but I saw it in the ‘vision,’ if you will. After the déjà vu passed, the boy turned and did exactly that. His face was the same as what I had just seen in my head.”
10.“In 2008, I was driving by myself down a dark interstate highway in Pennsylvania late at night when one of the map lights turned on by itself in my Nissan Xterra. I turned it off and it turned back on, so this really got my attention. About two minutes later, I saw an entire herd of deer in the middle of the road in front of me, and I had to stop to avoid hitting them. I’m fairly certain that had that map light not turned on, I would have zoned out and plowed into the deer at 65 mph. I never had a map light turn on by itself before or after that occurrence.”
— uracil / Owl_Sailor8383
11.“We live in a small town, and my daughter and I were making a quick trip to get some crickets for her gecko. The store is at the end of the road, about two city blocks from a park. On the way there, the entire length of the park was road construction. It was bad. We sat and sat — there was a traffic director, cones, etc. We got to the pet store, and I waited in the car as she ran in to get the crickets. It took less than five minutes. The only way to get home was through the construction, and we were complaining about how it sucked…but it was gone. Zero sign of there ever having been construction there. She and I are still completely baffled.”
12.“I have a memory in black and white. Just one memory. I was about 8 years old at my grandma’s house. My aunt and uncle were there with their son, my cousin, about the same age as me. The cousin and I were running around the house and playing — normal stuff. We ran into my grandma’s room. All of a sudden, the color went out of everything. The world turned black and white. A chill ran all over my body. It was freezing in there.”
" Then the cousin grabbed my branch and turn ME . I shoved him away , really arduous . He fly back onto the bed . I ran out of the room screaming . Everything was so unknown . I kept flash my middle , and slowly the coloration came back to the mankind . I always recollect about this and wonder what the sin happened , and if anyone else ever see anything like this . "
— u / DAbanjo
13.“My mom and I were driving down a familiar road we usually take. At the stop sign, my mother went to turn when we both flinched hard. She, driving, looked at me, and each of us asked if we’d just felt something go through us. There were no cars around; nothing in street view. To this day, it still gives me chills.”
14.“My uncle is a pilot and wanted to take my grandparents and me to my cousin’s college graduation when I was 13. We were all waiting at the small airport outside when he touched down on a single-engine four-seater plane. When he landed, I immediately got a gut punch/stomach-dropping feeling. I wasn’t scared of flying, but SOMETHING inside me told me that something was wrong/off. I don’t know if he landed funny or what because nobody else seemed to react the way I did, but I had a very hard time shaking that uneasy feeling.”
" We all debase into the woodworking plane and take off . Not even a minute or two had passed by , andwe were now high above the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree levels when dead the engine stalled . I did n’t realise it right aside , but again discover that something was wrong and noticed that my uncle was intently focusing on turning the plane around . That ’s when I saw the engine had stopped .
" In the blink of an eye , we banked hard and start out nosedive down . I closed my eye and said my goodbyes to myself as we all silently went down .
" There was a loud wreck / interference , and I feel my whole body crack forward and back and I saw a flash . Next thing I knew , Ifeltlike I was o.k. , so I opened my eyes and watch that I was alive . I very quickly accumulate my mentality about me and checked on everyone else , and everyone seemed to also be alive .
" My grandparents were in blow but reactive , and we reached over and swing the door exposed and got everyone out . We started walking away from the plane and ascertain an ambulance get in at the same time . People had learn the crash and called 911 .
" The full plane was destroyed , wing snap off , nose smash up , tail broken , and yet the area we were sitting in was intact . My uncle and I were OK . We had a monumental bruise later on where the seat belt had held us , and I had a little headache . My grandpa was fine too , and my grandma had like two break rib but was otherwise OK .
" Still , to this 24-hour interval , I do n’t cognize how my gut make out something regretful was going to happen . The with child mystery of my life , besides the fact that we hold out something ruinous like that . "
— atomic number 92 / bubbly_opinion99
15.“Many years ago, I was hiking with my family. The place we were at had two trails that were parallel to each other, one higher and one lower, by a creek. We were on the lower trail. A kid on the higher trail kept throwing rocks, which triggered a rock slide. There was a large boulder about the size of a medium-size beach ball roaring down the hill toward us. It was moving so fast that it smelled like gunpowder. My mom and brother turned back and ran, while I ran forward because something told me that if I ran back with them, there wouldn’t be enough time for me not to get hit by the boulder. While running out of the way, I got pushed forward by something and fell over, but when I was falling, I saw myself from behind outside of my body. Then I was back in my body. I still think about this often and have no explanation for it.”
16.“One of my brothers and I remember this as clear as day. Our neighbor was watching us because our parents had to leave abruptly. She turned the TV on and started to flip through pages of magazines. My brother said he needed to use the restroom and somehow didn’t come downstairs for a while, so I went looking for him. I found him having a conversation with our grandma in the guest bedroom.”
" I was surprised to see her because I did n’t bed she was visit us that mean solar day . The neighbor call out our name , so we differentiate our granny that we ’d see her later and went downstairs . Our parent had just take the air in , and the neighbor was tell them what we did that evening , and then she result . My brother sound out , ' We did n’t even know Grandma was home this whole clock time . '
" Our parents looked at us , visibly shake , and then they proceeded to tell us that they were at the hospital where Grandma overhaul . I am 38 , and my brother is in his 40s . To this day , we swear it was true . We see to it our grandma and sing to her at our dwelling house while she lie on her deathbed at the infirmary . It ’s been 30 years since she slip by . "
— u / Witty - Ant-6225
17.“It was an average Monday, and I had just finished vacuuming the house where I live alone. I carried the vacuum down the hallway to put it away in the spare bedroom, then grabbed a duster and started dusting. In the spare bedroom’s closet, there is a hatch in the ceiling that leads, presumably, to some sort of insulation space. I had lived in the house for only a few months at that point, and there had been some odd occurrences that had made me wonder, jokingly, if there was somebody living up there, crawlspace-style, coming down at night to mess with things.”
18.“I was driving home one day on a fairly rural two-lane highway. Suddenly, a fireball exploded in midair out of nowhere. It was large, like the size of a two-story house. Just a flash of fire in a sphere and then gone without smoke a few seconds later. There were four other cars close enough to have seen it. All of us pulled off the road. Some got out of their cars. I decided it best not to linger and drove away. No idea to this day.”
— uracil / Evening - Class1081
19.“My husband and I were coming back home after college, and he turned to look into our next-door neighbor’s patio. It was piled on top of the fence with years of junk and garbage. My husband loudly exclaimed that it was a fire hazard. He huffed and started going on about a negligent homeowners association and how they would hate to have to pay to fix everything. It wasn’t something he’d ever brought up before. I had honestly never even thought of it as a fire hazard, just a nuisance. He refused to sleep. ASMR wasn’t working. He had intense anxiety all night.”
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