If you’re really adventurous, read these at night, alone. Me? I read them in the day, with all the lights on. Better safe than sorry.
Check out these scary experiences from Reddit users.
1. Fortune cookie
I’d been living alone for less than a week.
I got some Chinese take-out and was eating in front of the TV.
I finished my meal and cracked open the fortune cookie.
It read “You will have a visitor tonight, lock your door.”
There were no visitors that night, but the memory still haunts me.
2. Crunch
I watched in horror as this drunk seeming guy fell (maybe it was on purpose, but I don’t know) onto a commuter rail track just as the train was coming.
The sound/sight of him getting run over (crunching, splattering, awful) has stayed with me for life as the scariest, brain scarring thing ever.
3. Fly by night
I was standing on my balcony when I saw some drunk guy flash in front of my eyes.
I was on the tenth floor and apparently he fell over from the twenty-first floor.
The split second he passed by, I got to see his look of fear, shock, disbelief and a whole bunch of other emotions before he fell to the floor in a thud and crack.
You could just tell he was dead.
4. Closed doors
After living in my house alone for 8 years, I came to the realization that I had closed a lot more doors than I had opened.
5. F**k seagulls
I saw this little bird walking on the street when suddenly a seagull grabbed it in it’s mouth. Seagull started to smash this helpless bird against the ground few times. After a while it ate the bird and I saw a bump on seagull’s neck like the bird was stuck in it’s throat. Then it flew off.
I was just standing there and said: “What the f**k, seagulls shouldn’t do that.”
F**k seagulls.
6. Jaws
This was a few years ago on a night scuba dive.
There were 8 of us in the group including our dive master and his assistant. We had just finished our dive and were gathered up in a circle ready to ascend and get out of the water when my dive master freezes. He takes his flashlight and pointing it outside our circle of divers he catches something circling us with the beam.
Turns out it was a 12 foot long great white shark. At this point half of the group are trying to keep the shark illuminated as it circles us and remarkably everyone stayed calm. The only things going through my mind were iterations of these two thoughts, “don’t look like a yummy delicious fatty seal, and that I hope I taste terrible.” My dive master gets our attention and slowly puts his thumb up and then makes an upward motion. We all begin to ascend and the shark kept with us until we were maybe 10 feet from the surface.
Then it turned off into the darkness and was gone.
I did not go back into the ocean for about a week after that.
7. Cleanliness
Woke up one night around 1am, heard the shower was on…
I first thought it was my brother, he works night shifts, so thought he had came home late and was in the shower…
It went on for about half an hour until i got up and went to see wtf he was doing…
No one was in the shower, my brother wasn’t home yet, i was the only one in the house. Still to this day, i have no idea how it turned on or who did it..
Almost 5 years later i still think about it and s**t myself… E
ven writing this now i feel like turning every light on in the house…ahah whyyy do i do this to myself!!
8. Ran like hell
Living in the Northern part of Mexico, the drug cartels war was very intense in the city where I live a couple of years ago.
I was waiting to cross the street when I saw a big truck dumping a plastic bag that happened to contain a f**king dismembered body.
The worst part is that nobody did s**t. I just waited for the light to change and ran like hell.
9. First name basis
My old co-worker had a son that was in his mid thirties and he had a son named Hunter that was 4 or 5. She said that Hunter would have bad dreams and that he would sleep with his dad when he got scared.
One night his dad woke up because he heard Hunter calling him. But he was calling him by his name, not ‘dad’. So he went to his room and he was asleep. He woke him up and said “Hunter, you were calling me. Is everything okay?” And Hunter said, “Dad, when they call you you’re not supposed to answer.” and fell back asleep.
He asked him about it in the morning but he said he didn’t remember saying it.
I get chills when I think about it.
10. Added feature
I used to have a truck that I swore had the ghost of a dead baby in it. I used to get home late from my job as a dishwasher, and after I parked and was sitting in my driveway with the engine off, I would hear this really faint sound of a baby crying. Late at night when it was quiet, it used to make my arm hairs stand on end. I used to get home and hop out of the car in fear of hearing it.
One night I decided to sit there and just listen, try to pinpoint the sound.
Eventually I discovered that it was indeed not a dead baby, but when I undid my seat buckle, the old spring of the seat belt retractor would slowly start pulling the belt in, creating a faint noise that sounded like wailing.
11. Second player
Was playing Kinect one night.
It detected a second player.
I was alone.
12. App detected
A few months ago I downloaded a program for my phone – Sleep as Android. I bought the premium version of the app for the extra features to record sound throughout the night when volumes reached a certain threshold. It would activate when I would snore or move around. I would usually spend the next evening going over some of the recorded sounds. Everything was pretty normal until I listened to something out of the ordinary.
It was near the beginning of April, and I had the apartment to myself. I’ll let you listen to the sound before I go on explaining it.
It started out picking up my snoring, and then the hairs on my neck stood up as I hear my doorknob moving. Following this, you can hear my door open slowly.
I was confused and a little worried. Everything was still locked up, nobody came home (the chain-lock was still latched on the front door), and my landlord certainly didn’t come.
I don’t use the app anymore.
13. Man’s best friend
This happened to me when I was about 8 and still scares me to this day.
One evening I went to let my dogs in from the back garden at around 9pm. It was pitch black so I quickly opened the door and my dogs came bounding in, as soon as they came in I locked the door and at this moment a person on the other side pulled the handle down trying to get into my house. We had a glass door so even in the dark I could see the outline of a man standing there.
I ran to my dad and he ran into the back garden after this man and saw him running down the road.
Since then I have closed and locked doors at the speed of light.
14. Earache
When I was 7, I woke up in the middle of the night with an earache.
I decided to tell my mom and stepdad and walked out of my room. Someone was sitting on the chair in the living room (about 3 feet away from my bedroom door). The person looked strange (the face was just kind of distorted) but it was dark and I couldn’t see well. “Mom?” I asked. The person shook their head, and I started getting scared. “Mike?”. The person shook their head again. I decided the best course of option was to go back to bed so I wouldn’t have to walk past this…person. I climbed in bed, and closed my eyes for a second, before opening them and seeing the person standing in my doorway, smiling madly and nodding furiously.
Edited: I screamed at the top of my lungs and closed my eyes. My step dad came running out of his room in his underwear with a baseball bat (that was a scary sight in itself). There was nothing there, but clothes my mom had folded and put on the chair where strewn about the living room.
For the longest time I told myself it was my cat, sitting on the clothes.
15. Puddles of blood
Watching an A7 Corsair grab the #3 cable that had not been fully retracted.
After the wire broke and whipped around 2 sailors were dead and 2 were amputees.
Getting to the scene seconds after was the most horrific site I have witnessed.
Using a mop and pail to swab up the puddles of blood.
Heart wrenching.
16. In game action
Woke up one night to some noise downstairs.
Xbox was on and the Kinect was moving up and down every so often like it does when you set it up. Turned it off and went back to bed.
Next morning, i booted up the xbox and tv and started Kinect adventures.
Several pics were taken last night of “in-game action”, but no one was in the pictures.
17. Cabin fever
Driving to pick up a friend who was at this cabin party about 40 miles west of where I lived.
It was close to 2 a.m. So i’m driving down this back road to find this random cabin somewhere and I come across this red 4 door sedan with all the doors open and 4 limp figures in the seats with their heads slumped over. That alone kinda freaked me the f**k out.
Later on I’m driving by again after a failed attempt at picking up my friend, mind you it’s getting close to 3 in the morning, and only the front seat passenger door was open and ever person in that car was staring with a blank dead stare directly at me as I drove past at 10 mph.
Very creepy to me.
18. Dance of the dead
I was 5 when the civil war in Afghanistan started, and I saw some pretty gruesome stuff.
One time, a man was beheaded in the market and hot oil was poured down his body. The oil would somehow stimulate the nerves and the body would start writhing, simulating a dance. This was called “dance of the dead” and it was used to scare political opponents. Another time, I saw a man being run over by a tank repeatedly until his body was absolutely shredded.
The last gruesome occurrence I saw during the war happened on my street. I was looking at the window when a man on the street was shot by an anti-aircraft gun perched on top of a mountain. Needless to say his body was buried in pieces.
Apparently, the fighters on top of the hills overlooking Kabul would make bets with each other over hitting random civilian targets with different weapons.
19. Stalker
I had a stalker for a number of years. One day out of the blue he sent me an email saying “Ever been raped?”
I had, but nobody ever knew about it. I lived alone at the time, and I was terrified of him for years before law enforcement finally took me seriously.
20. Help
In my last apartment, every morning, 3 a.m. I would hear this woman screaming “help” in this loud, clear, blood-curdling shriek.
I tried asking my landlord about it and he got real quiet and wide-eyed and never said a damned thing about it.
None of the other tenants would talk to me.
21. Grandpa
Hearing my grandfather call my name when I was alone in my apartment and he had been dead for seven years.
Mind you, he died in (and had never been outside of) the States and I was in my apartment in north France.
Still gives me the chills.
Yikes! Those are some seriously creepy stories, right? I’m in the dark right now and I’m NOT feeling safe.
Okay, so that’s what they have to say… but do YOU have a story you’d like to share?
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