“I was working at a gas station at like 3 AM one night.
I was looking right at it, and it just popped out of existence.”
TheseAsk Redditusers learned that the hard way.
Unsplash / Gabriel Mikowski
Of course, there were no kids.
notyouravgjane
2.
Something yanked on the door and slammed it shut
I work in a big old psychiatric hospital.
One night, I was pulled upstairs to work on the detox unit half way through my shift.
I knocked and gripped the door knob to open it.
Something yanked on the door and slammed it shut.
Unsplash / Gabriel Mikowski
I heard something banging on the bathroom wall, like someone was punching it.
I opened the door and no one was in there.
Im not in the least bit superstitious or prone to believing in supernatural forces, but Fuck.
Twiddly_twat
3.
I was usually the last one to leave.
As I was vacuuming, I hear ones of the toilets flush, and then the sink.
I waited and nobody came, Im supposed to be the only one there.
I went to check out the bathroom but there was nobody there.
then it happened again, same thing.
toilet flushed and water turned on.
One of many experiences there.
valeceb
4.
A blue misty figure walked around during the night
Worked nightshift at a treatment center.
We had cameras around every corner, nothing was out of our vision.
Blue misty figure would walk the grounds every once in a while at night.
I would go out there and thered be nothing.
But on camera, this motherfucker would just walk around all night.
We saw six sets of eyes hidden inside of the woods
Used to do K9 security for many years.
I dont particularly believe in paranormal stuff, but I did get the heebie jeebies a couple of times.
There was one site I used to patrol with my dog a few nights a week.
It was an old historical farm house.
More of a path nowadays than a road.
People talk of it being haunted if you believe in that kind of thing.
One night it was really dark out.
Cant remember if it was overcast or if there was no moon that night, but it was black.
About two thirds of the way to the farmhouse my dog starts acting a little weird.
I can feel him getting tense through the leash.
Its dark, but Im sure his hackles are up.
Of course I am scanning with my light, but cant see anything.
After years of working with Bru, I have learned to trust him like I trust no person.
During one of my scans I see about 6 sets of eyes reflecting my light in the woods.
I am certain it was coyotes, but damned if I didnt get the wicked shivers up and down.
Bru and I retreated and went back to the car.
Wrote it up as a clear patrol.
Supernatural or not, Im not letting my partner scrap it out with half a dozen ghost coyotes.
Isthisinfectious
6.
I wait a few minutes being pretty freaked out but the doors stay open and I never see anybody.
The doors are suppose to close on their own shortly and these ones are stuck open.
About 10 minutes after I get back to the desk it happens again.
Ding and then the doors roll open.
Except I had the feed up so I know that nobody was there to press the call button.
I wait and again the doors stay open.
So I walk back down there and as soon as I walk into view they close.
The elevator doesnt move and the doors dont open.
Get to the end of the hallway and Ding the doors open.
I am absolutely terrified and have no idea what is happening.
He goes and presses the call button and nothing.
We get halfway back to the desk and hear the doors open behind us.
He tells me to go to the desk and watch the feed while he walks down there.
He starts kicking the doors and pressing the buttons but it doesnt do any good.
He has to leave so he wishes me luck and tells me to just stay away from it.
I have about an hour left in my shift when the doors start doing the slamming and opening again.
I just stood at the far end of the hallway listening but it didnt stop.
Took off as soon as the shift ended and left a report for maintenance about the issue.
We had a lot of weird occurrences there.
Im a total skeptic but there were some things I just couldnt find good explanations for.
The place was just kind of creepy.
We all felt it.
There were times where you just felt uneasy for no good reason.
The biggest thing that happened, which I still struggle with because I have a hard time believing it.
We were standing on the 2nd floor landing in front a stairs that led up to the 3rd floor.
The museum was closed, all visitors were gone.
It was one of those uh, did you see that?
Yes… did YOU see that?.
We agreed we had both seen it and our first thought was we had maybe missed a visitor.
It wasnt a big place and it was 30 min after doors were locked.
There was only one was up to 3rd floor and one way down.
If there was someone there we couldnt have missed him.
We went up to look and of course, there was no one there.
From then on whenever weird things happened wed say it was the boy in the red shirt.'
Gaia227
8.
Like a sudden presence.
Then I swear to god I heard, in a little girls voice, the most innocent Hi Josh!
(My name) How are you?
I even felt her breath.
It was so so real and vivid but when I turned around there was no one there.
I started telling people about it and found out lots of coworkers heard the same voice.
bnksy420
9.
Not really scary but I have no explanation.
The locations are changed to keep me a mystery.
So, this was about ten years ago.
My wife and I moved into our brand new condo in July of 05.
We were new to the area, and knew no one besides my dad.
Fast forward to April 07.
Strange… but we just explained it as new construction/wiring and perhaps the glasses were weakened by the move/age.
I take showers daily, as does my wife.
Tuesday, I take a shower and get out.
Our bathroom has a full wall mirror over the dual sinks.
In the steam, at the VERY VERY top is written, Chicago.
Im like, Uh… thats odd.
Call to my wife and ask her, Why did you write that?
I quickly write in the steam below it without thinking… as does she.
The writing doesnt match either of us.
Plus, it is written at the TOP of the mirror.
We have ten foot ceilings.
Both of us would have had to have gotten on the counter and stood to reach it.
I run through the condo (its not very big) everything is locked.
I sure as shit didnt write it.
The kicker, the next night I had an incredibly realistic dream of my grandma who passed in 05.
Nothing weird happened after that.
I can explain away everything except that writing though.
Who the fuck knows!HyperionWinsAgain
10.
Call bells went off inside of empty rooms
I work nights in the locked unit of our nursing home.
Its a very large 3 story building and this wing is an isolated half of the top floor.
No men on that hall and all patients asleep.
No tvs on, no radios, no logical explanation.
They even described voice the patient had and it matched what I heard.
Would tell people to speak louder or shut up etc etc.
That sounded exactly like when she would hush up other residents.
Sounded like it was right next to us.
Again nobody in the hall but us, patients asleep.
- Had a patient moved into a shared room.
Not long after moving into the shared room she passed away in there.
Suddenly her less-than-friendly room mate was TERRIFIED to sleep in that room.
Dont turn off the lights!.
She was out of breath and there was pure fear in her eyes like Ive never seen.
This lasted about a month after her room mate died and didnt stop until she moved rooms.
The general theory is that her departed room mate was getting revenge.
People DO see their family and loved ones when theyre about to die.
This scares me the most..theres something back there that bothers my residents at night.
I have a greek woman who doesnt speak English at the far end of my hall.
When she stops the woman across the hall will start talking to something.
They arent just mumbling either its a conversation.
Talk then pause to listen then talk again.
They also all always talk about that man.
That man was in my room.
That man is standing in the corner behind you That man told me to.
Again, all saying the same thing without knowing the others are seeing the same.
Happens on a very regular basis and never stops being creepy.
I wonder what he says to them.
As creepy as my job is I couldnt pick just one.
Any who now that Ive written this all down… anybody know of any good job openings?
Jenesaisquoi4
11.
They werent automatic, either.
I had to go to the hospital for a concussion.
The security footage creeped out the DM.
12lawliet12
12.
A friend and I were discussing favorite horror movies.
The song from nightmare on elm street came to mind and we both started singing it.
We always said that store had a ghost because there was other creepy shit thats happened there.
We named it Toby.
ZedbraZ
13. one day I come in and his car is there, but he is not there.
I check the cameras, here is the creepy part.
at 11:26 he sat bolt upright, started crying really badly, and bolted out of the store.
He had worked that position for 2 years so there is nothing to scare him.
He is still missing.
Scares me to this day.
Rude_magic_8_ball
14.
Now that being said, at that time a colleague of mine used to bring breakfast.
I called her on her cell phone and there was no answer.
At this point I am thinking I am about to be the butt of someones joke.
That news when it hit me really started to scratch my head to what I heard.
But this is something really interesting to me.
Howzer_663
15.
Like the alien one.
It was a circular very bright light the size of 1/8 of full moon hovering at unknown height.
The whole process took about 15-20 seconds.realitycheck
16.
The car vanished into thin air
I was working at a gas station at like 3 AM one night.
I was looking right at it, and it just popped out of existence.
I told my boss the next day and she turned white as a sheet.
I heard a little girls ghost laughing
I used to work nights in a domestic violence shelter.
The shelter was originally a school.
One night I heard a little girl laughing outside of the office.
I got up and the girl turned around and ran down the hall.
I really thought that she was one of the residents; from the back she looked just like her.
Except she was wearing a strange layered nightgown.
She ran past the room I assumed she was going to, into a living room space.
I went in right behind and there was nobody in there.
chicknlil
18.
Shadow people appeared on our beach
Worked overnights doing valet at a large hotel on the beach.
3rd floor always had Shadow people.
ThatsA104
19.
The electricity went haywire
When I was in high school I worked at a Tim Hortons.
I figured the power was being sketchy then I realized all my ovens and everything were still working.
brickleberries
20.
A man was covered in blood from head to toe
Not me but my wife.
It made her scream and turn the car around.AmericanKamikaze
21.
Layout was exactly like a prison.
Barbed wire fences around the whole grounds.
Big double gates that only could be opened from the control booth.
I would be the only one there set up in the control room on the 3-11pm shift.
All I did was watch movies on my computer all night.
Place was already creepy just at sight.
The control room was an enclosed room with a huge steel door as the only way in.
Not much I could do.
I know for a fact it wasnt there at the start of my shift.
Other guards had some stories too.
Place is now a manufacturing plant for medical marijuana.
Keiths_skin_tag
22. and went through a vast wooded area much faster than any person could run.
At one point the light moved fluidly under a train car to the other side.
skullencats
23.
I felt a cold and clammy hand on my head
I had a TAPS period when we were teenagers.
I had always heard to be careful that bad spirits could come home with you.
Thats where we used to always go.
I had some minor strange occurrences happen to me but nothing too major.
I assumed something had fallen from my headboard and it was still on my head.
I think I may have awoken in a dream and then the fear actually woke me up for real.
Elemento1991
24.
I volunteered and we were winding down at about 2:30 am.
No one was around me.
Nothing even touched the picture frames.
This closet is in the way, way back of the stock room.
No other bags were swinging and this thing was loud.
If anyone had just used it, I would have heard.
By now, Im wide awake and freaked out.
I grabbed the broom and ran outside to where the broken picture frame was.
But it had been picked up.
I never worked an overnight shift after that and I always got super creeped out using the conveyor belt.
SmashleePimpson
25.
It was locked and alarmed but somehow something pulled the alarm.
There was no way to break in as the windows werent even large enough to get a leg through.
It was really bizarre.
Footsteps on the upper floor while the structure was empty were also common.
DarthPun
26.
I heard noises and saw shadows all night long
I work night shift in psych.
We had a nurse who was doing checks and felt something tug on her shirt.
