" This was the only time I have ever no - call , no - show to a problem , and I think it may have pull through my aliveness . "
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Every month, I askBuzzFeed readersjust like you to share the creepiest, most bone-chilling things they’ve ever experienced. I’ve read it all:glitches in the matrix,paranormal encounters,run-ins with serial killers, and evenpremonitions that came true. We got hundreds of creepy story submissions, but I narrowed it down to these 24 tales that gave me full body goosebumps. Let’s get into it:
1.“Two weeks after I gave birth to twins, I woke up one morning on my bed, even though I know I had fallen asleep that night on the couch. I walked to the lounge and saw everything was clean. The lounge was cleaned, my children’s toys were all put away, and the kitchen was spotless. I saw my 3-year-old sitting on the couch, eating breakfast and watchingCocomelon. She turned around and looked surprised to see that I was up. She started telling me about last night, when she came to me when I was asleep on the couch because she had a nightmare, but ‘Emma’ told her not to disturb me. She told me that ‘Emma’ brought me to my bed, because ‘sleeping on the couch wasn’t good for me, in my condition.'”
" I usually make breakfast for my 3 - twelvemonth - old , but she say me that ' Emma ' had already made it for her . I thought that she was just joke and spiel with me , but when I told her that I was going to feed the twins , she told me that ' Emma ' did that , too . I just ignored what she tell and took her to school . On the way there , she asked me , ‘ Mummy , why does Emma have such grey-headed hair ? ’ She also start hen-peck me and telling me that she require to sit in the front seat in the railway car , and that Emma must sit in the back . Later , when my hubby fall home from piece of work , I told him about what Jordan ( my 3 - twelvemonth - old ) was telling me this morning . Turns out that his later granny ’s name was Emma . "
— Anonymous
2.“When our firstborn was an infant, he had reflux and hardly slept, so I napped when he did. One snowy morning while we were napping in my bed, my husband was out taking care of the cattle, and I dreamed he was driving an old tractor sideways across a hill. The tractor rolled, and my husband was crushed underneath it from the waist down. He was lying there in the freezing mud, unable to feel much of anything and thinking that wasn’t such a bad way to die. When he came in later that morning, his coveralls were completely caked with mud. When I asked what happened, he said, ‘I rolled the 806 on a hill.’ I burst into tears and told him about my dream. He said the tractor had actually stopped on its side, but as it went over, he’d been frantically trying to figure out which way to jump so he didn’t get crushed if it kept going. Twenty-five years later, I still get shaky thinking about it.”
3.“While in college, I worked at a clothing store on a popular upscale street in Boston. On this particular day, something would not allow me to leave my dorm to go to work. I cannot explain what was preventing me from leaving, but it was almost as if a barrier was placed across the threshold of the door and I could not leave my building. To shake this feeling off, I took a shower. While in the shower, I heard two very loud bangs. This was the sound of the Boston Marathon bombing, which occurred one block away from my job. I likely would have been in the exact location of the first bomb at that exact time if I’d continued on with my commute. Because of the citywide lockdown, my coworkers were stuck inside the building until about 6 a.m. the next morning. This was the only time I have ever no-call, no-showed to a job, and I think it may have saved my life.”
" This happen one other time . I was at a party at a role dormitory with some friends . Since it was wintertime , we hoard our coats in a corner of the hall to avoid take in to hold them . Suddenly , I had the urge to get together our property and stand near the door . Though my friends were clear nettle by my request , they hold . Not five minutes after we got near the door , a shooting weaken out , and we were the first to exit . away from injuries from the shooting , many people were trample endeavor to rush through the small release door . My friend and I were not , and were some of the few who were able to bunk the chaos unscathed that solar day . "
4.“I lived in our city’s historic downtown area for a good number of years. The location was the site of a major Civil War battle. In both buildings I lived in (on the same street), I experienced a lot of weird phenomena. One time, my friend and I went down to the basement of one of the buildings to do a load of laundry. The lights were on a timer (horrifyingly so) so when you turned the knob all the way over, you’d have light for 30 minutes. No matter how long I was going to be down there, I always turned the knob all the way. So, we were down there folding laundry when suddenly we heard something weird, like a shuffling sound, coming from the corner of the basement that was in darkness. Then, suddenly, the lights went out, and we were plunged into complete and total darkness.”
" My admirer enounce , ' Did you turn the node to 30 minute ? ! ' As I was differentiate her I did , we heard the stochasticity again , but this time close . We grab all of the laundry as fast as we could and flew up the step . As we did , we could feel something behind us . As soon as we run through the door , it bang behind us , as if someone had pulled it fold . Needless to say , I did my laundry elsewhere after that and never went down there again . "
5.“My aunt and uncle are convinced their house is haunted, but I didn’t believe them until recently. They said that the ghost seemed more playful than malicious and would mess with technology (ie: phone alarms going off that weren’t set, TV turning on and off/volume changing, dishwasher beeping before the cycle was over, etc.). I was extremely dubious and chalked it up to their overactive imaginations. One day, I was home alone at their house watching their new puppy while my uncle went out to go get stuff for said puppy and my aunt was at work. There was a bad storm going on outside (like, trees falling down all over town bad), and so my very important job was to sit on the couch and cuddle the puppy. All of a sudden, he stopped shaking and began barking and growling toward the kitchen, which was completely empty.”
" I just thought he was being a pup , so I did n’t intend much of it . He continue , and then the fridge pop beeping really aloud , like the auditory sensation when you leave the door open . Except it was much louder and sharper for whatever reason . So , holding the pup , I take the air over to the kitchen to check over the fridge , which was close all the path . I could n’t figure out why it was beeping , until it suddenly quit . A few seconds later , a monumental tree diagram fall down through the cap into the living room , right onto the lounge where the pup and I were sitting . The puppy and I most likely would ’ve die if it were n’t for the icebox beeping randomly . I ’m not saying it was a touch , but I ’m not say it was n’t either . "
6.“Fate is something that I have always believed in and, for our family, fate saved my brother’s life. I was born in 1977; my eight siblings were all much older than me — like, just graduated or getting ready to graduate high school and on in age. One of my older brothers, who had recently graduated high school, was offered this construction job near Chicago, which was roughly six hours away from home. We had family in Chicago, and this was the late ’70s, so this wasn’t a big deal or out of the ordinary. My big brother ended up hurting himself pretty badly right before he was supposed to head off to this new job, and so he was unable to go. After speaking with his close buddy about this job opportunity, he called and let the contractor know that he had been hurt, but one of his really close friends was interested in taking the job, if that would be OK. The contractor agreed, no problem, so off my brother’s friend went, in his place.”
" After a brief call put forward he made it to the Chicago area , week go by , and everyone start to realize that no one had heard from my brother ’s friend at all since then . Now , keep in creative thinker that it was n’t as easy back then for different police stations to communicate , let alone the right people within the constabulary place . Also , the friend was 18 at the time , so he was consider an grownup . Well , eventually we would come to find out that the business my buddy was supposed to have taken was with the serial killer John Wayne Gacy , who in fact had killed my buddy ’s really close acquaintance . An injury that stop my brother from get a job was actually our saving saving grace and the reason why we still have him today . particularly now at my age and know how important family is , I am so thankful for portion stepping in with that injury , because , selfishly , it means I still have my big buddy . "
7.“In college, I lived in a haunted dorm. It’d been built in the 1850s and housed women and children originally. The building right next to it was built in, like, 1740, and the two had been connected by a bridge on the third floor at one time. We experienced plenty of benign activity all the time, but a few incidents were creepier than others. I lived with three roommates in a large room that had very tall ceilings, 12 ft. at least. There were some metal pipes sticking out just below the ceiling above the door. When we moved in, I used a ladder to put an old cast iron street sign up on the pipes, because college. It was set very safe and sturdy, in a way that it couldn’t fall down without someone physically climbing a ladder and taking it down. Anyway, one morning we all woke up, and the street sign was on the floor directly beneath the pipes. Our room door had been locked all night, and the three of us had slept in the room without waking up.”
" If someone had break up in with a ladder ( from a public utility closet on another floor of the dorm ) , we would have sleep together . If the cast iron polarity had shine some 12 metrical unit onto the lino trading floor , we definitely would have heard such a flashy wreck . The preindication was n’t even tip on its side , it was sitting perfectly upright . We think it might have been the ghost of a mischievous shaver who like to prank us , but that was absolutely the creepiest and most impressive nervous antic that twelvemonth . "
8.“I was eight and a half months pregnant when we moved into a brand new house. The first night we were there, something woke me up in the middle of the night — maybe our dog, I thought — and so I went downstairs to get some water. We didn’t have any window coverings yet, and the kitchen was nearly all glass windows. I flipped on the kitchen lights, pet the dog, and eventually went back to sleep upstairs. The next morning I looked out the kitchen window and realized that someone had broken into our garage, which was right outside our kitchen, and thoroughly ransacked it.”
" They had trend the power to the building flood sparkle , which I subsequently realized had been off when I was downstairs . They emptied out chiliad of one dollar bill deserving of things we had temporarily unloaded into the garage while hear to move into the house . It ’s almost certain that was what had woken me up , and belike had been crouched outdoors , just foundation off , in the dark while I was getting water supply , half dressed , light up , and very pregnant . "
9.“I was just 3 years old and, in the middle of the night, I called out to my parents across the hall to come and take me to the bathroom, as it was so dark. My mother yelled back that it was OK and that I was a big girl so I could go by myself, but that she would stay awake until I got back in bed. So, I did. As I stepped on the floor, my feet gotveryhot, and I told my mom something was wrong. She told me to use the bathroom and go back to sleep, and that there couldn’t be anything wrong with the floor.”
" I started squall because the base wassohot , and my dad get along to get me . He matte the heat on his feet and tell my mom there must be a blast in the cellar . Turns out the red-hot water tank was overheating . He took us outside and called the gas company . They total and empty us and the surrounding neighbors , enjoin us the tank was about to break loose at any moment . They told my dad if I had n’t have out of layer that dark , a good part of the locality would ’ve been go in a gas explosion . The army tank would have been like a bomber . "
10.“Before we got together, my ex-husband and his first wife were driving across the Navajo Reservation on a dirt road in Arizona. They saw four lights moving parallel to each other horizontally in the sky, not far above the horizon. They got out to take a photograph, and the next thing they knew, they were back in their car and driving. They had no memory of getting back in the car or starting the engine to drive. The photograph still exists — I’ve seen it. I also saw an indentation in my ex’s leg about the diameter of a pencil and about 1/4th of an inch deep. He said his ex-wife has one, too, but refuses to talk about it. When I taped a neodymium magnet over it for a week, the hole was more shallow, but nothing had completely surfaced. It’s creepy.”
11.“I worked in an art museum after college. It was a beautiful, old building, but the library section was in a bit of disrepair. Instead of trying to maintain the space and books, administrators decided to use the library for staff offices with open work spaces for about eight of us. The library was divided into three connected but distinct rooms. My desk was nearest the front door that exited to the rest of the museum. Several times when I worked late there, I would hear staplers stapling, file cabinets opening, and papers shuffling from the back-most room. I would check, but all my colleagues were gone. After this happened a few times, it got to the point that I tried to not be there at night alone.”
" I did n’t say anything to my colleagues because I sound paranoid . One twenty-four hour period I had to work late , and the night security man walked in and casually said , ' We all detest this area . Cold chills , all the sentence . Totally preoccupied . ' I later tell my officemates what he said , and everyone sighed in relief to in conclusion spill about it . We set off to compare line — all of us had seen or discover something unaccountable there for months . It made me sad to cogitate a ghost was doing paperwork for all eternity , but it was also A-one creepy . "
12.“I’m used to having strange premonitions that seem to always happen the way I dream or daydream about them. When I was 17, I kept having the same dream throughout the year about my parents being murdered on Christmas. No one believed me, and they told me it was just a bad dream. Then, on Thanksgiving day, my aunt had the same exact dream.Every detail matched. My grandparents told us we shouldn’t stay home for Christmas, but my dad insisted. Unfortunately, everything played out just how I had dreamed it.”
13.“I was living in an old studio apartment in Paris that was very small and had a mezzanine for a sleeping area. I lived with my ex, who was not a nice person, and my cat. To add a bit of context, I’m very familiar with the paranormal. Several odd occurrences happened there, but the one that gives me chills to this day involved a shadow man. A few weeks prior, my ex started to complain about a strong smell ‘like a dead body or dead animal’ in the apartment. He was a nurse in geriatrics, so he had dealt with death before. Strangely, though, he said it only happened when I wasn’t there. I thought he was being dramatic at first, but after a few odd events, I believed him.”
" One night around 3 a.m. , I woke up very on the spur of the moment . The melody feel very impenetrable and heavy , and I at once knew something was not right . My cat run down the mezzanine ’s ladder and started rumble and meowing in an absolutely terrifying way . It was middling obvious that she ’d get word something . I ran down the ravel , step over my ex and not understand how I or the khat did n’t wake him up . He was dead asleep — nothing could wake him up . As I conk out to seize my cat , the vague light coming from the building ’s inner court revealed a very tall shadower man on the rampart that my cat was face .
It had a threatening demeanor and small red eyes . It was begin to move slowly toward me . All this materialize very quickly , but I catch my cat and did a few rituals and prayer . After a duo of minutes , the air was clear , and something just lifted , it ’s hard to excuse . The way felt normal again . I knew it was gone .
The twenty-four hours after , my x told me about a horrifying nightmare he had of a demon chasing him and slaughtering him . I told him what had bump , and we both believed they were linked . It might not seem super extreme , but I ’m still traumatise by this experience — it give me chills every prison term I think about it . I hope to never experience something like that again . "
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14.“When I was a teenager in the late ’90s, one of my friends lived a few miles down a dirt road in a house that was built in the ’70s. The whole area was built on land that was previously a tuberculosis sanitarium and still had some TB huts in ruins dotting the properties, his included. He would talk regularly about their house being haunted, and strange occurrences they experienced — mostly noises or things being moved.”
" One night when his parent went out of town , we were sitting in his crawl space / rich storage area with some other friend , which was completely clandestine with no window . The lights flickered off , and a light orb lazily be adrift around for multiple minute . We all saw it and gloss , but just continue take in this unnatural light with no account drift around . It was discomfit but not scary , per se . That was , until later , when we mother outdoors , and his three ( ordinarily goofy , intimate , and friendly)dogsgrowled at us , leaven their dander and baring their teeth at us like we were something very terrifying to them . I went home , and my ( small , friendly ) terrier oppose the same way to me — growling and barking in terror . I contract a shower , burned sage , and tell some blessings , and it all exit , but it still devote me chills to wonder what the weenie meet when we fall out of that crawlspace . "
15.“Have you ever heard a pack of coyotes up close? I will tell you it is the sound of hell and one of my creepiest experiences. I lived in the country as a kid, and the first time I ever experienced hearing them up close was at about 2 a.m. when I was abruptly woken up by a large pack right outside my window. They were shrieking and growling and howling. It was deafening and disorienting. I actually thought I had died and was being taken to hell. It took me a while to reorient myself and figure out that it had been a pack of coyotes after all. I did think it was a little weird though that nobody else in my family woke up even though all the bedrooms were right next to each other.”
— itsgivinganxiety
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16.“My mom was pregnant with triplets, and I was 4 at the time and drawing stick figures with circle bellies full of stick figure babies. She went to a prenatal appointment and was told two were fine but one no longer had a heartbeat. She hadn’t told anyone yet, but when she got home, 4-year-old me said, ‘Mommy, one of the babies is bloody.'”
— sarahshorthealth
17.“I’m retired now, but for many years, I worked as an educational assistant. The teacher I worked with was a larger woman. Her daughter had had success with gastric bypass surgery, so the teacher I worked with decided she would have the surgery, too. I had a dream after she had her surgery that she had passed away. I was so upset that I called the hospital and demanded that I speak with her. The nurse told me that she was sleeping, but I said that I must speak with her. They finally gave in and let me talk to her. I told her I was sorry about waking her up, but that I wanted to wish her a speedy recovery. I didn’t tell her anything about my dream, but wished her well and that I would see her again soon. The dream was on a Friday night, and then I spoke with her on Saturday. Sunday afternoon I got a call from her granddaughter who told me that her grandmother was gone. I stupidly asked where she had gone, and she told me that her grandmother had passed away Saturday night.”
18.“My high school sweetheart, Logan, passed away when I was 19. I was living in a new town shortly after and thought I saw hisbest friend, Ryan, walking in the parking lot of a shopping center near my house. I found Ryan on Facebook and found out he was stationed in the same town, although he had not been anywhere near my house. We started hanging out regularly, became very close for a time, then he was deployed. He was a huge part of my grieving process. Years later, I had a dream that Ryan was laying in a bed, and I knew he was dead. Logan was standing next to him, telling me, ‘It’s alright, he’s with me now, l’ll take care of him.’ When I woke up the next day, I got a text from an old friend that told me Ryan had passed away the night before.”
" A few years after this , I went to visit Logan ’s grave accent . I was told Ryan was in the same graveyard , and I wanted to find him to make up my respects . While I was visiting Logan ’s grave , I got this sudden urge to start walking . I walked straight to Ryan ’s memorial as if I was being led to it . As unknown as it is , I find puff in know that they are together in whatever afterlife is out there . "
19.“I’ve had numerous weird precognitive moments over my lifetime, but this is one of the more recent ones. My sister-in-law (Crystal) is adopted, and she reconnected with her birth mother a few years ago and discovered that she has a younger half brother. Her brother and his wife had recently had a baby girl, and I swear on my life that my sis-in-law told me the baby’s name was Riley. Fast-forward a couple months when we traveled to Florida for my brother and sis-in-law’s wedding. The night of the rehearsal dinner, I met all of her family members, including the baby. When I greeted the baby, she was being held by Crystal’s bio grandmother. I leaned down and said, ‘Hi Riley!’ but the grandmother corrected me that the baby’s name was Chandler. I was confused and a little embarrassed and wondered where the hell I got Riley from. Fast-forward another two years, and Crystal sends me a picture of her half brother’s new baby boy that was just born. His name? Riley.”
20.“When I was in college, my mother went to Switzerland to take a cruise down the Rhône River. In Basel, she boarded a train going west. In my dream, I saw a sign that said ‘Basel’ and a big train wreck. I saw my mother looking at it from a train window and heard her say, ‘Thank God that wasn’t our train.’ The next day I heard the news that there had been a big train wreck in Basel, with fatalities. That train had been going east.”
21.“I was only seven months postpartum with my first baby when one of my best friends/coworkers had an extremely vivid dream that I had taken a pregnancy test at work and found out I was pregnant again. The date in the dream, November 4th (about three weeks later), the color of my sweatshirt was gray, and she shared specific details about what was happening in her work day. When November 4th came, we realized I was wearing a gray sweatshirt, and the events from the dream had already happened in her work day. I was nowhere near ready to have a second child, and after taking a pregnancy test right then, it was positive! I was more in shock that she predicted this than finding out I was actually pregnant!”
22.“When I was a senior in high school, I dreamed that I went to the home of a high school teacher to borrow a prom dress from one of her daughters, who was around my age. When I got there, the teacher and her daughters were very sad and teary and barely spoke. When I woke up the next morning, I told my mother about the dream. Then I went to school, where I learned that the high school teacher’s husband had a heart attack and drove off the road on the way to work that morning, passing away.”
23.“On several occasions, I’ve had dreams that have eerily come true. Here’s one of those stories. When I was in eighth grade, I had a huge crush on a guy at school named Bobby. One night I had a dream that I was at school, standing at the salad/condiment table putting toppings on my salad. My favorite teacher (who knew I liked Bobby) came up to me and said, ‘Hey, did you hear about Bobby?’ I didn’t, and he went on to say, ‘Well, last night he was on his way home and was in a bad car accident. He’s okay, but I thought you’d want to know.’ The next day I was at school, standing at the same table in my dream, putting condiments on my salad. My favorite teacher walked up to me and said, ‘Hey, did you hear about Bobby? Last night he was on his way home and was in a bad car accident. He’s okay, but I thought you’d want to know.’ Absolutely freaked me out.”
24.And finally, “I grew up in a part of the United States that has lakes everywhere. It was a given that you would be swimming in one, or boating on one, at some time in your life if you lived there. Because of this, during my childhood, I was required to attend a swimming/boating safety class. Included in the class were postmortem photographs of people who had been killed after being run over by the blades of outboard motors. The images were horrific. Not too long after the class, I started having a ‘voice’ (more like a very clear impression of a voice) pop into my head from time to time that would say, ‘What would you do if…’ followed by the thought that I was in the water somewhere and a boat with an outboard motor was headed right for me. From the beginning, my reply was that I would dive down as deep as I could to get to safety and let the boat pass over me.”
" Fast - frontward about 20 years , with periodic episodes of the ' What would you do if … ' scenarios protrude into my question . I was part of a volunteer aesculapian group on a large sailplaning ship out in the Pacific Ocean . We would travel from one island community to another , working alongside the local head teacher assistant while holding clinics . The ship often had to anchor outside the reef , and we would be send ashore by a big Al sauceboat nickname ' the Hammerhead ' that was propelled by a grown outboard motor . When the motor ran near or at full office , the bow of the Hammerhead would come up up out of the H2O such that neither the person operating it nor the passenger could see what was in front of the sauceboat for quite a ways .
One afternoon , the aesculapian team had some time off , and three of us adjudicate to drown beside the ship . The Hammerhead had been taken ashore by one of the crew , and there was no cause for us to await it to be coming back anytime soon . My two colleague stayed close to the ship ’s boarding step while I swim out further . I was in safe swimming shape and could hold my breathing place underwater for quite a while . All of a sudden , we calculate up and witness the Hammerhead coming toward the ship at a loyal pace with the bow up in the air . I knew I did not have enough time to swim back to the ship , nor did I have enough fourth dimension to float away to avert being run over . I also knew there was no fashion anyone on board the boat could see me . So , I did what I pictured myself doing all those times over the year when the voice came into my head . I cursorily dive down under the water several feet and front up just in time to see the gravy boat , and those large outboard motor blades , pass on the aerofoil mighty over where I had been swim . I stay under the water for a little bit longer , then bulge out to the surface and swam back to the ship . I never say a word to anyone , and have never tell this story to anybody but my married man . And the ' vocalisation ? ' I have never heard it again . "
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