When I was around 10 we had an old piano in the basement.
At night, I would hear the most beautiful music being played on it.
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
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1.I did not see it but I would hear it and smell it.
The first place I worked at as a nurse was haunted.
There was occasionally a smell like unwashed hair that would occur in a corner of the nursing station.
It did not smell like anyone there, and it was the same smell every time.
I got back to the car and heard skittering in the leaves.
There was no wind.
I turned around and three leaves were chasing themselves in a tiny vortex.
I asked who they were, and the leaves fell to ground.
We banged on the window and shouted but they didnt look and carried on walking towards town.
3.My aunts Yorkshire Terrier was put to sleep at 13 years old because she was riddled with cancer.
No one was drinking or anything.
I went inside to use the bathroom, and as I walked out, I tripped over something furry.
As I went down, I saw a distinctly Yorkie shaped shadow on the wall.
I know what I felt on my bare feet and I know what I saw silhouetted on the wall.
4.I swear there were ghosts following me for a few years.
In college I started to notice that when I was alone, Id hear little shifting sounds.
Just the sound of something moving slightly.
Little things would fall off a shelf, but nothing that would break.
It happened at work when I was alone, in my house especially when alone, just anywhere really.
I start to think now that something is there…
However I wasnt that scared because I thought if this was actually a violent ghost theyd be breaking stuff.
I never heard the sounds for months.
Then it started again.
I told my roommate and she was creeped out.
Her friend came to stay one night, and my roommate did not mention anything about my story.
So we figure this must be the ghosts.
So I say again kindly stop making this noise.
you might be around me and play with me, Ill be your friend.
The noises stopped and I didnt really notice it again.
5.Not something Isaw, but when I was around 10 we had an old piano in the basement.
At night, I would hear the most beautiful music being played on it.
6.Had a coworker I got along great with.
We were good friends in the first two months of what was going to be a great broship.
That day I just happened to work till 11pm.
I had to stay late to finish his work before I could get off.
It was a quiet night, so dark I only saw the smallest twinkle of stars in the sky.
I get a creepy feeling Im being followed but see nothing at all.
I resolve to stay alert as I hit the halfway mark to home.
On the way home at night the last strech has no streetlights.
Once I pass the last street light then I hear it.
It sounds like a bike.
When I turn my head I see it.
It was something that looked like a girl around my height with her black dog besides her.
She had a white shirt with a skirt on.
But it didnt make any sense why she wasnt going to ride her bike home.
I knew what the black dog meant then and sped up.
The girl had no face as I casually glanced back.
Click click, went the bike as she walked with the dog.
I didnt run but instead picked up my walking pace casually as if I was almost home.
I didnt look back again and the clicking stopped as I slipped into my apartment area.
Found out the next day my coworker passed away the day he didnt come in.
7.I didnt believe in ghosts.
Im still very skeptical of the idea of ghosts.
The idea we exist after death seems way too optimistic to be true.
That being said, I had a very strange experience.
I was in college in Chicago and my friends and I found a weird apartment.
The space had been a bar that predates prohibition that was loosely converted into a loft.
There was a creepy as fuck basement.
In the basement, there was a turn of the century beer cooling ice vault.
There was a door to the closet, which was under the taller part of the stairs.
Then, there was another door inside the first door into the small space under the lower stairs.
Behind THAT door, there was a trap door set into the floor that was nailed shut.
All three doors had locks on the outsides of the doors.
We used to joke there was a ghost because of the creepy basement.
I kept shutting it, it kept popping open.
I actually latched the door shut.
I sit back down.
Pissed, I stood up and said FUCK OFF YOU STUPID GHOST I AM TRYING TO GET WORK DONE!
I feel a little bad.
Sorry I yelled at you, spooky ghost.
It was a bit after 4am and I was wrapping up some late night work from home.
My piece was done, but there was another team that needed to run through a battery of tests.
A few minutes pass and my dog starts narrowing in on a spot to crap.
I kept walking towards her, but looked over towards the tree.
However, my dog was convinced something was over there.
I actually had to look up to see its head.
Being 67 myself, that doesnt happen to me all that often.
Beyond the tallness, it was skinny.
Like too skinny to host organs skinny.
It was all black too with no real discernible features including the face.
I just stood there for a second and so did it.
Then it turned around and ran from us in the weirdest fashion.
Almost like it was floating but still moving its legs.
Then it was gone.
Weirdest shit I have ever seen.
I was watching the leaves sway in the wind and listening to rising and falling rustle produced.
It was then I started hearing voice.
It seemed to come from the sound of leaves rustling but was also separate from them.
It was a whisper that seemed to come from a distance.
That may sound cliche but thats the only way I can describe it.
It simply said, A big one is coming.
A bit startled and confused I said I didnt understand.
I said I didnt know what it meant and it replied, You will see.
And that was the end of it.
Everything seemed to come back into focus.
I told my parents who were spiritual and they were a bit concerned but not alarmed.
There had been stories of people in our family who had odd things happen to them.
My dad even had a few stories of his own.
A week later I was at my cousins house at dusk playing with them on the trampoline.
The wind started as a light breeze but then picked up to a steady gust.
This time it said, Its coming.
Its coming and they dont know.
I asked who they were and what it was.
It replied back, Too late, its here.
That was the end.
It killed over a dozen people because it spawned so quickly that there was no warning.
Ive never had that happen again and Im not sure Id want it to.
Suddenly I see a white cat waltz across the hall from out of the cellar and into the bathroom.
My cousin spins back around and stares at me, mouth open and eyes wide.
She asks if I just saw the cat walk by and I nod.
The two of us get up and walk cautiously to the end of the hallway.
The cellar door was closed and latched, and the bathroom was completely empty.
11.My cousin committed suicide when he was 23.
Entire family was devastated.
My other cousin (his sister) was his favorite person in the world.
After keeping the call going for roughly for 5 minutes, I told her to just hang up.
I hope it’s possible for you to forgive me.
It stretches out what I guess would be one of its front legs/arms and this limb islong.
Like no way it could be human or a dog long.
It had to be at least three or four feet long.
13.The first one I remember was back in August of 2016.
I was on my patio smoking a cigarette in the dead of night.
It had to be around 4 am.
There was no noise (sirens/TV/radio, etc.)
Out of nowhere, I heard someone (something?)
whisper in my ear Annie.
I jumped and looked around.
There was no one outside at all.
I ran back inside and hid in my room.
Second one was around that time.
In my bedroom, I had a dresser with a mirror attached to it.
The dresser faced my bed so I could see the mirror while I was laying down.
While I was in the room, I fell asleep on my stomach.
Im not sure how long I was asleep, but I woke up to someone shoving my back.
It was a hard shove, too.
I looked around thinking it was my boyfriend waking me up.
There was no one in the room.
I put my head back down and felt another shove.
I shot up and stayed awake for the rest of the hospital visit.
Definitely freaked me out.
Lastly, I have a spirit (possibly same one from my apartment) in my home now.
I still hear my name being called occasionally when Im home alone.
You generally enter through the side door, and that opens into a long hallway.
Im getting ready for bed in the living room.
All of a sudden I hear the side door open and SLAM shut.
Then the fucking footsteps start.
Im sitting perfectly still on the couch.
My friend is a tiny lady (like maybe 100 pounds).
Her dogs are medium sized (30-40).
But they sound exactly like footsteps, and they are definitely coming down the hallway.
They finally reach the entrance to the living room, which was almost directly across from the bedroom door.
Then the pressure lifted, and I looked up, and it was gone.
I have never forgotten how scared I was.
15.I experienced the same day twice.
This was in 2nd or 3rd grade.
I told her I knew what she was picking because these are the numbers she picked yesterday.
It continued every night for years.
I noticed quickly that it followed a pattern.
Not very original but I was young.
Like I said, these continued for years, but I started to notice other things as well.
I would hear heavy breathing in my ear and even felt the warmth of the breath.
I would turn and there was nothing.
I would ask my parents and brother if they did it, but they all denied it was them.
One night I saw a figure walk by my door.
It had the body of a human and the head of a dog.
It was something darker than black.
It all culminated one night while I again laid there, waiting to sleep.
I felt something cold and hard grip my ankles and dragged me off of the foot of my bed.
My parent, stereotypically said I was imagining it all.
But I was mad.
This thing had the balls to come into MY world and venture to scare me?
I was 14, hopped up on puberty and ready to kick some ass.
I had my night terror like normal, except this time instead of running, I turned around.
I saw this weird little alien thing like a cross between the aliens from Signs and the typical gray-men.
I beat the shit out of that thing.
I mean, it was a bloody, pulpy, pile of guts when I was done.
I never had another night terror, or visit from that thing.
Ive also been able to lucid dream from that point on.
I also have dreams of the future.
Usually a scene that means nothing, but happens around a life-changing event for me.
This is all true though I dont know the meaning or cause of it.
Maybe someone can explain it, but Im 28 now and still have no more clue to what happened.
17.This actually happened today.
I got home from work and was cleaning up my siblings toys.
I lifted that back up and headed off to the kitchen for some food.
I hear something fall over and look to see that his toy is again toppled over.
I pick it up again and made sure nothing was under it.
I noped right upstairs until someone came home.
Its 2:50AM now and I cant sleep because I think I keep hearing stuff.
I rode through it since I had no time to stop.
When I was able to stop and turn around, the light was gone.
We were both awake so we decided to investigate.
The lights were on and I heard clipping sounds from a scissor.
I put my ear up to the door and sure enough someone was in the bathroom using scissors.
I knocked on the door and called out for my parents but there were no answers.
I opened the door and the bathroom was empty.
I turned off the lights and my brother and I ran back to our beds, spooked af.
It was a summer night and there was a breeze blowing.
I clearly remember the warm wind and the grass on my ankles.
There was something off about them, they had grayish colored skin and light hair although still human looking.
We played around on the swing set until I looked up in the sky and I see this eye.
It blinks once, and when I looked down again, the kids were gone.
I had never been so awestruck and terrified in my life i felt absolutely chilled.
I later found out our neighborhood was built on or near Native-American burial grounds.
I stopped and told her I cant go there.
When she asked why not I told her Cause Baba and Tim are sleeping there.
We all later found out that her boyfriend had killed his parents in the hallway; Barbra and Tim.
Every Friday, the ice cream man would come by.
Well, he was more a shadow than a man, in a trenchcoat and fedora hat.
I think I met my guardian angel.
23.I saw several ufos in one night.
It was definitely not just helicopters or planes or stars.
These things moved like nothing else.
Triangular patterns and near instantaneous jumps from one point to another.
It all started when my brother saw a green ball of fire falling out of the sky.
We went looking and found a lot.
It was pretty damn low.
Fifty to seventy feet above a row of houses.
No wind coming off of it.
The other ships fell into a large triangle behind it.
I saw a black helicopter following its path, but we were on foot and couldnt keep up.
My husband and I had recently moved out of state to his first military duty station.
The house I grew up in had always been creepy.
Over the years, we heard footsteps upstairs when we were all downstairs, we saw shadows.
Doppelgangers and things that just shouldnt have been there.
My dad hated talking on the phone.
He grew up before people really even had landlines and just never really liked phones.
After we got home, he called me every single day.
He wouldnt elaborate, he would just admit the house was getting weird.
The 2 nights we spent in that house are something Ill never forget.
I honestly think whatever was in that house was pissed we were all moving out for good.
Things would move on us, or be in a different box than we had packed it in.
We were hearing strange knocks on the walls and faint voices in rooms nobody was in.
We only slept there 2 nights.
I got up and went out to the living room and he was sitting on the couch.
He asked me if the stomping had woken us up too?
In that time, my dad finally told me the footsteps had become a nightly thing.
It sounded like something frantically pacing back and forth where my bed used to be up there.
He had started seeing the shadows darting in and out the back door again, too.
This is something we hadnt seen in at least 15 years.
The doorknobs started jiggling again.
Wed just be talking away, and all of a sudden the doorknob would start jiggling.
We would hear, and see it happen.
After a while, we just ignored it.
It happened the next night too.
It was so surreal.
My dad passed away 6 months later.
He was so glad to be out of that damned house.
I was just happy he didnt die alone there.
My husband and I recently moved back to the city I grew up in.
Right after we got back, he insisted we drive by that house.
I had the worst feeling of dread over seeing that house again.
The new owners changed a lot about the yard and exterior.
25.This is not my first hand experience but it happened to my mom when she was 10 years old.
My mom went inside, finished her business and came out of the bathroom.
Mom then asks the lady hey, who are you?
What are you doing here this late in the night?
Dads not here, hes out running some errands, yo come back tomorrow.
My grandmother couldnt see anyone standing beside her and my mom was clearly pointing right next to her.
Grandma started chanting holy mantras in Hinduism and waited until grandpa arrived.
26.A few years ago, I was at home with my family.
My house was fairly small so noise travelled well throughout the structure.
I cant remember the exact time but if my memory serves me correct, it was around 10pm.
The sound system in my brothers room went full volume without anyone even being in the room.
This is where it gets strange.
The same night after the sound system almost blew the speakers on its own.
We later heard the water running in the kitchen sink.
We went to investigate and one of the taps was on full flow.
Again, it was very strange as one would physically have to turn the tap to initiate the valve.
We were in pitch darkness.
A man in dressed in a very old school suit and top hat was standing there with a briefcase.
We were in the middle of no where, no houses or anything for miles.
It was 6 of us stuffed in this car.
We all saw him.
We all screamed, I never put a car in reverse so fast.
By the time I adjusted myself to back out he was gone.
They were just as bright or slightly brighter than the moon.
This whole sighting lasted about 15 seconds.
Its right by my friend in the hospital bed, just rocking as steadily as can be.
I was freaked the fuck out.
I stopped it, put my hand on it, and it started again.
It wasnt rocking hard, just slowly like someone was sitting in it.
There was no possible explanation for it to be moving.
My friends mom thought it was her father coming to see her daughter in the hospital.
She was not freaked out in the slightest, didnt even question it.
I still think about it all the time.
31.Lived in a smaller apartment complex for a while and the place had some weird vibes but nothing big.
Then I started to get bothered at night while trying to sleep in my bedroom.
I would get the strange sensation that something was right behind me.
You know the feeling where your hair stands up and you get kind of fuzzy?
That would happen every night.
So for about 2 months I slept on my couch because I would consistently have that feeling.
Then I begin to date this girl.
We go out drinking one night and I bring her back to my place.
We walk in and I flip on the light and she freezes.
I see a panicked look in her eyes.
I didnt tell anyone about the feelings or me sleeping on the couch before then.
We immediately left and went to her place.
Usually not a superstitious guy but that whole encounter definitely sticks with me.
It appeared to side-step across the wall before disappearing and I was the only witness.
Noone else was stood nearby to cast a shadow.
33.When I was a child I was playing at a local playground.
I jumped off the swing and landed in the woodchips.
There was one woodchip floating like 30cm above the ground.
I even put my hand under the chip and it stayed in the air.
I wanted to show it to my friends but when we got back it was gone.
